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 the phenomenon of ghost lights as well as introverts and extroverts and the science behind them-- is it...
May 01, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Season 4Ep. 9
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 there keep off the fairy paths and keep an eye out for those tricky changelings... Consider ye be warn...
Apr 24, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 8
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're on to the legends of Lamia and we're learning all about fairies!! Disclaimer-- we had some serious aud...
Apr 17, 2020•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 7
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 of Dorothy Jane Scott that took place in California in 1980 as well as the case known as the "Yogurt Sh...
Apr 10, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Season 4Ep. 6
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 ago is FINALLY coming in handy! We're going to be discussing anthropological/archaeological finds and ...
Apr 03, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 5
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 discoveries, ingenious inventions, and advancements in the realms of artificial intelligence, space, biol...
Mar 27, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Season 4Ep. 4
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 the matrix stories, some extraterrestrial tales, and some experiences that are so spooky they will keep y...
Mar 20, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Season 4Ep. 3
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. Last week we went over some true crime, some cults, and some curses. This week Ashley is going to be bringi...
Mar 13, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 4Ep. 2
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 the first friends they made in Los Angeles; actor and comedian CARL TART! You've seen him on Drunk Histo...
Mar 06, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 1
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 about the awesome tour they took, and play clips from the night they spent exploring the halls and rooms of ...
Dec 20, 2019•1 hr 41 min•Season 3Ep. 40
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 photos, suspect interviews, and so, so much more and we decided we had to record an update. This week ...
Dec 13, 2019•3 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 39
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 spirits because this week is all about HAUNTINGS!! Ashley is bringing you New York City's creepiest, spo...
Dec 06, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 38
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 men, lake monsters, and even some dinosaurs down in the sewers. And get excited for a special drop in...
Nov 29, 2019•58 min•Season 3Ep. 37
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 some absolutely cray true crime stories! We focus on two murderers who had their stories immortalized ...
Nov 22, 2019•50 min•Season 3Ep. 36
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 freeway in Washington DC. Ashley is pondering the question: What happens when you combine an ordinary d...
Nov 15, 2019•53 min•Season 3Ep. 35
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 accidentally chose similar stories so for PART ONE you're getting two murders in which the bodies were stuffed int...
Nov 08, 2019•53 min•Season 3Ep. 34
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 don't talk much about the show, only to reference the REAL LIFE HORRORS that took place to inspire the ...
Oct 25, 2019•1 hr 38 min•Season 3Ep. 33
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 one knows who he is. Join us as we discuss the events that took place, the conspiracies involved, and theo...
Oct 04, 2019•56 min•Season 3Ep. 32
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 time favorite mysteries; the case of the Somerton Man (aka Tamam Shud.) Picture this... a guy found de...
Sep 27, 2019•57 min•Season 3Ep. 31
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 conundrums. This week Ashley is bringing you an hours worth of notes on the VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT! This 60...
Sep 20, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 30
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 the intruders in our homes. From the most unique place to see a ghost to the places that make you say "D...
Sep 13, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 29
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 fascinating for many reasons; one of which is their association to a large number of famous serial kill...
Sep 06, 2019•1 hr 21 min•Season 3Ep. 28
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 mental disorders and chatting about them on a show dedicated to all things "weird" was something ...
Aug 30, 2019•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 27
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 more seriously, Ashley is going to be talking all about werewolves in pop culture and the different ways...
Aug 23, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 26
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 Joe) as Billy teaches us all about where the legends began, the different versions of lore from around t...
Aug 16, 2019•1 hr 21 min•Season 3Ep. 25
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 came through traveling through time. Most importantly, the things we'd have to worry about if time ...
Aug 02, 2019•1 hr 26 min•Season 3Ep. 24
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 physics, time dilation, wormholes, velocity, blackholes, and so much more. Next week we're going to d...
Jul 26, 2019•58 min•Season 3Ep. 23
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 tale of the Betz Mystery Sphere! In March of 1974, a Florida family stumbled upon a strange metal art...
Jul 17, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 22
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 healing past traumas, discovering your life's purpose, finding happiness, spiritual healing, commun...
Jul 12, 2019•55 min•Season 3Ep. 21
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 communicate with those who have passed, knowing when you're on the right path in life, and even the existence o...
Jul 05, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 20
