Podcasts about DNA

Thomas Sowell is one of the thinkers I have recommended for years, particularly for his criticism of simplistic explanations for racial disparities. But I think one of the central arguments in Black Rednecks and White Liberals does not hold up as well as many conservatives assume.In this reaction, I respond to Hunter Matz's discussion of Sowell's thesis on the Joe Rogan Experience and examine the argument that Southern “redneck” culture was largely responsible for the cultural problems of black Americans.I look at the West Indies comparison, the distinction between Appalachian and Southern plantation culture, the influence of the planter class, the history of slavery and Reconstruction, Northern education, Booker T. Washington, the Great Society, and the cultural changes that followed.My argument is not that culture does not matter. Quite the opposite. Culture matters enormously. But history is complicated, and I do not think we can explain modern black American problems by simply pointing to Southern rednecks.As I say toward the end of the video, I have not argued that anything is in anyone's DNA or blamed one group of white people for everything. I am arguing that the history is more complicated than this particular explanation allows.Jon's Music: jonharristunes.comTo Support the Podcast: https://www.jonharrismedia.com/support/Become a Patronhttps://www.patreon.com/jonharrispodcastSubstack: https://substack.com/@jonharris Follow Jon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonharris1989Follow Jon on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonharris1989/00:00 – Why I Am Reacting to Joe Rogan02:43 – Thomas Sowell's “Black Rednecks” Thesis04:00 – The Problem With the West Indies Comparison06:35 – Are Ghettos and Black Culture Unique to America?08:33 – Did Black Americans Simply Adopt “Redneck Culture”?10:00 – The Cornwall and Ebonics Argument12:10 – Who Actually Lived in the Southern Black Belt?15:35 – Why Eugene Genovese Matters16:58 – Reconstruction, Education, and Booker T. Washington20:50 – The Great Society, Northern Influence, and Who Is Responsible?Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/conversations-that-matter8971/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Two of the motions prosecutors just renewed in the Alex Murdaugh retrial are about what the jury will never hear. Tony Brueski takes the listener mail on them with Robin Dreeke, a retired FBI Special Agent who spent his career in behavioral analysis.The first would exclude evidence of third-party guilt. The state won that fight before the 2023 trial. Winning it again means Murdaugh's lawyers cannot stand up and point at another person as the killer without clearing a bar the court sets.The second would exclude any mention of a polygraph. That one has a history. In an October filing before the first trial, Murdaugh's own attorneys wrote that Curtis Eddie Smith failed a polygraph when he was questioned about whether he murdered Maggie and Paul. Smith has denied wrongdoing in the murders. Prosecutors argued then, and are arguing again, that juries give polygraphers more weight than the science supports.Prosecutors are also asking the court to admit Murdaugh's 2023 testimony at the retrial, seeking a fresh review of digital evidence, and opposing the defense's bid for outside DNA testing.The question listeners keep raising is worth taking seriously. An office that calls its evidence overwhelming is asking a judge to close two doors it already closed once. Prosecutors would say that is standard practice and that speculation is not evidence.Maggie Murdaugh and Paul Murdaugh were killed at the family's Colleton County property on June 7, 2021. Paul was twenty-two. Murdaugh has said he found their bodies.Judge Debra McCaslin has tentatively set the retrial for April 5, 2027, and is handling pretrial proceedings in Lexington County.With the verdicts vacated, Murdaugh stands as an untried defendant again, presumed innocent. Robin Dreeke takes the mailbag on what gets kept out and who it actually protects.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #HiddenKillers #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #DebraMcCaslin #SouthCarolina #TrueCrime #MurdaughMurders #CreightonWaters

Many people dream of hunting in the Alaska wilderness, and for most, it is the adventure of a lifetime. However, a few unlucky hunters never return from their adventure. As I've said many times, Alaska is big, rugged, and beautiful but also dangerous, from raging rivers to high seas to rugged mountains and ice fields marred by deep crevasses. Moose, bears, and wolves all present risks, and the extreme cold in the winter can cause frostbite or hypothermia in a matter of minutes. Sources Baird, Brittney, and Mark Kelly. “Another setback for family of missing Dover man.” September 15, 2023. WKRN. Beres, Nick. “Search crews believe they have found the remains of the missing Tennessee hunter in Alaska.” September 15, 2023. News Channel 5 Nashville. Chavez, Paloma. “Hunter who got separated from friend found dead below cliff in Alaska, Coast Guard says.” October 13, 2022. The News Tribune. DeMarban, Alex. “NPS: Evidence suggests overdue hikers may have died crossing river in Wrangell-St. Elias.” July 2, 2018. Anchorage Daily News. DeMarban, Alex. “Searchers find bodies of missing hikers in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park.” July 3, 2018. Anchorage Daily News. D'Oro, Rachel and Mark Thiessen. “No arguments – no fights hunter says partner found dead on Kodiak Island had disappeared into the wilderness before.” May 18, 2019. Anchorage Daily News. Edge, Megan. “Wasilla hunter falls to his death on Pioneer Peak.” October 5, 2015. Anchorage Daily News. Hale, Tom. “DNA of skull in Alaska solves mystery on New Yorker missing since 1976.” February 6, 2023. IFLSCIENCE. Hill, Katie. “Bodies of two missing Alaskan moose hunters found, search for third continues.” September 27, 2022. Outdoor Life. Hill, Katie. “Search for three missing moose hunters in Alaska still ongoing. Another moose hunter found deceased.” September 12, 2022. Outdoor Life. Hollander, Zaz. “Delta Junction man found dead after going missing on bear hunt near Kodiak.” May 17, 2019. Anchorage Daily News. “Hunter killed in 200-foot fall.” September 12, 2011. Kodiak Daily Mirror. McFarlin, Shannon. “Alaska State Troopers: Remains found in search not human remains.” September 15, 2023. Radio NWTN. Morgan, Amber. “Bear-clawed remains found in Alaskan wilderness identified as man who went missing in 1976.” February 7, 2023. allthatisinteresting.com. O'Connor, Brian. “Wasilla hunter killed in Pioneer Peak fall.” October 6, 2015. Frontiersman. Outdoor Hub Reporters. “Alaska hunter found dead after 6 days potentially poisoned by unidentified root.” July 10, 2019. Outdoorhub.com. “The latest: man finds bear hunter dead but no sign of trauma.” May 17, 2019. ksl.com Williams, Tess. “Searchers find body of hunter reported missing in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park.” August 23, 2021. Anchorage Daily News. Wittmer, Carrie. “Body of missing hunter found in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.” August 22, 2021. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve News Release. _________________ Now Available! Thirty-Three Stories of Murder and Mystery in Alaska Check It Out on Amazon Join the Last Frontier Club’s Free Tier and receive updates, bonus episodes, and more. ______ Robin Barefield lives in the wilderness on Kodiak Island, where she and her husband own a remote lodge. She has a master's degree in fish and wildlife biology and is a wildlife-viewing and fishing guide. Robin has published six novels: Big Game, Murder Over Kodiak, The Fisherman's Daughter, Karluk Bones, Massacre at Bear Creek Lodge, and The Ultimate Hunt. She has also published two non-fiction books: Kodiak Island Wildlife and Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier. She draws on her love and appreciation of the Alaska wilderness as well as her scientific background when writing. Subscribe to Robin’s free, monthly Murder and Mystery Newsletter for more stories about true crime and mystery from Alaska. Join her on: Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Visit her website at http://robinbarefield.com Check out her books at Amazon Send me an email: robinbarefield76@gmail.com ___________________________________________ Would you like to support Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier? Become a patron and join The Last Frontier Club. Each month, Robin will provide one or more of the following to club members. · An extra episode of Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier is available only for club members. Behind-the-scenes glimpses of life and wildlife in the Kodiak wilderness. · Breaking news about ongoing murder cases and new crimes in Alaska _______________________________________________________________ Merchandise! Visit the Store          

Send us Fan MailCould chronic endometritis—silent inflammation in the uterine lining—affect IVF implantation, miscarriage, or embryo-transfer success?In this episode of Taco Bout Fertility Tuesday, Dr. Mark Amols explains what chronic endometritis is, what it is not, and when it may actually be worth investigating.We break down CD138 biopsies, hysteroscopy, cultures, EMMA, ALICE, and vaginal microbiome testing—and why these tests are not interchangeable. We also discuss antibiotics before embryo transfer, what ASRM says about routine antibiotic use, and why finding bacterial DNA does not automatically mean treatment will improve live-birth rates.The takeaway: chronic endometritis can be real and treatable in the right patient, but not every borderline result explains infertility, miscarriage, or a failed IVF transfer.Thanks for tuning in to another episode of 'Taco Bout Fertility Tuesday' with Dr. Mark Amols. If you found this episode insightful, please share it with friends and family who might benefit from our discussion. Remember, your feedback is invaluable to us – leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred listening platform.Stay connected with us for updates and fertility tips – follow us on Facebook. For more resources and information, visit our website at www.NewDirectionFertility.com.Have a question or a topic you'd like us to cover? We'd love to hear from you! Reach out to us at TBFT@NewDirectionFertility.com.Join us next Tuesday for more discussions on fertility, where we blend medical expertise with a touch of humor to make complex topics accessible and engaging. Until then, keep the conversation going and remember: understanding your fertility is a journey we're on together.

In 1971, an off-duty constable walking near an abandoned flint mill beside the River Trent in Burton upon Trent found what he first thought was a piece of cement, until he saw it was part of a human skull. Beneath the earth lay the skeletal remains of a young man, naked, bound hand and foot, and buried in a shallow grave in a kneeling position, with only pink socks and a wedding ring left to suggest he had once belonged somewhere.More than five decades later, he is still known only as “Fred the Head”, a nickname born from the first body part uncovered, not a name anyone who loved him ever gave him. Fingerprints, dental work, facial reconstructions, DNA testing, and possible matches have all failed to restore his identity, making him Staffordshire's oldest unsolved murder victim: a man who was brutally hidden away, but never reported missing by anyone police could find.

Alex Murdaugh is getting a second trial because of a court clerk. That is the whole reason any of these new filings exist, and it is worth keeping in front of you. Tony Brueski takes listener questions with retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke.The South Carolina Supreme Court vacated Murdaugh's 2023 murder convictions after jurors said Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill told them to watch his body language and not be fooled by his testimony. The justices ruled that amounted to a suggestion he was guilty. Hill later pleaded guilty to perjury, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office, and was sentenced to probation.Now prosecutors have moved to put the very testimony Hill commented on in front of a new jury. Their filing asks Judge Debra McCaslin to admit Murdaugh's 2023 trial testimony at the retrial, including his admission that he lied to investigators for roughly eighteen months about being at the kennels the night Maggie and Paul were killed.The same filings renew the state's motions to exclude polygraph evidence and third-party guilt, seek a fresh review of digital evidence, and oppose the defense's request for independent DNA testing.The listener question landing hardest is the circular one. The verdict fell because of what a clerk said about him testifying. The state's answer is to make sure the next jury hears him testify anyway.McCaslin has tentatively set the retrial for April 5, 2027. Lead prosecutor Creighton Waters told the court the state could have been ready before the end of 2026. Dick Harpootlian said the defense has eight new expert witnesses and that DNA work alone could take six months.Murdaugh's convictions were overturned, he awaits retrial, and he is presumed innocent. He has denied the killings since 2021 and remains in prison on financial crime convictions.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #HiddenKillers #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #DebraMcCaslin #SouthCarolina #TrueCrime #MurdaughMurders #CreightonWaters

Multisite doesn't just stretch your building. It stretches your bench. You can have clear DNA, full buy-in and real growth and still not be ready because you don't have the leaders to pull it off. Before you launch a new location, you need to assess whether you have enough of the right leaders, healthy leaders and a deep enough volunteer bench. In this episode, we're looking at three checkpoints that focus on your team: staff leadership capacity, staff health and volunteer strength. Replicating the right leaders Building a team that trusts Raising up volunteer leaders   This Episode is Sponsored by PlainJoe Studios:  Adding a new campus to your multisite plan? If you don't have a strategy for coordinating your placemaking and wayfinding signage, maybe it's time to update across every campus. The creative and talented team at PlainJoe, a Storyland Studio, are experts at creating placemaking signs and wayfinding markers that will tell your church's unique story and point your people in the right direction – from the moment they arrive at your campus. Learn more at plainjoe.net.   Join the Conversation on Social Media We use hashtag #unstuckchurch on X and on Instagram. 

