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Strange Realm

John Frobisher Smith

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A weekly comedy news magazine covering the weirdest and wildest stuff happening all around our toroidal planetoid. Come get donut-pilled and take a tour of advanced alternative cosmologies, NASA skepticism, ancient history as you never learned it in school, as well as the arcane arts and sciences and more, as hosts John Frobisher Smith and Dr. Raven Black try every week to understand a little more about this strange realm that we all inhabit.
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Tonight we bring you an shambolic yet satisfying look into this week's strangest and most interesting news we could find, a big panel of weird science this week -- including how our universe may be shaped like a donut, how there is almost definitely an underground ocean on Saturn's moon Titan (likely mostly water), how the rock samples of Mars are …
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On tonight's show we bring you an intriguing and ionized episode as we briefly discuss the solar storm, as well as take a look at news that the world's first Neuralink has run into a problem and may now have a reduced functionality for its user, whereas it seems that fruit flies infected with a bacteria that grows in their brain have better memorie…
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On tonight's show we bring you an overcast yet outstanding episode as we look at why Orthodox Easter seems so late this year, a seemingly very mundane UFO alien encounter video, an update on the newly found language quoted within ancient Hittite stone tablet records, and the news that "venting" does not release anger but actually may increase your …
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On tonight's show we bring you a majestic and megalithic look into the strange history of our world and it's strangest current events, as Frobisher Smith and Raven Black examine the happening of bloody horses running through the streets of London, the possibility that Stonehenge also marked the mysterious "lunar standstill," the most recent news ab…
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On tonight's show we bring you a wide-ranging and ground-covering hay fever dream of an episode as we look at how extraterrestrial life might likely be purple, how the new supersonic spy drone from China is stylishly designed like the American one that crashed there in the 70s, the supercomputers that will help us land men on Mars, and then we exam…
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On tonight's show we bring you a high-spirited and highly-elliptical look into some of the weirdest and strangest science stories of the week, including China's new communications satellite orbiting the Moon, the UK laser weapon named DragonFire possibly soon to debut on the Ukrainian front lines, a 50 year old kind of battery that just might be th…
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Tonight, we bring you a clear-headed and contextualized show as we retrace our steps and make corrections and clarifications over a few previous discussion topics, including the Egyptian snake-devil Apep. Then we move on to NASA's plans for a time zone on the Moon, breakthrough fusion records happening in South Korea, and a disgusting report about …
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Tonight we bring you a vernal and verdant episode as we celebrate a blustery Easter Sunday and take a look at a real-life encounter with the Easter Bunny, as well as news that NASA plans to fire three rockets at the Moon's shadow during the upcoming eclipse, a report that the James Webb Telescope has confirmed that our understanding of cosmology is…
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Tonight we bring you a torrent of twisted news as we celebrate the Worm Moon and it's subtle ecplise characteristics, we look at new 3D maps of the magnetic field of the Earth's lithosphere, a report on a study that suggests Dark Matter simply does not exist, then we investigate the news that mad scientists have made a "quantum tornado" that replic…
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Tonight we bring you a loose and lunar show as we investigate the many obelisks if Kentucky, we look into the news of confirmation of MITs superconducting magnet breakthrough which is crucial for fusion reactors, as well as news that a new world record has been set for world's largest blueberry, and then we take a look at using the Moon as a commun…
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Tonight we bring you a ripe, spicy helping of weird news and discussion as we look at the possibilities of genetically engineering a spicy tomato, a look into eclipses and the beliefs of the ancient Babylonians, 3D printing homes on the moon, and we investigate the shocking truth about MSG! All of this and then after the break, we continue our read…
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Tonight we bring you a light but strong show as we delve into the enigmatic and poorly-lit moon lander photo, the news of a new 3D printed titanium alloy super-material, a study that shows the human brain pulses like a wash cycle during sleep to clean itself of waste, and finally we dip back into our journey through the Futhark alphabet and talk ab…
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Tonight we bring you the start of an all new season of strangeness! On this first episode of Season 2 we discuss the recent Neuralink implantee and his ability to control a computer mouse with his mind, the amazing new Super Disk technology that's like having 100 harddrives on one DVD, and then we go lower-tech to discuss the benefits of electrocul…
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On this episode we bring you a long and lucky show as we discuss the secrets of super-heated gold, urine-based metal recycling technology, liquid metal RAM, and we touch on the discovery of an ancient Paleolithic stone wall at the bottom of the Baltic sea. All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series and Frobisher reads more…
