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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John Frobisher Smith Podcasts
This week, we bring you a multifaceted and many-legged episode as we examine the strangest things we could find this week, including "off-limits" zones being established on Mars, a millipede from millions of years ago the size of a car, how eating cheese is actually good for your teeth and oral hygiene, and we discuss the ins and outs of the rune N…
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This week, we bring you an overstuffed 5th helping of the weirdest and wildest news that happened this week! Including confirmation that there is in fact rust on the Moon, news that the Slender Man stabber is all grown up and she escaped custody to visit her boyfriend, a Campbell's soup VP was recorded going on a tirade about bioengineered 3d-print…
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This week, we bring you a calorically dense but carefree episode as we begin our Thanksgiving Day preparations and examine the weirdest and wildest news we could find, including a report that says the Moon is slowly moving further and further away from Earth, we look into the world's first microprocessor which was kept secret for nearly 30 years, n…
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This week, we bring you an over-budget and utterly unfeasible episode as we examine the wildest and weirdest news we could find, including news that NASA is cancelling its mission to retrieve samples collected by a rover on Mars, the unusual comet 3i/atlas has NOT actually exploded this week, meat from cloned animals may soon be for sale in Canada,…
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This week, we bring you an interestingly-shaped episode as we look into the weirdest and wildest news stories we could find. Including an update on 3i/Atlas, a possible ancient pyramid hidden away in the Amazon named "El Cono," news that bioethicists are calling for a global framework for regulating organoids in biotech, and we answer a pressing qu…
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It's our annual Halloween Party Livestream! We bring you bone-chilling stories of haunted houses and haunted movie sets, enjoy some Halloween candy and read some hauntingly appropriate poems! Happy Halloween everyone! Don't let the ghouls, ghosts or goblins get you tonight! ------------------ Notes: - Is the Lizzie Borden house the most haunted in …
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This week, we bring you a spine-tingling and skull-punching episode as we take a look at the weirdest and wildest news we can find, tackling topics such as: a Celtic trepanation device found in an Iron Age dig site in Poland, the truth behind the mummy's curse, evidence of ancient prehistoric South Americans visiting and hunting in Antarctica, and …
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This week, we bring you a mischievously mind-bending episode as we take a look into the truth and the lore of goblins, a report about a wall in Greece that is the world's oldest existing human structure, we try and locate the Garden of Eden and the Land of Nod, and we examine the chilling possibilities of newly created artificial neurons. All of th…
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This week, we bring you a horridly heady mix of an episode as we discuss the weirdest and wildest news we could find. Including a look into the mystery of the "Corleck Head" found in Ireland, the truth about medbeds, news that someone has clandestinely moved an old unused satellite to a new place in orbit, and we try to uncover the lore of who was …
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This week, we bring you a potentially calamitous episode as we enter the time when interstellar object 3i/ATLAS is making its closest approach to the planet Mars, and we look at the possible astrological significance of this epic event. We also discuss news of a "Noah's Ark" launched into space by Russia full of plants and animals, as well as news …
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This week, we bring you a murky and mystical episode as we look into the real Merlin and who he might have been, as well as the possibility that the end of the world will be occurring very soon on Sept. 25th, 2025, we examine new footage of a deep-sea fish that has a transparent head, and we discuss the idea from a new study that gravity is an illu…
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On this episode, we bring you a slightly late but luxurious show as we look into the history and lore of the real King Arthur and try to discover the real location of Camelot. We also say goodbye to legendary cryptozoologist and anthropologist Dr. Jeff Meldrum, look into the newly released footage of a hellfire missile bouncing off a UFO, and we di…
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On this episode, we bring you a bloody and blobby show as we examine the weirdest and wildest stories we could find, including a notice that tonight is the blood moon, and we take a look at the ancient myths and lore surrounding this red and mysterious full moon eclipse, as well as a notice that there will be a Congressional hearing on UAPs on Tues…
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On this episode, we bring you a gigantic and glowing show as we talk about the weirdest, wildest things we could find, including a look into the idea that Britain ("Albion") was founded by giants who lived there before it was settled by humans, as well as news that succulents can apparently be easily made to glow in the dark and the glow is recharg…
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On this episode, we bring you a science-gone-mad extravaganza as we discuss the weirdest news we could find once again, including a report that a Chinese firm intends to start selling robots with artificial wombs that can give birth as soon as next year, scientists have also turned fruit flies into microrobots, controlling their flights to the poin…
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On this episode, we bring you a back-to-school special of a show as we delve into the weirdest news we could find including a recently released photo from NASA of a possible fossilized coral reef found on the surface of Mars, we examine new statements made by Rep. Anna Luna of Florida concerning evidence she's seen of "interdimensional beings," we …
