Hocus Pocus Lack Of Focus

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...

Crack open your history books, Oisin is taking us on a tour through the evils for America once again. This week, we're testifying in front of the very chill, very normal Joseph McCarthy and his Red Scare, which swept through the US in the 1950s and essentially rewired the American political brain, with its effects still being felt today. Along the way, we get into Roy Cohn and learning America...

Short episode alert! Probably best you don't cue this one up around mealtimes, because this week we're opening the casefile of one Armin Meiwes, the infamous German cannibal and his voluntary victim Bernd Brandes. Trigger warning, which shoud go without saying. Along the way, there's more of Oisin's impressions, Dick Tracy, the open awfulness of the early internet, Star Trek novels...

Back on our weird shit this week! Justy guides Dani, Oisín and you, our lovely listeners, into the stars to tell us about the Annunaki, the ancient and mythical deities who supposedly decreed the fate of mankind. Just like the elites on Epst... no, we won't go there again. This week's tangents include Dani's fear of "Earth Song", old people's mouth sounds, and yes, hog ta...

Switching lanes this week, as Dani's sporadic side-podcast breaches containment onto main feed. We thought it'd be a nice change of pace after 6+ hours of Epstein dread, so instead have Dani and Justy delving deep into the dire depths of Reddit stories. Next week, we finally get to our Annunaki episode!

We can’t promise that the Epstein debacle will end any time soon irl, but we can confirm this is our last episode on it for a while! It’s all just very bleak! We need a bit of a break! As ever, big ol’ content warning for everything you might think we’ll talk about. Some bright spots along the way include SNL’s never-ending unfunniness, Pete Hegseth being “rugby straight”, the Glasgow derby infect...

Surprise! It’s a Monday episode because the whole Epstein of it all is just too horrific and ever-evolving. Once again, a colossal content warning for some very dark things discussed in this episode, which you can probably guess. On the happier side, we have delightful tangents about Pokemon and Spider-Man 3, some hog talk, Oisin’s always impeccable impressions of terrible human beings, and the co...

In the first of what will - depressingly - no doubt be an ongoing series, we’re opening the Epstein Files. Needless to say, and without going into specifics, a ginormous general content warning applies to this one. Non-nonce-related conversation topics include Dani’s utter hatred for Punch the Monkey, how the feds are spying on our episode recording sessions (leading to our previous attempt on thi...

Welcome one and all to this week's episode, focusing on Lilith, the entity of many descriptors; the actual first woman, demoness, baby-snatcher, feminist icon, and patron saint of edgy goths. On our journey we found the Church of Sheryl Crow, slander white women with dreadlocks, demons as purely transactional businesspeople, the Charlie Sheen documentary, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Saint Tony S...

Who doesn't love a cult? This week our three beloved leaders Dani, Justy, and Oisin takes us down to Jonestown and investigate the beginnings (and ending) of its charismatic founder Jim Jones. Along the way, expect playground rumours from the death of Scatman to the ever-present celebrity rib removal, Jocelyn Carter’s love of the weirdos, nature vs nurture, the smugness of born again Christian...

In the first of an ongoing series, and maybe our most self-flagellating episode to date, Oisin takes the wheel and directs Dani, Justy, and our loyal listeners to the start of darkness of the United States: those damned Puritans. Along the way, we pass by Justy’s drag dreams, Florida Man, London Dungeons, how all our problems started with Henry VIII wanting to get his end away, The Righteous Gemst...

Somehow an episode about a saint hosting Easter on the back of a whale is one of our least supernatural episodes. Go figure. As we follow aul Brendan's path across the Atlantic, Dani, Oisin and Justy hit on Heated Rivalry, Biker Mice From Mars, the oxen vs cows debate, the need for a new Hocus Pocus bingo card, a giant tangent about Irish geography and Irish TV, Greek myths and Bible stories,...

Hope you're all ready for 2.75 more hours of depraved serial killer talk. Sunshine lollipops and rainbows next week, guaranteed*. Interspersed between the awful this week is Oisin’s love for touring the most horrible places in the world, how Bernie Sanders would’ve saved the world, the various smells of Dani’s apartment, the impracticalities of vaginas, Dani’s mob wife dreams, a blatant attem...

Dani, Oisin, and Justy dive into one of the big topics of true crime this week: John Wayne Gacy. Naturally a big ol' content warning for some truly horrible shit, but mixed in to that, we talk about Oisin’s terrorising twin uncles, Hollywood Ireland vs real Ireland, morticians (shockingly no mention of The Undertaker or Paul Bearer), Justy’s Ed Gein/Mickey Mouse impression, Jimmy Savile, sex...