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Double Tap - Ep 481 September 28, 2026 Presented by This episode of Double Tap is brought to you by: Foxtrot Mike (Code: WLSISLIFE) C&G Holsters (Code: WLSISLIFE) Gideon Optics (Code: WLSISLIFE) Night Fision (Code: WLSISLIFE) Bowers Group (Code: WLS) Giveaways!! GAW Text Dear WLS or Reviews +1 743 500 2171 Public Show Titles Dear WLS Question from Uncle Buck from Oregon Good evening gents,For the life of me I cant understand my local FFLs business model when it comes to suppressors. Before the 200 pesos tax stamp when away everyone was charging 80-150ish to transfer in a can. Now its 275+ to transfer one. Their claim is is that we didn't buy it from them but you can pick any retailer online and theyre cheaper than in my stores by a lot. How can I get it through their brains that theyre just screwing themselves over. Thankfully there's places like silencer central that do ship to door. Ive bought three cans this year so far and waited 9 days on the first, 5 days for the second, and just under 2 days for the third one. Love the show and the fact I live near Savage and flex on him daily because Im not a poor bald commie. I send this with great love (say it back), Uncle Buck Question from Travis N Hey guys love the show and all the BS you guys sling at each other. We have a church security team and looking for a good med kits. What do you recommend. This is a fairly new security team and trying to get good gear. Thanks for the time. Question from Heather T Hi y'all I'm a long time listener and have not missed one episode! I would love for y'all to read my petition, that's death penalty for child rapists and stronger supporting laws to protect children, at change.org/SaveOurChildrenOhio, sign and share please! Unless you hate children and are gay Question from Danny S Good evening kids. I've got the itch to learn long distance precision shooting off an AR15 platform (up to 1000 yards). Present day, I'm nowhere near a pro but can hold my own from 100-300 yards. I've done a bunch of researching in the Google machine and the .224 Valkyrie seems to be the tool of choice. Any advice you could give along with upper receiver recommendations would be great. If I'm going down a rabbit hole with this platform, feel free to roast me. Danny from Northern Virginia (puke) WINNER Question from Kevin P I recently shot in my first ever match. It was a two-gun open, and it was awesome! My 13-year-old son also competed for the first time. Now that we have the bug, would you all mind sharing some insights for a couple of newbies? Going down the rabbit hole of USPSA, IPSC, & IDPA can be a bit overwhelming. What's the short-version rundown of these and your experiences? What are your suggestions about gear for us? We both shared my iron sights P320 X-Five Legion for pistol shooting, I shot a Banshee 9mm PCC with a red-dot, and my son shot a Zion AR-15 from IWI with a 1-10x LPVO from Swampfox. It all worked fine, but I'm always looking for an excuse to buy more guns and gear. Thanks, and keep shooting straight! Question from Kyle R Shawn, during this week's episode you mentioned modifying 3D print files for speed loaders and possibly releasing some others on MarkerWorld. As a 3D printing noob, I'd love to steal your hard work. Where can I find yours and the other cast members .STLs? Also, what has been the cast's favorite gun related print so far? Gun Industry News Thefirearmblog Magpul Expands Glove Lineup with New MultiCam Colorway Magpul has added a MultiCam camouflage pattern to its existing glove lineup. The new colorway is available across multiple models in the Magpul glove family, providing users with an additional option for tactical and outdoor applications. The gloves maintain the same construction and features as the existing color options. The Gist: Availability: Now available through Magpul and authorized retailers Bottom Line: Key specs/features: MultiCam camouflage pattern added to existing glove models; maintains original materials, fit, and functionality including touchscreen compatibility and protective padding where applicable Thefirearmblog Drawing Fire: Drawings from the Winchester Collection Book A new book titled ‘Drawing Fire: Drawings from the Winchester Collection' features historical technical drawings from the Winchester Repeating Arms archives. The publication showcases original factory drawings of iconic Winchester firearms, providing insight into design and manufacturing history. 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The Hollow9ine Network returns with a special and experimental new program...Dave's back again with another Drive Time Radio installment of the podcast...you heard the "before", now you get to hear the "after", where Dave talks about everything that happened in between while on the 2026 (and possibly last) OBX trip with his friends from Northern Virginia. There are spills, there are chills, there are tales of a week in Kill Devil Hills...enjoy...From 2021 - 2023, Podcaster and Content Creator Dave "The Klone" Maresca has been missing in action - in a deep and complicated recovery from a traumatic life experience......after spending nearly 21 months navigating CPTSD and rebuilding his life in the aftermath of an abusive relationship - one that has left him in social and financial ruin and with a future of uncertainty, marred by constant anxiety and depression, his healing process has led to the creation of this living journal, as a means of chronicling his experiences......this program is created in hopes that the life lessons Dave is discovering can be a beacon to those who find themselves similarly lost at sea, in search of a light in the darkness...in search of the hope he, himself, has been searching for...Warning: This program contains true-life recollections of an actual person, that may involve content that some listeners may find disturbing or triggering. If you or someone you know is in need of professional medical and/or mental health assistance, The Hollow9ine Network implores you to seek out such assistance, and has provided links to resources that may be helpful here:CDC Mental Health Tools and Resources Index: https://www.cdc.gov/mentalhealth/tools-resources/index.htmNational Suicide Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 988Disclaimer: Dave "The Klone" Maresca is not a trained medical professional, psychologist, psychiatrist, or a licensed professional trained in providing therapeutic mental health care. This podcast is an account of his life experiences and meant to be just that. Any advice or suggestions made in the extemporaneous dialogue of the podcast is not intended to be medical or legal advice. If such advice is what you are seeking, you are encouraged to seek out the services of a licensed professional. The Hollow9ine Network and Dave Maresca assume no liability or responsibility for the information provided in these episodes. Support us on RedBubble:https://www.redbubble.com/people/Hollow9ine/shop?asc=u Follow us at... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hollow9ineNetwork/ Twitter: @Hollow9ineCast Instagram: @the_hollow9ine_network YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuwT8IxWRRI9I8hu2difvhg Email: hollow9inepodcast@gmail.comRead Dave's Blog on Medium: https://medium.com/@davetheklone
In this episode of The Green Insider, host Mike Nemer sits down with Uday Turaga, founder and CEO of ADI Analytics, for part one of a special three-part series exploring the rapid expansion of data centers and their profound impact on power demand, grid infrastructure, and energy supply chains. Key Takeaways The Scale of Hyperscale Capital: The top hyperscalers (Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft) are projected to spend over $700 billion in capex—largely dedicated to data centers—with projections approaching $850–$900 billion annually by 2027. Grid Bottlenecks & Interconnection Queues: Driven by data center demand, U.S. electricity load growth has jumped from a historical ~1% annually to over 4%. Average grid interconnection queue wait times now average nearly 4 years across ~2,600 GW of capacity nationwide. Supply Chain Constraints: Critical power infrastructure equipment faces severe backlogs—large power transformers currently carry lead times of 120 to 150 weeks (nearly 3 years), and major turbine manufacturers are sold out years in advance. Geographic Expansion: As traditional data center hubs like Northern Virginia face grid congestion, project developers and hyperscalers are pivoting toward power-rich regions like Texas, Ohio, and the Midwest. Beyond Power — Chemical & Thermal Demands: Beyond electricity, data centers require extensive innovation in thermal management, liquid/immersion cooling technologies, material compatibility (plastics/elastomers), and high-demand digital infrastructure assets like optical fiber and memory. Featured Guest Uday Turaga – Founder & CEO, ADI Analytics Uday Turaga is the CEO of ADI Analytics, a boutique energy, chemical, and sustainability consulting firm based in Houston, Texas. Founded in 2009, ADI Analytics advises global corporations, private equity firms, and project developers across the entire energy value chain. Website: ADI Analytics LinkedIn: Uday Turaga Show Links & Resources Host: Mike Nemer Powered by: ERENEWABLE Subscribe & Listen: Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast platforms. The post Navigating the Data Center Power & Supply Chain Crunch appeared first on eRENEWABLE.
