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On 1 August, Switzerland celebrated its 735th birthday. The festivities are yet to come in Melbourne, when the traditional Swiss Festival will take place in Seaworks (Williamstown) on Saturday, August 8. We spoke to the President of the Swiss Festival, Rolf Huber. - Am 1. August hat die Schweiz ihren 735. Geburtstag gefeiert. In Melbourne stehen die Feierlichkeiten noch bevor, denn am Samstag, den 8. August, findet das traditionelle Swiss Festival in Seaworks (Williamstown) statt. Wir haben mit dem Präsidenten des Swiss Festival, Rolf Huber, gesprochen.

In dieser Folge definieren Chris und Swiss für sich den Begriff „Nazi“ neu. Im Anschluss wundern sie sich darüber, warum sich die deutschen, weißen Nazis auf einmal nach dem Anschlag auf den CSD um die Rechte und die Freiheit der Queeren Community scheren...? Oder ist der Wertekosmos von Ideologen und Radikalen immer nur ein Selbstbedienungsladen, in dem man je nach Tagesagenda shoppen geht? Swiss erzählt eine lustige Geschichte über eine Band, die mal ein Festival abgesagt hat, weil Swiss + Die Andern da auch spielen sollten. Anschließend stellt Swiss folgende These auf: Die Leute haben keine Angst davor, dass etwas Schlimmes passiert sein könnte. Die Leute haben nur Angst vor Kommentarspalten. Apropos: Chris offenbart uns seine ultimative Social-Media-Verdrossenheit, nachdem er mal wieder einen Blick in die Untiefen der Netzwerke gewagt hat. Werden wir ihn als Internetperson verlieren? Oder macht er bald ein Gangster-Rap-Album?! Schaltet ein und empfehlt uns weiter! Oder lasst es bleiben.

Le Swiss Festival revient le samedi 8 août 2026, de 10h à 17h, au Seaworks Maritime Precinct à Williamstown (Melbourne). Organisé par le Swiss Festival Committee, l'événement est porté par de nombreux bénévoles ainsi qu'un comité organisateur. Le thème de cette édition est « Swiss Inventions & Innovations » (innovations et inventions suisses), avec un accent sur le bien-être porté par l'innovation à la suisse. Pour en parler, nous accueillons Natasha Gerente, Volunteers Coordinator du festival.

Le Swiss Festival revient le samedi 8 août 2026, de 10h à 17h, au Seaworks Maritime Precinct à Williamstown (Melbourne). Organisé par le Swiss Festival Committee, l'événement est porté par de nombreux bénévoles ainsi qu'un comité organisateur. Le thème de cette édition est « Swiss Inventions & Innovations » (innovations et inventions suisses), avec un accent sur le bien-être porté par l'innovation à la suisse. Pour en parler, nous accueillons Natasha Gerente, Volunteers Coordinator du festival.

Send us comments, suggestions and ideas here! In this week's episode we explore if there is any truth behind the well loved, pop-psychology meme going around the internet the last few years detailing THE SILENT WAR; a covert struggle for the mind's of the masses between a decentralized group of marginalized schizo-autists and a loosely affiliated cadre of enfranchised psychopathic elites: or more simply, the secret war between the schizos and the psychos - a theory that proponents claim is as old as time and offers us a new perspective on the dynamics between the hidden genius of charismatic predators who run things from the shadows and the weirdos like us who happen to notice them but can't seem to get normal people to listen until it's too late. In the extended show we go into even deeper detail on how psychopaths manipulate the herd and some examples of exactly how it works all the way from the geopolitical stage to the work place. Lastly, we talk about how to identify and defend against the psychopath and hits plots. Thank you and enjoy the show! In this week's episode we discuss:History of the Meme|The Schizoid Alkaholikier Philip K. Dick's correlaries in UbikAutist vs. Schizo MaskingWhat is a Psycho? In the extended episode available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go even further to discuss: Schizoposting Socioeconomic TheoryWhy Success Favors PsychopathsPolitical Ponerology Institutional Capture The Four Features of Bullsh*tHow Psychopaths Actually Drive People CrazyThis episode was written by Luke Madrid with some blue sections by Mari Sama. Commentary by Heka Astra and Tim Hacker was original. Where to find The Whole Rabbit:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0AnJZhmPzaby04afmEWOAVInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_whole_rabbitTwitter: https://twitter.com/1WholeRabbitOrder Stickers: https://www.stickermule.com/thewholerabbitOther Merchandise: https://thewholerabbit.myspreadshop.com/Music By Spirit Travel Plaza:https://open.spotify.com/artist/30dW3WB1sYofnow7y3V0YoSources:Primary Internet / Folk OriginAnonymous 4chan /pol/ post, 27 November 2022, thread 406166838, post No. 406171908. (Core text of the “Silent War” meme; the document reproduces and timestamps this as the point of origin before Reddit, YouTube narrations, TikTok, and Instagram circulation.)Clinical / Psychiatric HistoryBinswanger, Kurt. Work on the “schizoide Alkoholiker” (schizoid alcoholic) personality type, circa World War I period. Swiss psychiatrist; describes a constitutional style of intense inner experience, social withdrawal, and emotional distance that sits on the milder end of what later became the schizophrenia-spectrum / schizoid personality continuum. The script treats this as an early clinical analogue of the meme's “schizo.”Kahlbaum, Karl Ludwig. Description of heboidophrenia (1890s). Condition emerging in adolescence/young adulthood that primarily disturbs personality, drive, mood, and social behaviour rather than intelligence; can present with antisocial, irritable, or “psychopathic”-appearing traits that are secondary to an underlying schizophrenic process. The script uses this to illustrate clinical blending of the two poles.Literary ParallelDick, Philip K. Ubik (1969). Three-class division of humanity (normies / psychics / inertials) mapped by the script onto the Silent War triad (normies / psychopaths / schizo-autists). Psychics infiltrate and commandeer institutions; inertials detect and nullify them.Philosophical / Socio-Economic TheoryDeleuze, Gilles & Guattari, Félix. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972). Introduction of “schizoanalysis”; desire as productive, machine-like, deterritorializing force that capitalism both unleashes and reterritorializes under profit axioms. The script reads the “schizo” figure as potentially revolutionary rather than purely pathological and notes the book's deliberately non-linear style as proto-“schizoposting.”Empirical Studies on Corporate / “Successful” PsychopathyBoard, B. J. & Fritzon, K. (2005). “Disordered personalities at work.” Contrasted 39 high-level UK executives/CEOs with forensic psychiatric patients using MMPI scales; executives showed elevated “theatrical” psychopathic traits (grandiosity, superficial charm, lack of remorse) at levels rivalling or exceeding clinical samples, without the impulsive violence of the latter. Interpreted as evidence of “successful psychopaths.”Babiak, P., Neumann, C. S. & Hare, R. D. (2010). “Corporate psychopathy: Talking the walk.” Study of 203 management-development professionals using PCL-R / PCL:SV; elevated psychopathic traits relative to general population, high on charisma/strategic vision/communication, low on teamwork, management skill, and actual job performance.Landay, K., Harms, P. D. & Credé, M. (2019). Meta-analysis (92 independent samples). Weak positive association between psychopathic tendencies and leadership emergence; weak negative association with leadership effectiveness; moderate negative link to transformational leadership.Political Pathology / Institutional CaptureŁobaczewski, Andrzej. Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes (English editions mid-2000s; written earlier under surveillance). Central claim that pathocracy arises when a small minority with personality disorders (especially primary psychopathy, plus certain schizoid and “characteropathic” configurations) attain critical institutional influence and select for their own kind. Introduces paramoralisms, paralogic, and the gradual inversion of language and morality. Estimates essential psychopathy ≈ 0.6 % of population plus a larger “penumbra.”Stigler, George J. (1971). “The Theory of Economic Regulation.” Landmark essay on regulatory capture: agencies eventually serve the industries they oversee via material incentives, informational access, and cognitive/cultural capture.Double-Bind TheoryBateson, Gregory, Jackson, Don D., Haley, Jay & Weakland, John. (1956). “Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia.” Behavioral Science, 1(4), 251–264. Formalization of the double bind: conflicting injunctions (one negating the other) plus prohibition on meta-comment or escape; chronic exposure argued to contribute to communicative and perceptual patterns then diagnosed as schizophrenia. The script applies this directly to workplace/online dynamics in which the pattern-seer is punished for noticing the contradiction.Wikipedia entry on “double bind” (cited in-document for the concise definition of the communicative situation).Additional Cultural / Literary Allusions (not primary sources but invoked)Campbell, Joseph – Hero's Journey structure (adapted as “The Schizo's Journey,” stages 0–17).Orwell, George – 1984 (paramoral language / inversion of morality).Disney's The Lion King (Scar as archetype of the successful-but-incompetent psychopathic manager).Support the show

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Today's show is the first episode of our new season about Swiss-Type CNC machining. Our guest is Marc Klecka, founder and president of Concentric Corporation, a prominent distributor of Citizen-Cincom CNC Swiss lathes in Cleveland, Ohio. Scroll down to read more and listen to the podcast, or listen with Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts or your favorite app. Main Points Marc talks about his company, Concentric, which has been distributing Citizen Swiss machines for 31 years and Miyano for 10 years (after Citizen acquired the company). (2:20) Marc gives his “5-year-old explanation” of Swiss CNC Machining (sliding headstock machining). He says the original technology of “Swiss style machining” was developed in Switzerland over a hundred years ago for producing high precision watch components. He says what differentiates CNC Swiss machining from conventional CNC turning is that a CNC Swiss machine grips the part with a collet and also supports the part with a guide bushing. This eliminates the vibration that normally occurs when machining bar on a a conventional CNC lathe. (3:00) Marc says a traditional Swiss part has a length to diameter ratio of 3 to 1 or more because that is the point where you start sacrificing the rigidity and accuracy on a conventional CNC lathe. He tells a story about a Citizen customer who produced a 10-foot part out of aluminum tubing. (4:40) Marc talks about the importance of running ground bar stock on Swiss machines, particularly for running lights-out. However, he says that says in the 31-year history of Concentric, he estimates that only 30% of the material run (in Swiss mode) on the machines he has sold has been ground bar stock. He says it is a misconception that Swiss Style CNC machines are only good for running ground stock. (7:25) Marc says that during 2020 Concentric's business did ok, but the pandemic made it more difficult to sell machines because it was harder to have in person contact with customers. (11:00) Marc says that there are lots of good brands of machine tools on the market, but he sees the support and service of local distributors as something that sets Citizen apart. He says that many years ago Marubeni Citizen made a point of having all of its local distributors become self-sufficient for servicing customers. He says that all the Citizen sales engineers also are applications engineers. He says it is important to have sales people who can get in the trenches with customers to solve their problems. (12:00) Marc talks about Citizen's proprietary LFV (low frequency vibration) technology, which is featured in many of the latest models. It enables operators to control the geometry of the chip coming off the machine using the machine's CNC control. He says this capability is significant for manufacturers who want to do lightly attended or unattended machining. (17:20) Marc talks about the significance of the medical sector for Citizen machines. He explains thread whirling for making long bone screws. He discusses a bone screw that was made on a Citizen featuring a laser that performed a cut on that part while still inside the machine (see video). (21:45) Marc talks about diverse markets where he sees Citizens being used. He says during COVID-19 woodworking has become more popular and Citizen machines are making tools used for the art. Also, he says tattoos have become more popular during the pandemic and Citizen machines are making parts that go into the tattoo gun pens. He says demand continues to grow for parts for the electric car markets. (26:00) Noah asks Marc tell him something he learned the week before. Marc jokes hat he learned it probably was not a great thing to break into the Capital building. He also said that he learned about the new LNS chip conveyors that are being put on some of the newest Citizen machines equipped with LFV technology. (31:00) Question: Which Swiss machine do you prefer to use and why? The post Best of Swarfcast: Talking Citizen CNC Swiss Lathes with Marc Klecka – EP 109 appeared first on Today's Machining World.

