The Tipsy Exchange | Movies, Mysteries & More

On this episode, in anticipation of the new 'Interview with the Vampire' series, Berly and LA discuss vampire movies they remember from their youth and why they still love them today.  Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interview_with_the_Vampire_(TV_series)
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11173505/Remains-VAMPIRE-pinned-ground-sickle-throat-Poland.html
• https://time.com/5411826/bram-stoker-dracula-history/
• https://nerdist.com/article/bram-stokers-dracula-horniest-dracula-nerdist-now/

Every other week, Berly and LA research a topic in which they wish to know more. Then, they exchange ideas over drinks. Sci-fi? True crime? Unexplained phenomena? Anything goes on the exchange. Now, let's get tipsy!
Help the Tipsy Exchange get more exposure by rating this episode and leaving a review. Visit www.thetipsyexchange.com for socials, merch and additional episodes.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every other week, Berly and LA research a topic in which they wish to know more. Then, they exchange ideas over drinks. Sci-fi? True crime? Unexplained phenomena? Anything goes on the exchange. Now, let's get tipsy!
Help the Tipsy Exchange get more exposure by rating this episode and leaving a review. Visit www.thetipsyexchange.com for socials, merch and additional episodes.

Last episode, LA brought Berly an update on the Somerton Man. Now it's Berly's turn. We're revisiting one of our favorite season one episodes, Evidence of UFOs and Extraterrestrials, because a lot has happened since then. Yes, including more ʻOumuamua talk. It still looks like Mr. Hankey.

The X-Files and Men in Black are basically real now. Kind of. Berly walks us through how Tom DeLonge's leaked Navy footage eventually led Congress to hold its first public UFO hearings in decades, and how the Pentagon opened a brand-new office dedicated to chasing down unexplained sightings. Sadly, it's not called MIB, so Will Smith will need a new theme song. We meet the man in charge (his résumé is intimidating, and we gave him a very professional assessment, personality pending), and we look back at the government's last official UFO investigation and the suspiciously convenient conclusions it reached. Then we head out to deep space with the James Webb Space Telescope, which is looking so far back in time that it's giving us an existential crisis.

Along the way, we debate whether octopuses are secret alien agents (Berly's still convinced), and we discuss Gillian Anderson's hotness across multiple series. LA's mom has a Tommy Lee Jones story, and there's a Netflix documentary recommendation. Plus, Berly confesses her new Supernatural obsession. One angel in particular, if we're being honest. There's also a Boys check-in with Jensen Ackles, a House of the Dragon side-eye, and a formal application to join the Pentagon's UFO team. Call us.

This week's toast: From Agent K in Men in Black: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it." Cheers! And we close with some advice from Scully: "Mulder, the internet is not good for you."

Tell us what you think! Do you think the government is finally telling us the truth about UFOs, or just a little bit of it? What would you want the James Webb telescope to find? And are octopuses aliens? (The correct answer is yes.) Tell us in the comments!

Please drink responsibly.

Support the show

The Tipsy Exchange is a comedy podcast where besties Berly and LA pour a drink, raise a toast, and dive into true crime, mysteries, the paranormal, and pop culture, with plenty of tangents along the way. It's like happy hour with your funniest friends. Leave us a review, send us your topic and toast ideas on Twitter and Instagram, and follow the show at thetipsyexchange.com. Cheers!

First the Zodiac cipher, then the Forrest Fenn treasure, and now this. All our favorite mysteries are getting solved! This week, LA brings an update on one of the most famous unsolved cases of all time: the Somerton Man.

In 1948, a well-dressed man was found dead on a beach near Adelaide, Australia. He had no ID, the labels had been cut out of his clothes, and there was a tiny scrap of paper hidden in his pocket with two words torn from a rare book of Persian poetry. That book had a secret code and a nurse's phone number written in the back. And when that nurse was shown the body, her reaction was… suspicious. For decades, people have been convinced he was a Cold War spy. (Possibly a Russian ballet spy. We have our reasons.) Now, thanks to some seriously impressive DNA detective work, he finally has a name.

So who was he? Let's just say the answer was not what we expected. And the more LA tells us, the more questions we have. Sure, we know who he was, but we still don't know why. Who poisoned him? Why was he so far from home? Why cut out all those labels? And why did he refuse to share his cigarettes? Headline writers, we need to talk. Plus, one small detail from his life that made us feel really bad for him.

Along the way, you'll hear an explanation of cauliflower ear (and whether Chris Hemsworth would still be a 10 with it), a surprise Mitch Hedberg quote, a BuzzFeed Unsolved flashback, and a creepy Netflix documentary recommendation. There's also Berly's fantasy of Australian beach horsemen, and a Lion King quote hunt that did not go as planned.

This week's toast: From Sherlock Holmes: "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly, one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." Cheers! And we close with a little wisdom from Mufasa. Kind of.