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Meet Andrew Savoia, a 24-year-old Northern Virginia cello player who is a social media sensation.认识一下安德鲁·沙瓦亚，一位24岁的北弗吉尼亚大提琴手，他在社交媒体上很有名。He created his TikTok account savoiboi in July and in just a few months he already had millions of likes or views.他在7月创建了自己的TikTok账号savoiboi，短短几个月内就已经获得了数百万的点赞或浏览量。There were some very catchy songs on the app and songs that you're just watching a video and it makes you want to get up and dance.这个应用程序上有一些非常动听的歌曲，而且当你观看视频时 ，里面的歌曲会让你忍不住起身跳舞。And there was only like a quick little segment of that I would see and I was like, okay, I could try to recreate this on the cello, so I did that.我当时只能看到一小段快速闪过的内容，我就想，好吧，我可以试着用大提琴把这个重新演绎出来，于是我就这么做了。I had one of my buddies record it and it was so fascinating because of the positive reaction that it received. I did not think that it would be received as well as it did.我有一个朋友帮我录了下来，结果反响非常热烈，这让我觉得特别有意思。我没想到它会受到这么好的评价。It was a stream of unhappy events that led Savoia to his social media success: a painful breakup, failing to get into medical school, depression.一连串不幸的事件促使沙瓦亚在社交媒体上获得了成功：痛苦的分手、医学院入学考试失利以及抑郁情绪。In a strange way all this contributed to his achievements.奇怪的是，这一切都促成了他的成就。Music for me has been a way for me to like, I said, process emotion, experiences, memories that I've had.对我来说，音乐是一种处理我所经历的情感、体验和记忆的方式。But it has an ability to heal because it can do the same thing for other people and it's very unifying.但它具有治愈的能力，因为它也能为他人带来同样的作用，而且非常具有凝聚力。His process is simple: Find the song he likes and play it on the cello.他的做法很简单：找到他喜欢的歌曲，然后用大提琴演奏。I listen to lots of different kinds of music. I listen to hip hop. I listen to rock music, country music, sometimes lots of classical music and countless other genres.我听很多不同类型的音乐。我听嘻哈音乐。我听摇滚音乐、乡村音乐，有时也听很多古典音乐，还有数不清的其他音乐类型。And I just try to do songs that have a melody line that would work well on this instrument. This instrument has such a diversity in its sound.我只是尽力创作那些旋律线在这件乐器上能演奏出很好效果的歌曲。这件乐器的音色非常多样。But music will not be Savoia's career. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in neurobiology and plans to become a neurologist in the future.但音乐不会成为沙瓦亚的职业。他毕业于弗吉尼亚理工大学，获得了神经生物学学位，并且计划未来成为一名神经科医生。But his two passions, music and medicine, are inseparable, something one of his former teachers sees as well.但他对音乐和医学的两大热忱密不可分。他以前的老师也看到了这一点。I could definitely see a specific you know sector of the population who has a specific ear or depending on the type of illness that you have that you can actually be soothed by music.我绝对能想象到有这样一部分特定的人群，他们对音乐有独特的感知，或者根据你所患疾病的类型，实际上你是可以从音乐中获得慰藉的。And if you watch him when he plays, and of course I only started watching him recently, he's very very passionate how he actually started playing the cello. I think that process sort of healed him.如果你看他演奏时，当然我也是最近才开始关注他的，他对自己当初是如何开始拉大提琴这件事充满了激情。我觉得这个过程在某种程度上治愈了他。Savoia's cover version of the song Come Get Her by a hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd got over 3 million views.沙瓦亚翻唱了嘻哈二人组雷·什里默德的歌曲Come Get Her，视频浏览量超过了300万。He hopes people who like his stuff will pick up an instrument themselves.他希望喜欢他作品的人，能自己拿起一件乐器来演奏。
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THE NEW MONSTERS: THE LOVELAND FROGMAN Episode Three: The Monster Loveland Kept By the summer of 2016, hunting monsters had changed. Armed with smartphones and Pokémon Go, two teenagers wandered near Ohio's Little Miami River and reportedly encountered something that wasn't supposed to be part of the game. Their footage was ambiguous, but the name attached to it was unmistakable: the Loveland Frogman. The alleged sighting resurrected a legend stretching back decades—mysterious humanoid figures beside an Ohio road in 1955, police encounters in 1972, and the wonderfully bizarre story of a frog-like creature carrying a wand that produced sparks. But the renewed attention also brought former Loveland police officer Mark Mathews back into the story. Mathews had encountered and shot the animal associated with the legend in 1972, and his explanation was considerably less supernatural: according to him, it was a large, tailless iguana, probably an escaped or abandoned exotic pet. That should have killed the legend. Instead, Loveland kept the Frogman. In the conclusion of our three-part investigation, we explore what happens when a monster outlives the eyewitnesses who created it. From the arrival of the internet and the 2016 Pokémon Go encounter to the transformation of regional cryptids into hometown mascots, merchandise and cultural identities, the Frogman reveals something important about the way modern folklore survives. Evidence may weaken a legend, but once enough people inherit the story, evidence isn't the only thing keeping it alive. We also bring The New Monsters full circle, from alligators beneath Manhattan and the Bunny Man of Northern Virginia to the strange amphibious resident of the Little Miami River. Cameras, smartphones and instant communication were supposed to make monsters obsolete. Instead, technology gave folklore a distribution system. Maybe the Loveland Frogman really was an iguana. If so, the iguana lost. The monster survived. LISTEN, FOLLOW & REVIEW Listen to The Devil Within wherever you get your podcasts, and make sure you're following the show so you never miss a new episode. If you enjoy the series, please leave us a five-star rating and review—it remains one of the best ways to help new listeners discover the show. WATCH & SUBSCRIBE Watch The Devil Within and more from the Evio Creative network on the Evio Creative YouTube channel. Subscribe and turn on notifications so you know whenever a new episode drops. JOIN THE CONVERSATION Follow @thedevilwithinpod for clips, stories, archival material and more from The Devil Within. Have a strange story, unexplained encounter, case or legend you think we should investigate? Send it to info@eviocreative.com. The Devil Within is written and hosted by Branden Morgan and produced by Evio Creative. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this episode of Fishing the DMV, Thomas Arens sits down with Mark from Catoctin Creek Custom Rods, a longtime Northern Virginia rod builder and angler, to break down the science, craftsmanship, and real-world performance behind modern fishing rods.Mark has been building custom fishing rods since establishing Catoctin Creek Custom Rods in 2009, and in this conversation we dive deep into what bass anglers should actually look for when choosing a rod.We cover:
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Today's episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of Gettysburg. The three-day battle occurred during the American Civil War; a major conflict between the Northern and Southern states, led by the Union and Confederate armies. Between July 1st and July 3rd, 1863 thousands of men – from both sides of the divide - engaged in a bloody and tactical battle in the borough and town of Gettysburg in the state of Pennsylvania. The ferocious onslaught resulted in the end of the Confederacy's intentions to inaugurate an independent nation after the Union – led by Major General George Meade - defeated General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, forcing them to retreat and eventually surrender. Join us as we investigate what happened before (and during) those frantic three days; resulting in how the United States of America – and the world – changed forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Allied health workforce shortages—from surgical techs to respiratory therapists—carry real operational weight, yet they rarely get the attention they deserve. In this episode of Elevate Care, host Enderson Miranda speaks with Dr. Hussein Tahan, Chief Nursing Officer and System Vice President at MedStar Health, about how his team built an internal talent pipeline that has fundamentally changed how the organization approaches workforce strategy. Dr. Tahan traces the origin of the MedStar Academy from a single idea in the operating room to a multi-discipline program that has trained more than 400 associates, explaining how MedStar identifies priority roles, partners with community colleges to accelerate training, and provides wraparound support—childcare assistance, transportation help, and consistent check-ins—to keep learners on track.The conversation also explores how MedStar builds business cases with finance partners from day one, why wraparound support like childcare assistance and transportation help keeps learners on track, and how the calculus between contract labor, overtime, and internal training has shifted since the pandemic. For healthcare leaders working to make a similar case internally, this episode offers a clear, practical framework for pairing workforce investment with measurable outcomes.Key Takeaways· Allied health deserves equal attention to nursing in workforce strategy. Unlike nursing, allied health professions have historically not had access to contract labor as a bridge solution, making shortages in roles like surgical tech, sterile processing, and cardiovascular tech harder to absorb.· Internal talent development can outperform external recruitment. MedStar's academy started with 30 surgical tech trainees three years ago and has since expanded to sterile processing, cardiovascular tech, and CNA-to-patient care tech upskilling, training more than 400 associates in that pathway alone.· A strong business case requires precision, not estimates. MedStar builds ROI models directly with finance partners, using accurate wage comparisons instead of averages, to ensure committed cost reductions hold up during budget reviews.· Wraparound support drives program completion. Childcare assistance, transportation support, and frequent check-ins address the real-life barriers that keep working learners from finishing their training.· Contract labor strategy is not static. As wage dynamics shift, the calculation between agency labor, overtime, and internal staffing needs to be revisited regularly rather than treated as a one-time decision.· Retention starts with opportunity. Associates who move from entry-level roles into clinical career pathways show notable loyalty and engagement, translating workforce investment directly into retention outcomes.Chapters· 00:00 – Introduction to Allied Health Workforce Challenges· 01:47 – Dr. Tahan's Journey from Beirut to MedStar Health Leadership· 04:14 – Why Allied Health Needs More Attention Post-Pandemic· 06:38 – The Origin Story of the MedStar Academy· 08:16 – Expanding from Surgical Tech to Multiple Allied Health Roles· 11:08 – Building the Business Case with Finance Partners· 20:05 – Lessons Learned: Where to Start a Workforce Pipeline Program· 24:28 – Measuring ROI and Cost Savings Over Time· 28:12 – Partnering with Finance to Build Trust in the Numbers· 34:32 – Supporting Learners with Wraparound Services· 38:53 – Final Thoughts on Communication and Program VisibilityMeet Dr. Hussein TahanDr. Hussein Tahan, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACHE, serves as Chief Nursing Officer and System Vice President for Nursing Professional Development, Workforce Management, and Academic Affairs at MedStar Health. His career began in Beirut, Lebanon, before he moved to the United States to work as an emergency room nurse, eventually building a leadership path through academic medical centers in New York and into system-level roles.At MedStar Health, a nine-billion-dollar health system serving Maryland, Washington, DC, and Northern Virginia, Dr. Tahan oversees workforce strategy for more than 35,000 associates, including over 10,500 clinical nurses and approximately 4,000 care associates. Under his leadership, MedStar developed the MedStar Academy, an internal training pipeline that has produced hundreds of newly credentialed allied health professionals while reducing reliance on contract labor. 