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Whitney LeMond, Lisa Friedrich, and Carina Magyar get together, get tipsy, and tell each other the craziest stories they can find. Artwork by Grace Svoboda. Theme music by Arielle LaGuette.
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SEEN is a show about identity that asks: How are you seen? Labels are complicated, communication is challenging, identity is nuanced. None of us are exactly as we appear to strangers, friends, or even ourselves. And yet, now more than ever we are all trying to be SEEN. Feeling seen is powerful. To honor that power, the SEEN podcast asks guests to prepare a list recounting the ways they been viewed, judged, rendered invisible, or wholly seen by themselves, their loved ones, and strangers. Wit ...
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It's a crossover episode from our new podcast, Pop Soup, your piping hot serving of pop culture trivia! Subscribe and save y'all: Apple, Spotify, and everywhere else 🎧 Hayly gives us the royal(s) and we guess the scandal that could have been their downfall. Lisa quizzes us on what crimes various celebs have been arrested for abroad. Whitney - guess…
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This episode is brought to you by Pop Soup, our brand-new pop culture trivia podcast, so go listen to it right now! Lisa recounts one of Texas' almost forgotten tragedies, the New London School Explosion of 1937. Whitney hops back to the Gilded Age to visit the weird Wendel family - one of NYC's original rich families that decided to fully commit t…
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This episode is brought to you by red currants. Whitney dances to the strange Italian beats and gibberish lyrics of Adriano Celentano's "Prisencolinensinainciusol." Lisa revisits the Trinity Test Site in Los Alamos and uncovers the atrocious conditions the native population endured before, during, and after the Manhattan Project. Hayly joins Austra…
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This episode is brought to you the pitter-patter of tiny dog feet. Lisa invites us to attend the first drag balls with their inventor and queer pioneer William Dorsey Swann. Hayly journeys across France with the cross-dressing, bisexual, swordswoman, opera singer, Julie d'Aubigny. Whitney boards Aloha Airlines Flight 243 - the terrifying flight and…
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This episode is brought to you by rabies. Lisa shows us the importance of functioning egresses at the infamous 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire. Whitney loses her voice trying to perfect her own version of every film buff's favorite inside joke, the Wilhelm Scream. Hayly joins a house of ill-repute with a surprisingly reputable madam, Pearl de Ve…
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This episode is brought to you by Hard Front Wigs. Whitney packs up her stuff and moves to a new apartment every year in NYC on everyone's favorite holiday, Moving Day! Lisa races down America's rivers in a steamboat only to end in the worst maritime disaster in the USA, the wreck of the Sultana. Hayly is put on trial with Isobel Gowdie for being t…
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This episode is brought to you by cargo shirts. Hayly lives the 1930s socialite dream with Lester Gaba and his enigmatic creation, Cynthia the Gaba girl. Lisa goes down under to explore the storied life of Black Douglass the Bushranger. Whitney has a close encounter of the third kind at the Ariel School UFO incident.…
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This episode is brought to you by FootFoot. Whitney joins the fan club for The Shaggs, the band that released the worst album ever recorded. Lisa tells us just why Dairy Queen is what we like about Texas. Hayly lives a hundred lives with the immortal party vampire, Jacques St. Germain.By Weird Brunch
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This episode is brought to you by snake meat. Lisa jumps down the throat of the world's most voracious and disgustingly hungry man, Tarrare. Hayly heads to Ohio to read all about their dangerous gossip girl, the Circleville Letter Writer. Whitney gets conned by the newest addition to the "Anna Delvey Female Fraudster Club," Vietnam's Tina Duong.…
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This episode brought to you by Silver Status Bonvoy Members Whitney finds the most appropriate holiday tradition in Spain's Caga Tió. Lisa details the disappearance of British estate agent Suzy Lamplugh. Hayly joins the team behind one of the most "successful" bank heists of all time at Brazil's Banco Central Fortaleza.…
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This episode brought to you by Jackie O's Chewin' Metal. Lisa joins the Silicon Valley incubator fraternity Launch House and is quickly expelled. Whitney gets revenge on the human race with a few cliquey Orcas, an angry elephant, and a few more vengeful animals. Hayly exposes one of the longest-running mail scams of all time with "psychic" Maria Du…
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This episode brought to you by the Hot Tips Hotline. Whitney visits the little micronation that could, Molossia. Hayly joins Johann Georg Schröpfer's Masonic temple and learns how to raise the dead while making money off people. Lisa details the gruesome murders of Australia's number one piece of shit rapist, Christopher Wilder.…
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This episode brought to you by MorningStar sausage patties. Hayly gets brainwashed into Chuck Dederich's Synanon cult, but is rescued by the snakebitten lawyer Paul Morantz. Whitney empathizes with Cleopatra and her troubles with her little sister, Arsinoe. Lisa travels to ancient England to find out if King Arthur was a real person.…
