The Oddcast Podcast

Best Of The Oddcast - My Face Looks Like Mars (Airdate 8/26/2022) Some people truly have the audacity to be so brutally honest that their words leave your jaw on the floor. Based on the things people have said to Bob and Sheri over the course of their lives, it's amazing they don't just their evenings in the fetal position of a closet. The Bob & Sheri Oddcast: Everything We Don’t, Can’t, Won’t...

Today's Oddcast - Just Add the Dream (Airdate 8/22/2022) Don't we all have a secret daydream about the career we wish we had? How many of us wish we could have a little bookstore or ice cream shop or maybe even a snowcone cart at the beach? What if that daydream became your real job - and succeeded beyond your wildest hopes? Meet Veronica Stubbs aka The Scone Goddess. How she went from her home ki...

Today's Oddcast - High as Balls (Airdate 8/19/2022) Cannabis isn't legal where Sheri lives so when a pharmacy employee pointed to a small jar of tropical fruit-flavored gummies and said, "those really helped me sleep", she figured it was worth a try. Not expecting much of anything from a piece of candy, Sheri ate one before heading out to host a live virtual happy hour. It's a good thing her husba...

Today's Oddcast - Lamar & Smokin' Hot Carla (Airdate 8/15/2022) We had a blast hanging out at LamarBQ during our Happy Hour livestream, and we got a rare chance to chat with Lamar's wife, Carla! We learn that she's basically a clone of Sheri's husband Kevin...minus eating potted meat and watching black & white TV shows in the garage. The Bob & Sheri Oddcast: Everything We Don’t, Can’t,...

Today's Oddcast - Look Upon These Icons and Despair (Airdate 8/12/2022) What does it take for a human being to become a mythic icon like Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley? Talent, beauty, a kind of mystery or charisma that transcends the sort of everyday humanity that marks the rest of us. But even that isn't really enough. Think of all of the big, big stars of your grandparents era that are already...

Today's Oddcast - Oh Wow! Oh Wow! Oh Wow! (Airdate 8/8/2022) What happens when we die? Most of us don't like to think about it. But that's exactly what we explore in this episode. From hospice workers to researchers, we're learning more and more that certain experiences are universal and that "proof" of the soul might be more obvious than we've wanted to believe. And, we'll wrap up with what has t...

Today's Oddcast - The Best of the Oddcast - A Very Important Call (Airdate 8/5/2022) A phone call Bob received from the nicest scammer ever got us on the topic of eavesdropping on conversations in public. There's two types of people in this world: there's Sheri, whose head whips around at the slightest sound of juicy drama, and Kevin, who will burn a hole into the ground with his eyes to avoid loo...

Today's Oddcast - Family Secret - or Family Fiction? (Airdate 8/1/2022) Every family has them - the stories, the secrets, the legends that get told at holidays and handed down through generations. The thing is, how many of those tales are actually true? And why do we tell them? In this episode, Sheri tells the story of the brother she didn't know she had...a brother who could not possibly have exi...

Today's Oddcast - Hole Sweet Home (Airdate 7/29/2022) Doc just became a first-time homebuyer and if you're wondering how it's going, he took a break from patching the large hole in his living room wall to record this Oddcast. Doc's current saving grace is that, unlike Bob, he can be somewhat trusted with certain power tools! The Bob & Sheri Oddcast: Everything We Don’t, Can’t, Won’t, and Defin...

Today's Oddcast - Shake the Giglio! (Airdate 7/25/2022) Our friend accomplice in this thing of ours, Tony G. recently went back to Brooklyn for the annual Giglio Feast. Celebrated every July since 1903, the festa celebrates the life of St. Paolino. It's an epic street festival, with food, music, a parade, pirates, bead tossing - wait. Sounds kind of like Mardi Gras, right? But even Mardi Gras does...

Today's Oddcast - Holy Roman Time Machine (Airdate 7/22/2022) The sense of smell is the strongest memory trigger human beings have. In this episode, Bob talks about finding a tiny church unlocked and upon entering, he's immediately rocketed back in time to his childhood, attending Mass in a Little League uniform. There are just certain places that have that power to transport us. Both Sheri and Ma...

Today's Oddcast - Bob Finally Clams Up (Airdate 7/18/2022) Bob goes solo on the Oddcast to talk about his nostalgic sojourn to Maine and his favorite delicacies from New England.  The Bob & Sheri Oddcast: Everything We Don’t, Can’t, Won’t, and Definitely Shouldn’t Do on the Show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...

The Best of the Oddcast - Bob's Sack Just Ain't Safe (Airdate 7/15/2022) There's a gigantic "love sack" in Bob's house. Mary thought it'd be a wonderful idea to buy this bean bag chair, but it quickly became a nuisance that doesn't fit anywhere. Will Bob ever be able to rid himself of this pain in the butt? The Bob & Sheri Oddcast: Everything We Don’t, Can’t, Won’t, and Definitely Shouldn’t Do...

