Headlines From The Weird Side S:2E:20

The world didn’t agree to be normal this week, so we didn’t either. We hit the gas on a tour of some pretty strange headlines. Think Mothman pilgrimages in Appalachia, a Wisconsin town “terrorized” by turkeys, and a New York backyard dig that turns into a three‑week epic in search of a missing ring… that wasn’t even hers.

From there we lean into the macabre and the moral lines that blur in the dark: a grave robber selling bones online, a viral app that basically asks “Are You Dead” to check on solo travelers, and a Danish zoo requesting small‑pet donations as carnivore feed. We talk about why certain stories spark outrage until context arrives, and how attention economics—from “gay panda” rumors to wildlife selfie fails—keeps rewarding the most reckless behavior. If you’ve ever side‑eyed someone inching toward a bison for the ‘gram, you’ll feel seen.

We also wade into bioethics with the scientist who edited embryos to resist HIV, unpacking consent, risk, and the unintended consequences of germline edits. Then we detour into the cultural consumption of true crime at “The Final Meal,” a restaurant plating the last requests of infamous names alongside on‑theme cocktails. It’s part spectacle, part museum, and a perfect example of how we metabolize fear by ritualizing it. By the time we hit a stolen walrus relic and an Alaskan art student literally eating AI‑generated work in protest, one theme is clear: we’re drawn to the bizarre because it’s a pressure valve—humor, horror, and human curiosity all mixed together.

Join us for sharp banter, skeptical questions, and a reminder that the news cycle is stranger than fiction. If you laughed, cringed, or yelled “why,” share the show with a friend, hit follow, and drop your favorite offbeat headline for a future episode. We read everything—send yours our way and let’s get weird together.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:04

Welcome everyone to today's show. A Boomer and a Gen X are walking to a bar, coming to you from the Rabbit Run studio, where you, as our listener, will experience some wit and wisdom, some smart assery, and a mother and daughter questioning, are we even related? My name is Bobby Joy, and my co-host is my mom Jane, and we are here to entertain you for a little bit. Mom, how are you doing? I'm doing okay, Bobby. How are you? Um, a little confused, but other than that, I'm good.

SPEAKER_02 0:34

A little confused. So can we talk about what happened to you? Uh, we can touch on it, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 0:41

So you had um your work has kind of uh, what do I want to say? You've got some work hazards that you deal with on a regular basis. And unfortunately, uh one of your patients, not one of your patients, one of your residents there attacked you.

SPEAKER_01 1:00

Um, yeah, he he had an episode um that was very difficult to deal with. And it wasn't just me, but I did end up sustaining a concussion from the incident. So I'm kind of a little brain scrambled, a little dizzy, things like that, but I'm rusting.

SPEAKER_02 1:15

So the norm.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

Yeah, the norm.

SPEAKER_02 1:18

You know, it's what's interesting though is that you got a concussion, and I can't even imagine taking you on. I mean, I know you talk all the time about how you think I can kick your butt, but uh I just think, man, you know, that'd be a tough gig to try to take her down. And so for you to get a concussion, first of all, I'm sorry that happened to you. Um, it is a uh job hazard that you deal with on a regular basis, the the threat of anyway. And uh I just hope you feel better soon because I know that wasn't the only thing that happened to you. I mean, I know you had some other injuries associated with that, correct?

SPEAKER_01 2:00

Yeah, and it's been gosh, it's been over 10 years since I've had my last brain injury. So, you know, I I'm a lot older now, and it's it's a lot different, I will say, after like, I don't know, the fourth or fifth time, it gets it gets kind of hairy.

SPEAKER_02 2:16

So you said it's been about 10 years, so let's look at it this way. You weren't even recovered yet uh from a okay, it's not funny anymore.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

It's not so darn funny when you hurt and when you're you're dizzy and you don't feel well, but yeah, and so if I slur my words a little bit, trust me folks, I'm I'm not drinking today. It's it's literally just my brain's not catching up to my mouth.

Should We Add Video

Surveying Strange News

Mothman And Appalachian Lore

SPEAKER_02 2:43

So okay, well, I slur every day and spit, and sometimes I get off track. So I think uh the view the uh viewers, the listeners will uh take exception and and cut you some slack there, Bobby. So one of the things that I kind of think we should have viewers. Maybe we should have viewers at some point. Oh, that'd be scary. That that would be scary, but maybe at some point we will. Uh, we haven't made that decision yet. So we just like to have people just listen to our lovely voices. So I was thinking, Bobby, that we could talk about some of the strange things that come up in the news lately. I have been looking like not only locally but nationally and you know, worldwide to see what's some of the weird stuff that's going on out there. Do you ever look for that stuff? Oh, all the time. It's just it's kind of interesting. So I'm gonna start with this one. So there were this has to do with Mothman. Have you ever heard of Mothman?