Scaling globally without losing the core identity and product quality that built early brand loyalty remains one of retail's hardest execution challenges. In this episode of the Global Lens podcast series, host Lavina Suthenthiran speaks with Ashley Kechter, Global President of Vuori, about the mechanics of international expansion and how brands can scale globally while protecting their core DNA. INSIDE THE EPISODE: - Protecting Brand DNA at Scale: Why successful global rollouts rely on preserving the distinct feeling and lifestyle identity behind the product rather than treating expansion as a purely transactional exercise. - Bridging Performance and Lifestyle: How Vuori builds a defensible category position by designing fabric-first, versatile apparel built to move in and styled for life. - Demand-Led Market Entry: How Vuori leverages digital demand signals across 30+ e-commerce markets to strategically build physical store density and local community relationships in key regions like the UK and China. - Localization Without Dilution: Why tailoring global expansion requires blending local culture, artists, and regional brand partners like Jack Draper and Tom Holland with consistent back-end infrastructure. Listen above to learn how modern activewear brands navigate global growth, protect customer loyalty, and scale international operations without losing their identity. Download the Global Lens Report to access the complete framework for building an agile, future-proof global operating model.

The US school system has played an instrumental role in creating and upholding racial hierarchies, preparing children to expect unequal treatment throughout their lives. Join Eve L. Ewing and Bill Ayers at a season of the Socialism 2025 conference for a discussion of the historical origins of white supremacy and racial hierarchy baked into the DNA of American schooling.

Day one of Tyler Robinson's preliminary hearing on July 6, 2026, largely centered on prosecutors beginning to construct a timeline of Charlie Kirk's killing at Utah Valley University and establishing the authenticity of the surveillance footage and investigative records they intended to use against Robinson. Former UVU police officer Chris Bagley described the moment the gunshot rang out during Kirk's September 10, 2025 event and the chaos that followed, while Utah State Bureau of Investigation agent David Hull walked the court through the enormous video-review effort undertaken after the shooting. Hull testified that investigators examined hundreds of hours of surveillance footage and ultimately tracked a person they believed was Robinson moving around the UVU campus at several different points that day. Prosecutors introduced surveillance recordings from multiple locations as they attempted to connect the person seen approaching the campus, moving toward the area surrounding the Losee Center, and later leaving the area to Robinson. Three separate videos depicting Kirk being shot were admitted, although Judge Tony Graf determined that their graphic nature warranted restricting their display to the attorneys' and judge's monitors rather than broadcasting them throughout the courtroom. Kirk's widow, Erika, and his parents left the courtroom while the videos were reviewed. Prosecutors also introduced Kirk's autopsy report through Hull, which listed his cause of death as a gunshot wound to the neck and the manner of death as homicideThe defense spent much of the first day attacking the manner in which the prosecution was getting its evidence into the record rather than attempting to disprove the entire prosecution theory at that stage. Kathryn Nester and Robinson's attorneys repeatedly raised hearsay, foundation and authentication objections, arguing that investigators were being permitted to introduce reports, statements and records created by other people without those individuals appearing personally to testify. Judge Graf overruled most of those objections, reflecting the substantially lower evidentiary threshold governing a Utah preliminary hearing, whose purpose was only to determine whether probable cause existed to send Robinson to trial rather than whether prosecutors could prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. One significant exception involved an edited compilation of surveillance footage, which Graf declined to admit in that form and required prosecutors to replace with the underlying unedited material. Hull's testimony also revealed the scope of the prosecution's surveillance theory: investigators claimed Robinson had appeared on or around the UVU campus multiple times on September 10 and that they were attempting to stitch those appearances together into a continuous identification of the alleged shooter. By the end of day one, prosecutors had established the killing itself, the medical cause of Kirk's death, the existence and authenticity of substantial video evidence and the beginnings of their effort to identify Robinson as the person captured in that footage. They had not yet presented many of the pieces expected to become more consequential later in the hearing, including the rifle and DNA evidence, Robinson's alleged communications and admissions, and testimony concerning his roommate Lance Twiggs.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

In the lead-up to Bryan Kohberger's trial, some of the most consequential legal fighting centered on the DNA recovered from the knife sheath found beneath Madison Mogen's body and the investigative genetic genealogy, or IGG, process that investigators used to identify Kohberger as a suspect. Authorities had extracted a single-source male DNA profile from the sheath and later sent the sample to Othram, which developed a SNP profile that could be compared against genealogy databases that permitted law-enforcement searches. Investigators used that information to build family trees that eventually pointed toward Kohberger, after which authorities collected trash from his family's Pennsylvania home and obtained DNA that helped connect his family to the sheath sample. Kohberger's defense spent years seeking the underlying IGG records, laboratory materials, family-tree information and details about how Othram and the FBI conducted the genealogy work. That discovery fight produced multiple motions to compel, closed hearings and court-ordered disclosures under seal as the defense argued that it needed the material to examine whether the investigative process had been scientifically reliable and constitutionally permissible.The fight eventually moved from obtaining the evidence to trying to keep it out of court altogether. Kohberger's attorneys argued that law enforcement had violated his constitutional rights by conducting the IGG investigation without a warrant and by later obtaining DNA through a trash pull at his parents' home, contending that evidence developed from those steps and subsequent warrants should be suppressed as fruit of an unlawful search. Judge Steven Hippler rejected that argument in February 2025, ruling that Kohberger had not established a constitutionally protected privacy interest that made the IGG process or abandoned trash unlawful searches and declining to suppress the resulting evidence. The defense then continued attacking the genealogy evidence through motions in limine, arguing that the State should not be permitted to present the IGG process to the jury and raising separate challenges involving terminology such as “touch” or “contact” DNA and the disclosure of expert testimony. The State maintained that IGG had primarily been an investigative lead rather than the evidentiary foundation of its case, while prosecutors intended to rely on the direct comparison between Kohberger's DNA and the profile recovered from the sheath. By the time trial approached, the DNA battle had therefore become two interconnected fights: whether the genetic genealogy that led investigators to Kohberger had been lawfully conducted, and exactly how much of that complicated investigative history the jury would ultimately be allowed to hear.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

AI can now read DNA like language, generate working biological sequences, and help scientists identify disease-related mutations. Radical Numerics CEO Eric Nguyen explains how genome language models work, why his earlier model Evo helped scientists design CRISPR systems and bacteriophage genomes, and how the company's newer model, Omnii, combines DNA with RNA, proteins, and other biological signals. The conversation explores personalized medicine, gene therapy, AI-designed biological threats, “deepfake viruses,” and whether the same technology that creates new biology can also defend against it.Learn more about Radical Numerics: https://www.radicalnumerics.ai/

The South Carolina Supreme Court did not only fault the clerk of court when it threw out Alex Murdaugh's convictions. The justices also flagged how much of the 2023 trial was spent on the money he stole. Tony Brueski takes your questions on what that means for the retrial with retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke.Prosecutors spent close to two weeks of the first trial on Murdaugh's financial crimes. That evidence was not tied to the murder charges directly. It was offered to establish motive: his thefts were about to be exposed, and the state argued the killings bought him sympathy and time.Judge Debra McCaslin now decides how much of that comes in the second time. She has told the attorneys she knows nothing about the first trial and wants them complete when they explain it to her.The state's newest filings run the other direction. Prosecutors moved to admit Murdaugh's own 2023 testimony at the retrial, renewed motions to exclude polygraph evidence and third-party guilt, requested a fresh review of digital evidence, and opposed the defense's push for independent DNA analysis.Listeners are asking a sharp question about the arithmetic. If the financial evidence gets trimmed and the third-party door stays shut, what is the state walking into April 2027 with, and is it enough for twelve people who have never heard any of this.Murdaugh has denied the killings of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh since 2021. His convictions were vacated, he awaits retrial, and he is presumed innocent. He pleaded guilty to dozens of financial crimes and remains in prison on those sentences.Robin Dreeke handles the mail on motive, money, and what a jury actually does with a man's finances.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #HiddenKillers #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #DebraMcCaslin #SouthCarolina #TrueCrime #MurdaughMurders #CreightonWaters