What does it take to build a luxury tented lodge in the middle of the Okavango Delta? To engineer a fabric structure that withstands a category five cyclone on the Australian coast? To convince a Swiss banker to walk away from a 20-year career and move to Bali to manufacture tented villas? Or to take a chance on a stretch tent made from horse-riding trouser fabric on a film set in Namibia, and turn that into one of the most innovative tent architecture firms in the world? It takes the kind of people you're about to meet. This is Titans of Tents... a brand new series inside the Glamping Business Podcast... and this first episode is where it all begins. I'm Sarah Riley, and I've spent years watching this industry grow from a niche curiosity into a globally recognised asset class. But one conversation I've never heard - not once - is the one where the people who actually build the foundations of this industry sit down together and speak honestly about how they got here, what they've learned, and where they think it's all going. Until now. In this episode, I'm joined by four of the world's leading glamping structure founders: Brendan O'Molony of Tenthouse Structures in South Africa, Ueli Wick of Escape Nomade in Bali, Tom Butterfield of Eco Structures in Western Australia, and David Patrick Court of Bushtec Creations, operating across Africa and the Middle East. Between them, they have delivered tented structures in over 55 countries, worked with some of the world's most prestigious hospitality brands, and built their reputations in some of the most remote and challenging environments on earth. What makes this conversation different isn't just their collective experience... it's the combination of genuine competitive respect, deep friendship, and a shared mission to raise standards across the industry that brings them together. They are four founders with hard-won knowledge, strong opinions, and the kind of honesty that only comes from having actually done the work. In this first episode, we hear their origin stories, and they are not what you'd expect. We talk about whether glamping is truly a global industry or a collection of very different regional stories. We explore what COVID really did to the outdoor hospitality sector, why an AI-disrupted world might be the best thing that ever happened to tented structures, and what is still... even now... misunderstood about what these buildings can actually do. This is the conversation the industry has been waiting for. Welcome to episode one of The Titans of Tents.  ____________ Who are the Titans? Brendan O'Molony - Tenthouse Structures (South Africa / Singapore) Brendan founded Tenthouse Structures in 2010, and over the past 15 years it has evolved into one of the industry's most innovative full-service tent architecture firms, delivering luxury tented camps and lodges across Africa, the USA, the Middle East, Europe and Australia. Headquartered in South Africa with an international sales and marketing office in Singapore, Tenthouse has developed over 60 international properties, and Brendan leads a 40+ strong team of tent-tensile architects, engineers, technicians, and lightweight building specialists. His personal mission is engineering superior wilderness fabric structures that are optimised to site... low-impact, high-comfort, and built for some of the world's most remote locations https://www.tenthousestructures.com/  Ueli Wick - Escape Nomade (Bali, Indonesia) A Swiss national who spent most of his professional life in private banking with UBS and Credit Suisse, Ueli made a dramatic career pivot and now leads Escape Nomade, designers and manufacturers of luxury tented villas based in Bali, with a mission to bring the "living without walls" lifestyle to a global audience. Under his leadership, Escape Nomade has delivered more than 450 luxury tented structures across 55 countries. Their product sits at the haute couture end of the market... large, semi-permanent, fully furnished tented villas used in resorts, wellness centres, and private residences worldwide https://escapenomade.com/  Tom Butterfield - Eco Structures (Western Australia) Tom has been driving product and concept at Eco Structures Australia since 2012, and has since completed over 85 glamping projects worldwide. His international portfolio spans locations including the US Virgin Islands, Saudi Arabia, China, and several Class A World Reserves. Eco Structures specialises in cost-effective, environmentally sustainable glamping accommodation engineered for remote and challenging terrain... including their patented concrete-free eco anchors and prefabricated bathroom pods... and exports globally from their Western Australia base https://www.ecostructures.com.au/  David Patrick Court - Bushtec Creations (South Africa / Middle East) David heads up Bushtec Creations as an Independent Executive Consultant, bringing over 25 years of safari and tourism/hospitality expertise across Botswana, Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East. Bushtec holds a current range of 1,300+ tent designs... more options than any other tent manufacturer... with a fully owned manufacturing plant covering all canvas and steel components. Their work spans luxury safari lodges, award-winning tented resorts (including Sharjah's Kingfisher Retreat), and turnkey solutions across Africa, the GCC, and the Far East https://bushtec.net/our-tents/   Sarah Riley - Inspired Courses ☆ The Glamping Academy ☆ Inspired Collective Sarah Riley is the founder of The Glamping Academy... part of Inspired Collective Ltd. With over 15 years of experience in the glamping, retreat, and unique hospitality industry, Sarah has supported more than 2,000 business launches across 18 countries. She hosts the Glamping Business Podcast and Glamping Americas Podcast. She is also the Conference Director for the Glamping Show Americas.

The Swiss club in NSW has a new president, with whom the national holiday is celebrated on Sunday. The day commemorates the founding of the Swiss Confederation in 1291. - Der Schweizer Klub in NSW hat einen neuen Präsidenten, mit dem zusammen am Sonntag der Nationalfeiertag begangen wird, der an die Gründung der Eidgenossenschaft im Jahre 1291 erinnert.

With a Baume & Mercier watch, you have both a finely tuned instrument of timekeeping and a story. And not just any story. This is one shaped by the grace of French design and the exacting standards of Swiss watchmaking.You may have seen the brand's name at your favorite retailer or on the wrist of a collector, but understanding what sets Baume & Mercier apart starts with exploring its dual heritage. It's this blend that gives the brand its unmistakable character of timelessness and understated confidence.

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh are back for the monthly listener episode! They hear from one listener whose family was unexpectedly surrounded by horseback riders on a remote road in Mexico, another whose dad's camping constipation led to an unforgettable bag-of-prunes disaster on the Buffalo River, and a couple who accidentally attended a funeral in a tiny Swiss church after mistaking it for a local cultural event. Plus, Seth and Josh reminisce about old family jingles and share a few of their own camping stories along the way. Watch this episode on the Family Trips YouTube or Spotify, or listen wherever you get your podcasts! Want to submit your family trips story for our next listener episode? Or send a question in to Seth and Josh? Submit your voicemail to speakpipe.com/familytripspod! Watch more Family Trips episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlqYOfxU_jQem4_NRJPM8_wLBrEEQ17B6 ------------------------- 00:00 Introduction with Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers 01:17 Jimmy Kimmel - Josh's Gavin Newsom And Hit Improv 07:05 Swim Across America Disaster 15:04 Boat Camp And Life Jacket Punishment 21:52 Susan Mexico Road Trip 23:07 Horse Ambush 24:22 Not Kidnapped After All 30:34 Becky Canoe Trip Chaos 40:15 Swiss Funeral Crash Finale ------------------------- Support our sponsors: Quince Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to https://quince.com/trips for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too. Fitbod Get 25% off your subscription or try the app FREE for seven days at Fitbod.me/TRIP. CashApp Download Cash App Today: https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/4aafc4yf #CashAppPod Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App's bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Visa® Debit Flex Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, and The Bancorp Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. See terms and conditions for the Sutton prepaid card at cash.app/legal/us/en-us/card-agreement, for the Sutton debit flex card at cash.app/legal/us/en-us/debit-flex-card-agreement-sutton and for the Bancorp debit flex card at cash.app/legal/us/en-us/debit-flex-card-agreement-bancorp. Savings and Offers provided by Cash App, a Block Inc. brand. Offers may not be affiliated with third party merchants. Parents and legal guardians can open a managed account for kids 6-12. Cash App will pass through a portion of the interest paid on your savings balance held in an account for the benefit of Cash App customers at Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Member FDIC. To earn interest on your Cash App savings balance, you need to have sponsor approval. Exceptions may apply. Savings yield rate is subject to change. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. ------------------------- Family Trips is produced by Rabbit Grin Productions. Theme song written and performed by Jeff Tweedy. ------------------------- About the Show: Lifelong brothers Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers ask guests to relive childhood memories, unforgettable family trips, and other disasters! New Episodes of Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers are available every Tuesday. ------------------------- Executive Producers: Rob Holysz, Jeph Porter, Natalie Holysz Creative Producer: Sam Skelton Coordinating Producer: Derek Johnson Video Editor: Josh Windisch Mix & Master: Josh Windisch Episode Artwork: Analise Jorgensen #familytrips #sethmeyers #joshmeyers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does an old wallpaper mill, a Swiss banknote plant, and a pair of glaucoma-detecting glasses have in common? And why does a man who has built more than 30 companies say founders should stop trying to invent anything at all? What you'll discover today… (00:00) The golf-ball hustle that started it all, and the parental support behind it. (08:57) The contrarian bet that built Fortress. (13:36) Inside the pressure of a distressed-asset turnaround. (17:12) Running multiple companies solo, wired differently. (21:30) Why a 30-company track record doesn't guarantee a check. (22:40) The throughline from uranium to glaucoma glasses. (25:43) iGuardian and building versus buying. (28:37) What investors listen for — and why solo founders struggle. (32:35) Coachability, discipline, and humility. (36:35) De-risking deep tech with grants and digital twins. (42:51) Legacy, what still excites him, and rapid-fire wisdom. More about the episode Chad Wasilenkoff is not a typical founder. He started selling golf balls at eight years old, was buying and selling video games, BMX bikes and cars by his teens, and has gone on to found close to 30 companies across forestry, mining, advanced materials, chemical recycling and medical devices. He doesn't consider himself an inventor — he's an investor who operates the business himself and looks for the exit. His playbook is finding value where nobody else is looking. He turned a near-worthless forestry mill into Fortress and sold it for $210 million. He bought a Swiss banknote mill for a fraction of its worth and unlocked tens of millions in hidden land and inventory value. He spotted a coming uranium shortage most investors ignored. That same instinct now drives iGuardian, glasses designed to detect glaucoma at home, and a chemical catalyst company tackling plastic recycling at scale. For founders and investors in hard tech or deep tech, this conversation is a masterclass in contrarian thinking — what investors listen for in a pitch, why solo founders face a harder road, and why buying a great idea can beat inventing one. Connect with us Peng-Sang Cau LinkedIn Website Chad Wasilenkoff  LinkedIn Eye Guardian Website Helicoid Industries Website

René Bollier is the President and Executive Chef of André's Confiserie Suisse. Grandson of founders André and Elsbeth Bollier, Bollier began his training at age 11 under his family's guidance. After attending the University of Kansas, René continued his culinary education training at some of the top chocolate and pastry shops in Switzerland. He and his wife Nancy returned to Kansas City in 2002 to lead the family business into the third generation. The Bollier family remains focused on continuing the André's tradition, producing only the highest quality gourmet chocolates, pastries, tortes and baked goods using time-honored production methods. Nothing inspires René more than simply being in the kitchen, perfecting classic recipes and creating new ones for the community that has made André's a tradition since 1955.  Website: AndresChocolates.com Instagram: @andresswiss In this episode we discuss: How Rene's grandparents opened a Swiss chocolate shop in Kansas City in 1955 How they introduced mid-Westerners to hand-crafted Swiss chocolates Back to the homeland: Rene's training in Switzerland What makes Swiss chocolates unique Hot items: Engadiner nusstortes, chocolate-covered almonds and lackerli cookies Rene's best kitchen tip and advice for budding entrepreneurs And much more!

