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The Box of Oddities

BOX092: Shrunken Head Tailgate Party

The Box of Oddities

John Elliott and Kat Walls

Society & Culture, True Crime, Comedy

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Body parts make great decor! And then, some things you just don't put in your mouth. The history of shrunken heads and the strange proposed use of a recently exhumed Egyptian mummy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Many involved in crypto saw Sandbankman Freed as a breath of fresh air from the usual Wall Street buffs.

0:05.1

But in just one month, his crypto exchange would collapse. From Bloomberg and Wondery comes

0:10.0

Spellcaster, a new six-part docuseries about the wild rise and fall of FTX and its founder,

0:15.2

Sandbankman Freed. Listen to Spellcaster on Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:20.0

I love my kid, but is a new comedy parenting podcast from Wondery that shares a refreshingly

0:25.3

honest and insightful take on parenting. Each week, the host will share a parenting story that

0:30.0

will have you laughing and thinking, yes, I have absolutely been there. Listen to, I love my kid,

0:36.3

but on Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts. What follows may not be suitable for

0:42.0

all audiences. Listen to discretion is advised. The world is full of stories, stories of mysteries,

0:51.9

of curiosities, of oddities. Join, cat, and jethral gilligan toth for a strange, the bizarre,

1:05.2

the unexpected as they lift the lid and cautiously peer inside the box of oddities.

1:16.0

So I guess your grilled cheese sandwich unit measurement system is beginning to catch on.

1:21.7

This message literally came in as I was setting up here in the studio to record this podcast.

1:28.8

It comes from Mandy from Montana. She says, you are not alone and she attached a screenshot of

1:37.2

a conversation that she had with a friend who said, today we asked my three-year-old cousin how

1:42.4

much he weighs and he said, uh, like 50 squirrels. Sounds like a member of your family.

1:56.1

Oh, I love it. That's glorious. That is glorious. When you asked how tall, how many grilled cheese

2:03.5

sandwiches tall the Eiffel Tower was, we actually had people do the math and send in diagrams and

2:10.8

sharts of how many grilled cheese sandwiches. I was so impressed and I have been getting updates

2:18.1

from people about grilled cheese sandwiches, not just as a unit of measurement, but you know,

2:23.1

for lunch. One of my coworkers the other day was like, just so you know, there's this bruschetta

2:27.4

grilled cheese sandwich to a place downtown and you have to try it. So I love that this has spurred

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