Is a serial killer prowling around Austin, Texas?



Since 2022, 38 bodies have been found in or near Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas. The most recent was recovered just earlier this month. On June 3, a teenage male kayaker was found two days after he swam into a deep part of the lake without a life jacket and disappeared under the water.

Many of the deaths in and around Lady Bird Lake have been attributed to accidental drownings. Other deaths have been ruled suicides and drug overdoses; only one death has been declared a homicide.

However, several cases remain unknown. Another disturbing fact is that 30 of the 38 bodies were males, 60% of which were between 30 and 49 years of age, leading many locals to suspect a serial killer, given serial killers usually target victims with specific characteristics — especially age and gender.

The Austin Police Department has insisted that no evidence supports the existence of a serial killer, but locals are not convinced. Several petitions for police to investigate drownings as potential homicides have been filed. Many believe that the proximity of Rainey Street, a nightlife hub with numerous bars and clubs, has led to men being drugged and lured to Lady Bird Lake where they were intentionally drowned.

While the city has implemented safety upgrades, including increased patrols, fencing, lighting, and cameras around the lake, APD has maintained that no serial killer is on the loose.

Dave Landau, BlazeTV host of the comedy series “Normal World,” sides with the locals.

He reads from a recent Buzzfeed article, detailing how in 2022, “A cluster of six bodies were found” — all males with “similar features.” The following year, “Five more bodies were found, again, all men,” who had apparently “gone missing after having a night out on the nearby Rainey Street.”

“So it looks like we have the Lady Bird Killer on our hands, ladies and gentlemen,” he says.

As for APD’s denial that there’s a serial killer on the loose, Dave thinks there’s a chance law enforcement “may not tell the public what they're looking at” to avoid hysteria.

To hear more about the scandal that’s got the people of Austin in an uproar, watch the episode above.

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Caitlyn Jenner gets tipsy in Israel during attack



75-year-old Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner flew to Tel Aviv to be the guest of honor at a Pride parade — but all that came to a screeching halt when Iranian missiles began to pierce the sky.

When Jenner was moved to a bomb shelter instead of the parade, Israeli influencer Regev Gur snapped a photo of himself and the famous transgender athlete, posting it to X with the caption, “What did you do during the alerts? Because I'm drinking wine with Caitlyn.”

Jenner is shown in the photo holding a glass of wine up next to the influencer while in the bunker, but BlazeTV host Dave Landau doesn’t see it as a good thing.

“It’s wine o’clock somewhere, apparently in Tel Aviv while you’re getting bombed,” Landau says, dripping with sarcasm.


“The former Olympian, who’s 76 — you wouldn’t have guessed that,” he continues, “captioned via Instagram Friday with a picture of missiles, adding, ‘There is not a place I’d rather be than with the brave people of Israel. God, please continue to shield and protect us.’”

1/4 Black Garrett finds the timing of the missiles to be suspicious, as it was just as the Pride celebration was set to begin.

“Why would Palestine blow them up at that time?” he asks, alluding to Palestine’s strict laws against homosexuality.

“I’d say this is the most woman thing he’s ever done,” he continues, adding, “making a very bad situation about himself.”

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This celebrity just started selling … her dirty bathwater?



American actress Sydney Sweeney, who’s known for her roles in television series like “Euphoria” and “The White Lotus,” recently partnered with popular soap company Dr. Squatch to release a limited-edition soap bar dubbed "Sydney’s Bathwater Bliss," which is supposedly infused with Sweeney’s used bathwater.

After her viral 2024 appearance in a Dr. Squatch ad, in which she addressed “dirty little boys” while sitting in a bathtub, fans flooded social media with playful and bizarre comments about wanting Sweeney’s bathwater.

The “Madame Web” actress apparently saw the requests as a fun way to engage with her fans. A partnership with the natural grooming brand was quickly struck, and in late May, her soap bar, which is also infused with pine, moss, and fir scents to reflect Sweeney’s Pacific Northwest roots, dropped.

Dave Landau, ¼ Black Garrett, and Angela Boggs, hosts of “Normal World,” find the collaboration hilarious and incredibly odd.

“It’s like perverts wrote you letters,” laughs Dave.

“I get that she’s pretty and she’s got big boobies and stuff, but like honestly, who is buying this?” asks Angela.

Apparently, a lot of people are. The 5,000 bars of Sweeney’s limited-edition soap sold out in a matter of hours.

To hear the panel’s hilarious banter about this strange celebrity product, watch the episode below.

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Bare tactics: Nancy Mace’s ironic nude reveal condemns nonconsensual pics?