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On this episode, we bring you a statistically significant show as we discuss the weirdest and wildest news out there, including an update on Annabelle and her museum, another update (good news!) about the previously missing inventor of Plastoline, a report that says AI companies aren't actually making any money, a study that links low levels of lit…
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On this episode, we bring you a rapid-fire and radioactive show as we take a look at the weirdest and wildest stories this week, including robot rabbits used to hunt invasive pythons in Florida, a dangerously radioactive wasp nest found in a former nuclear weapons site, as well as a 4,400 year old Sumerian tablet that has been recently translated a…
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On this episode, we bring you a magical and mysterious show as we look into King Solomon's fabled magic carpet and more, including a new fusion company that wants to turn mercury into gold, as well as a new paper that posits the 3I/ATLAS interstellar object might not be a comet but actually a spy probe from an alien civilization, and we discuss how…
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On this episode, we bring you a haunting and hallucinogenic episode as we look at the weirdest and wildest news we could find, including recent tragic news that a paranormal investigator has died while on tour with the notorious doll Annabelle, as well as sensational claims made about Jesus by a modern-day Templar, a study that shows psilocybin has…
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On this episode, we bring you a thought-provoking, brain-growing show as we look at new evidence that, in fact, the adult human brain can grow new neurons! We also check into a powerful and fast fusion-based rocket engine that will help us get to Mars (and maybe even Pluto), an extremely ancient "factory" run by Neanderthals, and we discuss the mea…
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On this episode we bring you a gigantic and fast-moving show as we look at the strangest and most startling news of the week, including a large, mysterious new object flying through our solar system at high velocity, a study that suggests the Huns had Siberian (not Turkic) roots, rediscovered sketches in a Da Vinci notebook suggest he had an unders…
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On this episode we bring you an industrious and startling show as we take a look into the mystery of real gnome encounters and the video evidence of gnomes found on the internet. We also dig into newly released military UFO footage showing a giant disc-shaped craft flying through the clouds in the skies over the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, find ou…
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Tonight, we bring you a slightly larger than usual show as we look into the weirdest and wildest news stories we could find! Including news that apparently the human brain glows as it works, a discovery has been made concerning the axolotl that brings us closer to one day regrowing limbs on people, we look at a fairly impressive but ultimately unde…
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On this episode, we bring you a wide-ranging and anomalous-resulting show as we take a peek at the weirdest and most stupendous news we could find this week, including new archeological findings of a deep-sea boating civilization from 35,000 years ago, a report of mysterious signals suggesting strange particles are being emitted from deep below Ant…
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Tonight, we bring you a well-produced but probable hoax of an episode as we dig into the weirdest and wildest stories we could find, including the Buga Sphere from Colombia, bad news for Japan's latest moon mission, AI researchers suggest we may in the future become AI-controlled "meat robots", and we look at Alexander the Great's historical encoun…
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Tonight, we bring you a clear-eyed and calculating episode as we take another look at the most astounding and strange stories we could find this week, including a new study that suggests the Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum physics is wrong, news that soon there will be a DNA-based supercomputer that can run 100 billion calculations at once, a…
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Tonight, we bring you a startling and subterranean episode as we take another look into the weirdest and wildest stories we could find this week, including the report of a very mysterious planet that should not exist found in the Draco constellation, news that underground tunnels have been found underneath Sforza castle, a study that says an AI cha…
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Tonight, we bring you a technically challenged but still entertaining episode as we work around glitches and interruptions to take yet another glimpse at the wild and weird news of the week. Including a look at the alchemical journey within Alice in Wonderland, news that Saturn will soon be transiting the sign of Aries, a report that Noah's Ark has…
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On this episode we bring you an astoundingly alchemical show as we once again take a look at the weirdest and wildest stories we could find this week, including the news that the ALICE atom smasher has turned lead into gold, commentary by an official from the Bush Sr. administration who says the US has built a massive underground city for the elite…
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On this episode we bring you an historically accurate but astounding show looking at the weirdest and wildest news stories we could find this week! Including news of space-based imaging scans which prove Herodotus was right and there is a massic labyrinth underneath the Egyptian pyramid of Hawara, historians have definitively proven with DNA studie…
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On this episode we bring you a massive yet maneuverable show, as we look once again at the weirdest and wildest stories we could find this week. Including news of Pope Francis's death and funeral, and how he figures into the now infamous Prophecy of the Popes by St. Malachy, a report that a toroidal reentry capsule has been tested by a German space…
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Tonight, we bring you a hopeful and hearty show as we look at the strangest and wildest news we could find this week, including signs of life discovered on a distant exoplanet, a study that suggests lichen could survive living on Mars, another study that says the cells of your body can hear and process sounds, and we look at some of the stranger an…
