Keep It Weird: A Strange & Unusual Podcast

Whats your deepest, darkest desire? This week Ashley and Lauren are finishing out the SEX SERIES with an episode on FETISHES & KINKS!! Fetishes and kinks are totally natural and normal and actually can lead to extremely healthy sexual relationships.  Yes, even the STRANGEST ones. Lauren is going to be teaching us about some of the lesser known fetishes we've never heard of and the girls try and gu...

Strap in, Weirdos! Or should I say Strap-on?  Welcome to the dirtiest episode so far! This week is the introduction to our SEX SERIES!!  We had the honor of sitting down with the host of the podcast Stripper Stories.  She's also a professional stripper, dominatrix, and cam girl: lets hear it for CHLOE!!  We obviously wanted to pick her brain about the sex industry so this week we talk about sex, p...

Kon'nichiwa weirdos, welcome to part two of our trip around the globe to find the world's STRANGEST PLACES!! You won't need as much sun screen this week but you might need a stronger stomach. Ashley starts us off by taking us to the birthplace of strangeness: Peru!  Specifically the shores of Lake Titicaca as we investigate the Puerta de Hayu Marca-- translation- THE GATE OF THE GODS!! This strang...

All aboard, Weirdos!  It's time to have an adventure!  Lauren and Ashley are traveling the world to find Earth's STRANGEST places!! This episode is extra exciting because we actually discover the REAL FUN ZONE!! And you won't believe where we found it.... Lauren is going to be taking us to several of the strangest towns in the world including a city full of amputees, a community run entirely by wo...

Welcome to The Fun Zone... This week is a HELTER SKELTER episode and you know what that means!!  Probably... Helter Skelters are where we give you all of our juiciest scraps. We have stories we want to tell that don't quite fit into anything we have coming up or were cut for time on a previous episode and this is where you will find them! This week Lauren is telling us the heartbreaking story of J...

Theres no business like show business, weirdos! Welcome to part two of our latest HOLLYWEIRD series and this week we're getting pretty dark.  We're going down the loneliest alleyways, the emptiest movie studios, and the seediest night clubs to talk about MURDER. Ashley and Lauren are once again joined by their great friend Mike Johnston as they research three cases that seem cut and dry... only to...

Lights, Camera, Action, Weirdos! Celebrities.... they're just like us!  They buy groceries, they brush their hair, they go to the eye doctor and yes they even have PARANORMAL EXPERIENCES!!  Welcome to our return to HOLLYWEIRD!  This week we are telling some extra spooky and strange celebrity ghost stories!  And we have our first guest of the season - all the way from NYC (and season one of our sho...

Fancy seeing you here, Weirdos! Welcome to part two of COINCIDENCES!  Last week we told you a collection of stories that people had about their own crazy coincidences and a couple of our own personal experiences. This week we're getting down to business.  Are coincidences real? We take a lot of sides in this one, trying to come at the material from different points of view.  Lauren starts us off b...

Hi Weirdos!! Welcome to part one of our series on COINCIDENCES! We experience coincidences all the time- whether it's running into the same friend twice in one day, hearing a song on the radio after you were JUST thinking about it, or even looking at the clock at the same time multiple times a week.  While these are all super fun experiences, a lot of the times they can be explained away by basic...

Say Ahh, weirdos! We're back in the dentist's chair this week with more TOOTH TALK!  This week does not have nearly as many redeeming qualities.... Lauren is teaching us about a KILLER DENTIST from St Louis named Glennon Engleman whose greed was stronger than his conscience and Ashley will be reading some listener stories sent in about their dental trips gone wrong. Other topics include a Tik Toke...

Open Wide, weirdos! This week is all about TEETH and boyyyyy do we have issues.  Teeth have been a recurring talking point in the last few months thanks to multiple mouth bone problems and numerous surgeries and that got us thinking.... I bet the history of teeth is weird.   Today Ashley is bringing you the history of dentistry- how far back does it actually go?  Who was the first dentist? What we...

Welcome Back, Weirdos!! Season Five starts with a BANG as Lauren and Ashley sit down to tell each other some sPiNe TiNgLiNg LiStEnEr GhOsT sToRiEs!!  This week Lauren travels all over the world giving us a story about a pair of haunted homes in the UK, a budding psychic in Australia, some haunted antiques in Ireland, and a possible abduction in Mexico! Ashley is bringing us the tales of a mysterio...

