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In this episode, Therese Markow and Dr. Alex Hinton explore the potential for genocide in the U.S., highlighting historical and contemporary atrocities. Dr. Hinton emphasizes that genocide can target groups based on social constructs such as race, gender, and sexuality, among others. They discuss the rise of white supremacism and hate speech, and Dr. Hinton identifies risk factors such as political upheaval, economic instability, and armed militias. Dr.Hinton also stresses the importance of critical thinking and depolarization to prevent genocide, and suggests an easy way for everyone to do so without committing 40 hours per week to stay abreast of all of the issues and topics.     Key Takeaways: Genocide and mass violence are not typically planned from the beginning. They often evolve from other behaviors stemming from upheaval and past atrocities, scapegoating, grievance, and legitimation of formed hierarchies.  Hate speech is everywhere—left, right, and center. Wherever someone is on the political spectrum, they can agree it's bad. The problem is that people sometimes disagree about what constitutes it.  People are busy. Trying to keep informed can be a full-time job. One little thing everyone can do pretty easily to begin to do this in general, as we enter the political cycle, just pick a left-leaning, more centrist, and right-leaning news media source then on the top of the hour, turn on the TV, and flip between them and see the headlines.   "Ideology is central to all genocides, in some sense. Ideologies provide legitimation to disempower groups, and to legitimate different forms of hierarchy within a society and in the extreme. That then lays the basis for saying that groups are inferior." —  Dr. Alex Hinton   Episode References:  We Charge Genocide - The 1951 Black Lives Matter Campaign: https://depts.washington.edu/moves/CRC_genocide.shtml  2019 Citizenship Amendment Act: https://www.uscirf.gov/resources/factsheet-citizenship-amendment-act-india    Connect with Dr. Alex Hinton: Professional Bio: https://sasn.rutgers.edu/alex-hinton Twitter: https://x.com/AlexLHinton   Center for the Study of Genocide & Human Rights: https://x.com/Rutgers_CGHR    Check out Dr. Hinton's writings mentioned in this episode:  It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US: https://www.amazon.com/Can-Happen-Here-Rising-Genocide-ebook/dp/B08L9JHRN6      Connect with Therese: Website: www.criticallyspeaking.net Threads: @critically_speaking Email: theresemarkow@criticallyspeaking.net   Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

In this episode, Therese Markow and Dr. Alex Hinton discuss the complexities of genocide, its definitions, and the role of perpetrators. Dr. Hinton gives us the conventional, legal, and social scientific definitions of genocide and gives examples of how these affect the legal battles and social impact of different incidents, highlighting the Khmer Rouge mass killings in Cambodia. They also discuss the moral and legal implications of perpetrators and why none of us can be complacent in our understanding of genocide.    Key Takeaways: There are three main definitions of genocide. Most recognize it as mass deaths, often perpetrated by a state figure. The UN legal definition requires intent. And the social scientific definition expands beyond the UN definition. While genocide is an atrocity, not all atrocities are genocides. Similarly, not all mass murders are genocides. When legally looking at the genocide perpetrators, the courts typically go after the architects and lower-level individuals are often brought in as witnesses. However, the question of who the perpetrators are is a moral and ethical question still being debated. Education is key - the dynamics that gave rise to Auschwitz are all around us and we are all part of them. We must be self-critical, reflexive people as a first step to make sure that we don't have a recurrence.   "It's a potentiality that exists for ourselves and for our societies. You know, it's not comfortable. Many people will say ‘no,' but that's the starting point of prevention, because only when you have that realization can you effectively begin to take action to stop genocide from taking place." —  Dr. Alex Hinton   Episode References: Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning: https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Men-Reserve-Battalion-Solution/dp/0060995068  To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide by Jennie E Burnet: https://www.amazon.com/Save-Heaven-Earth-Rwandan-Genocide/dp/1501767119/    Connect with Dr. Alex Hinton: Professional Bio: https://sasn.rutgers.edu/alex-hinton Twitter: https://x.com/AlexLHinton   Center for the Study of Genocide & Human Rights: https://x.com/Rutgers_CGHR    Check out Dr. Hinton's writings mentioned in this episode: Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Did-They-Kill-Anthropology/dp/0520241797  Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side: https://www.amazon.com/Perpetrators-Encountering-Humanitys-Stanford-Studies/dp/1503634272  Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal: https://www.amazon.com/Anthropological-Witness-Lessons-Khmer-Tribunal/dp/1501765698/  It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US: https://www.amazon.com/Can-Happen-Here-Rising-Genocide-ebook/dp/B08L9JHRN6  Pol Pot's Secret Prison: https://www.ronslate.com/pol-pots-secret-prison/      Connect with Therese: Website: www.criticallyspeaking.net Threads: @critically_speaking Email: theresemarkow@criticallyspeaking.net     Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.  