On May 20, 2025, during a House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) displayed a shocking image of her nude silhouette that her ex-fiancé, Patrick Bryan, allegedly took without her consent.

The decision to share the brow-raising photo was tied to Mace’s advocacy for her legislation, the Protect Victims of Digital Exploitation and Manipulation Act, which seeks to criminalize nonconsensual deepfake pornography and similar digital exploitation.

Back in February, Mace accused Bryant and three other men of rape, sex trafficking, and nonconsensual filming during a nearly hour-long speech on the House floor, claiming she discovered over 10,000 photos and videos on Bryant’s phone documenting these acts, including images of herself.

Bryant has denied all accusations. In a social media post on Tuesday, he said, “I categorically deny the false and outrageous claims made by Nancy Mace. I have never raped anyone. I have never hidden cameras. I have never harmed any woman. These accusations are not just false — they are malicious and deeply personal.”

Dave Landau, ¼ Black Garrett, and Angela Boggs, BlazeTV hosts of “Normal World,” bring their unique blend of humor and analysis to the messy scandal.

“My wife took a naked silhouette of me … but it looked like a short Hitchcock,” jokes Dave.

“If I was a senator or something, I would bring up pictures of my exes and be like, ‘This is why Kevin's a d***,”’ laughs Angela.

In all seriousness, though, the panel can’t understand how showing a nude image of herself — the very type of material her legislation seeks to protect against — makes a convincing argument.

“I’m confused,” says Garrett, claiming the stunt is just Mace “using [her] time in the government” to address “private” issues.

To hear the panel’s hilarious banter about Nancy Mace’s strange self-exposure, watch the episode above.

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Rosa Parks underwear, pimps, and bad haircuts: The TOP Met Gala looks that went TERRIBLY wrong



The Met Gala is a time for celebrities to socialize and dress to the nines, and this year, Dave Landau of “Normal World” and Stu Burguiere of “Stu Does America” found the looks interesting — to say the least.

“If you look at the people, they’re all pimps. Like 80% of them are dressed as pimps to celebrate black culture,” Landau jokes.

One Met Gala goer, Lisa, who starred in HBO’s “The White Lotus,” has been slammed by critics for wearing what appeared to be underwear with Rosa Parks’ face on them. Her lace briefs were stitched with a collage of women designed by artist Henry Taylor — and fans were convinced they saw the Civil Rights icon’s face on them.


“One thing I will note, and this is another tradition here in the United States, um, pants. You could theoretically wear pants, and even if you had Rosa Parks underwear, we wouldn’t know. That’s just a tip for anyone coming in,” Stu says.

“If you look very closely, you can see little faces of people. Now, I don’t know for sure if it’s Rosa Parks,” he adds.

A representative for the artist who designed the panties explained to the press that the image was not of Rosa Parks “but one of Henry’s neighbors.”

“That’s what happens when you don’t wear pants,” Stu jokes.

Pamela Anderson has also been the subject of criticism after appearing on the red carpet with a “bold new hairdo.”

“The most glamorous night of your life, I suppose it’s an interesting haircut,” Stu comments.

“I would say it’s kind of a Rocky Dennis haircut, maybe a special needs bowl cut, and that’s not against anybody who has special needs,” Landau chimes in, adding, “It’s the Jim Carrey Lloyd Christmas haircut.”

“I don’t understand why all fashion is like this,” he continues, adding, “It all feels like a prank. Like, this feels like a prank.”

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Witchcraft, seances, and Lucifer worship: The occultist roots of the feminist movement EXPOSED



Rachel Wilson was born to a Marxist feminist mom and a hard-core conservative, Rush Limbaugh-loving dad. Spoiler alert: It didn’t work out.

Rachel struggled in school but not because she wasn’t smart. On the contrary, she was too smart. By kindergarten she had already figured out that school wasn’t about learning but about obeying rules. When college rolled around, Rachel was so over traditional education that she turned down a full-ride art scholarship.

At 20, she became a mom and felt she had found her calling. But when returning to work at just four weeks postpartum loomed, Rachel realized just how toxic the modern system was.

She began asking questions about how we got to a place where it’s normal for babies to be shipped off to day care and new moms forced to return to work just days after birth.

Her questions landed her deep in feminist literature, where she discovered that the origins of the feminist movement are not what we’ve been told. The story of abused women oppressed by the patriarchy, forced to slave away at the stove and have babies until they perished, is the lie the radical left sells us.

The truth? It’s far more sinister than most realize. Elites, the CIA, and occultists are the ones who shaped women’s liberation — not to free women, but to control society.