Am I in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come? We would answer you but traditionally this spirit is the strong, silent type. You've made it to your final ghost-- the scariest ghost of all.  BUT.. the good news, as I'm sure you know, is that all is not lost.  You decide what to do with your future and who better to help guide you than our favorite medium AMY GOLDENBERG!!  In this episo...

Come in and know me better, man!  One ghost down and two to go, Ashley and Lauren now get to hang out with the ghost(s) of Christmas Present-- and boy is it a present, indeed. This episode we are joined by STEVE LACHIOMA (Hometown Haunts: New York, CollegeHumor) and MARIA LACHIOMA (Glitch in the Maria, The Young and the Restless) and they are bringing us some of their all time favorite topics. Ste...

Weirdos... Tonight you will be visited by three ghosts No it isn't an undigested bit of beef that brought you here. Today your hosts Marley and Marley... ope.. I mean Ashley and Lauren... are going to teach you the true meaning of Christmas! This episode, the Ghost of Christmas Past - you can call her BLAIR GORMAN (Yaaachts, Queen - Robot Chicken) is going to be bringing us three unsolved mysterie...

Good Riddance, weirdos!!  At last this year is coming to an end.  We all vacillated between "Will 2020 ever be over?" and "DECEMBER?!?!?!" for at least 9 months and now it's time to remind ourselves that it wasn't all bad and that even the bad things were full of learning opportunities.  So lets spend the rest of this month focusing on the positives. We begin this episode with a rapid-fire recap o...

Batter Up! Hear that Call!  The time has come! For one and all!  To play ball! Gosh A League of their Own is just... It's just the best movie.  Hi Weirdos, welcome to another HERSTORY lesson!  This is week two of women throughout history that you should know!  But probably don't... womp womp. This week our main focus is Betty Pack the WWII MI6 spy who foiled the Nazis, ensured that the Allied forc...

WHO RUN THE WORLD Hi Weirdos, welcome to one of my favorite episodes of all time.  One: It's so much fun.  Two: It's all about the LADIES!!  This is definitely going to be a new thing for the show- talking about PEOPLE throughout history that did incredible, amazing, badass things and yet... you've probably never heard of them.  This week Lauren is starting us off with Fe Del Mundo; the cutest fil...

Hi Ho Weirdos!!  Welcome to part two of our latest HELTER SKELTER episode!! Helter Skelters freakin' RULE because we get to talk about whatever the ding dang dong heck we want. This week Ashley is starting us off with some musings on the effects technology has on our psyche.  There are many different ways our bodies have not evolved to handle the world that we live in and there are many things we...

You may be a lover but you ain't no weirdo! We're back!! Welcome to another HELTER SKELTER episode! Helter Skelters are some of our all time favorites- these are the episodes that are made up of stories that got cut for time, topics that don't fit into any of our themed episodes, or interesting subjects that we bring up randomly and promise to talk about in the future!  This week Lauren is going t...

Happy Halloween, Weirdos! Are you ready for a spooky tale?  This week Ashley has a special one for you. Can a house be so haunted that just writing about it can spread evil throughout the world?  Or is it just that reading about the paranormal can open up the possibility of experiencing it? In 2009 Ashley bought a book called "The Uninvited: The True Story of the Union Screaming House."  When she...

Happy Devil's Night, boils and ghouls! And what a very special Devil's Night it is because Ashley and Lauren are here to bring you some LISTENER GHOST STORIES!!  Five horror stories ranging from funny to sad and strange to downright terrifying.  Each story submitted by our listeners and various friends across the internet.  Each story incredibly special to us- because YOU shared them. Lauren is br...

Hello Kiddies!  Are you ready for your DEADTIME STORY?  This is a very special edition of Keep It Weird with a very special guest.  Joining me today is one of your favorite good-looking men!  Back from the grave it's Handsome Joe!  This week we're doing something brand new!  I scoured the internet looking for some fantastic HORROR FICTION stories and boy did I find some great ones.  And I figured...

Are you afraid of the dark, weirdos? Continuing our very spooky Halloween episodes this week we are bringing you an episode about all the things that lurk in the dark corners of the world... or do they? Lauren is going to be teaching us about the fear of the dark (Nyctophobia) and even the fear of doors (Entamaphobia) Is this a leftover anxiety from our evolution?  Or is there something really the...

Hi Weirdos!  What an excellent day for an exorcism. Welcome to Week two of our horror movie series!  Last week we talked about matters of the flesh--- slicing dicing (and even biting) with slashers and zombies. This week Ashley is starting us off with a discussion on movie MONSTERS.  Monster movies are filled with allegories and metaphors; so from Cujo to the Babadook- we're going to be discussing...