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Tonight, we bring you a hypnotic and hyperreal episode as we examine the strangest news we can find, including big news about the "de-extinction" of dire wolves, new files soon to be released about the RFK assassination, a possible real life RPG mount robot horse, and a study that suggests exercise is the best way to keep your brain healthy. All of…
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Tonight, we bring you a pleasantly surprising show as we take a look at the weirdest and wildest news stories this week, including an update on the project to de-extinct the Dodo, a rock in Romania used as a doorstop turns out to be worth a million dollars, a new study says fruit flies drink alcohol to attract mates, and we take a look at a taxider…
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Tonight, we bring you a mind-bending and gravity-defying episode as we look at the weirdest and wildest stories we could find this week, including a new exotic engine that seems to produce thrust without propellant, a resurfaced CIA report that remote viewed the Ark of the Covenant, a possible new weight-loss drug discovered with the help of AI, an…
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Tonight we bring you a wide-ranging and historically accurate episode as we examine the momentous events of this weird week, including the JFK files release, new ground penetrating imaging shows massive structures underneath the Kafre pyramid in Egypt, a scientist has gone violent and dangerous in Antarctica, and we take a look at the most likely t…
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Tonight is another astounding and educational episode as Frobisher and Raven look at all the wildest and weirdest news, including an update on the astronauts stranded at the ISS, a soon to arrive "blood moon" eclipse and its astrological significance, the world's first biological computer that uses real human brain cells is now available, and we ta…
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Tonight we bring you a monstrous and prodigious episode as we take a look at the weirdest and wildest once again, including a new science probe that has landed on the Moon, a 14-year old who has broken 6 math world records in one day, a study involving psychic abilities shows they can be enhanced through very specific brain stimulation, and we look…
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Tonight we bring you another wild and wooly look into the strangest and most interesting news we could find this week, including a quick glance at the price of gold, a report that says people have been dumping bodies in the river Thames in London for thousands of years, the development of an electric generator that hooks on to your tailpipe, a link…
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Tonight, we bring you a carefully curated options fund of the weirdest and wildest stories happening this week, including news about a new Government Secrets Taskforce, the creation of a new ETF based on companies thought to be benefitting from reverse engineered alien technology, a report that Russia is developing a plasma rocket engine that can r…
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On tonight's show we bring you a super-big superbowl show as we send out a long pass to the weirdest news stories we could find this week, including an update on Sharlie the lake monster, a suggestion new UFO whistleblowers are about to emerge, news about the World's "first" quantum large language model, how archeologists have found they smoked hig…
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We bring you a powerful and pine-filled episode tonight as we examine all the weirdest things we could find this week, including a look at what appears to be square-shaped ruins photographed on Mars, news of a new world record for the Chinese artificial sun, a creepy discovery of Zombie-spiders mind-controlled by a nasty fungus, and then we head on…
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On this episode we bring you a scaly and swampy look into the strangest and wildest stories we could find this week, including a report described by a US Congressman of a giant, fast-moving UFO travelling submerged in the ocean, a new scientific theory that claims information has mass, an invitation by a state in India to earn 1 million dollars if …
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On this episode, we bring you a brackish and briny show as we dive deep into the strangest and weirdest stories we could find this week! Including news that China has achieved the stupendous breakthrough of "counterflow superfluidity," as well as a look into the lost continent of Doggerland, a report of a new large sea bug who's head looks like a D…
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On this episode, we bring you a moon-eyed and murky show as we wade through the strangest, creepiest, wildest news we could find this week. Including news that the full moon is upon us, a site in the UK once thought to be associated with King Arthur is, in fact, from 4000 years earlier, as well as a letter scientists have written urging the world t…
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On this episode, we bring you a hale and hearty first edition for 2025, taking a look at the strangest and wildest stories we could find this week. We take a look at what has entered the public domain: you are now free to watch and edit the Skeleton Dance. We also look into the idea that tiny ape-like humanoids could be living out in the wilderness…
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As we shambolically lurch towards 2025, John Frobisher Smith fights the flu and attempts, with his co-host Raven Black, to put on an entertaining end-of-the-year event. Featuring footage of the Sun generated by the best AI available, news about quantum teleportation, the miasmatic "chemical fog" engulfing the Southeast US, how everyone on earth wit…
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We bring a Yuletide celebration on tonight's episode, discussing how Dark Energy is fake, the Solstice Witch is real, the longest night of the year is over, and we report on true encounters of Pan and the Green Man. All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher reads more from "Our Haunted Planet," by John A. Kee…
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