Podcasts about Uvalde

On May 24, 2022, an active shooter took the lives of 19 children and two staff members and physically and mentally injured the survivors, their families, staff, teachers and the broader community in Uvalde, Texas. At the request of Uvalde's leadership, the U.S. Department of Justice established the Critical Incident Review (CIR) to conduct an independent, objective assessment of what happened that day and assess the systems in place in the weeks leading up to May 24. The goal of the episode is to provide information to those most affected by the tragedy and to build knowledge regarding how to best respond to incidents of mass violence. This panel will provide an overview of the incident and present observations and recommendations from the DOJ report in the areas of tactics, leadership and incident command.Guests: Nazmia Comrie & Frank Fernandez - USDOJ COPS Office Resources: DOJ Report - https://cops.usdoj.gov/uvalde

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:A stunning and surreal scene at the White House yesterday saw Donald Trump and El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, in defiance of U.S. courts, refuse to return a wrongly-deported Maryland man - and muse on sending American citizens away next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzgQT__Az4oReactions from Texas lawmakers including Austin Congressman Greg Casar: https://x.com/RepCasar/status/1911871636292202834?t=IfJmo_wHPrrvhoD3kFMWDw&s=03...El Paso Congresswoman Veronica Escobar: https://x.com/RepEscobar/status/1911828673755488484?t=U3Ac1nkEx-ihBLL6cWVBrA&s=03...and Houston Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia: https://x.com/RepSylviaGarcia/status/1911922043081142496?t=8t-OJfw1dv_ISQukmLYO7w&s=03Could private school vouchers, after three decades of trying, finally be made reality by Texas Republicans? We'll likely find out this week: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-house-taking-up-education-savings-account-bill-senate-school-vouchers-legislature/...The Texas Freedom Network requests your attendance at the Capitol on Wednesday morning: https://act.tfn.org/a/vouchervoteTexas Republicans, amidst ongoing outcry from gun safety advocates to raise age limits for gun ownership, are seeking to lower them instead: https://www.kut.org/2025-04-15/texas-statehouse-senate-loosen-firearm-restrictions...Uvalde moms testified against the lowering of handgun age restrictions from 21 to 18 yesterday: https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2025/04/15/mothers-of-uvalde-victims-argue-against-texas-bill-that-would-allow-18-year-olds-to-carry-handguns/Progress Texas is proud to join several of our esteemed advocacy allies in supporting the Barbara Jordan Voting Rights Act: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://progresstexas.org/release-voting-rights-advocates-cheer-barbara-jordan-texas-voting-rights-act⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠We're proud to welcome Mayor Ron Nirenberg as our guest for a live podcast taping in San Antonio on May 6! Please join us for a fun fundraising gathering of progressives at our Party For Progress - RSVP here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://act.progresstexas.org/a/sanantonio_mixer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The merch to match your progressive values awaits at our web store! Goodies at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://store.progresstexas.org/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.We're loving the troll-free environment at BlueSky! Follow us there at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bsky.app/profile/progresstexas.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Thanks for listening! Find our web store and other ways to support our important work at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://progresstexas.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch and Phil Thomas. As a new wrongful death lawsuit levied against a video game company looms, we take a closer look at Sanders v. Acclaim, the 2001 lawsuit filed against the video game industry alleging games like DOOM, Redneck Rampage, and Final Fantasy (?!?) trained the Columbine High School shooters to kill. To that end, we examine John DeCamp, an eccentric Nebraska politician, lawyer, and conspiracy monger who filed the suit on behalf of one of the Columbine victims. Along the way, we untangle the life of a man who went from soldier to senator to the whistleblower in an alleged Satanic child sex trafficking ring that provided a preview of the likes of Pizzagate and Qanon.  Content warning: accusations of child sexual assault.Topics discussed include: Kevin's increasingly eclectic book collection, a wild LaRouche appears, Kevin sets the record straight on whether he's a cannibal, and what's Jack Thompson been up to? For more on the upcoming lawsuit against, gun manufacturer Daniel Defense, Meta, and Activision, see: Brandon Drennon, “Uvalde families sue Meta, video game creator and gunmaker,” BBC, May 24, 2024, https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8449dxw23do. More info, including show notes and sources at http://scandalousgamespodcast.wordpress.com. 

