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This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human what if mind control is real?
Inalec Lumumba
If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have?
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Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car?
Hans Charles
When you look at your car, you're gonna become overwhelmed with such good feelings.
Podcast Host (Mind Games Promo)
Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you?
Ryder Strong
I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused.
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Can you get someone to join your cult?
Amy Robach
NLP was used on me to access.
Podcast Host (Mind Games Promo)
My subconscious mind games. A new podcast exploring nlp, AK Neuro Linguistic Programming. Is it a self help miracle, a shady hypnosis scam, or both? Listen to Mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Inalec Lumumba
Black History lives in our stories, our culture and the conversations we still having today, this Black History Month. The podcast I Didn't know, maybe you didn't either digs into the moments, perspectives and experiences that don't always make the textbook. Let me tell you about Garrett Morgan Bruh had to pretend he didn't even exist just to sell his own invention. Listen to I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. From the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or simply wherever you get your podcast.
Ryder Strong
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Hans Charles
So no, I am not your guru.
Ryder Strong
Back then I lied to everybody.
Amy Robach
They have had this case for 30 years.
Ryder Strong
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Hans Charles
Hey there folks. It is Tuesday, February 3rd and we sure hope the authorities know more about the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie's mom. Then they're telling the public because we just listened to a new briefing and we saw the sheriff several times throw his literally throw his arms in the air to say I don't know. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and tj. But as we start this episode, Robes, there was something very, at least to us, that stood out. We'll get into what he didn't know, but we want to first Robes. What he wouldn't say. And that's whether or not a ransom has come in.
Amy Robach
And you know what? Because he kept saying, no, I don't know. And he kept shooting down lots of other questions. It was notable that he quickly glossed over without addressing the ransom question. And then, thankfully, you were waiting for it. Someone follow up and ask again.
Hans Charles
I was desperate.
Amy Robach
The last question, a reporter, you were like, yes, finally followed up and said, hey, when someone asked you whether a ransom has been asked, you didn't say yes or no. And then he just said, we are following all leads. Which to me and to you, babe, was very telling.
Hans Charles
It's very easy to say no. It's very easy to say no. That's not happening. Does that hurt your investigation to say no? We've eliminated that. He's eliminated some other things. She didn't wander off. He's eliminated say no to say, nope, there's no ransom. Rogues. He was asked twice. He had a chance. And when he asked, said it the first time, that the answer was, what's here? We have all kinds of investigative leads we're working on. We have all. Is there a ransom? We have all kinds of investigative leads we're working on rogues. That was a non answer. It sounded evasive to me. For whatever reason he has done that. But he was. It was the last question. Hey. And he had a chance. Robes.
Amy Robach
And he's. And you know, because he quickly. And I could see how quickly you could too. He moved past that. We are following, you know, all of our investigative leads.
Hans Charles
Boom.
Amy Robach
And just kept going and moved on and shifted to something else, hoping that reporters would forget about it. So when someone followed up and he repeated it hurriedly to me and he looked a little nervous, that was the only bit of new information that he didn't give that he actually may have by saying it the way he said.
Hans Charles
It, the rest of it, you just take him at his word. He gave direct answers saying, I don't know and everything. This is the only thing. If you're trying to read something from this press conference, Robes, that is something that in my opinion, at least in that moment and still now after the follow up, is glaring.
Amy Robach
I agree.
Hans Charles
We have talked about how unlikely it is that somebody just is out there kidnapping random elderly People. And then on top of that, they just happen to kidnap the mother of one of the most prominent journalists in the country. That's just. It seems so unlikely.
Amy Robach
Yes. And look, obviously. Well, we. I say obviously we certainly hope as you started off this episode by saying they know more than they're telling us. But it would make sense if they have made it clear that folks who live in the area shouldn't necessarily be concerned. When they said immediately that a crime had taken place, that she was taken against her will, that she was abducted, all of that would follow with a targeted. And they were asked, was this targeted? Was this random? And he just said, I don't know.