The Sanna family of Chicago saw the end of the milkman and needed adapt their dairy business for the future. Hello Swiss Miss. Dave Young: Welcome to the Empire Builders Podcast, teaching business owners the not so secret techniques that took famous businesses from mom and pop to major brands. Stephen Semple is a marketing consultant, story collector, and storyteller. I’m Stephen’s sidekick and business partner, Dave Young. Before we get into today’s episode, a word from our sponsor, which is, well, it’s us, but we’re highlighting ads we’ve written and produced for our clients. So here’s one of those. [Seaside Plumbing Ad] Dave Young: Welcome back to the Empire Builders Podcast. I’m Dave Young and Stephen Semple sitting here. And he just told me what the topic is. And it took me back to, gosh, it took me back to my young teens sitting in a ski lodge drinking some hot chocolate. Stephen Semple: There you go. That’s a good one. Dave Young: This was the innovation in hot chocolate, and we’re going to talk about Swiss Miss. Stephen Semple: Yes. Dave Young: All right. And I’m trying to think of when that would’ve come out. Probably, I’m guessing the ’60s, ’70s? Stephen Semple: Yeah, it was ’60s. Dave Young: And it wasn’t long before my mom had a recipe for it would make a giant tub of it. It wasn’t Swiss Miss obviously, but it was like it’s powdered milk and cocoa and whatever else. I would just eat it by the spoonful dry. Stephen Semple: Wow. Really? Okay. There you go. Dave Young: Sure. I was doing those kinds of YouTube challenges before YouTube was around all by myself in my mom’s kitchen. Stephen Semple: Well, Swiss Miss was actually launched in 1961. 1961. It was created by the Sanna family, as you’ll learn in this. And it’s a bit of an interesting story. It’s almost like a seven-act play in terms of- Dave Young: The Sanna Family? Stephen Semple: Sanna family. S-A-N-N-A, Sanna. Dave Young: Sanna. Okay. Stephen Semple: Yeah. And it said it’s a bit of an interesting journey. It’s almost like a seven-act play in terms of the stuff that happened. Dave Young: And I don’t know where this is going. I’m going to throw a weird guess out. Stephen Semple: Okay. Dave Young: One of the things that my mom put in her hot cocoa recipe was a powdered milk. And we used to drink this, a powdered milk called Sanalac. Stephen Semple: You’re right on the money, Dave. Dave Young: Is that right? Okay. Stephen Semple: Yep. Once again, ding, ding, ding. Dave nails it. Dave Young: All right, continue. Stephen Semple: Okay. Well, we’re done. We’re done now. Dave Young: For some reason, I saw it with one N, but yeah, it was weird. There was a period of a couple years where she didn’t buy milk at the store. She bought powdered milk and we had these jugs that had these plungers that stirred it up and we had powdered milk. It was almost like war rations in the ’70s or something. I don’t know why we did it. Stephen Semple: So this is a big part of the story. Now, Swiss Miss was started in ’61. It was sold in 1967 to Beatrice Foods. Now, the price wasn’t disclosed, but it’s estimated it was somewhere in the $10, $12 million range, which is not bad for 1967. Today, they’re owned by Conagra, and it’s estimated that they sell 50 million boxes a year of Swiss Miss hot chocolate, which is pretty- Dave Young: That’s a lot of hot chocolate. Stephen Semple: That’s a lot of hot chocolate. Our story starts with Anthony Sanna, who’s an Italian immigrant in Chicago, who starts Sanna Dairies, which is a milk distribution company. And at the time, milk was a really regular delivery. There was the milkman who came to the neighborhood delivering bottles of milk. Dave Young: Yeah. And we had a milkman. Maybe she didn’t like him and decided, “Sorry, we’re going the powdered route.” I don’t know. I don’t know. Stephen Semple: Interesting. Dave Young: We’ll never know. Stephen Semple: Following World War II, US consumers start going through a large transition. Suburbs, boom, refrigeration in the home becomes common, grocery stores emerge. Guess what? The writing on the wall for home milk delivery is there. Dave Young: The refrigerated section of the grocery store. Yep. Stephen Semple: Right. So Anthony sees this opportunity to create maybe what he should do instead of he’s got to pivot the business away from whole milk delivery to, “I’m going to build a shelf-stable milk product.” Dave Young: Okay. Stephen Semple: So now at the time, powder milk existed and had for generations, but the problem was it wasn’t convenient. It tended to float on the surface, formed like these stubborn lumps. It created a lot of dust. It required really vigorous mixing and it didn’t dissolve well in cold water. So shelf-stable, but not convenient. What Anthony Sanna developed was this milk drying. He did this more of this milk drying that turned it into Sanalac, which is one N. Dave Young: Sanalac. Stephen Semple: Yeah. Dave Young: Oh, is it? Okay. Stephen Semple: Yeah. It’s spelled with one N, but the family name is two Ns. And basically promote it as the first instant dry milk. And the word instant is important here because the milk was very fine, dense particles that when it hit the water, it blended better. Dave Young: I don’t remember there being anything wrong with it. It was like, “Oh, you dump the powder in, you put the water in, and the pitcher, it was a plastic pitcher and it had a plunger agitator thing, and now it’s milk. Have some cereal now.” Stephen Semple: The powdered milk previously was when the water hit the powder, the outside would become wet and sticky, trapping the brown powder inside, so it was all this work to break it down. Dave Young: It’s kind of like stirring up a protein drink today, right? Stephen Semple: Yes. Dave Young: Yeah. Stephen Semple: Yeah. Where the Sanna process from Sanalac produced a powder that was more porous, less dusty, easier to wet, quicker dissolving. Great. Dave Young: Love it. Stephen Semple: So now what you’ve got is this patent that Charles Sanna put together was described as being instantly soluble, free-flowing, relatively dust-free, non-fat, dry milk. So the first act- Dave Young: Put that in a song. Stephen Semple: Exactly. So act one is we basically pivot away from the milkman. Dave Young: Yeah. Stephen Semple: So challenge to the business was milkman’s going away. That’s a powerful idea. Dave Young: Yeah, absolutely. Stephen Semple: Because my business is changing, I pivot. But I didn’t pivot away from the milk business, pivoted away to how the product is done. On its own, we could do a whole podcast on that, but we’re not done yet. So war breaks out with Korea. Korean War breaks out. Dave Young: Gotcha. Stephen Semple: And Charles takes the product and packages it in the small individual packets. Dave Young: Oh, okay. So you could have a cup of milk. Stephen Semple: So now it’s easy to transport and use it. You could have a cup of milk, you could use it as a creamer for coffee, all the other stuff. And he gets a huge contract with the government, but in order to meet the delivery requirements, he has to have a large inventory on hand of the milk powder. Dave Young: All right. Stephen Semple: Korean War ends. What do you do with all the inventory? Dave Young: Oh my gosh. Stephen Semple: So he’s sitting on this massive amount of inventory. So what Charles notices is that there’s a lot of hot chocolate mixes at the time where cocoa and sugar, but required hot milk. Dave Young: You added milk. Yeah, yeah. Stephen Semple: Hot milk, he had to heat up. And as we know, heating up milk, it’s a bit of a pain in the neck because you can get the film on the top. Dave Young: Gotcha. Stephen Semple: It’s one of those things that goes from warm to boiling over instantaneously. It’s crazy. Dave Young: I can’t remember the last time I even tried. Stephen Semple: Right. Well, I’ve done it for some creams, things like that. It’s pain in the neck so, “What if the milk was part of the mix?” He asked himself. So he started experimenting with mixing in cocoa and sugar with his instant milk. Now you have a hot chocolate without heating milk. Dave Young: You could just use hot tap water. Stephen Semple: Exactly. Dave Young: Right? Yeah, a kid can make their own cup of hot chocolate. Stephen Semple: So act one, we make the powder milk. Act two, we put it in packaging. Act three, we now invent hot chocolate. So what’s the next act? So in 1959, they launch it, but they call it Brown Swiss. Dave Young: Brown Swiss, that’s not good. Nobody wants Brown Swiss. Stay tuned. We’re going to wrap up this story and tell you how to apply this lesson to your business right after this. [Using Stories To Sell] Dave Young: Let’s pick up our story where we left off, and trust me, you haven’t missed a thing. Stephen Semple: So act one, we make the powder milk. Act two, we put it in packaging. Act three, we now invent hot chocolate. So what’s the next act? So in 1959, they launch it, but they call it Brown Swiss. Dave Young: Brown Swiss, that’s not good. Nobody wants Brown Swiss. Stephen Semple: So here they are. They didn’t invent hot chocolate, they didn’t invent hot beverages, but what they really created was this new thing, hot chocolate instant beverage. I’ll just open the pack, add hot water, ready to go. Now, where are they going to sell it? So what they decide to do was sell it to airlines because they could individually pack it. Dave Young: Airlines. Oh, yeah. Stephen Semple: Because remember, it’s late ’50s, airline travel’s glamorous. And so they approach the airlines and they say, “Hey, you should do this because this’ll be really easy for you to give people hot chocolate.” Dave Young: And nobody’s going to be boiling milk on an airplane. Stephen Semple: Correct. Dave Young: Nobody wants to do that. So yeah, perfect. Perfect target. Stephen Semple: Right. But our story’s not quite done because they lose the airline contracts. And the reason is, here’s the ironic twist, they lose the contracts because the product is so popular, people are stealing packets and taking it home with them. Dave Young: That’s just good market research. That’s what that is. Stephen Semple: So it becomes way too expensive for the airlines to do this. But what they know is, “We got a hit. When that’s happening, we’ve got a hit.” But what they also realize is Brown Swiss is not really a good name. So in 1961, they rebrand it to Swiss Miss. And in the packaging, they lean heavily into the halo effect of Swiss and Swiss chocolate. Dave Young: Sure, sure. Yeah. And then there’s a little alpine girl in the logo, right? And she’s the Swiss Miss. Stephen Semple: Exactly. And the interesting thing is the product has nothing to do with Switzerland. It really doesn’t. Dave Young: Sure. Stephen Semple: But what they understood is there’s the halo effect of Swiss, which they understood with Brown Swiss, they understood Swiss has got this halo effect, but Brown Swiss was almost too weird and on the nose. Swiss Miss allowed them to create this lovely feeling, right? Dave Young: Sure. Stephen Semple: And when you looked at the early packaging, there was Swiss lodges and this character, this Swiss character. Dave Young: We’d much rather think of our milk as coming from a happy cow with a bell around its neck in Switzerland than a modern day dairy operation. Stephen Semple: Right. Well, if you think about it, we often use these shortcuts to judge products. If something comes from Italy, we assume fashion. Germany, we assume engineering. Japan, we assume electronics. France, luxury. Switzerland, chocolate and watches. Dave Young: And holes in cheese. Stephen Semple: And holes in cheese. Yeah. So the company literally borrowed these decades of reputation and attached to it for that halo effect. And it just worked better when they did it with the name Swiss Miss than Brown Swiss. But what I loved is the path this went down is think about the innovations that Charles Sanna did. “I’m in a milk delivery business. Delivery’s going away. What do I do? I’ll make a shelf-stable product. That way I don’t have to deal with the delivery man.” Korean War comes along. “Oh, I’ve got an opportunity. Let me individually package it. Great. Oh, I’ve got all this inventory. What am I going to do with it? I’ll make hot chocolate.” He continually pivoted. And it wasn’t a pivot of leaving his industry. This is the other thing that gets me is when people are like, “Oh, I’m going to go over and do this other industry thing.” No, it was still all inside a consumer consuming a milk-like product. Dave Young: I wouldn’t be surprised if the hot chocolate mix that my mom made wasn’t a recipe from Sanalac. Stephen Semple: Maybe. Dave Young: Because the main ingredient is powdered milk. Stephen Semple: Right. That’s interesting. Dave Young: And you just add your own cocoa and sugar, but they’re still selling her powdered milk. Stephen Semple: Right. Yeah, they’re still selling their product. Yeah. Dave Young: Right? And if you want it more convenient, you want to take it on the road or take it on a ski trip or to the cabin in the woods or whatever, to the ice rink, you’d fill a Thermos with hot water and grab the packets and go. Stephen Semple: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Here’s the reason why I found this interesting is I want to think about where we are today. How much change is going to be happening due to AI, changes in population, things along that lines? And there’s going to be this temptation to go into different businesses. You don’t need to go into different businesses. Just look at the opportunity around the edges of your own industries because you already have a lot of knowledge about that industry. But what I really like is any one of these challenges, how many companies got wiped out following wars when the war ended and they were stuck on industry? In the motorcycle, so many companies, things like that would wipe out, didn’t wipe them out. Or things like a whole business pivoting in terms of what the business model is, like milk delivery man. Unbelievable innovations and pivots that I think really just shows how brilliant a business person Charles Sanna was. Dave Young: I think you can absolutely pare this down to he had a focus on removing friction. Stephen Semple: Yes, there you go. Dave Young: Right? Stephen Semple: Yes. Dave Young: And if you focus on removing friction between you and your customer, in the case of the milkman, right? The friction point as well [inaudible 00:15:47]. Stephen Semple: The milkman was removing. Yeah, but even getting into milkman- Dave Young: The guy dropped off the milk and I had to remember to pick it up off the porch before it spoiled and put it in the fridge, and then put the bottles back out. Stephen Semple: Right. But if you even think about the milkman, when it first came out, it was removing friction because it was brought to your home. Dave Young: Sure. Yeah. Stephen Semple: So the first removing of friction was bring milk to the home. Second removing of friction was remove the milkman. Next friction was put it in individual packages. It was that constant thinking because that’s even what landed them in the milkman business in the first place, I’m going to guess. Dave Young: Sure. Yeah. Very cool. Very cool. Stephen Semple: Yeah. Dave Young: And that’s something you should think about in your business is- Stephen Semple: Absolutely. Dave Young: … what’s getting in the way of my customers? What’s between me and my customers? Stephen Semple: Constantly make it easier for the customer. Constantly make it easier. Absolutely. Oh, and later on, of course, after the business was sold, I think when it was under Beatrice, the next little giggle that they did was putting the dried marshmallows in, so then all of a sudden you’d have the dried marshmallows in with the package. Dave Young: Oh, sure. Yeah. They’ve got all the different… There’s dark chocolate Swiss Miss. There’s all kinds of product fair issues. Now, we’re at about 16. Can I pull on another thread that might lead to somewhere else? I don’t know. It’s probably a dead end, but my understanding, this might be an American versus Canadianism, but this is only strangely interesting to me because I’m from Nebraska. Stephen Semple: Okay. Dave Young: So the name is Beatrice or- Stephen Semple: Beatrice. Dave Young: … the company here we would call it Beatrice. There’s a town in Nebraska, which is also where, that’s the Conagra folks. It’s Beatrice. The town is named Beatrice. Stephen Semple: Beatrice. Okay. Dave Young: And I don’t know if that’s where the food company got its start, but it’s like, “Here’s a word that’s got three different pronunciations.” I told you this was going nowhere, but we’re at 17 minutes now. Stephen Semple: Conagra bought Beatrice, whatever you want to call it. So yeah. Dave Young: If it was a woman, you’d just call her B. Stephen Semple: B. There you go. That’d be easier. Dave Young: Beatrice. All right. Well, now you’ve solved another one of my childhood mysteries, Stephen. Stephen Semple: There you go. Dave Young: Shed new light on why my mom was feeding us powdered milk all those years. Stephen Semple: There it is. Dave Young: All those years. Stephen Semple: There it is. Dave Young: All right. Stephen Semple: All right. Dave Young: Thanks, looking forward to next time on the Empire Builders Podcast. Stephen Semple: All right. Thanks, David. Dave Young: Thanks for listening to the podcast. Please share us, subscribe on your favorite podcast app, and leave us a big fat, juicy five-star rating and review at Apple Podcasts. And if you’d like to schedule your own 90-minute Empire Building session, you can do it at empirebuildingprogram.com.

