Hocus Pocus Lack Of Focus

Gather round, one and all, we've another Justy Story Time for your listening pleasure. This week's episode sees us dig up the corpse of the Abhartach, the Irish folk tale said to have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula, and investigate how it relates to both horror and the modern political world. Along the way there's the possible origin of pom-poms, Dani gets fooled by AI (again), a weird number of W...

Another unsupervised episode for Dani and Justy, and things go downhill pretty much immediately. This week, we're getting into the spooky season spirit with a Halloween-flavoured game of Would You Rather? Expect haunted asylums, creepy porcelain dolls, shadow people, spiders under the skin and Slender Man. Along the way, there's talk of Loftus Hall, questionable paranormal experiences, the...

We're back! Again! Sorry for leaving! Again! With Oisin still on the run from the Manhunters, this week's episode sees Dani and Justy running amok and taking a very serious look at the case of Anna Ecklund, a  woman who supposedly suffered demonic possessions across several decades in early 20th Century Iowa. Along the way, there’s your usual dollops of Simpsons references (with added Fami...

This week, Justy and Dani open up the archives and rifle through the sexts of yore, horny correspondence from horny history! From Russian love letters to XYZ, we’re judging the gooners and the simps of yesteryear (they’re all dead, so it’s not libel, probably). And Oisin’s away so it goes off the rails in a myriad of NSFW ways. Along the way, Dani insults an entire language, Justy takes aim agains...

It's a rare Justy-less episode this week, we gave him the day off for his birthday (happy birthdays in the comments for the big man). In his absence, Dani attempts to give Oisin (and us) a sensible introduction to demonology: what a demon actually is, the difference between demonology and Satanism, sigils, offerings, invocation, and why you probably shouldn't treat demons like supernatural...

That's right, we've got another one in the chamber! Shockingly America's love affair with firearms is a biiiig topic, deserving of another episode. This week Oisin (with his spotters Dani and Justy) trains his sights on public mass shootings and the entwining of guns with American masculinity. Along the way, expect gun-as-penis talk, the origin of a few deadly idioms, how Bono is a bol...

Welcome welcome welcome to the fourth episode in our Folk Magic trilogy! Trilogies can have four parts, trust me. Just look at Alien or Mad Max! Hell, Star Wars technically started with its fourth instalment! Anywhoo, apparently we still haven’t run out of ways to talk about witches! This week, Dani, Oisin, and Justy explore how folk magic has survived, mutated,, and quietly snuck its way into eve...

Welcome to the third instalment of our Folk Magic trilogy! Everyone says the third ones are always the best, right?? This week, Dani, Oisin, and Justy dig their grubby mitts even deeper into the weird and wonderful magic mud, from Finnish healing witches and poppets to Appalachian traditions, Indigenous and African influences, and magical blacksmiths. Along the way there's Trump-adjacent weird...

We've kept Dani on topic for two whole episodes! It's a world record! This week, Dani, Oisin, and Justy careen from from Renaissance grimoires to Britain’s cunning folk and the infinitesimal distinction between a "witch" and "someone you paid to sort your supernatural problems out". We dive into witch trials, why the infamous “nine million witches burned” figure is way...

Ever wondered why your nan had a miracle cure for everything? Or where the line between medicine, magic, and superstition actually is? This week, Dani swerves the murder and torture stuff for a journey through the strange and fascinating world of folk magic. From protective charms and herbal remedies to the beliefs that shaped entire communities, we're exploring the traditions that existed lon...

This week, your hosts dive into Irish mythology to explore one of the most powerful and chaotic figures in Celtic folklore: The Dagda, basically Ireland's original big beardy lad. Along the way expect discussions of Justy's second-hand-car selling expertise, TV licence inspectors, Apple TV recommendations, heat-induced brain fog, and whether or not modern life has turned us all a little pa...

In this month's Q&A episode, we discover: - some near-death experiences (including how WWE'S Finn Balor broke Justy's neck), - how most scaffolders are psychopaths, - that Dani's cat can tapdance, - the Final Destination sixth sense that comes from working in construction, - Justy's sister's creepy childhood visions - the ghouls of the Hellfire Club and so much more! Do...

