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93.3 KIOA50 years of the Downtown DSM Farmers MarketLuke & Jeriney talk with Elizabeth Weyers, Market Manager for the Downtown Farmers’ Market about the 50th anniversary of the market and everything they're doing to celebrate!
2025-07-2508 min
The Iowa PodcastCelebrating the 2025 Des Moines Downtown Farmers' Market with Elizabeth WeyersIn this episode of The Iowa Podcast, guest host Rob Newton chats with Elizabeth Weyers, Manager of the Downtown Farmers' Market at the Greater Des Moines Partnership, as she shares what's ahead for the 2025 season starting May 3rd. With over 300 vendors participating, Elizabeth highlights the Market's wide-ranging showcase of Iowa's agricultural bounty, food producers, artisans, and small businesses. She outlines the blend of new offerings and crowd-favorite vendors, making this year's Market a must-visit experience for both newcomers and longtime supporters. Beyond its charm as a weekend destination, the Market is a key economic driver for Des...
2025-04-3021 min
OddBallersEpisode 60: Spooktober!! The Villisca Axe MurdersThis week Elizabeth tells the chilling and haunting story of the Villisca Axe Murders in Villisca, IA. A spooky way to end Spooktober!
2023-10-2715 minOddBallersEpisode 59: Spooktober!! The Van Meter VisitorThis week for Spooktober, Elizabeth dives into the mysterious story of the Van Meter Visitor, from Van Meter, IA.
2023-10-2010 minOddBallersEpisode 58: Spooktober!! The Earling, IA, ExorcismJoin Elizabeth Weyers in this week's Spooktober episode where she discusses a devil in the mid-west and the Exorcism that happened in the small town of Earling, Iowa.
2023-10-1315 minOddBallersEpisode 57: Spooktober!! - Bigfoot Sightings in Iowa?Join Elizabeth Weyers in this week's Spooktober episode where she talks tales and lore about the most famous creature that only might exist and the terrifying tales from a small Iowan town decades ago.
2023-10-0611 minOddBallersEpisode 56: Intro to Spooktober with Abbey Fouts!Welcome to OddBallers Podcast's Spooktober! Today Elizabeth is joined by friend Abbey Fouts as they discuss the best and worst of fall and Halloween.
Stay tuned all month for minisodes and Halloween Specials!
2023-10-0240 min2023-09-3002 minOddBallersEpisode 54: Small Business September - Elizabeth HessThis Episode of Small Business September Elizabeth is joined by Elizabeth! Elizabeth Hess of Alternative.Womens.advocate the Instagram page, joins OddBallers to discuss her journey of PCOS and to finding cleaner products and a health plan that works for her.
You can find Elizabeth Hess on Instagram @Alternative.Womens.Advocate
Enjoy!
2023-09-2937 minOddBallersEpisode 53: Small Business September - Executive Director of Weyers Music Studio (My Side Gig!)Small Business September is Backkkk!!! Join Elizabeth Weyers as she sits down with Execitive Director of Weyers Music Studio and Chair of the Community Arts Project. AKA - Elizabeth's side gig and project!
2023-09-1533 minOddBallersWe're Back! Episode 52In this episode, Elizabeth makes a list of excuses and reasons that OddBallers has been on a hiatus for, well, months. A formal apology for what has been going on and the absence of a fan-favorite podcast!
2023-08-0415 minOddBallersEpisode 51: Egypt Oddities Pt. 2 - Religion and Death RitualsElizabeth is back with another episode of OddBallers Podcast where she dives into the religion, beliefs, and death rituals of Ancient Egypt. What happened when an Egyptian died? Where were they buried? How was the body prepared? And what happened when their burial sites were disturbed.
2023-03-3147 minOddBallersEpisode 50: Ancient Egypt Pt. One - Origins and DynastiesElizabeth is back with another episode of OddBallers Podcast where she dives into the dynasties and origins of Ancient Egypt. Who they were, and who they became. The Pharaohs, gods, goddesses, the fertile ground of the Nile, and Biblical tribulations settle in for another episode of the podcast that you missed!
