Keep It Weird: A Strange & Unusual Podcast

HelloOoOoOo WeEeEiRdOs (like a ghost would say it) Welcome to another SPOOKY edition of LISTENER GHOST STORIES!!  Listener Ghost Stories is one of our absolute favorite segments!  Ashley and Lauren get together to share YOUR scary stories! This week we've got a ton of ghosts-- ghost cars, ghost lamps, hippie ghosts, ghosts who are sad, and even ghosts who scratch.  We've also got some glitch in th...

Give me a W!  Give me an H!  Give me an O!  Give me an A!  Whoa, Weirdos!  Welcome to PART TWO of our SPORTS episode!! Lauren and Ashley are once again joined by the hilarious and talented CARL TART.  You've seen him on Drunk History, The Good Place, Brooklyn Nine Nine, Comedy Bang Bang and so much more!  I assume you heard last week's episode, so I don't have to tell you this, but he's the best....

Hut, Hut, Hike Weirdos!!  WELCOME TO SEASON FOUR!!! This is the premiere of our fourth season and not only are we so excited to be back, we're also excited to be chatting about something we n e v e r thought we'd be talking about on Keep It Weird.  But Season Fours are all about having fun and trying new things, right?  At least that's what they say. Today, Ashley and Lauren are joined by one of t...

Hi Weirdos!  Welcome to our SEASON 3 FINALE!!  As per usual, our season finale is a paranormal investigation and this year we're setting sail!  Ashley and Lauren are joined by one of their best friends and recurring guest TYLER SCHUELKE as they spend the night on board the RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach California!  Ashley and Tyler discuss the amazing history of the ocean liner, they reminisce abou...

On November 16th, 2018 Keep It Weird released their very first Special Edition True Crime Investigation wherein your host Ashley and very special guest Stephen Garland studied the unsolved murder of John William Shakespeare in 1975 in there hometown of Centralia, Illinois. Since then we have received hundreds of documents, witness testimonies, investigation reports, autopsy reports, crime scene ph...

You better believe we're back!  Back in the New York Groove!  Welcome to our third and final installment of Hometown Haunts: NEW YORK!! Ashley and Lauren are joined once again by actor and comedian Steve Lachioma as they discuss the weirdest things that have taken place in the Empire state! We've investigated the murders, we've hunted down the monsters, and now its time to communicate with some sp...

Happy Holidays Weirdos!!  I know you need something to listen to while you're doing your Black Friday shopping; Ask and you shall receive!  This week is part two of our Hometown Haunts in New York and we're going to be talking about CRYPTIDS!! That's right we're going to be talking about all of New York State's many monsters. Actor/Comedian Steve Lachioma is going to be teaching us about some wild...

Ayyyy, Oh, Ayy! Welcome to the Big Apple! Welcome to another edition of HOMETOWN HAUNTS!  This time we're heading to the Empire State in a THREE PART series!  Ashley and Lauren are joined by actor, comedian, and native New Yorker Steve Lachioma as they discuss the murder, monsters, and mayhem that you can only find in New York, New York! This week is Part One and Lauren is going to be focusing on...

MURDER?! DID SOMEBODY SAY MURDER?! Remember that old commercial? Anyway, welcome to another episode of Keep It Weird!  This week we are finishing up our discussion on UNSOLVED MURDERS!  Last week Ashley and Lauren spent the whole episode talking about bodies being stuffed into things (yikes.)  This week, Lauren brings us the terrifying tale of a sordid serial killer who dumped his victims along a...

Hi Weirdos! Redrum!  REDRUM!  REDRUM!!  We didn't get enough of Halloween this year so for our first November episode we're diving into one of the scariest subjects of all. MURDER.  The worst kind of murder. The kind that is never solved... This week Ashley and Lauren hang out and teach each other about some absolutely bonkers unsolved murders and as per usual our weird alien hive minds accidental...

Happy Halloween Weirdos! We hope you're receiving a lot of Tricks and Treats and enjoying the spookiest month of the year!  We decided we couldn't go an entire month without seeing you so this week, Lauren and Ashley are sitting down to chat about the REAL stories that inspired the characters in American Horror Story. You DO NOT have to watch American Horror Story to listen to this episode-- we do...

Oh, Captain, My Captain! Was DB Cooper a captain?  Maybe.  Was he the captain of MY HEART?  Absolutely. Finishing up our UNSOLVED MYSTERIES series, it's finally our guests turn to shine.  Comedian and Writer Hanna Bowens is here with us once again to talk about the mystery of DB COOPER!!  DB Cooper was the (fake) name of the man who hijacked a plane for ransom money back in 1971.  To this day, no...