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This episode brought to you by poopcicles. Hayly survives the tundra with adventurer Peter Freuchen. Lisa explores a budding cult created by the currently incarcerated Rashad Jamal. Whitney slips back into the teenage dirtbag days of 1984 and the deadly friendship of Ricky Kasso and Gary Lauwers.By Weird Brunch
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This episode brought to you by eight cats. Lisa lassos Misty of Chincoteague as we tour tiny horse island. Whitney drifts across the plains with the invasive tumbleweed. Hayly has a high time with Aimo Koivunen, the Finnish soldier who survived a Russian attack in WWII thanks to a near-deadly dose of government-grade methamphetamines.…
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This episode brought to you by Evelyn's Creek Water. Whitney's up a creek with a couple Californians searching for sunken treasure along the Texas Gulf Coast. Lisa raises the dead with the corpse coronation of Ines de Castro. Hayly discovers the new record for the world's biggest piece of shit, Richard Schmidt, who attempted to murder his ex-girlfr…
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This episode brought to you by Hot Diet Coke ~ The Official Drink of Weird Brunch Whitney gets a glimpse of the elusive Los Angeles billboard icon, Angelyne. Hayly uncovers the Mormon roots of Go Ask Alice, the 1970s "true diary" account of a good girl succumbing to hippie drug culture. Lisa prowls the globe for the origins of Catwoman and her less…
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This episode brought to you by brown teeth. Hayly befriends the original 1800s rich-people-swindler, Cassie Chadwick. Whitney defines job catfishing: what Ali Ayad did when he founded the 2020 fake digital design agency MadBird, and robbed hundreds of people of their services for 6 months. Lisa gives us the science behind bad vibes, and the now-pro…
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This episode brought to you by russet potatoes. Whitney launches into Starfish Prime and the race to nuclear bombs in space. Lisa tracks the infamous Kandahar Giant that was purportedly taken down by U.S. special forces in Afghanistan in 2002. Hayly encounters Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish conman who defrauded hundreds while creating 1822's own Fyre…
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This episode brought to you by probiotic thoughts. Lisa skips confession and opts for the age-old tradition of sin-eating. Whitney details the mysterious disappearance and unexpected reappearance of Steven Kubacki. Hayly joins a gang of buffoons who plot to steal the body of President Abraham Lincoln and hold it for ransom.…
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This episode brought to you by sweet old ladies. Rebecca Cohen uncovers the real life horror inspiration for A Nightmare on Elm Street, Asian Death Syndrome. Lisa encounters Dorthea Puente, a sweet elderly woman in appearance, but a killer and swindler by nature. Whitney discusses the origins of Santa Claus, and hops down the chimney with the origi…
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This episode brought to you by the future of plastics. Whitney runs down the list of the world's most dangerous toys, including your own at home radioactive energy lab. Hayly details the mediocrity of Amy Bishop, a female mass murderer and delusional intellectual. Lisa recounts the heroic journey of Joe Medicine Crow, a Native American writer, hist…
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This episode brought to you by flirtatious bible verses. Lisa sashays into the American National Ballet that was founded and mismanaged by two skilled liars, Ashely & Doug Benefield, with political ties that go all the way to the top of the GOP. Whitney goes nuclear with America's most deadly energy drink, Radithor. Hayly accidentally researched a …
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This episode brought to you by the Crypt Keeper. Rebecca Cohen finds the deadly and lonely tale of Joyce Carol Vincent. Lisa recounts a 5 limbed monster in Enfield, the haunted Hotel del Salto in Colombia, and the story behind the term "saved by the bell." Whitney scales the walls of Fort Monroe, Virginia. A base so haunted that the U.S. Army ackno…
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This episode brought to you by schlamassels. Carina sinks into two of America's most poorly designed skyscrapers, The Millennium Building in San Francisco and 432 Park Avenue in New York City. Lisa explores the tragic death of Brittany Murphy and her creepy husband Simon Monjack. Whitney time travels to the Roman empire where an ambitious poisoner …
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This episode brought to you by the spirit of Johnny Weir. Whitney jumps into a variety of haunted lakes. Lisa takes a stab at the history of Sid Vicious & Nancy Spungen. Hayly details the lives of Ron & Joy Holiday and Chuck Lizza, who danced a little too close to their performance tigers and didn't end up quite as lucky as Siegfried & Roy.…
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This episode brought to you by Angela Lansbury. Lisa details the life of Christine Keeler and the Profumo Affair. Hayly spills the beans on the McDonald's Hot Coffee Case and scorched grandma, Stella Lieback. Whitney recounts the near-execution experience of Siti Aisyah, the oblivious assassin.By Weird Brunch
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This episode brought to you by mavericks. Lisa looks at the life of Norma Lee Nelson, the reluctant spokesperson for AND against abortion. Carina finds America's first known intersex resident, Thomas/ine Hall, who got an unusual legal punishment. Whitney follows the ill-fated voyage of The Mignonette, a cannibalistic feast followed by a trial.…
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