Is this the norm?

Join Lora, Heather and Rebecca as they cover The Great Recession and its impact on the "Lost Generation". Lora walks through how low interest rates in the early 2000s led banks to issue mortgages to unqualified buyers driving up housing prices. When rates climbed, borrowers with adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) couldn't afford payments, demand collapsed, and home values plummeted causing the housing bubble burst. The crash spread to the broader economy causing reduced spending, higher unemployme

In this episode of Is This The Norm podcast hosted by three sisters, Rebecca, Heather, and Lora — Rebecca leads a deep dive into the ancient Irish myth "The Adventure of Nera" (Echtra Neraí) from the Ulster Cycle, connecting it to the origins of Halloween through the Celtic festival of Samhain. The tale follows Nera, a warrior of Connacht who, on a Halloween dare, ends up carrying a dead man on his back to find him a drink. They pass three houses — each protected (or not) by household practices

Three sisters — Lora, Rebecca, and Heather unpack the dark side of MLM companies. Lora opens by tracing the history of financial scams from Charles Ponzi's 1920 Ponzi scheme, to illegal pyramid schemes, to the legally gray world of multi-level marketing. References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme Chrome AI copilot https://www.youtube.com/c/HannahAlonzo

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 borrowed Vlad's name and aura of darkness for his 1897 Gothic novel, the evolution o

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 episode of the podcast "Is This the Norm?" — hosted by sisters Heather, Rebecca, and Lora — explores the history and mythology surrounding the Book of Thoth across three distinct incarnations. Rebecca leads the discussion by first recounting the original ancient Egyptian legend (from the Papyrus Cairo CG 30646) about Prince Setne Khamwas, who discovers the magical book written by the god Thoth in the tomb of Naneferkaptah, only to learn — through a cautionary tale of betrayal, death, and a