Hysteria 51 Podcast

Hysteria 51

ForthHand Media
Hysteria 51 is your offbeat weekly podcast destination for all things weird and wonderful! We navigate the cosmic highways of UFOs, the alien-infested landscapes, and the enigmatic frontiers of the paranormal. With your hosts, Brent Hand and David Flora, alongside our cantankerous tin man, Conspiracy Bot (with a not-so-subtle desire to rule the world, doubling as our chief inquisitor into the unknown), we delve into unique mysteries, the inexplicable, and the downright unusual. Each week, we explore a fresh topic, making one thing crystal clear... the truth is out there, but you won’t find it here.
Blurry Hysteria: Bullet-Dodging and Billion-Trillion Rubles | 410
What do you get when you cross a wannabe-Neo trying to dodge bullets in Utah with a Russian court that seems to think Google has more money than the entire planet combined? Pure, unadulterated Blurry Hysteria, that’s what! This week we unpack the bizarre saga of a man caught on camera attempting some next-level Matrix moves—spoiler alert: real life doesn’t come with slow-motion bullet time. Then, we jet over to Mother Russia, where a court has slapped Google with a penalty so colossal you’d need a calculator that can handle a galaxy’s worth of zeros. Buckle up and brace for weird as we deliver double the strange, double the fun, and 100% more hysteria than you can shake a bulletproof vest at! News Stories Mentioned:  Bullet Boys: https://www.abc4.com/news/wasatch-front/arrest-dodge-bullets/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1w4br1idJOwrINti9Yf7PmgbDXbb1M65q1SDnTlKu6D3Xr5xeW2EtS_3E_aem_H05pP3DMxbU7IZ58MulnUQ Russian Payday: https://united24media.com/latest-news/russian-court-slaps-google-with-a-fine-larger-than-all-the-money-on-earth-5443?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1Z6D-KXzDYnZPuoS_AeZldyRQ3SzEQIO4q0fK12dpOBXrc5rlj5kBF978_aem_PqxXHJTUazMtFa-Yvo9IEg Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 5
40 min
Surrounded By Spirits | 409
Join us this week on Hysteria 51 as we welcome back Chris Rupert and Tyler Transue of Doc Side Media for their 4th appearance! The dynamic duo dives into their latest documentary, Surrounded by Spirits, exploring chilling stories, paranormal investigations, and the lingering mysteries of the afterlife. From eerie encounters to their filmmaking journey, it’s a spirited conversation you won’t want to miss. Special thanks to this week’s sources: Follow Doc Side Media Website - https://www.docsidemedia.com/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@docsidemedia2106 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/docsidemedia Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/docsidemedia/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@docsidemedia Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria-51?ref_id=4106   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 31
1 hr 20 min
Blurry Hysteria: Artificial Suffering and Glowing Discoveries | 408
Prepare for a double dose of techno-weirdness as Blurry Hysteria dives into the world of artificial intelligence! First, we glow up with the story of an AI-invented molecule that nature would’ve needed half a billion years to cook up. Is AI outpacing evolution? Then, things get dark (and oddly philosophical) as scientists propose testing AI sentience by making it suffer. Yes, that’s right—pain for progress! Join the crew as they decode the wild and wacky intersection of science and sci-fi in this illuminating and borderline sadistic episode. News Stories Mentioned:  Glow in the Dark AI: https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/new-glowing-molecule-invented-by-ai-would-have-taken-500-million-years-to-evolve-in-nature-scientists-say S&M AI: https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/scientists-propose-making-ai-suffer-to-see-if-its-sentient Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 29
34 min
Blurry Hysteria: Doomed CAPTCHAs and Ratty Drug Parties | 407
