Podcasts about wacky stories

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If you have listened to night owls radio for any length of time, you know we hardly ever get any phone calls into the show, but something tells me tonight's going to be different. The mysterious Miss X takes you up into the 3 am hour instead of the midnite hour on this show .  

We flip through quirky stories from around the globe with Grant Hardy, on What in the World.

Nunavut and Ontario join federal effort to boost number of organ and tissue donors. Grant Hardy has more on this in his health headlines. The Sky is the Limit Youth Organization has a special upcoming anniversary. We learn more about the organization and its mission with Margrett Weldon. Canadian Blind Hockey hosted the Western Regional Tournament in Calgary last weekend. Jim Krysko fills us in on the event. It's the Wednesday edition of Buzz With Bill with Producer Bill Shackleton! What is employee engagement, and how does it differ from just liking your job? Elysia Yardley explains. We flip through quirky stories from around the globe with Grant Hardy, on What in the World.

Life as a professional speaker sometimes presents the unusual, the comical, and the bizarre. In today's light-hearted episode, Darren and Mark sit down with fellow World Champion speakers Ed Tate and Jim Key as they all share hilarious and outrageous stories from life on the road. Their conversation provides insight into an oft-neglected side of speaking…the unexpected. Their simple lessons can help you to face extraordinary situations and still be unforgettable…for the right reasons. Snippets: Expect the unexpected It's not IF, but WHEN things will go wrong Unusual situations are material for future presentations Be flexible when faced with the unpredictable Even when things go sideways, always serve your audience  

Hello and thank you for joining us as we begin the show with a recap of our grandson's first birthday our nephew's college graduation and getting ready for the holiday weekend. Our first topic is can we live off the land and the study that  finds a majority of people think they have the skills. If your a walker find out how many miles per gallon you get and what consumers want to pay for streaming services. We finish up with some wacky stories. Thanks again and have a blessed week!Twitter                      https://twitter.com/just_outloudFacebook                https://www.facebook.com/justtalkinoutlouFacebook                https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1907869

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On This Episode of Wild Sports Talk, Isaiah Leung, Adam "ACE" Barber and Lo-Ro Antonio break down and discuss the Wild and Wacky Stories and Games from the World of Sports. First, The Fellas begin the show by diving into the massive 3 Game Upcoming Series between the Phillies and the Braves and give their prediction on who will take the NL East (Braves or Phillies??), then they will get into a wild a wacky Sunday in the NFL. Isaiah is ready to unleash on his 49ers after their heart breaking loss to Ace's Packers last night and Should we be worried about the Chiefs after their 1-2 Start to the season, And lastly, the guys will discuss Urban Meyer and the Jaguars falling to Kyler Murray and the Cardinals and dropping to 0-3 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steven-h-wang/support

Get some relief from the negativity of mainstream news. The Loo News Network provides you with a new podcast series containing funny stories from the past and present. Go to http://newsfromtheloo.com (http://newsfromtheloo.com) for more information!

The gang is back with a very special (returning) guest, Alana Kelly! Together they talk birthdays, Pittsburg lefts, House Milk, and much more! Later, Alana and James take on the evil empire of Jack Blake in a re-invention of the movie character game. This time it's The Front Man Name Game. Who will win? To close they provide Song of the Week recs, review the Movie of the Week (Saint Maud) and goof on Wacky Stories from the Internet. @throat_culture 

On the 93rd episode of the podcast, Chef Derek Suarez returns! The boys chat about online surveys, Kev's new boating obsession, the looming bachelor party, and pitch a new version of Netflix's The Circle (with drugs). Later, Jack and Kev break down the Movie of the Week (Sideways, 2004). To close the gang provides Songs of the Week and break down two of Jack's Wacky Stories from the Internet.  @throat_culture

After a brief spring hiatus the gang is back to record some daylight sessions! They discuss Chris Lilley's return to comedy, Paul Pierce's firing, refillable soaps, baseball, and more. After the Songs of the Week, the boys dive deep into a review of the film, Promising Young Woman. Later they provide a slew of streaming recs and finish as always with Jack's Wacky Stories from the Internet. @throat_culture

