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

    Richmond's Decoy City, Dead Airfields & Data Centers (Lost city of Elko, Sharp Top Mountain, Shyndigz, etc) — Unscripted #064
    Oct 3 2026
    Vera Creative Club Merchandise: https://verahouse.coSubscribe to the audio podcast: https://verahouse.buzzsprout.com/followFollow us: https://instagram.com/verahouse.coHosted by Myke Metzger & Perri Young: https://instagram.com/mykemetzger https://instagram.com/planetperriIn 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 showGet 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.coyoutube.com/@verahousepodverahouse.coHosted by Myke Metzger & Perri Young:instagram.com/mykemetzgerinstagram.com/planetperri
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    1 h et 11 min
  • Richmond Mayors, Motors & Municipal War (dual mayors, State Capitol collapse, car manufacturing, etc) — Unscripted #063

    Richmond Mayors, Motors & Municipal War (dual mayors, State Capitol collapse, car manufacturing, etc) — Unscripted #063
    Sep 25 2026
    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-1999052500843Vera Creative Club Merchandise: https://verahouse.coSubscribe to the audio podcast: https://verahouse.buzzsprout.comFollow us: instagram.com/verahouse.coHosted by Myke Metzger & Perri Young: instagram.com/mykemetzgerinstagram.com/planetperriIn 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 showGet 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.coyoutube.com/@verahousepodverahouse.coHosted by Myke Metzger & Perri Young:instagram.com/mykemetzgerinstagram.com/planetperri
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    1 h et 4 min
  • Richmond Curses, Cowards & Carytown (RVA witch trials, Ellwood merger, James River historic duel, etc) — Unscripted #062

    Richmond Curses, Cowards & Carytown (RVA witch trials, Ellwood merger, James River historic duel, etc) — Unscripted #062
    Sep 18 2026
    Got thoughts? Throw them at us by sending a text hereYou'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 | EventbriteVera Creative Club Merchandise: https://verahouse.coSubscribe to the audio podcast: https://verahouse.buzzsprout.comFollow us: https://instagram.com/verahouse.coHosted by Myke Metzger & Perri Young: https://instagram.com/mykemetzger https://instagram.com/planetperriIn 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 showGet 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.coyoutube.com/@verahousepodverahouse.coHosted by Myke Metzger & Perri Young:instagram.com/mykemetzgerinstagram.com/planetperri
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    1 h et 4 min
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