Vera House Podcast

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A creative dispatch with Richmond entrepreneurs, founders, and modern creatives shaping the future — one story, one project, one idea at a time. Recorded in Richmond, Virginia, Vera House is where conversation meets craft. From local legends to global movements, this is for makers, artists, creators, and doers.

  1. 5d ago ·  Video

    Richmond Beaches, Blues & Buried Ooze (Texas Beach, Blues Armory & the Shockoe sewer) — Unscripted #066

    Want to attend a Vera House live podcast stream? Join the wait list here: https://verahouse.myflodesk.com/g494hn4meh Vera Creative Club Merchandise: https://verahouse.co Subscribe to the podcast: https://verahouse.buzzsprout.com/follow Follow us: https://instagram.com/verahouse.co Hosted by Myke Metzger & Perri Young: https://instagram.com/mykemetzger https://instagram.com/planetperri In this episode of Vera House Unscripted, Myke and Perri cover the Texas Beach bridge reopening, the hidden history of Blues Armory, and Shockoe Creek, the buried waterway tied to Richmond’s sewer overflow problem. The conversation starts with records, speakers and cymatics before drifting into theories about sound, ancient construction and Kailasa Temple. From there, they come back to Richmond and the Texas Beach bridge, which is open again after being closed since 2022. Final work may still cause short closures, but Richmonders can once again reach that stretch of the James by land. Then Myke shows Perri a video of a Richmond man drinking an entire bottle of James River water. That leads to the creek running under downtown, the history behind the name Shockoe, and the combined sewer system that can overflow into the James during heavy rain. They also revisit Sixth Street Marketplace and the castle-like Blues Armory that still stands downtown. The episode closes with Perri’s upcoming trip through Istanbul, Kazakhstan, Dubai and Paris, Richmond’s pedestrian safety plan, the RVA Big Market move to Midtown Green, the demolition of the old Subway at Broad and Boulevard. Topics include Texas Beach, North Bank Trail, cymatics, Kailasa Temple, Shockoe Creek, Shockoe Bottom, Richmond's combined sewer system, the James River, Blues Armory, Sixth Street Marketplace, Richmond Light Infantry Blues, Midtown Green, RVA Big Market, and Richmond pedestrian safety. Quick interjection to invite you to Vera House Studios. If you are a local Richmond business, entrepreneur, brand owner, or service provider, and you know you need better content to get your products and services in front of the right people, we can help. Get more info about our studio here: https://verahouse.co This podcast is produced by Vera House, a creative club and premium media studio based in Richmond, Virginia. Our studio exists to champion local brands, creative expression, RVA culture, and produce high-impact content for founders, makers, and modern businesses. Quick interjection to invite you to Vera House Studios. If you are a local Richmond business, entrepreneur, brand owner, or service provider—and you know you need to create better content to get your products and services in front of the right people—we can help. Support the show Get more info about our studio here. This podcast is produced by Vera House — a creative club and premium media studio based in Richmond, Virginia. Our studio exists to champion local brands, creative expression, rva culture, and produce high-impact content for founders, makers, and modern businesses. Follow the movement: instagram.com/verahouse.co youtube.com/@verahousepod verahouse.co Hosted by Myke Metzger & Perri Young: instagram.com/mykemetzger instagram.com/planetperri

    Richmond Beaches, Blues & Buried Ooze (Texas Beach, Blues Armory & the Shockoe sewer) — Unscripted #066

  2. Oct 24 ·  Video

    Richmond Haunted Secrets: Halloween Special (Impalers, Infernos & Grey Lady, etc.) - Unscripted #065

