Podcast appearances and mentions of John Walsh

As you may have heard in last week's episode, the Culture Gabfest is hanging up its microphones after 18 years of cultural commentary. But before our final episode, we've still got much to discuss!On this special guest-packed show, Steve, Dana, and Nadira Goffe have the power! That is the power to get into it with VSFOP Jamelle Bouie about Masters of the Universe, the latest attempt by Mattel to launch their own cinematic universe. They assess the state of IP-driven superhero movies and whether this newest entry—starring Nicholas Galitzine, as the buff, loin cloth-wearing He-Man, and Jared Leto, as the slightly lascivious Skeletor—is more than brand management.Next, they turn to the wild, surreal revenge thriller Is God Is, written and directed by Aleshea Harris based on her stageplay. They talk about how this tale of twin sisters seeking vengeance fits into the growing pantheon of Black horror as well as the ancient canon of revenge tragedies.Finally, and for the final time, it's time to talk about Taylor Swift. In the wake of her newest release, the song “I Knew It, I Knew You” for the Toy Story 5 soundtrack, the gang assembles one more time to take up the long-simmering Tay debate. Jody Rosen and Julia jump on the call/enter the Thunderdome for this, of course. In a bonus episode for Slate Plus subscribers, the panel pours one out for the recently shuttered Hampshire College and reflects on the changing landscape of the liberal arts.EndorsementsDana: The interactive, Jazz-playing, transit-obsessed, single purpose website Train Jazz. (Hat tip once more to Rusty Foster's Today in Tabs.)Nadira: The Black Film Archive which showcases Black films made from 1898 to 1999 currently streaming. Also, the year 2016 in music. Jody: For some Gabfest replacement therapy, watching academic lectures on YouTube such as the lectures of art historian John Walsh at Yale Art Galleries—including ones on Vincent Van Gogh and Dutch masters— and cultural historian Eric Lott on Racial Masquerade in America and Philippe Petit's legendary tightrope walk between the Twin Towers. Julia: Patrick Radden Keefe's new book London Falling and the song "Come Tomorrow" by Patti Scialfa.Steve: Following up on last week's endorsement, Steve can confirm that Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee is, in fact, good. Also recommended: Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald. --Email us your thoughts at culturefest@slate.com. Podcast production by Benjamin Frisch. Production assistance by Daniel Hirsch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As you may have heard in last week's episode, the Culture Gabfest is hanging up its microphones after 18 years of cultural commentary. But before our final episode, we've still got much to discuss!On this special guest-packed show, Steve, Dana, and Nadira Goffe have the power! That is the power to get into it with VSFOP Jamelle Bouie about Masters of the Universe, the latest attempt by Mattel to launch their own cinematic universe. They assess the state of IP-driven superhero movies and whether this newest entry—starring Nicholas Galitzine, as the buff, loin cloth-wearing He-Man, and Jared Leto, as the slightly lascivious Skeletor—is more than brand management.Next, they turn to the wild, surreal revenge thriller Is God Is, written and directed by Aleshea Harris based on her stageplay. They talk about how this tale of twin sisters seeking vengeance fits into the growing pantheon of Black horror as well as the ancient canon of revenge tragedies.Finally, and for the final time, it's time to talk about Taylor Swift. In the wake of her newest release, the song “I Knew It, I Knew You” for the Toy Story 5 soundtrack, the gang assembles one more time to take up the long-simmering Tay debate. Jody Rosen and Julia jump on the call/enter the Thunderdome for this, of course. In a bonus episode for Slate Plus subscribers, the panel pours one out for the recently shuttered Hampshire College and reflects on the changing landscape of the liberal arts.EndorsementsDana: The interactive, Jazz-playing, transit-obsessed, single purpose website Train Jazz. (Hat tip once more to Rusty Foster's Today in Tabs.)Nadira: The Black Film Archive which showcases Black films made from 1898 to 1999 currently streaming. Also, the year 2016 in music. Jody: For some Gabfest replacement therapy, watching academic lectures on YouTube such as the lectures of art historian John Walsh at Yale Art Galleries—including ones on Vincent Van Gogh and Dutch masters— and cultural historian Eric Lott on Racial Masquerade in America and Philippe Petit's legendary tightrope walk between the Twin Towers. Julia: Patrick Radden Keefe's new book London Falling and the song "Come Tomorrow" by Patti Scialfa.Steve: Following up on last week's endorsement, Steve can confirm that Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee is, in fact, good. Also recommended: Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald. --Email us your thoughts at culturefest@slate.com. Podcast production by Benjamin Frisch. Production assistance by Daniel Hirsch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Robert Bremner: Duke of Perth's Reel, Capt. Ross's Reel, Short Apron, Hoptoun House, Lady Hariot Hope's Reel, The Highlandman Kiss'd His Mother, Miss Murray's Reel, Drummore's Rant, He Hirpl'd till her, Had the Lass till I winn at her, Cadgers of the Cannongate, Jeremy Kingsbury Sets: Colonel MacBain's Fancy, Brenda Stubbert's Reel, The Gravel Walk, Highlandman Kissed His Mother & Jenny Sutton From Bannocks of Barley Meal. Paddy Cary, Jigg Poltage, Ryan's Rant from Pay the Pipemaker. Dark-eyed one of the Night, Lady Seaforth, Dark Girl of the White Feet, Lady Mary Mackay, Mary Gray, Sweet Molly From Rowly Powly. J. Johnson: The Lads of Boot, William Ross: Miss Victoria Ross Iain MacInnes: Miss Victoria Ross, Lady Doll Sinclair, A'Chubhag (The Cuckoo), McFarlane's from Album Tryst Anselm Lingnau: (Traditional Tune Archive) Lady Susan Stewart's Reel John Walsh: Susan Stewart's Reel, Big thank you to Iain MacInnes for his blessing to include his track from Tryst. Tryst was published by Greentrax Label: https://greentrax.com/product/iain-macinnes-tryst-cd/ But is available on most streaming platforms as well. +X+ Cover Art is a Receipt from Robert Bremner's Shop in London courtesy of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/1544287001 +X+X+ I played tracks from Pay the Pipemaker: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/pay-the-pipemaker Bannocks of Barley Meal: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/bannocks-of-barley-meal and Rowly Powly: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/rowly-powly +X+X+ Nearly all of the tunes this week come from Robert Bremner's 1757(ish) publication: A Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105002262 +X+X+ 1750: Lads of Boot From J Johnson's Country Dances (Via Traditional Tune Archive) https://tunearch.org/wiki/Lads_of_Boot +X+X+ 1869: Miss Victoria Ross: from William Ross's Collection of Pipe Music: https://ceolsean.net/content/WRoss/WRoss_TOC.html +X+X+ Susan Stewart's Reel From Traditional Tune Archive: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Lady_Susan_Stewart%27s_Reel +X+X+ 1758 (I've also seen 1760): Lady Susan Stewart's Reel from John Walsh's Caledonian Country Dances Vol 2 part IV https://archive.org/details/walsh4caledonian/ +X+X+ For may Hihland Man Kissed His Mother Episode Listen here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/s5e28 +X+X+ FIN Here are some ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast! Checkout my Merch Store on Bagpipeswag: https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my Albums on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/ You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at wetootwaag@gmail.com letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA

You can find more from John here:Sales Confidence That Lasts: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1919391894 Little Bird: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1919391835 Unshakeable Confidence: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/191939186X The Confident Life: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GTYM24ZJConfidence isn't something you're born with — it's something you build.In this episode, confidence and behaviour coach John M. Walsh shares what he's learned after working with 34,000 individuals across 180 organisations around the world. With over two decades of experience in sales, leadership, and high-pressure environments, John explains why confidence isn't just a feeling — it's a skill that drives trust, performance, and real results.If you're a high-achieving professional who struggles with confidence under pressure, self-doubt at work, or performing when the stakes are high, this conversation will give you practical tools you can use immediately.In this episode, we cover:• How to build real confidence at work• Why confidence under pressure separates leaders from followers• The psychology of performance and behaviour change• How to perform in sales, leadership, and complex projects• Why confidence drives trust and results• Practical ways to build confidence in everyday work and lifeJohn is the author of four books on confidence and host of the podcast Let's Talk About Confidence, where he shares actionable strategies for building lasting, reliable confidence.If you want to improve your leadership presence, perform better under pressure, and build confidence that lasts — this episode is for you.

Chris Holman welcomes John Walsh, President and CEO, Michigan Manufacturers Association (MMA), Lansing, MI. John Walsh, President and CEO of the Michigan Manufacturers Association (MMA), joined Michigan Business Beat to discuss several key initiatives, including a new series of executive roundtable meetings aimed at helping Michigan manufacturers explore and expand their participation in the defense and aerospace industry. MMA is also opening nominations for its Manufacturing Excellence Awards, including the publicly voted "Coolest Thing Made in Michigan," with the annual awards dinner set for November. Walsh highlighted the launch of a new Research and Development tax credit, backed by $100 million in funding and supported by bipartisan leadership and Governor Whitmer, with MMA providing a dedicated hub at MIMFG.org to help members prepare for the first round of applications in 2026. When asked about the biggest challenges facing members, Walsh cited ongoing talent shortages and significant uncertainty at both the federal and state levels as the top concerns. » Visit MBN website: www.michiganbusinessnetwork.com/ » Subscribe to MBN's YouTube: www.youtube.com/@MichiganbusinessnetworkMBN » Like MBN: www.facebook.com/mibiznetwork » Follow MBN: twitter.com/MIBizNetwork/ » MBN Instagram: www.instagram.com/mibiznetwork/

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In this Kitchen Table Talk episode, the Ladies are joined by Pastor Michael Ziegler, current speaker of The Lutheran Hour, for an encouraging conversation on the importance of memorizing Scripture.   Why should Christians take the time to memorize Scripture? Does memorizing scripture help you understand it better? What are some “pro-tips” for committing lengthy passages to memory? Were you a theater kid growing up? How did you get started memorizing longer passages? Are there elements of our modern life that get in the way of our memorizing Scripture and other salutary texts — if so, how can we counteract those? Is it easier or harder to memorize texts as we get older?   The Rev. Dr. Michael Ziegler has served with Lutheran Hour Ministries as speaker of The Lutheran Hour since 2018. Before joining LHM, he served as a parish pastor in two congregations and as an officer in the US Air Force. He and his wife, Amy, have four children. Learn more about Pastor Ziegler and The Lutheran Hour at LHM.org.  Resources referenced in this episode include BibleTelling: Telling God's Word by John Walsh. Learn more at BibleTelling.org, BTStories.com, or on YouTube. If you need an easy place to start memorizing Scripture, visit lcms.org/memoryverse and follow KFUO Radio on social media for #MemoryVerseMonday Bible verses.  Connect with the Lutheran Ladies on social media in The Lutheran Ladies' Lounge Facebook discussion group (facebook.com/groups/LutheranLadiesLounge) and on Instagram @lutheranladieslounge. Follow Sarah (@hymnnerd), Rachel (@rachbomberger), and Erin (@erinaltered) on Instagram! Sign up for the Lutheran Ladies' Lounge monthly e-newsletter here, and email the Ladies at lutheranladies@kfuo.org.

