{"id":1579,"date":"2025-04-29T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2025-04-29T01:54:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T01:54:29","slug":"350th-episode-spectacular-hotel-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/350th-episode-spectacular-hotel-california\/","title":{"rendered":"350th Episode Spectacular: Hotel California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2280\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1579-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/ep350HotelCalifornia.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/ep350HotelCalifornia.mp3\">https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/ep350HotelCalifornia.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/ep350HotelCalifornia.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1579-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/ep350HotelCalifornia.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"ep350HotelCalifornia.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Snapchat-34059063-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1580\" style=\"width:477px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Snapchat-34059063-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Snapchat-34059063-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Snapchat-34059063-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Snapchat-34059063-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Snapchat-34059063-1200x1201.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Snapchat-34059063.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ep 350-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>   <strong><em>Holy Moly, Weirdsville<\/em><\/strong>! <strong>350 episodes<\/strong>! <strong>Three! Five! Zero!<\/strong> Join us this week, along with <strong>Special Correspondents Tilly (Queen of Lists) and Bobbi (Weirdo for Hire) <\/strong>to celebrate! And to celebrate, we are doing things a little differently. We are doing a<em><strong> research-and-report episode <\/strong><\/em>on one of the most mysterious and well know songs of all time,<strong><em> Hotel California by the Eagles<\/em><\/strong>. Join us as we discuss the mythology and mystery behind this enigmatic slice of 1970s country-rock Americana. Welcome to the Hotel California on this, the 350th episode of the <strong>WHAT&#8217;S YER WEIRD STORY? Podcast!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ep 350- Holy Moly, Weirdsville! 350 episodes! Three! Five! Zero! Join us this week, along with Special Correspondents Tilly (Queen of Lists) and Bobbi (Weirdo for Hire) to celebrate! And to celebrate, we are doing things a little differently. We are doing a research-and-report episode on one of the most mysterious and well know songs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/350th-episode-spectacular-hotel-california\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;350th Episode Spectacular: Hotel California&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,680,7,660,45,35,24,40,53,25,41,189,338,5,49,661,66,948,907,256,920,43,505,506,1,198,2,3],"tags":[1077,146,801,682,147,686,926,927,1075,901,1036,688,181,665,152,120,432,899,1072,610,80,1074,203,79,148,579,78,77,360,182,186,249,1061,19,325,138,900,447,929,204,745,746,1076,145,951,93,921,925,922,242,892,71,793,195,543,1073,924,923,823,705,74,663,217,315,199,18,72],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-beeby","category-art","category-barry-johnston","category-cults","category-demons","category-devil","category-dreams","category-high-strangeness","category-local-legends","category-mysterious-stranger","category-mystery","category-paranormal","category-paranormal-podcast","category-podcast","category-psychedelic","category-satanic-panic","category-secret-society","category-secrets","category-storytelling","category-supernatural","category-travel-stories","category-true-crime","category-true-stories","category-true-story","category-uncategorized","category-urban-legends","category-whats-yer-weird-story-podcast","category-whats-yer-weird-story","tag-350th-episode","tag-adam-beeby","tag-alien-podcast","tag-art","tag-barry-johnston","tag-bigfoot-podcast","tag-bobbi","tag-bobbi-our-resident-weirdo","tag-celebration","tag-comedy-podcast","tag-crime-podcast","tag-cryptid-podcast","tag-cult","tag-cults","tag-demons","tag-devil","tag-drug-use","tag-drugs","tag-eagles","tag-ghost-podcast","tag-high-strangeness","tag-hotel-california","tag-legends","tag-local-legends","tag-music","tag-musicians","tag-mysterious-stranger","tag-mystery","tag-mystic","tag-occult","tag-paranormal","tag-paranormal-podcast","tag-pod-daughter","tag-podcast","tag-podcasting","tag-psychedelic","tag-psychedelics","tag-recreational-drug-use","tag-satanic-church","tag-satanic-panic","tag-satanic-worship","tag-satanist","tag-secret-meanings","tag-secret-society","tag-secrets","tag-special","tag-special-correspondent","tag-special-correspondent-bobbi","tag-special-correspondent-tilly","tag-special-episode","tag-story","tag-storytelling","tag-storytelling-podcast","tag-supernatural","tag-supernatural-podcast","tag-the-eagles","tag-tilly","tag-tilly-queen-of-list","tag-travel-podcast","tag-travel-stories","tag-true-crime","tag-true-crime-podcast","tag-true-stories","tag-true-story","tag-urban-legends","tag-whats-yer-weird-story","tag-whats-yer-weird-story-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}