Inbox Of Oddities #85

The Box of Oddities

John Elliott and Kat Walls

Society & Culture, True Crime, Comedy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

From mysterious grocery store receipts and disappearing coffee mugs to retro TV references, creepy elevator buttons, and an opossum in a tutu… this week’s Inbox of Oddities is gloriously unhinged. JG and Kat share listener stories about strange “Boo Effects,” deep-fried toga nights, ghostly office buildings, haunted coffee routines, geese laws in Illinois, and why there should absolutely be separate knives for peanut butter and jelly. Plus: vintage soup cans worth “$250,000,” Camino del Santiago pilgrimages, cremation tattoos, and the ongoing debate over whether crumbs belong in butter. Also in this episode: A listener discovers a mysterious “$0.00” item on a receipt from a lonely Pennsylvania grocery store A warm cup of coffee vanishes… then reappears hours later Kat and JG discuss electric chair photo booth ideas for oddities festivals Retro shout-outs to CBS Radio Mystery Theater, RuPaul's Drag Race, and The Banana Splits Adventure Hour theme song Dog photos, Boo Effects, and the Freak Family at its absolute finest It’s weird. It’s warm. It’s wonderfully ridiculous. 🎧 New episodes of The Box of Oddities drop every Monday and Wednesday. Keep flying that freak flag. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.
0:05.0	Mom!
0:06.0	Up the stairs for something.
0:08.0	Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for.
0:12.0	Mom, what's for dinner?
0:14.0	Chop, sizzle, done.
0:17.0	Hello Fresh can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.
0:23.4	So its phones down, forks up.
0:25.5	Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time.
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1:06.4	do on your nights off? Your quiet nights together. What do you do? We do talk about, you know, our lives quite a bit, but I don't, I think there's a lot of the
1:15.0	quiet times that we don't talk about. And for good reason. Yeah. I remember at one point,
1:22.2	one of the things that we really enjoyed doing was what we called deep fried toga night.
1:26.9	Oh, that was a good time we would just put on
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