Society in the digital space is becoming more and more broken but you can still show up authentically and fill gaps that people need to thrive. In this episode of Ladies Who Launch, the first back in 8 months, Alyssa and Dakota candidly discuss where they've been and what's coming down the pipeline for 2025 while diving into the depths of trolling, bad behaviour online, adding to the noise and what being yourself, scrappy or not will do for your brand if you show up as YOU and you only.Episode highlights:Taking the reins on your brand image, using social media for good, success mindset, brand, mental health, opinions on bad marketing, leadership and relationships.Takeaways:Social media can easily become a place for fear, half-truths and a place for hate but there is still a massive opportunity to outshine the b*llshit and add value.If you don't control your narrative, someone else will.Don't go online without a plan.Your brand is everything, so make it real.If you enjoyed this episode of Ladies Who Launch, please be sure to take a screenshot and share it on social media and tag us @ladieswholaunchpod OR, link us to a friend or colleague by sharing the episode. Also please make sure to give us a review and a five-star rating if you're loving what we're putting down!Resources and links:Get in queue for our new newsletter, dropping April 2025Stay tuned to our Instagram for updates on episode drops, merch, newsletter drops, events and more__Transcript:  Dakota Kidby: [00:00:02] Hey, hey, welcome to Ladies Who Launch, the podcast where we cut through the noise, ditch the fluff and get real about all things marketing. Alyssa Berry: [00:00:11] That's right, we are your hosts, Dakota and Alyssa, two entrepreneurs from Calgary who are here to serve up equal parts solid advice, industry banter, and a whole lot of unfiltered opinions. Dakota Kidby: [00:00:21] So grab your coffee, buckle up, and get ready for a podcast that's equal parts fun and real talk. Whether you're in the biz or just curious about what goes down behind the scenes of marketing, we've got you covered. Alyssa Berry: [00:00:33] Let's get to it. Welcome to Ladies Who Launch. Dakota Kidby: [00:00:40] We're back. Alyssa Berry: [00:00:42] Look who's back. Back again. Dakota Kidby: [00:00:45] The ladies are back. Tell a friend. Alyssa Berry: [00:00:49] Oh, my God, it's only been, what? Eight months. Here we are. Dakota Kidby: [00:00:54] We're back after an eight month hiatus. Welcome back to season five of Ladies Who launch. Alyssa Berry: [00:01:01] The eight month hiatus that was supposed to be like two. But Dakota and I are always on our own schedule, as many of our listeners know, so we are happy to be back, Dakota Kidby: [00:01:12] Happy to finally be back with you guys. And we have a brand new setup. We are now using new software, we have new tech, new equipment. We're going to be on YouTube. So we really look forward to taking Ladies Who Launch to the next level this year. Alyssa Berry: [00:01:28] Yes, and we did a rebrand too. So if you've been on our Instagram recently, you'll see we have a whole new logo brand we're coming out with. We're going to have new newsletter, new community events. We're back at it hardcore because we missed our community. And we know you guys missed us too. So.  Dakota Kidby: [00:01:46] Yeah, we got a lot of feedback from you guys over our hiatus that people were unimpressed that we were not recording. So we really appreciate your guys's support and we are very excited for season five of Ladies Who Launch. Alyssa Berry: [00:02:01] It's crazy it's season five, to be honest. Dakota Kidby: [00:02:03] I know. Yeah, so we started this, for those of you who are new to the podcast, Alyssa and myself started this podcast over Covid in 2020 as sort of an outlet to be able to get together as friends and be opinionated about all the things that we like to be opinionated about. And 90% of the time that is marketing, because we are both marketing professionals. I want to say 10% of the time it's everything else from period poverty to politics to what's going on in the world, to stuff that's going on in our city and so on and so forth. So.  Alyssa Berry: [00:02:40] And we will just pick up right where we left off. But we probably should give everyone a bit of an insight into what's gone on in these last eight months, both professionally and personally and all those sorts of things before we kind of dive back in. But we are still here. We are. We do still live in Calgary. Yeah, we both still have our own companies. We both still love our community. But some changes have happened. Dakota Kidby: [00:03:07] They have. Alyssa, do you want to go first? Alyssa Berry: [00:03:10] Yeah. I'm not going to delve too much into it because it's not really, well... I went to a bit of a dark side, and I took a full time gig back in August. The landscape for, I think everybody's going through this with small business and especially the sectors that I worked in, in tourism and culture were still having difficulty kind of coming back recovering from Covid. And I sort of had this moment of like, how much do I want to keep struggling with this? And I still do have my business and I still do work on the side. So don't think Alyssa Berry Communications has gone anywhere. I still work with clients and people that I love and, love doing work for them. But sometimes you need to be an adult and realize that sometimes a paycheck is necessary for whatever reasons. There's never any sense of failure or anything for any business person that has to make other arrangements, especially those of us that don't have spouses who can pick up the slack while the other is kind of struggling. So that's where I am. I'm not going to talk about it because obviously it's not for public consumption in that way, because this podcast is all about my business and me being a marketer and me being in the community. So that's still what we're going to focus on, because all of those things are still true. But yeah, that was sort of my big personal professional change for 2024 and into 2025. Dakota Kidby: [00:04:47] And we're all going to give you a big applaud because, applause, applause, because it's it's very hard to be brave a lot of the time, especially when you own your own business and you realize that you have to go elsewhere to make ends meet and pay the bills just because your particular audience isn't entirely there anymore. And so, yeah, I mean, I think it's been good for you in some ways as well. So, yeah, I just want to say, you know, I commend you for being brave, that's all. Alyssa Berry: [00:05:24] Yeah. And that's where we'll leave it. Dakota Kidby: [00:05:27] Okay. Got it. So, yeah, similarly, I really did some pretty massive work on myself over the last eight months, probably more than I ever have. I've talked about this a couple times in past episodes, and I just got very real with where I, where my life was going and where I want my life to go. And I also made some brave, scary decisions. So part of that included hiring pretty much a full team. So we now have like an operations team at Social Centric. We have back end web and full stack app and front end and back end web developers on our team. Um, and then we also have a full timer who is kind of my right hand woman. So I was very proud that I was able to pay salaries last year. But with that came some investment into the company to be able to do that. And then on top of that we also got very real about our client roster for the first time ever, I think. And we really looked at like, who do we actually want to work with and who just is not a fit for us professionally and personally, and we either amiably or... Well, no, they were all amiable, but we like we parted ways with them, either both of us parting ways or us parting ways and we just got very real about the types of clients that we want to work with moving forward. And we have only onboarded clients that make sense for us in 2025 so far. But I'll get real with you guys and say that that was really scary for me in the sense that I haven't been in debt in six, seven, probably eight years and debt really scares me for many reasons, and maybe we'll get into that in another episode. I have a family member who was really bad with money. Dakota Kidby: [00:07:26] My mom. And she ended up taking her life when I was 24 because of that and many other reasons. So I have a lot of inner wounding when it comes to debt and asking for help and any of that stuff. But the fact of the matter is, is if you're going to grow your business and scale up, you know, unless you have a bunch of seed money or people helping you or investors, you usually will have to go into a bit of debt. So that's been really interesting for me. Learning about getting grants, applying for lines of credit. And like actually growing the business in a way that a startup would grow because luckily for me, I never really had to do that. I had clients right out of the gate. But yeah, when you're supporting other people's salaries, you have a totally different responsibility. And so, yeah, we rebranded into a digital marketing house about two months ago, and we are very heavily overhauling our processes and our operations. We've made a lot of changes over the last couple of months. I've had to step into a bunch of different hats that I've never worn before, which has been really interesting. And I'm also learning a lot more about where I want to take not only Social Centric, but my own skill sets into the future. So.  Alyssa Berry: [00:08:44] Yeah, I think we need an episode on good and bad debt because I'm a believer that there's good debt to have, like a mortgage or investing in your company or investing in yourself, those kind of things. So yeah, that's probably a good conversation to have because people get super, super scared of investing in themselves or investing in their company, especially as women. [00:09:06] And we need to do [00:09:07] better at believing in ourselves. Dakota Kidby: [00:09:10] Absolutely. One thing I can say is there's one person that I'll always bet on in this world, and that's me. I do trust myself very, very deeply. That being said, to Alyssa's point, yeah, I do think an episode on that would be really great because I think when you start a business, you don't entirely understand the things that you need in order to be successful. And I was a bit chaotic and choppy over the last ten years in growing Social Centric. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. If there isn't even just a like a little bit of chaos, you probably aren't doing it right, or you're probably not taking risks. But I will say that had I had the knowledge that I have now, I probably would have gone about it a different way and I would have avoided a lot of burnout. Alyssa Berry: [00:10:01] But that's eight months in a nutshell, and that's why we were away longer than we intended. And just to give you, all of our listeners, especially those that kept messaging us and asking like, what's happening? Where are you guys? What are you coming back? What's going on? Just know that there's a lot of things going on. Dakota Kidby: [00:10:17] A lot going on. Yeah. Alyssa Berry: [00:10:18] In the background. And as we have been very candid about in this podcast from the get go, is that Ladies Who Launch is a passion project for us, and it's our own investments and our own time and money and all of those sorts of things. So sometimes when other things take priority, those passion projects just sort of have to be shelved for a little while while your actual adult things have to happen. And so I think we're both glad to be in a place where we are back. Dakota Kidby: [00:10:45] Yeah. We are. We're really happy to be in a place where we're back, and we do genuinely have a lot of really exciting things rolling out this year that we were going to talk about with you guys. We're going to be rolling out a really engaging, killer newsletter that's going to be full of phenomenal content, opportunities and opportunities to connect with us and others, and features of other women and marketers. And not only women, actually, probably everybody, that we think are awesome and that we want to share with you. And on top of that as well, we're going to be putting together a couple of in-person events in Calgary this year, which we're really excited about. And so we'll be offering that up to anybody who wants to attend. So if you're a listener that isn't in Calgary and you want to come down and hang out with us, that opportunity will be available this year. And we would love to meet you guys. So yeah. But other than that, we are coming off the heels of International Women's Day yesterday, and I wanted to kick off season five with you all by talking a little bit about authenticity and fake news on social media, because fuck me, I have seen so much bullshit on social media, especially the last couple of months, pertaining to not only just people like us, but also like, of course, with everything going down in the States and like a couple of celebrities have been really like kicking up dust on there over some of the stupidest shit I've ever seen. I personally, as someone who's in the digital marketing world, I'm having such a rough time understanding how we're using social media these days. And so I really wanted to unpack a few things with Alyssa on the podcast, because I thought it'd be really interesting. I want her opinion on a couple of things. I thought you guys would find it fun for us to banter about a few things, and then from there, I kind of want to dive into, well, how can you still use social media ethically and authentically in a world that is just wrought with trashy news and people pitting themselves and others against other people? Like, what do you, how is social media still relevant? Is it going away? Like, I want to talk about all of those things, but I'd like to use someone who's been all over the news lately as an example of the internet just being a trashy place. Dakota Kidby: [00:13:23] And Alyssa and I have very different opinions on this woman, which I think is going to make this very interesting. I hate to use this person as an example, because yes, they are a person of affluence. So I just want to like kick that off that this person is a person of affluence and they are very, she is a very wealthy woman who probably doesn't deserve all the hype. But that being said, I personally think Meghan Markle is, like, I think she's just a regular girl, just like Marie Antoinette was a regular girl, just like Anne Boleyn was a regular girl, just like Princess Diana was a regular girl. And does she have her demons and her blind spots? I'm sure she does. But first and foremost, I think she's been dealt a shitty fucking deck of cards personally. In the sense that what I see is this very genuine, kind-hearted woman who just wants to be a mum to her kids. She married this dude because she fell in love with him. Yes, he's a prince. Whatever. And what happened to her up in Britain, to me, is very, very much, resembles what happened to Diana and that, and I just think the whole, like the media up there and the media in particular that cover Palace news and whatever, the whole thing to me is just completely disgusting. I also don't entirely myself believe in the institution of the royals and the firm, as what people call it. I think it's all just a bunch of total bullshit. I think it's completely archaic and and I'm not surprised that the two of them like, left, and they just want to be normal. And like, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Where I think Meghan fell short is after everything that went down, you know, after they got married and left, I don't really entirely see why she started this series on Netflix. Part of me wants to commend her for doing it because it's like, yeah, screw you, I'm still going to do what I want to do. Dakota Kidby: [00:15:38] But another part of me is like, okay, you didn't want more backlash, you didn't want more paparazzi coming after you, you didn't want more face time in the media. Why did you start this show? And then the problem with the show, in my opinion, if any of you have seen it, it's basically a cooking show that she does. It kind of reminds me of Marie Antoinette, and she's got her big palace out in Montecito, and then she bought this, like $8 million house to produce the show in. And it's very much like Marie's Hamlet in Versailles. I don't know if anyone's ever been there, but to me, it just reminds me of this opulent, disgusting wealth that, like, this woman who's been in the media for so many things that are not good, is now going to go buy this $8 million mansion to cook in and sprinkle flowers on things. And so I get where she's coming from. I think her heart's in the right place. She wants to share her joy with other people, but of course it's coming off as unrelatable and people are just tearing her apart. But what really kills me, and I'll let Alyssa interject in a moment here, what I don't like about this, and any woman or person who's in the media - and this happens to people who are in the public eye all the time, take Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick, all the people who've been in the public eye lately - these freaking bloggers who have made their careers and lifestyles off of literally like gathering videotape of these people and analyzing everything from like, their face changing from a smile to what they would call a mask. And then they pinpoint these people as narcissists and they just, it's their whole career to tear these people apart. And they just, and judge these people over like, things that they just would not know. It just makes me sick to my stomach. Anyway, that's my rant. [00:17:33] Hey y'all, sorry for the interruption. Just wanting to remind you to please give us five stars and subscribe to our podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Honestly guys, this is the way that we build our podcast. And if you're a supporter of Ladies Who Launch, we would really, really appreciate it if you could just give us those five stars and subscribe. Thanks, guys. Now back to the episode. Alyssa Berry: [00:17:51] Okay. Uh, do you need a breath there? Dakota Kidby: [00:17:53] Yeah. I'm good. Okay. We're good. Alyssa Berry: [00:17:55] There was a lot going on there. Dakota Kidby: [00:17:56] There was a lot. Alyssa Berry: [00:17:57] Here's my thing with the Meghan Markle situation. And it's interesting that we are talking about this because I am a royalist. I'm a monarchist. And not because I think it isn't bullshit. Because, my grandma was and we, I remember I was like a little little kid for the Diana Charles wedding and like, we got up at my grandma's house and had at like four in the morning and had our crumpets and whatever, because my grandma's British and like, it was a very big part of. And I think a lot of the Diana situation for people sort of like revering Princess Diana, are all like sort of under the age of 35 because they didn't actually see all that went on during that time. Alyssa Berry: [00:18:38] And I mean, we can go into Diana in itself, but the Diana is an interesting parallel, because if you actually watch what's sort of taken place over the last six years, Meghan's used Diana as sort of her wedge to meet, first meet and then be with Harry. So I was a huge Meghan supporter. I thought she was awesome. I mean, who didn't watch Suits and like, I mean, I thought it was great. She was like, it was so cool to have a celebrity, like, be part of the royal family and like, oh, cool, whatever. I sort of bit of side-eyed during the wedding when, like, not a single member of her family was invited. I always find that a bit interesting. And I know people have family issues, but like, no one was there. Like, not a friend, not an anyone. And I always, I always have, and this is my own bias and I get that, but I always side-eye a little bit women who don't have close friendships. Because in order to have friends, you have to know how to be a friend. And I just always find women who have friends because, like, whether it's at work or they're always transactional in some way. But I always sort of look differently at women who just don't seem to have very solid, close girlfriends. Like, people talk about Serena Williams and all these people. Alyssa Berry: [00:19:59] It's like, yeah, she does know all these people, but they're not her girlfriends. They're not her people. And it was interesting to see at the wedding, like all of the celebrities that came, like, obviously the Beckhams are friends of the royal family, so that's different. But like George Clooney and his wife. Well, George Clooney publicly said like, oh, we thought we came because of her dad. Because of course her dad was well known. He was a lighting guy in Hollywood, so a lot of them knew him and were like, oh, we thought Thomas was going to be here. So when we got the invitation, we thought it was coming from him and blah blah, blah. So that's where I sort of like was like, what's going on here? But my biggest thing, and I mean them leaving whatever, she can say whatever she wants about the royal family, about them being racist. No one knows if any of that is true, because the royal family can never defend themselves against that. And even Harry has sort of backtracked from a lot of that stuff that they spewed out during Oprah. And it's interesting that Oprah has never made any comment about that interview since. And it's been scrubbed from her, like, TV thing, like she wants, because a lot of the things that they said in that were factually incorrect then about like, Archie not having a title which just based on where he and, well, now the little girl, whatever her name is, is in this line of succession, only the the children of the current monarch are titled or the grandchildren of the current monarch. Alyssa Berry: [00:21:19] And so now they are titled because now Charles is the monarch. But at the time they wouldn't be because they were not the immediate heirs to the throne. So saying those kind of things, like there were so many factually incorrect things that they were throwing out there that, like Oprah wouldn't know to push them on, but since then have come out as factually incorrect. So putting all that aside, because like as the Queen said, recollections vary. So moving on from that, I'm with you on I, look, I was really sort of rooting for them. And as I said, I was a big fan of hers. But since the, since them leaving and I think everyone had high like expectations of like, oh, this could be really good. Well, Harry does nothing. I'm not even sure what Prince Harry does now. I mean, he's been removed from his friends, his family, his job. Like he's not in the military anymore. I don't know what he does every day. So that's another side plot, whatever that is. But I had high hopes that, like, she would like, even go back to acting or be like... And it just seemed like it's so, it's all just like throwing stuff against the wall to see what sticks. Alyssa Berry: [00:22:34] Like, now we're in tradwife territory. And I have to say, like, if this was anyone but Meghan Markle in this Netflix TV show, people would be like, this is the fucking stupidest bullshit. But because it's Meghan Markle, people feel the need to defend it in some way. It's like, no, she's taking pretzels from a bag and putting it in another friggin plastic bag and putting a tag on it. And it's sort of reiterated my whole thing about like, she doesn't have friends because in that first episode where she's like going like, oh, Daniel's my oldest friend. And we've been like together, and he's done my makeup forever. But she didn't know he was left-handed when he started, when they started cutting the vegetables. And then he sort of made some, like, how close are you people? So everyone just sort of comes in and like, there's no sense of... And getting back to the authenticity thing, it's like, and people can rag on Martha Stewart and there's many reasons, but Martha Stewart was a rich housewife. She made her existence into her job. And Meghan isn't a rich housewife. She's rich, but she doesn't want to be a housewife. I mean, that's very obvious. So to make a