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!

Well Hello There, Kiddies

Welcome to our annual tribute to horror writers!! It's another edition of SCARY STORIES TO TELL (JOE) IN THE DARK!!

This time around we've got four delicious tales of terror ranging from the deadliest Christmas ever to first contact with extraterrestrials! Ashley and Joe sit in their dark, creepy apartment and share the old fashioned past-time of telling spooky stories by candlelight. As usual music and sound effects have been added and could be jarring for some listeners. This episode is best listened to with headphones.

Stories:

"Fake News" by Matthew Gall

Buy his book Insomniac: Bite Sized Scary Stories on Amazon!

"50,000" by reddit user jtb685

Check out their reddit sub at www.reddit.com/r/jtb685

"Distorted Warning Signals" by Ashley Rose Wellman

Check out her website ashleyrosewellman.com and follow her on Instagram @ashleyrosewellman

"The Meteor Generation" by Heather Flowers

ALL MUSICAL CONTRIBUTIONS BY VIVEK ABISHEK

Hear more at www.youtube.com/c/VIVEKABHISHEK

In this episode, Lauren and Ashley sit down with their very first FEMALE guest, Kari, and discuss Ladies who kill! We all pick our favorite female serial killers throughout history and talk about what makes female serial killers different and similar to their male counterparts... and we sing. A lot.

DISCLAIMER: This episode has a weird audio problem! Starting at about minute 10 and going to about minute 20 there is a strange popping sound-- we've tried everything to remove this sound but weren't able to fix it! We didn't want to cut it out, because theres a lot of weird/cool information shared, but if you can't handle it skip ahead to minute 21 and you'll be in the clear!

Hi Weirdos! Or should I say... high weirdos?

Welcome to a very special episode of KEEP IT WEIRD– your one stop shop for all things strange and unusual, stoned and spooky, blitzed and bonkers & everything in between.

What makes this week so special is that it’s our BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION for the best co host that side (or THIS side) of the Mississippi. Lauren and Ashley have been best friends for going on fifteen years now (EW how did we get so old) and were sick and tired of not being able to PARTY TOGETHER on special occasions.

So we did a little “gardening” and poured ourselves some fruity beverages and set off to BLOW EACH OTHERS MINDS with some absolutely crazy science, biology, history and trivia.

We cover how stars and planets are made, how many blimps we have on Earth, how you can tell the temperature based on a cricket’s chirp, which famous horror director had to say goodbye to his bellybutton, an ancient city full of skyscrapers that you didn’t know existed, where the sound comes from when we snap our fingers, and even alligators who can gallop faster than Gunpowder (that’s Ichabod Crane’s horse... obviously)

So buckle your seatbelts, maybe take a toke or two yourself, relax, melt into the couch, WAIT too much melting. Don’t forget to breathe. Yes you ARE breathing. Chill out, relax, meeeelt into the couch. There we go. Open your mind to weirdness. Let it flow through you.

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https://science.nasa.gov/universe/stars/

https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2019.00092

https://courses.ansys.com/index.php/courses/fluid-statics/lessons/simulation-examples-homework-and-quizzes-3/topic/simulation-example-blimp-buoyancy/#:~:text=Blimps%20fly%20using%20the%20same,a%20blimp%20in%20the%20air.

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/how-old-are-sharks-older-than-trees-the-north-star-more#:~:text=Plants%20first%20showed%20up%20on,need%20to%20really%20take%20hold.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.5411662/giddy-up-new-study-reveals-some-crocodiles-can-gallop-1.5410648

https://entomology.unl.edu/k12/crickets/temperature.htm#:~:text=The%20simplest%20method%20is%20to,published%20in%201897%20by%20A.E.

https://www.plansponsor.com/tuesday-trivia-dab-toothpaste-sits-top-toothbrush-called/

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/does-the-brain-eat-itself