CQ: The keyboard and mouse are truly ancient tools for getting information into a computer, but touchscreens, cameras and microphones aren’t really all that efficient (or sophisticated enough). So, what would be another way of communicating with your computer? Or are keyboard and mouse “enough”?

On the show this week:

• A Hive of Scum and Villiany
• Ruining it for the rest of us

Full list of articles after the jump!

• A Hive of Scum and Villiany:
  • Well, I guess I *won’t* be the first, then, if I won my millions of dollars..: Digital Trends – Seattle ‘supervillain’ Rex Velvet issues another warning video
  • Gotta remind myself: “If it’s too good — or too BAD — to be true, it probably is.”: Yahoo! – Vengeful teeth-pulling dentist story deemed a hoax
  • Now *that* is evil! Or dangerous. I mean, it could have been HOT coffee..: Metro – Robber holds up Manchester newsagent with a cup of black coffee
  • I guess this is a duplicate story. I couldn’t be bothered to check, as I was updating my Facebook status to “I’m an idiot”.: Metro – New Jersey town begins issuing $85 fines for texting while walking
  • Everyone knows that the ultimate evil is the one we do while obsessed with ourselves and ignorant of others..: The Huffington Post – Dangerous Walking: Fort Lee, New Jersey Cracks Down On Walking While Texting
  • Having a hard time to figure out which ones are the bad guys are here..: STV – Man dressed as penguin receives more votes than the Liberal Democrats
  • Obviously, it was leaking secrets to Twitter..: BBC – Turkey villagers see Israeli spy in migratory bird
  • Just the kind of place to plot all sorts of Bond-level-villiany!: The UK Telegraph – Cafe full of cats opens in Vienna
  • Well, *someone* got screwed on this deal..: BBC – Thieves take ?11,000 of sex toys in Stourport-on-Severn
  • Oh sure: you think sexbots. But I’m thinking Austin Powers’ greatest foes. YEAAAH Baby! YeaAAH!: The Sydney Morning Herald – Sex, droids and the future of love
  • Crazed animal? Really peeved bigfoot? Gigantic kitty who just wants to play with the funny-sounding fluffballs?: The UK Telegraph – ‘Beast of Bont returns’ as 20 sheep found massacred
  • Hoaxing is the origianal trolling, and we all know how much we like that on the Internet..: Metro – Animal footprint shoes, including Bigfoot, leave ‘mystery’ tracks in snow
  • (EXTRA) But it was like TOTALLY safe from supervilliany..: Democrat and Chronicle – Did you know? Kodak Park had a nuclear reactor
• Ruining it for the rest of us:
  • Great, now I’m going to look rather silly if I complain about my hotel room or the drive to Balticon..: Orange – World’s oldest backpacker, 95
  • Wisdom before youth, booby traps before bullets..: Orange – Elderly ‘Rambo’ blocks developers
  • He really _does_ make it look easy. I get tired just _watching_ a marathon, and I can’t even juggle my schedule! Or geese…: Orange – Man completes triathlon – juggling
  • I’m a little concern that it seems to be moving.. Look closer.. But no too close!: Metro – Students construct 15ft sculpture with chewing gum
  • Turns out, social networks spread information, and information is an emotional virus..: The Sydney Morning Herald – No need to get hysterical but networkers show side effects
  • (EXTRA) Beware of false positives..: The UK Telegraph – Women really do have a ‘gaydar’
  • Our own minds are lying to us. It makes you want to just punch your brain!: io9 – The emotional illusion that makes the future (and the past) look so rosy
  • (EXTRA) Look ma, no hands!: io9 – Could this photograph change the future?
  • Every other person who hits a moose now will look downright wimpy now.: CBC News – What moose? Woman can’t recall dramatic collision
  • As if it was hard enough avoiding all the historical landmarks in the dirt, now we must also consider the walls, too!: The UK Telegraph – Banksy artwork destroyed by Melbourne builder
  • (EXTRA) It does give one pause on the erection of pubic art..: Austrian Independent – Giant penis is blown up
  • (EXTRA) Just demonstrating that we’ve either a) always been a little pervy, or b) are much more uptight about things these days..: The Sydney Morning Herald/New York Times/AFP – Cave women in a different light
  • The end of sweets, or the beginning of the “pacification through candy” movement?: Yahoo!/AFP – Sugar can make you dumb, US scientists warn
  • The real evil is in thinking that the world isn’t trying to kill you, apparently..: The New York Times – Doubt Cast on the ‘Good’ in ‘Good Cholesterol’
  • He laughs about it, but we’ll all cry when the space station program is shut down due to budget overruns in dealing with spam flyers in the mail..: New Scientist – How to send a letter to the International Space Station
  • (EXTRA) Dissecting a television show documentary, and finding it has no guts, no head and an artificial heart.: The Smithsonian – The Idiocy, Fabrications and Lies of Ancient Aliens
  • (EXTRA) Demonstrating that a supposed “trusted” figure in media can also be victim to the intermediaries of message.: The Herald Tribune – Sorry I looked….