show about being like a tradwife and like going out and like tending to your bees to then make candles, it's just like, who is the audience for this? I get it, some of the audience is just her people be like, whatever Meghan does, I'm going to watch cool, whatever. Alyssa Berry: [00:24:02] But I think the majority, from what I've sort of seen, the majority of people watching were hate watching it. And I'm like, is that really what you want to be like known for being the hate? I just, I don't know, like as a woman, and this is where we when you talk about being a narcissist, I think, she is a raging narcissist and I don't, she has all the tendencies of it in terms of not having solid relationships with people. Everything's always about her. Everything's my life is so hard and all these people are mean to me and like, never taking any responsibility, those are all very narcissistic behaviors. But, and I think I said this to you on one of our in our text chats when we were going back and forth about this show, is that women have a very difficult time seeing other women and their narcissistic behavior. We are very quick to point out men's narcissistic behavior, but we are very, we have a very difficult time pinpointing or associating women being narcissists, which they totally can be. And this is my own like pseudo psychoanalysis of the whole situation is that for a lot of women, they had narcissistic mothers, and the behavior of their moms with being controlling and being self-hating and being, like, how many mothers like telling you, like, you don't need a second plate, like all that sort of very selfish, controlling behavior and making everything your daughter's fault and making your life problems on your kids or on your daughter. Alyssa Berry: [00:25:34] Most women listening would be like, oh, yeah, it's totally my mom. Maybe not to that degree, but because we grew up with that and we see that in either our moms or women bosses that we've had. We are very, it's very difficult for us to step back and be like, wait a minute. Like, this isn't actually cool behavior. Like the other thing that's sort of related and how I sort of picked up on this interesting facets of Meghan's behavior is that she is so very, very careful about people, anyone seeing her kids, which I totally respect. No issues there. But the fact that like they hid the birth of Archie and they didn't announce it for days later. Like there's so many weird things there which just sort of like, was like, that's kind of strange, but like, even now. And that's cool. Nobody sees their kids. I totally get it. No issues there. But she also doesn't have any issue prancing other people's kids out for her own publicity, like showing up at the Uvalde shooting to like, comfort all the grieving parents in the parking lot and bringing flowers for a publicity stunt, or her and Harry going to Africa or Colombia and, like, traipsing around, like, underprivileged kids at orphanages and putting them on camera and being like, oh, aren't we great? Like, look at us here. Alyssa Berry: [00:26:55] Yeah, no problem exploiting other people's kids. But don't, God forbid, look at my kids. Like it's things like that that I just always side-eye. And she's just always sort of stepped in it in her own way. Again, I'm still hoping for the best here because I think, like, no one wants to think the worst of people. And I'm not one who wants to think the worst of people. But it gets back to that inauthentic thing. Like she is not authentically a rich housewife who is inviting friends over to enjoy her stuff. Like it's so obviously staged and acted. It's like just create a satiric, funny comedy about being a fake tradwife or whatever. Like, I think that would be a friggin funny show. But when you're, when you're making it a reality show, what is like, what actually is the thought process here? Dakota Kidby: [00:27:48] Oh, I have so many things to say. Okay, so first and foremost, I disagree that she doesn't have close girlfriends. I actually think she has a lot of close girlfriends. And... Alyssa Berry: [00:28:00] Where are they then? No one is stepping up for her. Dakota Kidby: [00:28:04] Abigail Spencer is stepping up for her. Mindy Kaling is stepping up for her. Alyssa Berry: [00:28:08] Mindy Kaling didn't even know her last name. Dakota Kidby: [00:28:11] So, fair enough. Fair enough. But I mean, here's the other thing all these people like, they probably don't see each other all the freaking time. Alyssa Berry: [00:28:20] It's transactional, and that's totally cool. Celebrities like, that's kind of the lifestyle. Like they have transactional relationships. You meet people on a set and you're besties and you do all the the show promotion together and oh my God, we're so besties. And look at us... Dakota Kidby: [00:28:34] But you're talking. She doesn't have like, an Alyssa and a Dakota. Alyssa Berry: [00:28:37] No. Dakota Kidby: [00:28:37] Or an Alyssa and a Karen or a Dakota and Lindsay. Alyssa Berry: [00:28:40] Yeah, because those people would be telling her, okay, let's just maybe take five steps back here and, like, assess what's happening and let's do this. Because even like their weird charitable organization that doesn't actually give out money. Yeah. Dakota Kidby: [00:28:57] The Archwell Foundation? Alyssa Berry: [00:28:58] Yeah. Dakota Kidby: [00:28:58] So that's what I thought Harry's job was, is I thought that's like he's doing that. Alyssa Berry: [00:29:03] In what way? Dakota Kidby: [00:29:05] And I don't know, I don't know. Alyssa Berry: [00:29:06] But that's the thing. Dakota Kidby: [00:29:07] I didn't go down that deep of a hole. Alyssa Berry: [00:29:08] They're doing all these things, like they kind of throw out all these things and, but what actually is the result of... Like, I just would like, I mean, yeah, I don't... The Harry things. Dakota Kidby: [00:29:18] This is kind of my point is like going back to the authenticity piece, whether you're somebody who already has a big public profile or not, anything you do online these days, like you better be doing it authentically because it'll get called out real quick if you're not. Alyssa Berry: [00:29:41] Really quickly. Dakota Kidby: [00:29:43] And social media is not only difficult to do now in the sense that there's a million steps. I'm not saying it has to be perfect or really good all of the time, but it has to be authentic. And what I mean by that is it's got to have a plan and a strategy and it's got to have some sort of a gap that it is filling to help, to actually help people with something. And if you don't, that's fine, like then it's probably just fodder. But there are channels that make fun of tradwives that are filling a gap for people because they're hilarious. Alyssa Berry: [00:30:26] They're hilarious. Dakota Kidby: [00:30:26] So you can be hilarious and fill a gap. But yeah, like, it is so unbelievably difficult these days to get seen, noticed, liked, followed on social. And so step number one, why are you even doing it? Like is it for to sell, to sell something? Is it to sell you as a human being, as a brand? What is it? And then how are you going to do it in a way that is authentically telling your story to fill a gap, right? And this is where Meghan missed the mark. She doesn't know her audience at all. Alyssa Berry: [00:31:02] No. Dakota Kidby: [00:31:03] Has no fucking clue who they are. Pardon my language. Alyssa Berry: [00:31:06] And also doesn't want to, I think, like, I don't think she's interested in the plebs and the poors and the people who would follow her. Like she's not interested in that. Dakota Kidby: [00:31:15] Yeah. And then the other thing, too, is she's put herself back into the line of fire after complaining for forever. And like, I watched Harry and Meghan over the weekend to do some like reconnaissance for this episode. And I got to tell you, that documentary definitely broke my heart in the sense that I just saw a woman like, a woman who fell in love. And I don't know if she lied about not knowing Harry. Alyssa and I have different perspectives on that. Alyssa Berry: [00:31:43] She totally knew him. She had Princess Diana posters all over her bedroom. Dakota Kidby: [00:31:47] Oh, wow. Okay. Alyssa Berry: [00:31:49] Yeah. Like, there's some lore of Meghan that, like, people choose to, whether they want to, whatever. She wears Diana's perfume. Like, it's all just a little weird. It's a little psycho-ish. Like. And the fact in his book when he said he sleeps next, like, with a thing of his mother's hair next to the bed. Like, there's so many, like, I think a lot of this more so does Harry. Dakota Kidby: [00:32:09] He does? Alyssa Berry: [00:32:10] Yeah. I have issues more with Harry, I think, than her. Like the fact that, like, he should have prepped her, like, why do you think it took like William, like seven, eight years to bring Catherine into the family. There is so much to learn. You need to know that they're ready for it. You want to make sure they're protected. He didn't do any of that. First of all, I mean, they were both in their late 30s, so it's not like we're talking about a 19 year old Diana, which was a whole other kettle of fish. Dakota Kidby: [00:32:36] Yes. Alyssa Berry: [00:32:37] He's an idiot. Like he didn't prepare her. He didn't, like he didn't explain like that like just even though the Queen's your grandma, like, we still curtsy to the Queen, like there's so many things that like. Dakota Kidby: [00:32:48] And that part on her new show or on the documentary, when she's like, she made fun of the curtsying process and he just looked livid. Alyssa Berry: [00:32:57] Livid.  Dakota Kidby: [00:32:58] Like, you don't do that. Like and that I respect, I respect tradition, I respect the Queen. Alyssa Berry: [00:33:03] Like, just know what you're doing. Like, you can think it's shit. Like, we could all think the royal family's... Dakota Kidby: [00:33:08] Don't do it on TV. Alyssa Berry: [00:33:09] And you're marrying into it. You made that decision. No one forced you. So the least you could do is like, pretend to like not, well, not even she could have pretended, she is an actress, but it's like, at least like...  Dakota Kidby: [00:33:23] Just respect it. Respect the tradition. You could literally say in the same breath, you know, I respect the tradition of this, but I disagree with it. Alyssa Berry: [00:33:32] Yeah. And you could have like because even at the time, like the Queen, when she met with the Queen at the beginning, the Queen was like, we think it's great you're here. And if you want to keep acting like, please do, like no one's going to, you don't have to, like, be a full time member if you don't want to. Like, so many concessions were made and she didn't... But it's like that's on fucking Harry. Again, pardon my language, but it's like he is a total idiot. And he has been for years. Like, does anyone remember the gong show at Cowboys in the late 90s with the strippers and the pool table and his time at CFB Suffield, and I was in high school at the time, or maybe not high school maybe, yeah, whatever, was legendary. Everybody in Medicine Hat knew, like he was a massive drug addict. Charles and William covered so much of his crap. It was his, it was the Queen that basically forced him into the military to be like, look, kid, you need to do something like, you are ridiculous. Dakota Kidby: [00:34:28] Out of control. Alyssa Berry: [00:34:29] Out of control. And so a lot of what I think went wrong was on him more so than her, but I think she fed into it. And then because she is an actress, then making it a bigger deal and making it a thing, thinking that you're going to get sympathy, which she did. But again, it's to a family that can't defend itself. So again, whatever they've said, no one knows if any of that's true or whatever is true, because the royal family can't ever come out and be like, no, she's full of shit. Or yeah, this might have happened, but it was more like this, because they don't do that, right? So it's an interesting, like it was kind of a bit of a perfect storm how all of that happened. And how it all spun off. But I agree with you that it's like, I had high expectations or hopes of what they would do with this, with their celebrity moving forward, and it's really just been a lot of nothing. Dakota Kidby: [00:35:30] 100%. Alyssa Berry: [00:35:31] And it's disappointing on all levels. But to me, Harry's the bigger idiot in this whole thing. But that's another conversation. Dakota Kidby: [00:35:38] That's another conversation for another day. Yeah. I think what irks me and what I've been struggling with lately is I don't, so I do digital and social media marketing for a living, but a lot of the time I absolutely detest what I see online, and it's actually been really good for my mental health because I've stopped scrolling and I just don't do it anymore because it's such a waste of my time. I'll try to, like, get the algorithm corrected to the point where only the things that I really want to see are showing up on my algorithm. So like people's podcasts that I listen listened to, advice that I like to get, that kind of thing, cooking, but other than that, like. Alyssa Berry: [00:36:20] It's so toxic. Dakota Kidby: [00:36:21] But it's still to this day, like, I still, because I'm in this space, I'll receive probably, I'll get served five ads a day about coaching and like, social media support and take my course and all that crap. And that whole world also drives me bananas, even though I do respect some people that do that, and I do access some people that do that really well. And I even have a business coach that does that for a living. That being said, the amount of bullshit that I get served on a daily basis, I can't frickin stand it. So if I can give you one big piece of advice for 2025 from the social media space, it is, as I've mentioned a number of times now, to be as authentic as possible. And what does that mean? Just be yourself. Like, be yourself. Speak your mind. Have an opinion, give a voice to issues and things that don't necessarily get airtime. Be contentious if you have to, right. Obviously if your brand is sensitive, you want to be careful about what you're spouting off. And sometimes politics can be a really tricky place, so just be a little careful with that. But if you want to make an impact, then feel free to talk about whatever you want. Just keep in mind that there will be haters and there will be trolls no matter what, no matter what. Alyssa Berry: [00:37:41] And I think that's what my advice to a Meghan Markle would be. Like, if you look at her Instagram now, like I think it's what was it, as ever, Meghan or whatever she changed it to, again, just terrible rebranding. Like that needs a whole other discussion about just the terrible rebranding. But her whole, her whole existence on social media is so heavily filtered and curated, I think it just also leads into that inauthenticity feeling. If she would have gone back to, like before she got married, she had that blog called The Tig or whatever it was called, and she had...  Dakota Kidby: [00:38:20] I love that brand. Alyssa Berry: [00:38:20] Right. So great, so great. She was authentic, she talked about, like, food she liked, but like, do that, but, like, just trying to be like, you're trying to be that, but in this weird filtered still like I'm a duchess sort of way. And it's like, you're like, just lean in to you authentically, like food and just talk about food and not have to have this whole pretense that you're going to cook it, like, make your own flower in the backyard or whatever. Like, no one's doing that. Stop it. So that's what I would say. And I mean, I would say that to any client that I have now. I mean, I understand that people have to sell things, whether you're a retail store or whether you're selling whatever, and that social media is a mechanism to do that. But if you watch some of the like most successful people on social media, they do just show up as themselves. Like that's why TikTok took off so much during Covid. It was just people in their living rooms making videos and doing silly dances and all those sorts of things. And so it's like...  Dakota Kidby: [00:39:25] Having fun. Alyssa Berry: [00:39:26] Having fun. Whatever. Like do that. Like even as a business, you can do that and just show up and just talk in your living room. Like, don't make your social media existence so polished and so filtered and oh my God, every hair on your head must be like photoshopped out before you post an image to Instagram or do a reel. It's like the whole fun of social media is that it's cuckoo bananas. Like, lean into that. Dakota Kidby: [00:39:53] People, people want scrappy. Alyssa Berry: [00:39:56] Yeah. Dakota Kidby: [00:39:57] And any of us business owners who are tuning in and Alyssa and myself, they know, we know that scrappiness is a massive part of starting a business or starting a brand. And when I say scrappiness, I mean there's chaos. There's shit that goes wrong. And it's the stuff that goes wrong that people value hearing about because they're dealing with it too. And they want to know that they're not alone. Nobody really, in today's day and age, wants to hear about how fucking perfect someone's life is, or how they went out and ground this einkorn flour to make these pancakes for their children and milked the cow like, yeah, there's that whole tradwife vibe going on, and sometimes I buy into it, but I think, like, actually one of my favorite brands... And people may come for me for saying this because a lot of people would say that she is very perfect and exudes this, but I really love Hannah, the ballerina farm lady. You know, like, yeah, she's a former ballerina. She does the pageant circuit. She's got, like her ten kids, she's got a hunky husband, she lives on the farm and they do cook every, like you know, they do cook their meals from scratch and whatever. Alyssa Berry: [00:41:10] She does, he doesn't do anything. I'm just going to put that in there. She does all of that. And he wanted those ten kids. She did not. But I'll leave it at that. Dakota Kidby: [00:41:19] Again, this is that fodder though that I just like...  Alyssa Berry: [00:41:22] But this is the whole thing is you're putting that out online. Your husband is a complete friggin moron. You're showing him being a complete friggin moron. I have every right to say that you are in this situation, well, a) because they're Mormon, but b) because your husband is rich and you can live that way because you're rich. Dakota Kidby: [00:41:40] That being said, I, like there's been many pieces of content she's put out talking about, like, do we cook every single meal this way? Absolutely not. Do you know how long it takes me to make this pumpkin stew that I do in the pumpkin? It takes me six hours. Sourdough bread takes this long, like, and, you know, most of the time. Alyssa Berry: [00:42:00] And I have three nannies.  Dakota Kidby: [00:42:02] Well. And if I had that many kids, I'd probably... Alyssa Berry: [00:42:05] Right. But like, let's just talk about it. Let's not pretend she's doing that all on her own. It's a business. Dakota Kidby: [00:42:09] And I don't think she does pretend that though. That's what I really respect, is she doesn't pretend. Alyssa Berry: [00:42:15] But you know who I am finding really effective on social media right now are Canadian businesses who are online and talking about the tariffs and shopping local and making adjustments and being like, Chapman ice cream, for example, just made a post online this week and their Canadian ice cream company, amazing company out of Ontario, treat their employees really great, all of that. And they said they're just going to eat whatever it costs them for these tariffs over like for the rest of the year or whatever. And they're looking at other supplier alternatives. So we're looking in Europe and other places to get supplies so that we can extricate ourselves from the US and not be... So that's all very authentic, interesting people struggling, being like, hey, I'm a small business that sells leggings online, and Amazon is kicking my ass. Like I saw one small business owner, it's Aro, A R O, I think, athletics and I think she's out of Ontario too, if not BC. Anyway, she sells like athleisure wear and she went on Amazon. She started selling her items on Amazon Canada and she just pulled from Amazon. And not because Amazon's awful, because we know it is, but she's getting, because there's no oversight from Amazon of what people are returning or what people are... So she is getting people returning items that they didn't buy from her, like their like socks or whatever, but because they had a shipping label or that they had ordered from her in the past, they're returning it to her and she has to eat the cost of that return from Amazon, even though it wasn't from her, like they're not her items. And so she's like, I'm just going to get off Amazon because there's no oversight of what... Dakota Kidby: [00:44:02] I've actually heard of that. Now that I think about it. Alyssa Berry: [00:44:04] She's now like, okay, so now I'm back. I'm just going to be selling on my website, doing all that. So hey, if you can support, this is what we're doing, blah, blah, blah, that's authentic. Like showing what's really going on behind the scenes in running a small business right now, especially small businesses in the clothing or retail sector in Canada that are making and supplying their own clothing here in Canada. And having to justify like one guy who's really great is Connor Curran, who runs who owns Local Laundry, which is a Calgary company. And him talking about like when people bitch at him about like, well, why is your hoodie like $70. He's like, well because we pay people. Dakota Kidby: [00:44:39] Yeah. We pay people fair wages. Alyssa Berry: [00:44:41] We pay people, like and it's made here in Canada. It's made by seamstresses. The fabric, all of that is Canadian. So people are now getting educated about that stuff. It's like, oh, I have no problem spending $70 on a hoodie that I can wear for the next 15 years if I know that. Dakota Kidby: [00:44:54] And that's a great way to show up authentically and be honest. Alyssa Berry: [00:44:57] So those are the kind of things like that are resonating right now, because that's just what's happening right now online. But that's just sort of a testament of what people want to see from people online is like, everything isn't great. You don't have to pretend it is. And talk about it. Dakota Kidby: [00:45:14] Don't pretend. I think some of my favorite videos over the last while have been, I really appreciate, as someone who has really bad seasonal depression, those like refresh videos where folks kind of get up in the morning on a Sunday and they're like, come, come for a depression, like I've come out of my depression, let's do a refresh together. And you go through the house and like, they clean everything and it like motivates you to go do that. Alyssa Berry: [00:45:37] I like that too. I like the ones that are the, what do they call it, the the late shift or the last shift where they make sure their kitchen and everything is clean before they go to bed at night. And I'm like, oh, I love that. I think it's called the late shift. Dakota Kidby: [00:45:49] Oh no, I haven't heard of that. Alyssa Berry: [00:45:50] So make sure all the toys are picked up and the the kitchen is cleaned before you go to bed because you can, you wake up and it's, you're in a better mood. Dakota Kidby: [00:45:56] And then you feel good. Alyssa Berry: [00:45:57] I love that stuff. I'm a sucker for all that kind of stuff. Dakota Kidby: [00:46:01] But yeah, just so yeah. Anyway, interesting stuff going down right now and yeah, so. But yeah, for our Canadian listeners, getting yourself educated around what's going on with tariffs and flipping the script on how you shop, very important right now. And we'll definitely talk about that in another episode coming up pretty soon here too. But yeah, other than that, I think we're out of time for today. So we appreciated having you guys listen in and we will see you in two weeks. Alyssa Berry: [00:46:34] Thanks for tuning in to another episode of Ladies Who Launch. 

