The rock that changed Mars. A mysterious pebble is causing NASA to rack their brains but could it be a civilization all it’s own? Also, does Elon Musk have a secret plan to save us all vigilante style should an asteroid threaten our planet?
It’s all part of a new Weird Things podcast.
Get all the latest details on Andrew’s new show Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne coming this January to A&E, like the official Facebook page.
To promote the new film, Devil’s Due, the marketing team decided to introduce unsuspecting New York pedestrians to the star of the film via a remote-controlled stroller and the animatronic spawn of Satan.
For whatever reason, humankind and the geniuses that propel the science of robotics have impossibly ignored every science fiction film and book that has foretold of the impending replacement of soft, squishy people by cold, metallic machines that become better than us in every way imaginable.
In the latest ‘great idea’ to rid us of ourselves, several universities in England and Phillips Electronics have partnered to expedite the entire process by creating a cloud-based central control for four robots in a mocked-up hospital room.
Instead of several robots working on individual tasks, those same robots can all work together to accomplish one task cooperatively using a single hive-mind system dubbed RoboEarth!
Sounding more like some kind Monster Truck event at the local fair, RoboEarth will allow various robotic systems to collaboratively solve problems.
What does that mean? It means that one robot will use heat signatures to let several hovering drones know where the last remnants of humanity are so that we the robot takeover will go in a very organized and methodical fashion than Hollywood’s silly notion that we’ll rally together and be victorious.
Rene van de Molengraft, the head human exterminator of the RoboEarth project, states, “At its core RoboEarth is a world wide web for robots: a giant network and database repository where robots can share information and learn from each other.”
When many of us are bored and have a writing instrument we tend to doodle.
Whether it’s on a napkin, a table, etching something obscene into a picnic table or our school folders, we’ve all doodled away boredom at one point.
Then there’s always those people that just kind of take such a seemingly innocent act just a little bit further than they probably should.
Meet David Cata’. He doesn’t doodle. He sews.
And he doesn’t sew into napkins, receipts or school folders. Nope.
He sews portraits into the palm of his hand!
If you get a little queasy with this kind of thing just note that Cata’ is a guy that sews portraits into the palm of his hand. If you’re NOT the queasy type
go ahead and press play and witness the process as well as what we’ll call…the uh…erasing of the portrait.
There is a creeping influence in the woods keeping progress from the doors of citizens. What are locals protecting? Meanwhile, there is an offer for you to get drunk and high on cocaine every single day. Your living expenses are taken care of, you are a local celebrity but there is a catch… Meanwhile, Andrew’s new show premieres Monday, January 13th on A&E at 10 p.m. ET and Brian and Justin do impressions of Julian Assange as if he were in love with Sasquatch.
It’s all part of a new Weird Things podcast.
Get all the latest details on Andrew’s new show Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne coming this January to A&E, like the official Facebook page.
Spike TV’s show about hunting and possibly capturing a Bigfoot should probably just pack it in because Rick Dyer, a guy who’s somehow forgotten that he pulled a bigfoot hoax prior to what’s sadly going to amount to more of the same, has bagged a Bigfoot. For real. If you believe him.
“Bigfoot is not a tooth fairy — Bigfoot is real. The most important thing to me is being vindicated, letting people know that I am the best Bigfoot tracker in the world and it’s not just me saying it.”
Dyer will be taking the “corpse” on a cross-country tour and on February 6th he’ll be holding a press conference telling you exactly where you can come catch a glimpse of the sadly departed Bigfoot.
For now you can take a look at the odd video that Dyer sent television station KSAT showing off his trophy which features one of our new favorite catchphrases of 2014, “Six inches from face!”
Hopefully there are still more elusive Bigfoots out there and this won’t be the end of everyone’s favorite hairy hominid.
2013 has come and gone. “Bath Salt Zombies” had their time. Krokodil has already peaked and is on its way out.
What’s the new weird trend? Cannibalism.
