Best Teacher Tech Studio Podcasts (2025)

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Sovereign AI in Poland: Language Adaptation, Local Control & Cost Advantages with Marek Kozlowski 1:29:52

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Marek Kozlowski, Head of the AI Lab at Poland's National Information Processing Institute, discusses project PLLuM (Polish Large Language Models). PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment, governance, or AI safety? Learn more about the MATS Summer 2026 Fellowship and submit your name to be notified when applications open: https://matsprogram.or…

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Night Watch: “My Nightmare Stalker”: Inside The 12-Year Hunt For a Predator 30:34

14h ago30:34

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For twelve years, Eva LaRue and her daughter Kaya moved homes, installed security cameras, and lived in constant fear as an unseen stalker tracked them across state lines and called Kaya’s high school. Tonight, Katie unpacks the letters signed by stalker “Freddie Krueger,” the chilling phone calls to a high school, the breakthrough that came from c…

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First Watch: Teacher’s Secret Letters & Ex-Wife Convicted of Beheading 23:17

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It started with whispers in a detention center: a teacher lingering too long by a seventeen-year-old’s door, and ended with investigators pulling nearly two hundred explicit letters from his cell, including a written play-by-play of abuse and a chilling request to kill her husband. At trial, the truth spilled out in her own handwriting, yet she esc…

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Night Watch: Meredith Kercher’s Death: Beyond the Amanda Knox Frenzy 34:37

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Sixteen years ago today, Amanda Knox was first convicted in the murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, and the world focused almost entirely on the “Foxy Knoxy” story. Tonight, Katie steps back into that case to center Meredith, unpacks how a rushed and chaotic investigation turned Knox and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, into tabloid…

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First Watch: Wrong Door, Deadly Encounter & a Florida Family’s Horror Pact 22:43

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A routine home visit turned deadly when 56-year-old social worker Maria Coto knocked on the wrong apartment door and walked straight into the drug-fueled rage of a man high on PCP. Minutes later, Maria was fighting for her life as a 911 dispatcher listened helplessly on the line. Her killer has now been convicted, but her death has shaken an entire…

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Night Watch: Fugitive Faked His Own Kidnapping: The Hunt For Anthony Lennon 21:42

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Anthony Lennon was facing eight new CSAM charges when he suddenly disappeared in 2012, leaving behind blood, a missing shoe, and signs of a struggle at the motel where he worked. But investigators quickly realized the scene was staged…and the suspect had fled. Thirteen years later, a surveillance team cornered a man living under a completely differ…

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China's AI Upstarts: How Z.ai Builds, Benchmarks & Ships in Hours, from ChinaTalk 1:23:08

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This special ChinaTalk cross-post features Zixuan Li of Z.ai (Zhipu AI), exploring the culture, incentives, and constraints shaping Chinese AI development. PSA for AI builders: Interested in alignment, governance, or AI safety? Learn more about the MATS Summer 2026 Fellowship and submit your name to be notified when applications open: https://matsp…

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First Watch: The Facebook Photo That Caught a Predator in the Act 26:04

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In Illinois, a 43-year-old mother’s unlawful, secret relationship with her daughter’s teenage classmate came crashing down after a maternity photoshoot exposed the truth she’d been hiding for months. Now, Robyn Polston is behind bars, accused of SAing the boy and concealing her pregnancy with the help of her own family. Then Katie dives deep into a…

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Night Watch: She Was Shot by One of Her Students & Sued: Abby Zwerner Case 26:02

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When 27-year-old first grade teacher Abby Zwerner was shot by a six-year-old student in her classroom, the story shocked the country. But what happened before that single gunshot tells an even darker story. Tonight, Katie retraces every warning that staff gave about the child bringing a gun to school, how those concerns were allegedly dismissed, an…

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First Watch: Preschool Teacher Joins Police Pursuit & a Friend Turned Captor 21:59

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A routine shopping trip in Louisiana turned into an unexpected chase when preschool teacher Lesli Smith spotted an officer running after two suspected shoplifters and offered him a seat in her SUV. What unfolded was a slow, careful pursuit through local streets. By that evening, she was back to her errands unaware her quick instinct would earn her …