If you are going to be at Balticon, by all means, say hello! I’ll be the one with the badge that says “ENCAF1″.

And if you come up to me and say, “I’ve got a weird story for you”, I’ll whip out my recordedr(time permitting) and we’ll talk. You’d probably actually have something to talk about at that point. You’ve heard the show, you know how far I wander. It can be a weird sighting, a Strange Encounter, an odd take on the world, a challenging perspective, most anything.

I’m looking to capture some audio for an episode coming up, and I’m even willing to bribe you for it: I’ll give you an official TWS sticker! There are only about 14 of these in existence, so you will be nearly unique.

CQ: If you could go to one and only one weird or geeky or brainy or creative conference, convention or gathering, anywhere in the world, where would it be, and why? If it helps, consider that time travel is also an option..

Promo: Every Photo Tells – A picture-inspired short-story audio podcast, this month featuring a novelette one of their photos inspired me to tell: “Tainted Roses”.

Promo: The Cutting Room Floor – A movie & TV review radio show, hilarious.

On the show this week:

• Feedback
• Front Page
• Ye Olde Stuffe
• Extras

Full list of articles after the jump!

• Feedback:
  • Imagine: a public service which *owns* books and *lends* them to people! Unthinkable! Inconceivable!: Boing Boing – Libraries set out to own their ebooks
• Front Page:
  • The truth about several “lies to children” that we can be let in on now..: Stepcase Lifehack – 9 Childhood Rules Best Forgotten by Adults
  • Basically, we got less optimistic and a little more right.: io9 – How our predictions for the Year 2000 changed throughout the 20th Century
  • An old list (2003) about what we already knew too much about..: NEWS of the WEIRD – NO LONGER WEIRD
  • It’s a little like saying, “If you don’t stoppit: BANGZOOM! To the moon, Alice!”: The Japan Times – ‘Population clock’ forecasts no children after year 3011
  • Finally, something we can all agree on. I, for one, encourage us all to create new food packaging out of bread.: BBC – Sandwich celebrates 250th anniversary of the sandwich
  • Let’s face it: social networks kinda smell already..: BBC – Perfume-puffing robot sniffs out social media mentions
  • Really, they just got to the later record far earlier than their opponents, because they moved at the speed of light..: technology review/The Physics arXiv Blog – Chinese Physicists Smash Distance Record For Teleportation
• Ye Olde Stuffe:
  • I wrote a card, but it’s all blacked out;: Mysterious Universe – UFOs: MJ12 Reaches 25!
  • Iceland sounds like a very interesting place, and the people might just be gentler than anyone else..: Iceland Review – Icelandic MP Moves Elves’ Boulder to His Home
  • His *physical* health.: Iceland Review – Icelandic Elf School Principal Concerned for MP’s Health
  • I didn’t really know this, but I probably saw it once. The mystery deepens.. into the hole.. which they dug..: ThinkBox – Easter island heads have bodies!??
  • If everything passes away, do we have the requirement — or even the right — to preserve it? Aren’t we just being hoarders?: BBC – Nepal’s mystery language on the verge of extinction
• Extras:
  • (EXTRA) It always amuses me to see people building technology now as the “vision of the future” that was predicted or suggested by science fiction decades ago..: New Scientist – Interactive ‘wallpaper’ screens are the future of TV
  • (EXTRA) Would we really expect anyone to consider the evidence more closely if we compound it with another technique which is itself not widely trusted?: Cryptomundo – Is It Time To Revisit Hypnotizing Bigfoot Witnesses?
  • (EXTRA) It makes me wonder if my underwear will be worth something someday..: Orange – ‘Queen’s knickers’ up for grabs on eBay
  • (EXTRA) This just means we could have had rocket sleds earlier.. and that Iron Sky is a documentary.: io9 – Did the Germans launch a crewed rocket into space in 1933?

