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Joe chats with "Weird NJ" founder/editor Mark Moran about growing up in Livingston; about exploring & discovering weird stuff in his youth (including a terrifying experience involving a mysterious and sinister cult); and about how an article he wrote may have inspired the creation of "The Sopranos." Plus, Hongmei talks about a timeless pop/rock song, and Jessica fills us in on the most anticipated books hitting our shelves this month.
Melbourne's gangland war claimed many lives, and Mark Moran was one of its most high-profile casualties. A key player in the city's underworld, Moran was deeply entrenched in organised crime, with connections to drug trafficking and violent turf wars. His murder in 2000 marked a turning point in the escalating conflict, setting off a brutal cycle of revenge killings that would dominate headlines for years.Join Holly & Matthew as they explore the life and death of Mark Moran and his role in Melbourne's gangland war.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weird-crap-in-australia--2968350/support.
On the afternoon of August 7, 1972, sixteen-year-old Jeannette DePalma left her house in Springfield, NJ and was never seen alive again. Six weeks later, Jeannette's remains were discovered when a neighborhood dog returned to its owner at a newly built apartment complex, carrying Jeannette's badly decomposed arm in its mouth.The news of Jeannette's death spread quickly around the small town and the rumors about the circumstances were not far behind. According to witnesses, the girl's body was surrounded by occult symbols and objects, and within a few weeks news outlets began reporting that Jeannette had been the victim of ritual human sacrifice. For more than five decades, the murder of Jeannette DePalma had fascinated New Jersey residents and has even captured the attention of news outlets from around the country and occasionally around the world. Yet the more coverage the case receives, the more the rumors of occult murder and Satanism seem to grow, obscuring the more relevant facts and the tragedy at the heart of the case.Thank you to the Incredible Dave White of Bring Me the Axe Podcast for research and Writing support!ReferencesAssociated Press. 1972. "Police probe death of girl." Asbury Park Press, October 3: 11.—. 1972. "Witchcraft seen possible in teen-age girl's death." Central New Jersey Home News, September 30: 3.—. 1972. "Was girl black magic victim?" Courier-News (Brunswick, NJ), September 30: 1.Burks, Edward. 1971. "'Satan cult' death, drugs jolt peaceful Vineland, N.J." New York Times, July 6: 35.Chadwick, Bruce. 1972. "Priest's theory: devil's disciples killed girl." Daily News (New York, NY), October 4: 399.Hughes, Sarah A. 2021. American Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.Lenehan, Arthur. 1972. "Springfield cops find girl's body." Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), September 21: 10.—. 1972. "'Witchcraft' implicated in DePalma murder." Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), October 3: 8.Muscavage, Nick. 2019. "What happened to Springfield teen found dead near Watchung Reservation in 1972?" Courier News, August 23.Pollack, Jesse, and Mark Moran. 2015. Death on the Devil's Teeth: The Strange Murder That Shocked Suburban New Jersey. Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press.Schwartz, Art. 2015. "Conspiracy or serial killer?" Hudson Reporter, January 25.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Send us a textOriginally Aired: July 2, 2024We welcome Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman, the founders of Weird New Jersey, to discuss the magazine's origins and evolution. Mark and Mark reflect on how they began the magazine in the early 1990s before the internet, initially distributing Xeroxed, typewritten newsletters to friends. The unique nature of the content, which ranged from local legends and paranormal stories to peculiar roadside attractions, quickly gained a grassroots following. Despite the technological limitations of the time, their dedication to investigating and documenting New Jersey's oddities helped Weird New Jersey gain traction. They discuss how the magazine gradually evolved from a black-and-white newsletter to a full-color glossy publication, supported by bookstores like Barnes & Noble. The conversation also touches on their investigative methods, which often involved visiting local bars and diners to gather information. Despite the longevity of their publication, they reassure listeners that New Jersey's strange phenomena and eccentric individuals provide a never-ending supply of material. The episode highlights the duo's unconventional yet trailblazing approach to content creation, maintaining that they present stories objectively and let readers decide their authenticity.The Great Notch Inn in New Jersey is an iconic roadside bar with a rich history. Originally located down the road, it was moved to its current location by rolling it on logs. The bar has evolved significantly over the years. The current bartender, Rich, has opened the bar to a wider crowd, including musicians and motorcyclists, unlike his grandfather who enforced strict dress codes and even had a shotgun behind the bar for security. The bar has become a beloved spot for many, with people reminiscing about their experiences and sharing stories of their visits.The conversation also touched on personal experiences of exploring abandoned places and encountering unexpected situations, like having a gun pointed at them. These adventures often lead to intriguing stories and discoveries, which are a significant part of the charm of Weird New Jersey. The publication has documented many unique and local legends, some of which have never been written about before.Weird New Jersey has grown significantly since its inception 31 years ago, becoming a staple for those interested in the state's oddities. The magazine, books, and other media have created a lasting impact, preserving the quirky history of New Jersey for future generations. The founders have had many memorable experiences, including meeting celebrities and collaborating with other authors across the country. Despite their success, they remain grounded and focused on continuing to share the peculiar stories of New Jersey.weirdnj.comMusic: "Ride" by Jackson Pinesjacksonpines.comThank you to our sponsors:New Jersey Lottery: njlottery.comMake Cool Sh*t: makecoolshit.coAlbert & Whitney CPAs: awcpasllc.comMayo Performing Arts Center: mayoarts.org/events-calendarContact the show: mike@greetingsfromthegardenstate.com Support the show
Nicola Gobbo – also known as Lawyer X – is suing the state of Victoria for compensation after years in witness protection. Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian's app.This episode of The Front is presented and produced by Kristen Amiet, and edited by Tiffany Dimmack. The multimedia editor is Lia Tsamoglou and original music is composed by Jasper Leak.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, we are crossing over to producer Bill Huffman's podcast, Who Killed...?, and his interview with author Jesse Pollack about his experience with the Long Island Serial Killer Case. Jesse P. Pollack was born and raised in the garden state of New Jersey, and has served as a contributing writer for Weird NJ magazine since 2001. His first book, Death on the Devil's Teeth, coauthored with Mark Moran, was published in 2015 to critical acclaim. Also an accomplished musician, Pollack's soundtrack work has been heard on Driving Jersey, an Emmy-nominated PBS documentary series. He is married with two children, three dogs, and a couple of cats. The first set of remains was discovered in 2010 while police were searching for another woman, 24-year-old Shannan Gilbert. It wouldn't be for another year when Gilbert's body would be found across the way on neighboring Oak Beach. Once Gilbert's body was recovered, the total number of bodies found was 11. Police said most of the women worked in prostitution and advertised on such services as Craigslist. When an independent autopsy was performed on Gilbert's body, they were able to determine she was killed due to homicidal strangulation. The reason for the second autopsy was the first one concluded Gilbert had died from drowning and drug overdose. The autopsy was able to show she did not die from a natural disease, drug overdose, or drowning. Gilbert had vanished after visiting a customer and was told to have freaked out and started banging on neighbor's doors, asking for help and saying people were trying to kill her. Sources: ABC7 CBS NEWS CBS Gilgo Case Jesse P Pollack
This week we are crossing over to producer Bill Huffman's podcast, Who Killed...?, and his interview with author Jesse Pollack about his experience with the Long Island Serial Killer Case. Jesse P. Pollack was born and raised in the garden state of New Jersey, and has served as a contributing writer for Weird NJ magazine since 2001. His first book, Death on the Devil's Teeth, coauthored with Mark Moran, was published in 2015 to critical acclaim. Also an accomplished musician, Pollack's soundtrack work has been heard on Driving Jersey, an Emmy-nominated PBS documentary series. He is married with two children, three dogs, and a couple of cats. The first set of remains was discovered in 2010 while police were searching for another woman, 24-year-old Shannan Gilbert. It wouldn't be for another year when Gilbert's body would be found across the way on neighboring Oak Beach. Once Gilbert's body was recovered, the total number of bodies found was 11. Police said most of the women worked in prostitution and advertised on such services as Craigslist. When an independent autopsy was performed on Gilbert's body, they were able to determine she was killed due to homicidal strangulation. The reason for the second autopsy was the first one concluded Gilbert had died from drowning and drug overdose. The autopsy was able to show she did not die from a natural disease, drug overdose, or drowning. Gilbert had vanished after visiting a customer and was told to have freaked out and started banging on neighbor's doors, asking for help and saying people were trying to kill her. Sources: ABC7 CBS NEWS CBS Gilgo Case Jesse P Pollack
Between high interest rates, changing work habits, and the upcoming election, there are a lot of factors affecting office and industrial markets. So we figured it was time to check back in with two of our previous podcast guests, who keep a close watch on all things real estate.In our latest episode, host Greg Bedalov joins Jim Adler and Mark Moran, Executive Vice Presidents of the Chicago-based brokerage firm NAI Hiffman, for an update on office and industrial development in Chicagoland.How are high interest rates affecting the industrial market, and what will happen when those rates begin to drop? How are Chicago's suburbs getting creative and reimagining large office spaces post-pandemic? How are trends like hybrid work changing the game?We cover all these topics and more on the latest Beat. A special thanks to the College of DuPage for supporting today's episode. To keep up with what's happening in DuPage County and the Chicagoland region, follow Choose DuPage on social media or visit ChooseDuPage.com/Ready.
This week Cryptidbits Classics is heading home with a cryptid from our neck of the woods, the Mogollon Monster! Sources: Clay Thompson (4 March 2005). "Mogollon Monster a hairy tale". The Arizona Republic. http://archive.azcentral.com/news/columns/articles/0304clay04.html Scott Davis (September 2, 2006). "Story, video: Apaches go public with Bigfoot sightings". Arizona Daily Star. Tucson. Erin Ford (October 24, 2017). “Searching for the Mogollon Monster”. Williams-Grand Canyon News. https://www.williamsnews.com/news/2017/oct/24/searching-mogollon-monster/ Offutt, Jason. Chasing American Monsters: 251 Creatures, Cryptids, and Hairy Beasts. Llewellyn Publications, 2019. Wesley Treat (2007). Mark Moran, Mark Sceurman (ed.). Weird Arizona. New York: Sterling Publishing. pp. 78, 80–81. http://www.weirdus.com/states/arizona/bizarre_beasts/mongollon_monster/index.php https://www.williamsnews.com/news/2017/oct/24/searching-mogollon-monster/ https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/claythompson/2017/03/29/ask-clay-gather-round-tales-mogollon-monster/99749318/ http://www.mogollonmonster100.com/news https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ee742b9287c547d4acdfc2382213cfd3 https://tucson.com/news/science/environment/story-video-apaches-go-public-with-bigfoot-sightings/article_5e5f83d9-8245-53e9-adbd-0b2b13f882c6.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogollon_Monster Local News Reports: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drLTEe-YCUo #mogollonmonster #az #state48 #cryptid
Kate Adie presents stories from Russia, Nigeria, the US, Ecuador and Italy.Ukraine's surprise attack on Russia's western border region of Kursk caused authorities to declare a state of emergency there. The incursion is now in its second week and is the deepest into Russian territory since Vladimir Putin launched his invasion. Steve Rosenberg has been watching the reaction in Moscow and reflects on another major news event soon after he first arrived in Russia.Nigeria has been in the throes of an economic crisis which earlier this month led to 10 days of protests across the country. More than 700 demonstrators were arrested, 22 were killed and many more were injured. The marches eventually petered out but the causes of their discontent, though, don't look likely to go away. Simi Jolaoso has been to an open-air market in Lagos.In certain US states, parents are offered school vouchers as a means of paying for their children to go to private school, should they so choose, using public funding which would otherwise be used for state-funded school places. The vouchers scheme has polarised communities across the state of Arizona, says Mark Moran in Queen Creek.In Ecuador, President Daniel Noboa has moved to clampdown on organised crime and the drug cartels since he took power, amid a surge in outbreaks of violence. Danny Wiser was in Guayaquil, which has seen the worst of the violence and learned how it's impacting key areas of daily life.The Italian city of Trieste has a complex identity, thanks to its history and its geography. It was once part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Sara Wheeler found out more about its past on a visit this Summer.Series Producer: Serena Tarling Editor: Tom Bigwood Production Coordinators: Sophie Hill & Katie Morrison
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In this episode of Fatima Today, host Barb Ernster talks with Mark Moran about modernism, its historical roots and impact on the Church. Mark serves on the board of the Blue Army Byzantine Division, has a master's degree in philosophy and theology, and has written extensively on the heresy of modernism. He shares insights into modernist ideas that challenge traditional Biblical beliefs, deny the divinity of Christ and His supernatural powers, miracles, and resurrection, in favor of science-based theories, and how to recognize this heresy in the modern world.
On this episode Josh talks with Mark Moran, one of the co-creators of Weird NJ. The two talk about Mark's experience in the north New Jersey music scene, the history of Weird NJ and how it became a cultural icon, and his experience parenting two daughters while also growing the magazine, writing books, and creating a television series. A Spotify playlist of all the music you heard on the episode can be found at https://spoti.fi/4fpYIcI. (Interview recorded July 2, 2024)
We welcome Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman, the founders of Weird New Jersey, to discuss the magazine's origins and evolution. Mark and Mark reflect on how they began the magazine in the early 1990s before the internet, initially distributing Xeroxed, typewritten newsletters to friends. The unique nature of the content, which ranged from local legends and paranormal stories to peculiar roadside attractions, quickly gained a grassroots following. Despite the technological limitations of the time, their dedication to investigating and documenting New Jersey's oddities helped Weird New Jersey gain traction. They discuss how the magazine gradually evolved from a black-and-white newsletter to a full-color glossy publication, supported by bookstores like Barnes & Noble. The conversation also touches on their investigative methods, which often involved visiting local bars and diners to gather information. Despite the longevity of their publication, they reassure listeners that New Jersey's strange phenomena and eccentric individuals provide a never-ending supply of material. The episode highlights the duo's unconventional yet trailblazing approach to content creation, maintaining that they present stories objectively and let readers decide their authenticity.The Great Notch Inn in New Jersey is an iconic roadside bar with a rich history. Originally located down the road, it was moved to its current location by rolling it on logs. The bar has evolved significantly over the years. The current bartender, Rich, has opened the bar to a wider crowd, including musicians and motorcyclists, unlike his grandfather who enforced strict dress codes and even had a shotgun behind the bar for security. The bar has become a beloved spot for many, with people reminiscing about their experiences and sharing stories of their visits.The conversation also touched on personal experiences of exploring abandoned places and encountering unexpected situations, like having a gun pointed at them. These adventures often lead to intriguing stories and discoveries, which are a significant part of the charm of Weird New Jersey. The publication has documented many unique and local legends, some of which have never been written about before.Weird New Jersey has grown significantly since its inception 31 years ago, becoming a staple for those interested in the state's oddities. The magazine, books, and other media have created a lasting impact, preserving the quirky history of New Jersey for future generations. The founders have had many memorable experiences, including meeting celebrities and collaborating with other authors across the country. Despite their success, they remain grounded and focused on continuing to share the peculiar stories of New Jersey.weirdnj.comMusic: "Ride" by Jackson Pinesjacksonpines.comThank you to our sponsors:New Jersey Lottery: njlottery.comMake Cool Sh*t: makecoolshit.coAlbert & Whitney CPAs: awcpasllc.comMayo Performing Arts Center: mayoarts.org/events-calendarContact the show: mike@greetingsfromthegardenstate.com Support the Show.
