5 Great Questions

5 Great Questions

This is a podcast of great questions. If you have a good story or you think you have good answers contact me at alden.olmsted@gmail.com For now, let's get started.

Episodes

November 2, 2025 45 mins
If you attended Mexicali Outreach with Azusa Pacific University from 1988 - 2004 +/- chances are you sung along to songs by Reggie Coates.

From 'Radically Committed' to 'Go The Distance,' and 'Take A Stand' Reggie wrote songs for three of Azusa's most popular themes of the 1990's.

Hope you enjoy this episode - walking down the dusty memory lane that was the Mexicali Outreach ministry.

Links:
https://heartfeltmusic.org/
https://www.youtu...
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Young people are flocking back to church - but do they need yet another interpretation?

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Episode 7 | Erin Friday

Erin Friday is a Northern California mom, lawyer, and advocate for children and teens to be allowed to grow up happy in their own bodies.

Erin and I crossed paths at the Orange County premiere of the film 'Dysconnected' - a film on detransitioners I shot with longtime collaborator Don Johnson.

Erin and her daughter's full story can be heard on Prager U at:
https://www.prageru.com/v...
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August 27, 2024 92 mins
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Episode 6 | Sasha Stone

Born in Southern California towards the end of the hippy era, Sasha had a bit of a cliched life growing up in Topanga Canyon in the 1970's. Free sex, free drugs, and a single mother with a revolving door of boyfriends,

Sasha found her salvation in movies, eventually leading to a self-started career begun in the early days of the internet, with the popular Academy Award prediction...
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Wade Baynham was a founding member of the 90's coffee house band the Basics. Together with his wife Kelly and a revolving door of drummers and sound men, the Basics toured constantly between 1991 and 2005, from San Diego to Seattle and back, mostly playing at small venues in Palo Alto and Santa Cruz, summer camps like Mt. Hermon, and Coffee Houses like Mountain Roaster's in Felton, where I first saw them.

Wade and the Basics never a...
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Welcome to The 5 Great Questions podcast, where I ask people interesting questions, and you get to hear their answers.

My guest on episode 4 is a former roommate, but only for three months some 18 years ago. And yet somehow that short stint at a NorCal bachelor pad was part of a pivotal season for Jeff Dunkin of Bellingham, WA.

Jeff's story is likely relatable for many early 20-somethings, especially those who left college prematurel...
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Episode 3
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Sari Lamela

Welcome to The 5 Great Questions podcast, where I ask people interesting questions, and you get to hear their answers.

My guest on episode three is longtime friend Sari Lamela, a powerhouse entreprenuer and promoter who left Hollywood to become a happily married woman in Northern Virginia.

In episode three Sari answers the question:
"Tell me about a loss you've grieved, other than a death."

A tough bu...
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Episode 2
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Christopher Sell

Welcome to The 5 Great Questions podcast, where I ask people interesting questions, and you get to hear their answers.

My guest on episode two is longtime friend and former lost teenage soul Christopher Sell. Chris is a middle school teacher in middle California and is a multi-talented storyteller specializing in thoughtful acoustic songs and the occasional screenplay. Chris is happily married w...
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Episode 1
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Donald J. Johnson

Welcome to The 5 Great Questions podcast, where I ask people interesting questions, and you get to hear their answers.

My first guest on my first episode is longtime friend and film collaborator Donald J. Johnson. Don is an author and filmmaker and devoted family road tripper, and has a great answer to the question "How did you meet your spouse without a cell phone."

I introduce the podcast and...
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