Keep It Weird: A Strange & Unusual Podcast

That's-a Spicy Meatball! Hi Weirdos!  Welcome to PART TWO of our delicious FOOD episode!  Ashley and Lauren are joined once again by the wonderful Natalie Higgerson as we chat about our favorite past-time-- food! Last week Lauren made us squirm with the worlds craziest cuisines and this week Natalie is starting us off with the wackiest, spookiest, strangest restaurants in the USA.  Some very out-t...

Bon Appétit, weirdos!  Welcome to part one of our very first WEIRD FOOD episode!   This week the girls are joined by Ashley's childhood best friend Natalie Higgerson and Lauren is going to be sharing with us all of the world's STRANGEST cuisines. From fried bugs to old eggs and friendly marsupials to oysters that are  definitely NOT oysters; this episode is going to get messy.  So strap on your bi...

Tunk It, Weirdos!   Welcome to PART TWO of Maine Mayhem!  Boy this state is wild! Maine native Kate Alden joins us once again-- last week she shared a ton of scary haunting stories-- old tales as well as personal experiences she and her family has had in that great singular syllable state. This week Lauren is going to be sharing some of Maine's most gruesome murders that will make you question whe...

Ayuh, Weirdos! Stay away from the road!  This week Ashley and Lauren are joined by Maine native Kate Alden as we explore all the strangeness in her home state. Our Hometown Haunts series examines the monsters, murders, and ghosts each corner of the planet has to offer and this week we're focusing on the HAUNTS. Kate shares with us all of the local legends and spooky specters and she also has a TON...

Welcome Weirdos, one and all! This week we had the pleasure of sitting down with several guests at the TeaPop May Market in North Hollywood.  Lauren and I grabbed our recording equipment and set up a booth and found some brave souls to chat with us and share some of their WEIRD stories! On top of that YOU sent us some of YOUR weird stories as well! Come along as Ashley and Joe try to get to the bo...

Hi Weirdos!  One, Two, Unheimlich's comin' for you.  Three, Four better lock your door. Welcome to PART TWO of our CREEPY CHILDREN episode!  Ashley and Lauren are joined again by Lauren's wonderful sister Julia and her newborn baby boy Wilder as we continue our creepy chat. Last week we talked all about the paranormal and children's abilities to witness it.  This week Lauren kicks it off by tellin...

Hi Weirdos!  One, Two, Unheimlich's comin' for you.  Three, Four better lock your door. Welcome to PART TWO of our CREEPY CHILDREN episode!  Ashley and Lauren are joined again by Lauren's wonderful sister Julia and her newborn baby boy Wilder as we continue our creepy chat. Last week we talked all about the paranormal and children's abilities to witness it.  This week Lauren kicks it off by tellin...

Hi sweet baby Weirdos! Welcome to a very special episode of Keep It Weird.  This week we not only have a long anticipated guest-- Lauren's sister Miss Julia!! But it's also our first episode recorded with baby Wilder!! And yes you will hear him. To commemorate this momentous occasion, we decided to chat about CREEPY CHILDREN and boy are there some creepy kiddos out there. We talked for so long tha...

Welcome Weirdos, to a very special episode of Keep It Weird! This week Ashley sits down with Handsome Joe to share with you all of the craziest, coolest, scariest, hippest, most innovative and fun science news this planet has to offer. We did a week's worth of research to find out what was going on in the wild world of scientific discovery and boy did we strike Au. (Get it?) Breakthroughs in medic...

BoOoOoO, Weirdos! Welcome to another super spooky (sup-spooks?) edition of LISTENER GHOST STORIES!!  As you know, Listener Ghost Stories are episodes in which we read all of the scary paranormal, supernatural, extraterrestrial, true crime, and monster stories that you send in/share with us while providing our own personal experiences and our expert (or not so expert) opinions, advice, and theories...

Aye Aye, Weirdies! This is your captain speaking.  Here we go again with another trip to the open ocean!  Welcome to Deep Sea part Two!!  Ashley and Lauren are joined once again by Melanie, marine biologist and Armenian queen, to discuss SEA MONSTERS!! Lauren will be telling us all about mythological sea monsters that may or may not be lurking at the bottom of the ocean (they are.) We discuss the...

Ahoy Weirdos! Welcome to part one of our dive into the DEEP SEA!  Get ready for about one hundred more sea puns, whether you like it oar not.  Get it? Ashley & Lauren have the pleasure of sitting down with returning guest Melanie Vartabedian who has a degree in marine biology and is genuinely a lover of the sea. Melanie teaches us all about the ocean and how it is structured, the types of creature...