Send us a textWe're continuing our SXSW 2025 coverage with two documentaries centering around the strength of a mother.MOLA: A Tibetan Tale of Love and Loss, chronicles the life of Kunsang Wangmo (aka "Mola"), a 100 year-old Tibetan nun who was exiled from Tibet in 1959 and, after celebrating her 100th birthday, dreams of dying in "the religious paradise of Tibet". Co-directors (and father and daughter team) Martin Brauen and Yangzom Brauen share the importance of honoring the Tibetan community, how being so close to the material made it difficult to edit, and some beloved scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor.Uvalde Mom tells the story of Angeli Rose Gomez, a mother who rescued her children from the 2022 Robb Elementary school shooting in Uvalde, TX, while nearly 400 armed officers waited 77 minutes to intervene. We were joined by director Anayansi Prado and the film's subject Angeli Rose Gomez to discuss how Anayansi was able to gain the trust of Angeli and her family, the drama and repercussions of Angeli being thrust into the spotlight, and her cousin being a  star of the film.Follow MOLA: A Tibetan Tale of Love and Loss on IGFollow director Yangzom Brauen on IGFollow director Martin Brauen on IGFollow Uvalde Mom on IGFollow director Anayansi Prado on IGSupport the showThanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 11 years, recorded 800+ episodes, and won Best of the Bay Best Podcast in 2022 , 2023 , and 2024 without your help! -- Fight fascism. Shop small. Use cash. -- Subscribe to our channel on YouTube for behind the scenes footage! Rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts! Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.com Follow us on Instagram & Facebook Listen every Tuesday at 9 - 10 am on BFF.FM