Tell us what you think! Do you think the Somerton Man was a spy? Who do you think killed him, and why? And now that we know his name, is the case really solved? Tell us in the comments!

Please drink responsibly.

Support the show

The Tipsy Exchange is a comedy podcast where besties Berly and LA pour a drink, raise a toast, and dive into true crime, mysteries, the paranormal, and pop culture, with plenty of tangents along the way. It's like happy hour with your funniest friends. Leave us a review, send us your topic and toast ideas on Twitter and Instagram, and follow the show at thetipsyexchange.com. Cheers!

The Rings of Power is almost here, and Amazon spent how much on it? We looked up that number three separate times. We're still not sure we got it right. So before we all head back to Middle-earth, Berly is giving LA a crash course in the story before the story.

You may know the Lord of the Rings movies, but Tolkien's world has four distinct ages, and those films only cover one of them. So Berly goes all the way back to the beginning, to the First Age and the original Dark Lord: Morgoth, the ultimate goth. Before Sauron was a giant flaming eye, he was just Morgoth's right-hand man. We cover a creation story told through song, glowing trees that lit up the world before the sun existed, three dazzling jewels that everyone would kill for (and did), a very creepy uncle with an unsettling interest in Galadriel's hair, and the very first dragon. Along the way there are epic sieges, hidden kingdoms, a tragic romance that makes Game of Thrones look tame, and a final showdown between good and evil. Berly cut her notes down from eight pages to four. LA is still trying to keep all the names straight.

There's also plenty of classic Tipsy Exchange sidebar content: LA's moment with Aragorn during our extended edition marathon, Berly's life-size Legolas cutout (yes, it watches over us while we record), and an extended appreciation break for Lee Pace, a.k.a. Thranduil, who we would climb like a tree. Plus, a Pushing Daisies rewatch recommendation, a hunt for a DVD of The Fall that won't cost $50, and a Dracarys joke that really backfired.

This week's toast: From Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit: "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." Cheers!

Tell us what you think! Are you watching The Rings of Power? Tolkien superfans, how did we do? (Please be gentle, we've never read The Silmarillion.) Who's your favorite Middle-earth hottie: Aragorn, Legolas, or Thranduil? Tell us in the comments!

Please drink responsibly.

Sources: 

• https://www.looper.com/220486/lord-of-the-rings-first-age-of-middle-earth-explained/
• https://youtu.be/V1zBJgVuhPY 

Support the show

The Tipsy Exchange is a comedy podcast where besties Berly and LA pour a drink, raise a toast, and dive into true crime, mysteries, the paranormal, and pop culture, with plenty of tangents along the way. It's like happy hour with your funniest friends. Leave us a review, send us your topic and toast ideas on Twitter and Instagram, and follow the show at thetipsyexchange.com. Cheers!

Shhh… we're talking about secret societies! Or at least, we're trying to. Berly is nervous about all the names she's about to butcher. (Remember the Stephen Moyer incident? We do.) But we're not letting a few mispronunciations stop us from uncovering the truth. Probably.

LA kicks things off with the Illuminati. She thought she knew a thing or two about the group. She did not. It turns out the real Illuminati was an actual organization founded more than 200 years ago, and its origins are nothing like what you'd expect. There were owls, secret code names, and a strict policy against trusting anyone over 30. (So we're out.) So what happened to them, and how did a real group turn into the go-to explanation for everything from pop stars to the dollar bill? We also have a theory about their secret rituals. It involves LARPing. And a tea party.

Then Berly takes on the Knights Templar and the Freemasons. The Templars were medieval warriors turned the richest, most powerful bankers in Europe, until one king decided he'd had enough. Their dramatic downfall may even explain why a certain day of the week is considered unlucky. Then we meet the Freemasons, who everyone seems convinced absorbed every other secret society in history. So what are they really? Let's just say Berly was expecting a little more drama.

Along the way, there's a True Blood reunion (R.I.P. to that show's final seasons), an ongoing appreciation for the Skarsgård family, a song you'll never hear the same way again, and some thoughts on Tom Cruise's running technique. There's also a Da Vinci Code check-in, plus a trip back to our favorite Indiana Jones movie. Oh, and our pick for who the real modern Illuminati are.

This week's toast: From André Malraux: "Man is not what he thinks he is. He is what he hides." Cheers!

Tell us what you think! Do you think the Illuminati still exist? Are the Freemasons hiding something, or is it all just a big boys' club? And if you had to join a secret society, which one would you pick? Tell us in the comments. (We won't tell anyone. Promise.)

Please drink responsibly.

Support the show

The Tipsy Exchange is a comedy podcast where besties Berly and LA pour a drink, raise a toast, and dive into true crime, mysteries, the paranormal, and pop culture, with plenty of tangents along the way. It's like happy hour with your funniest friends. Leave us a review, send us your topic and toast ideas on Twitter and Instagram, and follow the show at thetipsyexchange.com. Cheers!