Four decades after Jeannette DePalma's tragic death, authors Jesse P. Pollack and Mark Moran present the definitive account of the shocking Springfield township cold case. As Springfield residents decorated for Halloween in September 1972, the crime rate in the quiet, affluent township was at its lowest in years. That mood was shattered when the body of sixteen-year-old Jeannette DePalma was discovered in the local woods, allegedly surrounded by strange objects. Some feared witchcraft was to blame, while others believed a serial killer was on the loose. Rumors of a police cover up ran rampant, and the case went unsolved - along with the murders of several other young women. Jesse P. Pollack is a New Jersey native who has served as a contributing writer and correspondent for Weird NJ magazine since 2001. In addition to Death on the Devil's Teeth, Pollack is the author of The Acid King (Simon & Schuster, 2018) and co-directed a 2021 documentary of the same name. Pollack is the co-host of Podcast 1289, the True Crime Movie Club podcast and the Devil's Teeth podcast. Mark Moran graduated from Parsons School of Design. In the early 1990s, Moran teamed up with Mark Sceurman to create Weird NJ magazine, the ultimate travel guide to New Jersey's local legends and best-kept secrets. The magazine has since spawned several books and a History Channel television series. Moran and Sceurman can be seen on the Travel Channel television series Paranormal Caught on Camera. Buy the book HERE
For over 30 years, Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman, have been giving audiences peak into just how weird and unique New Jersey can be. Whether its covering a haunted house, a ghost story, folklore, or even just a person with bowling balls in their yard, Mark and Mark have been consistently entertaining their audience with their very successful semi annual magazine, Weird NJ. Mark and Mark are humble guys who have followed their passions to make something special. Check it out! We also play a game where Scott must see if he can make it to Wrestlemania, Mike's dog's balls days are numbered, and more. Have a listen!
Joe chats with "Weird NJ" founder/editor Mark Moran about growing up in Livingston; about exploring & discovering weird stuff in his youth (including a terrifying experience involving a mysterious and sinister cult); and about how an article he wrote may have inspired the creation of "The Sopranos." Plus, Hongmei shares a clip of a timeless song, and Jessica fills us in on the most anticipated books hitting our shelves this month.
Four decades after Jeannette DePalma's tragic death, authors Jesse P. Pollack and Mark Moran present the definitive account of the shocking Springfield township cold case. As Springfield residents decorated for Halloween in September 1972, the crime rate in the quiet, affluent township was at its lowest in years. That mood was shattered when the body of sixteen-year-old Jeannette DePalma was discovered in the local woods, allegedly surrounded by strange objects. Some feared witchcraft was to blame, while others believed a serial killer was on the loose. Rumors of a police cover up ran rampant, and the case went unsolved - along with the murders of several other young women. Jesse P. Pollack is a New Jersey native who has served as a contributing writer and correspondent for Weird NJ magazine since 2001. In addition to Death on the Devil's Teeth, Pollack is the author of The Acid King (Simon & Schuster, 2018) and co-directed a 2021 documentary of the same name. Pollack is the co-host of Podcast 1289, the True Crime Movie Club podcast and the Devil's Teeth podcast. Mark Moran graduated from Parsons School of Design. In the early 1990s, Moran teamed up with Mark Sceurman to create Weird NJ magazine, the ultimate travel guide to New Jersey's local legends and best-kept secrets. The magazine has since spawned several books and a History Channel television series. Moran and Sceurman can be seen on the Travel Channel television series Paranormal Caught on Camera. Buy the book HERE
Four decades after Jeannette DePalma's tragic death, authors Jesse P. Pollack and Mark Moran present the definitive account of the shocking Springfield township cold case. As Springfield residents decorated for Halloween in September 1972, the crime rate in the quiet, affluent township was at its lowest in years. That mood was shattered when the body of sixteen-year-old Jeannette DePalma was discovered in the local woods, allegedly surrounded by strange objects. Some feared witchcraft was to blame, while others believed a serial killer was on the loose. Rumors of a police cover up ran rampant, and the case went unsolved - along with the murders of several other young women. Jesse P. Pollack is a New Jersey native who has served as a contributing writer and correspondent for Weird NJ magazine since 2001. In addition to Death on the Devil's Teeth, Pollack is the author of The Acid King (Simon & Schuster, 2018) and co-directed a 2021 documentary of the same name. Pollack is the co-host of Podcast 1289, the True Crime Movie Club podcast and the Devil's Teeth podcast. Mark Moran graduated from Parsons School of Design. In the early 1990s, Moran teamed up with Mark Sceurman to create Weird NJ magazine, the ultimate travel guide to New Jersey's local legends and best-kept secrets. The magazine has since spawned several books and a History Channel television series. Moran and Sceurman can be seen on the Travel Channel television series Paranormal Caught on Camera. Buy the book HERE
Jesse P. Pollack was born and raised in the garden state of New Jersey, and has served as a contributing writer for Weird NJ magazine since 2001. His first book, Death on the Devil's Teeth, coauthored with Mark Moran, was published in 2015 to critical acclaim. Also an accomplished musician, Pollack's soundtrack work has been heard on Driving Jersey, an Emmy-nominated PBS documentary series. He is married with two children, three dogs, and a couple of cats. The first set of remains was discovered in 2010 while police were searching for another woman, 24-year-old Shannan Gilbert. It wouldn't be for another year when Gilbert's body would be found across the way on neighboring Oak Beach. Once Gilbert's body was recovered, the total number of bodies found was 11. Police said most of the women worked in prostitution and advertised on such services as Craigslist. When an independent autopsy was performed on Gilbert's body, they were able to determine she was killed due to homicidal strangulation. The reason for the second autopsy was the first one concluded Gilbert had died from drowning and drug overdose. The autopsy was able to show she did not die from a natural disease, drug overdose, or drowning. Gilbert had vanished after visiting a customer and was told to have freaked out and started banging on neighbor's doors, asking for help and saying people were trying to kill her. Sources: ABC7 CBS NEWS CBS Gilgo Case Jesse P Pollack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jesse P. Pollack was born and raised in the garden state of New Jersey, and has served as a contributing writer for Weird NJ magazine since 2001. His first book, Death on the Devil's Teeth, coauthored with Mark Moran, was published in 2015 to critical acclaim. Also an accomplished musician, Pollack's soundtrack work has been heard on Driving Jersey, an Emmy-nominated PBS documentary series. He is married with two children, three dogs, and a couple of cats. The first set of remains was discovered in 2010 while police were searching for another woman, 24-year-old Shannan Gilbert. It wouldn't be for another year when Gilbert's body would be found across the way on neighboring Oak Beach. Once Gilbert's body was recovered, the total number of bodies found was 11. Police said most of the women worked in prostitution and advertised on such services as Craigslist. When an independent autopsy was performed on Gilbert's body, they were able to determine she was killed due to homicidal strangulation. The reason for the second autopsy was the first one concluded Gilbert had died from drowning and drug overdose. The autopsy was able to show she did not die from a natural disease, drug overdose, or drowning. Gilbert had vanished after visiting a customer and was told to have freaked out and started banging on neighbor's doors, asking for help and saying people were trying to kill her. Sources: ABC7 CBS NEWS CBS Gilgo Case Jesse P Pollack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kate Adie presents stories from Australia, Poland, the US, Cameroon and Cape Verde. Australians are voting in a historic referendum on whether or not to recognize Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the country's constitution, and create a body that can advise governments on issues affecting their communities. After months of campaigning voters are bitterly divided, as Katy Watson found out. Poland's upcoming election could result in an unprecedented third consecutive term for the incumbent right-wing populist government. Adam Easton travels to the Polish countryside to find out why the government remains popular. The suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona's state capital, are among the fastest-growing in America. As brand new homes and offices spring up, there's a problem developing beneath them. Mark Moran reports from a desert state that is running out of groundwater. The Ngonnso statue, held in the collection of a Berlin museum, holds cultural and spiritual significance for the Nso people of Cameroon. Kim Chakanetsa meets the activist who successfully campaigned for the Ngonnso's repatriation. And October marks the end of the nesting and hatching season for Cape Verde's loggerhead sea turtles. Rob Crossan takes a night time walk along the beach to catch sight of one. Producer: Viv Jones Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith Production Coordinator: Gemma Ashman
Join myself and Formula Vee Qld President Mark Moran as we wrap up the Shannons round at Queensland Raceway. We talk Supercars silly season which is in full swing. Reef McCarthy drops by to wrap up his Vic State racing round at Sandown in his Formula Vee and we look forward to that cold cold windswept round at The Bend. For a whole unedited version with an extra 30mins of content check out the YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@chatwiththehat thanks to www.gamelife.com.au
A war of words has erupted over the DPP's decision not to charge police over their alleged involvement in Victoria's storied Lawyer X saga. Find out more about The Front podcast here and read about this story and more on The Australian's website or search for The Australian in your app store. This episode of The Front is presented and produced by Kristen Amiet, and edited by Tiffany Dimmack. Our regular host is Claire Harvey. The multimedia editor is Lia Tsamoglou, and original music composed by Jasper Leak.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Marin Haugo, the woman who became internet famous for going on 28 dates in February and documenting the process, is sitting down with one of her dates, the “CEO,” Mark Moran! Mark slid into Marin's DM's after seeing her featured in Bloomberg and planned over the top dates including a scavenger hunt around New York City, for Marin (and Archie)! Mark, the voice of the “finance bro,” is a former Banker on Wall Street, turned reality TV star on F Boy Island, turned founder and CEO of Equity Animal. Mark reveals his origin story of entering the public eye, how he finds confidence more attractive than raw looks, and the psychology of men in dating.
COVID changed the way millions of people work. Now, its aftershocks are pushing developers and communities across Chicagoland to think creatively about how they use their space. In this episode, host Greg Bedalov meets with two real estate industry experts to discuss the stories behind key trends in employment, industry sectors, the regional GDP, and more. From the ‘amenities race' to innovative mixed-use developments, Greg and his guests cover the topics that impact people and businesses across the region. Guests: Jim Adler and Mark Moran, Executive Vice Presidents of Chicago-based brokerage firm NAI HiffmanHost: Greg Bedalov, President and CEO of Choose DuPageDive Deeper:Learn more about the trends and key data points discussed in today's episode in the Choose DuPage Economic Indicators Report.Explore the Greater Chicagoland Economic Partnership, an innovative collaboration between the City of Chicago and DuPage, Cook, Kane, Kendall, McHenry, Lake, and Will Counties.A special thanks to College of DuPage for supporting today's episode. To keep up with what's happening in DuPage County and the Chicagoland region, follow Choose DuPage on social media or visit ChooseDuPage.com/Ready.
Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Nepal, Iraq, Norway and the US Andrew Harding is at the frontline in Eastern Donbas, close to Russian lines, where soldiers share their dreams of the future after the war, as artillery fire rains down on them. The Yeti airlines crash into a gorge in Nepal last Sunday was the worst in 30 years. Rajini Vaidyanathan saw the grim reality of the crash site and spoke to mourners as they prepared to bury their loved ones. From chocolate biscuits, to porcelain to air-conditioning units, Iranian produce lines the shelves of Baghdad's stores. But despite the strong commercial ties and shared cultural influences, political tensions are flaring in the Kurdistan region of Iraq after the death of Mahsa Amini, writes Lizzie Porter. In Arctic Norway, cod fisherman rely on Russian cooperation to share fish stocks in the Barents Sea equally. Hugh Francis Anderson was in Tromso where he spoke to fisherman increasingly wary that souring relations with Russia could impact their livelihoods. Mark Moran reports from Arizona on the water wars in the state, where rural farmers and ranchers are launching a fightback against the move to divert water to the expanding city of Queen's Creek.
Episode 402: Weird NJ Weird NJ (sometimes abbreviated WNJ) is a semi-annual magazine that chronicles local legends, purported hauntings, ghost stories, folklore, unusual places or events, and other peculiarities in New Jersey. The magazine originated in 1989 as a newsletter sent to friends by Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman, but as it grew in popularity, it became a public magazine published twice a year. It spawned a series of books called Weird US, which chronicle oddities from individual states in the United States aside from New Jersey, which in turn led to a television series that aired on the History Channel. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/michaeldecon/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michaeldecon/support
In Part 2 of one of our favorite episodes, we've swam far & wide to all the islands to bring you perspectives from CBS's "Love Island's", Cinco Holland, HBO's "Fboy Island" Castaway, Mark Moran and even a sporty Bro / Data Scientist from Nike, Kevin Turner!