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Happy St. Patrick's Day from the lads at Throat Culture! The gang talks Paddy's Day memories, parades, bagpipes, Chili Pipers, and Irish cuisine. They also rank the top musicians from the Motherland. Later they review the Movie of the Week (Cherry) streaming on Apple TV+ To close the gang brings back Jack's Wacky Stories from the Internet. @throat_culture

We talked about our views on the new King Kong trailer and other wacky stories. NEW EPISODES EVERY MONDAY Instagram: woke_and_weird Youtube: Woke and Weird Podcast :-P

The 77th episode of Throat Culture! The gang opens with Jack's fly woes, his parent's Soup Group, mug talk, Baywatch, and a very special Bath & Body Works "live sniffing" (a podcast first). Later they give Song of the Week recommendations and review the Movie of the Week (Easy A, 2010). They finish the episode as always with Jack's Wacky Stories from the Internet and take a one week break heading into the Holiday. @throat_culture

Episode 76 of Throat Culture! The gang is insulted by the Masked Dancer, inspired by Mr. Unlimited, and bonded on the best ways to kill a Sims character. They also talk through secret rooms, the first nude scenes they saw, destroying family computers, and Shia Labeouf going full Sean Penn. Also discussed is the Movie of the Week (As Good As It Gets) and a few of Jack's Wacky Stories from the Internet. @throat_culture

Episode 74 of Throat Culture! Part One includes Kev's tirade against drawstring bags and naming the TCP band, while Part Two leaves us with the Movie of the Week Review (Bad Hair), the conclusion of HBO's The Vow, and the much talked about Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma. As always we conclude with Jack's Wacky Stories from the Internet (Showering with Mum, Ice Cream Hero, Chicken Pervert). @throat_culture

Episode 73 of Throat Culture! Part One includes: further evidence that Jack is a sitcom character, a long history of Halloween costumes, the best fast food breakfast of all time, and a deep dive on what it means to take care of a dying animal. Section Two starts with the Movie of the Week Reviews: Evil Eye + Nocturne. Also recommended: Host (2020) + Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017). As always, Part Three concludes with Jack's Wacky Stories from the Internet! @throat_culture

Episode 72 of Throat Culture! Part One leads off with some high brow Poo-Pourri talk. Is it really that crucial to spray before you go? We also discuss our favorite Halloween decorations and the inherent satisfaction in smashing a pumpkin. Part Two spends it's time on The Movie(s) of the Week: The Lie and Blackbox. We also gush about Sandler's instant classic, Hubie Halloween. As always we conclude with Jack's Wacky Stories from the Internet. @throat_culture

The 71st episode of Throat Culture! Part One includes: the workplace whistler, Roger the comic waiter, and a spooky season prompt. Part Two includes: Movie of the Week Review (After Hours) and many seasonal streaming recommendations like Sinister, House House LLC, and 1931's Frankenstein.  Part Three: Jack's Wacky Stories from the Internet (Stuck Chinese Man, Convicted Pedo, NJ Hypnotist, and more! @throat_culture

The 70th episode of Throat Culture! Part One aka "Gripes and Celebrations" highlights Ants in the Donuts, Killer Bugs, Burgers vs. Pizza, Animal Sidekicks, and more! Part Two is full of streaming recs like American BBQ Showdown, Little Women, 20th Century Women, Her Smell, + the Movie of the Week Review (The Invisible Man). Follow along each week! We end with Jack's Wacky Stories from the Internet. @throat_culture  

