Podcasts about Indiana

Fox Sports' lead College Football analyst Joel Klatt reacts to the first games of the college football season as Week Zero officially kicked off the year. He begins by reacting to #14 USC's 16-point win over San Jose State and dives into whether Trojan fans should be excited or concerned with what they saw from the Trojans – and also gives his thoughts on the low fan attendance at the Coliseum for the opener. Klatt also discusses Bill Belichick's North Carolina team pulling off the upset of TCU and whether we may have jumped to a conclusion on the Belichick era in Chapel Hill too early. Klatt shouts out Virginia for their blowout win and evaluates their potential to be this year's Indiana in the ACC. Klatt also reacts to Memphis' upset win over UNLV and it's ramifications on the Group of 6 Playoff chase. He discusses Florida State's lackluster win and explains why FSU is not the power they once were and how things could be about to go off the rails in Tallahassee.Klatt wraps the show up by breaking down the latest eligibility issue in the sport as NFL players try to come back for one more year of college football, explaining how we got into this mess and where he stands on it – while pointing out a particular group that nobody's talking about that is being negatively impacted as a result. Chapters 🏈 0:00 - 1:08 Intro 1:09 - 10:24 USC opens season with win over San Jose State 10:25 - 14:16  Is USC's fan attendance for season opener a big deal? 14:17 - 17:08 Bill Belichick & UNC get off to winning start with win over TCU 17:09 -21:42  Did Virginia show they are an ACC contender after impressive win over NC State? 21:43 - 25:07 Memphis upsets UNLV on the road in Group of 6 matchup 25:08 - 30:42 How concerning was Florida State's win over New Mexico State? 30:43 - 41:57 Latest with NFL players trying to return to college *Special Announcement*The Joel Klatt Show will be live from The Circ Bar in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Thursday, September 10th with special guests ahead of the Oklahoma-Michigan game! Click the link below to reserve your spot at the show. You must be one of the first 100 to reserve to guarantee your spot, additional guests will be admitted based on available seating with overflow guests also given the opportunity to enjoy the show inside Circ Bar.Come be a part of the show! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/joel-klatt-show-live-in-michigan-tickets-1998967394287?aff=oddtdtcreator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This podcast is sponsored by Earn Haus.  More information at www.EarnHaus.com/Bobandtom The BOB & TOM Show — August 31, 20266:00 AM 6:00 Snail Man-Mango6:04 Tom's puppy had poop problems this morning.6:09 Bra talk6:12 No lions in Indiana—they saw pigs.6:22 Letter—our kitten Gomez can't stop looking at Josh on TV.6:25 Letter—color way—dumbing down of America—Caitlin Clark.6:27 Letter—paddles with holes in them.6:28 Letter—on a road trip—fence called dog wire.6:30 Talking about trash.6:46 Wants normal-sized boxes of cereal—Tom.6:49 There is a plane in the movie Ben-Hur—Pat.6:49 Letter—listened to Dolly Parton interview—loved it.6:52 Pumpkin spice song—Pat.6:54 There are pumpkin spice trash bags. 7:07 “La Grange”—ZZ Top7:10 Sports7:21 Illegal reptile trade show7:24 100,000 cockroaches found7:31 Melort alcohol is nasty—70 proof7:34 SWR—greatest height jumping from airbag—called blobbing7:47 Weekend in History 8:02 Banana spider helps with ED8:05 Not supposed to kill spiders8:08 Pope featured in Vanity Fair—on the best-dressed list8:10 Leo the 14th “I am”—Pat8:25 Ever seen a movie with homeless men?8:25 Using vaginal secretions as perfume—vabbing8:27 Tom loves David Muir8:29 Online-only relationships—Kristi8:31 Man with smallest penis had surgery to enlarge it—surgery successful—Kristi8:33 Sudan and the Congo have largest penises8:36 Girth Brooks8:46 Today in History8:56 Tom stole Josh's joke from out under him 9:07 Coffins are not airtight9:08 Cheese balls fall out of truck on highway9:11 Mac and cheese is back—Pat Godwin9:21 Josh's costume at Six Flags was so hot to wear—Foghorn Leghorn9:22 Explains how they cleaned the costume9:26 PBR truck stolen—PBR inside9:30 DoorDash driver delivered food naked9:45 Women's prosthetic leg washed up on shore9:50 Rome telescope was launched9:52 “La Grange”—ZZ Top 7:00 AM8:00 AM9:00 AM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

RV parks are quietly turning into industrial worker housing. A $100 billion SpaceX spaceport in Louisiana and a wave of data center construction in Texas and the Midwest are filling campgrounds with long-term crews, and recreational campers are the ones getting squeezed out.In this week's Monday News Edition:RVs as work camps. SpaceX announces a $100 billion spaceport in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, new RV parks are expected to house the construction crews, a Texas park near Abilene advertises 2,300 monthly sites for data center workers, and eastern Iowa campgrounds are already running full year-round.Monsoon season is doing real damage. Eleven hikers are rescued with hypothermia at Bryce Canyon in August, and about 50 people are airlifted out of the Grand Canyon on Saturday after flash flooding tore through Bright Angel Canyon. Phantom Ranch and the North Kaibab Trail are closed until further notice.Why all the rockfalls? A large rockfall closes the Zion Canyon scenic drive, a Glacier National Park visitor is killed by a rock that came through his car roof, and researchers explain the link between heat and falling rock.A Colorado startup wants to cut camper van prices in half. Hunker's removable pod drops into a Ram ProMaster and starts at $55,000, but there is a catch worth knowing about.Twelve years later, a microchip brings Flor home. A chihuahua missing for 12 years is reunited with her Evanston family after a shelter in Indiana scans her chip, plus what every RVer traveling with a pet should check this week.LINKS Free daily RV Lifestyle newsletter: https://rvlifestyle.com/newsletter Show notes and full transcript: https://rvpodcast.com RV Community: https://rvcommunity.com The Complete Guide to RVing in Retirement: https://rvlifestyle.com/retirementguide

Today’s Best of Features: (00:00-13:50) – IndyStar’s Nathan Baird joins Jake Query on his way to West Lafayette to share the details on Trey Kaufman-Renn wanting a sixth-year of eligibility. Does he have a case? What are the odds that he could be playing for the Boilermakers this season? Plus, could Kaufman-Renn be the domino effect to more basketball players going to state courts going for another year of eligibility since the Big Ten is the only conference that hasn’t banned professional basketball players? (13:50-41:05) – The Dean, Mike Chappell, from CBS4 & FOX59 makes his weekly appearance on Query & Company to talk all things Indianapolis Colts. Jake Query starts the conversation by asking for his opinion on the initial 53-man roster that the Colts released, identifies two specific position groups that he is really concerned about, and delve into the Keenan Allen arrest from over the weekend. Finally, will the Colts extend Quenton Nelson before the season starts? (41:05-53:13) – The voice of the Indiana Hoosiers, Don Fischer, joins Jake Query to preview the season opener for IU against North Texas on Saturday afternoon. Their conversation starts by discussing the quarterback IU will be facing, the unknown nature about North Texas with so many new faces, believes Indiana’s defensive line will be much better than last season, and identifies tight end as a position group that he’s got some questions about. Support the show: https://1075thefan.com/query-and-company/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

