Latest Eccentric Podcast Episodes
Strange Country Ep. 224: Jeane Dixon
Strange Country - April 21, 2022 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsDo you believe psychics can predict the future? in the later half of the 20th century, Jeane Dixon was one of the best known psychics. Her astrological star rose when she “predicted” the assassination of JFK. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly, in what is predicted to be the greatest podcas...
Strange Country Ep. 223: Left-handedness
Strange Country - April 14, 2022 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsOne hundred years ago, there were fewer left handed Americans than there are now. Why the change? Obviously the indoctrination of public schools…or maybe it became more accepting to be left handed and so more people feel comfortable using their dominant hand. Weird how that works. Strange Countr...
Strange Country Ep. 222: Melvil Dewey
Strange Country - March 31, 2022 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsDear Dashhounds, are you one of the 75% (15% according to Beth) who know the term, Dewey Decimal System? Do you care? You will today as Strange Country hosts Beth and Kelly discuss the life and times of Melvil Dewey, which really encompassed a lot of misogyny, racism and antisemitism. Yet still ...
Strange Country Ep. 221: Critical Race Theory
Strange Country - March 24, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsThings seems super chill around education these days. Wait—do they? Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about the current state legislation being passed to ban the instruction of Critical Race Theory in K-12 schools, something that isn’t happening. So since it’s not happening, what is h...
Strange Country Ep.: Critical Race Theory
Strange Country - March 24, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsThings seems super chill around education these days. Wait—do they? Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about the current state legislation being passed to ban the instruction of Critical Race Theory in K-12 schools, something that isn’t happening. So since it’s not happening, what is h...
Strange Country Ep. 220: Victor Lustig
Strange Country - March 10, 2022 11:00 - 47 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsWe all the run risk of falling for a con and we all believe we are immune to it. For the low, low cost of $9.99 a month, Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly can teach you how to avoid scams as soon as they free a Nigerian Prince. Today’s episode explores the cons of Victor Lustig who sold the...
Strange Country Ep. 219: The Seekers
Strange Country - March 03, 2022 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsOn Dec. 21, 1954, the world was supposed to be flooded, and true believers taken aboard flying saucers to safety. When that didn’t happen, the Seekers tried to excuse away the no-show aliens, and thus cognitive dissonance entered the American psyche. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly discu...
Strange Country Ep. 218: Kanawha County Textbook Wars
Strange Country - February 24, 2022 11:00 - 51 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsThe current spate of book banning is nothing new in America. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly take readers back to Kanawha County in 1974 when protestors firebombed schools and shot at school buses to protest the adoption of a new textbooks. The books, they said, were obscene and would hur...
Strange Country Ep. 217: Queen for a Day
Strange Country - February 17, 2022 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsWhat would you want if you were named Queen for a Day? Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about this strange game show that awarded one woman with the saddest story with blenders and washing machines rather than actual policies or help that would take her out of her awful situation. ...
Strange Country Ep. 216: Miss America
Strange Country - February 10, 2022 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsThere she is . . . the Strange Country Podcast is back after its brief Covid hiatus to talk about a 100-year-old scholarship beauty pageant that crowns an annual queen in a country that overthrew the British government to escape a king. It was a chance for young women to show their talents weari...
Ep. 19: "Breathless" by The Corrs (#34, 2001)
One-Hit Wonders of the World - January 29, 2022 19:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsKick back with a refreshing Coors Lite® and enjoy the newest OHWOW, all about Irish sisterly sensation The Corrs! We're talking Twitter beef, we're talking conspiracy theories, we're talking cultural innocence, it's all in here. Come on!
Ep. 19: "Breathless" by The Corrs (#34, 2001)
One-Hit Wonders of the World - January 29, 2022 19:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsKick back with a refreshing Coors Lite® and enjoy the newest OHWOW, all about Irish sisterly sensation The Corrs! We're talking Twitter beef, we're talking conspiracy theories, we're talking cultural innocence, it's all in here. Come on!
Strange Country Ep. 215: Moonies 3 in 3-D
Strange Country - December 16, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★ - 173 ratingsIn the final installment in the Moonies’ trilogy, Strange Country looks at Sun Myung Moon’s influence in American politics, and how his money helped the New Right gain power. There’s also sound effects that you can hear, which is a Christmas miracle. Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Tho...
Strange Country Ep. 214: Moonies 2, Electric Boogaloo
Strange Country - December 09, 2021 11:00 - 55 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsIn the second installment of the Moonies, Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about mass marriage, rituals and how Sun Myung Moon began to cement his relationship with the New Right in America. You’ll never look at indemnity sticks and handkerchiefs the same. Theme music: Big White Lie...
Strange Country Ep. 213: Moonies, Part I
Strange Country - December 02, 2021 11:00 - 53 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsSun Myung Moon claimed to be the Messiah who would bring about the kingdom of heaven. See God visited him and told him it was his turn to pick up where Jesus left off. And apparently that was convincing lonely college kids to peddle candy and flowers at street corners and airports. In this multi...
Strange Country Ep. 212: Belle Gunness
Strange Country - November 18, 2021 11:00 - 55 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsDashounds and Readers! Ever wonder what to do if your husband dies and you have a farm to keep up? If you’re Belle Gunness, you are glad for the extra hog food, and excited to hop onto the 1900’s version of Tinder—the newspaper want ads! If only her suitors had FB; they may have been a little mo...