On a recent episode of “Normal World,” Rachel joined Dave Landau, ¼ Black Garrett, and Angela Boggs to unpack the dark history of feminism outlined in her book “Occult Feminism: The Secret History of Women's Liberation.”

“There's a whole hidden history to women's liberation that nobody knows about,” says Rachel. For example, most “don't know that there was way higher participation in anti-suffrage groups among women than pro-suffrage groups.”

However, the most shocking revelation Rachel uncovered during her research was that the feminist pioneers were almost all involved in occultism.

“Not a couple, but most of them dabbled in occult practices, whether it's like witchcraft, spiritualism. …There’s an old saying that there was never a suffragette that didn’t sit around the seance table,” she says.

“There was a lot of anti-Christian sentiment within the suffrage movement. They had radical lesbian separatist female pastors in like 1895 helping to rewrite the Bible.”

Their core belief was that “Christianity was invented by the evil patriarchy to control women and force them to be rape slaves.”

“Lucifer was actually a symbol of women's liberation in the 1800s. They openly said Lucifer was the good guy; he was trying to enlighten us and make us free and liberated, and God's actually the bad [guy],” says Rachel, noting that these aren’t her opinions but the real words of the original feminists.

Later, “the CIA pushed [the feminist movement],” not for the sake of women’s freedom but rather for the sake of control.

“We've been lied to about everything at this point,” says Dave.

To hear more about Rachel’s book and the wild origins of the feminist movement, watch the episode above.

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RFK Jr.’s detractors: Warriors for autistic children — or just friends of Big Pharma?



Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been facing backlash for weeks over his comments regarding the lack of agency many autistic children face, because parents of children who are “on the spectrum” believed he was talking about their own experience.

“Autism destroys families, and most importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which is our children. These are children who should not be suffering like this,” RFK Jr. said. “These are kids who will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.”

While those on the left have seen this as an opportunity to criticize the Trump administration, Matt McClowry, 1/4 Black Garrett, and Angela Boggs of “Normal World” are thrilled that RFK Jr. is taking action as promised.


“This is one of the most exciting things for me, the whole Donald Trump second term, putting all these great people in, ‘cause he was going to run for president, right, and people wanted him to get in,” Garrett says.

“I think this is a better position for him to be in because now he’s not distracted by all the other foreign policy and other things that the president has to do. He can do what he’s passionate about and what really needs to be done,” he continues, noting that RFK’s ban on food coloring was a huge step in the right direction as well.

“Get all that stuff out of here because we do have an autism problem,” he says. “Even if we find that it doesn’t have anything to do with causing autism, it’s just not healthy to add all these preservatives and food colorings and the stuff that we don’t need.”

McClowry finds it a little odd that the left, long the party of hippies and environmentalists, wants nothing to do with RFK’s cause unless it’s tearing it apart.

“It’s just strange for me to see Democrats coming out de facto on the side of all that stuff,” McClowry says, before referencing a post on X from Elizabeth Warren.

“I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism. It’s disgusting and dangerous. If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign. Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness. To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight with you all the way,” Warren wrote.

“By this fight, she means kickbacks for drug companies,” McClowry comments, adding, “Speaking as a person with autism, I hold a job, I have a family, and I would erase my autism in a second if it were an option.”

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YouTuber arrested for trying to contact forbidden island tribe — his 'peace offering' will crack you up



The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a Union Territory of India located in the Bay of Bengal, roughly 750 miles southeast of mainland India. While several of the islands are tourist attractions, there is one island that is strictly prohibited from visiting.

North Sentinel Island is fiercely protected by the Indian government, as it is home to the Sentinelese tribe – an uncontacted, indigenous people who are extremely hostile to outsiders.

In the 1970s, a National Geographic filmmaker was injured by an arrow while attempting to make a documentary. In 2018, an evangelical Christian missionary, who traveled illegally to the island intending to convert the tribe to Christianity, was killed after being shot with many arrows.

Now, another attempt to reach the Sentinelese tribe has been made, this time by a YouTuber named Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov.

On March 31, Polyakov was arrested after illegally attempting to contact the Sentinelese people. According to reports, he landed on the restricted island and filmed his visit.

But if risking his neck for adventure or clicks (or both) wasn’t wild enough, the “offering” he left the Sentinelese people will truly shock you — and maybe even make you laugh.

Dave Landau of “Normal World” hilariously unpacks this bizarre adventure and the absurd "offering" left behind.

“He brought them a coconut and a can of Diet Coke as his offering,” Dave says, reading from reports.

He’s immediately reminded of the 1980 comedy “The Gods Must Be Crazy,” where a Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane turns a Kalahari tribe on its head.

