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The Nonessential Podcast

Ben Matlock and Steve Gibson

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A show about anything and everything that we find interesting, but not essential. From true history and crime, to myths, legends, and creepypasta, if we like it, we'll talk about it. And if we don't like it, we'll talk about it even more.
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What a Weird Week is a show featuring the week's weird news stories. Every Friday we do a Weird-News-of-the-Week Top 10 audio podcast, a full shownotes blog, and a video episode. See https://www.shownotes.page or search "What a Weird Week". #Weird #News #Interesting #Stories #Entertainment #Popular #Culture #Fun #TenWeirdThings #weirdnews #weird #news #podcast #comedy #spotify #funny #weirdnewsoftheday #comedypodcast #weirdhistory #journalism #media #whoa #wow #what #saywhat #noway #ohmydays ...
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Talkin' about the paranormal, the occult, and weird and forgotten history. Deep dive into stories about ghosts, ouija boards, cemeteries, obscure and bizarre stories from New York City, urban legends, paranormal investigations, and more!
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Superfluous

Jeanette and Alena

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Welcome to Superfluous with Alena and Jeanette! These scrappy gals will be sharing only the best non-essential information with you! Through two vaguely related stories they will fill your head with facts you never knew you wanted, but deep down you really need. Only the good stuff. Just the froth. So get ready to be just a little bit smarter about something that probably won’t do you much good- Superfluous! Podcast Music by Jeff Stovall: https://soundcloud.com/backhousetranscendental
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The Unusual History of Every Thing