    This episode is sponsored by Goodwill of Central and Coastal Virginia, and every prop on our set was found at a Goodwill store. Visit your local Goodwill location: ⁠https://goodwillvirginia.org/location-finder⁠ Goodwill's Holiday Thrift Pop-Up is a one-day event at the JANAF Goodwill in Norfolk on Saturday, November 7 (5900 E Virginia Beach Blvd): ⁠https://share.google/MwQwYl5hgTQZTxI26⁠ Shoppers can expect a large selection of holiday décor, toys, gifts, Christmas trees and festive home goods at thrift-friendly prices, with merchandise replenished throughout the day. Santa and Mrs. Claus will be there from 10 a.m. to noon, and Santa returns from 1 to 3 p.m. Every Goodwill store carries its own inventory, so no two trips are the same, and there was plenty of Halloween to pick from this year. Every purchase supports job training, career services and employment opportunities across Central and Coastal Virginia. Vera Creative Club Merchandise: ⁠https://veraclub.myshopify.com⁠ In this episode of Vera House Unscripted, we discuss a range of Richmond topics including the Dahlgren affair, the 1811 Richmond Theatre fire, and the Grey Lady of the Hawes House. We start with this year's costumes, built from a Goodwill thrift challenge, before Myke tells the story of Ulric Dahlgren, the 21-year-old Union colonel Richmond was so afraid of that it dug him up four times. Later in the episode, Perri shares his own unexplained campground encounter and the story of the Grey Lady, a haunting that ended with a skeleton and a tortoiseshell comb unearthed four feet under the Hawes House. The second half closes with the Bleeding Nun, the night in 1811 when a theatre fire killed 72 Richmonders, including the governor, and the city built Monumental Church on top of the mass grave. Topics include the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid, Elizabeth Van Lew, Libby Prison, Belle Isle, Monumental Church, Gilbert Hunt, the Hawes House, and a lot more. Quick interjection to invite you to Vera House Studios. If you are a local Richmond business, entrepreneur, brand owner, or service provider—and you know you need to create better content to get your products and services in front of the right people—we can help. Support the show Get more info about our studio here. This podcast is produced by Vera House — a creative club and premium media studio based in Richmond, Virginia. Our studio exists to champion local brands, creative expression, rva culture, and produce high-impact content for founders, makers, and modern businesses. Follow the movement: instagram.com/verahouse.co youtube.com/@verahousepod verahouse.co Hosted by Myke Metzger & Perri Young: instagram.com/mykemetzger instagram.com/planetperri

    Richmond Haunted Secrets: Halloween Special (Impalers, Infernos & Grey Lady, etc.) - Unscripted #065

  3. Oct 3 ·  Video

    Richmond's Decoy City, Dead Airfields & Data Centers (Lost city of Elko, Sharp Top Mountain, Shyndigz, etc) — Unscripted #064

