Join us as we discuss all types of treasure hunting and our adventures. Metal Detecting Mudlarking Dump digging Arrowhead hunting Privy Digging Gold panning Thrifting Live shows Monday nights at 8 p.m. EST Special Guests! Give aways! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/treasure-vortex-podcast--2244406/support.
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Two old friends reminisce about a different retro game each episode and attempt to pair it with a cocktail of their choice
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The podcast that tells true stories about the people making and breaking our digital world. We take listeners into the world of cyber and intelligence without all the techie jargon. Every Tuesday and Friday, former NPR investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston and the team draw back the curtain on ransomware attacks, mysterious hackers, and the people who are trying to stop them.
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From the Big Apple to the Mini Apple to you, Seth and Jason chat about games, learning how to podcast, and stupid tangents in their firstish-ever podcast.
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SPYCRAFT MEETS SPELLCRAFT in the thrilling follow-up to the Canada's #1 crowdfunded novel of all time, The North Valley Grimoire. From Blake Northcott (DC Comics' Catwoman, Heavy Metal Magazine's Synap$e, and the international bestselling Arena Mode trilogy) comes The Omega Artifact, a short story that bridges the gap to the upcoming sequel, THE CELESTIAL KILLSWITCH (2021). Agent Malek's mission to Colombia is supposed to be a simple snatch-and-grab: locate a target, bag them, and lock them ...
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Voted #1 in Vue weekly Magazine , Metro Magazine , nominated 8th in the world against Adam corolla , Artie Lange and Dan Savage in the mature category & Winners of Monkeys Fighting Robots peoples choice award in the amateur podcast awards The Awesome Hour is a SOCAN licensed podcast on all things awesome from pop culture to strange news to bad life choices with a music bed of tasty tunes. From top40 to heavy metal and everything in between. The awesome hour is just that Alec , Ivan and Corbo ...
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Mic Drop: Frank McCourt wants TikTok to help him reinvent the Internet
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10:52Billionaire Frank McCourt wants to buy TikTok. Not to go viral—but to rewire the web. He says 170 million users could help him turn the Internet into something less addictive… and more democratic. Is that idealism, delusion… or both? As President Trump extends the deadline on the sale of the app, we return to our discussion with Frank McCourt. Lear…
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Introducing "Understood: Who Broke Internet"
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37:40An episode from "Understood: Who Broke the Internet" from CBC podcasts: We were promised a digital utopia. What we got was a pay-to-play hellscape of pop-ups, bots, and algorithmic sludge. Writer and internet contrarian Cory Doctorow charts the internet’s slow descent—from open commons to corporate enclosure—and lays out a path to take it back. Lis…
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** Treasure Vortex took over All Metal Mode Podcast Jan. 2022. ** Gypsy's Just Digging It: A Beginner's Guide to Metal Detecting Book Publish 1/12/2024: https://www.amazon.com/Just-Digging-Beginners-Guide-Detecting/dp/B0CSZBP4BZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16YYZUOGA9CZP&keywords=just+digging+it+book&qid=1706570416&sprefix=just+digging+it+boo%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-1…
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Mic Drop: Russia’s unexpected wartime real estate boom
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12:19In Russia, military families are cashing in on a wartime housing surge. Defense budgets are ballooning, property values are rising… and beneath it all, a troubling question: what happens when the war economy becomes just… the economy? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesBy Recorded Future News
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Return to Ukraine’s Radio ROKS: Heavy metal (and hackers) for brothers in arms
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22:04Before the war, Serhii Zenin played Metallica and joked with listeners on Ukraine’s Radio ROKS. Now he wears fatigues. And the station? It's still playing heavy metal—but now it’s also broadcasting news, coordinating aid, and holding the line in its own way. We return to a story where the frontlines and the airwaves meet. Learn about your ad choice…
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Virtua Racing - Cocktail Mode: Retro Games, Cocktails and Banter - S02E14
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1:23:45This week on Cocktail Mode, Andy and Dave are putting on their racing helmets for a special F1-themed episode. They're hitting the accelerator on Sega's groundbreaking classic, Virtua Racing, diving deep into its revolutionary graphics, iconic arcade experience, and how it laid the groundwork for countless racing games that followed. Get ready for …
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7/7/2025- We are Back! ** Treasure Vortex took over All Metal Mode Podcast Jan. 2022. ** Gypsy's Just Digging It: A Beginner's Guide to Metal Detecting Book Publish 1/12/2024: https://www.amazon.com/Just-Digging-Beginners-Guide-Detecting/dp/B0CSZBP4BZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16YYZUOGA9CZP&keywords=just+digging+it+book&qid=1706570416&sprefix=just+digging+it…
