#147: Shut Up Dirk!

The Shallow End

John Elliott and Lindsay Schnebly

Society & Culture, Comedy, History

4.9 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On episode #147, Lindsay starts the show with a cautionary tale on why it’s never good to alter Mother Nature’s distribution of native species. Hawaii in the late 1800s dealt with a problem of rats in the sugarcane fields by…well…importing an animal from the other side of the world. It did not end well! And speaking of animals (!), J.G. tells us about two Welshmen who naturally found themselves in a pub. On the Gold Coast of Australia. A bit in their cups. Who decided at 2 AM that it was the perfect time to realize a lifelong dream of swimming with dolphins. The decision did not please the local SeaWorld theme park. Or it's prized penguin, Dirk. And that’s just the beginning of Jethro’s story! Join us, won’t you? If you would like to advertise on The Box of Oddities, contact advertising@airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It began long ago, two young boys in an American town riding their bikes to school and Little League practice.
0:09.0	Over the years, the boys became fast friends, united in their love for stories where things would go horribly wrong.
0:18.0	Pour yourself a strong beverage and buckle up. You're in the shallow end with
0:23.5	Schnebly and Toff. Happy St. Patrick's Day, buddy. We're recording this on, uh, on St. Patti's.
0:30.1	And I'm not wearing any green, are you? Well, yeah, actually, I am. I wasn't, I, that was not
0:36.1	a strategy on my part. Oh, I just, I just looked up at my monitor and by God, you're wearing a green t-shirt. Yeah, it's, it's laundry day and it's my cleanest dirty shirt. Gotcha. Gotcha. Yeah, yeah. But later on tonight, we're going to, we're going to enjoy a lovely sack of potatoes.
0:55.4	Karshah.
0:56.6	I was just coming back from my hike with Nancy, and I looked at my phone, and I had gotten two different emails, one from a restaurant chain called Yoshinoa, which is very popular here in California.
1:08.8	They do kind of like terriaki chicken and beef, dishes over rice and really, really good.
1:14.6	But they sent me an email with the St. Patrick's Day promotion and also Del Taco, the Mexican restaurant chain, fast food chain, sent me another, an email with additional St. Patrick's Day savings. And I showed it to
1:30.4	Nancy, and she instantly said, I think that's cultural appropriation. So I'm going to fire off a sternly
1:38.2	worded email to both Yoshinoya and Del Taco, chastising them for cultural appropriation on St. Patrick's Day.
1:44.8	My mom and dad lived in County Cork for about a year and a half. My dad taught at a university
1:51.9	over there. And when they came back, they brought some things back. One of them was a local
1:58.2	telephone book. This was back in the 90s and I was flipping through it and I
2:03.5	and I found a bar in Dublin. It's probably still there. It was called the badass and it was like a donkey.
2:14.2	Okay. And it had been called that for centuries.
2:17.6	Yeah.
2:18.1	It wasn't, you know, badass.
2:20.0	So I thought, that'd be fun to call live on the radio on St. Patrick's Day.
2:26.4	And so I called him up and the guy answers and he's just as nice as can be and said happy St. Patrick's Day.
2:37.7	And he said the same. you're calling from um and i told him florida and he said oh you must know father mcgillicuddy
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