Keep It Weird: A Strange & Unusual Podcast

Lights, Camera, Action Weirdos!!  Welcome to your first OCTOBER 2020 EPISODE!! It's our favorite month of the year and we're starting out with a bang.  This week Lauren and Ashley are taking a deeper look at horror movies. On the surface it may seem like it's just a bunch of flesh and blood; but when you look a little closer there might be a whole new movie waiting for you. Lauren is going to star...

You better WORK, Weirdos! This week we're diving into the world of FASHION!  A topic that we know n o t h i n g about.  So this was a fun experience for us!  The fashion world, just like everything else in our lives, is full of WEIRDOS and high strangeness!  As Coco Chanel once said "In order to be irreplaceable we must always be different." This week Ashley and Lauren are joined by a VERY special...

Prepare to be amazed, Weirdos!  We're heading back to the Big Top this week with another CIRCUS episode!  This week we're covering the darker side of the carnival and taking a closer look at some of our favorite side show performers throughout history. Ashley is being a real bummer and teaching us about the Hartford Circus fire, the Flying Wallenda family deaths, and the tragic stories of Tyke the...

Come one, come all!  Step right up, Weirdos! We're going to the CIRCUS!! Yay!  But also YIKES because the circus is crazy effed up. This will be a two part episode and part one is focusing on the history of the circus and the sideshow (also known as the freakshow.) Today we'll be answering questions like: Where did this all start? Why are they in tents?  Who was the greatest showman on earth, I me...

Ouch, Weirdos! Welcome to week two of our Body Modification discussion!! Last week we took you through the history of tattoos, piercings, and plastic surgery and touched on some other, dare I say WEIRDER forms of body modification. This week we're going a little bit deeper.  This week we are discussing the psychology behind body modification.  What is an unhealthy relationship with plastic surgery...

Nip/Tuck Weirdos! Ashley and Lauren here with another incredibly weird episode!  This week is a squirmy worm, let me tell you!  We really wanted to do a deep dive into body modification: the different forms and methods as well as where it all started.   Today Ashley is covering the history of tattoos and piercings - everything from the oldest mummy we have on record to the first Playboy Playmate w...

(Looks over both shoulders & whispers) Hey weirdos, (still whispering) this week we've got another batch of conspiracy theories to talk about and we're going to tinseltown to do so! Celebrities are no stranger to rumors and gossip, and some of them have the pleasure of being involved in a full-fledged conspiracy!  This week Lauren is going to be telling us about how Britney Spears DEFINITELY DIDN'...

Surprise Weirdos!  It's been 1 year and 9 months since we last dove into one of your FAVORITE topics and we figured... it was time. This week we are discussing CONSPIRACY THEORIES!! Ashley is joined by Handsome Joe as they discuss multiple facets of modern conspiracies and showing you that, in fact, they've been around longer than you think. Ashley is going to be focusing on the Anti-Vaccine movem...

Good Morning Weirdos.   I'm Ashley Strange and this is my cohost Lauren Derp and we're here to bring you the news! This week we are bringing our YouTube segment THIS WEEK IN WEIRD to the big stage!   This Week in Weird is where we share with you all the weirdest news stories from around the world that are happening RIGHT NOW! This week we've got missing persons (with a twist) voodoo, true crime st...

Hey y'all! Welcome to PART TWO of our Hometown Haunts ILLINOIS episode!! Couldn't you just? Last week we shared stories about aliens and ghosts and it was REAL SPOOKY.  This week gets a TAD darker with Lauren covering some very disturbing and some very confusing true crime stories.  But don't worry!  All that terror will be broken up by Ashley's kooky tales of crazy characters, the impressiveness...

Ope!  You betcha, weirdos it's time to drink some pop and eat some puppy chow because we're headed to the midwest, y'all! This week Ashley and Lauren are going to their home state of ILLINOIS for a very special two part HOMETOWN HAUNTS episode!  The close encounters, murders, spooky old buildings, possessions, Native American landmarks, poltergeists, the most haunted small town in America, the tal...

Hi Weirdos! In the last 3-1/2 years of our show Ashley & Lauren have covered a TON of weird objects.  Robert the doll, Annabelle from The Conjuring fame, the antikythera mechanism, even the Betz Sphere when we teamed up with Florida Men on Florida Man. This week we decided to throw together some of the CRAZIEST objects in the world.  We've got haunted paintings, cursed cars, possessed clothing, an...

Hallelujah, Weirdos! It's part two of our discussion on PROPHECIES!! Last week Lauren taught us all about Nostradamus his many predictions.  This week Ashley is tackling BIBLICAL prophecies!  But before we even get into those-- we have to take a look at the good book.  When was the bible written?  Who wrote it?  How many translations are there?  Where did those new verses come from?  Who the heck...