In this special episode Holly and Leslie speak with co author of the book Death on The Devil's Teeth Jesse P. Pollack. Jesse is an author, a documentary film maker, a writer for Weird NJ and an all around smart and interesting guy. Please enjoy this eye opening look behind the scenes at that it takes to unravel the truth, when it's spend years tangled up in rumors and lies. This interview deals with the still unsolved 1972 murder of 16 year old Springfield NJ resident Jeannette DePalma. Jeannette went missing on August 7th 1972, just another runaway according to the police. We've seen this all before, but when Jeannette's decomposing body turned up 6 weeks later atop a large and perilous rock formation in the local quarry known as "the devil's teeth", people began to wonder, had Jeannette been murdered, or sacrificed? Click the link below to pick up a copy of Jesse Pollack and Mark Moran's definitive exploration of Jeannette DePalma's case today, and listen to the Devil's Teeth podcast wherever your podcasts are found. Death on the Devil's Teeth WWBD Merch Buy your WWBD swag here! Join the Conversation
In September of 1972 as Satanic Panic swept the USA, the body of a 16-year-old girl, Jeannette DePalma, was found on top of a cliff called, "Devil's Teeth." Was she murdered as part of an occult/satan worshipping ritual? And if that's not what happened, then who killed Jeannette DePalma?Grab a Personal Tarot Reading Book a Private ReadingJoin Patreon Here!!!Sources:All That's Interesting - Jeannette DePalmaTrue New Jersey - Jeannette DePalmaWeird NJ - Jeannette DePalmaDeath on the Devil's Teeth by Jesse P. Pollack & Mark Moran
Begun as a meme account in 2017, Litquidity has amassed 1 million social media followers across Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and TikTok, specializing in the dark arts of “dank memes” that poke fun at the weird world of finance. The account, run pseudonymously by a former trader who goes by Lit, has spawned a daily news summary email (Exec Sum) with 160,000 subscribers, podcast (Big Swinging Decks), investment fund, merch and more, as part of a $2 million business. Some key takeaways: Find underserved audiences. The world is not short on finance news. But what Lit found as a young investment analyst is that little of the coverage captured the experience of being in the (well-compensated) rank and file of finance. “One thing that I felt was lacking was real insider baseball-type humor,” Lit said. “You look at CNBC or Bloomberg, it's probably people who aren't insiders that are reporting on the news or talking about the stock markets.” Memes are top of the funnel. Litquidity began as a meme account, attracting advertisers as its revenue source. But Lit felt that could only go so far – “I don't think they're like the highest value monetization paths to go through because you'll saturate your audience with ads, and people hate ads” – so he spun off Exec Sum, a newsletter that pithily summarizes the days finance and markets news. And more importantly, provides valuable surface area for high-value ads. “I really thought of how can I provide value to my audience in a way that would also make sense monetarily.” Publishing and investing mesh. Like Packy McCormick and Anthony Pompliano, Lit sees the opportunity to use his publishing reach as a way to expand his investmenting by raising a fund. Eventually, he sees Liquidity as more of an investment fund with a publishing arm rather than vice versa. “That's how I want that to be viewed going forward as I continue to build out the credibility and the track record.” Expanding beyond a personal brand is hard. Recently, Litquidity lost its “only employee” – there are a handful of part-timers – when Mark Moran split to focus on an investor relations play, Equity Animal. Expanding a media company tied to a person, even one who uses a pseudonym, is tricky. “One of the things that I found difficult was having the entire brand being ied by my humor and my voice,” he said. “If you start to introduce other creators or elements who don't fit that, then it starts to dilute that brand.”
In September of 1972 as Satanic Panic swept the USA, the body of a 16-year-old girl, Jeannette DePalma, was found on top of a cliff called, "Devil's Teeth." Was she murdered as part of an occult/satan worshipping ritual? And if that's not what happened, then who killed Jeannette DePalma?Grab a Personal Tarot Reading Book a Private ReadingJoin Patreon Here!!!Sources:All That's Interesting - Jeannette DePalmaTrue New Jersey - Jeannette DePalmaWeird NJ - Jeannette DePalmaDeath on the Devil's Teeth by Jesse P. Pollack & Mark Moran
I decided to mix up the days for this newsletter and the format. You'll now get The Rebooting twice a week, Tuesday and Thursday. The Tuesday email will continue with a new format that is a mix of topics, along with highlights from the podcast. I think this is a better approach than my original podcast-centric approach. But let me know your thoughts: bmorrissey@gmail.com.Human ad productsBuilding a good media product is endlessly difficult, particularly when it comes to advertising. Math gives way to physics when ad products are built, as the complexities get ramped up, trying to satisfy financial goals, performance, audience needs, the overall brand mission, not to mention the challenge of balancing unique ad products with repeatable (and high-margin) ad products. Too often, that's resulted in an adversarial approach to monetization that seems to operate in a parallel universe to the the stated ethos of the brand. If you're going to claim to be high end, it's hard to then turn to bottom-of-the-barrel monetization methods.The shift to primary-engagement media is an opportunity to rethink monetization products. The success of newsletters and podcasts ad products has mostly been due to ignoring the typical monetization methods of other digital media. Running banner ads in email newsletters doesn't work as well as hand-crafted ads in the voice of the publication, particularly if delivered by an individual. The same holds true for a personal publishing medium like podcasting, which has long relied on host reads. These are more human ad products, playing into the “casualness” that's eating the world. Litquidity, which is aiming to more than triple the $1 million in revenue it reached last year, has rolled out an interesting new product in which it will co-host earnings calls for companies on Twitter spaces. Litquidity began as a popular finance meme account, and has since expanded into a daily email newsletter with more than 120,000 subscribers, a podcast, mech operation and investment portfolio. Litquidity has signed up RCI Hospitality, operator of dozens of nightclubs and strip clubs, to host RCI's investor call on Twitter Spaces. For RCI, this is an opportunity to reach a new class of retail investor and younger finance pros who aren't the type to dial into the normally dull investor calls where analysts love to repeat “great quarter, guys.”Brian Hanly, CEO of Bullish Studio, which works with Litquidity on growth and monetization, estimated investor relations to be a $1 billion-$3 billion market, with 4,200 public companies spending on average $800,000 on IR. Those budgets are an attractive target, particularly for smaller public companies that do not generate the equity analyst coverage of more high profile companies. RJI, for instance, has just three equity analysts covering it.“Their last earnings call had 100 people,” said Mark Moran, head of growth at Litquidity who will host the RJI call. “One of my tweets about this [program] reached 200,000. We can confidently say we'll get more than 100 people.”House of Kaizen brings together leading minds and proven practices to help subscription product teams get ahead, fast. Their SubscriptionWorks program is designed to inspire and upskill your internal team with training, events, best practices and on-call consultation that addresses your current opportunities. House of K
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On today's Benzinga Live:-Market Dip-NVDA Earnings-Supply Chain UpdateToday's Guests: -Mark Manduca, CIO, GXO Logistics-Not Mr. Manz https://twitter.com/notmrmanziel-Mark Moran, Litquidity - Dan Pipitone, CEO, TradeZerohttps://www.benzinga.com/go/tradezero-youtube- Stephen Johnson, traderhttps://twitter.com/Jonk87 https://www.benzinga.com/go/tradezero-youtubeHOSTSSpencer IsraelTwitter: https://twitter.com/sjisraelAaron BryTwitter: https://twitter.com/aaronbry5Disclaimer: All of the information, material, and/or content contained in this program is for informational purposes only. Investing in stocks, options, and futures is risky and not suitable for all investors. Please consult your own independent financial adviser before making any investment decisions.#Benzinga #BenzingaLive #BenzingaProSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/zingernation-power-hour/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
This week Litquidity and Mark Moran chat with the Co-Founder and CEO of Marco, Suman Siva, about the future of culture and the workplace. Suman dives into his background in consulting and investing, as well as his tenure at SoftBank - all experiences that culminated in his founding of a company that has set out to change the way we view work.BSD shareholders will recognize Marco as one of the special investment opportunities brought to you by Litquidity recently. So tune out your VP's third round of comments and tune in to Big Swinging Decks!LitquidityIG: @litquidityhttps://litquidity.co/Mark MoranIG: @itsmarkmoran This is a Redd Rock Music PodcastIG: @reddrockmusicwww.reddrockmusic.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
JESSE P.POLLACKJesse P. Pollack was born and raised in the garden state of New Jersey, and has served as a contributing writer for Weird NJ magazine since 2001. His first book, Death on the Devil's Teeth, coauthored with Mark Moran, was published in 2015 to critical acclaim. Also an accomplished musician, Pollack's soundtrack work has been heard on Driving Jersey, an Emmy-nominated PBS documentary series.Jesse adapted his book THE ACID KING into a feature film being released On Demand November, 2021.https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Jesse-P-Pollack/2100105240Sarah Y. Tse and her inspiring story of trials, success and perseverance. The book reveals how a small business owner overcame legal, government and employee challenges to run a thriving venture and live a fulfilling life. Tse, who came from Hong Kong to the United States at the age of 18, went to college here, attended law school, and earned an MBA in business. She has run a successful, multi-million-dollar publishing and printing business over the past 16 years, publishing over 1,000 books and yearbooks. She is a testament to the fact that the American Dream still lives on. 7 Years on the Front Line is the compelling true story of Tse's seven-year odyssey of personal trials, business losses, legal challenges, and health setbacks. This story reveals how she came out on the other side victorious, with numerous lessons learned that will benefit small-business owners and future entrepreneurs in how they run their businesses and live their personal lives. https://www.sarahytse.com/The Douglas Coleman Show now offers audio and video promotional packages for music artists as well as video promotional packages for authors. We also offer advertising. Please see our website for complete details. http://douglascolemanshow.comIf you have a comment about this episode or any other, please click the link below.https://ratethispodcast.com/douglascolemanshow
If Wall Street and investment banking were their own languages, this week's guest would be fluent. Mark Moran went from a Wall Street Investment Banker to a reality TV “nice guy” on HBO's FBoy Island and is now blazing his own trail with the financial parody account and business, Litquidity. Who is Mark Moran and how did his whole life change over the course of the last year? Juliana dives into it all in this episode of Behind The Media.Mark Moran: @itsmarksmoranPodcast: Big Swinging DecksBehind the MediaIG: @behindthemediapodcastJuliana Martins: @julianaa__martinsEleven11 Media Relations: @eleven11mediarelationsProduced by Redd Rock MusicIG: @reddrockmusicwww.reddrockmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The man. The myth. The meme-maker? From Wall Street investment banker to “nice guy” on HBO's FBoy Island and then back to Wall Street (but not really?) Mark Moran is back on the pod. Last time we heard from him, FBoy Island had just come out and he had mentioned coming back for a mean tweets/roast segment. We like to make good on our promises and so today, Mark is here to catch us up on his new business ventures and subject himself to “The Roast of Mark Moran.”Mark MoranIG: @itsmarkmoranBig Swinging Decks PodcastBachelors In The CityIG: @bachelorsinthecitypodcastPeter & Dustin: @pilot_pete @dustinbkendrickThis is a Redd Rock Music PodcastIG: @reddrockmusicwww.reddrockmusic.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/bachelors-in-the-city.
On today's Benzinga Live: SOFI To $20??- SOFI gets its bank charter- Should Spencer sell DWAC?- Ford stock falls 5% Ffor video and charts for this podcast visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-kUtxmdOzg&t=5869sToday's Guests:28:44 Mark Moran, Head of Growth & Operations, Litquidity Capitalhttps://litquidity.co/58:06 Tony Trzeciak, Dialecthttps://dialect.app/1:13:40 Brian Goodman, CEO, Golden Matrix (GMGI)1:29:51 Nic Chahinehttps://benzinga.grsm.io/benzingaliveHOSTSSpencer IsraelTwitter: https://twitter.com/sjisraelAaron BryTwitter: https://twitter.com/aaronbry5Disclaimer: All of the information, material, and/or content contained in this program is for informational purposes only. Investing in stocks, options, and futures is risky and not suitable for all investors. Please consult your own independent financial adviser before making any investment decisions.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/zingernation-power-hour/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Litquidity and Mark Moran welcome their FIRST guest ever on the pod, Friday Beers. The duo talk to Jack and Max Barrett, two of the founders (and brothers) behind the page. The Barrett bros open up about their backgrounds, the development of the business, and make a few EXCLUSIVE announcements, including a highly confidential joint venture with litquidity.LitquidityIG: @litquidityhttps://litquidity.co/Mark MoranIG: @itsmarkmoran This is a Redd Rock Music PodcastIG: @reddrockmusicwww.reddrockmusic.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this episode we've traveled far & wide to all the islands to bring you perspectives from CBS's "Love Island's", Cinco Holland, HBO's "Fboy Island" Castwaway, Mark Moran and even a sporty Bro / Data Scientist from Nike, Kevin Turner!
On “Big Swinging Decks,” Mark Moran and Litquidity get granular without spinning their wheels to give you the industry leading and official podcast of Wall Street. The former bankers', take a bottoms-up approaching by always keeping it apples-to-apples with their illustrative approach. The duos' unfiltered analysis on all facets of the street, will open up the kimono on the Street's juiciest rumors. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The Bachelor is fun and all but if you haven't watched FBoy Island yet, you're missing out. Today, we have nice guy Mark Moran on talking about his experience on the island, what he learned from reality tv and the friendships he made along the way!Mark MoranIG: @itsmarkmoranBachelors In The CityIG: @bachelorsinthecitypodcastPeter & Dustin: @pilot_pete @dustinbkendrickThis is a Redd Rock Music PodcastIG: @reddrockmusicwww.reddrockmusic.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/bachelors-in-the-city.
It's law school advice time, Strict Scrutiny style! Melissa and Leah chat with Mark Moran, graduate of UVA Law and contestant on FBoy Island, for the first ever Strict Scrutiny x FBoy Island Crossover. What can law school teach you about reality TV, and reality TV teach you about law school? A lot, it turns out….
I’m incredibly excited to announce I am officially a HBO Max partner and will be bringing you exclusive interviews with the cast of their newest reality tv show, FBoy Island! The binge-worthy show has already created quite a buzz, and for good reason! My first castmate is the very charismatic and “self proclaimed nice guy” Mark Moran. He is a Wall Street investor by day, and a jack of all trades by night. Mark was one of the first guys to go on a coveted 1 on 1 date with CJ, one of the show’s three leading ladies. He shares invaluable lessons he learned from his experience on the show, and the cherished friendships he made during filming. I loved getting to know him, and he promised there are many more twists and drama to come! You can binge the first three addictive episodes now on Hbo Max, with more being released every Thursday! Follow Mark on Instagram @itsmarkmoran and Get’n Cozy @getncozywitherin!
Here, we present you with the origin story behind HBO Max's FBOY ISLAND. Executive Producer Ben Bitonti sits down with Jared and Danielle to discuss the parallels between dating on the island versus dating in real life, secrets behind every elimination ceremony, the casting process (spoiler alert: a married man tried to come on the show) and answers the burning question: whose fault is this show? Nice guy Mark also joins the conversation and shares his stories including how he was cast on the show based on his dating app and how, at one point, he was mistaken for part of the production crew. He also divulges his one lasting lesson from the island--protein powder anyone? Stream new episodes of FBOY ISLAND and FBOY ISLAND: The Podcast on HBO Max. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A powerful episode of the Empty Chair... Join Cole Welch Caffrey and special guests, Chris Warner & Mark Moran on "The Empty Chair, for the addict that didn't make it" a LIVE podcast on the Merrimack Valley Prevention and Substance Abuse Project FACEBOOK page Chris has been completely free from the obsession to use any substance since 2017. She will share her life journey on practicing Mindfulness Meditation and Yoga for over two decades and how she combined her practices to obtain recovery for herself. Chris has been working in the field of addiction since 2018. She is a huge asset to the recovery community and will share her gifts and tools to all who have a desire to be happy, healthy, strong, and free! Mark has been sober since September 14, 1984. Mark immersed himself in 12-Step Recovery and remains where is a huge asset to the recovery community. Mark takes a holistic approach to healing and recovery through mind/body/spirit connection and integration. Seven years ago, Mark started attending yoga classes and fell in love with the grounding aspect of mindful breathing and movement. He noticed that this further enhanced his recovery and began teaching Recovery Yoga, instructing others and their loved ones on how yoga and meditation can help with their own recovery journey. This is a show you do not want to miss!!!