Send us Fan MailIn this episode Matt and Matt discuss  Meta Mafia Ray Bans, May the fifth be with you, John Walsh's head start, and The subtleties of modesty.Weird News including Don't forget to charge your iBRAIN, Man's best revenge, Asking for what you want, Flaming wieners, and a Sub gets low and gets tossed out.Twerk only for the consenting. 

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, Chuck Warren and Sam Stone are joined by Manhattan Institute Cities policy analyst Santiago Vidal Calvo and Washington Free Beacon editor and Middle East Forum junior fellow Alex Welz, plus a special radio edition of B's Corner true crime. Santiago Vidal Calvo Born in Caracas and now leading the Manhattan Institute's Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) efforts, Santiago opens with an on-the-ground report from Venezuela following the capture of Maduro — including the first American Airlines flight back to Caracas in nearly a decade — and explains why Trump must press for elections in Venezuela before the U.S. midterms if his policy is to survive a potential shift in Congress. He walks through how government agencies have weaponized "privacy" exemptions and bureaucratic stonewalling to block public records requests, and why Manhattan Institute is willing to take these fights to court when ordinary citizens cannot. Santiago then breaks down his Daily Wire piece on New Jersey Transit's $150 train ticket from Penn Station to MetLife for the 2026 World Cup — versus a $60 Uber on the same route — and contrasts New Jersey's mismanagement with Kansas City's pro-tourism approach of expanded bar and restaurant hours. In the second segment, he unpacks Mayor Zohran Mamdani's "racial equity plan" and the redefinition of poverty in New York City through a $150,000 "true cost of living" benchmark — which conveniently labels two-thirds of the richest city in America as unable to afford it, justifying a massive expansion of government with 400 new indicators and 600 goals. Santiago argues the real diagnosis isn't race but housing supply, the rent freeze, and the cost of opening a business. Follow Santiago on X: @SantiVidalC B's Corner B brings the 1981 disappearance and murder of 6-year-old Adam Walsh from a Sears in Hollywood, Florida — a case that took 27 years to officially close, briefly entangled Jeffrey Dahmer as a suspect, and was ultimately tied to serial killer Ottis Toole. Out of unimaginable tragedy, Adam's father John Walsh launched America's Most Wanted, founded the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and helped drive the creation of the Amber Alert system. The team also revisits the era of the Sears catalog and what that brand once meant to American life. Alex Welz, an editor at the Washington Free Beacon and a junior fellow at the Middle East Forum with a master's in national security from the University of Haifa, walks through the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire, why disarming Hezbollah remains a generational challenge despite UN Resolution 1701 and the Taif Agreement. On Iran, Alex argues the regime turned out far less fragile than Venezuela-style optimists hoped, but ballistic missile capacity, the navy, and oil revenues have all been dramatically degraded, and the latest wave of protests could still force a fold. In the podcast segment, the conversation deepens and Alex shares his prediction for where Iran stands by November 2026. Follow Alex on X: @WelzAlex Catch Breaking Battlegrounds live on 960 AM in Phoenix every Saturday at 9:00 AM, with full episodes and exclusive podcast-only segments dropping every Friday wherever you get your podcasts or watch on Youtube. Stay connected with Breaking Battlegrounds: Substack: https://substack.com/@breakingbattlegrounds Website: https://breakingbattlegrounds.vote News: https://breakingbattlegrounds.news X: https://x.com/breaking_battle Instagram: @breakingbattlegrounds Facebook: Breaking Battlegrounds

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In the Nancy Guthrie investigation, the evidence collected in the first hours — the DNA from inside the home, the doorbell camera footage, the physical items left behind — is either going to solve this case or it isn't. The determining factor will be whether the people who handled that evidence from the very first moment were equipped for the responsibility. The Adam Walsh case is what happens when they aren't. And it's the most devastating evidence failure in modern American criminal history.In 1981, six-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from a Sears store in Hollywood, Florida. Two weeks later, his severed head was found in a canal over a hundred miles away. A serial killer named Ottis Toole confessed — twice. He described the abduction, the murder, and the machete he used. His description matched the autopsy findings. The Hollywood Police Department had everything it needed to close this case.Then the department lost it all. The bloody carpet from Toole's car — the most critical piece of physical evidence — was "misplaced." The blood on the machete was never lifted for testing. The car itself vanished from police custody entirely. Photographs from the original evidence collection were never even developed — they sat in the case file for over two decades. Without physical evidence, Toole recanted. He was never charged. He died in prison in 1996 serving time for other crimes.It took twenty-seven years for Hollywood PD to officially name Toole as the killer and apologize for the department's failures. John Walsh channeled his grief into America's Most Wanted, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and AMBER Alerts. The system his son's case broke became the system his son's legacy rebuilt.The Guthrie case is active right now. The evidence chain is live. Every person who touches it is either preserving Nancy's chance at justice or compromising it. The Adam Walsh case is proof — permanent, irreversible proof — that when the wrong people handle the evidence, even a confession and a cooperating suspect aren't enough to deliver justice.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AdamWalsh #NancyGuthrie #OttisToole #BeyondNancy #LostEvidence #JohnWalsh #HollywoodPolice #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #TonyBrueski

In the Nancy Guthrie investigation, the evidence collected in the first hours — the DNA from inside the home, the doorbell camera footage, the physical items left behind — is either going to solve this case or it isn't. The determining factor will be whether the people who handled that evidence from the very first moment were equipped for the responsibility. The Adam Walsh case is what happens when they aren't. And it's the most devastating evidence failure in modern American criminal history.In 1981, six-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from a Sears store in Hollywood, Florida. Two weeks later, his severed head was found in a canal over a hundred miles away. A serial killer named Ottis Toole confessed — twice. He described the abduction, the murder, and the machete he used. His description matched the autopsy findings. The Hollywood Police Department had everything it needed to close this case.Then the department lost it all. The bloody carpet from Toole's car — the most critical piece of physical evidence — was "misplaced." The blood on the machete was never lifted for testing. The car itself vanished from police custody entirely. Photographs from the original evidence collection were never even developed — they sat in the case file for over two decades. Without physical evidence, Toole recanted. He was never charged. He died in prison in 1996 serving time for other crimes.It took twenty-seven years for Hollywood PD to officially name Toole as the killer and apologize for the department's failures. John Walsh channeled his grief into America's Most Wanted, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and AMBER Alerts. The system his son's case broke became the system his son's legacy rebuilt.The Guthrie case is active right now. The evidence chain is live. Every person who touches it is either preserving Nancy's chance at justice or compromising it. The Adam Walsh case is proof — permanent, irreversible proof — that when the wrong people handle the evidence, even a confession and a cooperating suspect aren't enough to deliver justice.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AdamWalsh #NancyGuthrie #OttisToole #BeyondNancy #LostEvidence #JohnWalsh #HollywoodPolice #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #TonyBrueski

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In October 2018, David Carter — a devoted father, hard worker, and beloved son from Melvindale, Michigan — was reported missing by his family. Days later, his dismembered remains were found scattered along I-75 in Ohio, 100 miles from home. Police believe his girlfriend, Tamera "Tammy" Williams, shot him while he slept, dismembered his body, and fled. She has been a fugitive ever since — and is now on the U.S. Marshals 15 Most Wanted Fugitives list. In this episode, Gina and Amber walk through David's life, his murder, the investigation, and the ongoing manhunt for the woman police say killed him.

What does it really take to move from talking about Zero Trust… to actually making it work in the real world? Recording live from IGEL Now And Next in Miami, I caught up with John Walsh for what has now become something of a tradition, our third conversation together, and one that reflects just how much has changed in the last 12 months. When we last spoke, the focus was on securing the edge and rethinking security through a preventative lens. This time, the conversation has expanded from IT to OT, from devices to platforms, and from theory to real-world implementation across manufacturing floors, healthcare environments, and government organizations. John shared how IGEL is increasingly being adopted as a global standard across both IT and operational environments, bringing new challenges and new insights. From kiosks and signage on factory floors to shared workstations in hospitals, the need for persona-based and now context-aware access is becoming far more than a technical concept. It is shaping how organizations think about identity, risk, and control at scale. We also explored how the idea of the "adaptive secure desktop" is evolving beyond traditional VDI thinking. Instead of static devices, the focus is shifting toward environments that respond dynamically to the user, their role, their location, and the level of risk in that moment. It raises an important question. How do you deliver that level of control without introducing friction for the user? AI inevitably entered the conversation, but not in the way many might expect. Rather than focusing on features, John highlighted the acceleration of threat velocity. The time between vulnerability discovery and exploitation is shrinking rapidly, and with AI amplifying that speed, traditional detection and response models are struggling to keep up. The implication is clear. Security strategies need to shift toward prevention and control, not just reaction. We also touched on emerging challenges around agentic AI, non-human identities, and the need to apply Zero Trust principles beyond people to machines. As organizations begin to explore these new models, questions around identity, access, and guardrails are becoming more complex and more urgent. And throughout the conversation, one theme kept coming back and reducing complexity while increasing control. Whether it is through immutable operating systems, centralized policy enforcement, or contextual access, the goal is to simplify the environment while strengthening security outcomes. As organizations continue their journey toward modernization, one question remains: Are we still layering new technology onto old models, or are we ready to rethink how access, identity, and control are delivered from the ground up? What do you think, is Zero Trust finally becoming real at the endpoint, or is there still a gap between strategy and execution?