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9:00AM9:05 – 9:22 (17mins) Weekly: Rob Bluey - President and Executive Editor of The Daily Signal @RobertBluey @DailySignal 9:25 – 9:37 (12mins) Weekly Feature: "THAT’S CRAP!!" 9:41 – 9:56 (15mins) MRC guest: Geoff Dickens, MRC Director of Media Analysis @newsbustersSuggested topic:MRC Exposes How Elitist Media Censored Seven New Illegal Immigrant Crimes The broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) have repeatedly failed to cover these heinous crimes, as documented in previous studies by NewsBusters. (See our most recent studies here and here). In just the last three weeks (August 25 - September 17), we’ve seen seven new cases (mostly involving Biden and Obama-era illegals) who have committed horrific crimes. Three of these occurred in the Northern Virginia backyard of Washington, D.C.-based journalists. Illegal Immigrant DoorDash Driver Kills Sacramento Woman He Stalked for a Year Biden-Era Illegal Immigrant Driver Kills Baby in Stroller, in NJ Parking Lot Illegal Immigrant Crashes Into NJ Mayor’s Wife’s Car, After Fleeing ICE Agents Biden-Era Illegal Immigrant Strangles Massachusetts Woman Biden-Era Illegal Immigrant Stabbed Coworker to Death in VA Three Obama-Era Illegals Arrested In VA Child Exploitation Ring, Released on Bond Fentanyl-Dealing Illegal Immigrant Linked to VA High School Overdoses See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
9:00AM9:05 – 9:22 (17mins) Weekly: Rob Bluey - President and Executive Editor of The Daily Signal @RobertBluey @DailySignal 9:25 – 9:37 (12mins) Weekly Feature: "THAT’S CRAP!!" 9:41 – 9:56 (15mins) MRC guest: Geoff Dickens, MRC Director of Media Analysis @newsbustersSuggested topic:MRC Exposes How Elitist Media Censored Seven New Illegal Immigrant Crimes The broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) have repeatedly failed to cover these heinous crimes, as documented in previous studies by NewsBusters. (See our most recent studies here and here). In just the last three weeks (August 25 - September 17), we’ve seen seven new cases (mostly involving Biden and Obama-era illegals) who have committed horrific crimes. Three of these occurred in the Northern Virginia backyard of Washington, D.C.-based journalists. Illegal Immigrant DoorDash Driver Kills Sacramento Woman He Stalked for a Year Biden-Era Illegal Immigrant Driver Kills Baby in Stroller, in NJ Parking Lot Illegal Immigrant Crashes Into NJ Mayor’s Wife’s Car, After Fleeing ICE Agents Biden-Era Illegal Immigrant Strangles Massachusetts Woman Biden-Era Illegal Immigrant Stabbed Coworker to Death in VA Three Obama-Era Illegals Arrested In VA Child Exploitation Ring, Released on Bond Fentanyl-Dealing Illegal Immigrant Linked to VA High School Overdoses See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
When do the “baby blues” become something more serious—and what warning signs should families and clinicians never ignore? In this important conversation, we're joined by Dr. Myriam Ferzli, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist in Northern Virginia; Dr. Elias Ghoussoub and Dr. Farid Talih, psychiatrists at the American University of Beirut; and Dr. Joseph El-Khoury, founder and CEO of The Valens Clinic in Dubai. Together, we explore postpartum depression and psychosis, early warning signs, sleep deprivation, bipolar disorder, screening gaps, stigma, treatment, and the crucial role of partners, families, OB-GYNs, pediatricians, and mental health professionals. Most importantly: Can we recognize the warning signs early enough to intervene before a psychiatric emergency, and do so without stigmatizing mothers who need help? #PostpartumDepression #PostpartumPsychosis #MaternalMentalHealth #MentalHealth #Postpartum #Motherhood #WomensHealth #Psychiatry #OBGYN #Pregnancy #MentalHealthAwareness #EndTheStigma #NewMoms #Healthcare #LebanesePhysiciansPodcast #Subscribe Which postpartum mental health warning sign do you think families are most likely to miss? Severe or persistent sadness Inability to sleep even when given the chance Unusual energy, agitation, or behavior Paranoia, confusion, or unusual beliefs On YouTube @thelebanesephysicianspodcast and on all podcast apps
THE DEVIL WITHIN THE NEW MONSTERS: THE BUNNY MAN Episode Three: Midnight at the Overpass By the 1990s, everybody in Northern Virginia seemed to know the rules. Drive out to Bunny Man Bridge after dark. Wait until midnight. Turn off the headlights. Say his name three times. Maybe get out of the car. Maybe come on Halloween. Nobody could agree on exactly how you summoned the Bunny Man, but that hardly mattered. Because everybody agreed that if you stayed beneath that railroad bridge long enough, something would happen. In the final chapter of our three-part investigation into The Bunny Man, we follow one of America's strangest urban legends through its most important transformation. What began with two reported encounters with a rabbit-costumed stranger in Fairfax County in October 1970 eventually became something teenagers could actually participate in. This week, we head back beneath the railroad tracks outside Clifton, Virginia, during an era when American suburbia was developing some very particular nightmares of its own. Stranger danger was reshaping childhood. Parents inspected Halloween candy for razor blades and poison. The Satanic Panic warned that secret cults might be hiding behind otherwise ordinary American life, while a new generation of slasher movies discovered that the safest-looking suburbs made particularly effective places for monsters. The Bunny Man fit right in. His rabbit costume corrupted something associated with childhood innocence. His axe gave him the silhouette of a horror villain. Better still, you didn't need to travel into some remote wilderness to find him. You needed a car, a few friends and enough nerve to drive into the woods. Folklorists call it legend tripping: traveling to a supposedly haunted place specifically to test the story. Haunted railroad crossings, Crybaby Bridges, cemeteries, abandoned houses and mirrors capable of summoning Bloody Mary all operate on variations of the same brilliant idea. They don't merely give you a monster to believe in. They give you something to do. Bunny Man Bridge became one of those places. Every group of teenagers who drove beneath the tracks created another opportunity for reality to misbehave. A deer moving through the woods became a person. A branch became a weapon. A reflection became a pair of eyes. Then a freight train thundered overhead, somebody screamed, and by Monday morning four people remembered the same ten seconds four different ways. Then the internet arrived. The Bunny Man had spent decades traveling through newspapers, playgrounds, school buses, parties and word of mouth. Home computers and dial-up connections suddenly removed geography from the equation. The abandoned asylum could be repeated from website to website. An escaped inmate could acquire a name, a biography and a body count. Eventually, repetition itself began impersonating evidence. That makes the Bunny Man an important creature in the evolution of The New Monsters. He wasn't born online like Slender Man, and he wasn't collaboratively constructed on the internet like the Backrooms. The internet didn't create the Bunny Man. It inherited him. But before we leave Fairfax County, we return to the question buried beneath more than half a century of mythology: Who was actually inside the bunny suit? Strip away the asylum. Strip away the escaped inmates, mutilated rabbits, murders and supernatural bridge rituals, and two reported incidents remain. In October 1970, witnesses described a rabbit-costumed figure carrying weapons and angrily complaining about trespassing. During the first encounter, a hatchet reportedly came through the window of a car. Ten days later, a similarly dressed person was reportedly encountered near an unfinished house, again armed and again furious about trespassers. Was it an elaborate Halloween prank that escalated? An attempt to frighten people away from private property? Someone angry about the relentless development transforming Fairfax County around him? All are possibilities. None is an answer. More than half a century later, the person beneath those rabbit ears remains unidentified. And perhaps that's why the Bunny Man survives so well. Remove the supernatural mythology and the story doesn't become ordinary. The strange part was there from the beginning. A newspaper story became a playground story. The playground story acquired a bridge. The bridge acquired an asylum. The asylum acquired escaped inmates and murders. Teenagers turned the bridge into a pilgrimage site, and eventually the internet gathered every version into a sprawling digital mythology. No single person created the Bunny Man we know today. Thousands of people did. NEXT TIME ON THE NEW MONSTERS THE LOVELAND FROGMAN Next time, we're heading west to Loveland, Ohio, where another distinctly American monster emerged along the Little Miami River. The story begins with a murky 1955 account involving several short, upright creatures reportedly encountered near the river—one of them, wonderfully, supposedly holding something resembling a wand or metal rod that produced sparks. Then, in March 1972, a Loveland police officer reported encountering a strange leathery animal near the roadway. Another officer would soon encounter something as well. And this time, he shot it. Decades later, that officer would insist the famous Frogman wasn't a monster at all. According to him, he'd encountered a large, tailless iguana, probably someone's escaped exotic pet. That should have killed the legend. It didn't. Next time on The New Monsters: The Loveland Frogman. 