2023-03-1544 minOddBallersEpisode 49: Thank You and We're Back! (Season 3)Elizabeth and OddBallers Podcast are back for season three!
Thank you so much for the patience that you as listeners have had with our host Elizabeth as she was ill and working through some of life's situations. She is excited to be back and is ready for the Podcast to start airing again on March 10th, 2023! Join us where ever you listen for the first episode of season three talking about Ancient Egypt!
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2023-03-0310 minOddBallersEpisode 46: A Modern PrometheusJoin Elizabeth as she jumps into the history of the Modern Prometheus and the writer behind one of the original classical horror novels Frankenstein.
This is the final episode of the year!
2022-12-2141 minOddBallersEpisode 45: The Anatomy Of ItThis Week Elizabeth explores the Anatomy Act, Galvanism, and the Murders of Burke and Hare.
2022-11-1134 min2022-11-0118 minOddBallersEpisode 43: SPOOKTOBER - Jazz It or Axe ItBetween the years of 1879 and 1922 in America, a series of Axe Murders rattled towns and cities across the nation. From Georgia to Oregon, Kansas to Iowa, Washington to New Orleans, Louisiana. The work of Axe Murders was enough to put fear into many. But what if all of these murders in just 43 years were all from the same person?
Join Elizabeth as she explores the Axe Murderer responsible for over 61 murders and many more attacks, including the New Orleans AxeMan.
2022-10-2839 minOddBallersEpisode 42: SPOOKTOBER - SlaughterhouseJoin Elizabeth Weyers as she explores the monstrous past and story of Madam Delphine Lalaurie and her slaughterhouse in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Join us on a road of horrors worse then you can imagine.
Happy Spooktober!
2022-10-1433 minOddBallersEpisode 41: Small Business September - Erin Lego, Owner of Erin Lego CoachingToday Elizabeth continues Small Business September and talks with an unsuspecting coach. A Leadership coach. Erin Lego uses the Enneagram to help coach leaders about their leadership styles and their personality.
To learn more about Enneagram head to https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/
To follow Erin Lego go to https://www.erinlegocoaching.com/ or follow her on Instagram @ErinLegoCoaching
If you are interested in taking the Enneagram assessment click this link - https://erinlegocoaching.cloverleaf.me/l/oddballers
2022-09-2345 minOddBallersEpisode 40: Small Business September - Deatra Tasler Owner of Balanced FitnessWe are back with another Small Business September! This year are theme is coaching, which seems very obvious for the first guest of the month. Today Elizabeth interviews Deatra Tasler Owner and Fitness Coach Deatra Tasler on her small business, Balanced Fitness. Talking about mental health, physical health, and lifestyle changes to make your life and body feel better.
Deatra can be found on Facebook Balanced Fitness or on her website at https://www.balancedfitnessco.com/?fbclid=IwAR29UTJaQIJg6fUU3-MMRHn_pMEsgU2qC596itraU5QF-DyFBNonhe19mMM
2022-09-0939 minOddBallersEpisode 39: Exploration Oddities pt. 2 Arcitc ExplorationExploration is in our DNA, we starve for adventure and the places that we can go even if it is the literal ends of the earth. The Arctic was a place that many explorers found to be the next greatest frontier and it was one of the most difficult and deadly. In this episode of OddBallers Elizabeth explores the Arctic and learns what it took to reach the north and south poles including references of Arctic Exploration in literature and her own family ancestry.
2022-08-2944 minOddBallersEpisode 38: Exploration Oddities Pt. 1 Viking ExplorationExploration is in our DNA, we starve for adventure and the places that we can go. But the early explorers cannot be overlooked the Sumerians, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. They built the foundation for modern-day exploration. Today Elizabeth shares the stories of the early group of people who were known as savages, barbarians, and pirates. Known as the Vikings.
