Keep It Weird: A Strange & Unusual Podcast

Grab your tin foil hats and your barf bags, you're in for a rough one!

Hi weirdos welcome to another episode of KEEP IT WEIRD, the podcast for all things strange and unusual. Each week we get together to chat about something WEIRD and sometimes GROSS and this week it's GROSS!

Ashley starts us off with a REAL OR HOAX segment featuring the sad, strange and especially sick story of Mary Toft- a servant who lived in the 1700s who tried to make it out of her impoverished life with a fraud so vile it's hard to even type it up. Let's just say it involves innocent bunnies being shoved up a vagina. There's no way to beat around that bush.

Lauren swoops in to save the day with a CONSPIRACY THEORY that Queen Elizabeth I wasn't quite herself. In fact, she was so much so not herself that she was a man. Sure, part of the reasoning behind this conspiracy theory is misogynistic AF - but it's interesting nonetheless.

Debbie Downer brings us down again with a new segment called JEEPERS CREEPERS (I hate this so much) in which we discuss an incurable genetic disease called Fatal Familial Insomnia that kills you in less than a year by ENSURING you never enter REM again. And REM is my favorite part of sleep!

And finally, Lauren fails to cheer us up by taking us on a trip for a WHERE IN THE WORLD IS KEEP IT WEIRD GOING segment-- and Back to Tokyo we go! But this time there is no delicious Ramen. There is only hell. Meet us at the hottest date spot in Japan- the Meguro Parasitological Museum! Or you can call it by it's shorter name-- THE PARASITE MUSEUM. Home of the world's longest tapeworm!

Check out the links below if you want to read more about today's WEIRD stories. Please like this video and subscribe to our YouTube channel, follow us on social media @keepitweirdcast (Instagram/Twitter/TikTok) and if you REALLY love our show head over to www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast to give us some $$money$$ and help us continue to grow

Mary Toft

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/07/05/an-extraordinary-delivery-of-rabbits/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mary-toft-gave-birth-to-rabbits

Queen Elizabeth Conspiracy

https://www.historicmysteries.com/queen-elizabeth-man/

FFI: Fatal Familial Insomnia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_insomnia

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160118-the-tragic-fate-of-the-people-who-stop-sleeping

Tokyo's Parasite Museum

https://theculturetrip.com/asia/japan/articles/tokyos-museum-of-parasites-will-make-your-skin-crawl/?amp=1

H i w e i r d o s,

you know that feeling when you get a rush of nostalgia but you're also creeped out? When the hairs stand up on the back of your neck but you aren't in any danger? Ever get goosebumps thinking about a dark school hallway lined with lockers?

YEAH SAME!! Today we're continuing our discussion on weirdly haunted locations and Ashley is starting us off with the concept of LIMINAL SPACES. Hallways, rest stops, empty offices, abandoned malls, hell- even bathrooms. Theres just something about them that feel off...

And Lauren takes over to share some more haunted places that just should NOT be haunted. K-Marts, Toys R Us, skyscrapers, grocery stores and even malls filled with strange activity.. for.. some.. reason.

Get ready to feel creeped out every where you go!