Wendy breaks down the wonders of the Integratron. A domed building built in Landers, California said to be the fusion of art, science, and magic. Built near Joshua Tree for the purpose of time travel, and rejuvenation, the integration is full of UFO, and alien legends. Coven Links: Contact us: cousinscoven2@gmail.com Our Merch: https://cousinscovenpodcast.threadless.com/ Our website: https://cousinscoven.home.blog/ Bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=34461794 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cousinscoven/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CousinsCoven/ Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC834gB8Jb4OZW8C4fAWZnCA Our Podcast: https://cousinscoven.podomatic.com Amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2SUDLXYCCZL54?ref_=wl_share Sources:Book: Weird U.S. by: Mark Moran and Mark SceurmanDocumentary: Calling All Earthlings (2018) https://www.integratron.com/ Music: Opening: Darker Shades of Wizardry by The Polish Ambassador is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Closing music : Believe by Roa Music | https://soundcloud.com/roa_music1031 Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US
Mark Moran joins the show to discuss AgTech innovations at John Deere, fueled by student projects at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research Park. Mark is the Site Director for the John Deere Technology Innovation Center at Research Park, as well as the Lead for John Deere’s next-generation sensing technology for their IoT devices. Head over to project-20.co/researchparkpodcast to leave show feedback. Visit researchpark.illinois.edu for job postings, social platforms, and more.
Finally, after nearly a year, Otto Neil Nilson stands trial for the murder of Joan Kramer in July 1975. Could these proceedings provide answers regarding the death of Jeannette DePalma? Read more in "Death on the Devil's Teeth" by Jesse P. Pollack and Mark Moran. Follow us @devilsteethpod on Twitter.
He nearly died because his boss liked a cheap beer: Bertie Wrout was right hand to Melbourne crime lord Lewis Moran and saw the gangland wars up close. He was there as Moran family and associates came and went, witnessed the rise of the infamous drug lord Carl Williams and was with Lewis Moran when he was was shot dead at his favourite drinking hole, The Brunswick Club. Thanks for listening. Please take the time to rate & review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. We love to hear your thoughts and it makes it easier for the rest of the podcast world to find us. Become a subscriber: our supporters power our newsrooms and are critical for the sustainability of news coverage. Becoming a subscriber also gets you exclusive behind-the-scenes content and invitations to special events. Click on the links to subscribe https://subscribe.theage.com.au/ or https://subscribe.smh.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hey, what's up everybody? Here we are on our COVID files 4.5. That means a point five we have our recurring super smart guests, my friend and colleague, Dr. Stuart Ackerman. Dr. Ackerman, would you please introduce yourself?Sure, Ken. Thanks for having me again. It's my name's Stuart Ackerman. I'm a gastroenterologist with digestive health associates of Texas. And we're glad that I'm here again to discuss more COVID type stuff.So on Dr. Ackerman and I did a COVID 3.5 Episode three and a half episode where we looked into the role of COVID in the digestive tract. Today, we're going to look at some journals and discuss the role of COVID-19 testing specifically the role of antibodies, and you're going to be hearing a lot about this. And so a lot of the shows that we're doing, we're a little ahead of the media. So that's what I'm really happy about is that every time we do a show, and then later the media kind of catches up, so. The one thing I do want to address and if you're watching this on YouTube, Dr. Ackerman, you've changed your look a little bit. I mean, you had this very beautiful luscious beard, you know Wolverine like and it's a little different is that because you're getting all the notoriety from the show or what's going on?Yeah, some sacrifices have to be made. So, as part of my practice, you know, although there's some restrictions because of COVID on doing procedures and seeing patients in person, I still I still have a significant number of emergency and urgent procedures that needs to be done and part of the protocol as recommended by all of our societies is that you've got to wear PPE these protective equipment and some of that is an N95 mask and an N95 mask when it goes over your your mouth and your nose, it doesn't fit to securely if you've got luscious locks like I did. So sacrifices needed to be made.So Dr. Ackerman did this really cool video where he's basically explained the whole process of this, and how certain sacrifices have to be made. So I suggest everybody go to his website. What is your website?It's www.stuartakermanmd.com Stuart Akerman dot comYou posted the video on your website, I hope.Yeah, it's posted on my blog on the website.That's awesome. I love the video. It's so cool. All right. So when you and I were discussing about doing this, and what I like is that you and I talk all the time. And we discuss journals and we do stuff and we kind of debate a little bit and we poke each other and you were you were discussing that, you know, hey, we should do a show on this. Do you want to do like a point counterpoint kind of thing where we should debate and I laughed because I immediately thought of airplane the movie from 1980 you're way too young for this but the airplane.I've done I've googled it.They were doing point CounterPoint. And you know, the whole point of the show is to be so obscenely on either end where the one guy so, a CRNA Jack Kerry that I'm not sure if you know him. Have you met jack? So jack would always laugh, he would use that quote whenever something would happen in the in our endoscopy center. If maybe the scopes weren't ready or a patient showed up late or something got off track, he would always say the same thing which I started thinking about about this. In the point counterpoint in airplane, the CounterPoint guy was like, they bought the ticket, they knew what they were getting into, I say, let him crash. This is not going to be quite like that. Because I think you and I will end up in the same spot ultimately when we're discussing this. So that's kind of where I thought where you and I were hoping to have a kind of a point CounterPoint. But I think we're gonna end up in the same spot. You kind of agree?Yeah, I agree. I think that it's, it's good to sort of flush out both sides of the argument so that you're more well rounded in your discussion. And I think that's kind of how we approach it, you know, that, we're we're looking at the same data. We're drawing our own conclusions, and sort of coming out on both sides of the argument. I think that's, that's good for any kind of evidence based discussion.Totally. And what we're going to talk about today is something that is super important, because it is how do we get the economy back on track? How do we use testing to do it? And we're going to take a look at the evidence based approach to this. And in fact, this is coming so fast that this morning I woke up, and I saw a couple different articles that that came out this morning. One of them was an article on a homeless shelter in Boston. And what they decided to do is do PCR testing on everyone in the homeless shelter, and what they found was that 36% of the people were positive at that moment, and we're gonna discuss what that moment means. So 33% were positive, but only 7.5% admitted to having a cough and only .7 even had a fever. The conclusion was in this article was holy cow, we need to do mass testing so that we can see who's really been infected. And then almost on cue, a New York Times article came out today, where it was a journalist that he opens with a with a classic Mark Moran. I'm a comedy fan Mark Moran line, where the the journalist says, "I know a guy. And because I know a guy and the connections I have, I was able to get my hands on a rapid antibody test. And I took the test, and I was negative. The problem is, I'm not sure it was a valid test." I'm like, this could not have been in a better time this guy did this. And that's what we're going to talk about today. You and I know guys.Yeah, we know people and this is the national and international discussion. Now if you've at all been watching the news, or reading papers or going on Reddit, you know that Italy, Spain, the United States to some degree, they're all discussing this idea of how do we figure out who has immunity? Is there a way for us to figure out who can safely come out of their homes, go back to work, and sort of jumpstart the economy again and jumpstart life? And it sounds dystopian. It sounds like it could be a great idea, it could be a terrible idea and anything in between. But what we don't have is we don't we don't necessarily know the details yet. And I think that's, that's what gets everyone confused, because there's no shortage of media outlets touting this as you know, the next great idea, but is it? I don't know. Well, we're gonna we're gonna get into that I there was an article written by I don't remember who wrote this, but it was just this just happened in the last couple days about ending the lockdown. And they interviewed a Harvard epidemiologist, and he said, well any of the lockdowns are going to be an effort with trial and error. There is no scientific evidence to this, he's like the best I can say this is we're all in a life raft. I'm not sure how we get to shore yet. What we're going to talk about is possibly how to get to shore. Because if you think about it, governments around the world, they need to triangulate the health of the people, the freedom of the population, and there's no scientific consensus. So what I wanted to do today with you, because you're a super smart guy, much smarter than me, let's kick some science. Let's go over some articles, and then play the pros and cons of each side of it. So I'll throw it back in your court. Where do you want to start with this?So I think, you know, we, we have a few articles that we definitely want to discuss as the basis for the arguments about immunity. I think before we jump into it, just to get a better sense for our viewers, we need to explain some of the terminology and the differences between the testing methods to understand what best to use to acutely diagnose someone with COVID-19 versus how do we tell that they're no longer infected, they're no longer sick and whether or not or at least to start that discussion of whether or not they have immunity.Absolutely. So let's start with what is the standard test being done when somebody shows up with a fever to an emergency room?So the standard testing when you're trying to figure out is this person currently infected and sick or...not sick, we know they're sick they're there is something called PCR testing. So in PCR testing, we actually will try to replicate the virus, right? The implication being that you gotta have virus in order to replicate it. So a negative test means there's nothing there to replicate. And therefore, you might have a fever, you might have some chills, you might have a cough, but you don't have COVID-19. On the flip side to that, if you start replicating virus, the virus has to be there. By definition, if a virus is there, you have viral infection. So PCR testing has been considered the gold standard for diagnosis of COVID-19 at this point.And let's talk about the what we did talk about on our last show the kind of pros and cons of that, because what we're learning. And what is fascinating is we're here today, what is the date? April, April 16, to April 16 2020. I mean, we may be eating crow tomorrow, because everybody, this is all changing. But what we're learning now is that a lot of people, I was listening, I don't remember who the virologist was, but he was describing the actual process. If you've had this swab done, it's not very comfortable, they get in there they try and get the cells that try and do this...it...there is some sampling error issues with this and possibly it's not in the back of the throat. We discussed how possibly could be in the stool. So there are some limitations to that particular PCR testing, and a lot of the studies we're going to refer to look at comparison to PCR.Correct. And so with this study is that in order to mitigate that risk for false negatives, they'll swab multiple areas and multiple sites to try to decrease that risk of missing a potentially positive person just because of sampling error.It's funny you say that because now after our last episode, and I'm pretty sure that they listened to our episode and this is why they did this because...I can only assume I can only assume that, that there's a Chinese doctor that saying that we should probably swab the anus and those that have recovered to determine if they have PCR positive. So before somebody is released from the hospital swab their anus,Yeah, right, I think fewer people are going to go to the hospital. We probably shouldn't publicize that.Um, you know, so the PCR testing now explain what the antibody testing is.So, when we talk about antibody response, and you might have heard a lot about this, you know, the buzz words are IGM and IGG. These are the two immunoglobulins that we talked about with infection. And once you have an infection in order to mount a response, that's really what we're talking about. And IGM is the immunoglobulin that comes up first. That's kind of the, the acute fighter for you to try to get the infection under control. And then once you're sort of getting to a point where you're starting to go towards recovery, you start creating idg and idg are more like your your memory, right? That's what that's what reminds your body and how to fight something. So when we talk about vaccinations, where we're actually providing immunity to people, what we really are doing is either providing directly IGG or giving what's called a live attenuated virus a small kind of stunted virus so that your body will see it react and create its own IGG. If I have encapsulate this in one sentence so that you remember the difference between IGM and IGG? I would say that IGM is what wins the battle for you. But IGG is what wins the war.I love that. I've never heard it. Did you...did you just, I mean, Is this yours?Yeah, that's a shower thought.I love that. You're exactly right. So, a lot of people if you've ever been checked for epstein barr virus, which is a very common thing. epstein barr virus will usually have an IGM and an IGG and people will realize that most of us are IGG positive, we've been exposed, which means you saw the virus and you carry these antibodies throughout your life. That is a I love the battle war thing that is awesome.I just think it's an easy way to remember it. And you know, similarly, you know, if you go to have a new patient visit at a primary care doctor and they say to you, well, have you been vaccinated for hep B? Have you been vaccinated for varicella, which is chickenpox. You're like, I don't know, I don't have that little card from when I was five years old. They're going to run some blood tests. And those blood tests are just checking for the varicella IGG and that and certain Hepatitis B IGG is because if you've got them, you're you're good. And if you don't you need either vaccination or boosters, right, because sometimes you might be immune, but that immunity can wane.We're seeing that with varicella. So we're seeing people actually, co host Eric Rieger developed shingles. Oh, wow. And it happens. It's happening to a lot of 40 year olds, a reoccurrence of varicalla, it's happening and so that we got into a long discussion about that when him and I were in Hawaii because he were in Hawaii, and he had a bad shingles outbreak which sort of limits going to the beach. Yeah.But it was all it was all kind of related to that. So yeah, that is a great explanation IGM wins the war. So basically, your your innate immunity The virus comes in your body reacts to it cytokines, they send white blood cells, they kill whatever, hopefully they kill whatever it is. And then they take it back to memory cells that say, look, next time this guy invades the house, make sure that we kill it before it causes any damage like it did this time. And that is initially they go, okay, we're going to send out some early troops, IGM, just in case it's out there, just look for this guy, they get a card, they have a picture, and they go out and then they mobilize the IGG which says you guys are our reserves that you will remember this picture, hopefully for the rest of your life. And if this invader comes back, you go out and handle it.Yeah. And you know, now that now that we understand that I think we can we can jump into some of these articles. And I think...yeah sorry.I was thinking...before we get into the deep aspects of these these other articles, I I was very impressed with when I threw out the Macaque study at you, and you're like, yeah, did you really read it? I'm like I read the abstract. This is a great example of what I did scientifically poorly, which was I read the abstract, and I've been quoting this article. And then you're like, yeah, read the whole article. So in the abstract, and not to sabotage where you were going, but I just want to do this that this is why we need to dive deep into the journals, because in the abstract, they described recently has been reported that discharged patients in China and elsewhere were testing positive after recovering. However, it remains unclear whether the convalescing patients have a risk of relapse or reinfection. So what they did is they gave COVID-19 to Macaque monkeys, they don't say how many they don't discuss anything. What they say is after the symptoms were alleviated, and the specific antibody tested positively, that positively the half of the infected monkeys were re-challenged half of the infected notably neither viral loads in nasal pharyngeal and anal swabs along timeline nor viral replication in all primary tissue at five days post infection was found in reexposed monkeys. And then you said to me yesterday, why don't you read the rest of the article?Right? Because if you I mean, we'll get into this in a little more detail in a couple minutes. But, you know, sort of a spoiler. This is the study. This is the study that's been quoted as the basis for immunity testing and talking about giving people immunity cards because it it's a it's a solid proof that immunity exists and you can't get reinfected. And if you read the abstract and you listen to all the pundits, you would think they they herded every monkey they had in China and created a cohort of thousands. In reality, when you read the study, they had four monkeys. They reinfected half.They reinfected two. So, not to say that the data is not valid, but you know, you have to have it with a grain of salt the size of the Rock of Gibraltar, you know? Yeah. So after I read it, I was like, oh, man, he wasn't kidding. And then they reinfected the two. And then they sacrificed them. And they call them adult Macaques. So then I went down a rabbit hole, typical Google rabbit hole. As it turns out, Macaques can live 20 to 30 years. The average age of these adults were three to five years. SoRight younger, you know, theoretically healthier,Theoretically healthier, much younger, preteens or teen style adults. And I get it that we don't want to sacrifice a whole bunch of macaque monkeys. I'd rather not sacrifice any animal or anything and have some sort of other way to test this. But this is just a great example of the media using this article me using the article and other you know, when Eric and I were talking on another episode I was bringing this up, I'm so thank you for pointing that out to me because that has to be you have to look at the articles and that's what we're going to do today is let's let's dive so I'm gonna throw it in you wherever you want to go with it, run with it, and I'll try and keep up.Alright, so before we hit that study, and we definitely want to talk about that because it's the it's the basis for the whole argument. There's there was a study or data set really published by the Chinese CDC, about the Wuhan experience, and I think it's good just to just to hear the numbers. So basically...Is it this one? Correct.Okay, great. Yeah. So this is the viewpoint characteristic of and important lessons from the Coronavirus 2019 outbreak in China is the title of the article.Yeah. and these and these numbers are current as of February which is at the end of the curve in Wuhan so they are completely valid numbers, you know, that they published. So they had 72,314 cases of COVID-19. And, you know, 62% of those were confirmed with some sort of testing. You know, a lot of those numbers came from people who just had the right clinical syndrome because, you know, much like us, they didn't have enough testing to go around, they weren't able to get all the testing at the same time. So, you know, some of those numbers are the people who were admitted and treated and may have been on ventilators but didn't have a confirmed diagnosis. But it seemed pretty likely that that that they were sick with COVID-19 and 3% of them were in advanced age of over 87. An 87%, though, fell into that 30 to 79 age range, with only 8% of the confirmed cases being younger than 30. So, you know most people fell into that fat part of the age distribution, with a very small percentage of them being on opposite ends of the young or old spectrum. Of the disease and this is where it gets really important. 