    Vera Creative Club Merchandise: https://verahouse.co Subscribe to the audio podcast: https://verahouse.buzzsprout.com/follow Follow us: https://instagram.com/verahouse.co Hosted by Myke Metzger & Perri Young: https://instagram.com/mykemetzger https://instagram.com/planetperri In this episode of Vera House Unscripted, we discuss a range of Richmond topics including the lost city of Elko in eastern Henrico and the decoy airfield the Army built there during World War II, the three dummy runways and plywood aircraft that were built to be bombed, the data center campus that sits on that same ground today, the hospital Virginia started there and then abandoned, the family graves now under the campus, Sharp Top Mountain and the stone from its summit set into the Washington Monument, a bakery on Cary Street that will sell you a whole cake at three in the morning, the asteroid crater 35 million years under the Chesapeake Bay, and what Halloween actually looks like in Richmond. We start with the season turning: thermostat negotiations, snowpocalypse preparation, a generator pulled out of an alleyway and rebuilt by hand, and the case that Dr. Martens is not the boot it used to be. Myke spent a couple of nights in Bedford and hiked Sharp Top, about three miles of stairs, and reached the summit for the sunset with a jacket, a headlamp, and a plan. The history is better than the hike. Sharp Top was once believed to be Virginia's highest peak, a stone was taken from its summit and inscribed "From Otter's Summit, Virginia's loftiest peak, to crown a monument to Virginia's noblest son," and it sits in the Washington Monument today. Myke shared the summit with fifteen teenagers in t-shirts and GoPros and spent the walk down deciding whether he is officially old. Later in the episode we get into the ground itself. There is an asteroid crater under the Chesapeake Bay, about two miles of rock that hit 35 million years ago, and the water trapped beneath it is older than the impact: remnants of an ancient Atlantic Ocean, 100 to 145 million years old and twice as salty. Then the lost city of Elko. The legend says the Army built a fake Richmond as a bomber decoy. The record says the 936th Camouflage Battalion laid out three dummy runways to protect Byrd Field, and took more than 40 farms to do it. The streets and fire hydrants that made the place famous were not props at all. They were the beginning of a mental hospital for Black patients that Virginia built for a decade and then moved to Petersburg in 1957, leaving everything already in the ground. Today the tract is White Oak Technology Park, where data centers sit above family cemeteries and a VDOT lab's solvents are still in the soil. The second half is about what we are told to believe. Shyndigz installed a locker you can collect a whole cake from at any hour, which is either genius or the end of civilization, and it opens onto the American diet: white bread, sugar syrup, and the argument that a locally made cake may be better for you than a chain restaurant's chicken. Myke makes the case that Olive Garden is not an Italian restaurant. Perri argues that if you do the opposite of what everyone tells you, you end up right side up. Both of them land on the same rule, which is to keep it simple and eat the thing that somebody actually made. The episode closes on Halloween, three weeks out, with two hosts who have no costumes and a standing request for yours: send costume ideas and spooky story recommendations in the comments. Topics include the Elko Tract, the lost city of Elko, Henrico County, White Oak Technology Park, the 936th Camouflage Battalion, Byrd Field, World War II decoy airfields, Elko Tract Road, the VDOT Elko Materials Lab, TCE, 1,4-dioxane, the Fisher and Garthright families, Sharp Top Mountain, the Peaks of Otter, Bedford, Otter's Summit, the Washington Monument, Thomas Jefferson, the Chesapeake Bay impact crater, Cape Charles, the Eastern Shore, Shyndigz, Cary Street, Sugar & Twine, Olive Garden, WALL-E, Gen Z, the snowpocalypse, Halloween in Richmond, Doctor Doom, and the Vera House Halloween special. Quick interjection to invite you to Vera House Studios. If you are a local Richmond business, entrepreneur, brand owner, or service provider—and you know you need to create better content to get your products and services in front of the right people—we can help. Support the show Get more info about our studio here. This podcast is produced by Vera House — a creative club and premium media studio based in Richmond, Virginia. Our studio exists to champion local brands, creative expression, rva culture, and produce high-impact content for founders, makers, and modern businesses. Follow the movement: instagram.com/verahouse.co youtube.com/@verahousepod verahouse.co Hosted by Myke Metzger & Perri Young: instagram.com/mykemetzger instagram.com/planetperri

    Richmond's Decoy City, Dead Airfields & Data Centers (Lost city of Elko, Sharp Top Mountain, Shyndigz, etc) — Unscripted #064

  4. Sep 25 ·  Video

    Richmond Mayors, Motors & Municipal War (dual mayors, State Capitol collapse, car manufacturing, etc) — Unscripted #063