CQ: With the seemingly inevitable eBook revolution transforming where books ‘live’, what will become of the beautiful public space that once was the library? Will they disappear entirely, becoming a footnote like the fax machine? Transform into some other form of collective center? Or will they become museums?

Promo: Nutty Bites!

On the show this week:

• Front Page
• That Is Not Dead, Which Can Forever Hide
• Fauxrarri and Whycycles
• Space For Rent
• Two Loaves Of History
• Extras

Full list of 35 articles after the jump!

• Front Page:
  • Absolutely not! All scientists are robots…: New Scientist – Does literature impact what scientists study?
  • NOT tweeted during the operation: “All done! Hey, anyone seen my watch?”: Metro – Houston Hospital live-tweets brain surgery to 14million users
  • Because all the adults had given up solving the problem..: Orange – Schoolgirl entrepreneur cures hiccups
  • Necessity is the mother of (bad) invention..: Orange – The world’s coolest bra?
  • And sometimes, people just have a bad idea that demonstrates the decadence of society.: The Huffington Post – Dominic Deville, An Evil Birthday Clown, Stalks Your Child For A Fee
  • Oh, come on, now! Who *does* this? #futureIgNobelPrizeWinner: io9 – These robotic butt-cheeks respond to slaps, caresses, and pokes
  • In the future, we will *all* be named by computers..: New Scientist – AI branding automates the brainstorm
  • A life is not the machinery which carries it, but the story which motivates it…: Lifehacker – Embrace the Supernatural: How Superstitions, Placebos and Rituals Help You to Achieve Your Goals
• That Is Not Dead, Which Can Forever Hide:
  • On the heels of the controversy, Texas gives the non-committal shrug of non-disapproval.: Cryptomundo – Texas Says It Is Legal To Kill Bigfoot
  • An alternative view, indicating that one must actually check Bigfoot’s papers before shooting them..: Fox News – Killing Bigfoot OK in Texas — if he’s Texan
  • But then again, if actually faced with a Bigfoot, will you be too scared to fire — or too scared *not* to fire?: The Examiner – ‘To Kill Or Not To Kill’ Interview with Bigfoot killer Justin Smeja
  • (EXTRA) A great roundup of just how far the myth of Bigfoot has travelled — regardless of whether it is a biological creature or not.: Bigfoot Evidence – The Fantastical Abilities of Sasquatch, UFO’s, Forest People & The Cain Connection
  • (EXTRA) The real reason that Bigfoot hasn’t been found: because humans can be petty.: Bigfoot Evidence – Minnesota Bigfoot Howl Removed From SoundCloud, Bigfoot World Shows Its True Colors
  • (EXTRA) Also possible: wood.: Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy – Possible Wood Ape Photos From Central Oklahoma
• Fauxrarri and Whycycles:
  • (EXTRA) His Fauxrarri makes me want to take a picture of an iPhone and put as the background of an Android phone..: Orange – Man paints himself a classic sportscar
  • An alternative way to have your Fauxrarri..: Metro – Pimp my cycle ride: Beautiful Ferrari actually a bike
  • Pretty soon, the cars won’t need us at all!: BBC – Google gets Nevada driving licence for self-drive car
  • It wouldn’t work for me, because I doubt I’d want to cycle for the commercials..: The UK Telegraph – Hotel installs bicycle-powered television