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Send me a DM here (it doesn't let me respond), OR email me: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.comPublished at https://commission.itnj.org/2018/09/0...Chosen for her particular bloodline, high cognitive abilities and physical prowess, Fiona was a perfect subject for MK ULTRA mind control programming, which took place in numerous universities and underground facilities both in Australia and abroad. Other nightmarish crimes perpetrated upon her throughout her childhood include ritual abuse, torture, the witness of torture and murder, being dressed as a teddy bear whilst hunted for sport at the annual camp at ‘The Bohemian Grove.'Fiona Barnett's testimony provides a very clear and detailed picture of global child trafficking, which, she explains, “is run as a single coordinated operation through the CIA in collaboration with British and Australian Intelligence Services.”In her testimony, she interweaves her personal account with a vast research-knowledge of the history, practices and interconnection between intel-agency child trafficking, Luciferianism, ritual abuse, and MK ULTRA mind control, all of which she witnessed and suffered at the hands of.Fiona was eventually able to escape the cult and has since made numerous attempts to have her perpetrators brought to justice. Her story has been publicly derided and she has been prevented from leading any semblance of a normal life.Her testimony was heard via a virtual sitting of the ITNJ's Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Human Trafficking & Child Sex Abuse on 7th July, 2018, before Chief Justice, Dr. John Walsh of Brannagh, His Grace Bishop Riah Abu El Assal, ITNJ Commissioner Carine Hutsebaut, and ITNJ Trustees Reverend Dr. Nancy Ash and Connie Broussard.WATCH FIONA'S NEW 3-HOUR TESTIMONY ON 'THE IMAGINATION' PODCAST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trCyavZV2LQREAD FIONA'S BOOK 'EYES WIDE OPEN':https://burners.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/eyes-wide-open-_fiona-barnett_first-edition_august-2019.pdfWATCH FIONA'S DOCUMENTARY 'CANDY GIRL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2pAnwTB90gCONNECT WITH FionaWebsite: https://fionabarnett.org/Twitter: https://x.com/TheFionaBarnettCONNECT WITH EMMA:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@imaginationpodcastofficialRumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheImaginationPodcastEMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com OR standbysurvivors@protonmail.comMy Substack: https://emmakatherine.substack.com/BUY ME A COFFEE: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theimaginationVENMO: @emmapreneurCASHAPP: $EmmaKatherine1204All links: https://direct.me/theimaginationpodcastSupport the show

You can listen wherever you get your podcasts or check out the fully edited transcript of our interview at the bottom of this post.I am so excited I was able to interview a parenting thought leader I greatly admire. Lenore did not disappoint! So much wisdom, and so much fun! I think you'll love this podcast episode.In this episode of The Peaceful Parenting Podcast, I interview Lenore Skenazy, author of “Free-Range Kids,” which grew into the Free-Range Kids movement. Now she is president of Let Grow, the national nonprofit that is making it easy, normal, and legal to give kids back independence. We talk about screens, anxiety, free play, and why childhood independence matters more than ever.

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This episode is a conversation with John Walsh, WOLA's director for Drug Policy and the Andes, about the ongoing U.S. military attacks on civilian boats in the Caribbean and Pacific Oceans. When Walsh and host Adam Isacson recorded this episode, on February 13, 2026, 35 attacks had killed at least 131 people since September 2, 2025—an average of four killings every five days—and another attack later that day killed 3 more people. Walsh and Isacson just published a WOLA commentary, "The Boat Strikes are Still Happening: Five Things You Need to Know," warning against the dangerous normalization of extrajudicial executions carried out directly by the U.S. military. Five months into this campaign, the strikes are fading from public attention despite their illegality. Media coverage has dwindled from the intense scrutiny of September and the revelations about "double tap" strikes on survivors in December to a trickle of stories. This normalization poses dangers: the justifications being used could extend to other victims in other contexts, and elements of the U.S. military appear to be accepting unlawful orders. There is no congressional authorization for military force against drug traffickers. Under international law, the United States is not engaged in an armed conflict with drug cartels—designating groups as foreign terrorist organizations does not confer wartime authorities. From a drug policy perspective, Walsh argues these strikes are futile. After five months, there is no evidence of a disruption to cocaine supplies. Drug trafficking organizations are highly adaptive, with alternative routes readily available. The administration's own recognition that traditional interdiction didn't work led them to this extreme escalation, but killing traffickers at sea will not fundamentally alter market dynamics driven by constant demand and enormous profits under prohibition. The boat strikes, if "normalized," could prepare the ground for grave future outcomes. The administration's willingness to label anonymous victims as "narcoterrorists" creates a template for applying similar labels to domestic opponents—something already visible in the characterization of ICE critics and the victims of Chicago and Minneapolis shootings as "domestic terrorists." Walsh notes that President Trump has expressed his desire to deploy military forces against "the enemy within" on U.S. streets, and the compliance of Southern Command with these illegal orders suggests obedience to the president over the Constitution. "The illegality is not a bug, it's a feature," Walsh concludes. Walsh concludes by emphasizing the importance of litigation on behalf of victims' families, the moral voice of faith leaders, and continued media attention to prevent normalization. These strikes, he argues, are not a peripheral story but central to the administration's declared strategy of dominating the Western Hemisphere through coercion.

As usual there are spoilers ahead!  You can follow the podcast on social media on Threads, Instagram and Bluesky.  If you would like to be a patron of the podcast you can join Patreon and for £3 or $3 a month you can get ad free version of the show. https://www.patreon.com/everyscififilm This episode we track the birth of one of the longest running franchises. Dr Who was first broadcast in 1963 and with the help of some exterminating aliens a film was produced just a couple of years later. I speak to my wonderful Whovian guests about the origins, the hallmarks and the 1960s context of the infamous Doctor including the colourful and shiny 1960s feature films.  Paul Booth is a professor of Media and Pop Culture with a special interest in fandoms on which he has written extensively. He is co-editor of the book Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader.  Lee Arnott is the co-host if the Problematic Gaze podcast. He is a social historian who is currently researching the the social history of Britain since the 1960s through the lens of Doctor Who. Although Australian composer Ron Gainer wrote the music for Dr Who it was Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop who produced the theme.  You can see the Delia Derbyshire clip I mention on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsRuhCflRyg Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:41The BBC origins of the series 04:45 The first episode, changes and differences on the big screen 09:40 The Daleks and Dalekmania 13:20 WW2, Nazis and nuclear fears 19:37 More Daleks 23:33 The Doctor 27:33 What is canon 29:21 The Companions 35:13 The Tardis 38:05 Design 42:02 (The best ever) theme tune 45:46 Legacy 49:22 Success and favourite doctors 53:04 Recommendations Recommendations:  Lee recommended The War Game (1965) and Paul recommended the book Dr. Who & The Daleks: The Official Story of the Films by John Walsh.     NEXT EPISODE! Next episode we will be discussing the 1965 French New Wave science fiction film Alphaville by Jean-Luc Godard. It is easy to rent on main streaming platforms as well as other places in the US including Mubi and Kanopy. To find the film in your region you can visit the Just Watch website.

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On the surface it's a straightforward story. Here in South Florida, somebody took 6-year-old Adam Walsh from the toy department of his neighborhood Sears, where his mother said she'd left him alone for just a few minutes because he'd wanted to play at the video games display while she shopped. Store cameras would have solved this – except it was 1981 and stores didn't yet have them.After two weeks of a huge, unprecedented police and community search, and with the story in the local news every day, men fishing 125 miles upstate in an orange grove canal saw something floating they thought was a doll's head. It was a child's head.Just the head.Cops arriving on the scene figured it was Adam. A DNA comparison with his parents would have been definitive – but this was years before forensic DNA was in use. Fingerprints – there was only a head, no other body part was ever found. A visual ID by his parents – they could have made one, but they sent someone else to go to the morgue. Adam's dental records – while his parents and the news media waited, that was how the ID was done, by a medical examiner who compared them to the found child's teeth. Yes, he declared, it was Adam.Adam's image in his last photograph became the raison d'etre for the Walsh parents, who told their heart-wrenching story in interviews with newspapers and on TV talk shows; in testimony to Congress to urge the enactment of new laws to help find missing children, then at a signing ceremony at the White House Rose Garden; and in two made-for-television movies and a best-selling book. John Walsh became the crusading host of a long-running TV crime show, America's Most Wanted, which helped catch hundreds of violent fugitives. Meanwhile, the police had never solved Adam's case.But kind of lost in all of this was Adam himself.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

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This week's host, Monica Grant, reads 4 articles from the January 2026 issue of Latitude 38 Sailing Magazine. Hear "The To-Do List en Route to the Ha-Ha" by John Walsh, "Then and Now" by Liz Newkirk, "A Sailing Dad's Family Charter" by Pippin Brehler, and "The Secret to a Long Life? Sailing" by Thea Yoshida. Follow along and read the articles at https://www.latitude38.com/issues/january-2026/#36, https://www.latitude38.com/issues/january-2026/#70, https://www.latitude38.com/issues/january-2026/#66, and https://www.latitude38.com/issues/january-2026/#34

On July 27, 1981, six-year-old Adam Walsh vanished from a Sears department store at the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida. Two weeks later, fishermen discovered his severed head in a drainage canal near Vero Beach. His body was never found. This case would transform America's approach to missing children forever, but the question of who actually killed Adam Walsh remains deeply contested to this day. In this episode of The Redacted Report, we go beyond the official narrative to explore the details that rarely make it into documentaries and news specials. We examine the seventeen-year-old security guard whose fateful decision to remove rowdy kids from the store left Adam alone and vulnerable in an unfamiliar parking lot. We dig into the explosive allegations that emerged during the Sears lawsuit, including claims made under oath by Adam's godfather Jimmy Campbell about a four-year affair with Revé Walsh and the family's alleged drug use. We trace the bizarre confession carousel of convicted serial killer Ottis Toole, who admitted to the murder dozens of times only to recant repeatedly, and whose partner Henry Lee Lucas was proven to be in a Maryland jail cell on the day of the abduction. We also investigate the controversial Jeffrey Dahmer theory championed by journalist Arthur Jay Harris and witnesses Willis Morgan and Bill Bowen, who independently identified Dahmer as the suspicious man they saw at the Hollywood Mall that day. Dahmer was living in Miami Beach at the time, working at Sunshine Subs just twenty minutes from where Adam disappeared, and had access to a blue van matching witness descriptions. Former FBI agent Neil Purtell, who interviewed Dahmer in prison, believes the serial killer's cryptic statement that "anyone who killed Adam Walsh could not live in any prison, ever" was essentially a coded admission of guilt. We examine the catastrophic failures of the Hollywood Police Department, including the lost bloodstained carpet from Toole's Cadillac, the missing machete, and the destroyed vehicle that might have provided the DNA evidence needed for a conviction.We question the controversial Luminol photograph that retired detective Joe Matthews compared to the Shroud of Turin, which critics dismiss as forensic pareidolia. And we explore how Police Chief Chad Wagner's 2008 decision to close the case through "exceptional clearance" satisfied the Walsh family but left many investigators and witnesses unconvinced.Through it all, we trace Adam's extraordinary legacy, from the Missing Children Act of 1982 to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to America's Most Wanted to the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006. John Walsh transformed unimaginable grief into systemic change that has protected millions of children and led to the capture of over twelve hundred fugitives.This is the Adam Walsh case as you've never heard it before. The official story says Ottis Toole was the killer. The evidence says something far more complicated.

