Inbox Of Oddities #88

The Box of Oddities

John Elliott and Kat Walls

Comedy, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Dream malls. Butterfly people. Funeral teddy bears. Grocery store grief rehearsals. This episode of The Box of Oddities: Inbox of Oddities spirals gloriously from the hilarious to the unexpectedly emotional. Kat and JG dive into listener stories about recurring “Mall World” dreams that feel disturbingly shared, bizarre final wishes involving pencils, hourglasses, and stuffed teddy bears, and the chilling true story behind one grandfather’s terrifying basement rule. Along the way: pork brain sandwiches, nitrous oxide at the dentist, mysterious butterfly-winged beings seen during the devastating Joplin tornado, and a woman secretly practicing grocery shopping after losing her husband of fifty years. Also in this episode:• Why anglerfish are apparently “beautiful”• The bowler hat man you should absolutely avoid• Tiny May Day baskets and accidental “boo effects”• Omaha pillow lore• Hoarding plug-innies you’ll never use again• Crosswalk voices that became local legends• Duck-related arrest scenarios• The proper way to make a PB&J with only ONE knife Funny, strange, heartfelt, unsettling, and wonderfully human — it’s another beautifully chaotic trip through the Inbox of Oddities. Listen now and keep flying that freak flag. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Attention all passengers.
0:03.0	The Uber ride for Mark and Jamal's romantic weekend
0:07.0	will depart in four minutes from Platform 6.
0:10.0	Your ride comes with a rolling countryside sunset view
0:14.0	and a table seat ideal for playing footsie beneath.
0:17.0	Thank you for booking your tickets on Uber.
0:20.0	Trains on Uber.
0:23.6	Trains on Uber. Can I A L-O-M-R?
0:26.6	Ha- ha, ha, or I don't know.
0:29.6	See Morgan J. Live!
0:33.6	The comedy and musical star Morgan J is returning to the UK, bringing La Dolce Vita Tour to venues from February 2027.
0:43.9	Tickets on sale now at livenation.co.uk. Don't miss Morgan J. Live.
0:56.3	1, 2, 3. 1, 2. 3. Oh my two, three.
0:57.1	One, two, three.
0:58.0	Oh, my God.
0:58.8	That's not a shark.
0:59.8	That's an angler fish.
1:02.2	Are you scolding the internet again?
1:15.1	I'm just, I don't understand why you would market something as shark figurine when it is clearly an anglerfish. An angler fish. Is that the creepy one with the... No, there's nothing creepy about her. She's a gentle, beautiful creature. What am I thinking of then?
1:21.0	The one that has the fake bait that comes out of its corehead? Oh, that's an angler fish, yeah.
1:24.5	That's horrifying. I mean, it's manageable. No, it is. It's manageable because it's not real, real big. Can you imagine if it was eight feet long and you came in contact with that thing while you were, I don't know, swimming? I would cry. She's so beautiful. You would die. No. No. Anglerfish are nightmare fuel.
1:44.6	What?
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