(00:00-26:01) – Query & Company opens on a Monday with Jake Query and producer Eddie Garrison discussing Keenan Allen’s arrest over the weekend and the Indianapolis Colts releasing their first 53-man roster yesterday. Jake also discusses whether the Colts will suspend Allen for his indiscretions and the major buzzword of “culture” in the sports. (26:01-41:50) – IndyStar’s Nathan Baird joins Jake Query on his way to West Lafayette to share the details on Trey Kaufman-Renn wanting a sixth-year of eligibility. Does he have a case? What are the odds that he could be playing for the Boilermakers this season? Plus, could Kaufman-Renn be the domino effect to more basketball players going to state courts going for another year of eligibility since the Big Ten is the only conference that hasn’t banned professional basketball players? (41:50-46:08) – Jake Query concludes the first hour of the show by sharing what David Letterman told him on Saturday about the passing of Dolly Parton, and that the show will be on the road on Friday! (46:08-1:15:54) – The Dean, Mike Chappell, from CBS4 & FOX59 makes his weekly appearance on Query & Company to talk all things Indianapolis Colts. Jake Query starts the conversation by asking for his opinion on the initial 53-man roster that the Colts released, identifies two specific position groups that he is really concerned about, and delve into the Keenan Allen arrest from over the weekend. Finally, will the Colts extend Quenton Nelson before the season starts? (1:15:54-1:24:17) – Jake Query recaps his experience being back in Milwaukee over the weekend, the city where he broadcasted his first non-Indy 500 race years ago. Jake discusses the hiccup in the nightcap race for David Malukas and Pato O’Ward winning both races and Alex Palou winning another series championship. (1:24:17-1:31:46) – The final hour of today’s show starts with Jake and Eddie discussing the attendance at USC’s first game of the season against San Jose State. (1:31:46-2:01:05) – Jake Query kicks off the final hour of the show by asking producer Eddie to share some of the latest sports news headlines since the show started. Then, Jake continues to discuss the situation the Indianapolis Colts are in right now with Keenan Allen following his arrest on Saturday night. (2:01:05-2:13:26) – The voice of the Indiana Hoosiers, Don Fischer, joins Jake Query to preview the season opener for IU against North Texas on Saturday afternoon. Their conversation starts by discussing the quarterback IU will be facing, the unknown nature about North Texas with so many new faces, believes Indiana’s defensive line will be much better than last season, and identifies tight end as a position group that he’s got some questions about. (2:13:26-2:15:38) – The show closes out with JMV joining Jake to preview his show!Support the show: https://1075thefan.com/query-and-company/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode of the Billy and Lisa show is a fun-filled ride, packed with talkbacks from listeners, hilarious discussions, and exciting updates on the latest events in Boston. From the chaos of Austin Christmas to the excitement of Bruno Mars' double play, this episode has it all.The hosts dive into the world of college students moving into the city, leaving behind their unwanted items on the side of the road. They share stories of people finding great deals on vintage furniture and other treasures, but also warn listeners about the risks of picking up items that may be infested with bedbugs. Meanwhile, they discuss the upcoming Heated Rivalry night at Fenway Park, where fans will get to experience a unique event with a dance floor and exclusive jerseys.The hosts also chat about the latest news, including a surprise wedding on a Southwest Airlines flight, a lioness and cub on the loose in Indiana, and a dog bringing a live armadillo into its home. They play a game of "real or fake" with their listeners, testing their knowledge of current events. Additionally, they discuss the upcoming Bruno Mars concert at Gillette Stadium and the chance to win tickets to the sold-out show.If you're looking for a fun and entertaining listen, this episode of the Billy and Lisa show is a must-listen. Tune in to hear more about the latest news, exciting events, and hilarious discussions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Clint and Dawson sit down with Beth Thomas. Beth grew up in Brownstown, a small town in southern Indiana. She went to IU undergrad, and IU school of Dentistry. She practiced dentistry for 14 years, during which time, her main hobby was training for long-distance triathlons. Not anticipating the dissolution of her business partnership, Beth opted for early retirement instead of starting a new dental practice. She sold everything she owned, invested it, and headed out on the road taking advantage of this unexpected freedom. One adventure simply led to the next. Beth's list of adventures are long and worldwide. This show we discuss her bikepacking trip through Patagonia down the famous The famous 700-mile gravel tour in South America referred to as the Carretera Austral (Route 7) in Chilean Patagonia. This legendary stretch of highway starts in Puerto Monttand winds south to Villa O'Higgins, taking cyclists through one of the most rugged, windswept, and pristine landscapes on earth. Sponsored by Mountain Viewview Auto group. Powered by: Mountain View Auto Dealers This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Send a Text Message. Please include your name and email so we can answer you! Please note, this does not subscribe you to our email list, it's just to answer if you have a questions for us. Hit a wall on your weight loss journey? That's not failure. We treat plateaus like something's broken. When the scale stalls, suddenly we're questioning everything: the medication, our metabolism, our willpower. But they're actually just your body doing exactly what it's supposed to do: adjusting, stabilizing, and catching its breath before it keeps going. In this episode, I break down how to tell a real stall from just needing more patience, why the number on the scale isn't the whole story, and the single most helpful thing you can do about it (no, it's not "try harder").If you're in that frustrating in-between right now, this one's for you!ReferencesSalud horchata electrolyte drinkEp. 183: Weight Loss Plateau or Treatment Problem? How to Tell the DifferenceSecure your spot for the September round of The 30/30 Program now (spaces limited).Get the free podcast roadmap for The Obesity GuideSubscribe to my Youtube channelAll of the information on this podcast is for general informational purposes only. Please talk to your physician and medical team about what is right for you. No medical advice is being on this podcast. If you live in Indiana or Illinois and want to work with doctor Matthea Rentea, you can find out more on www.RenteaClinic.com Not Sure Where to Start With the Podcast? I've Got You.Get my free Podcast Roadmap—a simple guide to help you find the episodes that matter most to your journey. Whether you're on GLP-1s, navigating plateaus, or just starting out, there's something here for you.Support the show

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Galen Clavio brings in Brooks White and Andrew Garrison from Hoosier Network for a student-media preview of the 2026 Indiana football season, with the Hoosiers just days away from opening against North Texas.The episode starts with the final week of preseason buildup: Back Home Network's ongoing positional previews, upcoming appearances from Rhett Lewis and Grace Ybarra, the C3 Bloomington Tailgate Bash at Renwick Village Center, and the sense that Bloomington is fully shifting into football mode.Once Brooks and Andrew join, the focus turns to what they have seen from Indiana through Big Ten Media Days, fall camp, and player availability. Andrew describes the program as almost “robotic,” but in the most complimentary way possible: consistent, disciplined, and so process-driven that there has not been much drama to react to. A major theme is the difference between last year's surprise and this year's expectation. Nobody went into 2025 assuming Indiana was about to go 16-0, win the Big Ten, and claim a national title. Now, the Hoosiers are trying to defend that level while integrating new stars, new transfers, and new pressure. Galen, Brooks, and Andrew talk about whether this team still has the same edge and whether the program's culture under Curt Cignetti can keep everything pointed in the right direction.The player discussion starts with possible breakout names. Davion Chandler comes up as a receiver who may not be top-of-mind behind Charlie Becker, Nick Marsh, and Tyler Morris, but who has speed and explosiveness that could give Indiana another useful weapon. The group also spends time on the running backs, where Turbo Richard, Khobie Martin, and Lee Beebe Jr. give IU a deep and intriguing room behind what should be one of the better offensive lines in the Big Ten.The longest football segment centers on Josh Hoover. Brooks pushes back hard against the idea that Hoover was the reason TCU struggled, arguing that the context around him matters: offensive line issues, defensive problems, a heavy burden in the passing game, and a very different situation from the one he inherits in Bloomington. Galen adds that TCU's Week Zero offensive struggles only made the old Hoover criticism look shakier. The defensive discussion focuses on the secondary. With D'Angelo Ponds gone, Indiana needs answers from players like A.J. Harris, Jamari Sharpe, and Ryland Gandy. Brooks sees cornerback as the defensive position group to watch early, especially because the biggest tests may not arrive until later against teams like Ohio State, USC, and Washington. Galen also points out that Bryant Haines' pass rush, pressure looks, and disguised coverages were a huge part of what made Indiana's defense work last year — and could help the secondary grow into the season.The back half of the episode is about student energy. Andrew talks about campus feeling anticipatory, with students discussing which games they were able to get tickets for and how quickly football became part of the conversation during welcome week. Brooks reflects on arriving at IU before the rise and wishing the school simply had a good football team — only to watch the program become a national champion and turn Memorial Stadium into a real home-field environment.The episode closes with predictions. Andrew goes all the way to 16-0 and another national championship, leaning into the idea that Indiana is still operating as a team of destiny until proven otherwise. Brooks predicts a 12-0 regular season, a College Football Playoff run, and believes Indiana is at least good enough to reach the semifinals. The group also debates a possible Indiana-Ohio State rematch in the Big Ten Championship, whether Oregon or Penn State could complicate the race, and why the Big Ten's top teams may once again define the national title chase.

Ralph Russo, formerly of the Associated Press and now at The Athletic, researched how many teams from the preseason AP Top 25 would have made the College Football Playoff in each of the 10 years before the playoff expanded in 2024. Here's what he found. On average, the CFP field would have consisted of: 4 of the top-5 teams in the preseason AP Poll2 of the teams ranked from 6-10 in the preseason AP Poll2 of the teams ranked from 11-20 in the preseason AP Poll1 of the teams ranked from 21-25 in the preseason AP Poll3 teams not ranked at all in the preseason AP PollTony Gerdeman of BuckeyeInsiders.com joins host Tom Orr to use these guidelines to pick the 2026 College Football Playoff field, and they come up with some very different answers. Want to try your hand at it? The categories are listed below.AP Preseason Top 5 (Pick 4 of these): Ohio State, Georgia, Oregon, Notre Dame, Texas AP Preseason 6-10 (Pick 2 of these): Indiana, Miami, Texas A&M, Ole Miss, Oklahoma AP Preseason 11-20 (Pick 2 of these): LSU, Texas Tech, Alabama, BYU, USC, Michigan, Washington, Penn State, SMU, Tennessee AP Preseason 21-25 (Pick 1 of these): Utah, Iowa, Houston, Louisville, Missouri Unranked in the preseason AP Poll (pick 3 teams not listed above)

Michael Antonovich interviews the top riders from five motos Saturday at the Ironman Motocross in Indiana. Hunter Lawrence, Lachlan Turner and Cole Davies hoisted the No. 1 trophies in their respective divisions. Antonovich got the chance to speak to the top finishers, including Julien Beaumer, Jorge Prado and others. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Danny Polise, Founder and Master Blender of Penelope Bourbon, joins Jake Lewellen and Scott Dilley for a long-overdue Bourbon Lens catch-up — five years after his last appearance on the show. In this episode, Danny walks through how Penelope Bourbon has grown from a three-product lineup into a full portfolio spanning the Cooper Series finishes, light whiskey single barrel picks, ready-to-pour cocktails, and the brand-new Kentucky-made Classic Series.The crew talks through Penelope's expansion since the MGP Luxco acquisition, why the light whiskey releases took off with drinkers, and how ready-to-pour flavors like Apple Cinnamon, Peach, Black Walnut, and Blackberry fit different seasons and serving styles. Danny then unveils the Classic Series — a straight Kentucky bourbon and a straight rye (built from Indiana 95.5 and 51.49 rye stock) aimed at everyday drinkability at accessible price points. Jake and Scott give their first taste impressions of both 92-proof expressions, breaking down notes of citrus, orange candy, vanilla, and light herbal spice in the rye.The conversation wraps with a deep dive into Danny's blending process, how he moves through inventory faster today, and how Penelope balances consistency with experimentation across its barrel and tank combinations — plus a look at how the Architect Series became the golf-themed Golf Series concept.⏱️ EPISODE CHAPTERS00:00 – Reintroducing Danny Polise after five years01:56 – Cooper Series & the MGP Luxco acquisition04:43 – Why Penelope's light whiskey took off09:01 – Tasting through the full lineup11:25 – Ready-to-pour cocktails & seasonal flavors16:00 – Barrel experimentation & smoked Old Fashioneds17:13 – Introducing the Kentucky Classic Series20:31 – Building the rye blend & sourcing Kentucky barrels25:19 – Danny's evolved blending process30:17 – From Architect Series to the Golf Series36:55 – Tasting notes: Classic Series bourbon & rye41:46 – Wrap-up and see you next time

2024 Olympian and recent Pan Pacs silver medalist in the 200 Breast Josh Matheny has announced he's leaving Indiana University in search of a new training home. In June, after having a rough first season as a pro swimmer and not performing how he'd hoped at the Pro Swim in Indianapolis, Matheny decided he needed a change. He asked USA Swimming National Team Director Greg Meehan if he could train at the Olympic Training Center until Pan Pacs, to which Meehan agreed. After discussing this change with Indiana coach Ray Looze as well, Matheny spent his last 6 weeks of summer preparing for Pan Pacs in Colorado Springs. In Irvine at Pan Pacs, Matheny neared his best time in the 100 breast, 59.2, making the final and ultimately finishing 4th, and set a PB in the 200 Breast at 2:08.2, earning silver. In the coming weeks, Matheny will talk with numerous teams throughout the country and hopes to find a good training fit for the next two years in the lead up to LA2028.

