Human Arms In The Mail Is Not Prime

A Manhattan‑sized interstellar object just got weird: Atlas 3I is accelerating in ways gravity alone can’t explain and shining bluer than the Sun. We unpack what those signals really mean, why a comet’s outgassing is still the benchmark explanation, and how a December window could settle the debate with clearer measurements. Yes, Avi Loeb floats the “alien engine” idea; we stress‑test that claim against spectroscopy, trajectory modeling, and the history of tricky small‑body photometry.

Then the universe gives way to a very terrestrial jolt: a Kentucky resident expecting medication opens a box packed with severed arms and fingers on ice. As shocking as it sounds, there’s a real medical logistics framework for anatomical donations and surgical training. We walk through how those shipments are supposed to work, what likely failed, and what anyone should do if sensitive biological material lands on the wrong porch.

Finally, we wade into the swirl around an official’s jet travel logs, accusations of perks, and a country “sensation” few have actually heard. Beyond the headlines, we focus on rules, oversight, and how context gets lost when outrage leads. It’s a tour from deep space to doorstep snafus to public accountability, all wrapped with a lighter debate about when it’s fair game to spin up the Christmas playlist and when the tree should actually go up.

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Chapters

• 0:00 November Vibes And Holiday Mood
• 0:59 Atlas 3I: Acceleration And Color Shift
• 2:49 Avi Loeb’s Alien Engine Hypothesis
• 4:29 Measurement Limits And December Flyby
• 5:34 Package Mix‑Up: Human Arms On Ice
• 7:24 Jet Logs, Backlash, And A “Sensation”
• 10:54 Christmas Music Now, Tree Later

