Open Forum in The Villages, Florida
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Open Forum in The Villages, Florida
Discovering Innate Gifts Anne Castle's Mystical Career Change and Bob Tebow's Evolving Narrative
Have you ever considered the extraordinary ways your life might unfold if you tapped into your hidden talents? Anne Castle did just that, transitioning from the world of IT to a life where her psychic abilities breathe new life into cold cases, aiding law enforcement across the globe. Meanwhile, Bob Tebow, a man with his own set of stories, takes us from his humble beginnings on a personal blog to the proud author of a memoir that captures the essence of his life's adventures. Their tales are not only riveting but also a testament to the power of embracing one's true calling.
As we venture further, Dr. Curtis offers a beacon of knowledge for those seeking to nourish their minds, sharing dietary secrets that prime your brain for peak performance. Bob Tebow isn't finished yet, as he unveils his podcasting dreams with "Life's Different Now," where he plans to unravel the layers of loss and the beauty of personal transformation. Anne's and Bob's experiences stitch together a rich tapestry of community contribution and individual growth. Don't miss out as they, along with Dr. Curtis, prepare to impart weekly nuggets of wisdom for combating Alzheimer's, ensuring our mental cogs are always at their sharpest.
Open Forum in The Villages, Florida is Produced & Directed by Mike Roth
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Mike Roth:This is Mike Roth on Open Forum in the Villages. Today is a special episode. It's a double hitter. First we're going to hear from Anne Castle and then we're going to hear from Bob Tebow. They were both in my podcasting 101 course. Anne is going to talk about her psychic abilities and how she's helped police departments find missing people and solve cases, and Bob Tebow is going to talk about his book and he's going to talk about blog that he has. He's written about his life, kind of a memoir. Should be interesting, stay tuned. This is Mike Roth on Open Forum in the Villages. I'm here today with Anne Castle. Anne, thanks for joining me.
Ann Castle:Hi Mike, Can I appreciate this opportunity?
Mike Roth:Anne has had a long history of working with law enforcement agencies and helping them solve cold cases, and how did you discover that you had that capability?
Ann Castle:I was born with a little more psychic ability than the average person. Now, all animals, plants and people are psychic. It's part of our DNA, it is wired into our nervous system and I was born with a little more ability than most. And in 2007, I had a major operation on my left leg and I was in a wheelchair for about six months and that was about the first time in my life I had stopped working, thinking, running all of that.
Ann Castle:I'd had the busy career in information technology. It culminated as an IT director where I managed 90-some people and I worked 60-hour weeks, which didn't leave me a lot of time for this kind of thing. So being at home in a wheelchair was the first time I had stopped and I was watching the local news and a child had been shot and murdered and all at once I saw like a movie in my mind's eye. It was like a double exposure. I could still see the TV in my room, but I also saw a film or a movie just passing through my mind's eye. It was in sepia, which is brown.
Ann Castle:Yes, which was weird, and I thought this is strange and I.
Mike Roth:I imagine we are taking.
Ann Castle:And so I journaled it, because I keep a journal. I advise anybody who's trying to develop psychically to keep a journal, because you'll often have precognition a few days before something happens, but we will forget that we had it, so we won't realize we're being psychic, but anyway. So I saw this crime and I could see the perpetrator and how it happened and where the body was. I journaled it and I just waited for the news account to verify what I'd seen.
Mike Roth:What year was that?
Ann Castle:2007.
Mike Roth:2007.
Ann Castle:It was in the summer I think July and I thought, gee, that's interesting. And over the next three or four months I did that four or five different times with different cases. Then I thought, okay, I'm onto something here. So I made a bunch of phone calls to psychics and psychic research Monroe Institute, duke University et cetera, and I ended up being psychically trained by a psychic from Buffalo named Carol Ann Learo and she mentored me for about a year.
Ann Castle:At the end of that time she gave my name to a detective in Buffalo who worked with the cold cases and he called me up and a woman had been dead missing for about 18 months and while I was on the phone with him, he was on the phone to an officer in a patrol car and I guided them to the bot and that put me on their radar. I began working a number of cases for Buffalo, amherst, new York, queens, new York and my PD. And then I got into I'm not even sure what to call it some kind of an underground police kind of network and my name started to spread. I haven't ever advertised, it's all been by word of mouth, and in roughly 16 years I've worked about 180 cases in eight countries and 20 states.
Mike Roth:And what kind of success rate have you had with these 180 cases?