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Night Watch: Julia Wandelt Believed She was a Missing Child, DNA Said Otherwise 27:12

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By the time 24-year-old Julia Wandelt walked into a British courtroom in October 2025, she had already spent years chasing a life that was never hers. Haunted by painful childhood memories and convinced her own parents were hiding the truth, Julia turned to missing persons databases and fixated on one of the most recognizable cases in the world: Ma…

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💡 The Values Behind Our Dream Projects 37:49

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What's your dream project? In this episode of the UX of EdTech podcast, hosts Alicia Quan and Sarah Mondestin explore their dream EdTech projects and the values behind them. Join us as we talk about products that inspire us, people who motivate us, and boy band posters we grew up with. We talk about the intersection of traditional and non-tradition…

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First Watch: Professor Found Dead, Then Her Killer Spent 11 Years on the Run 30:03

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In Maryland, beloved professor and accountant Sue Ann Marcum tried to untangle herself from a romantic and financial partnership with yoga instructor Jorge Rueda Landeros. She was found murdered in her basement while her killer disappeared across borders for more than eleven years before finally facing a jury. Then, Katie investigates a case in Flo…

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Underwriting Superintelligence: How AIUC is using Insurance, Standards, and Audits to Accelerate Adoption while Minimizing Risks 1:13:30

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Rune Kvist and Rajiv Dattani, co-founders of the AI Underwriting Company, reveal their innovative strategy for unlocking enterprise AI adoption. They detail how certifying and insuring AI agents, through rigorous technical standards, periodic audits, and insurance, builds crucial "AI confidence infrastructure." This discussion explores how their mo…

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True Crime This Week: Strange Disappearances 51:28

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This week on True Crime This Week, host Vanessa Richardson unravels two of history’s most mysterious vanishings — both stranger than fiction. First, in 1926, the “Queen of Mystery” herself, Agatha Christie, vanished after a late-night drive. Her abandoned car sparked an 11-day nationwide search that baffled police, fellow authors, and millions of r…

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Lessons From Film To Full-Scale Studio 1:01:43

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We trace Todd’s path from a basement darkroom to a thriving production company, focusing on film-era discipline, business choices, and the power of relationships. We share practical systems for shooting, hiring, and staying resilient while moving into documentaries and nonprofit storytelling. • origin story from school darkroom to ad agency lead • …

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AI-Led Sales: How 1Mind's Superhumans Drive Exponential Growth, from the Agents of Scale Podcast 51:22

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AI that sells, reasons, and closes like your top rep? It sounds terrifying—but it’s not. Amanda Kahlow’s Superhumans are proving that automation doesn’t erase people; it elevates them. Her team rewards employees who replace their own jobs with AI by promoting them, not firing them. And her customers? They’re seeing sales cycles shrink from 22 days …

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HOLIDAY SPECIAL: Thanksgiving Murders Pt. 1 58:47

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Thanksgiving is meant for gratitude — but sometimes, it brings out the darkest parts of the human mind. In this chilling special, the Killer Minds team, joined by Murder: True Crime Stories host Carter Roy, examines two Thanksgiving tragedies: the 2009 Merhige family massacre, when a Florida man opened fire on his relatives after years of mental de…

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Night Watch: Here’s What We Know About the NBA Mafia Gambling Scandal 26:58

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Tonight, Katie breaks down a federal case that might sound like the plot to a movie, but is in fact very real. Prosecutors say New York crime families teamed up with former and current NBA players to run two overlapping schemes. In one, Damon Jones and Chauncey Billups allegedly acted as celebrity bait at underground poker games where hidden tech a…

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First Watch: Husamettin Dogan Gets More Years for Assaulting Gisèle Pelicot 32:46

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A French woman spent nearly a decade believing she was losing her mind, never knowing that her husband was drugging her, filming her, and inviting men to SA her while she slept. Police counted 74 men in total who assaulted the brave Gisèle Pelicot, identifying 54 of them. Today, Katie breaks down the newest twist in Gisèle’s case, where the only ma…