SPEAKER_01 3:51

I love Mothman.

SPEAKER_02 3:53

Is that like a cartoon or something, or is it like uh No, it's a it's a cryptid.

SPEAKER_01 3:58

So he falls into the categories of like uh Sasquatch, the Jersey Devil, the Van Meter Iowa Visitor. Um, they're they're known as cryptids.

SPEAKER_02 4:09

Okay, okay. Well, the Mothman, I had never heard of it before, but there's quite a few people who are on the track of this Mothman. And I guess a bunch of people, these devotees, um, descended on West Virginia hometown, and they had, you know, it started in the 1960s, I guess, and they were just uh when a couple of people, you know, told this story about being chased by this super large flying creature, and you know, they described it and kind of gave um uh what do I want to say, a character uh drawing of this, and now it's up to 20,000 people who come to this town to celebrate Mothman.

SPEAKER_01 4:55

I'm surprised it's not more because I mean Mothman, he he's been a huge part of even like recent, you know, cryptic culture. So I'm surprised it's not more than 20,000 people.

SPEAKER_02 5:08

That is so bizarre. I I had never even heard of it. And I start reading about this, and I was like, Mothman? I mean, we're down here in Appalachian.

SPEAKER_04 5:18

That's pretty common here. It's yeah, because in the Appalachian they they have Mothman. They do?

SPEAKER_01 5:24

Yeah, it's well they have flesh pedestrians down there too. So what is a flesh pedestrian? What pedestrian is not flesh? You're not supposed to say you're not supposed to say the word skinwalker because it brings them, so we call them flesh pedestrians.

SPEAKER_02 5:40

Oh my gosh. So you've heard about Mothman before then, Dr. Domain.

SPEAKER_04 5:47

You have a big legend around here, Mothman.

SPEAKER_02 5:49

I I had never even heard of it.

Wild Turkeys And Small‑Town Chaos

SPEAKER_04 5:51

Yeah, but especially in the in the hill country and around the Appalachian, they like, oh Mothman. Oh my god. So hey, there was there was a headline the other day, I was just looking at it at a Janesville, Wisconsin. A gang of marauding wild turkeys terrorizes the town of Janesville, Wisconsin. So there you go. There's a photo, too.

SPEAKER_02 6:14

So how many turkeys does it say? How many were there?

SPEAKER_01 6:18

Well, a gang would have to be 10 or more.

SPEAKER_04 6:20

A gaggle, I think.

Lost Ring Obsession

SPEAKER_02 6:21

Gaggle, I don't know. Murder, I don't know. Oh, wow. So I'm just shocked that you two knew about this stupid mothman, and I knew nothing about it. I guess I just need to get in the nose somewhere. So another one that I read about, this was a New York woman, and this she apparently lost her engagement ring, her diamond engagement ring. And she dug in the yard straight for three full weeks looking for looking for this ring. How long would you dig? Dr. Domain, if you lost a piece of jewelry, how long would you dig for that thing? Depends on how big it is, I guess. Five carat diamond, I'd dig a long time.

SPEAKER_04 7:04

I would dig for a while.

SPEAKER_02 7:05

Why wouldn't you get a metal detector? And the thing is I think she had one.

SPEAKER_04 7:09

Maybe it was a different kind of alloy and pick it up or something. I don't know. It didn't those 3D printer rings are hard to find. 3D printer rings. So I I think if it's higher value, I mean if it's that expensive, I would look, but I would also rely on some kind of like personal article writer on my insurance and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02 7:30

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 7:31

I would expect that.

SPEAKER_02 7:33

I yeah, and and I I had that when I had my engagement rings because I say rings, not one, but um, because they were pretty, pretty good size, but yeah, and I had to have a separate writer on it. But I don't think that since it was an engagement ring, I don't think that she had insurance on it. Anyway, what's funny is she finally found a ring, but it wasn't hers.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

It is now, yeah, it is now.

SPEAKER_02 8:03

Um, and so three straight weeks, man. She's digging, digging, digging, and she finds this ring, but it's not even hers. Is that even worth it? I mean, would you stop and go, okay, I'll settle for this one? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 8:15

I mean, I would have to. You would have to. I mean, that's kind of like a sign to say, okay, enough is enough, I guess.

