Weirdos... Tonight you will be visited by three ghosts No it isn't an undigested bit of beef that brought you here. Today your hosts Marley and Marley... ope.. I mean Ashley and Lauren... are going to teach you the true meaning of Christmas! This episode, the Ghost of Christmas Past - you can call her BLAIR GORMAN (Yaaachts, Queen - Robot Chicken) is going to be bringing us three unsolved mysteries! Blair is going to be teaching us about the case of the Monster with 21 Faces (EXCUSE ME!?) from J...
Dec 25, 2020•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 38
Good Riddance, weirdos!! At last this year is coming to an end. We all vacillated between "Will 2020 ever be over?" and "DECEMBER?!?!?!" for at least 9 months and now it's time to remind ourselves that it wasn't all bad and that even the bad things were full of learning opportunities. So lets spend the rest of this month focusing on the positives. We begin this episode with a rapid-fire recap of all the events that took place this year - from fires to floods, pandemics to presidential elections,...
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 37
Batter Up! Hear that Call! The time has come! For one and all! To play ball! Gosh A League of their Own is just... It's just the best movie. Hi Weirdos, welcome to another HERSTORY lesson! This is week two of women throughout history that you should know! But probably don't... womp womp. This week our main focus is Betty Pack the WWII MI6 spy who foiled the Nazis, ensured that the Allied forces made safe passage into Hitler's territories, and even helped crack the enigma machine and she did it a...
Dec 11, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 36
WHO RUN THE WORLD Hi Weirdos, welcome to one of my favorite episodes of all time. One: It's so much fun. Two: It's all about the LADIES!! This is definitely going to be a new thing for the show- talking about PEOPLE throughout history that did incredible, amazing, badass things and yet... you've probably never heard of them. This week Lauren is starting us off with Fe Del Mundo; the cutest filipino woman of all time who is the founder of the very first pediatric hospital in the Philippines. A pi...
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 35
Hi Ho Weirdos!! Welcome to part two of our latest HELTER SKELTER episode!! Helter Skelters freakin' RULE because we get to talk about whatever the ding dang dong heck we want. This week Ashley is starting us off with some musings on the effects technology has on our psyche. There are many different ways our bodies have not evolved to handle the world that we live in and there are many things we can do to help ourselves adapt to the technology we surround ourselves with! Lets talk about em'! And ...
Nov 27, 2020•55 min•Season 4Ep. 34
You may be a lover but you ain't no weirdo! We're back!! Welcome to another HELTER SKELTER episode! Helter Skelters are some of our all time favorites- these are the episodes that are made up of stories that got cut for time, topics that don't fit into any of our themed episodes, or interesting subjects that we bring up randomly and promise to talk about in the future! This week Lauren is going to be covering the Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theory that took place towards the end of Barack Obama's pr...
Nov 20, 2020•59 min•Season 4Ep. 33
Happy Halloween, Weirdos! Are you ready for a spooky tale? This week Ashley has a special one for you. Can a house be so haunted that just writing about it can spread evil throughout the world? Or is it just that reading about the paranormal can open up the possibility of experiencing it? In 2009 Ashley bought a book called "The Uninvited: The True Story of the Union Screaming House." When she read that book, strange things started happening in her home. Objects were moved, there were strange si...
Oct 31, 2020•50 min•Season 4Ep. 32
Happy Devil's Night, boils and ghouls! And what a very special Devil's Night it is because Ashley and Lauren are here to bring you some LISTENER GHOST STORIES!! Five horror stories ranging from funny to sad and strange to downright terrifying. Each story submitted by our listeners and various friends across the internet. Each story incredibly special to us- because YOU shared them. Lauren is bringing us a story about a haunted apartment, a guardian angel, and the terrifying story we now refer to...
