Curios Cast

To celebrate being back together after 3 week apart Tom, George and Rob have all brought some Weird News stories. All stories feature someone getting more than they asked for, exactly what they asked for, or just getting a bit carried away. Enjoy!  Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/curioscast 

Rob and Tom are on the road again filming an annual Derbyshire tradition, the Ashbourne Shrovetide Football Game. Recording directly from inside the camper-van, they join us on the morning after their first day amongst the chaos.  Subscribe to Curios News, video coming soon: https://www.youtube.com/curiosnews 

Tom and George are joined by friend of show and most popular guest, Faz - also known as The Pigstone. For this weeks Weird News we have an epic tale of a courageous rodents breakfast resourcefulness, a tinder date turned fart-bucket mishap, and a menagerie of orifice clogging items.  Follow Faz on Twitch: twitch.tv/thepigstone  Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/curiosca...

We've all heard stories of people being in love with weird things... pirate ghosts, briefcases and dolphins, just name a few. This week Tom interviews a Japanese man who is married to Hatsune Miku, a fictional anime music star.  Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTjr8uB3bDM 

Happy Valentines Day! This week we've found some beautiful stories about love, partnership and intimacy to celebrate Valentines. We've also found some stories about condoms, ejaculate and sex dolls to mark this milestone episode... episode 69!  Leave a comment over on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAF7MFTczys 

Do you dig stories about weird people? Well this story is about a weird man digging. Rob runs the boys through the life of William Lyttle also known as The Mole Man of Hackney, a man who dug a series of tunnels and caves under his house in Hackney, London.  Leave a comment over on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBKQwdWqNvA

This week Tom takes us back to late 90's Japan and tells us all about a man named Nasubi (Eggplant) who was the contestant in what is known as one of the cruellest and most mentally torturous reality TV shows ever created.  Leave a comment over on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-jXGEjMutU 

Rob dives deep into the world of Breatharianism, also known as Inedia, a practice in which people abstain from eating any food and sometimes from drinking any water. Some claim it's a way to reach a higher form of enlightenment, some say there is a number of heath benefits, most say it's a load of crap.    Watch along on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9iEe_9Gpi8  

Tom talks briefly about the origins of Blue Monday before moving on to discuss some of the worst advertisements on TV and the internet. From culturally insensitive to transphobic and racist, tone-deaf or ignorant, we have them all. It's episode 65 of the Curios Cast.    Watch along on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoQRME8h2DA  

In 1975 an unsuspecting but hard working logger by the name of Travis Walton had a surprising and unexplainable close encounter of the third kind. Did he really see and interact with aliens, or was it all just a bad trip? George runs through all the details in this alien abduction episode of the Curios Cast.  Watch along on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/SIB8QTu-SRs  

We’re in the betwixt and we still have a few drops of festive cheer in us. We talk about crazy New Years traditions around the world, we laugh at a video of a toxic karaoke substitute teacher, and we try to beat the world record for the worlds loudest belch.  Watch along on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1vkiAHpZdAQ  

Rob and Tom get us in the festive mood with some Christmas themed weird news stories and a detailed description of the worst Christmas film ever.    Watch along on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp8uJj7BQEc  

This week we talk to Brian, who was on Series 7 - Episode 1 of the Channel 4 UK dating show ‘Naked Attraction’.  ‘Naked Attraction’ is a dating show that is centred around the human body and sexual attraction. Listen to EP51 of the Curios Cast to hear us talk more about the show.  Thanks to Brian for joining us.  Watch this episode on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGYehttVMm0  

Tom tells the boys about the Wetherspoons Paltry Chip Count Facebook page. A page where pub goers upload photos of their meals, counting the amount of chips on their plate. We stumble across a reoccurring character of the page who is not all he seems.  Watch along on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pKqHuiiKqq0  

Special guest Faz Brown joins us for another episode recorded from the Curios Studio. This is a classic episode of Weird News! Expect to hear about TikToking from the future, a hungry footballer from the past and a ghost story submitted from a fan, which got the willies right up Tom.   Watch along on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S0MJo3fllE  

During the wild and stormy December of 1900, three lighthouse keepers vanished without trace from the remote Eilean Mor lighthouse, located on an inhospitable rocky island on the north west coast of Scotland. With food left uneaten on the table, coats still hanging on their hooks, cryptic journal entries scattered throughout the compound and a lack of obvious reasons for their disappearance, their...

TAR BARREL VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__9Ht5SNDgY     It's the first episode back in the Curios Studio for over a year, and what a way to kick things off. Tom and Rob go barrelling off into the streets of Ottery St Mary to make friends with locals, enjoy funfairs, down local pints and experience the thrill of flames up in yo' grill. November 5th is the one night a year that the residen...

Rob and Tom are on a road trip and are bringing you with them! This episode is recorded live from inside Tom's car while driving down the M3 motorway. Buckle up for this unique episode all about roundabouts, service stations and bridge graffiti. Rob loses his mind about a Co-op and Harvester being in the same spot, and the boys view the mystical Stonehenge from a respectable and free distance.   W...

In episode 55 of the Curios Cast Tom tells us about the foolish internet prankster known as Ken M. An unknown user who leaves witty and seemingly idiotic responses on message boards and news articles all around the internet. The ultimate troll? The man the internet needs in this modern age? I don't know, but does Tom? Watch along on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1R8qOpjUTU  

What's that unbearable noise in my head? Is it the Russians? The Chinese? - Those goddamn Aliens? This week, Rob talks you through the mysterious and worrying Moscow and Havana signals, an increasingly common mystery illness affecting US diplomats and service personnel around the world.  Is it audio warfare? Microwave signals? Bigfoot? or... Aliens? Who the heck knows. Rob sure doesn't. Watch alon...

Jeepers Creepers a bonus episode! Did we scare ya? Get in the spooky spirit this year by lighting your Jack-O'-Lanterns, throwing on your spooky costume, exercising all of your demons and listening to your favourite three idiots talk about pumpkin riding, dead Victorians and you guessed correctly, another woman shagging a ghost! Sit back and enjoy.  Also, don't forget to tell all your trick and tr...

Have you ever heard a sound and thought; "Golly, that sound, I can't explain it". Probably not. Well, after this episode you'll be just as puzzled as the world's loneliest whale, as George is going to play us some weird noises that even the best sound scientists can't crack!  Spooky sky trumpets, creepy underwater trains, mysterious bloops from the deep - this episode has it all. Just like your mo...

Why are all bourbon biscuits the same? Are custard creams superior? When was the bourbon invented? What's the worst you've ever hurt your balls? These are all questions that we answer in this weeks episode of Weird News!    Watch along on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14mQ7sFIMc8    

To celebrate 50 episodes of the Curios Cast the boys have brought in the beers for an extra long episode of weird news! We chat everything from bigfoot to poo, space wanks to speakeasies, and we have a massdebate about which animals we could beat up.  Stick around to the end to hear a special guest appearance from ex-Curios Cast member and founder Paul Lawford.  Thank you to everyone that has list...

Born in 1929, Frane Selak is a humble Croatian man known for his many close encounters with death. Many would say that Frane is an unlucky man however many would argue contrary. Listen to Tom and George discuss Frane's bizarre and frankly comically disastrous life and decide for yourself; lucky or unlucky?