{"id":89,"date":"2019-08-17T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/17\/episode-51-disgusting-fun\/"},"modified":"2021-07-17T19:16:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T19:16:35","slug":"episode-51-disgusting-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/17\/episode-51-disgusting-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 51: &#8220;Disgusting &#038; Fun&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3228\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-89-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep051DisgustingandFun.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep051DisgustingandFun.mp3\">https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep051DisgustingandFun.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep051DisgustingandFun.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/?powerpress_pinw=89-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/episodes\/Ep051DisgustingandFun.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Ep051DisgustingandFun.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HVeraMLcV7I\/XVg-g_m4ddI\/AAAAAAAAreU\/9oteDOmPNhQYzSGjxjqIPHZOFnGG_sQSwCLcBGAs\/s1600\/68373675_2097865153850434_4149160023953506304_n.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"768\" data-original-width=\"768\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HVeraMLcV7I\/XVg-g_m4ddI\/AAAAAAAAreU\/9oteDOmPNhQYzSGjxjqIPHZOFnGG_sQSwCLcBGAs\/s400\/68373675_2097865153850434_4149160023953506304_n.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">&nbsp; This week we talk to Lee &#8220;Birdshot&#8221; Kilpatrick, wandering musician &amp; sideshow performer. Birdshot shares stories of life on the road with professional freaks and clowns as well as growing up in &#8220;white trash heap Mississippi,&#8221; and just how he got the name &#8220;Birdshot.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;Talk about a weird life! It&#8217;s like running away and joining the circus, if the circus was all sideshow! Lee is a natural born entertainer.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">(Parental Advisory on this one too.) All that and more on this week&#8217;s episode of the WHAT&#8217;S YER WEIRD STORY? Podcast.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This week we talk to Lee &#8220;Birdshot&#8221; Kilpatrick, wandering musician &amp; sideshow performer. Birdshot shares stories of life on the road with professional freaks and clowns as well as growing up in &#8220;white trash heap Mississippi,&#8221; and just how he got the name &#8220;Birdshot.&#8221;&nbsp; &nbsp;Talk about a weird life! It&#8217;s like running away and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/17\/episode-51-disgusting-fun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 51: &#8220;Disgusting &#038; Fun&#8221;&#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":[6,7,40,5,56,1,2,3],"tags":[80,19,124,18,72],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-beeby","category-barry-johnston","category-high-strangeness","category-podcast","category-sideshow","category-uncategorized","category-whats-yer-weird-story-podcast","category-whats-yer-weird-story","tag-high-strangeness","tag-podcast","tag-sideshow","tag-whats-yer-weird-story","tag-whats-yer-weird-story-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsyerweirdstory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}