Stagione 1
Some Mischief, Some Mystery, and a Lot of Tape
Water You Even Drinking?
Nobody Taught Us This: An Adulting Intervention
Mi Casa No Es Su Casa
Last Name Basis
Generally Recognized As Sus
Turning It Up to Eleven
Jif Happens
Stumped
Did you know the night before Halloween has its own name, and that one of America's most notorious unsolved murders happened on it? ...We looked into it. 🎃 Welcome to Valid Source? — the podcast where we investigate the internet myths, viral claims, and trending gossip you've been thinking about but haven't had time to research. We're not experts. We're just two friends willing to do the extra digging. This episode: Harley introduces Mischief Night, and Ashley makes a teenage confession involving some stolen Halloween decorations (allegedly). Then Harley walks us through the 1975 murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Connecticut: a golf club traced to one house, two brothers who changed their stories, witnesses from a school for troubled teens, and a conviction that was overturned, reinstated, then overturned again by one vote. To lighten things up, we look into a passenger who reportedly got duct-taped to his seat on an American Airlines flight, and our first question is where the duct tape came from. Ashley admits her face would give her away on any jury, and Harley breaks down the Let's Marry Harry reunion. Because of course she watched the whole thing. Valid Source? verdict on this episode: fifty years later, the Moxley case still has no answer anyone can stand behind, and we still don't know where that duct tape came from. ⚠️ Content Warning: This episode discusses the murder of a teenager, including details of her injuries, reported abuse at a residential school for troubled teens, and a drug overdose. linktr.ee/validsourcepod | validsourcepod@gmail.com | (720) 593-1668 Opinions expressed are solely those of the hosts and do not reflect any affiliated companies, employers, or sponsors. Valid Source? is for entertainment and informational purposes only — nothing here constitutes professional legal, medical, or financial advice, and should not be acted on as such. We actively welcome listener feedback, corrections, and differing perspectives. We reserve the right to change our minds — that's kind of the whole point.
Did you know a single liter of bottled water can contain up to 700,000 microscopic pieces of plastic? …We looked into it. 💧 Welcome to Valid Source? The podcast where we investigate the internet myths, viral claims, and trending gossip you've been thinking about but haven't had time to research. We're not experts. We're just two friends willing to do the extra digging. This episode: it's Ashley and Harley's first-ever virtual recording, complete with Harley nursing a camshaft-sensor repair and Ashley clutching her inhaler mid-conversation right as a national asthma warning drops. Then Ashley finally has to admit Harley was right, she set out to prove her wrong about plastic water bottles and ended up down a full microplastics rabbit hole instead. They break down a wild new laser-tech study on exactly how much plastic is in a bottle of water, why tap water beats bottled by a landslide, how microplastics are turning up in the air we breathe and the clothes on our backs, and why a $1,500 crystal water bottle still isn't solving the actual problem. Then it's on to the gossip: Dakota Johnson and Machine Gun Kelly's private hang at Taylor Swift's place, a Secret Lives cliffhanger, and the very complicated, very online Lindsay Clancy case. Valid Source? verdict on plastic water bottles: worse than we thought, impossible to fully escape, and yes, Harley was right all along. Content Warning: This episode briefly discusses a criminal case involving the deaths of children and mentions self-harm risk. 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: 988 (call or text, 24/7) linktr.ee/validsourcepod | validsourcepod@gmail.com | (720) 593-1668 Opinions expressed are solely those of the hosts and do not reflect any affiliated companies, employers, or sponsors. Valid Source? is for entertainment and informational purposes only, nothing here constitutes professional legal, medical, or financial advice, and should not be acted on as such. We actively welcome listener feedback, corrections, and differing perspectives. We reserve the right to change our minds, that's kind of the whole point.
