The Nonsense Bazaar

May 01 2024 154 ep. 91 mins 350
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The Nonsense Bazaar is a neon-colored weekly voyage into consciousness, cults, conspiracies, magic, mysticism, science, spirituality, and the great big joke at the heart of it all. Combining in-depth research, absurdity, and audio shenanigans, Willow and Sequoyah manage to stay (mostly) grounded while investigating all the nonsense the world has to offer and more.

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146 - Parapsychology & The Rhine Research Center

May 01 2024 90 mins  
Ever wondered if your mind can do more than ruin your life? Did you know at one time you could get a degree in ESP and psychokinesis? This week we're taking a broad overview of the real world of academic parapsychology. From the married-botanists-turned-married-parapsychologists J.B. and Louisa Rhine and the founding of the Duke University Parapsychology lab to the 21st-century psy

145 - Ambien

Apr 24 2024 94 mins  
What do you get when you cross sleeping pills with the tail end of the LSD molecule? Ambien! The miracle cure for insomnia taken by millions of Americans every year that definitely doesn't make your entire frontal lobe completely vanish while the rest of you walks around doing weird stuff. Stuff like perhaps taking a drive down the wrong side of the highway, start frying eggs in th

144 - Terrence McKenna's Timewave Zero

Apr 17 2024 102 mins  
Who among us hasn't had apocalyptic visions with a head full of mushrooms? Terrence sure did. This week we're looking at one of the pillars of the legendary psychedelic evangelist's cosmology: Timewave Zero. After Terrence McKenna and his brother Dennis had their noggins rocked by psilocybe cubensis mushrooms in Colombia, Terrence returned from the jungle with "some funny ideas," i

143 - The Radioactive Boy Scout

Apr 10 2024 73 mins  
Who among us didn't have at least a touch of the mad scientist fantasy as a kid, right? Most of us, probably. And who among us failed to ever have anything come of it? Most of us, probably. Not David Hahn. David Hahn had himself a notion to build a fast breeder nuclear reactor in his mother's potting shed. And by golly, he did. By cobbling together stolen fire alarms, camping lante

142 - Creature Feature: Water Monsters

Apr 03 2024 80 mins  
Admit it, there aren't nearly enough creatures in your life. Weird creatures, cute creatures, mean creatures, there's a whole wide world of creatures out there. And today we're talking about three of them. And with a subtitle like "Water Monsters," you might be thinking we're talking mythical beasts, Nessie's or Champ's or the Kraken. Nope. We're talking real live creatures, but th

141 - Competitive Eating

Mar 27 2024 100 mins  
Sometime during the 20th century, hot dogs became forever linked with an American pastime—Competitive eating—and with the most American holiday, the Fourth of July. One could argue that the business of “major league eating” is everything wrong with consumer capitalism. Because it is. However, today we’ll be taking time to celebrate the absurdity of it all by discovering h

140 - The Nag Hammadi Codices

Mar 20 2024 90 mins  
These days you can't shake a stick without running into some version of Gnostic Christianity. Why is that? Gnosticism is absolutely wild and psychedelic, that plays a part. But did counterculture collectively decide one day that Gnosticism was pretty groovy? Well, apart from fragments of texts, writings about Gnosticism from the Catholic church's perspective (heresy!), and undergro

[Patreon Unlock] The Corkboard Bizarre - Tulpas!

Mar 13 2024 75 mins  
Sequoyah had to deal with some rough stuff this week so in lieu of chaining him to his keyboard and squeezing an episode out of him like an old citrus, we're unlocking an episode of our bonus series where we dive into the weird, disturbing, and hilarious world of internet tulpamancy. What's a tulpa? Well a tulpa (aka "tupper," apparently) is a thoughtform entity created by the powe

139 - Wait...I Thought You Died (Death Fraud)

Mar 06 2024 88 mins  
Who among us can honestly say we've never been tempted to fake our own deaths? You know, get away from it all, start over as fresh as a newborn babe. Today we'll be looking at individuals who were pronounced dead only to miraculously come back or, in the case of Kaycee Nicole Swenson, who never existed in the first place. From England's 'Canoe Man' to the ridiculously dressed Viole

The State of The Union 2024

Feb 28 2024 66 mins  
We had a weird day. So this week we're talking about some of the things we've been thinking about recently: nature, defiant optimism, Catholic UFO propaganda, how Willow thought Sequoyah went missing but he was actually just napping, and much more. The state of the union is strong... and ridiculous. Support The Nonsense Bazaar on Patreon and get access to our bonus series The Corkb