2022-08-1141 min
OddBallersEpisode 37: "The Town that Dreaded Sundown"The Texarkana Moonlight Murders, a term coined by the contemporary press, was a series of unsolved serial murders and other violent crimes committed in and around the Texarkana region between Arkansas and Texas in the spring of 1946. They were attributed to an alleged unidentified serial killer known as The Phantom of Texarkana or simply the Phantom Killer or Phantom Slayer. This hypothetical perpetrator is credited with attacking eight people, five of whom were murdered, in a ten-week period.
In this episode of Oddballers, Elizabeth breaks the podcasting hiatus and returns with the dreadful tale of the Texarkana...
2022-07-0851 minOddBallersEpisode 36: BURNED OUT!I am Burned Out!
An episode about normalizing burnout, prioritizing mental health, and learning how to say no.
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Music Credit: Elizabeth Weyers
2022-05-2049 minOddBallersEpisode 36: Shakespearean Oddities with Dr. Tran Pt. 2Plagiarism dates back far and wide, and the event of Lord Byron was only one of history’s examples, Helen Keller, MLK, Johnny Cash, Melania Trump all famous plagiarists. Plagiarism can get you expelled from schools, end up in courts, and end up getting sued. But what about freelancing, ghostwriting, and the most famous (potential) plagiarist in history. Was it really the father or playwright, the experts of the sonnet, the literary icon that is William Shakespeare? Or is this just something rotten that the media has cooked up? We will find all of this out today and more wh...
2022-04-2259 minOddBallersEpisode 35: Shakespearean Oddities with Dr. Tran Pt. 1Plagiarism dates back far and wide, and the event of Lord Byron was only one of history’s examples, Helen Keller, MLK, Johnny Cash, Melania Trump all famous plagiarists. Plagiarism can get you expelled from schools, end up in courts, and end up getting sued. But what about freelancing, ghostwriting, and the most famous (potential) plagiarist in history. Was it really the father or playwright, the experts of the sonnet, the literary icon that is William Shakespeare? Or is this just something rotten that the media has cooked up? We will find all of this out today and more wh...
2022-04-0840 minOddBallersEpisode 34: Oddities of Celtic Myths Pt. 2The one thing that we all share is grief, death, and fear. And in Celtic mythology, the real fears in general, come from death and grief. Grief is the only thing that we all share, and where there is grief, there is death, and where there is death there is The Banshee. The Banshee is one of the most famous and one of the most used of the creatures of Irish folklore. The modern idea of the Banshee can be seen all across modern popular culture. But what is a Banshee?
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2022-03-1839 minOddBallersEpisode 33: Oddities of the Celtic Myths Pt. 1In the northwest lands of Europe, the old world of great barbarian people spread across the vast areas of Western and Central Europe. These people transitioned this land into the iron age. they were a culture among the greatest technologies of the ancient world and laid the foundation of Western European civilization. These people were Craftsmen of metal, makers of chariots, builders of roads, experts in agriculture and pastoralism, and were great warriors of unparalleled courage, feared by even the Romans, who they sacked in 290BC. At the Zenith of their power, their territory extended from the British Isles...
2022-03-0443 minOddBallersEpisode 32: Oddities of the Wars of the Roses Pt. 2600 years ago England has torn apart in a series of bloody battles in a game over the throne. In the course, of 30 years the crown changed heads 7 times, and over 10,000 were slaughtered. It was one of the bloodiest and most turbulent times in English history. It was known as the Wars of the Roses. These wars were pivotal in England’s history and the outcome of this last great medieval war would determine the course of Europe and perhaps even the world, leading to one of England’s greatest dynasties. The Tudors. The battles in this conflict were more than...
2022-02-1845 minOddBallersEpisode 31: Oddities of the Wars of the Roses Pt. 1600 years ago England has torn apart in a series of bloody battles in a game over the throne. In the course, of 30 years the crown changed heads 7 times, and over 10,000 were slaughtered. It was one of the bloodiest and most turbulent times in English history. It was known as the Wars of the Roses. These wars were pivotal in England’s history and the outcome of this last great medieval war would determine the course of Europe and perhaps even the world, leading to one of England’s greatest dynasties. The Tudors. The battles in this conflict were more than...
