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The Box of Oddities

John Elliott and Kat Walls

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Freak Family Favorite: “Would You Like Guac With That Foot?” In this Box of Oddities classic, we revisit one of the most disturbingly delicious tales ever told: a man, a severed foot, and a taco night that will haunt you forever. (Yes, this really happened.) Then, Kat unpacks the incredible life of Johnny Eck — sideshow legend, half-man, and full-on badass. Finally, why has humanity laughed for over a century at people slipping on banana peels? The answer is slipperier than you'd expect. Prepare your ears for an all-you-can-eat buffet of the bizarre: cannibalistic curiosity, sideshow superstars, and fruit-based pratfall propaganda. 📦 It’s everything you never asked for and somehow still needed. #BoxOfOddities #TrueWeird #WeirdHistory #JohnnyEck #BananaPeelMyth #CannibalCurious #FootTaco #FreakFamilyFavorite #OddCast #BizarreButTrue #HistoryIsWeird #PodcastRecommendations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.4	Participation and price may vary.
0:48.5	Subject to availability, serving time supply.
0:50.4	What follows may not be suitable for all audiences.
0:53.2	Listener discretion is advised.
0:56.4	The world is full of stories.
1:00.3	Stories of mysteries.
1:03.0	Of curiosities.
1:06.2	Of oddities.
1:08.9	Join Cat and Jethro Gilligan Toth for the strange, the bizarre, the unexpected.
1:17.0	But now it's your turn to lift the lid and tell us your favorite story as the Box of
1:23.1	Oddities presents Freak Family Favorites.
1:26.8	You might want to take a moment before I get into this first story to take a couple of deep breaths.
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