Weird but Wonderful

James opens Weird but Wonderful by framing "What's Going Wrong With Men?" around r/cum bigger loads, a Reddit community with 47,000 members chasing semen-volume optimization.

["Weird but Wonderful opens with a 1999 Atlantic City case in which a German couple slept on a mattress containing Saul Hernandez's body at the Burgundy Motor Inn.", "James connects that story to the Bunnyman Bridge reports in Fairfax County, where Brian A.

["Weird but Wonderful's Survive The Fright episode on Scream 3 (2000) opens with David and James calling the sequel 'half-baked' and 'painfully goofy' while naming Wes Craven, Kevin Williamson, and the returning cast.", "Their summary follows Cotton Weary's phone call, the beachside California murder, and the Stab 3 lot connection to Maureen Prescott, which pulls Gale Weathers and Detective Kincaid into Hollywood.", "The episode spends much of its energy on Sidney's off-grid life as a crisis counsellor, the voice-changer gadget, and the ghost-mom hallucinations that the hosts think blur dream logic and real threat.", "James and David also dig into the reported pre-Columbine Stu-centered script, arguing that the rewrite explains why Scream 3 feels more interesting on paper than on screen."]

Weird but Wonderful's Survive the Fright episode centers on Wes Craven's Scream (1996), with James as the horror expert and David as the lifelong spooky-film coward.

["James opens with a delivery-worker story about LA wildfires, DARPA, sky lasers, and underground tunnels, then uses it to frame a conversation about strange belief systems.", "He turns to a 12-country coolness study with nearly 6,000 participants and says the key traits are extroversion, hedonism, adventure, openness, power, and autonomy, with Keanu Reeves as his example.", "The episode then summarizes two longitudinal conspiracy studies from Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Germany showing that one conspiracy belief can slightly nudge later belief in others.", "It closes with a UC Merced creativity paper from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, where six PhD-level mathematicians became less predictable before an 'aha' moment."]

The host discusses three bizarre news stories, starting with a nursing home fight over stolen Vienna sausages.

A true crime podcast episode discussing a mysterious case of a missing man and a missing skull.

The host rants about Blumhouse Productions' decline in horror movie quality, citing being duped by marketing and the film 'Imaginary'.

A podcast host discusses the state of men in 2024, including a study about men becoming less aggressive when they smell women's tears.

The hosts analyze Pornhub's 2023 year-in-review data to understand societal trends and human behavior.