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:15

Well, hello and good morning. Happy Monday. Here we are in November. My one of my favorite months. I love November. Don't know why, except maybe it's the beginning of the holiday season. Perhaps maybe Halloween is over. I don't really care too much for Halloween. I know egads. I know unpopular opinion, but whatever. Uh moving on. We have Thanksgiving this month, which is always good. I love the holidays. Okay, let's see here. What do I have on my X-Feed? I have three stories for you. We have an update on the Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3i Atlas. We're just gonna call it Atlas, as it accelerates and turns bluer. Possible signs of alien engine from Harvard Scientist. And you know which Harvard Scientist this is, our favorite Avi Loeb. I think the man is nutso, but you know, who knows? The Manhattan-sized interstellar object atlas exhibits signs of non-gravitational acceleration and appeared bluer than the sun as it passed our local star, which could be signs of an alien craft engine, according to Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb. Well, the object's non-gravitational acceleration was recorded by NASA this week and indicated a dramatic outgassing, which could be expected from a comet, and would mean the object would lose half its mass and exhibit a huge plume of debris in the coming months. Loeb suggested in a recent paper that the acceleration, along with the object's startling blue appearance, could be signs of an artificially constructed craft. Come on, Ivy. Quit smoking the dope there. Alternatively, the non-gravitational acceleration might be the technological signature of an internal engine, he wrote in a medium post on Friday. Well, he's writing it on medium, so it must be true. Medium is also like Substack. I've I have not yet quite figured out Medium. I think I want to start over there and write on it, but I haven't figured it out. They make it too complicated. Maybe it is for the smart people. Who knows? It could be potentially be explained by a hot engine or source of artificial light, he wrote, adding that it could also be a natural signature of a comet. So either way, it could be a comet, it could be an it could be a uh extraterrestrial. He covered his boat all of his bases, isn't he? Good heavens. Earth's why did why does he do this? Why is he doing this to get his name out there and people talking about him? That's why. Earth's telescopes were prevented from directly measuring the interstellar visitor as it came within 172 million miles of the sun while our pale blue dot was on the opposite side of our local star. However, several crafts that orbit the sun just ahead of Earth were able to take measurements that showed a rapid brightening with the supposed comet appearing distinctly bluer than the sun. The hue is very surprising in contrast earlier observations which showed the object to be red then changing to green. Well, I'm sure it changes colors as it hurdles through space. Uh I think there's probably just a natural state. Atlas is expected to make its closest pass to Earth on December 19th, zooming by at a roughly 167 million miles away. 167 million miles away. That's still quite a long ways away. Which will provide terrestrial researchers their best chance to determine whether the mysterious object is in fact a comet or an artificial craft. If it is an artificial craft, where are they going? They're not coming here, that's for certain. If we do not observe a massive cloud of gas around Atlas in December, Loeb said, it could be an indicator of a propulsion system. This guy smokes way too much dope, I'm telling you. Morning report delivers a let Okay, I already let's see. Loeb blasted NASA for not providing images taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's high-rise camera during its close pass to the red planet during the first week of October. Okay, you know what? You can go finish reading that. What do you think it is? It's obviously just a comet. It cannot be a spacecraft. Come on. This next story would freak me all the way out. I would be freaking out, Jerry. Uh, let's see. Kentucky women, Kentucky woman, I'm sorry, receives package of human arms, plural, and fingers instead of medicine delivery. So I get a certain medication delivered too. I would freak out if I opened it and felt I would probably pass out. I have never ever passed out in my 58 years of being on this earth. I would pass out at that. A Kentucky woman who was expecting a medicine delivery opened the package only to discover severed human arms and fingers on ice, according to a report. After re what? I didn't know you could do that. I guess if you pack it on ice, it'll be okay. I didn't know that you could do that. I didn't know that you could take body parts. I knew you could do organs, like your internal organs, like a heart, a liver, whatever, kidney. But I didn't know you could do your extremities like that. Uh after receiving the gruesome surprise on Wednesday, the woman called 911. I think I would probably who do you call? If you open up you do you call your your pharmacy that sent that you were supposed to get your medicine from? You know you're gonna be on hold for a long time on that one. Uh so I guess you would call 911 if you want immediate response. Uh so we were expecting a delivery of urgent medication that was flown in on like a Nashville airport thing, and they delivered two boxes. We opened one box and it turned out to be human body parts for transplant, like it's very medicine medicinal. She continued. We're trying to know where it goes. We just didn't want to be possession of a body parts that don't belong to us. Well, no duh. Emergency responders then called in Christian County Coroner Scott Daniel to retrieve the two arms in four digits. Oh goodness gracious. This is kind of scary though. I didn't know that you could do that. But I'm not in medicine. The package full of body parts originated in Nashville and was slated to be delivered to a school or hospital for surgical training. Okay, so training. That makes more sense. I am, by the way, I'm changing when I go get my license renewed. I am not being a donor. No, sir. I'm not gonna nope. I'm changing that little box. Okay, we were moving on. Um I added this one. I really don't care about this story, but I added it because I was desperate to find another third topic. So here we go. And I forgive me if you guys like this guy. Cash Patel hits back at attacks on country music sensation girlfriend Alexis Wilkins. First of all, I don't know if there's a second of all, but first of all, I don't even know who Alexis Wilkins is, but they're claiming she's some kind of uh country music sensation. Never heard of her before knowing Cash Patel. FBI director Cash Patel defended his relationship with girlfriend, country music singer Alexis Wilkins after the pair received online backlash over the weekend. Patel's statement followed reports that he used an FBI jet to visit the singer who sang the national anthem at a wrestling event in Penn State. Oh, she must be really good if she's singing the national anthem at a wrestling match at Penn State. Come on now. He writes, the disgustingly baseless attacks against Alexis, a true patriot, and the woman I'm proud to call my partner in life are beyond pathetic. Are you though? Are you a partner in life? Oh, where's that ring, Cash Patel? Put a ring on it. Okay? Put a ring on it is all I'm saying. She is a rock s if you're a partner for life, then you put a ring on it. You can't say you're a partner for life, okay? Unless you're gonna marry her. She is a rock solid conservative and a country music sensation. Never heard of her, Cash, who has done more for this nation than most of in ten lifetimes. Like what? What has she done? I'm so blessed she's in my life. Okay, well that's good. I'm glad you I'm glad you're all together. That's nice. Uh so Patel added that attacking Wilkins jeopardizes our safety while also criticizing his allies who have kept mum over the controversy. To our supposed allies staying silent, your silence is louder than the clickbait haters. Come on. Well, he just wants to blame everybody. The attacks on Patel and Wilkins began last week after Kylie Serafin, an ex FBI agent and outspoken cash critic, drew attention to the FBI chiefs' jet logs, which highlighted his trip to see Wilkins perform at the Real American Freestyle Pro Wrestling event. Now, is it illegal to do something like that? I don't know. I don't know the rules and regulations for government employees using jets to go to a personal thing. I imagine they would. I don't see why not. I personally do not have a problem with it. I mean, they're in that job. How are they gonna get around? I don't have a problem with it. So they're gonna do it. The conservative podcaster ultimately accused Patel and Wilkins of grifting off the American public, sparking outrage against the couple. The revelations of Patel's publicly available jet logs allegedly caused the FBI director to oust Stephen Palmer, a 27-year veteran of the FBI, who oversees the Bureau's aviation units. Oh, well, okay. Palmer was reportedly told he needed to resign or be fired, a decision made in part over Patel's fury at the reports of his personal travel, individuals with knowledge over the incident told the outlet. So if this is wrong, if this is against the rules, this guy was just doing his job by reporting it, and now he gets fired. I don't know if that's the case or not, because I don't know if it's against the rules or not. I don't know. And I really, like I said, don't care. I just wanted to bring up the part about her being a country music sensation. I've never heard of her. Maybe you have, I don't know. Um, so let's see, we need a question of the day. Let's see, what are we gonna do? Okay, since we started off with it being November in the beginning of the holiday season, is it still too soon to listen to Christmas music? My answer is absolutely not. It is not too soon. I'm gonna start playing it immediately because I love Christmas music, it puts me in a good mood. I love it. It's not too soon, I promise. Now, is it too soon to put up the tree? Yes. The tree doesn't go up until after Thanksgiving. Maybe, maybe, maybe it could go up a week of Thanksgiving, maybe, and that way it can be decorated for if you have company over for Thanksgiving. Because you know, they kind of Thanksgiving and Christmas kind of go together, sort of. I mean, maybe, I don't know. I would not have a problem with you putting up your Christmas decorations the week of Thanksgiving. We don't put ours up until afterwards, though. Maybe you can maybe there are other decorations you can put up besides the tree for Thanksgiving. We don't really decorate a whole lot, but we will put up a tree. Because we don't we don't entertain, we don't have people over. We're just homebodies. If we have anybody over, it's our kids, our immediate family, brother, sister-in-law, whatever. But we don't we just don't entertain. We don't have friends like we used to anymore. We still have friends, but we just don't do things anymore with people anymore. Like when we were younger. Okay, I've got off track here. You guys have a great Monday. I'm gonna have a fantastic Monday. You know why? Because we have Donald J. Trump as president. Amen. Can I get an Amen? Yes. All right, thank you. Have a great day. Bye.