Indiana football is less than a week from beginning its 2026 season, and CrimsonCast is back with a full game-by-game preview of the reigning national champion Hoosiers under Curt Cignetti.Galen Clavio and Scott Caulfield look at where IU fits in the national college football conversation after a 16-0 championship season, why some analysts still seem reluctant to fully buy into the Hoosiers, and what Indiana has to do this year to erase any remaining “fluke” narrative. They discuss the program's player-led culture, the challenge of repeating, the historical rarity of back-to-back national championships, and why Josh Hoover may give Indiana a different but potentially even more explosive offensive ceiling after Fernando Mendoza.Then the show turns into a full schedule breakdown: North Texas, Howard, Western Kentucky, Northwestern, Rutgers, Nebraska, Ohio State, Michigan, Minnesota, USC, Washington, and Purdue. Galen and Scott talk through trap spots, road-game concerns, Memorial Stadium atmospheres, the massive Ohio State rematch, the historical weight of trying to win at Michigan, USC and Washington as late-season tests, and the Old Oaken Bucket finale.The episode closes with season predictions, Big Ten championship scenarios, College Football Playoff expectations, and why both hosts land on 11-1 for Indiana — with a possible Big Ten title game rematch against Ohio State still very much on the board.Subscribe to the Back Home Network for more CrimsonCast coverage of Indiana football, IU athletics, Curt Cignetti, the Hoosiers, Big Ten football, and the 2026 college football season.

Indiana football is trying to do something almost impossible: follow up a 16-0 national championship season by proving the program is not a one-year miracle. In Part 2 of CrimsonCast's 2026 season preview, Galen Clavio and Scott Caulfield look beyond the schedule and dig into the biggest questions that will define Curt Cignetti's third Indiana team.The conversation starts with the most obvious question: what does Indiana have at quarterback after Fernando Mendoza? Galen and Scott compare Mendoza's extraordinary 2025 season to what Josh Hoover brings into the offense, asking whether Hoover needs to recreate Mendoza's late-game magic or whether he can make Indiana better in a different way. They also revisit how Cignetti and Mike Shanahan have already shown the ability to take strong quarterback play and build an even higher offensive ceiling.From there, the preview shifts into the deeper championship-repeat questions. Can Indiana maintain the same player-led culture after losing leaders like Mendoza, Elijah Sarratt, Omar Cooper Jr., Pat Coogan, Riley Nowakowski, and D'Angelo Ponds? How much of IU's rise was tied to the original James Madison transfer core, and how much is now embedded into the program itself? Galen and Scott look at three years of Cignetti transfer classes, coordinator continuity with Bryant Haines, Mike Shanahan, and Grant Cain, and the way IU keeps finding players who fit its system better than the recruiting rankings suggest.The second half tackles injury luck, depth, eligibility uncertainty around Stephen Daley and Kellen Wyatt, the difference between star-studded depth and functional depth, and why Indiana may be better prepared than national analysts assume. The episode closes with a bigger psychological question: can Indiana avoid the post-championship “disease of me” and keep the same self-policing, team-first culture that made last year's run possible?Subscribe to the Back Home Network for more CrimsonCast coverage of Indiana football, IU athletics, Curt Cignetti, the Hoosiers, Big Ten football, and the 2026 college football season.

This week the geeks continue awful august with awful august musicBeer for the Episode:Rogue's Berry Blonde and Honey KolscheSupport us:Patreon https://www.patreon.com/DrinkINGeekOUTExclusive DiGo T-Shirts https://drinkingeekout.threadless.com/Another Place for T-Shirts https://drinkingeekout.dashery.com/Alt https://www.teepublic.com/stores/drinkin-geekoutLinks:https://www.instagram.com/drinkingeekout/https://www.threads.net/@drinkingeekouthttps://www.tiktok.com/@drinkingeekouthttps://bsky.app/profile/drinkingeekout.bsky.socialhttps://www.x.com/drinkingeekouthttps://www.facebook.com/DrinkINgeekOut/https://www.drinkingeekout.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A family in Gary, Indiana, spent a winter reporting things in their rented house that a priest, a caseworker, and a police captain all ended up putting on the record without rational explanation.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/AmmonsREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2s3wxytmFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: From mysterious swarms of flies to terrifying levitations and violent attacks, the Ammons Family Haunting it's one of the most terrifying cases of demonic possession in recent history… allegedly. Believers and skeptics are still arguing over its authenticity. (The Demonic Haunting of the Ammons Family) *** In 1764, the peaceful region of Gévaudan, France, was plunged into terror by a series of brutal attacks attributed to a mysterious beast. As the creature's deadly rampage continued, whispers of a werewolf and sensational newspaper reports fueled a nationwide hysteria. Whatever the Beast of Gévaudan was, the true story still haunts the people living there. (The Terror of Gévaudan) *** In 1990, a horrifying mass shooting at the Las Cruces Bowl bowling alley left four people dead and three others wounded, including children. Despite multiple eyewitnesses and extensive investigations, the killers remain at large. (The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre) *** New York City, where ghostly apparitions and haunted landmarks abound. From the infamous Dakota building to the chilling tales of Washington Square Park, New York is one of the most haunted cities in the world. We'll look at just a few ghost locations in the Big Apple. (The Ghosts of New York) *** When William W. Place remarried, he hoped for a loving and stable household. However, his new wife, Martha, quickly showed her true colors, leading to tragic consequences. It's a tale of jealousy, violence, and ends with the first woman executed by electric chair in the U.S. (A Red Path of Jealousy) *** Imagine dancing non-stop for days, weeks, or even months, all for a chance to win food and money during the Great Depression. Dance marathons pushed contestants to their physical and mental limits, turning a simple competition into a shocking spectacle of endurance and desperation. (Till Death Do We Dance)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00.00.000 = The Foreboding00:01:34.321 = Show Open 00:04:28.827 = Demonic Haunting of the Ammons Family00:14:40.491 = The Red Path of Jealousy ***00:19:55.789 = The Ghosts of New York00:29:16.225 = The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre00:37:24.603 = Till Death Do We Dance ***00:41:28.746 = The Terror of Gévaudan00:49:00.354 = 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 Demonic Haunting of the Ammons Family” source: Brent Swancer at Mysterious Universe:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/msuzydn4“The Terror of Gévaudan” source: NatGeo: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yaxre4e8“The Ghosts of New York” source: Lyra Radford at Ranker: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yc5mfzsr“A Red Path of Jealousy” source: Robert Wilhelm at Murder By Gaslight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/nmeb5m9w“The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre” source: Jacob Shelton at Ranker: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckmm22z“Till Death Do We Dance” source: Oddity Central: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/57khdpxv(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: May 20, 2024LIKE WHAT YOU'RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL

Put Dolly name on it. Gavin Newsome going south. No... Kamala. Milo Yiannopoulos British commentator, detained by ICE. Lioness and her cub on the loose in central Indiana turned out to be a false alarm. Trump looks to ease beef processing regulation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Live today at Affirmed Roofing: Jack Pilgrim stops by and talks basketball, lion and cub on the loose in Madison County, Indiana, what's the biggest you could fight? Could Kentucky have a Heisman player this season?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today is our annual Three Guarantees Show. We want your three boldest predictions for the upcoming season. Do any of these make your list? Alabama Crimson Tide wins the National Championship Keelon Russell wins the Heisman. Auburn Tigers Win the SEC Byrum Brown Sets the Auburn Passing Record LSU Tigers Fail Under Lane Kiffin Georgia Bulldogs are a Thing of the Past Texas Finally Gets is Done Texas A&M Finds a Trophy On the Alexander Shunnarah Hotline: 11:30 - Brooks Austin #CollegeFootball #CollegeFootball2026 #CFB #SEC #SECfootball #CFP #CollegeFootballPlayoff #AlabamaFootball #RollTide #AuburnFootball #WarEagle #LSUFootball #GeauxTigers #GeorgiaFootball #GoDawgs #TexasFootball #HookEm #CFBPredictions #TheNextRound SUBSCRIBE: @NextRoundLive - youtube.com/@nextroundlive @TNRClips - youtube.com/@TNRClips FOLLOW TNR ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7zlofzLZht7dYxjNcBNpWN FOLLOW TNR ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-round/id1797862560 WEBSITE: https://nextroundlive.com/ MOBILE APP: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-next-round/id1580807480 SHOP THE NEXT ROUND STORE: https://nextround.store/ Like TNR on Facebook: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Twitter: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Instagram: / nextroundlive Follow everyone from the show on Twitter: Jim Dunaway: / jimdunaway Ryan Brown: / ryanbrownlive Lance Taylor: / thelancetaylor Scott Forester: / scottforestertv Tyler Johns: /TylerJohnsTNR Brooks Carter: /BrooksACarter Sponsor the show: sales@nextroundlive.com 00:00 The Next Round 00:05:00 40-in-40 countdown: #1 Ohio State 00:24:00 bold predictions for the college football season 00:32:00 "The Film Guy" Brooks Austin 00:56:30 4 Downs 01:05:40 more bold predictions for the college football season 01:32:20 viewing menu 01:49:20 changes to the college football calendar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 1018 features Driftglass in conversation with Dr. Cinde Wirth, the Democrat running to flip Indiana's 6th Congressional District. A seventh-generation Bartholomew County Hoosier, high school science teacher, and first-generation college graduate with a Ph.D. in cultural and educational policy, Wirth brings an unusual résumé to the race — including a stint as a congressional fellow writing science and education policy.  The conversation covers what drove her to run for office, her priorities around working families, public education, healthcare access, and the environment, and what it takes to flip a seat in deep-red Indiana. It's a chance to hear directly from a candidate who says Hoosiers are worth the fight.Her website:  Wirth For Congress: https://wirth4congress.com/Stay in Touch! Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.com Website: proleftpod.com Support via Patreon: patreon.com/proleftpod or Donate in the Venmo App @proleftpodMail: The Professional Left, PO Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791Support the show