On July 27, 1981, six-year-old Adam Walsh vanished from a Sears department store in Hollywood, Florida, and America was never the same. This episode of The Guilty Files Podcast examines one of the most infamous child abduction cases in American history, tracing every devastating detail from that summer afternoon at the Hollywood Mall to the sixteen-year investigation that would ultimately point to drifter and serial killer Ottis Toole.We explore the catastrophic failures in evidence handling that allowed a prime suspect to escape justice for decades, the heartbreaking discovery along the Florida Turnpike that confirmed every parent's worst nightmare, and the unprecedented transformation of a grieving father into America's most relentless victims' rights advocate.John Walsh channeled unimaginable loss into a crusade that created America's Most Wanted, helped establish the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and fundamentally changed how law enforcement responds to missing children cases across the United States.This true crime deep dive covers the investigation, the confessions, the controversies, and the lasting legacy of legislation born from tragedy, including the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act and the nationwide AMBER Alert system. From cold case breakthroughs to the modern fight against child predators, Adam's story remains a defining moment in American criminal justice history. Contains detailed discussion of child abduction, homicide investigation, and serial killer psychology.

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Lora Abrador joins Let's Talk Memoir for a conversation weaving together three themes in her memoir, writing about the ancient technique of egg tempura paint, incorporating 300 images in her book, gaining confidence as an artist, struggling to form a lasting romantic partnership, nature vs. nurture, our innate personalities, self-actualization, love addiction, feeling like a wounded bird, really connecting with an editor, publishing options, working with copyeditors, factchecking, recording an audio book, not intending to reveal ourselves but doing so anyway, and her new memoir Art & Love: My Life Illuminated in Egg Tempera.   Info/Registration for Ronit's 10-Week Memoir Class Memoir Writing: Finding Your Story https://www.pce.uw.edu/courses/memoir-writing-finding-your-story   This episode is brought to you by Prose Playground. If you've been writing for years but haven't published, have tons of ideas but can't get them on the page, if you have a book coming out, or you're simply curious about writing, join Prose Playground—an active, supportive writing community for writers at every level. Visit www.ProsePlayground.com to sign up free. Also in this episode:  -trade reviews  -beta readers -proof readers and proof listeners   Books mentioned in this episode:  Editing the RedPen Way: Ten Steps for Successful Self-Editing by Anne Rainbow When She Comes Back: a memoir by Ronit Plank Disconnected: Portrait of a Neurodiverse Marriage by Eleaonor Vincent Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over  by Nell Painter Lab Girl by Hope Jahren Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by Musa Mayer Hold Still by Sally Mann My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand At the age of 19, Lora Arbrador was given a recipe for making egg tempera, a homemade paint that combines colorful pigments with egg yolk. Like a musician with a strong affinity for a particular instrument, Ahrbrador found her creative home in egg tempera.  To support her art practice, Arbrador became a registered nurse and the medical world has been the inspiration for many of her paintings, including the series, Ways of Dying: A Chronicle of the AIDS Epidemic. Her painting, Don't Go My Friend: The Death of John Walsh, MD, won first place at the Art and Healing exhibit at Artwest Gallery.    In 1997, Arbrador co-founded the Society of Tempera Painters which was modeled after the 1901 Society of Painters in Tempera in England.  Her first book, A History of Roman Calligraphy, is housed in the Marjorie G. and Carl W. Stern Book Arts & Special Collections Center of the San Francisco Public Library. Arbrador has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the US, including South Bend Regional Museum of Art, Wenatchee Valley College Art Gallery and the Bade Museum of the Pacific School of Religion. Arbrador is the former Editorial Director of NurseWeek magazine Art & Love: My Life Illuminated in Egg Tempera.   Connect with Lora: Website: www.artandlovebook.com instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arbrador facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arbrador https://www.facebook.com/lora.arbrador/ substack: artblotterplus.substack.com Purchase the book: www.artandlovebook.com/shop   – Ronit's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts' 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories.  She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and teaches memoir through the University of Washington's Online Continuum Program and also independently. She launched Let's Talk Memoir in 2022, lives in Seattle with her family of people and dogs, and is at work on her next book.   More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Subscribe to Ronit's Substack: https://substack.com/@ronitplank   Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank https://bsky.app/profile/ronitplank.bsky.social

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In this episode of PRess Play: The StreetCred Podcast, hosts Elena Krasnow and Jimmy Moock sit down with Sean Allocca, executive editor of The Daily Upside and veteran financial journalist. Sean reflects on his path into financial journalism, what drew him to The Daily Upside and why curiosity remains central to strong reporting. Our conversation with him explores how modern financial media balances credibility with accessibility, and how editors think about storytelling in an increasingly crowded news landscape. We cover: How a passion for writing led Sean to a career in financial journalism His experience at The Daily Upside and how the publication blends serious reporting with humor and pop culture Key lessons from covering markets across multiple financial publications over the years The rise of “new media” and the role AI is beginning to play in shaping financial news Some of Sean's most memorable interviews, including a conversation with John Walsh of America's Most Wanted …and more! Tune in for a candid conversation on modern financial journalism, editorial decision-making and the questions that shape the stories readers see. Topics: (0:37) Meet Sean Allocca (1:44) A New Jersey local (2:38) Don't miss out on Prospect Tavern! (3:08) What's for lunch? (4:38) Joe Duran and a rotisserie chicken (5:23) A disdain for mushrooms and a love for ravioli (7:03) Sean's journey into financial journalism through his passion for writing (7:58) His crime investigative reporting era at Forensic Magazine (8:35) Pivoting to CFO Magazine and the world of corporate finance (10:33) Present day: what drew Sean to The Daily Upside (12:38) The Daily Upside's unique approach and venture into “new media” (13:53) How AI is reshaping the way news is delivered (14:43) A peek behind the curtain of the newsroom: balancing comedy and complex topics (15:48) America's Next Top Model (Portfolio) (16:23) Lessons from covering markets and finance across multiple financial publications (16:42) Never stop asking questions (17:46) PR spins (debunked in StreetCred's most recent blog by Jill Casey Pintor) (18:38) A special interest in investing: options, derivatives and different asset classes (20:15) Suitability vs. fiduciary (21:49) A shift toward being more fiduciary and a corresponding shift in the way firms market themselves (23:28) A few stories and interviews that have stood out to Sean over the years (23:48) Sean shares his PR horror stories (24:05) Interview with John Walsh from America's Most Wanted (24:34) Sitting down with Peter Mallouk, Josh Brown, Kunal Kapoor and others (25:16) The process of preparing for interviews (27:02) A fun game Sean's brother likes to play when Sean is hosting an interview (28:07) Have you heard of Harry Mack? (28:37) Shout out to Sean's brother (28:47) The revival of Jimmy the Moock! (29:24) Time for our Play segment! (29:46) An alternate life as a musician (31:07) The benefits of classical music, for humans, cats and plants (33:34) Sean's favorite things to do for fun: museums, exploring new places (34:07) A plug for the bounties of Philadelphia (35:20) Moment of gratitude (36:42) Look out for a joke on circumventing mushrooms in the next newsletter! Connect with StreetCred PR: Contact Us: https://streetcredpr.com/contact/  StreetCred PRWebsite: https://streetcredpr.com/  Elena Krasnow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elena-krasnow/  Elena Krasnow on X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/elenaspeaking  Jimmy Moock on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmy-moock-3103162/  Jimmy Moock on X (Twitter):  https://twitter.com/jimmymoock  StreetCred PR on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/streetcred-publicrelations/  StreetCred PR on X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/StreetCred_PR  Subscribe to PRess Play on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@StreetCredPR  Connect with Sean Allocca: The Daily Upside: https://www.thedailyupside.com/  Sean Allocca on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanallocca/  The Prospect Tavern: https://www.theprospecttavern.com/  About our Guest:  Sean Allocca is Executive Editor of The Daily Upside and an award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of finance experience. He was formerly the editor-in-chief of ETF.com where he led business development and editorial strategies. He also served as managing editor of the wealth management publications InvestmentNews and Financial Planning, and as editor of the corporate finance publication CFO Magazine.  Publishing Tags: PRess Play, StreetCred PR, Podcast, Financial Journalism, Financial Media, The Daily Upside, Sean Allocca, Elena Krasnow, Jimmy Moock, Wealth Management, Media Relations, Newsroom Insights, Behavioral Finance, New Media, AI in Journalism, Personal Stories, Editorial Strategy, Financial News, Behind the Scenes