Melanie Dellas and Karen Lacy

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The Unusual History of Every Thing is a podcast for lovers of the weird history of common things in our world. Join cultural object preservationists Melanie Dellas and Karen Lacy as they uncover the unusual histories of every thing around us. New episodes every Tuesday!
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History is full of strange and unusual claims. Some of them are even true. Travels by Carriage is a podcast that explores the odd and lesser-known tales of the past. Won't you join us on our journey? @TravelsbyCarriage#history #bizarre #peculiar #truestory #feminist #strange #weird #truestories #documentary #oddhistory #weirdhistory #funfact #spooky Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show about the weird stuff from this week's news. To subscribe to the podcast or for social media and more links, you can get everything at www.shownotes.page. This is season five, episode 25, first published Friday, June 21st, 2024. Here are this week's stories... ❿ McDonald's AI Gets Fired ht…
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(BEGIN EPISODE TRANSCRIPT) skateboarding cats and speeding wheelbarrows. What a weird week! Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show about the weird stuff from this week's news. If you want a transcript or stuff to subscribe to our podcast, all the links that we talk about, you can get everything at shownotes.page. Shownotes.page…
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Hubert Wiliks was a man on a mission. Well, a few missions. But war metals and documenting birds couldn't compare with his plan to pilot a submarine under the north pole, using specially designed evil-villain drills and a giant reverse ice skate. Check out episode 258: The Adventures of Hubert Wilkins. Sources: https://www.centennialofflight.net/es…
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Electric spoons and mysterious goldfish. What a weird week Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is what a weird week It's a weekly catch up on all the weird stuff that happened in the news. I think that's it that summed it up. Let's go This is season five episode, can't remember, first released on June 7th, 2024. ❿ Our number 10 story this week was on a …
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See www.shownotes.page for all the podcast stuff. These are the shownotes for Season 5, Ep 22 first published on Friday May 31st, 2024. (BEGIN EPISODE TRANSCRIPT) ❿ We've got a follow up to a story we had earlier on this show where the town in Japan installed a giant black screen to stop people from taking pictures of Mount Fuji. It just got to be …
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What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the weird news of the week. https://www. shownotes.page or search "What a Weird Week" where you get podcasts.Show Notes by ScottyWhat a Weird Week May 24th 2024: Killer Bee Beer and Delicious Chocolate Lawsuitposted by Scotty on May 24, 2024 to PODCASTWhat a Weird Week gets you caught up on the weird news of …
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What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the weird news of the week. https://www. shownotes.page or search "What a Weird Week" where you get podcasts. These are the shownotes for Season 5, Ep 20 first published on Friday May 17th, 2024.(BEGIN EPISODE TRANSCRIPT) ❿ Older Family Film continues to terrify grownups... https://studyfinds.org/adults-scare…
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What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the weird news of the week. https://www. shownotes.page or search "What a Weird Week" where you get podcasts. (BEGIN EPISODE TRANSCRIPT) Cuddling cows and backwards tornadoes. What a weird week. Hi friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week where we catch you up on all the weird things that happened in the…
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(Begin episode transcript) Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week where we catch you up on the weird news of the week. For transcript/ shownotes/ podcast stuff see www.shownotes.page! Here's Season 5, Episode 18 first published on Friday May 3rd 2024 ... ❿ From Sky News. Headline is, 13 year old boy finds holy grail of Legos... that was l…
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(Begin episode transcript) Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week: Ten Weird Things from this Week's News. For transcript/ shownotes/ podcast stuff see www.shownotes.page! Here's Season 5, Episode 17 first published on Friday April 26th 2024... Nine Nines Revisited!! In this episode we check in on 9 former stories to see how they're holdi…
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This week, Steve reads two firey stories from Alparos-Lilah: The Fortune Teller, and Echoes from the Ashes. Both touch on the themes of fire, death, and what comes next. Sources: https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Fortune_Teller https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Echoes_from_the_AshesBy Ben Matlock and Steve Gibson
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What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the weird news of the week. See https://www.shownotes.page for links/ transcript/ podcast stuff or search "What a Weird Week" where you get podcasts. (Begin episode transcript) Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week where we catch you up on the weird news of the week. For transcript/ shownotes/ podc…
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Ten Weird things that happened this week - the What a Weird Week Show. For full shownotes and podcast stuff see https://www.shownotes.page/podcast (Begin episode transcript) ❿ The Grammy who made the news after receiving a speeding ticket. (actually 2 tickets!) The only thing was she wasn't driving her van. It was one of these deals where the camer…
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(Begin episode transcript) Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week where we catch you up on the weird news of the week. For transcript/ shownotes/ podcast stuff see www.shownotes.page! Here's Season 5, Episode 14 first published on Friday 5 April 2024... ❿ Number 10 this week is from Hoops Hooper, the Weird News Guru at UPI. It's a story a…
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What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the weird news of the week. https://www.shownotes.page or search "What a Weird Week" where you get podcasts.Portland Sea Dogs baseball team out of Maine attempted the World's Longest Line of Whoopie Pies last summer and now it's officially been verifiedlawsuit involving parents who allege that a teacher in Qu…
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Do you believe in psychics? Perhaps some of you identify as a psychic yourself or have visited one. I personally believe there are those with knowledge that can’t be explained, and history is full of bold and unusual claims. Some of them are even true. For this episode, we’ll visit a time in history when that was the case - when the claims of one p…
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(Begin episode transcript) Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week where we catch you up on the weird news of the week. For transcript/ shownotes/ podcast stuff see www.shownotes.page! Here's Season 5, Episode 12 first published on Friday March 22 2024 ❿ There's a company based in Toronto, Canada that analyzes Dog DNA And they made news th…
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What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the weird news of the week. https://www.shownotes.page or search "What a Weird Week" where you get podcasts. (Begin episode transcript) Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week where we catch you up on the weird news of the week. For transcript/ shownotes/ podcast stuff see www.shownotes.page! Here's …
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Reminder: For transcript/ shownotes/ podcast stuff see www.shownotes.page! Here's Season 5, Episode 10.5 first published on Sunday March 10th 2024 ... Time Change Fact Sheet... - There are stats about heart attacks, traffic accidents, energy consumption, and enraged colleagues (not you, everyone else.) - The time change might conserve energy, or it…
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What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the weird news of the week. https://www.shownotes.page or search "What a Weird Week" where you get podcasts. (Begin episode transcript) Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week where we catch you up on the weird news of the week. For transcript/ shownotes/ podcast stuff see www.shownotes.page! Here's …
