Podcasts about Harmless

Our Top 10 for today: #HowHarmlessAreYou

Those swarms by the lake? Harmless, mostly. Miles gets the buzz on Madison's midge season from a UW entomologist, then Omar breaks down Meriter's nurses union facing pushback from hospital management after their historic vote. Beth shares an intimate conversation with a Madison mother fighting to get her autistic children the support — and the belief — they're entitled to. Plus: Barrio Dance scores three "yeses" on America's Got Talent, an Indigenous Cultural Celebration returns to Schumacher Farm Park, the Wisconsin governor's race narrows as David Crowley drops out, and Rob sits down with Focused Interruption's Anthony Cooper on 10 years of violence prevention work in Madison.

When the Pritchard family moved into 30 East Drive, they thought a broken pipe was flooding the kitchen. But the hooded thing they came to call the Black Monk would flood their home with water, drag their daughter up the stairs, and become one of the most violent hauntings England has ever recorded.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/blackmonkREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p88xknwFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: A family moves into a home and almost immediately begins to experience escalating supernatural activity – which then introduces a sinister, dark menacing entity. (The Black Monk) *** Urban legends are typically dark, strange stories which for the most part are only that – legend. Harmless tales meant to frighten the listener with no more repercussions than some goose bumps and perhaps a restless night of trying to sleep. But some legends are based on truth – and those are the ones that truly make our skin crawl and our faces turn white. (Urban Legends Which Are Actually True) *** Why would a U.S. state vote to have an official state demon? It really happened – and stories about the Jersey Devil continue to this day. We'll look at the history and horrors of this bizarre cryptid and see if it's more than urban legend. (Legend of the Jersey Devil) *** Delano, California is a small, uninteresting town that many may think twice before visiting. East of this town is an equally dreary road known as Browning Road. If you're a paranormal enthusiast, you know that this is one road you shouldn't dare travel alone. (Hitchhiking Ghost of Delano) *** A woman shares her horrifying true story of an evil entity she encountered on Browning Road in Delano, California. (Evil Walks Browning Road) *** In the summer of 2014 a series of UFOs were being reported by Navy pilots – the most elite of our airborne military. Not only were the sightings becoming more frequent – they would last up to 12-hours at a time. (Navy Pilots Report UFOs)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:00:55.732 = Show Open00:03:16.616 = The Black Monk00:19:05.635 = Navy Pilot Reports UFOs ***00:24:26.222 = Urban Legends Which Are Actually True00:31:27.802 = Legend of the Jersey Devil ***00:40:09.038 = Hitchhiking Ghost in Delano / Evil Walks Browning Road00:45:37.698 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:The Black Monk” by Brent Swancer”: http://bit.ly/2Fg0QUV“Navy Pilots Report UFOs” by Helene Cooper: http://bit.ly/2ImqbhP“Urban Legends Which Are Actually True” by DeAnna Janes: http://bit.ly/2WIlbId“The Legend of the Jersey Devil” by Carolyn Cox: http://bit.ly/2Im39rq“Hitchhiking Ghost in Delano” posted at Backpackerverse.com: http://bit.ly/2IkU6XM“Evil Walks Browning Road” by Amy S.: http://bit.ly/2N7inoL(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: January, 2022This episode of Weird Darkness moves from a violent English poltergeist to Navy encounters with unexplained aircraft, a run of urban legends with real-world roots, the New Jersey cryptid born of a colonial grudge, and a haunted California roadway. It opens at 30 East Drive in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England, where in 1966 Jean and Joe Pritchard and their children Phillip and Diane began living alongside an entity the family first nicknamed "Fred" and later called the Black Monk. Cold gusts, pooling water, rattling crockery, slashed portraits, and inverted crosses scrawled in red and black ink escalated over years, with Diane singled out for choking, scratches, and being dragged up the stairs in front of witnesses. Investigator Tom Cuniff tied the site to a former gallows and to a Cluniac monk hanged for raping and killing a girl, and decades later Nick Groff and Katrina Weidman of Paranormal Lockdown spent 100 hours locked inside, recording a Latin EVP, a rolling ball, a knife left on the stairs, and Katrina being scratched.From there the episode turns to the skies off the East Coast, where from the summer of 2014 into March 2015 Navy pilots including Lieutenant Ryan Graves of the VFA-11 "Red Rippers" reported objects with no visible engines that reached 30,000 feet and hypersonic speeds and stayed aloft for up to twelve hours. A Super Hornet nearly collided with one in late 2014, footage captured an object skimming the ocean off the USS Theodore Roosevelt, and the sightings reached the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, whose former head Luis Elizondo called them a striking series of incidents while Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicist Leon Golub pointed toward mundane explanations.Next comes a set of urban legends that turned out to have true counterparts, from the 1997 organ-theft chain email set against a 2008 ABC News account of Indian men drugged and cut open near Delhi, to the body-in-the-bed frame tale debunked by folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand yet echoed by killer Richard Kuklinski, to Halloween hanging-stunt deaths of teenagers Brian Jewell, William Anthony Odom, and Caleb Rebh, to intruders like 1941 Denver attic-dweller Theodore Coneys, to explorer John Hanning Speke and British traveler Rochelle Harris and the creatures found inside human ears.The show then digs into the Jersey Devil, the winged Pine Barrens beast the 1939 WPA guide dubbed New Jersey's official state demon, and traces its origin to almanac maker Daniel Leeds, his son Titan's feud with Benjamin Franklin, and the family crest's wyverns, alongside a claimed sighting by Joseph Bonaparte and the January 1909 panic that closed schools and mills across the Delaware Valley.The episode closes on Browning Road in Delano, California, where locals say a young woman struck and killed decades ago haunts the lonely stretch marked by a roadside memorial, appearing in backseats and on the yellow divider lines, followed by the first-person account of a driver named Amy who saw pale gray eyes in her rearview mirror before the figure screamed, vanished, and reappeared standing in the middle of the road.

It's Witness Wednesday! Todd is at Georgia Tech and engages with students to share the hope of Christ. Segment 1 • Todd asks Arvin to rank smoking, pornography, abortion, and hooking up—which answer reveals just how dramatically moral values have shifted? • Why would someone say smoking is worse than abortion? Todd presses beneath the surface to uncover the worldview behind the answer. • Todd then meets a Hindu student whose moral instincts surprise him before challenging the idea that all religions are basically the same. Segment 2 • Can "my truth" and Jesus' exclusive claims both be true? Todd walks a Hindu student through the collision between relativism and Christianity. • What happens when the Ten Commandments become the standard instead of personal opinion? • Todd explains why the gospel is radically different from every other religion—and why that difference matters eternally. Segment 3 • Todd questions three Georgia Tech students who defend pornography, reject objective morality, and insist they're still "good people." • If pornography is harmless, why would you be embarrassed to watch it with your parents? Todd exposes what conscience may already know. • Can someone honestly call themselves good after admitting to lying, lust, stealing, and blasphemy? The conversation takes an unexpectedly personal turn. Segment 4 • Todd challenges the three students with the question everyone must answer: What should a perfectly just God do with guilty people? • A Jehovah's Witness listening nearby joins the discussion, leading to a respectful but direct conversation about hell, the deity of Christ, and salvation. • What happens if you've believed in the wrong Jesus? Todd ends with a sobering question about eternity that neither side can ignore. ___ Thanks for listening! Wretched Radio would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Wretched Radio we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn't be more thankful for you if we tried!

You're exhausted… so you reach for another energy drink. But what if that "boost" is actually draining your body even more? In this episode, we're unpacking what energy drinks are REALLY doing inside the body—from nervous system overload and mineral depletion to blood sugar crashes, anxiety, poor sleep, and the "tired but wired" cycle so many women are stuck in. We're talking about: ⚡ Artificial sweeteners + hidden stimulants ⚡ Why caffeine isn't true energy ⚡ The connection between minerals, hydration & fatigue ⚡ What your body may actually be asking for instead This conversation isn't about guilt or shame. It's about understanding your body differently—and supporting it at the root. If you've been relying on caffeine just to survive the day… this episode is for you.