    You're invited to FWD:RVA on Monday, October 5th, 6 to 8 p.m. at VPM x Style Weekly Headquarters, Richmond. Style Weekly and VPM are hosting us for a live conversation about podcasting, building an audience, and creating community in Richmond. Free to attend, limited capacity, so RSVP early. Tickets and details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fwdrva-podcasting-tickets-1999052500843 Vera Creative Club Merchandise: https://verahouse.co Subscribe to the audio podcast: https://verahouse.buzzsprout.com Follow us: instagram.com/verahouse.co Hosted by Myke Metzger & Perri Young:  instagram.com/mykemetzger instagram.com/planetperri In this episode of Vera House Unscripted, we discuss a range of Richmond topics including a Reddit post asking whether to move to Gilpin Court, the car company Richmond used to have and the single car that survived it, the 1870 Capitol collapse that killed 62 people while the city had two mayors at once, the 1886 schoolhouse on Lombardy Street being turned into an event venue, Flock cameras being walked back across Virginia, and the Arts District finally getting city money. We start with a Reddit post from someone considering a move to Richmond who circled Gilpin Court on a map and asked for intel. The comments do the usual thing, and the conversation underneath is really about how to tell a stranger the truth about a neighborhood without writing it off, plus the Tiger Mart regulars and how fast Northside has changed. Later in the episode we get into Richmond's two simultaneous mayors. In 1870 George Chahoon refused to leave office after Henry K. Ellyson was chosen to replace him, and for about two months the city had two governments and two competing police forces. When the Supreme Court of Appeals finally took up the case, hundreds of people packed into the Capitol to hear it. The gallery supports gave way and the floor collapsed, dropping the crowd about twenty-five feet into the House of Delegates chamber below. Sixty-two people died and 251 were injured, among them Patrick Henry's great-grandson, a Black state senator who had taken his seat the year before, and the city's fire chief. The youngest was a thirteen-year-old page. The ruling arrived two days later, after Richmond had already spent those days burying its dead. The second half is about what Richmond used to make and what it stopped noticing. The city once had its own car company. James Allen Kline's plant on North Boulevard, on the site that later became the Greyhound bus station, sat across from a mile-long dirt track where they raced the cars they had just built. Henry Ford's mass production finished the company by 1924. One Richmond-built Kline survived anyway, bought by A.D. Price, a Black funeral director in Jackson Ward, whose family stored it instead of scrapping it. It is on display at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture today. We also get into the 1886 schoolhouse on Lombardy Street that almost nobody has noticed, the Arts District getting a city grant after decades, and why it took both of us this long to care about any of it. Topics include Gilpin Court, Tiger Mart, Richmond's Northside, Chamberlayne Avenue, gentrification, Flock Safety cameras, surveillance in Virginia, the 1870 Capitol disaster, Richmond's Municipal War, George Chahoon, Henry K. Ellyson, April 27 1870, the Virginia State Capitol, Thomas Jefferson, the 15th Amendment, J.W.D. Bland, John Turner, the Melungeon people, the Kline Motor Car Corporation, the Kline Kar, James Allen Kline, the Greyhound bus station, North Boulevard, the Diamond, CarMax Park, A.D. Price, the A.D. Price Funeral Home, Jackson Ward, the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, 3 North Lombardy Street, the Stonewall Jackson School, the Arts District, Sixth Street Marketplace, Broad Street streetcars, Brown's Island, Mayo Island, Short Pump, and FWD:RVA (Style Weekly x VPM). Quick interjection to invite you to Vera House Studios. If you are a local Richmond business, entrepreneur, brand owner, or service provider—and you know you need to create better content to get your products and services in front of the right people—we can help. Support the show Get more info about our studio here. This podcast is produced by Vera House — a creative club and premium media studio based in Richmond, Virginia. Our studio exists to champion local brands, creative expression, rva culture, and produce high-impact content for founders, makers, and modern businesses. Follow the movement: instagram.com/verahouse.co youtube.com/@verahousepod verahouse.co Hosted by Myke Metzger & Perri Young: instagram.com/mykemetzger instagram.com/planetperri

    Richmond Mayors, Motors & Municipal War (dual mayors, State Capitol collapse, car manufacturing, etc) — Unscripted #063

  5. Sep 18 ·  Video

    Richmond Curses, Cowards & Carytown (RVA witch trials, Ellwood merger, James River historic duel, etc) — Unscripted #062

