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Strange Realm

John Frobisher Smith

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A weekly comedy news magazine covering the weirdest and wildest stuff happening all around our toroidal planetoid. Come get donut-pilled and take a tour of advanced alternative cosmologies, NASA skepticism, ancient history as you never learned it in school, as well as the arcane arts and sciences and more, as hosts John Frobisher Smith and Dr. Raven Black try every week to understand a little more about this strange realm that we all inhabit.
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Tonight, we bring you a startling and subterranean episode as we take another look into the weirdest and wildest stories we could find this week, including the report of a very mysterious planet that should not exist found in the Draco constellation, news that underground tunnels have been found underneath Sforza castle, a study that says an AI cha…
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Tonight, we bring you a technically challenged but still entertaining episode as we work around glitches and interruptions to take yet another glimpse at the wild and weird news of the week. Including a look at the alchemical journey within Alice in Wonderland, news that Saturn will soon be transiting the sign of Aries, a report that Noah's Ark has…
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On this episode we bring you an astoundingly alchemical show as we once again take a look at the weirdest and wildest stories we could find this week, including the news that the ALICE atom smasher has turned lead into gold, commentary by an official from the Bush Sr. administration who says the US has built a massive underground city for the elite…
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On this episode we bring you an historically accurate but astounding show looking at the weirdest and wildest news stories we could find this week! Including news of space-based imaging scans which prove Herodotus was right and there is a massic labyrinth underneath the Egyptian pyramid of Hawara, historians have definitively proven with DNA studie…
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On this episode we bring you a massive yet maneuverable show, as we look once again at the weirdest and wildest stories we could find this week. Including news of Pope Francis's death and funeral, and how he figures into the now infamous Prophecy of the Popes by St. Malachy, a report that a toroidal reentry capsule has been tested by a German space…
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Tonight, we bring you a hopeful and hearty show as we look at the strangest and wildest news we could find this week, including signs of life discovered on a distant exoplanet, a study that suggests lichen could survive living on Mars, another study that says the cells of your body can hear and process sounds, and we look at some of the stranger an…
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Tonight, we bring you a hypnotic and hyperreal episode as we examine the strangest news we can find, including big news about the "de-extinction" of dire wolves, new files soon to be released about the RFK assassination, a possible real life RPG mount robot horse, and a study that suggests exercise is the best way to keep your brain healthy. All of…
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Tonight, we bring you a pleasantly surprising show as we take a look at the weirdest and wildest news stories this week, including an update on the project to de-extinct the Dodo, a rock in Romania used as a doorstop turns out to be worth a million dollars, a new study says fruit flies drink alcohol to attract mates, and we take a look at a taxider…
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Tonight, we bring you a mind-bending and gravity-defying episode as we look at the weirdest and wildest stories we could find this week, including a new exotic engine that seems to produce thrust without propellant, a resurfaced CIA report that remote viewed the Ark of the Covenant, a possible new weight-loss drug discovered with the help of AI, an…
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Tonight we bring you a wide-ranging and historically accurate episode as we examine the momentous events of this weird week, including the JFK files release, new ground penetrating imaging shows massive structures underneath the Kafre pyramid in Egypt, a scientist has gone violent and dangerous in Antarctica, and we take a look at the most likely t…
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Tonight we bring you a wide-ranging and wild show featuring the weirdest and most interesting news we could find this week, including claims of Quantum supremacy by China, Alligators in the sewers of Florida, cougar cubs seen in Michigan for the first time in 100 years, and we discuss the wild and wooly real "unicorn" that roamed the Earth 30,000 y…
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Tonight is another astounding and educational episode as Frobisher and Raven look at all the wildest and weirdest news, including an update on the astronauts stranded at the ISS, a soon to arrive "blood moon" eclipse and its astrological significance, the world's first biological computer that uses real human brain cells is now available, and we ta…
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Tonight we bring you a monstrous and prodigious episode as we take a look at the weirdest and wildest once again, including a new science probe that has landed on the Moon, a 14-year old who has broken 6 math world records in one day, a study involving psychic abilities shows they can be enhanced through very specific brain stimulation, and we look…
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Tonight we bring you another wild and wooly look into the strangest and most interesting news we could find this week, including a quick glance at the price of gold, a report that says people have been dumping bodies in the river Thames in London for thousands of years, the development of an electric generator that hooks on to your tailpipe, a link…
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Tonight, we bring you a carefully curated options fund of the weirdest and wildest stories happening this week, including news about a new Government Secrets Taskforce, the creation of a new ETF based on companies thought to be benefitting from reverse engineered alien technology, a report that Russia is developing a plasma rocket engine that can r…
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On tonight's show we bring you a super-big superbowl show as we send out a long pass to the weirdest news stories we could find this week, including an update on Sharlie the lake monster, a suggestion new UFO whistleblowers are about to emerge, news about the World's "first" quantum large language model, how archeologists have found they smoked hig…