Bang bang! We're back! After a week off (celebrating England's World Cup loss a little too hard), Dani, Oisin, and Justy return to investigate yet another of America's foibles: guns! Did you know the US might be a little gun-centric? Who'd have thunk?! Expect talk of cowboys, soldiers, mobsters, Batman, and school shootings, and Dani being exceptionally bromophobic.

Big whopping content warning for all the bad stuff in this one, folks! And a medium-sized chaos warning for your three favourite hosts. This week, we shift back into Murder Mode, as Dani leads Justy and Oisin through the horrifying world of David Parker Ray, aka The Toy Box Killer. Along the way, there's some much needed levity in the form of Dani's Jennifer Coolidge impression, some BDSM...

Just a nice, chill, informative episode this week. No murders, no aliens, no massive government conspiracy, just a nice exploration of some of our favourite and funniest phrases. Along the way, expect Dani's piss jar count, Justy's attempts at inventing idioms, and Oisin's expertise as a financial advisor.

Super short episode for you this week, as your three mayoral candidates - Dani, Oisin, and Justy - step up to their respective podia to answer the questions of the adoring public (aka Dani's horniest reply guys). Expect questions on Dani's legitimacy as a shitposter, the trio's policies on Saw traps, and when we can expect their first state visits to North Korea.

We're rolling out the red carpet this week, taking a walk down Hollywood Boulevard, and delving into the concept of cursed movies! From The Exorcist to Stalker to Roar, Dani guides Justy and Oisin through the film which seem to have it out for the cast and crew. Does the magic of the silver screen have a dark side? Let's find out, and along the way, hear yet another spot-on Oisin impressio...

Get your peace signs and flop sweat at the ready, we're going deep on Trick Dick (it's usually the other way around for Dani). Yes, this week Oisin is taking Dani, Justy, and you, our dear listner on a secret midnight mission to uncover the Watergate scandal, and how Richard Nixon helped write the very playbook being used by Donald Trump right now. Along the way expect several shockingly g...

It's the end of the world as we know it! Justy guides Dani, Oisin, and you, our humble listeners through the biblical apocalypse. The Rapture! The End Times! The Four Horsemen (not the wrestling faction)! Thrown into this armageddon gumbo is potato men, furries, podcast mic etiquette, Argentinian Nazis, and Kim Jong-un possibly being the saviour of the world.

Going long on one of the big topics of the true crime world this week, as Dani, Justy, and Oisin open the casefiles on Charles Manson and the Manson Family. Along the way there's Star Trek talk, Beach Boys vs Beatles, many King Of The Hill impressions, and Dani debating who's the hottest cult leader.

Aaaaand we're back! After a little technical difficulties hiatus, Team Hocus Pocus returns as Oisin takes aim at yet another of America's toxic foibles: evangelicals. Along the way, expect talk of The Righteous Gemstones, Billy Graham (both regular and Superstar) and the connection between preachers and pro-wrestlers, Kenneth Copeland, traveller accents, and so much more!

When there's no room left in hell, the dead will podcast! Yes, this week, we're going through what would happen should reanimated corpses start shuffling through our streets in a stupor with one thing on their mind. No, not Dani's dating pool, but zombies! Throughout the episode we touch on the various genres of zombies which the USA actually has contingency plans for, The Walking Dead...

Step right up and witness the magnificent medicinal miracle of Hocus Pocus Lack Of Focus' revitalising podcast! Put some ardor in your larder with our energizing, moisturizing... tantalizing, romanticizing, surprising, "her-prising," revitalizing shite talk! That's right, this week Oisin takes Dani and Justy on an investigation of that grand American tradition: lying to people. S...

Pack a bag, wrap up tight, and follow close behind Dani, Justy, and Oisin as they investigate the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Ticking off a big topic on Dani’s bucket list, we defrost the mystery of what happened to the nine experienced hikers who died in mysterious circumstances in the Ural Mountains in 1959. Was it hypothermia? Military tests? Avalanche? Abominable snowmen? Abominable snowmen from sp...

Throw on your leather trenchcoats and tiny sunglasses, it's an episode for the philosophy and quantum physics sickos out there as we hack into the mainframe anad try to figure out simulation theory. What around us is real? How is the Fibonacci sequence so prevalent in nature? Why do we dream? And in Dani's case, what is 1 + 2? In between the binary code we touch on The Sims, Liverpool-based time s...