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THE DEVIL WITHIN THE NEW MONSTERS: THE BUNNY MAN Episode Two: The Bridge There is a railroad bridge outside Clifton, Virginia, where Colchester Road narrows into a single lane and disappears beneath the tracks. For generations of Northern Virginia teenagers, it has been known by another name: Bunny Man Bridge. According to the legend, this is where the Bunny Man lived, killed and perhaps died. Some versions claim he was an escaped asylum patient who vanished into the surrounding woods after a transport bus crashed. Others add mutilated rabbits hanging from trees, murdered children, bodies suspended from the railroad tracks and a killer who eventually returned from the dead. It's a spectacular horror story. There's just one problem: almost none of it appears to have happened. In Episode Two of our three-part investigation, we follow the Bunny Man away from the documented encounters on Guinea Road and into the place that transformed him from a bizarre local mystery into a full-fledged American monster. Research by Fairfax County historian and archivist Brian Conley found no evidence of the asylum, the escaped inmates or the Bunny Man massacre supposedly connected to the bridge. The two documented incidents from October 1970 happened miles away. So how did the Bunny Man get to Clifton? We travel back through the history of the village itself, from the arrival of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad in 1858 to its importance during the Civil War, when the tracks became part of the military infrastructure connecting a country tearing itself apart. After the war, a railroad village grew here, preserving a pocket of older Northern Virginia even as suburban Washington expanded around it. That landscape gave the legend something Guinea Road eventually couldn't: permanence. Construction sites become houses. Woods are cleared. Empty lots acquire addresses. But a secluded railroad overpass surrounded by trees can remain unsettling for generations. Better still, it gave teenagers somewhere they could actually visit. The Bunny Man stopped being merely something people heard about and became something they could go looking for. From there, the mythology began building backward. An asylum appeared where historical research has found none. A bus crashed. Patients escaped. Rabbits were slaughtered. One fugitive supposedly died while another became the Bunny Man. Eventually murders, Halloween rituals and supernatural encounters were attached to the bridge, creating an elaborate origin story for a monster whose real identity had never been established. We'll explore why those additions were so effective, how the abandoned asylum became one of American horror's favorite shortcuts for hidden evil, and why the Bunny Man's axe survived the transformation from reported weapon to unmistakable horror icon. Most importantly, we'll see the moment when folklore becomes interactive. Teenagers began driving beneath the bridge after dark, turning off their engines and waiting for something to happen. Every movement in the woods, unexpected car or freight train thundering overhead offered another opportunity for the story to reproduce itself. Because the Bunny Man didn't become immortal when somebody died beneath those railroad tracks. He became immortal when people started going there to find him. NEXT TIME In the final chapter of our Bunny Man story, Midnight at the Overpass, we follow the legend through the 1980s and 1990s and into the early internet, when a regional Virginia ghost story suddenly gained access to a global audience. We'll explore Halloween pilgrimages, stranger danger, Satanic Panic and the peculiar rituals that taught generations of teenagers how to summon a monster. Then we'll return to October 1970 and the question that none of the mythology has ever answered: Who was actually inside the rabbit suit? LISTEN • WATCH • FOLLOW Listen & Follow: Follow The Devil Within wherever you get your podcasts so you don't miss the final chapter of The Bunny Man. Rate & Review: Leave us a 5-star rating and review. It remains one of the best ways to help new listeners discover the show. Watch & Subscribe: Watch The Devil Within on the Evio Creative YouTube channel, subscribe, and turn on notifications for new episodes and videos. Join the Conversation: Follow @thedevilwithinpod and tell us: Would you spend midnight beneath Bunny Man Bridge? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
As AI data centers follow available power into new markets, network infrastructure is moving much earlier into the site selection process. In this episode of the Data Center Frontier Show, DCF Editor-in-Chief Matt Vincent speaks with Scott Bergs, CEO of Kirkwood Infrastructure Group, about how hyperscale and high-density compute are changing the physical network requirements behind data center development. For years, fiber could often be addressed after land and power were secured. Bergs says that model is breaking down. Hyperscale and neo-cloud campuses increasingly require multiple physically diverse, high-capacity, low-latency network paths — infrastructure that may be difficult or impossible to add late in the development cycle. That means connectivity planning now has to begin alongside power, roads, permitting and other site infrastructure, sometimes before the ultimate tenant is even known. Bergs also explains the evolution of Kirkwood Infrastructure Group from the team behind DF&I, which built dark fiber infrastructure across Northern Virginia and Maryland. Kirkwood is now expanding across the Southeast and into the Midwest as large data center campuses move into markets where power may be available but communications infrastructure remains relatively thin. The conversation gets into the physical implications of that expansion. Bergs describes customer demand progressing from lit services to dark fiber, then dedicated cables and increasingly dedicated conduit capacity. High-density applications are driving fiber counts from 864 fibers to as many as 6,912 per cable, while conduit itself is becoming a strategic asset for security, routing control and future network expansion. Vincent and Bergs also discuss hollow-core fiber, including its potential latency advantages and the engineering tradeoffs posed by its larger form factor and different implementation requirements. Bergs' larger point: network developers need to build enough physical pathway capacity today to accommodate whatever fiber technology becomes dominant tomorrow. The episode also examines several emerging infrastructure bottlenecks, including rights-of-way, permitting pressure on agencies such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and transportation departments, and growing strain on the fiber manufacturing supply chain. Perhaps the clearest indication of how much the network map is changing comes from inter-campus connectivity. Bergs says links that once might have stretched two to 30 miles can now extend 250 miles or more. “What might have traditionally been thought of as a long-haul segment or path for us is just another inter-campus connectivity corridor,” he says. The conversation closes with another increasingly important part of infrastructure development: community acceptance. Bergs argues that early, factual engagement is becoming as important as early engineering. “It's very difficult to fight emotion with facts,” he says. “But you can sometimes prevent negative emotion with positive facts if they're presented first.” Listen to the full conversation for a detailed look at how power, fiber, conduit, permitting and community engagement are converging in the next generation of AI data center development.
THE DEVIL WITHIN THE NEW MONSTERS: THE BUNNY MAN Episode One: The Man on Guinea Road In October 1970, along a dark stretch of Guinea Road in Fairfax County, Virginia, a young couple sitting inside their car saw someone emerge from the woods. The stranger appeared to be wearing a white suit with long rabbit ears. He began shouting about private property, claimed to have their license plate number—and then hurled a hatchet through the passenger window. The couple escaped. Police recovered the weapon. The man in the rabbit costume vanished. If that were the end of the story, the Bunny Man might have survived as little more than a spectacularly bizarre newspaper clipping. But ten days later, another encounter was reported nearby. This time, security guard Paul Phillips discovered a rabbit-costumed figure at an unfinished house, carrying a long-handled axe and reportedly chopping at the structure while complaining about trespassers. Two incidents had given Northern Virginia something much harder to dismiss: a pattern. In Episode One of our three-part journey into The Bunny Man, we go beneath the legend to the landscape that created it. Long before suburban Washington pushed into Fairfax County, this was a place shaped by Indigenous history, colonial Virginia, George Washington and George Mason, the American Revolution and the Civil War. By 1970, another invasion was underway as farms and forests disappeared beneath subdivisions, highways and construction sites. That transformation provides an irresistible backdrop for what happened on Guinea Road. The original Bunny Man emerged from woods being consumed by development, repeatedly complained about trespassing and carried the very tools traditionally used to clear the landscape around him. Whether any of that symbolism was intentional is impossible to know, but the timing helped create an almost perfect American monster: something lurking along the uneasy boundary where countryside was becoming suburbia. We'll also trace how two documented encounters began mutating almost immediately through newspapers, telephones, school buses and playgrounds. Before the internet could make legends viral, children and teenagers were already remarkably efficient distribution networks, repeating stories, changing details and filling unanswered questions with increasingly elaborate explanations. And somewhere along the way, the Bunny Man moved. The famous Bunny Man Bridge near Clifton was not the location of either documented 1970 encounter. Yet as the original construction sites disappeared and unfinished houses became ordinary homes, the secluded railroad overpass remained beneath the trees. Eventually the legend acquired the bridge, an asylum, escaped killers, mutilated rabbits and murder—transforming an unidentified man in a bizarre costume into something supernatural. But before we get to the ghost stories, we begin with the part that remains considerably stranger because it appears to have actually happened. Someone wore the rabbit costume. Someone carried the weapons. And more than half a century later, nobody has conclusively established who was inside it. Listen & Follow: Follow The Devil Within wherever you get your podcasts so you don't miss Episode Two: The Bridge. Rate & Review: If you're enjoying The New Monsters, leave us a 5-star rating and review. It helps new listeners discover the show. Watch & Subscribe: Watch The Devil Within on the Evio Creative YouTube channel, subscribe, and turn on notifications for new episodes and videos. Join the Conversation: Follow @thedevilwithinpod and tell us: What do you think was really happening on Guinea Road in October 1970? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