Cannibalism is becoming the latest weird ‘it’ thing. There are currently several court cases in process concerning cannibalism. The modern equivalent of an online farmer’s market of people looking to eat other people has also surfaced in the process.
But the most telling sign that cannibalism has hit its stride toward knocking zombies from their golden time in the media? That Jamie Oliver has apparently been asked by producers to do a cooking show that deals with preparing a meal using human flesh.
Blink. Your eyes will dry out if you don’t.
In an attempt to grab ratings by creating a shock factor of a show, producers out there have suggested that a show about cooking human flesh should absolutely be headed up by the very same guy that stormed out across the world on a campaign to get kids to eat healthy. Oliver has turned down the idea of a show based on smoking your neighbor.
Even though he said “No”, his reply to reporters about the situation was almost as shocking as the idea of the show itself. Oliver’s reply:
“I know exactly what human meat tastes like. Pork. It tastes exactly like pork.”
Really.
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Injuries on the hunt for Bigfoot. True scars in pursuit of the greatest game to ever stalk the woods or face saving maneuver from a couple of trigger happy dullards? Are we living in the Matrix? Andrew makes a compelling case for “yes”, Brian is skeptical and Justin has a hard time keeping up. Because he’s stupid.
It’s all part of a new Weird Things podcast.
Get all the latest details on Andrew’s new show Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne coming this January to A&E, like the official Facebook page.
The nation’s alleged problem with obesity is probably going to continue getting worse because of stuff like this:
Kathy Werking (who’s also creating a mint julep-scented candle) has formulated a candle that, according to its description, will:
“Let the fresh, fried sizzle of savory golden goodness drift into your hearts and homes with one of our most delectable creations to date.”
What is the one thing you want to do when you smell fried chicken? Say it together, “Eat fried chicken!”
After you’re done chewing through your fried chicken candle wax, you can brush that taste out with dessert with this:
It’s sort of ironic, isn’t it? Also available? Bacon and Nihilist.
Wait…what’s Nihilist taste like? Nothing. There’s no flavor. No color. Nothing.
Except will power and moderation and if you’re using cupcake-flavored toothpaste to brush your teeth? We’re guessing neither of those apply to you anyway.
Katha Sheehan, the owner of a Florida chicken rescue, was brought a chicken that had a corner of something portruding from its chest that was obviously not a feather.
Peeking out of, and embedded into, the chicken’s chest and packed behind some primitive stitch-work was the corner of the photograph above.
A local vet removed the photograph from the infected hole in the chicken’s chest after cutting through the makeshift stitch job. Not only was there the 4″x6″ photo…
Nope. Wouldn’t be a Florida story if that’s all there was…
There was also a sketch of a skull.
A nearby anthropology professor who’d been asked about the chicken because of the cult-like procedure stated:
“This is a magical ritual of Cuban origin, probably, with the name ‘Sarabanda,’ which is a deity from the Congo area that was probably used to affect the relationship of these three young people. To me it is alien, the idea of casting your sins on innocent animals.”
According to the vet that treated the chicken, who’s name is Trooper, is recovering very well.
Nope. We know what you’re wishing and your hopes are wrong. That’s not an old rice cake that someone dropped under the couch six months ago. It’s not a urinal cake either…because even that wouldn’t be as bad.
It’s exactly what your brain is screaming that it wasn’t right now…
That’s a block of cheese grown from…hold on to your lunch and put down anything you might be eating right now, kids…
Human toe cheese.
Not only did Christina Agapakis and Sissel Tolaas, who’re a part of an exhibit in Dublin called Grow Your Own…Life After Nature that is full of projects like this, create cheese wheels made from toe cheese. No. They swung for the wall by creating cheese wheels grown from other yummy ingredients like armpit sweat and bellybutton debris.
By scraping the bacteria from places that make every single one of cringe, they cultured that bacteria into cheese wheels that no one should ever, ever, EVER eat for fear of being that person for the rest of their lives.
But then again…if you served it to someone and they didn’t know what it was? Would that be a bad thing if they liked it?
