Hello and welcome back to the show! This week is a new kind of episode called Wildcard Wednesday where I will be diving into a given topic unfiltered and mostly unedited. In today's episode I wanted to keep it very laid back and relaxed so enjoy as I read you some tales from Reddit of people doing some odd shit. I hope you enjoy!

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Stories from today's episode:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/1j0rsl4/my_colleague_said_something_so_fud_up_and_i_dont/ 

https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/comments/1ixyaif/aitah_for_banning_my_husband_from_all_doctor/ 

https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/1j1j6wm/my_husband_left_our_5_year_old_and_9_month_old/ 

https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/1j22479/boyfriend_18m_was_uncomfortable_with_how_i_18f/ 

https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/1isuy3a/strange_encounter_in_bathroom/ 

https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/1j8g78e/tifu_by_seeing_my_ex_with_her_baby_and_calling_it/ 

https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/1j5t401/you_want_me_to_delete_my_own_account_in_front_of/ 

https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/owkndb/manager_forces_me_to_get_a_doctors_note_despite/  

https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/tbta7d/exhusband_ghosts_exwife_racks_up_a_huge_bill_he/ 

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/hdipdr/my_wife_doesnt_know_but_once_or_twice_a_month/ 

Hello all and welcome to another episode! This week I am covering the life and legacy of the lovely Bob Ross. We also get into the lawsuits that took place between his son and former business partners following his death. I hope you enjoy!

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Sources for today's episode: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ross 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bob-Ross

https://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/career-advice/military-transition/famous-veteran-bob-ross.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joy_of_Painting 

https://people.com/bob-ross-death-what-to-know-7558507

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/08/bob-ross-documentary-netflix?srsltid=AfmBOoqHfbgcHdh-k01sucKV00leZa3jLU2oHTEr2PDZaHJBAp0U9i_-

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/arts/bob-ross-paintings-mystery.html

Bob Ross: Happy Accidents Betrayal and Greed a 2021 documentary directed by Josh Rofé and produced by Josh Rofé, Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone, Divya D'Souza, and Steven J. Berger

Hello all and welcome to another episode of the Weird, Wacky, and Wonderful Podcast! This week I am telling you all things third man factor and reading you some spooky stories of people experiencing this phenomenon. I hope you all enjoy!

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Sources for today's episode: 

https://www.deseret.com/23737552/third-man-syndrome/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_man_factor

https://www.buzzfeed.com/angelicaamartinez/third-man-syndrome

https://www.buzzfeed.com/angelicaamartinez/third-man-experiences-3

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Weird, Wacky, & Wonderful podcast! Today's episode covers many bizarre trends and beliefs from the Victorian era from train induced or cured 'instant insanity' to the fabulous craze that was the tapeworm diet. I hope you enjoy!

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Sources for today's episode:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mummy-eating-medical-cannibalism-gory-history
https://www.slam.org/blog/arsenic-in-victorian-wallpaper/
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/10/the-era-when-poison-was-everywhere/503654/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/railway-madness-victorian-trains
https://source-vintage.co.uk/blogs/news/vampire-hunters-of-the-18th-19th-centuries
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-victorian-eras-strange-love-of-disembodied-hands
https://notchesblog.com/2017/02/21/disembodied-desire/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-horrifying-legacy-of-the-victorian-tapeworm-diet
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-forgotten-victorian-craze-for-collecting-seaweed
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/27/what-victorian-era-seaweed-pressings-reveal-about-our-changing-seas
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1245809/Found-wallpapers-dresses-libido-pills-Arsenic-Victorian-Viagra-poisoned-Britain.html

Hello all and happy 2025! This week I cover the wonderful artist Evelyn De Morgan as well as some of my personal favorite paintings of her. I hope you enjoy!

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Sources: 
https://www.theartstory.org/artist/de-morgan-evelyn/
https://www.demorgan.org.uk/discover/the-de-morgans/evelyn-de-morgan/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_De_Morgan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gilded_Cage_(De_Morgan)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Love_Potion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_and_Sleep

Happy Holidays everyone! This week I am bringing you the weird history of the breathalyzer and the man who invented it. Please be safe this holiday season and do not drink and drive!