Congratulations to the following boys and girls soccer teams in the Wilson County News coverage area that are competing in the playoffs. Boys Area •Floresville v Fredericksburg, March 25, in Kyle •La Vernia v Marble Falls, March 25, in Dripping Springs Girls Area •Floresville v Canyon Lake, March 25, in Kyle •La Vernia v Burnet, March 25, in Georgetown Boys Bi-District •(3/21) Floresville def. Gonzales, 3-0 •(3/21) La Vernia def. Uvalde, 5-2 Girls Bi-District •(3/21) Floresville def. Luling, 7-5 •(3/21) La Vernia def. Somerset, 7-0 Watch for playoff updates at wilsoncountynews.com.Article Link

The Floresville Tigers varsity baseball team hosted the Uvalde Lobos March 21. Jaden Moreno threw for seven innings and ended the game with seven strikeouts and one earned run. The Tigers' defense was strong and consistent throughout the game. The Tigers dominated Uvalde and took the win, 8-1. Floresville will host the Pleasanton Eagles on Friday, March 28, at 7 p.m.Article Link

Erik Childress has been traveling to Austin for over 20 years for the annual South by Southwest Film Festival. He is back to tell you all about 19 films that he saw this year. Among the films you can see soon are the return of Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively to the world of simple favor. Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega trying to survive the revenge of a unicorn and Nicolas Cage battles some territorial Australians. Hopefully audiences won't have to wait too long to see the solo directorial debut of Jay Duplass or the latest from Matt Johnson that pays homage to the world of Robert Zemeckis and Rosamund Pike & Matthew Rhys desperately try to get to the scene of their daughter's accident, Daisy Ridley has to dodge zombies and a pair of brothers take a leisurely stroll through San Francisco with their guitars in a single take. There are documentaries about Curtis Mayfield, Marc Maron, the horrors and fascism in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting and what to do when an A.I. Pioneer won't answer your questions. Erik reviews all that plus Michael Bay's parkour documentary in this recap of one of his favorite festivals.   0:00 – Intro 2:02 – Another Simple Favor 5:08 – Hallow Road 8:27 – Brother Verses Brother 11:19 – The Dutchman 14:03 – Death of a Unicorn 18:51 – American Sweatshop 22:18 – Uvalde Mom 25:22 – Forge 28:10 – We Bury the Dead 31:25 – Nirvanna the Band the Show – The Movie 35:59 – Deepfaking Sam Altman 39:40 – The Baltimorons 45:02 – For Worse 49:21 – The Surfer 53:14 – The Makings of Curtis Mayfield 54:27 – Make It Look Real 57:07 – Caper 59:50 – We Are Storror 1:03:59 – Are We Good? 1:07:02 - Outro

The Floresville Tigers defeated Uvalde 3-1 in Friday's game, securing their first entirely undefeated District Championship March 14. Last year they lost one game and the previous year they tied 2 games. The Tigers are a tightly-knit team, known for their intense training, strong work ethic, and unwavering commitment to achieving victory. One of the game's standout moments came when senior Max Campos (7) delivered a free kick to senior Javier Estrada (8), who scored the Tigers' second goal. You could see the moment of excitement and relief in his face as he threw his arms up and took in...Article Link

Congratulations to the following boys and girls soccer teams in the Wilson County News coverage area that made the playoffs. Boys Bi-District •Floresville v. Gonzales, March 21, 7 p.m. in Luling •La Vernia v. Uvalde, March 21, 6:30 p.m. in Uvalde Girls Bi-District •Floresville v. Luling, March 21, 5 p.m. in Luling •La Vernia v. Somerset, March 21, 7 p.m. in La VerniaArticle Link

