Loving the Strange

Today on Loving the Strange, Carrie is sick, so Emily is filling in with Shaun as they talk about people being lying sillies on social media. RESOURCES USED IN THIS PODCAST https://www.boredpanda.com/liars-caught-lying-exposed-social-media/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic https://brightside.me/wonder-curiosities/18-times-people-lied-on-social-media-so-hard-its-hil...

Tonight we’re talking about weird hobbies. And on the podcast itself we talk a lot more about this than we do in these notes. We even talk about WHY people have hobbies. What I like is when people who don’t even realize that their hobbies are weird or maybe just embarrassing. Coburg Banks has a list of weird hobbies people actually put on their resume, and while they aren’t weird? It is a bit stra...

Shaun is one of those guys who likes learning about inventions and always dreams of making an idea into a reality. Carrie? Not so much. From mousetrap pistols to selfie toasters, we’ll be exploring LIVE, the weirdness of this world. Resources We Mention in the Podcast https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/642634/weirdest-inventions-2000s https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/20-weirdest-inventions-ever h...

On this week’s podcast it’s like we’re channeling our inner toker and talking about all the strange things to think about when you think about strange things. https://www.theodysseyonline.com/50-weird-thought https://bestlifeonline.com/weird-amazing-facts/ https://www.buzzfeed.com/shayli/33-profound-questions-for-stoners-2bgtz?bffbmain=&utm_term=4ldqpgp&epik=dj0yJnU9MjFXNkdZYXhUd2gybXlfbll...

This week on the podcast, we discuss the theories of Bigfoot Is Bigfoot real or not? That’s the first question. A  Smithsonian Magazine  article says, “1958 footprints transformed the myth into a media sensation. The tracks were planted near Bluff Creek in Northern California by a man named Ray Wallace—but his prank was not revealed until his death in 2002, when his children said it had...

Ghosts are . . . well, they seem to be everywhere and nowhere all at once, and that’s a little strange, right? Come hang out with us as we talk about ghosties! https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/504950/spookiest-ghost-stories-all-50-states https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/a29055997/scary-ghost-stories/ https://www.southernliving.com/home-garden/holidays-occasions/scary-ghost-stories?slide=f7f75ff3...

Parents. We all have some. Some of us are actual parents Sometimes parents are amazing. Sometimes? Not so much. But a lot of parents (amazing or not) do a lot of weird things. So, that’s what we’re looking at the strange things parents do. Ready? Calling your baby partner Mommy or Daddy or Mom or Pops or whatever. Talking about poop and asking if they have to go to the bathroom. Early bedtimes . I...

Welcome to Loving The Strange. Psychic dreams. Dreams that foretell the future. Sleep disorder or something more? Some people think of it as a glitch in the matrix. As Dr. David Ryback wrote in 1986, “Future Memory as Holographic Process: A Scientific Model For Psychic Dreams,” “Psychic phenomena are only byproducts of the simultaneous-everywhere matrix. Individual brains are bits of the greater h...

This week’s episode is called THE BEAUTY OF NOT FITTING IN. And one of the big aspects of understanding that is understand what it is to feel belonging. According to  harleytherapy.com , a counseling site from the UK. “Belonging is defined as feeling part of a group, whether that is a  family ,  a set of friends , or a  workplace .” They quote psychologist Abraham Mas...

This week’s episode of LOVING THE STRANGE is all about the things we do for beauty. These are things in history and now, right? Because this world is weirdly obsessed with looking hawt and has been for a long time. From CITI/IO it says, “In Hollywood films, it is practically a given that female spies will look stunning, and female nuclear scientists will be attractive blondes. In this world, beaut...

This week’s episode is all about the things we do for luck and why. Carrie has all these rituals on New Year’s Eve: Eat Hopping John Eat 12 grapes at midnight in a minute or less. Kiss someone you love or can tolerate. Smashing the peppermint pig. Wear yellow underwear for good fortune. Burn our wishes the night before. No cleaning on New Year’s Day. Carrie : My Portuguese grandmother would throw...

Hey! Welcome to episode 18 of LOVING THE STRANGE where we talk about the strange, adorable things people do on dates! Dates. What are those long lost things? Thank you all so much for listening! This wouldn’t be fun if you weren’t here. So here are a few stories. I was set up by a coworker with his wife’s cousin. I worked in a deli at a grocery store. So our first meeting I was in a hair net and a...

Hey! Welcome to episode 17 of LOVING THE STRANGE where we talk about the strange, adorable things people say. Thank you all so much for listening! This wouldn’t be fun if you weren’t here. Hey, did you know that families create their own familect? It’s a dialect that’s just for them, sort of a bunch of inside jokes and words that co-opt new meanings and it’s meant to show connectedness. There’s a...