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Night Watch: From Power Couple to Legal Battle: Tech Billionaire Eric Schmidt 24:50

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They say you should never call your ex, but this episode explores why you shouldn’t mix romance with business either. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt didn’t just date Michelle Ritter. He built a company with her and folded her into his world of mansions, staff, and early stage deals. When the relationship soured, their attempt to settle things quiet…

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What AI Means for Students & Teachers: My Keynote from the Michigan Virtual AI Summit 1:04:55

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In this keynote from the Michigan Virtual AI Summit, Nathan Labenz speaks directly to K-12 educators about the current reality and rapid trajectory of the AI frontier. He explores why a balanced mindset of excitement and fear is crucial for navigating this technology, drawing on personal history to emphasize a "whole-of-society" effort. Discover ke…

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First Watch: “Dead Girls Don’t Talk”: Fake Hollywood Producer Will Serve 146 Years 27:22

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Two very different plots, one chilling theme: killers betting their victims won’t live long enough to tell the truth. In today’s first case, unfortunately they didn’t, but that didn’t stop authorities from pursuing justice. In Los Angeles, David Pearce (called the “devil personified”) was found guilty of drugging, assaulting, and murdering friends …

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Night Watch: From Dorm Assault to Global Outrage: Shannon Keeler’s Bravery 25:50

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As a college freshman, Shannon Keeler did everything she was told to do after being SA'd in her dorm room. She reported it immediately, completed an SA kit, named her attacker, and brought witnesses forward. Prosecutors still walked away, then destroyed the evidence. Years later, the man she says SAd her, Ian Cleary, flooded her Facebook with rambl…

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First Watch: Romance to Control: Maleesa Mooney & Nikki Cheng-Saelee McCain 28:29

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Seventy percent of women killed by an abuser are killed after they leave, which makes walking away an act of real bravery. Today, Katie follows the cases of two women who tried. In Los Angeles, model and realtor Maleesa Mooney had a whirlwind romance with Magnus Humphrey, but her friends weren’t sold on her new boyfriend. Later, Maleesa was found b…

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True Crime This Week: American Crimes of the Century 50:26

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This week on True Crime This Week, host Vanessa Richardson revisits two of America’s most shocking and unforgettable crimes — cases that defined their eras and captured the nation’s imagination. First, the 1932 Lindbergh baby kidnapping, a crime so sensational it was called “the trial of the century.” When famed aviator Charles Lindbergh’s infant s…

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Night Watch: Sandra Birchmore Part 5 29:57

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This final chapter in our five-part series on Sandra Birchmore asks one question: how did a “suicide” in Canton, Massachusetts turn into a federal murder case against a former cop? Katie pieces together how Sandra’s family refused to accept the original ruling, brought in famed pathologist Dr. Michael Baden to reclassify her death as homicidal stra…

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First Watch: “Just a Party” in the Woods: The Night 18-Year-Old Kimber Mills Was Shot 26:17

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An Alabama bonfire that teens called “The Pit” turned into a war zone when 27-year-old Steven Tyler Whitehead pulled a gun and fired 13 rounds into the crowd, killing 18-year-old cheerleader Kimber Mills as she tried to break up a fight and later walked her final “honor walk” as an organ donor. Then, Katie looks into a case across state lines in Fo…

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Night Watch: Sandra Birchmore Part 4 28:45

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The system around Sandra Birchmore was broken long before she was found hanged in her Canton apartment. In the fourth installment of our five-part series on the death of Sandra Birchmore, Katie pulls back the curtain on the Stoughton Police Explorers program, which first brought Sandra in at 12 years-old. Stoughton Deputy Chief Robert Devine ran it…

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Escaping AI Slop: How Atlassian Gives AI Teammates Taste, Knowledge, & Workflows, w- Sherif Mansour 1:40:10

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Sherif Mansour, Head of AI at Atlassian, discusses bridging AI agents with massive-scale enterprise software deployment, drawing insights from Atlassian's millions of non-technical users. He shares his framework for avoiding "AI Slop" using Taste, Knowledge, and Workflow, and explains Atlassian's "Teamwork Graph" for complex enterprise queries beyo…