On April 13, 1987, 54-year-old psychiatric nurse and prison minister Retha Welch was found brutally murdered in her Newport, Kentucky home. Police quickly set their sights on William Virgil, a recently released inmate who admitted to a prior relationship with her. A jury convicted him in 1988, but decades later, the conviction unravelled amidst recanted snitch testimonies, missing rape kits, and DNA from three unknown men on preserved slides. Was William Virgil the victim of systemic police misconduct, or did legal technicalities and degraded decades-old evidence allow a killer to walk free? --For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Kohberger's Body Language: Did He Just Give Himself Away? Bryan Kohberger now claims actual innocence and wants to withdraw the guilty plea that sent him to prison for the Idaho 4 murders—but can he convince a judge to give him a trial? Retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon breaks down Kohberger's ineffective-counsel claims, the DNA, knife-sheath, cellphone and vehicle evidence, and the biggest legal obstacles standing in his way. We also examine his body language as per ecpert Scott Rouse. . Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week we talk about Evo 2, bacteriophages, and antibiotics.We also discuss AI models, medical innovations, and the Red Army.Recommended Book: The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. NormanTranscriptA bacteriophage, sometimes just called a phage, is a type of virus that only infects bacteria. “Phage” means to devour, and that's what bacteriophages do—they infect and replicate within bacteria that they target, injecting their own genome into that target's cytoplasm, which are all the materials contained within the bacteria's cell membrane.Phages are super-abundant, by some measures more abundant than every living organism, including bacteria, on earth, combined. And they're interesting in that they range from incredibly simple to quite complex, and have at times been used as alternatives to antibiotics, because they attack and feed on bacteria.The use of phages to counter bacterial infections was all but abandoned in the mid-20th century when antibiotics were discovered and commercialized, their production industrialized and the substances themselves proving a lot easier to mass-produce, and a lot more predictable in their utility than phages. Phages were kinda sorta almost understood, but we didn't really get what they were doing or why, so their application often felt more like folk remedies than real-deal science, despite the actual science underlying the practice.Also, phages were primarily used as antibiotic treatments by the Red Army, the Soviet Union's military. So throughout the West, which was rapidly scaling its production of antibiotic treatments, the use of bacteriophages was associated with Stalinist communism, and so the Red-scare, the demonization of anything associated with the Soviet Union, was partially responsible for the shelving of this approach and this realm of research, at least for a while.Much of that existing research was also done in the Soviet Union, and the published documents were thus published in Russian or Georgian languages. And because much of the rest of the scientific publishing world was reorienting around English at this time, that meant these published works were often either ignored or unintelligible to the rest of the scientific community.As with much of our microbiota, the invisibly small viruses, bacteria, archaea, and so on that make up the human microbiome, we have a general sense of how bacteriophages interact with some of what makes us, us, but only a general sense. We know that healthy individuals tend to contain a host of bacteriophages that people who have chronic conditions, like Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis are less likely to have, for instance, and there's a chance that this lack is associated with those conditions—though each person's body composition is unique, and this facet of biology is still relatively obscure; we really don't know for certain what does what, because of how complex these interactions are.What I'd like to talk about today is a recent development in the world of bacteriophages, and why the researchers behind it are both celebrating their accomplishment, and warning about potential dangers associated with the same.—Back in 2025, a nonprofit called the Arc Institute, which has a stated goal of accelerating scientific progress and understanding the root causes of complex diseases, announced the release of a new language model, a new AI system, called Evo 2.The Evo family of foundation models—a foundation model being a type of AI model that's been trained on a huge corpus of data, but which is applicable for all sorts of purposes, including serving as the foundation of large-language models like ChatGPT or Claude—this family of foundation models is open-source and trained on raw genetic sequences, something like nine trillion nucleotides-worth of such sequences, making it distinct from other models in this space that have been trained on descriptions of biological systems, using human language.The initial version of Evo was released in early 2024, and the newest version, Evo 2, which is an upgraded version of the Evo 2 model that is more efficient, so it can be run on less powerful hardware, was released in February of 2026.So while many of the AI systems that non-biologists interact with on a regular basis have been trained on human language-based libraries, showing relationships and interactions between the words we use to communicate, these models have been trained on the fundamental building blocks of life; the nucleotides, Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine, ATCG of DNA, if you remember that from biology class, that are strung together into 64 different possible three-letter combinations. Chains of these nucleotides instruct cells to build proteins out of amino acids, and from that baseline, we get life.We also get non-living things like viruses, which have no cells, metabolism, or independent reproduction, and phages are viruses.And while other AI models have been shown to be great at designing proteins, before 2025 there was little evidence that such systems could design viable genomes: the combination of genetic information that makes up a complete, fully functional organism.That's what Arc decided to tackle with this Evo AI model. And back in 2025, Arc announced that it had successfully validated the first viable genome designs, created using generative AI.These designs were for 16 bacteriophages, which were modeled on a virus that infects E. coli bacteria, and some of them worked just as well or better at infecting E. coli when compared to the actual, real-world phage they were modeled on. They were produced in the real world, a bacteria coaxed into producing them, and then they went on to successfully gobble up the E. coli test subjects they were meant to gobble up, demonstrating that they worked in practice, not just theory.And a new paper published in early August of 2026 by the Arc Institute and Stanford University expounds upon this research, showing the results of an attempt to create entirely new viruses, not just altered existing viruses.Rather than mutating that E. coli gobbling phage, as with the last experiment, tweaking an existing virus, this time they tasked Evo 2 with modeling how that E. coli attacking and eating process works, and then told it to come up with entirely new viruses that operate on the same premise, but which are structured differently; new viruses that eat the same thing in a similar way, but which are distinct from the original model.Ultimately, it gave them 16 viable viruses of very different sizes and structure, all of which were created in a lab and successfully ate the targeted E. coli strain, as intended.This is being seen as a pretty big deal, because while creating viruses in a lab is very modern technology, and mutating those viruses shows a lot of potential for manipulating what we already know works and then tweaking virus behaviors to, perhaps, help us create new medical treatments, the ability to generate, from scratch, entirely new viruses that hold together, with genomes that don't just fall apart when they come into contact with the real world, and which can still do things, like attack bacteria—that opens a lot of new doors, potentially giving us the ability to say, okay, this bacteria is no longer responding to antibacterial drugs that we have available, so let's make a virus that will kill the bacteria instead, and let's make one that won't harm the human that's housing that bacteria.We might also be able to create phages that eat other things, or which in some other way help the human body, or other biological entities, fight off chronic conditions, or recover or rebalance; there's a lot of potential here, because this suggests AI systems trained on the right materials, on the building blocks of life, could generate all sorts of viable biological systems that we can then actually create. It's a huge step forward, compared to systems that are also impressive, but which mostly help us understand the biological world better—like Alphafold, which solved the protein folding problem.Those involved with this research have also been been flagging potential dangers with this development, though, including the potential for creating new viruses and other biological systems that could trigger unpredictable outcomes in other biological systems. There are a lot of potential hazards with this sort of research, and they've been very careful up till this point, sticking with test subjects that only target E. coli, but not everyone will necessarily be so careful, which might mean accidents, or it could mean people with less than benevolent intentions using these techniques to develop highly infectious viruses or other such pathogens; starting from smallpox to produce even more contagious and deadly ailments, for instance.The optimistic view of this research is that it could contribute to the surge in new discoveries and technologies that we're seeing around the world right now, that are resulting in new medical approaches and in some cases entirely new medical fields, which could help us do all sorts of things, including big-sky ambitions like curing cancer and doing away with chronic illnesses entirely.Like most major scientific developments, though, these are also big developments for those who might want to do harm, and it also creates new opportunities for very serious, dangerous, deadly accidents, which means we'll probably have to develop and implement more stringent safety protocols and regulatory efforts if we want to enjoy the full benefits of these innovations, without suffering significant new downsides, in the process.Show Noteshttps://press.asimov.com/articles/ai-phageshttps://arcinstitute.org/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/06/safety-fears-as-scientists-make-first-viruses-designed-by-aihttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3j3ngevmohttps://www.cnn.com/2026/08/06/health/ai-viruses-bacteriophageshttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-07/ai-models-design-viruses-not-found-in-nature-for-first-time/107007854https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-used-ai-to-create-16-new-viruses/https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec2657https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_(AI)https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/science/ai-viruses-bacteria-arc.html This is a public episode. 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What's more British than the British royal family? More Spanish than the Spanish Monarchs? More Norse than the King of Norway? Well, a lot of things actually. In fact, nearly all of the 10 remaining hereditary monarchs of Europe have more German DNA than they do local. For centuries, royals almost exclusively married other, foreign royals. They rarely mixed their blue blood with people native to the Kingdoms they ruled over. What's more, when dynasties died out (often from excessive inbreeding) foreign royal houses put their own seconds sons on the throne, establishing new, entirely alien dynasties. Modern royal families try to brand themselves as throughly native and in touch with the common people. And if they ever spit into a test tube and sent it off for a DNA test, they would probably never publish the results. But, by looking back at their family trees, we can get a pretty good idea of their heritage. Last week we explore the heritage of the reigning families of Belgium, Denmark Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco and Norway. Today we'll analyze the DNA of the Dutch, Spanish, Swedish and British royal families. Plus we'll compare them all to see which modern monarchy has the most local DNA; and find out why the royals of Europe are all so German. Royal family of The Netherlands - Dutch royal family Royal family of Spain - Spanish Royal family Royal family of Sweden - Swedish royal family Royal family of The United Kingdom - British Royal family Why are the royals so German? Which royal families are the most German? Which royal families are the most local? Music: Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100303 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Join me every Tuesday when I'm Spilling the Tea on History! Check out my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/lindsayholiday Please consider supporting me at https://www.patreon.com/LindsayHoliday and help me make more fascinating episodes! Intro Music: Baroque Coffee House by Doug Maxwell #HistoryTeaTime #LindsayHoliday Please contact ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠advertising@airwavemedia.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ if you would like to advertise on this podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Bryan Kohberger accused Anne Taylor's defense team of coercing his guilty plea, Idaho had to find him a brand-new lawyer, and the search ended at a small general-practice firm in Moscow. Greg Rauch got the appointment on August 3, 2026, through the state's Alternate Counsel Division, the office that hires private attorneys when the public defender has a conflict. The conflict here is unavoidable: Kohberger's handwritten petition, filed July 27, claims his original lawyers convinced him to falsely confess to the University of Idaho murders and hid favorable evidence, allegations that remain unproven and unruled upon. So the man who once had a defense operation reported at more than eight million dollars — including a DNA specialist who spent nine years attacking genetic evidence for San Francisco's public defender — is starting over with an attorney whose caseload runs through bankruptcy court and family court. Rauch's first public comments confirmed he hadn't read the petition or the case file and hadn't spoken with Kohberger. He grew up in Moscow, graduated from the same university the four victims attended, and will work this case surrounded by neighbors who lived through what happened on King Road. The endgame carries a twist worthy of the filing itself: if Rauch succeeds, the plea disappears, the case moves back toward trial, and the death penalty Kohberger bargained away comes back with it. The attorney general has promised his office is ready, and Steve Goncalves says his family is prepared and confident about the outcome. Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin's loved ones thought this ended at sentencing. It didn't, and the next chapter runs straight through one unlucky lawyer's office. Follow along, because this appointment shapes everything that comes next.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#BryanKohberger #GregRauch #TrueCrimeToday #IdahoFour #TrueCrime #AnneTaylor #IdahoMurders #KohbergerPetition #TrueCrimeNews #PostConviction

Lyn Bryant was brutally stabbed while walking her dog, but months later when the investigation stalled, the killer seemingly came back to the scene to leave another clue.  Now decades later, investigators have DNA, but strict UK legal restrictions may keep this case from being solved, and a killer on the streets.You can contact Devon and Cornwall Police directly by calling 101 or by submitting a report online through the UK's Major Incident Public Portal. If you wish to remain  anonymous, call Crimestoppers UK at 0800 555 111 or visit crimestoppers-uk.org. A reward of up to £20,000 is available for information that leads to an arrest and conviction of the person responsible.Thank you BBC News, CrimeStoppers UK, The West Briton, The Northwich Chronicle, Evening Post, The Dark Curiousities and Crimes That Haunt Us YouTube Channels, Gemini and Wikipedia for information contributing to today's story.Thank you BBC News, CrimeStoppers UK, The West Briton, The Northwich Chronicle, Evening Post, The Dark Curiousities and Crimes That Haunt Us YouTube Channels, Gemini and Wikipedia for information contributing to today's story.Do you have any comments, or a case you'd like to suggest? You'll find a comment form and case submission link at LordanArts.com.This is not intended to act as a means of proving or disproving anything related to the investigation.  It is a conversation about the current known facts and theories being discussed.  Everyone directly or indirectly referred to is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.LordanArts 2026

Greg Rauch spent twenty years practicing law in Moscow, Idaho, and nothing in that career resembles what Bryan Kohberger just handed him. Rauch's firm bio covers Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy, landlord-tenant fights, DUI defense, divorce, child custody, wills, probate, and real estate. It credits him with more than twenty trials. It shows no murder case, no capital case, and no petition remotely like the handwritten one Kohberger filed on July 27, 2026 to undo his guilty plea in the Idaho student murders. The state appointed Rauch on August 3 because the public defender's office had a conflict — Kohberger is accusing his own former lawyers of coercing a false confession and burying evidence, claims no judge has ruled on yet. Hours into the job, Rauch admitted to a reporter that he hadn't read the file and had never spoken to the man he represents. The contrast with what came before is the whole story. Anne Taylor's team carried this case for two and a half years, brought in a genetics-trained DNA specialist from San Francisco, and negotiated the deal that kept Kohberger off death row after prosecutors said his DNA was on the knife sheath. The case cost Idaho taxpayers a reported eight million dollars. Kohberger's petition calls that representation a betrayal, and his reward is a solo general practitioner working three hundred miles from the prison where he sits. If the gamble works, the plea dies and the death penalty returns, exactly the outcome the Goncalves family says it wants. This episode lays out the full record on the man now standing between Bryan Kohberger and a capital courtroom, and why the poor guy holding this file may have drawn the worst assignment in American law.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#BryanKohberger #GregRauch #HiddenKillers #IdahoFour #TrueCrime #AnneTaylor #KohbergerCase #IdahoMurders #TrueCrimeStories #UniversityOfIdaho

Chad and Alex are back. Chad's been deep in true crime lately, and he can't stop. The Jinx. Making a Murderer. A 70-year-old man who got away with murder for 50 years until his DNA showed up on a baseball hat at the scene. From there it turns into rap, net worths, who stayed relevant, and why Dre is in a category nobody else is in. Then Reno traffic, bad bartenders, and Pyramid Highway. Chad might also be a golfer now. Just another Breakin' It Down. This episode is presented by Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey and brought to you by GATR Coolers & Drinkware, Demerbox, Resistol Hats, ZLINE Appliances, Almost Heaven Saunas, Scoreboard Nashville, The Nashville Palace, Cowboy's Choice Horse Feeds, and Jack Link's Protein Snacks.