Congratulations to the following boys and girls soccer teams in the Wilson County News coverage area that made the playoffs. Boys Bi-District •Floresville v. Gonzales, TBD •La Vernia v. Uvalde, TBD Girls Bi-District •Floresville v. Medina Valley, March 18 •La Vernia, TBD  Article Link

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If you examine any good map of Texas, you’ll notice a natural division of East and West Texas that runs from the eastern side of the Panhandle down to Abilene and San Angelo and on past Uvalde to Carrizo Springs and Laredo. To the west side of that line is arid and to the east […] The post The 100th meridian appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

The Floresville Tigers varsity soccer team gathers for a photo after defeating the Bulldogs 4-0 in Somerset March 7. The team celebrated their undefeated 9-0 District record, and third-year-in-a-row District Championship title with their coaches, Head Coach Luis Berumen and Assistant Coach Drew Dylla. The Tigers will continue to work during their spring break in preparation for their last District game of the season on Friday, March 14, at 7 p.m., in Uvalde against the Lobos.Article Link

Protests planned and hearing scheduled at the Capitol this week. The issue? Taxpayer money for private schooling. Blaise Gainey of the Texas Newsroom with the latest on what to expect this week at the Legislature.Millions in federal funds to help legal immigrants is now being held up in D.C. How is this affecting services in […] The post ‘Uvalde Mom' profiles woman behind viral act of bravery appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

Angeli Rose Gomez, the subject of the powerful documentary, UVALDE MOM, along with Director Anayansi Prado, sat down for a heartfelt interview about the film and persevering in the face of unimaginable tragedy, as well as the failures of political and legal systems in protecting their own citizens. UVALDE MOM is a documentary that tells the story of Angeli Rose Gomez, a farm worker and single mom who in May 2022 ran into Robb Elementary in Uvalde, TX to save her two sons during a mass shooting, while nearly 400 armed officers waited 77 minutes to intervene. When a video of her running out with her sons goes viral, Angeli highlights the inaction of law enforcement that day. However, she soon faces harassment from authorities, making her vulnerable due to her tumultuous past. As Angeli's narrative unfolds, the Uvalde community demands accountability and change. Conflicting narratives emerge from authorities, and the U.S. Department of Justice launches an investigation. Sign up for the Friday Night Movie Newsletter for giveaways, curated episode playlists from the hosts and guests (including our mom), and at MOST one email per month (and probably fewer).  Closed captions for this episode are available via the player on the official Friday Night Movie homepage, the Podbean app and website, and YouTube.  The Friday Night Movie Family supports the following organizations: The Red Tent Fund | HIAS | Equal Justice Initiative | Asian American Journalists Association | The Entertainment Community Fund. Subscribe, rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, including iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Podbean | Overcast. Play along with Friday Night Movie at home! Read the FNM Glossary to learn the about our signature bits (e.g., Buy/Rent/Meh, I Told You Shows, Tradesies, etc). Email us at info@p4tmedia.com or tweet @FriNightMovie, @pancake4table, @chichiKgomez, and/or  @paperBKprincess.  Follow our creations and zany Instagram stories @frinightmovie, @FNMsisters, and @pancake4table. Follow us on Letterboxd (@pancake4table) where we're rating every movie we've EVER watched.  Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter for exclusive giveaways and news! Theme music by What Does It Eat.  Subscribe and leave a review on IOS or Android at frinightmovie.com.

The boys are joined by Chance Cooper, Antihero alumni and C.O.O. of Apollo, to dissect law enforcement's god awful response to the Uvalde tragedy on May 24, 2022. Check out our sponsors!! Human Performance Team (promo code "HERO" for 10% off!) https://hptrt.com/ Ghost Bed (promo code "Ghostbed" for 50% off!) https://www.ghostbed.com/pages/antiheroutm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=antihero Zero 9 Holsters (promo code "ZERO9ANTIHERO10" for 10% off!) Cloud Defensive (promo code "ANTIHERO15" for 15% off!) https://clouddefensive.com Zero 9 Holsters (promo code "ZERO9ANTIHERO10" for 10% off!) https://zero9holsters.com/ Venjenz (promo code "ANTIHERO" for 15% off!) https://venjenz.com/ Refracted Wolf Apparel (promo code "ANTIHERO" for 15% off!) https://refractedwolfapparel.com/ First Responders Coffee Company (promo code "FRCC15" for 15% off!) https://frccoffee.com/ Patreon https://patreon.com/TheAntiheroPodcast?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we are joined by several of the speakers and participants in the Preventing Gun Violence Advocacy Day. First we talk with Jasir Rahman, a student at Rice University and Texas Youth Advocacy Coordinator with Team ENOUGH. Later in the episode we hear from Nicole Golden, Director of Texas Gun Sense, and Rev. Stephen Sanders from Oak Hill United Methodist Church shortly after the rally for gun violence prevention was held on the Texas Capitol steps on February 27th.   Gun violence is always such a hard topic. Because so many of the folks who show up have traumatic stories to explain what brought them to this work. We heard stories from Uvalde families. We heard from people who had family members take their lives or who had friends involved in accidental deaths. And, while we marched to the Capitol with about 1,000 other advocates from across the state to rally on the South steps, we passed by over 1,000 t-shirts with the names of Texans who needlessly lost their lives to gun violence as part of a giant Vidas Robadas display.   I want to give props to Texas Impact's Gun Violence Prevention team for their work on this event and to the Texas Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence for their work. If you want to learn more about Texas Impact's involvement or how you can get involved check out Action Center at texasimpact.org.    Find out more about the work of Team Enough and Texas Gun Sense: https://www.bradyunited.org/take-action/join-movement/team-enough https://txgunsense.org/

Also, White Settlement Police found a thief who was stuffing cowboy boots down his pants, and some of the victims' families from the Uvalde school shooting were back at the State Capitol pushing for gun regulations Thursday.

From Columbine to Sandy Hook to Uvalde, the list of schools and communities devastated by gun violence grows every year. Dewey Cornell, PhD, an expert in school violence prevention, discusses how schools can respond when faced with a potential threat, and how students, teachers, administrators and law enforcement can work together to keep schools safe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chicago woman sentenced for mother's “suitcase” murder, Panera Bread sued a third time, Uvalde grand jury summoned. Discount codes and more: https://linktr.ee/risencrime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's the most wonderful time of year! From artificial intelligence and traffic engineering to recruiting and planning, our episodes covered a wide array of all that goes into local government. To celebrate 2024 and look forward to 2025, the GovLove co-hosts teamed up to give out the most prestigious award in local government podcasting. Lauren, Dan, Meredith, and Ben each selected three of their favorite episodes to award a GovieLovie. Hosts: Lauren Palmer, Dan Bolin, Meredith Reynolds, & Ben Kittelson   The 2024 GovieLovies Lauren Killed by a Traffic Engineer with Dr. Wes Marshall Community Leadership, AI, and Engagement an ICMA Conference Recap - GovLove Island Youth-Centric Neighborhood Planning with Dave Walker, Detroit, MI Dan Recovering from Violence with Vince DiPiazza, Uvalde, TX Across the Generations with Sam Badger and Decker Ploehn The Public Administrator's Guide to Artificial Intelligence with Dr. Dylan Hayden Meredith Local Government Recruiting with Teri Black, Teri Black & Company Leadership and the Deputy Manager Role with Chelsea Jackson, Douglasville, GA City Planning from Waaaay Downtown with Caitlin Clark, Scottsdale, AZ Ben Rethinking Budgeting with GFOA's Chris Morrill and Shayne Kavanagh Revisiting Minneapolis 2040 with Heather Worthington, Urban3 Growing Up in City Hall with Monica Davis and Poonam Davis  

La estudiante de origen mexicano Rubi Vergara fue una de las víctimas mortales del tiroteo en la escuela Abundant Life en Madison Arizona. Su padre, Vicente Vergara rompió el silencio sobre lo sucedido. En otras noticias: Luigi Mangione llegó a Nueva York extraditado desde Pensilvania bajo fuertes medidas de seguridad. En una corte federal se le presentaron los cargos por el asesinato de Brian Thompson.Fueron identificadas las víctimas mortales del tiroteo de la escuela Abundant Life de Madison, Wisconsin.Un juez negó una solicitud para desestimar los cargos penales contra Pete Arredondo, el ex jefe de policía del distrito escolar de Uvalde.Continúa la incertidumbre sobre el cierre del gobierno. Legisladores republicanos tiene un nuevo paquete de financiación que Donald Trump apoya.El gobierno de Trump necesitará al menos 100 mil camas para ejecutar su plan de deportaciones masivas.

A huge settlement in the USA Gymnastics sexual assault case. More charges against police in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Punishment for a man who posted video of himself licking food at Walmart.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our "hot take"? The CEO shooting reminds us of... Sandy Hook and Uvalde.  Driftglass reads his classic tale "Little Red State Fundy" and we have given up MSNBC, all of it, for one big reason.  More at proleftpod.com. YouTube and Avatar artwork via Bing.AI.Blue Gal's knitting podcast!  https://www.youtube.com/@flangumOur podcast YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessionalLeftSupport the show:PayPal |  https://paypal.me/proleftpodcastPatreon | https://patreon.com/proleftpodDo you want to send us a holiday card and/or contribution by mail?  We love getting mail!The Professional Left PodcastPO Box 9133 Springfield, IL 62791Support the show

This week's guest is Craig Garnett, the longtime publisher and owner of the Uvalde Leader-News, the daily newspaper in Uvalde, a South Texas town of 15,000 that became national news on May 24, 2022, when 18-year-old Salvador Ramos opened fire in Robb Elementary School, killing 19 young children and two of their teachers, and injuring 17 others. Garnett and the Leader-News should serve as the model publisher and newspaper for how to show responsible leadership in the wake of such tragedy. Last month Garnett was the subject of a profile in the New York Times that extolled his role in the community before and after the Robb Elementary School shooting changed Uvalde forever.  