Continuing the Best of 2023 series, distinguished anthropologist Alex Hinton joins Chuck to discuss his Sapiens article, "Two Myths Fueling the Conservative Right's Dangerous Transphobia." The discussion includes Alex's insights from the most recent CPAC. This interview originally aired on June 21st. After the interview, we have both a new Rotten History and a new Moment of Truth. Alex is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention. Check out Alex's article here: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/transphobia-myths/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

Turns out Flula celebrates 27 days of Christmas— and he expects the Roberts family to do the same. Resistance is FLU-tile!  STARRING: Flula Borg, John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash, Russell Horning, Kaleigh & Kaeden Fulton, Danny Bash & Jean-Pierre Livingston CREATED & PRODUCED BY: Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy Wombwell WRITTEN BY: Jeffrey Gowins & Andy Wombwell DIRECTED BY: Andy Wombwell PRODUCED & EDITED BY: Jeffrey Gowins & Jordan Mills PRODUCED BY/ORIGINAL MUSIC BY: Aaron Steinberg ADDITIONAL MUSIC BY: Keith Eaddy  SPECIAL THANKS: Santa

Genocides are amongst the most unimaginable crimes in existence but they might not be a thing of the past. Alex Hinton is an anthropologist and genocide expert from Rutgers University and argues that even in the United States political violence, including genocides, could take place. Together with him, we identify the risk factors present in the United States, discuss the role of Donald Trump in creating a possibly dangerous environment, and outline the possible solutions to guard against genocide.

Flula steps in quicksand and gets some sinking feelings. Could this be the end? Season finale! STARRING: Flula Borg, John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash, Danny Bash & Jean-Pierre Livingston GUEST STARRING: Julia DeLuise & Tamara Garfield CREATED & PRODUCED BY: Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy Wombwell WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Andy Wombwell PRODUCED & EDITED BY: Jeffrey Gowins & Jordan Mills PRODUCED BY/ORIGINAL MUSIC BY: Aaron Steinberg SPECIAL THANKS: Caroline Borolla, Jacob Cooper, Debbie Pressman, Land Romo, Alan Louis Skinner, Mark A Ward & Emily Wynne-Hughes

Flula's home baking business is blowing up! Boom! But is it also making the entire town sick with salmonella? Meanwhile, Cameron uses his college fund to buy an NFT. STARRING: Flula Borg. John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash & Russell Horning SPECIAL GUEST STAR: David DeLuise CREATED & PRODUCED BY: Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy Wombwell WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Andy Wombwell PRODUCED & EDITED BY: Jeffrey Gowins, Jordan Mills & Aaron Steinberg SPECIAL THANKS: Jacob Cooper, Land Romo, Alan Skinner, Mark A Ward  & Emily Wynne-Hughes

When Mitch loses his job, Flula convinces the family to take a road trip to the Grand Canyon. Q: What could go wrong? A: Everything! STARRING: Flula Borg. John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash & Russell Horning CREATED & PRODUCED BY: Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy Wombwell WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Andy Wombwell PRODUCED & EDITED BY: Jeffrey Gowins & Jordan Mills PRODUCED BY/ORIGINAL MUSIC BY: Aaron Steinberg SPECIAL THANKS: Caroline Borolla, Jacob Cooper, Debbie Pressman, Land Romo, Alan Skinner, Mark A Ward  & Emily Wynne-Hughes

”When Flula's famous drag star friend Alaska secretly records her new album at the Roberts house, Cam and Lance get a little too excited and spill the beans to their entire school. STARRING: Flula Borg. John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash & Russell Horning. Special guest star: Alaska Thunderfuck CREATED & PRODUCED BY: Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy Wombwell WRITTEN BY: Flula Borg & Andy Wombwell DIRECTED BY: Andy Wombwell PRODUCED & EDITED BY: Jeffrey Gowins, Jordan Mills & Aaron Steinberg SPECIAL THANKS: Debbie Pressman, Land Romo & Emily Wynne-Hughes