In the lead-up to Bryan Kohberger's trial, the court issued an important order governing investigative genetic genealogy, or IGG, material connected to the identification of Kohberger as a suspect. The dispute centered on the genetic genealogy work investigators used after DNA recovered from the knife sheath at the King Road crime scene did not initially identify a suspect through traditional law-enforcement databases. Kohberger's defense sought access to the underlying IGG records, arguing that it needed to examine how investigators moved from the unknown DNA profile to Kohberger and whether the process complied with applicable policies, privacy protections, and constitutional requirements. Prosecutors resisted broad disclosure, maintaining that much of the genealogy information involved private individuals who had nothing to do with the case and that the IGG process had functioned primarily as an investigative lead rather than evidence the state intended to present to the jury.The court ultimately required the state to provide the defense with certain IGG-related materials while placing significant restrictions on their use and disclosure. The judge recognized that Kohberger's attorneys were entitled to investigate the process that had helped focus law enforcement on their client, but also sought to protect the privacy of uninvolved genetic relatives and people whose genealogical information had been examined during the investigation. The order therefore reflected a compromise: the defense gained access to material necessary to evaluate and potentially challenge the genealogy investigation, while sensitive information remained subject to protective measures and limited distribution. The ruling was significant because it gave Kohberger's lawyers an opportunity to scrutinize one of the most consequential investigative steps in the case, even though prosecutors maintained that the eventual direct DNA comparison between Kohberger and the sheath sample, rather than the genealogy search itself, was the evidence they relied upon to connect him to the crime scene.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

In the lead-up to Bryan Kohberger's trial, the court issued an important order governing investigative genetic genealogy, or IGG, material connected to the identification of Kohberger as a suspect. The dispute centered on the genetic genealogy work investigators used after DNA recovered from the knife sheath at the King Road crime scene did not initially identify a suspect through traditional law-enforcement databases. Kohberger's defense sought access to the underlying IGG records, arguing that it needed to examine how investigators moved from the unknown DNA profile to Kohberger and whether the process complied with applicable policies, privacy protections, and constitutional requirements. Prosecutors resisted broad disclosure, maintaining that much of the genealogy information involved private individuals who had nothing to do with the case and that the IGG process had functioned primarily as an investigative lead rather than evidence the state intended to present to the jury.The court ultimately required the state to provide the defense with certain IGG-related materials while placing significant restrictions on their use and disclosure. The judge recognized that Kohberger's attorneys were entitled to investigate the process that had helped focus law enforcement on their client, but also sought to protect the privacy of uninvolved genetic relatives and people whose genealogical information had been examined during the investigation. The order therefore reflected a compromise: the defense gained access to material necessary to evaluate and potentially challenge the genealogy investigation, while sensitive information remained subject to protective measures and limited distribution. The ruling was significant because it gave Kohberger's lawyers an opportunity to scrutinize one of the most consequential investigative steps in the case, even though prosecutors maintained that the eventual direct DNA comparison between Kohberger and the sheath sample, rather than the genealogy search itself, was the evidence they relied upon to connect him to the crime scene.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

Day one of Tyler Robinson's preliminary hearing on July 6, 2026, largely centered on prosecutors beginning to construct a timeline of Charlie Kirk's killing at Utah Valley University and establishing the authenticity of the surveillance footage and investigative records they intended to use against Robinson. Former UVU police officer Chris Bagley described the moment the gunshot rang out during Kirk's September 10, 2025 event and the chaos that followed, while Utah State Bureau of Investigation agent David Hull walked the court through the enormous video-review effort undertaken after the shooting. Hull testified that investigators examined hundreds of hours of surveillance footage and ultimately tracked a person they believed was Robinson moving around the UVU campus at several different points that day. Prosecutors introduced surveillance recordings from multiple locations as they attempted to connect the person seen approaching the campus, moving toward the area surrounding the Losee Center, and later leaving the area to Robinson. Three separate videos depicting Kirk being shot were admitted, although Judge Tony Graf determined that their graphic nature warranted restricting their display to the attorneys' and judge's monitors rather than broadcasting them throughout the courtroom. Kirk's widow, Erika, and his parents left the courtroom while the videos were reviewed. Prosecutors also introduced Kirk's autopsy report through Hull, which listed his cause of death as a gunshot wound to the neck and the manner of death as homicideThe defense spent much of the first day attacking the manner in which the prosecution was getting its evidence into the record rather than attempting to disprove the entire prosecution theory at that stage. Kathryn Nester and Robinson's attorneys repeatedly raised hearsay, foundation and authentication objections, arguing that investigators were being permitted to introduce reports, statements and records created by other people without those individuals appearing personally to testify. Judge Graf overruled most of those objections, reflecting the substantially lower evidentiary threshold governing a Utah preliminary hearing, whose purpose was only to determine whether probable cause existed to send Robinson to trial rather than whether prosecutors could prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. One significant exception involved an edited compilation of surveillance footage, which Graf declined to admit in that form and required prosecutors to replace with the underlying unedited material. Hull's testimony also revealed the scope of the prosecution's surveillance theory: investigators claimed Robinson had appeared on or around the UVU campus multiple times on September 10 and that they were attempting to stitch those appearances together into a continuous identification of the alleged shooter. By the end of day one, prosecutors had established the killing itself, the medical cause of Kirk's death, the existence and authenticity of substantial video evidence and the beginnings of their effort to identify Robinson as the person captured in that footage. They had not yet presented many of the pieces expected to become more consequential later in the hearing, including the rifle and DNA evidence, Robinson's alleged communications and admissions, and testimony concerning his roommate Lance Twiggs.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

Dr. Sahar Wertheimer is a fertility specialist and double board-certified OB-GYN and reproductive endocrinologist practicing in Beverly Hills, California. She also serves as chair of the Women's Health Committee for the Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association. Her research and publications cover topics including placental epigenetics and markers of androgen excess in PCOS and hirsutism. Dr. Wertheimer completed four years of OB-GYN training followed by a three-year fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility.Listen in to hear Dr. Wertheimer share:How to prepare for egg freezing, egg retrieval, IVF, and embryo transferWhat fertility statistics can—and cannot—tell women about egg freezing and future family buildingWhy male fertility deserves greater attention and how sperm health can affect treatment outcomesThe connection between insulin resistance, PCOS or PMOS, ovulation, egg quality, and implantationHow nutrition, sleep, exercise, and evidence-supported supplements may help optimize fertilityHer perspective on GLP-1 medications for some patients with insulin resistanceWhen advanced testing such as sperm DNA fragmentation analysis and PGT-A may be helpfulPotential causes and evaluations following recurrent pregnancy lossWhy IVF, donor-assisted conception, and surrogacy should be discussed without shameEncouragement for anyone navigating the emotional challenges of fertility treatment+so much moreConnect with Lauren:Get my FREE PCOS Guide hereJoin the Empowered Path to Pregnancy hereInstagramWork With MeThank you so much for listening to the About Health and Hormones Podcast! If you loved today's episode, I would love to know! Please leave a rating and review so I can make this podcast even better for you all. I would love to connect with you.I'm so glad you were here today, and I wish you all health and happiness!This episode was edited and produced by Intent Media.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