Did you know a debt collector can only chase you for six years in Colorado before your debt is legally untouchable? …We looked into it. Welcome to Valid Source? The podcast where we investigate the internet myths, viral claims, and trending gossip you've been thinking about but haven't had time to research. We're not experts. We're just two friends willing to do the extra digging. This episode: Harley declares this her whole birthday month (she's a Leo, so obviously), and she and Ashley trade weekly updates including a falling-off nail, a rave-meets-bingo night, and a shared new appreciation for reclining movie theater seats right before Harley hands over a crash course in five things nobody ever taught either of them as adults. They break down the real difference between a credit freeze and a credit lock, why "zombie debt" can come back from the dead if you're not careful, and how to actually negotiate a medical, cable, or credit card bill instead of assuming the price on the screen is final. Then they dig into two brand-new Colorado laws, one banning hidden "junk fees" at checkout, one giving you the legal right to fix your own phone, laptop, or vacuum before they talk through the "matcha filter" TikTok trend blowing up for all the wrong reasons. They close it out trading celebrity tea on a headline-grabbing court case and the latest Harry Jowsey gossip. Valid Source? verdict on adulting: nobody taught us any of this, the system profits from that, and Colorado is (slowly) trying to fix it. Content Warning: This episode discusses a criminal case involving the death of children, alleged sexual abuse, postpartum depression, and drug addiction. RAINN (sexual assault): 1-800-656-4673 (24/7) SAMHSA National Helpline (substance use & mental health): 1-800-662-4357 (24/7) Postpartum Support International: 1-800-944-4773 linktr.ee/validsourcepod | validsourcepod@gmail.com | (720) 593-1668 Opinions expressed are solely those of the hosts and do not reflect any affiliated companies, employers, or sponsors. Valid Source? is for entertainment and informational purposes only — nothing here constitutes professional legal, medical, or financial advice, and should not be acted on as such. We actively welcome listener feedback, corrections, and differing perspectives. We reserve the right to change our minds — that's kind of the whole point.
Did you know a stranger can legally end up owning your house if they just live in it for 18 straight years? …We looked into it. Welcome to Valid Source? The podcast where we investigate the internet myths, viral claims, and trending gossip you've been thinking about but haven't had time to research. We're not experts. We're just two friends willing to do the extra digging. Ashley takes golf lessons and admits she needs the "rage" she doesn't have, and Harley recaps releasing a K9 police dog, surviving a scorching Renaissance Festival, and a Vegas trip that somehow spirals straight into today's real topic, squatters. Harley and Ashley break down the difference between a true squatter, a holdover tenant, and the family member who just won't leave, and it turns out Colorado requires a jaw-dropping 18 years of continuous squatting before someone can legally take your house. They dig into real Colorado cases, including an elderly man with dementia whose home was allegedly taken over by a caretaker who started a mushroom-growing operation, because of course she did and business partners who won their court case only to have the squatter throw a sledgehammer party on the way out. Then we connect it all to Tom Sandoval's very messy, very current living situation with his girlfriend and her father. Harley closes out the episode with her own celebrity deep dive into the Duane "Keefe D" Davis trial for Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder. Verdict Valid Source? verdict on squatters: terrifyingly easy to end up with, absurdly hard to get rid of, and yes, you should probably get that PO box. Content Warning Content Warning: This episode discusses domestic abuse, elder abuse and financial exploitation, and predatory practices targeting vulnerable homeowners. National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 (24/7) linktr.ee/validsourcepod | validsourcepod@gmail.com | (720) 593-1668 Opinions expressed are solely those of the hosts and do not reflect any affiliated companies, employers, or sponsors. Valid Source? is for entertainment and informational purposes only, nothing here constitutes professional legal, medical, or financial advice, and should not be acted on as such. We actively welcome listener feedback, corrections, and differing perspectives. We reserve the right to change our minds, that's kind of the whole point.
Did you know Ellis Island never changed a single immigrant's last name? The clerks never even wrote names down. …We looked into it. Welcome to Valid Source? The podcast where we investigate the internet myths, viral claims, and trending gossip you've been thinking about but haven't had time to research. We're not experts. We're just two friends willing to do the extra digging. This episode: Ashley comes back from the beach with vacation brain, and a stranger's question about Harley's ethnicity sends us down our biggest rabbit hole yet. Where do last names actually come from? We break down the four buckets every last name on Earth falls into, then take apart the Ellis Island name-change myth, so stop blaming them (and The Godfather Part II). We get into the heavier history of the names freed people chose for themselves after emancipation. Then Ashley spills everything she learned from a Netflix documentary about Thomas Jefferson, we connect Kim Kardashian and Lewis Hamilton's new relationship back to last names, because of course we did, and we wrap with the Blake Lively legal saga, Jimothy the so-called Seattle cryptid, and the no-eyelash trend we are pretty sure we started. Valid Source? verdict on the Ellis Island name-change story: never happened, your family's name got butchered somewhere, just not there. linktr.ee/validsourcepod | validsourcepod@gmail.com | (720) 593-1668 Opinions expressed are solely those of the hosts and do not reflect any affiliated companies, employers, or sponsors. Valid Source? is for entertainment and informational purposes only, nothing here constitutes professional legal, medical, or financial advice, and should not be acted on as such. We actively welcome listener feedback, corrections, and differing perspectives. We reserve the right to change our minds, that's kind of the whole point.