Grave Robbing And Macabre Collecting

SPEAKER_02 8:24

Yeah, yeah. I don't know what that is. I mean, I I give up pretty quickly. It's like if I can't find something in an hour, it's like, well, let's just buy another one. But when it's something like that, that's pretty expensive.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

So uh speaking of digging, here's one that you'll really enjoy, mom. So there's this guy in Pennsylvania, and apparently, I don't know if he was aiming for Ed Geen status or what, but uh he uh he he they found him to be grave robbing, and he grave robbed over a hundred people's bones and body parts, and they found him in his basement, his car, his house. Um, and uh he was actually like selling some of them online.

SPEAKER_02 9:16

Oh my gosh. So what was he digging in a in a cemetery? Or he's just digging. So he's digging in a cemetery and he's digging this stuff up and taking it home.

SPEAKER_01 9:26

Yeah, yeah. So he targeted the mausoleums and the underground vaults at um the 1855 cemetery um in Pennsylvania. Oh my gosh. It's considered the country's largest abandoned burial ground, but that doesn't mean that you're an archaeologist all of a sudden and you can go freaking dig up there.

SPEAKER_02 9:44

Maybe he thought he was though.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

There's a fine line between archaeology and grave robbing, and you did not get the memo.

SPEAKER_04 9:51

Does it say he's probably just looking for artifacts of some sort? Well, I was wondering if he you know maybe he's digging up like Paul Revere or something and looking for his bell or something. It could have been innocent. It could have been totally innocent.

SPEAKER_02 10:03

Well, you kind of wonder were they looking for jewelry that people were buried with, or no, he was looking for the actual bones and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 10:11

He's looking for the actual bones, the skulls, he needed a skull bowl.

SPEAKER_03 10:15

He had that decomposed.

SPEAKER_00 10:17

This is so yesterday news, so hanging in his house. He had what hanging in his house? Uh, two decomposing torsos.

SPEAKER_04 10:25

Oh, how gross. This has already been done before.

SPEAKER_00 10:28

By the way, I mean Ed Gean did it, you know.

SPEAKER_02 10:31

Oh, yeah, Dr. Frankenstein.

SPEAKER_04 10:33

He totally did that.

SPEAKER_01 10:34

But yeah, that so that happened. That was kind of big news a lot of my group on Facebook.

Panda Headline Hysteria

SPEAKER_02 10:39

That is so gross. Uh just thinking back that one. Thinking back of Ed Gean, it just grosses me out. But we also watched that movie Frankenstein, the newer version, whatever it is. I don't even know. Frankenstein's. Yeah, it's called Frankenstein.

SPEAKER_04 10:57

Uh the new Frankenstein.

SPEAKER_02 10:58

Yeah, we watched it.

SPEAKER_04 10:59

That was pretty good, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:00

It was it was crazy, though.

SPEAKER_04 11:03

Yeah, I think it was more it was geared to be more authentic than maybe some of the other ones where you know where he's got like bolts sticking out of his neck and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 11:11

Well, the original one didn't really talk about him digging up that many bodies and cutting up faces and that's gross, Bobby.

SPEAKER_04 11:20

Why do you bring these up? You always bring up the gross stuff.

SPEAKER_01 11:22

No, because she's I know. Hey, and you know what? As a segue to my next one. Oh no, God, wait, wait, wait a minute.

SPEAKER_02 11:30

Wait a minute. What were you guys?

SPEAKER_04 11:31

Well, I was gonna say, speaking of gross, so here's another headline for you. This is in the global uh it's an international paper. It was the Global Times, and the headline reads Two men detained for claiming two pandas were having gay sex.

SPEAKER_03 11:47

What?

SPEAKER_04 11:48

Yeah, so uh there's a big uh in Chengdu, China, and I I'd been there before they had the big China uh panda resort. Whatever. You can go out and pet the pandas or whatever you but um so two men have been detained for fabricating news in an attempt to attract online attention. The two male giant pandas had successfully mated in the wild, according to them. So they were trying to drum up some support and get some more visitors to the dumbest way to do it.

SPEAKER_02 12:24

Oh my god. Because just being pandas isn't enough. I mean, I would go see pandas for sure. But gay pandas? Gay pandas. I don't care if they're gay or not. I'd go see the pandas.

SPEAKER_04 12:33

If they could mate and they're gay, I'd I'd go see that. That'd be a miracle.

SPEAKER_02 12:38

Uh yeah, it would be.

SPEAKER_04 12:39

Yeah.

“Are You Dead” App And Solo Safety

SPEAKER_02 12:40

So what what was your segue to the next one here, Bobby? Sorry, Bobby. I thought we were keeping it. I know that except for taking it in the butt.