We're back for part two of our Stranger Things deep dive! Last time, we covered the Montauk Project. This week, we're digging into more of the real history behind the Upside Down, and then we're getting into Season 4 Volume 2. (LA may have watched the second volume without realizing it had come out. Oops.)

Spoiler warning: This episode includes full spoilers for Stranger Things Season 4, including both volumes. You've been warned!

LA kicks things off with a Soviet housewife who could supposedly move objects with her mind, and how she kick-started a Cold War psychic arms race. Of course, the U.S. wanted in, so it launched its own psychic spy program. It also funded MKUltra, the CIA's search for mind control, which somehow ended with the agency accidentally helping to bring LSD to America. You'll also hear about a notorious Boston mob boss who was one of the test subjects. Berly thinks young Whitey could get it. LA has concerns.

Then Berly takes us into Season 4 and the real-life moral panic that inspired Eddie Munson's storyline. We talk about which song would save us from Vecna, our grief over Eddie (R.I.P., and Joseph Quinn, please call us), and the scenes we're furious got left out. Then we get into our Season 5 hopes and theories, including a D&D theory that may or may not make Berly's vampire-loving heart very happy, and a plea to the Duffer Brothers to bring back a certain character and let her flirt shamelessly with Robin. Plus: Erica Sinclair is a queen, Will deserves a win (and a new haircut), and Mr. Clark needs to come back.

Along the way, there's a Mindhunter mourning session, a very quiet burp, and a Church Lady that could be summoned by the satanic panic.

This week's toast: We skipped the opening toast this time, so we closed with one from our beloved Eddie Munson: "It's forced conformity that's killing the kids. That's the real monster." Cheers to the freaks and weirdos of the world!

Tell us what you think! Are you still grieving Eddie? What song would save you from Vecna? And what are your theories for Season 5? (Do you think Kali should come back and flirt with Robin? Because we do.) Tell us in the comments!

Please drink responsibly.

Support the show

The Tipsy Exchange is a comedy podcast where besties Berly and LA pour a drink, raise a toast, and dive into true crime, mysteries, the paranormal, and pop culture, with plenty of tangents along the way. It's like happy hour with your funniest friends. Leave us a review, send us your topic and toast ideas on Twitter and Instagram, and follow the show at thetipsyexchange.com. Cheers!

We're back from our summer hiatus! Turns out we took our break in the wrong month, because the heat and humidity only got worse. (It's not just us getting older. Right? RIGHT?) But we're back, and we're diving into the Upside Down with a two-part series on the real-life stories that inspired Stranger Things.

Spoiler warning: This episode includes spoilers for Stranger Things Season 4. If you're not caught up, bookmark this one and come back.

Before it was called Stranger Things, the show had a very different working title. Berly tells the story of the conspiracy theory behind that title: the Montauk Project, a set of alleged secret government experiments at a military base on Long Island. It has everything: kids taken for experiments, a mysterious chair that could amplify psychic powers, a connection to another infamous military experiment, time wormholes, memories that were wiped (and then un-wiped), and at least one man who claims he was literally someone else in a past life. And then there's the monster. There's always a monster. Whether you believe it or not, it's a wild story.

Along the way, LA shares an actual Stranger Things secret from her market research days (she saw it before you did), we debate whether Mr. Clark the science teacher "could get it" (brainy is sexy, fight us), and we go on a Tesla tangent about solar-powered parking lots. Plus, there's a Midnight Special recommendation, a Matthew Modine appreciation break, and a David Harbour pun that nearly made LA choke on her drink.

This week's toast: From Dustin "Dusty Bun" Henderson: "I am on a curiosity voyage and I need my paddles to travel." Cheers to those paddles!

Tell us what you think! Do you believe any part of the Montauk Project could be true? Where do you think Eight was in Season 4? And the most important question: could Mr. Clark get it? Tell us in the comments, and come back for part two!

Please drink responsibly.

Source: https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/stranger-things-true-story-montauk-project-philadelphia-experiment 

Support the show

The Tipsy Exchange is a comedy podcast where besties Berly and LA pour a drink, raise a toast, and dive into true crime, mysteries, the paranormal, and pop culture, with plenty of tangents along the way. It's like happy hour with your funniest friends. Leave us a review, send us your topic and toast ideas on Twitter and Instagram, and follow the show at thetipsyexchange.com. Cheers!