“So [Polyakov] pulled a ‘Gods Must Be Crazy’ and must have thought that somebody didn't know the reference,” laughs Dave. “I know what you're doing; you're not original.”

“Except in the movie, they don’t bring a coconut because they’re not stupid,” he quips.

Dave’s movie reference sparks a wild panel discussion on '80s movies, cartoon chaos, and 5G paranoia.

To hear it and see a picture of the fool who offered the Sentinelese tribe a can of Diet Coke and a coconut, watch the clip above.

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BlazeTV's Dave Landau battles demons with darkly funny 'Party of One'



Dave Landau is an open book on stage.

The “Normal World” star shares hilarious tales from his self-destructive youth. Hear a few and an uncomfortable thought comes to mind once the laughter subsides.

'You can fall down a lot, and you have to learn to get back up ... it took me so long to learn that lesson,' he says. 'Even 13 arrests didn’t stop me from drinking and enjoying drugs.'

It’s a miracle he’s still alive.

Now, he’s sharing how close he came to becoming a drug statistic in his new, sobering book, “Party of One: A Fuzzy Memoir.” The autobiography details Landau’s troubled childhood, from his father’s extended cancer fight to his many brushes with the law.

It’s darkly comic and often laugh-out-loud funny, but Landau isn’t content with making readers howl. He hopes his story might help others conquer their demons, too.

Inadvertently helpful

“I had to relive it and let it go and forgive myself. That’s the hardest thing in the world for me,” Landau tells Align about writing “Party of One.” “It’s hokey, but it could help anybody who might be struggling ... the more you know you’re not alone, the better it is ... being more open, you inadvertently help people.”

Landau wrote the bulk of the book during the pandemic, but he wasn’t ready to share it just yet.

“It’s really personal to me,” he says, and he wanted to make sure the people chronicled in “Party of One” understood the purpose behind the book. “I decided it was finally time to let the world know, at least my fans know about it.”

Some passages may feel familiar to those who have addicts in their families. Others will be shocking no matter one’s background.

“You can fall down a lot, and you have to learn to get back up ... it took me so long to learn that lesson,” he says. “Even 13 arrests didn’t stop me from drinking and enjoying drugs.”

The book, co-written with Jon Wiederhorn, shares how his comedic instincts steered him toward sobriety.

From Detroit to Dallas

Landau made videos as a younger man and obsessed over sketch comedy shows like “Saturday Night Live.” His father would wake him up as a teen to watch “SNL” together. He later connected with Second City’s Detroit chapter. That’s the famed improv network that gave birth to stars like Gilda Radner, Amy Poehler, and John Belushi.

“It gave me an outlet I never had before,” he says, noting his family and friends urged him on. Now, he creates comedy on the fly with Blaze Media’s “Normal World” alongside co-host ¼ Black Garrett.

“It has its little cult audience that’s getting bigger. It’s nice to watch something grow,” he says. “Being able to do sketch [comedy] after growing up with sketch [comedy] is a highlight of my life.”

“Party of One” lets him connect with that growing fan base, something that’s increasingly common in today’s comedy world. Comedy fans feel familiar with today’s stand-up stars, a bond forged from on-stage routines, podcasts, and social media.

It’s one reason pundits say President Donald Trump used appearances on “The Joe Rogan Experience” and other comedy podcasts to retake the White House.

“You feel like you’re a part of somebody’s life ... it’s another reason to put out my book. Why hide it?” he asks.

Fair game

Landau is similarly open about his political views. He’s embraced elements of the modern right over the years, working to keep himself above the tribal fray at the same time. His philosophy? Everyone is fair game.

In the process, he educated himself on the political scene, eager to be more precise in his commentary.

“I started having to read the news every day ... things became more clear to me,” he says.

He spent months working alongside “Opie & Anthony” alum Anthony Cumia, who wasn’t shy about his right-leaning views. Landau paid an accidental price for that.

“People would attack me for doing nothing. Friends turned on me [for] a political ideology I wasn’t even sharing. I was just next to it,” he says of his formerly left-leaning persona. That also happened when he later teamed with conservative comedian Steven Crowder.

Those partnerships took their toll.

Late-night pariah

“I paid a lot to be where I am now,” he says. Many roles and opportunities dry up when you so much as empathize with the right, he says.

“I wasn’t going to get on late night, ever,” he adds of mainstream programs like CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” He did flip the script on Hollywood Inc. by appearing on Fox News’ late-night smash “Gutfeld!”

The repercussions didn’t stop with his professional life.

“I lost friends,” he says before suggesting they weren’t real friends in the first place. “People show their true colors. ... That’s part of this business. It’s not always very pleasant.”