Mitch takes it badly when Haley says her first word, and it isn't "mama" or “dada” -- it's "Fwu-wah." Meanwhile, Flula decides it's up to him to give Cam "The Talk." STARRING: Flula Borg. John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash & Russell Horning CREATED & PRODUCED BY: Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy Wombwell WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Andy Wombwell PRODUCED & EDITED BY: Jeffrey Gowins, Jordan Mills PRODUCED BY/ORIGINAL MUSIC BY: Aaron Steinberg SPECIAL THANKS: Jacob Cooper, Debbie Pressman, Land Romo, Alan Skinner, Mark A Ward & Emily Wynne-Hughes

Confusion of Shakespearean proportions ensues when Flula secretly agrees to bird sit for Long Paul's pet parrot, Catnip. STARRING: Flula Borg. John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash & Russell Horning. Guest star: Emmaline Skillicorn CREATED & PRODUCED BY: Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy Wombwell WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Andy WombwellPRODUCED & EDITED BY: Jeffrey Gowins, Jordan Mills PRODUCED BY/ORIGINAL MUSIC BY: Aaron Steinberg SPECIAL THANKS: Jacob Cooper, Debbie Pressman, Land Romo, Alan Skinner, Mark A Ward & Emily Wynne-Hughes

A new social media app makes power in-FLULA-lancers out of Flula and Cameron, and Mitch and Kelly do not “Like” it. Meanwhile, Lance appoints himself to be Cam's manager. STARRING: Flula Borg. John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash & Russell Horning CREATED & PRODUCED BY: Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy Wombwell WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Andy Wombwell PRODUCED & EDITED BY: Jeffrey Gowins, Jordan Mills PRODUCED BY/ORIGINAL MUSIC BY: Aaron Steinberg SPECIAL THANKS: Jacob Cooper, Debbie Pressman, Land Romo, Alan Skinner, Mark A Ward & Emily Wynne-Hughes

The Roberts family move into their new dream house unaware that German techno DJ Flula Benker holds an ironclad hundred year lease to their basement -- and to the bottom shelf of their refrigerator.STARRING: Flula Borg. John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash &  Russell Horning. Special guest star: Lauren Lapkus as Janet.CREATED, WRITTEN & PRODUCED BY: Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy WombwellDIRECTED BY: Andy WombwellPRODUCED & EDITED BY: Jeffrey Gowins, Jordan Mills & Aaron SteinbergSPECIAL THANKS: Jacob Cooper, Debbie Pressman, Land Romo, Alan Skinner & Emily Wynne-Hughes

Coming Fluesdays starting September 19: Flula Makes Five! The Roberts Family just moved into their new dream house — Too bad no one told them it comes with a German techno DJ! Flula Borg stars as DJ Flula Benker. Subscribe and enjoy! Also starring John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash & Russell Horning, and many Special Guests also! Created/Written/Produced by Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy Wombwell Note from Flula -- Dew to my cousin Heinz, who did forget to remove the Lens Caps for this whole show entire, our Television Situation Comedy is now a Podcast Situation Comedy. Heinz you are still invite to Family Dinners, but you must now sit outside next to Frödi and Dödi (my Mamas two Dachshunds). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Distinguished anthropologist Alex Hinton joins Chuck to discuss his Sapiens article, "Two Myths Fueling the Conservative Right's Dangerous Transphobia." The discussion includes Alex's insights from the most recent CPAC. You can find the article here: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/transphobia-myths/ Alex is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention.

The Conservative Political Action Conference, better known as CPAC, started in the 1970s to unify and enforce GOP ideology. It remained a fairly small affair for its first 25 years of existence. As conservative media grew in popularity, CPAC evolved into more of a live conservative entertainment experience. It is perhaps best known for hosting controversial figures and delivering controversial soundbites, and dare I say, outrage. And journalists eat it up, serving up the most outrageous moments to their mostly liberal audiences.Join me as we unravel the untold stories and hidden complexities behind CPAC, as seen through the eyes of Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Alex Hinton. We'll explore the power of open-minded conversations, the importance of understanding diverse perspectives, and the challenges of bridging political divides in today's polarized society.Support the showShow Notes:https://outrageoverload.net/ Follow me, David Beckemeyer, on Twitter @mrblog. Follow the show on Twitter @OutrageOverload or Instagram @OutrageOverload. We are also on Facebook /OutrageOverload.HOTLINE: 925-552-7885Got a Question, comment or just thoughts you'd like to share? Call the OO hotline and leave a message and you could be featured in an upcoming episodeIf you would like to help the show, you can contribute here. Tell everyone you know about the show. That's the best way to support it.Rate and Review the show on Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/OutrageOverloadMany thanks to my co-editor and co-director, Austin Chen.