THE DEVIL'S LEDGER Week of September 14, 2026 — Twenty-Five Years Later This week on The Devil's Ledger, we mark the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001 and remember the 2,977 people whose lives were taken that day, along with the first responders and rescue workers who ran toward unimaginable danger while thousands were desperately trying to escape. We also honor those who have died in the years since from illnesses connected to their work at Ground Zero. Twenty-five years later, “Never Forget” remains more than a phrase; it is an obligation to remember the victims, teach the history and honor the extraordinary courage witnessed that morning. THE CREEPIEST THING I HEARD THIS WEEK: THE CURSE OF DUDLEYTOWN Deep in the forests of northwestern Connecticut lie the remains of Dudleytown, an eighteenth-century settlement that eventually became one of New England's most enduring haunted legends. Stories of a centuries-old family curse, insanity, mysterious deaths and strange creatures transformed an abandoned settlement into the so-called “Village of the Damned.” Historians have challenged much of the mythology, offering far more ordinary explanations for Dudleytown's disappearance, but the legend proved harder to kill. Ghost hunters still seek it out despite the former settlement being privately owned and closed to the public. THIS WEEK ON THE DEVIL WITHIN: THE BUNNY MAN The New Monsters heads to Northern Virginia for the story of The Bunny Man, a legend that began with genuine 1970 reports involving a mysterious man in a rabbit costume carrying a hatchet or axe. From those strange encounters grew Bunny Man Bridge, tales of escaped lunatics and an abandoned asylum, alleged murders and a midnight summoning ritual. Across three episodes, we separate the documented incidents from the mythology and follow the Bunny Man from newspaper reports and playground whispers into teenage legend-tripping and eventually the internet. THIS WEEK ON CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: JAYCEE DUGARD Carolyn Ossorio examines the devastating 1991 kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard, who was just eleven years old when she was abducted near her South Lake Tahoe home and held captive for more than eighteen years. Joining Carolyn is legendary investigator Paul Holes for a conversation about the investigation, the evidence, the opportunities authorities missed and, most importantly, Jaycee's extraordinary survival and reclamation of the life that was stolen from her. THIS WEEK ON THE SLIPPERY: THE DEADLY SECRET BEHIND WELCOME TO SWEETIE PIE'S Behind the family drama of the hit OWN reality series Welcome to Sweetie Pie's was a crime more shocking than anything television producers could have manufactured. The Slippery examines how Tim Norman became the architect of a murder-for-hire plot targeting his own 21-year-old nephew, Andre Montgomery. Investigators from the FBI, ATF and local law enforcement eventually unraveled a trail of life-insurance policies, burner phones, cell-tower records, financial transactions and accomplices that exposed the machinery behind Andre's murder. THIS WEEK IN HORROR: BLACK ZOMBIE Director Maya Annik Bedward's documentary BLACK ZOMBIE travels beyond Hollywood's flesh-eating undead to explore the zombie's origins in Haitian history and spiritual tradition. Moving through films including White Zombie, Night of the Living Dead and The Serpent and the Rainbow, the documentary examines how a figure rooted in enslavement, stolen agency, resistance and survival was transformed into one of modern horror's most recognizable monsters. Featuring historians, artists and horror figures including Tananarive Due and Tom Savini, BLACK ZOMBIE asks what was lost when Hollywood took the zombie out of Haiti—and what can be reclaimed by putting that history back. We close this week where we began: September 11, 2001. Remember the people who went to work and never came home, the passengers and flight crews, the firefighters climbing the stairs, the police officers and paramedics running toward danger, the passengers who fought back aboard Flight 93, and the families whose lives were forever divided into before and after. Life is short. Call somebody you love, take the trip, have the dinner, laugh too loudly, make something, and tell people what they mean to you while they are still here to hear it. Listen & Follow: Follow The Devil's Ledger and the entire Evio Creative lineup wherever you get your podcasts. Rate & Review: If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star rating and review. It remains one of the best ways to help new listeners discover us. Watch & Subscribe: Watch The Devil Within, Criminal Mischief and more on the Evio Creative YouTube channel. Subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a new episode. Join the Conversation: Follow @thedevilwithinpod on Instagram, and send stories, tips and feedback to info@eviocreative.com. Never forget. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Breaking the Silence with Dr. Gregory Williams Different Wounds, Same Healing: Childhood Abuse Survivors Speak Out with Dr. Peter Verdin and Sonny Von Cleveland Dr. Peter Verdin - Gold in the Cracks — A Memoir of Silence, Performance, and Repair Sonny Von Cleveland - Sonny Von Cleveland | Author, Speaker & Advocate | Palm Springs Dr. Gregory Williams welcomes two survivors of childhood sexual abuse, former college baseball player Dr. Peter Verdin and motivational speaker Sonny Von Cleveland, whose very different roads through trauma, prison, and healing led them to become close friends and co-authors of companion memoirs. Football, 9/11, and a Double Booking in Houston Dr. Gregory Williams opens the broadcast live from Houston, ribbing his beloved Texans for blowing an early lead in their season opener and checking on the Dallas Cowboys, who are about to kick off a tough road game against the New York Giants. He turns serious to mark the anniversary of September 11th, thanking veterans, active-duty service members including his own son in the Army, and firefighters and emergency responders, and says the tragedy pulled the country together with a resiliency he believes can never be broken. Williams gives out the call-in number, 888-627-6008, and his personal cell phone for anyone who needs someone to talk to, and notes the show is also streaming live on Facebook. He tells listeners tonight brings a rare double booking, a dynamic duo he promises will be nationally known soon, and explains he is skipping his usual intro segment to bring on Dr. Peter Verdin and Sonny Von Cleveland right away. Two Survivors Connect Through a Shared Network Verdin explains he emailed the show after searching podcasts in the trauma-and-healing space and finding Williams' book, Shattered by the Darkness, dovetailing with his own manuscript, Gold in the Cracks, written while he sat on the floor in pieces. He credits Detective Jeremy Henson, who caught his childhood abuser and has stayed a friend for seventeen years since the trial, with connecting him to Jim Cole, a thirty-year federal investigator who co-hosts a podcast with Sonny Von Cleveland. Verdin and Von Cleveland talked by FaceTime for two hours the first time they spoke, before either knew the other's full story, and later met in person in Nashville, where Von Cleveland wrote the foreword to Gold in the Cracks. Williams reads a line from that foreword aloud, noting how one man wore his pain where the world could see it while the other learned to hide behind a resume, different armor over the same wound. A Little League Coach's Years of Grooming Dr. Peter Verdin describes being chosen at age nine for an all-star Little League team in Northern Virginia, where the coach, John Hamilton, began giving him private hitting lessons, took him to an Orioles game, and embedded himself in the family, even earning a seat at Christmas dinner. Hamilton abused him almost daily from age nine until his fourteenth birthday, and Verdin says he told no one until a phone call from his mother during his freshman year of college prompted him to name what happened; Hamilton was later sentenced to fifty-five years in prison. Verdin went on to start for three and a half years at the University of Georgia and was drafted by the Washington Nationals before burning out. He kept the abuse buried for years while building what looked, from the outside, like a successful life, until being fired from a job and an abrupt breakup left him, four months before this broadcast, at what he calls rock bottom. Abuse, Prison, and Years in Solitary Sonny Von Cleveland says his abuse began at age three inside his own family and eventually involved seven men over nine years; when he disclosed his uncle's abuse at age ten and testified at trial, the uncle received fifteen years in prison, but much of Von Cleveland's family did not believe him and blamed him instead. Already caught up in the juvenile system after a felony break-in at age seven, he describes his mother trafficking him to men for drugs and money, a cycle that sent him to prison at sixteen, where he was raped by two men at knifepoint in his first week and later stabbed one of his attackers with pencils. He would spend eighteen of the next twenty years incarcerated, including five years in solitary confinement, a period he calls an absolute blessing because it forced him to sit with his own demons. A motorcycle wreck years later, after which he says he had to lose everything to gain a new life, became another turning point in his healing. Forgiveness, the Body, and the Real Numbers The two men compare how they manage triggers today. Von Cleveland says he has forgiven every abuser he has ever had, calling forgiveness the ultimate trigger lock that frees him rather than the person who hurt him, alongside meditation and remembering survivors who cannot yet speak for themselves. Verdin takes a different view, describing complex post-traumatic stress disorder as a physical brain injury stored in the nervous system rather than something a person can simply decide to release, and tracing a chronic back injury directly back to the exact age his abuse ended. Both men lean on movement, EMDR therapy, and journaling. When Williams raises the widely cited statistic that one in six men experience childhood sexual abuse, both guests call the number far too low, arguing it only counts men who report, leaving out boys in rural communities, cultural groups where the subject stays taboo, and the more than thirty children Verdin's abuser was found to have victimized beyond the five who came forward. Advice for Men Who Have Never Told Anyone Asked what he would say to a man who has never disclosed his abuse, Verdin urges people to speak before they hit rock bottom, describing how writing his own story forced buried memories to the surface and noting that friends who finally learned his history told him it made him make so much more sense. Von Cleveland adds that no one can help a person whose struggle stays hidden, quoting Viktor Frankl's line that suffering ceases to be suffering once it is given a purpose. Williams closes by pointing listeners to both books: Von Cleveland's Hey, White Boy: Conversations of Redemption, already available in print, on Kindle and as an AI-narrated audiobook, and Verdin's Gold in the Cracks, due out the third week of October and previewable at his website. He invites both men back on the show, thanks them for giving up their evening, and ends the broadcast with the program's long-standing promise that no matter how dark it gets, there is always hope.