The Sherman Courthouse Riot: The Lynching of George Hughes
Crime Scholar - November 04, 2021 18:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsParis' lifelong search for her family's genealogical records leads her to investigate the reason they are missing: the lynching of a 41-year-old African American man named George Hughes in 1930. Accused of assaulting a white woman in Sherman, located within Grayson County, Texas, George never ge...
Strange Country Ep. 211: Room 1046/Yuba Country Five
Strange Country - November 04, 2021 10:00 - 53 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsOn this episode, Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly delve into two unsolved mysteries, one in 1935 and one in 1978. In 1935, Roland T. Owen checked into The President Hotel and was murdered by those unknown. In February 1978, five men took a wrong turn when leaving a basketball game and neve...
Strange Country Ep. 210: The Sodder Family
Strange Country - October 21, 2021 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsA forever mystery will haunt your ears this week, Dash Hounds. Join Kelly and Beth as we discuss the missing Sodder children, who quite literally went up in smoke one terrible Christmas night in West Virginia, never to be seen again. A warning: if you don’t like women or cats, you probably shoul...
Strange Country Ep, 209: Scary Smorgasborg
Strange Country - October 14, 2021 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsIt’s the time of year when pumpkin spice permeates everything including Strange Country, and people are in the mood to sit in front of a pumpkin-spice scented fire to hear some scary stories. Join Beth and Kelly as they darn socks or stories about the Congelier Mansion, the White Lady, and the h...
Strange Country Ep. 208: James Hogue
Strange Country - October 07, 2021 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsJames Hogue claimed to be many things. A high school student, an orphan, a ranch-hand, a carpenter, a ski instructor, a ski stuntman, a bioengineer, an ivy leaguer. He has lived a lifetime of deception using false credentials to earn a spot in the 1993 graduating class at Princeton University. S...
Strange Country Ep. 207: Elizabeth Packard
Strange Country - September 23, 2021 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsIn the 19th century, men could commit women to asylums for such stellar reasons as excessive thinking or novel reading. Elizabeth Packard was married to a real prince who committed her because she was smarter than him. Strange Country cohosts share her heroic tale, and Beth reveals an alarming s...
Strange Country Ep. 206: Victorian Tapeworm Diet
Strange Country - September 09, 2021 10:00 - 51 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsOne constant--besides death and taxes--is the notion that women need to work to attain that ever-morphing ideal body that doesn't actually exist. Strange Country co-hosts Beth and Kelly talk about diet plans like ingesting tapeworms to obtain the consumption look in Victorian times. There's also...
Strange Country Ep. 205: Mountain Meadows Massacre
Strange Country - September 02, 2021 10:00 - 51 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsAmerica's home-spun religion of Mormonism has a bloody past. The founder Joseph Smith was murdered, and the Saints run out of various places they settled. This us-versus-them mentality really fermented in the Great Salt Valley where Brigham Young whipped his flock into a frenzy about interlopers...
Strange Country Ep. 204: Exorcism
Strange Country - August 26, 2021 10:00 - 50 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsDear Dash Hounds: Has worry from Covid taken over your life? Are you behaving in ways that seem rather devilish, as your rage powers on? Might you be possessed? If you are, Beth and Kelly know who to call and you will too after listening to this episode of Strange Country. We discuss the origina...
Strange Country Ep. 203: Weigh Down Workshop
Strange Country - August 19, 2021 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsMaybe you've tried Keto or Atkins or the blood type diet, but have you thought about maybe trying God? The Weigh Down Workshop was founded by Gwen Shamblin in 1986. She didn't believe in dieting, exercising or counting calories. Shamblin instead told followers to rely on God and pray that He wil...
Strange Country Ep. 202: The Goat Castle
Strange Country - August 12, 2021 10:00 - 51 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsToday's Strange Country tale involves murder, racism and goats. The big three, as we like to say. In 1932, Jennie Merrill was murdered in Natchez, Miss. Her neighbors who lived in a dilapidated estate nicknamed The Goat Castle likely had something to do with it, but it was a black laundress name...
Strange Country Ep. 201: Cahokia
Strange Country - August 05, 2021 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsYou know Beth and Kelly have issues with numbers, and anything prior to or around BC, AD and CE is hard for us to comprehend. So please bear with us this episode as we go back 1,000 years to the hopping city of …Cahokia. Have you ever heard of it? We didn’t think so (but if you have, please tell...
Strange Country Ep. 200: Sante Kimes
Strange Country - July 29, 2021 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratingsStrange County episode 200, everybody! That means, you've likely wasted 199 hours of your life. Why not waste an hour more with today's story of Sante Kimes, a grifter with a penchant for fraud, arson and murder. Beth and Kelly also share a new way to express anger. Theme music: Big White Lie ...
Strange Country Ep. 199: Tania Head
Strange Country - July 22, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★ - 173 ratingsTania Head told others she was on the 78th floor sky lobby when a plane crashed through the windows, nearly killing everyone on impact. Head said she made it out with seconds to spare before the south tower of the World Trade Center collapsed in what would turn out to be America's most devastati...