What's Shakin with Shaner

Send us Fan Mail In this captivating episode of What’s Shakin With Shaner , Shakin Shaner and his eccentric feline co-host Psycho Bob unravel the enigma surrounding the death of one of America’s most iconic literary figures—Edgar Allan Poe. Though long believed to have succumbed to alcoholism, Poe's final days raise far more questions than answers. From his delirious discovery outside a Balti...

Send us Fan Mail Join Psycho Bob and Shaner as they discuss the novel, Blood Oath.  Zach Barrows is an ambitious young White House staffer whose career takes an unexpected turn when he's partnered with Nathaniel Cade, a secret agent sworn to protect the President. But Cade is no ordinary civil servant. Bound by a special blood oath, he is a vampire. Cade battles nightmares before they can bre...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is based mostly on the book, “Poisoner In Chief” by Stephen Kinzer, published in 2019. During the early period of the Cold War, the CIA became convinced that communists had discovered a drug or technique that would allow them to control human minds. In response, the CIA began its own secret program, called MK-ULTRA, to search for a mind control drug that could be weap...

Send us Fan Mail Holy Crapadoodle, It's our 50th Episode! In “What's Shakin with Shaner’s episode 21 “Where’s My Jetpack?” we made reference to a possible jet pack appearance on the cover of the August 1928 issue of Amazing Stories. So, Bob and I decided to research the magazine and yep, we fell right down the rabbit hole of the archives for all Amazing Stories issues. To find the archiv...

Send us Fan Mail Hey Nerd Herd, we are back from an extended break and excited to get this collection of bizarre and odd stories out to you. Join Shaner and Bobber as they discuss the intersection of an outlaw, a physician and politics in Wyoming and then jump to some actual non-lethal proposals considered by the Pentagon. They close it out with a look at animal hybrids and actual research into cr...

Send us Fan Mail Join Shaner and Psycho Bob the Cat as they discuss the case of a supposed werewolf in a remote German farming community. This is a well-documented case from the 1500's and was even referenced in the Exorcist and a Scooby Doo animated movie and the Dresden Files book series.

Send us Fan Mail Join Psycho Bob & Shaner as they explore a contraversy or Buffalo Bill's final resting spot. Buffalo Bill Cody has been glamorized and criticized for over 100 years because of his role as a government scout, buffalo hunter, and Wild West Show promoter. We are not gonna jump into any of those topics but more specifically, where is he buried?  Is he buried on Lookout Mounta...

Send us Fan Mail Join Jeremy, Kevin and Shaner as they host the inaugural meeting of People Against Idiotic Nincompoopery (P.A.I.N.). They share their stories about the Agents of STUPID (Sluggsih, Thick-headed, Unthinking, Puerile, Inane, Dunderheads). As a part of the ceremony they must also describe how they, themselves, have been sleeper Agents of STUPID.  Yep, the moronic behavior runs deep wi...

Send us Fan Mail Shaner and Bob dive into Harry Houdini testifying before Congress.  Never before had a congressional hearing been described as “UPROARIOUS,” until master magician and escape artist Harry Houdini provided expert testimony in which he delivered a lively and compelling case against the supernatural. For years, Houdini had worked tirelessly to de bunk mediums who claimed to communicat...

Send us Fan Mail Psycho Bobb and Shaner discuss pirate treasure. Dive into the rabbit hole with them and hear about the pirates, Captain William Kidd, Olivier Levasseur also known as the Buzzard, Black Sam Bellamy and Amaro Pargo. Did pirates really bury their treasure? Have treasure hunters found any?  What happened to Captain Kidd's treasure? Has Pargo's treasure been found? Join them...

Send us Fan Mail Join Psycho Bob and Shaner as they discuss the Cosmos Club, which was founded in 1878 by the  Civil War soldier, Grand Canyon explorer and scientist John Wesley Powell. Powell and the other original members envisioned the club, located in the nation’s capital, as a nexus of thought and action.  Should they apply for membership? They think they meet the criteria!

Send us Fan Mail Join Psycho Bob the Cat and Shaner as they rediscover Dashiell Hammett and discuss the Continental Op, one of the first major hardboiled detectives later developed in such characters as Hammett's own Sam Spade, Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, and others.  The Dain Curse was published in 1929, but before its publication in book form,...

