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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

We Can Be Weirdos

In the goodbye hug of an episode, Dan and Spooky Al look back at some of the most chaotic, hilarious, batshit moments from their favourite guests over the years of We Can Be Weirdos.

Host: Dan Schreiber and Al Riddell

Producer: Cassie Merritt

Head of Podcasts: Al Riddell

One Final Stroll Along The Batshit Ley Line

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 tragically died, to skills, scars, and scaries that transfer across save files. Could consciousness be reloaded into a new human character? And if so, why can't these previous players just let go of the controller!

Lazy Code: Respawn? Same Soul, New Save File

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 Socrates (one of history’s original weirdos.)

Plus, some of the most fascinating ancient myths and mysteries that still endure today. 

Host: Dan Schreiber

Guest: Donald Robertson

Producer: Cassie Merritt

Head of Podcasts: Al Riddell

Café del Weirdo: How To Think Like Socrates with Donald Robertson

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 mean for a simulated afterlife.

Beware: This episode may leave you feeling strangely excited about dying.

Lazy Code: Game Over? The Mystery of Near Death Experiences

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 at stake as humans push further into the deep.

Host: Dan Schreiber

Guest: Helen Scales

Producer: Cassie Merritt

Head of Podcasts: Al Riddell

Beached Globster: Helen Scales and the Bioluminescent Beings

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 particle accelerator, and explains why everything we know makes up just 5% of the universe. Plus, we discuss her book 'The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World.'

Host: Dan Schreiber

Guest: Dr Suzie Sheehy

Producer: Cassie Merritt

Head of Podcasts: Al Riddell

Café del Weirdo: Suzie Sheehy and the Electromagnetic Ready Meal

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, it explores why we’re irresistibly drawn to ghosts and why the hunt for the unexplained is far from over.

Host: Dan Schreiber

Guests: Alice Vernon

Producer: Cassie Merritt

Head of Podcasts: Al Riddell

Abnormal Activity: Alice Vernon and the Screaming Spirit Box

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, and the increasingly obvious proof that humanity is already speed-walking along the simulation track.

Lazy Code: Science of Simulation

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 that curiosity inside the body itself, exploring the world of prosthetics, organ printing, regenerative medicine, and the scientists trying to rebuild (or upgrade) the human parts we lose. From stem-cell “hair nurseries” to xeno-pig organ farms, Roach uncovers the strange, brilliant future of becoming a “new” you.

Host: Dan Schreiber

Guests: Mary Roach

Producer: Cassie Merritt

Head of Podcasts: Al Riddell

Crash Test Cadaver: Mary Roach and the Interstellar Garbage Collectors

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 leading theories and the world of Thames mudlarks.

Next, we slip into the shadowy woods to visit Baba Yaga, the legendary Slavic witch-grandmother who may help you, may eat you, and definitely lives in a house with chicken legs. Author Kris Spisak tells us why this ancient figure still hooks us today.

Host: Dan Schreiber

Guests: Ellery Weil and Kris Spisak

Producer: Cassie Merritt

Head of Podcasts: Al Riddell

Café del Weirdo: The Mysteries of the Thames Garnets & Baba Yaga

"Smash a pudding... that's the type of violence you can see in the rocks!"

Melanie During is a vertebrate palaeontologist, currently pursuing a PHD at Uppsala University in Sweden. Melanie has a BS in Earth Sciences from the University of Amsterdam and a MS in palaeoclimatology from the VU (Vrije Universiteit) Amsterdam. 

A life-long fascination with extinct fauna and evolution drove her to discover something, literally, earth-shattering: she's pinpointed, to the exact season, when the dinosaurs were wiped out.

Don’t forget you can watch these interviews, fully extended, exclusively on Global Player. Download it from the App Store, or head to globalplayer.com. 

You can get in touch with Dan Schreiber on Twitter and Instagram (@Schreiberland). In his bio, you'll find the link to our Discord channel - a global community of likeminded weirdos!

#13 The Dinosaur Detective: Melanie During and the Prehistoric Springtime Extinction

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