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...

Thank you for choosing to listen to the Against All Oddities, Halloween Special 2022. In honor of the official start to 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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

On today’s episode we’ll be traveling down some conceptually treacherous roads as we explore the meaning of “the road trip”.  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.

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...

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.

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, and 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.

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. 

This episode is the official Against All Oddities Curse-Mas special. 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...

This extremely humbling episode features hilarious stories of personal failure including tales of electrocution, fireworks disasters, British engineering, and the lost art of self body-piercing, amongst others. Between the three of us, we've messed up just about everything, so stick around and hear the juicy details.

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...

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...

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...

Today’s episode will focus on Stephen King. However, we here at the Against all oddities mega-corporation are not your average Steven king fanboys. So join us for a discussion that includes references to the Dark Tower series, Carrie, Creep show, Cat’s Eye, The Shining, Cujo, The long Walk and Talisman, but stay for our unique and mystical insight into, The early works of John Bellairs, H.P. Lovecraft, The Multiverse and fear itself.

Today we’ll be talking about teeth, those odd little pointing things that we store in our mouths…well most of us anyways. We also tell a sad cat story and discuss the benefits of punching one’s younger brother in the face during childhood. This episode is our 31 episode and is episode 1 of season 4. We classify everything as season 1, however secretly this is our 4th season and to celebrate we have posted the video version of this podcast on our site. So for our super fans out there you can...

The theme of todays episode is unexplained aerial phenomena and it’s a doozy! We cover everything from U.A.P.s and U.S.O.s to Chaos Magick and Robert Vince. 

Today we will be splashing headfirst  into the concept of icebreakers. We’re not sure what the bigger oddity, the complexities of human social interaction, or the fact that all three Carroll brothers are master icebreakers.

On this episode the brothers talk about the oddity that is human beings desperately trying to transmute their fear of death by preserving and posing the bodies of dead animals, a.k.a, taxidermy. Be warned we do talk about some slightly graphic things in this episode so listener discretion, is advised. This is Against all Oddities.

Today on Against All Oddities we’re talking about the oddity that is modern advertising. Coincidentally, our budgetary overlords over at Dorftrottel Innovations is threatening to pull all of our funding if we don’t ramp up production on new advertising for Dorftrottel Paranormal insurance. So in order to both appease and mock those fascists wizards at Dorftrottel, we’re inviting you, the listener, behind the scenes as we "flesh" out some new advertising ideas as well as talk about the...

The subject of today’s episode is Bad Samaritan and we’ll be talking with chef, author, former Richmond native, and current New Orleans based samaritan, Dan Mills.  And for all you squares and bean counters out there who don’t think today’s subject is an actual oddity, well then I have news for you, everything is an oddity, there are only shades of grey, the rivers are dark, the ocean is deep, and the cosmos infinite.

Today is the winter solstice and no Pagan holiday, rite, or activity is complete, without Eggnog. In light of this fact, we have decided to dedicate this entire episode to talking about eggnog, and it’s many do’s and don’ts. So let us lift the eggy vail of your noggy ignorance as this episode may very well challenge consensus reality itself.

On Todays episode of against all oddities we will be making updates and corrections to all of our previous episodes. If you think that sounds boring then you are very wrong and should consider updating and correcting your idea of excitement, because we’re going to be looking back at everything from Crows to Costumes. Really it’s a best of the best episode and you’re going to love it.