81% of the cases were mild, right? So you might have had some sniffles, you might have not felt so great. But you didn't end up right, we get worried, right? We talk about ventilator shortages, we talk about, you know, overrunning the capacity of the hospitals. But the vast majority, four out of five, didn't really have much symptoms, if any. Severe cases-14% right, those are your hospitalized patients. And critical the ones that are new upper ventilators are 5%. So you know, if you break down the numbers, it's a very, it's not insignificant, but I think much like is the case in general we sensationalized the worst cases, and we got to be careful about falling into that trap.You know, just for that. I mean, right before we hopped on the call here, I had a friend call me because his father is very sick with COVID-19. So when we say that 80% of the people don't get sick If you're if you have a personal relationship, or it's you, that's 100% of the most important thing that's going on. And that's what's scary is the high infectivity rate of this. And in this in this article, the thing that stuck out to me was COVID-19 rapidly spread from a single city to the entire country in 30 days. And now we have a worldwide pandemic. So even though it's a small, the majority of people will have mild symptoms. But when you take into the account of the people that do get sick, that's how come we're taking it so seriously, but where you're going is how do we get that 80% back to work?Right. Right. And and also just having that knowledge that you know, we'd much prefer you don't get sick, but if you do, don't panic.Yeah. Yeah, everything is everything in the media right now is really bad. I've been talking to a lot of people. The New York Times article, the thing I didn't get into Was that the guy actually thought for sure he had COVID. Because a month before he had the classic symptoms, high fever, whole nine yards tested negative for the flu, and his antibody test was negative. So is it a valid test or not? And there's a lot of people that are like, you know what, I got sick in January, I got sick before we start talking about it here in the US. Has it been around? Has it been, basically, did it come to the US sooner? So who knows where this is all, we're all gonna sort this out.Right. And the case fatality rate in Wuhan was 2.3%. So 2.3% of the confirmed cases, you know, passed away, but 50% of those were critically ill patients. So it does sort of pass through that the sicker you are, the more serious it is.Yeah. And then that's coming out of China. And we have all this new data showing the people that do do worse, and we're starting to you know, partion everybody out. We know that the Italians have a much higher death rate. And then if you look at their demographic, they're older and all this other stuff. It's, we're learning. We're learning that in New Orleans here in the US, we're having a higher fatality rate higher, sicker rate, because of multiple different reasons. And you can start to predict where you're going to need more healthcare resources based on these based on these demographics,right. I mean, there were there were two specific issues that came up in New Orleans that may parallel the Italian subset in that it was a high density area with you know, Mardi Gras going on. And, you know, a lot of the case fatalities happened in a nursing home population, people had advanced disease living in close quarters, you know, so, this this may not be a new paradigm, it may actually be the same paradigm playing out in a specific way. Your audio is out. Sorry, what's your what's your take? What's your summary of this article then?So my summary of this article is that there's a really high number of people who got infected pretty quickly. This is a high infectivity virus. But of those, the vast majority of them did not get that sick, thankfully. But of the ones that did get sick, there are significant number who became critically ill and some who unfortunately even died. So it is serious. We do have to take it seriously and maintain social distancing and do all the things we can to flatten that curve. But if you do get sick, there there for most, you will you will see the other side okay.Yeah. So the other articles that you chose to talk about how does this play into this one?So the second article is answering the question of what is the true denominator? Right? How many people actually are infected, right? We're talking about these rates of infection. But the problem is in just about every spot in the world, we're choosing to because of limited resources, we're choosing to test people who are high risk- the patients who come in with significant symptoms, right? It's not just simply that you show up and say, hey, I've been coughing for a few days, I want to get checked for COVID. If you do that, you're gonna get turned around and told to go home and self quarantine, right? The ones who are sick, having trouble breathing, high fevers, those are the ones that are getting tested. So unfortunately, we're creating our own sample error. And this is this is playing out the world over so the natural follow up question is, what's the true denominator how many people actually are infected and they there's a study called the estimates of undetected rate among SARS CoV2 infected using testing data from Iceland. And they chose to look at Iceland in particular, because they have a sort of a dual phase program. They have the same exact setup as we all do, where they're testing nationally high risk individuals through their national university hospital system. But most of the population again, so they do throw in there, there still is a little bit of sampling bias, but most of the population is eligible for voluntary testing from a private company called deCODE genetics. So because they have a much larger sampling size, this became a good spot to try and figure out what that true denominator is. You know, like I said, there are some limitations because even though most people did fall into the ability to get or eligibility to get tested through this private company, they didn't get everybody. But they did get some nice demographic data. 44% of the people who went and got voluntarily tested had some mild sort of cold or flu symptoms. So these were not asymptomatic individuals by and far, many were, but not all. And based on their data, the results of both the national testing and the private testing 88.7 to 93.6% of infections are undetected infections. They're the ones that we don't know about.Say that one more time. Slowly.Yeah, so they created a range, they didn't have an exact number, but somewhere between 89 to 94% of all true infections. were being undetected to sort of flip that around the other way-we're only diagnosing about 6% of the true infections. So we're, we're leaving a lot on the table by design.Yeah. And so and I have to believe these guys. Now I know that your undergraduate degree was in economics, correct?Yeah, among others,Among others. Well, I got the biggest kick out of reading this article because looking at the math that they're doing, this is basically my insecurity nightmare. I'm like, I'm not walking around whenever I'm like really stressed, I don't have nightmares about being naked. I have nightmares about trying to take a calculus test or something. These stats are stunning. I mean, it almost looks like artwork, what they're doing, so I have to believe them that they're right. Because, it's pretty crazy.Yeah, it took me a little bit to read it and make sure that I understood what the numbers meant. And that and as we discussed it, the the first time around when we're talking about this article, I actually overstated what they were trying to say. Because I misunderstood some of the numbers. So after reading it two, three or four times, it made a little more sense to me. So...Well, I'm glad it made sense to you because it just I just looked at this and it just looks like I'm, I'm, I feel like I'm on goodwill hunting with that chalkboard and trying to solve the, whatever equation it is these things are they did a lot of math on this to extrapolate this to a nationwide thing, which means they had that they had the test. They showed how many people were being missed, and then they extrapolated it to their census.Right, and just to explain what I mean by numerator and denominator in this situation. So the numerator or the number above the line are the number of people who have COVID infection. The denominator is the population, right? So one point of bias in a study like this, that you have to understand whenever you're reading this, is you have volunteers by people who said I'm going to go get tested. You might have plenty of people who said, I'm fine. I'm not getting tested. I don't want to know.I'm not getting paid. So why should I drive over?Yeah, exactly. Maybe I'm gonna get exposed because I'm hanging out with all these people. So the true denominator, the population might be underrepresented. So even though we're saying that 6% of the people are the true and 94% are being undetected, might actually be a smaller number. But I think what you can take away from this is that we're only seeing the drop in the bucket. The question is, how much is that drop?So we have to figure out how much of the population has already been exposed. Because what it comes down to is what this study is telling us.Right.Yeah. So how do we get to the denominator here? What are some different ways to do it?So probably one way to do it, which hasn't been done yet, but is under discussion is random testing, right? Because if here you're saying the selection bias is in that only certain people are coming to you...well, maybe if you go to them, you'll be able to get a better sense of a smattering or a cross section of the population. And this has been one of the discussions now in the media, about in the United States, in particular about certain counties, getting access to testing, and setting up random testing protocols. And some of the discussion has been about mobile command centers, right, going out to people so that you decrease that selection bias.So if you're going to do something like that, it has to be a test that is easy has to be a test that is sensitive and more important to be...Gotta be cheap.Yeah.Gotta be cheap.It's gotta be cheap. You have to have a certain level of sensitivity and specificity. Can you explain to everybody what sensitivity and specificity is?Sure. So harking back to my medical school days, I remember this little, this little memory game that you play to try to remember the difference between sensitivity and specificity. And we call it spin and snout. So when you talk about sensitivity, sensitivity is the number or the percentage of ruling out the disease, whereas specificity is ruling in the disease right, so we want to talk about it. In other words, or another part of that is, if you have a positive test, do you actually have it? What are the chances that that that's a true positive, and you actually are infected? And on the flip side to that, if you have negative exam, how confident are you that you don't have it and we didn't miss the fact that you have it?Yeah. If you want an update on this, I went to Peter Attia MDs website and he does a whole thing on how to get people back up to speed with this epidemiology and in stats kind of terms, because it is confusing, but bottom line is, if you have a high sensitivity, high specificity, it's a good test.Right. Is what it comes down to.Yeah, any screening test you want to have, you want to know that it's picking up the right people and casting away the right people and not telling people incorrectly that they have something. And also not letting us lose the ones who truly have who we don't know.Yeah, so think about this: if we do a test, and it says that I am positive for the antibody, meaning that i have IGG, and it is a false positive, then I go around the world thinking I'm, I'm bulletproof, and I could be infecting people. And then I put myself at risk. If we take a test, and it is a false negative, then we're putting people in saying you don't have this yet, go back in your home, keep quarantine, you can't go back to work and all this other stuff. And that's kind of what we're going to get into right now.Right. The risk of it is it's the antithesis of social distancing.Yeah, yeah. So you pulled up another article, or this is the diagnostic value and dynamic variants of serum antibody, Coronavirus disease. What was your take on this article?So it's an interesting article for sure, but I would caution that when you read it, kind of similar to the monkey article, which we'll discuss next, the numbers are small. And you always have to be careful whenever you're trying to interpret data in a small data set, because the smaller it is, the higher the risk of bias, the unintentional but but bias in the numbers. So it was the first published data that compared the PCR testing, versus well, rather, they took a bunch of patients who were all being tested for COVID with PCR, and the ones who tested negative and therefore were known to not have COVID right? We might walk around thinking we don't have COVID. But we don't know whether we do or don't since people can be asymptomatic for so long. These are patients who we know don't have COVID and use them as the control group compared to the PCR positive patients who are known to have COVID. And what they did is they then looked at those patients, and tested IGM and IGG to know who makes it how much and whether or not that can happen in the control group as well, to say it another way: if I'm infected with COVID, and I make IGM and IGG, but somehow someone in the non COVID group does it as well, how valid is that to know that I'm immune?Yeah.Right? The idea is that only the people who have been exposed and therefore can protect themselves should generate that immunity or should we should be using that as a marker for the immunity so a couple interesting things are that some people that's an important point did not make IGG. And on the on the control side, three people did make IGG. However, a big caveat in that is that they made it a much lower titer. So they had a they made some IGG but less IGG than those people who were exposed to or had active viral replication. So another point I'll make is that this is a it's a very interesting article, and it's been discussed a lot. It's a journal pre proof article. So it does mean that it hasn't been published yet. But the journal has accepted it for publication. It's already been through peer review. So this is still a very legitimate publication. So there were in the two in the two sides, there were 43 patients with PCR positive confirmed COVID-19 and compared to their control group of 33 patients who were these rule out patients, patients who came in they, they thought they were sick and potentially had COVID, but the PCRs were never positive. And another good point I would make is, these patients have multiple testing points. They were tested at multiple times. So to decrease...Multiple times in the same location, though right? Nasopharyngeal swabbing.Right. So so they're trying to control for that. Well, what if there, we missed it the first time, right? So then they're going to repeat it again a few days, which gives you a trend over over time. So but but I agree, the point being that it was all nasopharyngeal swabs, I think oral too nasal and oral, yeah. So limited to one type. So you can still you still have that bias of did you not do it adequately? You would hope it's only and they don't mention this, whether it was or not, that's it only a certain few people who are doing the testing, so that you're controlling for variables of maybe some who do it better than others. And maybe get better sampling. So they don't mention that but because it was all done in one site, you have to assume for the moment that there's only a few people who are doing the testing, so they know what they're doing. The sensitivity, I'm sorry.Oh, I was just gonna say what I found interesting in this is this suspected infected patients were discharged from the hospital once the results of two time molecular tests in 24 hours were negative. So basically, in my interpretation of this understanding, now, the limitations of the testing, they may have sent people out that were not PCR positive, that could later develop IGG and IGM. So when you get into the sensitivity and specificity of this, it is this is this is as good as we can get. But it may change as we gather more data.Right. Right. So the sensitivity specificity for IGM and IGG to diagnose an infection was 48% and 88.9% of sensitivity. So IGM was 48 and IGG was 88.9 and 100% and 90.9% specificity, right? So, in other words, if you had IGM, that meant that you had the infection because it's an acute marker that would only happen if you've been acutely infected. But if you didn't have IGM, it did not mean that you weren't infected. Right? So just to sort of wrap your head around that it's really really good as a marker if you have it, but if you don't have it doesn't give you a whole lot of confidence.I love how we're doing this because the media just glosses over it and just confuses people. My patients are calling me all day long asking all these questions.Yeah, it's important to understand what it is right and the media doesn't kind of give you a primer to explain the background of what they're talking about. They just give you a two minute soundbite and you're sort of left on your own to interpret it. Exactly. Sorry to interrupt go on. No no problem at all. So they found that as you would expect, given that IGM comes first and then IGG follows IGM titers would rise and then they'd fall because as you get over the acute infection, you no longer need your IGM. But the IGG titer would rise until they were 100% in those people that produced IGG, right, so the ones that were making IGG made them. It was always higher, for whatever reason, and this, this is not clearly explained, but the titers of IGG were always higher than the titers of IGM. I think it's just something to sort of keep in the back in your mind just because we don't yet know what titers means. So it's just getting all the data you can and trying to figure out what it means going forward is important. The IGG positivity rate was over 90 was up to 90%. And it didn't really change it once...from the time that you were virus positive with PCR to your post infectious viral negative state. But the titer of IGG was almost double once you pass the infection, which that starts giving you that glimmer of hope about immunity, right. Because as you're fighting the infection, it's not as important to remember, you need someone who's actively on the front line. And that's where your IGG IGM helps you. But once you're done, you want to you want to remember that you want to be stone cold, you want to know that if you get any kind of exposure again, your body is ready to jump into action.I mean, this is just getting back to your analogy, what you have are some special, we've got special ops that have a picture of something and they say when this thing shows up, kill it before it does anything. And all they do is wait. That's what the IGG is doing is waiting for the possibility of seeing that and they just get after it.Right. So just to sort of talked about the the the sort of underside of this, three of the 33 patients in the control group are IGG positive, right. So that that makes you step back just a little bit in saying that, well, if you got the IGG, you're good, right? But the important thing is that the titers were lower. So they talk about the the units, the units of positivity for this assay, were 1010 units per milliliter, and those that were in the control group had no one higher than 15. So they were sort of a low kind of weak positive compared to those in the active group, who all had much higher at least twice the normal titers. So that might be an important piece of information, right that not only figuring out who is IGG but how much maybe there's a threshold value that confers immunity. 