TW: child abuse, murder, sexual assault, poisoning, execution Hi Weirdos! Welcome back to Keep It Weird, the podcast for all things strange & unusual! As with our last episode, there is no video for this episode WOMP WOMP our bad but have no fear!! Videos will be back in episode 3. THIS WEEK HOWEVER, Episode 2 of Season 8, we are getting pretty dark. Usually we like to balance out the darkness with the light (as above, so below - praise Baphomet) but hey sometimes it doesn't work out that way. Lauren is starting us out with a new segment called REALITY TV CORNER and is introducing us to some REALLY messed up reality tv shows that, not surprisingly, did not make it further than a season or two. THE SWAN on Fox wherein "ugly" women were given full plastic surgery makeovers to win a chance to compete in a beauty pageant and KID NATION on CBS which should have just been called "Child Endangerment: The Series." Then Ashley takes the lead to teach us about a man named Jolly who was not very Jolly at all. Louis Joyland West has some of the clearest and most nefarious connections of ANY scientist to the CIA's top secret (now declassified) program MK ULTRA (1953-1973) and one event he is connected to is so horrific... so monstrous... and so suspicious that you will struggle to believe it. Check out some links below if you want to do your OWN reading on the topics we discussed today. Follow us on instagram & twitter @keepitweirdcast. Subscribe to our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/keepitweirdpodcast. Join our PATREON to get two bonus episodes every month + discounts on merch at www.patreon.com/keepitweirdpodcast. Every penny goes toward producing this show. Reality TV Corner https://www.reddit.com/r/ask/comments/14y8qg7/what_is_the_most_unethical_reality_tv_show_ever/ https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/22/remembering-swan-noughties-controversial-offensive-reality-tv-series-10962780/ https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/05/04/that-time-reality-tv-made-a-real-life-lord-of-the-flies/ Jolly West/MK ULTRA https://theintercept.com/2019/11/24/cia-mkultra-louis-jolyon-west/ https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief https://hekint.org/2024/01/25/louis-jolyon-west-m-d-a-dangerous-doctor/ ReplyForward Add reaction

Hey Weirdos!

It's time for another check-in don't ya think? Last time we had one of our talks it was because I was feeling lost and hopeless after the suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain.

This time I'm coming around because I've had friends from all walks of life coming to me in the last few weeks telling me that they are experiencing such debilitating anxiety (some for the first time in their lives) and they don't know how to deal with it and they need help.

I can only assume that if my inner circle is experiencing this... some of you have to be, too. So this is just a simple reminder that you aren't the only one feeling this way and that there IS a light at the end of the tunnel.

Just be kind and hang on. We love you.

Hi Weirdos!

Welcome to our very first FLASHBACK EPISODE!! We asked you what you thought our funniest moments were and in this episode we are bringing you TWELVE clips from past episodes that made you LOL

Six and a half full seasons of episodes and hundreds of bonus episodes made it VERY difficult to narrow down but we just took our MOST REQUESTED moments and compiled them here, for your listening (and viewing) pleasure.

From interrupting cats to getting lost on boats, spashal affax to WUTUHH and even a time I almost set my apartment on fire (Not the same time as when I *actually* set my *house* on fire)

Take a scroll if you want a breakdown of the episodes included in this episode, make sure you check the episode out on our YOUTUBE channel at www.youtube.com/keepitweirdpodcast if you want to see a handful of old photos and our DIY video and while you’re there hit up that SUBSCRIBE button so that you can be the first to know when a new video has been uploaded.

We’ve had a BLAST these past seven years and we hope to keep having fun with you for many to come.

Clip 1: Season 3 Episode 6 "Ayy Bobby New York" Guest: Steven LaChioma

Clip 2: Season 2 Episode 19 "OPP: Oscillating Poo Platform" Guest: Bret Correll

Clip 3: Season 3 Episode 25 "Lagawho, LagaWHAT" Guest: Billy Roach - Cohost: Joe Ochs

Clip 4: Season 4 Episode 13 "Turn Around Bright Eyes" Guest: Joe Ochs Special Guest Appearance: Gabby Goob

Clip 5: Season 3 Episode 40 "A Night with the Queen" Guest: Tyler Schuelke

Clip 6: Season 3 Episode 16 "My Friends Call Me Whiskers" Guest: Kate Alden

Clip 7: Season 2 Episode 3 "Lifestyles of the Rich & Suspicious" Guest: Blair Gorman-Diaz

Clip 8: Patreon Bonus Episode- Special 420 Episode "Allicin My Aim is True"

Clip 9: Patreon Bonus VIDEO - Season One - Curl Up and DIY

Clip 10: Various - Patreon Bonus Episodes with Keep It Beard Cohost Amy Hanselmann

Clip 11: Season 2 Episode 2 "A Joespiracy Theory" Guest: Joe Ochs

Clip 12: Season 1 Episode 17 "A 90's Spooktacular Spectacular" Guest: Jimmy Heisner