THE DEVIL WITHIN The New Monsters: Alligators in the Sewers — Episode Three: The Monster Under Manhattan By 1980, the alligator had escaped. The legend that began with misplaced reptiles, a very real 1935 newspaper story and Teddy May's extraordinary tales of an underground colony had finally crawled out of the sewers and into American popular culture. Hollywood was waiting. In the wonderfully excessive 1980 creature feature Alligator, a little girl brings home a baby alligator named Ramon. Her father eventually decides reptile ownership has run its course and flushes the animal down the toilet. Twelve years later, Ramon has survived beneath the city by eating discarded laboratory animals pumped full of experimental growth hormones. The adorable souvenir has become an enormous, man-eating monster. And the remarkable thing is that audiences barely needed the premise explained. By then, everybody knew the story. Baby alligator. Toilet. Sewer. Darkness. Monster. In the final episode of Alligators in the Sewers, we explore how one of America's greatest urban legends escaped New York and became part of our shared cultural imagination. Robert Daley's 1959 book The World Beneath the City gave Teddy May's stories a permanent home. Thomas Pynchon's 1963 novel V. populated Manhattan's sewers with albino alligators. Books, newspapers and word of mouth continued adding details until ordinary abandoned pets had evolved into enormous, pale, blind creatures supposedly feeding on New York's endless population of rats. By the 1970s, the city itself had become the perfect setting. Aging infrastructure, graffiti-covered subway cars, crime, disinvestment and the fiscal crisis transformed New York's underground from a symbol of nineteenth-century engineering triumph into something darker. The tunnels beneath Manhattan became a place where anything might be hiding. Then Alligator gave the legend its monster movie. But reality has an irritating habit of occasionally helping folklore along. In 2001, a caiman appeared in Central Park's Harlem Meer. In 2010, police found a young alligator beneath a parked car near a storm drain in Queens. And in 2023, workers discovered an emaciated four-foot alligator in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. None were evidence of some secret breeding colony beneath New York. They were almost certainly abandoned or escaped exotic pets. Which, of course, was exactly how the legend supposedly began. Nearly ninety years after East 123rd Street, New Yorkers were still finding alligators where alligators had absolutely no business being. And perhaps that is why this particular monster refuses to die. The sewer alligator was assembled from pieces of reality. Americans really did buy baby alligators. People really did abandon exotic pets. Crocodilians really have appeared in New York. Beneath the streets really does exist an enormous hidden geography of sewers, subway tunnels, utility corridors, buried waterways and infrastructure most of us will never see. Folklore simply connected those facts and populated the darkness between them. Today, New York has gone one step further and embraced the creature. In 2023, artist Alexander Klingspor's NYC Legend placed an enormous bronze alligator atop a manhole cover in Union Square. The monster supposedly hunted beneath the city had finally returned to the surface as public art. First New York feared the alligator. Then it laughed at it. Eventually, it made the thing a mascot. And that may make the sewer alligator one of the prototypes for everything we've been exploring in The New Monsters. Long before Slender Man spread through internet forums, before the Backrooms became a collaboratively constructed online universe, and before millions of people analyzed pixels searching for the Fresno Nightcrawler, New Yorkers were already creating folklore in real time. They simply did it with newspapers, books, schoolyards and stories passed from one person to another. New York built an extraordinary artificial wilderness beneath itself. And every wilderness eventually gets a monster. NEXT TIME ON THE NEW MONSTERS: THE BUNNY MAN Next time, we leave Manhattan behind and head for the rapidly expanding suburbs of Northern Virginia, where another distinctly American monster emerged from an entirely different landscape. Our backdrop this time isn't the sewer. It's the suburb. In October 1970, police began receiving reports of a strange man wearing a rabbit costume who allegedly threatened people with an axe. Newspapers picked up the story. Then came another encounter. Over the decades, those incidents accumulated escaped mental patients, mutilated animals, murdered children and a lonely railroad overpass that generations of teenagers would eventually visit after dark. The strangest part of the Bunny Man legend isn't that much of what people believe about him never happened. It's that something really did happen first. Next time on The New Monsters: The Bunny Man. LISTEN • WATCH • FOLLOW Listen & Follow: Follow The Devil Within wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss an episode of The New Monsters. Rate & Review: Leave a five-star rating and review. It remains one of the most effective ways to help new listeners discover the show. Watch & Subscribe: Watch The Devil Within on the Evio Creative YouTube channel. Subscribe and turn on notifications for full episodes, videos and exclusive content. Join the Conversation: Follow @thedevilwithinpod and tell us which modern monster you want us to investigate next. 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The crew from Lew's Golf and Fish Club returns to the show to talk about one of the most unique grassroots fishing and golf communities growing in Northern Virginia. What started as a group of friends who simply wanted more people to fish and golf with has grown into local tournaments, weekly leagues, new friendships, serious competition, and a genuine brotherhood built around getting outside.If you've ever wanted to fish a bass tournament but felt like you didn't have the right boat, enough experience, or the latest electronics, this episode is for you.We break down how Lew's Golf and Fish Club has created an approachable tournament format where first-time competitors can fish alongside some of the best anglers in the region—and actually have a chance to compete.In this episode we talk about:• Bass fishing tournaments in Northern Virginia • Fishing the Occoquan Reservoir and Potomac River • Aquia Creek bass fishing and tournament strategy • Why they're adding the Rappahannock River to the schedule • Upper Potomac and Shenandoah River smallmouth fishing • Fishing tournaments without Forward Facing Sonar / LiveScope • Catch, photo, release tournament formats • Why smaller tournament boundaries can make anglers better • Fishing from kayaks, jon boats, aluminum boats and traditional bass boats • How water level, current and water clarity affect river smallmouth • Why giant smallmouth become incredibly difficult to catch during low, clear water • The mental similarities between competitive golf and bass fishing • Building a local fishing community instead of chasing social-media algorithms • How beginners can get involved in tournament bass fishing • Where Lews Golf and Fish Club could go in 2027 and beyondWe also get into some classic fishing stories—including broken trolling motors, project boats, learning bass fishing from scratch, winning your first-ever bass tournament, fishing the Brunswick-to-Point of Rocks stretch of the Upper Potomac, brutal summer river conditions, and why sometimes equipment failure actually forces you to fish BETTER.One of the biggest conversations centers around the changing world of tournament bass fishing.Forward-facing sonar and LiveScope aren't going anywhere, but there is also a growing appetite for grassroots tournaments where anglers have to read water, make decisions, manage time, find productive areas and figure out the fish without watching them on a screen.That old-school style of tournament fishing is exactly what Lews Golf and Fish Club is trying to keep alive.Link to Lew's Golf & Fish Club Website: https://linktr.ee/lewsgolf_fishclub Lew's Golf & Fish Club Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lewsgolf.fishclub Lew's Golf & Fish Club Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lewsgolf_fishclub Lew's Golf & Fish Club Fishing Schedule: https://www.canva.com/design/DAF8FSvenwM/oo9uSPuk4jO-24Wa0P-G5g/view?utm_content=DAF8FSvenwM&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=UNAVAILABLE Please support Fishing the DMV on Patreon!!! https://patreon.com/FishingtheDMVPodcast Green Top: https://www.greentop.com/ Jake's bait & Tackle Website: http://www.jakesbaitandtackle.com/ Fishing Pro Tech: https://www.facebook.com/FishingProTech Phone Number: (757) 566-1278 Email: lin@fishingprotech.us Fishing Pro Tech Address: 7812-A Richmond Road, Toano, VA, United States, 23168 Flint Financial Planning: https://www.flintfinancialplanning.com/ FITT Lures: https://bit.ly/4w5lgHt Max4 Fishing: https://max4fishing.com/Support the show
We contend that racism, by virtue of its entrenched institutional infrastructure, differs qualitatively from colorism, which, although pervasive and injurious, generally lacks comparable systemic mechanisms of enforcement. I explicate definitional distinctions and we interrogate how preferential treatment based on skin tone operates intra‑ and inter‑racially, while AG delineates how racism functions as an apparatus of power that white actors uniquely access. We anchor the theoretical exchange in lived anecdote — a canceled Wolf Trap concert and its tragic circumstances, reflections on anime and the white‑adjacent aesthetic, and demographic observations from Northern Virginia — in order to illustrate how race and color shape social experience. We analyze the commercial and cultural incentives that valorize lighter features and explain how colorism can intersect with, and at times approximate, the coercive effects of racism despite the absence of equivalent institutional infrastructure. Ultimately we assert that colorism is a potent source of harm within communities, yet racism's systemic tentacles render it singularly capable of shaping life chances and enforcing inequity on a societal scale.