Oct 30, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 31
Hello Kiddies! Are you ready for your DEADTIME STORY? This is a very special edition of Keep It Weird with a very special guest. Joining me today is one of your favorite good-looking men! Back from the grave it's Handsome Joe! This week we're doing something brand new! I scoured the internet looking for some fantastic HORROR FICTION stories and boy did I find some great ones. And I figured what better way to share them with you than to have my own little audience. So we turned off the lights and...
Oct 23, 2020•45 min•Season 4Ep. 31
Are you afraid of the dark, weirdos? Continuing our very spooky Halloween episodes this week we are bringing you an episode about all the things that lurk in the dark corners of the world... or do they? Lauren is going to be teaching us about the fear of the dark (Nyctophobia) and even the fear of doors (Entamaphobia) Is this a leftover anxiety from our evolution? Or is there something really there? Ashley is going to talk about the thing that could be there... hush, hush, hush... here comes the...
Oct 16, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 30
Hi Weirdos! What an excellent day for an exorcism. Welcome to Week two of our horror movie series! Last week we talked about matters of the flesh--- slicing dicing (and even biting) with slashers and zombies. This week Ashley is starting us off with a discussion on movie MONSTERS. Monster movies are filled with allegories and metaphors; so from Cujo to the Babadook- we're going to be discussing the movies AND the creatures and how they mirrored our deepest darkest fears. Lauren takes us home wit...
Oct 09, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Season 4Ep. 29
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 start us off with SLASHERS. From Halloween to Scream; Slashers have been cautionary tales, they've empower...
Oct 02, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 4Ep. 28
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 return guest; our good friend and one of your favorites TYLER SCHUELKE! Ashley is going to be bringing ...
Sep 18, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Season 4Ep. 27
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 Elephant and Massarti the lion tamer. Lauren is introducing us to several wonderful sideshow performe...
Sep 11, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 26
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 mean really ? How far will our fascination for the human body reach? Who were the freaks and should we re...
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 4Ep. 25
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? Why are we so unhappy with our bodies and is that a new thing? How important is therapy when seeking...
Aug 28, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Season 4Ep. 24
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 with a visible tattoo! We're going to cover all types of body modification including tongue splitting, su...
Aug 21, 2020•1 hr 30 min•Season 4Ep. 23
(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'T work as an operative for the Bush administration (wink wink) and Ashley is focusing on Beyoncé ...
Aug 14, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 4Ep. 22
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 movement and the history of Vaccine Hesitancy while sharing facts and debunking the most famous myths. Joe...
Jul 31, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Season 4Ep. 21
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 stories, scientific discoveries, kooky towns, sea monsters, the GROSSEST STORY EVER TOLD, screaming skies ...
Jul 24, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 20
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 of Native American civilizations, and a very strange story about a young girl who's body was taken over...
Jul 17, 2020•1 hr 35 min•Season 4Ep. 19
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 tallest man in recorded history, and so much more!! This Week's topics include: The Bartonville State Hos...
Jul 10, 2020•1 hr 44 min•Season 4Ep. 18
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, ancient mysteries, and even a murderous toy. Tune in to learn about The Crying Boy: A painting by Gi...
Jul 03, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Season 4Ep. 17
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 put that parable in there? So that we can answer questions like "are the prophecies legit or did they cheat...
Jun 26, 2020•59 min•Season 4Ep. 15
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'll learn about his life, his career, his struggles, and obviously his predictions and which ones seem...
Jun 19, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 15
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 stories feature ghosts who can drive, ghosts who can text, ghosts who need haircuts, creatures in rivers, gl...
Jun 13, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Season 4Ep. 14
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, couch ladies, sickening smells, and yes- even physical touch! So since we're stuck at home anyway we ...
May 29, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 13
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. We discuss the problems (or lack thereof) of people with paranormal and supernatural stories book...
May 22, 2020•53 min•Season 4Ep. 12
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 Incident which inspired the movie Fire in the Sky and Ashley comes to terms with the aftermath of he...
May 15, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 4Ep. 11
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 to be bringing us a handful of first hand stories from credible sources who claim that they have had e...
May 08, 2020•56 min•Season 4Ep. 10
