We managed to collectively use enough barbarous words that we were able summon the one and only Douglas Batchelor from the “What Magic Is This” podcast to appear in the triangle that is Against All Oddities. We talk to Douglas about magic, the esoteric, ASMR, magical aptitude, coyote initiation, Justin Bieber, Fear, death hygiene, and optimism within the occult!
Episode 51 - Amusement Parks
Today we will be talking about the oddity that is the Amusement Park. Clearly there is a lot to talk about, but like the infamous rollercoasters of our childhood, we will be covering a variety of twists and turns as we discuss a dizzying amount of topics including: Out of Body experiences, the dead at Disney, as well as, tips and tricks for today’s savvy parents, the theme park as liminal space and the uncanny valley. So stick around because this episode is a total trip!
Episode 50 - Resolutions 2023
This episode is about New Year’s resolutions. You may be asking yourself “haven’t you guys already done an episode on that?” Why yes we have! And we will again. Also you may also be thinking to yourself “Sorry, I don’t want to hear about OPRs or Other People’s Resolutions” To which I say: Stop being so critical, and also obviously we talk about all sorts of other stuff including Lucid Dreams, Blind Dogs, Fasting, Sacred Plants, Brain Health, Babies, Cross-fit and all sorts of things that you love about us….Or at least you used to love about us. Come on. Give it a listen will ya! After all, your new year’s resolution was to listen to more Against All Oddities!
Episode 49 - Curse-mas Special 2022 (the ghost of Mary Ford)
This is a very special episode! It's the A.A.O. second annual Curse-mas special. This year's special centers on the true haunting of Nate's historic house in rural Virginia and features a spirit box communication, EVP sessions, and an in-depth historical look at the life of Mary Ford who lived and died in the house under suspicious circumstances in the 1940s. We brought this one home for the holidays and it's a keeper!
Episode 48 - O.B.E. (updates)
Every Against all Oddities episode is special and this one is no exception. Today’s episode is an updates episode on our pursuit of expanding our consciousness and the ever elusive O.B.E., also known as out of body experiences. We recorded this episode during one of our Against All Oddities content meetings. Yes, believe it or not, we occasionally meet to plan out our future episodes and to address other matters of AAO state. While we were meeting to plan out the next season of Against All Oddities we spontaneously began discussing our experiments in meditation, remote viewing and O.B.E.s. It was too good to pass up and so we hit the record button. So this episode is a little more impromptu than some of our others. We talk about O.B.E., meditation, shadow people, anesthesia, N.D.E., Death Consciousness, the great Simulation, two-soul theory, The Kaybalion and Hermes Trismegistus, and more. I’m also told that the goetic demon that we have compelled to do our podcast editing makes an appearance too, so stick around this is Against all oddities.
Episode 47 - Halloween 2022
Thank you for choosing to listen to the Against All Oddities, Halloween Special 2022. To honor the official start of spooky season, we have placed on our offering dish to you listeners, a collection of spooky stories that we gathered while dressed collectively as Kenny Rogers (more on that later)… We start this episode off talking about the magical brass bell that we recently cast together, and made from scratch. Then we spend some time diving into some folklore surrounding the devil and the tradecraft of yesteryear. Our closer, this dark and gloomy autumn night, is a collection of ghost stories as told from Nate’s haunted backyard. Folks this one is a keeper, so hurry up and grab another handful of that candy you bought for tricker treaters, because this is Against All Oddities.
Episode 46 - The Monkey's Paw
Today’s episode is about the dreaded and mysterious Monkey’s Paw and the concept of the corrupted wish. Join us as we briefly discuss the appearance of the monkey’s paw in western pop culture after which we attempt to “paw” each other’s wishes. If that weren’t enough to wet your oddities whistle, this episode also features a revisit to our last episode on shadow people with some listener contributions that you don’t want to miss. So in true monkey paw fashion we advise you to not meddle with fate, and listen to this episode!
Episode 45 - Shadow People (ft. The Neatcast)
We have a very very special end-of-summer episode for you because not only are we talking about Shadow People but Jeremy and Zack from The Neatcast join us to discuss this super interesting topic. We obviously talk in length about shadow people, Sleep Paralysis, and trans-dimensional beings but we also dip our toes in the cool waters of ancient aliens, Göbekli Tepe, Joro spiders, Running the puppy, the Dog-man and Domentor sniffing to name a few. The cherry on top this shadowy Sunday Smörgåsbord are several particularly haunting personal and true ghost stories told by Tim and Jeremy. This one is a keeper folks so turn off your lights, relax into to a meditative state and ignore those floating shadowy figures above you, because this is Against All Oddities!
Episode 44 - The Monroe Institute
On this episode of Against All Oddities we are talking about the Monroe institute. What is the Monroe institute you ask, Why, it’s just the world leader in human consciousness exploration. Founded in the early 1970s as an educational and research organization by Robert A. Monroe and has a large campus based in Faber Virginia. To spice this episode up even further, Nate enrolled in their program and just got back after spending the last week hooked up to their machines and methodologies. We have a ton of questions for him and he gave us a ton of answers and then some. We talk about the Monroe institute, consciousness, remote viewing, Joseph McMoneagle, Project Stargate, brain waves, the hive mind, the Vietnam War, shamans, and the magical war of England. So stick around and found out how deep the rabbit hole went for Nate.