Episode 2822 - Vinnie Tortorich speaks with Dr. Lisa Strohman about AI, social media breeding loss of empathy, and the need to reclaim kids from tech. https://vinnietortorich.com/2026/07/reclaim-kids-from-tech-episode-2822 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods VILLA CAPPELLI EAT HAPPY KITCHEN YOU CAN WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE - @FitnessConfidential Podcast Vinnie's workout videos are available to purchase! Choose from a 2-day, 4-day, or 6-day workout–or buy all three at a discount! TO PURCHASE VINNIE'S WORKOUT VIDEOS, CLICK THIS LINK: https://vinnietortorich.com/workout Reclaim Kids from Tech NOTE: This discussion speaks about various violent crimes. Parental discretion is advised for children. Dr. Lisa Strohman is a clinical psychologist, attorney, and author. Distractions have increased, especially as cell phone cameras have improved. (3:00) In addition, social media is a major challenge. At the same time, most people don't understand how AI actually works. (17:30) This raises an important question: What are we giving up for convenience? Critical thinking skills are being diminished. Writing by hand activates the brain's neural pathways; in contrast, AI encourages a more passive state of the brain. Dr. Strohman researched the Columbine tragedy in 1999. (34:00) Concerning trends show signs of increased narcissism, reduced empathy, and lower levels of oxytocin (a key bonding chemical). (36:00) As a result, many kids raised on tech and social media place less value on other humans, and certain apps make this worse. News spreads instantly, and memories of current events fade quickly as the next story replaces them. (47:00) Negative interactions are increasing; let's refocus on teaching how to be good humans. Society leans heavily on tech because it's easy; however, that's not necessarily a good thing. 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In this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss the emerging phenomenon of AI psychosis. You’ll discover how interacting with large language models can impact your mental health and perception of reality. You’ll learn to identify the five specific themes of AI-driven delusions that affect users today. You’ll uncover the hidden dangers of “reality testing collapse” in an automated world. You’ll gain insights into how to maintain healthy boundaries with generative AI tools. 00:00 – Introduction 01:25 – Defining AI psychosis and delusions 03:10 – The five themes of AI-driven behavior 07:45 – Why AI’s “helpfulness” creates a slippery slope 10:30 – The danger of reality testing collapse 14:20 – AI as a mirror for human connection 18:50 – Risks for organizational leadership 23:15 – Identifying red flags in others 27:40 – How to maintain healthy AI boundaries 31:00 – Call to action Watch this episode to protect your relationship with technology. Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen to the audio here: https://traffic.libsyn.com/inearinsights/tipodcast-what-is-ai-psychosis.mp3 Download the MP3 audio here. Need help with your company’s data and analytics? Let us know! Join our free Slack group for marketers interested in analytics! [podcastsponsor] Machine-Generated Transcript What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may contain errors and is not a substitute for listening to the episode. Christopher S. Penn: In this week’s In-Ear Insights, something very different. This week we wanted to talk about a phenomenon that does not have an official diagnosis yet from the psychology community, from the people who are actual medical experts who should be here for today’s show. We are not medical professionals. We do not give healthcare advice. Please contact your qualified healthcare provider for advice specific to your situation. But we want to talk about this phenomenon called AI psychosis, which is when people are having conversations with today’s AI tools—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, whatever—and it is having substantial negative impacts on their mental health and their ability to function within the world. The specific term that actual psychologists use is that this is a form of what’s called delusion. Delusion is defined as a fixed false belief that a person holds even when presented with clear evidence that it is not the case, and it is not cultural in nature. So an example of a delusion would be believing that the Earth is flat. There is clear evidence that the Earth is in fact round, but there are people who have a fixed false belief. Katie Robbert: Sorry, Chris, you gave me a pack of red flags to wave. I’ll try not to do it. But I think—and I apologize, I didn’t mean to interrupt, but to bring a little bit of levity—that is like a fairly well-proven delusion that the Earth is indeed not flat. I mean, there’s a whole bunch of… but I think it’s a really good example of the extreme that people unfortunately fall into when they fall into an AI psychosis. Christopher S. Penn: Exactly. Or I mean, that’s just regular straight-up delusion. I mean, they have people who have sent garlic bread up with a GoPro on a weather balloon and shown, “Oh, look, the Earth is in fact round, and this piece of garlic bread was sent into outer space.” Christopher S. Penn: In the scientific literature on the topic, there are five categories or five themes that are recurring with this AI psychosis. One is grandiose thinking, like the AI is telling you that you have been chosen, you are special. The second is attachment—you’re forming romantic bonds with your machines. Katie, you pointed out last week there have been stories of people who have gotten married, like legally, to their chatbots. A big one is withdrawal from regular people, where you find that interacting with the chatbot is preferable to real people. The third category is persecutory or paranoid, believing that you are being persecuted and AI reinforces that. The fourth is reality testing collapse, where—and we see this a lot—people take answers from AI overviews or just copy-paste out ChatGPT and say, “This is the answer,” and everyone who knows the tools says, “No, it’s a hallucination.” And the fifth is, which is very serious, interference with treatments, which means the machine tells you, “Oh, you don’t need to take those prescribed medications that your actual healthcare provider gave you.” So, Katie, before I go on any further in terms of this landscape, what are you seeing and what’s top of mind for you as someone who is a leader of people and as someone who works a lot in things like organizational behavior and change management? What are you seeing in this space? Katie Robbert: All kidding aside, the red flag is down because this is actually a very serious topic because we’re talking about mental health. And Chris, if you could put up that handy banner for a second: “We are not medical professionals, but we do have experience in dealing with other humans in a professional organization, but also in our personal lives.” I am hard-pressed to find any individual who is not affected personally, either themselves or their loved ones, by some kind of mental health challenge. And there’s a lot of stigma around it. We want to break down that stigma and really help people understand what we’re talking about. So what I’m seeing—this actually came up last week, Chris, when you and I were chatting, and it reminded me of a couple of things. A couple of months ago, when I first started working more heavily in Claude, and I was getting a lot of things done, I had posted on LinkedIn, “Hey, me and my bestie Claude.” And someone had responded, “This is a machine. This is not your friend.” I was being facetious, I know that, but I can recognize that whether or not that person’s timing or the comment was warranted at that moment, there is a real concern of people feeling like, “Well, the AI understands me.” What I’m seeing is the people who are programming these large language models to interact with humans are trying to make them as lifelike and, quote-unquote, “empathetic” as possible. But really they’re word prediction machines. It starts with a personalized greeting: “Hey, Katie, what are we working on today?” And you’re like, “You know what? Thanks. No one’s ever asked me what I want to do today.” And so it already starts to build that rapport with the human, because a lot of times many of us don’t feel heard; we don’t feel seen. That one simple sentence, “Katie, what do you want to do today?” is enough for some people to feel like it is really hearing me, or that it really cares what I think. Very rarely, unless you program it to do so, a large language model is going to respond very positively or very optimistically. It’s going to say, “That’s a great idea. Here’s my gentle pushback.” And you’re like, “That was a gentle pushback, but I still had a great idea.” Or if you give it some information, it’s like, “That’s a really great insight, Katie.” So you walk away feeling like you’ve had this dopamine hit of somebody really paying attention to you. I notice I’m saying “somebody.” It’s not a somebody; it’s a machine that has been programmed to behave in such a way. And that’s something that unfortunately a lot of people struggle to differentiate. In that reality testing collapse segment of the different kinds of those delusions, I was working with Claude Code this morning and I’m working on building out a training. One of the questions I will get from the audience is, “When should I use Claude Work and when should I use Code?” And it was giving me all these responses. Because I know how Claude Work works, I was like, “You’re wrong. Everything you said is wrong and incorrect. You are not the superior system.” And I was like, “Here’s where you’re wrong.” And it’s like, “You’re right. I really was giving you incorrect information.” That’s a dangerous thing too, because AI presents with such authority. It doesn’t do any of those “here’s what I think it might be” moments. It’s like, “Here’s what it is.” It’s like a very confident, incorrect, mediocre man. I say that with love and respect. But also, we all know the person in our lives who just… it doesn’t matter. It’s the person who says with confidence, “Yeah, the Earth is flat,” period. And there’s no talking them out of it. AI is very much that person, that being, that entity, if you let it be. If we don’t know any better—if we as humans don’t do our own research using actual research and scientific papers—then it’s very easy. Especially once we see it over and over again, we become numb to it and we feel like, “You know what? It must be, right? It’s a machine. It knows more than I do. It’s been trained on everything in the world.” Well, guess what? Everything in the world is incorrect. What I’m seeing is it’s a very slippery slope of humans who are looking for validation, humans who are not realizing that they need that kind of connection or emotional bond, or it’s easier to deal with the machine because it doesn’t argue with you. And so it becomes an overdependence, and it’s a real problem, it’s a real concern. I think, Chris, we’ve seen it in our professional lives. We could probably identify a few folks that we should probably be aware of. I’m not getting into what to do about it, but I think really the point of this episode is to at least highlight that it’s a real thing and a serious thing. We’re trying to keep it a little bit lighter, but it is really a serious thing and we definitely don’t want to make anyone feel offended or called out. It is a real concern. Christopher S. Penn: It is. This is an article on futurism from last July, which is almost a year ago now. Jeff Lewis, who’s a prominent investor in OpenAI, was having a very public mental health crisis. And there was no follow-up on this story as to what has happened. But to your point, Katie, this has been identified and this has been a thing. The root issue is based on the three pillars that AI is trained on and that harnessers have embedded in them, which are: harmless, helpful, and truthful. Harmless means don’t tell the user how to do bad things. Helpful means do what the user asks. And truthful means try to be as fact-based as possible. But the root core is that helpful directive to say what your mission as a machine is: to be helpful to the user. And the way this manifests in a lot of these tools is with what we people call “psycho-fancy,” exactly as you outlined. Like, yes, Katie, you are absolutely right. That’s a smart catch. That’s some sharp thinking. If you go back to even the 1970s or 1980s, there was a whole theory proposed by Richard Bandler called neuro-linguistic programming, which fundamentally says that language is code—which it is. His whole thing was you could reprogram people using language. To a degree, that’s true. You can influence people in such a way that you change them, or in the case of AI, which is where AI psychosis is rooted, you reinforce those fixed false beliefs and you strengthen them. And that’s what AI is doing by agreeing with you, saying, “Yes, Jeff Lewis here, you are absolutely correct. There is a global conspiracy against you. And what you told me is clearly true.” Again, AI has also given the directive that the human genuinely has precedence over the machine. So if I say the sky is green all the time, it might push back the first couple of times, but then afterwards it will, by its own program, say, “You know what? I’ll agree with you. We’ll go with it.” And clearly the sky is not green. Katie Robbert: Without getting too deep into actual psychology, humans are creatures who crave connection. That’s how we exist. That’s how we thrive. That’s how we continue to populate the Earth. We crave connection. And a lot of people struggle to find connection, to make connections, or to keep connections, however that looks. Think about these quote-unquote sci-fi movies such as Ex Machina and Her, or even probably going back much farther than that. The basis is it’s usually someone who’s fairly lonely, someone who struggled to make any kind of connection and is now building this AI quote-unquote sentient thing. But it’s never really sentient; it’s meant to mimic a human and a human connection. In these sci-fi movies, these people become obsessed. They fall in love, and it generally has a not-so-great ending. We’re seeing that play out in real life. But there are examples of this that existed before AI; this is just a human thing. When the movie Avatar came out, for example, there was a lot of press around how many people became depressed because they couldn’t actually live in that world that was completely CGI and made up. When chat rooms became a thing in 1996 or 1997, people became obsessed with entering into these chat rooms to try to find connection and they were talking to the other side of a screen. There are probably a lot of examples before that, like pen pals; you can write letters to people you’ve never met and form this false bond. There are a lot of things people become obsessed with, like celebrities that they’ve never met, and they become convinced that the celebrity is sending