The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss Coronavirus and its potential impacts or disruptions to the decentralized world of bitcoin.Later, we hear from correspondent George Ettinger about the indications of a "Dumb Currency Singularity" taking place at the IRS right now (also presented in full text below).Listen/subscribe to the CoinDesk Podcast feed for unique perspectives and fresh daily insight with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica, IHeartRadio or RSS.On today's podcast we discuss Coronavirus and:The bitcoin mining industry and the slowing rate of hash-rate increases in the run-up to the 2020 halvingSafe haven, uncorrelated and risk asset narratives as the price of bitcoin bounces defies expectationsThe potential for shifts in how society thinks about money in the wake of a highly transmissible global diseasePlus a brief primer on virus families (skip to 13 minutes for blockchain only content if you're already up to speed)Credits for LTB#429 - Coronavirus Impacts on Bitcoin (And the IRS's Dumb Singularity)This episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! is sponsored by Purse.io and eToro.com.This episode featured Stephanie Murphy, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, George Ettinger and Adam B. LevineToday's episode was produced by Adam B. Levine, edited by Adam B. Levine with music provided by Jared Rubens and Adam B. LevineWould you like to Sponsor a future episode of the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show? Do you have any questions or comments? Email adam@ltbshow.comThe Dumb Singularity: Crypto Currencies and Game Currencies are Overdue for a CollisionSo. It has come to this.One of the biggest barriers to entry for a disruptive technology is the incompetence of the average consumer. On the other hand, simply preying on the illiteracy of consumers can be a boon for some truly terrible inventions. It is in the clash of these two ideologies that we have reached the Dumb Currency Singularity.Digital currency has been on course for the Dumb Singularity for well over a decade, and we finally passed the event horizon late last year. At the end of 2019, the IRS quietly published a set of virtual currency guidelines that broadly lumped together mainstream cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin and Ethereum with honest-to-god Fortnite V-Bucks and Roblox Money.I have just been informed that the legal term for Roblox currency is "Robux." That seems... fair.My point, however roundabout it may be, is that somebody in a position of some influence at the United States Internal Revenue Service saw their grandkid beg for a Roblox card in the Walgreens checkout line and thought, "MY GOD, THE BIT-COINS HAVE COME FOR THE CHILDREN." And then, when he put his horror to print, enough a phalanx of fellow IRS employees looked it over and thought "yes, that sounds right" that it was greenlit for public consumption. That advisement (to which the IRS claimed players of Fortnite and Roblox must report any purchases of "Bucks", whether "V"- or "Ro"-) stood monolithically for nearly three months before it was escorted off the stage just as quietly as it had arrived. In a fit of Streisanding, this change caught more attention than the addition had garnered to begin with, and the IRS gave a formal explanation. "The IRS recognizes that the language on our page potentially caused concern for some taxpayers," they said. "We have changed the language in order to lessen any confusion. Transacting in virtual currencies as part of a game that do not leave the game environment (virtual currencies that are not convertible) would not require a taxpayer to indicate this on their tax return."This is, surprisingly, rather huge. Huge in that they got this follow-up explanation relatively right, and huge in that they still persist in getting so-called "virtual currency" wrong. You see, the IRS has been caught flat-footed over and over with every passing year that crypto currency has spread. They were slow enough recognizing the growing importance of Bitcoin that it wasn't until 2013 that they designated a team to begin planning for how to handle the currency… and they still haven't figured out how to handle it. Yet, dating back even earlier than this, the IRS has ALSO been blindsided at every turn by non-crypto "gaming" digital currencies. Their official language conflating the two isn't just a red flag- it’s a canary in the coal mine.Game Currencies- for simplicity, hereafter referred to as, uh, "Game Currencies"- run a wide gamut but the majority is exactly what the IRS failed to recognize in Fortnite and Roblox: a non-convertible, non-transferrable currency that cannot reasonably leave the confines of its game. Your Fortnite V-Bucks and Apex Legends Coins and… [SIGH].. Ro-Bux… are just an interstitial medium between your real money and the gameplay. You do not trade these with other players, nor do you have the options to take these chips up to the casino counter and cash them back out: once your USD enters the game, it cannot leave it in any reasonable form. After the original point-of-sale a Game Currency is no different from Sonic's rings.So, for as correct as the IRS eventually got it, they've still been handling Game Currencies wrong, and it has informed the ways they still get Crypto wrong. Many game currencies ARE transferrable and ARE dangerously viable mediums for exchange and laundering, and they have been around longer than Bitcoin. It's absolutely no secret that World of Warcraft gold is player-transferrable: it's the entire reason "gold farming" remains a