27 of the known COVID patients has IGG testing during the infection, three of them didn't make any IGM or IGG, so whoever didn't make IGG also didn't make IGM. It's interesting because the way I look at this is probably different than almost everybody who reads this article. I'm sure everyone who looks at it and it's valid is gonna say certain people don't make it. What I look at it is that's kind of an amazing thought. 10% of the people didn't make IGM or IGG and still fought off the virus somehow. So there's some sort of mechanism of secondary mechanism to be able to successfully defeat the virus beyond this, the typical virology that we know about.Well, I okay, so point CounterPoint. What if they're catching this person at a point in time where the IGM is dipped down and the IGG is coming up? So you're going to have two overlapping...Right you're in a window right?You're in a window. So did they check them at the wrong time?Right. That's a great thought. The catch is they did this at least three times separated over several days, going all the way out to 28 days post infection. So I suppose it's possible, but given what we know about the curves of IGM and IGG, even if you think maybe you were shifted over in time, you should have caught it somewhere. And maybe you don't get one maybe maybe you only get one, maybe you don't get both. We should have seen something.So what you're describing is that people that had an innate immunity, but they did not develop the adaptive immunity. In other words, their body's initial response may have been effective enough, but they did not develop. So those people, the question is, can they be reinfected? Will they have a possibility of the virus, having a resurgence and come back and hit them again? Interesting.Yeah. So that's the discussion. The discussion is do these people have immunity now, right? If you're making the supposition that you need IGG to have immunity, and these people can't make IGG, are they subject to reinfection? I would argue it goes even deeper. We're trying to get serum right draw blood from people who have had infection, to look at IGG titers to understand how much is needed for immunity. How much is enough? I would want to know about the serum of these people. What makes it different? Is there something is there a different way that we could be looking at this to confer immunity? Is there something else that maybe can work in concert?Hmm. So here you have the subset of people which is a significant amount and it's small study 10%. Right. So a subset of people that survived did not produce the antibodies, and going forward and some sort of weird society where we have to have immunity passports to go around. Peter Attia was talking about when you get bracelets for people to show I'm this I'm that which is gets a little bit big brother-ish and it gets real scary thinking about that. But there could be a subset of people that will not produce antibodies, but their innate immunity prevents them from getting infected. And we can't withhold them from going to work. We can't stop them. That's a fascinating observation. I did not see it that way. I was I was of everybody else that read this article and just went 10% didn't produce it. So...Yeah, but it's going back to what you said. I mean, this is this is why you gotta analyze articles and you got to have multiple people looking at it because people can read articles and have the same data and draw completely different conclusions.Much like everything else.Much like life. Let's, let's jump into the sort of article the day before we start talking about the pros and cons of these immunity badges or licenses. The we want to talk about the the Macaque monkey study. And...What's the only reason why I threw that out first not to describe it, but it just shows why you have to pay attention and read the articles yourself and have two different people interpreting it differently. Right. So it's a very small study. It is pre-publication, and it has not been peer reviewed. So it is being touted as kind of the be all and end all for the discussion about immunity. But it is a very much in the pubescent stages of research.It's fascinating because I heard Dr. Fousey on a CNN news thing. We believe that because of the macaque monkey study, and then I heard Dr. Hotez go on Joe Rogan. He said we're we're sure that we can develop immunity because there was a macaque monkey study and everybody just keeps saying the macaque monkey study the macaque monkey study. I don't think there's another one out there. I tried to look I didn't find one. This is the one that I found.Yeah, no, I did the same. And, you know, like I said, it's it's fascinating but has to be taken with a big grain of salt. So let's, let's jump into it. Yeah. The whole reason why they did this study, it was prompted by reports of patients who have been discharged and considered cleared from virus and then they were coming back with reinfection or raising that question of is this a relapse or reinfection? You know the difference being relapse, that you have the same infection you did and you just got sick again, versus reinfection that you actually got sick a second time. And it implies that there's no immunity.Big difference. So they followed four rhesus monkeys. And they infected all four of them. They actually gave them inoculations of the SARS CoV2 virus and they developed a lot of those typical symptoms that we're seeing in people around the world. Once they the symptoms were alleviated, and the viral replication as judged by, as you said, respiratory and animal swabs and PCR had all subsided, all appropriate antibodies, so IGM and IGG and there's actually a whole bunch of other ones we didn't even touch on. They were all there, right? So they sort of validated the subset of the four monkeys by saying these all created everything appropriately and therefore, we can look at them for some information. They euthanized one of the monkeys from the start. And they basically took various organs and tested the organ tissue to see if they would be PCR positive and they found evidence of viral replication all over the body: nose, pharynx lung, gut, spinal cord, heart, skeletal muscle and bladder all displayed PCR positive COVID at the time of infection. Two of the Monkey so now you're down to three monkeys. Two of the monkeys were then re challenged, where they inoculated them a second time with SARS CoV2. So again, this is talking about reinfection, not reactivation. All the monkeys. So all three monkeys were then tested for viral load. And none of them were found to be PCR positive. So the one monkey who was left as a control and the two monkeys who were re inoculated, none of them had PCR positive disease at this point. They then took one of those reinfected monkeys euthanized that monkey as well did the same kind of testing, looking at all those different organs and trying to see if they were PCR positive and found that they were negative in the tissueIn all of the tissue and that's pretty shocking how disseminated that virus was in the first one. So that's impressive.Yeah. So very interesting data very interesting information throws out a lot of very positive possibilities here now for infection and the ability to fight off reoccurrence. But, gotta gotta to be very skeptical, right? I mean, for monkeys, you know, they all displayed antibodies. And from the last study we looked at, we know that that's not true, right? If you have those 43 patients, you know, sort of looking at that and say, if I only took four of them, and looked at those four people, and they all made antibodies, I draw conclusions from the study. Well, I guess everyone makes antibodies, but we know that's not true.Yeah, that is a that's a very interesting analysis on a study that's being thrown around in the media like crazy. Nobody's talking about that. And if you read their abstract, I'll say it one more time, like I did. It seems like they had 1000 monkeys. So great job on interpreting that and getting into the details and you know, having the time during Passover and stuff to go into detail like that, because...Yeah, I mean I just got a cup of coffee, got some matza just sat down and went through all these studies.Well, you're better than me because it's it's like drinking out of a firehose, I try to sort through which ones I'm going to take a deep dive in. And I like doing this with you. I like doing these point five episodes where we do do deep dives. And, and you challenged me to look at some of these studies. So I had a long interview yesterday with Matt Atwood, who's the CEO of a company that has access to rapid point of care IGG, IGM testing, where they actually have the ability to take a finger prick like a glucose stick, and then you can see if you're IGM positive, IGG positive. And it's interesting because you had also sent me that study and he sent it to me about the Laredo was it El Paso or Laredo?Laredo yeah...Laredo. Yeah. Why don't you go ahead and tell everybody about what kind of a fiasco that was?Well, the short version is best intentions for sure. The city of Laredo ordered, I think half a million testing kits to try and stimulate their economy, right? They wanted to...Just to clarify, it was half a million dollars for 20,000 kits. So they spent half a million dollars.Oh, thank you. And they basically wanted to go out and test everyone and see if they could figure out who's IGG positive and say that those people can go back to work and sort of get Main Street running again. And it turned out that the kits were not quite up to snuff. And unfortunately, it was a bit of a loss for the city of Laredo.So people are asking like, well, how is this happening? And I just want to just clarify this a little bit. It's what happened in China is exactly what President Trump is doing here. When they realized that they were behind the curve on this, and they needed masks and gloves and testing kits, China went to facilities like toy manufacturers, and they went to different manufacturing companies and said, you're going to stop production on that. Here's your parts to make masks, here's your parts to make test kits. And here's how you're going to do it, figure it out. So these were not already pre designed medical locations. They were doing what the government told them to do. And then they made a bunch of these things. They shipped them out, the US bought a bunch. And then we realized...a lot of these things are not effective, and they shipped them back, discussed possibly suing this and so then China had to step it up and be like, well, we can't just force you to do this. Well, as it turns out, there's a bunch of that stuff still floating around in the US. And there are some companies that are saying, well, I'll just repackage it and sell it. And that's kind of what happened to these guys. So for instance, our group, I got an email from somebody in our group that said, we have access to these IGG kits. And I looked into it and as it turns out, I, we contacted the manufacturered for company and they're like, yeah, we got a bunch of those kits that are not valid because they're not certified. So a company out of Houston bought us. And then they contacted our group and offered to sell it for dirt cheap. And it's, you get what you pay for, I guess.Yeah, I mean, it definitely was a great deal. They were super cheap, but...couldn't really do much with them unfortunately.And then from as doctors, imagine, if we tested people with an unreliable test, and we said look, the we all you and I carry liability all the time, but at least we can say this test was FDA shown to be this the sensitivity specificity, so there is a 95% chance that the information I'm going to give you as correct, you're going to assume and I'm going to assume that there's a slight possibility that it could be wrong. If you're positive, then what we're going to do is send you for another more distinct test, which costs a lot more money, it's going to be serum and that's kind of where I think this needs to go. You do mass screening, like we did with well, quite honestly, HIV, I remember we did the rapid HIV and then you do the the Elisa test or whatever it was afterwards to try and really determine what's going on. So we have these people that if we can screen them and get the IGG IGM and then do a secondary test and prove that they're that they have antibody. Then now the next discussion is alright, Dr. Akerman. We've got IGG people running around with their badge saying I can work I can do things. What are the limitations of that?Well, I think there's there's some issues that are...and I want to be clear, I, I agree that we need to figure something out. And this opens up a world of possibilities. But we're in the infancy because there's a lot of questions that haven't been answered. So first of all, do we know are there specific titers that confer immunity? Because if there are, a simple little blood test that just says yay or nay might not be enough, right, we have to make sure that all the manufacturers are assessing at the same level to call that positive. Right? If we know that you need titers of 20, let's say, and you have a test that calls it positive at 10. Right? You're creating a ton of false positive results. So you got to be really, really careful about that. And, you know, again, we haven't answered that question just yet. Is there the possibility of reinfection? So what does immunity mean? Right, we have all this data now coming out of South Korea because they've had over 100 people come back who were discharged from hospitals being told that they've cleared infections and that they're no longer sick. And they've actually come back and have retested positive by PCR. But what does that mean? Does that mean that they've gotten the infection again? Does that mean that maybe they were kicked out too quickly? Maybe that their viral loads had dropped? Or they simply had sampling error. Right. When they got tested the day before, maybe they just didn't pick it up in the right spot.Exactly. So the other articles that you talked about bringing that up, but it is fascinating, because this is just case reports coming out of South Korea. And everybody that looks at this nobody wants to believe that you can get reinfected like like that is like the the that is a doomsday prediction. So we're going to say, look, the macaque monkey study which you've kind of already said take it with a grain of salt, the size of Gibraltar and then this the IGG so it's the good news is looking at SARS CoV from 2003...they those people have been looked at years later a decade later, and they've maintained their immunity. Now, I challenge that there are some possibilities that these tests, although they're COVID-19 specific, what if some of these people test positive because they have IGG to SARS CoC? That was right. That was an argument that a PhD brought to me. Because he did...I was on the I was on a zoom call yesterday with a virologist who did the original research on that and he's like, doing this he's like, well, we're seeing that some people can develop antibodies which made a mistake that being said, I don't know that these fingerpricks there was a article that just came out today, that detection of SARS CoV2. They found the binding protein to be specific so the test you can still do a test specific for SARS CoV2. And I'm not sure if these IGG IGM are can actually do determine that. So more studies are gonna have to be kind of vetted for this.Yeah. And I think that, you know, it begs the larger question, what do you do with those false positive results, especially if you don't know that they're falsely positive? Right? Again, like you mentioned earlier, patient could be walking around thinking that they're bulletproof. And it turns out, not only are they not bulletproof, they might now get the infection and pass it along to everyone. It becomes part of the larger discussion about herd immunity, right? Because if we're getting all these people that now are immune, and we're putting those people out in the population, then the people that they're coming across are not as at risk. Right, but we don't know what that critical number is to create that herd immunity.Yeah, absolutely. There's a lot to discuss and clearly you and I can get together and try and vet some of this stuff as the literature comes out. I appreciate you taking the time to do that. Unfortunately, it's starting my telemedicine time right now. But where can people find you Dr. Akerman?The easiest way is to check out my website. There's a lot of information about my practice there and I've been trying to update my blog with useful information. And that's at www.stuartakermanmd.com.Yeah, so clearly this is a super smart guy watch his videos he actually has a pretty good sense of humor and has some pretty interesting stuff and his the videos you're sending me your kids which we will not discuss today was pretty pretty funny also so quarantine in the Akerman house should be a some sort of big brother type thing where it's just funny it's hilariousYeah, we're thinking of pitching it to the networks in the near future.Alright buddy, I appreciate you taking the time so go to stuartakermanmd.com You can reach me at on Instagram at kbmdhealth and kbmdhealth.com for the website. We are currently oh good news, we now have brought a leak on our website. So BrocElite, Atrantil, and CBD. We're having some pretty good results with that we can get into that later but today was much more of an academic discussion. Thank you so much, Dr. Akerman for joining now I got to get to the real job.Thanks Ken. Have a great day.Alright buddy. Have a great day.