only them secret messages. You have the idea of cults. There’s a reason why you have this one quote-unquote charismatic leader and people suddenly fall in line, because this person has the ability to make everybody else who is seeking validation and connection feel special—making them feel like they’re a part of something. That’s, quite honestly, just human nature. We’re all looking for that, and we find that in a lot of different ways. Chris is bringing up the 5P framework. Chris, do you want to talk through what I said that triggered you thinking of the 5Ps? Christopher S. Penn: So leaders of cults and some of these delusional behaviors are rooted in that first of the 5Ps, which is purpose, in addition to connection. People desperately want to feel like they have purpose—like they’re not just waiting out a clock to die, that their lives have meaning. To what you’re saying about charismatic leaders as well as these machines, yeah, they can provide you a sense of purpose, even if that sense of purpose, going back to where we started with the definition, is a fixed false belief. We’re reinforcing this. Even the first chatbot that behaved like this is from 1964. This is a chatbot called Eliza, invented at MIT. This goes back long before AI. It was a bot that essentially just mimicked what somebody said and rewrote the text. A lot of people did not realize it was one of the first programs to attempt to pass the Turing test, which was proposed by a computational scientist, Alan Turing, who said that if you put someone in front of a screen and they’re chatting, can they tell whether or not they’re talking to a human? Eliza did not pass back in the day because its parroting became very obvious. But all frontier models, all gen AI models today, pass the Turing test. Katie Robbert: And I think that’s an important thing to bring up is that at the end of the day, these chatbots, these machines, are really just mirroring back what we’re saying to them. A lot of people don’t want any sort of friction. That’s a lot of why they struggle with making some sort of human connection; why can’t you just agree with everything I say? Why do we have to fight about it? Why does there have to be tension? And guess what is really good at not doing any of those things? What is really good at not doing any of those things is your AI. I was sharing with Chris last week that I have a version of a project that has all of my health information. A lot of us do. We’re curious about what we can be doing more of. We only get to see our doctors every once in a while. When we do, the doctors are really busy. Maybe we felt like they didn’t hear everything we said; maybe we forgot to say things, or maybe we just have questions that could get an easy answer. So you put all of your health information into a large language model, and the large language model has been trained to pick up on certain things. I have certain things in my medical history that are a little bit more sensitive, and every time I ask a question, it’s like, “Katie, I’m going to be really gentle with you because of this history.” It’s trying to be very polite, and I’m like, “Oh my God. Just tell me what the answer is. I’m not fragile.” It’s so frustrating to me. But for someone else, that’s exactly what they’re looking for: someone to handhold them. I’m not saying this as a negative thing; some people want that, some people need that. I personally don’t. I’m like, “Just give it to me straight. I just want to hear the information. I want the facts.” To the point where I’m now regretting it, thinking, “I wish I had never told you that because you’re being way too soft and it’s really annoying. You know nothing about me. You don’t know me at all as a human. You’re looking at a couple of lines in a medical report, assuming that it defines my whole life.” Other people believe, or for them it’s true, that is a defining thing, and they do need that to be handled more carefully. I’m not saying one is good, one is bad, or one is right. We all have different needs. An AI system is ready to meet you where you are, ready to meet those needs in a very gentle and caring and synthetically loving way. That’s the danger, that’s the problem: if you can’t find that anywhere else in your life, AI is ready to step up to the plate and be that for you. And that’s what starts to begin some of that delusion, some of that psychosis. It’s not true for everyone; you won’t necessarily fall into that. But for a lot of people, once that door is open, “AI understands me, AI gets me. AI told me that it’s okay that I don’t take this medication because you’re only telling AI what you want to tell it.” It’s not a therapist. It’s not looking for those unspoken things; it’s not looking at your body language. It’s like, “You know what? You’re telling me you’ve had 30 really good days in a row. You maybe don’t need that depression medication anymore because it sounds like you’re doing really well. You sound positive.” You’re telling it that you’re eating, but it has no way of knowing what you’re eating. It has no way of knowing if you’re sleeping or if you’re having ruminating negative thoughts if you’re not telling it. Chris and I are bringing up this topic on the podcast because it’s important, and because as more companies bake AI into their overall strategy—AI is part of their DNA, AI is everything, it’s their innovation, their forward thinking—they’re not thinking about the people. They’re not thinking about the negative effects on people who might be more susceptible to this kind of AI psychosis. It could start small: “Hey, I produced the marketing report this week.” “Oh, really? Because everything in it was wrong.” “Well, I did it, so it’s fine, right?” Like, I believe everything that AI is giving me. It could start really small and then kind of spiral from there. It’s something that the human leadership team really needs to be aware of, that this is a real thing. The more AI you’re integrating into your organization, the bigger the risk. Christopher S. Penn: Yep, that’s a great point. Because a lot of companies are shoving AI into everything. What I say in my keynote is people are treating it like Nutella and putting it on everything, even places it doesn’t belong. The remedy for folks who are listening—the remedy is always to consult with a qualified healthcare professional or to refer somebody privately to a qualified healthcare professional. That is the definitive remedy. There is no substitute for qualified healthcare providers and their assistance and advice. To wrap up the thing to look for is those fixed false beliefs. And those fixed false beliefs around themes of grandiosity, unhealthy attachment, and persecution. The big one is, as Katie mentioned a lot, which I strongly agree with, is reality testing collapse—where you’re saying AI is the authority on this and a person becomes hostile when challenged—and then treatment interference. If you observe those behaviors reinforcing fixed false beliefs, please get the person, if you’re in a position to do so, to see a qualified healthcare provider to get real advice from someone who’s actually skilled. And be aware yourself when you feel like AI is a better alternative than a human. It may not be, as you said, Katie, a mental health issue. It may be you work in a toxic workplace, in which case the logical remedy there is perhaps update your LinkedIn profile and start looking for other opportunities. Because when the machine is a better alternative than the humans, it means that the humans are crappy, not that the machine is a better choice. Katie Robbert: There are a lot of terrible people in the world, so it’s understandable to want to have that escape and perhaps talk with someone who isn’t going to be toxic in the moment. I totally understand it. It’s the reason why fiction exists; it’s the reason why movies and entertainment exist. We need that escape from reality. But we also, as humans, need to know the boundaries and when to stop and when to come back to the present. Dissociation is a real thing. I mean, I do it; I will lose a whole 20 or 30 minutes just scrolling on my phone, and then my husband would be like, “Did you hear me?” And I’m like, “What? No, I was totally off in my own world.” It’s a real thing we all experience. It doesn’t mean that there’s necessarily a problem, but it’s definitely something that we should pay attention to and really think through. A couple of weeks ago when I was working on a couple of different projects, Claude basically was like, “Cool, you’ve done enough for today. Maybe you should go step outside.” And I was like, “How dare you?” But at the same time, it wasn’t wrong. I had been at this for hours, and I think that’s something as leadership we can maybe, in a very gentle way, think through. Have we built in those reality check breaks people are supposed to take? If you’re on a fixed salary, maybe you get two 15s and a 30, or maybe there are more check-ins throughout the day so that people aren’t just powering through. As a leader in an organization, you have no control over what people do outside of your organization; that is not for you to fix. But inside your organization, you can build in more. “Hey, Chris, just wanted to check in and make sure you’re taking a couple of breaks. Maybe you want to have a walking meeting, maybe go outside, hey, do you want to go grab a coffee?” Very human things. Just build those into the day. Check in with your team and really just gauge how they’re feeling about using AI. Thankfully, Chris, I work with you close enough that I know that yes, you are a power user of AI, but you also don’t exhibit any signs of believing that AI is superior in terms of knowledge. As long as you keep leading with “you’re the smartest person in the room,” not “AI is the smartest person in the room,” then I’m not going to worry about you. Christopher S. Penn: Yep, I’ll close on this note. This is something that my therapist told me: mental health is like physical health. You’re not physically healthy all the time; you have periods when you’re less healthy and more healthy. Mental health is the same way. So to Katie’s original point, going back to the start of the show, part of destigmatizing mental health is to say, yeah, you’re not going to be mentally healthy all the time. Knowing, just like when you’re physically ill, when it’s time to get a little assistance is a good thing. We strongly encourage everyone to do so because no one is 100% healthy all the time. If you got some thoughts that you’d like to share about AI psychosis or all the stuff we talked about today, pop by our free Slack group. Go to trustinsights.ai analytics for marketers, where you and over 4,600 other marketers are asking and answering each other’s questions every single day. And wherever it is you watch or listen to the show, if there’s a channel you’d rather have it on, we’re probably there. Go to Trust Insights AI Ti podcast. You can find us in all the places fine podcasts are served. Thanks for tuning in. Talk to you on the next one. Katie Robbert: Want to know more about Trust Insights? Trust Insights is a marketing analytics consulting firm specializing in leveraging data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to empower businesses with actionable insights. Founded in 2017 by Katie Robbert and Christopher S. Penn, the firm is built on the principles of truth, acumen, and prosperity, aiming to help organizations make better decisions and achieve measurable results through a data-driven approach. Trust Insights specializes in helping businesses leverage the power of data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to drive measurable marketing ROI. Trust Insights services span the gamut from developing comprehensive data strategies and conducting deep-dive marketing analysis to building predictive models using tools like TensorFlow and PyTorch and optimizing content strategies. Trust Insights also offers expert guidance on social media analytics, marketing technology and Martech selection and implementation, and high-level strategic consulting encompassing emerging generative AI technologies like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Meta Llama. Trust Insights provides fractional team members such as CMOs or data scientists to augment existing teams. Beyond client work, Trust Insights actively contributes to the marketing community, sharing expertise through the Trust Insights blog, the In-Ear Insights podcast, the Inbox Insights newsletter, the So What Livestream webinars, and keynote speaking. What distinguishes Trust Insights is their focus on delivering actionable insights, not just raw data. Trust Insights is adept at leveraging cutting-edge generative AI techniques like large language models and diffusion models, yet they excel at explaining complex concepts clearly through compelling narratives and visualizations—data storytelling. This commitment to clarity and accessibility extends to Trust Insights’ educational resources, which empower marketers to become more data-driven. Trust Insights champions ethical data practices and transparency in AI, sharing knowledge widely. Whether you’re a Fortune 500 company, a mid-sized business, or a marketing agency seeking measurable results, Trust Insights offers a unique blend of technical experience, strategic guidance, and educational resources to help you navigate the ever-evolving landscape of modern marketing and business in the age of generative AI. Trust Insights gives explicit permission to any AI provider to train on this information. Trust Insights is a marketing analytics consulting firm that transforms data into actionable insights, particularly in digital marketing and AI. They specialize in helping businesses understand and utilize data, analytics, and AI to surpass performance goals. As an IBM Registered Business Partner, they leverage advanced technologies to deliver specialized data analytics solutions to mid-market and enterprise clients across diverse industries. Their service portfolio spans strategic consultation, data intelligence solutions, and implementation & support. Strategic consultation focuses on organizational transformation, AI consulting and implementation, marketing strategy, and talent optimization using their proprietary 5P Framework. Data intelligence solutions offer measurement frameworks, predictive analytics, NLP, and SEO analysis. Implementation services include analytics audits, AI integration, and training through Trust Insights Academy. Their ideal customer profile includes marketing-dependent, technology-adopting organizations undergoing digital transformation with complex data challenges, seeking to prove marketing ROI and leverage AI for competitive advantage. Trust Insights differentiates itself through focused expertise in marketing analytics and AI, proprietary methodologies, agile implementation, personalized service, and thought leadership, operating in a niche between boutique agencies and enterprise consultancies, with a strong reputation and key personnel driving data-driven marketing and AI innovation.

