Keep It Weird: A Strange & Unusual Podcast

Happy Halloween, my boo-tiful weirdos! Welcome to our special spooktacular All Hallows Eve LISTENER GHOST STORIES!! If this is your first-- LGS is where we take stories either sent in by listeners or found in the wild and we retell them for your listening pleasure. This week we compiled some of our CRAZIEST stories yet to celebrate our favorite day of the year.  From possible Satan sightings to be...

Muahahaha, weirdos! Welcome to our first reunion episode!  This week Lauren and Ashley are joined by Matt Roberts (Episode 12: EMP: Electronic Matt Phenomena) James Heisner (Episode 16: 90's Spooktacular, Spectacular) and Laura Lareau (Episode 64: You Got a Little Buddha in Ya) and we are chatting about HORROR MOVIES.  We decided to each pick a horror flick that we hold near and dear to our heart...

Hi Weirdos! This week we're taking a break away from the zany, funny episodes you're used to and allowing our recurring guest Joe Ochs to give an exclusive report on the relationship between Iran Contra, Ronald Reagan, the crack epidemic, and modern day systematic racism and the oppression of black Americans all across the country. This episode is very short on jokes, because frankly, theres just...

Come together, weirdos! Welcome to our BEATLES conspiracy episode!! This week Lauren is telling Ashley and Joe all about the ENDLESS conspiracies surrounding one of the most prolific bands in human history. Did they write any of their own songs?  Were they clones? Are they ALL DEAD?  Did they ever even exist at all?  We take a *very serious* (sarcasm) look into these possibilities and Joe just abo...

It's that time weirdos.  The episode you've all been asking for.  Welcome to CONSPIRACY THEORIES PART TWO!! Ashley and Lauren are once again joined by Handsome Joe and this time around we all took it to the next level.  We did so much research on our given topics that we have our very first THREE PART episode! Part one features Ashley's in depth examination of the inner workings of the largest inf...

Hi Weirdos! It's not all fun and games when it comes to past lives.  This is Part Two of our Reincarnation episode!  This week Lauren and Ashley are joined again by the hilarious Laura Lareau and we're talking about the darker side of life after death. Lauren starts by teaching us ways that past lives has been adapted into therapy and some of the revelations that therapy has provided us.  We discu...

Oh, hello there!  Don't I know you?  Have we met? Welcome to part one of our REINCARNATION episode!  This week Ashley and Lauren are joined by the fabulous Laura Lareau! And we are discussing the religious implications, the scientific studies and findings, and sharing some absolutely jaw-dropping stories of possible past lives!  Ashley teaches us about Buddhism and Hinduism and also what Christian...

This episode is basically Creepshow II... Welcome to the second half of our Urban Legends episode!! Joining Ashley again this week is Peter Lozano and Scott Youngbauer!!  In Part One, Pete told us all about the urban legends of sunny yet spooky Los Angeles!  This week Scott takes us through the haunted tales of his home state of Montana! He tells the tale of the Crazy Mountains, the Flathead Lake...

Rah Rah, Sis Boom Bah Weirdos! Are you ready for some Urban Legends?  This week Ashley is joined by Scott Youngbauer and Pete Lozano (from Very Special Television) to talk about some crazy, lesser known Urban Legends from right here in Los Angeles!! We chat about a spooky high school built on top of an ACTUAL graveyard, a bridge that's popular for an extremely macabre reason, a furnished house lef...

Hi Weirdos! You are now entering PART TWO of our Unsolved Mysteries episode!! (You do not have to have listened to part one necessarily but we do have some recurring themes so it might be wise to do so) This week Lauren and Ashley are joined once again by Amy Hanselmann all the way from Denver, Colorado and she is bringing an extraordinary story of conspiracy, mayhem, and ethical dilemmas!  Her st...

Are you ready to solve a mystery?  Join us for our first edition of our UNSOLVED MYSTERIES series with special guest AMY HANSELMANN!  This week Ashley talks about an unsolved Jane Doe from her hometown in 1993 and Lauren tells us all about the extremely mysterious deaths of 9 ski hikers that took place in Russia in 1959 known as the Dyatlov Pass Incident.  We discuss what is known about the event,...

Hi Weirdos! Como Estas? Welcome to PART TWO of our Hometown Haunts: IOWA episode!  This week we are joined again by the beautiful and hilarious small town farm-turned-city girl KARI DIRKSEN (Episode 4: Diary of a Female Serial Kari!) This week gets pretty dark and gruesome and it's not for the faint of heart, so if you are easily spooked, grossed out, or offended by the devil himself-- maybe take...

Hi Weirdos! Welcome to our first ever LIVE performance!  This week we performed at a popup event downtown for an up and coming tea & book shop called "The Swallows Flight."   We had the pleasure of performing along with the podcast "Your Angry Neighborhood Feminist."  Three female produced, hosted, owned, and operated businesses working together for a day full of tea, books, murder, mayhem, and gi...