2022-02-0434 minOddBallersEpisode 30 - The Oddities of ElizabethWho is your OddBallers Podcast host?? Who is she? What is her journey into making OddBallers Episodes, starting her podcast, how does she spend her time, and was college worth it?
Follow Elizabeth Weyers on Instagram @eaweyers.
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Music Credits to Elizabeth Weyers
Thank you to all the supporters, welcome to season 2 of OddBallers.
2022-01-2146 minOddBallersEpisode 29 - SEASON 2 Announcement!!!OddBallers will be back for a Season 2 starting February 2022!
New topics, new guests, and the same great oddities!
Join us for Season 2 of OddBallers.
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This is OddBallers.
Writer and Journalist Elizabeth Weyers dives deep into popular culture, and media to explore any and all topics odd and interesting. From witch hunts, to trending skincare routines, schizophrenic writers, and blood-sucking demons turned sexy pop-culture icons. We will talk about the biggest trends, tales, and oddities of the world. Join us for a new top...
2022-01-0102 minOddBallersEpisode 28 - Holiday Oddities: KrampusChristmas is the time of giving, the time of cheer, a great festive holiday where trees are decorated, lights are hung, and chestnuts are roasted by an open fire. Christmas is a time of merry gentlemen, eggnog, rewatching Christmas Vacation for the 1000000 times, spreading time with family, and yeah also that big guy in the red.
Santa, Old St. Nicholas, Kris Kringle, Papa Noel, no matter what you call him or where you are from, the legend of a man building toys and delivering them to children on Christmas Eve is one that is a staple of...
2021-12-1028 minOddBallersEpisode 27 - Colonial America Oddities Pt. 2: JamestownJamestown was one of the first American colonies and one that is only briefly mentioned in school and in American History. I imagine it is because it is full of betrayal, loss, religious turmoil, politics, death, and so many dark and grizzly mysteries and stories that we might just want to forget about it. Or paint over it much like Columbus. But like another colony in America, one that was only a few miles to the South of Jamestown some 17 years earlier called Roanoke and we are still reveling in the mystery of what happened to them after the...
2021-11-2636 minOddBallersEpisode 26 - Colonial America Oddities Pt. 1: Lost and Not Yet FoundIn school, we were taught that in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue, and then a century and a half later in 1620, the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock. But what about all of the stuff that happened in between. I am here to let you know that after Columbus’s voyage of murder, rape, slavery, and colonization, the mysteries and dark discoveries of the New World did not slow down any. Because in between the two most well-known points in the “founding” of America, we have another timeline. One of the new colonies, starvation, wars, lots of mysteries, and of course...
2021-11-1237 minOddBallersEpisode 25 - Halloween Special: The History of HalloweenLet's get spooky!
Trick or treating, spooky ghouls, foggy cemeteries, and Spooky scary skeletons, all things that we as Americans associate with Halloween. That grand old holiday at the end of October that you either love or you hate, desperately. I have never met someone who is just meh about Halloween. You are either all in or all out. I am definitely all in. Horror movies, costumes, scary stories, and the brisk chill on the autumn nights. Halloween is a custom, a holiday, a tradition, Halloween is a requirement in my household. It always has been. From t...
2021-10-3120 minOddBallersEpisode 24 - Witch Oddities Interview with a Modern WitchJoin Elizabeth Weyers as she interviews a practicing Hellenic Hereditary Hedge Witch.
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Music Credit--- Theme- Elizabeth Weyers
2021-10-2957 minOddBallersEpisode 23 - Witch Oddities Part Two: The Modern WitchAfter the 200 years of persecution and witch hysteria known as the burning times fizzled out in Europe it took a transatlantic flight to the new world, America. There it poisoned a small village in Massachusetts known as Salem. In the year 1692, the social, political, and economic climate of Salem was as rocky as Massachusetts bay and they plummeted into the vast darkness of rooting out the devil in their new world much like their predecessors in their homeland. But centuries later, we have turned the ugly image of the witch into nothing more than a Halloween costume and scary...