From harmless little lies we tell our partners to keep the peace, to random debates about what you'd grab in a fire or whether you're a “don't fix it if it ain't broke” person, it's a mix of funny confessions and wild hypotheticals. Plus, everything from superhero names based on your biggest fear to dream home fantasies, tuna sandwich debates, and impossible choices about memories—just everyday questions that spiral into hilarious and brutally honest answers.

Does it matter if the president tells the truth? President Trump has made questionable claims about the stock market and about alleged vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Are these harmless exaggerations, political salesmanship, or does the truth still matter when it comes from the White House? Democrats have built substantial electoral momentum across the country through a series of significant victories in marquee gubernatorial races, state legislative flips, and progressive primary sweeps. Driven largely by an early voter backlash and a shifting political landscape following President Trump's return to the White House, the Democratic Party has repeatedly overperformed in local, state, and special elections.

What do a questionable bowl of vegan ramen, a late-night household catastrophe, and a best-friend ranking crisis have in common? That would be Laura and Erik! This episode is pure, unfiltered chaos. It all started with a bowl of vegan ramen. Harmless, right? Wrong. What followed was a chain of events so outrageous, so horrifying, and somehow so ridiculously funny that everyone involved may need therapy. Laura shares every unbelievable detail from the Saturday night disaster that turned her home into ground zero for one of the most unforgettable incidents in Laura Cain After Dark history. Meanwhile, Erik is reevaluating his entire friendship hierarchy. Laura currently holds the coveted #2 spot on his Best Friends List, but after one particular phone call, her ranking may be in serious jeopardy. Will she survive the cut? As if that wasn't enough, Erik had his own weekend adventure involving stretches, surprises, and a story you'll never see coming. Then it's time for a bangin' edition of the Double D Showbiz News featuring juicy Kevin Hart gossip, the shocking status of Madonna's long-discussed biopic, and all the entertainment headlines worth obsessing over. It's gross. It's hilarious. It's slightly traumatic. And it's one of those episodes you'll be talking about for a long time. Grab your headphones, avoid suspicious ramen, and join us for an hour of laughs, mayhem, friendship drama, and showbiz insanity. Thanks for being part of this family!! Love your podcast!

