Weird News is a weekly podcast about all things weird, funny and bizarre. Each week, Buck Wolf, HuffPost's Executive Weird News Editor hosts special guests to examine a different theme.
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Joey Skaggs' Greatest Prank - Pandora's Hope
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Leave it to Joey Skaggs to turn a film about his career in media pranking into one more hoax -- and it's something the film industry will never forget.Von The Huffington Post/Panoply
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Monkey Boxing, Octopus Wrestling And Other Forgotten Sports
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Strap on your ice skates, grab your racket and get ready for a nice game of ice tennis, a real sport once played in New York City. Catch up on forgotten sports of the past with “Fox Tossing” author Edward Brooke-Hitching.Von The Huffington Post/Panoply
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What Does It Take To Grow A World Champion Beard?
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Buck Wolf sits down with a man who has a beard that hangs below his bully button. He recently won the World Champion, Full Beard Natural competition and tells Buck the secrets to his success.Von The Huffington Post/Panoply
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The Greatest High Of All: A Marijuana Billionaire
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To many Americans, there’s little question that coast-to-coast marijuana legalization is coming. The question now is how fast will it happen and how big a boon will it be to the economy. Leslie Bocskor of Electrum Partners is aiming to be the first (legal) marijuana hedge fund billionaire -- and that might not be a pipe dream.…
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Freaky Girls and the American Sideshow
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When you’re known as "Percilla the Monkey Girl" or "Julia the Baboon Lady,” your life is anything but ordinary. Can life in a sideshow somehow be empowering? Illise “The Lady Eye” Carter and Marc “Backwash” Hartzman, two featured speakers at the Morbid Anatomy Museum, join Buck for a discussion on the odd and amazing. Marc is marking the 10th anniv…
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