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

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 oddities.

This is the first episode of the year 2023.

How is that even possible?

You're looking at me like you don't believe me.

I don't understand it. Why is it every year? It's like this and every year gets worse.

I know it's got to do with math and perspective and all that business, but I legit don't understand how time works.

Well, this I know, time keeps on ticking, ticking, ticking into the future.

Oh. A wise man once said that.

There's the hat.

The episode is labeled 502.

And we alluded to this in the previous episode that really, if we're looking at the 500th episode,

the first really official 500th episode.

Is not episode 500.

No, because we've done bonus episodes and specials and things like that.

But we didn't actually know what the 500th was because we can't be bothered to do that kind of math.

That's way too much work.

Special shout out to Zach, Zach Freeman.

He's been keeping a spreadsheet of all of our topics since the beginning.

I'm so glad because someone's got to.

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