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We bring you a powerful and pine-filled episode tonight as we examine all the weirdest things we could find this week, including a look at what appears to be square-shaped ruins photographed on Mars, news of a new world record for the Chinese artificial sun, a creepy discovery of Zombie-spiders mind-controlled by a nasty fungus, and then we head on…
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On this episode we bring you a scaly and swampy look into the strangest and wildest stories we could find this week, including a report described by a US Congressman of a giant, fast-moving UFO travelling submerged in the ocean, a new scientific theory that claims information has mass, an invitation by a state in India to earn 1 million dollars if …
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On this episode, we bring you a brackish and briny show as we dive deep into the strangest and weirdest stories we could find this week! Including news that China has achieved the stupendous breakthrough of "counterflow superfluidity," as well as a look into the lost continent of Doggerland, a report of a new large sea bug who's head looks like a D…
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On this episode, we bring you a moon-eyed and murky show as we wade through the strangest, creepiest, wildest news we could find this week. Including news that the full moon is upon us, a site in the UK once thought to be associated with King Arthur is, in fact, from 4000 years earlier, as well as a letter scientists have written urging the world t…
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On this episode, we bring you a hale and hearty first edition for 2025, taking a look at the strangest and wildest stories we could find this week. We take a look at what has entered the public domain: you are now free to watch and edit the Skeleton Dance. We also look into the idea that tiny ape-like humanoids could be living out in the wilderness…
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As we shambolically lurch towards 2025, John Frobisher Smith fights the flu and attempts, with his co-host Raven Black, to put on an entertaining end-of-the-year event. Featuring footage of the Sun generated by the best AI available, news about quantum teleportation, the miasmatic "chemical fog" engulfing the Southeast US, how everyone on earth wit…
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We bring a Yuletide celebration on tonight's episode, discussing how Dark Energy is fake, the Solstice Witch is real, the longest night of the year is over, and we report on true encounters of Pan and the Green Man. All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher reads more from "Our Haunted Planet," by John A. Kee…
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On this show we bring you a dronecore doom session of an episode as we puruse the most interesting and strange events of this week. Including a look at the NJ mystery drone flap, proof that big cats roam the countryside of the UK, news that letting the ISS fall back to earth and crash in the ocean is bad for the environment, and we investigate the …
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Tonight, we bring you a lively and longevity-minded episode as we explore some of the wildest and most unusual news items we could find, with a discussion of Venus's ecological history, a newly discovered pyramid-shaped mountain in Antarctica, news of a battery made of diamonds that can last for 5,000 years, and a new study that suggests there an u…
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Tonight we bring you a door-buster of a show with our greatest deals of the year! No, just kidding, it's just the wildest and weirdest stories we could find this week, once again! Including how the mind might actually be travelling the multiverse when it dreams, how a "yellow brick road" has been found on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, an optical…
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On this episode we bring you a thankful and thoughtful look into the strangest most wild stories we could find this week, including our final update on Pluto's astrology for the next 20 years as it is placed firmly in the sign of Aquarius, another update on how venting doesn't stop anger but apparently progressive relaxation does, NASA's Mars lande…
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On this episode we bring you a renewed and revamped show, a return of Strange Realm after facing catastrophic computer woes! We feature all the weirdest news we could find, including news that some memory is stored in the body, that AI has encouraged mushroom fans to eat a dangerous and toxic mushroom, we look into the health of beef tallow vs. see…
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Tonight, we bring you a slightly scary but full-sized show as we roll deeper into spooky season, looking for the strangest and most uncanny news stories of the week! Some astronauts delayed by Boeing's mishaps have returned, but not the Starliner crew. And in Saudi Arabia, they have broken ground on building a giant cube which will be the largest b…
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Tonight we bring you a slightly spooky and spine-tingling start to our Halloween countdown as we look at the strangest stories we could find this week, including news the Sun has reached the solar maximum and for the rest of this year and next will be going super-sunspot mode with an up to 12% chance of catastrophic IT communications failure scenar…
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We bring you an angular and augmented episode tonight as we discuss the strangest news in the whole wide world, including news that a military-grade encryption algorithm has been hacked by Chinese scientists using a quantum computer, the new science of "Orbitronics" gives promising results, as well as a report that archaeologists are too scared to …
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Tonight we bring you an unseasonably warm eary autumn show as we take a look at the strangest news of the week, including new proof that the so-called Hubble constant is in tension, news that NASA wants to grow mushroom houses on the moon, a man who has been imprisoned for cloning giant sheep, and we check out the news that Antarctica is quickly tu…
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Tonight we bring you an eclectic but inspiring range of fascinatingly mysterious stories to talk about this week, including underwater flying saucers that accumulate the energy of undersea wave currents, a tiny high-powered laser raygun that has proven to heat a thin copper wire to an astounding level of heat, tribal rock art from 200 years ago fou…