2021-10-2247 minOddBallersEpisode 22 - Witch Oddities Part One: The Origin of the WitchThe origin of witches starts even before King Saul and the Old Testament. These ancient deities were called creation goddesses and were all-powerful beings. Witches have not always been seen as evil and gruesome before even the story of King Saul deities and entities existed in mythology and lore and history that were more benign. But how then did this benign image of a witch turn maligned, and why is that the only image of it we know today? Let's talk about witches, and the power struggles between the church and the monarchy.
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2021-10-0848 minOddBallersEpisode 21 - International Podcast Day!Happy International Podcast Day podcasters, listeners, and enthusiasts!
Find out how you can be a part of the celebration by going to https://internationalpodcastday.com
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2021-09-3008 minOddBallersEpisode 20 - Small Business September Part Three: Custom Threads and Design with Melissa RothfusJoin Elizabeth Weyers with another small business September episode with a woman in business. We are here today with the owner of Custom Threads and Design. An embroidery and screen printing company out of Woodward, Iowa. She is a very busy woman, between setting up the Woodward Farmers’ Market, Homeschooling her kids, she is also a business owner. This episode is all about how to embroider, and how to screenprint, and what is the biggest challenge for this industry, all right now on OddBallers. Please Welcome, Melissa Rothfus Founder and Owner of Custom Treads and Design.
Find an...
2021-09-2441 minOddBallersEpisode 19 - Small Business September Part Two: Showtime Studio with Carlene ColemanOddBallers Podcast introduces Small Business September! Highlighting small businesses from all walks of life. The 2021 theme is Women in Business. Join Elizabeth Weyers as she shares a never before heard completely raw and uncut Interview with founder, owner and instructor of Showtime Dance and Tumbling Studio Carlene Mehls Coleman.
Find and follow Showtime Studio on Facebook at @ShowtimeDanceAndTumblingStudio or head over to their website at showtimedanceandtumbling.com
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Theme- Elizabeth Weyers
2021-09-1735 minOddBallersEpisode 18 - Small Business September Part One: Skylar Grace Company with Skylar CunninghamOddBallers Podcast introduces Small Business September! Highlighting small businesses from all walks of life. The 2021 theme is Women in Business. Join Elizabeth Weyers as she interviews CEO and Founder of Skylar Grace Company, Skylar Cunningham so find out just what it takes to create and run a business during college, covid, and the age of social media.
To check out Skylar's products head to https://www.skylargraceco.com
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2021-09-0348 minOddBallersEpisode 17 - Trending Oddities: August 2021What is trending? How about the Olympics, mental health, Covid-19, Horror Movies, and much more. Join Elizabeth Weyers will fan the favorite University of Iowa Graduate and Writer Abbey Fouts as they discuss the biggest topics in the news.
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Music Credit-- OddBallers Theme- Elizabeth Weyers
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What The Deaf?!#206: Embrace Knowing Nothing - Elizabeth Blake-ThomasThis episode we sit down with guest Elizabeth Blake-Thomas, award-winning storyteller and philanthropist, to discuss how she has the drive to achieve anything she sets her mind to. She also shares the power of listening and how she uses that power to create magic through stories!
2021-08-1551 minOddBallersEpisode 16 - Colorado Oddities Part Two: "Trail, and Tails, and Tommyknockers"At first glance, you might see Colorado as just another state in the western part of American. But with a closer look, it has as exciting of a past as places like New England or Washington D.C. and New Orleans. The history that Colorado has to offer is more than just the history of our past, it holds the history of the planet deep in the mountains. Geologists for centuries have rushed to colorful Colorado to get a glimpse at the rocks that the planet is created with. But Colorado also has a history that is different than...
2021-07-3037 minOddBallersEpisode 15 - Colorado Oddities Part One: Silver Days of ColoradoWhat lies deep in the mountains. Beyond the tree line and up to where the oxygen is thin. What stories and bits of the past have frozen to the rocks and have been forgotten, or turned to legends and reduced to stories we tell children around the campfires to scare them into eating their vegetables? What are they? What stories have we forgotten? Colorado is built on tall tales and legends, stories that have been twisted from the truth, but what really happened in those mines and on the trails to mountainside ghost towns? What was Colorado like before t...