Hans Charles
Besides rogues, we're talking about the ransom question. The other thing that really jumped out at me. The next briefing is on Thursday. Thursday you have an urgent, immediate search for this woman. Everybody's trying to find her. I'll get back with you all in two days. Like there should be another one this evening. One in the morning, babe.
Amy Robach
There would always normally be. You and I have covered enough of the. And they know. This story has garnered national and most likely international interest because of who Savannah Guthrie is. She is a household name. She is the co anchor of the Today show and her mom, at 84 years old was taken against her will out of her own home. This is a significant story that you would expect a sheriff's department, they've got the FBI there with them to give not hourly briefings, but certainly. And not even just a daily briefing. I'm thinking twice a day kind of a briefing situation. So for him to punt to Thursday and he seemed hurried and distracted, like he wanted to get out of there because he. He did say multiple times we have a lot of work to do. It would follow a operating theory that they are actively engaged in some sort of back and forth that. That they don't want the media to know about.
Hans Charles
There were a bunch of questions in that press conference. Robes and he. With those two things. I think it's. Other than that he. I was kind of shocked at just how little he seemed to know. He. You take them off. Asked what she was wearing. Asked, hey, what was she wearing? What should we look for?
Amy Robach
I don't know.
Hans Charles
Asked, hey, does she leave in a car?
Amy Robach
Don't know.
Hans Charles
Hey, was it one person? Was it several people that were involved in this?
Amy Robach
Unclear.
Hans Charles
And like you said, random or targeted?
Amy Robach
Don't know.
Hans Charles
Knows nothing about nothing. Do you have the surveillance video? Working on it. We should be faster. Has the DNA been processed? Was there blood? No, no, we got. Had to send it to a lab, so we're waiting where there was not much of an update.
Amy Robach
It was interesting. And look, if any of you have gone online, which I'm sure a lot of you have, because we've been doing it too, because we're all desperate for answers because this is such a bizarre, unexplained situation crime. So everyone is searching for answers. And a lot of. There's always leaks in police departments and in these types of investigations, but he would not confirm any of the leaks that are online. And so I would caution anybody from believing any. Anything they're reading online about what police have found or what they're working on. The one thing that he did say specifically is that they have collected samples of DNA. Now, he wouldn't get more specific if it was blood, if it was whatever, but he did say that so far, none of those samples of DNA have returned a hit, have given them any indication as to who a suspect might be. So who. The evidence and the information they've gotten from that evidence so far, he did say has not shined a light on who may be responsible for her abduction.
Hans Charles
Sweetheart, I was. I was taken at the very beginning, and I think he did it at the end. Just how emphatic he was and how direct he was in saying, we don't have a clue. Like, he started the press conference, we need to find her. When asked directly, is she in the area? Is she outside the area? We don't know where she is. He doesn't know where to tell you to look in Arizona or in Connecticut.
Amy Robach
And it was frustrating to the journalists because, look, on one hand, they're asking for the public's help, and they still were. The FBI agent didn't say much, but he just said, literally, I wrote this down, please help us bring Nancy Guthrie home. I thought that was so interesting. I just. I haven't seen law enforcement seem so desperate begging for help. And then when reporters are asking for anything, for people to. To jog their memory or to maybe help them refine where they could be looking or what they should be considering or looking for in terms of helping the police. They gave zero direction from clothing to car to time. They wouldn't even give the timeline. There's. There are reports out there about when her pacemaker may have stopped connecting with the WI fi, but he wouldn't even confirm that timeline as to when she might have been taken. He basically said anytime from 9:45pm Tucson, Arizona time till 11:00am on Sunday. There's your window I won't. I can't narrow it down. So that's frustrating to a lot of folks who are. You're asking for our help and you won't give us anything to help in your investigation. Maybe to help people. Residents jog their memory or say oh I was here then or I noticed this. There. There's nothing to go on.
Hans Charles
But babe, which is it? It's because they don't know anything or it's because they know a lot and they just need to buy their time publicly because something's going on behind the scenes.