Ce qui aurait pu relever de la science-fiction il y a encore quelques années est bien réel à Dublin, la capitale irlandaise : des repas peuvent désormais arriver par les airs. Pizza, cafés, repas... Certaines commandes sont aujourd'hui livrées directement chez l'habitude, à l'aide de drones. Pour l'instant, une seule entreprise propose ce service. Mais cette petite révolution technologique est loin de plaire à tout le monde.  De notre correspondante à Dublin, Seamus Doyle vit dans un quartier résidentiel, à l'ouest de Dublin, là où s'est installée une start-up spécialisée dans la livraison par drones. Depuis, son quotidien a changé : il ne supporte plus les vols incessants au-dessus de sa maison. « Il y en a un autre qui passe maintenant ! Ça fait dix minutes qu'on est là et on en a vu quatre passer ! On entend un bourdonnement constamment, qui passe au-dessus, c'est comme si une voiture traversait votre jardin ! C'est agaçant quand vous aviez l'habitude de simplement profiter de votre extérieur et de la faune,qui désormais est effrayée par les drones ! Nous avons un arbuste fruitier dans le jardin qu'on doit toujours protéger des oiseaux et maintenant, on n'a plus besoin de le protéger, car les oiseaux ne nichent plus ici », déplore-t-il. Seamus n'est pas le seul à être agacé. Avec d'autres habitants, il a fondé le collectif « Drone Action Dublin 15 » : « Les drones perturbent des personnes sensibles au bruit, des gens qui essaient de dormir pendant la journée parce qu'ils travaillent la nuit. Mais il y a aussi des préoccupations concernant la vie privée : ces drones ont des caméras. On nous dit qu'ils n'enregistrent pas, mais ils regardent bien dans les jardins pour déposer les livraisons ! » À lire aussiEn Inde, la livraison ultra-rapide des objets du quotidien et des repas explose Une réglementation qui reste à établir  La start-up derrière ce service prévoit déjà de s'étendre au sud de Dublin. Elle n'est pas seule : Iona, arrivée il y a quelques mois, tente, elle aussi, de s'implanter. Or ici, pas de pizzas ou de fast-food, leurs drones transportent des colis de 10 à 20 kilos, ciblant les zones rurales et mal desservies, comme l'explique le dirigeant français, Étienne Louvet : « Il y a de plus en plus de e-commerce, de plus en plus de colis, mais c'est la chose la plus compliquée à livrer pour les logisticiens, surtout dans les zones qui n'ont pas une densité de population élevée. Donc, on va laisser une partie des zones rurales sans accès à des produits ! » Le secteur de la livraison par drones décolle donc à toute vitesse en Irlande, ce qui pousse certains politiques à réclamer une réglementation rapide. « En réalité, les habitants du quartier ont été traités comme des cobayes, pour un service non testé et non réglementé, condamne John Walsh, conseiller municipal à l'ouest de Dublin. Je pense que certaines livraisons par drone – par exemple de produits sanguins ou de produits médicaux – sont tout à fait acceptables, mais ce dont nous parlons ici, c'est d'une livraison à grande échelle de fast-food ! Ce n'est donc certainement pas un service essentiel ou nécessaire ! » Amazon et Google veulent aussi se lancer dans la livraison par drones, pour tout type de produits. Fixer des règles devient nécessaire, afin d'éviter avant que le ciel irlandais ne se transforme en jungle aérienne.  À lire aussiLivraisons à domicile : un modèle déjà à bout de souffle ?