Ann Castle:My success rate for the past year has been 54% in finding a target. Sometimes I don't find the target, but I might find accomplices, I might find weapons. I will try to give them information that they can use A lot of times with the cold case. They'll have a body, they may have a suspect, they may know where the crime scene is, but they don't have court admissible evidence and without that the DA can't proceed with the case.
Mike Roth:Now you do this, Paul Bono, police departments. You don't get paid to do it.
Ann Castle:If they want me to travel somewhere, then I insist that they pay for that, and if a private person wants me to work for them, I will expect payment from them. I don't charge law enforcement for a couple of reasons. One, police departments have a hard time believing in psychic, so there are always someone in the team who think I'm some kind of a faker, a stammer. Secondly, when they're working a case especially if it's a missing person or a felon I don't have the time. They don't have the time to get approval for payment. To negotiate a rate, send that through their captain or accounts payable or whatever financial process they have, is a total waste of time. And plus, if it's in the 46% where I don't succeed, then I feel like a schmuck if I've accepted their payment and I've turned up nothing. So this way when I work pro bono, I can jump on a case more quickly and everyone knows I'm at least trying, even if I don't succeed.
Mike Roth:Do you do work here in Sumter County?
Ann Castle:I haven't yet. No, I've only lived here three or four months.
Mike Roth:Oh, okay, I was talking to one of the candidates for sheriff in the coming election cycle and I think his name is Anthony Pellechino and you can go back and listen to his episode. But one of the things that, as a new sheriff, he wants to do, he wants to solve the 13 open cases. What do you?
Warren:call them.
Mike Roth:Cold cases, cold cases here in Sumter County that he thinks should be solved, or at least a large percentage of that might be an interesting connection for you.
Ann Castle:Yes, colder cases are harder than one that is fresher. I mean you can come to a dead end of a cold case that's a month old or it can be. I worked a case in North Texas a while back. It was a 30 year old case. I did not succeed. There is a connection between DNA and psychic connection and the older the case is, the more difficult it is for a psychic to solve because the psychic evidence evaporate over time. So the fresher the case, the more successful I'm at.
Mike Roth:What was your most recent case or most recent successful case?
Ann Castle:I've had a number of successful cases and recent ones, and I also work missing person cases and I track felons, which is a slightly different technique. But when a person goes, I had a case in Atlanta a couple of months ago and I was able to take a photo or they sent me a photo. I need a photo, I need a full name and last known whereabouts. Then I can meditate and I will often come up with a direction of where they've gone. I'll sketch out a map, then I get on maps, google and with my right index finger I trace on the map where they've gone. I'll get a little pressure or a vibration in this finger if I'm on the right track.
Mike Roth:You're touching your right index finger. Yes, and you touch that to the map.
Ann Castle:To the screen, to the monitor.
Mike Roth:And you actually can feel the energy.
Ann Castle:So that was right before Christmas and I found the person. It was a teenage girl who was angry and just ran away.
Mike Roth:There were a lot of those cases.
Ann Castle:Yes, in fact, something like 70% of missing teenagers have actually left voluntary.
Mike Roth:I don't remember what to say.
Ann Castle:It was about how I became psychic and realized I was psychic.
Mike Roth:I did that you were in the wheelchair and from an app or operation and that gave you time to think and allow yourself the ability to have the time to develop your skill. You didn't know how it happened.
Ann Castle:But I've been psychic and other things before. I have seen people's auras my entire life.
Mike Roth:So you can see my aura now.
Ann Castle:Yes, auras have different colors and vibrations, and I've taught myself to recognize what the aura tells me through its colors.
Mike Roth:Okay. So what does the my aura tell you about from this color?
Ann Castle:You mostly a left brain person, but you have some right brain ability too, meaning that you think and solve problems with your whole brain and, believe it or not, most people don't and you are good at whatever you set out to do. You can be successful in a variety of fields. You have a good financial mind. You communicate well. You can synthesize information much better than the average person. You're also very intelligent. You have a really good sense of humor, you're loyal, you're pragmatic, you don't take BS from anyone. You don't have a need to be liked or accepted. If people like you, fine if they don't find you, and you're okay with all of that.
Mike Roth:Very interesting. A lot of that's true. I'll have to make sure my wife hears that and then send a copy to my daughters and grandchildren. Good, so if someone has a case that they might need some help on, how would they get a hold of you?