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In 1947, the Army announced it had recovered a crashed "flying disc" near Roswell, then reversed itself within a day — a contradiction the Air Force didn't explain until 1994, when it revealed a classified spy program called Project Mogul. Roswell wasn't even the first: unidentified wreckage and bodies had been turning up for decades before it.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/RoswellWasntFirstFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: When you hear the words “UFO crash” you likely think of Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. And while that is the most famous of supposed extraterrestrial spaceship crashes, it is by no means the first. In fact, there were several taking place before Roswell became a household name. (UFO Crashes Before Roswell) *** But first – we'll take a look at Roswell itself… and what might have been behind the crash, the UFOs, and the aliens! (Behind Roswell's Aliens) *** Numerous travelers have gone missing in Nahanni Valley… and many whose bodies have been found, have been decapitated. It's no wonder it has been nicknamed “The Valley of Headless Men”. (The Valley of Headless Men) *** In 2016, construction in a San Francisco family's backyard unearthed a terrifying find… a glass coffin. And the history behind it tells a morbid history of the city. (The Karner's Backyard Glass Coffin) *** Former Green Beret Jeffrey MacDonald claimed that a gang of acid-crazed Manson Family copycats brutally murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters in 1970, but then he was found guilty. Did he commit the crime, or did the law convict the wrong man? (The Evil Deeds of Jeffrey MacDonald) *** It's understood that scientifically, alchemy – attempting to turn a substance or element into gold – is impossible. But then, there is that one incident that took place in the early seventeenth century that has some people wondering if that's wrong. (The Alchemy Master)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:01:27.594 = Show Open00:03:47.621 = Behind Roswell's Aliens / UFO Crashes Before Roswell00:19:45.640 = The Valley of Headless Men ***00:33:18.357 = The Karner's Backyard Glass Coffin00:44:54.640 = The Evil Deeds of Jeffrey MacDonald ***00:55:31.498 = The Alchemy Master01:02:26.698 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Behind Roswell's Aliens” by Adam Janos for History.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yd5fhudu“UFO Crashes Before Roswell” from Anomalien.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2w6d76yh“The Valley of Headless Men” by Aleksa Vuckovic for Ancient-Origins.net: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p9c6zf4“The Evil Deeds of Jeffrey MacDonald” by Marco Margaritoff for AllThatsInteresting.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8eant7“The Alchemy Master” by Ellen Lloyd for AncientPages.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4xzysbwc“The Karner's Backyard Glass Coffin” by Trilby Beresford for Ranker.com's Graveyard Shift:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3mpvk9jh(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: January 2021This episode of Weird Darkness moves from a classified Cold War balloon program in the New Mexico desert to a Canadian valley littered with decapitated bodies, a Victorian child's glass coffin dug up in a San Francisco backyard, a Green Beret convicted of butchering his own family, and a seventeenth-century alchemist tortured for the secret of turning lead into gold.It opens with the 1947 Roswell crash, tracing how rancher W.W. "Mac" Brazel's discovery of wreckage on his Lincoln County property led Colonel William Blanchard's Roswell Army Air Field to announce the capture of a "flying disc," only for the Army to reverse itself within days and blame a weather balloon, complete with staged photos of Major Jesse Marcel posing with the debris. The story follows the account through the U.S. Air Force's 1994 admission that the wreckage actually came from Project Mogul, a secret high-altitude balloon array built to detect Soviet atomic tests, and its 1997 explanation that reported alien bodies were fallen parachute test dummies, then weighs those official conclusions against UFO researcher Donald Schmitt's objections and journalist Annie Jacobsen's competing claim that the crash involved deformed children deployed by Joseph Stalin and designed by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.From there, the episode moves through six UFO crash reports that predate Roswell by decades, including an 1897 cigar-shaped craft said to have destroyed Judge Proctor's windmill in Aurora, Texas, and left a small humanoid body buried in the local cemetery; an 1862 wreck witnessed by shipwrecked sailors from the vessel Christine on a deserted Indian Ocean island, where they found twelve-foot-tall bodies with bronze beards; a UFO crash near Stavropol, Russia, whose three survivors reportedly died from being unable to breathe Earth's atmosphere; a 1941 crash in the Carolinas recovered by the U.S. Army during a military exercise involving soldier Guy Simeone; an 1884 debris field of gear-like metal fragments found by rancher John Ellis in Dundy County, Nebraska; and a wartime British crash investigated by journalist Dorothy Kilgallen, who died shortly after publishing claims that the recovered craft's crew stood under four feet tall.Next, the story shifts to Canada's Nahanni Valley, where at least 44 people have died or vanished since 1908, beginning with prospector brothers Willie and Frank McLeod, whose headless skeletons were found at their camp two years after they disappeared, and continuing through the decapitations of Swiss prospector Martin Jorgenson and outlaw "Yukon" Fisher, the mysterious cabin fire that killed Phil Powers, and the vanishing of Annie Laferte, who was later spotted wandering naked and disoriented near the Flat River — deaths locals attribute variously to the legendary Naha tribe, the valley's hot sulphur springs, or predators, while Dene oral history holds that the warlike Naha people simply disappeared without explanation.The episode then turns to 2016, when a construction crew remodeling John and Ericka Karner's San Francisco home unearthed a 19th-century glass-and-cast-iron coffin containing the preserved body of a toddler, later identified through DNA testing led by genealogist Elissa Davey as Edith Howard Cook, who died of malnutrition in 1876 and was accidentally left behind when San Francisco's Odd Fellows Cemetery was relocated to Colma in the 1930s — a discovery the Karner family says ended years of unexplained footsteps they'd heard from a toddler no longer in the house.From there, the story follows former Green Beret Jeffrey MacDonald, convicted of stabbing his pregnant wife Colette and daughters Kimberly and Kristen to death at Fort Bragg in 1970 after claiming a blonde intruder chanting about acid and "pigs" oversaw the killings, an account investigators concluded was staged using details from the recent Manson Family murders; the case follows his decades of appeals, including the 1983 bestseller "A Fatal Vision" that branded him a psychopath and filmmaker Errol Morris's later book arguing the evidence against him was mishandled.The episode closes with the story of Alexander Seton, a secretive Scottish alchemist known as the Cosmopolitan, who in 1602 convinced skeptical Swiss professor Wolfgang Drenheim that he had transmuted lead into gold using nothing but a wrapped powder and a goldsmith's crucible in Fribourg. Seton's success drew the attention of Emperor Rudolf II and later trapped him in the custody of Christian II, Elector of Saxony, who had him pierced with iron spikes and burned with molten lead in an attempt to force him to reveal his formula; Seton escaped in 1603 with the help of his friend Michael Sendivogius but died a broken man soon after, and the alchemical text he was said to have written, the Book of Twelve Chapters, was destroyed, leaving his method lost.