Send us Fan Mail Join Psycho Bob and Shaner as they discuss and recommend the Netflix series, the Blue Eye Samurai. They say, Holy Crapadoodle its awesome and they are not kitten. In 17th-century Japan, when borders are closed to the outside world, citizens would never see a face that was not Japanese, except in rare cases of illegal trade. Our hero, Mizu, knows there were only four white men in J...

Send us Fan Mail Join Shaner and Bob as they discuss Poverty Point in northeastern Louisiana. Many archaeologists and scientists consider it as North America’s First City. It lies 15 miles west of the Mississippi River. At 1500 BCE, everywhere else in North America had small villages of about 100 residents, however, Poverty Point had between 4000 and 5000 residents. This was unprecedented at time....

Send us Fan Mail Join Bobber and Shaner as they discuss Shawn Inmon's book, Kradak the Champion.  Kradak the Champion's first appearance is standing atop a mound of bodies; some of which are not quite dead. In his arm is a chubby child he's rescued, who is destined to become a leader. Kardak is not just a hero. He's a warrior. This image is captured in a film that, in the real...

Send us Fan Mail In the past few months, the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights have been visible by so many people, other than those in the extreme north. A member of the Nerd Herd, Scott from South Dakota, asked what did ancient civilizations think the northern lights meant? That got me thinking and researching….  Join Psycho Bob and Shakin Shaner as they dive into ancient cultur...

Send us Fan Mail Stew from the Stew World Order podcast, joins Shaner as they discuss the 1993 Mel Brooks movie, Robin Hood Men in Tights. Find out why Shaner has a special spot for this movies and Stew's cross-country trip that led to an insane number of viewings of this movie. Not only do they share their original joy for this 30-year-old classic, but some behind the scenes information and...

Send us Fan Mail Join Bobber and Shaner as they discuss that after the 1st Edition of their fairy tales, the Grimm Brothers  had several of the stories altered such as Snow White’s biological mother became her step-mother and Rapunzel was not pregnant.   However, certain tales could not just be edited or altered to a fit a less gruesome standard, because they were completely horrific. One such sto...

Send us Fan Mail Another installment of Psycho Bob Says is here and Bobber asks, what is the Antikythera Mechanism? For more than 100 years, scholars have struggled with defining it, determining its origin and replicating it.  ​After decades of study, it has been determined that the Antikythera mechanism is an Ancient Greek hand-powered mechanical model of the of the solar system. It was a mechani...

Send us Fan Mail Another 10-minute installment of Psycho Bob Says...Join him and Shaner as they try to answer 3 questions: Who was Johan Konrad Dipple? Was he the inspiration for Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein? Was he the real-life Dr. Frankenstein? He was born August 25, 1673, in Castle Frankenstein near Darmstadt Germany. He studied theology, philosophy and alchemy at the University of Giess...

Send us Fan Mail Join Will and Shaner as they discuss the single season of MTV Spider-Man, a fully CGI animated series, solely on MTV.  MTV Spider-Man lasted only one season but addressed more mature themes following Peter, Harry and Mary Jane at Empire State University. Will and Shaner address the darker tones, the villains and voice actors that made this an award winning animated series. It is c...

Send us Fan Mail Bob and Shaner recommend the book, "The House of Silk," by Anthony Horowitz. This is the first Sherlock Holmes novel to be authorized by the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Estate.  Horowitz has been called one of "the most original and best spy-kids authors of the century" by the New York Times. It is set in London in 1890, and takes place just after the short story, &...

Send us Fan Mail Join Psycho Bob and Shaner as they geek-out over Marvel's GI Joe issue #21, the Silent Interlude. The issue has no dialogue, word bubbles, or onomatopoeia and was published in March 1984 the Writer and Penciller was Larry Hama.  It stars Snake Eyes, one of GI Joes most iconic bad asses, who is mute.  This is the introduction of the Cobra assassin, Storm Shadow. He kidnaps a m...

Send us Fan Mail Join Psycho Bob and Shaner as they discover the real meaning and origination of the word Yule!  They jump into 5th and 6th century references as well as Norse history and sagas to discover that Yule is a reference to a pagan celebration of Odin and the Wild Hunt. Hear how the King of Norway made the significant changes to Yule and why we say it today. 

Send us Fan Mail Join Shakin Shaner and Psycho Bob as they explore some horrible shows from the 80's, some of Shaner's favorite shows that were cancelled and one diamond in the rough of sucktastic 80's shows.  Have you heard of the shows, B.A.D. CATS or Wizards and Warriors? No, well there is a reason why. The discussion goes back to the 80's and they even discuss the show that...