    You're invited to FWD:RVA - Monday, October 5th, 6 to 8 p.m. at VPM x Style Weekly Headquarters, Richmond. Style Weekly and VPM are hosting us for a live conversation about podcasting, building an audience, and creating community in Richmond. Hosted by Rich Meagher of VPM's RVA's Got Issues. Free to attend, limited capacity, so RSVP early. Tickets and details: FWD:RVA | Podcasting Tickets, Monday, October 5 • 6 PM - 8 PM | Eventbrite Vera Creative Club Merchandise: https://verahouse.co Subscribe to the audio podcast: https://verahouse.buzzsprout.com Follow us: https://instagram.com/verahouse.co Hosted by Myke Metzger & Perri Young:  https://instagram.com/mykemetzger https://instagram.com/planetperri In this episode of Vera House Unscripted, we discuss a range of Richmond topics including Elwood Thompson's and the AI data center firm that now controls its parent company, unpaid Virginia farms and thinning shelves in Carytown, Virginia's place as the data center capital, Grace Sherwood and the 1706 witch trial at Pungo, the 1846 duel between two Richmond newspaper editors, the $2,000 foldable iPhone, the Vision Pro, and whether Richmonders are actually unfriendly. We start with Elwood Thompson's. The Carytown grocery sold in 2023, and its parent company has now completed a reverse merger with a private New York AI data center firm. High-margin tech profits are supposed to fund 19 natural grocery stores. In the meantime the shelves are thinning, several local Virginia farms have gone months without payment, and the hot bar that used to pack the parking lot at lunch never came back after COVID. Later in the episode we get into whether anything made today is built to last. Perri wants the $2,000 foldable iPhone and is fairly sure nobody needs it, Myke is just glad it costs more in Canada, and the Vision Pro is the most expensive thing Apple ever shipped that almost nobody uses. We also read the Reddit post from a transplant demanding to be carried off the plane in a sedan chair, and land on the only honest answer: Richmonders aren't mean, they've got things to do. The second half is two Richmond history stories almost nobody has heard. First, Grace Sherwood, the Witch of Pungo. In 1706 her neighbors accused her of killing pigs and slipping out of a bedroom as a black cat, the court threw her into the Lynnhaven River to see whether she would float, and Virginia waited exactly 300 years to the day before a sitting governor restored her good name. Then the 1846 duel between John Hampden Pleasants and Thomas Ritchie Jr., two newspaper editors who traded insults in print until one of them printed the word "coward." They met at the James River with pistols, revolvers, a sword cane, and a bowie knife. One of them died two days later. A jury acquitted the other without leaving the courtroom. Topics include Elwood Thompson's, Carytown, Healthy Choice Wellness Corporation, Host Digital Infrastructure, reverse merger, AI data centers, Virginia data centers, Richmond grocery stores, local farms, Grace Sherwood, Witch of Pungo, Pungo, Virginia Beach, Witchduck Road, Lynnhaven River, the 1706 witch trial, trial by water, the Tim Kaine pardon, John Hampden Pleasants, Thomas Ritchie Jr., the Richmond Whig, the Constitutional Whig, the Richmond Enquirer, the 1846 duel, dueling in Virginia, Goochland County, Chesterfield County, the James River, Blockbuster, the foldable iPhone, Apple Vision Pro, shittification, nostalgia, Richmond hospitality, Reddit, Style Weekly, VPM, FWD:RVA, and RVA history. Quick interjection to invite you to Vera House Studios. If you are a local Richmond business, entrepreneur, brand owner, or service provider—and you know you need to create better content to get your products and services in front of the right people—we can help. Support the show Get more info about our studio here. This podcast is produced by Vera House — a creative club and premium media studio based in Richmond, Virginia. Our studio exists to champion local brands, creative expression, rva culture, and produce high-impact content for founders, makers, and modern businesses. Follow the movement: instagram.com/verahouse.co youtube.com/@verahousepod verahouse.co Hosted by Myke Metzger & Perri Young: instagram.com/mykemetzger instagram.com/planetperri

    Richmond Curses, Cowards & Carytown (RVA witch trials, Ellwood merger, James River historic duel, etc) — Unscripted #062

  6. Sep 12 ·  Video

    Richmond Honey, History & Hydrogen Bombs (wild bees, civil war, and submarines in RVA) — Unscripted #061