The BOB & TOM Show – July 28, 20266:00 Hour 6:00 – Opening announcement6:05 – Tom out; Jeff in6:11 – Linen shirts discussion (Chick)6:15 – Lean6:24 – Discussion about Sydney Sweeney (Jeff)6:25 – Jeff's comment discussed (Josh)6:26 – Cupcake on a football helmet; discussion about Jeff's preference (Josh)6:29 – Letter: Photo of a miniature Golden Retriever6:31 – Letter: Face-to-face with a tarantula during service6:33 – Sock store discussion (Josh)6:33 – Letter: "It ain't gonna sock itself" – sock store story6:34 – Letter: Learned what a "suicide drink" was at a steakhouse6:52 – Squirrel bites are painful6:55 – Chick recalls falling on a bee as a child and getting stung6:57 – Barbara O'Bryan song (Pat) 7:10 – Sports superstitions7:12 – Athlete's unusual pregame ritual7:14 – Sports update7:15 – World's highest-altitude self-tattoo (15,000 feet)7:24 – "Jerk Yourself to Sleep" (Pat & Josh)7:29 – Something Good7:31 – Jess joins in studio7:32 – Josh discusses his dreams7:34 – Discussion about deodorant use in New York (Kristi)7:37 – Lemon slice joke (Josh)7:38 – Contest involving drinking from toilets in Russia7:40 – Swiss regulations regarding cleaning up after dogs7:53 – Decorative Hulk arms for cats7:55 – Jeff has life jackets for his dogs7:59 – Wild monkeys in Florida; safety discussion 8:02 – Fear of underwater statues (Josh)8:12 – Real phobias (Jeff)8:17 – Jess likes to shop8:18 – Tom jokes about "ergophobia" (fear of work)8:23 – Kristi discusses not liking Coldplay's music8:26 – Josh discusses personal health habits8:47 – Today in History8:51 – Discussion about unusual cattle behavior (Josh) 9:04 – Toothpick Wisdom: Don't put trash out too early or raccoons will get into it9:12 – "Rock the Boat" copyright discussion9:24 – Zoom with Alli9:24 – Letter: Boyfriend said he didn't look up his ex, but did9:28 – Letter: Dating boyfriend too soon after his divorce?9:30 – Letter: Relationship hygiene concern9:32 – Letter: Girlfriend's parents staying for a month affecting intimacy9:34 – Letter: Concerns about fiancé's three-day bachelor party9:47 – Two humanoid robots got married 7:00 Hour8:00 Hour9:00 Hour Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Starting in mid August… a Swiss town will fine those who don't wash up dog pee.Chiasso, Ticino in Switzerland, will fine dog owners who don't dilute urine left in public places.An Illinois maintenance worker was trapped inside a 130-foot-tall gas station sign for around six-and-a-half hours. Denver radio legend G-Man did that in Colorado for 33 days… so not that impressive, sir.The International Medieval Combat Federation's annual world championship roared into gear in northern Denmark this week.As he heads to the Philadelphia 76ers, what's more damaging to LeBron James' legacy - Flopping or team hopping?Dwayne Wade has another street named after him - first was in Miami, now one in Chicago. What would the vibe be like for a Scott DeHuff Blvd?Chiefs fans shouldn't worry about Patrick Mahomes' health.Bison popped a tourist's car tire then just walked away. They're lucky the dude didn't flip the car!Also, Jimothy the raccoon is taking the internet by storm.

A tourist in the Phiippines tried to book a room at a female jail, Swiss town is going to fine people who don't wash up after their dog pees...Police are looking for two people who climbed over the security glass on top of the Space Needle in Seattle for a BASE jumpSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 2020, the four Australian delegates to the Council of the Swiss Abroad founded the “Swiss Alliance Australia” (SAA) with the purpose of connecting Australian associations, clubs and interest groups. Carmen Trochsler is both a founding and board member. In an interview, she explains where the SAA stands today and what services SAA offers to Swiss people Down Under. - Im Jahr 2020 gründeten die vier australischen Delegierten im Auslandschweizerrat die „Swiss Alliance Australia“ (SAA) mit dem Zweck, australische Vereine, Clubs und Interessenvertretungen miteinander zu vernetzen. Carmen Trochsler ist sowohl Gründungs- als auch Boardmitglied. Im Interview erzählt sie, wo die SAA heute steht und welche Services die Allianz den Schweizerinnen und Schweizern in Down Under bietet.

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Dimitri and Khalid continue wading through the Caribbean shell companies and Swiss bank accounts of Bruce Rappaport in Alan Block's “All Is Clouded By Desire”, specifically his network's activities in and around the late Soviet Union/new Russian economy starting in the late 1980s. Topics include: The Iran-Contra “Brunei money” that Rappaport stole with the help of neocon superstars Elliot Abrams, Richard Secord, Oliver North, Albert Hakim, and Michael Ledeen, Lake Resources Inc., Rappaport's “odd reputation” among lawyers in the late 80s and penchant for “deals” where he'd screw his partners, his involvement in a dispute over MINE Liberia and bauxite mining projects on the Guinea-Liberia border… The Bank of New York (now BNY-Mellon) and Rappaport's Inter-Maritime Bank together at last, the LITCO-Bill Casey assist, Western Holdings Limited, BONY chairman J. Carter Bacot's hostile takeover of Irving Trust in 1985 and their Micro-Ca$h Register securities processing software, Burt Kanter putting together the Deal… BONY and Rappaport using Irving Trust's long-established correspondent accounts with eastern bloc banks to penetrate Warsaw Pact economies, establishing joint ventures in the Soviet Union, Rappaport meeting personally with Gorbachev in August 1990 about the Soviet cruise/shipping industries, the ill-fated Sudopromimpex, Soviet Inter-Ship Builders, and Global Sovcruise, speculating about why China survived its capitalist turn and the USSR didn't… Burt Kanter & Co. marketing the MoneyFacts magazine in the USSR to facilitate capital flight, the rise of the spetsbank or “zero bank”, the function of American Depository Receipts (ADRs) in international money laundering, Rappaport's “literary man” Matthew Stevenson, BCCI/Keating associate Alfred Hartman, Riggs National Bank, Valmet-Riggs and Menatep Bank, Mikhail Khodorkhovsky's meteoric rise from Komsomol computer nerd to Russian mega-oligarch, WACL libertarian Christian Michel and the cult of Friedrich von Hayek in the New Russia, Alton G. Keel, and more… Original air date: 10/01/24 For access to weekly premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe at https://patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Foundations of Amateur Radio When the Sun burps, something that it does regularly, the mainstream media starts talking about aurorae and optionally the end of the civilised world, not always as clinically as that. What's not talked about, let alone explained, is the nature of the solar burp. You've likely heard the terms Coronal Mass Ejection, or CME, Solar Flare and perhaps Solar Wind, Solar and Geomagnetic Storm, and Solar Flux, but what do these terms actually mean and how do they relate? Let's start with some basic numbers. Our Sun is 150 million kilometres away from Earth. As seen from Earth, the Sun rotates on its axis every 27 days, called a synodic rotation period, because while the Sun is rotating, Earth is moving too. If that wasn't enough, the Sun isn't solid, depending on where you're looking at it, rotation happens at different speeds, faster at the equator, slower at the poles. You might have heard of the Solar Cycle, an 11 year period during which solar activity steadily increases, near the maximum activity its magnetic poles flip from North to South and activity slowly decreases until the cycle starts again. Until quite recently we've deduced this by counting the number of dark areas, called sunspots, on the surface of the Sun. All this to say that our Sun is one massively dynamic environment and with it come a whole lot of processes that science is still discovering. The YouTube channel Astrum has a fascinating video called "We Didn't Predict the Sun Would Do This", that describes much of what we're still learning. We experience the Sun as a source of light, but as a radio amateur you know that light only represents a small set of frequencies in the radio spectrum, it's better to think of the Sun as a radio source, emitting many frequencies at once. The strength of this is measured at 2.8 GHz three times a day at 17:00, 20:00 and 23:00 UTC at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. This measurement, the Solar Flux gives a good indication of the level of solar activity. Adjusted for the varying distance between Earth and the Sun, a Solar Flux Index, or SFI, below 70 means that solar activity is very low, above 150 is considered very high activity. In addition to radio waves, the Sun also spits out a continuous wave of particles. Different parts of the Sun emit these at different speeds, varying between 300 and 800 km/s. These particles, the Solar Wind, exist throughout our Solar system. Because the Sun rotates and the particles aren't being emitted evenly we experience the solar wind as having a 27 day cycle. Think of a water filled beach-ball hanging from a rope with a hole in it, spinning, creating spirals of water. Stand in one spot and every time the ball rotates, you get hit by water. When the Sun burps, often at a sunspot, where concentrations of magnetic fields cool the surface, bursts of electromagnetic radiation are generated throughout the radio spectrum. Measured in Watts per square meter, this radiation is called a Solar Flare. Travelling at the speed of light, it takes about nine minutes to arrive at Earth. Sunspot and solar activity is used to model and predict the potential for solar flares. Strength is classified in four stages, class B being the weakest, through C, M, and class X being the strongest, each ten times more powerful than the previous. Within each class, numbers 1 through 9 serve to provide additional resolution, X2 being twice as strong as X1. The most powerful flare on record was estimated to be about X45, recorded on 4 November 2003, when at strength X17 the sensors overloaded. Some solar flares coincide with a massive eruption of particles, some of which are ejected violently, called a Coronal Mass Ejection or CME. A slow CME, travelling at 500 km/s might take three days to hit Earth, an extreme CME, travelling at up to 2,500 km/s might arrive in 16 hours. As the CME particles arrive, they distort Earth's geomagnetic field and depending on the severity, might cause a geomagnetic storm where fields are pushed closer towards Earth causing visual effects as aurorae. Recovery generally takes up to two days, but in extreme cases has been observed to take four. Disturbances of Earth's magnetic field are highly variable and are expressed in several different ways, the K, Kp, A, Ap and G indices. The K-index measured at individual observatories, ranges from 0 to 9 over a three hour period represents the maximum horizontal fluctuation in the geomagnetic field. Values of 5 and above indicating a geomagnetic storm. The planetary Kp-index represents a weighted average of 13 mid-latitude observatories. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA uses a G-scale, between 1 and 5, equivalent to a Kp-index between 5 and 9. The A-index is derived over eight K-index readings over a 24 hour UTC period at a particular observatory, below 20 is calm, between 20 and 50 is unsettled and above 50 is a stormy day. The Ap-index is an averaged planetary index based on data from a set of specific Kp stations. There's more. In 1760, a publication by Swiss polymath Leonard Euler indicated the existence of three stationary points between any two large bodies, known today as L1, L2 and L3. In 1772, Italian born, French mathematician, physicist and astronomer, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, discovered two more stationary points, L4 and L5. Known as the Euler-Lagrange, or Lagrange Points, some of these locations are being used today for solar observations, predictions and early warning systems. Launched on 24 September 2025 and in orbit at L1, between the Sun and Earth, at a distance of 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, the SOLAR-1 satellite acts as an early warning for solar storms. Since particles travel slower than the speed of light, this provides about 15 minutes warning for extreme CME's and longer for slower events. It became fully operational on the 10th of June, 2026. As part of the same Space Situational Awareness Programme as SOLAR-1 is the European Space Agency's Vigil space mission. Intended to be placed at L5, 150 million kilometres from Earth, it will be able to observe solar activity as the Sun rotates towards Earth and reports indicate that this will increase early CME warning by two to four hours. Vigil will also allow for four to five day space weather forecasts. It's planned for launch in 2031, mind you, it's going to take three years to get to L5. Aimed with all that information, I was actually, for the first time, able to at least understand the solar report in my Mastodon feed. "The Sunspot Number has dropped to 88. The Solar Flux Index has risen to 149. G1-class geomagnetic storms are predicted for today. A-Index is 14, K-Index is 2. Chance of flares today: 55% for M-Class, 10% for X-Class." Armed with that information I'm going to make myself a cuppa and figure out what my WSPR beacon has to say about all this. I'm Onno VK6FLAB

