Episode 9: Best of Weird Stories 2019

The Jewelry District

JCK

Fashion & Beauty, Business News, Business, Arts, News

9.9 • 25 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In This Episode In the latest installment of “The Jewelry District,” you’ll hear a compilation of our Weird Stories of the Week. You’ll hear quite a few stories from JCK’s news director, Rob Bates, about people’s consumption of jewelry—but not in the way you might think! You’ll also hear JCK editor-in-chief Victoria Gomelsky tell us what her favorite Weird Story has been. Show Notes 00:30 Victoria introduces her favorite Weird Story 01:10 A Moo-ving Proposal 03:55 Hard to Swallow 07:05 Hungry for Wealth 10:07 Tesla Trouble 13:35 Should You Fire That Hippie? 16:30 No Laughing Matter Episode Credits Hosts: Rob Bates and Victoria GomelskyJCK Staff: Emili VesilindEditor: Levi SharpeProducer and engineer: Natalie ChometPlugs: jckonline.com (http://jckonline.com/), @jckmagazine (https://www.instagram.com/jckmagazine/) Show Recap A Moo-ving Proposal Social media was abuzz with ring-shamers, animal advocates, and those looking to jump on the bandwagon with bovine-puns when a farmer from Singapore proposed to his girlfriend by placing a diamond engagement ring on a cow’s udder. Hard to Swallow A woman dreams she swallowed her ring to protect it from a jewelry heist. On waking up, her ring was nowhere to be found. After going to urgent care, it turns out she really did swallow the ring while sleeping! Is there a happy ending to this weird story? Listen to find out! Hungry for Wealth Doctors remove a whopping 1.6 kilograms (3.5 pounds) of jewelry from a 22-year-old woman’s stomach. That jewelry totaled £53,000 ($64,310)! When the woman was suffering from abdominal pain, she decided to go to the doctor. What the Bengali doctors found was striking: 69 chains, 80 earrings, 46 coins, 8 lockets, 11 nose rings, 5 anklets, and 1 watch dial—all in her stomach! Somehow, her family didn’t expect anything, as the jewelry went missing over a length of time. Tesla Trouble Ben Baller, the man who created a $400,000 diamond and ruby ring for Elon Musk, got locked inside of his own Tesla for 40 long minutes. While stuck, he posted video of the incident to his Instagram feed. Conflict and conspiracy theories ensued. Should You Fire That Hippie? An article that was published in 1975 with an inflammatory title is the focus of this weird story. Did the article make points that are still relevant to the industry today? How does it reflect on millennials and their attitudes? No Laughing Matter

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0:00.0	Welcome to the jewelry district, a podcast by JCP magazine and JCP online. Today, we'll close out
0:17.1	2019 with a roundup of JCP's Rob Bates and Victoria Gimelski's favorite weird jewelry
0:22.7	stories that they have collected over the course of the year.
0:31.7	Hey everyone, it's Victoria Gimelski, editor-in-chief of JCPay and JCP Online.com.
0:38.1	It's the week before Christmas, so I know for our listeners, you must be crazed as people
0:43.7	come into your stores looking for very last-minute gifts.
0:46.7	I am among them. I'm still getting through my list, which is kind of a shame as I'm heading
0:50.8	to Chicago imminently and need to have everything locked up. It's also
0:55.1	cold season and my wonderful co-host Rob Bates, news director Rob Bates, is unfortunately out today.
1:01.2	He was meant to join me as we recap our favorite weird stories of the week and he fell ill.
1:07.1	So it's left to me to talk through a few of my favorites. You might remember the one we aired back
1:13.0	in September about a Singaporean farmer who proposed to his girlfriend by leaving an engagement
1:19.4	ring on a cow's utter. So this was from a variety of sources. I got this from the New York Post
1:25.9	and from, I think, the Daily Mail.
1:28.3	A dairy farmer in Singapore proposed to his girlfriend by sliding a diamond ring onto a cow's udder.
1:37.1	Gross. A detached utter? Like, no, no, no. It was like a real cow's utter. Like, it was there.
1:43.6	Yeah, it was a live cow.
1:45.9	So the couple shared the shot on Facebook where it's picked up by a group called That's It, I'm Ringshaming, which I'm actually a member of that group.
1:56.0	It's like, yeah, yeah. It's this weird group of people who make fun of rings all day. That's like the thing. It's like, that's it. I'm ring shaming. Like, yeah. It's this weird group of people who make fun of rings all day.
2:01.6	That's like the thing.
2:02.6	It's like, that's it.
2:03.3	I'm ring shaming.
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