Is this the norm?
Is this the norm?
Episodes
In this episode of "Is This The Norm?", hosts Heather, Rebecca, and Lora explore the real history behind the world's most famous vampire. Heather traces the story of Vlad III of Wallachia — better known as Vlad the Impaler — from his childhood as a political hostage in the Ottoman court to his brutal reign of terror, including the mass impalements that earned him his infamy. The discussion covers how Bram Stoker borrowe...
Sisters Rebecca, Lora (lead host), and Heather explain and explore experiences during the "witching hour" between 3 and 4 AM historically associated with paranormal activity, ghosts, and demons.
This is an episode of the podcast "Is This the Norm?", hosted by three sisters (Lora, Rebecca, and Heather), in which Heather presents a deep-dive on William the Conqueror — covering his illegitimate birth and precarious youth as Duke of Normandy, his 1066 conquest of England after defeating King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, his brutal "Harrying of the North" campaign that devastated the population, his legacy of cast...
Rebecca, Heather, and Lora share a legendary story with you today, where Lora leads the episode, telling the story of Calamity Jane a Wild West frontierswoman. The hosts also go off-topic discussing ticks, chiggers, tumbleweeds, essential oil bug spray, and their grandfather's deathbed comment about Native Americans enduring pain without modern medicine.
This is an episode of the podcast "Is This the Norm?" hosted by three sisters — Lora, Rebecca, and Heather. Heather presents the history of the "Black Dinner," a 1440 assassination of two young Douglas clan brothers at Edinburgh Castle orchestrated by rival Scottish regents, with the sisters riffing on parallels to Game of Thrones' Red Wedding along the way. They close with a preview of their next episode on Egyptian royalty.
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This is an episode of the podcast "Is This the Norm?" hosted by three sisters — Rebecca, Heather, and Lora. The episode explores the history of diet culture and dangerous weight loss methods.
This episode, "Why Are We Afraid of Spiders?", features hosts Lora, Rebecca, and Heather exploring whether fear of spiders is biological or learned. They review research on infant pupil dilation studies (and their flaws), compare spider vs. snake danger statistics, and discuss how culture shapes fear — noting spiders are viewed positively in places like China and Hopi/Navajo mythology, but linked to the plague in medieval Eur...
Come to listen to Lora, Heather and Rebecca talk about the history of tobacco/nicotine marketing and the current trend of using nicotine patches for health benefits.The hosts draw a parallel between today's "healthy nicotine" buzz and the dubious doctor-endorsed cigarette ads of the past — urging skepticism and medical guidance before using any nicotine products.
Join Rebecca, Lora, and Heather, where Heather discusses the neuroscience behind pedophilia, discussing research (notably by Dr. James Cantor) showing structural brain differences in offenders—particularly in the frontal lobe, right temporal lobe, and amygdala—that suggest the condition may be congenital rather than a choice, while also covering gender differences in offending, common psychiatric comorbidities, the effe...
This is a podcast episode hosted by Lora, Heather and Rebecca. Where they explore Alien abductions and UFO sightings asking if they are real or fabricated? Lora opens by stating she's personally skeptical of extraterrestrials visiting Earth, but finds the stories fascinating. Lora also traces alien sightings from ancient Egypt through 1947 — Kenneth Arnold's famous flying saucer sighting and the Roswell incident — and c...
Join Rebecca, Heather and Lora where Heather discusses the deadliest U.S. national parks, then focuses on Glacier National Park's history of fatal accidents, unsolved disappearances (like the 1969 Mount Cleveland avalanche and 1924 Whitehead brothers case), and bear/mountain lion attacks. With closing reassurances from the Three Sisters that hiking is safe if you're prepared.
Resources:
The Most Dangerous U.S. National Parks
https://w...
Hosts Lora, Heather, and Rebecca dive deep into the world of orca, also known as killer whales. Lora explains that orca are technically the largest members of the dolphin family, and breaks down the different ecotypes found in the Pacific (resident, transient, offshore) and Antarctic. She highlights the matriarch-led social structure of resident orca, their remarkable intelligence, specialized hunting techniques (including the dang...
Join Rebecca, Lora and Heather, Where Heather covers PG&E's (Pacific Gas & Electric) long history of negligence and criminal conduct in California.
Sources:
Timeline: PG&E’s Disasters since 2010 By ABC 10 News
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/wildfire/timeline-pges-disasters/103-980fbb37-
2675-4cc5-a99f-62f1d2e837d4
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/wildfire/run-to-failure-what-pge-knew-and-
when/103-e465...
Lora, Rebecca and Heather are cautiously open-minded — hopeful about the technology's potential but concerned about the FBS issue, safety unknowns, and whether lab-grown meat can replicate the taste of traditionally raised animals. The conversation drifts into food waste, preservatives, Impossible Meat, black bean burgers, and cooking habits.
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