We have an action-packed podcast lined up with Doomberg and Steven Wang, CEO of Jackery Americas. We will be covering the new executive order on the United States grid's transformers, supply chain, and key components. Some of these components have years-long resupply times in a disaster, and many people could be without power for considerable periods. The administration is recommending that people prepare and have safety supplies, and even short-term power supplies. Check out Jackery Products: https://www.jackery.com/Check out Doomberg's Substack: https://newsletter.doomberg.com/Storms, and we have also seen 30 or more water companies attacked this year by cyber hackers. Being prepared is not just a Boy Scout motto; it is now a way of life. Many of our larger utilities are recommending that we get ready for any disaster.1. Grid Reliability & Power OutagesThe hosts emphasize that the U.S. power grid is becoming increasingly unreliable, with warnings of potential rolling blackouts. A critical incident in July 2022 in Northern Virginia affected 3% of PJM's peak load, and there are concerns about cyber attacks on utilities (Iran recently targeted 30 utilities). The grid is running with less margin for error than previously.2. Exponential Demand Growth from Data Centers & AIThere's a dramatic shift from decades of stagnant demand to explosive growth driven by data centers and AI infrastructure. This "lumpy demand" is straining the grid in unexpected ways, requiring new solutions beyond traditional grid expansion.3. Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) & Home Battery SystemsThe discussion centers on how residential battery systems (like Jackery) can serve dual purposes: personal emergency backup and grid support. Plug-in solar and battery systems are becoming more accessible, lowering barriers to entry for consumers and apartments.4. Battery Technology & Supply ChainTopics include:Lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) as the current standardEmerging sodium-ion batteries (safer, better cold performance, lower cost, but lower energy density)Supply chain concentration and the need for cost reductionManufacturing localization in response to Trump's executive orders5. Trump's Emergency Declaration & ManufacturingThe administration's focus on onshoring transformer and inverter manufacturing to address critical shortages. There's a 2-3 year wait for transformers and 5-year wait for large natural gas generators—creating vulnerability if major infrastructure fails.6. Energy Independence & Personal PreparednessEmphasis on individual preparedness through home battery systems, solar panels, and backup generators. The philosophy that grid reliability starts at home, with consumers taking agency over their own power supply.7. Pricing & Grid EconomicsDiscussion about how current pricing structures favor wind and solar while penalizing natural gas and coal, without accounting for grid resiliency and storage costs. The need to shift from "Levelized Cost of Electricity" (LCOE) to metrics that value reliability.8. Regional Differences: U.S. vs. EU MarketsEuropean markets favor smaller, apartment-friendly systems (1-2 kWh), while U.S. demand is for larger capacity (3+ kWh) due to larger homes and greater energy needs.At Energy News Beat, we Make Appendices Great Again.At Energy News Beat, we Make Appendices Great Again.Check out the World's Greatest Podcast Show Notes at EnergyNewsBeat.co or EnergyNewsBeat.com, and the Energy News Beat Substack at: https://theenergynewsbeat.substack.com/A shout-out to Steve Reese and the Reese Energy Consulting group for sponsoring the Podcast https://reeseenergyconsulting.com/.Data2 if you have any business systems, can you trust A? Well, they have the patent on validation. . https://data2.zoholandingpage.com/energyAnd we have WellDatabase rolling, and we use their tools for the Energy News Beat weekly Rig Reports: https://welldatabase.com/Also entering Sponsor Rey Trevino, Pecos Operating https://pecos.energy/
The Motherhood Anthology Podcast: Photography Education for a Business You Love
Ever wonder what actually goes into those breathtaking styled sessions you see other photographers pulling off? In this episode, Ali Payne sits down with TMA mentor Marie of Marie Elizabeth Photography to get nosy about her Becoming Styled Sessions, an afternoon of four fully styled shoots she opened up to fellow photographers. From a nautical romance session on a sailboat to blue Portuguese tiles in a historic farmhouse kitchen, Marie shares how one small detail can grow into an entire creative vision. In This Episode What a styled session actually is, and why it is far more achievable than most photographers assume Why building at least one styled session a year keeps your creativity fresh and prevents your work from going on repeat How styled sessions play the long game for your business, bringing in client inquiries years after you shoot them Marie's process for planning a session from one simple idea, like a scarf, a location, or a feeling, into a complete mood board How to stretch into trends while keeping the core of your brand intact Leading a room of photographers: giving attendees creative autonomy while holding your vision Why a styled session event is the perfect low-lift entry point if hosting a workshop or retreat feels intimidating Whether you are dreaming up your first solo styled session or feeling called to invite other photographers into your vision, this conversation is proof that it all starts with one simple idea. Press play and get inspired to create something just for the joy of it. About Marie Marie is a motherhood, newborn, family, and maternity photographer serving DC, parts of Maryland, and Northern Virginia. Now in her tenth year of business, she taught for 13 years while building her photography business on the side before going full time nearly five years ago. She is a TMA mentor and the creator of the Becoming Styled Sessions. Website: https://marie-elizabethphotography.com/home/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marie.elizabeth.photo Blog post: https://themotherhoodanthology.com/styled-session-for-photographers/ Marie's Becoming styled session waitlist: http://marie-elizabethphotography.com/waitlist-the-becoming Connect with TMA: Website | Membership | Courses: www.themotherhoodanthology.com Free Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/themotherhoodanthology Our Instagram: instagram.com/themotherhoodanthology Connect with Kim: Site: https://kimbox.com IG https://www.instagram.com/kimbox
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Today, I'm thrilled to connect with Dr. Aleksandra Gajer. Dr. Gajer was previously an academic emergency medicine physician who pivoted after realizing ER medicine was functioning less as a place that saves lives and more as a place that manages chronic conditions that should have been caught and addressed years earlier. That observation led her to leave ER medicine and take over an established Northern Virginia internal medicine practice focusing on hormone optimization, peptide therapy, and preventative longevity-oriented care. In our conversation today, we discuss how perimenopause is treatable and suffering through it is optional. Dr. Gajer explains how she manages body composition changes, weight loss resistance, bone health, and orthopedic-related complaints in midlife. We take a deep dive into the sourcing and research limitations of peptides, exploring healing peptides, growth hormone-promoting peptides, and thymic peptides, and also discussing immunosenescence, bioregulators, mitochondrial RNA-coded peptides, pheno age testing, and using low-dose ketamine, when appropriate, for mental health challenges. Stay tuned for a fascinating conversation about the science and limitations of research on peptide therapies, and what Dr. Gajer is looking forward to in the near future. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: The health struggles Dr. Gajer experienced that led her to explore integrative therapies Why women may wake up at 2 or 3 a.m. during perimenopause How hormone changes in midlife can contribute to weight loss resistance Why Dr. Gajer encourages women to have their bone mass assessed earlier than conventionally recommended How declining estrogen and estradiol can contribute to orthopedic-related symptoms during perimenopause and menopause What women need to understand about sourcing peptides and the limitations of peptide research The different ways in which growth hormone-promoting peptides, thymic peptides, epitalon, and MOTC work How GLP-1s can be helpful for midlife women beyond changing their body composition and assisting with weight loss How Dr. Gajer uses low-dose ketamine lozenges for treatment-resistant anxiety and depression Bio: Dr. Aleksandra Gajer is a board-certified physician and founder of The Gajer Practice. In this precision and longevity medicine clinic, she helps high-performing patients optimize their healthspan through a whole-person, root-cause approach. Trained in emergency medicine at the University of Maryland and George Washington University, she brings rigorous clinical thinking to hormone optimization, peptide therapy, metabolic health, and gut healing. Her own journey through Lyme, alongside more than twenty years of contemplative practice, shapes her belief that emotional and spiritual health underlie physical wellness. A recurring Fox 5 DC health expert with more than fifty podcast appearances, she is also building physician education around the responsible, evidence-based use of peptides. Connect with Cynthia Thurlow Follow on X, Instagram & LinkedIn Check out Cynthia's website. Submit your questions to support@cynthiathurlow.com. Join other like-minded women in a supportive, nurturing community: The Midlife Pause/Cynthia Thurlow. Purchase Cynthia's book, The Menopause Gut. Cynthia's Intermittent Fasting Transformation Book The Midlife Pause Supplement Line Connect with Dr. Aleksandra Gajer The Gajer Practice
.One of the great tragedies of Western history is the severing of the Druidic lineage: an oral tradition carried in the body and the voice, hunted to near-extinction by Rome, leaving an entire people with no way to trace themselves back to their own indigenous roots. Emilio Miller-Lopez is one of thehttps://greenseek.ai/ rare few who found the thread and followed it home. Sent back toward his own ancestry by Native elders who told him the mending of the sacred hoop meant finding his own roots rather than borrowing theirs, he was eventually initiated as a bard of the Gaelic Order of Ulster through a student of Ben McGrady — the last of the old druids — and spent the next two decades rebuilding indigenous European culture through music, festival, and the seasonal fire calendar. He also builds AI.The conversation moves from the oak groves to the data centers and finds the same story told twice. Emilio traces the word dominion — man's dominion over the beasts, dominion over the land, dominion over human beings under chattel slavery — straight to Dominion Energy, the monopoly utility now sitting at the crossroads of the entire AI buildout in Northern Virginia. Along the way: what Julius Caesar actually recorded about the Druids and their astronomy, why Merlin was a title rather than a man, why the cross-quarter fire festivals survived two thousand years of suppression when the written lineage did not, and why the real practice was never supernatural power but the far harder discipline of going into a grove and listening.Then the harder question, and the one the whole episode turns on: whether this new magic can be used without repeating the extraction that built everything before it. Emilio makes the case that abstaining isn't resistance — that the kid who hates AI could be using AI to fight the AI she hates — and that nothing has ever displaced a polluting incumbent except a more attractive alternative, the way organic food went from a co-op fringe to the shelves at Walmart. They get into why running a hyper-cluster to generate a recipe is hitting a thumbtack with a sledgehammer, what happens to your most private questions once they become a product, hallucination inside weapons targeting systems, and the strange synchronicities that started showing up when he pointed a machine at Pythagorean number theory. His line for all of it: intelligence that does not serve life is suicidal.
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Joining us for this week's bonus show is the tenacious genius Michele Hornish, Executive Director of Every State Blue, a Missouri-based organization supporting the overlooked races in rural areas, building progressive infrastructure on the ground, election after election. We discuss the frontline strategies for defeating Republican autocracy. In our exclusive bonus episode, available in full for our Patreon and Substack communities who sustain Gaslit Nation, Andrea shares her insights from living in the belly of the beast–Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia–to expose how America is a corporation and how the sausage actually gets made in the world's most powerful military/budding dictatorship. Ready to fight back? Pre-order Andrea's new book, A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World On Fire, your mentor on your shelf for overcoming the fascist threat by unleashing the power of your wildest dream. Grab your copy, get one for a friend, and send a message to the media and publishing worlds that we need to get this book into the hands of as many women and girls as possible. Plus support independent journalism and unlock the full episode by subscribing on Patreon or Substack today! Pre-order A Reasonable Guide: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807202/a-reasonable-guide-for-unreasonable-women-by-andrea-chalupa/ Join Patreon.com/Gaslit -- discounted annual memberships are available, and you can give the gift of membership. Get invites to exclusive events, bonus shows, and more! Join GaslitNation.Substack.com -- discounted annual memberships are available. Get invites to exclusive events, bonus shows, and more!