SPEAKER_01 12:52

Um so there's this app called Salehme. I believe I'm slaughtering that. Um, but it's it's Chinese and it translates to Are You Dead in English? So it's a phone app for people who live alone, who have a solo lifestyle, who travel. And what it does is if you don't contact this app, if you don't log into this app, it sends an SOS to your emergency contacts that you might be dead, and they should probably try to get a hold of you.

SPEAKER_02 13:26

So are you dead or are you alive? Probably translates to are you dead? Oh my god. I gotta look this up. Oh my gosh, that is so funny. So Dr. Domain's gonna leave that whole thing up because he's gonna look at the app.

SPEAKER_04 13:38

I was looking to see how many downloads there were, but yeah, it's saying it's it's gone viral in China.

SPEAKER_02 13:43

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 13:44

Yeah, yeah. And it's uh it's on Apple's paid app chart, it's sitting at number two on the Apple paid app chart in China. So it's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 13:55

So is it available to Americans?

SPEAKER_04 13:57

Yeah, let me Jane, let me see your phone. Let me see your phone.

SPEAKER_01 13:59

I want to see if it's so they are trying to have like a segue, I guess, to an American app that would do the same thing, you know. Like if you don't, if you don't log into it after so many days, it it alerts your emergency contacts, which hey, this is kind of a great thing for you know, people, especially nowadays, there's a lot more solo living, solo lifestyle.

SPEAKER_02 14:21

Right, that's true.

SPEAKER_01 14:22

You know, people travel, people live in campers, people, you know, don't have contact with family or don't have family to contact on the regular basis. This is kind of a safety net so that you don't end up in somebody's basement hanging on a hook, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 14:40

You always give us this picture of, you know, some vivid thing in your mind. Um, but it isn't, you're right, it isn't just, you know, it used to be the old people. I've fallen and I can't get up, you know, type of thing. But it's not really just old people anymore. It's really kind of, you know, anybody like you said is either single, maybe they're traveling by themselves. You know, you think about how many people go hiking and they camp out overnight or over the weekend or something.

SPEAKER_01 15:08

I mean, I could just even older generations, like widowers who maybe don't have children or their children are off living their lives, they forget to check in for kind of like my week or two. Kind of like my kids, yeah. Kind of like your kids have you send me a Google reminder every day to call you.

Donating Pets As Zoo Feed

SPEAKER_02 15:29

Um did you call your mother today? Yeah, that's I I mean, I I guess I see some value in it, but it's weird that you would call it that. Are you dead? Yeah, are you dead? So here's my next story. Mine has to be hold on.

SPEAKER_04 15:45

Oh wait, you got the app?

SPEAKER_02 15:47

Yeah, are you downloading the app on my name, Jane Burt?

SPEAKER_04 15:50

Primary contacts Bobby, and I got your phone number. Oh my gosh. Emergency message. You have to put an emergency message in here.

SPEAKER_01 15:56

It says I've fallen and I can't get up.

SPEAKER_04 15:58

I've fallen in the grave and I can't get up, is what I'm gonna put.

SPEAKER_02 16:01

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 16:02

Hey, I've driven the tractor into the pond again and I can't get out.

SPEAKER_02 16:10

Well, we're gonna come back to you, Dr. Domain. Because this one is kind of uh people are gonna go, what?

SPEAKER_04 16:16

Do you have the app to know if I'm still alive?

SPEAKER_02 16:18

Do you have? Did you download the app on my phone?

SPEAKER_04 16:21

Yeah, it was some reputable Chinese place.

SPEAKER_02 16:24

Oh, great, great. My bank account will probably be drained by the end of the night.

SPEAKER_04 16:28

If you're dead, it won't do you any good.

SPEAKER_02 16:30

Well, won't do my kids any good either. So this is kind of funny. A zoo in Denmark asked its patrons to donate their pets, not as attractions. I read that, not as attractions, but for food. I read that. So they don't want you to give your pets to be in a cage so that people can come by and say, Let me see that tiger, let me see that dog, whatever. It's so that they because they need a certain surplus of pets so that they can gently euthanize them and feed them to the captive predators.

SPEAKER_01 17:07

Now tell them what kind of pets they're asking for, though. They're not asking for your dogs and cats. Guinea pigs, rabbits, guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens, rats, mice.

SPEAKER_04 17:17

Where are they gonna get dogs?

SPEAKER_02 17:19

Well, they got against dogs. Because you're you're looking at my dogs, you're looking at my dogs, uh, I could ship them over there right now.

SPEAKER_01 17:28

Yeah, I actually did read that, and I was like, you know, at first you read it and you're horrified, and you're like, oh my god, I'm not gonna drop off, you know, Mr. Fluffbottom over there to get eaten by a freaking tiger. But then you read it and you're like, oh, you know what? That actually makes sense. The animals towards the end of their life, they humanely euthanize them and you know, circle of life type of crap.