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Sources for this week's episode:
https://www.drinkdriving.org/drink_driving_information_breathalysers_early.php
https://paleofuture.com/blog/2019/10/30/drunk-driving-and-the-pre-history-of-breathalyzers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathalyzer
https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving
https://www.thoughtco.com/20th-century-timeline-1992486
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frank_Borkenstein
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1655515/?page=1

Resources if you or someone you know is struggling with alcohol addiction:
https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sheets/treatment-alcohol-problems-finding-and-getting-help
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/alcohol/support-recovery
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/alcohol-advice/alcohol-support/
https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Weird Wacky and Wonderful podcast! This week I am covering funerals, mourning, superstitions, and the history of one particular kind of doll in the Victorian era. I hope you enjoy!

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Sources for this week's episode: 
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/mourning-victorian-era/#:~:text=Widows%20were%20expected%20to%20mourn,of%20a%20parent%20or%20sibling.
https://www.funeralbasics.org/8-intriguing-funeral-customs-victorian-era/
https://www.thefrickpittsburgh.org/Story-Memory-and-Mourning-Death-in-the-Gilded-Age
https://greeleymuseums.com/victorian-women-in-mourning/
https://victorianmonsters.wordpress.com/victorian-funerary-practices/
https://umaine.edu/folklife/what-we-do/programs-and-events/maine-song-and-story-sampler-map/places/wells-young-charlotte/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/frozen-charlotte-dolls
https://friendsofoakgrovecemetery.org/victorian-funeral-customs-fears-and-superstitions/
https://www.ancestry.com/c/ancestry-blog/13-fascinating-victorian-funeral-customs
https://blog.billiongraves.com/victorian-era-cemetery-superstitions/
https://farewells.co.uk/5-funerary-superstitions-that-gripped-victorian-england/
https://phaneuf.net/blog/mourning-in-the-victorian-era

Hello all and welcome to the newest episode of the Weird, Wacky, and Wonderful podcast! This week, learn all about 17th century art, an adulterous affair, and what is 'sfregio'. I hope you enjoy! A trigger warning to those who may be sensitive to violence against women. 

Resources:
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence please visit: https://www.thehotline.org or call 1800-799-SAFE (7233)
If you or someone you know is in need of sexual assault support please visit: https://rainn.org/resources or call 800-656-4673
If you or someone you know is struggling with suicide please visit: https://988lifeline.org/ or call 988

Sources for Today's episode:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gian-Lorenzo-Bernini
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bern/hd_bern.htm
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/berninis-genius-11934809/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini
https://www.theartstory.org/artist/bernini-gian-lorenzo/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bust_of_Costanza_Bonarelli
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/28/sculpture-crime-against-women-costanza-piccolomini-bernini
https://www.historiamag.com/slashing-face-punishing-unfaithful-women-in-italy/
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/italian-english/sfregio
https://hyperallergic.com/689589/bernini-bust-of-a-woman-he-abused-exhibited-alongside-photographs-of-survivors/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damned_Soul_(Bernini)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_and_Daphne_(Bernini)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Baldachin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costanza_Piccolomini_Bonarelli

Hello and welcome to the second episode of the Weird Wacky and Wonderful podcast! This week's episode cover the Mandela effect, some possible causes for this phenomenon, and some fun examples. I hope you enjoy!

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Sources for this weeks episode:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/18/world/mandela-effect-collective-false-memory-scn/index.html
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36219739/
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-mandela-effect-4589394
https://www.britannica.com/science/false-memory-syndrome
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/g28438966/mandela-effect-examples/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/christopherhudspeth/mandela-effect-examples

Hello and welcome to the first episode of the Weird, Wacky, and Wonderful Podcast! I apologize for the tech issues in our first attempt at getting this uploaded but this version is how the first episode should have sounded. Today you'll hear an introduction about the host of the show as well as the show itself. Followed by four spine tingling stories from r/nosleep just in time for Halloween. We hope you enjoy!

Links to today's stories:
My neighbor's tenant keeps waving at me. I think something is very wrong: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1fr9owh/my_neighbors_tenant_keeps_waving_at_me_i_think/ 

If you can see this, it is very important that you keep reading: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/9qzt9j/if_you_can_see_this_it_is_very_important_that_you/

My dead girlfriend keeps messaging me on Facebook. I've got the screenshots. I don't know what to do: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/29kd1x/my_dead_girlfriend_keeps_messaging_me_on_facebook/

I'm a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service, I have some stories to tell: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3iex1h/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/