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This episode we bring you bountiful harvest of strange and fantastic news we look at the crisis in Cosmology that the JWST has not abated, as well as news that there have been found numerous mysterious structures under the surface of Mars, located where a vast ocean once existed, nearby the gigantic Olympus Mons volcano. Then we turn to marvels of …
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This episode we bring you a windswept and wild look into the strangest and most fascinating news stories of the day, including news about a 'smiley face' found on Mars that could just possibly be an ancient strip-mining operation, and a report that NASA has finally discovered a long theorized layer of cold, yet fast moving, ions in Earth's upper at…
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The Fall semester has begun, and Frobisher and Raven are back with another studious look into the strangest and most incredible news stories we could find. First up is the final say on the fate of the Starliner mission Astronauts, then we examine an ancient clay tablet receipt from 3,500 years ago, we take a brief peek into the 10,000 year old ston…
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We're on late summer extended vacation mode as we travel to the Bahamas in search of Ancient ruins this episode, bringing you a rare Monday night show, as Raven was busy Sunday night (attending a concert!). We also look into apparent confirmation of liquid water located deep inside Mars, a DNA test that has disproven certain theories about Caspar H…
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On this episode we bring you a lazy and hazy late summer show discussing the strangest news we could find, including another update on the astronauts stranded on the ISS, a notice that the next full moon will be a supermoon, and news that 4,000-year old Babylonian clay tablets have been deciphered. We also look into the report that dogs can tell if…
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Tonight, we bring you a zesty, zucchini-filled episode full of updates and clarifying information concerning the nutrients of kale vs. spinach and on dumping lye into bodies of water. Then we hit on the news that scientists want to build an "Ark on the Moon," as well as startling new information we've learned about the materials Tycho Brahe was wor…
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Tonight, we bring you a mossy, madcap episode as we discuss strange news from around the universe, including how the Starliner astronauts are still stuck on the ISS, a certain kind of moss can very likely grow on Mars, the world's fastest supercomputer is already being replaced by something much faster, and we check out news that the bottom of the …
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Tonight we bring you a 99.9% believable episode as we look at the strangest and wildest news this week, including a report that there is definitely a cave on the moon that future moon pioneers can make "home base," we also look at an almost perfectly believable photo of a young bigfoot, as well as the news that scientists have shown that mice who d…
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Tonight we bring you one small step for weird news and one giant leap for plant-kind as Raven's pumpkins are already taking over a whole corner of his garden. We also look into the strange infrared glow in Jupiter's atmosphere, which according to one theory may be due to the collisions of dark matter particles, as well as news about a stolen "Excal…
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Tonight we bring you an awake and aware episode full of esoteric historic investigation as Frobisher Smith and Raven Black first expose the truth about Saturn's rings, then take a look at news that Japan has OK'd the development of chimeras to full term. Then we delve deep into historic landmarks of yesteryear destroyed decades ago, and discuss a s…
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Tonight we bring you a health-minded episode coupled with distressing news as we first correct the record on the recent Chinese Moon mission collecting soil from the dark side of the Moon, then we look into the alleged health benefits of the "superfood" kale, as well as how chocolate and red wine are good for your health while travelling in space! …
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On tonight's show we bring you a mango-scented summer episode where we look into the most astounding news we could find this week, including an update on the astronauts now stranded on the ISS due to issues with the Boeing Starliner, and news that China has already analyzed the Moon rocks sent back from their Chang'e-5 mission and discovered a new …
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On tonight's show we bring you an astounding and oceanic episode as we look into the dangerous heating of Earth's oceans and the many strategies for preserving the seas and the sealife, then move to another fishy story as a very frightening monster of a sunfish has washed ashore an Oregon beach, we look at a report from Harvard that suggests aliens…
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On tonight's show we bring you a brief but blissful look at the strangest things we could bring to surface this week, including Boeing's Starliner finally launching with crew for the first time ever, sending astronauts to the ISS, a search for Dyson spheres out there in the universe has turned up a few possible examples, a 13-year old has built a w…
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On tonight's show we bring you pleasant and pragmatic look at some of the strangest things that came across the news wires this week, including news that Boeing's maiden manned Starliner flight has been delayed once again, living braincell computers are being grown and enslaved by a company named FinalSpark, a gang of rowdy orca teens are behind th…
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On tonight's show we bring you an enigmatic but easy-going look at the week's strangest stories Frobisher Smith and Raven Black could dig up. Including a "spectacular" planetary alignment coming soon in the night sky, the lowdown on why some animals are shrinking, and try to take a look at the "tauonium," a new tiny atom-like structure with a possi…
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Tonight we bring you an shambolic yet satisfying look into this week's strangest and most interesting news we could find, a big panel of weird science this week -- including how our universe may be shaped like a donut, how there is almost definitely an underground ocean on Saturn's moon Titan (likely mostly water), how the rock samples of Mars are …
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