In this episode of Manager Minute, host Carol Pankow welcomes Dr. Chaz Compton and Dr. Meera Adya, co-directors of the new National Vocational Rehabilitation Technical Assistance Center (NVRTAC). They discuss how the Center builds on decades of innovation in vocational rehabilitation (VR) to unify training, evaluation, and technology that strengthen state VR agencies across the nation. Partnering with The George Washington University, the National Disability Institute, CSAVR, YesLMS, Case Review Solutions, SaraWorks, and Intellitech, the NVRTAC delivers comprehensive technical assistance to enhance performance, fiscal management, and employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities. Key initiatives include AI-driven tools such as SaraWorks and Case Amplify, designed to reduce administrative burdens and capture real-world impact. The team is also launching leadership and fiscal talent development programs, expanding recruitment and retention efforts, and embedding continuous evaluation across all initiatives. Their goal is to achieve measurable outcomes, real change, and a stronger, more efficient VR system serving individuals with disabilities.   Listen Here   Full Transcript:   {Music} Chaz: Right now, not ten years from now, but right today, we have the capacity to. Turn our administrative burden into an AI driven function that alleviates that burden.   Meera: Input is getting provided at the beginning and the middle at the end all over again. It really is that measurable and real change and ongoing calibration towards that is our North star.   Chaz: And having actual measurable outcome improvements. So simple as that.   Carol: That sounds good. How about you? What do you think?   Meera: Nothing to add. Measurable outcomes. Real change. Drop the mic.   Carol: Boom! I love it.   {Music} Intro Voice: Manager Minute, brought to you by the Vocational Rehabilitation Technical Assistance Center. Conversations powered by VR. One manager at a time, one minute at a time. Here is your host, Carol Pankow.   Carol: Well, welcome to the Manager Minute. Joining me in the studio today are my close colleagues, doctor Chaz Compton and Doctor Meera Adya, Co-project directors of the new National Vocational Rehabilitation Technical Assistance Center, or VRTAC for short. So woohoo you guys! I'm so excited to have you here. How are things going Chaz?   Chaz: Wonderful. Very busy and very happy to be here. Thank you.   Carol: Excellent. How about you, Meera? How's it going?   Meera: Pretty good.   Carol: Awesome. Well, glad to have you both. I just want to give a little bit of history for our listeners. The Vocational Rehabilitation Technical Assistance Centers have a long and rich history rooted in the Rehabilitation Act itself. And from the very beginning, the act recognized that helping individuals with disabilities achieve meaningful employment requires more than just funding. It requires a system of continuous learning, innovation and improvement. And that's why the Rehabilitation Services Administration has long invested in national technical assistance centers to strengthen state VR agencies, build staff capacity and ensure programs stay aligned with evolving regulations, Relations, research and best practices, and over the years, these centers from the early TACE centers to WINTAC and the QM and QE and AIVR TAC and all the things, and now the new NBR tech have become the backbone of progress in our field, helping translate policy into practice and ensuring that the promise of the Rehabilitation Act remains strong for the next generation. So let's dig in. Gang, can you tell our listeners a little bit about yourselves and your journey into VR? And, Chaz, I'm going to kick it to you first.   Chaz: Okay. Gosh, it's been 40 years now. Hard to believe. I started with a community rehab program 40 years ago this year.   Carol: Wow.   Chaz: A few years later, I moved into the public VR program in California. I was a counselor, a supervisor, and then a district administrator and got my doctorate degree at San Diego State University and moved over and directed the TA Center 15 years ago, and then the WINTAC and then the VRTAC-QM and now the what we call the VR TAC, the national VRTAC.   Carol: That is awesome. I did not realize it was 40 whole years. Chaz, I think we're pretty close in age to each other.   Chaz: It's been a while.   Carol: Meera, how about you? How'd you get your journey into this world?   Meera: Well, my work has always been at the intersection of empiricism and law and policy. So I'm a researcher and evaluator. I've done projects looking at how people with disabilities can be successful in workplaces and communities, thinking about inter work and the VR system. More specifically, I became engaged first as a partner, leading the program evaluation for Interworks Wintech centre. And then Chaz convinced me to come to Interworks continue doing what I was doing by taking the lead on the program evaluation for the VR, QM, and then our portfolio at Interworks has grown. Now there are several disability innovation grants and customized employment projects in addition to the TAC that we are leading the evaluation on. And Chaz then offered me the opportunity to continue growing my work, and here I am as the co-director of the center as a whole, and I'm honored and thrilled to support Chaz and our team. Take the work with VR and its partners forward to improve outcomes for people with disabilities.   Carol: I love it Meera, and you're a good addition, and we're really happy to have you as the Co-project director, too. So what is the overarching purpose of our new VR TAC?   Chaz: It is to provide technical assistance and training that will help VR agencies and their partners improve service delivery and increase the quantity and quality of employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities being served by VR program and their partners. Our major focus areas include helping agencies effectively manage the program, the performance of the program, the fiscal side of the program and their resources, and helping them identify and implement effective employment strategies and practices that accomplish the overarching goal of helping improve outcomes and service delivery. That's the big picture.   Carol: It is cool because it's like soup to nuts. I think sometimes, you know, the previous TAC, you know, they had very kind of more specific focus. And then with the QM and like QE too, you know, it expanded. But now we've got the whole shebang in one place.   Chaz: Mhm.   Carol: Very fun. Meera do you have anything you wanted to add to that?   Meera: Sure. I was just thinking about all the work that Chaz has been doing, the messages he sends us and how we've come together and so far trying to put it into an encapsulation. I've been coming up with one team or his words, but I think just such a good representation and you'll see that now in our messaging going forward, but also a yes. And we don't say no. We find a way to work together and is so what, what is the measurable change that's going to result from the work we do? I think you're going to see that over the next five years constantly coming up.   Carol: Yeah, I like that, Meera. You got to keep us grounded in that. About the so what? So what we can do lots of activities. But so what about them? And I see, Chaz, you're smiling at me because, you know, I'm an activity person. And it's like, but what's the benefit from what we did? So how does the new TAC build on the work in the lessons that were learned from all the previous work?   Chaz: Well, to say we've learned some lessons along the way, especially in the last ten years, would be an understatement. There have been the implementation of WIOA and all of the requirements associated with that, living through all of the implementation with agencies, helping them respond to that effectively, looking at the demographic shift in the field to youth, where now the majority of the people we serve are 24 years of age or younger. Looking at going into and out of Covid and how that changed service delivery, how the fiscal landscape of the program changed accordingly, how we have seen the pendulum shift fiscally from one side to the other and now back again. All of that has helped inform, I think, the development of our technical assistance and the training and the way we go into this new center. So we have just a bunch of lived experience, if you will, along with agencies. So what they have gone through, we have gone through with them, and I think we can help them successfully navigate the future. And while at the same time responding to the challenges that they face right now. So all of that, I think, really has laid an important foundation for the VRTAC and the work we're going to be doing with agencies.   Carol: I think you hit the nail with that. I think about all the last five years, even the work I've done and our team has done and how deep we got in with agencies like it felt like we were part. I often talk when I'm in at agency, I talk about we like I'm part of them because you're enmeshed in everything they're doing and their systems and their people and their meetings and all of their things. You become so ingrained with them. It really helped you to get such a clear picture of what was happening and helps really get maybe at the root of some of the issues and to develop that work fundamentally so that the seeds we laid could really grow and germinate and keep going forever and keep growing and growing and growing. So it isn't just a one shot. We did a little quick training and we're out of there. It really became such a deep lesson. Meera, how about for you with that lessons learned? I'm sure evaluation wise there are things you were thinking about as well.   Meera: Oh, absolutely. We have all of our past evaluation reports and findings, and we can keep looking at those. And I certainly keep bringing them up whenever it strikes me that there's a relevant point that comes forward again. And you can see with the way that Chaz has put together these innovative partners and projects, a continuation of the successful approaches and partnerships as well, and just a laser focus on measurable change that evolution and improvement and lessons learned is just baked into the center. As a research and evaluator, I know firsthand how the knowledge translation pipeline takes time, but it can take less time when you work directly with stakeholders from the beginning, and that's what's happening with us. Chaz has always taken evaluation seriously, woven it into the very fabric of the work. Stakeholders are the partners. They hold us accountable. We continuously are learning what's working. Pivot when needs must.   Carol: Well said Meera. Thank you for that. What current challenges do you guys see in the VR system that make a unified national TA center so important right now?   Chaz: To say that efficiency, accountability and improved outcomes are important would be an understatement. And this is not a new focus, of course. I mean, you have to go back to the movement of the Rehabilitation Act under the Workforce Investment Act of 1988, which was really an attempt to improve efficiency and refrain from duplication of services and improve outcomes and all that stuff. And that focus has just grown and grown,   Carol: right.   Chaz: and so a unified center is I mean, it really is helpful to ensure that everything is administrated under one center that we're focused on, you know, whether it's focused on improving performance, like on the performance measures, like improving an agency's ability to manage their fiscal resources or implement employment strategies like, say, customized employment, a unified center can address all of these aspects together, holistically, understand how they interact with each other and an agency. Instead of having 2 or 3 different entities trying to work together with a VR program differently, with different ways of doing business, ways of interacting all that. So it just is a very efficient, I hope. Anyway, an enhanced holistic way of working with an agency. Ultimately, I believe that will contribute to increasing the likelihood of positive outcomes.   Carol: I like the part with the employment being in with us now. Not that employment wasn't in our mind, but it was distant because we'd always put it like we, you know, we're referring folks over to the Q2E, but now with it all integrated, it really does kind of front and center. You're thinking about the fiscal things that my group is working at and how our impact is helping the program, maybe for stability or whatever may be going on, does impact the employment outcomes in the end, and the funds that are available and whether people go on an order or not, you know, all those kind of things. So I like that having it all together, it's a little closer, at least in my head. Meera, did you have any thoughts about that one as well?   Meera: I echo everything you both have said. The unified voice. Central voice. This center has always been a supportive voice. It is always on, always available, and that continues to be really needed. That is something we've heard in the evaluation interviews and feedback that we've received is that folks really appreciate being able to just call, get someone on the other end, get an answer right away, send an email, hear back right away. The responsiveness and the targeted information that they need has been phenomenal. And so looking forward to that continuing. And now across the whole range and spectrum of what technical assistance is needed. As you both have said, It's a time of, you know, as was said, significant change requirements may be shifting again, a laser focus on efficiency and effectiveness of work, which is right. And, you know, in the broader context, we're seeing significant disruption in the work world. And the future of work has been talked about. The future of work is here today. It's the today of how we work. And agencies need help navigating all of that with their customers. There's a lot for our stakeholders and our partners to navigate. I think we've seen from the evaluation feedback, this is where our team under Chaz really excels. It just brings together the many. It brings together the a lot. It goes to the heart of it and meets it on the grant.   Carol: Yeah. You lead into my next question about the partners on the grant because we have a deep bench. I mean, I felt like we had really phenomenal folks on the QM grant. But when I look at the partners you all have brought together for this, and we're on our first meetings and you've got, you know, 30 people in the Hollywood Squares instead of a dozen or so. It's a cool bunch, and people with such interesting expertise. So Chaz, who are the partners on our grant?   Chaz: Our biggest and primary partner is the George Washington University. We've been partners with them for really since national centers were funded. They were part of the WINTAC, part of the QM, and now we'll be a obviously a critical part of the VR TAC Every single one of them is a doer. Their hands are have their hands have gotten dirty and providing like literally in the trenches to just like our own staff at work Institute at San Diego State. We just have been, practically speaking, teammates for a very long time. We know each other well, we work together well, and we're very confident in each other's work. GW a big, huge partner of ours. Then there's the National Disability Institute, which is also a longtime partner of ours. They'll be helping with the employment strategies component of things and just are a very well respected, nationally known institute that is really has some super interesting and helpful information and resources and knowledge along with the rest of the team. Of course, many of our listeners will know. Yes LMS, we're working with Linda and her team this time around, expanding our available training resources to users out there. CSAVR of course, is another long time partner. Everybody knows them. Sara Works is a partner of ours as well. Sara Works has been a partner again since the WINTAC days and, you know, has done all kinds of work with us in terms of developing Sara, the AI program to help act as an assistant to VR programs, communication tool and so on. Then we have Case Review Solutions. It's just a new partner of ours this time around focused on quality assurance, case reviews, contract monitoring. So another use of software and technology to basically provide solutions to VR programs. And another new partner this time around in Intellitech, which has created a program called Case Amplify, which is an AI driven system, which we'll talk about here in a few minutes, but we're really excited about this one as well, because it provides an opportunity for agencies to see how things could potentially be different and more effective into the future. So those are our primary partners, yeah.   Carol: yeah. It's exciting. It's a cool group of people I really was thrilled to see in the very secret proposal that you would not share with us before we went in, and then you see what all the things are that are going to happen. You are always known, though, Chaz, for being the guy. You have those little fun projects that become part of the grant that you know, live on and people are able to carry out and they've created really cool things. This proposal with the exciting AI initiatives, can you share what tools like Case, Amplify and Sara Works are going to mean for state VR agencies?   Chaz: Absolutely. And I think it's important for folks to understand the why. Right. Like, why are these it's not just because they're fun and they are super fun. You're right. But there really is a reason behind developing these projects. And the primary reason is as agencies have implemented Wioa and this kind of goes back to lessons learned, right? We know that the data elements for, for instance, for the 911 and just the recording processes and all of the administrative responsibilities associated with being in compliance with the law and the regulations is a burden. It's a struggle, and especially in a period of time where recruitment and retention has been a challenge across the country. You know, when you lose people and they're the ones responsible for gathering and reporting this data, IT becomes a real challenge on everybody else. And I honestly, in my heart of hearts, believe that embracing advanced technology is the way out of this. It's the way to effectively respond to it. It's not by hiring more people to do administrative stuff, although that would be wonderful. But, you know, we're in this situation for a reason. And now we have right now, not ten years from now, but right today we have the capacity to turn our administrative burden into an AI driven function that alleviates that burden from VR staff. And that's what the why is behind this? Why are we doing this? Because we want agencies to see and participate. If you know, if they're able and willing in these projects to see what the impact could be. Now, of course, we don't know, for instance, what the impact will fully be. We have a vision for it. But part of what this is is an experiment, right? It's a pilot, if you will, to make sure that we can see how it works. So the idea is that and I'll take Sara because Sara's been around for a while now. A lot of agencies know Sara. They know what's possible. Several of them use the program. Now, in our case, like under the VR tech, we're going to be using Sara to do something for pre-employment transition services that we haven't done yet. Now we're ten years. 11 years. Well, I guess ten years really post implementation 2016 was the full implementation. So we're approaching the ten year mark. And while we focused on implementing projects and tracking and reporting and down to the individual consumer level and all that good stuff. Making sure costs are allowable, that people are spending their 15%, all that good stuff. What we haven't done a very good job of yet is evaluating the impact of those services on individuals themselves. Like how has it impacted them? What does it mean in terms of their future employability or future involvement in post-secondary Ed or whatever it is we're trying to determine? And so using Sara specifically to communicate and gather information with students or former students on the impact of periods, and then analyzing that data and showing the impact, that's really where we're zeroed in on this project for Sara Works. Case Amplify, well let me go to CRS. So Case Review Solutions is a new software program developed by two of our former colleagues in the WINTAC and the QM, Rachel Anderson and Brittany McIvor. So they know right? Like what is it about the review system, the case review process, the process, the quality assurance process that is lacking the internal control process, right? How do we fix that or help fix it anyway? Or help states analyze where the deficiencies are and then give them information real time quickly along multiple levels to help them address it so that it's not a consistent finding and monitoring reviews so that they're on top of the changes that they need to make. So again, it's another technology solution to a challenge facing agencies. And they're also developing a contract monitoring tool that's going to be available later on in the project. That will help states monitor another big one. Right. We hear all the time is we're not sure like whether those contracts are doing what they should be doing and the quality of service delivery and all that stuff. So that's going to help with that. Case Amplify is a AI program that Intellitech has developed. It's so exciting to talk about how this could potentially change. And I mean really change the way that VR staff are gathering and populating information into the case through case management system. Ultimately, it has the capacity ultimately to make the process hands free. That is, you can talk to an individual, and this system is listening and gathering information and populating all over into the CMS important data elements, summarizing meetings. And believe it or not, like if it does what we really want it to do, it's going to actually fill in the 911 data elements automatically based on these conversations at critical points along the pathway.   Carol: That's a game changer for people that alone with those what, 400 elements like that is a game changer.   Chaz: Yeah, I could not be more excited about this one than I am. I just think it's going to be revolutionary. You know, it's still in its development phase fully. It's still going to be kind of an experiment with agencies and how it integrates into their existing CMS. But that's part of why we call it a pilot, because it's supposed to be a way to kind of see if things work the way we want it to work.   Carol: It's so cool. I am really excited. I'm also excited about the whole evaluation part of projects because I long thought, you know, when I was back in Minnesota blind and we were getting all those funds spent on students and I'm like, we're getting at these kids earlier. I just knew in my heart of hearts like, this is going to make such a difference in their trajectory is going forward and employment, they're going to start better. They're going to start better in college because they're going to have all this exposure to things they had not had any exposure to. Finally, the time we get at being able to measure, is that really coming true? I mean, I believe it to be true, but it'll be nice to actually quantify it and go, yeah, this is what's happening for people. And we can see the real difference. And that investment that Congress had said all those years ago, we're going to invest in these kids. And they did it for a reason. And now the proof is going to be in the pudding with the results. I love it. So, Chaz, one of your goals was to strengthen the workforce. So tell us a little bit about the VR Fiscal Talent Accelerator and NRLI, the National Rehabilitation Leadership Institute.   Chaz: Yeah. Great. So most people know NRLI. They've heard about it in the past and or even many participated. I remember at one point a few years ago at a conference, Steve Wooderson said, hey, how many people here have gone to NRLI. And I swear, three quarters of the room raised their hand. So it's over 20 years old now, and it's a training program specifically targeted at the executive leadership level, staff of the VR program and preparing them over a year long process where we meet in person for a week, four weeks out of the year, three times in San Diego, one time in Washington, DC. And there's coaching and training contacts that go on throughout the course of the year in a cohort model. So that is supported by the VRTAC this time around. So that's kind of our primary executive leadership training tool. Then we're developing something new this time around. For those of you who are listening, who are familiar with the management concepts training that was part of the QM, that was the VR grants management certificate program that we developed as part of that center. This time around, we are specifically zeroing in on the fiscal folks in VR and preparing a kind of like, nearly like program for them, where we'll use the same cohort model. I'm not certain of all the details yet, but obviously, Carol, you'll be a super important part of that one. And we'll provide an opportunity for fiscal staff in VR agencies who some obviously like every other position turnover at times. And when they do turnover, if they take the knowledge with them and nobody's coming behind them, it can be really challenging. So the Fiscal Talent Accelerator program will be a way to help them understand all of the responsibilities right under fiscal responsibilities in the VR grant, helping them really manage those resources and effectively so that the agency has both not just in compliance, but has the resources available to serve as many folks as possible.   Carol: Absolutely. Yeah. I'm super excited about all of these projects. We've got a lot of work ahead. I know also, we had started spending some time under the QM addressing, you know, the recruitment and retention issues and leadership development and such. So how do you see that kind of expanding in the new grant?   Chaz: Well, it's definitely expanding. And so we're very excited about that because we know clearly that recruitment and retention especially was a just a real, real issue in the last five years. So we had a recruitment and retention pilot under the QM that worked with four states. And we have some really helpful tools and toolkits developed as a result of that. That's on the QM site now, will be brought forward under the VRTAC, but more importantly will be going into phase two from that process under the VRTAC, looking again at implementing those strategies and practices for recruitment and retention with other agencies, tracking the impact of that over time, and expanding the scope of that. John Walsh was really helpful in leading that effort under the QM, and he'll be doing that again. Also, we're developing onboarding resources for VR programs this time around, helping agencies kind of identify both what to include and giving them actual stuff and resources to include in an onboarding program for VR staff. We're moving beyond just the executive level of training for nearly into mid-level management and supervisory training. Training specifically targeted at those groups, which I think will be really helpful and certainly very needed and engaging in succession planning processes with agencies, both strategic planning and succession planning understanding the two of them are clearly linked, but giving agencies some real strategies and practices on how to develop a succession plan and implement that, so that we're not faced with this sort of mass exodus of institutional knowledge. When people both retire or resign and we're like, oh no, what do we do now? Right. So hopefully we're intending to create resources, training tools to help agencies address that proactively.   Carol: And we have some really awesome staff on this grant. This time around too, that can help. Our bench is deeper. You know, even in this area that are going to be able to help do that. So definitely. Meera, you have something you want to throw in there. I didn't forget you.   Meera: Oh I don't think so. Chaz covered all the practices and new projects really well.   Carol: Okay, Meera, I want you to tackle this one about the evaluation and data driving that ongoing improvement coming forward. Do you have thoughts about that? How's that going to look?   Meera: Sure. I think I spoke to this a little bit earlier, but to pick up from that thread, I mean, that is something we are consistently doing. We have multiple channels and approaches that monitor the work and the change that are taking place. We have custom built apps and tools that our IT group has created, so we can make sure that we're setting up plans and staying on track with the agencies and the work that we're doing with them. And we have stakeholders, partners, customers, all of whom can provide feedback in different ways. We meet regularly to discuss what we are hearing and what we are seeing. Formally speaking, we have two reports that are compiled and shared broadly, internally and with stakeholders. We hold meetings, review the findings, and consider recommendations by taking that report apart and into little bite, but continuously throughout the year. We're not waiting for those big report moments. Evaluation Group has been woven into the work we do. They are a part of all the regular meetings that are taking place for the center, and input is getting provided at the beginning and the middle at the end, all over again. It really is that measurable and real change and ongoing calibration towards that is our North star. That will continue to be so.   Carol: Led by the awesome you, which will be great.   Chaz: Exactly.   Carol: My final question to you too what will success look like for the VRTAC over the next five years. And Chaz, I'll ask you first.   Chaz: Well, it will be demonstrably changing for the better outcomes in the VR program and service delivery. It will be serving individuals with the kind of commitment to meeting their individual needs and wants and desires and employment factors, and agencies operating efficiently and effectively and having actual measurable outcome improvements. So simple as that.   Carol: That sounds good. Meera, how about you? What do you think?   Meera: Nothing to add. He stole it right there at the end. Measurable outcomes. Real change. Drop the mic.   Carol: Boom! I love it. So, how do people find you?   Chaz: Our website will be VRTAC or just VRTAC.org. We have the site kind of really in its shell form right now. We're developing it. Give us a couple of months to get it fully going, but if you need to reach us, you can certainly contact any of us through the channels that you would normally reach us through the VRTAC-QM. Can send an email to me or to you or anybody else on the team. And at this point, I think most agencies are able to reach us in whatever way they want. But soon the website will be up and running and they can get us there or any number of ways.   Carol: Awesome. Well, I sure appreciate both joining me this morning. It was super cool. And we can check back in in a couple years too and go like, woo, where are things now? It'll be fun to report on some more successes. So thank you both. Have a great day.   Chaz: Thanks, Carol. Appreciate you having us.   Meera: Thank you.   Outro Voice: Conversations powered by VR. One manager at a time. One minute at a time. Brought to you by the VRTAC. 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In this bonus episode of The Filmumentaries Podcast, host Jamie Benning, that's me... talks with author and filmmaker John Walsh about his new book The Art and Making of Gladiator II. Walsh discusses how he was approached by Abrams Books and Paramount Pictures to chronicle the creation of Ridley Scott's Gladiator sequel, offering rare insights into the production design, visual effects, and creative collaboration behind one of the most ambitious films of the decade. The conversation explores how Walsh handled the challenge of documenting a still-in-production movie, his access to thousands of behind-the-scenes images, and the process of balancing art direction, photography, and storytelling in an official studio book. We also look ahead to Walsh's next project — a deep dive into The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and reflect on the enduring value of physical “making-of” books in today's digital film culture.BUY THE BOOK HEREThis podcast is completely independent and made possible by listener support. If you'd like to help me keep making these episodes, you can join my Patreon community here: https://patreon.com/jamiebenning Watch more on YouTube:Check out the Filmumentaries YouTube channel for behind-the-scenes clips and extra content: https://youtube.com/filmumentariesAll my links