    The Richmond Rotary Blue Crab Festival is this Saturday, September 12th, 12–3 p.m. at the Overlook at ChildSavers in Church Hill: https://www.rvarotary.com/  — all-you-can-eat Eastern Shore blue crabs, live music, beer and wine, and a silent auction you can bid on even if you can't make it. Hosted by the Rotary Club of Richmond, with proceeds going back into local charities. Silent Auction found here: https://rotaryclubrichmond.betterworld.org/auctions/blue-crab-festival-silent-auction-2026 In this episode of Vera House Unscripted, we discuss a range of Richmond topics including a bucket of bees in Scott's Addition, a man who bricked ninety windshields downtown, the Battle of New Market Heights and the fourteen Medals of Honor we never hear about, the Blue Crab Festival, and the forgotten Richmond submarine that guarded a hydrogen bomb. Vera Creative Club Merchandise: https://verahouse.co We start with the brick. A man walked through downtown smashing car windshields — somewhere around ninety of them — and the conversation that follows isn't really about him. It's about the word "unhoused," what a cracked windshield actually costs now, why nobody on that street stopped him, and the people we walk past in Carytown every week without knowing anything about them. Later in the episode we go out to Henrico, to a battlefield most Richmonders have never heard of. The Battle of New Market Heights, September 29th, 1864: the United States Colored Troops led an assault that cost roughly eight hundred casualties in a little over an hour, broke the Confederate line, and produced something this city has never properly claimed — fourteen Medals of Honor out of only sixteen awarded to Black soldiers in the entire Civil War. We read every name. The second half starts with Saturday's Blue Crab Festival and an honest explanation of what a Rotary Club actually does. Then the story that gives this episode its name: Aluminaut and Alvin, the two best friends who happened to be submarines. Reynolds Metals built Aluminaut right here in 1964 — 51 feet of aluminum, a publicity stunt to sell foil and beer cans — and two years later it was the only thing on earth that could find a lost hydrogen bomb off the coast of Spain. Then it went back down 5,000 feet to rescue Alvin from the bottom of the Atlantic. Aluminaut is parked outside the Science Museum of Virginia on Broad Street right now, and most people who drive past it have no idea. We close with a bucket of honey nobody can explain. Topics include Scott's Addition, honeybees, wild bees, Richmond windshields, downtown Richmond, Carytown, homelessness in Richmond, the Battle of New Market Heights, Henrico County, the United States Colored Troops, Powhatan Beaty, the Medal of Honor, Civil War Richmond, the Blue Crab Festival, the Rotary Club of Richmond, Church Hill, the Overlook at ChildSavers, Reynolds Metals, Aluminaut, Alvin, the Science Museum of Virginia, deep-sea submarines, and Richmond history. Quick interjection to invite you to Vera House Studios. If you are a local Richmond business, entrepreneur, brand owner, or service provider—and you know you need to create better content to get your products and services in front of the right people—we can help. Support the show Get more info about our studio here. This podcast is produced by Vera House — a creative club and premium media studio based in Richmond, Virginia. Our studio exists to champion local brands, creative expression, rva culture, and produce high-impact content for founders, makers, and modern businesses. Follow the movement: instagram.com/verahouse.co youtube.com/@verahousepod verahouse.co Hosted by Myke Metzger & Perri Young: instagram.com/mykemetzger instagram.com/planetperri

    Richmond Honey, History & Hydrogen Bombs (wild bees, civil war, and submarines in RVA) — Unscripted #061

  7. Sep 4 ·  Video

    Richmond Drones, Dead Men & Dinner (RVA Restaurants, Amazon delivery, Night Doctor etc) — Unscripted #060