Ann Castle:and If they're law enforcement. My website is ancastlenet and that is primarily for law enforcement and there is an email through there that they can send me information. I check my email several times a day and then I'll call them back and then I will have to verify that they are actually police. I've been scammed by people pretending to be police, wanting fake readings or debunkers. I've helped to put people in prison, so I've had death threats, I've been shot at. So I have to verify that the person I'm talking to is law enforcement. If it's a private person, then that's a different conversation. I will charge them a thousand a day. That's a flat rate and I will expect payment first.
Mike Roth:Okay, and thanks for joining us today on Open Forum in the Villages.
Ann Castle:Thank you, Mike. I've enjoyed it and I wish you much success with all your podcasts. I think they're fascinating.
Mike Roth:And as one of my podcast students, I hope you get your own podcast on the air soon.
Ann Castle:I'm giving it some serious thought.
Mike Roth:Good. Thank you, Ed.
Ann Castle:Thank you.
Mike Roth:Mike, and let's take a quick break here and listen to a Alzheimer's tip from Dr Craig Curtis. Dr Curtis, can you tell our listeners just one thing they can do to improve their brain health?
Dr. Craig Curtis:That's a great question. I think that if there was one tip I could give people to improve their brain health, it would be switching their diet and trying to follow more of a Mediterranean type diet.
Mike Roth:And what's in a Mediterranean diet that people need to add to their?
Dr. Craig Curtis:American diet. It's tough to hear, but a Mediterranean diet has low amounts of red meat and butter and sweets, carbohydrates, sugars and high amounts of fresh fruits and vegetables, leafy greens, legumes, fish, white meat such as chicken and moderate amounts of exercise. Thanks a lot, dr Curtis, you're welcome.
Mike Roth:Yeah, I'm going to.
Dr. Craig Curtis:I don't think I answered that.
Mike Roth:Very well, Mike, we can do a take two on that. See, that's the beauty of this. Okay, this is take. You want to be talking about that angle to the microphone you are over here which is at the edge of the pickup zone. It's not picking up anything back here. Dr Curtis, can you give our patients a tip on keeping ?
Dr. Craig Curtis:. Absolutely my favorite tip involves a change in eating patterns, but it's not a drastic change. It's simply increasing the amount of fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, other white meats and lowering the amounts of red meat, sweets and sugars and also carbohydrates. It's essentially following a Mediterranean type diet plan. Thank you, Dr. Curtis.
Mike Roth:Tip number three Dr Curtis, can you tell our listeners something they can do to improve the nourishment?
Dr. Craig Curtis:that they give to their brains? Absolutely. Our brain only weighs about 2% of our overall body weight, yet it receives about 20% of our blood supply. It's very important that we essentially nourish our blood vessels. As we nourish our blood vessels, we'll essentially then nourish our brain. Lowering the amounts of sugars, red meats that's high in cholesterol, can go a long way to nourishing our brain. By making our blood vessels more compliant, five days a week can improve your brain health. Thank you.
Warren:With over 20 years of experience studying brain health, dr Curtis's goal is to educate the village's community on how to live a longer, healthier life. To learn more, visit his website, craigcurtismdcom, or call 352-500-5252 to attend a free seminar.
Mike Roth:This is Mike Roth on Open Forum in the villages of Florida. I'm here today with Bob Tebow. Bob, thanks for joining us.
Bob Tebo:Thanks for having me.
Mike Roth:Bob is a longtime resident of the villages and he's got some interesting stories to tell. Bob was a member of our podcasting 101 for beginners class. Did you enjoy the class, Bob?
Bob Tebo:I enjoyed the class. I intend to start a podcast of my own, and you gave me great ideas. I'm working with my daughter in California. That's how we're going to be talking to each other across the country.
Mike Roth:Okay, you're going to record all over Zoom. Yes, okay, what kind of microphone are you going to be using?
Bob Tebo:I can't tell you the brand, but it's one of the ones that you recommended.
Mike Roth:Okay, that's good. These are the ones I recommend for two reasons Number one, they sound great. And B, they're about a third less than the ones that most people would recommend, like a shore or a roadie, both good microphones.
Bob Tebo:Yeah, you want things to sound good, because that's what you're doing, that's right.
Mike Roth:And the other situation is that over time, even though it's a digital recording, it may get degraded. When you change it from a WAV file, which is what we're recording now, to an MP3, there's a reduction in quality. Who knows what's going to happen in the future to audio recording? So the higher the quality you get at the original point of recording, the better it's going to sound long-term. So, bob, why did you decide to write a blog about your life?
Bob Tebo:When I was growing up, we had a large family. We gathered frequently for holidays and birthdays, and I was lucky if I kept quiet. I could listen to the adults tell stories, and I liked their stories. I found it entertaining. I remembered many of them, but my own children didn't have that experience, and so I decided I was going to write a blog about the things I had learned from my family and then eventually write about things that had happened to me.
