Inbox Of Oddities #060

The Box of Oddities

John Elliott and Kat Walls

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Vote Box of Oddities For People's Choice Award Here! Live Show Info And Tickets Here! Real emails. Unreal stories. Welcome to the Inbox of Oddities, where the freaks write in and the universe delivers receipts. Inside Kat & Jethro’s inbox, the stories are weirder than fiction and more human than a wax museum marriage meltdown. Listeners write in with tales of time capsules that issue ominous relationship advice, McDonald's orders that align perfectly with the Boo Effect, and ghosts that wait until just after the photo op to let the camera work. This is where: 🦴 A family suggests a romantic day trip to a museum of bones and an immersive fever dream called Factory Obscura.🎧 A listener finds out about her breast cancer thanks to a podcast tangent and a snowball metaphor.🍔 A woman named Debbie from a real place called Tittybong, Australia, gets a McDonald’s code that literally spells “BBOO” while listening to Box of Oddities in a hospital parking lot.📚 A grammar snob gets absolutely humbled by Merriam-Webster.📦 A man rediscovers a cassette tape he buried in 1996, warning himself not to marry someone who hates museums.🐟 A boy once caught a trout with his nose, apparently.🧀 And someone wants to dress as “Shelly’s aunt” for Halloween, glowing blue and handing out cheese curds. No further context provided. And none needed. These are the unfiltered dispatches from the cult of curiosity, the church of weird, and the global freak family of The Box of Oddities. It’s like rummaging through a haunted junk drawer filled with love notes, medical mysteries, and cryptid keychains. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll maybe question the space-time continuum.This is Inbox of Oddities. 📬 Want in? Share your strange life stuff with Kat & Jethro here: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	One more week, and we're back out on the road again, a little more than a week.
0:05.6	But on the 12th, we kick off the second leg of our tour in Oklahoma City and then go to Atlanta for a couple of shows.
0:14.4	And then Philadelphia, live shows.
0:17.6	Then we have about a week off and we go out for the final leg.
0:21.4	Appleton, Wisconsin, Louisville, Kentucky, and Chicago. I think you know where that is.
0:27.4	Yeah. But just in case it's in Illinois. And we're going to be there for the final show,
0:32.0	Halloween night, Friday night in Chicago. I have started purchasing things. Yes, you have. For the
0:36.7	costume. I know. You're pretty exciting. You found
0:39.0	something that we thought was going to be a real issue for you to construct your costume with, but
0:44.8	you found it and it looks like you're pretty much on schedule. If by on schedule, you mean
0:51.7	incredibly behind, yes. Well, you're further along than you were. So let's,
0:56.8	let's look at the bright side. Yeah, baby steps to the elevator. Baby steps to the elevator.
1:02.3	We are also asking a favor of you, if you would, to vote for us for the People's Choice Award,
1:09.7	the Signal Awards. The voting is through the ninth,
1:13.6	and I think it's neck and neck at this point. We were slightly behind. I think that we've
1:19.0	closed the gap. I'm not sure where we are right at this minute, but your vote makes a big,
1:25.4	big difference at this point. You can find the link on our website and on a lot of the so shmids, I think also in the show notes.
1:33.4	Yep, put it in the show notes.
1:34.9	Hey, Kat and Jethro, my son, myself, and we all have our RIP tickets for the Oklahoma City show.
1:42.1	Yay!
1:42.5	Can't wait to see you guys in person.
1:44.2	I'm going to give you a couple of suggestions of places to check out while in our area.
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