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From the vengeful Bell Witch to the lingering spirits of Gettysburg, America is packed with haunted spots that refuse to let go of their ghosts – whether it's eerie voices in old asylums, shadowy figures in historic mansions, or phantom footsteps in forgotten graveyards. If you're looking for a brush with the supernatural, these legendary (and lesser-known) locations won't disappoint.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/HauntedAmericaREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/36de8fpnLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“America's Most Haunted Places” by Troy Taylor and April Slaughter for AmericanHauntingsInk.com:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/582mh58k (used with permission)“America's Not-So-Famous Haunted Houses” by Troy Taylor for AmericanHauntingsInk.com:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p979tsv (used with permission)(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: January, 2022Weird Darkness tours fifteen haunted American locations, starting with the ones every ghost hunter already knows. The Bell Witch Cave in Adams, Tennessee, where a spirit claiming to be the witch of Kate Batts tormented the Bell family for years and, some say, retreated into a cave near the Red River. Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, where tuberculosis patients died in numbers large enough to require a body chute running down the hill and out of sight. The Myrtles Plantation, whose most famous ghost stories turn out to be false, though the apparitions on the grounds keep getting reported anyway. The Lemp Mansion in St. Louis, where four members of one brewing family took their own lives across five decades. Gettysburg's Devil's Den, the Stanley Hotel that inspired Stephen King, the Winchester Mystery House with its staircases to nowhere, Bachelor's Grove Cemetery outside Chicago, Yorktown Memorial Hospital in Texas, and the Villisca Ax Murder House in Iowa, where eight people were killed in their beds in June of 1912 and no one was ever convicted.Then the show turns to the houses that never made the lists. Nemacolin Castle in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, built on the site of a French and Indian War garrison and later a stop on the Underground Railroad. Tinker Swiss Cottage in Rockford, Illinois, a twenty-seven-room Swiss-style home on a limestone bluff where children's laughter is heard by staff who came in as skeptics. The McCune Mansion in Salt Lake City, where a little girl walks in and out of a mirror. Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin, where a fired servant locked seven people in Frank Lloyd Wright's home in August of 1914, set it on fire, and killed them with a hatchet as they tried to escape. And Prospect Place in Trinway, Ohio, built by an abolitionist who used a cupola signal light to tell escaping slaves that food and shelter waited inside — some of whom never left.

Laundry Bear snuffles through unpatched Zimbra Collaboration servers. The State Department puts visa restrictions on cybercriminals. Oracle drops a record 1,449 security patches. Researchers disclose a critical vulnerability in OpenAI's ChatGPT Workspace Agents. A new benchmark evaluates frontier AI model malware reverse engineering. LunchPoke uses the Notepad++ application to establish persistence. A Swiss rail manufacturer refuses to pay the ransom. Dave Bittner sits down with Maria Varmazis, host of T-Minus Space Cyber Briefing, to discuss the show's evolution into CyberWire's weekly space cyber briefing. The AI goes to space.  Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest Dave Bittner sits down with Maria Varmazis, host of T-Minus Space Cyber Briefing, to discuss the show's evolution into CyberWire's weekly space cyber briefing. Maria shares why space cybersecurity deserves more attention, how the new format allows for deeper conversations on topics like GPS security and European space sovereignty, and why every cybersecurity professional should be paying attention to the growing role of space in cyber. You can hear part one here. Selected Reading Russian hackers exploit Zimbra zero-click flaw for email theft (Bleeping Computer) State Department imposes visa restrictions on foreign cyber scammers (The Record) Oracle drops 1,449 security patches like it's the new normal (The Register) OpenAI Fixes ChatGPT Agent Flaw That Could Let Attackers Forge an AI Insider (SecurityWeek) Nuclear-Sabotage Malware Benchmark Trips Up Most Frontier AI Models (SecurityWeek) Hackers abuse Notepad++ plugins to stealthily install malware (Bleeping Computer) Swiss train maker Stadler refuses Everest $12 million ransomware demand (The Record) If you pay a hacker's ransom, chances are that they'll come back for more (TechCrunch) NASA Puts Google's Gemma Large Language Model in Orbit (IEEE Spectrum) Share your feedback. What do you think about CyberWire Daily? Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey. Thank you for helping us continue to improve our show. Want to hear your company in the show? N2K CyberWire helps you reach the industry's most influential leaders and operators, while building visibility, authority, and connectivity across the cybersecurity community. Learn more at sponsor.thecyberwire.com. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc.

Someone's been a very naughty boy, and the etiquette police have come knocking for William. Will his defence stand up to scrutiny, or will he be sent to prison quicker than you can say "laser pointer" to a Swiss customs official? Meanwhile, Jordan's decided there's only ONE reason anyone really needs air conditioning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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“It's like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas.” — Ricardo Semler on why bosses won't let their workers vote on them Ricardo Semler might be the most anti-boss boss in the history of corporate bosses. Thrown into his Austrian immigrant father's São Paulo manufacturing firm at seventeen, the young Brazilian ripped up the rulebook — no dress codes, no time clocks, a ten-page cartoon manual instead of HR — and grew the company from 110 employees to more than 5,000. In the mid-Eighties he was already inventing hybrid work, shipping Telex machines to his workers' homes. One of them even squeezed one of these 150-pound machines into his bathroom. Now, in his upcoming e-book The End of the Boss, the author of the iconoclastic autobiography Maverick argues that the corporate pyramid — an inheritance, he says, from West Point via the railroads — is as dead as a cuckoo bird (as the Swiss would say). Nothing good has been done with it since World War Two. Not in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, his native Brazil, and certainly not in corporate America where Elon Musk's current pay package equals the wages of all his employees for the next five years. Semler's alternative is disarmingly simple: groups of ten who validate their leader every six months. Fail the vote and you're not fired — you go back to being one of the nine. His Netherlands-based consultancy has brought versions of the idea to 208 companies, including the giant Dutch bank ABN AMRO, which agreed to do away with 399 branch managers. So why don't more bosses follow? Because, says Semler, asking executives to be elected from below is like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas. Even the self-styled “fearless” Elon Musk would be terrified to end up as the roasted centerpiece of the Xmas table. That same maverick idea (his first ex-wife joked he's only ever had one) runs through everything Semler has ever proposed — from the rotating district presidents of São Paulo, to the untethered MBA whose cohorts hire their own professors, to the schools that grade Call of Duty and map it to the curriculum. Switzerland, he points out, has been governed by seven rotating nobodies since the fourteenth century. No, The Third Man's Harry Lime was wrong. Rather than the cuckoo clock, it's this anti-boss invention which explains Switzerland's five hundred years of democracy and peace. Five Takeaways •       The Pyramid Came from West Point — and It's Dead. The corporate hierarchy, Semler argues, is a military inheritance that reached business from West Point via the railroads — and nothing good has been done with it since World War Two, from Korea to Vietnam to Afghanistan. The numbers agree: the average company's lifespan on the stock market has collapsed from 61 years to 21, which makes the classical pyramid, not self-management, the biggest gamble of all. Jack Welch's GE is a shadow because he prepared it for nothing except Jack Welch. And when one Alexander Wang is valued like 20,000 engineers, or a CEO's package equals five years of everyone's wages, something structural is wrong.•       Turkeys Voting for Christmas. Semler's system is cells of ten that choose or validate their leader by anonymous survey every six months. Fail the vote and you aren't fired — you return to being one of the nine. His consultancy has brought the idea to 208 companies, including ABN AMRO, which agreed to eliminate 399 branch managers. The reason it doesn't spread is not that it doesn't work; it's that nobody at the top wants it — turkeys don't vote for Christmas, and Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg would be terrified of their employees deciding whether they keep their jobs. His model is Switzerland: seven rotating councilors nobody can name, working out fine since the fourteenth century. The alternative ends, sooner or later, in Kim Jong Un.•       Cycles, Not Failures. “Until death do us part,” Semler says, is about the silliest question anybody could ask. His own eighteen-year marriage with three children wasn't a failure — it was a cycle that ended, ten beautiful years out of eleven. Children born today will live to 100 or 110, with time for three full careers and still a retirement, so asking a seventeen-year-old what they want to be for the rest of their life is the wrong question. His daily metric is simpler: was today a valid day — like getting your parking ticket validated — or a dues day? When the dues days outnumber the valid ones week after week, the marriage or the job is already finished, whether you admit it or not.•       The Untethered MBA. Semler taught MBAs at MIT and spent four years at Harvard Law School, so he knows exactly what he's calling outmoded, outdated, and obsolete. His replacement: cohorts of ten who work through a dashboard curriculum at their own pace, study the case of the day rather than decade-old case studies — is SpaceX worth a trillion dollars, or nothing? — and spend credits to summon former CFOs or Stanford professors on demand. The same logic runs his schools, which grade TikTok and Call of Duty and map them to the curriculum. The smartphone panic, he says, is mostly nostalgia: what the screens are ruining is your ability to memorize the periodic table.•       AI Is Electricity — and He's Losing the Argument. AI, Semler says, is irrelevant the way electricity is irrelevant: a tide rising for every boat, pointless to oppose and impossible to live without. He runs everything through four LLMs — “there's nothing left of slop or hallucination at the end of that” — and confesses that when he tells his AI to push back, he now has trouble keeping up intellectually, which wasn't true a year ago. His hope is that we don't become “domesticated pets” over the next fifteen years. The deeper obstacle to everything, though, remains human: the cattle aspect of fear. There is no Trump and no Putin, he says — there is thirty percent of the population willing to support them, and one person who understands what populism can do. About the Guest Ricardo Semler is the chairman and majority owner of Semco Partners, the São Paulo company he took over from his father at 21 and transformed into the world's most famous experiment in industrial democracy. His book Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace (1993) was an international bestseller published in sixteen languages; The Seven-Day Weekend followed in 2003. He is the founder of the Lumiar schools and the Ralston Semler Foundation, has taught at MIT's Sloan School and Harvard Law School, and his TED talks have been viewed millions of times. His new e-book is The End of the Boss (endoftheboss.org, 2026). References: •       The End of the Boss by Ricardo Semler (2026) — the e-book, and its “Round Pyramid” alternative: self-managing cells of ten with leaders validated from below.•       Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler — the million-copy classic whose Brazilian predecessor, Turning the Tables, was rejec...