On this episode, Berly and LA get extra tipsy to review this season thus far and chat about things that make them happy.  Spoiler warnings for Moonknight, Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Peaky Blinders, Our Flag Means Death, Stranger Things, the Northman, and the Sandman. Sources and promos:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matelotage
• https://linktr.ee/RobbyVegas
• https://linktr.ee/fullcirclethepod
• https://foreveradventurenetwork.home.blog/
• https://www.designatedquizzerspodcast.com/

Every other week, Berly and LA research a topic in which they wish to know more. Then, they exchange ideas over drinks. Sci-fi? True crime? Unexplained phenomena? Anything goes on the exchange. Now, let's get tipsy!
Help the Tipsy Exchange get more exposure by rating this episode and leaving a review. Visit www.thetipsyexchange.com for socials, merch and additional episodes.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every other week, Berly and LA research a topic in which they wish to know more. Then, they exchange ideas over drinks. Sci-fi? True crime? Unexplained phenomena? Anything goes on the exchange. Now, let's get tipsy!
Help the Tipsy Exchange get more exposure by rating this episode and leaving a review. Visit www.thetipsyexchange.com for socials, merch and additional episodes.

It's been a rough couple of years. Brain fog? Check. Forgetting the name of that one actor in that one movie? Weekly. The introvert's pandemic dream turning into a nightmare? Oh yeah. Before we get to the history, Berly and LA talk about the real toll of living through tough times, and why it's okay to give yourself a break.

Now, some perspective: you think your year was bad? This week, LA takes us back to 536 AD, the year many historians call the worst year to be alive. A mysterious fog swallowed Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia, and the sun basically clocked out. There was snow in summer, crops failed, and there was no bread for years. Berly would not have survived. And just when things couldn't get worse, they did: a devastating pandemic followed. Scientists have since pieced together what caused it all, and the evidence is fascinating. There might even be a connection to some famous Norse myths.

Along the way, you'll hear some mixed feelings about Furiosa (no Tom Hardy, but hello Chris Hemsworth), Berly's first Peaky Blinders binge, our love-then-lost-it relationship with Vikings, and way too much excitement about The Northman. That spear throw in the trailer, though. Plus, a trip back to Björk's last movie, which is… apparently 22 years old? We're old.

This week's toast: From Neil Gaiman's graphic novel Signal to Noise: "There's no big apocalypse, just an endless procession of little ones." Be kind to yourself, be grateful, and let's get through this together. Cheers!

Tell us what you think! Coming up next is our mid-season happy hour, and we want to hear from you! What's made you happy so far this year? Have you discovered a new favorite show, movie, or book? Did you reconnect with someone you love? What's your favorite Tipsy Exchange episode this season? Tell us in the comments or tag us on Twitter at @TipsyExchange or Instagram at @TheTipsyExchange. You might hear your answer on the show!

Please drink responsibly.

Support the show

The Tipsy Exchange is a comedy podcast where besties Berly and LA pour a drink, raise a toast, and dive into true crime, mysteries, the paranormal, and pop culture, with plenty of tangents along the way. It's like happy hour with your funniest friends. Leave us a review, send us your topic and toast ideas on Twitter and Instagram, and follow the show at thetipsyexchange.com. Cheers!

It's our quarterly true crime episode! LA always hopes to find a case we've never heard of, which is nearly impossible these days. But this one comes with a twist: it's tied to one of the greatest movies ever made.

The Coen Brothers' Fargo famously opens by claiming it's based on a true story. Spoiler: it's not. At least, not exactly. But one of the film's most unforgettable scenes has roots in a real case from 1986 Connecticut. There's a flight attendant with a cheating pilot husband, a wife who was smart enough to hire a private investigator, and a sudden disappearance during a snowstorm. And the husband had a lot of flimsy explanations. You'll hear how a small team of investigators and one sharp-eyed witness pieced together what happened, and how that case made history in court with almost nothing to go on. How little? The title says it all.

Along the way, we get into the Fargo TV series (Martin Freeman fans, this one's for you), Berly's crush on Vigilante from Peacemaker (the character, not his… hobbies), and a proposal to permanently retire the phrase "crime of passion." There's also the story of a very tipsy night when Berly and a friend put on wigs and tailed a no-good boyfriend around town. We don't recommend it. We also don't not recommend it.

Content warning: This episode discusses murder, domestic violence, and graphic details of how a body was disposed of. Please take care while listening.

This week's toast: "Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around. Karma exists." We close with a cheers to the witness who spoke up and helped crack the case.

Tell us what you think! Had you heard of this case before? Did you know Fargo had a real-life connection? And do you have a lesser-known true crime story we should cover next quarter? Tell us in the comments!

Please drink responsibly.

Support the show

The Tipsy Exchange is a comedy podcast where besties Berly and LA pour a drink, raise a toast, and dive into true crime, mysteries, the paranormal, and pop culture, with plenty of tangents along the way. It's like happy hour with your funniest friends. Leave us a review, send us your topic and toast ideas on Twitter and Instagram, and follow the show at thetipsyexchange.com. Cheers!