On May 24, 2022, a 18 year-old walked into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas and shot to death 19 students and 2 teachers. In Uvalde's Darkest Hour, the owner of the local Uvalde Leader-News, Craig Garnett tries to make sense of these tragic events. Although making sense might be the wrong words to describe either the book or Garnett himself. While this mass murder occurred more than two years ago, the stoical Garnett still appears frozen in a kind of uncomprehending grief in the face of this terrible crime. As he confesses, the writing of the book was intended as a kind of catharsis. But there's still an intense anger there - especially toward the local police chiefs who allowed the gunman to remain in the classroom for an hour and fourteen minutes.CRAIG GARNETT has owned the Uvalde Leader-News, the local newspaper, since 1989. He moved to Uvalde in 1982 to begin work with the Leader-News, where his weekly editorials and columns have won dozens of awards from the Texas Press Association and South Texas Press Association. Garnett received the 2023 Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, integrity, and tenacity in rural journalism for his coverage of the 2022 Uvalde school shooting.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review a unique collaboration involving the celebrated poet Naomi Shahib Nye, Ann Alejandro, and our own Marion Winik: "I Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Sam interviews Kitty Brandtner, the founder and co-president of March Fourth. Following the mass shooting tragedies in Buffalo, Uvalde, and Highland Park, Kitty created a movement focused exclusively on the assault weapons ban. Nine days after the Fourth of July shooting in 2022, she mobilized 500+ supporters for a rally and meetings on Capitol Hill. Two weeks later, the House passed the Assault Weapons Ban bill for the first time in nearly 30 years. Sam will be joining Kitty in December to lobby at The Hill and wanted to share with you what she has been learning along the way. https://www.wemarchfourth.org/ https://www.instagram.com/march_fourth_/?hl=en This episode is sponsored by Uncommon Goods. Get 15% off your first purchase at www.uncommongoods.com/FREEDOM ALL things Find Food Freedom®: Get your Insurance Benefits Checked: https://bit.ly/FFFinsurance    Instagram: @find.food.freedom  TikTok: @findfoodfreedom  Website:https://find-foodfreedom.com/  Join the FFF Membership and use the code 'IWANTFOODFREEDOM' for 3 months completely FREE!

In this episode, we welcome Sarah Habib, founder of The Calm Caterpillar, who shares her journey in creating tools that help children, both neurotypical and neurodivergent, manage big emotions. Sarah's calm corner kits and sensory aids are transforming classrooms and homes by fostering emotional regulation and reducing disruptions. Hear how she's making a difference nationwide, including her inspiring work in Uvalde, Texas. Tune in to learn more about building compassionate, neurodiversity-affirming spaces for kids! Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1kzqoTm_XGM Bio:  Sarah Habib Sarah is a renowned educator and advocate for student wellness, with extensive experience spanning hundreds of schools and districts nationwide. Over her career, Sarah has collaborated closely with principals from elementary through high schools, helping to shape and support environments where both students and educators thrive. Her leadership in professional training has empowered countless administrators and teachers, equipping them with the tools and strategies needed to foster holistic development within their schools. One of Sarah's notable contributions includes her work with the Uvalde school district, where she trained guidance counselors to implement calm spaces in schools, fostering environments that support emotional regulation and improve classroom behavior. This initiative exemplifies her commitment to providing actionable, compassionate solutions that address both immediate needs and long-term well-being. As an inventor and entrepreneur, Sarah developed unique tools that enhance children's breathing techniques and emotional regulation, impacting thousands of families. Since 2017, her curriculum has grown from a single-school initiative to an essential program across 45 schools, reaching over 10,000 students, with more than 2,000 engaging weekly. Her program serves students from ages two to eighteen and fulfills Ohio's state requirements for Social and Emotional Learning for Cincinnati Public Preschool students. Sarah's dedication to mindfulness extends through her nearly decade-long leadership of a non-profit focused on movement and mindfulness, promoting a balanced approach to education that values both mental and physical well-being. To ensure the effectiveness of her curriculum, she has co-sponsored a range of scientific studies, establishing an evidence-based foundation for her tools and training programs. Academically, Sarah holds a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University. She also has a certification in Z-Health, a movement training system that uses neuroscience to enhance performance, and a certification from Mindful Schools. Her work is a testament to her vision of education as a comprehensive journey, where wellness and learning go hand in hand, fostering environments where both students and educators can thrive. Connect With Sarah: Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/thecalmcaterpillar/?hl=en Website: thecalmcaterpillar.com Email: sarah@thecalmcaterpillar.com Resources Mentioned: ACES info: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/about.html ACES info: https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/health-wellness/health-encyclopedia/he.understanding-how-adverse-childhood-experiences-aces-can-affect-children.acm1499 The Calm Caterpillar products: https://thecalmcaterpillar.com/collections/shop-all Discount code of 15%: AutismLittleLearners Topics Covered: Introduction: Sarah Habib, founder of Calm Caterpillar, aims to help neurodivergent children manage emotions through practical skills. Origin: Launched during the pandemic to support families in Cincinnati Public Schools, fostering consistency between home and school. Calm Corner Kits: Distributed 2,200 kits to preschoolers, featuring meditation cushions and breathing tools, with 86% parent engagement through bi-weekly texts. Behavioral Impact: Reduced classroom disruptions and enhanced pro-social skills, highlighting the need for emotional regulation practice at home and school. Product Development: Created tools like "Calming," a weighted plush, and "Bloomy," a tactile breathing tool for teaching breathing techniques. Teaching Techniques: Focuses on teaching breathing in calm states, using co-regulation, and modeling behavior for children. Buddy Breathing: Introduced a hand-tracing breathing technique adaptable for both neurotypical and neurodivergent children. Calm Corner Implementation: Advocates for calm corners in classrooms for self-regulation and independent breathing practice. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Addresses ACEs' impact on emotional health and the role of mindfulness in mitigation. Uvalde Initiative: Provided calm corner kits and training to Uvalde school counselors post-shooting, emphasizing emotional management. Collaboration and Resources: Offers customizable kits for schools and promotes collaboration with educators and caregivers for emotional regulation strategies. You may also be interested in these supports: Visual Support Starter Set  Visual Supports Facebook Group Autism Little Learners on Instagram Autism Little Learners on Facebook Submit a question for the Q&A episodes.  Ask me anything and tune in to see if your question is featured on the show!    

Episode Summary:Like a dog returning to her vomit, America chose the sexual predator, white nationalist, pathological liar, and criminal instead of an educated, compassionate Black woman to lead this nation into our collective future. This feels more sinister than 2016 because Trump and his henchmen now have a plan in Project 2025 and I promise you, people are going to suffer.How do we sit with suffering and respond with compassion? How do we continue to seek justice without demonizing the Christians who willfully voted for this madness? How do we implement a politic of compassion in an era of cruelty?Bekah McNeel joins me today on Holy Heretics to reset this new normal, to offer a way forward through the solidarity of suffering.In her career as a journalist, Bekah has encountered a lot of suffering. After all, the most polarizing topics in US politics all revolve around suffering (gun violence, immigration, Covid-19, sexual violence, and white supremacy). She's sat with migrants seeking asylum. She's stood outside the school in Uvalde, Texas weeping with parents. She's been to Detroit and shared space with Iraqi immigrants. As she says in this conversation, “I have zero tolerance for political justifications for suffering.”Bekah's ability to break down complex political and ethical arguments through the lens of compassion is a starting point for those of us who refuse to give up the fight for justice.In this timely conversation, we discuss the following:How for-profit journalism failed the American peopleThe media's role in electing TrumpThe power of compassion and the limits to our compassionHow to respond to disinformation with questions and compassionHow to distinguish between political and ethical issuesHow to cultivate healthy relationships with friends and family with whom we vehemently disagree withThe issues behind the issues that turn political disagreements into personal attacks, i.e. the conversations about politics with your parentsBio:Bekah Stolhandske McNeel is a native of San Antonio, Texas, where she works as a journalist. Her work has appeared in Texas Monthly, Sojourners, The Guardian, The Trace, The Texas Tribune, The 74 Million, Christianity Today, Texas Public Radio, Relevant, Andscape, The Hechinger Report, and the Christian Science Monitor, among others. She published her first book, Bringing Up Kids When Church Lets You Down: A Guide for Parents Questioning their Faith with Eerdmans in 2022. Known for her ability to communicate the high stakes of politics and policy and bring clarity to complex systems, Bekah keeps the human beings most affected at the front of her coverage.Bekah is a graduate of the London School of Economics, where she earned a MSc in Media Studies. She is married to Lewis McNeel, an architect with Lake | Flato. They have two young children who, while they do not yet have careers, are very busy.Please follow us on social media (use the buttons below) and help us get the word out! (Also, please don't hesitate to use any of these channels or email to contact us with any questions, concerns, or feedback.)If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a rating and a review, or share on your socials

"A first responder unwilling to place the lives of the innocent above their own safety should consider another career field."School shootings have become a tragic and recurring part of American life, with events like Columbine, Sandy Hook, and Parkland forever altering how we think about safety in our schools. Each incident has reignited debates about gun control, mental health, and the responsibility of those tasked with protecting students. Yet, despite the changes in policy and heightened awareness, this endless cycle of violence continues to haunt entire communities.In May 2022, the town of Uvalde, Texas, became the site of another devastating school shooting that shocked the nation. The heartbreaking loss of young lives and the unfolding details of the attack raised disturbing questions about what went wrong. As the story emerged, it was clear this tragedy would stand out not just for its overwhelming horror but for the unsettling revelations it left behind in its wake...Research, writing, hosting, and production by Micheal WhelanLearn more about this podcast at http://unresolved.meIf you would like to support this podcast, consider heading to https://www.patreon.com/unresolvedpod to become a Patron or ProducerBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unresolved--3266604/support.

