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The Box of Oddities

BOX395: Grandpa Was A Murderous Monkey

The Box of Oddities

John Elliott and Kat Walls

Society & Culture, True Crime, Comedy

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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0:00.0

What follows may not be suitable for all audiences, listen to discretion is advised.

0:06.0

The world is full of stories, stories of mysteries, of curiosities, of oddities.

0:18.0

Join Pat and Jethro Guillentoth for a strange, the bizarre, the unexpected,

0:27.0

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

0:34.0

Before we start, I did want to mention I have not been sleeping well and so therefore my cognitive abilities have been significantly damaged.

0:45.0

And I just preferred to a pillow as a towel and that's just how today is going to go.

0:52.0

Well usually when you can't think of the word you say thingy or you just vaguely describe it and put a Y at the end of it like when you're looking for the plug to the laptop, where's the pluggy any thingy?

1:07.0

And the other night we're playing cards and we had, I don't know, some like classic rock station honor something and they played babe by sticks.

1:14.0

And you were trying to think of the name of the group and you described them as what was it?

1:21.0

The Boatsong band.

1:22.0

The Boatsong band.

1:23.0

And I knew exactly what you meant come sail away even though it has nothing to do with boats and everything to do with UFOs.

1:31.0

Did you know that? Did you know that's what that song come sail away?

1:34.0

Yeah, okay.

1:35.0

Okay.

1:36.0

That's also what the song sail is about.

1:39.0

Is it?

1:40.0

I don't know, but that's what the music video is about.

1:42.0

Huh, well I like that song a lot better.

1:45.0

You know, all right, here we go.

1:51.0

About 70,000 years ago, Mount Toba, a Supervolcano on Sumatra erupted and it spewed out an estimated 670 cubic miles of ash in hot lava into the sky just in the initial explosion.

2:06.0

And that may have triggered a nice age.

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