Swiss finance and innovation hub Zurich held its first Climate Week in May 2026, joining a growing global network of cities hosting climate-focused gatherings. All Things Sustainable is the official podcast of Climate Week Zurich, and in this episode, we bring you highlights, key takeaways and a look ahead to the next big events on the climate calendar.  To learn about Zurich's approach to decarbonization and climate adaptation, we sit down with the city's Director of Environmental and Health Protection, René Estermann.  "We know climate change is a huge risk," René says. "As the major economic driver in Switzerland, Zurich wants to grow its business hubs here for climate technologies, climate science, carbon management ... [and] climate finance ... to turn these risks to opportunities."  To understand how financial institutions are responding to growing calls to make the business case for sustainability, we talk to Sabine Döbeli. Sabine is CEO of Swiss Sustainable Finance, a nonprofit whose members aim to strengthen Switzerland's position as a leading worldwide center for sustainable finance.  "If you invest today to improve your factory, to have less pollution, to use less water, to have a circular process, then that of course means capex, it means investments," Sabine says. "It will pay off in the long term if you have less costs. But to prove this at every point in time is not always easy."  And we talk to Christophe Lumsden, Partner and Sustainability Lead at Ernst & Young AG Switzerland and EY's Global Climate Change and Decarbonization Leader. He says Climate Week Zurich is an example of how climate action continues to develop at a local level even as it faces pushback in parts of the world.   "Science is clear. Evidence is there. Climate change is not going away anytime soon," Christophe says. "Health repercussions are massive, human repercussions are big. So we just need to continue the movement."   S&P Global Energy is a founding partner and sponsor of the inaugural Climate Week Zurich.   Further listening  Hear the podcast interviews referenced in today's episode:  California's biggest utility talks decarbonization, climate adaptation and AI energy demands  CSO Insights: How climate adaptation is hitting the mainstream for Middle East banks  Listen to our interview with Johan Rockström, who spoke at the Climate Week Zurich Opening Ceremony:   What planetary health means for the private sector  Listen to all our interviews from Climate Week Zurich:  How Swiss food giant Nestlé tackles sustainable supply chains  Swiss private bank talks sustainable investment opportunities  How one of the world's largest insurers is building climate resilience  How retail giant IKEA built the business case for sustainability  World Meteorological Organization leader on the need for science, data and collaboration  Learn about Nature and Biodiversity data and solutions from S&P Global Sustainable1.   Copyright ©2026 by S&P Global Disclaimer  By accessing this Podcast, I acknowledge that S&P GLOBAL makes no warranty, guarantee, or representation as to the accuracy or sufficiency of the information featured in this Podcast. 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The balls have been drawn, so Donald and Eric are ready to talk Concacaf Nations League. We discuss the new branding for the preeminent regional soccer competition in global sport, and then run down the leagues and format for you. Some fun groups in League C (4:23), trying to guess where Montserrat might host games in League B (9:20) and it's anyone's guess who is going to survive League A's Swiss style scheduling (14:29). We can't wait for September to get here. Support the podcast at www.patreon.com/podcacaf  Follow us on social @podcacaf

From Ukraine to Dub, the story of a doctor who built an aesthetics empire from scratch and created the "Dubai Injection" that shook the market and rattled her competitors.In this episode of the Hikmat Wehbi Podcast, we sit down with Dr. Roula Al Shahadat for a candid, different kind of conversation — not just about aesthetics, but about building a brand, the courage to tell the truth, and the future of the entire field. A talk that blends science, business, and raw human experience.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

We all know Switzerland is neutral. But why? Listen in and you might learn something.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Annie Lowrey, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Give People Money (Crown, 2018) and the forthcoming The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time―and How to Fix It (Ecco, 2026) talks about what makes the AI bubble different from ones in the past and what it means for the economy. Photo: EVIAN-LES-BAINS, FRANCE - JUNE 17: CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman attends a working lunch with G7 leaders, G7 outreach partners, and global tech CEOs on innovation and AI, during the G7 Summit on June 17, 2026 in Evian-les-Bains, France. Leaders from the Group of 7 (G7) countries convened in Evian, France, near the Swiss border, for their annual summit to discuss challenges to peace and security for Ukraine and Europe, the situation in the Middle East, and other geopolitical issues. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Michael Angelo Zervos is a Guinness World Record holder — he visited all 195 UN-recognized countries in 499 days. Along the way he interviewed people in every country about the happiest moment of their life. That project became a book, published by Penguin Random House, out February 23rd. We talked about: how the record works and what actually counts as "visiting" a country; a year and a half of planning vs. the Brazilian who claimed he did it by accident; getting jailed overnight in Liberia for taking a photo of a building; being deported from Nicaragua because they thought he was a journalist; how he got into North Korea during a two-week window that's since closed permanently; what North Korea is actually like (his answer: Plato's allegory of the cave, in real life); Cuba on the ground vs. what the left says about it; traveling through Ukraine, Palestine, Syria, and Sudan; asking people about happiness in active conflict zones; and what his grandfather being forced to fight for communist guerrillas in the Greek Civil War has to do with any of it. Get the book → The Happiest Moment of Your Life: True Stories from a Journey to Every Country in the World https://amzn.to/4pHdYav Follow Michael on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/theprojectkosmos/ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 — Intro — who is Michael Angelo Zervos? 0:34 — Greeks in America — diners, Coney Islands, and the varsity jacket problem 5:05 — Christopher Nolan's Odyssey — not a single Greek in the cast 6:25 — 195 countries in 499 days — how the Guinness World Record works 8:04 — A year and a half of planning — and the Brazilian who claimed he did it by accident 9:33 — What counts as "visiting" a country? The Guinness rules 11:08 — Project Cosmos — interviewing people about the happiest moment of their life 13:13 — Brand deals, sponsorships, and the reality of Guinness World Record celebrity 14:35 — Traveling as a man vs. a woman — the real differences 16:37 — Married with two kids — how he pulled this off 20:24 — The happiest moment of the trip — waking up in Ghana 21:33 — The Swiss man who came out as bisexual at a phone-free party in Zurich 23:45 — The worst moments: jailed in Liberia for photographing a building 26:57 — Deported from Nicaragua — they thought he was a journalist 27:41 — Left-wing dictatorships and the memory hole 29:50 — North Korea — getting in through a two-week window that's now closed 32:14 — North Korea as Plato's cave — the allegory of the cave in real life 33:44 — His grandfather forced to fight for communist guerrillas in the Greek Civil War 35:29 — Dennis Rodman's translator was a libertarian 36:44 — Cuba — what it's actually like on the ground 38:40 — Poverty porn, romanticizing socialism, and what Cubans actually think 43:42 — The Facebook argument: "Oh no, Starbucks is going to ruin Cuba" 45:38 — What's actually lost when wealth is generated — community and dependency 47:27 — Traveling through conflict zones: Ukraine, Palestine, Syria, Sudan 49:37 — Asking people about happiness in a war zone 50:27 — The book: published by Penguin Random House, out February 23rd 52:23 — Chicken soup for the soul meets Anthony Bourdain — what the book actually is 54:14 — Outro — follow Michael and get the book Watch full episodes on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Vb53s4I0A&list=PLb5trMQQvT077-L1roE0iZyAgT4dD4EtJ Listen on Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lou-perez-podcast/id1535032081 Listen on Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU  Co-host of Happy Hour Econ → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/happy-hour-econ/id1863476697  Lou's book — That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r  TheLouPerez.com |  info@thelouperez.com  Newsletter: https://substack.com/@louperez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cybercrime Wire, hosted by Scott Schober, provides boardroom and C-suite executives, CIOs, CSOs, CISOs, IT executives and cybersecurity professionals with a breaking news story we're following. If there's a cyberattack, hack, or data breach you should know about, then we're on it. Listen to the podcast daily and hear it every hour on WCYB. The Cybercrime Wire is brought to you Cybercrime Magazine, Page ONE for Cybersecurity at https://cybercrimemagazine.com. • For more breaking news, visit https://cybercrimewire.com

