Universe of Weirdos

We're back to talk about everyone's favorite grocery store tabloid rag. The Weekly World News was The Onion before the internet. It provided us with amazing stories about Gay Aliens, Time Traveling Titanic Survivors, and of course Bat Boy. I go through some of my favorite stories from The Weekly World News and we try to figure out if they are real or not... Of course they're not.

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Today, we remember and romance the most famous psychic of all time. Sylvia Browne wrote 40 books, appeared on every crap talk show, and grifted her way into a $70 million fortune. I go over my own personal memories of Sylvia, why I thought she was a trash romance novelist, and how she inspired the idea for my first piece of podcast merch. Not only that, but we listen to some of her most uncomfortable and incredibly awkward incorrect "readings". Come channel Sylvia Browne from the afterlife with me!

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Check out Nerd and Life with Sean Jones Jr. wherever you get podcasts. Sean and I are going over, what we consider, the worsts of Halloween. Worst Candy. Worst Costume. Worst Monster. We discuss all of this and more. Be sure to listen to the Universe of Weirdos crossover on the Nerd and Life feed and follow Sean's show.

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Back with another true crime story for spooky season. This is one guy that always fascinated me, because killers usually call 911 to taunt or leave clues. This guy decided to call to cry and whine about what a piece of garbage he was. Come listen to this psycho's 911 calls with me. I do my best to keep it funny, but we are talking about a psychopath who liked to ice pick people to death.

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I'm back with Brother Dan to discuss more Halloween Safety tips. This time, it's from a public service announcement from 1985 instead of 1977. Same production company, but a more updated message. Does this one contain more relevant safety tips? Will the kids avoid razor apples and glass filled candy? Come back in time with us and let's find out together.

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It's time to get ready for Halloween, which means it's time to fire up the time machine and go back to 1977 for some safety tips. We get to hear what Halloween was like in the 70's and help a little witch have the safest trick-or-treat experience possible. As always, we give the PSA a good review and judge it's message and relevancy. 

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In August of 1997, a man named Clay called into The Howard Stern Show to claim he was a serial killer. Years have passed, more information has come to light, and it seems like this might have been a legitimate call. Around this same time, from where this man was calling from, there were several unsolved prostitute murders. Some details are different, but would a legit killer really give away all the information to catch him? Let's listen to the call and examine for ourselves. Was the caller Clay actually Russell Ellwood, the Storyville Slayer?

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We are kicking off spooky season by revisiting the Satanic Panic of the 80's/90's. We react to extremist preachers telling us that everything sci-fi is the devil. He-Man, ET, Rainbow Brite, all of them pure evil! This is not an anti-religion episode. It's simply a reaction to the weird overreaction of the things that I liked as a child and was told were evil.

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Nostradamus predicted so many things! Did he, though? Did he really? I'm diving into Nostradamus' predictions to examine what he allegedly got right, what he absolutely got wrong, and what we are still waiting to happen. Does any of it make sense, or is it all just vague horse crap? Let's examine this 500 years of predicting nothing.

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I made fun of him, called him a creep, and picked him apart relentlessly. I take none of that back, but I will say this... I like Jerry Banfield. He's hilarious. His videos make me laugh, and yeah, maybe it's AT him and not WITH him, but he is still providing legitimate quality entertainment on YouTube. So, I am back to give his content a fair review. We travel with Jerry to an AA meeting and find out exactly why the internet is starting to love him so much. He's overly honest, somewhat delusional, says the quiet parts out loud, but more importantly, he's a weirdo.

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