Did you know a company can decide its own chemical is safe, put it in your food, and never tell the FDA it exists? …We looked into it. 🧂 Welcome to Valid Source? ... the podcast where we investigate the internet myths, viral claims, and trending gossip you've been thinking about but haven't had time to research. We're not experts. We're just two friends willing to do the extra digging. This episode: Ashley falls in love with a pork chop and refuses to share it, Harley's fake nails save her finger from an actual break, and we argue about whether golf is secretly a contact sport before finding out what living near a golf course might really do to you. Then Ashley takes us down a rabbit hole that started with one question, is the FDA getting paid on the side? We go back to what food and medicine looked like before anyone was checking, we walk through Vioxx and fen-phen and what happens when a drug gets approved too fast, and we find out that New York City banned trans fats in 2006 and the FDA didn't act until 2015. Because of course it did. Then Ashley hits us with the thing that broke both our brains: there are over 10,000 substances allowed in American food, thousands have never been reviewed by anyone, and companies are legally allowed to declare their own chemicals safe without telling the FDA they did it. Harley wants to fix it by hiring more people, Ashley wants to scrap the whole system, and somewhere in there we accidentally invent a t-shirt. We also get into what Colorado just approved, why Florida built a warehouse that's still empty, and because we needed something light after all that, who Zoë Kravitz is reportedly engaged to. Valid Source? verdict on the FDA: genuinely protecting us, genuinely nine years behind, and apparently running on the honor system with people who have never once been on their honor. https://linktr.ee/validsourcepod 📧 validsourcepod@gmail.com 📞 (720) 593-1668 Opinions expressed are solely those of the hosts and do not reflect any affiliated companies, employers, or sponsors. Valid Source? is for entertainment and informational purposes only — nothing here constitutes professional legal, medical, or financial advice, and should not be acted on as such. We actively welcome listener feedback, corrections, and differing perspectives. We reserve the right to change our minds — that's kind of the whole point.
Did you know the viral panic about 11 dead or missing scientists started with a case that was already solved, a murder with a named killer and a motive that had nothing to do with any of it? …We looked into it. Welcome to Valid Source? The podcast where we investigate the internet myths, viral claims, and trending gossip you've been thinking about but haven't had time to research. We're not experts. We're just two friends willing to do the extra digging. This episode: Harley's car survives a whole week without incident (knock on wood), we hit two baby showers and an art show, and then we go all in on the internet's favorite new panic, 11 American scientists supposedly dead or missing, most "connected" to NASA and the Air Force. We briefly walk through every single person, including the administrative worker and the cancer researcher who don't fit the pattern at all, before Harley drops the twist: the case that kicked off the whole frenzy was already solved. Ashley builds a tinfoil-hat theory anyway, we meet statistician David Hand's improbability principle, and we land on the part nobody's talking about, mental health. Then we take a hard left into the alleged Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding, where Ashley reveals her plan to smoke out the mole, because of course she does and we close on the accidental thesis of the whole episode: don't trust your friends. Valid Source? verdict on the 11 missing scientists: mostly a coincidence the internet stitched into a pattern, partly a mental health story nobody wants to tell, and just suspicious enough in New Mexico to keep us up at night. ⚠️ Content Warning: This episode discusses suicide and mental health. 🔹 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: call or text 988 (24/7) linktr.ee/validsourcepod | validsourcepod@gmail.com | (720) 593-1668 Opinions expressed are solely those of the hosts and do not reflect any affiliated companies, employers, or sponsors. Valid Source? is for entertainment and informational purposes only, nothing here constitutes professional legal, medical, or financial advice, and should not be acted on as such. We actively welcome listener feedback, corrections, and differing perspectives. We reserve the right to change our minds, that's kind of the whole point.
