Curio

To celebrate being back together after 3 week apart Tom, George and Rob have all brought some Weird News stories. All stories feature someone getting more than they asked for, exactly what they asked for, or just getting a bit carried away. Enjoy! 

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Rob and Tom are on the road again filming an annual Derbyshire tradition, the Ashbourne Shrovetide Football Game. Recording directly from inside the camper-van, they join us on the morning after their first day amongst the chaos. 

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Tom and George are joined by friend of show and most popular guest, Faz - also known as The Pigstone. For this weeks Weird News we have an epic tale of a courageous rodents breakfast resourcefulness, a tinder date turned fart-bucket mishap, and a menagerie of orifice clogging items. 

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We've all heard stories of people being in love with weird things... pirate ghosts, briefcases and dolphins, just name a few. This week Tom interviews a Japanese man who is married to Hatsune Miku, a fictional anime music star. 

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTjr8uB3bDM 

Happy Valentines Day! This week we've found some beautiful stories about love, partnership and intimacy to celebrate Valentines. We've also found some stories about condoms, ejaculate and sex dolls to mark this milestone episode... episode 69! 

Leave a comment over on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAF7MFTczys 

Do you dig stories about weird people? Well this story is about a weird man digging. Rob runs the boys through the life of William Lyttle also known as The Mole Man of Hackney, a man who dug a series of tunnels and caves under his house in Hackney, London. 

Leave a comment over on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBKQwdWqNvA

This week Tom takes us back to late 90's Japan and tells us all about a man named Nasubi (Eggplant) who was the contestant in what is known as one of the cruellest and most mentally torturous reality TV shows ever created. 

Leave a comment over on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-jXGEjMutU 

Rob dives deep into the world of Breatharianism, also known as Inedia, a practice in which people abstain from eating any food and sometimes from drinking any water. Some claim it's a way to reach a higher form of enlightenment, some say there is a number of heath benefits, most say it's a load of crap. 

Watch along on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9iEe_9Gpi8 

Tom talks briefly about the origins of Blue Monday before moving on to discuss some of the worst advertisements on TV and the internet. From culturally insensitive to transphobic and racist, tone-deaf or ignorant, we have them all. It's episode 65 of the Curios Cast. 

Watch along on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoQRME8h2DA 

In 1975 an unsuspecting but hard working logger by the name of Travis Walton had a surprising and unexplainable close encounter of the third kind. Did he really see and interact with aliens, or was it all just a bad trip?

George runs through all the details in this alien abduction episode of the Curios Cast. 

Watch along on YouTube: https://youtu.be/SIB8QTu-SRs