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(this is a transcript of the podcast) Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week where we catch you up on the weird news of the week. For transcript/ shownotes/ podcast stuff see www.shownotes.page! Here's Season 5, Episode 09 first published on Friday March 1st 2024 ... ❿ Musician breaks world record at music venue in Iowa... John Locker mad…
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What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the weird news of the week. https://www.shownotes.page or search "What a Weird Week" where you get podcasts. (this is taken from the transcript of the podcast) Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week where we catch you up on the weird news of the week. For transcript/ shownotes/ podcast stuff see www…
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(this is a transcript of the podcast) Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week where you can get caught up on the weird news of the week. For a transcript, or shownotes or to subscribe to the podcast see www.shownotes.page! Here's Season 5, Episode 07 first published on Friday Feb. 16, 2024 ... ❿ From NBC 9 News... Two high school kids in C…
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This week, Ben puts on his Brave Boy Pants and delves into Reddit/Nosleep to retrieve a story so freightful in it's freighteningness that it took us an extra 24 hours to post. Check out 'My Wife Has Been Peeking at Me From Around Corners and Behind Furniture. It's Gone from Weird to Terrifying' by Maliagirl1314. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/nos…
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What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the weird stuff from this week's news. For Full Shownotes see https://www.shownotes.page ... search "What a Weird Week" where you get podcasts. Here are the top ten headlines... ❿ The radio station that had their 200-foot radio tower stolen. ❾ 68 million Americans plan to bet on this year's football spectacul…
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What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the weird stuff from this week's news. For Full Shownotes see https://www.shownotes.page ... search "What a Weird Week" where you get podcasts. (transcript) Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week where you can get caught up on the weird news of the week. For Transcripts and Shownotes see www.shownot…
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This week, Steve (eventually) discusses one of the raddest (or radiated'est) cryptids (un)known to man: The Blackbird of Chernobyl. Is this creature a prohpet of doom, or does it cause it? Is it related to that Mothman fellow, or is it one in the same? Leave it to us to not get tot he bottom of any of those pressing questions. Source: The Blackbird…
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What a Weird Week gets you caught up on the weird stuff from this week's news. For Full Shownotes see https://www.shownotes.page ... search "What a Weird Week" where you get podcasts. (transcript) Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is What a Weird Week where you can get caught up on the weird news of the week. For audio, video, and shownotes see Shownotes…
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What a Weird Week is a show about the weird stuff that happened in the news this week. For Full Shownotes see https://www.shownotes.page ... thanks for subscribing to the podcast! Here's this week's top ten #Weird #News #Catch-up for Fri Jan 19, 2024 ... ❿ From Study Finds: "Magic mushrooms traced back to asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs" ... …
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Episode 64: Way Out West Western Movies and The Woke West Jeanette shares her Western expertise, and sooo many winter movie recommendations (as long as they are Westerns). Alena talks about what The West was really like, and its not like you see in the movies! Jeanette’s Western Watch List Please like, subscribe, and leave a 5 star review! Podcast …
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(transcript) Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is the What a Weird Week Show, your weird news catch-up top 10 countdown. For audio, video, and shownotes see www.shownotes.page. Here's The Top Ten Headlines for Season 5, Episode 01 first published on Friday Jan. 12th, 2024 ... ❿ This week in sentencing: A 26-year-old guy tried to sell the late Queen of En…
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Hi friends, I'm Scott and this is What a Weird Week, a show which aims to catch you up on the weird news of the week. This is our year-ender (part 2) which features the top weird news of 2023* For podcast stuff, links, and more see https://www.shownotes.page/podcast *citation will not be forthcoming --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.s…
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(transcript) Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is the What a Weird Week Show, your Weird News Catch-up in a Top Ten Countdown. For audio, video, and shownotes see www.shownotes.page! Here's Season 4, Episode 66 first published on Friday Dec. 29th, 2023 ... the Year in Review episode ... What a Weird Year! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.s…
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This week, Ben continues Pasta Noir: Dames, Slugs, and the Hatchetman, the saga started with last week's episode. In this installment, we learn more about the weirdly homophobic, yet subtuley homoerotic relationship between our hero and his young partner. Also there's a murder or something. Check it out Source: https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/P…
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What a Weird Week is usually a show about the weird stuff from this week's news. Full Shownotes and more stuff at ⁠https://www.shownotes.page/podcast⁠ But... it's Christmas Time, baby! So today we're re-posting this holiday special recorded in my kitchen last year. My wife is doing some baking. My kids are helping me crank out some podcast gold. We…
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This week, Steve reads the wonderfuly (pasta) noir, Pasta Noir: Dames, Slugs, and the Hatchetman by BlackNumber1. Or, more specifically, he reads part 1 of the above-mentioned story because there's 11 parts, and to read all of them would be too much. Source: https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Pasta_Noir:_Dames,_Slugs_and_the_Hatchetman…
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♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫ (transcript) Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is the What a Weird Week Show, your Weird News Catch-up in a Top Ten Countdown. For audio, video, and shownotes see www.shownotes.page! Here's Season 4, Episode 64 first published on Friday Dec. 15th, 2023... less weird news and more of a holiday Snow Pourri... ♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫ ❿ The airing of grievance…
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What a Weird Week is a show about the weird stuff that happened in the news this week. For Full Shownotes see https://www.shownotes.page ... Subscribe to the Audio Podcast at https://kite.link/weird ... and see the Video Podcast at https://www.youtube.com/@weirdweekpod ♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫ (transcript) Hi Friends, I'm Scott. This is the What a Weird Week Sho…
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What happens when the friend you're expecting to meet turns up dead? A bunch of surprisingly non-chalant conversations, and an inexplicably shocking reveal, apparently. This week, Steve jumps off the supernatural horror train, and then gets run over by the crime horror train. Check out 'Crime Scene' by Triololo. Source: Crime Scene Photos | Creepyp…
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Friends, I'm Scott. This is the What a Weird Week Show, a Top Ten Countdown of weird news. For audio, video, and shownotes see www.shownotes.page! Here's the top ten list for Season 4, Episode 62 first published on Friday Dec. 1st, 2023... ❿ Attention Influencers and Models: be nicer to work with than AI. ❾ Sports Illustrated in the news this week …
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Typically, people nowadays don’t go into Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods and ask for earthworm oil, but from the 16th to 19th centuries, earthworm oil was used to treat various problems – kind of like how we use tea tree or coconut oils today. On this episode, we’ll show you how to use earthworm oil to treat many things, even gunshot wounds, because…we…
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