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by Harley and Ashley
Is That True?Ever wonder if that wild TikTok trend or celebrity gossip is actually true?We dive into internet myths, trending gossip, and viral claims asking the important question, is that a valid source? We're not experts, we're your friends figuring it out right alongside you. Always with a side of laughs.You were thinking it. We said it.
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- 3 days ago37 min
Holy Cow, Nobody Can Read This.
Did you know there’s a handwritten book from the 1400s that has stumped codebreakers for over a century? ...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 fights a tire situation, Harley fights a post-vacation caffeine schedule, and a cryptic note sends Harley down a TikTok rabbit hole to the Voynich Manuscript, a tiny, handwritten book that nobody on Earth can read. We learn what vellum actually is (Ashley has thoughts about cows), pitch our own theories about who wrote it and why (including a secret language), and tour the “I Cracked It” Hall of Fame, where every claimed solution has been shot down by scholars. Then we get into WitchTok’s take, make an Easter-egg detour into Taylor Swift’s code-loving universe, and check in on Kim Kardashian’s 8,000-square-foot closet. Ashley volunteers for the cleaning crew. Because of course she does.Verdict Valid Source? verdict on the Voynich Manuscript: real book, real vellum, zero agreed-upon translation, and a whole lot of very confident people.Contact + disclaimer linktr.ee/validsourcepod | validsourcepod@gmail.com | (720) 593-1668Opinions 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.
- 2 weeks ago40 min
Claws for Concern
Did you know one investigator traced the first big chupacabra eyewitness description back to a movie that had just opened in theaters? ...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 is still searching for a way to drink hot coffee at 5:15 a.m., Ashley is deep in October birthday season, and then Ashley turns the Halloween special into a tour of Puerto Rican conspiracy theories. We start with a secret Navy base, a giant alien-hunting telescope, and a UFO legend with claw-handed beings, which Harley immediately pictures as lobster hands. Ashley then walks through the Navy’s decades of bombing on Vieques and what has been reported about its health and environmental fallout, and the documented history of forced sterilization and the birth control pill trials in Puerto Rico. From there we dig into the chupacabra itself, including the 1995 movie that may have inspired the first sighting, the hairless “mange” chupacabras that came later, and the 1975 Moca vampire that might be the same creature under a different name. Harley invents a cryptid on the spot (the Lemon Man), and we close with Taylor Swift gossip and Ashley’s theory that Taylor is listening to our private conversations. Because of course she does. Valid Source? verdict on Puerto Rican conspiracies: some are documented and heartbreaking, some are pure speculation, and the chupacabra may just be a movie monster with great word of mouth. Content Warning: This episode discusses forced sterilization and unethical medical experimentation in Puerto Rico’s history, and briefly touches on plastic surgery and body image. 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.
- Oct 13, 202642 min
Some Mischief, Some Mystery, and a Lot of Tape
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) 593-1668Opinions 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.
- Sep 29, 202641 min
Water You Even Drinking?
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) 593-1668Opinions 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.
- Sep 15, 202645 min
Nobody Taught Us This: An Adulting Intervention
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: 1-800-944-4773linktr.ee/validsourcepod | validsourcepod@gmail.com | (720) 593-1668Opinions 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.
- Sep 1, 202647 min
Mi Casa No Es Su Casa
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) 593-1668Opinions 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.
- Aug 18, 202645 min
Last Name Basis
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.
- Aug 4, 202647 min
Generally Recognized As Sus
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) 593-1668Opinions 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.
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