Episode 43 - Intuition
In case you didn’t read our show’s meta-data we are a philosophy and comedy talk podcast, and although it is impossible to forget that we are hilarious it does occasionally get missed that we are also interested in the many weird, wonderful, and odd modes of thought out there. So in true AAO form we give you a delightful episode on the concept of Intuition. Obviously our conversations covers a lot of things from toe movement, sad cats, bad instincts, and aliens for good measure.
Episode 42 - Road Trips
On today’s episode we’ll be traveling down some conceptually treacherous roads as we explore the meaning of “the roadtrip”. We discuss many things including Crawfish Swarms, The Pink man of West Virginia, Peanut butter toilets, long distance biking, creepy motels, south of the border, the Sheline’s remix, the state of Florida, Marshal McLuhan and Joseph Campbell and everything in between. So grab your gear and jump on shotgun, this is Against All Oddities.
Episode 41 - Backrooms
You must have turned on “no clipping” because you found it, the AAO episode on backrooms. Of course when we say backrooms we’re mainly just talking about secret rooms as we have experienced them in our complicated and mystical lives. In true Against All Oddities fashion we cover a lot of ground here, from George Washington’s toenail clippings, to cave systems, OTO temples, Freemasonry, decapitated hands, hidden grave yards, and nihilism. You found us so you might as well stick around and see how deep this dark room goes.
Episode 40 - Consciousness
Today we will be talking about the many nodes of human consciousness within the great simulation. Yes, this is a big one so join us as we dive as deep as meager monkey perception will allow us to go. We cover a lot of topics in a short amount of time including binaural frequencies, astral projection, hypnotism, out of body experience, the matrix, lucid dreaming and 3rd grade plays. So strap in because you are the universe experiencing itself and this is against all oddities.
Episode 39 - Treasure
This episode of Against All Oddities is all about the concept of treasure, and the treasure adjacent. We aren’t just talking about simple trinkets here, we cover all sorts of stuff related to treasure including Joseph Campbell, Jacques Lacan, the Repressed/Subconscious, Tolkien, The ark of the Covenant, Oak Island, and the lost city of Atlantis, to name but just a few of the golden nuggets of wisdom buried within this very episode.
Episode 38 - Resolutions
On this episode of Against All Oddities we’ll be talking about New Year Resolutions. Obviously we thoroughly cover the cultural oddity that is the New Year Resolution but this episode is so much more than that. We talk about systems of motivation, Death, Cheddar Brats, Edgar Cayce, Tony Robbins, The Source Family, and we even get into the subject of Goth Ska. We have it all, so make a resolute attempt at listening to this episode of Against All Oddities.
Episode 37 - Curse-Mas Special 2021
This episode is the official Against All Oddities Curse-Mas special.
So what’s a Curse-Mas special you ask? Why, its an episode entirely dedicated to the art of hexing and cursing and just so happens to also be the winter holiday season of course! So Stick around and listen to the brothers discuss all things Curse-as. As usually we get into a little bit of everything from the rule of three, Wicca vs traditional witchcraft, movies about curses and cursed movies, topped off with a couple of personal anecdotes about curses that started it all. So join us as we get into the spirit of giving, curses that is, this is against all oddities.
Episode 36 - Fails
Your eyes did not deceive you this episode of against all oddities really is all about failure. Is the subject of failing really an oddity? Well when you're as successful as we are, failure sure can feel like an oddity.
This extremely humbling episode features hilarious stories of personal failure including tales of electrocution, fire work disasters, British engineering, and the lost art of self body-piercing amongst many others. Between the three of us, we've messed up just about everything, so stick around and hear the juicy details.
Episode 35 - Halloween 2021
Well, It’s that spooky time of year again and although we here at Against All Oddities celebrate halloween all year long, we appreciate the importance this season may have for all of you muggles out there who only dress up as wizards and ghouls once a year.
This year we aim to honor and celebrate Samhain by telling some spooky stories and by dropping some death bombs (more on that later). So stick around while we talk about black eyed children, haunted Richmond, death by turnips, and so much more. When you are ready simply lift the veil, pass the guardian at the threshold, and follow us a little further down the rabbit hole.
Episode 34: Stargate (1978-1995)
On this episode we talk about project Stargate [no not the 1994 classic sci-fi adventure starring Kurt Russell and James spader...tho we do recommend you watch that….] the secret, now defunct, CIA program. This program was de-classified in 1995 after 17 years of doing some really interesting experiments with remote viewing and physic espionage. We talk about all sorts of things related to these topics, Tim reads our favorite remote viewing account from the Stargate project and Chris shows off his astral projection abilities in real time. So please; swallow the rest of your entheogen, climb into your sensory deprivation tank, and crank up the volume because this is against all oddities.
Episode 33: Time
Welcome to against all oddities. The podcast about three brothers coming to terms with the oddly true and the truthfully odd.
Today’s episode focuses on the oddity that is the experience and perception of time. Be warned that this episode of against all oddities is a little bit different than normal and may very well blow your mind. As a way to illustrate the enigmatic nature of time we decided to break the fourth wall of podcasting by recording our conversation in the past, present and future. So the first part of the episode Tim and Nate converse about the nature of time along with a future version of Chris who inserted himself back in time with Nate and Tim. The second half of the podcast all three brothers engage in conversation about time simultaneously. This episode is also available on our YouTube channel, so if your brain can’t handle the complexities of time theories via our podcast then you can try watching our discussion and it may make more sense, and if it still doesn’t then “Don’t try to understand it”