This week on Curio, Tom and George are joined by extreme horror and splatterpunk author, Jonathan Butcher. Jonathan is best known for his books What Good Girls Do, Chocolateman, and Motel Styx. Jonathan also recently won the Gross Out contest at Killercon for his short story Last Night's Gig.

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Follow Jonathan and check out his website

Website: https://jonathanbutcherhorror.bigcartel.com

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drbutchermd

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbutchermd_author

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00:00:00 Introduction to Jonathan and extreme horror

00:05:55 What is Splatterpunk?

00:10:37 What Good Girls Do

00:14:27 Why on earth have you written this?

00:20:09 The power of morbid curiosity

00:23:11 Does shock value trump good writing?

00:25:03 Extreme horror writer recommendations

00:29:34 The backstory of Chocolateman

00:38:40 What makes a Jonathan Butcher book?

00:42:22 What inspires extreme horror writers?

00:47:00 Research required for extreme horror

00:50:02 The difficulties of writing as a collaboration

00:58:58 The morality of pushing horror to its extreme

01:03:46 Jonathan's Killercon Gross Out winning short story

The boys are back as a trio and they're back with some weird news stories and even weirder questions. Who is the Rizzler and why are the Cosco Guys booming so much? Should we invest in bum hoses? Chicken jockey?

00:00 Aligning our chakras 03:30 Indian poo holes 07:48 Rob's bidet dreams 12:50 Scenic pisses and nature poos 24:54 Minecraft Movie chicken jockey trend 36:09 The Rizzler joins Nintendo 45:50 Cheeto Charizard

This week we have a quickfire selection of bitesize weird news stories about Shrek, theft, religion and Shrek. 00:00 Shrek 5 controversy 03:28 Shrek the buddha 06:47 Indian Jesus holy poo water 14:38 Peruvian capybara Valentine's drug bust 22:46 Shrek sculpture goes missing

When you max your looks too much.

00:00 Intro to looksmaxxing

06:34 Heightmaxxing and leg lengthening surgery

21:33 Jawmaxxing and mewing

32:08 Skinmaxxing and extreme tanning

41:33 Eyecolourmaxxing

46:35 Hairmaxxing and beard transplants

This week Tom and Rob discuss the lucid dreaming community, how to lucid dream, the meaning of dreams and the concept of switching between multiple dimensions.

00:00 Introduction to lucid dreaming

07:14 What happens if you die in your dream?

14:09 Is lucid dreaming even real?

21:51 Paranormal dreams and dreams predicting the future

30:00 The evolutionary benefit of dreams

39:00 Psychedelics and time dilation

This week on Curio we take a peek into the unique world of Gloving, a strange hobby constituting of wiggling your fingers around in a dark room.

00:00 Cheese or service station game

07:41 What is 'gloving'?

33:12 How to get into Berghain

38:42 Stick review recap

This week Tom and George bring us a selection of weird news stories from New Zealand and the ocean. This is also George's final episode on Curio for quite a while 🫡

In this episode of Curio the boys look back on the past year and recap some of the weirdest news stories and events of 2024

Merry Christmas to all Curio listeners 🎅🏻 get in the festive mood by listening to us talk about some crazy, stupid and weird news stories that are ~kinda~ Christmas related.

00:56 Birmingham Man Lives With 4 Elves

15:22 The Worst Christmas Dinners

30:22 St Nick's Tomb Has Been Discovered

34:26 Will Wham's Last Christmas Be Taken Off the Radio?

Hawk Tuah girl, Hailey Welch has been in some hot water recently for her alleged crypto scam. This week Tom and Rob dive into her rise to fame, her new venture of podcasting and try to understand why anyone would but a Hawk Tuah crypto token.