This week on Blurry Hysteria, we're hitting you with a double dose of bizarre! First up, someone decided CAPTCHA wasn't annoying enough and created one where you play Doom on Nightmare difficulty. Can you rip and tear your way to proving you're not a robot? Spoiler: most of us are doomed. Then, we head to Houston, where the police evidence lockers have been infiltrated—not by master thieves, but by junkie rats with a taste for confiscated drugs. Who’s the kingpin of the rodent cartel, and do they have a tiny, whiskered Walter White? All that and more this week on Blurry Hysteria! News Stories Mentioned:  Doom: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/01/someone-made-a-captcha-where-you-play-doom-on-nightmare-difficulty/ Rat Party: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2025/01/21/Houston-Police-evidence-lockers-drugs-rats/6941737480214/ Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 22
27 min
Blurry Hysteria: Birds, Needles, and Deadly Christmas Feasts | 406
Hold onto your tinsel, folks! This week on Blurry Hysteria we dive into the weird and wacky with stories you never knew you needed in your life. First, we head to the stomach-turning world of fertility rituals gone very wrong—complete with a live baby bird found in a dead man’s belly... or maybe throat. (Yeah, you read that right.) Then, it’s a two-part yuletide warning: Ever considered nibbling on your Christmas tree? Belgium says, "DON’T!" Sweden on the other hand says otherwise. We unravel the science behind toxic Christmas tree needles and why your festive feast shouldn’t involve the fir, or maybe it should... Join us for a late holiday episode packed with laughs, gasps, and the weirdest news to ever deck the halls! News Stories Mentioned:  Bird Job: https://www.latintimes.com/baby-bird-found-alive-inside-dead-mans-stomach-after-being-swallowed-during-fertility-ritual-569420 Tree Treats: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dont-eat-christmas-tree-warns-182651558.html & https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/sweden-says-christmas-tree-needles-173426923.html Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 15
25 min
Lake Cow Bacon: America’s Hippo-Sized Solution to Hunger | 405
Did you know America once eyed hippos as a solution to its problems? This week on Hysteria 51 we dive into the bizarre yet true tale of how early 20th-century Louisiana faced a water hyacinth invasion and a looming food shortage—and how importing hippos, lovingly dubbed “lake cows,” was proposed as the answer. Join us as we explore the strange saga of "Lake Cow Bacon," the politicians and eccentric dreamers behind the plan, and why this idea almost became reality. Grab a plate of hypothetical hippo bacon, and let’s get weird with history! Special thanks to this week’s research sources: Videos Exploring 'Lake Cow Bacon': A Unique American Tale | weird history - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_d2LkczvLY America's Secret Plan to Replace BEEF with HIPPOS - https://youtu.be/ChqkNAeJygM?si=lu4ZzqkrrltaMETh Websites Second Boer War: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War The Daily Beast - https://www.thedailybeast.com/lake-bacon-the-story-of-the-man-who-wanted-us-to-eat-mississippi-hippos/ Smithsonian Magazine - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-us-almost-became-a-nation-of-hippo-ranchers-180982244/ On Pasture - https://onpasture.com/2016/04/18/u-s-hippo-ranches-and-lake-cow-bacon/ Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 10
58 min
Blurry Hysteria: Jawbreakers and Nuked Cabinets! | 404
This week, we’re serving up a smorgasbord of strange! First, we sink our teeth into the tale of a woman who took "jawbreaker" a little too literally—because candy shouldn’t come with a side of dental disaster. Then, we go nuclear (literally) with the bizarre practice of detonating file cabinets for "science." It’s an explosive mix of absurdity and hilarity you don’t want to miss! News Stories Mentioned:  Jawbreaker: https://www.odditycentral.com/news/woman-breaks-jaw-after-biting-into-jawbreaker-candy.html#google_vignette File Go Boom: https://www.ripleys.com/stories/nuking-file-cabinets Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 8
34 min
Patents, Peril, and Power: The Price of Unlocking Free Energy | 403