Amy Robach
Yes. And I think it definitely could be the latter of the two. The other thing I thought because someone asked about. Look, they made a big deal when we first got these press conferences that time was ticking that Nancy Guthrie has medication that she needs that she left behind. I mean she left her. She didn't bring her phone, she didn't bring her medication, she didn't bring her wallet, she didn't bring her car key. I mean nothing. So they said 24 hours and it could be fatal. So it's an obvious question for a reporter to ask. Hey, it's been 48 hours. You know, what's. What's the situation? And he said, well we hope she's still alive. That is what he said.
Hans Charles
Sweetheart, given what they. They said about the medication. 24 hours and it could be fatal. 24. There was a lack of some type of hair on fire urgency. I don't need him to be hurried or fearful or scared or that type of thing. But I don't know how you. You're telling us we urgently need to find her and press. I'll talk to you in two days. You all that we need your help in keeping this story going and keeping with information. Will talk to you in two days to update you robes. That doesn't make sense.
Amy Robach
It doesn't.
Hans Charles
We don't need three decades in journalism to make that sense. That doesn't make sense.
Amy Robach
I've never heard of that. And he did say he did leave this caveat. Unless there's a development.
Hans Charles
We don't anticipate a quick end to this to where I can plan for two date robes. That does.
Amy Robach
We both looked at each other when he said that it was confusing. That doesn't make any sense. Sense. This is urgent. The. The time is ticking for her well being. She needs her meds and yet. We'll talk to you in two days.
Hans Charles
That just did not make sense. But stay here.
Ryder Strong
We'll.
Hans Charles
We'll tell you what investigative tool he thinks he is going to need to help crack this case when we come back. Also, of course, we'll give you a reminder of the words of Savannah Guthrie. Certainly hoping for everybody's. Not just their help and their tips, but also their prayers. Stay here.
Mind Games Narrator
What if mind control is real?
Inalec Lumumba
If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have?
Mind Games Narrator
Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car?
Hans Charles
When you look at your car, you're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings.
Mind Games Narrator
Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you?
Ryder Strong
I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused.
Mind Games Narrator
Can you get someone to join your cult?
Amy Robach
NLP was used on me to access my subconscious.
Mind Games Narrator
Nlp, AKA neuro linguistic programming, is a blend of hypnosis, linguistics, and psychology. Fans say it's like finally getting a user manual for your brain.
Hans Charles
It's about engineering consciousness.
Mind Games Narrator
Mind Games is the story of nlp, its crazy cast of disciples and the fake doctor who invented it at a new age commune and sold it to guys in suits. He stood trial for murder and got acquitted. The biggest mind game of all, NLP might actually work.
Podcast Host (Mind Games Promo)
This is wild.
Mind Games Narrator
Listen to Mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hans Charles
Welcome to the A Building. I'm Hans Charles.
Inalec Lumumba
I'm inalec Lumumba. It's 1969. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr have both been assassinated, and black America.
Hans Charles
Was at a breaking point.
Inalec Lumumba
Rioting and protest broke out on an.
Hans Charles
Unprecedented scale in Atlanta, Georgia. At Martin's alma mater, Morehouse College, the students had their own protest. It featured two prominent figures in black history, Martin Luther King Sr. And a young student, Samuel L. Jackson.
Inalec Lumumba
To be in what we really thought was a revolution. I mean, people were dying.
Hans Charles
1968, the murder of Dr. King, which traumatized everyone. The FBI had a role in the.
Amy Robach
Murder of a Black Panther leader in Chicago.
Inalec Lumumba
This story is about protest. It echoes in today's world far more than it should, and it will blow your mind.
Hans Charles
Listen to the A building on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We continue here on this Tuesday, February 3rd. Just got an update from the sheriff's department out there in Arizon. An update. Robes. That wasn't much of an update. Reeled off what he didn't know, didn't know, didn't know, didn't know. Having to do with Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Savannah Guthrie. And robes, the simplest of things. What should we look out for? Apparently just her face because don't know what she was wearing. Don't know if she was in the car. Don't know if she was with one person, two person. Don't know anything.
Amy Robach
They have offered now a $2,500 reward for any information leading to, I believe, finding Nancy Guthrie. Not a big incentive, financial incentive. I thought that was a little surprising that just $2,500. I would have thought that would have been more.