Daniel Ivan Redfern was born in the late 1980s in San Francisco, California. In 1993, after relocating to Northern Virginia, he frequently traveled between the two states. From a young age, Daniel harbored a deep passion for painting and crafting exquisite fine artworks. Following his graduation from George Washington University, Daniel has worked for major technology firms in Northern Virginia. There, his love for unified branding and fine art shaped his artistic vision. Daniel regularly travels between San Francisco, Beverly Hills, and Northern Virginia to serve his prestigious clientele who seek his creative expertise. In this episode, Karen and Daniel discuss: Success Story of Daniel Commit to Get Leads Don't underestimate the power of word of mouth with those clients who love your work. Consult to Sell Understand your clients and communicate clearly how you can solve their dilemma or fulfill their needs. Connect to Build and Grow Respond to every email and be consistent on social media. Be consistent, share with others, and growth will come. Success Thinking, Activities and Vision Maintain good relationships with those around you. There is space for everyone to succeed. Live with a mindset of plenty, not scarcity. Sweet Spot of Success "That's where the creative process has always been. It's about the transcending, taking what you see in your head and then translating that onto the canvas along with the passion and all the elements with it as well." - Daniel Redfern Connect with Daniel Redfern: Website: https://www.danielredfern.net/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-r-7a8a97143/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danielredfern_art TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@danielredfern_art About the Podcast Join host Karen Briscoe each month to learn how you can achieve success at a higher level by investing just 5 minutes a day! Tune in to hear powerful, inspirational success stories and expert insights from entrepreneurs, business owners, industry leaders, and real estate agents that will transform your business and life. Karen shares a-ha moments that have shaped her career and discusses key concepts from her book Real Estate Success in 5 Minutes a Day: Secrets of a Top Agent Revealed. Looking to uplevel your success? DM Karen to schedule a mini-session to see how Up Level Coaching can help you love the life you have as you create and co-create the life of your dreams! Here's to your success in business and in life! Connect with Karen Briscoe: Facebook: 5MinuteSuccess Website: 5MinuteSuccess.com Email: Karen@5MinuteSuccess.com 5 Minute Success Links Learn more about Karen's book, Real Estate Success in 5 Minutes a Day Karen also recommends Moira Lethbridge's book "Savvy Woman in 5 Minutes a Day" Subscribe to 5 Minute Success Podcast Spread the love and share the secrets of 5 Minute Success with your friends and colleagues! Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.
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Tongue tie is a process not just a procedure. We say this all the time but not all providers actually mean they practice interdisciplinary care. Dr Jaju at Smile Wonders in Virginia is a big advocate for collaborating with other providers. Katie and Dr Jaju discuss the trends causing babies to not be treated young, all about interdisciplinary care and communication and aftercare. As we said it's a whole process not just a procedure. Listen here for the episode Podcast Guest: Dr. Rishita Jaju, is a Board Certified Pediatric Dentist, and founder of Smile Wonders in Reston, VA. She is a Harvard trained mommy dentist, a TEDx speaker, author and a published expert in Pediatric Laser Dentistry. Dr. Rishita's expertise in laser dentistry and passion for infant oral health have come from her experience in providing care for thousands of infants, toddlers and children with feeding difficulties over the last 15+ years. She is one of the few pediatric dentists in the country who has achieved Advanced Laser Proficiency Certification and Mastership Status from the Academy of Laser Dentistry as well as Breastfeeding Specialist Certification from Lactation Educational Resources. Her service as the chief resident and visiting faculty at Children's National Medical center, the Council of Clinical Affairs for American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry and as a part of the Examination Committee of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry, has given her a unique opportunity to have a positive influence on her profession. When it comes to research and publications her work can be found in peer reviewed journals on topics of pediatric dental care for patients with special healthcare needs, behavior guidance, esthetic dentistry, pain management and lasers in dentistry. Her numerous live and virtual training to introduce the benefits of laser applications have been well received by her colleagues in general dentistry, pediatricians, lactation consultants, speech pathologists and other allied healthcare professionals. Each year she participates in Give Kids a Smile initiative to provide pro bono care for children of Northern Virginia in an effort to give back to her community. Dr. Rishita and her husband are both proud UGA bulldogs who adore their son and their 2 Maltese doggies named Kaju and Kulfi. They have traveled together all over the world and have visited every continent (except Antarctica).Podcast Host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 25 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. While Katie sees clients locally in western WA, Katie is also a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially when related to tongue tie or low supply. Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.comSupport the show
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Against normalization culture.Dear readers,In this week's Press Pass, I introduced our newest editor, Carina Pacheco. As I said in that newsletter, when Carina applied to work here, I was struck by her writing voice, the lens through which she sees the world, and her interest in the intersection of culture and politics. To me, she offered something distinct from the rest of the team. Today, I'm thrilled to share her debut Tangle essay, which is adapted from a piece she published in her newsletter.— IsaacAd-free podcasts are here!Get 20% off your first year of ad-free episodes, exclusive interviews, and deep dives with Tangle's podcast membership!The latest Suspension of the Rules.Is decency back? Isaac, Ari, and Kmele discuss a fascinating gubernatorial candidate in Iowa and an interesting couple of moments from a Fox News anchor before Ari gets canceled in a highly aggrieved grievances section. Check it out here.All about Flock cameras.A few months ago, you may not have heard of them at all. Now, Flock cameras are everywhere — especially in Northern Virginia, where Associate Producer Aidan Gorman lives. In our latest YouTube video, Aidan takes a trip around his neighborhood and talks with law enforcement to investigate the reach and presence of Flock cameras.Check it out here.You can subscribe to Tangle by clicking here or drop something in our tip jar by clicking here. Our Executive Editor and Founder is Isaac Saul. Our Executive Producer is Jon Lall.This podcast written by: Carina Pacheco and audio engineered and edited by Dewey Thomas. Music for the podcast was produced by Diet 75 and Jon Lall.Our newsletter is edited by Managing Editor Ari Weitzman, Senior Editor Will Kaback, Bailey Saul, Audrey Moorehead, and Carina Pacheco. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Coming up on today's episode of Suspension of the Rules, Isaac, Ari and Kmele mourn the loss of the great Dolly Parton. They then chat about the very interesting candidate for governor in Iowa, Darline Graham officially winning the South Carolina primary, and then a good guy of the week featuring Jesse Watters? Last but not least, our grievances. It's a good one!Ad-free podcasts are here!To listen to this podcast ad-free, and to enjoy our subscriber only premium content, go to ReadTangle.com to sign up! Click HERE to get 20% off your first year of ad-free episodes, exclusive interviews, and deep dives with Tangle's podcast membership.All about Flock cameras.A few months ago, you may not have heard of them at all. Now, Flock cameras are everywhere — especially in Northern Virginia, where Associate Producer Aidan Gorman lives. In our latest YouTube video, Aidan takes a trip around his neighborhood and talks with law enforcement to investigate the reach and presence of Flock cameras.Check it out here.You can subscribe to Tangle by clicking here or drop something in our tip jar by clicking here. Our Executive Editor and Founder is Isaac Saul. Our Executive Producer is Jon Lall.This podcast was hosted by Isaac Saul and audio edited and mixed by Dewey Thomas. Music for the podcast was produced by Jon Lall.Our newsletter is edited by Managing Editor Ari Weitzman, Senior Editor Will Kaback, Bailey Saul, and Audrey Moorehead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On Wednesday, Meta Platforms, which owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads, reached a settlement with a group of state attorneys general to pay up to $16.7 billion to resolve a case over alleged harms to children caused by its social media apps. The company also agreed to implement safeguards designed to mitigate excessive use of Facebook and Instagram by minors.Ad-free podcasts are here!Get 20% off your first year of ad-free episodes, exclusive interviews, and deep dives with Tangle's podcast membership!The latest Suspension of the Rules.Is decency back? Isaac, Ari, and Kmele discuss a fascinating gubernatorial candidate in Iowa and an interesting couple of moments from a Fox News anchor before Ari gets canceled in a highly aggrieved grievances section. Check it out here.All about Flock cameras.A few months ago, you may not have heard of them at all. Now, Flock cameras are everywhere — especially in Northern Virginia, where Associate Producer Aidan Gorman lives. In our latest YouTube video, Aidan takes a trip around his neighborhood and talks with law enforcement to investigate the reach and presence of Flock cameras.Check it out here.You can read today's podcast here and today's “Have a nice day” story here.You can subscribe to Tangle by clicking here or drop something in our tip jar by clicking here. Take the survey: What new safety measures will be most effective? Let us know.Our Executive Editor and Founder is Isaac Saul. Our Executive Producer is Jon Lall.This podcast written by: Isaac Saul and audio engineered and edited by Dewey Thomas. Music for the podcast was produced by Diet 75.Our newsletter is edited by Managing Editor Ari Weitzman, Senior Editor Will Kaback, Bailey Saul, Audrey Moorehead, and Carina Pacheco. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On Monday, the Supreme Court stayed a federal injunction on President Donald Trump's executive order requiring the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to change its rules for mail-in ballots. The Court's unsigned opinion did not address the legality of the executive order; instead, the Court found that the states challenging it lacked standing to do so. The three Democratic-appointed justices dissented. A separate injunction blocking implementation of the executive order remains in place. In compliance with President Trump's order, on August 21, USPS published a finalized rule specifying it would not deliver mail ballots in states that do not share voter data with it.Ad-free podcasts are here!Get 20% off your first year of ad-free episodes, exclusive interviews, and deep dives with Tangle's podcast membership!All about Flock cameras.A few months ago, you may not have heard of them at all. Now, Flock cameras are everywhere — especially in Northern Virginia, where Associate Producer Aidan Gorman lives. In our latest YouTube video, Aidan takes a trip around his neighborhood and talks with law enforcement to investigate the reach and presence of Flock cameras.Check it out here.You can read today's podcast here and today's “Under the radar” story here and today's “Have a nice day” story here.You can subscribe to Tangle by clicking here or drop something in our tip jar by clicking here. Take the survey: Do you plan to vote by mail in 2026? Let us know. Our Executive Editor and Founder is Isaac Saul. Our Executive Producer is Jon Lall.This podcast written by: Isaac Saul and audio engineered and edited by Dewey Thomas. Music for the podcast was produced by Diet 75.Our newsletter is edited by Managing Editor Ari Weitzman, Senior Editor Will Kaback, Bailey Saul, Audrey Moorehead, and Carina Pacheco. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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