“Help!” “Help!” “Help!” “I don't want to die. My teacher is dead.” “One of my teachers is still alive but shot.” “Officer!” “Officer!” “Are they [officers] in the building?” “There is a lot of dead bodies.” These were the words of nine- and ten-year-old children at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022, during a call with 911. We try to take a balanced approach between the real challenges first responders take and the tragic reality of this event. We hope you learn from it. Show links: DOJ Report: https://bit.ly/3zDqtOK  ALERRT Report: https://bit.ly/4gGGAf9  TX State Report: https://bit.ly/3XJJ7wj    Find us on social media (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/YouTube) @TacTangents. You can join the conversation in our Facebook Discussion Group. Find all of our episodes, articles, some reading list ideas, and more on our website www.tacticaltangents.com Like what we're doing? Head over to Patreon and give us a buck for each new episode. You can also make a one-time contribution at GoFundMe. Intro music credit Bensound.com

In Episode #55 of The Thermal, Dutch racing pilot Jeroen Verkuijl on flying at the World Gliding Championships in Uvalde, Texas. And he tells us about the special day team Orange finished 1st in all three classes.   And a solution to the ever-increasing cost and number of flights for students to solo. We speak to an OSTIV award winner about what the Toronto Metropolitan University's gliding club has done to get students to solo sooner.   That's all on Episode   #55 of The Thermal.

Gun violence is a top voting issue for Latinos and Latinas this election cycle. So to explore how Latines are thinking about the topic, we traveled to Texas. The Lone Star State has more registered guns than any other state in the country, and it's also home to some of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history — many of them directly targeting Latinos and Latinas.On this episode of Latino USA, producer Reynaldo Leaños Jr. travels to El Paso, Texas to speak with Latinx activists and gun owners about gun reform and safety ahead of the November presidential election. Maria Hinojosa returns to Uvalde, Texas to catch up with a survivor of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary and see how the community has been mobilizing around gun reform.This story is part of our ongoing political coverage “The Latino Factor: How We Vote."You can read more about the episode here. Subscribe to our newsletter by going to the top of our homepage. Follow us on TikTok and YouTube. 

This was FTS' line in the sand. All the cops on YouTube and Social Media immediately jumped on the mainstream media's hate bandwagon towards police response in Uvalde-- without knowing about it. Only now, two years later, is information finally being released-- how does our first response hold up with everything we are about to learn in the news? It's the moment we've been waiting for, to find out if our calls to reserve judgment were   Originally airing in July 8, 2022, following the preliminary after action report from Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center in Texas, Mike the Cop and Eric Tansey talk about Uvalde-- which left 19 dead.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After a prolonged legal battle, the city of Uvalde, Texas, has released a series of audio and video recordings connected to the tragic 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. The devastating event claimed the lives of 21 individuals, including 19 students and two adults. These recordings, made public following a lawsuit filed by several news outlets, including the Associated Press, CNN, and the Austin American-Statesman, offer a chilling glimpse into the chaos and fear that unfolded during the horrific event. Among the communications released were 911 calls made during the shooting, capturing the desperate pleas of students and teachers trapped inside the school. One of the most heart-wrenching calls was made by 10-year-old Khloie Torres, who was trapped in a classroom where the gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, had opened fire. "Please, I don't want to die. My teacher is dead. Oh my God," Khloie told the dispatcher, describing the scene around her with a trembling voice. "A lot of people are gone," she added, referring to the many victims who had already succumbed to the gunman's bullets. The recordings also revealed the chaos and confusion among law enforcement as they attempted to respond to the crisis. The police response included nearly 150 U.S. Border Patrol agents, 91 state police officials, as well as school and city police. Despite the overwhelming presence of law enforcement, the response was slow and disorganized, with dozens of officers standing in the hallway, uncertain of their next move. Meanwhile, terrified students and teachers continued to make desperate 911 calls, begging for help as the gunman continued his deadly rampage. The gunman, Salvador Ramos, entered Robb Elementary School at 11:33 a.m., first firing shots from the hallway before entering two adjoining fourth-grade classrooms. The first officers arrived minutes later, but they retreated after Ramos opened fire on them, leaving the children and teachers inside to fend for themselves. As the minutes ticked by, the Uvalde Police Department's radio traffic remained focused on setting up a perimeter around the school, controlling traffic, and managing the crowd of desperate parents who had gathered outside, pleading for officers to go in and save their children. At 12:06 p.m., the chaos was still palpable as officers struggled to establish a command post, with one officer lamenting that they lacked the manpower to both manage the perimeter and deal with the situation inside. "They're trying to push in," one officer said, referring to the frantic parents outside. By 12:16 p.m., a SWAT team from Austin, located 162 miles away, was en route to the scene, but local police still struggled to provide coherent information about the situation inside the school. It wasn't until 12:50 p.m., nearly 80 minutes after Ramos began his attack, that a tactical team finally entered one of the classrooms and fatally shot him. The delayed response has been heavily criticized in multiple reports, including a U.S. Justice Department review that highlighted the lack of urgency in establishing a command center, which led to confusion among officers about who was in charge. The report, along with other federal and state investigations, pointed to cascading failures in law enforcement training, communication, leadership, and technology. Some reports even questioned whether officers had prioritized their own safety over that of the children and teachers trapped inside. Adding to the tragedy, Ramos had shot and wounded his grandmother before driving to the school, where he carried out his attack. His uncle, Armando Ramos, made several frantic 911 calls, begging to be connected to his nephew in hopes of talking him down. "Everything I tell him, he does listen to me," Armando said, his voice cracking. "Maybe he could stand down or do something to turn himself in." His desperate pleas, however, came too late; by the time he made contact, the shooting had already ended, and Salvador Ramos had been killed by law enforcement. In the aftermath, two officers involved in the response have faced criminal charges. Former Uvalde School Police Chief Pete Arredondo and former school officer Adrian Gonzales have pleaded not guilty to multiple charges of child abandonment and endangerment. Arredondo, in a recent interview with CNN, claimed he has been “scapegoated” for the botched response. The release of these recordings has reignited conversations about accountability and the need for reform in law enforcement responses to critical situations. Families of the victims have called for more officers to be charged and have filed federal and state lawsuits against law enforcement, social media, online gaming companies, and the gun manufacturer that produced the rifle used by the gunman. As the legal battles continue, the community of Uvalde remains haunted by the events of that tragic day, with many still seeking justice for the lives lost. Want to listen to ALL of our podcasts AD-FREE? 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In our news wrap Saturday, an Israeli airstrike killed at least 80 people at a school in Gaza, a newly released recording of a 911 call during the Uvalde school shooting reveals the gunman's uncle tried to intervene, the U.S. women's soccer team won gold at the Paris Olympics, and longtime Google executive and former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki died at age 56. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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In an excerpt from a new episode of the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance break down the delay of former President Donald Trump's sentencing in Manhattan, as he seeks to overturn his conviction in light of the Supreme Court's recent immunity decision. In the full episode, Preet and Joyce discuss:  – The many legal questions surrounding President Joe Biden's campaign following his debate with Trump;  – The recent Supreme Court decision that will make it more difficult for federal prosecutors to bring corruption charges against public officials; and  – The indictment of former Uvalde, Texas School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo in connection with the failed police response to the 2022 school shooting. CAFE Insiders click HERE to listen to the full analysis. To become a member of CAFE Insider head to cafe.com/insider. You'll get access to full episodes of the podcast and other exclusive content. This podcast is brought to you by CAFE and Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to About Damn Crime on the main feed! Ellyn brings us up to speed on the dramatic Karen Reed murder case with a deadlocked jury and a judge who's fed up. We also dive into the Supreme Court's shocking rulings, the long-awaited indictments of Uvalde officers, and the chilling Wade Wilson case, where execution is on the table for the convicted murderer. Plus so much more! Amid all this, we find time for some hilarious parenting stories and wrap up with a feel-good segment in “Tell Me Something Good.” And of course, happy birthday to Rabia! Don't miss this episode! Follow on Instagram at @rabiaandellyn or on their personal pages, @rabiasquared2 and @ellynmarsh. Check out their Patreon page for exclusive bonus content for Rabia and Ellyn Solve the Case at https://www.patreon.com/rabiaandellyn! And do not forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more Solve the Case, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA8XyM5mAldu9zswyj5zcLQ

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As mass shootings plague the United States, victims' families continue to search for accountability. To that end, a pair of lawsuits by the families of victims of the Uvalde school shooting will try a new tactic.J. David Goodman, the Houston bureau chief for The Times, discusses the unusual targets of the lawsuits and profiles the lawyers behind them.Guest: J. David Goodman, the Houston bureau chief for The New York Times.Background reading: The Uvalde lawsuits are among the most far-reaching to be filed in response to the escalating number of mass shootings in the United States.For more information on today's episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

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Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced plans on Wednesday to fast-track a vote on a bill to protect access to birth control and other contraceptives. It comes the day after former President Donald Trump suggested he would be open to new restrictions, only to backtrack hours later. Longtime Capitol Hill reporter Eugene Scott explains the strategy behind Schumer's fast vote.Kenyan President William Ruto arrived in Washington on Wednesday for a three-day state visit. The White House will host him at an official state dinner tonight, making Ruto the first African leader to have state visit since 2008. We'll look at what that 16-year gap says about broader U.S. relations on the African continent.And in headlines: The New York Times reports a second right-wing flag was flown at a beach house owned by Justice Samuel Alito, the families of 19 victims of the Uvalde, Texas school shooting sued the school district and nearly 100 police officers for the botched response to the attack, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called for a snap general election on July 4.Show Notes:What A Day – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@whatadaypodcastFollow us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/crookedmedia/For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday