Latest Eccentric Podcast Episodes
Strange Country Ep. 281: Quest for Immortality
Strange Country - April 25, 2024 10:00 - 58 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsCharles Lindbergh wasn’t only known for that flight, his weird reverence for Nazis and being the public face of America First, he was also interested in literal immortality. In the 1930s, he collaborated with Dr. Alexis Carrel to devise ways to regenerate organs so people could possibly live for...
Strange Country Ep. 280: Gimme Some Credit
Strange Country - March 21, 2024 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsDear Dash Hounds, join Beth and Kelly as we try to pull the curtain open on the Wonderful Wizard of credit scores. Do you know your credit score? Do you care? Has it ruined your life? We talk about many things on Strange Country from periods to sex to murder and now, the most secretive of things...
Strange Country Ep. 279: Robbers Cave Experiment
Strange Country - February 29, 2024 11:00 - 49 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsThe mid-20th century was the heyday of figuring out why humans were the worst through the use of social psychological experiments. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about one such experiment, Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave Experiment where Sherif gathered a group of 12 year old boys to ...
Strange Country Ep. 278: Emma Goldman
Strange Country - February 08, 2024 11:00 - 49 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsHey Dash Hounds, are you still there? Beth and Kelly are. Or are we? Has ChatGPT taken over? Can it? We are just women after all. What is our worth? In this episode, we will talk about women’s worth and Emma Goldman, a woman who fought for many things and has been forgotten like so many others. ...
Strange Country Ep. 277: The Sullivan Institute
Strange Country - January 18, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★ - 170 ratingsHappy 2024! And Beth and Kelly are back with another tale of another cult on another year of Strange Country. What’s to say? It starts off with plans for communal living and burns out in abuse, financial malfeasance and weird sex awfulness. Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands. C...
Strange Country Ep. 276: OneTaste
Strange Country - December 28, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★ - 170 ratingsYou’ve heard of six-minute abs, but how about the 15-minute orgasm? That’s what Nicole Daedone of OneTaste was touting; female empowerment through clitoris stimulation. Then like most high-demand groups, things go south pretty quickly. In this Strange Country episode, co hosts Beth and very unco...
Strange Country Ep. 275: Henry Darger
Strange Country - December 14, 2023 11:00 - 50 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsHenry Darger is one of the most profitable outsider artists out there. Unfortunately he didn’t reap the benefit of that while he was alive, spending much of it in abject poverty. He was compelled to make and write art during the time he was not working as a janitor or dishwasher. His artwork dea...
ENCORE: Strange Country Ep. 274: Bohemian Grove
Strange Country - November 30, 2023 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsWelcome dash hounds to an old episode from the pre-covid days when men could be rich men and spend the weekend urinating on trees and ruminating on how they could make life miserable for the rest of us. Strange Country will be back soon with a brand spanking new episode. Theme music: Big White...
Strange Country Ep. 273: Kary Mullis
Strange Country - November 16, 2023 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsWe’re sure you’ve heard of the Nobel Prize although it’s hard to make the case Beth has since she mispronounces it quite a bit in this episode. But have you heard of Nobel Disease? It’s when people are labeled geniuses and go on to embrace some whackadoodle pseudoscience. In today’s Strange Coun...
ENCORE: Strange Country Ep. 272: Killers of the Flower Moon
Strange Country - November 02, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★ - 170 ratingsWelcome to a blast from the past. This is a re-release of ep. 59 The Osage Murders, repackaged as Killers of the Flower Moon to coincide with the new film by Martin Scorsese. Thanks for all your support, dash hounds. We’ll be back with a new episode soon. Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast o...
Strange Country Ep. 271: Candyman
Strange Country - October 19, 2023 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsHey DashHounds, if you were listening last episode, we mentioned the true story of Candyman. This may be the very first time Beth and Kelly said “we should look into that” and actually did! Find out how haunting life was in Chicago in the 1980s if you lived in Cabrini Green housing. It is scary ...
Strange Country Ep. 270: The Man Who Killed Halloween
Strange Country - October 05, 2023 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsHalloween is the time of year of ghouls, goblins and moral panic about candy. Could some neighbor be handing out candy full of pins? Or even worse, plain boxes of raisins? Where did this all come from? Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about the origin of poisoned candy, stemming from ...
Strange Country Ep. 269: Vaccine Roulette
Strange Country - September 21, 2023 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsIn the 1980s, whilst the media stirred up frenzies over Satanists in our midst or a nuclear bomb landing in Washington, a reporter made a documentary adding vaccines to the growing list of dangers. Vaccine Roulette claimed the pertussis vaccine caused brain damage in kids, which led to a drop in...
Strange Country ep. 268: Mabel Norris Reese
Strange Country - August 31, 2023 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsMabel Norris Reese shone a light on racism and injustice in Lake County Fla. in the 1950s and 60s before the racist element drove the newspaper editor out of town. Strange Country cohosts and former reporters Beth and Kelly talk about this intrepid journalist and wish that Bugs Bunny gif of him ...
Strange Country Ep. 267: Ruth Handler
Strange Country - August 17, 2023 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsWe are requiring all readers of Strange Country and their partners, families and friends and everyone else to watch the Barbie movie. That way you can fully enjoy Kelly and Beth’s homage to Ruth Handler, the creator of Barbie. Learn details about the woman who, really, all of us should have stud...