2021-07-1636 minOddBallersEpisode 14 - OddBallers Special Episode - FireworksHappy Independence Day! Just some fun facts about fireworks that you may not have known, but you will be all the smarter for it!
Lowkey catfishing you in this episode but it's short and sweet and fun, and I hope you find it banging!
Enjoy!
Join Elizabeth Weyers in a message about Fireworks!
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https://www.celebratesafely.org/history-of-fireworks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireworks
Music Credit-- OddBallers Theme- Elizabeth Weyers
2021-07-0215 minOddBallersEpisode 13 - Religion Oddities Part 2: The Nostradamus EffectThe idea of magic is something that humans have searched for throughout all of history. They have hoped that magic was something that exists, to look into the future, change the past and help them along in the present. To defeat enemies, manipulate love, and gain power greater than any other. But in the search for this magic, humans learned that they would not find it alone and so they began to find the ones that would help them find it. Ones that they named gods and deities. Now, I am going to speak from the views of a...
2021-06-1835 minOddBallersEpisode 12 - Religion Oddities Part 1: The Stain of EvilWe are obsessed with death and dying. But we also fear it. We are trying to find ways to get out of it, ways to alter science and live longer, to be brought back, ways to defy the great gift of life we were given. It is a radiant addiction that humans have, and the only thing that humans seem to be more obsessed with is death, which is to figure out what comes next. What happens after death despite what religion you are or what you believe in or don’t believe in is a common thought to wo...
2021-06-0434 minOddBallersEpisode 11 - Mind Oddities Part Two: The Perfect SettingThe Fear of asylums runs deep in our culture as Americans, and really runs in the bones of most of humanity. You have to admit there is something creepy and odd about abandoned buildings with peeling paint, chipped windows, that are overgrown, outdated, and neglected. By the looks of our media and entertainment we seem to tell a different story, we seem to keep one of the darkest and most overlooked parts of our history alive through movies, books, and TV. We as a population have seemed to determine that stories that take place inside mental health facilities will...
2021-05-2137 minOddBallersEpisode 10 - Mind Oddities Part One: Within the Walls of a MadhouseThe mind is a curious place, and the human mind is one that is far from being understood, even with today’s modern medicine we cannot seem to figure it out. The brain is so complicated that it does not even understand itself.
But oh have we tried to understand the mind, to learn its facets, to fix it, change it in some way.
Today even with our modern medicine and technology mental health is still a sensitive subject and affects 1 in every 5 adults in America alone. But we have not always thought of mental he...
2021-05-0734 minOddBallersEpisode 9 - Health Oddities Pt. 2 - Happy Body = Happy LifeEvery day has become a "Celebration" in our world, cake, ice cream, and sugar have become a routine part of our diet that we cannot seem to get rid of. They are like a bad ex that we just keep coming back to. Learn how Liv Whisler combats late-night-cravings, squashes her lactose intolerance, and changes the way that we look at diets, weight loss, and heath, creating an end goal that is more about a happy body than an altered body because your value as a person does not go down as the scale numbers go up. Join Elizabeth Weyers...
2021-04-2341 minOddBallersEpisode 8 - Health Oddities Pt. 1 - Understanding Health, Business, and MotivationMondays are Liv Whisler's favorite day of the week which I know, is odd! Mondays are notorious for being most people's worst days of the week but you can change that will a little goal setting and motivation. You can turn your Mondays into a fresh start when you begin to understand your health, your body, and your motivation. And that is just what this week's guest has done! Starting her own business from scratch and working with people from all over the globe she has made great strides to promote healthy habits and healthy living. Join Elizabeth Weyers for...