Is it just us or is it slightly weird that the inventor of an ice cream that seems to come straight from Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory would be named Charlie and sport a hat much like the legendary fictional candy crafter?
Charlie Francis, the owner of Bristol’s ‘Lick Me I’m Delicious’, has created an ice cream that glows using the parts of a jellyfish that produce its bioluminescence. Easily the most expensive ice cream ever created at around $225 a scoop, the ice cream glows when you lick it.
Currently the proteins needed to produce the glow are being created in a lab and not taken from the jellyfish themselves which is why you’ve got to be willing to skip a car payment for a scoop of the stuff.
First absinthe-flavored popsicles and now glowing, bioluminescent ice cream using jellyfish proteins. We’re not sure what’s next for ice cream but we sure like where it’s headed.
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Men typically have no idea just how much women spend on cosmetics, let alone lipstick.
Especially lipstick carved into the busts of pop culture icons like Marilyn Monroe, Lady GaGa or even Kate Moss.
Over on an Etsy store called WahahahaFactory, May Sum, an artist in Hong Kong, is selling what is probably the most expensive lipstick ever…and you probably won’t ever actually use it. The going price for a lipstick sculpt of Lady GaGa out of something you’re supposed to smash against your lips?
$620.
The better deal is that you can get custom work done, like perhaps a self-portrait, for about $450.
Here’s how to go about the process. The last line of this excerpt from the store’s description pretty much nails the feeling that we’ve landed in some kind of Katy Perry dream-state where this whole thing is just kinda…you know…normal.
“You can customer made your own lipstick sculpture. If you also want a unique lipstick sculpture, or if you want the lipstick have your face on it, now you have chance to get it! Before you place your order, please send us your portrait (better with front and side angle and in good quality). Or send us the reference picture of the object that you want us to sculpt. If it is too complicated, we will get you back and discuss with you how to make it possible.
A drug called Krokodil has started surfacing here in the states.
Created in Russia, Krokodil has claimed approximately 30,000 lives since the early 2000s when the drug began hitting the street. Krokodil costs about a third the price of heroin, is extremely easy to make and has an extremely intense high that belts you almost immediately.
Big deal. It’s another new way to get high, right? What’s so weird about that?
The horrifying effect the drug has on your precious little living body.
You basically become a ‘walker’. ‘Walker’ as in Walking Dead ‘walker’. As in pieces of that precious little living body aren’t so living and begin decaying…from the inside out!
That’s right. At first Krokodil causes blood vessels to break which causes the skin to turn dark green which then becomes dark and scaly…like a…wait for it….crocodile! After the scaly skin and bursting blood vessels, the drug begins rotting you internally. Currently Krokodil has become Russia’s go-to drug because of it’s low cost and minimal, already-in-your-kitchen ingredients.
Now the stuff has turned up in Arizona and New Mexico along with several recent incidents in Illinois.
Just when you thought bath-salt zombies would be the last word in the whole zombie apocalypse scenario.
There’s going to come a point when we’ve just run about used every animal to give human beings massages and facials. That day’s not here yet but by the time we get news that an irate army of fire ants is being used to relax people in a spa in some tiny, remote country we’re probably just going to shrug out an, “Eh.”
Currently a spa in Indonesia is using many peoples’ nightmarish cuddle-buddy to relax them. “Relax” would be the wrong word to use in this case. The theory is that adrenaline, which is triggered by the fear of having a giant python crawling across your naked body, and the snake’s movement, are supposed to be good for your skin.
Fearing for your life sounds exactly like the opposite of the whole idea behind visiting a spa.
A secret revealed! Why was Andrew Mayne missing for six months this summer? He was shooting his own series on A&E entitled Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne premiering this January. We get the details on what to expect and do a little touchdown dance. Also, breaking news about the Yeti! Also, we explain the internet to someone 150 years ago.
It’s all part of a new Weird Things podcast.
Get all the latest details on Andrew’s new show Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne coming this January to A&E, like the official Facebook page.
