When you’re known as "Percilla the Monkey Girl" or "Julia the Baboon Lady,” your life is anything but ordinary. Can life in a sideshow somehow be empowering? Illise “The Lady Eye” Carter and Marc “Backwash” Hartzman, two featured speakers at the Morbid Anatomy Museum, join Buck for a discussion on the odd and amazing. Marc is marking the 10th anniversary of his classic, “American Sideshow."

Freaky Girls and the American Sideshow

To many Americans, there’s little question that coast-to-coast marijuana legalization is coming. The question now is how fast will it happen and how big a boon will it be to the economy. Leslie Bocskor of Electrum Partners is aiming to be the first (legal) marijuana hedge fund billionaire -- and that might not be a pipe dream.

The Greatest High Of All: A Marijuana Billionaire

Buck Wolf sits down with a man who has a beard that hangs below his bully button. He recently won the World Champion, Full Beard Natural competition and tells Buck the secrets to his success.

What Does It Take To Grow A World Champion Beard?

Strap on your ice skates, grab your racket and get ready for a nice game of ice tennis, a real sport once played in New York City. Catch up on forgotten sports of the past with “Fox Tossing” author Edward Brooke-Hitching.

Monkey Boxing, Octopus Wrestling And Other Forgotten Sports

Leave it to Joey Skaggs to turn a film about his career in media pranking into one more hoax -- and it's something the film industry will never forget. 

Joey Skaggs' Greatest Prank - Pandora's Hope

Weird News is a weekly podcast about all things weird, funny and bizarre. Each week, Buck Wolf, HuffPost's Executive Weird News Editor hosts special guests to examine a different theme. 



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