Ok, bringing up Sirius definitely kills Alexa. I found that if the phone rings during Alexa's workings, it also kills Alexa. Only fix so far is to change to a different profile, so it has something to do with Sirius and the phone function messing up the profile. I am guessing that all these functions operate within the same process and the same profile saved memory space. Since these functions are not fenced, one incompetent developer can upset all functions by walking on resources that other functionality is using.