    Vera Creative Club Merchandise: https://verahouse.co In this episode of Vera House Unscripted, we discuss a range of Richmond topics including Amazon drone delivery, the Night Doctor's remains finally returning to Richmond, the end of Asante's and The Daily's Carytown era, the RVA couples list, and whether anything made today is made to last. We start at the Valentine, where a behind-the-scenes tour gave Myke the treasure-hunting bug — meat juice, the gun hole, and centuries of Richmond history hiding in plain sight — before diving into the Night Doctor and the update that changes the story: the remains found beneath MCV are coming home, a $3.6 million memorial site is approved, and a second well is still buried under the Kontos building. Later in the episode, we look up. Amazon is bringing drone delivery to the Richmond region, Henrico and Hanover first, and we're not sure we asked for this version of the future. From the sky we go to the street: the GRTC crash that triggered a "mass casualty" declaration, why that phrase means less than it sounds, and why everything new — cars with subscription key fobs, Target, new houses — feels like it's built to fail while the old stuff refuses to die. The second half is pure Richmond. Asante's is gone, The Daily is closing its Carytown doors to become something new, and we pay respects to the pizza places that raised us. Then the internet's "successful couples by city" list gets the RVA treatment, feral possum and river rat included. We close on a Richmond doctor who woke up with a bat in her mouth, and the strange economics of the rabies shot. Topics include Amazon drone delivery, Henrico, Hanover, Richmond Raceway, the Night Doctor, MCV, the Smithsonian, the Valentine, meat juice, the gun hole, Asante's, The Daily, The Pizza Place, Carytown, the RVA couples list, GRTC bus crash, mass casualty incident, Tesla self-driving, subscription cars, and the bat in the mouth doctor. Quick interjection to invite you to Vera House Studios. If you are a local Richmond business, entrepreneur, brand owner, or service provider—and you know you need to create better content to get your products and services in front of the right people—we can help. Support the show Get more info about our studio here. This podcast is produced by Vera House — a creative club and premium media studio based in Richmond, Virginia. Our studio exists to champion local brands, creative expression, rva culture, and produce high-impact content for founders, makers, and modern businesses. Follow the movement: instagram.com/verahouse.co youtube.com/@verahousepod verahouse.co Hosted by Myke Metzger & Perri Young: instagram.com/mykemetzger instagram.com/planetperri

    Richmond Drones, Dead Men & Dinner (RVA Restaurants, Amazon delivery, Night Doctor etc) — Unscripted #060

  8. Aug 24 ·  Video

    Richmond AI, Power Bills & Poison (Dominion, toxic dumping, ai, data centers, etc) — Unscripted #059

    To work with us, please send us an email at hello@verahouse.co In this episode of Vera House Unscripted, we discuss a range of Richmond topics including artificial intelligence, Dominion Energy, rising power bills, data centers, illegal toxic waste dumping, Flock cameras, traffic, and how technology is reshaping everyday life. We start with an update on the Vera House studio after unexpected flood damage before diving into the growing issue of illegal dumping across Richmond and Henrico. We also discuss Dominion Energy's rising costs, the impact of expanding data centers, and why so many Virginians are questioning where their utility bills are headed. Later in the episode, we explore the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, the fear surrounding new technology, and why adapting to AI may become one of the most important skills of the next decade. We also revisit privacy, surveillance, Flock cameras, and the balance between convenience and personal freedom. The second half of the episode focuses on personal responsibility, from defensive motorcycle riding and safer driving habits to building stronger communities, while reflecting on Richmond's continued growth and the challenges that come with it. Topics include artificial intelligence, Dominion Energy, data centers, Richmond power bills, illegal dumping, Flock cameras, Richmond traffic, motorcycle safety, community, technology, Richmond infrastructure, and local news. Quick interjection to invite you to Vera House Studios. If you are a local Richmond business, entrepreneur, brand owner, or service provider—and you know you need to create better content to get your products and services in front of the right people—we can help. Support the show Get more info about our studio here. This podcast is produced by Vera House — a creative club and premium media studio based in Richmond, Virginia. Our studio exists to champion local brands, creative expression, rva culture, and produce high-impact content for founders, makers, and modern businesses. Follow the movement: instagram.com/verahouse.co youtube.com/@verahousepod verahouse.co Hosted by Myke Metzger & Perri Young: instagram.com/mykemetzger instagram.com/planetperri

    Richmond AI, Power Bills & Poison (Dominion, toxic dumping, ai, data centers, etc) — Unscripted #059
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A creative dispatch with Richmond entrepreneurs, founders, and modern creatives shaping the future — one story, one project, one idea at a time. Recorded in Richmond, Virginia, Vera House is where conversation meets craft. From local legends to global movements, this is for makers, artists, creators, and doers.

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    Vera House Studios
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
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    66
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