Mike Roth:So you completed the book.
Bob Tebo:I have a book now. Yes, that was not my intent. My intent was to write a blog and I didn't know how long I was going to write it. I started in 2017 and I still write. I post twice a week. I post every Wednesday and every Sunday, and I get about 200 people that follow me regularly and I find it very rewarding, good.
Mike Roth:Is there any particular blog post that got more listens than the others?
Bob Tebo:Yes, when I write about my daughter, they like that. I think they like that because she has a nickname. Her nickname is Beazey, her real name is Elizabeth, and she also has written, so she's written a children's book. And then, of late, I lost my wife 18 months ago, and after I lost her, many of my blogs were about what was happening to me, and lots of people have thanked me for writing what I wrote, because I write from the heart. I just tell you what I'm thinking, and not all my thoughts are joyful.
Mike Roth:Everyone's thoughts are always joyful. Right, that's true. The name of your book is pondering life's lessons.
Bob Tebo:Correct. There's three sections to the book. The first section is about how I met my wife and how we got married. We eloped. What people might find interesting is that she was engaged to somebody else 20 hours before we got married. Oh, wow. So that's the first story in the book, and the first section is about her and our kids and grandkids. The second section is about friends and family stories that I learned when I was a kid, and the third section is about my life since her passing. Wow.
Mike Roth:So how many pages are in the book?
Bob Tebo:I think it's about 220 pages I took. When I write my blog, I write anywhere from 500 to 1200 words, and so some are to be continued, and when I wrote the book, I had to get rid of the to be continued and edit the stories.
Mike Roth:Yeah. So In creating your podcast, is it going to be a recap of the book or is it new material?
Bob Tebo:It's going to be a combination of both. When my kids check in on me, they'll ask me how I am, and I often will say Life's Different Now. Because it is, and that's going to be the title of our podcast Life's Different Now, life's.
Mike Roth:Different Now.
Bob Tebo:And our lives are different because we lose people, because we gain people. I'm learning how to live alone, I'm learning to establish new friendships, and so the podcast will be about a little bit about loss and a little bit about growth, and I had an intent to include my other family members. My grandkids have a point of view that only they understand. It's very interesting. They've been helpful to me, so they'll be included in the podcast. And, as they said, my daughter wrote a children's book and it was written because a good friend of hers committed suicide and anyway, the book came out of that, and so we have a common bond in terms of writing.
Mike Roth:Now your wife died about two years ago. The 18 months, 18 months, okay. What have you done significantly differently in that 18 months here in the villages?
Bob Tebo:The biggest thing for me is I've joined some clubs. Okay, what?
Mike Roth:clubs did you join?
Bob Tebo:I joined the memoir writers which has been very helpful to me.
Bob Tebo:I've given up Tuesday golf to go to the memoir writers group. I joined single baby boomers and so I go to some of those activities I have joined but have not attended my first meeting of the single golfers of the villages. I got a couple of groups of guys that I played cards with on a regular basis and I'm making new friends. Our friends were couples, we were all couples, and those friends have still included me, but occasionally I feel like the third wheel my problem, not their problem Trying to establish new friendships and because life's different now.
Mike Roth:Right, there are a lot of singles clubs in the villages.
Bob Tebo:Yes, yes, and I've enjoyed that, and I've enjoyed meeting new people. Everybody's got a story. Everybody's story is different, and that's really the theme of my book too, because we're all different. What I've done, what I've learned through the process, I'll say, is we all have stories, but we don't all share them. And I've taken it one step further, and then I'm writing mine down.
Mike Roth:Good, write them down, put them into your podcast, let them live forever, for the next 100 years, correct? That, I think, is the beauty of being able to do a memoir as a podcast. And for some people who don't want to record a podcast, one of the things that I discovered I could do is take one of my automated voices, my AI voices. Take someone's transcript, their word file or their PDF, and turn it into a audible book for them.
Bob Tebo:Very cool. I'm considering turning my book into an audible book as well. I think reading something and hearing something are two different things.
Mike Roth:Two different things, two different experiences. I know for me it's got to be extra special for me to want to pick up a book and read a book. Yes, okay, there's a book. I run the improv club and a fellow named Del Close was one of the originators of improv and he wrote a book and I said someone told me about it. I said, oh jeez, I'd love to read something that Del Close wrote. Go over to audible, try to buy the book. As a audible book Not available, I had to buy the print copy and some books don't translate well into an audible book. I think his would have, but it was with two authors and two different voices. I've read that book and it's a very good book and I've used some of the material, but others I rather listen to a book as I'm driving from here to there in the villages or just taking a walk. It's a good exercise. I'll take that 30 minute walk and I'll listen to a 30 minute smug of the book.