Best Of The Oddcast - Today I GET to... (Airdate 7/11/2022) Have you ever worked with someone who does nothing on the clock? We're talking about them literally just hanging out, twiddling their thumbs until it's time to collect a paycheck. If only we were all lucky enough to fly that low under the radar... The Bob & Sheri Oddcast: Everything We Don’t, Can’t, Won’t, and Definitely Shouldn’t Do...

Today's Oddcast - Where the Chips Fall (Airdate 7/8/2022) Heads up fans of Better Call Saul! Actor Peter Diseth aka Deputy DA Bill Oakley joins us to talk about the show and he found himself playing opposite America's favorite sketchy attorney, Saul Goodman. In a universe of morally compromised characters, Diseth's Oakley might be the lone outpost of integrity in this fictional version of Albuquer...

Today's Oddcast - The Best of the Oddcast - $100 Bucks For An Adult (Airdate 7/4/2022) What does it mean to be an adult? We work our way through a list of responses to this question and confirm that being an adult is hard as hell. It means figuring out what to eat for dinner every single night. It also means teaching your kids to drive in a way that doesn't involve yelling at them when they drive...

Today's Oddcast - If I Can Dream (Airdate 7/1/2022) With the new Elivs movie out in theaters, Bob does a deep dive into The King's 1968 comeback special. Bob also shares his own Elvis experience...one which ended up being one of the greatest moments of his life. The Bob & Sheri Oddcast: Everything We Don’t, Can’t, Won’t, and Definitely Shouldn’t Do on the Show! Learn more about your ad choices...

Today's Oddcast - Coming! (Airdate 6/27/2022) In this episode we talk about Emma Thompson's new movie, "Good Luck to You, Leo Grande", now streaming on Hulu. Thompson plays a widowed schoolteacher in her 60's who hires a male sex worker to help her achieve sexual satisfaction. For the first time ever. What is it about female pleasure that makes for such awkward, uncomfortable conversations? Why is...

Today's Oddcast - Pet Parents and Fur Kids (Airdate 6/24/2022) Who Doesn’t Love Dogs….. But, Are Dogs Really Man’s Best Friend?  The Bob & Sheri Oddcast: Everything We Don’t, Can’t, Won’t, and Definitely Shouldn’t Do on the Show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Best of the Oddcast - Loved, Lost, Learned (Airdate 6/20/22) Why do things always end up being so difficult for Bob and Sheri? Why can't life just work out the way they need it to without sky-high hurdles? Sometimes the universe decides that you need to travel down the hard path to reach the people and places that are truly meant to be. The Bob & Sheri Oddcast: Everything We Don’t, Can’t,...

The Best of the Oddcast - Finding Her Father's Voice (Airdate 6/17/2022) Imagine if you'd lost your dad when you were a child. We were joined on the Oddcast by Leigh Ann Walker, author of the book, "Finding My Father's Voice," as she details her journey to discover her dad after he passed away when she was 3 years old. The Bob & Sheri Oddcast: Everything We Don’t, Can’t, Won’t, and Definitely...

Today's Oddcast - Mad At His Girl (Airdate 6/13/2022) Love can make you crazy - but that's no excuse for what 21 year-old Brian Hernandez did on June 1. Smashing his way through the front door of the Dallas Museum of Art with a metal chair, Hernandez destroyed ancient artifacts. We're talking objects from ancient Greece, including a drinking cup from 550-530 B.C.E. Museum officials don't yet know...

Today's Oddcast - That Crazy Sex Magic (Airdate 6/10/2022) It's True Crime Time on this episode of the Oddcast. Heather Tallchief was one of only 10 women to ever earn a spot on the FBI's Most Wanted List. She pulled off a $3.1 million dollar casino heist in 1993 - and then disappeared. 12 years later, she walked into a federal courthouse and surrendered. Her story is so wild that you think, wow....

Today's Oddcast - Wrong Never Felt So Right (Airdate 6/6/2022) Romance novelist Nancy Brophy who wrote “How to Murder Your Husband” found guilty of murdering her husband. The Bob & Sheri Oddcast: Everything We Don’t, Can’t, Won’t, and Definitely Shouldn’t Do on the Show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's Oddcast - The Future is Wow! (Airdate 6/3/2022) In 1922, a handful of people predicted what the future would look like in 2022. It's wild how close to our reality so many of these predictions were. No flying cars, no robot housekeepers, no pills replacing food. Instead, these visionaries nailed cheap air travel, solar power, sprawling suburbs, wireless phones...one even insisted that no ma...