This week, Lindsey and Erica talk about the Sasquatch of Round Rock and The Legend of Hairy Man Road! We also have some fun with public Facebook comments, talk about how many toes Bigfoot has, and I figure out where I'm finally going to meet my soulmate. I also probably give a little bit too much info about where I live. But that's showbiz babey! Since this didn't make it into the final recording, I wanted to let everyone know that my notes for this episode were entitled "Everything is Biggerfoot in Texas". Almost as bad as Erica's "Gnome time like the present" last week. Almost. Part Two of our self isolation tales! Maybe we'll stick with it. Lord knows Florida and Texas are haunted enough to get us through the end times. Submit your cryptid, ghost, or otherwise spooky stories to JustMightExistPodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr for updates on the show! We can't wait to share our findings with you. Intro and Outro sample "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield Sound effects and backing music courtesy of ZapSplat.com. Sources: The Legend of Hairy Man Road from Weird Texas by Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman The Hairy Man of Round Rock from Texas Cryptid Hunter, October 3, 2009 Round Rock Parks and Recreation Facebook Post from June 10, 2017 Legend of the Hairy Man from A Central Coast Paleontologist, December 1, 2011 (And Kathy Moskowitz's 2003 research)
The Unnoticed Murders of the Wycherley's and The Black Prince of Lygon Street...In October 2012, a woman called the Nottinghamshire police in England, to report that William and Patricia Wycherley had been killed 14 years earlier and she knew where their bodies were buried. If she was telling the truth, why had nobody reported the couple missing? And what did their daughter Susan Edwards and her husband Christoper have to do with it?Alphonse “The Black Prince of Lygon Street” Gangitano has been described as a loving husband and father and as a vile gangster and murderer. From the 1970's right through to the late 90's, the Black Prince ruled over Carlton, brutalising it's residents with extortion, drug dealing and murder. Mate of Christopher “Mr Rent-to-Kill” Flannery, enemy of Mark “Chopper” Read, he was leader of the feared Carlton Crew which included members Graham “The Munster” Kinniburgh, Mario Condello, Mick Gatto and Jason and Mark Moran. Seemingly unstoppable, the prince went too far and couldn't predict his best friend would turn on him.Become a Bloody Murder Patron (for as little as $1 per month, which you can cancel at anytime) and have access to dozens of Patron only episodes (including our whole first season!) with new patron only content added every month!Go to https://www.patreon.com/bloodymurderLevels $5 and over go into our monthly merchandise draws and get FREE stickers and hand-made Barney Badges!See our website! bloodymurderpodcast.com for all our social media links, contact details, a gallery, fabulous merchandise (check out our new Bloody Murder SHOES! and now STICKERS and BACKPACKS and DUFFEL BAGS!!) and much much more.Wanna buy us a drink? Here's a donate link.Thanks to Tracey Stewart for her TCNT on the show "In Plain Sight".True Crime Nerd Time, a segment on Bloody Murder, needs your help because it stars you! We want you, our listeners, to submit your recommendations for anything true cime related! It could be books, TV shows, movies, documentaries, exhibitions, graphic novels, art, music etc. So send us your brief story (we’ll read it out) or record your story (it can just be a recording on your phone, and we’ll play it!). We will also publish it on our website. Keep it to about 2 mins please or 200 words. Email here! bloodymurderpodcast@gmail.com. Oh and if you give us your postal address we'll send you some stickers as a reward!Aussie As: A QLD woman is arrested for riding her horse through a drive-through bottle shop while drunk.The Unnoticed Murders of the Wycherley's Sources: In the Crown Court Nottingham R v Christopher Edwards and Susan Edwards Sentencing Remarks. The Murderers Next Door, The Guardian, Jenny Kleeman, 25 October, 2014. Mansfield Murders: Christopher and Susan Edwards Spun Web Of Lies, BBC, 20 June, 2014. 'Sexually Abused' Susan Edwards Loses Murder Sentence Appeal Bid, BBC, February 12, 2015. Mansfield Murders: Susan and Christopher Edwards Found Guilty Of Murdering Parents and Burying Them In The Back Garden, The Independent, Heather Saul, June 20, 2014. Susan and Christopher Edwards Found Guilty In 1998 Mansfield Murder, The Guardian, Tricia Manalansan, June 21, 2014. Guilty: Couple Who Murdered Wife's Parents For Money, Daily Mail, Martin Robinson and Andy Dolan, June 20, 2014. The Downfall Of Gerard Depardieu, The Australian... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
It's Spooky Season folks! Today we get in the mood by sharing spooky legends and lore from Weird Michigan, authored by Linda Godfrey, and part of the Weird US book series created by Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman. Turn down the lights and settle in to hear about the Ghost of Little Grace, the Witch's Chair, Hell's Bridge, and the haunted Jeffers High School. For images and notes related to this episode click here.Resources: Weird Michigan by Linda Godfrey, the Weird US Series from Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman _____________________ Become a patron of Mysterious Midwest for as little as $1 month! Earn our endless love and devotion while ultimately feeling really good about your choices: patreon.com/mysteriousmidwest As always, the most amazing way to support us without giving a dime is to rate and review us on Itunes! If you post a review, DM us on social media or email us at mysteriousmidwestpod@gmail.com for a SUPER RAD FREE STICKER! Visit mysteriousmidwestpod.com/shop to get dope merch for your body and abode. Follow Mysterious Midwest on Facebook, Instagram, and TwitterFollow Sara on InstagramFollow Danielle on Instagram
Which digital marketing course should you chose? One of the most common questions asked of OMCP is “Which Digital Marketing Courses are right for me?” In this special interview series, we interview seven leaders in digital marketing education to learn the differences. Mark Moran, the Chief Marketing Officer with Simplilearn shared what to expect in […] The post Digital Marketing Course Comparison Simplilearn appeared first on OMCP.
In this episode Codie tells Rachel, Alex & Mike about the unsolved murder of Jeannette DePalma. If you are interested in Jeannette’s case, please check out Codie’s source Death on the Devil’s Teeth by Jesse Pollack and Mark Moran. Intro music by Sisters of Shaddowwe - @sistersofshaddowwe Follow us on Instagram @doubledatewithdeath Recorded in Salem, MA.
Season 2 Episode 5 JERSEY DEVIL: MYTH OR REALITY On this episode of the I Want to Believe podcast we’re going to discuss the Jersey Devil, HEY-OH!!! The story of the Jersey Devil goes back to almost 3 centuries. And since then, it has become a muddled heap of myth, legend, true stories, fake stories with believers and skeptics. (Plug time!) As of RIGHT NOW, you can watch me and Bill Brock’s documentary, Abducted New England on Amazon Prime. And my book Otherworldly Encounters, is available wherever books are sold. Links are below! Ok, how’s about we dive in, eh? The legend goes that in the Pine Barren forests of New Jersey, a woman who went by the moniker, Mother Leeds had given birth to 12 children. In 1735, she found that she was pregnant with her 13th. The Leeds family was poor, her husband a drunk and when they found that she was pregnant again, she cursed the child and said, “Let this one be a devil!” She went into labor a few months after that proclamation, on a reportedly, “dark & stormy night”, and all had forgotten about the curse. Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran, authors of From Weird, “Her children and husband huddled together in one room of their Leeds Point home while local midwives gathered to deliver the baby in another. By all accounts the birth went routinely, and the thirteenth Leeds child was a seemingly normal baby boy. Within minutes however, Mother Leeds’s unholy wish of months before began to come to fruition. The baby started to change and metamorphosed right before her very eyes. Within moments it transformed from a beautiful newborn baby into a hideous creature unlike anything the world had ever seen. The wailing infant began growing at an incredible rate. It sprouted horns from the top of its head and talon-like claws tore through the tips of its fingers. Leathery bat-like wings unfurled from its back, and hair and feathers sprouted all over the child’s body. Its eyes began glowing bright red as they grew larger in the monster’s gnarled and snarling face. The creature savagely attacked its own mother, killing her, then turned its attention to the rest of the horrified onlookers who witnessed its tempestuous transformation. It flew at them, clawing and biting, voicing unearthly shrieks the entire time. It tore the midwives limb from limb, maiming some and killing others.” That story is what the majority of people know about the Jersey Devil. But when you do a bit of research, a whole lot more comes to the surface. The real story includes some political intrigue, Quaker in-fighting, almanacs, a cross-dressing royal governor, and a man named Benjamin Franklin. Listen to the episode for the full story. Videos: Paranormal State Jersey Devil Episode | Destination Truth Jersey Devil Episode | Monster Quest Jersey Devil Episode Seth Breedlove's Monsteropolis Podcast Jersey Devil Episode Sources: CSICOP | Weird NJ ___________ Social Media & Email I Want to Believe Instagram I Want to Believe Patreon Send us an Email (suggest an episode topic, tell us how awesome or dumb we are… whatever you want!) Slevik Media Links Abducted New England Documentary on Amazon Prime PayPal Link for my book Otherworldly Encounters - $20 signed & includes shipping Amazon for Otherworldly Encounters Bullmoose for Otherworldly Encounters Slevik Facebook Podcast Links Direct Link to Podcast iTunes
Just as the shock of Jeannette DePalma's death finally begins to fade from her community's collective consciousness, one of her old neighbors creeps up behind his parents with an axe and achieves infamy. Read more in "Death on the Devil's Teeth" by Jesse P. Pollack and Mark Moran. Follow us @devilsteethpod on Twitter.
Join Barry, Zach, and Alec for another can't-miss episode of the Townstone Financial Show. Attorney Richard Ross gives his top 10 things all home purchasers NEED to know. Mark Moran of Knickerbocker Roofing gives his tips for roof maintenance. Frank Pellegrini is back talking about e-closings and trends in local Real Estate. Watch on Facebook.
In this episode we are joined again by Maizie Moran, daughter of Weird US cofounder Mark Moran. We take a look at the history of Philadelphia's history Divine Lorraine hotel, and then Cerra takes a look into Kashi Ashram - a cult that sucked in Julia Roberts. Be sure to check out WeirdUS.com Help support the show: http://Patreon.com/EsotericOddities - Connect With Us -Instagram - @ EsotericOddities Twitter - https://twitter.com/esotericodditie Facebook - https://facebook.com/esotericoddities Email - Odditiespodcast@gmail.com Spotify - http://spoti.fi/2DprpDl
Now might be a good time to clean out your attic. Mark Moran, an appraiser of antiques and fine arts, is headed to the Peoria area. Known for his stint on the PBS series Antiques Roadshow and as the author of many antique and collectible reference guides, Moran chats with the Journal Star's Steve Tarter about his craft and his current Midwest tour which brings him to the Eureka Public Library on Sept. 6, the Normal Public Library on Sept. 7 and the Peoria Public Library on Sept. 8.
In this episode we are joined by Maizie Moran, daughter of Weird US founder Mark Moran. We uncover the evil behind one of Japan's most infamous cults, Aum Shinrikyo, and dive into the unnerving cult that lived in a castle in Maizie's own hometown! Be sure to check out WeirdUS.com Help support the show: http://Patreon.com/EsotericOddities - Connect With Us -Instagram - @ EsotericOddities Twitter - https://twitter.com/esotericodditie Facebook - https://facebook.com/esotericoddities Email - Odditiespodcast@gmail.com Spotify - http://spoti.fi/2DprpDl - Sources - https://bit.ly/2C1pkSr https://cnn.it/2C2jMXP https://bit.ly/2NBH74h https://bit.ly/2NBbNCn
This week, Amanda and Sarah take on cemeteries in the first of many Cemetery Specials! Sarah dives into the rich and storied history of the Old Burying Grounds in her hometown of Beaufort, NC and dispenses a few spooky tales from her day as a (ghost) tour guide there. Amanda explains the origins of some weird graves in the Wildwood Cemetery in her hometown of Williamsport, PA and in Pittsburgh's Allegheny Cemetery. Other subjects covered include the possum: America's marsupial, eating bugs, cafeteria ice cream, and timeless commercials. Recommendations: Sarah recommends watching the British miniseries The Living and the Dead (now streaming on Amazon Prime). Amanda recommends reading "The Silent Companions" by Laura Purcell. Sources: "The Radioactive Death of Eben Byers" by Charlie Hintz Haunted USA: Wildwood Cemetery - Williamsport, Pennsylvania "Weird U.S.: Your Travel Guide to America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets" by Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman Old Burying Grounds - Beaufort NC Historic Tours For updates on future episodes and other fun stuff, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
In the 1970s psychologist David Rosenhan sent healthy volunteers to 12 psychiatric hospitals, where they claimed to be hearing voices. Once they were admitted, they behaved normally, but the hospitals diagnosed all of them as seriously mentally ill. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll describe the Rosenhan experiment, which challenged the validity of psychiatric diagnosis and set off a furor in the field. We'll also spot hawks at Wimbledon and puzzle over a finicky payment processor. Intro: In 2002, Burkard Polster investigated the mathematics of shoelaces. A raindrop that lands on Montana's Triple Divide Peak might arrive at any of three oceans. Sources for our feature on the Rosenhan experiment: Roger R. Hock, Forty Studies That Changed Psychology, 2009. Dusan Kecmanovic, Controversies and Dilemmas in Contemporary Psychiatry, 2017. Donald O. Granberg and John F. Galliher, A Most Human Enterprise, 2010. 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Oliver Pickup, "Introducing Rufus the Hawk: The Official Bird Scarer of the Wimbledon Championships," Telegraph, July 3, 2017. Wikipedia, "Rufus the Hawk" (accessed May 23, 2018). "Rufus the Hawk Back at Work," BT, June 25, 2013. Bryony Gordon, "Rufus the Hawk: Quails, Baths And Me-Time -- Meet Wimbledon's Biggest Diva," Telegraph, July 2, 2012. "Nosy Neighbour," finalist, 2016 Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year, 2016. Sam Hobson's photography. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Tommy Honton, who sent this corroborating link (warning -- this spoils the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Google Play Music or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!