SPEAKER_04 17:50

So but do they get like kind of gamey tasting the older they get? I mean, like a like a really old dog? What like a really old gerbil wouldn't taste as good as a youngin'?

SPEAKER_02 18:02

Well, food is food when you're a lion or something, right?

SPEAKER_04 18:04

If you get an old lame chicken, you don't want to eat it, it's all stringy and it just be good to be.

SPEAKER_02 18:09

It's a lion. I was gonna say it's not like Oh, it's a lion? They're feeding them to lions and tigers and bears. Oh my. Okay. Yeah. They're feeding them to their animals there at the zoo. You might want to try to keep up, Dr. I'm not.

SPEAKER_04 18:22

Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 18:24

I know.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

He's he's already.

SPEAKER_04 18:26

I'm trying to see if I'm I'm trying to see if I'm dead yet.

SPEAKER_02 18:28

Yeah. Well, I don't know what's gonna happen to my account because he put it on my phone. So this ought to be interesting. Um, do you have another one, Bobby?

Selfies With Wildlife Gone Wrong

SPEAKER_01 18:37

I don't know if you heard about this one. So there was some uh tourists over in China that were skiing, and they saw a snow leopard, and they decided, you know, like the people with the buffalo over here in Yellowstone, they were like, oh hey, let's take a selfie with it. You know, these dumbasses. So they approached this snow leopard and shoot this lady, I think it was a lady, tried to take a selfie with it and got mauled by the snow leopard. Well, duh. I mean, duh. That's like these people getting flipped 20 feet in the air by a buffalo trying to get a picture. Yeah, no shit, Sherlock.

SPEAKER_02 19:19

Like you know, even deer, their hooves are so sharp that they get on their back haunches or their back feet. And I mean, they can rip you apart in seconds. And people I see people going up to deer. Oh, moose. Oh my gosh. So Dr. Domain. Dr. Domain, you lived in Alaska for a while, correct? Yes, and you had you you saw a lot of moose. What else?

SPEAKER_04 19:46

Bears.

SPEAKER_02 19:47

Bear. And so were people trying to go up to them or anything like that, like to take a picture?

SPEAKER_04 19:54

They live.

SPEAKER_02 19:54

They know they live amongst the ones who lived, uh, aren't that stupid.

SPEAKER_03 19:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:00

They took they took their lessons from those who died anyway. Yeah. I mean, there's yeah, it's crazy. I mean, even going up to uh a raccoon, you know, it's like, oh, he's the bandit of the forest. No, he's not.

SPEAKER_01 20:13

I'm gonna make it my friend.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

I'm gonna take him home. Um, he's a rabid animal. I mean, they they carry rabies, and so you don't definitely don't want to be befriending them, but I've seen people do that. Oh, there's the bandit of the forest.

SPEAKER_01 20:30

Yeah, they be well, you know, the the bandit of the forest made a huge headline lately uh for breaking into a liquor store, drinking the liquor, and finding it they found it passed out drunk in the bathroom.

unknown 20:44

Oh, funny.

SPEAKER_02 20:45

That's funny because they do get into a lot of stuff. That I mean, you gotta admit, they're pretty funny animals. I mean, they they definitely will get into a lot of stuff.

SPEAKER_04 20:55

I watched a soon-to-be classic movie. Well, you missed part of it, I don't know how, but it was called Cocaine Bear.

SPEAKER_02 21:02

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_04 21:04

Yeah, that was pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

That was hilarious.

Cocaine Bear And Animal Antics

SPEAKER_04 21:07

Yeah, yeah, and there it there's some truth to it. I mean, obviously, it got it really stretched for the for the movie, but the bear is I think in some museum in Kentucky or something. Remember Pablo Escobar, as they named him.

unknown 21:24

Sorry.

SPEAKER_04 21:26

Yeah. Oh my gosh. He died happy, probably.

SPEAKER_02 21:31

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 21:32

That's I mean, he at least died uh full speed one way or the other.

SPEAKER_02 21:37

So what other what other stories have you read lately?

SPEAKER_01 21:41

Um, so over in England, uh way across the pond there, there was an English beach. Uh this was I think January nineteenth, that was covered in uncooked French fries and onions after a cargo ship spilled into the water. That was the US trying to feed the poor. Could you imagine waking up? And I mean, they have picture those uh pictures of this. It's literally covering the beach in like whole onions and uncooked french fries.

SPEAKER_02 22:18

Oh my gosh. That would well, I mean, think about what washes up on the beach though. I mean, I can't believe that french fries weren't eaten in the water or something, but right you think about what washes up on the beaches from cargo, you know, just spilling over.

