Coming up on the Box of Audities, a guy with no racing experience cons his way to a starting position in the 1982 Winston Cup series at

Taladega and then disappears for 40 years. Also, worms with spikes in their throats. The Box of Audities, if it's weird, we talk about it.

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Bowman was last seen in November of 2021 at a 7-11 in Los Angeles. His final text was to 911 for help, help that never came.

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The world is full of stories. Stories of mysteries, of curiosities, of audities. Join Pat and Jethro Gilligan-Toth for a strange, the bizarre, the unexpected, as they lift the lid and cautiously peer inside the box of audities.

So I get up this morning a little bit late. I walk out to the kitchen to get some coffee. Kat is already up. She's sitting there scrolling through her phone. She looks up and she said, oh, we need to clean out the fridge today.

I was thinking I'd make us matching shirts. And then she went on to describe what the shirts would say. Everything with Kat is like a team event.

I can't tell you how many times Kat has made us matching shirts for various household chores.

I just feel like it makes it more of an adventure. You know, normally cleaning out the fridges and the most exciting thing.

But if we were like the cool operators, you know, maybe the cool operators. I was just thinking that maybe.

Which is okay. I think it's a fun idea, but we have closets full of matching shirts from various other projects that we've done and.

Have a refrigerator. That's that is true. She made me a shirt when I had to go for my proctology exam, which was I got all kinds of weird looks.

It said, give me a big thumbs up. Made them all chuckle. Yeah, I thought they would appreciate it. The colonoscopy room.

That reminds me of the thread I found not long ago of all of the people on various social media sites that talked about how much they love the smell of their boyfriend's colon.

Yeah, learn how to spell.

Hello, I think you spell a little differently. Anyway, I love the story of a good con man. Well, there are no good con men, I guess, but a good story about a con man.

Something very strange happened at the prestigious NASCAR Winston 500 race at the Talladega Speedway back in 1982.

For those of you who may not be NASCAR fans, Talladega is an iconic NASCAR track. The best of the best in the world of NASCAR have competed there.

Ricky Bobby.

Ricky Bobby did and it's not as an easy racing circuit to qualify for just to get there is a remarkable accomplishment, which made it all the stranger when a man named LW right seemingly came out of nowhere and quickly rose through the ranks to earn himself a spot in this prestigious race.

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