Andrew is back. Brian is gone. And the one and only Veronica Belmont joins us. Goblins overrrun a Zimbabwe clinic, we take Veronica on quite a tour of our continuing goblin epidemic. We contemplate if a woman would have a neanderthal baby. An update on the Python Killin’ Contest in Florida. We try to sex up a SpaceX announcement. It’s all coming up on a new Weird Things podcast! Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Picks: Veronica: Old Man’s War Andrew: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Justin: Game of Thrones

Tom Merritt is our substitute Mayne this week. A Brazilian prison is part of an elaborate escape plan with an unlikely partner in crime. A police department in Florida is ensconsed in a cloud of technological suffication to the detrimite of car owners. Can a brand new pair of detectives named Hobo McGillicutty and Timetraveler Jones solve the case? Also: Snake murder is the order of the day in South Florida! Python death up to your knees! It’s all coming up on a new Weird Things podcast! Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Picks: Tom: Glympse.com Brian: Star Wars: Scoundrels Justin: Portlandia

ANDREW returns! We finally get our update on The Snuggery! Will our intrepid reporter unleash a b-dog on this poor woman? Mayne tells us of a hilarious run-in with a legendary magician. The boys peruse a vintage catalogue of hazing devices. We review our predictions of 2012 and make new ones for 2013. It’s a DOUBLE STUFFED edition of the Weird Things Podcast! Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Picks: Andrew: 1933 King Kong Brian: Doctor Who – The Snowmen Justin: Django Unchained

We are joined by Jason Murphy of Loading Bar and Spill.com. The boys revisit the mysterious explosion in an Indiana suburb and finally get a deadly update. SpaceX has a plan to send 80,000 people to Mars but Brian has to make a horrifying choice that could ruin his marriage. A startling link between balding men and apes is discovered. It’s all coming up on yet another edition of Weird Things. Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Picks: Jason: Daredevil by Mark Waid Brian: The Walking Dead video game Justin: Book of Basketball

Tom Merritt joins us as we discuss a massive natural event that happens to alert us to the opening of a new movie. Tom has to make a terrible decision that could leave him buried in Apple rumors or Sasquatch reports. Also, is belief a chief tenant of science? All this and more in an unfortunately Mayne-less episode of Weird Things. Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Listener Sponsors: – Flying DVDs of Death Picks: Tom: NaNoWriMo Brian: Brandwashed Justin: Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, Book 3: The Last Command

What would you do if you could live forever. Also, do we now know if the initials to SpaceX’s MCT project? What exploded a peaceful neighborhood in Indiana? We return to the Snuggery after a WTP listener offers to go investigate. Also, when will it be unethical to turn off a video game character? Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Listener Sponsors: – Valhalla Industries – Sidekick Foundation Picks: Andrew: Angry Birds: Star Wars Brian: Walking Dead Video Game Justin: East Bound and Down

A woman has a strange job. It sparks a statistical argument between Brian and Justin to rival the Presidential Election. A new way to tell if Mars is housing a killer plague sets up a scenario involving precursor aliens and bears on a level you never before seen. The boys discuss the place the Water Bears have their picnic. Also. Star Wars TALK!!! Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Listener Sponsors: – Joeseph Sernell – Forging Reverie Picks: Andrew: Going Postal Brian: Tales of the Mos Eisley Cantina Justin: The Price of Politics

Gary and The Weasel make their podcast debut to solve a Polish crime. Who would win in a fight: a Neanderthal or a human? Andrew quizzes us on a mysterious man who witnessed something amazing. Can the boys figure out his identity? And what did he see? The results connect the very fabric of our history through a meld of technology and culture! Prepare friends, for yet another Weird Things podcast! Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Listener Sponsors: – Midnight Switch Found – Dolls of Lisbon – Support Andy for Movember Picks: Andrew: My Mother is Nuts by Penny Marshall Brian: Thinking Fast and Slow Justin: Cloud Atlas

Felix Baumgartner is amazing, but seriously, what comes next? The boys make their guesses. Killjoy scientists try and kill our dinosaur dreams. Because they hate joy. And want to kill it. But fear not! Andrew has a plan that can not only make your dreams a reality, but make the argument it couldn’t have worked any other way anyhow. Hold on to your butts, it’s another Weird Things podcast! Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices. Listener Sponsors: – Monster Madness Radio – Rascal Kings – Blind Gods Bluff Picks: Andrew: Argo Brian: Better Angels of our Nature Justin: Walking Dead

Andrew is live in Cape Canaveral to watch SpaceX launch their first supply mission to the International Space Station and he is joined by CBS’ Molly Wood! Justin is live at TWiT’s studio in Petaluma, CA and is joined by Tom Merritt. Brian is somewhere in Dallas and is joined by his ever buoyant enthusiasm. Listen to the sounds of the launch! Hear how NASA has taken their social media communication with new heights in an impromptu interview with one of the men who makes it happen! It’s Space! Space! Space! in this commercial free episode. Special thanks to NASA, TWiT, Leo Laporte, Lisa Kentzell, Tom Merritt and Molly Wood. Support the show by purchasing Andrew’s BRAND NEW BOOK Hollywood Pharaohs just click on the image below. Try out the brand new PODCASTR player, featuring wireless syncing between desktop browsers and iOS devices.