SPEAKER_01 22:35

I just I wonder if they reused the onions.

SPEAKER_02 22:41

I don't know. Why would you say onions? I mean, why would you think the onions were reused?

SPEAKER_01 22:46

Well, I mean, they still have their skins on their hole, they're just kind of bobbing in the water, and then they wash up on the beach. I I've I've seen onions look worse at high V. I mean, like, these are pretty good looking onions.

SPEAKER_02 23:00

Oh my gosh, that's funny.

SPEAKER_04 23:03

Just a disclaimer, I like high V.

SPEAKER_02 23:06

Oh, well, oh yeah. Yeah, well, that's a local, local grocery store here, and they do a great job for the Midwest, so we're not disrespecting them.

SPEAKER_04 23:14

So um here's their generic oatmeal is a little sketchy. Okay, so stop.

SPEAKER_02 23:19

We're not gonna we're not gonna disrespect a Midwestern.

Poop Cannon Chaos And Shock Headlines

SPEAKER_04 23:24

Here's another one.

SPEAKER_02 23:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 23:25

Massage parlor employee began defecating toward police to evade arrest. How do you like directly crap on someone? It's like a it's like a poop cannon. Bring out the brown poop cannon.

SPEAKER_02 23:40

I've seen a YouTube video where this guy is like in city center in Rome or somewhere. I don't even know where he was, but he's like in a city center where there's just tons of people and it's a circular area. And and I don't know who was who was after him or whatever, but he stops, drops his pants, and I'm not kidding you. He shoots that shit probably 60, 70, 80 feet, and you're just in awe. It's like what what just happened here? Oh, it is funny to watch. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 24:18

That's like I don't this was a long time ago. I'm pretty sure it was a headline about that guy that was running from the cops, and he threw his own severed um unit at them to get them to quit chasing him.

SPEAKER_03 24:33

What?

SPEAKER_01 24:34

Like he he cut off his own um um member and threw it at the cops to get them to quit chasing him. I'm like, what what kind of sense does that make? First of all, you need that. Second of all, you're gonna drop some blood loss before you get anywhere.

SPEAKER_02 24:51

We're not gonna be able to hit that bowl anymore. You're gonna be splattering all over the place now because you can't even aim it. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_04 24:59

Well, apparently she's pretty good here, the massage parlor at aiming the massage parlor employee. Oh my god. So it says, according to a statement issued by Fort Walton Police Department, oh, big surprise. This is in Florida. Oh 55-year-old Fang Wang, sweet Poon Tang, was taken into custody after an alleged assault of a health inspector. Yeah. So Miss Wang uh apparently had a superior aim. And it goes on to explain that. Oh, gross.

SPEAKER_02 25:31

So um pull it all. You remember uh, what was her name? Lorraine Lorraine Bobbit?

SPEAKER_01 25:36

Lorena Bobbitt.

SPEAKER_02 25:37

Lorena Bobbitt.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

And anybody You know, they got a really good documentary out now on her. I haven't seen that.

SPEAKER_04 25:44

For the sake of our younger listeners, you might want to explain who that person is.

Lorena Bobbitt Revisited

SPEAKER_02 25:47

Lorena Bobbitt uh was a woman who uh bit off her husband's penis and threw it out the car window and it hit somebody's windshield. What was that? Was that a penis? No, that was just a was that a big bug, or what was that? Did we hit a bird? No, that's somebody's penis that just hit our our windshield. Do you remember it, Bobby?

SPEAKER_01 26:18

I do. Oh I do. I remember that case. Yeah, and like I said, they just came out with a new documentary um where they they talk in depth with both her and him.

SPEAKER_04 26:28

Oh my gosh. They made Wikipedia, so you know they're stars. Yeah. But it wasn't I I thought I thought for a second that she bit it, but she didn't. It says, I'm looking at the book of knowledge here online. The book of knowledge? After uh okay, she she then grabbed, uh, went while he sleeped. Uh while he slept. While he slept.

SPEAKER_02 26:55

I was educated. I'm just getting used to grammar.

SPEAKER_04 26:58

She then grabbed an eight-inch, that's 20 centimeters, ginsu carving knife on the kitchen counter, returned to the bedroom, pulled back the sheets, and cut off his wing.

SPEAKER_02 27:10

I thought she bed it off.

SPEAKER_04 27:15

And then after this, Lorena left the apartment with the severed appendage and drove away in her car after a length of time driving and struggling to steer with one hand due to holding the penis in the other. She threw the penis out the window into a roadside field. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 27:34

I thought it hit somebody's windshield. Why wouldn't she just put it in the seat? Why would she hold on to it the whole time?