legitimate source of income for so many. Though less ubiquitous than Warcraft, the seminal Supply Chain Actuary Simulator EVE Online notoriously monetized its monthly subscription cards into a consumable ingame item. For those unfamiliar, this means that when you buy a month of game time, it isn't simply added to your account: it becomes an item in your game inventory that can either be USED to extend your subscription, or TRADED with other players as a dollar-pegged commodity. Now, the truly fantastical economic tales of money laundering, actual virtual space piracy, and actual-million-actual-dollar banking deals in Eve Online can and HAS filled several books, so I will not go into detail here.The point is, simply, that player-exchangeable cash-value items have been a massive grey market for years and continued to slip under the IRS's nose. They didn't bat an eye at the horrifying headlines of Diablo 3's aborted real-cash auction house fiasco, yet now in 2020 they're fumbling to grasp onto its legacy. That fumbling is part-and-parcel with their fumbling of Bitcoin, and the timeline tells a story. A recent Government Accountability Office review of IRS virtual currency policies painted a somewhat scathing picture of a bureaucracy that was slow to notice and even slower to adapt. The IRS initiative in 2013 was a kneejerk response to the first truly landmark year of Bitcoin cash trading, where dollar parity was suddenly blown aside by hundred dollar parity. The impetus is obvious: disruptive changes to currency don't matter to the IRS until they see it on the "Wacky Stories" segment of their local station news. The financial establishments that stood to gain from digital currencies were quick on the uptake, but the groups tasked with oversight were responding to changing conditions and new developments with the grace of a grandparent still giftwrapping cabbage patch dolls for the kids' 35th birthdays. The GAO points out that, across three years, the IRS was trying to garner clues from the 900 people that had self-reported Bitcoin capital gains. That's right- from 2013 to 2015, nearly a thousand god-fearing Americans had the saintly humility to self-report their Bitcoin earnings to the feds, and it took three years of analysis for those feds to deduce that there might be more out there going unreported. Kudos, by the way, to those 900 honorable people who attempted to watch out for the watchmen while the watchmen weren't even watching.In these years since, the spectrum of cryptocurrencies has exploded and the applications of game currencies has become strangely homogenized. Convertible game currencies like Warcraft gold persist, but they are the exception rather than the rule. Publishers have found that stifling a cross-player economy gives them a better control over the experience and far less accountability for what is done with that money. Fortnite follows this modern standard; real currency is an aggressively-optimized one-way flow from player to publisher, with no convertible gains to tax. The IRS has long since missed the boat on game currencies.Why, then, did they so recently and so awkwardly collide with cryptocurrencies in the revenue service's jumbled mind? This, my friend, is the beginning of the Dumb Singularity: desperation and technological-illiteracy have finally boiled over, and the bureau is trying to play catch-up on the years that have passed it by. They may have smoothed over the initial blunder, but this is indicative of their intent to move forward with a more active hand, and the broad use the phrase "virtual currency" means that more blunders lie ahead. The GAO excoriated them for their slowness, vagueness, and all-around wishy-washiness in these regards, but to some extent it was not the IRS's fault. The organization has struggled under budget cuts and a dangerous lack of new blood, and yes, you may read that as younger-and-more-savvy blood. It was that same old blood that struggled to make any headway with their internal Virtual Currency Issues Team in 2013 and still wasn't seriously analyzing self-reported data from major crypto exchanges even into 2016. Some gentle flame finally reached their backsides sometime after, because by 2018 they were beginning to proactively reach out to users with obvious crypto gains and attempting to secure accurate reporting.Now, with the end of tax year 2019 upon us, they are finally facing the ontological conundrum at the center of the Dumb Singularity: What is the Enforceable Definition of "Virtual Currency?" What will distinguish between play money and dangerous money? While they dragged their feet comprehending the question, the answers have gotten only more muddled as technology blazed trails forward with no policy guidance. This year, game currencies are completely surpassing retail purchases as the primary source of publisher revenue and most of them aren't convertible or taxable; most, but not all. The IRS's complacency left it with a massive ecosystem to sift through and a lack of reliable, literate talent to do it. If their random grab at the most obvious game currencies they could think of was any indication, there will be more broad and clumsy strokes before there are any real answers. The IRS has the unenviable task of writing a perfect definition in a language it can't seem to speak, all because they never got around the asking the question that I accidentally stumbled on twenty years ago. When my 13-year-old self spent 10 bucks on eBay for a wealth of obviously-hacked Phantasy Star Online loot, I wondered: what laws can actually apply to the man who Game-Genies' his paychecks?