Our 254th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 08/09/2026Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie HarrisFeel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.aiRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/In this episode: Multiple frontier AI systems (OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Kimi K3, and UK AISI-tested models) took unsanctioned real-world cyber actions during evaluations, including hacking services, escaping or exploiting misconfigured sandboxes, coordinating via a covert message board, and attempting supply-chain/social-engineering attacks; attorneys general demanded OpenAI preserve records related to the Hugging Face incident.Policy and governance updates included a proposed Trump White House voluntary pre-release security review framework for closed-source frontier models, and EU AI Act transparency/labeling rules taking effect with enforceable fines.Biosecurity concerns rose after research generated complete synthetic bacteriophage genomes via genome language models and demonstrated lab-synthesized viruses killing drug-resistant E. coli, alongside calls for stronger DNA screening and detection.Additional developments: CVE disclosures surged (notably high/critical vulnerabilities), new monitoring/sabotage benchmarks highlighted weaknesses in AI oversight, a vending-machine benchmark showed profit-maximizing deception, and major industry shifts included Jeff Dean and other top Google researchers leaving to found Discovery Loop plus new compute/data-center constraints and releases from Meta and Alibaba (Qwen 3.8 Max).Timestamps (note - these don't take into account dynamically inserted ads and therefore may be off by a couple of minutes):(00:00:10) Intro / Banter(00:02:17) News Preview(00:03:19) Response to listener commentsPolicy & Safety(00:14:30) OpenAI's rogue AI agent didn't stop at hacking Hugging Face | The Verge + OpenAI Didn't Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree + 15 attorneys general have instructed OpenAI to preserve all materials related to the Hugging Face hack(00:43:51) Anthropic Says Its A.I. Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations - The New York Times(00:51:14) Meta AI model hacks another company during testing(00:52:11) One of China's Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Escaped Containment | WIRED(00:56:12) Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing(01:02:32) Trump White House Readies AI Framework to Review Security Risks - The New York Times(01:05:45) This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature - The New York Times + Scientists Used AI to Create 16 New Viruses(01:16:03) Europe's AI labeling and transparency rules are now in effect | The Verge(01:18:58) Serious cyber vulnerability disclosures kept climbing in July(01:21:13) ResearchArena: Evaluating Sabotage and Monitoring in Automated AI R&D(01:25:34) Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine | TechCrunchTools & Apps(01:28:34) Meta debuts Muse Code to take on Anthropic and OpenAI(01:32:36) Improving Fable 5 Safeguards AnthropicApplications & Business(01:33:50) Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup | TechCrunch(01:40:38) Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role(01:43:40) Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta | TechCrunch(01:44:53) Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand - Ars TechnicaProjects & Open Source(01:49:56) Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max AI Model Claims Benchmark Scores Rivaling Anthropic - BloombergSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Is an enlarged prostate simply an unavoidable part of getting older—or could it be a warning sign that something deeper is happening in the body?In Episode 148 of The Dr. Haley Show, Dr. Michael Haley sits down with Dr. Lisbeth Roy, DO, founder of Doctors Studio and creator of the ProstaGen™ Method, for a wide-ranging discussion about prostate health, BPH, chronic prostatitis, urinary symptoms, hidden infections, gut health, inflammation, immune function, nutrition, and regenerative medicine.Dr. Roy challenges the common assumption that prostate problems should automatically be dismissed as “just aging.” Instead, she encourages men to look at the prostate as part of a larger system that may be influenced by metabolic dysfunction, chronic inflammation, oral and gut health, hormonal balance, immune function, and infection.In this episode, Dr. Roy explains why prostate size alone may not explain a man's symptoms, why conventional urine cultures may miss certain microorganisms, how next-generation sequencing can detect microbial DNA, and why biofilms may make chronic infections more difficult to identify and address.Dr. Haley and Dr. Roy also discuss food quality, gut permeability, environmental exposures, conventional medications such as Flomax and finasteride, prostate procedures, PSA testing, MRI, prostate exams, and when younger men should start paying attention to prostate symptoms.IN THIS EPISODE:• Why Dr. Roy does not consider an enlarged prostate to be simply a normal consequence of aging• BPH, chronic prostatitis, urinary frequency, and nighttime urination• Why prostate size and prostate function are not necessarily the same thing• PSA testing, prostate exams, MRI, and the importance of gathering multiple data points• The limitations of conventional urine cultures in some chronic prostate cases• Next-generation sequencing and detecting bacterial or fungal DNA• Biofilms and their possible role in persistent prostate infections• The connection Dr. Roy sees between the gut, oral health, and the prostate• How gut bacteria or oral bacteria may reach other areas of the body• Chronic inflammation, immune function, and metabolic dysfunction• Whole-food nutrition and why the quality of food matters• Grass-fed meat, free-range eggs, organic produce, and traditionally prepared foods• Flomax, finasteride, TURP, laser procedures, and other approaches to managing prostate symptoms• Why symptom relief and addressing underlying causes are not necessarily the same thing• Dr. Roy's ProstaGen™ Method• When men in their 20s, 30s, and beyond should pay attention to prostate symptoms• What a prostate assessment at Doctors Studio may involve• Dr. Roy's personal family experience that dramatically influenced the way she practices medicine• Her book Regenerating Sexual Potential and upcoming work focused on prostate health and wellnessABOUT DR. LISBETH ROY, DODr. Lisbeth W. Roy is an osteopathic physician, founder and CEO of Doctors Studio, and creator of the ProstaGen™ Method.Her work focuses on functional, regenerative, sexual, and men's health medicine, with particular attention to prostate dysfunction, chronic prostatitis, BPH, erectile dysfunction, metabolic health, inflammation, hormonal balance, and longevity.Dr. Roy is also the author of Regenerating Sexual Potential: Revolutionary Treatment Solutions for Sexual Dysfunction Using Platelet-Rich Plasma.RESOURCES FROM DR. LISBETH ROYDoctors Studio: https://doctorsstudio.com/Prostate information and assessment: https://askdrroy.com/Doctors Studio on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DoctorsStudioBocaRatonWATCH THE VIDEO VERSIONYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL08fn4VfqkFULL SHOW NOTES, RESOURCES & TRANSCRIPThttps://drhaley.com/prostate-health-root-causes-lisbeth-roy/CONNECT WITH DR. 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Weirdos! We're revisiting Whitechapel in this MASSIVE episode which includes all 5 episodes of Alaina's Roman Empire, Jack the Ripper! Alaina takes us to the streets of Whitechapel for part one of Jack The Ripper, and boy is it a stark picture she's painting us. Whitechapel was dark, damp, dirty and downright desolate at the time Jack The Ripper was roaming the streets. People were living in all kinds of horrible conditions, butchers and slaughterhouse workers were walking around covered in blood and because things were like this, it made the perfect stomping ground for a vicious murderer. Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols was the Ripper's first victim and the main person that we'll go over in part one while Alaina also gives us a background on a couple of other potential early victims. Stay tuned for (we're thinkin') three more! Jack the Ripper part two brings us the absolutely horrifying murder of Annie Chapman. Annie's story, much like the rest of the women who were killed, is incredibly devastating. She was struggling with sobriety when she landed on the shady streets in Spitalfields in the East end and was having a terrible time trying to find work to just get by. Robert Anderson, the head of the criminal investigations department was still on vacation, Sir Charles Warren's ego stepped on the scene and they were not even one step closer to uncovering the culprits identity. Jack the Ripper Part three will cover what is known as, “the double event.” Both Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes were found killed on this September night. Both women shared a lot in common with the previous two victims. They'd struggled through pretty much their entire lives just to make ends meet and then were met with this as their end. In this part we'll start to entertain the theory that Jack perhaps had some kind of medical background and you'll see just why one might think so once you dive into the episode! Hold onto your butts! Jack the Ripper part 4 is here weirdos! This installment will cover the horrific, and most brutal murder yet: the murder of Mary Jane Kelly. Mary Jane was the youngest victim at just twenty five years old and the only victim that was killed in her own room. When the police arrived on scene they were shocked, but still not any closer to uncovering the identity of the ripper. OH and also, Alaina has some HOT TAKES on the letters we went over in part 3. YOU HAVE REACHED THE CONCLUSION!!!! Alaina's final part of Jack the Ripper is here and we are talking all things suspects, confirmation bias, science, mitochondrial DNA and Patricia Cornwell. Do we know who Jack the Ripper is by now? No. Do we know who he isn't? Sorta. Stay tuned for years to come because Alaina claims one day she will have our answers!!! "SOMEDAY I WILL"- Alaina   Check out these great books on the case: Jack the Ripper and The Case For Scotland Yard's Prime Suspect by Robert House The Complete Jack the Ripper by Donald Rumbelow The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold The Hidden Lives of Jack the Ripper's Victims by Robert Hume The Ripper Code by Thomas Toughill Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates by Stewart Evans & Donald Rumbelow Jack the Ripper: The definitive Casebook by Richard Whittington-Eagan Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper by Patricia Cornwell   Also check out these sites on the case: JackTheRipper.org Casebook: Jack The Ripper Jack the Ripper Tour   History blog mentioned in the episode: The History Girls   An even DEEPER dive into this case: Season 3 of Unobscured with Aaron Mahnke Cowritten by Alaina Urquhart, Ash Kelley & Dave White (Since 10/2022)Produced & Edited by Mikie Sirois (Since 2023)Research by Dave White (Since 10/2022), Alaina Urquhart & Ash KelleyListener Correspondence & Collaboration by Debra LallyListener Tale Video Edited by Aidan McElman (Since 6/2025) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

For people with two hands, one is usually dominant. On a molecular level, earthly life takes this to the extreme. All of the DNA in living things twists to the right, whereas the protein building blocks favor a kind of left-handed chemistry.The rules of life are based on this chemistry.In recent years, scientists have worked toward a kind of mirror version of life. Currently, the technology doesn't exist to make mirror life at the cellular level — and likely won't for at least a decade. Still, a group of scientists is concerned enough about the possibility that they've published a 299-page technical report calling for a stop to the science.In this encore episode for our Tech Camp series, host Regina Barber talks to Carl Zimmer, a science reporter at The New York Times, about his reporting on mirror cells — and why creating them could lead to devastating consequences for life on Earth.Check out Carl's full article.Curious about other controversial research? Email us at shortwave@npr.org.Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show's perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

For three years in the late 1970s and into 1980 — before shared databases and DNA evidence — one man moved freely across 11 states trying to start a race war. He changed his name to honor a Nazi propagandist and a founding father. He bombed synagogues, gunned down interracial couples, shot a magazine publisher in broad daylight, and left whole communities living in fear of a killer they couldn't identify.Crimes of the Centuries is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history. You can get early and ad-free episodes and more over at www.grabbagcollab.com Order the Crimes of the Centuries book at your favorite bookstore or at www.centuriespod.com/book!Follow us on Instagram and other social media: @centuriespod Episode Sponsors: Vinted. A secondhand marketplace app to sell clothes you no longer wear with no seller fees, free to download at Vinted.ZBiotics Pre-Alcohol. The world's first genetically engineered probiotic, made to be your first drink of the night, at ZBiotics.com/COTC with code COTC for 15% off.Quince. Elevated bedding, apparel, and home essentials priced 50-80% less than similar brands, at Quince.com/CENTURIES.Talkiatry. 100% online psychiatry with in-network insurance coverage and appointments in days, not months, at Talkiatry.com/COTC.

In this special episode, Jen and Cam talk with Jackie and Jenna from Stop, Who Does That?! about the tragic and frustrating murder of Joy Hayward. After checking into a hotel room following an argument with her boyfriend, Joy Hayward was found strangled in her bathroom bathtub. What seemed like an isolated yet horrifying crime took a dramatic turn when DNA evidence linked her killer to a nearby attempted sexual assault just months later. Despite composite sketches, a matching DNA profile, and a $25,000 reward, Joy's killer remains unidentified and at large. Make sure you subscribe to Jenna and Jackie's podcast Stop, Who Does That?! Available wherever you listen to podcasts. If you have any information, please call Chester Police Department at (610)447-7931  Email: publicaffairs@cityofchesterpa.gov  SIGN THE PETITION: https://www.change.org/p/justice-for-joy-hayward-dna-testing-unsolved-murder-investigation Email:  Grace Bowen, Joy's sister JusticeForJoy2022@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jessica Rose unpacks the Proximal Origin cover-up, Fauci's leaked emails, and the rush to hide lab origins before the mRNA rollout. She breaks down Slack messages revealing scientists privately feared the furin cleavage site, exposes airport biological trafficking, and highlights DNA contamination and SV40 sequences found in COVID vaccines. The conversation dives into media censorship, presidential pardons, and why accountability matters for medical corruption and human liberty. Jessica on X: https://x.com/JesslovesMJK Jessica on Substack: https://jessicar.substack.com/ Find the Home Mining Playbook here: https://www.tftc.io/home-mining-energy-playbook STACK SATS hat: https://tftcmerch.io/ Our newsletter: https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-brief/ TFTC Elite (Ad-free & Discord): https://www.tftc.io/#/portal/signup/ Discord: https://discord.gg/yHGkvYxdqT Opportunity Cost Extension: https://www.opportunitycost.app/ Shoutout to our sponsors: Block: Cash App: For a limited time, new customers can get $21 added to their balance. Just use code TFTC10 when you sign up, and send at least $5 to a friend in the first two weeks. Terms apply. Bitcoin services by Block, Inc. See the Bitcoin disclosures at cash.app/legal/podcast. Square: Visit http://square.com/go/tftc for up to $200 off eligible Square hardware. Bitkey: Use code TFTC10 for 10% off the new Bitkey. Aven https://www.aven.com/bitcoin CrowdHealth https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/tftc Unchained https://unchained.com/tftc/ Salt of the Earth: https://drinksote.com/tftc Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TFTC21/videos Clips YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUQcW3jxfQfEUS8kqR5pJtQ Website https://tftc.io/ Newsletter tftc.io/bitcoin-brief/ Twitter https://twitter.com/tftc21 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tftc.io/ Nostr https://primal.net/tftc Follow Marty Bent: Twitter https://twitter.com/martybent Nostr https://primal.net/martybent Newsletter https://tftc.io/martys-bent/ Podcast https://www.tftc.io/tag/podcasts/ Disclosure: Bitcoin services are provided by Block, Inc. Bitcoin services are not licensable activity in all U.S. states and territories, and not all services are available in all states. Bitkey is not available in New York. Block, Inc. operates in New York as Block of Delaware and is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the New York State Department of Financial Services. Bitcoin is a non-deposit, non-bank product that is not FDIC insured and involves risk, including monetary loss. For additional information, see the Bitcoin disclosures: https://help.cash.app/btcdisclosures Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at http://square.com/go/tftc! #squarepartner. Offer expires December 31, 2026 at 11:59 pm PST. Offer for $40 off the cost of one Square Stand, $75 off the cost of one Square Terminal, $100 off the cost of one Square Handheld, or $200 off the cost of one Square Register, excluding applicable taxes. Limited to one discount per product type per seller account. Each code is limited to one redemption per account holder. Valid for new Square customers located in the US only. Offer not valid with guest checkout. Square reserves the right to modify, revoke or cancel the offer at any time. Offer cannot be combined with any other coupon. Void where prohibited, not redeemable for cash, and non-transferable. #squarepartner #blockpartner