This week we're joined by returning guest Alex Hinton to discuss his trip to CPAC and the topics he found energising the American Right. Alex's book It Can Happen Here is out through NYU Press.

Perpetrators of mass violence are commonly regarded as evil. Their violent nature is believed to make them commit heinous crimes as members of state agencies, insurgencies, terrorist organizations, or racist and supremacist groups. Upon close examination, however, perpetrators are contradictory human beings who often lead unsettlingly ordinary and uneventful lives.  Drawing on decades of on-the-ground research with perpetrators of genocide, mass violence, and enforced disappearances in Cambodia and Argentina, Antonius Robben and Alex Hinton explore how researchers go about not just interviewing and writing about perpetrators, but also processing their own emotions and considering how the personal and interpersonal impact of this sort of research informs the texts that emerge from them. Through interlinked ethnographic essays, methodological and theoretical reflections, and dialogues between the two authors, Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side (Stanford UP, 2023) conveys practical wisdom for the benefit of other researchers who face ruthless perpetrators and experience turbulent emotions when listening to perpetrators and their victims. Perpetrators rarely regard themselves as such, and fieldwork with perpetrators makes for situations freighted with emotion. Research with perpetrators is a difficult but important part of understanding the causes of and creating solutions to mass violence, and Robben and Hinton use their expertise to provide insightful lessons on the epistemological, ethical, and emotional challenges of ethnographic fieldwork in the wake of atrocity. Jeff Bachman is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at American University's School of International Service in Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Perpetrators of mass violence are commonly regarded as evil. Their violent nature is believed to make them commit heinous crimes as members of state agencies, insurgencies, terrorist organizations, or racist and supremacist groups. Upon close examination, however, perpetrators are contradictory human beings who often lead unsettlingly ordinary and uneventful lives.  Drawing on decades of on-the-ground research with perpetrators of genocide, mass violence, and enforced disappearances in Cambodia and Argentina, Antonius Robben and Alex Hinton explore how researchers go about not just interviewing and writing about perpetrators, but also processing their own emotions and considering how the personal and interpersonal impact of this sort of research informs the texts that emerge from them. Through interlinked ethnographic essays, methodological and theoretical reflections, and dialogues between the two authors, Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side (Stanford UP, 2023) conveys practical wisdom for the benefit of other researchers who face ruthless perpetrators and experience turbulent emotions when listening to perpetrators and their victims. Perpetrators rarely regard themselves as such, and fieldwork with perpetrators makes for situations freighted with emotion. Research with perpetrators is a difficult but important part of understanding the causes of and creating solutions to mass violence, and Robben and Hinton use their expertise to provide insightful lessons on the epistemological, ethical, and emotional challenges of ethnographic fieldwork in the wake of atrocity. Jeff Bachman is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at American University's School of International Service in Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies

Perpetrators of mass violence are commonly regarded as evil. Their violent nature is believed to make them commit heinous crimes as members of state agencies, insurgencies, terrorist organizations, or racist and supremacist groups. Upon close examination, however, perpetrators are contradictory human beings who often lead unsettlingly ordinary and uneventful lives.  Drawing on decades of on-the-ground research with perpetrators of genocide, mass violence, and enforced disappearances in Cambodia and Argentina, Antonius Robben and Alex Hinton explore how researchers go about not just interviewing and writing about perpetrators, but also processing their own emotions and considering how the personal and interpersonal impact of this sort of research informs the texts that emerge from them. Through interlinked ethnographic essays, methodological and theoretical reflections, and dialogues between the two authors, Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side (Stanford UP, 2023) conveys practical wisdom for the benefit of other researchers who face ruthless perpetrators and experience turbulent emotions when listening to perpetrators and their victims. Perpetrators rarely regard themselves as such, and fieldwork with perpetrators makes for situations freighted with emotion. Research with perpetrators is a difficult but important part of understanding the causes of and creating solutions to mass violence, and Robben and Hinton use their expertise to provide insightful lessons on the epistemological, ethical, and emotional challenges of ethnographic fieldwork in the wake of atrocity. Jeff Bachman is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at American University's School of International Service in Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