• Space For Rent:
  • Why the sudden rush for the stars? Do they know something we don’t, or is it just the next gold rush/tech bubble?: New Scientist – Silicon Valley reaches for the sky
  • You ever have a leather project you’re working on and suddenly realize that you need a small, circular patch of raw leather?: Dodge County News – Farmer’s cow is mysteriously mutilated
  • Some people are murderers. All murderers are human. Therefore, all humans are murderers. — Beware bad logic in scientific pronouncements..: The Huffington Post – ‘Alien Abduction’ Research Suggests Episodes Are Actually Lucid Dreams
  • Or maybe we made the whole thing up! Maybe UFOs are the most widely spread false belief since the “round earth” theory!: Follow The Magic Thread blog – Flying Saucers – The Greatest Lie Ever Told
  • (EXTRA) How often do we really think about the fact that our whole solar system is not standing still, but is moving throughout the galaxy?: New Scientist – Sun too sluggish to act as a cosmic Concorde
  • (EXTRA) Best point of this article: if we still find these terrestrial animals odd, how will we *ever* deal with aliens?: Metro – Mysterious blob filmed by remote-controlled capsule baffles online users
  • (EXTRA) While it has been identified, it’s no less unusual.: Orange – ‘Sea monster’ video goes viral
• Two Loaves Of History:
  • (EXTRA) Maybe it says: “I PROMISE I WILL NOT DRAW ON THE UNUSED CLAY” one hundred times..: New Scientist – Unknown language found stamped in ancient clay tablet
  • (EXTRA) According to the latest evidence, the universe is set to continue, at least until the next civilization turns up the computer hard drives buried in the sands of times..: New Scientist – Maya astronomical tables found daubed on wall
  • (EXTRA) It turns out they might just have gone left..: The UK Telegraph – Ancient map gives clue to fate of ‘Lost Colony’
  • (EXTRA) Most think he wants to be thought of as ferocious, but he really just wants to put his tiny arms in proportion..: Orange – Man changes name to Tyrannosaurus Rex
  • (EXTRA) Cows fart (a lot). Dinosaurs are like big cows, and probably also farted, also bigger. Conclusion: the past was a smelly place!: BBC – Dinosaur gases ‘warmed the Earth’
  • (EXTRA) Well, they may not have *exactly* been extinct *before* we met the creatures, but *after*? … Oops.: Phenomenica/PTI – Early Americans lived alongside extinct giant beasts
• Extras:
  • (EXTRA) It comes down to the angle of the spin, and possibly the phase of the moon or something..: New Scientist – Roulette beater spills physics behind victory
  • (EXTRA) Proving once and for all, either: a) royalty really are qualified enough to step in for *any* job they choose to, or b) weather forecasters are a replaceable lot..: Orange – ‘Long to rain over us’
  • (EXTRA) Perhaps the sign outside the town will say “Welcome to SouthWest World”.: The Washington Post/AP – Mayor: New Mexico city on “world stage” after being chosen as site for scientific ghost town
  • (EXTRA) Methinks there should be some outside people brought into the village..: The UK Telegraph – Bungay vs Bungay – all 22 football players share the same name