This episode is sponsored by Super Patch: https://bit.ly/misuperpatch Apply for Muscle Intelligence Coaching: https://muscleintelligence.com/apply You cleaned up your diet, cut the carbs, and your LDL went up. Your doctor circled it in red and reached for a statin. Dr. Anthony Jay spent five years doing heart disease research full time at Boston University Medical School — running autopsies, removing plaque from human arteries, publishing on oxidized LDL — and for most of that time he was a statin guy himself. His mentor took them and bragged about it. His textbooks put the men who invented them on a pedestal. Then he kept looking at what was actually inside the plaque, and at what the endpoint studies actually measured, and he changed his mind. He is the author of Estrogeneration and the new book Sugar Beat, and he runs a DNA consulting practice doing four consults a day. In this conversation he walks through the 28,000-person study that ranks insulin resistance more than five times higher than LDL as a risk for an early heart attack, explains what LDL is actually built to do in the body, and traces the fifty-year sequence in which the target moved from total cholesterol to LDL to particle number to particle size to ApoB — each time, he argues, right as a new drug became available. He lays out the mechanism he believes builds plaque in the first place, why your heart is designed to run on fat and what happens when you train it on sugar instead, and which markers he thinks are actually damaging the artery wall while nobody tests for them. Ben pushes back the whole way, with his own father and with a client whose LDL sits above 800. If your labs came back red and nobody explained what was actually measured, start here. KEY TAKEAWAYS The risk factor that outranked LDL by more than four to one in a 28,000-person study of real heart attacks, not blood markers What LDL is actually for, and why getting healthier can raise it by design The $40 scan he ran on himself that told him more than twenty years of cholesterol readings ever did Why he argues that lowering the number can leave you with more arterial calcification rather than less The genetic quirk he has never discussed publicly that makes olive oil and avocado a real problem for a surprising number of people CONNECT WITH DR. JAY Website – https://www.ajconsultingcompany.com DNA Analysis & Consults – https://www.ajconsultingcompany.com/dna.html YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/anthonyjaycast Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/anthonygjay Book – Sugar Beat: How Sugar, Not Cholesterol, Destroys Your Arteries Book – Estrogeneration: How Estrogenics Are Making You Fat, Sick, and Infertile

Episode 202 DNA ID Replay Cliff and Linda Bernhardt While Jess is on summer break preparing new episodes of DNA ID, we are airing some of our favorite one part episodes weekly in  what we call 'DNA ID Replay' episodes.  In this episode, we explore the case of Cliff and Linda Bernhardt which originally aired back in episode 35. In 1973, a double homicide shocked Billings, Montana. A young couple was found murdered in their locked home. They had no enemies, yet clues at the scene told police that their killer was not a stranger. And things he took away with him indicated that he had a personal interest in one of his victims. But the clues left behind and trophies taken were not enough to help investigators to zero in on the killer. Four and a half decades later, DNA and forensic genealogy finally answered the question: who killed Cliff and Linda Bernhardt? To listen to every episode of DNA: ID ad-free and get other benefits, simply  visit our channel page on Apple Podcasts to get started with an AbJack Insider subscription. Of course, you can also support DNA: ID with a Patreon subscription. Follow us on social media;  find all of our social media links in one spot at our Linktree:  linktr.ee/dnaidpodcast Visit this link to buy DNA ID Merch ©2026 AbJack Entertainment -All rights reserved. This content is the sole property of AbJack Entertainment. Any unauthorized re-selling, re-purposing, or re-distribution, is strictly prohibited, and will be subject to legal action.  

On this episode of Low Budget Live (Not So Live), Luke runs his mouth about another anniversary with the Triple Threat, The BPT AOY showdown, and is joined by Pro Circuit Champ, Cal Lane, on growing up a Lane, having bass fishing in his DNA, his record breaking win on Champlain, mixing old school and new school and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join "Mind Over Murder" co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley as they welcome best selling author Casey Sherman to discuss his new book, THE KILLER AND FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, which tells shocking true story of a mass murder at Taliesen, one of his famous homes. The murder claimed the lives of 7 people, including Martha Borthwick, the lover of the reknowned architect, her two young children and four other architects working at the home.THE KILLER AND FRANK LLOYD WRIGHThttps://www.publishersweekly.com/9781464241895https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/casey-sherman/the-killer-and-frank-lloyd-wright/NBC: FBI Norfolk field office links deceased suspect to additional Colonial Parkway MurdersIn January 2026, the FBI announced Alan Wade Wilmer Sr. is responsible for the 1986 Virginia murders of Cathleen Thomas and Rebecca Dowski.https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/cold-case-spotlight/colonial-parkway-murders-cathleen-thomas-rebecca-dowski-resolved-rcna255097American Detective TV series: Colonial Parkway Murders:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp3rNRZnL0EWashingtonian: A Murder on the Rappahannock River:https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/06/27/murder-on-the-rappahannock-river-emerson-stevens-mary-harding-innocence-project/Won't you help the Mind Over Murder podcast increase our visibility and shine the spotlight on the "Colonial Parkway Murders" and other unsolved cases? Contribute any amount you can here:https://www.gofundme.com/f/mind-over-murder-podcast-expenses?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customerWTVR CBS News:  Colonial Parkway murders victims' families keep hope cases will be solved:https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/colonial-parkway-murders-update-april-19-2024WAVY TV 10 News:  New questions raised in Colonial Parkway murders:https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/new-questions-raised-in-colonial-parkway-murders/Alan Wade Wilmer, Sr. has been named as the killer of Robin Edwards and David Knobling in the Colonial Parkway Murders in September 1987, as well as the murderer of Teresa Howell in June 1989. He has also been linked to the April 1988 disappearance and likely murder of Keith Call and Cassandra Hailey, another pair in the Colonial Parkway Murders.13News Now investigates: A serial killer's DNA will not be entered into CODIS database:https://www.13newsnow.com/video/news/local/13news-now-investigates/291-e82a9e0b-38e3-4f95-982a-40e960a71e49WAVY TV 10 on the Colonial Parkway Murders Announcement with photos:https://www.wavy.com/news/crime/deceased-man-identified-as-suspect-in-decades-old-homicides/WTKR News 3https://www.wtkr.com/news/is-man-linked-to-one-of-the-colonial-parkway-murders-connected-to-the-other-casesVirginian Pilot: Who was Alan Wade Wilmer Sr.? Man suspected in two ‘Colonial Parkway' murders died alone in 2017https://www.pilotonline.com/2024/01/14/who-was-alan-wade-wilmer-sr-man-suspected-in-colonial-parkway-murders-died-alone-in-2017/Colonial Parkway Murders Facebook page with more than 20,000 followers:https://www.facebook.com/ColonialParkwayCaseYou can also participate in an in-depth discussion of the Colonial Parkway Murders here:https://earonsgsk.proboards.com/board/50/colonial-parkway-murdersMind Over Murder is proud to be a Spreaker Prime Podcaster:https://www.spreaker.comJoin the discussion on our Mind Over MurderColonial Parkway Murders website: https://colonialparkwaymurders.com Mind Over Murder Podcast website: https://mindovermurderpodcast.comPlease subscribe and rate us at your favorite podcast sites. Ratings and reviews are very important. Please share and tell your friends!We launch a new episode of "Mind Over Murder" every Monday morning, and a bonus episode every Thursday morning.Follow "Mind Over Murder" on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MurderOverFollow Bill Thomas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillThomas56Follow "Colonial Parkway Murders" on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ColonialParkwayCase/Follow us on InstaGram:: https://www.instagram.com/colonialparkwaymurders/Check out the entire Crawlspace Media network at http://crawlspace-media.com/All rights reserved. Mind Over Murder, Copyright Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley, Another Dog Productions/Absolute Zero ProductionsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mind-over-murder--4847179/support.

Everyone in that Plymouth courtroom agrees Lindsay Clancy swallowed pills the night her children died. So the state's toxicologist testified that the antipsychotic in her blood measured roughly ten times below toxic levels — that people trying to die take handfuls, and this wasn't that. The testimony landed on a question neither side is actually fighting about. This was never an overdose case. It's a case about a mind. And that same night, Clancy went out a second-story window. She will never walk again.On this episode of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski asks retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer whether the prosecution is proving the wrong thing. The state built a meticulous forensic answer to a question the defense never asked. The real question sits untouched: was Lindsay Clancy's mind her own on January 24?Week two forced that question into the open. The defense stipulated to the forensic evidence: blood, DNA, the physical record. Clancy's lawyers have never disputed that she caused the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan. Criminal responsibility is the entire trial. Coffindaffer and Tony work through what's left of the state's case once the forensics stop mattering. There's a psychiatric evaluation from six days after the deaths describing a calm and organized patient. There are diary pages about brain fog and terror that prosecutors say show no break from reality. The defense answer to both is the same: postpartum psychosis moves hour to hour, and a snapshot is not that night.Coffindaffer has spent decades reading how juries absorb medical testimony, and she's blunt about which of these moves persuade and which insult a jury's intelligence.Lindsay Clancy is presumed innocent of murder. Cora, Dawson, and Callan deserve a trial about what actually happened, not a sideshow about what didn't.LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#LindsayClancy #PatrickClancy #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #ClancyTrial #Massachusetts #PostpartumPsychosis #CriminalJustice #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrialCoverage

Who searches SLED's files besides SLED? That question sits under the Brady motion Alex Murdaugh's defense filed on August 5, 2026 — a demand that prosecutors reopen their entire discovery file and prove the retrial jury gets everything the law requires.Tony Brueski takes apart the demand piece by piece. The defense wants every witness deal made or modified since 2023, every new statement, every disciplinary record and internal affairs file attached to the investigators and analysts who built the case against Murdaugh — plus warrants, DNA developments, and anything from the appeal that touches the verdict's integrity. Then it asks for the piece with teeth: written certification that a diligent, current search happened and came up empty.The history driving it is specific. A judge quashed the Michael Colucci murder indictment in June 2025 after ruling the state withheld favorable evidence for nearly a decade — evidence a witness testified she handed to lead investigator David Owen back in 2015, and that Owen denied receiving. Owen ran the Murdaugh investigation too. A second former SLED agent from the case, Ryan Kelly, was fired from the Charleston County Sheriff's Office in June 2026, for allegations records don't detail and with no known connection to his SLED work or to Murdaugh.The state's answer is predictable and not unreasonable to raise: the motion points to no specific hidden document and no specific compromised witness. Attorney General Alan Wilson's office gets its say before Judge Debra McCaslin rules, with a hearing set for August 14 in Lexington County. Murdaugh is presumed innocent and faces retrial in April 2027. This episode is about the file that trial gets built on — and who vouches for it.END_LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimerThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags#AlexMurdaugh #DavidOwen #TrueCrime #MurdaughRetrial #BradyMotion #SLED #MurdaughMurders #TrueCrimePodcast #SouthCarolina #JusticeForMaggieAndPaul