Perpetrators of mass violence are commonly regarded as evil. Their violent nature is believed to make them commit heinous crimes as members of state agencies, insurgencies, terrorist organizations, or racist and supremacist groups. Upon close examination, however, perpetrators are contradictory human beings who often lead unsettlingly ordinary and uneventful lives.  Drawing on decades of on-the-ground research with perpetrators of genocide, mass violence, and enforced disappearances in Cambodia and Argentina, Antonius Robben and Alex Hinton explore how researchers go about not just interviewing and writing about perpetrators, but also processing their own emotions and considering how the personal and interpersonal impact of this sort of research informs the texts that emerge from them. Through interlinked ethnographic essays, methodological and theoretical reflections, and dialogues between the two authors, Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side (Stanford UP, 2023) conveys practical wisdom for the benefit of other researchers who face ruthless perpetrators and experience turbulent emotions when listening to perpetrators and their victims. Perpetrators rarely regard themselves as such, and fieldwork with perpetrators makes for situations freighted with emotion. Research with perpetrators is a difficult but important part of understanding the causes of and creating solutions to mass violence, and Robben and Hinton use their expertise to provide insightful lessons on the epistemological, ethical, and emotional challenges of ethnographic fieldwork in the wake of atrocity. Jeff Bachman is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at American University's School of International Service in Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

Perpetrators of mass violence are commonly regarded as evil. Their violent nature is believed to make them commit heinous crimes as members of state agencies, insurgencies, terrorist organizations, or racist and supremacist groups. Upon close examination, however, perpetrators are contradictory human beings who often lead unsettlingly ordinary and uneventful lives.  Drawing on decades of on-the-ground research with perpetrators of genocide, mass violence, and enforced disappearances in Cambodia and Argentina, Antonius Robben and Alex Hinton explore how researchers go about not just interviewing and writing about perpetrators, but also processing their own emotions and considering how the personal and interpersonal impact of this sort of research informs the texts that emerge from them. Through interlinked ethnographic essays, methodological and theoretical reflections, and dialogues between the two authors, Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity's Dark Side (Stanford UP, 2023) conveys practical wisdom for the benefit of other researchers who face ruthless perpetrators and experience turbulent emotions when listening to perpetrators and their victims. Perpetrators rarely regard themselves as such, and fieldwork with perpetrators makes for situations freighted with emotion. Research with perpetrators is a difficult but important part of understanding the causes of and creating solutions to mass violence, and Robben and Hinton use their expertise to provide insightful lessons on the epistemological, ethical, and emotional challenges of ethnographic fieldwork in the wake of atrocity. Jeff Bachman is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at American University's School of International Service in Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For millennia, poets and philosophers have puzzled over the nature of love and why people succumb to it but the exact opposite question, why do people hate and kill, may be even harder to answer. From the biblical fratricidal murder to the genocides of the 20th century, how well do we understand this urge to efface the other? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Alex Hinton, distinguished professor of anthropology at Rutgers University, UNESCO chair on genocide prevention, and author of ‘It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US'.

This week we speak with Alex Hinton [Twitter]. Alex is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University, and the author over a dozen books including the award-winning Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide. He is also the author of It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US (NYU Press, 2021).

President Biden recognized the mass killings of Armenians more than a century ago as genocide, in a test of America's somewhat strained relationship with Turkey. For more on the significance of Biden's statement, Alex Hinton, Director of Rutgers University's Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and author of "It Can Happen Here: White Power and The Rising Threat of Genocide in the U.S." joins. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

President Biden recognized the mass killings of Armenians more than a century ago as genocide, in a test of America's somewhat strained relationship with Turkey. For more on the significance of Biden's statement, Alex Hinton, Director of Rutgers University's Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and author of "It Can Happen Here: White Power and The Rising Threat of Genocide in the U.S." joins. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

We super-sized The Valley Today this afternoon to bring you an important message in quite an entertaining way. It was our live alcohol lab where several staff members from The River 95.3 drank in the studio under the careful supervision of Lt. Warren Gosnell, Traffic Division Commander for the Frederick County Sheriff's Department. Lt. Gosnell oversaw the entire experiment where Joe Woodall, our Production Manager drank (4) 5 oz. glasses of wine with 5% alcohol content, Alex Hinton, from our news department drank (4) 1.5 oz. mixed drinks with 35% alcohol content and Lita Robinson, our News Director drank (4) 12 oz. bottles of hard cider with 5% alcohol content. We discussed their drinking patterns & how that affects their alcohol absorption and reaction. Lt. Gosnell debunked several myths to "sobering up" in a hurry, and gave his tips & sage advice about how and why you should avoid getting behind the wheel after even just a few drinks. We also live-streamed the show (including through the commercial breaks) on our Facebook page. You can watch the entire show by clicking here.