CQ: How do we strike a balance between “open-minded” and “skeptic”, between “I know what I saw/experienced” and “I know only what I can prove”? How do we teach science without cynicism?

On the show this week:

• Front Page
• It Came From The Sea! The Sky! On Land!
• It Came From Space! The Stars!
• Extras

Full list of 54 articles after the jump!

• Front Page:
  • However, like *all* vacations, the trouble isn’t while you are away, it’s when you get back..: PhysOrg – Email ‘vacations’ decrease stress, increase concentration, researchers say
  • Is it all about “me”? I asked an expert on this — myself — and we could come to no satisfying answer before we got bored.: New Scientist – The curse of Generation Me
  • File this under “You’re Doing It Wrong”..: The Switzerland Local – Swiss woman starved after ‘eating’ only light
  • Time for a movie remake! Instead of “Oh God, You Devil!”, it will be “Yo Dog, You Devilin’!”: The UK Daily Mail – Woman with GOD tattooed across her forehead arrested for stalking (and calls herself the Godologist of Godology online)
  • I think this may just be a clever scam to be able to declare all porn “potential terrorist documents” and confiscate it..: Yahoo!/The Lookout – Al-Qaida porn: Terror group hid plans in sex video, reports say
  • What You See Is What No One Gets Right (WYSIWNOGR): Freakonomics – Messing With Memory
  • Once again, a prime example of someone seeing illusions. In this case, someone who sees the illusion that any one human trait explains away *all* evidence and experience.. Or is that “delusion”?: io9 – An Optical Illusion that Explains the Origins of Imaginary Monsters
  • Maybe we can only hear it with our *socialist* third ear?: ABC – Mysterious ‘Hum’ Only Canadians Can Hear Is Debated
  • You, too, will be able to talk to your friends and colleages as if they are trapped in a foggy bacta tank!: PhysOrg – Life-size 3-D hologram-like telepods may revolutionize videoconferencing in the future
  • Repeat after me: “machines do only what we tell them to”. Only when machines come up with things on their own *entirely* will we start to get worried for the creatives..: New Scientist – Robot string quintet composes and performs music
  • Is sorta sounds like a rejected plotline for an episode..: The Huffington Post/Reuters – Nude Motel: Fawlty Towers Motel Becomes Naked Resort To Bolster Bottom Line
  • Well, world’s first tour inside a volcano *that you can survive*, perhaps.. Although I think I already went on this ride at Disney..: The UK Telegraph – Iceland offers world’s first tour inside a volcano
  • Bad ideas can come in small scale..: The UK Mirror – Dwarf Empire: The controversial theme park where little people put on shows for tourists
  • Somehow, I think I like this story of the “little guy taking a stand” a bit more..: Metro – Motorway construction thwarted by stubborn elderly couple’s house
  • And some bad ideas tip the scales (and fall over).: The UK Telegraph – Australian billionaire to build Titanic II
• It Came From The Sea! The Sky! On Land!:
  • (EXTRA) Occupy Intake Valve?: ABC – Jellyfish-Like Organisms Shut Down California Power Plant
  • (EXTRA) The uprise has begun! Flee for the hills not bordering the sea!: Birdfellow Blog – Who’s up for lunch? A Gull-eating Octopus in Victoria, BC
  • (EXTRA) Seriously, it’s a friggin’ sea invasion! Although all I can think about right now is barbequeing one of those monsters..: CNN – Scientists: Giant cannibal shrimp invasion growing
  • (EXTRA) Looks like the real winners here are the two-legged anthropods.. Take that, you cephalapod intruders!: Metro – Squiddly dot? It’s a winner at national squid catching championship
  • (EXTRA) See? It’s happening again!: ScienceDaily – Jurassic Pain: Giant ‘Flea-Like’ Insects Plagued Dinosaurs 165 Million Years Ago
  • Why does the idea of the Loch Ness Monster being a shark rather than a serpent make it seem a whole lot more scary?: Alaska Dispatch – Nessie of the North: Is Alaska’s Iliamna Lake monster a huge sleeper shark?
  • Next: dung beetles to find chupacabras, perhaps..: Bigfoot Evidence – Using Leeches To Find Bigfoot
  • It’s a weird philosophical conundrum: do you defend the theoretical life of an unknown beast, or do you do whatever it takes to prove they existed?: Cryptomundo – Taking a Stand Against Killing Bigfoot
  • (EXTRA) Turns out bird brains may just be biological computers..: BBC – Magnetic fields light up ‘GPS neurons’, scientists say
  • (EXTRA) Life is not about having the partner you want, but perhaps the partner you need.. Or can get.: The Record – Bear necessities produce hybrid beast
  • When there are no more animals to hunt, we *will* apparently just hunt each other.. We are, after all, “the most dangerous game”..: Orange – Paintball fox hunters dodge ban