Hi Weirdos! Welcome to Part TWO of our Human Body episode!  We wanted to interview people with interesting bodies-- so as you know last week we were able to sit down with comedian Nick Wuthrich who was born without testicles; it was fascinating and we had a blast! This week, Nick joins us again as we chat with Lauren who, as you may or may not know, has a little creature inside her.  Yes, she's ex...

Hi Weirdos! As you know each week we sit down and talk about something strange, unusual, paranormal, supernatural, creepy, sticky, gross, scary or anything in between-- this week we're focusing on the in between. We had the pleasure of sitting down with my friend and comedian Nick Wuthrich for part one of our HUMAN BODY episode!  We invited Nick to chat with us this week because he has a very spec...

Coming at you LIVE from North Hollywood, California!   Last month we had the privilege of opening for the My Worst Date podcast for their very first live performance at the Actor's Workout Studio in Los Angeles! Since their show is all about dating, we wanted to cover a topic that would make you think twice about dating ever again. So this week we are chatting about WOMEN who date and sometimes ev...

Hi Weirdos! Welcome to part two of our TORTURE TALK!  Ashley & Lauren sit down with long time fan of the show Clarissa Sanchez to discuss the shady secrets held by the Central Intelligence Agency when it comes to human rights violations and Clarissa tells a tale of torture from her hometown!  Warning: This episode contains graphic content (duh)

Hi Weirdos! Are you ready to squirm?  This week Ashley & Lauren sit down with long time fan of the show Clarissa Sanchez to chat about TORTURE!!  We're going to talk some of our favorite scary movies, Clarissa is going to go over some old school methods of torture that we sure are glad aren't performed anymore and Lauren is going to discuss the film genre "torture porn" and why on Earth anyone wou...

Hi Weirdos! Welcome to part two of our MEDIUMSHIP episode!  Last week we discussed the history of spiritualism, past/present mediums & frauds, and Amy shared some of her experiences as a psychic medium and spiritual healer! This week we're going to be shifting gears and talking about the SCIENCE of mediumship!  The studies, theories, philosophies, biology, physics, psychics solving crimes and more...

Welcome back, weirdos! Season 3 starts off with a bang as Ashley and Lauren sit down with psychic medium and spiritual healer Amy Goldenberg (aka The Beauty Witch!) Amy has been a medium her entire life but didn't start to understand her abilities until she was 18 years old.  Since then she's been honing her skills and shaping her talent to become a practicing medium, helping hundreds of people co...

Hi Weirdos! Welcome to our Season Two FINALE!  Has it really been two years?  We thought it was only appropriate that we ended the season with yet another PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION! This time Ashley and Lauren took a trip to Culver City!  Staying the night and wandering the halls of the historic Culver Hotel and taking a day trip to the massive Holy Cross Cemetery. In this episode we will explain t...

Ca-caw, Weirdos! Welcome to part two of our WEIRD NATURE episode!  The first of many, I'm sure.  Nature is WILD, y'all.   Ashley & Lauren are joined once again by talented set designer Madelyn Wilkime and this week we're chatting about the endlessly strange ANIMAL KINGDOM! From freak parasites to warring frogs, from talented birds to a rodent with a sea monster's face, and from disappearing bugs t...

Hi Weirdos!  Welcome to Earth! This week Ashley and Lauren are sitting down with Set Designer/Nature Lover Madelyn Wilkime to discuss all the weirdest things on this big blue planet. This week is part one of WEIRD NATURE and we are talking about the craziest weather-- lightning that never ends, tornados made up of MORE than wind, and times that it has rained... interesting.. things.  As well as pl...

Hi Weirdos!  Welcome to another "HELTER SKELTER" episode!  Formerly known as "Ask A Weirdo!"  Formerly, formerly known as "Our Attempt at a Minisode." Our faithful, beautiful, perfect listeners are the best best best and they send us some of the coolest stuff.  From personal stories to paranormal/supernatural theories and sometimes even questions about the paranormal or asking advice! In these epi...

Welcome to our first (and hopefully not last) Keep It Weird Special Edition True Crime Investigation! In June of 2018, Ashley was introduced to the story of the unsolved murder of John William Shakespeare in 1975 in her hometown of Centralia, Illinois.  What happened from there was months of research alongside her childhood best friend and high school English teacher Stephen Garland. This episode...

Ever get so mad that you punch a wall or throw your phone?  What about black out and murder your husband?  No? This week Lauren and Ashley are chatting about CRIMES OF PASSION.  What happens when murder happens out of the blue?  No premeditation, no planning; just good old fashioned killin'. We share some of the most famous cases and several cases that you may not have heard of.  We talk about the...