Hans Charles
Again, I know some of those come through crime stoppers, so it's limited. But you never are going to suggest or tell the family to put up that type of money for a reward. They will tell them not to do. So.
Amy Robach
You don't want to. Yeah. You don't want to incentivize people to target members of your family. If you are a high earner, obviously Savannah is a high earner.
Hans Charles
Can't do that.
Amy Robach
But still, in that moment, you would want to do anything, throw money at whatever to try and get information to find your. If you're desperate and you have means. I was just. You. I understand why.
Hans Charles
Why they would.
Amy Robach
Police would say, please don't do that because you're just going to incentivize folks to commit crimes like this. But I. I do think it's interesting. They talked about one of the. Did actually ask about a missing camera. They've talked about how they've submitted all the cameras, all the surveillance, all the DNA, anything. He said that you would typically expect investigators to take from a crime scene. They have taken all that they need. In fact, they said they're done with Nancy Guthrie's home. They said they. It's. They no longer. Because I think someone said there's no more crime scene tape. He's like, because we're done with the scene. We've processed the scene and everything that we could possibly use or get our hands on is now being process. It's been submitted and it's being processed. And he even said, I get it. I'm frustrated too. I want answers too. But who's going through that video? Who's going through those surveillance cameras? But one of the reporters noticed that where there seemed like there was a camera, it isn't there now. And so he was saying, did you all take the camera? Could the suspect or suspects have taken the camera? And he just said, I don't know.
Hans Charles
Didn't he also say, I don't know? When he was asked if he or any of his investigators had seen the footage, it seemed like they didn't have it correct.
Amy Robach
It was almost as if the reporter Was shining a light on something that at least he was not aware of, that there was a missing surveillance camera. You know, it's got a holster, basically. And then so the camera's missing. Like, wait, did you all take that? Or could the suspect have taken it to take away the evidence they try.
Hans Charles
To rob in the midst of this? If you, if you found it a little comical, a little relief. But he was asked, like the reporter, they're just kind of eliminating things, right? If it's not this, not this, not this, say, wait a minute, how do you know the public shouldn't be worried? You're not telling us she was abducted or it was targeted. That was the point. Oh, yeah, he threw his arm. It was a funny response. He said, well, no, I don't think so. I don't think anybody's out there kidnapping elderly people from their homes. But I don't know. I haven't heard.
Amy Robach
Yeah, he was like, he's like, it's not like we have a. An elderly person abducted from their home every day. So he was just like, it's not like it's some spree that somebody's on some, some abduction spree taking elderly people as he or she goes. So, I mean, you did, you laughed out loud. You said, okay, I needed that.
Hans Charles
You know, it, it was just, it, it spoke to a degree of ridiculousness of just how little information was being shared. And that's okay. They don't have it. But his response was, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Not to. Deep, heavy, right. Really hard investigative questions. These are the basics. And he didn't want to release those or he didn't know. And if he has a strategy for if he needs to do what he needs to do at that podium today to get that woman home safely, then do your thing and ain't nobody mad at you for it.
Amy Robach
Yeah, I mean, I think he. And he also. He's not used to this. Obviously. I wouldn't expect. Tucson is in an area where I. We are constantly reporting on crime. But I do think he seemed a little overwhelmed by the media that has amassed there. And, you know, that's what happens in these types of stories. Everyone sends reporters and they just take over these towns. And so he was complaining that basically he couldn't escape the media asking him questions until 10pm last night, which I'm sure it probably extended even later than that. So he was like, we're just going to do this one press conference and I'm not going to be doing what I did yesterday because he was everywhere. He was doing one on one interviews.
Hans Charles
With all the networks, which he knows he shouldn't. I mean you don't you do one press conference, you can't go to say yes to all those requests. Again, we've been the reporter and we appreciate the one on one time sitting and watching it from here. Obviously we understand. Do one press conference and go to work.
Amy Robach
Yeah, he's got work to do and he said that repeatedly. We have a lot of work to do.