Did you know Fruit of the Loom has never had a cornucopia in its logo, not once since 1893 even though more than half of Americans swear they remember it? ...We looked into it. And we're still not over it. 🍎 Welcome to Valid Source? The podcast where we investigate the internet myths, viral claims, and trending gossip you've been thinking about but haven't had time to research. We're not experts. We're just two friends willing to do the extra digging. This episode: Harley rides a mechanical bull at a high school graduation and a proud lettuce-mom update, and then we both get thoroughly humbled by the Mandela Effect. We go looking for the Sinbad genie movie that apparently never existed (Ashley has a skit theory, and honestly it's the best we've got), then hit the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia, where we discover we share the exact same fake laundry memory, because of course we do and flatly refuse to accept that Jiffy peanut butter was never real. We have to Google the Monopoly man, Mr. Peanut, and the Pringles guy live on air because it turns out neither of us can remember anyone's face, and Darth Vader apparently never said "Luke." Then it gets weirder: some of it isn't false memory at all companies really have quietly edited things, from Lilo & Stitch's dryer scene to Alicia Keys' Super Bowl voice crack. We're not saying it's a simulation. We're just saying we can no longer rule it out. Valid Source? verdict on the Mandela Effect: we fact-checked our own memories, our memories lost, and the cornucopia is still real to us. linktr.ee/validsourcepod | validsourcepod@gmail.com | (720) 593-1668 Opinions expressed are solely those of the hosts and do not reflect any affiliated companies, employers, or sponsors. Valid Source? is for entertainment and informational purposes only, nothing here constitutes professional legal, medical, or financial advice, and should not be acted on as such. We actively welcome listener feedback, corrections, and differing perspectives. We reserve the right to change our minds, that's kind of the whole point.
Did you know cities have been deliberately planting male trees for decades and your allergies might be the result? ...We looked into it. 🌳 Welcome to Valid Source? The podcast where we investigate the internet myths, viral claims, and trending gossip you've been thinking about but haven't had time to research. We're not experts. We're just two friends willing to do the extra digging. This episode: Ashley's planning a llama visit and Harley admits she once did farm community service hours which somehow leads to the most chaotic Met Gala in recent memory, featuring Cardi B in marshmallow couture, Bad Bunny as an old man, and Jeff Bezos slipping in through the back door to avoid protesters throwing fake pee bottles outside (because of course he did). Then we go deep on trees. Harley investigates Pando, a single aspen tree in Utah that spans 106 acres, weighs 13 million pounds, and has been alive since before the pyramids were built. Ashley learns, live on air, that the "walking palm" tree that rainforest guides swear can literally get up and walk might be a myth or might not be, because scientists genuinely can't agree. Harley breaks down Botanical Sexism, the reason our cities are absolutely drowning in pollen, and spoiler: it comes down to someone deciding female trees were too messy. And finally, they both discover the Wood Wide Web! A fungal internet under every forest that lets trees share food, send distress signals, and apparently keep their dead relatives alive way past their expiration date. Valid Source? verdict on trees: ancient, communicative, quietly keeping each other alive underground, and doing more for their community than most people and we did this to ourselves.
Did you know some people are literally born without the ability to feel pain, and it's actually terrifying? ...We looked into it. Welcome to Valid Source? the podcast where we investigate the internet myths, viral claims, and trending gossip you've been thinking about but haven't had time to research. We're not experts. We're just two friends willing to do the extra digging. This episode: Ashley comes back from a conference with a lot of new information and a lot of feelings about public speaking, Harley has been keeping a low profile because half her friend group decided to get married or have babies at the same time, and then we go full science class in the best way. Ashley breaks down real human genetic mutations that give people honest-to-goodness superpowers: Sherpas who evolved to use oxygen more efficiently at altitude, the Bajau sea nomads who can free dive for four minutes on one breath, a muscle-growth gene that some people are just born without, bones so dense X-rays can barely read them, and a color vision mutation that lets certain women see 100 million colors, which Ashley may or may not personally have, based on knowing what kelly green is. Then we get into the stuff people claim is a superpower: fake magnetism, breatharianism (which became a cult faster than either of us expected), and the scientific consensus that adult photographic memory basically doesn't exist. Ashley covers the world record breath hold and explains why the urge to breathe has nothing to do with oxygen. And then we close out with the ones that are genuinely hard to explain: past life memories studied by the University of Virginia across 2,500 cases, Project Stargate, and children with birthmarks that correspond exactly to wounds of the person they claim to have been. Because of course we did. Valid Source? verdict on human superpowers: the genetic ones are real and deeply unfair, the fake ones are mostly dry skin and vibes, and the paranormal ones are either the scariest thing we've ever researched or the most comforting, depending on your afternoon. linktr.ee/validsourcepod | validsourcepod@gmail.com | (720) 593-1668 Opinions expressed are solely those of the hosts and do not reflect any affiliated companies, employers, or sponsors. Valid Source? is for entertainment purposes only, nothing here constitutes professional legal, medical, or financial advice, and should not be acted on as such. We actively welcome listener feedback, corrections, and differing perspectives. We reserve the right to change our minds, that's kind of the whole point.