In part two of our deep dive into the tragic kidnapping and murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh, we explore the high-profile suspects, including the controversial confessions that shaped the investigation. We also examine how Adam's father, John Walsh, turned unimaginable loss into a lifelong mission—using his grief to fuel change through America's Most Wanted and decades of victim advocacy. Join us as we discuss the legacy of the Walsh family and how their fight for justice transformed the way missing children cases are handled across the nation.Intro music by Joe Buck YourselfHosts Heather and Dylanwww.mountainmurderspodcast.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mountain-murders--3281847/support.

An invasive species has taken hold in the Waikato River, and it's multiplying fast. Gold clams, tiny but relentless, are now found along a large stretch of the awa, where they threaten water infrastructure, and native species. Where might it invade next, and can we control it? Sign up to the Our Changing World monthly newsletter for episode backstories, science analysis and more.Learn more:Among their other conservation activities, the team at Kids Greening Taupō have taken on the challenge of speaking to every class about the gold clam to raise awareness.MPI's John Walsh spoke to Paddy Gower on Nine to Noon after last year's gold clam survey, and more recently to Kathryn Ryan about following the rules to prevent the clam's spread this trout fishing season.In Auckland, efforts are underway to protect the native kākahi from the threats of introduced fish.Guests:Dr Michele Melchior, Earth Sciences New ZealandKarl Safi, Earth Sciences New ZealandGo to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

October 15, 2025 ~ John Walsh, President and CEO Michigan Manufacturing Association joins Sandy Baruah in for Paul W Smith. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The 1983 made-for-TV movie Adam tells the true story of six-year-old Adam Walsh, who was abducted from a Sears department store in Hollywood, Fl in July 1981. The movie follows his parents, John and Reve Walsh, as they struggle with the devastating loss of their son and the failures of the system meant to protect children. The real-life case behind the movie had a lasting impact. John Walsh became a well-known victims' rights advocate and later hosted America's Most Wanted. The Walsh family helped establish the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Adam remains one of the most influential true crime TV movies in American history, remembered not just for its emotional storytelling but for the real change it helped create. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Danielle and Lindsey are joined once again by our pal John Walsh, best known as Super Eyepatch Wolf on YouTube. It's been a while since he joined us, so we're excited to catch up.Plus we'll discuss a bit more about WWE's WrestlePalooza, AEW's All Out and where the Big Business TKO version of WWE is falling short.The Main EventWell in the never ending parade of wrestling news from the last five years, one of the biggest stories from this year is John Cena. He has five more dates left in his career but the road to that farewell has been chaos.The Three CountJohn put over the new stars to appreciate at All OutLindsey put over our new world champion.Danielle put over our OTHER new world champion!Hosted by Danielle Radford, Lindsey Kelk and John WalshFollow the show on Instagram, TikTok, BlueSky and YouTubeGive us a five star rating on your podcatcher of choice.The show is produced by Julian Burrell for Maximum Fun. 