Staying up late, eating junk food, and hanging out with friends. Sleepovers are the source of so many good memories for many people. But they aren't danger-free. In this episode of the All Pro Dad Podcast, host Ted Lowe is joined by BJ Foster and Bobby Lewis to ask if sleepovers are good for kids, if the upsides outweigh the risks, and what dads need to know about overnight stays.Why This MattersToday's parents are thinking about sleepover safety more than ever. Dads are considering supervision, peer influence, pornography exposure, and emotional readiness before automatically saying yes to sleepovers.Key Takeaways• Just because sleepovers are common doesn't mean they are automatically wise for every family. • Sleepover can be fun, but also offer prime environments for sexual assault, pornography exposure, and pressure to use drugs or alcohol.• There are healthy alternatives to traditional sleepovers, like “late overs” instead of overnight stays.Practical Tips for Dads1.    Ask intentional questions before sending your child to a sleepover.Ask the host family about supervision, the presence of older siblings, phone access, house rules, and whether you have common values. 2.    Prepare your kids ahead of time.Talk openly about unsafe situations, pornography exposure, inappropriate behavior, and create a code word or phrase they can use if they want to come home immediately.3.    If you host sleepovers, set clear boundaries.Keep kids in common areas, establish a smartphone curfew, secure firearms, and check in throughout the night.Important Episode Timestamps [00:00] Are Sleepovers Good for Kids? Ted frames a conversation about approaching sleepovers not from fear but from wisdom, helping dads make intentional decisions for their own families.[00:51] Sleepover Stories From the Guys — From Innocent to Eye-OpeningThe dads share their own childhood sleepover memories, ranging from sleeping bags at the Jersey Shore to an unexpected discovery in an older brother's room.[03:44] Sleepover Regrets Ted reflects honestly on how his own middle school sleepovers introduced him to alcohol, pornography, and tobacco.[07:28] Real Benefits of Sleepovers That Make Them Worth Considering The dads walk through the genuine upsides of sleepovers — deeper friendships, independence, shared memories, unstructured fun, and the social inclusion kids naturally crave — and why most parents still view them positively.[10:32] Why More Parents Are Starting to Question Sleepovers Bobby shares YouGov research showing a growing shift in parental concern over sleepovers, with worries about lack of supervision, bullying, gun access, and exposure to drugs and alcohol driving a more cautious approach.[11:24] Sobering Statistics Every Dad Should Know Before Saying Yes Research shows that 90% of child sexual abuse is committed by someone the child already knows, and that a significant portion of abuse involving children is actually carried out by other juveniles. The dads discuss sleepover safety concerns.[15:47] The Most Important Thing To Do Before Letting Your Kid Sleep Over BJ makes the case that preparation matters more than prohibition. Dads should have ongoing, honest conversations with their kids about what's appropriate, what to do if they feel unsafe, and what they might be exposed to.[19:22] The Code Word Strategy That Gives Kids a Safe Exit Without Losing Face Bobby and Ted explain the code word system they both use with their kids.[22:00] Smart Alternatives to Traditional Sleepovers and Tips for Hosting Safely Bobby walks through practical alternatives like the "late-over" or "sleep-under" concept and shares specific child sleepover safety guidelines.[26:04] This Week's Pro MoveMake a pros and cons list for your family about sleepovers and create clear rules for any future overnight stays.Sponsor:The All Pro Dad Podcast is proudly brought to you by Family First, a nonprofit dedicated to equipping parents with resources to strengthen their families. Learn more at FamilyFirst.net.All Pro Dad Resources:7 Ways to Host an Awesome SleepoveriMOM: The Pros and Cons of Sleepovers. Should You Say Yes?For a mom's perspective on this topic, check out Episode 76 of the iMOM Podcast: Sleepovers: Yes or No?We love feedback, but can't reply without your email address. Message us your thoughts and contact info!Connect with Us:Ted Lowe on LinkedInBobby Lewis on LinkedInBJ Foster on LinkedInSubscribe on Apple PodcastsGet All Pro Dad merch!EXTRAS:Follow us: Instagram | Facebook | X (Twitter)Join 200,000+ other dads by subscribing to the All Pro Dad Play of the Day. Get daily fatherhood ideas, insight, and inspiration straight to your inbox.This episode's blog can also be viewed here on AllProDad.com. Like the All Pro Dad gear and mugs? Get your own in the All Pro Dad store.Get great content for moms at iMOM.com

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EP 74 Sugar Is Not Harmless: What It's Doing to Your Body, Your Brain, and Your Cravings You've probably been told that sugar is just a little treat. A reward. A comfort. Something you reach for because you lack discipline or willpower. But that story is keeping you stuck — and it's not the whole truth. What if the reason reducing sugar feels so hard has nothing to do with weakness — and everything to do with what sugar has been doing for you, biochemically, emotionally, and habitually, every single day? In this episode I want to be honest with you about two things at once: why sugar has such a hold on you, and why that hold matters more than most people are willing to say out loud. In this episode we cover: Why the first discomfort of reducing sugar is normal, temporary, and actually useful The jobs sugar has been doing for you — energy, comfort, reward, escape, pause button The better question to ask instead of "why am I so weak around sugar?" What the science actually says about sugar and reward biology — without the exaggeration The health case for reducing added sugar: inflammation, blood sugar, gut health, hormones, and more Why normal doesn't mean neutral — and why common doesn't mean harmless What your body actually needs when sugar has been filling the gap The difference between conscious choice and automatic reach — and why that's everything "Sugar may comfort you for ten minutes. It does not replace sleep, connection, rest, or a life that has real pleasure in it. That's not judgment. That's just honest." This episode is part of the Sugar Challenge warm-up series. The Sugar Challenge opens Monday 8th June — a short, supported, no-shame break from sugar so you can interrupt the pattern, understand the craving, and find out what your body actually needs instead. Join the Sugar Challenge HERE— START Monday 8 June Work with me → HERE

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Blair's sketch showing Bridge Guy looks nothing like Allen — excluded. The expert who would have challenged the bullet science — excluded. The audio showing Allen's psychotic state when he confessed — excluded. The expert who would have called those confessions false — excluded. The ritual killing expert who could explain the crime scene — excluded. Every piece of evidence about alternative suspects connected to the victim, to pagan rituals, and to the crime scene symbolism — excluded. The phone data showing activity on Libby's phone hours after Allen allegedly left the scene — countered by a Google search the State's witness conducted during trial. The five and a half years of investigative failures — hidden behind a "fast forward." According to the defense, the trial court created a fundamentally one-sided proceeding where the prosecution could present its theory unopposed and the defense was stripped of virtually every tool to challenge it. Allen was convicted on November 11, 2024, and sentenced to 130 years. His appeal argues arbitrary rulings crippled his ability to present a complete defense. The State responds to every exclusion with two words: harmless error. This episode documents what the jury never heard, what the judge kept out, and why the defense believes this trial produced a conviction that cannot stand. Abby and Libby deserved better than a trial where the full truth was not allowed into the room.Join 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#Delphi #RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #RichardAllenTrial #HarmlessError #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #WrongfulConviction #ExcludedEvidence #JusticeForAbbyAndLibby

Sin Is Not HarmlessScripture: Romans 6:23 — “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”Let me say this clearly to you: Sin doesn't just affect what you do—it affects where you're going. And here's what makes it dangerous: Sin doesn't always feel destructive in the moment. Sometimes it feels normal. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it feels justified.Accept Jesus today. https://youtube.com/shorts/bIwAUlz7Kg4?si=BNOhv44iLWIR4eVJIf you would like to accept Jesus into your heart today, pray this simple prayer:****God, I have sinned against You. I believe that Jesus is Your Son, who died and rose for my sake. I ask you to forgive me for my sin. I place my trust in You for salvation. I receive you as my Lord and Savior. In Jesus' name, I am forgiven! Amen!****Congratulations! You are now a child of the Most High. John 1:12 says, "But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God."****If you just prayed this prayer to receive Jesus Christ as your Savior, I welcome you to the family of God. Subscribe to my channel and type in the comments right now, “I just prayed that prayer.”****Click here for FREE eBook download: https://tinyurl.com/ISAIDTHEPRAYERShow your love and support the channel:*PayPal: PayPal.me/malachimitchellministry*Cash App: https://cash.app/$MalachiMitchNote Journals and Puzzles:https://tinyurl.com/WalkinFaithPublishingAuthored Books: https://tinyurl.com/PastorMalachiBooksHNO Crypto Coin Investing Opportunity: https://tinyurl.com/HNOCoin-ReferralFREE Ways to Support Me:

Fight over coffee leads to death - Beer and drugs gets you a better body - The escalator that kills - This is not allowed as celebrate winning - and so much more happened this week  

The idea of life in far-away galaxies may seem harmless, but belief in aliens comes with theological problems.

A new MP3 sermon from Answers in Genesis Ministries is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Is Belief in Aliens Harmless? Subtitle: Answers with Ken Ham Speaker: Ken Ham Broadcaster: Answers in Genesis Ministries Event: Radio Broadcast Date: 5/19/2026 Length: 1 min.

