Hosted by Global · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 202 episodes
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Prepare to plunge into the peculiar as Dan Schreiber, professional fact-hunter, uncovers the wild beliefs, ideas and theories of some of the most remarkable people on planet earth. As well as delving into the lives of truly fascinating people, Dan asks his guests a maverick tour of questions known as The Batshit Survey. Do they believe in Ghosts? Déjà vu? Telepathy? Premonitions? Déjà vu? Either way, everyone has theories they are transfixed by, or a mystery in their own life that they’re trying to solve. Dan leaves no rock unturned - and he’ll share plenty of his own mind-blowing facts and theories too.Bonus episodes, ‘Lazy Code' are a deep dive into simulation theory. Let’s create a global community of likeminded weirdos!Expect new episodes every Friday. Bonus episodes monthly. For advertising opportunities on this podcast email: dax@global.com
Global hosts We Can Be Weirdos, a society show with 202 episodes published.
In the goodbye hug of an episode, Dan and Spooky Al look back at some of the most chaotic, hilarious, batshit momen
Before you were you… who were you? For their final hurrah, Dan and the Lazy Code team, Halina Brooke and Leon 'Buttons' Kirkbeck enter into the trance of past life experiences. From children who remember how they once tr
Donald Robertson is a psychotherapist and writer whose book 'How to Think Like Socrates' brings ancient wisdom into the modern world. Today, he shows us the strange habits, mental experiments, and street philosophy of So
As we all know, death means game over...or does it? Join Dan and the Lazy Code team, Halina Brooke and Leon 'Buttons' Kirkbeck as they explore the mind boggling mysteries of near-death experiences and what that could mea
Dr. Helen Scales is a marine biologist and writer fascinated by how little we truly know about the ocean. In her book 'What the Wild Sea Can Be' she explores deep-sea mysteries, the world's weirdest creatures, and what’s
Dr. Suzie Sheehy is a renowned physicist who spends her life exploring the parts of the universe we can’t see. In this episode, she takes us from dark matter and black holes to her work on the world’s most powerful parti
Alice Vernon’s new book 'Ghosted: A History of Ghost Hunting and Why We Keep Looking' is a social and historical journey through the world of paranormal investigation. From Victorian séances to modern haunted hotspots, i
Lazy Coders! For this month's bonus episode join Dan, Leon, and Halina as they take you on a tour through brains bigger than their own, diving into breakthrough thought experiments, full-on quantum particle weirdness, an
Mary Roach is a bestselling science writer and explorer of the the odd corners of science that most people wouldn’t dare to investigate. Cadavers, sex labs, space junk, you name it. Her new book, Replaceable You , takes
Today’s episode is a two-for-one feast of mystery. First, the curious gems that keep washing up on the river Thames. What are they? Who put them there? And why? Historian Ellery Weil joins Café del Weirdo to dig into the
Adam Riches is an award-winning comedian and actor known for his wild characters and brilliantly unhinged live shows. You’ll have seen him popping up in Detectorists, Horrible Histories, and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdo
Ben Machell is a journalist-turned-literary explorer of the uncanny. After writing 'The Unusual Suspect' a true-crime story about a modern Robin Hood-style bank robber, he’s returned with 'Chasing the Dark: Encounters Wi
For this month's Lazy Code bonus episode, Dan teams up with Halina Brooke and Leon “Buttons” Kirkbeck to swap eerie doppelganger encounters, and wonder whether look-alike humans are just copy-pasted assets from a lazy co
Today we are joined by actor, comedian, and impressionist extraordinaire Alex Lowe. Alex is best known as the man who summoned Clinton Baptiste into existence on Phoenix Nights and unleashed Barry from Watford onto the a
Edd Hedges is a British comedian and co-creator of Wisecrack - the viral horror-meets-comedy podcast that’s racked up millions of downloads just two months after launch. Blending true crime with stand-up, Wisecrack turns
Nigel Planer has been a towering figure in British comedy since the late 1970s. From his anarchic exploits with The Comic Strip to his portrayal of the hapless student Neil in The Young Ones. Today Nigel takes us on a jo
Welcome to Café del Weirdo. This week’s guest is an explorer of the extraordinary. It's author, researcher, and professional curiosity collector Edward Brooke-Hitching. Ed is the bestselling author behind The Phantom Atl
Sam Nicoresti is a comedian, writer, and surreal storyteller whose work blurs the line between the hilarious and the unsettling. Winner of the 2025 Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show, Sam has become one of the most ori
For this month's Lazy Code bonus episode Dan, Leon “Buttons” Kirkbeck, and Halina Brooke dive into the dream world, that weird nightly sandbox where logic crashes and reality reboots. Are dreams just lazy coding from the
Chris Hadfield is the astronaut who turned the void of space into his stage. A farm kid from rural Canada who climbed his way into the stratosphere, first as a fighter pilot, then as a test pilot, and eventually as comma
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Jon Ronson
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Dr. Tom Phillips
author of THE CURIOUS LEAGUE OF DETECTIVES AND THIEVES series · Welsh ICE
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Kate Mosse
international bestselling author, activist, Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
1 appearance on this show
Rupert Sheldrake
biologist and author
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Kate Williams
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Philippa Perry
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Peter Andre
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Daliso Chaponda
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Dan Schreiber
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Sara Pascoe
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