Hans Charles
Which also. All right folks, we just want to hop on and give that update again. Just getting it from the sheriff out there. If we get anything else, we will certainly pass it back along to you. But we always appreciate you spending time with us. You want to make sure you get our updates. Top right corner of your Apple Podcast app where you see our show page. It says follow click that and the updates will be coming to you. There have been a lot lately folks, so don't miss out. But we appreciate you for my dear Amy Robot. Com TJ Holmes. Talk to y' all soon.
Podcast Host (Mind Games Promo)
What if mind control is real?
Inalec Lumumba
If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have?
Podcast Host (Mind Games Promo)
Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car?
Hans Charles
When you look at your car, you're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings.
Podcast Host (Mind Games Promo)
Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you?
Ryder Strong
I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused.
Podcast Host (Mind Games Promo)
Can you get someone to join your cult?
Amy Robach
NLP was used on me to access.
Podcast Host (Mind Games Promo)
My subconscious mind games. A new podcast, exploring nlp, AKA Neuro Linguistic programming. Is it a self help miracle, a shady hypnosis scam, or both? Listen to mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Inalec Lumumba
Black history lives in our stories, our culture and the conversations we still having today, this Black History Month. The podcast I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. Digs into the moments, perspectives and experiences that don't always make the textbook. Let me tell you about Garrett Morgan Bruh had to pretend he didn't even exist just to sell his own invention. Listen to I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. From the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or simply wherever you get your podcast.
Ryder Strong
This is Ryder Strong and I have a new podcast called the red weather. In 1995, my neighbor Anna Trainer disappeared from a commune. It was nature and trees and praying and drugs.
Hans Charles
So no, I am not you your guru.
Ryder Strong
And back then I lied to everybody.
Amy Robach
They have had this case for 30 years.
Ryder Strong
I'm going back to my hometown to uncover the truth. Listen to the red Weather on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You know Roald Dahl, he thought of Willy Wonka and the bfg. But did you know he was a spy? In the new podcast, the Secret World of Roald Dahlia, I'll tell you that story and much, much more.
Hans Charles
What?
Ryder Strong
You probably won't believe it either.
Podcast Host (Mind Games Promo)
Was this before he wrote his stories?
Amy Robach
It must have been Okay, I don't think that's true.
Hans Charles
I'm telling you, the guy was a spy.
Ryder Strong
Listen to the Secret World of Roald Dahl on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.
Date: February 3, 2026
Podcast Host(s): Amy Robach, Hans Charles (T.J. Holmes not present)
Topic: In-depth analysis and reaction to the latest press conference regarding the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, mother of TV journalist Savannah Guthrie
This episode is focused on the recent press conference held by Arizona law enforcement concerning the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother. Amy Robach and Hans Charles (standing in for T.J. Holmes) dissect the sheriff’s evasive responses, probe the investigation's direction, and react to the mounting national concern. The hosts question the effectiveness, transparency, and urgency of the police response, noting several glaring omissions and inconsistencies in the official updates.
[02:23 – 05:11]
Evasion Around Ransom Question:
Targeted vs. Random Abduction:
[06:08 – 07:33]
Next Update Only Scheduled for Thursday:
Police May Know More Than They’re Admitting:
[07:33 – 09:44]
Little to No Details Released:
Concern That Public Can’t Help:
[09:44 – 13:07]
Is Law Enforcement in the Dark, or Are They Hiding Something?
Serious Questions About Nancy’s Well-being:
Lack of ‘Hair on Fire’ Urgency:
[16:09 – 17:04]
Reward of $2,500 Offered:
Missing Surveillance Camera:
Public Safety Assurances:
Evasion and Frustration:
On the Investigation’s Thinness:
On Law Enforcement’s Demeanor:
On Press Attention:
The episode captures the confusion, suspicion, and deep concern swirling around the Nancy Guthrie abduction. Amy Robach and Hans Charles highlight missed opportunities for law enforcement transparency, inadequacies in communication and urgency, and the extraordinary pressure caused by Savannah Guthrie’s fame. Listeners are left with little new information about Nancy’s whereabouts, but a strong sense of the drama and uncertainty facing her family—and the nation.