Strange Country Ep. 266: Stone Mountain
Strange Country - August 03, 2023 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsIf your site is like a video game health regenerator for the Ku Klux Klan, that might be a sign your site needs a facelift. Yet Stone Mountain, Ga., continues to exist as the the largest Confederate monument in the world. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss this paean to traitors and ...
Strange Country Ep. 265: Anthrax Attacks of 2001
Strange Country - July 20, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★ - 170 ratingsMaybe this got lost in the shuffle for you, dear readers, like it did for Beth who completely spaced about this, but in the weeks after 9/11, opening the mail was a terrifying act. That’s because someone was sending anthrax letters to the media and politicians. Five people died and another 17 we...
Strange Country Ep. 264: Goody Garlick
Strange Country - July 06, 2023 13:30 - 47 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsJoin us this week on Strange Country as we go way back in time to the 1600s when life was grand, and if you lived to be a 50-year-old woman, you should just STFU. Because if you did decide to speak truth of any sort you would likely be accused of witchcraft. That’s what happened to Goody Garlick...
Strange Country Ep. 263: The Curious Case of Natalia Grace
Strange Country - June 22, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★ - 170 ratingsWhat is the youngest age a child can live on her own? In this episode, Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss the absolutely bonkers documentary “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace” that premiered this year on Investigation Discovery. An Indiana couple petitioned a court to have their ado...
Strange Country Ep. 262: The Mattachine Society
Strange Country - June 08, 2023 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsTwenty years before the Stonewall Uprising, another group fought for rights for LGBTQ Americans. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss The Mattachine Society, a group that sought dignity and respect for LGBTQ during a time when being gay was criminalized. Luckily things are chill now. O...
Strange Country Ep. 261: Purity Culture
Strange Country - May 18, 2023 10:00 - 58 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsYou know how every little girl dreams of the day her dad signs a pledge promising to keep her vagina penis-free until she marries. Wait, you don’t? Well, sit back, slap on your purity ring, superglue your legs together and get ready for a Strange Country episode on purity culture. Theme music:...
Strange Country Ep. 260: History of Smiling
Strange Country - May 11, 2023 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsHey Readers! You know, you look a little tired. Maybe you should. . . smile? While you’re at it, take a listen to Beth and Kelly as we learn the history of the smile. You will learn that Kodak had more to do with why we smile for the camera and don’t look as miserable as we are. Smiles are a fun...
Strange Country Ep. 259: James Arthur Ray
Strange Country - April 20, 2023 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsWhat is the main PSA of Strange Country? Trust your gut. Especially when self-proclaimed gurus tell you to suck it up inside a blistering hot sweat lodge. On this episode, cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss James Arthur Ray, another self-help platitude-spilling grifter, who hawked the law of attract...
Strange Country Ep. 258: Pellegra
Strange Country - April 13, 2023 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsHey Readers! Who has pellagra?? Would you know if you did? Don’t worry you won’t get it. But you will learn on this episode what pellagra was, why it killed 100,000 Americans, and took many dedicated hours to figure out the cure. Thank you for always listening and wondering alongside our stories...
Strange Country Ep. 257: Waco Siege Part 5
Strange Country - March 30, 2023 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsWe have finally reached the end of the Strange Country siege of covering the Waco Siege. In the final episode, cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss the aftermath of Waco and how the dots can be connected to such awfulness like Oklahoma City bombing and the Jan. 6 insurrection. Theme music: Big White...
Strange Country Ep. 256: Waco Siege Part 4
Strange Country - March 23, 2023 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsWe’re almost there, gentle dash hounds, to the end of our siege. In part 4 of Waco, Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about the 51-day standoff between the FBI and the Branch Davidians that ended disastrously. Cite your sources: Benson, Eric. "At Bible Study With David Koresh's Las...
Strange Country Ep. 255: Waco Siege Part 3
Strange Country - March 16, 2023 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsIn third installment of the Waco Siege, Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss the ATF raid on Feb. 28, 1993. The ATF steamrolled ahead even when they heard the Branch Davidians knew they were coming. Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands Cite your sources: Benson, Eric...
Strange Country Ep. 254: Waco Siege Part 2
Strange Country - March 09, 2023 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsIn this second installment of the Waco Siege, Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss some of the features of being in David Koresh’s orb. If you were a young—like really young—girl, you’d likely find yourself including in the House of David. This is what his harem of women were called. B...
Strange Country Ep. 253: Waco Siege Part 1
Strange Country - March 02, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★ - 170 ratingsWelcome readers to part 1 of a possibly 144K episodes about the Waco Siege. Thirty years ago, federal agents raided the Mount Carmel Center to serve a warrant on David Koresh, and it did not go well. In this first part, cohosts Beth and Kelly explore the beginnings of the religion to William Mil...
Strange Country Ep. 252: Munchausen Syndrome
Strange Country - February 16, 2023 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★ - 170 ratingsWhat drives someone to pretend to have a serious illness? In this episode of Strange Country, cohosts Beth and Kelly discuss two women who convinced friends, loved ones and colleagues that they were dying. Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands Cite your sources: Kettler, Sara. ...