SPEAKER_04 27:42

Well, but I don't know. They found it after an exhaustive search and after being washed with antiseptic and packed in ice, it was reattached. So I guess.

SPEAKER_02 27:52

What? So he's actually able to use it.

SPEAKER_04 27:55

Had a good ending. I don't know. They might have put it upside down.

SPEAKER_02 27:57

Had a good ending. Oh my gosh. No, I thought for sure she bit it off. So I was way off on that whole story. Dang.

SPEAKER_04 28:09

He stated in 2018 that his penis is back to normal. Ready for action, Jackson.

SPEAKER_02 28:15

Howdy, stranger.

SPEAKER_01 28:16

Yeah, because you know women are lining up for that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:20

Yeah. It's it doesn't just go left.

SPEAKER_04 28:23

Well, his car tissue may add a little. I don't know what it was.

Gene‑Edited Babies And Ethics

SPEAKER_02 28:27

Man. China's Frankenstein. There's a doctor over there now that wants to prevent Alzheimer's after being released from prison. He was locked up after creating the world's first gene-edited baby. Now, how did you miss that story, Bobby?

SPEAKER_01 28:43

Um that's right up your alley. That is. That's crazy. I mean, gene editing has been in the news, you know, especially since it's so controversial since I mean in vitro fertilization has been around. You know, they've been talking about editing the genes or, you know, uh uh picking the designer baby so that you can pick, you know, what your baby's gonna look like and things like that. But holy cow, he wait, what was he in prison for? Does it say?

SPEAKER_02 29:12

So it says his name is He Jane Ku. He Jane Ku. Now I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right. I'm just kind of adding that, you know, ad-libbing that. Anyway, he faced prosecution in 2018 following his editing of the genomes of three girls with the stated aim of shielding them from HIV. And this is called what he's actually trying to do now is called um, and it's pretty controversial, like you said, it's biophysics or physicist. He's a biophysicist. I mean, so he's a modern-day Frankenstein, Dr. Frankenstein.

SPEAKER_01 29:48

That's that's crazy. I mean, we know, you know, going through DNA and things like that, the the people who have family lineages that survived the plague have a a higher um chance of not catching certain diseases later on down the line. But to actually go in and edit to where they're, you know, like HIV immune and things like that, that's crazy. I wonder. See, now I gotta look it up because I kind of wonder like what else how did he do that? Did he is it the receptors? If so, what what else are they are they not getting?

SPEAKER_02 30:23

Yeah, there's a pretty there's a pretty long story about it, and it's like, wow, you know, I mean, some of these guys need to get together. If you're gonna grave rob and you're gonna cut out parts, maybe all ought to be working together in the same, you know, the same hospital or something. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 30:41

Hey, you know, speaking of uh horror stories, oh no, did you uh have you heard of this restaurant in Michigan? Its owner is Nate Thompson, who owns the Michigan Museum of Horror, but he opened a restaurant called The Final Meal.

Final Meal Restaurant And True Crime Culture

SPEAKER_02 30:58

Oh, please don't tell me that no, please.

SPEAKER_01 31:01

He didn't they provide a unique dining experience that focuses on serving the last meal requests of infamous names.

SPEAKER_04 31:10

What? Oh, yeah. So like people on death row, like this is my final meal kind of thing. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 31:16

Oh, okay. So it wasn't where I was heading with that. I thought he was taking body parts or something and saying, you know, we have heart on the menu today.

SPEAKER_01 31:25

Um, location is uh Ohio, and he's opening a second location because Ohio is so popular that the wait lists are insane, kind of like death row. And so he's actually opening one just a hop, skip, and a jump from his uh Michigan Museum of Hores, which is gonna be located inside the Mall of Monroe in Michigan.

SPEAKER_02 31:52

That's not very far from us. We might have to go check that out. Yeah, that's yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:57

I mean, I mean he's talking about, you know, John Wayne Gacy, who had chicken wings, strawberries, fried shrimp, and french fries. He's got the Ted Bundy meal who had parmesan steak loaded steak fries, and then you got like Eileen Wernos, who got a cup of black coffee and a cheeseburger.

SPEAKER_02 32:15

Tell me who she was again. Uh that name sounds familiar.

SPEAKER_01 32:19

Eileen Wernos. So she was the um the character that they did the movie Monster. Oh, yeah. I remember where she killed all those men.

SPEAKER_02 32:30

Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, that was a good show. And uh Charlize Thurman, man, you'd never know that was her. Never know. Oh man, she looked just like her. It was crazy. She is so beautiful, and they made her look so terrible.