  • (EXTRA) How do you tell the power of a storm? By how far it flings your crap!: BBC – Tsunami survivor claims Harley-Davidson found in Canada
• It Came From Space! The Stars!:
  • It sounds outrageous, but is there any real way to invalidate his claims? (Probably, but until we do, we can’t simply say “they’re wrong”. That’s bad science.): The Huffington Post – Seattle Attorney Andrew Basiago Claims U.S. Sent Him On Time Travels (VIDEO)
  • A short biography for the guy who has been everywhen..: Project Pegasus – Andrew D. Basiago (bio)
  • In order to satisfy entropy and keep the total mass of things in the universe constant, I can only assume that the balance was removed from my bank account. It makes a certain kind of (annoying) sense..: Unknown source: – Are We Visiting US from the Future or is it all Alien Intrusion ?
  • (EXTRA) Does the large number of abductee claimants have any impact on whether we investigate?: The UK Daily Mail – Our close encounters: Meet the alien abductees – and the pictures they drew to prove they weren’t imagining it all…
  • A generally unhelpful and scornful jab at abductee claimers from a prominent outspoken scientist..: Gizmodo – How To Prove You’ve Been Abducted by Aliens
  • (EXTRA) A confused rant against the possibility of a singularity, apparently inspired by *not* getting an interview with a singularity proponent.: The Secret Sun blog – We Interupt this Singularity…
  • (EXTRA) Is it really possible that the term “little green men” is simply an earlier example of a viral idea propogation based on a slip of the tongue?: Forteania – Little Green Meme?
  • (EXTRA) Yeah, but which came first: the egg or the.. uh.. Mars?: Phenomenica/ANI – Egg-shaped globule could be evidence of life on Mars
  • (EXTRA) Well, we might have.. In a move very much in keeping with early humanity’s clumsy discoveries of the natural world (and its gustatory demands), we may have cooked it — although we did not eat it, so we’ve evolved. A bit.: ABC Australia/Discovery News – Mars Viking robots ‘found life’
  • (EXTRA) Wait, now we’re *not* finding life there?: New Scientist – No aliens on Mars? No problem, we will look elsewhere
  • (EXTRA) Sadly, for most this won’t even rank up in the top 100 of “things I have to see before I die” lists..: Phenomenica/ANI – Venus to cross sun’s face in a lifetime event
  • (EXTRA) Apparently, Venus isn’t the only thing crossing the sun.. Also: does this count as a “machine illusion”?: The Huffington Post – UFO Near The Sun: Curious NASA Photo Stirs Debate
  • (EXTRA) I think it’s closer to the lotto, but still not as good as getting repeatedly struck by lightning..: Yahoo!/Space.com – Odds of Finding Alien Life Boosted by Billions of Habitable Worlds
  • (EXTRA) Turns out, it was the same thing that will eventually rend us extinct: bad television reruns.: Archeology News Network – New evidence argues against prehistoric extraterrestrial impact event
• Extras:
  • (EXTRA) DNA is a finite coding system, so theoretically, we could express all possible combinations at any time..: New Scientist – Blond hair evolved independently in Pacific islands
  • (EXTRA) Obviously, he ran up against Sherrif Vader..: The Huffington Post – Obiwan Kenobi Charged With Hit And Run In Roseville
  • (EXTRA) Even older than Keith Richards’!: BBC – Oetzi the Iceman’s blood is world’s oldest
  • (EXTRA) Almost as if they were trained..: Archeology News Network – Roman artefacts churned up by moles
  • (EXTRA) I would imagine your legs falling asleep after a while.. And where do they hang the magazines to read?: Metro – Record breaker ‘Jenson Bottom’ is the fastest motorised toilet racer on earth
  • (EXTRA) Some symbols just need to be built.: Metro – Who ya gonna call? Fan restores Cadillac as real-life Ghostbusters car
  • (EXTRA) Other symbols… Are infesting the world like a mold or a virus..: Metro – Hello Kitty, goodbye sanity: EVA Air launches themed aircraft and check-in
  • (EXTRA) Turns out, you don’t have to *actually* break the speed of light, you can just *pretend* to..: PhysOrg – Researchers develop new way to generate superluminal pulses
  • (EXTRA) It’s a view that very well could cause you to s**t yourself..: Orange – The world’s scariest toilet?
  • (EXTRA) I always knew that humanity would sink lower on the food chain relative to apes, but I never anticipating to kiss their asses..: Orange – Zoo keeper shows amazing dedication
  • (EXTRA) Apparently, it’s only targetted on those born in the 1990s. So, I’m good.. Ladies? : Orange – Cable car sex ban introduced
  • (EXTRA) Hint: it doesn’t involve a lot of delicate spices. Or marinating.: New Scientist/CultureLab – How to cook like a caveman
  • (EXTRA) Well, they *do* say that the key to tackling big tasks is to first *visualize*, but I don’t think they had this in mind..: Metro – Chinese man disgusts crowds by pulling 1.6-ton car with eye sockets