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Mic Drop: Guardians of the Galaxy are sitting in Colorado Springs
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11:38While most of us were staring at the auroras lighting up our Instagram feeds last year, a small group of analysts at the Space ISAC were focused on something a little less… pretty. Think solar flares. Think sabotage. Think space debris with a grudge. This week, we revisit our story about the watchers who don’t get much attention. Learn about your a…
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In this week’s CyberMonday crossover with WAMU’s 1A, we revisit a Click Here episode and take your calls—this time, about the cluttered chaos orbiting above us. Space debris isn’t just a cleanup problem. It’s a threat vector. What happens when an old satellite, long forgotten, becomes the perfect cover for a cyberattack? Or worse… a weapon? Learn a…
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Drones promised progress — as lifesavers in floods, storytellers in newsrooms, even assistants to archaeologists. But somewhere along the way, they took a darker turn. Now they hover over protests, shadow 911 calls and surveil our neighborhoods from above. Researcher Faine Greenwood discusses how we normalized the hum of surveillance — and why all …
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ICE leans on high tech monitoring to make quotas
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24:34Today: A story about a technology that began in the fields — tracking cattle — and is now on the ankles of immigrants. It’s part of a program called “alternatives to detention.” And these ankle monitors, smartphone apps, GPS check-ins have changed. They’re not just tools to monitor. Increasingly, they’re being used to entrap. And for some immigrant…
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System Shock - Cocktail Mode: Retro Games, Cocktails and Banter - S02E13
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1:28:30Access Granted. Prepare for a mind-bending journey! This episode on Cocktail Mode, Andy and Dave are joined by special guest Rich to hack into the darkly atmospheric world of System Shock. From the groundbreaking original that redefined immersive sims to the terrifying psychological horror of System Shock 2, they'll discuss every iteration, bug, an…
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Mic Drop: Catching a tempest in a honeypot
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15:21A Chinese hacking group walked right into a trap. Not a firewall. Not a filter. A honeypot. This week, Amazon CSO Steve Schmidt explains how a digital decoy called MadPot helped expose Volt Typhoon—and why, in the age of AI, the real vulnerability isn’t software. It’s people. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices…
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TRON was supposed to be just another Ethereum knockoff — faster, cheaper, maybe a little flashier. But over time, it's become something else entirely: the go-to blockchain for illicit finance. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesBy Recorded Future News
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Zoom was built for speed. But in its rush to connect us, it may have left a few doors open. This week, a cybersecurity expert walks us through how one of Zoom's most mundane features became a hacker's best friend — and why the weakest link in crypto isn't the blockchain … it's the person who thinks they're too smart to get scammed. Learn about your…
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Jake Gallen was a rising star in crypto. Then, after what seemed like a routine YouTube interview, his digital world unraveled. His NFTs? Liquidated. His social accounts? Hijacked. It turns out, the hackers didn’t need phishing links or fake job offers. They needed something much simpler: a Zoom invite. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org…
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NHL '94 - Cocktail Mode: Retro Games, Cocktails and Banter - S02E12
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1:12:42Slap shot into nostalgia! This week, Andy and Dave are inspired by the king of 16-bit hockey, NHL '94! They'll be reliving the glory days of one-timers, goalie fights, and that iconic organ music, while also exploring the evolution of ice hockey video games through the years. From early pixelated puck battles to modern-day simulations, they're cove…
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The Trump memecoin dinner looked like a political stunt. Maybe even a scam. But inside the crypto community, some saw something else: legitimacy. Today, we hear from one of crypto’s most thoughtful defenders. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesBy Recorded Future News
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Memecoins were born as Internet pranks — worthless by design, traded for laughs. But now they are buying real power, and a digital joke just slipped past the velvet rope straight into the Oval Office. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesBy Recorded Future News
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Mic Drop: A former North Korean IT worker speaks
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12:09For years, North Korea has quietly dispatched an army of IT workers overseas—not to innovate, but to infiltrate. Disguised as freelancers, they apply for jobs, breach systems, and wire stolen funds back to Pyongyang. This week, a rare conversation with one of them—a defector—about the regime’s digital underworld, and the personal toll of escaping i…
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