Strangest Species

Send a text In case you didn't know, the sun is a ginormous ball of fire which occasionally erupts sending waves of magnetic radiation crashing into space.  Every once in a while the earth gets in the path of one of these ejections and when large enough, as in September 1859, it can cause catastrophic damage to electrical systems. But what if today we got hit with one of these waves, where ou...

Send a text If you're not enjoying your current state of affairs, you should do what Roy Bates did, just start your own country! That's right; today, we discuss Roy Bates, a British citizen that left the UK to form the country of Sealand in international waters. 

Send a text This week we dive into some of the literal crappiest, most vile, and disgusting jobs from medieval times that will make you feel much better about your career choice. 

Send a text What happens if you find yourself on a lone tropical island when suddenly there are hostile locals shooting arrows at you/ What do you do? The best answer is probably never to go to the island, to begin with.  In this episode, we discuss North Sentinel Island.  An island that is home to one of the last uncontacted groups in the world, a people that are left alone from the modern world...

Send a text What if you moved into your dream home only to find insanely creepy letters being left anonymously threatening your family? Someone was in the shadows of your idyllic neighborhood, watching you and your children. Telling you that bizarre and creepy happenings are part of the history of your new home.  This is the story of the Broaddus family, when they bought their home in 2014 in West...

Send a text What if you were in the jungles fighting a war against a ferocious enemy with a strict order to never surrender or quit, the only problem was the war you were in ended years before. Thats what the story of Heroo Onoda that we'll discuss today, a Japanese WWII soldier who kept fighting a guerilla war on a small island in the Philippines long after the war ended.  We discuss his lif...

Send a text In efforts to win the Space Race of the Cold War rumors have run wild of Soviet Cosmonauts being launched and lost in space in experimental rocket programs. Two Italian brothers in the 1960's claimed to have recorded secret radio communications of these very failed missions. 

Send a text In this episode, we dive deep into the emerging world of Artificial Intelligence and discuss some of its benefits and potential downfalls, like the human race succumbing to a militaristic army of AI robo- girlfriends. Link to Hot Canadian Maple Syrup picture https://labs.openai.com/s/IvJConIwvONlxi7wT5jm9TU4   Link to Comical Victorian Railroad Architecture   https://labs.openai.com/s/...

Send a text Imagine being locked naked in a one-room apartment with absolutely nothing. No food, no clothes, no entertainment, no contact with the outside world. The only way to survive and escape is to win prizes from mail-in magazine sweepstakes. Oh, and you're being live-streamed 24/7 to millions of people too. That is the bizarre and true story of Tomoaki Hamastu that we dissect in this e...