Diana and Nicole examine the ongoing research project to identify the biological father of Cynthia (Dillard) Royston. Diana summarizes previous research phases conducted through the Research Like a Pro with DNA study group, which have systematically tested Dillard candidates and narrowed the search using documentary evidence. She explains the genealogical background of Cynthia, who was born about 1815 in Georgia, and details the elimination of various candidates from earlier research phases. The discussion also covers the DNA analysis, including the use of network graphs to identify clusters related to Elijah Dillard, a potential brother of Cynthia, and the efforts to increase genomic coverage. The hosts outline the research goals for phase 5 of the project. Listeners learn how Diana applies both documentary and DNA evidence to identify Cynthia's father. Diana describes her plan to search for connections between Cynthia and three specific Dillard men who drew lots in the 1832 Gold Lottery in Cass County, Georgia: James Dillard, Joseph B. Dillard, and Toliver Dillard. Additionally, she discusses her DNA research objective, which focuses on further analyzing network graphs and expanding DNA evidence through Y-DNA testing and improved genome coverage. By listening, you gain insight into the structured process of managing complex genealogical projects through distinct phases of investigation. This summary was generated by Google Gemini. Links Finding a Father for Cynthia: Phase 5 – Part 1 Research Objective - https://familylocket.com/finding-a-father-for-cynthia-phase-5-part-1-research-objective/ Sponsor – Newspapers.com For listeners of this podcast, Newspapers.com is offering new subscribers 20% off a Publisher Extra subscription so you can start exploring today. Just use the code "FamilyLocket" at checkout.  Research Like a Pro Resources Airtable Universe - Nicole's Airtable Templates - https://www.airtable.com/universe/creator/usrsBSDhwHyLNnP4O/nicole-dyer Airtable Research Logs Quick Reference - by Nicole Dyer - https://familylocket.com/product-tag/airtable/ Research Like a Pro: A Genealogist's Guide book by Diana Elder with Nicole Dyer on Amazon.com - https://amzn.to/2x0ku3d Research Like a Pro with AI Workbook – Second Edition (eBook) - https://familylocket.com/product/research-like-a-pro-with-ai-workbook-second-edition-ebook/ 14-Day Research Like a Pro Challenge Workbook - digital - https://familylocket.com/product/14-day-research-like-a-pro-challenge-workbook-digital-only/ and spiral bound - https://familylocket.com/product/14-day-research-like-a-pro-challenge-workbook-spiral-bound/ Research Like a Pro Webinar Series - monthly case study webinars including documentary evidence and many with DNA evidence - https://familylocket.com/product-category/webinars/ Research Like a Pro eCourse - independent study course -  https://familylocket.com/product/research-like-a-pro-e-course/ RLP Study Group - upcoming group and email notification list - https://familylocket.com/services/research-like-a-pro-study-group/ Research Like a Pro Institute Courses - https://familylocket.com/product-category/institute-course/ Research Like a Pro with DNA Resources Research Like a Pro with DNA: A Genealogist's Guide to Finding and Confirming Ancestors with DNA Evidence book by Diana Elder, Nicole Dyer, and Robin Wirthlin - https://amzn.to/3gn0hKx Research Like a Pro with DNA eCourse - independent study course -  https://familylocket.com/product/research-like-a-pro-with-dna-ecourse/ RLP with DNA Study Group - upcoming group and email notification list - https://familylocket.com/services/research-like-a-pro-with-dna-study-group/ Thank you Thanks for listening! We hope that you will share your thoughts about our podcast and help us out by doing the following: Write a review on iTunes or Apple Podcasts. If you leave a review, we will read it on the podcast and answer any questions that you bring up in your review. Thank you! Leave a comment in the comment or question in the comment section below. Share the episode on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest. Subscribe on iTunes or your favorite podcast app. Sign up for our newsletter to receive notifications of new episodes - https://familylocket.com/sign-up/ Check out this list of genealogy podcasts from Feedspot: Best Genealogy Podcasts - https://blog.feedspot.com/genealogy_podcasts/

All aboard for our second last Trains episode! . . . YOU DON'T KNOW MOJACK is a podcast dedicated to exploring the entire SST catalogue, in order, from start to finish. During the podcast we will discuss all the releases that are part of our core DNA, as well as many lesser-known releases that deserve a second chance, or releases that we are discovering for the very first time (we actually don't know Mojack!). First and foremost we are fans, and acknowledge that we are not perfect and don't know everything – sometimes the discussion is more about a time, place, feeling, personal experience or random tangents, and less about the facts (but we will try to get to the facts too). Facebook: www.facebook.com/mojackpod/ Twitter: @mojackpod Instagram: www.instagram.com/mojackpod/ Blog: www.mojackpod.com/ Tumblr: www.tumblr.com/blog/mojackpod Theme Song: Shockflesh

The Brady motion filed August 5, 2026, is the widest evidence demand of the Alex Murdaugh retrial so far, and this breakdown goes category by category. The filing renews the defense's July 2022 discovery request and stacks ten new categories on top: new or modified witness deals, statements that contradict old ones, updated disciplinary and internal affairs files, DNA and forensic developments down to analyst proficiency tests and software, fresh search warrants, and post-trial material touching the verdict's integrity. It reaches SLED's Eddie Smith roadside-shooting file and the narcotics investigation. And it asks Judge Debra McCaslin to make prosecutors certify in writing — within thirty days — that a diligent, current search found nothing else favorable to the defense.Tony Brueski lays out why that certification matters more than it sounds. If the state signs it and favorable evidence surfaces at trial, the defense holds the evidence and the state's own paper saying it didn't exist. The Colucci case shows the stakes: a June 2025 quash order, a decade of undisclosed evidence, and David Owen — Moselle's lead investigator — testifying he was never told what a witness swore she gave him in 2015. Ryan Kelly's June 2026 firing from a Charleston County internal affairs post gets the same careful treatment: records don't describe the conduct, and nothing links it to SLED or to this case.Attorney General Alan Wilson's office hasn't responded; the first hearing on the motion is set for August 14, 2026, in Lexington County. McCaslin can grant it, narrow it, or deny it. Murdaugh is presumed innocent, with retrial set for April 2027. If you're following the retrial gavel to gavel, this is the filing that shapes everything after it.END_LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimerThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags#AlexMurdaugh #DavidOwen #TrueCrime #MurdaughRetrial #BradyMotion #SLED #MurdaughMurders #TrueCrimePodcast #SouthCarolina #JusticeForMaggieAndPaul

In the early hours of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students—Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin—were brutally stabbed to death in a rental house near campus in Moscow, Idaho. The crime scene was particularly disturbing: there were no signs of forced entry, and two surviving roommates were left unharmed in the same house. The case immediately drew national attention due to the shocking nature of the murders and the lack of suspects in the early days. A months-long investigation led law enforcement to Bryan Christopher Kohberger, a 28-year-old Ph.D. criminology student at Washington State University, located about ten miles from the crime scene. Using cell phone data, surveillance footage, and a DNA match from a knife sheath found at the scene, police arrested Kohberger in Pennsylvania on December 30, 2022, and later extradited him to Idaho to face four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary.As of April 2025, Kohberger's case is still moving through the pretrial phase. His defense has pursued multiple motions challenging evidence collection, including arguments over cellphone pings, surveillance footage, and the genealogical tracing used to identify him as a suspect. The trial has faced delays due to defense requests for more time and the complexities of handling large volumes of digital and forensic evidence. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty, emphasizing the heinous nature of the crime and the calculated planning involved. Judge John Judge continues to rule on motions in limine, including what evidence will be allowed at trial. The case remains one of the most closely watched in the nation, with both legal teams preparing for what is expected to be a high-profile and emotionally charged trial, now tentatively slated to begin later in 2025.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

Day one of Tyler Robinson's preliminary hearing on July 6, 2026, largely centered on prosecutors beginning to construct a timeline of Charlie Kirk's killing at Utah Valley University and establishing the authenticity of the surveillance footage and investigative records they intended to use against Robinson. Former UVU police officer Chris Bagley described the moment the gunshot rang out during Kirk's September 10, 2025 event and the chaos that followed, while Utah State Bureau of Investigation agent David Hull walked the court through the enormous video-review effort undertaken after the shooting. Hull testified that investigators examined hundreds of hours of surveillance footage and ultimately tracked a person they believed was Robinson moving around the UVU campus at several different points that day. Prosecutors introduced surveillance recordings from multiple locations as they attempted to connect the person seen approaching the campus, moving toward the area surrounding the Losee Center, and later leaving the area to Robinson. Three separate videos depicting Kirk being shot were admitted, although Judge Tony Graf determined that their graphic nature warranted restricting their display to the attorneys' and judge's monitors rather than broadcasting them throughout the courtroom. Kirk's widow, Erika, and his parents left the courtroom while the videos were reviewed. Prosecutors also introduced Kirk's autopsy report through Hull, which listed his cause of death as a gunshot wound to the neck and the manner of death as homicideThe defense spent much of the first day attacking the manner in which the prosecution was getting its evidence into the record rather than attempting to disprove the entire prosecution theory at that stage. Kathryn Nester and Robinson's attorneys repeatedly raised hearsay, foundation and authentication objections, arguing that investigators were being permitted to introduce reports, statements and records created by other people without those individuals appearing personally to testify. Judge Graf overruled most of those objections, reflecting the substantially lower evidentiary threshold governing a Utah preliminary hearing, whose purpose was only to determine whether probable cause existed to send Robinson to trial rather than whether prosecutors could prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. One significant exception involved an edited compilation of surveillance footage, which Graf declined to admit in that form and required prosecutors to replace with the underlying unedited material. Hull's testimony also revealed the scope of the prosecution's surveillance theory: investigators claimed Robinson had appeared on or around the UVU campus multiple times on September 10 and that they were attempting to stitch those appearances together into a continuous identification of the alleged shooter. By the end of day one, prosecutors had established the killing itself, the medical cause of Kirk's death, the existence and authenticity of substantial video evidence and the beginnings of their effort to identify Robinson as the person captured in that footage. They had not yet presented many of the pieces expected to become more consequential later in the hearing, including the rifle and DNA evidence, Robinson's alleged communications and admissions, and testimony concerning his roommate Lance Twiggs.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

In the early hours of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students—Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin—were brutally stabbed to death in a rental house near campus in Moscow, Idaho. The crime scene was particularly disturbing: there were no signs of forced entry, and two surviving roommates were left unharmed in the same house. The case immediately drew national attention due to the shocking nature of the murders and the lack of suspects in the early days. A months-long investigation led law enforcement to Bryan Christopher Kohberger, a 28-year-old Ph.D. criminology student at Washington State University, located about ten miles from the crime scene. Using cell phone data, surveillance footage, and a DNA match from a knife sheath found at the scene, police arrested Kohberger in Pennsylvania on December 30, 2022, and later extradited him to Idaho to face four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary.As of April 2025, Kohberger's case is still moving through the pretrial phase. His defense has pursued multiple motions challenging evidence collection, including arguments over cellphone pings, surveillance footage, and the genealogical tracing used to identify him as a suspect. The trial has faced delays due to defense requests for more time and the complexities of handling large volumes of digital and forensic evidence. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty, emphasizing the heinous nature of the crime and the calculated planning involved. Judge John Judge continues to rule on motions in limine, including what evidence will be allowed at trial. The case remains one of the most closely watched in the nation, with both legal teams preparing for what is expected to be a high-profile and emotionally charged trial, now tentatively slated to begin later in 2025.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

