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The Box of Oddities

BOX496: A Belly Full Of Fermented Dairy

The Box of Oddities

John Elliott and Kat Walls

Comedy, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The ancient Romans had a very unique method of extracting revenge from those who wronged them. JG has the story. And Kat explains why when driving through Finland, many have seen a thousand people standing in a field silently staring as they pass by. BOX496 is just sitting here watching the wheels go 'round and 'round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Candace DeLong, host of the podcast Killer Psychie.

0:03.2

And in our newest season, we dissect the thoughts and behaviors of the most violent figures in history.

0:08.8

Follow Killer Psychie on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:13.2

Or you can listen early and add free by joining Wondery Plus on Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.

0:20.2

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

0:24.6

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

0:38.7

Join Pat and Jethro Gilligan-Toth for a strange, the bizarre, the unexpected,

0:46.4

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

0:55.4

I just love the Freaks Group on Facebook and I especially love it when they correct our

1:00.5

pronunciation. It happens a lot. Well, of course it does.

1:03.9

Kayla Rota, scat and JG. Newfoundland is pronounced the same way you would pronounce

1:10.7

Understand. Not Newfoundland. I absolutely love you guys and the podcast. Cat and I are

1:17.4

Kindred spirits. I nearly lost my ship when she shared my air fryer Facebook post on the cast.

1:23.7

Then Stacey said, my grandmother was from pouch cove and told me it was pronounced exactly how it

1:29.6

spelled Newfoundland. Judith says, NewFunderland? NewFunderStandland? My brain will not accept this.

1:41.9

Thank you so much Kayla though I'm still confused. That's weird because when I was a kid I actually

1:46.8

lived in Frederickton, New Brunswick and I don't recall anybody pronouncing it any different

1:54.8

than Newfoundland. Well, you're a stupid kid. Well, you have. What the hell did I know? Certainly

1:59.8

not how to skate and boy was I ostracized for that. Today I'm going to talk about Roman

2:07.2

curse tablets. Do you know what that is? I have a guess based on what you called it.

2:13.8

It's a small tablet with a curse written on it from the Greco-Roman world.

2:18.6

Yep, it's exactly what I thought it was. According to Wikipedia, its name originated from the

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