Barstool Sports' Brandon Walker tells guest host Bobby Bones why Texas A&M is overrated and defending champion Indiana is underrated in the AP Preseason poll, discuss Alabama's tenuous hold on being one of CFB's “elite” programs, Lane Kiffin stirring things up in the SEC with his move from Ole Miss to LSU, Bill Belichick's disastrous first season at UNC, if Lincoln Riley can finally take USC back to being legit title contenders, his pick to win the national championship, and more.   New Arkansas Head Football Coach Ryan Silverfield and Bobby discuss his move from Memphis  to the SEC and his goal of turning the Razorbacks into consistent contenders, and more. Bobby and longtime caller Terzo in Iowa preview the 49ers 2026 season outlook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today was a weird one! Klein is outta town, but weirdly you still heard him at least half the time on today's show. We know times like this can be confusing and disorienting. Deal with it, sugar tits! Klein is likely in Idaho, Iowa or Indiana. We're not sure and neither is he, but one thing he knows: Sidney Sweeney is likely staying in the same complex. Will he make her horribly uncomfortable by staring at her with his murder eyes from across the pool? We'll find out when he gets back on Monday! We still covered a lot on today's show. A new Box Of Shame where Ally let the elevator doors close on a handicapped person, Klein embarrassing himself (again) when one of his D Pics showed up on his family digital calendar. We also learned Johnny has no idea what a Peninsula is but DOES know where Dagestan is, and we talked to a Wildlife expert about the many animals infiltrating our neighborhoods due to the never-ending heatwaves.

This Flashback Friday is from episode 331 published last August 7, 2013. Meredith Whitney is the founder of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group and author of, "FATE OF THE STATES: The New Geography of American Prosperity." Whitney believes "interior" states like North Dakota, Indiana and Texas are doing a lot better than "coastal" states like California, New York and Florida. She thinks the coastal states continue to struggle long after the recession, while the middle of the country will continue to thrive.  Keeping these in mind, she discusses the outlook for the following areas:  - Housing prices  - Jobs - Quality of schools  - Transportation  She also shares her advice to help troubled municipal and state governments. Visit the Meredith Whitney Advisory Group at www.meredithwhitneyllc.com.   EmpoweredInvestor.com/Wednesday PropertyTracker.com   _______________________________________________________________   Follow Jason on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM & LINKEDIN Twitter.com/JasonHartmanROI Instagram.com/jasonhartman1/ Linkedin.com/in/jasonhartmaninvestor/ Call our Investment Counselors at: 1-800-HARTMAN (US) or visit: https://empoweredinvestor.com/ Free Class:  Easily get up to $250,000 in funding for real estate, business or anything else: https://empoweredinvestor.com/Fund CYA Protect Your Assets, Save Taxes & Estate Planning: https://empoweredinvestor.com/Protect Get wholesale real estate deals for investment or build a great business – Free Course: https://empoweredinvestor.com/deals Special Offer from Ron LeGrand: https://empoweredinvestor.com/Ron Free Mini-Book on Pandemic Investing: https://www.PandemicInvesting.com  

Roger Goodell undercuts Bears' messaging on Indiana stadium bonus 325 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:58:41 +0000 XKGeBDCrEeOyvDhaaAqNsFEFakUudIoc sports Spiegel & Holmes Show sports Roger Goodell undercuts Bears' messaging on Indiana stadium Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes bring you Chicago sports talk with great opinions, guests and fun. Join Spiegel and Holmes as they discuss the Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs and White Sox and delve into the biggest sports storylines of the day. Recurring guests include former Bears coach Dave Wannstedt, former Bears center Olin Kreutz, Cubs manager Craig Counsell, Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner and MLB Network personality Jon Morosi. Catch the show live Monday through Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. CT on 104.3 The Score, the exclusive audio home of the Cubs and the Bulls, or on the Audacy app. © 2026 Audacy, Inc. Sports https://player.amperwavepodcasting.

On this episode, Alex Bozich is joined by Ian Plaskoff to wrap up IU football's fall camp and look ahead to the start of the 2026 season.Support Inside the Hall and Podcast on the Brink with a donation: https://www.insidethehall.com/recommends/donate-to-inside-the-hall/ Subscribe to Peacock to watch Indiana men's and women's basketball: https://www.insidethehall.com/recommends/peacock (affiliate link) Subscribe to B1G+ to watch Indiana men's and women's basketball: https://www.insidethehall.com/recommends/big-ten-plus/ (affiliate link) Buy IU basketball tickets at Vivid Seats: https://www.insidethehall.com/recommends/vivid-seats (affiliate link)

Royce and Leise Winny kick off with a jam-packed check-in covering everything from the latest Disney and NFL apparel collaboration, AI engines giving openly biased advice, and Target pulling an offensive clown costume off the shelves, to looming economic anxiety, a week-long power crisis in Gary, Indiana, and an alarming rise in hate crimes across the country. They also unpack the political ripples of Hakeem Jeffries meeting with Jared Kushner and the online viral storm after an alleged racist group chat tied to Texas Roadhouse went public. From there, Royce takes the floor to examine how the modern attention economy is colonizing the WNBA, questioning who people are actually claiming to protect women's sports from while drawing some wild, hilarious dots across sports media. Leise then steps up to urge people to stop making excuses and say the quiet part out loud about voting motivations and systemic white supremacy. To round it out, Royce exposes the everyday "racial escape hatches" people lean on—from "I don't see color" to "it's not about race"—showing how modern society has somehow made the simple act of discussing race feel more offensive than the racial harm itself.Here is the full breakdown of topics the crew dives into this week:Opening welcome: Locking in the energy and setting the tone for the week.NFL x Disney Collaboration: Reacting to the new league-wide character apparel drops.AI's Racial Bias: What happens when AI tools spit out openly racist advice?The Target Costume Controversy: Dissecting the backlash that forced Target to pull their Halloween merchandise.US Economic D-Day: Breaking down the latest financial anxieties and shifting market pressures.Power Outage in Gary, IN: Addressing the humanitarian fallout of an entire city left in the dark for over a week.Spike in Hate Crimes: Confronting the disturbing rise in public violence and hangings of Black people across the US.Hakeem Meets Jared: Analyzing the political optics and quiet backroom meetings between Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner.Texas Roadhouse Exposed: Unpacking the internet investigation into the alleged racist employee group chats.WNBA Colonized by the Attention Economy: Who are we really protecting women's sports from, and has the outrage cycle overtaken the game?Dot Connector: Connecting the bizarre cultural dots between Enes Kanter, viral stunts, and sports media spectacles.Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Challenging the narrative around recent political choices and confronting the reality of white supremacy at the ballot box.The Racial Escape Hatches: Breaking down cliché deflections like "I don't see color," "green or purple," and why addressing race makes people uncomfortable.Outro & Sign-Off: Final takeaways, closing remarks, and wrap-up.

•Tom Said Featured But Your Face Says Frustrated •The Feature Pressure Is TOO HOT!! •Hear Too And A Fourth With •Her Tattoos' Approximate Proximity To Tits •Charged w/ 2nd Degree Pissing While Hot •Gary, Indiana's Black On Black Crime •$$ Heroes For Hire $$ •Toolmakers Are The Real Unsung Heroes •At Least You're Not An Oil Technician •OSHA: Maybe Helping Employers Keep Employees Not Dead-Ish •The Curious Case Of @mrchildporn •Anthony's Literal Metric Ton Of Porno •The Weight Of One Gigabyte •Becky Boob Job, Reporting For Duty! …And Much More!     Support Us on Patreon Get access to bonus episodes every week, ad free episodes, and join us on our weekly after show chats. https://www.patreon.com/WhosRight Watch us Live Tuesday (Bonus Episodes) and Wednesday on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/WhosRightPodcast Our website - https://whosrightpodcast.com/ For superchat sounds, send them over to Doug at doug.whosrightpodcast@gmail.com with "superchat" in the subject line Submit Dear Flabby Questions - https://whosrightpodcast.com/dearflabby/ Don't miss any updates or content. Find all our social media links located in our Linktree: http://linktr.ee/whosrightpodcast Link to our Discord - https://discord.gg/5jkc6NfAW8 Doug's Substack - https://mindofdorg.substack.com/ Deputy Butterbean's Playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4BgFV8Gik4pDL4HNiygudW?si=VUiKTlOIRuO7-JtZ5pjJ1Q&pi=0uChhaL3Stq-0 The infamous Beastie Boys episode - https://beastieboysepisode.com/ Fat Back Daddies on YouTube - www.youtube.com/@fatbackdaddies