Ep 383: 2003, Turkey away in Istanbul, qualification for Euro 2004 is at stake. We all wanted to be there, but the FA said No. This is the story of how John ‘Walshy' Walsh slipped through the net to be one of only a few there. Plus I have some exciting news about the Football Content Awards. Running time 44:25 Join the debate in our Facebook group at http://bit.ly/2hnHBzi http://www.threelionspodcast.com http://www.Twitter.com/3LionsPodcast http://www.Twitter.com/Russell_Osborne

Since late August, the Trump administration has sent a flotilla of U.S. warships to the southern Caribbean, in the largest naval display in the region in decades. On September 2, a U.S. drone strike sank a small boat near the Venezuelan coast, killing as many as eleven civilians. Administration officials allege the vessel carried cocaine, but have presented no evidence. In this WOLA Podcast episode, Adam Isacson speaks with Laura Dib, Director for Venezuela, and John Walsh, Director for Drug Policy and the Andes, about the shockwaves from this escalation, both region-wide and especially in Venezuela. An Extreme New Military Stance: Seven warships and up to 7,000 personnel now patrol Caribbean waters near Venezuela. A lethal strike on September 2 marks, as Walsh calls it, “a radical departure” from decades of U.S. maritime drug-interdiction practice. Serious Legal and Human-Rights Implications: U.S. law authorizes interdiction of illegal drugs, not summary execution. “There's a word in English for an act like this,” Walsh warns. “That word is murder.” International law allows the use of force only in self-defense or with the approval of the UN Security Council—neither applies. U.S. law and policy, too, prohibit the use of lethal force on civilians without a self-defense justification. That is so even if those civilians are labeled “terrorists,” if there is no link to the September 11, 2001 attacks, and no explicit congressional authorization for the use of force. The Venezuela Context: After fraudulent July 2024 elections, Nicolás Maduro governs without legitimacy, with widespread persecution and what Dib calls “reasons to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed.” There is also a clear connection between large-scale corruption and the complex humanitarian emergency in which the country is immersed. Criminal economies flourish in a regime of state-embedded drug trafficking, but Venezuela is not the busiest route for U.S.-bound cocaine. The Reality of the U.S. Drug Overdose Crisis: The U.S. overdose emergency is driven by fentanyl and other opioids “that come almost entirely through Mexico,” Walsh notes, “with zero to do with anything in the Caribbean.” At least as of 2022, 80 percent of cocaine also transits the Pacific route via Central America and Mexico, not the Caribbean. U.S. Political Calculations: Trump administration officials boast of the strike and hint at more. They frame Venezuela as a “narco-terror” threat while simultaneously maintaining oil licenses, cooperating on deportations, and even meeting with Maduro earlier this year. Walsh warns the move feeds a domestic narrative of an “invasion” of migrants and organized crime groups to justify domestic use of emergency powers. Regional and Global Fallout: Some Latin American governments show “striking silence,” Dib observes, torn between defending sovereignty and condemning Maduro's abuses. The OAS and UN have issued only mild calls for de-escalation, reflecting both U.S. pressure and Venezuela's authoritarian reality. Both guests outline alternatives: Cut the Financial Lifelines: Dib calls for re-establishing the Justice Department's Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative to seize billions in stolen Venezuelan assets. The U.S. government should coordinate more closely with Europe and Latin America to track the proceeds of corruption and undermine the economic pillar of support for authoritarian governments with connections to illicit economies. Support Civil Society and Rule of Law: It is urgent to restore programming previously administered by USAID that sustains independent journalism and human-rights groups now operating under threat, and to use universal-jurisdiction statutes to prosecute Venezuelan officials responsible for torture or other grave abuses. Address U.S. Drug Demand at Home: Expand and strengthen harm-reduction and treatment—naloxone distribution, methadone access—that have begun to lower overdose deaths. Reject the false promise of militarized interdiction that decades of evidence show to be ineffective and costly. As Isacson sums up, “From overdose prevention to supporting civil society in Venezuela to curbing illicit financial flows…the administration is taking key tools out of its toolbox” while swinging a military sledgehammer. Other resources from WOLA: September 8 - Q&A: Tension between Venezuela and the United States: between truth and theater September 3 - Lethal U.S. military strike on alleged drug traffickers sets a dangerous precedent in the “war on drugs” August 14 - One year since the presidential election of July 28, 2024: the Venezuelan crisis August 13 - Five Reasons Why Trump's Anti-Cartel Military Plan Will Fail

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Willis Morgan - Frustrated Witness - Jeffrey Dahmer - Adam Walsh Case Parts 1 & 2Jul 19, 2023Two unforgettable names; one tragic case: how are Jeffrey Dahmer and Adam Walsh related? In Frustrated Witness, Willis Morgan details the mountain of evidence that points to America's most notorious serial killer as the real murderer of Adam Walsh, whose 1981 disappearance and subsequent murder inspired his father, John Walsh, to channel his rage into becoming the crime-fighting host of the popular TV show America's Most Wanted. In a Hollywood, Florida mall in 1981, the author encountered Dahmer near the time and place little Adam was abducted. This encounter sparked a theory that consumed well over three decades of the author's life. He has appeared as a witness both on television and in print. In 2010 he filed a lawsuit against the Hollywood Police Department, Florida State Attorney's Office, and one of the detectives involved in the Adam Walsh case. As much as it is a case for Dahmer as Adam's murderer, Frustrated Witness is a study of how the HPD conducted the homicide investigation, becoming the greatest ally and defender of the man who would go on to become infamous for the murders he committed. Packed with charts, diagrams, photos, and letters, this is the most extensive collection of records to date of the Adam Walsh case.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

Send us a textPatrick McHugh, co-founder of Gambit Strategies, was the Executive Director of Priorities USA in 2020 as the main super PAC allied with the Biden Presidential campaign. Prior to that, he had stints at the DSCC and working in the opp research department on major Democratic campaigns. In this conversation, we explore Patrick's roots in opposition research, his experiences running big organizations and on the campaign trail, and mine his deep expertise on emerging trends and best practices in digital persuasion advertising.IN THIS EPISODEGrowing up in suburban Maryland, near DC but not of DC...The family tragedy that demonstrated how precarious the middle class can be...What set Patrick on a course toward working in politics...Lessons learned working for John Edwards for President in 2007 and Kay Hagan for Senate in 2008...The new opposition research tactic Patrick helped spearhead in 2008...Why Patrick gravitated to opp research in his first few campaign jobs...Some of Patrick's favorite opp research findings and stories...Patrick's memorable opp research trip to Hawaii...Patrick's stints during both good and bad cycles at the DSCC...Patrick moves into senior leadership as Executive Director of the Priorities USA Super PAC...Patrick on one tactical approach that helped Biden in 2020 that was disregarded by Democrats in 2024...How Patrick handled asking for big checks as ED of Priorities...Patrick develops an expertise in digital persuasion and starts Gambit Strategies...Patrick's insights on how voters watch TV and what it means for campaigns...Will streaming options become even more fractured or more consolidated...How digital content should differ than traditional linear TV content...The kind of junior digital staffers Patrick looks for to join Gambit Strategies...Patrick recommends some of his favorite sources of digital trends and data...AND George W. Bush, Ana Caprara, Guy Cecil, Hillary Clinton, DSCC, Elizabeth Dole, frozen records, Amy Gooden, Heidi Heitkamp, Martha McKenna, Linda McMahon, Chris Murphy, press vortexes, JB Pritzker, rocking chairs, Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority PAC, tier 5 races, Donald Trump, Two Americas, John Walsh, Elizabeth Warren...& more!

The murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh in 1981 didn't just devastate a family—it fundamentally transformed how America protects its children and hunts its criminals. What began as a routine shopping trip to a Florida Sears department store ended in unimaginable tragedy when Adam disappeared while playing at a video game display, only to be found murdered weeks later.This horrific event catalyzed a revolution in American justice. Before Adam's case, there was no national database for missing children, no standardized protocols for immediate action, and no systematic way to mobilize the public in searches. His father John Walsh, previously a successful hotel developer, channeled his grief into creating these essential systems—founding the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, pioneering missing children images on milk cartons, and establishing "Code Adam" protocols now used in thousands of retail stores nationwide.But Walsh's most visible legacy came through television. By creating and hosting "America's Most Wanted," he transformed crime-fighting from a passive spectator sport into an interactive nationwide manhunt where everyday citizens became crucial partners in bringing fugitives to justice. The show's success was staggering: over 1,600 fugitives captured, including serial killers, child predators, and terrorists. More importantly, it helped recover over 60 abducted children alive—saving countless families from experiencing the same devastation the Walshes endured.The impact extends far beyond television. The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 created comprehensive national standards for sex offender registration, while the Walsh family's advocacy directly influenced how law enforcement, businesses, and communities respond when children go missing. Through unimaginable pain, they forged systems that now protect millions.Listen as we explore this pivotal moment in American justice and how one family's tragedy became the catalyst for a safer nation. Their story reminds us that sometimes the most powerful social change emerges from our darkest moments.Send us a message!Support the showDeath in Entertainment is hosted by Kyle Ploof, Alejandro Dowling and Ben Kissel.New episodes every week!https://linktr.ee/deathinentertainment

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What if the next major leap in cybersecurity isn't a new tool but a smarter way to think about the edge? In this special episode recorded live at IGEL Now & Next 2025 in Miami, I sit down with John Walsh, Field CTO for Critical Sectors at IGEL, to unpack the changing face of endpoint security, the rise of zero trust, and the role of AI in shaping both threats and defenses. John brings a career's worth of insight across aerospace, defense, and high-assurance systems to a conversation that covers the shifting threat landscape and how IGEL's preventative security model is helping organizations reduce complexity while strengthening security. He explores the vulnerabilities introduced by hybrid work, BYOD environments, and the increasing reliance on AI models that interact with an enterprise's most sensitive data. We dive into how zero trust is evolving from a marketing buzzword into a practical framework built on collaboration, unified management, and strong policy enforcement at the endpoint. John breaks down why zero trust isn't a single product or checklist but an ecosystem of technologies and partnerships that need to operate together—securely and seamlessly. He also explains why endpoint security still matters, how most attacks still originate at the edge, and why IGEL's immutable operating system is designed to shut down threats before they even begin. As AI-powered attacks accelerate, John also discusses the importance of reducing noise for incident response teams and the potential for AI to eventually move from defense to pre-emptive strike. If you're leading cybersecurity in government, finance, manufacturing, or any sector with critical infrastructure, this conversation will give you a clearer view of where endpoint protection fits into a secure, cloud-connected, AI-augmented world. What are you doing today to make sure your organization's edge is ready for tomorrow?