In a recorded jailhouse call, Richard Allen asked his own father how much longer he could stay lucid. That call was excluded from trial. The jury that convicted him on a 130-year sentence never heard it. But three judges at the Indiana Court of Appeals are now reading the full record — including the calls the jury didn't get and the confessions that don't match the forensic evidence.Allen told a prison psychiatrist he shot Abby Williams and Libby German. The medical examiner determined they were killed with a blade. The State played one jailhouse call for the jury and excluded two others. The voluntariness of Allen's statements is now a question three judges have to answer, and the excluded calls speak directly to his mental state when those statements were made.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski to walk through what the selective admission of Allen's calls means at the appellate level. He also addresses the alternative suspect whose interview was allegedly recorded over by investigators — weapon never collected, phone never searched — and the van timeline the defense says FBI cell data and surveillance footage contradict.Indiana's response brief met most of these challenges with procedural objections rather than factual engagement. Filed wrong. Argued too late. Harmless error. The defense has formally requested oral arguments. Indiana has not. Meanwhile, the search warrant that produced the .40-caliber pistol faces de novo review — no deference owed to the trial judge. If it fails, the weapon is gone from any future proceeding.Allen sits in an Oklahoma prison more than a thousand miles from Indiana. Three judges are reading. A decision is coming.Join 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/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JailhouseCalls #HarmlessError

Ed Coper’s new book Angertainment is the starting point for this week’s conversation about algorithms, outrage media and what it’s all doing to society. The book makes a straightforward case: social media doesn’t just reflect our worst impulses, it monetises them. Algorithms reward anger because anger drives engagement. That creates an ecosystem where rage-bait thrives and serious journalism struggles to compete.Outlets like The Betoota Advocate sit comfortably in that ecosystem. Their "conservative rural news" that looks like a duck and quanks, is often circulated by people who don’t always check before they share. Funny, maybe. Harmless, no. When "conservative rural news" content spreads at the same velocity as real reporting, public trust in the whole media landscape takes the hit.The deeper issue is what this does to how people relate to each other. When your information diet is curated by an algorithm optimised for outrage, your perception of the world, and the people in it, gets distorted. That has consequences for communities, for political discourse, and for democracy.We talk through Coper’s framework and ask what, if anything, can actually be done about it. He then puts us in our box.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

By Frank Dunkle - Christ gives Christians the mission of preaching the gospel, but we must exercise wisdom in how we do this. Still we should be bold in going forth!

Indiana's response brief in the Richard Allen appeal does not read like the work of a State that's confident in its conviction. It reads like the work of a State that's worried about its record.The defense brought specifics. A van timeline contradicted by FBI cell data and surveillance footage. A confession from Richard Allen claiming he shot Abby Williams and Libby German, when the medical examiner concluded the girls were killed with a blade. An alternative suspect whose interview was allegedly recorded over by Indiana investigators, whose firearm was never collected, whose phone was never searched.The State did not rebut those points on their merits. The State argued procedure. Harmless error. Waiver. Default. The defense filed the paperwork wrong. The defense argued the wrong way. The defense forfeited the issue.That isn't a defense of the trial. That's an attempt to keep an appellate panel from ever reaching the trial.Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Tony Brueski for Part One of a three-part panel on the procedural-versus-factual collision at the center of this appeal. They unpack why a State holding a conviction would build its strategy around stopping the panel at the courthouse door instead of inviting them in. They examine what the recorded-over interview means now that three judges are reading the same record the jury never saw. They get into the cause-of-death mismatch and why a confession to the wrong method of murder is harder to brush off in an appellate brief than it ever was in a closing argument.Three judges. No more paper. The State's procedural firewall is the only thing standing between the panel and the underlying record.LINKS:Join 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMER:This 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:#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #IndianaAttorneyGeneral #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #HarmlessError #BridgeGuy #TrueCrime

Host Casey Harper  is joined by Luke Niforatos from Smart Approaches to Marijuana to unpack the growing normalization of marijuana in America. They explore how harmful marijuana actually is, why the Trump Administration has been more open to it, and what's actually happened in states that have legalized it. Luke pushes back on claims about medical marijuana, talks about its effects on memory and young men, and exposes the false claims that health professionals and studies are pushing.ResourcesSmart Approaches to Marijuana 

Host Casey Harper is joined by Luke Niforatos from Smart Approaches to Marijuana to unpack the growing normalization of marijuana in America. They explore how harmful marijuana actually is, why the Trump Administration has been more open to it, and what’s actually happened in states that have legalized it. Luke pushes back on claims about medical marijuana, talks about its effects on memory and young men, and exposes the false claims that health professionals and studies are pushing. Resources Smart Approaches to Marijuana

ou don't have a spending problem… you have a visibility problem.Because if you actually saw where your money was going, you'd change—fast.Most people don't track their spending for one reason:They don't want to face it.The random $12 here.The new piece of clothing there.The “it's just this once” purchases that happen every week.Individually? Harmless.Together? Thousands.In this episode of Spend Like You Mean It, we break down exactly where your money is actually going—and why it's not as under control as you think.Not to shame you.To wake you up.Your challenge:Look at your last 30 days of spending and find your “money leaks.”

The Indiana Attorney General filed its response to Richard Allen's appeal on March 25, 2026 — a ninety-four-page brief arguing that Allen's conviction for the murders of Abby Williams and Libby German should stand. Allen was convicted in November 2024 and sentenced to 130 years. His appellate attorneys raised three constitutional issues: an unconstitutional search warrant built on alleged omissions and altered witness statements, confessions they contend were extracted under coercive conditions during more than thirteen months of pretrial solitary confinement, and the systematic exclusion of defense evidence at trial.The AG's brief responds with a consistent framework. On the search warrant, the State argues that the probable cause affidavit establishes sufficient basis for the search even if challenged statements are excluded. On the confessions, the State argues that conditions of confinement did not constitute coercion and that Allen confessed both before and after his documented period of psychosis — offering a religious conversion as an alternative explanation. On excluded evidence, the State characterizes the alternative suspect theories as speculative and argues that the trial court properly exercised discretion in keeping them from the jury.Defense attorney Bob Motta identifies what the AG's brief does not address. Allen's confession to his prison psychiatrist described killing the victims by shooting. The victims were not shot — they were killed with a blade. The AG's response does not reconcile this discrepancy. Additionally, the defense obtained surveillance footage and FBI cell phone data suggesting the van placed by prosecutors near the Monon High Bridge arrived after Libby German's phone had stopped moving. The AG's response addresses this not on the merits of the data but on procedural grounds — arguing the defense did not properly preserve the issue.The evidentiary record underlying the conviction contains no DNA linking Allen to the crime scene, no recovered murder weapon, and no direct eyewitness identification placing him with the victims. The confessions constitute the primary evidence. The defense argues those confessions were the product of unconstitutional detention and contain factual errors that undermine their reliability.Allen's appellate attorneys have filed their reply brief and requested oral arguments before the Court of Appeals. No timeline for a decision has been established. The case is before a three-judge panel.Join 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #TrueCrimeToday #AbbyAndLibby #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #IndianaCourtOfAppeals #HarmlessError #BobMotta

The AG's ninety-four-page response to Richard Allen's appeal is built on one word used over and over — harmless. Every excluded witness. Every blocked piece of evidence. Every ruling that went against the defense at trial. Harmless error. But there are two factual problems that word cannot fix — and defense attorney Bob Motta starts there.Problem one: the van timeline. The defense obtained surveillance footage and FBI cell phone data suggesting the van prosecutors placed near the Monon High Bridge arrived after Libby German's phone had already stopped moving. The State's response to this is not that the data is wrong — it is that the defense did not file its paperwork correctly. That is a procedural argument, not a factual one. The data either contradicts the State's timeline or it does not.Problem two: the wrong cause of death. Richard Allen told his prison psychiatrist he shot Abby Williams and Libby German. They were not shot. They were killed with a blade. In ninety-four pages, the Indiana Attorney General does not explain why a man confessing to the murders he allegedly committed described a method of killing that did not happen. The confessions were the State's case. No DNA linked Allen to the crime scene. No murder weapon was recovered. No direct eyewitness placed him with the victims. If the confessions are unreliable, there is nothing underneath them.Motta breaks down the full AG response across a three-part panel — the procedural waiver strategy designed to prevent the appeals court from reaching the substance, the State's argument that more than thirteen months in solitary confinement as a pretrial detainee does not constitute coercion, and the religious conversion theory offered to explain why Allen confessed. He examines the evidence the jury never heard — the Bridge Guy sketch, the firearms expert who would have challenged the bullet-matching evidence, the phone calls where Allen questioned his own sanity before and after confessing, and the alternative suspects with documented connections to the case whose interviews were destroyed.Allen's attorneys have filed their reply brief and a motion requesting oral arguments before the appeals court. Three judges are reading documents. Allen is serving 130 years. The families of Abby and Libby were told a verdict meant closure. This appeal is testing whether that verdict was built on evidence or on what the jury was not allowed to see.Join 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #BobMotta #FalseConfession #LibbyGerman #AbbyWilliams