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First Watch: Woman Says Her High Heels Led to Death of Joe McMullins 22:52

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A summer night of drinking in small-town Kentucky ended with 38-year-old Amber Spradlin sitting dead on a basement couch, her throat slashed, blood scrubbed from sinks and drains, and the home’s security system mysteriously destroyed, leaving a dentist, his son, and their friend now facing charges in a case built on missing footage and slow-moving …

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Night Watch: Sandra Birchmore Part 3 33:59

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After Sandra Birchmore’s death was stamped “suicide” and pushed aside, a very different story had already started to surface. In Part 3 of our five-part special series, Katie digs into Chief Donna McNamara’s internal probe, where recovered phone data and more than 32,000 text messages exposed years of grooming and statutory SA by Officer Matthew Fa…

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First Watch: DoorDash Gone Wrong & Knighted Irish Politician’s Delayed Trial 21:17

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A phone was dead; a delivery driver was lost; a town official reached for a gun. Today’s first case follows 24-year-old DoorDash driver Alpha Barry, a recent immigrant from Guinea whose late-night delivery run to a quiet New York cul-de-sac ended with a highway superintendent striding out of his house, firing warning shots, and then shooting Alpha …

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Night Watch: Sandra Birchmore Part 2 26:20

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In Part 2 of our five-part investigation into Sandra Birchmore’s death, Katie stays in the same Massachusetts town shaken by the Karen Read saga, revisiting the night 23-year-old, pregnant Sandra was found hanged in her Canton apartment and quickly ruled a suicide. Did police miss crucial evidence? Katie digs into tips about a Stoughton officer who…

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First Watch: Daughter Kills Mother After Warnings & Cop Fights For His Innocence 29:00

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Katie unpacks two cases that expose the cracks in America’s justice system. First, a heartbreaking story from Wisconsin: 29-year-old Lauren Spors, long battling severe mental illness, is accused of murdering her mother after years of pleas for help went unanswered. Her family’s decade-long struggle to get her treatment reveals how systemic failures…

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AI in the Cancer Journey: How I'm Using AI to Help My Son 2:02:57

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This deeply personal episode shares how Nathan used AI to navigate his 6-year-old son's cancer diagnosis and treatment journey. He details using GPT-5 Pro, Claude, and Gemini 3 to double-check doctors' decisions, research treatment protocols, plan for potential recurrence scenarios, and handle complex secondary issues like mold remediation during i…

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Night Watch: Sandra Birchmore Part 1 30:46

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In the same Massachusetts town rocked by the Karen Read case, 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore was found hanged in her Canton apartment in 2021. Sandra was pregnant and alone, and her death was quickly ruled a suicide, despite her family’s belief that she’d been groomed for years by Stoughton officer Matthew Farwell, who first “mentored” her in a polic…

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First Watch: Parents Cover Up Son’s Murder & the Survivor Who Refused to Die 30:36

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In rural Kentucky, 10-year-old Jayden Spicer was reported missing from his bed and his mother tearfully begged for his safe return, until two YouTubers, livestreaming their search in the woods, uncovered a bag of a little boy’s clothes hidden under plastic, forcing a shattering confession that Jayden was dead and buried miles away. Then, Katie cove…

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True Crime This Week: Infamous Inmates 50:55

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This week on True Crime This Week, host Vanessa Richardson explores the twisted lives of two of history’s most notorious prisoners. First, the story of Charles Manson, the manipulative cult leader whose “Family” turned peace and love into terror. From failed musician to prophet of “Helter Skelter,” Manson’s descent into madness culminated in one of…

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Night Watch: Netflix’s “Monster” Revives Ed Gein’s Horror: Here’s the Real Story 26:55

22d ago26:55

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With Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story soaring into the global Top 10, the chilling case that inspired it is back in the headlines. But behind the streaming sensation lies the real tragedy of Bernice Worden, a small-town hardware store owner whose 1957 murder exposed one of history’s most horrifying killers. Tonight, Katie revisits the investiga…

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First Watch: Model’s Balcony Murder in Milan & the Man Who Set LA on Fire 29:00

