183 - Sicily’s Catacomb Mummies, Saint Menas vs Nazis and a Vietnam Hero

Ninjas Are Butterflies

Nature, Science, Comedy

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 106 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the show, ladies and gentlemen. Today we're going to be learned about the Sicily catacones right there down in Italy.
0:06.4	Bodies, hundreds and thousands of bodies perfectly preserved. How does it happen? It's almost as if time doesn't exist.
0:13.3	And did a ghostly, heavenly army appeared to fight the Nazis in Egypt during World War II?
0:18.1	Well, the Nazis sure saw something, and I'm going to tell you all about it.
0:20.9	And we're going to talk about a Vietnam War medic who's still saving lives.
0:24.7	This podcast is brought to you empowered by Sunday Cool. So watch this or listen, please.
0:30.6	Oh, she's got manners, ladies and gentlemen. He's got manners. Yes, I do.
0:37.1	Yes, I do. Yes, I do.
0:38.1	Yes, I do.
0:38.4	A can you turn my ears up, young man.
0:48.7	Me too, no, na, na, nah, nah.
0:50.8	Yeah, yeah, that's good.
0:51.6	Nah, nah, nah, nah, no.
0:52.9	It's a little too loud for me.
0:55.1	A little, right there. Make up your mind. I'm sorry, I'm late, guys. Make up your mind, making my mind, make a mind now. You gave me a chance to eat my Indian gas station burrito. Is you got it from the gas station? Nook, no, no, nook, nook, dook, dook, dook, dook. Is it yum?
1:10.6	Oh yeah.
1:11.6	Baridos at that gas station ya. Is it yum? Oh, yeah.
1:11.7	Barrios had that gas station.
1:14.9	Do they still do chicken?
1:16.7	No, the crunchy chicken?
1:18.1	Dang, I used to get that once a week when I worked here.
1:20.8	That was the first gas station.
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