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Tonight we bring you a jam packed jamboree of strange stuff beginning with the somber news that the NASA Mars helicopter has flown its last flight and is a copter no more, along with a look towards the probe of Saturn's moon Titan in about 10 years, then we report on news of "Obelisks" living in your body, mutant wolves from Chernobyl are apparentl…
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Tonight we bring you a homespun and hopeful episode as we anticipate an early spring and discuss the strangest things of the week, including blood-powered batteries, glass transformed into semiconducting materials via laser light like out of some alchemical fable, a report that AI is busy decoding the language of the chickens, as well as news of a …
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Tonight we bring you an exciting and growth-minded episode as we look at the Japanese moon lander which landed upside down, experiments which show lichen can grow in space and chickpeas can grow on the Moon, and finally we check out news that T Cells can be reprogrammed to attack cells that cause aging in the body. All of this and then after the br…
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On this episode we bring you an exoplanetary exploration into the weirdest and most exotic things to happen recently, as Frobisher and Raven look into the Jellyfish UAP leak, the possible coverup over the James Webb Space Telescope finding extraterrestrial life, the fully-cloned and all-growed-up rhesus monkey ReTro (aka the Damien Thorn of monkeys…
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Tonight's episode is a big snowy look into this week's news of the weird. No NASA Moon missions for 2024! A UAP hearing with legislators leaves them wanting more, smartphones of the future might be equipped with a nuclear battery with a charge that lasts 50 years, and scientists have gone MAD and are growing and experimenting on mini-brains! It's a…
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Tonight we bring you a gigantic episode as we look into the origins of the Cerne Abbas Giant, the mysterious chalk geoglyph of a nude club-wielding giant outside of Dorset in England. We also discuss a study that says you might heal faster if you think time is moving faster, if Doctor Pepper can help you live to 101, and we take a look at what some…
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Well we're bopping and popping on this New Year's Eve special! John Frobisher Smith and Dr. Raven Black celebrate the new year with an astoundingly auspicious report that El Jefe, once the USA's only living jaguar, has been spotted in central Sonora, Mexico. Quantum Computing is due for a reality check, say the experts, we take a look at the future…
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It's a bustling and festive Christmas episode tonight! We have live updates with NORAD Santa Tracking, keeping you aware of when the jolly man might be heading your way! We also look at stories about telomere lengthening via time spent at the bottom of the sea, and some seeds that are well over 100 years old which still germinated when they were pl…
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Yule be loving tonight's episode as we delve into strange science topics like the zap of an electric eels mutating the animals around it under certain conditions, how the field of wood nanotechnology just might have the answer for biodegradable screens soon as they rapidly develop the technology of transparent wood, and a new medication may lengthe…
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Tonight we bring you a cat-aclysmic cacophony of speculation and reporting about our wide and weird world! Does owning a cat trigger schizophrenia? Will China use humanoid robots to build its Moonbase? What can a 1000-qubit quantum computer really do? What are thousands of UFOs doing in our orbit every month? These questions and more will be discus…
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Tonight we bring you all the news that can fit in a 6-story Japanese donut-shaped fusion furnace, currently the world's largest! The UAP Disclosure Amendment is facing a battle on Capitol Hill, and CRISPR is going primetime as a CRISPR-created gene therapy for Sickle-Cell blood disease is getting approved in the UK and the US. After the break, we c…
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Tonight we bring you a madcap meandering down the avenue of the uncanny as we take a look at the plans for cloning the Dodo, the particle responsible for the most energetic cosmic ray every received dubbed the "Goddess particle," as well as a report that Neanderthals could talk just the same as Humans! After the break, we continue our reading serie…
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Tonight, we bring you an astounding array of entertaining and also sometimes troubling topics from all over the world, beginning with breaking news that Javier Milei will be the new president of Argentina. We then move on to a mini-discussion of Mount Chimera and the Chimera beast of ancient legend, followed by more biotechnology news about bioprin…
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Tonight we bring you what could be called the prelude to "crimes of the future," as we tackle glowing green Monkey-chimeras, the glowing green night sky of Mars, neochromosomes and the possibilities of "super-yeast," and an ominous report that Mount St. Helens is recharging! After the break, we continue our reading series and Frobisher reads more o…
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Tonight we bring you tech gone mad! Silver nanowire brains, stealth drone bombers, and humanoid robots by 2025 are the bleeding-edge advancements that are decidedly less-than-necessary but we're getting them anyway! This plus we begin with the discovery of possibly the world's oldest pyramid in Indonesia. After the break, we return to our reading s…
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