Local gossip reveals the person who killed Jeannette DePalma and Joan Kramer may have started killing as early as 1966 - and all signs point to one man. Read more in "Death on the Devil's Teeth" by Jesse P. Pollack and Mark Moran. Follow us @devilsteethpod on Twitter.
In this episode of our step-by-step podcast on how to get your first feature made, we dive into the pitching and financing processes on Ryan Koo's Netflix Film AMATEUR. This episode covers his experiences pitching Amateur eighty (!) times and eventually getting it to Netflix, including the following points: Making a pitch into a back-and-forth conversation as early as possible; What goes into a pitch packet other than the script, including a rip-o-matic/multimedia lookbook; Using CRM software to track producers and financiers (Ryan used Streak); How rejection can be a development process unto itself; Why "producer" is an amorphous term and how to identify producers with complementary skill sets; Who his producers were (Jason Michael Berman, Chip Hourihan, and Mark Moran) and what their roles were; and finally, How he got the film to Netflix. Watch Amateur on Netflix, available now worldwide at netflix.com/amateur. You can find all other episodes of The First Feature at nofilmschool.com/firstfeature. This episode of The First Feature is sponsored by Music Bed. Get 20% off you next on-site license with coupon code "FirstFeature20."
William Kamm has a 10pm curfew, and is not allowed to spend time with girls under the age of 17. He is prevented from entering the Shoalhaven district of New South Wales, and his movements and communications are monitored. These are conditions of his release after serving 9 years in jail for crimes he committed against two teenage girls – yet his followers still believe that he is the next true Pope, and that the Virgin Mary speaks to him on the 13th day of every month.Special Guest: Claire Ashman.CW: references to manipulative behaviours, and sexual assault of minors. A small amount of coarse language. Please consider whether you would like to listen on this basis. Content is not suitable for children.The opinions expressed in this podcast are not necessarily those of the makers of Let's Talk About Sects.Full research sources listed on each episode page at www.ltaspod.com.If you have been personally affected by involvement in a cult, or would like to support those who have been, you can find support or donate to Cult Information and Family Support if you’re in Australia (via www.cifs.org.au), and you can find resources outside of Australia with the International Cultic Studies Association (via www.icsahome.com).Links:Claire Ashman's website — where her book 'Lessons from a Cult Survivor' is available for pre-order.Lessons From A Cult Survivor — by Claire Ashman, 2018 – book pre-sale linkA WOLF Among the SHEEP: How God's Prophet the Little Pebble Became a Womanising, Millionaire Cult Leader — by Graeme Webber, KeyStone Press, 2008The Little Pebble: The Last Pope, A Man of Contradiction, Petrus Romanus, Sinner or Saint? — by William Costellia, self-published, 1999 (volume 1)Official website of The Little PebbleWilliam 'Little Pebble' Kamm's supervision to continue — AAP, The Illawarra Mercury, 8 January 2016DSM to Distinguish Paraphilias From Paraphilic Disorders — by Mark Moran, Psychiatric News, 3 May 2013South Coast cult leader William 'Little Pebble' Kamm fails to have supervision order lifted — by Angela Thompson, Illawarra Mercury, 14 August 2017The Republic Reform and Justice PartyLittle Pebble author 'surprised' by cult leader's impending release — ABC Illawarra, 12 November 2014Cult leader and convicted sex offender William Kamm to be freed within days — AAP, The Age, 11 November 2014Unrepentant Little Pebble talks about life behind bars — by Robert Crawford, South Coast Register, 2 July 2014
Gordon Manuel from the Mark Moran Group, who took out the Individual Distinction Award at 2017 HESTA Aged Care Awards, on his philosophies on food and dining in aged care.
Suburban New Jersey begins to panic when another young woman disappears only one week after Jeannette DePalma vanished. While most investigators are ignorant of the obvious connections between the two victims, a few begin to connect the dots.Read more in "Death on the Devil's Teeth" by Jesse P. Pollack and Mark Moran. Follow us @devilsteethpod on Twitter.
In this episode, Tori Lieggi introduces us to a unique and quirky travel book (9:31), and Kristi Cates recommends a stack of young adult historical fiction (17:16). Plus, we interview visiting antique and fine art appraiser Mark Moran (11:17). Mark Moran's website is here. Tori recommends: Atlas Obscura by Joshua Foehr, Dylan Thuras, and Ella Morton Kristi recommends: The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson The Wicked and the Just by J. Anderson Coats Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee Email us! Tweet at us!
Mark Moran is a content creator and composer at Breadwin Productions, LLC. He's also produced, written and directed series for the web. Today, Mark will share how your "life GPS" can help you create better content. More at www.bemovingforward.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn @Bemovingforward The Corporate Cliches Adult Coloring Book is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble online: Just go to Bit.ly/corporatecliches
Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar "Helping Our Students Become the Citizens the World Needs Them to Be" with special guest presenter, Mark Moran. June 3, 2017. We are very excited to have Mark Moran returning to Classroom 2.0 LIVE to bring us updates with several of the passions in his life: SweetSearch and FindingDulcinea, the Choose2Matter initiative he co-founded with Angela Maiers, and steps for better online research. Mark will discuss how to guide students to become self-aware, empathetic, creative, confident, courageous, well-informed, and passionate agents of social change. Mark is the Founder, Dulcinea Media, an Author, and former General Counsel of 24/7 Media. Mark creates products that help students become the citizens the world needs them to be: self-aware, empathetic, empowered, creative, courageous, well-informed, and passionate agents of social change. SweetSearch is highly recognized as the best search engine for student research. Mark and Angela Maiers have created an online professional development course called "Choose2Matter," which challenges teachers and students to accept that they matter and have something important to contribute the world - and then helps them do just that. It fosters authentic, passion-based learning. Participants will become self-aware, empathetic, empowered, collaborative, innovative, passionate agents of social change. It comes with a classroom implementation package and will be available in June 2017. The course takes six seat hours; it includes activities and group discussion that extend the learning for a full course or a full year. In addition, Mark is also creating an online course to teach educators, students, and employees how to do effective online research. https://twitter.com/markemoran Mark E. Moran on Twitter http://www.sweetsearch.com/ SweetSearch http://2day.sweetsearch.com/ SweetSearch 2 Day http://www.findingdulcinea.com/ Finding Dulcinea http://www.markmoran.com/c2m.html Online course: Choose2Matter http://www.encontrandodulcinea.com/inicio.html (Spanish version of findingDulcinea)
Interview with Mark Moran. Educated as an aerospace engineer at Virginia Tech Mark Moran spent years as an aerospace engineer supporting the Space Station development Mark worked for the Census Bureau and was the Unit Production Manager for a feature that starred A-lister George Takei from the original series Star Trek cast Directed first movie Blast & Whisper: Elijah's Story and is working on Yard Sale 411 a show about flea markets.
I am back! Season 3 of Living on the Edge of Chaos podcast is here in the now and ready. It has been a long time since season 2 ended. In that void of episodes I had a series of small side podcasts(all on the same channel) testing things out. After some learning, revision, and moving into action it is here. And I cannot be more excited to start off season 3 with anyone other than Tammy Dunbar. Tammy is a 5th grade teacher who also teaches technology and does a ton of trainings for teachers around the world. She is one who not just talks the talk, but walks the walk. In this episode we discuss Genius Hour. Genius Hour has been covered many times, but this episode looks at the bigger picture of Genius Hour. How does one connect this concept to the standards? How do we move away from it being a "pocket of innovation" into the culture of innovation for a school? Can implementing a program like this actually raise test scores? What happens when we treat students as more than simply a number and data plot? Below are the links to all references in the podcast to learn more. We hope you enjoy. As always please reach out with questions, ideas, thoughts, and reviews by leaving a comment on iTunes or leaving a comment on the blog(coffeeforthebrain.com) Last, you can reach out to Tammy on her website or on Twitter. Enjoy this episode and be ready for an amazing season of pushing our thoughts on the status quo of education. Show Notes CV: https://docs.com/tammy-dunbar/about Liberating Genius OneNote Journals/Lessons by Tammy https://docs.com/tammy-dunbar/8170/liberating-genius-onenotes Liberating Genius Into Sways by Tammy https://docs.com/tammy-dunbar/3662/liberating-genius-sways Free eBook “Liberating Genius” By Angela Maiers & Mark Moran https://choose2matter.org/liberatinggenius Liberating Genius by Angela Maiers http://amzn.to/2ezyRBj
This week on the show Eric and Marie welcome Author, Investigator and Ohioan Jim Willis as talk about his dozen plus books, some of the haunted locations in Ohio and his research into the paranormal Not since the Headless Horseman went charging through Sleepy Hollow has something come out of the Hudson Highlands of upstate New York as thrilling and chilling as author and paranormal researcher James A. Willis. Fueled by a steady childhood diet of Boo Berry cereal, Creepy magazine, and late-night Vincent Price movies, Willis soon developed a taste for the unexplained and quickly began seeking out all things strange and spooky. When he wasn't trying to coax the boogeyman out from under his bed for a photo shoot, Willis pondered such eternal questions as what happens to us when we die, is there life on other planets, and what possesses someone to decorate their house with 1,001 milk jugs? In 1999, after spending more than 15 years chasing after ghosts and visiting crybaby bridges, Willis moved to Ohio and founded The Ghosts of Ohio (ghostsofohio.org), a nationally recognized paranormal research organization. Willis has grown the organization to well over 35 members in three divisions throughout the state: Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. In 2004, in what seemed to be destiny, Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman, the brainchilds of the Weird US series of books, approached Willis and asked him to contribute to their latest volume, Weird US . To date, Willis has been involved with 6 books in the Weird US series. He is the co-author of Weird Ohio (2005) and Weird Indiana (2008) and was also a contributing author to Weird US (2004), Weird Hauntings (2006), Weird US II: The ODDyssey Continues (2008), and Weird Encounters (2010). Willis' unique and offbeat writing style was officially recognized in 2006 with his induction into the Grand Order of Weird Writers. In addition, Willis has been a contributing author to several books in the Armchair Reader series, including Weird, Scary & Unusual (2008), Armchair Reader Goes Hollywood (2010), and Haunted America (2011). In 2012, Willis struck out on his own with the publication of Haunted Indiana. For 2013's The Big Book Of Ohio Ghost Stories , Willis crisscrossed Ohio to bring readers over 75 of the Buckeye state's most famous (and infamous) ghosts. Willis' latest project, Ohio's Historic Haunts: Investigating the Paranormal in the Buckeye State , was a joint effort with Kent State University Press. Released in late 2015, the book approached hauntings and ghost stories from a historical perspective and chronicled Willis' personal experiences when locked inside of some of Ohio's most haunted locations. A sought-after public speaker, Willis has given presentations throughout the United States, during which he has educated and entertained tens of thousands of people of all ages in crowd sizes ranging from 10 to well over 600. He has also been featured in more than 75 media sources, including CNN, USA Today, Columbus Business First, Midwest Living, The Canadian Press , and even the Kuwait Times . Willis currently resides in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife and daughter, a Queen-loving parrot, and three narcoleptic cats. To learn more about Jim, visit his websites or on twitter at jim@strangeandspooky.com • Strangeandspookyworld.com • twitter.com/jamesawillis
Jeannette DePalma's autopsy yields no answers and a wave of Satanic Panic hits suburban New Jersey when newspapers begin blaming the teenager's death on murderous cult members. Read more in "Death on the Devil's Teeth" by Jesse P. Pollack and Mark Moran.
City Administrator Mark Moran of Galena Illinois talks about the oil train accident in Galena Illinois and the after effects
This time Vinnie and DM review the book Weird NJ, vol 1 and Vinnie discusses some local field trips he took to sites in the book.
#TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT). The worlds of education and business are moving farther and farther apart. The skills shortage many economists and other "world of work" thought leaders keep talking about is real and leaving millions behind. Schools aren't encouraging students to become bold thinkers, dreamers, and doers -- and businesses are expecting them to be just those persona types without much investment. This is why the Choose2Matter and TalentCulture #TChat communities are coming together this week for #TChat Radio and #TChat Twitter Chat. Together we can choose to bridge the skills gap and help students find mentors in communities like ours to greatly enhance the lives of these amazing young people today. #TChat co-creators and hosts, Meghan M. Biro and Kevin W. Grossman welcome this week's guests, Choose2Matter co-founders Angela Maiers and Mark Moran. This will be another great "world of work" show, so we hope to see you here! **SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: We’re thrilled to announce our first “world of work” partnership — with Achievers. Read about it here!
The topic for Saturday, June 11th will be “Sweet Search and findingDulcinea Updates” with our special guest, Mark Moran, founder of SweetSearch and Dulcinea Media. Mark will share ways to use the student-safe ‘Sweet Search’ engine and the updates made to the search engine and findingDulcinea websites.
Elluminate Chat Log: The topic for Saturday, June 11th will be “Sweet Search and findingDulcinea Updates” with our special guest, Mark Moran, founder of SweetSearch and Dulcinea Media. Mark will share ways to use the student-safe ‘Sweet Search’ engine and the updates made to the search engine and findingDulcinea websites.
The topic for Saturday, June 11th will be “Sweet Search and findingDulcinea Updates” with our special guest, Mark Moran, founder of SweetSearch and Dulcinea Media. Mark will share ways to use the student-safe ‘Sweet Search’ engine and the updates made to the search engine and findingDulcinea websites.
Martin & Reyne talk to Mark Moran, antique appraiser, author of over 25 books on antiques & collectibles and editor of FW Publications. Mark is an interesting guest with a love for the business and has an outstanding diversified knowledge …
Weird NJ and Weird US creators Mark Moran, and Mark Sceurman discuss UFO reports in New Jersey and other important related information.
Tonight on Whispers we welcome during the first hour Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman, authors of Weird NJ and Weird US and stars of the History Channel show of the same name. We will be discussing weird and unusual stories from around the country and welcoming calls about the weird things in our own neck of the woods. In the second hour, we welcome Stephen Bassett. Stephen Bassett is arguably the leading advocate in the nation for ending the 61-year government imposed truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. He is the founder of the Paradigm Research Group and recently held the X-Conference in Washington DC that made headlines on all the major news outlets. He will be sharing news with us about the conference.
Dennis Balthaser, known as the "Truth Seeker at Roswell," provides an another update on the forthcoming 60th anniversary of the UFO incident at Roswell and the legendary crash/retrieval; Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran, publishers of Weird N.J.
Dennis Balthaser, known as the "Truth Seeker at Roswell," provides an another update on the forthcoming 60th anniversary of the UFO incident at Roswell and the legendary crash/retrieval; Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran, publishers of Weird N.J.
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