When Your Side Dish Starts Pumping Blood

The Box of Oddities

John Elliott and Kat Walls

Comedy, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Details for the Live Box of Oddities Fall Tour Here! What separates a stroke of brilliance from a spectacularly bad idea? In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro dive headfirst into history’s most baffling tightrope walk between genius and ridiculousness—where “visionary” and “what were they thinking?” become disturbingly interchangeable. Then, things get even weirder: scientists are turning spinach leaves into functioning human hearts through tissue engineering. Yes, the same greens in your salad could one day pump blood through your veins. From questionable intentions to leafy life support, this episode blends the bizarre with the groundbreaking in ways only The Box of Oddities can. Tune in for strange science, hilarious commentary, and stories that prove reality is stranger than fiction. #WeirdScience #TissueEngineering #OdditiesPodcast #GeniusOrMadness #TheBoxOfOddities Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.8	What follows may not be suitable for all audiences.
1:04.6	Listener discretion is advised.
1:08.5	The world is full of stories.
1:12.6	Stories of mysteries. Of curiosities.
1:15.6	Of oddities.
1:17.6	Join Cat and Jethro Gilligan Toth for the strange,
1:23.6	the bazaar, the unexpected,
1:26.6	as they lift the lid and cautiously peer inside the box of oddities.
1:34.7	So we're in Orlando right now, and that means Publix is available to me, and you know I love their buy one get one.
1:41.5	Publix, the supermarket. You do. They have those buy one get ones and you come home with more stuff than we really need,
1:49.4	especially since right now we're living at a hotel room.
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