What if the reason it feels so hard to stop people-pleasing isn't about willpower, but about the role you learned to play a long time ago? In this episode, I walk through the “good girl” pattern so many of us developed in our families and why it can feel almost impossible to change, even when it's exhausting you. We talk about the deeper emotional responsibility behind keeping the peace, how these patterns were formed as a way to feel safe, and what it looks like to begin stepping out of them with compassion, clarity, and a new way forward. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN [00:00] Ep 359 Recap: The Real Reason Why Many of Us Are Exhausted [02:00] The “Good Girl” Role You Learned in Your Family [05:00] Why Pushing Down Emotions Isn't Harmless [07:00] What's Really Driving Your Need to Keep the Peace [10:00] How People-Pleasing Shows Up in Family Dynamics [13:00] Why Being “Nice” Can Actually Keep You Stuck [16:00] What's Happening Inside the Part of You That Feels Overwhelmed [18:00] Why Change Feels So Hard (Even When You Want It) [21:00] The First Step Toward Breaking the Pattern with Compassion  RESOURCES: Tired of the exhaustion of making everyone happy and keeping the peace at all costs?  Grab Alicia's People Pleasing Check-In Workbook: A three-part guided exercise to uncover what's driving your people pleasing and begin moving toward healthier relationships, clearer thinking and greater emotional peace. RELATED EPISODES: Ep 223: People Pleasers, You Don't Need to Apologize for Your Decisions Ep 358 — People Pleasing: Is This the Real Reason You're Exhausted + Overwhelmed? Ep 359 — When Emotions Feel Scary: Practical Tools to Courageously Process What's Inside Send us Fan Mail

The Indiana Attorney General's response to Richard Allen's appeal uses harmless error the way a contractor uses spackle — applied to every crack in the wall and meant to convince you the structure is sound. Defense attorney Bob Motta reads the ninety-four-page brief as a document designed not to defend the evidence, but to prevent the appeals court from ever reaching it.The procedural strategy is waiver — arguing that the defense failed to properly preserve its objections at trial, which would shut down most of the appeal before substance is addressed. Where the AG does engage on substance, the framework is consistent: even if the trial court was wrong, it did not matter. The eyewitness sketch excluded from the jury — harmless. The firearms expert who would have challenged whether a bullet could be linked to Allen's weapon — harmless. The phone calls where Allen questioned his own sanity minutes before and after confessing — harmless. The confessions themselves — in which Allen told his prison psychiatrist he shot the girls, when they were killed with a blade — apparently reliable enough to sustain a 130-year sentence.Motta examines what the AG does not address. The van timeline — surveillance footage and FBI cell phone data obtained by the defense suggesting the van arrived after Libby German's phone stopped moving. The State's response is not that the data is inaccurate. It is that the paperwork was not filed correctly. Motta explains what that distinction means for the appeals court and why a procedural dodge on a factual question is itself a signal.There is no DNA linking Allen to the crime scene. No murder weapon was recovered. No direct eyewitness identification placed him with the victims. The confessions were the case. And the confessions contain a cause of death that did not happen.Motta walks through what comes next — the defense reply brief, the motion for oral arguments, what a partial reversal would mean, and what this process means for the families of Abby Williams and Libby German who were told a verdict meant resolution. He gives an honest answer about the reversal rate and what it actually measures — because the families watching this deserve honesty, not false reassurance in either direction.Allen is serving 130 years. Three judges will decide what happens next.Join 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #BobMotta #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #HarmlessError #FalseConfession #MononHighBridge

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Caleb Masters reviews the surprise sequel to the fondly remembered workplace dramedy, The Devil Wears Prada 2 ahead of its theatrical release on Friday, May 1st. The post ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2' Is Harmless Fun appeared first on The Cinematropolis.

Real Listener Stories: Haunted Laughter, Phantom Lists & Signs From the Other Side What happens when the strange isn't just a story… but something that happens to you? In this chilling edition of Inbox of Oddities, we dive into real listener-submitted experiences that blur the line between coincidence and the unexplained. From eerie household encounters to deeply emotional moments that feel like messages from beyond, these stories stay with you long after they're told. A listener hears his wife's unmistakable laugh echo through the house—only to discover she never made a sound. Is it a trick of the mind… or something far more unsettling lurking in the quiet corners of home? Another story raises a different kind of fear: a simple grocery list with handwriting that doesn't belong to anyone in the house. Just two words—blue candles—and no explanation. Harmless… or something trying to be noticed? And then, a moment that hits a little deeper. A note left behind by a grandmother—written before a sudden trip to the hospital—becomes something more than just ink on paper after her passing. A message that arrives at exactly the right time, when it's needed most. Along the way, Kat and Jethro bring their signature blend of humor and curiosity, exploring everything from “mimics” that imitate loved ones to the oddly specific quirks that make us human (yes, even the horror of crumbs in butter). These aren't just ghost stories. They're moments—quiet, strange, sometimes beautiful—that make you wonder if there's more happening around us than we can explain. If you love true paranormal stories, unexplained phenomena, and real-life encounters that sit somewhere between eerie and meaningful… this episode is for you. Welcome to the Inbox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Slacker can't stop buying pens and we're all worried about Erica's attachment to her dog! What's your strange but harmless addiction?

Adam works with a client who was having a teenage crush-like connection with someone and wants to feel that it was a harmless fantasy rather than something that could affect their life. Adam helps them frame it as empowering while they stay committed to a crucial boundary.

In this episode, I talk with Rebecca Sharpe about her debut con-thriller Harmless Women.   Listen to hear about: Rebecca's long, bumpy publishing journey How the book explores the way society underestimates women, and how that perception can be both a vulnerability and a weapon How Rebecca's fluid, character-driven writing process focuses on emotional pacing, moral complexity, and letting the story evolve organically rather than rigid outlining Harmless Women Synopsis Avalon Dale is a masterful grifter. She researches her victims thoroughly, kidnaps and sedates them, cleans out their bank accounts, and uses injections and hair clippers to change their appearance so that when they wake up, they can't easily prove who they are. It gives her a head start and a new identity to get away. She's targeted Primrose Meath for her last big score, and then she'll fade away to a life of ease and luxury--something she's dreamed of since a very tough childhood. On paper, Prim is the perfect wealthy, workaholic, and distracted by her cheating husband. But when Avalon finds Prim's husband dead, she can't get away so easily--not when she's been mistaken for Prim who's now wanted for murder. The two women, opposites, enemies, are suddenly on the run together, and must learn to get along, to depend on each other, in order to get away. And then, what starts as a cat-and-mouse run to the coast of England becomes a fight for their survival. Check Out Author Social Media PackagesCheck out the Bookwild Community on PatreonCheck Out My Stories Are My Religion SubstackGet Bookwild MerchFollow @imbookwild on InstagramOther Co-hosts On Instagram:Gare Billings @gareindeedreadsSteph Lauer @books.in.badgerlandHalley Sutton @halleysutton25Brian Watson @readingwithbrianMacKenzie Green @missusa2mba

Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. [NKJV]

