The Danny and Park Novels Good News Podcast
A podcast created by a retired Homicide detective who's tired of all the negativity and hatred pushed by the media. Instead of promoting divisiveness and anger, this podcast promotes good news and people standing together in unity.
Episodes
124 episodes
Twice the Positivity- A Conversation with Keanna and Dria
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. On this episode, I’m bringing back Keanna, the current esthetician and former Richmond Police dispatcher. I enjoyed talking to her so much, I asked if she could find any other people who wanted to ...
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Season 10
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Episode 4
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32:51
Stories, Awareness, Truth and Freedom - A Conversation with Mike Bond
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. On this episode, I’m honored to be speaking with bestselling author, poet, ecologist and journalist, Mike Bond. Mike has written thirteen fiction novels, though as you’ll hear in our conversation, ...
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Season 10
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Episode 3
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27:14
Embracing Upheaval - A Conversation with Lela Tuhtan
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. This episode’s guest is Lela Tuhtan. Lela was an educator for over ten years, then decided to transition over to coaching adults. Lela’s philosophy is that we’re all raised with certain sociologica...
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Season 10
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Episode 2
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30:09
Choosing a Life of Gratitude: A conversation with Lady Cop Lauren
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. A few weeks ago, a good friend of mine, and past guest on the podcast, Shayna Perlstein, shot me a text and suggested that I bring on Henrico County Assistant Chief Lauren Edwards as a guest. Shayn...
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Season 9
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Episode 9
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30:44
Giving it to you straight with no chaser - An interview with Keanna
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is Keanna, an esthetician who was a Richmond Police dispatcher for over fifteen years. She and I follow each other on Instagram, but I never knew that she had been a dispatcher ...
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Season 10
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Episode 1
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31:37
Waiting for that 2nd post: A conversation with James Murray
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is author and Instagramer James Murray. I’ve followed James on Instagram for quite awhile. After all, his IG handle is the_80’s_author and I love the 80’s and I love authors, so me fo...
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Season 9
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Episode 9
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31:11
Protecting the children: An interview with Abby Rittenour and Brigette Combs
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. As many of you know, I’m a retired Homicide detective from Richmond, Virginia. Before becoming a Homicide detective, I was a Youth and Family Crimes detective, which meant that I often worked with ...
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Season 9
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Episode 8
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38:10
An interview with best-selling author, Kathy Reichs
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is, hold on and let me go down the list.....Bestselling author Forensic Anthropologist certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology ...
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Season 9
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Episode 7
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27:28
One of a Kind: Another conversation with Yasmin Angoe
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. I’m honored to have back on the show, one of my favorite authors and more importantly, one of my favorite people: Yasmin Angoe. Now full disclosure, when I introduce her in the episode, I pronounce...
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Season 9
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Episode 4
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33:39
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An audience of one - Another conversation with Johnnie Calloway, Sr.
What’s the first thing you noticed in the photo associated with this episode? If I were to guess, I’d say that it was the lettering on the ball cap. In fact, those four words elicit strong feelings from the left and the right. Some people who s...
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Season 9
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Episode 6
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30:39
Non-Punitive Police Reform - A conversation with Ireport co-founder Wes Hartkemeyer
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is Wes Hartkemeyer, a patrol officer in Wisconsin and co-founder of Ireport. Recently, I received an email from a listener of one of my recent episodes who introduced me to Wes. She s...
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Season 9
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Episode 3
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32:23
Jefferson Starship and a side of Coleslaw: A Conversation with David Ellis
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. This episode’s guest is bestselling author and appellate judge David Ellis. A few months ago, I got an email from his publicist asking if I’d like to have him on as a guest. Now I’ve been before qu...
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Season 9
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Episode 2
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30:49
A Conversation with Liz Collin
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is journalist and author, Liz Collin. You may remember hearing about Liz and her husband back in 2020. Liz was an anchor on a Minneapolis television station and her husband was a Minn...
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Season 9
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Episode 1
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27:20
An Interview with Taqdees Razzaq - Positive and Empowering.
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. This episode’s guest is Taqdees Razzaq, an entrepreneur, life coach and a firm believer in empowering women to be the best that they can be. A representative of Taqdees reached out to me and asked ...
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Season 8
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Episode 12
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25:08
Tim Hendricks - The Sequel
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s returning guest is bestselling author, Tim Hendricks. I had Tim on about a year ago to talk about his debut novel, The Instructor, which became a bestseller. Flash forward to April 2024, an...
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Season 8
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Episode 11
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44:04
Courage, Hope and Resilience- A conversation with Ashely Ferris
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. I went to an officer safety and wellness conference in Louisville, Kentucky and sat in on about twenty lectures, given by professors, psychologists, social workers and my favorite group, police off...
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Season 8
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Episode 10
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54:16
Sixty novels and counting - An interview with Lee Goldberg
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, and TV producer, Lee Goldberg. Lee has written sixty novels, that’s 6-0, so far and has produced multiple television shows which inclu...
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Season 8
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Episode 9
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38:20
Jon Lindstrom - Embracing Desire
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is actor and bestselling author, Jon Lindstrom. As you’ll soon learn, Jon caught the acting bug when he woke up in the middle of a James Bond film and saw two guys on the screen, figh...
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Season 8
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Episode 8
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30:18
Smiling in the Breeze - A conversation with Jeff Katz
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. I’m honored to have Jeff Katz on as this episode's guest. Jeff has had a show on Richmond radio station WRVA for over thirteen years, and has been on air nationally too many times to count. Despite...
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Season 8
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Episode 7
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32:11
Dr. Richard Groover flipped the script on Danny and Park.
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. For this episode, we’re flipping the script a bit, as the cool kids say. My dear friend, Dr. Richard Groover texted me with an idea. He said he thought that my listeners might enjoy hearing about m...
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Season 8
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Episode 6
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32:38
Devin - A cop first
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is Devin, a former Richmond police officer. I was working on a case recently and was talking on the phone with a detective from another jurisdiction. After we hung up, my phone ...
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Season 8
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Episode 5
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30:18
Eat the meat and spit out the bones - Checking in with Johnnie Calloway, Sr.
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s returning guest is the one and only, Johnnie Calloway. The last time Johnnie and I talked was back in May, 2022. I’ve been following Johnnie on Instagram since then and always e...
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Season 8
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Episode 4
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37:14
Julia Borcherts - Behind the Publicity Curtain
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is Julia Borcherts, publicity manager at Chicago based Kaye Publicity. I met Julia because I was interested in interviewing one of the authors that Kaye Publicity represented. S...
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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31:50
Pantsters and Spinning Plates - Another conversation with Tracy Clark
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is one of my favorite authors, and more importantly, one of my favorite people: Tracy Clark.Tracy is the author of not one, but two best selling book series, both set in Chicag...
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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29:12
Faye Knightly - The Sisterhood of The Black Pen
Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is Faye Knightly of The Sisterhood of the Black Pen. I met Faye through one of this podcasts favorite people, Gloria Lucas. Faye sent me a message through Instagram and said that she’...
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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33:10
