Tea’s Weird Week

Tea's Weird Week is back ! Tea talks about some recent TWW columns, Tea and Heidi talk about weird news, including sexy Swedish garbage cans, Sarah Palin vs Santa Claus and recent news of sentient AI developed at Google named LaMDA. Plus new trivia from Miss Information and our sound engineer FlatlineAudio138 shares a new track, "Alien Overdose." NotesFlatlineAudio138: flatlineaudio138.comTWW column: "You are Geraldo Rivera, high on ecstasy, looking at a UFO in the Bahamas"TWW column: "Who said it-- Marjorie Taylor Greene or Phantom Patriot?"More on LaMDA: "The Google engineer who sees company's AI as 'sentient' thinks a chabot has a soul," NPRSend your trivia answers to: [email protected]

The Season 4 finales features Heidi and Tea discussing weird news, trivia answers, and a closing track by The LOL, "Six Feet Under the Dance Floor." Fun times. 

Show Notes-Tea's latest column on Primus and the Phantom Patriot is here: https://teakrulos.com/2022/04/08/teas-weird-week-phantom-patriot-featured-in-new-primus-conspiranoia-video/

Tea catches up with his old friend Gorb and asks him 10 big questions. Tea's Weird Week News features Tea and Heidi discussing the Macbeth Curse, the eerie Back Rooms, dreams of Coors, and more. Enter our Clip-O-Mania contest by identifying all 41 clips in this episode-- send a list of them in to [email protected] and if you get 'em right, you shall win a prize. Plus trivia from Miss Information and we close with a lovely track from Mandy Cappleman, "Spinning Wheels."

Show Notes

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The Tea's Weird Week Facebook group has a poll to vote on the weirdest movies on all time (winner will be announced when the red carpet rolls out for the Oscars Sunday). Tea talks with group members Billy, Stephen, Alicia, and Andrew, who nominated some of the top voted films. The discussion continues with Tea and Heidi in the news segment, Miss Information has a Psycho trivia question, and we close out with a track from Xposed 4heads, "Suggestion Box." Show Notes

-Here's the Garbage Day episode on Howard the Duck we mentioned: GDP EP 36: Howard The Duck (podbean.com)

Heidi Erickson shares the Slavic folklore tale of Baba Yaga (aka Baba Jaga or Baba Roga). Tea and Heidi talk about lore spinning out of the war in Ukraine like the "Beastmaster of Kyiv" as well as weird smuggling news. New trivia from Miss Information about Rod Stewart and we close with a trad Irish song from Wendy Lynn Markus, "The Lilting Banshee." Show Notes-Tea wrote this piece on Milwaukee's Lakefront Brewery, which has raised over $50,000 (and counting) with their "Putin is a Dick" crowler and T-shirt for Ukrainian refugee aid: How Lakefront Brewery’s Showing Support to Ukraine After Years of Selling Beer There (milwaukeemag.com)-Milwaukee Paranormal Conference dates announced, Oct.14-16 this year, save the date, here's the FB event page: Milwaukee Paranormal Conference 2022 | Facebook

Tea Krulos and Heidi Erickson journey into the unknown at the Paranormal Chicago Conference. On-the-spot interviews with investigator and show runner Jack Chavez, author Dan Guzman, tarot reader Coco La Bruja, Bob Anderson (of Bob After Dark) and Dale Kaczmarek (Ghost Research Society). Tea and Heidi talk more about their experience, Raelians, a severed head in Green Bay, a bear named Hank the Tank, and more. Plus trivia answers from Miss Information and a bangin' new track from FlatlineAudio138, "Fatal Error." 

Read the latest Tea's Weird Week column, in which Tea creates his own Batman villain, the Bingo Master: Tea’s Weird Week: Hey, I Invented a Batman Villain Based on an Obscure Myth About Bingo | (teakrulos.com)

Tea talks to Tony Szabelski, who leads tours in Chicago for American Ghost Walks and is a speaker at the upcoming Paranormal Chicago Conference March 6. Chicago is rich with ghostlore, from H.H. Holmes to Al Capone to the famously haunted Congress Hotel. 

Tea and Heidi talk weird news about a Canadian pillow drop, an Illuminati invitation, and Tea's scheme to get rich dealing Yooperlite. Plus trivia with Miss Information and we close with a track by Chicago's Time Thieves, "Road." Show NotesParanormal Chicago Con: facebook.com/events/1067747297402289American Ghost Walks: americanghostwalks.comTime Thieves: Time Thieves (bandcamp.com)

This episode jumps right into the news-- Tea Krulos and Heidi Erickson talk about how conspiracy theorists believe that the Super Bowl half time show is an annual Illuminati occult ritual, also UFO sightings over Scotland and Indonesia, a creepy mass bird crash, and more. Plus trivia from Miss Information and we close out with a track from Mikronaut, "the last capsule."

Show Notes

-Tea's column this week delves deeper into the Super Bowl Half Time Show Conspiracy: teakrulos.com/2022/02/18/teas-weird-week-illuminati-super-bowl-party

Tea talks to realtor Crystal Schmidt about paranormal properties on the market, from a haunted Scottish castle to a ranch next to Area 51. Then Tea and Heidi discuss weird news-- an update on the Dallas QAnon cult, a golldang book burning, Grimacecoin and more. Plus trivia from Miss Information and we close with a track from Mini Meltdowns, "I Wanna Die (feat. Psychey Ikey) [Electronic Remix]" 

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"The JFK QAnon Cult in Dallas is Somehow Getting Weirder," Vice"A newly minted cryptocurrency called Grimacecoin..." Business Insider

"This Living Statue Stepped in for the Bronze Fonz," Milwaukee Magazine

Tea talks about his love for the weird antics of Werner Herzog, with a supporting cast of Klaus Kinski, Joaquin Phoenix, Errol Morris (and his shoe), and...Eddie Gein?!

Tea and Heidi talk about weird news about a butterfly sanctuary conspiracy, a showdown at the Golden Corral, and Tea's new haunted teapot. Plus trivia from Miss Information and we close out with an appropriate track for this episode, "MAYHEM," by Mistaloo Meff. 

Show Notes

-Herzog illustration by Grace Killy/ Density Design-Mistaloo Meff: mistaloomeff.bandcamp.com-Tea's Werner Herzog column with video clips can be found here: https://teakrulos.com/2022/02/04/teas-weird-week-high-on-the-herzog/