Thanks to all who could join us for Strange Encounters! Here’s part 2 of the recording of the show.

In this hour:

• Part 1 & 2 of a pre-taped interview with Loren Coleman, creator of the International Cryptozoology Museum; only the 1st part made it to air!
• All 3 parts of the guest spots by George, Al and Bill Foot

A HUGE thanks goes out to the Paranormal Researchers of Fredericton (PROF), and especially to Ollie, Bondo and Marvin, who made this idea come to life. Also thanks to Redshirt Ryan of Where Monsters Dwell, my friend Re and John of PROF.

We will be doing more Strange Encounters episodes! Stay tuned for announcements.

In the meantime, send your Strange Encounters, comments, praise, questions, etc, to:

Facebook: facebook.com/StrangeEncountersCHSR
Twitter: twitter.com/theweirdshow
weirdshow[at]gmail.com
206-203-2292 (voicemail)

Thanks to all who could join us for Strange Encounters! Here’s part 2 of the recording of the show.

In this hour:

• Part 1 of our live interview with Stanton Friedman
• Part 3 of the guest spots by George, Al and Bill Foot
• The conclusion of the live show

REMEMBER: there is still one more part to be put online, which is the full-hour interview with Loren Coleman of the International Cryptozoological Museum!

A HUGE thanks goes out to the Paranormal Researchers of Fredericton (PROF), and especially to Ollie, Bondo and Marvin, who made this idea come to life. Also thanks to Redshirt Ryan of Where Monsters Dwell, my friend Re and John of PROF.

We will be doing more Strange Encounters episodes! Stay tuned for announcements.

In the meantime, send your Strange Encounters, comments, praise, questions, etc, to:

Facebook: facebook.com/StrangeEncountersCHSR
Twitter: twitter.com/theweirdshow
weirdshow[at]gmail.com
206-203-2292 (voicemail)

Thanks to all who could join us for Strange Encounters! Here’s part 2 of the recording of the show.

In this hour:

• Part 1 & 2 of a pre-taped interview with Alexandra Holzer that did not make it to air!
• Part 1 of our live interview with Stanton Friedman
• Part 1 and 2 of 3 of the guest spots by George, Al and Bill Foot

A HUGE thanks goes out to the Paranormal Researchers of Fredericton (PROF), and especially to Ollie, Bondo and Marvin, who made this idea come to life. Also thanks to Redshirt Ryan of Where Monsters Dwell, my friend Re and John of PROF.

We will be doing more Strange Encounters episodes! Stay tuned for announcements.

In the meantime, send your Strange Encounters, comments, praise, questions, etc, to:

Facebook: facebook.com/StrangeEncountersCHSR
Twitter: twitter.com/theweirdshow
weirdshow[at]gmail.com
206-203-2292 (voicemail)

Thanks to all who could join us for Strange Encounters! Here’s part 1 of the recording of the show.

In this hour:

• Part 1 of a pre-taped interview with Jeff Belanger
• A live interview with Nathan Schoonover
• Part 1 of 3 of the guest spots by George, Al and Bill Foot
• Part 2 of the pre-taped interview with Jeff Belanger

A HUGE thanks goes out to the Paranormal Researchers of Fredericton (PROF), and especially to Ollie, Bondo and Marvin, who made this idea come to life. Also thanks to Redshirt Ryan of Where Monsters Dwell, my friend Re and John of PROF.

We will be doing more Strange Encounters episodes! Stay tuned for announcements.

In the meantime, send your Strange Encounters, comments, praise, questions, etc, to:

Facebook: facebook.com/StrangeEncountersCHSR
Twitter: twitter.com/theweirdshow
weirdshow[at]gmail.com
206-203-2292 (voicemail)

Tomorrow night, tune in to CHSR-FM 97.9 in Fredericton or the online stream at chsrfm.ca to hear the show! We’ll give out the call-in number during the show, but if you want to phone in your Strange Encounter call 206-203-2292 and leave a message, or email weirdshow[at]gmail.com with your story.

As a result of this being on Friday night, I’m not likely to have time for a regular TWS episode for Saturday morning. Some of the material from the Strange Encounters special might make it on the podcast, but tune in live for the  real experience.

You see, this isn’t just about doing a great show. Sure, that’s what I’m intending to do, but this is also about raising money for my adopted home, the campus/community radio station CHSR-FM. I’ve been a volunteer here for over a dozen years, and now work here every day. I believe in the power of radio, and the great role in the community that we play as a hub of communication. If you’ve enjoyed my show, give a good portion of the credit to the station that allowed me to create it, and donate to our station’s Fundrive. Thank you.

See you on Friday night!  8pm AST/GMT-4, 7pm EST