SPEAKER_01 32:45

Um, get this. They also have um signature cocktails, including the Helter Seltzer, the embalming fluid, um, and um there's an on another one called the Black Dahlia.

SPEAKER_02 33:02

Oh my gosh. I gotta tell you, that's kind of a fun deal. I that would be kind of cool.

SPEAKER_04 33:07

I wonder if like they need to make it a theme, though. Like the room needs to look like a gas chamber, or the chairs would be an electric chair.

SPEAKER_02 33:15

Oh, yeah. Or for the Jeffrey Dahmer's last meal, you could put, you know, uh a freezer in the corner.

SPEAKER_04 33:22

There you go.

SPEAKER_01 33:23

Yeah, so there is a theme. Um, so far, all I've seen so far is like one one wall is covered in uh Ouija boards. Um and then they also have like pictures of like um John Wayne Gacy, you know, how he painted those clown pictures.

SPEAKER_02 33:42

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 33:43

So yeah, it's it I think it would be kind of an immersion thing, but it would also be, you know, kind of be side-eyeing the other people in there.

SPEAKER_02 33:52

Yeah, I mean that is so creepy because you kind of go, what would draw people to that? Well, I think it'd be kind of interesting because we we've either read about them or we've watched, you know, documentaries about them. So it might be kind of interesting to see what their last meal was and how this restaurant kind of serves it up, you know?

SPEAKER_01 34:13

Yeah. I think it would be uh I think it would be really interesting, especially someone that's true crime addicted like I am. I think it would be really cool.

SPEAKER_02 34:22

Yeah. Any other stories that you guys have seen lately that you want to bring up today?

Stolen Walrus Relic At Donkey’s Place

SPEAKER_04 34:28

There's a couple good ones. Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, man. So this is New Jersey Dive Bar called Donkey's Place seeks return of stolen walrus penis. Another headline is beloved walrus penis stolen from New Jersey cheesesteak icon. Beloved owner is blubbering mad. They ought to get the guys who found John Babbitt's dick to go find the walrus penis.

SPEAKER_02 35:04

You know, they yeah.

SPEAKER_04 35:06

Get him on the team.

SPEAKER_02 35:07

How do you hunt that down? That's a that's a different kind of bloodhound right there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 35:11

Let him work on that tip.

Eating AI Art In Protest

SPEAKER_02 35:12

What are you doing? I'm out hunting dick. What's your other one? What's your other one that you really want to talk about today? I have one last one from Alaska. Ooh.

SPEAKER_01 35:27

And I'm gonna read the I'm gonna read the headline. Okay. Uh, because it's Alaska art student arrested for eating another student's AI generated art in protest.

SPEAKER_02 35:40

How do you eat AI generated art?

SPEAKER_01 35:44

So the it's actual physical art. Um, and the the name, give me one second here. The name of his piece was called uh Shadow Searching Chat GPT Psychosis. What it shows is it's these pictures all along this wall. Uh, before this guy ate them, and then afterwards it shows um the destruction of the guy eating these pictures off of the wall. That's crazy. He was so mad about it that it he ate the art and it wasn't edible. It's not like you know, oh, here's a banana that's half peeled. Look at this art. Yeah, no, these were Polaroid style images that were pinned to the wall. Let's edit those genes out of people.

SPEAKER_02 36:29

Yeah, no kidding. Those are the ones that we want. Yeah, yeah, we just wanted we don't need those anymore. Did you have another one, Dr. Domain, before we stop for the day?

SPEAKER_04 36:40

Oh, there's countless. Read the headlines on any of these news sites today.

SPEAKER_01 36:46

Reddit's good, right?

Closing, Offbeat Sources, And CTA

SPEAKER_04 36:47

Reddit's good, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:49

Yeah, Reddit actually has uh it's called Offbeat, and they they do the the headlines that don't actually make the the big headlines in the newspapers.

SPEAKER_02 36:58

If you if any of our listeners have any stories that you think we should talk about or look up and mention on one of our our podcasts, let us know. We're happy to to take that information. But other than that, I think that is truly the most the enough absurdity for both of us, for all three of us today. Um, we appreciate you joining us here at the rabbit run studio. Be sure to follow us. We look forward to spending time with you each week. Please like us, share us. If you have positive feedback for us or a topic you'd like to us to talk about, drop us a short email at boomer and genxer at gmail.com. If you have hate mail, hmm, where we want to put that? Oh, maybe on the menu somewhere. Could eat it. Yeah. So until next week, I'm Jane Burt. And I'm Bobby Joy. And you're stuck with us.

SPEAKER_00 37:51

Peace out. Later.