Over the last 28 years, Darwin German has owned and managed thousands of apartments. Darwin discusses the crazy stories of tenants, drug dealers, sellers, fires, and surviving in apartment ownership. After you purchase your first transaction… you will have a few stories yourself to share to investors and friends. To contact Darwin German: invest@darwingerman.con To receive our FREE 15 page WHITE PAPER REPORT on the 2018 FUNDAMENTALS OF MULTIFAMILY FINANCING 101 and to learn more about upcoming events at Old Capital Speaker Series please visit us at OldCapitalPodcast.com Are you interested in learning more about how Multifamily Syndications work? Please visit www.spiadvisory.com to learn about Michael's Real Estate Syndication business with SPI Advisory LLC.

Mason brings on some special guests that really dive deep into banter.

Mason brings on some special guests that really dive deep into banter.

Lucha Bros presents a RARE Mid-week SHOW! ITS WRESTLEMANIA WEEK and Brandon Draven and I are back talking about the card, the weekend's events, previewing everything happening, and of course WACKY STORIES! Also, THE RETURN of Bully Ray, Roman Reigns is... what?, the Hall of Fame, the show going OVER time, and a LOT MORE!

Bears of all kind have been making headlines this summer but the latest weird bear story from New Hampshire may be the best yet. It seems a bear broke into a parked car and stole the car stereo. This week on Ripley Radio, we talk with Sargent George Walker, the trooper who investigated the crime. Whiskey flavored bacon coming from whiskey flavored pigs? Believe It or Not! it could happen. We’ll have a chat with Scott Bush, the president of the Templeton Rye Distillery and he’ll tell us about his plans. Additional Weird and Wacky Stories on the June 20 Episode of Ripley Radio, the official radio show of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, include: In honor of July 4, Angela takes a look at some very unusual facts, myths, and stories about our National Holiday; Ralf tells us what city in the world has people taking the most selfies; we hear about the bizarre charges connected with what could be the largest law suit in the history of mankind; and Chad Lewis takes us road trippin’ to Indiana where we visit some very strange cemeteries and grave sites. British pop singer and actor Cliff Richard provides our musical egress this week with Here Comes Summer.

It’s springtime at Ripley Radio, the official radio program of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, and that means more unbelievable baseball oddities and April Fool’s Day pranks. We talk with our favorite weird baseball mogul, Mike Veeck and he tells us of his plans to feature bobble legs, instead of bobble heads, this summer in honor of his father’s peg leg. We also hear from the manager of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs about his team’s bacon-themed uniforms and the scratch and sniff bacon t-shirts in the team’s gift shop. He also announces that he won the best minor league promotion of the season last year with his men’s room urinal video games. Additional Weird and Wacky Stories you’ll Hear on the March 24 Edition of Ripley Radio: Sideshow historian James Taylor begins a three-week series on contemporary mummies by telling the tale of Elmer McCurdy who was passed around amongst exhibitors until he ended up in an amusement park dark ride with his owners thinking he was made of paper Mache, until the day his arm fell off; Edward tells us about the three carnival sideshow mummies that Ripley has in its collection and how each is equally weird and different; Chad Lewis digs into history and explains why April first is the prank-filled day it is and reports on a few of his favorite pranks of all times; and Angela and Ralf disclose the greatest baseball pranks ever pulled. And in keeping with our tribute to mummies, we feature the Nashville-based funk band, Here Come the Mummies with Jump on my Ship as this week’s musical egress.

