About Weird Things
The Weird Things Podcast is hosted by Andrew Mayne, Justin Robert Young, and Brian Brushwood. Each episode explores the space between science, speculation, strange news, fringe ideas, and the big what-if questions that make the future feel a little more unpredictable.
The show brings together three hosts with overlapping backgrounds in skepticism, magic, media, comedy, technology, and storytelling. Andrew Mayne is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, inventor, magician, AI creative, and former OpenAI Science Communicator. Justin Robert Young is a podcaster, journalist, comedian, and host of Politics Politics Politics. Brian Brushwood is a magician, author, performer, and host known for Scam School, The Modern Rogue, and World's Greatest Con.
Together, Andrew, Justin, and Brian take on topics like weird science, bizarre discoveries, AI, space, cryptids, fringe claims, and speculative futures with curiosity, critical thinking, and a willingness to chase the strangest possible angle.
Hosts
Andrew Mayne
Author, inventor, magician, AI creative, and host of The OpenAI Podcast.
Justin Robert Young
Podcaster, journalist, comedian, and host of Politics Politics Politics.
Brian Brushwood
Magician, author, performer, and host known for Scam School, The Modern Rogue, and World's Greatest Con.