2021-04-0935 minOddBallersEpisode 7 - OddBallers Special Episode - BodiesBodies have always fascinated humans, specifically dead ones. And dead bodies that once housed a famous historical figure really does it for us. And sometimes humans get carried away though, sometimes we are so fascinated by a discovery that we are blinded but the ethical and moral issues, by the repercussions, sometimes we don’t heed the warnings that are right in front of us and they can have catastrophic outcomes all because we touched something that was not ours to touch. Join Elizabeth Weyers for a special episode of OddBallers as she dives into what human's fascination with bodies is...
2021-04-0241 minOddBallersEpisode 6 - Pandemic Oddities Pt. 2 The Age of the VaccineIt's the question of the year. "Are you going to get the Covid vaccine?" I think it goes without saying that it is a touchy subject for us all because in such a tumultuous time most questions can seem like they have a political agenda behind them as many fear the vaccine more than COVID-19. But did you know that side-effects that so many people are afraid of with the vaccine are actually a good thing? And who do we have to thank for out innovation of the vaccination in the first place? Find out this and so much...
2021-03-1941 minOddBallersEpisode 5 - Pandemic Oddities Pt. 1 - Plagues of the Past“Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.” It is a quote that is used all of the time, but never has it been so true. 2020 rocked our world and forced us to change and learn fast, as our survival depended on it. History once again got clever and decided that we still have much to learn about pandemics and gave us another one. COVID-19. But with a new pandemic there is death, panic, turmoil and questions, questions that we don't have the answers too. Questions like What do we do now? When will this...
2021-03-0540 minOddBallersEpisode 4 - Vampire Oddities part 2: Vampire Literature Did Vlad the Impaler really inspire Bram Stoker's infamous book Dracula? And was the Blood Countess of Hungary responsible for Lady Gaga's Countess character in American Horror Story: Hotel? And who was the first person to put these bloodthirsty demons into literature and spark the creation of a new niche subgenre creating franchises like; The Vampire Diaries, Twilight, True Blood, and so many others? Find out in this Episode of OddBallers as Elizabeth Weyers chats with Writer Abbey Fouts to dive deep into Vampire Literature to see why these blood-sucking creatures have gone from folklore and myths to a m...
2021-02-1945 minOddBallersEpisode 3 - Vampire Oddities Part One: The Origin and Legacy of The VampireDid you know that in Babylonian Demonology, the mythical character, Lillith is a vampire? Did you know that according to legend so was Vlad the Impaler? Or how about the cause of the panic that arose in late 18th century New England that forced people all across the region to dig up the dead and burn them? Was it really Tuberculosis? Or something much more sinister, like, The Vampire. Join Elizabeth Weyers and Writer Abbey Fouts as they dig up the origin of these blood-sucking creatures to find out what legacy still remains.
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2021-02-0546 minOddBallersEpisode 2 - Art Oddities Part Two: The CreatorsWhat is the craziest thing that Art Enthusiast, Emma Buckman has done for art? Find out in this episode of OddBallers as we discuss the creators of magical art pieces that shape our world and try and answer this question. Does Art drive a person mad? OR Is it the madness that drives the art? Settle in this week as we finish off our topic on Art Oddities. Also: Learn how to take a mold of your ass. Don't know what that means? Well, click play!
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2021-01-2248 minOddBallersEpisode 1 - Art Oddities Part One: What is Art?In the first episode of OddBallers Elizabeth Weyers chats with Art Enthusiast, Emma Buckman to debate what art is. Learn where art started and how it has been used in so many ways. From war to religion, to politics and social and personal expression as big as the Harlem Renaissance and as small as the tattoo on your body.
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-Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
-The Black Automaton by Douglas Kearney
-The Network by Jena Osman
-Poetry Comics: From the Book of Hours by Bi...
2021-01-0848 minOddBallersEpisode 0 - OddBallers Trailer This is OddBallers.
Writer and Journalist Elizabeth Weyers dives deep into popular culture, and media to explore any and all topics odd and interesting. From from witch hunts, to trending skincare routines, schizophrenic writers, and blood-sucking demons turned sexy pop-culture icons. We will talk about the biggest trends, tales, and oddities of the world. Join us for a new topic every month to learn a little something odd about the world we inhabit.
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