Hey! Welcome to episode 16 of LOVING THE STRANGE where we talk about the strange, adorable things people do. Thank you all so much for listening! This wouldn’t be fun if you weren’t here. Let me have a moment of bravery and tell you something I (Carrie) do. I hold my breath. I hold my breath when I put pants on. I hold my breath when I put my bra on. I hold my breath when I walk up stairs. I speed...

Hey! Welcome to episode 15 of LOVING THE STRANGE where we talk about the strange, weird things people love and why. And this week’s episode is all about the north versus the south where Shaun basically wins. It was supposed to be about which is stranger? It devolved into who is better. Oops. We talk about food, alcohol, manners, and so much more. I hope you’ll check it out! And like and subscribe...

Hey! Welcome to episode 14 of LOVING THE STRANGE where we talk about the strange, weird things people love and why. And this week’s episode is all about aliens, creatures/beings from another planet and the people who believe in them . . . or not. Sadly, we talk about probes, enemas, and whether we should just go full on pothead for the podcast and so much more. I hope you’ll check it out! And like...

Hey! Welcome to episode 13 of LOVING THE STRANGE where we talk about the strange, weird things people eat and why. In very happy news, we just stopped KETO because Carrie the Carbosaurus got a rash. Yay rash! Yay carbs! In honor of Carrie’s rash, we’re talking about the strange things people eat! Here more by clicking on the YouTube link or listening to the podcast. Thank you all so much for liste...

Hey! Welcome to episode 12 of LOVING THE STRANGE where we talk about the strange, weird things people do in love and why. In very sad news, we are in day ten of KETO and Carrie the Carbosaurus is getting cranky. So let’s start with one of my favorites. It comes from a Reddit thread. Ready? “In 4th grade, I wrote the names of my two girl crushes on my dick...rode my bike to the rail tracks, stared...

Welcome to Loving the Strange, an occasionally drunk dive into the weird things and people that we love. And this is episode eleven: Da Bomb and Viewer Questions? And there should probably be a content warning because Shaun blurted out an f-bomb. It was our hot sauce episode where Carrie tries Da Bomb and somehow survives, our kid shouts in the background while talking to her best friend Bella, an...

Welcome to Loving the Strange, an occasionally drunk dive into the weird things and people that we love. And this is episode ten: Urban Legends Negative Entities or Devil Monkeys, Bloody Mary and Urban Legends that Make You Go, Huh? And there should probably be a content warning because some urban legends are scary things. But first we wanted to give a shout-out to our patrons who help support the...

Yep. We went there. This week’s LIVE episode of LOVING THE STRANGE, we talked about pooping naked, having to take your shoes off when you pee, checking doors incessantly, and needing only even numbers in your life. We hope you’ll check it out. All our information about habits that we cite in the podcast come from the links below. RESOURCES https://www.boredpanda.com/people-share-weird-habits-confe...

This week on LOVING THE STRANGE, we stayed away from the paranormal and delved into (a tiny bit) why people love hot sauce and hot chicken wings. Carrie hiccuped her way through the vegan version of wings, which were sort of peach-puree nuggets while Shaun went full-on carnivore, gnawing on the bones. We talked a bit about the Heatonist,  Gotcha!  (Carrie’s favorite 80s movie), which cam...

We talk about alien abductions, how Maine is a sexy UFO hotspot and how Carrie’s old boss thought for sure she was abducted. Check it out! LET’S HANG OUT! MAYBE TAKE A COURSE, CHILL ON SOCIAL MEDIA, BUY ART OR A BOOK, OR LISTEN TO OUR PODCAST? JUST  CLICK ON THIS LINK  AND FIND OUT HOW WE CAN INTERACT MORE. Our  last  episode of LOVING THE STRANGE is here . It’s about spontaneo...

This week on our live podcast, LOVING THE STRANGE, we talked about human spontaneous combustion and poop styles. We hope you’ll check it out. And get your strange on, my friends. The  video version is here , too. HELP US AND DO AN AWESOME GOOD DEED Thanks to all of you who keep listening to our weirdness on the DOGS ARE SMARTER THAN PEOPLE podcast and our new LOVING THE STRANGE podcast. We’re...

It’s episode five of LOVING THE STRANGE recorded very alive on Friday nights. This week we talked about: Big Foot and the people who love him Why the love him Our curtains. It’s pretty fun! It’s just a half hour! We hope you’ll check us out. THE LINKS WE REFERENCE IN THE SHOW ARE: https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2018-10-26/so-why-do-people-believe-bigfoot-anyway Want to han...