Bob Tebo:I have a friend who purchased my book and right after he did he read one or two stories every night. He said this is how I'm turning my lights off.
Mike Roth:Okay. So that's comforting to me yeah, go over a few more minutes here, because when we take out all the dead silences, we'll lose a couple of minutes.
Bob Tebo:Okay.
Mike Roth:For that city that's called truncation. One more good question. There we go. You've lived here in the villages for 20 years. What's your biggest pet peeve here in the villages?
Bob Tebo:That's a good question.
Mike Roth:When I first moved here, the village people, whoever they are, sent out when someone says that I think of that group with the cowboy the village people, I'm going to say the village fathers, whoever the village fathers or mothers are.
Bob Tebo:They were sent out a survey. You know what do you need? Don't chill, what do we need? How should things change? My single pet peeve in the beginning was I paid a cart fee for my cart. So my wife and I went on a golf course and that was covered. But if my son got in that same cart he had to pay $4 to write on the cart. I thought I was paying a cart fee, trail fee, and the trail fee still drives me crazy, because they still have that rule. Oh yes, if the member in your household rides with you're okay, but if somebody outside of your household rides with you, they charge you $4.
Mike Roth:So if my neighbor who likes to walk the golf course rides with me in my trail fee paid cart, he has to pay $4?
Bob Tebo:He has to pay $4. Yes, he does, and I think it's ridiculous. I still think it's ridiculous and I don't know, maybe that's why they don't send the survey out anymore, because they don't want to hear that from me.
Mike Roth:I think they don't want the input from the villagers. There you go. I'll tell you. What my pet peeve is Is that there is no good explanation of what each club in the villages is and what they do. There are over 3,300 clubs in the villages now, and while some of them are fairly obvious intermediate pickleball at the Savannah Center Okay, that's pretty obvious. What that does, correct, okay, but what actually happens in the improvisational theater club meeting? What is that all about?
Bob Tebo:No, I've heard of it, but I haven't a clue.
Mike Roth:Yeah, you come to the meeting on. We do it on Monday nights first, four Mondays of the month at Rowan, and you choose whether or not you want to get up and participate. Will be. You can be an audience member. We have both at most meetings and it's always a ton of laughs. And the beauty is, because it's improv, no one has to learn lines. Any lines at our age can be a little bit difficult for some people. Correct, I follow that. Yes, okay, bob, is there anything that you feel is outstanding about the villages that you would participate in?
Bob Tebo:I think the best thing about the villages is everybody's from someplace else, and so whatever baggage you bring with you, if you leave it behind you, no one cares. I give the example of playing golf I don't know if I'm playing with the president of the bank or the guy who cleaned the bathroom, and I like that and I like talking to people about where they're from and how they live. Then they bring their stories here and, if we're lucky, we share them with other people. So that's my number one everybody's from someplace else.
Mike Roth:And you never know what you're going to get in the mix. Correct, it is fun. We've had some people come into our meetings that are just phenomenal.
Bob Tebo:I met all kinds of people. I met from around the world an interesting job CAs guys and I've heard sad stories too from people who, because their businesses have closed or their companies have closed, they've lost their pensions. But I like all the stories and I like the fact that most people are willing to share.
Mike Roth:Yeah, it's a good, positive environment here.
Bob Tebo:Correct, correct. You don't have to go very far to find somebody that you relate with and can get along with.
Mike Roth:So, bob, if someone wants to pick up a copy of your book or read the blog, on the web.
Bob Tebo:How do they do that? The blog is I have A Story For Younet. You're going to be in the store for the whole month, for three months, for three months I belong to. The other group I belong to is Writers of the Villages, and Writers of the Villages has an area in the local bar and it's a noble where local authors can put their books. I've been selected for April, may and June. I'm going to be speaking on April 13th, along with some other writers, about our books.
Mike Roth:So how many days are you actually going to be in the store to autograph copies?
Bob Tebo:When they go in there, the books will already be autographed. So we're prepared for that. Someday, if I'm famous and you've got my autograph and a book, you maybe make a lot of money. Who?
Mike Roth:knows. Great Thanks for being with us today, Bob.
Bob Tebo:All right. Thank you for having me.
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