We were joined in the studio today by Mr. Pat Younk with C-CAP to talk about the services that C-CAP offers to over 200 people in need each month in our community. C-CAP (The Congregational-Community Action Project) is a volunteer-operated, non-profit, tax-exempt corporation that provides emergency food, clothing and limited financial aid to local families in need serving the Front Royal - Warren County, Virginia area. C-CAP's "safety net" helps families who are not eligible for support elsewhere, or where existing support is not adequate due to special circumstances. All activities are accomplished by about 50 unpaid volunteers. They are supported primarily by donations from local churches, civic groups and organizations, individuals and businesses. Monetary donations, non-perishable food items, paper products and personal hygiene items are always in great demand. C-CAP accepts donation each weekday from 9am - Noon at the office located at 316 N. Royal Avenue in Front Royal. Joe Woodall with The River 95.3 also joined us to talk about the kickoff to our Food Drive: Camping For Hunger. For the eighth consecutive year, The River 95.3/WZRV will be hosting ‘Camping for Hunger,' from Monday, November 14th through Saturday, November 19th to raise food, monetary donations and awareness of hunger in the northern Shenandoah Valley. Staff members Randy Woodward, Lonnie Hill, Joe Woodall, Al McGilvray, Alex Hinton and station owner, Andrew Shearer along with other staff members will each spend at least one night camping in a stripped-down school bus at the Royal Plaza Shopping Center on South Street in Front Royal.  During the week-long campout, The River 95.3 broadcasts live asking for community support and donations for Front Royal/Warren County C-Cap's food pantry. Production Manager Joe Woodall came up with the concept in 2009, “The community support for this event makes the chilly evenings and long days worthwhile, knowing that they are behind us in the cause of easing the hunger of their neighbors.  Each year, the event grows with more food partners, community support and additional activities.” The River 95.3 is committed to continuing to serve the community through direct-involvement events and activities.  For more information about how you can participate or contribute to the Camping For Hunger campaign, contact Janet Michael at the station: 540-635-4121; via cell/text: 540-409-6703; email: campingforhunger@theriver953.com or visit theriver953.com.

We were joined in the studio for The Valley Today by past participants of our Alcohol Lab. Lt. Warren Gosnell, Traffic Division Commander from the Frederick County Sheriff's Department along with staff from The River 95.3: Joe Woodall, Production Manager; Lonnie Hill, Operations Manager; Alex Hinton, News Department; Nikki Lucas, former account executive; & host of The Valley Today, Janet Michael, talked about their experiences participating in the labs this year, what they learned and the long-term effects from their participation. The recording continued after we went off the air so we could talk in more detail about our individual experience(s) and Lt. Gosnell talked about statistics in the area for alcohol & drug related incidents. Watch the show (includes conversations during the commercial breaks) below or on our YouTube channel.

We were joined in the studio today by Cheri Wright, Executive Director for the Shenandoah County Chamber of Commerce. We talked about their upcoming events such as their Business After Hours on July 19 at DuPont Community Credit Union and the FREE Strasburg Movie Night featuring Zootopia on July 30. We were also joined in the studio by Alex Hinton from our news department who talked to us about the recent craze known as #PokemonGo. We discussed how it works and how businesses can use it as a marketing tool to attract new customers/gamers to their store(s). For more details about the chamber & their events, educational opportunities and membership, click here to visit their website or click here to visit their Facebook page.

While today's show was fun and light-hearted on the surface, we covered a very important topic - drinking and NOT driving. Lt. Warren Gosnell, Traffic Division Commander with the Frederick County Sheriff's Office joined us along with our 3 test subjects: Alex Hinton from our News Department, Joe Woodall, our Production Manager and Leslie Fizer - our sales rep Sarah's sister. Lt. Gosnell supervised and administered drinks and breathalzers at specified times for each of the 3 volunteers. We then went on the air to discuss the effects at each stage and talked about the myths of drinking. It was an eye-opening and educational 30 minutes. You can watch the entire show and an extended conversation after we went off the air on our Facebook page by clicking here. The alcohol lab was sponsored by Yellow Cab of the Shenandoah, LLC. Call them at 540-622-6060 for a safe ride home this 4th of July weekend.