Alphabet shares pare back overnight as investors scrutinise its ever-increasing capex plans. Tesla is also down after missing on earnings while free cash flow turns negative. Elsewhere, Unicredit raises its outlook after posting a beat on both the top and bottom lines as CEO Andrea Orcel tells CNBC the bank is firing on all cylinders. And forex headwinds take a bite out of Roche's first half sales, but the Swiss drugmaker confirms its full-year targets.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A 2023 book collects accounts of shapeshifting strangers, reptilian visitors, and living doubles, arguing the aliens John Carpenter put on screen may have been walking among us all along.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/TheyLiveREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ycktrfu5FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Have you ever felt like something was off about someone you met? What if the truth was more bizarre than you could imagine - that aliens walk secretly among us, perfectly disguised? (Mimic In The Mirror) *** The short story “Eight O'Clock In The Morning” by Ray Nelson – the inspiration for the movie “They Live!” *** Left-handedness: once a mark of the devil, now a unique trait celebrated across the globe. From the Salem Witch Trials to modern-day challenges with spiral notebooks, left-handers have been forced to navigate a world designed for righties, despite the historical stigmas, surprising advantages, and the evolving recognition of left-handers in combat, culture, and commerce. (Left-Handers Are In League With The Devil) *** In the shadow of Switzerland's majestic Eiger mountain, 29-year-old Aidan Roche vanished without a trace during a solo hiking trip. Despite an unlocked camper-van and one last eerie messages sent from the trail, his disappearance remained shrouded in mystery. Months later, a grim discovery brought more questions than answers. (The Disappearance of Aidan Roche) *** In the summer of 1948, a series of inexplicable fires ravaged the Willey farm near Macomb, Illinois, destroying the family's home and barns. Despite the efforts of local authorities and the U.S. Air Force, no logical explanation could be found for the hundreds of mysterious blazes that seemed to start spontaneously. At the center of this baffling case was 13-year-old Wanet McNeil, whose alleged confession to arson left many unconvinced. Was Wanet truly responsible? Could she have been starting the fires with her mind? (The Macomb Firestarter) *** In 1991, 63-year-old Vasile Gorgos left his home in Romania to visit a cattle market and never returned, leaving his family to believe he had met a tragic fate. But 30 years later, Vasile shocked everyone when he mysteriously reappeared, wearing the same clothes as the day he vanished and carrying an unused train ticket from 1991 in his pocket. With no memory of where he'd been for three decades, Vasile's strange case has left people wondering if his disappearance could be tied to supernatural phenomena like portals, alien abduction, or shifts in time and space itself. (The Mysterious Vanishing of Vasile Gorgos)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = “Eight O'Clock In The Morning” (short fiction)00:12:38.092 = Show Open00:15:46.852 = Mimic In The Mirror: Are Aliens Among Us? ***00:26:13.246 = Left-Handers Are In League With The Devil00:32:35.305 = The Disappearance of Aidan Roche ***00:38:57.889 = The Macomb Firestarter00:48:20.167 = The Mysterious Vanishing of Vasile Gorgos ***00:55:50.605 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Eight O'Clock In The Morning” by Ray Nelson: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mu7tmynm“Mimic In The Mirror” source: Sean Casteel at Spectral Vision: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckjpyz8BOOK: “Mimics – The Others Among Us” by Sean Casteel and Tim R. Swartz: https://amzn.to/3Ws07IJBOOK: “Sky Crash Throughout Time (A Cosmic Conspiracy)” by Philip Kinsella and Brenda Butler: https://amzn.to/3WlE2v2“Left-Handers Are In League With The Devil” source: Baiily Benningfield at Ranker's Graveyard Shift:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8acbdh“The Disappearance of Aidan Roche” source: Strange Outdoors: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mrxvj87r“The Macomb Firestarter” by Troy Taylor: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5n7dbzmh (used with permission)“The Mysterious Vanishing of Vasile Gorgos” source: Marcus Lowth at UFO Insight:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/jxztu8nd(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: April 30, 2024In this episode of Weird Darkness, listeners move through alien impostors, the long history of left-handed stigma, a hiker who vanished in the Swiss Alps, a farm besieged by fires no one could explain, and a Romanian cattle trader who came home after thirty years.It opens with the mimics. Ray Nelson's 1963 story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" — the basis for John Carpenter's 1988 film "They Live" — imagined reptilian aliens ruling Earth from behind human faces, and the 2023 book "Mimics: The Others Among Us" argues that scenario may not be fiction. The book collects accounts like that of Brenda Butler, co-author of a book on the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, who in 1984 met a tall, blue-eyed man calling himself David Daniels and claiming to be from the Pleiades star cluster, then watched his skin turn scaly and reptilian before he shifted back to human. It recounts author Chris Holly's memory of a strikingly similar white-haired, blue-eyed family she later connected to the extraterrestrial "Tall Whites," alongside cases of living ghosts, doppelgangers, and a 1970s poltergeist blamed on a mimic wearing a teenage girl's face.From there the episode traces why left-handedness was treated as sinister for centuries. During the Salem Witch Trials, favoring the left hand could bring an accusation of witchcraft, and as late as the 1970s schools still forced left-handed children to write with their right. The Book of Matthew places the righteous on the right and the cursed on the left, the Zulu scalded children's left hands to stop their use, and communities along the Niger River tied left-handed cooking to witchcraft — while the ancient Celts prized left-handed warriors, Rome read left-side omens as favorable, and the Inca chief Lloque Yupanqui was admired for his left-handedness. The stigma softened by the late 1960s, when William Gruby opened Anything Left-Handed, Ltd. to sell scissors, kitchen tools, and watches built for lefties.Next comes the disappearance of Aidan Roche, a 29-year-old chemical engineer from Middlesbrough who vanished on June 22nd, 2023, while hiking the Eiger Trail in Switzerland's Bernese Oberland. His campervan sat unlocked and abandoned near the trailhead with everything inside intact, and his final messages placed him two hours from Grindelwald in clear weather on a well-traveled path. Swiss police, mountain rescue teams, dogs, and drones searched for five days, and his brothers Connor and Niall raised over £30,000 for helicopter surveillance and screen advertisements in twenty-four locations, yet found nothing until September 24th, 2023, when Aidan's body was discovered near the trail with the cause of death still unreleased.The episode then settles on the Willey farm outside Macomb, Illinois, where hundreds of fires broke out in the summer of 1948. They started on August 7th as small brown spots that appeared on the living room wallpaper, spread, smoldered, and burst into flame — more than 200 of them in one week, igniting curtains, an ironing board, and newspapers sealed inside a closed cupboard, often erupting on walls and ceilings while witnesses watched. The blazes consumed the farmhouse on August 14th and both barns soon after, drew over 1,000 spectators on August 22nd, and even brought in the U.S. Air Force, which floated directed radiation from the Russians as a possible cause. Officials declared the case solved on August 30th by pinning it on 13-year-old Wanet McNeil, who confessed to using kitchen matches after hours of questioning despite never being seen holding any; psychiatrist Dr. Sophie Schroeder found her mentally normal, researcher Vincent Gaddis called it poltergeist activity, and Fire Chief Fred Wilson retired still convinced something unexplainable had happened.The episode closes with Vasile Gorgos, a 63-year-old cattle trader from Bacău, Romania, who left for a market in 1991 and disappeared for three decades. His wife reported him missing, an extensive police search turned up no trace, and his family eventually held a ceremony and accepted that he was dead. On a Sunday afternoon in August 2021, a car pulled up outside his old house and drove off before anyone could read the plate, leaving behind a 93-year-old Vasile in the same clothes he had worn in 1991, carrying an unused train ticket from that year and an old identity card listing an address in another part of Romania. Doctor

Marvel returns to a MadBomb story and so do we! A gifted South Bronx teenager sees his neighborhood destroyed in the initial MadBomb attack, and his future up in smoke with it. What does he do when A.I.M. recruiters come calling? Plus... Bob talks about his Swiss vacation and Rick goes on a rant about bad comic shop customers!Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gHTi9PPwySULove the show? Help support with a one-time donation or become a member and get cool perks! https://buymeacoffee.com/capcomicfansHere are FREE and FAST ways you can support the show: https://tinyurl.com/y6kyu9nhConnect with Rick & Bob and fellow Cap fans at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/captainamericacomicbookfans⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Please subscribe, rate and review! Email questions to CapComicFans@gmail.comOur home page is ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://captainamericacomicbookfans.com⁠

If you're passing through Lucerne station for the first time, it's easy to feel a little overwhelmed. So we're here to help!In this episode, Swiss rail expert Andy Nef takes us on a live, on-location tour of Luzern Bahnhof, as it's known locally, pointing out everything from the scenic trains from Lucerne to the practical facilities most first-time visitors miss.Andy walks us through the platforms, showing where to catch trains like the Luzern Interlaken Express and Voralpen Express, and how luggage storage at Lucerne train station works, from selecting a locker to paying contactless. He shows us where to find the Lucerne train station shops (including a Sunday-open supermarket), the Lucerne Tourist Information centre, and the ticket and luggage counters at Lucerne main train station. You'll also discover just how close the Luzern bus station is to the station entrance, and how easy it is to connect to one of the historic Lake Lucerne steamboats.Whether you're catching trains, storing bags, or connecting to a bus or boat, this episode will help you navigate Lucerne station with confidence.Happy travels,Carolyn

Is the NBA overreacting to the second apron? Wes Goldberg argues that the loudest criticism of the league's new Collective Bargaining Agreement is missing the bigger picture. He breaks down why recent salary dumps by the Thunder, Celtics and Knicks don't prove the system is broken, explains what the players actually gained in the latest CBA, and makes the case that the one change everyone avoids discussing—reducing the number of regular-season games—is the real solution to many of the NBA's biggest problems. Then Wes reacts to the latest on LeBron James' prolonged free agency, explaining why he believes basketball may not be the biggest factor delaying a decision and why Miami still makes the most sense. Finally, he unveils a radical idea for reimagining the NBA season using a World Cup-inspired format featuring stages, Swiss-system scheduling and fewer regular-season games to make every matchup matter. 00:00 Intro 00:59 Truth about Second Apron 18:26 LeBron's Decision Delay 27:50 The NBA Like the World Cup RealGM Radio is your top spot for the best weekly NBA coverage. Subscribe to get RealGM Radio with Wes Goldberg, the Double Dribble and Good Take every week.   Monday: Double Dribble with Jared Dubin and Mo Dakhil Tuesday: RealGM Radio with Wes Goldberg Wednesday: Double Dribble with Jared Dubin and Mo Dakhil Thursday: Good Take with Wes Goldberg and Mike Shearer   Subscribe to watch more RealGM Radio videos: youtube.com/@realgmradio   FOLLOW REALGM ON SOCIAL RealGM on X/Twitter https://x.com/RealGM RealGM on Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/realgmnba/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

www.patreon.com/theconspiracypodcastIn Part Two, Sean, Jorge, and Eric dive straight into the theories that have kept the Isdal Woman's case alive for over half a century.She died in a Norwegian valley under at least eight false identities, and fifty-five years later, no one still knows who she really was. Was she a Cold War intelligence operative, her movements lining up suspiciously close to Norway's top-secret missile testing sites while the country's secret police quietly opened their own file behind the scenes? Was she connected to a Swiss banker infamous for financing Nazi sympathizers and extremist causes across decades? Was she an international fraudster running a long con across the continent, or a woman working discreetly for a clientele who had every reason to stay silent after her death? And underneath every theory sits the same unanswered question: was it suicide, or murder?The guys also break down the forensic science that's chipped away at the mystery over the years — isotope analysis narrowing down where she may have grown up, DNA testing tracing a maternal line to a part of the world none of her fake passports ever claimed — and how a fifty-year-old cold case turned into one of the most successful true crime podcasts ever made. Tens of thousands of amateur investigators from around the world are still hunting for answers today, still combing through old sketches and hotel records, still trying to finish what Norwegian police gave up on decades ago. And even after all that science, all that attention, and all those true believers, the Isdal Woman remains buried under a name that was never hers.Let us know your theory. Who was she, and what really happened in Ice Valley?