Finding My Own Weird

Did you know that Portland has the third largest puppet population in the country? Well, I found out that and much, much more from my next guest. From entertaining friends with his marionettes when he was a kid to entertaining all ages as an adult. Steve over 10 now owns an incredible puppet museum in this Elwood neighborhood housing over 2,600 puppets. But the journey he took to get there was pretty fantastical. Links to foll...

Special thanks to Blake Oslon with The Earth is Dying productions. To follow Blake and the amazing projects he is working on, you can go to https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%... You can also follow Weird Portland United at the links below Website-weirdportlandunited.org Facebook-https://www.facebook.com/WeirdPortlan... Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/weirdportla... And you can also find us on Reddit And be sure to follow ...

Season 2, Episode 1 of Finding My Own Weird. This episode started out as a recap of what I have been doing for the several months (spoiler alert...it involves finding my own weird) but the first 2/3 of the video is some fun with my best friend, Mark Risinger, who has seen me through many re-inventions in our 20 year friendship. Also, to reach out to me, the sponsor, for any mortgage related questions, you can email me at christi...

I go about town in a giant chicken suit. I try finding work this way and I socialize this way. What in the world could possibly drive me to do this? That might be the fairest question of the day. And to be honest, in answering that question, I could discuss details on any level, from my own personal story to the complicated state of the world. With a unique upbringing and a colorful career in costume performance behind me, I reloc...

Kevon Ward is a Denver artist who specializes in FX makeup, creature design/fabrication, fine art, and graphic design. Kevon Ward is a two-time competitor on the hit SYFY reality competition show Face Off. Kevon's work has been featured in film, television, theatrical productions, theme parks, VR games, body paint competitions, retail stores, and children's books. Kevon loves to create horror fan art, as well as original c...

Musician, show man and punk croc weirdo-Gar Gar To Follow Gar Gar go to the links below Website: http://GargGarBand.com Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/gargarband/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gargarband/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/GARGARBand Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/albums/B01CS4HGFW Special thanks to our sponsor, Christine Lassiter, Mortgage Broker with Two Rivers Mortgage. To talk to Christi...

Of all of Portland’s colorful characters, none are as easily recognized as The Unipiper, with his fire-breathing bagpipes, colorful costumes, and unicycle, reports of Unipiper sightings stretch back over a decade. The origin of The Unipiper is shrouded in mystery, but reportedly stems from an incident with local-resident Brian Kidd involving a bite from a radioactive unicycle incurred while playing the bagpipes, granting him the p...

Professional Mermaid, Water Priestess, & Activist Una is passionate about social justice and have been a longtime activist and advocate in her community for restorative justice, racial equity, and violence reduction. She strongly believes creativity is the key in cultivating cultures of peace. She also believes imaginative endeavors can help initiate the brave and often uncomfortable conversations needed to help raise awarene...

Sister Donna sprang, fully formed, from the three way collision of a tiny car full of clowns with big feet, a van full of Nuns with love for their community, and a semi truck full of glitter with a big hairy daddy bear driver. She never did get his name… You can follow Sister Donna at the links below: Website:https://portlandsisters.org/sister-donna-vanewday/ Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/donna.vanewday Inda (they/them) f...

Lexi (she/her) is a 31 year old from Portland, OR. When not working one of her multiple jobs, Lexi can be found at a local dive bar or arcade, knocking a stainless steel ball around to score points on one of the many pinball machines around town.

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Maggie is a cisgender, pansexual woman, a recovering marketing professional, a trauma and abuse survivor, and the Chief Everything Officer of Maggie Greene Style, which she describes as an ethical microbusiness on a mission to transform how you see yourself. Simply stated, she works at the intersection of personal brand and style. Maggie supports entrepreneurs, leaders, and individual contributors of all body types, across the g...

Raised in a conservative religion, in small town Montana, Hannah broke free and made many unique moves that led her to weird Portland.   Creating her own niche in banking, she climbed the ranks and is now a bank manager and financial/career mentor by day. By night, you’ll dive into a whole other side of her. A body adorned in tattoos, powerful statements of art around her house and a love of true crime are the makeup of a...

The Portland Sleestak is making his way in Portland.   

My interview today is with Brent Marr, The Portland Sleestak  

Brent may gave grown up as a shy awkward boy in Spokane, but he is living large, 7ft large, entertaining and providing jump scares to the people of Portland. From tik toks to tv parodies, The Portland Sleestak is bringing other weirds along for the ride.   

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He might be 3'6" but he has very large personality.   

My interview today is with entertainer and artist Nik Sin.   He played football and wrestled, but it wasnt until he got noticed by his theater teacher that he found his calling, being on stage. From his first play Titanic, to his straight jacket escape act, he followed wild rabbit holes taking him across the country and thru bizarre and fascinating experienc...

When you are doing naked yoga in front of your glass door, Brooks will be sure and avert his gaze as you compose yourself.  

 Local funny, goofy UPS driver and host of not one, but two podcasts, Brooks is spreading his weird far and wide. Through interactions with his neighbors in Multnomah Village, Tik Toks and The Basement Buddies and Afterwork: with Dan and Brooks podcasts, Brooks is using every platform he can find to...

Working at a porn shop helped Jasmine be a kickass social worker.  

 Host and Founder of TellTale, a monthly curated storytelling show in Portland, today we are interviewing Jasmine Pettet.

Once Jasmine figures out what she wants, she lets very little detour her. From a well structured presentation to convince her parents not to move to Texas, to move to Portland instead, to talking her employer to create a supervisor pos...

A couture wedding dress maker and an online sewing instructor, you would never know the badass journey Brooks Ann took to get where she is now.   

My guest today is my high school friend Brooks Ann Camper  

From Sesame Street to Broadway to the WWE, Brooks Ann followed a very serendipitous path to get to where she now. She never knew that not knowing how to iron would lead to a Yale costuming internship that would le...

Seeing his first black drag queen show changed his life forever. 

Emcee, Entertainer, Activist and alter ego of Poison Waters, Co-hostess of Darcelle XV Showplace, or guest today is the amazing Kevin Cook. 

Too light skinned for the black communities, too dark skinned for the Mexican community, and living in primarily white communities most of his life, Kevin struggled to find his place. From growing up in extreme poverty...