Zero Point Energy refers to the quantum mechanical contribution to the total kinetic energy of atoms and molecules that remains even at absolute zero temperature. What that means is the universe is filled with energy, so much that the energy in an empty teacup could boil all the oceans on out planet. But how do we access it? That is the big questions. And the other big question is have some inventors cracked the code, and been silenced for their efforts? This week we break down free energy, why the powers that be want it stopped at all costs, and what happens when people not in the elite club of power break the cardinal rule of trying to help out humanity. We cover that and much more this week, like how is Conspiracy Bot involved in all of this, on Hysteria 51. Previous Episodes Stanley Meyer Episode - https://www.hysteria51.com/stanley-meyers-water-fuel-cell-saga-265/ Tesla Episode - https://www.hysteria51.com/nikola-tesla-43/ Special thanks to this week’s research sources: Websites Charles Nelson Pogue Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Nelson_Pogue Fuel Efficient Vehicles - https://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/energy-news/?page_id=986 Tesla Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla Narkive on Floyd “Sparky” Sweet - https://sci.physics.narkive.com/eBHQeBCG/vacuum-triode-amplifier-floyd-sweet Rex Research - http://www.rexresearch.com/evgray/1gray.htm Rational Wiki - https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Thomas_Henry_Moray Stanley Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Meyer%27s_water_fuel_cell Car Throttle - https://www.carthrottle.com/post/bqj4x9l/ Laws of thermodynamics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_thermodynamics Aardvark Daily - https://www.aardvark.co.nz/stanley_meyer.shtml Politifact - https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jun/03/facebook-posts/no-stanley-meyer-was-not-assassinated-pentagon/ Top Alternative Energy Sources - http://www.top-alternative-energy-sources.com/stanley-meyer.html TCCT - https://tcct.com/news/2020/11/the-mysterious-death-of-stanley-meyer-and-his-water-powered-car/ Meyer Patent - https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/claims?CC=US&NR=4936961&KC=&FT=E Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 27, 2024
1 hr 7 min
Blurry Hysteria: Sarcophagi and Spy Games | 402
This week, the Blurry Hysteria boys dive into bizarre tales from across the globe! First, a British Christmas card turns into a recruitment device for little government spies. Then, we head to Bulgaria, where a beach bar decided that a Roman sarcophagus made the perfect cocktail table. History buffs and ghost hunters, unite! Tune in for laughs, head-scratches, and plenty of conspiracy theories this week on Blurry Hysteria. News Stories Mentioned:  Xmas Spies: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bc-eu-britain-spy-puzzle_n_6759be5fe4b0518821f1eaf3 Booze Coffin: https://historianandrew.medium.com/bulgarian-beach-bar-discovered-using-ancient-roman-sarcophagus-as-a-table-c38fa202290d Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 25, 2024
29 min
Blurry Hysteria: Headless Hairballs and Record-Breaking Absurdity | 401
This week on Blurry Hysteria, we’re diving into the bizarre and hilarious with two unforgettable stories. First, the mosh pit diaper—a sold-out sensation designed for concertgoers who refuse to miss a beat for a bathroom break. Yes, diapers in mosh pits are now a thing. Then, we’re taking a whirlwind tour of the oddest Guinness World Records of 2024, showcasing humanity’s strangest achievements, from balancing spaghetti on a toothbrush to eyebrow-length extravaganzas. Get ready for laughs, disbelief, and all the weird news you love—no bathroom breaks required! News Stories Mentioned:  Mosh Scat: https://news.sky.com/story/mosh-pit-diaper-designed-to-avoid-lines-at-loos-sells-out-13275899?fbclid=IwY2xjawHRrhxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHXfRrPmHPTNfcKSc8F2baiktjX34_7RWP9wM0yI-bBPlxJF1I_tvdNUB4w_aem_f25wNcFT3_gjAWsruBY6iw Guinness Time: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/12/17/oddest-Guinness-World-Records-of-2024/3221734390473/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1K0R7dDMH96hsPZnqtrZOeuaQmlTN4Ob6a_WeI7iXXKHsbCKY4bbAEriY_aem_klMSuDbUXv6iEGPfUxB1gA Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 20, 2024
34 min
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