(00:00-26:39) – Query & Company kicks off on a Football Friday with Jake Query and producer Eddie Garrison discussing the preseason finale for the Indianapolis Colts tomorrow against the Detroit Lions. They zero in on the Anthony Richardson aspect to the game with it being another opportunity for him to solidify himself as the QB2 for the Colts. They debate why the Colts should, or shouldn’t, have special packages in place for the former fourth overall pick. (26:15-42:00) – IndyStar’s Kyle Neddenriep joins Jake Query to preview week two of the high school football slate by highlighting some games from last week that stood out to him. Jake Query asks him about how deep Class 6A is this year, Kevin Wright turning around Carmel and making them one of the best teams in the state, the start of the Brett Cooper era at Ben Davis, and previews some of the games that he will be keeping his eyes on tonight. (42:00-45:20) – Jake Query concludes the first hour of the show by starting a discussion about who could be this year’s Indiana in college football. (48:31-1:10:52) – Hour number two of Query & Company starts with Jake and Eddie trying to understand why it is called week zero this weekend in college football and how a team can play twice within the first official week of college football. Jake also lists the teams that were labeled as the next Indiana on ESPN. (1:13:16-1:21:59) – Every Friday on Query & Company is a Football Friday, but Jake also shares a feel-good story every Friday sponsored by Franciscan Health. For today’s story, Jake shares the journey of a student-athlete at Carmel that is making his return to the football field after overcoming some adversity in his life at a young age. (1:21:59-1:28:08) – The final hour of today’s show starts with Jake weighing on Alec Pierce’s potential availability for week one against the Baltimore Ravens in two weeks from Sunday. (1:33:31-1:52:13) – The Fan Morning Show’s Kevin Bowen joins Jake Query on a Football Friday to discuss the latest happenings with the Indianapolis Colts. Their conversation starts by highlighting how their hasn’t been a season ending injury during training camp. Kevin admits that it is his understanding that Alec Pierce will be out there week one and he is surprised that Kenny Moore II has not signed anywhere yet. Lastly, Jake asks Kevin for his opinion on the QB2 & kicker battle. (1:52:13-2:02:55) – Mike Niziolek from the Bloomington Herald-Times joins Query & Company to give his understanding and thoughts on the eligibility drama from earlier this week. Jake asks Mike where he believes the Hoosiers will be better this year than they were last year, whether we know how different the offense will look with Josh Hoover as the team’s quarterback compared to Fernando Mendoza, and states that Curt Cignetti has not changed much coming off the national championship. (2:02:55-2:09:27) – The show closes out with JMV joining Jake to preview his show!Support the show: https://1075thefan.com/query-and-company/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

FEMA approved 21 Indiana counties for individual assistance by the recent flooding. Plus, LIONS ON THE LOOSE?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Cheat Sheet is The Murder Sheet's segment breaking down weekly news and updates in some of the murder cases we cover. Today, we will cover stories out of Ireland, Indiana, Montana, and Wisconsin. RTÉ's report on the documentary on the death of Kelly Marie Lynch: https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0706/1582041-behind-the-story-what-happened-to-kelly-marie-lynch/RTÉ's report on the death of Kelly Marie Lynch: https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2026/0416/1568664-independent-pathologist-questions-findings-in-kelly-lynch-death/CBS News's report on the murders of the Smith, Ireland, and Ghekiere families: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/montana-family-killed-girl-hero-details-emerge/Fox 6 Now's report on an elderly woman's inadvertent foiling of scammers: https://www.fox6now.com/news/wisconsin-woman-stops-gift-card-scammersCheck out our upcoming book events and get links to buy tickets here: https://murdersheetpodcast.com/eventsPre-order our book on Delphi here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/shadow-of-the-bridge-the-delphi-murders-and-the-dark-side-of-the-american-heartland-aine-cain/21866881?ean=9781639369232Or here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Shadow-of-the-Bridge/Aine-Cain/9781639369232Or here: https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Bridge-Murders-American-Heartland/dp/1639369236Join our Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/c/murdersheetSupport The Murder Sheet by buying a t-shirt here: https://www.murdersheetshop.com/Check out more inclusive sizing and t-shirt and merchandising options here: https://themurdersheet.dashery.com/Send tips to murdersheet@gmail.com.The Murder Sheet is a production of Mystery Sheet LLC.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain - who is at Circa in Las Vegas - talk about gambling and NFL odds with Dick in Vegas, then Rick Neuheisel joins the show discussing player eligibility rules, the 2026 Huskies, USC and Indiana, the future of the Apple Cup, Arch Manning and more, then the guys react to some Fun with Audio sound.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

00:00 – 22:24 – John opens the show live from Mucky Duck and announces the giveaways he has for the Colts game tomorrow. He also previews the Football Friday show, including how now the expectations are high for Alec Pierce now that he has returned from his injury. Plus, how important it is for the Fever to take care of business tonight, there might be week 1 tickets to give away at Mucky Duck, an update on the lions that are rumored to be loose in Indiana. 22:24– 39:52 – The host of the history making, legendary Indiana Sports Talk, Bob Lovell, joins the show. They review week 1 of the high school football season before diving into the Westfield vs. Carmel matchup and the job Josh Miracle has done at the helm for the Shamrocks. JMV shouts out his Eastern Greene team before the Roncalli Royals bounceback opportunity tonight against Franklin Central. 39:52 – 44:16 – JMV gives away a pair of tickets to the Colts game tomorrow and a Ride with JMV YETI. 44:16 - 1:05:34 – Making his weekly Friday 4 o’clock appearance, Joel A. Erickson of the Indianapolis Star joins the show. What does he expect to see tomorrow, how big is the game tomorrow on the kicking battle, how dire is the pass rush situation and will Caden Curry make the team? Plus, what surprises will we see when roster cut downs begin? 1:05:34 – 1:21:36 – Chris Hagan of CBS4/FOX59 joins JMV and Pat Sullivan on location at Mucky Duck’s. John recaps his “I didn’t know I was on the air” moment from Wednesday, Pat is pledging money for flood relief victims Saturday, P1 listener Fulton breaks the news that he has a girlfriend and reveals what his favorite Dolly Parton song is, which leads to a discussion on her life. 1:21:36 – 1:28:39 –. JMV wraps up the second hour of the show! 1:28:39 – 1:53:16 – The voice of the Hoosiers, Don Fischer, has a documentary premiering this evening on WTIU. He saw a screening of the documentary and comments on all the hard work that went into it. Plus, John references his conversation to a Raiders reporter yesterday on Fernando Mendoza and asks how Josh Hoover compares. Chris Hagan asks how the roster still fits, Tayven Jackson starting against IU and more. 1:53:16 – 2:02:26 – Chris and JMV pick some more winners out at Mucky Duck before Hagan gives his take on the Fever and their long layoff coming up. 2:02:26 – 2:06:05 – John and Chris preview the weekend of sports ahead and the Colts game tomorrow afternoon.Support the show: https://1075thefan.com/the-ride-with-jmv/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

State Hate, a lion on the loose in Indiana, Case's review of 'Nine to Five', and more! Chicago’s best morning radio show now has a podcast! Don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and remember that the conversation always lives on the Q101 Facebook page. Brian & Kenzie are live every morning from 6a-10a on Q101. Subscribe to our channel HERE: https://www.youtube.com/@Q101 Like Q101 on Facebook HERE: https://www.facebook.com/q101chicago Follow Q101 on Twitter HERE: https://twitter.com/Q101Chicago Follow Q101 on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/q101chicago/?hl=en Follow Q101 on TikTok HERE: https://www.tiktok.com/@q101chicago?lang=enSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Things just keep getting worse for the Hoosier state. Chicago’s best morning radio show now has a podcast! Don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and remember that the conversation always lives on the Q101 Facebook page. Brian & Kenzie are live every morning from 6a-10a on Q101. Subscribe to our channel HERE: https://www.youtube.com/@Q101 Like Q101 on Facebook HERE: https://www.facebook.com/q101chicago Follow Q101 on Twitter HERE: https://twitter.com/Q101Chicago Follow Q101 on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/q101chicago/?hl=en Follow Q101 on TikTok HERE: https://www.tiktok.com/@q101chicago?lang=enSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Things are not getting better for the Hoosier state. Chicago’s best morning radio show now has a podcast! Don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and remember that the conversation always lives on the Q101 Facebook page. Brian & Kenzie are live every morning from 6a-10a on Q101. Subscribe to our channel HERE: https://www.youtube.com/@Q101 Like Q101 on Facebook HERE: https://www.facebook.com/q101chicago Follow Q101 on Twitter HERE: https://twitter.com/Q101Chicago Follow Q101 on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/q101chicago/?hl=en Follow Q101 on TikTok HERE: https://www.tiktok.com/@q101chicago?lang=enSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

College football is back, and Scott and James are finishing up the CrimsonCASH Big Ten season win total preview with Part 2. There's plenty of value on the board — and James isn't backing down from a huge prediction for the defending champs: Indiana goes 12-0.The guys work through the remaining Big Ten win totals, breaking down schedules, potential trap games and where the best over/under bets might be hiding.

