BOX465: 18th Century Robot Music Is Shrill

The Box of Oddities

John Elliott and Kat Walls

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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It terrified the settlers of the Great Plains in the late 19th century. And we are only now beginning to fully understand what it was. And what's better than a robot duck? A robot duck that poops! The mysterious "Prairie Madness" and the incredibly inventive mind of the 18th-century inventor and artist Jacques de Vaucanson. Do not reheat BOX465. Doing so may cause it to warp or melt. Listen to The Shallow End here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm David Brown, the host of Wonder Woman's Podcast Business Wars.
0:03.7	In our latest series, two visionary automakers each believe they can beat Detroit and build
0:09.6	America's favorite cars, listen to business wars on Amazon music or wherever you get
0:15.1	your podcasts.
0:17.1	It's hard to imagine losing a loved one, a wife, a husband, a child.
0:21.4	For many, it's their biggest fear.
0:23.3	I'm Marissa Jones, host of The Vanished.
0:25.8	A podcast that tells the stories of often overlooked and unsolved missing persons cases,
0:30.6	in an effort to uncover the truth.
0:32.9	Listen to The Vanished on Amazon music or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:37.0	What follows may not be suitable for all audiences, listen to discretion as advised.
0:42.9	The world is full of stories, stories of mysteries, of curiosities, of oddities.
0:55.4	Join Pat and Jethro Gilligan-Toth for a strange, the bizarre, the unexpected, as they lift
1:05.0	the lid and cautiously peer inside the box of oddities.
1:10.7	It's so nice to be home.
1:14.7	It's wonderful to travel, but it is.
1:16.8	It's always great to come home, although we've mentioned this before.
1:21.2	Our home always smells weird when we get back.
1:24.1	Sure does.
1:25.9	And luckily it's not because of anything we brought back.
1:30.5	Of course we were in Mexico and when you come back from Mexico, obviously you have to go
1:36.5	through customs.
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