Yaass, predict that future boiiii. This week is all about prophecies, baby!  Some people are downright FAMOUS just for knowing the future and some prophecies just don't hold up to scrutiny. This week is part one of our prophecies discussion and Lauren is teaching us all about a totally normal dude named Nostradamus.  JUST KIDDING he's mega famous and he sold drug lozenges and he saw the future. We...

Hi Weirdos!  Are you ready to get scared?  Are you ready to CRY?!  Welcome to another week of Listener Ghost Stories where Ashley and Lauren sit down and tell each other the creepiest, scariest, weirdest, most touching real life scary stories that we can find!  Whether you're sending them in or we're making new friends on the internet-- the world is FULL of the strange and unusual. This weeks stor...

Paranormal Investigation Suit up, Weirdos!  This week we've got a little treat for you!  Ashley took Joe on his very first paranormal investigation! And she didn't even have to bribe him! Ashley and Joe have lived in the same apartment for over four years and have separately as well as simultaneously witnessed strange activity.  Electrical anomalies, shadows creeping on the walls, closet creatures...

Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na BLACK KNIGHT! Welcome to another week of ALIEN ABDUCTIONS!   This week the girls are bringing you two absolutely crazy alien abduction stories: Lauren's takes place in Pascagoula Mississippi and involves two coworkers, Charles Hickson & Calvin Parker, and a fishing trip gone wrong.  Ashley's takes place in the UK and involves the disappearance of a man named Zigmund Adamski...

Ack Ack, Weirdos! Welcome to another week of EXTRATERRESTRIALS!  This week Lauren is back and we recorded a TWO PART episode all about Alien Abductions! This week the girls are bringing you information from psychologists and physicians who have treated people who claim to have been abducted by aliens as we break down the phases of an abduction, Lauren is teaching us all about the Travis Walton UFO...

We come in peace, weirdos! This week marks the first time we get to have an alien episode since Season One!! And boy are we excited. This week Ashley gets to sit down with the handsomest of Joes to chat about UFOs, aliens, and close encounters!  Have you ever heard someone say, "If aliens were real, someone would have come forward by now."  Well, you're in luck because "someone" has. Joe is going...

Hiya Weirdos! Welcome to another edition of HELTER SKELTER!!  Obviously most people think of ol' Charlie Manson when they hear Helter Skelter but the actual definition of Helter Skelter is "in disorderly haste or confusion."  Basically these eps go ALL OVER the place as we discuss topics sent in by listeners that don't quite fit into themed episodes. This week Ashley is going to be talking about t...

Ohh, Saints Preserve Us, Weirdos! We're back in Ireland.... and Greece.  Welcome to Part Two of MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES!!  This week Lauren is going to be bringing us a tale of deception and betrayal.  The legend of LAMIA; the origin of the condemned woman, the scorned woman, the women who were purposefully omitted. Ashley is taking you back to Ireland where we go in search of FAERIES!! While we're...

Hi Weirdos!  Are you ready for a magical journey through time?!  This week Lauren and Ashley are heading to Ancient Greece and the olden times of Ireland in search of MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES!!  This is Part One of our two part Mythological creatures episode and we're covering the saucy sirens of Greek mythology, the shrieking banshees of Irish lore, and a brief history of merpeople!  Next week we'r...

Hold on, Weirdos.  This episode is intense. But I do have some good news... LAURENS BACK!! This week Ashley and Lauren are going to be sharing some crazy UNSOLVED MURDERS.  Ashley is bringing you the mysterious YOGTZE Fall Case which occurred in Germany in 1984 as well as the death of LaVena Johnson which took place in Missouri/Iraq in 2005.  Lauren is sharing the strange disappearance and murder...

Aye, Aye Weirdos! Put on your sturdiest boots, strap on your booney hats, and make sure that passport is up to date because we're taking you AROUND THE WORLD in search of ancient treasures! This week Ashley is once again joined by her handsome fiancé JOE OCHS and it's time for him to fulfill his destiny.  Thats right weirdos, that anthropology minor he received from a state college fifteen years a...

Hizza-hizza-HI WEIRDOS! Welcome to another edition of DJ Jazzy Joe the Science Bro featuring the Science Bro himself, Handsome Joe! This is the first episode to come out since isolation and boy are Joe and Ashley excited to talk to... anyone at all. We're going to be discussing science, while attempting to avoid COVID19 talk (this is entertainment, not work.)  We'll be bringing you some crazy disc...