Weird Brunch

It's a crossover episode from our new podcast, Pop Soup, your piping hot serving of pop culture trivia! Subscribe and save y'all: Apple , Spotify , and everywhere else 🎧 Hayly gives us the royal(s) and we guess the scandal that could have been their downfall. Lisa quizzes us on what crimes various celebs have been arrested for abroad.  Whitney - guess the highest-grossing box office films from th...

This episode is brought to you by Pop Soup, our brand-new pop culture trivia podcast, so go listen to it right now! Lisa recounts one of Texas' almost forgotten tragedies, the New London School Explosion of 1937. Whitney hops back to the Gilded Age to visit the weird Wendel family - one of NYC's original rich families that decided to fully commit to never keeping up with the times.  Hayly becomes...

This episode is brought to you by color analysis. Hayly gets spooked by doppelgangers and bad omens. Whitney travels back 900,000 years to find our ancestors on the brink of extinction.  Lisa picks a fight with WCCW wrestler Gino Hernandez. 

This episode is brought to you by buff children. Whitney sinks with the Venetians at Pink Floyd's show in 1989. Lisa lifts weights for Jesus with her Muscular Christian friends. Hayly heads to the Isle of Man to befriend a ghost mongoose named Gef. 

This episode is brought to you by red currants.  Whitney dances to the strange Italian beats and gibberish lyrics of Adriano Celentano's "Prisencolinensinainciusol." Lisa revisits the Trinity Test Site in Los Alamos and uncovers the atrocious conditions the native population endured before, during, and after the Manhattan Project. Hayly joins Australia's Tromp Family on what is sure to be one of t...

This episode is brought to you the pitter-patter of tiny dog feet.  Lisa invites us to attend the first drag balls with their inventor and queer pioneer William Dorsey Swann. Hayly journeys across France with the cross-dressing, bisexual, swordswoman, opera singer, Julie d'Aubigny. Whitney boards Aloha Airlines Flight 243 - the terrifying flight and miracle landing that could have been much, much...

This episode is brought to you by rabies.  Lisa shows us the importance of functioning egresses at the infamous 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire.  Whitney loses her voice trying to perfect her own version of every film buff's favorite inside joke, the Wilhelm Scream. Hayly joins a house of ill-repute with a surprisingly reputable madam, Pearl de Vere, the "soiled dove of Cripple Creek."

This episode is brought to you by Hard Front Wigs. Whitney packs up her stuff and moves to a new apartment every year in NYC on everyone's favorite holiday, Moving Day! Lisa races down America's rivers in a steamboat only to end in the worst maritime disaster in the USA, the wreck of the Sultana. Hayly is put on trial with Isobel Gowdie for being the witch of the century. 

This episode is brought to you by cargo shirts. Hayly lives the 1930s socialite dream with Lester Gaba and his enigmatic creation, Cynthia the Gaba girl. Lisa goes down under to explore the storied life of Black Douglass the Bushranger. Whitney has a close encounter of the third kind at the Ariel School UFO incident. 

This episode is brought to you by FootFoot. Whitney joins the fan club for The Shaggs, the band that released the worst album ever recorded.  Lisa tells us just why Dairy Queen is what we like about Texas.  Hayly lives a hundred lives with the immortal party vampire, Jacques St. Germain. 

This episode is brought to you by snake meat. Lisa jumps down the throat of the world's most voracious and disgustingly hungry man, Tarrare.  Hayly heads to Ohio to read all about their dangerous gossip girl, the Circleville Letter Writer.  Whitney gets conned by the newest addition to the "Anna Delvey Female Fraudster Club," Vietnam's Tina Duong. 

This episode brought to you by Silver Status Bonvoy Members Whitney finds the most appropriate holiday tradition in Spain's Caga Tió. Lisa details the disappearance of British estate agent Suzy Lamplugh. Hayly joins the team behind one of the most "successful" bank heists of all time at Brazil's Banco Central Fortaleza.