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In Milan, a quiet night in one of the city’s most elegant neighborhoods turned into horror when 29-year-old model Pamela Genini was stabbed to death on her balcony as neighbors watched helplessly from across the street. Her boyfriend, Gianluca Soncin, is now behind bars, but his silence has only deepened the mystery. As investigators dig into his p…

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Night Watch: Doctor Bludgeoned to Death: New Twist in Teresa Sievers Case 28:46

23d ago28:46

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In the summer of 2015, beloved Florida doctor Teresa Sievers returned home from a family trip and walked straight into a nightmare. Within minutes, she was brutally bludgeoned to death with a hammer inside her own kitchen. The men responsible were soon caught, and the truth that emerged stunned everyone: one of them was her husband’s best friend, a…

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First Watch: Son Suspect in “Mango” Founder’s 320-Foot Fall to Death 24:29

23d ago24:29

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In Spain, police are reopening the investigation into the death of Isak Andic, billionaire founder of the global fashion brand Mango. The 71-year-old mogul fell more than 300 feet while hiking with his son, Jonathan Andic, in 2024. What was first believed to be a tragic accident is now being investigated as homicide, with Jonathan named the prime s…

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Night Watch: Murderer Had 40 Charges Before Killing Logan Federico 20:44

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When 22-year-old Logan Federico was found shot to death in her Columbia, South Carolina rental, police quickly learned her killer, Alexander Dickey, had an alarming past. The 30-year-old had racked up 40 criminal charges, 25 of them felonies, yet remained free after years of dismissed cases, lenient sentencing, and record-keeping failures. Investig…

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EdTech perspectives from a National Teacher of the Year 49:14

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This is a must-listen for those who want to get into the mind of a teacher. Alicia Quan and Sarah Mondestin interview Missy Testerman, the 2024 National Teacher of the Year. Missy shares her journey from aspiring to be a teacher from a young age to becoming a specialist in teaching English as a second language in Rogersville, Tennessee. Reflecting …

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My Positive Vision for the AI Future, from the Existential Hope Podcast 1:09:54

24d ago1:09:54

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In this special crossover episode from Beatrice Erkers' Existential Hope podcast, The Cognitive Revolution's host explores the crucial, often-neglected question of building a positive vision for the future in the AI era. The discussion delves into what a new social contract and daily life could look like, covering transformative applications from s…

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First Watch: Teen Who Staged Own Abduction & Viral Flight Video Backfires 26:44

24d ago26:44

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In Florida, 17-year-old Caden Speight vanished after sending his family a frantic text claiming four men in a white van had shot and kidnapped him. Police launched a massive manhunt, complete with helicopters and the FBI, until they found Caden a day later with a self-inflicted gunshot wound and proof he staged the whole thing. Then Katie watches a…

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Night Watch: The Stalker Who Found Kylie Bearse’s Door 25:24

25d ago25:24

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Colorado meteorologist Kylie Bearse thought her stalker was finally gone…until he showed up at her home nearly two years later. For more than three years, she’s endured relentless harassment from a man convinced they’re married, despite restraining orders and repeated police reports. Now, after he allegedly tracked her down again, prosecutors have …

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First Watch: Vigilante Father Kills Daughter’s Alleged Rapist, Then Runs for Office 24:49

25d ago24:49

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In Arkansas, Aaron Spencer raced to save his 13-year-old daughter from her alleged kidnapper, and ended up killing the man accused of assaulting her. Now, as he awaits trial for murder, he’s running for sheriff in the same county that arrested him. Then, Katie investigates a case in Arizona, where Christopher Scholtes left his two-year-old daughter…

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Night Watch: Instagram Feud Ends in Murder: The Death of Tatyanna Zech 22:45

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What began as a petty feud over a gold chain spiraled into tragedy. When 14-year-old Parise Larry Jr. and 17-year-old Antonio Johnston confronted 18-year-old Keyshawn Johnson outside their Wisconsin apartment complex, an online rivalry turned into a shootout. In the chaos, 20-year-old Tatyanna Zech, an innocent bystander, was struck and killed. Now…