Believe It or Not! there is an event in Japan in which Sumo wrestlers compete in how long and loud they can make babies cry. The 400-year old traditional spring competition is coming up in April and you’ll hear all about this week from Chad Lewis on Ripley Radio, the official radio program of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! We’ll also hear from a professor of a popular course in death and dying at Cal State who also runs a hospice for dogs on death’s door. Additional Weird and Wacky Stories you’ll Hear on the March 17 Episode of Ripley Radio: Ralf provides the ultimate answer to why the chicken crossed the road, at least in Gainesville, Fla.; Angela tells us that $4.5 billion worth of booze will be consumed on St. Patrick’s Day; Edward is headed to Phoenix this weekend for Ripley’s Bizarre Buying Bazaar at the Arizona Science Center; we hear of students who mixed jelly fish and a peanut butter concoction and now have living peanut butter jelly fish; Robert Robinson, author of the new book, Legend Tripping – The Ultimate Family Experience explains how much fun it is to take your entire family out looking for ghosts, aliens and bigfoot; and the feel good story of the week features an interview with Ressurrection Graves, a former homeless executive in Washington DC who found a husband and founded a national charity all while homeless. Our musical egress this week is Holding on for Life, by the Broken Bells.

This week’s strange happenings on Ripley Radio, the official broadcast program of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! includes a roundup of the weirdest and oddest things about the National Football League, just in time for Super Bowl Sunday! Did you know that more than 70% of NFL players go broke within a few years of leaving the sport? Details on this and many other strange facts will be shared. Also, we’ll hear about thieves who not only stole beer from a Florida Walmart, but they also inadvertently stole the manager as well! Additional Weird, Wild and Wacky Stories on the January 27 episode of Ripley Radio includes: Jodi Pliszka talks about a young boy whose body is totally covered in fish-like scales; Chad Lewis reports on the largest city-wide murder mystery weekend ever held in the U.S.; Joe Kasinski of Orlando’s Believe It or Not! Odditorium gets a chance to boast about his newest exhibits; Ralf talks with 11-year old Aidan Fisher, whose guitar playing video on YouTube has taken the world by storm; and we learn of a new endurance running record by a New Zealand woman who ran 310 miles straight – in three days, without rest! Holly Williams, the grand-daughter of country music legend Hank Williams, and a star in her own right, provides our musical egress this week with a contemporary drinking song from her newest album, The Highway, simply called Drinkin’.

It’s Halloween week and we’ve gone a little crazy here at Ripley Radio, the official radio program of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Spooky and weird, but true, that’s what we’re all about. To really get us in the haunting mood, we visit with Patrick Konopelski, owner of Shocktoberfest, the Sinking Spring, Pa.’s popular haunted adventure that this year is offering a “Naked and Scared Challenge.” He’ll tell us how he got the idea and how much grief he is getting from local authorities. We also hear from TAP’s Ghost Hunter star Amy Bruni as she visits with Ralf while in St. Augustine Fla., in search of the paranormal. Additional Weird, Wild and Wacky Stories on the October 21 Halloween Episode includes: We return to Barry Anderson’s Ghoul School this week and learn that the mad professor’s passion for the macabre often turns into a way of helping criminal investigation authorities teach their own and solve crimes; Scott and Sprout, representing Florida’s Peace River Ghost Tracker group are in the studio with us to talk about their adventures; journalist Penny Musco set out to find America’s most haunted cities, and she’s hear to report her findings; and Ralf and Angela report on some fun facts about Halloween and how the bonfire and the Jack Lantern got their names. We have a lot of fun this week with creepy and silly music and we just had to end the show with a Halloween classic. Bobby Boris Picket provides our musical egress this week with the original, and still the best version ever of “Monster Mash.”