This episode brought to you by Jackie O's Chewin' Metal. Lisa joins the Silicon Valley incubator fraternity Launch House and is quickly expelled.  Whitney gets revenge on the human race with a few cliquey Orcas, an angry elephant, and a few more vengeful animals.  Hayly exposes one of the longest-running mail scams of all time with "psychic" Maria Duval. 

This episode brought to you by the Hot Tips Hotline. Whitney visits the little micronation that could, Molossia.  Hayly joins Johann Georg Schröpfer's Masonic temple and learns how to raise the dead while making money off people.  Lisa details the gruesome murders of Australia's number one piece of shit rapist, Christopher Wilder. 

This episode brought to you by spinach. Hayly heads west to rob the rich and keep it all with Lord Gordon Gordon.  Lisa hides out with "missing" Sherri Papini until she decides she's over it. Whitney stays grounded while Jan Davis and others explore the dangerous world of BASE jumping. 

This episode brought to you by Dodge-em Cars. Whitney goes down under to join the fight in The Emu Wars. Hayly sinks to a new low with five Titanic conspiracy theories. Lisa takes us on a lustful excursion to the world's most aroused theme parks, aka pleasure gardens.

This episode brought to you by MorningStar sausage patties. Hayly gets brainwashed into Chuck Dederich's Synanon cult, but is rescued by the snakebitten lawyer Paul Morantz. Whitney empathizes with Cleopatra and her troubles with her little sister, Arsinoe. Lisa travels to ancient England to find out if King Arthur was a real person. 

This episode brought to you by poopcicles. Hayly survives the tundra with adventurer Peter Freuchen.  Lisa explores a budding cult created by the currently incarcerated Rashad Jamal.  Whitney slips back into the teenage dirtbag days of 1984 and the deadly friendship of Ricky Kasso and Gary Lauwers.

This episode brought to you by eight cats. Lisa lassos Misty of Chincoteague as we tour tiny horse island. Whitney drifts across the plains with the invasive tumbleweed. Hayly has a high time with Aimo Koivunen, the Finnish soldier who survived a Russian attack in WWII thanks to a near-deadly dose of government-grade methamphetamines.

This episode brought to you by semi-expensive restaurants. Whitney visits the bookstore with Mariko Ayoki and instantly drops a deuce.  Lisa follows a Trump loving idiot named Larry Rudolph & his wife Bianca to Africa for a hunt of a different kind.  Hayly gets behind the wheel of a Pinto and prays for an effective bumper. 

This episode brought to you by Evelyn's Creek Water. Whitney's up a creek with a couple Californians searching for sunken treasure along the Texas Gulf Coast. Lisa raises the dead with the corpse coronation of Ines de Castro. Hayly discovers the new record for the world's biggest piece of shit, Richard Schmidt, who attempted to murder his ex-girlfriend, Janice Trahan. (Note: this was recorded on M...

This episode brought to you by Procoptodons. Carina is back with the story of Malcolm MacDonald, who lost his "manhood" but found a new one on his arm. Whitney gets lost in the desert in Kenny Veach's mysterious M Cave. Lisa takes us around the world in 200 million years to Novopangea.

This episode brought to you by a Pisces moon. Special guest Rebe Cohen introduces us to astronomer and noseless legend, Tycho Brahe. Whitney shares the story of one of the worst boyfriends of all time, Nelson Roth. Lisa rents a home in jolly old 18th century England.

This episode brought to you by Hot Diet Coke ~ The Official Drink of Weird Brunch Whitney gets a glimpse of the elusive Los Angeles billboard icon, Angelyne. Hayly uncovers the Mormon roots of Go Ask Alice, the 1970s "true diary" account of a good girl succumbing to hippie drug culture. Lisa prowls the globe for the origins of Catwoman and her less hot sister, cat lady.

This episode brought to you by fruity garlic odors. Lisa travels the world with Michael Mikulec and his book of signatures. Whitney details the mysterious disappearance of David Lewis. Hayly recounts the infectious tale of Gloria Ramirez, the "Toxic Lady."