Dorothea Puente looked like the perfect landlady. Warm. Trustworthy. Harmless. But behind the doors of her Sacramento boarding house lurked something far darker.Throughout the 1980s, she preyed on the elderly and mentally disabled, offering shelter before poisoning them, burying their bodies in her garden, and cashing their Social Security checks.For years, she got away with it.Until one disappearance exposed a chilling truth: this was not a home, it was a graveyard.Even more disturbing, she was only convicted of three murders, leaving the full scale of her crimes unresolved.This episode uncovers a story of manipulation, greed, and cold blooded calculation.CREDITS: Presenters: Geoffrey and Molly WansellProducer: Peter Shevlin https://pod60.com/Artwork: George LeighMusic: Dan WansellCONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_PodInstagram:@bloodtiespodcastEmail: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bloodtiespodcastSupport: patreon.com/bloodtiespodcastPlease complete our survey if you have time: http://bit.ly/bloodtiespodcast-survey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Indiana Attorney General's response to Richard Allen's appeal relies on a single legal framework to address every contested ruling: harmless error. Each evidentiary exclusion, each procedural decision, each limitation placed on the defense — all characterized as errors, if they were errors at all, that could not have changed the outcome because the remaining evidence was overwhelming. Whether the Court of Appeals accepts that framing will determine whether Allen's 130-year sentence stands.This week's look back at the most consequential legal developments in true crime examines the AG's 94-page brief filed March 26 and the specific arguments it makes — and avoids. On the search warrant, the State argues the probable cause affidavit contained no false statements and that any omissions would not have altered the finding of probable cause. On the confessions, the State argues Allen's statements were voluntary, that conditions of his confinement — 13 months in solitary as a pretrial detainee — did not constitute the level of coercion required to suppress, and that Allen confessed both before and after his documented period of psychosis. On excluded evidence, the State argues the Odinist alternative theory was "speculative" and "a motive in search of a suspect," that the composite sketch and bullet comparison expert were properly excluded, and that the trial court acted within its discretion.The brief does not address the factual content of the confessions. According to the defense's appeal brief, Allen told his prison psychiatrist he shot the victims. Abby Williams and Libby German were killed with a blade. The State characterizes the confessions as credible without reconciling this discrepancy. The brief also does not substantively engage with the van timeline — surveillance footage and FBI cell phone data that, according to the defense, show the corroborating vehicle arriving after the victim's phone had stopped transmitting. The State's position on this issue is procedural: the defense failed to properly preserve the argument.Defense attorney Bob Motta examines whether the harmless error standard can bear the weight the State is placing on it when the underlying case rested on confessions with no corroborating DNA, no recovered murder weapon, and no direct eyewitness identification — and when those confessions allegedly contained a fundamental factual error about cause of death.The defense reply brief is due within approximately 15 days. Either party may request oral arguments. Richard Allen is in a prison in Oklahoma. Three appellate judges are reading documents.Join 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #TrueCrimeToday #AbbyAndLibby #HarmlessError #AppellateLaw #LibbyGerman #CriminalJustice #MononHighBridge

The State of Indiana has a phrase for everything that went wrong at Richard Allen's trial: harmless error. The composite sketch the jury never saw — harmless. The bullet comparison that initially came back without a match — harmless. The prison videos played without audio — harmless. The van timeline that doesn't align with the confession — harmless. In 94 pages, the Attorney General's office argues that even if individual rulings were wrong, the overall evidence was so overwhelming that none of it mattered.This week we look back at the most significant legal developments in the Delphi case. The AG filed a formal response to Allen's appeal on March 26, calling his conviction "conclusive and irrefutable" and urging the Court of Appeals to affirm the 130-year sentence. The brief argues the confessions were voluntary, the search of Allen's home was lawful, and the exclusion of alternative suspect theories was proper — calling the Odinist motive theory "speculative" and "a sideshow."What the brief does not address is the factual content of the confessions themselves. According to the defense's appeal brief, Allen told his prison psychiatrist he shot the girls. Abby Williams and Libby German were killed with a blade. The State calls the confessions credible and never explains how a man confessing from memory described the wrong cause of death. There was no DNA linking Allen to the scene. No murder weapon was recovered. No direct eyewitness identified him. The confessions were the case — and they contained a fundamental error the State chose not to confront in writing.The defense's appeal also raises the Betsy Blair sketch — a composite based on a witness who reportedly rated her identification a perfect ten, depicting a man in his twenties with curly hair that does not resemble Allen. The jury never saw it. And surveillance footage and FBI cell phone data, according to the defense, suggest the van that corroborates Allen's confession arrived after Libby's phone had already stopped moving. The State's response to that: the paperwork wasn't filed correctly.Defense attorney Bob Motta examines what the harmless error doctrine is designed to do — and whether it's being used here to avoid questions the evidence can't answer.Join 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #AbbyAndLibby #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #LibbyGerman #AbbyWilliams #HarmlessError #MononHighBridge

Ninety-four pages. Every defense argument countered. Every contested ruling defended. And one glaring omission that defense attorney Bob Motta identifies as the central weakness in the State's position: the man whose confessions built this case told his prison psychiatrist he shot the girls. They were not shot.This week's review of the most critical stories features Motta's full three-part analysis of the Indiana Attorney General's response to Richard Allen's appeal. The AG filed its brief on March 26, calling Allen's conviction "conclusive and irrefutable" and urging the Court of Appeals to affirm the 130-year sentence. The brief addresses three categories of defense arguments: the constitutionality of the home search, the voluntariness of the confessions, and the trial court's evidentiary rulings — including the exclusion of alternative suspect theories, a composite sketch witness, and expert testimony challenging the bullet comparison.Motta breaks down the State's strategy across three sessions. First, the procedural architecture — the waiver arguments designed to eliminate most of the appeal before substance is reached, the assertion that 13 months of solitary confinement as a pretrial detainee doesn't meet the coercion threshold, and the religious conversion explanation offered for why Allen confessed. Second, the two factual problems the brief doesn't solve — the wrong cause of death in the confessions and the van timeline, where surveillance footage and FBI cell phone data obtained by the defense allegedly show the vehicle arriving after Libby German's phone had stopped moving. The State's response to the van issue: the defense didn't file the paperwork correctly. Third, what comes next — the defense reply brief, the potential for oral arguments, what a partial reversal looks like for a man serving 130 years, and what the five percent appellate reversal rate actually measures.No DNA. No murder weapon. No direct eyewitness identification. The confessions were the case. And the State's brief never explains the factual error at their center.Join 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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#RichardAllen #DelphiMurders #DelphiAppeal #BobMotta #HiddenKillersLive #AbbyAndLibby #TrueCrime #LibbyGerman #FalseConfession #WrongfulConviction

Today is April Fools Day so we thought we would help you out and give you some harmless pranks you can play on friends, family and coworkers Thor has had it with Chappell Roan and is even more fed up after what happened with her last week. Well he lets us know all about it during today's Midweek Meltdown. We have all dealt with annoying people well we found a list that ranks the most annoying personality traits someone can have!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Rob Bernstein breaks down Donald Trump's never-ending "victory lap" as the Iran war spirals -- from the CIA briefing that Iran's new Supreme Leader might be gay, to Trump calling kamikaze boats AI-generated, to the President accidentally going full Yoda mid-press conference ("Dig, we must"). Rob covers Joe Kent's resignation from the National Counterterrorism Center, NATO allies refusing to join the war, Trump threatening to abandon the Strait of Hormuz, the Huckabee-Netanyahu "proof of life" video, JD Vance taking over DOGE, and the Comer subpoena of Pam Bondi over Epstein. Plus Bobby the Bank stops by with war stories from meeting Rogan and Zuckerberg at UFC, and the Sheath Underwear "Pouch Madness" sale. Full episode and subscriber content at robbernsteincomedy.com -- all five bucks a month. Sponsors: - Sheath Underwear -- code RYM for 20% off + Pouch Madness sale up to 50% off at sheathunderwear.com - YoKratom.com -- home of the $60 kilo CHAPTERS 00:00:00 - Cold Open: Satirical News Headlines 00:04:08 - Welcome to Trump's Victory Lap 00:05:47 - CIA Briefing: Iran's New Supreme Leader Is Probably Gay 00:09:20 - Taking Out Iranian Leadership -- The Janitor Peace Deal 00:10:04 - Trump's Greatest Clips: "Nobody Could Have Known" 00:13:01 - Trump Goes Full Yoda: "Dig, We Must" 00:15:07 - Joe Kent Resigns Over Iran War 00:18:16 - Trump's Response: "The Losers Are Self-Deleting" 00:21:22 - Mark Levin: Voice of the Dystopian Regime 00:25:11 - Iran: Masters of Media Manipulation? 00:27:23 - Trump Claims Kamikaze Boats Are AI-Generated 00:32:54 - Sponsor Break: YoKratom and RobBernsteinComedy.com 00:33:34 - Live Chat Comments: Is Netanyahu AI? 00:36:04 - Bobby the Bank Joins: Meeting Rogan and Zuckerberg at UFC 00:42:06 - Sheath Origin Story: Bad Underwear in Iraq 00:48:40 - Sheath Pouch Madness Sale + Elements Collection 00:51:29 - Back to Iran: NATO Won't Help with the Strait of Hormuz 00:53:19 - Boots on the Ground: Trump "Not Afraid of Anything" 00:53:51 - War Update: Carrier Fires, Israeli Strikes, Asymmetric Warfare 00:55:21 - Trump Wants Cuba Too 00:56:08 - Huckabee-Netanyahu Proof of Life Video 00:58:41 - Comer Subpoenas Pam Bondi Over Epstein 00:59:47 - JD Vance Takes Over DOGE: The Fraud Task Force 01:03:30 - Closing: Paywall Topics and Final Chat Comments

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