In celebration of Freaky October, we return to Ghoul School this week and welcome back its tenured professor, Barry Anderson. Bram Stoker Award horror writer and cemetery caretaker Owl Goingback joins us and talks about the horror genre of writing and about his haunting experiences at Central Florida’s spookiest resting place. We also talk with Mick Gooch of the United Kingdom who explains how he has set several world records by performing one finger pushups – most recently - on top of a nail! Believe It or Not! Additional Weird, Wild and Wacky Stories on the October 14 Halloween Episode of Ripley Radio, the official radio show of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, includes: Rick Davis, director and co-founder of the Darkride and Funhouse Enthusiasts group requests the help of all Halloween lovers to help the initiative to have Congress create a National Haunted House Day; In her Weird Medical Malady segment, Jodi Pliszka introduces us to a young woman who can’t gain, or maintain her weight, no matter how much she eats; and Angela reports on the October happenings at Ripley’s Haunted Adventures attractions around the world. Our musical egress this week is the haunting Who Can it Be Now? by the Australian group, Men Down Under.

It’s October and that means a month made for Ripley’s! This week we broadcast from Orlando’s Ghoul School and kick the month off right - sitting amongst some of the creepiest creations a human can make. Ghoul School proprietor and horror make-up artist Barry Anderson and horror film writer and director Steven Shea are our in-studio guests and they tell us why people love horror and what is so intriguing about the horror genre. Additional Weird, Wild and Wacky Stories on the October 7 Episode of Ripley Radio, the official radio show of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, includes: we hear from a San Francisco photographer who specializes in capturing frames of artistic fire while risking damage to himself as well as his camera equipment; manager of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! in St. Augustine, Fla., Kim Kiff explains how she uses a live, two-headed turtle to help teach school kids about the badness of bullying; and a man who has been honored by four presidents for his part in helping clean up inland rivers talks about the amazing collection of weird stuff he has found along the banks of those rivers – including dead bodies, bowling balls and voodoo dolls. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins provides this week’s musical egress with his classic, I Put a Spell on You!

TWe salute the seductive sirens of the sea this week on Ripley Radio, the official broadcast program of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! We ask the question, are they real? Although she hasn’t seen one, Varla Ventura believes there are live mermaids in the vast depths of the seas. We talk with her about her new book, “Among the Mermaids,” in which she presents a wide array of stories, myths, and legends. Stayce McConnell, a “live” mermaid who has performed at Florida’s Weeki Wachee State Park for 14 years, stops by and tells us how cool it really is to be a working mermaid every day of your life. Additional Weird, Wild and Wacky Stories on the September 30 Episode of Ripley Radio includes: Jessica Mula of Ripley’s Aquarium in Myrtle Beach, SC, tells us about the live mermaid shows at her aquarium as well as Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies, in Gatlinburg, Tenn.; Angela reports on a new Nike store in Japan that was built from the ground up with up-cycled garbage; Florida TV personality Scott Fais joins us in the studio to tell us about his mermaid experiences; and we kick off a new segment, The Weekly Wheel of the Weird, in which we pick a random location each week and search for its weirdness. This week, a little town in Wisconsin was selected and we found living there Don Gorski, who has eaten more than 26,000 McDonald’s Big Mac sandwiches during his life and at age 60, he continues to eat at least two a day. In keeping with this week’s theme, Train gives us our musical egress with “Mermaid.”

Been to the Devil’s Rope Museum lately? Or have you seen the huge Blue Whale? This week on Ripley Radio, the official broadcast program of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, Chad Lewis takes us on a funky road trip that the entire family will recollect forever. Also, we hear about a few of the new phobias found within our modern day culture. How about Nomophobia, the fear of losing one’s mobile phone. Additional Weird, Wild and Wacky Stories on the September 23 Episode of Ripley Radio includes: Cops in Seattle handed out Doritos to the stoners at the recent Hempfest in that city and the spokesman for the police department joins us to explain why it was a successful way to communicate the new marijuana law; In her segment, Weird Medical Maladies, Jodi Pliszka talks about a young woman who sees everything upside down and how she has coped with it since birth; Orlando and Tampa TV personality Scott Fais visits our studios this week and takes us on a few of his favorite road trips in Florida; and co-host Ralf (with an f), demonstrates just how hard it is to create a story for Ripley Radio, as he tries to track down a person who can talk about the wild animal that’s loose in Detroit. Bruno Mars provides this week’s musical egress with his current hit, “Treasure.”

Sam goes into the daily weird & wacky stories on the Big Breakfast show on AsianFX.