Galen Clavio and Chris Williams return for Part 2 of CrimsonCast's deep dive into Indiana football history, picking up after the 1967 Rose Bowl season and carrying the story all the way through the modern Curt Cignetti era.The conversation starts with the aftermath of Indiana's Rose Bowl appearance. The 1968 season had optimism, a national ranking, and real expectations, but the Hoosiers could not quite recreate the magic of 1967. From there, Galen and Chris move into the Lee Corso years, including the showmanship, the Holiday Bowl breakthrough, the famous double-decker bus entrance, and the strange question of why even IU's best moments so often failed to become sustained momentum.The heart of the episode is the Bill Mallory era, still one of the most important periods in the history of IU football. They discuss the flying Indiana logo, Mallory's credibility, the 1987 team that came close to a Rose Bowl, the Peach Bowl, Anthony Thompson's Heisman disappointment, Vaughn Dunbar, Trent Green, and the gradual decline that followed the early 1990s.From there, the episode moves through some of the hardest modern stretches of Indiana football: Cam Cameron, the black-uniform experiment, Antwaan Randle El, Gerry DiNardo, collapsing attendance, administrative uncertainty, and the feeling that Memorial Stadium had become a ghost town. Galen and Chris then revisit the emotional hope of Terry Hoeppner, the Play 13 season, James Hardy, and the 2007 bowl breakthrough before moving into Bill Lynch, Kevin Wilson, and the facility investments that started to modernize the program.The final third connects the dots from Fred Glass to Tom Allen to Cignetti. Wilson helped make Indiana more respectable, Allen delivered the 2019 breakthrough and the strange 2020 peak, but the collapse that followed made the program feel stuck again. That is what makes the Cignetti era so historically absurd: within less than three years, Indiana went from a moribund Big Ten program to an 11-win team, then to a 16-0 national champion, and then to a preseason top-10 program that some national voices still think is underrated.The closing message is simple: longtime IU football fans should not let this become normal. The history covered in this two-part series shows just how rare this moment is — not just for Indiana, but for college football as a whole.

Indiana football is eight days away, but IU athletics is already rolling. The Bison Briefing checks in on Indiana men's soccer, IU volleyball, fall camp questions, eligibility uncertainty, and the final countdown to the Hoosiers' 2026 football opener.Galen Clavio opens with the energy around the Back Home Network heading into football season, including a clip from Scott Dolson on Indiana's national championship run and what it felt like seeing IU fans flood the Rose Bowl. From there, the show turns to Indiana men's soccer, which moved to 3-0 after a dominant but tense 1-0 win over Butler, with Collins Oduro and Stephane Njike making their season debuts.The episode also previews IU volleyball's season opener against Creighton, revisits the ongoing eligibility questions around Stephen Daley, Kellen Wyatt, Avry Tatum, and Sam Alexis, and looks at key football notes from fall camp, including Tyler Morris at punt returner and the defensive backfield battle involving A.J. Harris, Ryland Gandy, and Jamari Sharpe. Plus: IU-Ohio State rivalry-name ideas, upcoming CrimsonCast programming, the C-Three live show, and a few Bloomington restaurant recommendations.Subscribe to the Back Home Network for more Bison Briefing, CrimsonCast, Indiana football, IU soccer, IU volleyball, Curt Cignetti, and Hoosiers coverage all season long.