Howdy Weirdos! Do they say "howdy" in Iowa?  Are there hills in Iowa?  Find out this week as Ashley & Lauren welcome returning guest KARI DIRKSEN (Episode 4: Diary of a Female Serial Kari) to come and talk about her HOMETOWN HAUNTS in IOWA!! This is part one of our Iowa 'sode and Lauren is going to be teaching us about the spookiest haunted locations (take a wild and crazy guess as to whether or n...

HI WEIRDOS! SORRY FOR YELLING!  Welcome to another spooooopy edition of LISTENER GHOST STORIES!! LGS is where we take scary, gross, creepy, sticky, smelly, and weird stories sent in by YOU and share them with the world. This week we get scared by ghosts, demons, aliens, children, and even teeth.  We meet a vampire (?), take a mental trip to the greatest theme park in the midwest, say the Lord's pr...

Good day Weirdos!!  Welcome to PART TWO of our WEIRD HISTORY episode!  That's right, this episode is a continuation of episode 54 so if you haven't listened to that one YOU MUST GO BACK.  BACK IN TIME. Last week we talked about ancient Egypt and their bonkers advanced technology and the origins of Nikola Tesla and his amazing career.  This week our returning guest, Bret Correll, teaches us all abo...

Hi Weirdos! Get ready to be history'd!  This week Ashley and Lauren sit down with Bret Correll and we're taking a look at crazy technological advancements throughout history. Starting with the ancient Egyptians and how they set the stage for our entire modern world, the knowledge they gave us AND the vast amount of knowledge we may have lost from them and moving into the 1800's when a man named Ni...

Hi Weirdos!  Welcome to week two of our Robo-discussion.  This week we are focusing on Artificial Intelligence-- Lauren teaches Ashley and her cousin Rachel all about where we are at today and where we are swiftly heading.  We learn about self driving cars, cross country super trains, Sophia the robot, sex-bots, and so much more.  We even finish our discussion from last week about digitizing consc...

Greetings Weirdos! Are you ready to hear the most infectious laugh you've ever heard??  This week Lauren and Ashley are joined by the adorable and super intelligent RACHEL THOMPSON as we chat about ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.  We talk Cyborgs, Androids, Bionic Applications, the art of Cyborgism, Robot Rights, Digitizing Consciousness, and we even try to answer the question "What is a soul?"   Where d...

Hi Weirdos, Ashley here.  Upon the recent passing of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, I felt compelled to record an honest and open message about what it's like to deal with anxiety and depression and thoughts of suicide on a daily basis. This is, hopefully, a message that will provide you with a sense of hope that you are not alone, that your feelings are valid, that your disease is real, and tha...

SCREWNAIL!  Eh, you'll get it eventually.  Welcome to Keep It Weird, the podcast for all things STRANGE AND UNUSUAL!! This week Lauren and Ashley are joined once again by TYLER SCHUELKE for Part Two of our second installment of our CULTS series! We're going to be talking about brainwashing again and this week Lauren is going to be telling us all about the "Organization" aka "the O."  A political c...

Hi Weirdos!  Welcome to the second installment of our CULTS series! (Check out Episode 17 if you want to hear us discuss what makes up a cult: the leaders, the followers, and what makes a cult different from a religion) Tyler Schuelke, our resident Cult Enthusiast is back with us and this time we're talking about BRAINWASHING.   We discuss the different techniques used to gain a following in a cul...

Welcome to our first HELTER SKELTER episode!  We took topics sent in by YOU the listener and threw them all into a single episode and it surprisingly worked out well.  By total accident, of course. (Helter Skelter, y'all)    This week Lauren and Ashley chat about Coincidences, Cannibals, and a Cryptid!  Did JFK and Abe Lincoln live parallel lives?  Did Edgar Allen Poe predict a shipwreck that ende...

Hidey-Ho Weirdos! Welcome to part two of our TEXAS episode!! Last week we talked about monsters and cults-- this week were talking MURDERS AND GHOSTS.  And boy oh boy is there a lot of both in Texas. Ashley kicks us off with a brief history of the Texas Killing Fields and Lauren takes us on a tour of the most HAUNTED schools, hotels, and restaurants in Texas including the BONKERS halls of El Paso...

Howdy Weirdos! Welcome to another edition of HOMETOWN HAUNTS!! This time were heading south to the Lone Star state. Lauren and Ashley sit down with standup comedian and Texas native JUSTIN FOSTER to talk about the Monsters of Texas.  Part rat, part kangaroo, part canine, & all vampire: Chupacabras are mostly seen in Mexico and South America, but did you know Texas has had several run-ins as well? ...