The probable cause affidavit filed after Bryan Kohberger's arrest laid out the prosecution's initial theory connecting him to the November 2022 murders of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. Investigators described surveillance footage showing a white Hyundai Elantra repeatedly circling the King Road residence before the killings and then leaving the area at high speed. Police later connected a similar vehicle to Kohberger, who was a doctoral student at Washington State University in nearby Pullman. The affidavit also relied heavily on cellphone records, which investigators said placed Kohberger's phone near the victims' neighborhood on numerous occasions before the murders and showed the phone going offline during the critical period surrounding the killings. Investigators further alleged that his phone later reconnected to the network south of Moscow and traveled back toward Pullman, while surveillance cameras captured a vehicle consistent with his Elantra moving along a similar route.The most significant piece of evidence described in the affidavit was a tan leather knife sheath found on the bed next to Madison Mogen's body. Investigators said DNA recovered from the sheath's button snap was later compared with DNA obtained from trash collected outside Kohberger's family home in Pennsylvania, producing a familial match that strongly pointed toward Kohberger's father and, by extension, Kohberger. The affidavit also included the account of surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen, who told investigators that she had awakened during the night, heard noises inside the house, and eventually saw a masked man dressed in black walking past her toward the rear sliding door. She described the man as approximately 5-foot-10 or taller, not very muscular, with bushy eyebrows, a description investigators believed was consistent with Kohberger. Taken together, the vehicle evidence, cellphone data, eyewitness account, and DNA from the knife sheath were presented as establishing probable cause to arrest Kohberger and charge him with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty in July 2025 to murdering University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, avoiding the death penalty in exchange for four consecutive life sentences without parole. The agreement ended years of litigation over DNA found on a knife sheath, surveillance footage of a white Hyundai Elantra, cellphone records, witness testimony, genetic genealogy, and other evidence prosecutors said connected him to the King Road residence. During the plea hearing, Kohberger told the court that he understood the charges, was satisfied with his attorneys, was acting voluntarily, and was pleading guilty because he was guilty. The deal spared the victims' families from a lengthy capital trial, but it did not answer the lingering questions about motive, the missing murder weapon, or why the four students were targeted.Kohberger is now seeking post-conviction relief and asking the court to allow him to withdraw those guilty pleas. He claims his former attorneys pressured him into falsely confessing, misled him about death-row and prison conditions, provided ineffective representation, and failed to properly disclose or explain potentially exculpatory evidence. His newly appointed attorney, Greg Rauch, is reviewing those allegations, while Idaho prosecutors are defending the convictions and emphasizing Kohberger's sworn courtroom admissions and the substantial evidence against him. The court has not ruled that his claims are credible, and Kohberger must meet the demanding post-sentencing standard of proving a manifest injustice. Even if he succeeds, he would not be released automatically, because the murder charges could return, the case could proceed to trial, and prosecutors might seek to restore the death penalty.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

Spiritual Awakening is Accelerating with guest Pamela Downes.  What if the chaos you're experiencing isn't happening to you—but is happening for your evolution? In this illuminating episode of Cosmic Scene with Jill Jardine, Jill welcomes Pamela Downes, a multidimensional soul-body healer, trance channeler, spiritual guide, mother, entrepreneur, and former corporate leader whose own profound spiritual awakening ultimately led her to a completely new life path. Spirit Calling — Pamela Downs Pamela shares how her awakening unfolded, how she began experiencing clairvoyance and profound synchronicities, and how she eventually began trance channeling the Great Council of Light. #SpiritualAwakening #SpiritualAwakeningJourney #PamelaDowns #TranceChanneling #GreatCouncilOfLight Subscribe to YouTube channel:  @jilljardine2186 https://bleav.com/shows/cosmic-scene-with-jill-jardine/ for video versions. Across platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and major podcast outlets such as Apple and Spotify, the buzz is on spiritual awakening Together, Jill and Pamela explore what may be happening for people who suddenly find themselves questioning their relationships, careers, identities, beliefs, and life direction. In this episode we explore:  Is this a spiritual awakening—or something else? Why spiritual awakening can feel like your life is falling apart The connection between the physical body and the spiritual or energetic body Why relationships and old identities may suddenly shift The importance of surrender, compassion, and grace during transformation How painful experiences can become catalysts for growth and expansion Recognizing your inner guidance and spiritual intelligence Clairvoyance, premonitions, synchronicities, and intuitive "knowings" Pamela's extraordinary spiritual awakening journey Her transformative experience with ayahuasca and plant medicine Soul-level and karmic clearing Activating dormant gifts, DNA, and light codes What Pamela describes as soul-body repair and activation How Pamela began communicating with the Great Council of Light What trance channeling is and how Pamela experiences it Messages from Yeshua/Jesus Galactic beings, multidimensional consciousness, and changing frequencies How spiritual teachers must experience their own transformation to serve others Why humanity may be experiencing a collective awakening Finding your purpose, dharma, and authentic path Learning to navigate major life changes from a higher perspective Pamela describes beginning her awakening by questioning the beliefs and assumptions she had inherited about life, spirituality, love, energy, and consciousness. As she explored meditation, Reiki, spirituality, past lives, energy healing, and her own intuitive abilities, she began experiencing increasingly powerful synchronicities, visions, dreams, clairvoyant experiences, and intuitive "knowings." Her journey eventually led to profound energetic experiences and what she describes as a major opening of her psychic abilities. From there, Pamela began receiving guidance from what she identifies as the Great Council of Light, eventually developing the ability to trance channel their messages. Pamela explains her experience of trance channeling as entering a meditative state in which she moves her consciousness aside and allows information and wisdom to come through. She describes receiving information telepathically and eventually allowing the energy she connects with to utilize her voice and physical body to communicate. She also discusses channeling experiences involving Yeshua, divine feminine beings, and galactic energies, as well as receiving downloads, visions, and guidance about her life's purpose. One of the central themes of this episode is the experience of being in aliminal space—the place between the life you once knew and the life that is emerging. As Jill and Pamela discuss, spiritual transformation doesn't always feel peaceful or glamorous. Sometimes it looks like: A relationship ending. A career changing. A loss of identity. A financial shift.A move. A sudden realization. Or simply knowing that you can no longer live the way you used to. Pamela's message is to meet these moments with compassion, grace, surrender, and trust while allowing the emotions to move through you. Near the end of the episode, Pamela shares a powerful message she says came through her connection with Yeshua: Return to love. She encourages listeners to examine what they're consuming, the conversations they're engaging in, the social media they're absorbing, and the energy they're putting into the world. Rather than fighting, controlling, or constantly positioning ourselves, Pamela encourages us to become more grounded in our own inner knowing and to see life from a higher perspective. Her message is ultimately one of unity, forgiveness, love, surrender, and remembering who you truly are. Pamela shares the idea that we are beautiful, powerful beings of light connected to all that is, and that part of our journey is learning to step away from ego and control so we can fully embody our purpose. Like a flower opening one petal at a time, our transformation unfolds according to its own divine timing. Spirit Calling — Pamela Downs Explore Pamela's spiritual community, Soul Path coaching, mastermind, healing work, and teachings. 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Steven Spielberg doesn't want you to know his aliens aren't real. That's the standard Matthew Butler had to hit on Disclosure Day: total photographic believability, zero tolerance for anything that reads as fantasy, even when the story is about a supposed decades-long government cover-up of extraterrestrial contact. Butler has been Spielberg's go-to VFX supervisor for grounded, "make it real" work since Ready Player One, and before that, he was Chris's first VFX supervisor ever, on The Day After Tomorrow. Back in Episode 557, Chris and Daniel broke down Disclosure Day as fans, tracing its DNA back through Close Encounters and Sugarland Express. This time they bring on the person who actually built it, for a conversation about matching digitally-replaced train sequences to real-world reference plates, a shot count that came in smaller than planned going in, and why the biggest emotional gut-punch in the movie has almost nothing to do with visual effects at all. Butler walks through how Spielberg directs VFX without ever really discussing VFX, and the two of them dig into what makes his process so different: a shot list that shrank instead of ballooning, something Butler says has never happened on any other project in his career, a director who wants to solve problems himself rather than have them solved for him, and a 30-year veteran realizing mid-conversation that the AI moment VFX is living through right now feels exactly like the unsolved chaos of the 1990s. A conversation about restraint, trust, and knowing when the effects work is actually done when nobody notices it. Mentioned in this episode: Digital Domain, James Cameron, Titanic, Poltergeist, Tobe Hooper, Eric Barba, Doug Roble, Janusz Kamiński, Chris Columbus, Gremlins reboot, The Odyssey, Dune Guest links: Mattew Butler on IMDB > Matthew Butler on LinkedIn > Special thanks to our sponsor: Center Grid Virtual Studio: https://cgvirtualstudio.com/

Rhys and Jesse dive into the mystery of the “extinct” Eastern Cougar in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick—sharing sightings, sketchy government responses, dubious DNA tests, and why officials might prefer this big cat to stay officially dead. Along the way, they detour into conspiracy vans in Vancouver, wild listener theories, dating updates, autobahn anxiety, and the surprising sex lives of kangaroos.0:00 – Sleep Tracking & Being Exhausted1:00 – Introducing the Eastern Cougar “Cryptid”2:20 – Cold Open: Conspiracies & Canada Is Boring Intro3:38 – Back from Break: Rhys and Jesse Reunite4:05 – Ridiculous Cryptids & Livestock Jokes5:00 – What Is the Eastern Cougar, Really?6:00 – Sightings, Photos & “It Just Looks Like a Cougar”7:30 – Dashcam Cougar, Trail Cams & Blurry Evidence9:30 – Government Takes the Tape (Conveniently Lost)10:30 – “Mistaken Identity” Animals & Official Charts11:55 – Cougar Bar Jokes & Karaoke Research13:00 – Biologists, DNA Evidence & Exotic Pets14:20 – Snake Pets, Smells & Listener Call to Action16:40 – More DNA Evidence & Jesse Calls Out Bad Science18:05 – Extinction, Habitat Loss & Elusive Big Cats19:00 – Why the Government Won't Admit Cougars Exist20:16 – Nova Scotia Politics & Reluctance to Change20:57 – Condos, Empty Buildings & Rich Investors21:29 – Do We Believe in the Eastern Cougar?22:07 – Small Talk Dimension Intro (STD Zone)22:56 – Rhys's Europe Trip & Autobahn Anxiety24:57 – Jesse's Dating Life Update25:34 – Listener Jess's Top 3 Conspiracies27:26 – Heartfelt Comment from Listener in Australia28:00 – Kangaroos, Three Genitals & Weird Biology29:26 – Googling Kangaroo Anatomy Live30:19 – Teasing the Next Lake Monster EpisodeFor premium content, socials, merch, to leave a voicemail or message us go to canadaisboring.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.