Put Dolly name on it. Gavin Newsome going south. No... Kamala. Milo Yiannopoulos British commentator, detained by ICE. Lioness and her cub on the loose in central Indiana turned out to be a false alarm. Trump looks to ease beef processing regulation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Put Dolly name on it. Gavin Newsome going south. No... Kamala. Milo Yiannopoulos British commentator, detained by ICE. Lioness and her cub on the loose in central Indiana turned out to be a false alarm. Trump looks to ease beef processing regulation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Put Dolly name on it. Gavin Newsome going south. No... Kamala. Milo Yiannopoulos British commentator, detained by ICE. Lioness and her cub on the loose in central Indiana turned out to be a false alarm. Trump looks to ease beef processing regulation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Donald Trump signs order changing Lake Ontario's US name to Lake America. Most admire republican poll. Lions on the loose in Indiana. Police pursuit ends in Sylacauga crash.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Donald Trump signs order changing Lake Ontario's US name to Lake America. Most admire republican poll. Lions on the loose in Indiana. Police pursuit ends in Sylacauga crash.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I am Rolf Claessen and my co-host Ken Suzan and I are welcoming you to episode 178 of our podcast IP Fridays! Today's interview guest is Caitlin Byczko, who is partner with Marnes & Thornburg in their IP team. Ken is discussing dupe culture with her. Here is the profile of Caitlin Byczko https://btlaw.com/en/people/caitlin-byczko But before we launch into this very interesting interview, I have some news for you: On August 10th, 2026, Navitas Semiconductor filed suit against Renesas Electronics in the Eastern District of Texas, accusing Renesas of infringing four US patents on gallium nitride semiconductor technology through its SuperGaN product lines. The filing follows a countersuit Renesas brought on July 22nd, 2026, accusing Navitas and two of its employees of misappropriating trade secrets. It shows how patent disputes and trade secret claims between competitors are increasingly being fought on multiple fronts at once, and often as tit for tat. It also emerged on August 12th, 2026, that an EPO Board of Appeal had dismissed an appeal by Atlas Global Technologies and ruled that its WiFi patent, EP 3 353 901, case T 1230/25, could not be maintained in any form at all, even though the original opponents, TP-Link and Vantiva, had already withdrawn their oppositions. That knocked out the basis for several parallel infringement suits at the Unified Patent Court, which were then withdrawn. For suppliers and implementers, the takeaway is that fighting a patent held by a non-practising entity can still be worth it, even once the original opponent has thrown in the towel. On August 10th, 2026, the Unified Patent Court in The Hague fully revoked Maxell’s patent EP 2 061 230, covering technology for handing off content to a second device, and at the same time dismissed Maxell’s infringement claim against several Samsung entities, in cases UPC_CFI_251/2025 and UPC_CFI_769/2025. The judges found the patent to be nothing more than an obvious combination of routine adaptations, with no additional technical effect. And now – let's hear the interview with Ken and Caitlin! A dupe used to be a quiet, slow thing. You’d stand in the cereal aisle, notice the generic box next to the name brand, buy it, tell a friend. Word spread over months. That world is gone. On this episode of IP Fridays, Ken Suzan sat down with Caitlin Byczko, partner at Barnes & Thornburg LLP in Indianapolis, to talk about what’s replaced it: a TikTok-driven economy where a single video can sell out a dupe product within hours, sometimes before the original brand’s own team even knows it exists. Byczko litigates and prosecutes trademarks across retail, fashion, luxury goods, technology, and pharmaceuticals, and she’s watched dupe culture evolve from a marketing footnote into one of the more active battlegrounds in trademark law. Here’s what she told us, and why it matters even if your brand has never heard the word “dupe” used about it. Counterfeit and Dupe Are Not the Same Thing, Legally Byczko opened with what she called the most important distinction in this entire conversation: the difference between a counterfeit and a dupe. A counterfeit uses someone else’s actual trademark. Think of a fake Chanel bag stamped with the interlocking C’s, or a fake Louis Vuitton logo. That’s straightforward infringement, and above certain thresholds, a federal crime. A dupe is different. It mimics the look, feel, or performance of a product without using the name or the logo at all. Elf Cosmetics, Zara, Costco’s Kirkland brand, and Quince have all built parts of their business on exactly this model. No one is pretending to be Chanel. They’re offering something that looks and performs similarly, at a fraction of the price, under their own name. Media and social media use “dupe” and “counterfeit” interchangeably. Legally, that’s sloppy, and it matters, because the two categories trigger completely different legal analyses. If There’s No Logo, What Are Brands Actually Suing Over? This is where trade dress comes in. Trade dress protects the overall look and feel of a product: packaging, color combinations, shape, label design. Byczko pointed out that most of us interact with trade-dress-protected products every day without realizing it. The test is likelihood of confusion. Courts look at how similar the products actually look, how sophisticated the shoppers are, and whether there’s real evidence that people were confused. Byczko flagged one case as a genuine roadmap for this area: Van Leeuwen v. Rebel Creamery, an ice cream trade dress dispute that came out of the Eastern District of New York. In her view, the strength of that case came down to how precisely the brand defined its trade dress for the packaging. That precision, she said, did a lot of the work toward the outcome. She’s also watching Lululemon v. Costco, which she expects to be significant partly because it doesn’t rely on trademark and trade dress alone. Byczko noted that brands are increasingly stacking causes of action together: trademark, patent, false advertising, all pointing at the same product. And she’s tracking Sol de Janeiro v. Macau Beauty, a case she finds notable because it pulls in influencer content and testimonials as evidence, not just packaging and trade dress claims. Macau Beauty, she noted, has already been sued multiple times across different jurisdictions. A note for readers outside the US: trade dress as a distinct doctrine doesn’t exist as such in Germany. The closest tools here are the three-dimensional trademark and, more practically, the wettbewerbsrechtlicher Nachahmungsschutz under Section 4 No. 3 of the German Act Against Unfair Competition (UWG). That provision protects product shape, packaging, and get-up against imitation when the original has wettbewerbliche Eigenart, competitive distinctiveness, and the copy creates avoidable confusion about origin, unfairly exploits the original’s reputation, or was built on dishonestly obtained know-how. It’s a narrower, more fact-specific tool than US trade dress, but the underlying logic Byczko describes, define your product’s distinctive features early and precisely, applies just as much on this side of the Atlantic. Why the Evidence Problem Changed Everything Ken asked what’s actually driving the current wave of disputes, and Byczko’s answer was simple: evidence. Ten or twenty years ago, if you sent a cease-and-desist letter or went to trial, you had almost nothing concrete to show about how consumers actually perceived two products. Now you have TikTok comment sections, influencer testimonials, and entire genres of “dupe content” documenting exactly what shoppers think, in their own words, in real time. In the Sol de Janeiro case, Byczko noted that part of the complaint isn’t just about packaging and trade dress. It’s about what influencers said, what claims they made, and what that content reveals about actual consumer confusion or the absence of it. That’s evidence litigators simply didn’t have access to a decade ago, and it cuts both ways: it can prove confusion, or it can just as easily prove there wasn’t any. Why Dupes Took Off: Economics, Status, and a Generational Shift Byczko was careful to frame this part as her personal read, not a sociologist’s conclusion, but it’s a read shaped by watching these disputes up close. Part of it is straightforward economics. Gen Z is shopping under real affordability pressure, and dupes let them participate in trend cycles without the price tag. Byczko cited a projected $12.6 trillion in Gen Z spending power by 2030, a generation too significant for brands to write off. The other part is cultural. A generation ago, owning a visible logo was the status symbol. Now, for a lot of younger shoppers, being the savvy one, the person who finds the dupe first and tells their followers about it, carries its own status. It’s less “I have the real thing” and more “I outsmarted the markup.” Byczko also pointed to growing public skepticism toward paying five or ten times more for a product purely because of the name on the packaging, particularly in beauty and fashion. The PR Trap: When Enforcement Backfires One of the sharpest points in the conversation was about what happens after a brand decides to enforce. Suing over a dupe can read very differently in public than it does in a courtroom. Byczko put it directly: going after a dupe can easily look, to the public, like a big corporation coming down on a small competitor, or worse, on its own customers, the same people who made the original brand aspirational in the first place. She’s seen this dynamic play out repeatedly in high-profile cases. Her advice: treat enforcement as a communication strategy, not just a legal one. Sometimes the smarter move isn’t a lawsuit at all. It’s a quieter cease-and-desist letter, a takedown request, or doubling down on marketing that explains what actually makes the original worth the price. Charlotte Tilbury has leaned hard into this approach, building campaigns around the idea that the original simply can’t be remade. Olaplex ran a similar play with its “OlaDupe” campaign. Legal and marketing, Byczko said, have to work together on this, not in sequence. What Brands Should Actually Do Byczko laid out three practical layers, all before litigation ever enters the picture. First: register your trademarks, and where a product design is genuinely distinctive, pursue trade dress or design patent protection early, before a dupe exists and before you know whether the product will even take off. That timing problem is real. Brands rarely know in advance which product will become the one worth copying. Her advice was to look at long-standing anchor products, the ones that have quietly carried a brand identity for years, and ask whether they’re actually protected. Second: monitor. A large share of dupe disputes start on social media, not in a courtroom. That means someone needs to be watching hashtags and influencer content, not just from direct competitors, but from adjacent or even unrelated brands that could end up duping a product without anyone noticing until it’s already trending. Third, and the one Byczko clearly considers most underused: consumer education and brand storytelling. “This is the original” is a weak pitch on its own in a market flooded with cheap alternatives. What works better is explaining, specifically, what makes a product different: its formulation, its sourcing, its performance, its longevity. Give people a real reason to pay more, not just a claim to authenticity. Where This Goes Next Byczko doesn’t think dupe culture is a passing trend. Her expectation is closer to “there will eventually be a dupe of everything,” and she’s watching an interesting generational pattern where teenage shoppers are teaching their mothers about dupes, who are in turn teaching their own mothers. On the legal side, she expects more clarity as cases like Van Leeuwen work their way through the system, giving brands a clearer formula for how to define and defend trade dress. On the brand side, she expects less reliance on litigation as the primary weapon and more investment in what’s genuinely hard to copy: real innovation, ingredient transparency, and storytelling that a dupe simply can’t replicate. One data point she raised stuck with us: search interest in the word “craftsmanship” is at its highest point in twenty years. After years of leaning into dupe culture, there are signs some consumers are swinging back toward wanting the original, the real ingredient, the real technique, the thing that can’t be copied to the same quality. For brands sitting on distinctive packaging, a signature shape, or a product identity they’ve never formally registered, that’s less a trend forecast than a to-do list. Here is the full transcript: Ken Suzan: Thank you, Ralf. Our guest today on the IP Friday’s podcast is Caitlin Byczko. Caitlin is a partner with Barnes and Thornburg LLP and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Caitlin crafts and defends global brand strategies, protecting intellectual property assets with creative solutions and highly tactical advocacy. She excels in trademark prosecution and litigation before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and federal district courts, safeguarding trademarks and digital properties for businesses of all sizes and at every stage of the business life cycle. From startups to Fortune 500 companies, Caitlin manages clients’ intellectual property needs across diverse industries. Her experience spans retail, fashion, luxury goods, sports, technology, agriculture, venture capital and pharmaceuticals. Beyond trademark law, Caitlin brings valuable insights from her law school experience with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA, and her previous work serving in a technology company’s in-house legal department. Her tenacious nature and clever problem-solving skills shine through in complex matters, earning praise from clients and colleagues alike. Caitlin is co-author of “Dupe Culture Meets the Courtroom,” published in Global Cosmetic Industry on March 16, 2026. Welcome, Caitlin, to the IP Friday’s podcast. Caitlin Byczko: Hi, Ken. Thank you so much. I’m very honored to be here. Ken Suzan: Yeah, so Caitlin, today we’re talking about dupe culture, a topic that is rapidly becoming front for many brands around the world. What’s the actual difference between a dupe and a counterfeit? Caitlin Byczko: That is one of my favorite questions. This is the most important distinction to draw when we are talking legally about dupes because the difference, because media and social media often use the words interchangeably and legally they’re very different. A counterfeit is a product that uses someone else’s actual trademark. We often think of a fake Chanel bag with interlocking C’s or a fake Louis Vuitton. It’s relatively straightforward trademark infringement and generally above certain thresholds is a federal crime. A dupe, by contrast, is a product that mimics the look, feel, or performance product without actually using the name or logo. We often think of it in the beauty products, in the fashion space, some brands like Elf Cosmetics, which was in the article you just mentioned, Zara, Costco’s Kirkland brand, Quince, who are all very well known in the dupe space. Ken Suzan: What has led to the rise of dupe culture? I’m reading about it virtually every day. Caitlin Byczko: I feel very strongly about this and I’m always talking about it in my legal and non-legal worlds. It’s a very interesting societal change that I think we’ve seen over the past year. I am a lawyer, I am not a marketer, I am not a sociologist, but in my opinion, social media and influencer culture specifically has really created the kind of rise in dupes that we see today. I don’t think we can talk about modern dupe culture without talking about TikTok specifically. Dupe content is its own genre, essentially on TikTok and on Instagram. There’s a whole vocabulary that people are dupe influencers, where their whole product, everything that they’re doing and selling, all of the content they’re making is dupe related. What’s really changed is the speed, I think, around when other products or when a dupe product comes out, how it can be marketed and how people can find out about it. The speed of commerce itself has increased wildly as a result, in part because of social media. A product used to take months to build a reputation as a good alternative. When we think about things, generic cereal is one thing that I have been talking about with my parents with respect to dupe culture. It was one of the things that there used to be, you would go to the store and there would be the cereal, the name brand cereal, and then there would be the generic version of the cereal, which was usually less expensive. That in a way was a dupe. It took a long time. Your friends knew about the dupe cereal and then you knew about the dupe cereal. Then it all got around. Now a single video can send a dupe product sold out within days, within hours sometimes. Oftentimes, a brand’s own team doesn’t even know about the dupe until it’s already been wildly out. Part of it becomes this legal issue when there are claims coming around the dupe. In the Sol de Janeiro case against Macau Beauty, part of the complaint isn’t just about the trade dress and the packaging, which I think we’ll talk about. It’s about the influencer content and the testimonials and what people are saying about the dupes. There’s so much evidence now and there’s so much content and there’s so much out there regarding dupes on social media, on TikTok, and in other places. Ken Suzan: Yeah, and it’s an ever-evolving story. Every day there’s new social media content, more evidence for a potential gain, right? Caitlin Byczko: Absolutely. Ken Suzan: So if dupes aren’t using a particular brand name, how are companies suing over them at all? Caitlin Byczko: So this is really where trade dress comes in, and trade dress, as most of us know, has been around for a long time. There are a lot of very well-known things that you probably see or use every day that you don’t know are protected by trade dress, but they are. And the trade dress protects the overall kind of look and feel of a product. So if you think about things like packaging, color combinations, shape, label design, when that becomes distinctive enough, right? When consumers see that and kind of immediately understand it has the secondary meaning related to the brand owner, then it can become a protectable trademark. And so the test for trademark infringement is likelihood of confusion. And courts will look at the factors of how similar the products actually look, how sophisticated the shoppers are, whether there’s evidence that people were actually confused. I think one of the big cases in the trade dress space that came out since you and I discussed originally, Ken, is the Van Leeuwen versus Rebel Creamery ice cream case. And so for any of those interested, it’s a very interesting opinion. It just came out of the Eastern District of New York. I think that really helps people, brands specifically, kind of provide a roadmap with respect to how to define a trade dress. I think they did an excellent job there defining what the trade dress was for the packaging. And I think that that had a lot to do with the success. Ken Suzan: Yes. Ken Suzan: Why do you think younger consumers gravitate towards dupes so much more than past generations did? Caitlin Byczko: I think there are a few things that are kind of top of each other. The obvious one is economics. I think younger consumers, especially Gen Z, they’re shopping in an environment where there’s affordability pressure. And I think that dupes let them participate in certain trend cycles without the price tag. Gen Z is a significant demographic behind the growth of dupes. And they have a predicted spending power we saw recently, $12.6 trillion by 2030. Ken Suzan: Wow. That’s incredible. Caitlin Byczko: I think it is really also coupled with more of what I would say is a cultural shift. Again, I am a lawyer and this is just my opinion. But what feels aspirational is really changing, I think. And a generation ago, we saw in the fashion world, there was a really big, people really liked logos. Having a logo, owning a logo was the point. And now for a lot of younger shoppers or even more savvy shoppers, actually being a savvy shopper is the status symbol itself. So for a lot of creators, finding the dupe before anyone else or being the one who tells your followers about the dupe really has its own, and it’s less “I have this real thing” and more, “oh, I outsmarted the markup.” And I think it’s that kind of value. I think younger consumers are more publicly skeptical of the idea that something is worth five or ten times more just because of the name on the packaging. And I think that that becomes the case particularly in beauty and then clothing as well. And so I think it’s coupled with the question of craftsmanship and all of these different things. Like we can’t view anything in a vacuum, which is why I could talk for 500 years about this topic. Ken Suzan: Yeah, definitely. Now brands obviously want to protect themselves. That’s an important thing. But going after a dupe can backfire publicly, particularly on the internet. Can you comment on this possibility and what should brands do? Caitlin Byczko: Sure. I think the biggest thing is what you just said. So I think there’s the legal component. And when we’re assessing this for one of our brand clients, I think we cannot review one without the other. So I think you have to say, do we have this claim? Do we have a protectable trade dress or a look and feel claim? And what is the potential backlash in the public? I think it is also a joint PR concern, because what we see is suing over a dupe can very easily read to the public as, oh, this big brand or big corporation is coming down on a small competitor or on its own customers that made the original brand aspirational. I think that we see this in a lot of the big cases that are out right now. So brands, I think, can start to think about enforcement as a communication strategy first, because sometimes the smarter play isn’t necessarily filing a lawsuit. It’s kind of a quieter cease and desist, a takedown request, or separately, it might be really doubling down on the craftsmanship or on a marketing side of what makes the product worth the price. I think Charlotte Tilbury is a great example of this, who’s really leaned into this kind of “can’t be duped” or “you can’t remake the original” with respect to some of their really core products. And so I think people really need to, or brands really need to, assess: one, how can we define what it is that’s being duped? And again, that’s where I think that Van Leeuwen case, I think, will be really interesting over the next few years, with respect to kind of providing this roadmap to help people say, here is a way that we can try to really define what the trade dress is and then be able to protect it and be able to enforce it. Ken Suzan: Caitlin, are there cases right now, I know we just talked about the Van Leeuwen case, but are there cases right now that you think will actually set the tone for how this area of law develops? Caitlin Byczko: Absolutely. And I think some of the cases probably are even in the works, they’re not even filed yet, which is probably very exciting to us as trademark nerds. I do think the Lululemon versus Costco case will be a big one. It’s not just trademarks and trade dress, as many of them are not. I think a lot of times we see in these cases brands are very smartly using kind of all of the different types of causes of action that they bring: trademark, patent, false advertising, a lot of different things. And so I think that that one is definitely certainly one to watch kind of in the fashion space. And then the Sol de Janeiro versus Macau Beauty. Macau Beauty has been sued multiple times, I think, in various jurisdictions. And so I think part of that one is very interesting to me because I think it’s this, it loops not only trademark protection, but also it brings in false advertising, it brings in influencers, it brings in all of these different things. And so I think, like we had talked about previously, nothing is really viewed in a vacuum. And I think for all of these cases, one really important thing, maybe that we didn’t necessarily have access to 10 years ago, or certainly 20 years ago, is this like just ripe amount of evidence of potential confusion or potential non-confusion. When we go on social media and look at all of these things, and then read the comments and all of this different data that’s out there, it’s fascinating, because if you’re in trial, or if you’re going to trial, you’re sending a cease and desist letter, like there is evidence of what the consumers think right here in front of you, right? And the weight of that evidence obviously depends on what it is. But it’s fascinating the way that you can very quickly identify, you know, is there confusion? Is there not confusion, in a way that you likely could never have even thought to consider 10 to 20 years ago? Ken Suzan: Now beyond litigation, what should brands actually be doing to protect themselves in a dupe-driven market? Caitlin Byczko: I think one of the best things that we can do, right, is starting to register the trademarks. I think that’s an obvious one. And really start to consider where the product is genuinely distinctive. And so if it is genuinely distinctive, pursuing a trade dress or a design patent early, before a dupe exists, before anything happens. And I know that can be difficult, because oftentimes brands don’t know for sure what’s going to take off and what’s not. It can also be a surprise. But I think it’s really pushing brands that when you are innovating and when you are doing something that is truly unique and truly distinctive, or when you’re looking back on your brand assets and saying, this thing has been an anchor brand asset for 10 years, you know, have we sought trade dress protection? Is there a way that we can do that? The second layer really is monitoring, in my mind, because a lot of dupe disputes do start on social media. And I think it is important to have people within a company, if you have a product that you’re really keeping an eye on, or that you’re concerned about being duped or causing confusion, having someone who is keeping eyes on hashtags and influencer content and all of these various things. You know, we’re not watching just your direct competitors, we’re watching other completely different brands, or kind of made-up brands even, who could be duping the product. And then I think the third thing that I see as very important is this kind of consumer education and brand storytelling, which is when we kind of get outside of the purely legal side of it. And, you know, legal and marketing and brand and social kind of all need to work together, right? I think if the only pitch to consumers is “this is the original,” it kind of becomes a weak argument in a market where there are cheap alternatives everywhere. But I think the brands that really explain what actually makes their product different, in its formulation, its sourcing, its performance, its longevity, it really gives people a real reason to say, I want to pay more for this brand because of XYZ, you know, the technology or whatever that is. Charlotte Tilbury is one that I had mentioned. I know Olaplex kind of had a big campaign around “OlaDupe” is what they called it. So I think really unique and interesting marketing also assists with that. Ken Suzan: Caitlin, where do you see dupe culture heading? Is this a trend that plateaus or does it fundamentally change how brands operate? Caitlin Byczko: I think dupe culture itself is here to stay. I mean, I think we are only getting into a world where there is truly going to be a dupe of everything. And it’s not good or bad necessarily. I think it is just where we are in life. And I think, you know, things serve different purposes. And it all depends a lot on how the younger consumers shop. And it’s also changing how older consumers shop. You know, I’ve read a lot about teenage girls teaching their moms about dupes, who are then teaching their grandmothers about dupes, right? So on the legal side, I think we will get clarity eventually. I think right around, you know, all like all of these things, which seem so complex, and we’ll never know the answer. You know, five [years] from now, we will probably have certainly more clarity, because a lot of these cases will move forward. You know, the Van Leeuwen one, which I’ve now talked about multiple times, but I just obviously think it’s very fascinating. I think that that’s one where you have a roadmap, right? And it may be contested, or, you know, everything is very fact-specific in the trademark world. But I think it will open the door to allow people one more aggressive brand enforcement. But it will give people a roadmap proactively to kind of say, if we follow this formula for our trade dress, or, you know, defining our trade dress, then, you know, we have something we can potentially protect. And then I think on the brand side, we’ll likely see less reliance on litigation as the primary weapon and more investment in things that are actually, you know, difficult to dupe: innovation, ingredient transparency, marketing, genuinely interesting brand storytelling is something that we’ve seen. I read this past week that searches for craftsmanship, just like generally the word craftsmanship, and kind of products with craftsmanship, is at an all-time high, than it’s been in like the past 20 years. And so it’s interesting, right, that we have gone from this kind of luxury item or high craftsmanship to this dupe culture that we are in now. But there is some potential shift where people are saying, you know, now, I’ve seen all of this and I have all of these options, but now actually what I do care about is the original, right, the innovation or the ingredient transparency or all of those things that can’t necessarily be copied to the same quality. So it’s why it will just provide us with endless topic of discussion, because I think it will only just keep changing forever. Ken Suzan: That’s right. Caitlin, I want to thank you for spending time with us on the IP Friday’s podcast. This has been very insightful, and I’m sure we’ll be talking about this issue in the months and years to come. Caitlin Byczko: Thank you so much, Ken. I really appreciate it. Ken Suzan: Thank you.