I've got that Somerton, Somerton Sadness! Hi weirdos! Welcome to YET ANOTHER Unsolved Mystery!  These are some of our favorite episodes and FOR GOOD REASON because jeez oh man these cases just keep getting weirder and weirder. Last week we discussed the Voynich Manuscript and you'll get a little bonus Voynich theory at the beginning of this episode.  This week Lauren is bringing us one of our all...

Uh oh, weirdos. It's time to solve a mystery.  Solve a mystery from history. A historical mystorical. Ashley and Lauren were joined by comedian and writer Hanna Bowens for another edition of UNSOLVED MYSTERIES!! We had so much information on each of our stories that one recording session turned into THREE EPISODES!! That's right, prepare to scratch your noggins because you've got three weeks of co...

Hi Weirdos!!  Welcome to another edition of LISTENER GHOST STORIES!  The spookiest episodes in town! Listener Ghost Stories/Strange Tales/Real Life Spooky Stories are the episodes in which Lauren and Ashley read real life stories SENT IN BY YOU!  This week we run the gamut of emotions; we get scared, our hearts swell up, we get nervous, and yes... we even cry. From the grandpas we miss dearly to t...

Welcome Weirdos, one and all! This is PART TWO of our Personality Disorder episode!  Ashley and Lauren are joined once again by stand-up comedian Justin Foster to chat about mental health disorders! Last week Ashley taught us about Schizotypal and Paranoid Personality Disorder and this week Justin is teaching us all about Antisocial Personality Disorder AKA SOCIOPATHS!  Sociopaths are incredibly f...

Hi Weirdos! Welcome to our very first mental health episode!  We've always wanted to dive into psychology & mental health and our hilarious guest, stand up comedian Justin Foster was itching to discuss sociopaths so we jumped at the opportunity to discuss PERSONALITY DISORDERS! This is an episode we've always been interested in, but extra cautious to record. There are a lot of stigmas involved in...

Hi Weirdos!  Welcome to PART TWO of our WEREWOLF episode!  Ashley is joined once again by her fill-in cohost JOEY and our hilarious, knowledgeable guest Billy Roach as they chat about the furriest monsters out there! Last week Billy taught us everything we could possibly know about werewolves and we were in RARE form, let me tell you.  Maybe it was a full moon? This week we're taking it a little m...

Aaaaaooooooo, Weirdos! Are you ready to learn about Werewolves?!  This week Ashley is joined by the monster man himself, Mr. Southern Vampire Billy Roach!  Billy is the most knowledgeable person I know when it comes to the mythos of vampires and trust me when I say he did NOT disappoint when it comes to werewolves either. Billy and Ashley are joined by their hype man, Handsome Joe (aka DJ Jazzy Jo...

Welcome, weirdos, to part TWO of our TIME TRAVEL episode! As you know, last week Joe taught us about spacetime, how gravity, speed, and velocity work together to influence "time," wormholes & black holes, and so much more. This week is all about theoretical science.  Ashley is going to be teaching the crew about Time Paradoxes and the different things that would and wouldn't be possible when it ca...

Great Scott, Weirdos! Welcome to our very first (how is that possible?) TIME TRAVEL episode!! Ashley has a very handsome stand-in cohost, Mr. Handsome Joe himself, and they get to sit down with Madigan Haggerty, host of the podcast Your Angry Neighborhood Feminist , to chat about space and time. This week Joey is going to teach us all about time travel-- time, space, quantum physics, theoretical p...

Welcome Weirdos and Floridians alike! This is our very first official CROSSOVER EPISODE!  We had the pleasure of joining the boys of one of our favorite podcasts Florida Men on Florida Man in their Studio in sunny Florida last week via Skype to chat about some recent crazy "Florida Man" headlines, answer listener questions, play a game that was definitely not rigged, and discuss the totally weird...

Hi Weirdos! Are you ready to get deep?  This is part two of our Q & A session with Amy Goldenburg of House of Heron's Eye.  Amy is a medium who has been working as a spiritual healer in Los Angeles for years and she sat down with your host Ashley to answer YOUR questions! In part one we covered ghosts, death, aliens, and tarot cards.  This week we have a much more serious conversation.  We discuss...

Welcome to a very special episode of Keep It Weird wherein Ashley sits down for an intimate conversation with the show's favorite medium- Amy Goldenberg. Over 50 listeners sent in questions for this episode and we set out to answer as many as possible.  Questions about death, the afterlife, connecting with your spirit, overcoming the fear and uncertainty of spirituality, finding ways to communicat...

Hi Weirdos! This week is all about SERIAL KILLERS!  Lauren and Ashley are going to be chatting about some of the lesser known serial murderers, who they killed, how they killed, how they were caught, and how they are all a bunch of dumb a-hole jerks.   Listen in for stories that are disturbing, cops and laws that are frustrating, letters to police, bodies buried under your feet,  and a collection...