In Hour 2 of the show, Jonas Knox, Brady Quinn, & LaVar Arrington go into the thick of the NFL getting rid of the Pro Bowl after it has been declining for some time. Plus, the guys ponder if the Chicago Bears will be able to stay in Illinois and not head to Indiana, we have our Pro Of The Week, and more!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we welcome David Pollack to the studio. He is a three-time All-American football player from the University of Georgia, the 2004 Chuck Bednarik Award winner (top defensive player in the country), a two-time SEC Defensive Player of the Year, and a first round pick in the 2005 NFL draft by the Cincinnati Bengals (17th overall). He is also the author of a new book, “Every Day Counts: Start Where You Are. Use What You Have. Do What You Can”. In this interview, we preview the 2026 College Football season by discussing the Lane Kiffin experiment at LSU, if Indiana is in it for the long haul, the most overrated and underrated teams going into the season, if Arch Manning of Texas is for real, why Notre Dame gets special treatment, who will win the Heisman, who will win the College Football Playoff, and much more. We also start off by discussing hot topics within Christendom and culture. Let's get into it… Episode notes and links HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Check out our SHOP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's College Football Eve Wednesday Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys get juiced up for FCS Football kicking off tomorrow meaning that ball is BACK! While they talk about everything ball, they discuss the SEC finalizing penalties for programs that violate its new professional sports eligibility rule. Joining them today, LSU Alum and NFL Analyst for ESPN Marcus Spears gives his thoughts about his alma mater and the controversy in college about eligibility, Indiana University's star receiver Charlie Becker discusses his cause ‘Huddle for Help' and partnering with Buffalouie's to raise money and awareness for ALS, also his outlook on the upcoming season after winning a National Championship last season, ESPN Legend and Broadcast Hall of Famer Mike Greenberg stops by as the boys celebrate Greeny's 30th year at ESPN, his thoughts on Lane Kiffin and LSU, his beloved New York Jets and their woes while he's been on a microphone covering sports plus more in the NFL world. Make sure to subscribe to ⁠youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow⁠ (http://youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow) or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN's Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you, we'll see you tomorrow. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices