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Episode 33: Culinary Nightmares Unveiled
A St. Patrick's Day episode filled with chilling tales and bizarre food stories that will leave you questioning humanity and your dinner choices.
The ghost of Rachel Hurley haunts this episode as we explore her tragic unsolved murder from St. Patrick's Day 1990. Despite testing DNA from 127 suspects and interviewing countless witnesses, this 35-year-old cold case remains open, with Detective William Springer coming out of retirement specifically to pursue justice. Rachel's spunky personality and the eerie Ouija board session shortly before her death add layers to this heartbreaking mystery that continues to baffle investigators three decades later.
From the macabre to the merely stomach-turning, we dive deep into controversial food combinations after a Taco Bell employee reveals a secret menu hack involving steak quesaritos mixed with Cinnabons. The sweet-savory debate gets heated as we question where to draw the culinary line. Is it acceptable to dip fries in a milkshake? What about egg drop soup or blue cheese ice cream? The conversation takes unexpected turns as we explore cultural food differences and personal boundaries.
Things go from questionable to horrifying as we discuss a viral video of a man casually devouring a rat on a New York City street corner, a Florida stalker who decapitated cats as an intimidation tactic, and two teenagers who contaminated a hot pot restaurant's communal broth, affecting 4,000 customers. These stories of food contamination and extreme behavior will have you reconsidering your next meal out.
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All right, let's kick off this holiday edition.
Speaker 2:Okay, st Patty's.
Speaker 3:Hey, what's up everyone. Welcome to OK Bud, the podcast where everything's going to be OK Bud. I am Ben Kissel at BenKissel1 on Instagram. Jerry Aquino cannot be with us today, so in honor of St Patrick's Day, we have our half Irish friend, Alejandro Dallin.
Speaker 1:Top of the morning to you.
Speaker 3:From death and entertainment. Check out our episode this week on Alan Carr. It's absolutely fantastic, whimsical and, dare I say, more proof of the fickle nature of Hollywood. Kyle Plouffe is also with us at Kyle Plouffe hey. Thank you all so much for joining. If you want to watch live on Patreon, go to patreoncom. Slash diebud. Join the conversation. Also, want to shoot us an email? Okbudpod at gmailcom. And that's where we will start today's episode. A couple of shows ago, we were discussing could I that's Benjamin Grant Kissel kill a pig?
Speaker 2:Yeah, with your bare hands.
Speaker 3:Could I kill a cow? And I said, dang right, I could. Oh, and I know I could kill a chicken. But then, megs, she shot us an email Thank you so much. And she has something to say about it. She says I'm going to start with cow tipping. Ben, I think you did this as a kid and maybe we did, did you? Maybe, but I don't think I would be sober enough to remember it if we did. Did you? Maybe, but I don't think I would be sober enough to remember it if we did.
Speaker 1:I don't think I ever tipped a cow, but I wanted to.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't. I never actually tipped a cow. The thing is, cows live in shit and it's just tough to get the ground. You got to go in your three-point stance. It's a whole.
Speaker 2:it's a kerfl kerfuffle yeah, doesn't he do it in tommy boy? And he falls over and smashes his face you never been cow tipping me?
Speaker 3:I'm a maniac. Maniac doesn't smell like mud.
Speaker 1:So, kyle, did you think that's what people in wisconsin actually did? Yes, I mean, it's not that, it's not that common it's not that common, but it's not that far off.
Speaker 3:Once a year we'll get to it. This summer I'm sure there will be a cow fucker story.
Speaker 1:I just think you know I eat hamburgers, Sure, but I would feel bad for the cow If you tipped it. Yeah, Like I'll eat it, but I won't tip it.
Speaker 3:Ah, because that's too mean, yeah, okay very nice, very strange compromise of your morality. So Meg says I've owned many, many cows and I've never seen one fall asleep, standing up. And if you wanted to get close to a standing cow, sleeping or awake, you're not going to, they're going to kick you or jump away or ram your ass if you startle them. So there you go. It does make the people who drop trowel and again penetrate the cow seem a little tougher now, doesn't it? When it comes to baby piglets, she says, ben, not as easy to kill as you might think. They make a lot of noise, it's really, really hard. She says I castrate them and I have to have my partner hold their mouth shut so they don't squeal while I cut. Not much fun, but necessary.
Speaker 1:I don't remember that scene from Babe.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was a bad one. Charlotte's web, where she just creates two balls being dropped off in her web.
Speaker 3:Charlotte, could we not be so graphic? Please Clean it up. I'm just drawing what I see. Then she also says I loved the Ben Kissel Channel theme song, so maybe we could play that again sometime. So, yes, I remember that theme song. Yeah, yeah, so that was very nice. Thank you so much for the message, meg. All right, let's move on to a old story. But it involves St Patrick's Day and, much like the beer many consume, this case is cold. Three decades later, a St Patrick's Day murder, the murder of a girl named Rachel Hurley remains unsolved. It took place in 1990, so it's been 35 years. Wow, you believe that? Jeez, you believe it's been 35 years since 1990? That's scary. Yes, it's bizarre. Her favorite song was Sweet Child of Mine and she would sing it on a regular basis. Very current, very current.
Speaker 1:To that time.
Speaker 3:Yes, so Rachel was murdered in Jupiter, florida. Her killer has still never been caught. There was a mini documentary about the case in 2019. According to a detective, they say I know that somebody out there has firsthand knowledge that could put us on the right track, but this person to put this person in jail and they need to step up and do the right thing. So what happened was she was boating with her friends in Jupiter and around 2.45, rachel got nervous about getting back to shore to meet up with her mother at three. Rachel got nervous about getting back to shore to meet up with her mother at three. So they went. They docked the boat and then Rachel said hey, I got to go to the bathroom. So she sprinted off down a long path and she was never seen alive again.
Speaker 3:Wow, yes, rachel's mother, andrea Hurley. She waited for her daughter about a mile away in the park. She would later tell authorities that she wondered if she was supposed to pick her up at another spot. When she returned home, there was no sign of rachel, so she waited. She's like I have a kid ain't coming. Yeah, they're probably at home, maybe. Maybe susan's parents picked her up. It was the 90s confusion.
Speaker 2:The scariest thing about not having a cell phone. It just ruined that. You have no contact with anyone.
Speaker 3:Exactly. This horror movie, like most horror movies from the 90s, could have just ended with a phone call, yeah. But again they didn't have that opportunity. So her mother then returned to Carlin Park and for five hours they searched for the teen. The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office was notified at 5 pm. They launched two boats, one helicopter, eight mounted deputies and three canine units. Finally, they did find Rachel. She says they got the call that they found Rachel. They say the moment still gives me chills to this day.
Speaker 3:According to Palm Beach Sheriff's Office, Rachel's body was, partially clothed, found at 815 in a wooded area of Carlin Park. Now, this area was known to house quite a few homeless folks, and many of those homeless people were interviewed. However, none of them apparently did it so, or knew anything, or knew anything. So they believe that Rachel took a small shortcut through the wooded area to shield herself from blowing sand. So then they say she was covered in. And then, obviously, something horrible happened. She had been raped and the cause of her death was asphyxiation. She was covered in defensive wounds and they say they have no doubt that she fought hard to save her life, However obviously to no avail.
Speaker 3:There was a description of the suspect. It led authorities to question more than 50 homeless men, but again, none of them had anything to do with it, or at least they didn't say anything that led the police to become suspicious. Jesus, so now Up to 50. Yes, that's a lot. Authorities also tested the DNA of 127 men, including past suspects, but none of that DNA matched none of the DNA. Was none of the DNA found on Rachel matched the DNA of the DNA? Was that? None of the DNA found on Rachel matched the DNA of the 127 people? Wow, so they really did do a wide net, Huge net.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's gotta be up there with, like the most ever DNA samples taken for one case. This is insane. It's nice to hear they're trying.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for real, but it leads nowhere, unfortunately.
Speaker 3:Yes, so then, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office Detective William Springer. He came out of retirement Fucking Billy Springer In 2013 to work on cold cases, including Rachel's. I love that he was retired and then he got brought back in.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Just when I thought I was was out, they bring me back in. This is what he says. He says we're living. They're living. We've enjoyed things in life she was not able to enjoy and it's not fair.
Speaker 1:So they need to go to jail for one thing she missed out on terminator 2 the next summer. She missed out on so much, you know. Yeah, she missed out on Terminator 2 the next summer. She missed out on so much you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she missed out on the spaghetti incident.
Speaker 1:Oh, she would have loved it. She would have been the only one that appreciated it fully.
Speaker 3:Yes, according to her friend Sherry, she had a strong personality. She says she was a Miss Sassy Pants. It was her way or no way. But then of course she would smile and he couldn't help but love her. In a strange twist, sherry again the friend of Rachel. They say that they were playing Ouija board at a slumber party shortly before the disappearance Leading to the question. Was this supernatural? So Sherry told Dateline that she remembers them asking a question who will be the first to die? And the arrow spelled out R-A-C-H-E-L.
Speaker 1:Jeez. And that wasn't one of her friends.
Speaker 3:No, that was that Rachel, that was.
Speaker 1:Deb Deb. You know what I mean. That's my demon Deb Deb, Pretending that it was being moved by the spirit. No one was goofing on her.
Speaker 3:Well, we, no way. No way a group of young teens would be messing around with a Ouija board and not trusting the process.
Speaker 1:Either way, though even if they were doing that, that's still pretty eerie to have played a Ouija board with someone who went missing shortly after.
Speaker 3:That's why I don't ask that Ouija board such really in-depth questions. No.
Speaker 1:No, you ask. You know what's your favorite Jersey Mike's or Firehouse Subs Exactly.
Speaker 3:And then it goes Sub and I'm like this is truly the devil. Jared Fogle is innocent.
Speaker 1:Wait what he's right behind you.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, I'd rather have sex with Jack Angel, of course, jared Fogle, one of the hit stars of that fantastic Adam Sandler vehicle, yeah, which we've all seen. Finally, yeah, thank God it's one of our bonding moments as we continue to grow as friends. So they said who will die? First it spelled out Rachel, and then this is what Sherry says. They say being Rachel. She yelled out then do it bitch, nice. As we all laughed and played along. She was spunky, she was very cool, I like that. But when we asked for a sign, the house alarm went off and we lost it. It was just weird. Not long after that, she was gone. Wow, 35 years later, and the story, the mystery still survives today.
Speaker 1:But would ghosts do the SA on her? I don't. I think it was a person.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they did it at did ghostbusters.
Speaker 3:they got a blow job oh yeah, that's right, I forgot that movie was pg.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, who got blown in that? Yeah?
Speaker 2:uh, dan eckroyd, I think did he yeah slimer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I'm sure he'd be pretty decent.
Speaker 3:The Slimer has a cute little butt, you have green goo all over your pants. Rachel's friend, sherry, continues to fight and she says we just want to keep her story alive. She deserves justice and she deserves peace. Let's find them. We have to figure this out. Yeah, although 35 years later, 127 people tested. This is one of those cold cases that may never be solved.
Speaker 2:Does that include the 50 homeless people that were just living in the woods at that time? That's what I want to know, Because to me there's crimes of passion and then there's crimes of convenience and opportunity, and this to me seems like it was one of opportunity, and if there's a whole homeless shelter in the woods, you would think that it's probably one of them.
Speaker 3:I mean it sounds kind of romantic like Peter Pan, but then you realize it's not really like that.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 3:I always dreamt about being.
Speaker 2:Let's live in the woods together.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I always kind of dreamt when I was a kid about being homeless way, yeah, but that's not really like the boxcar children. Yeah, like fun. You know, solve mysteries, not commit them. Yeah, be like. Hey guys, I just stole some corn, let's go eat corn. You're like whoa ben, you're the best why was that every kid's fantasy?
Speaker 1:or like the swiss family robinson like wouldn't it be great to live in a tree house?
Speaker 2:it would suck well, now we're adults. Yeah, we know that with all three of us in there the tree just openly weeps.
Speaker 3:So the friend of rachel sherry. She stays in close contact with this, with detective springer. They're still working on this case. Um and good, there was again the mini documentary in 2019. And they say I know that somebody out there has firsthand knowledge that could put us on the right track to put this person in jail and they need to step up and do the right thing. Just a beautiful young gal gone on St Patrick's Day, 1990. On.
Speaker 1:St Patrick's Day and Hurley, you said, was her said, was her last. Yes, she was perhaps a little irish indeed, which makes it even worse. She wasn't full irish, because it would have been oh, hurley, yeah, she had hurley, hurley's irish.
Speaker 3:Well, don't they cut off the oh when they get here?
Speaker 1:it's like kind of a name circumcision on, come on.
Speaker 3:well, they wanted to get jobs and stuff back in the day, back back when white people were separated. Now we're all white, but back in the day you'd be like, yeah, I ain't fucking white, you're Irish. And then you'd be like yeah you're all fucking Germans. What did they call them?
Speaker 2:Spruces, sprouts, yeah something like that, something like that.
Speaker 1:Crout, crout. There you go, stupid kraut. Look at Hurley over there too good for the O.
Speaker 3:Exactly. And now, man, we're all just white.
Speaker 1:Yeah, come on. It is fascinating, though, the idea of somebody knowing something somewhere about this and not fessing up. It had to have come up somewhere, unless, of course, it was one of the homeless people.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and it's just you, course it was one of the homeless people. Yeah, and it's just. You know, we hear a lot of stories, a lot of murders make the press, but the majority don't and of course, many are not solved. I still think it's about 50-50, right? Yeah? I mean, I think it's more difficult to get away with murder now, but you can still get away with it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the only real way to get away with murder now.
Speaker 1:But you can still get away with it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the only real way to get away with it is if it's someone you completely do not know at all, and it's just like this, where it's just like you know it's a crime of opportunity and you just make it happen.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Too many times now it's just like oh, it was my brother that did it, because he has been mad at me for 20 years.
Speaker 1:Or Jupiter Joe.
Speaker 3:This was in Jupiter, florida, nearby. Yes, where was he? Oh my God, listen to the Death and Entertainment YouTubers of Death to learn more about Jupiter, joe. So Sherry says if you told your story 35 years ago, come forward and tell it again. No lead is too small. It could be justice, finally, for Rachel. So that is something that we can remember on this St Patrick's Day. Let's get some justice for Rachel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and if you know anything, or did it, we won't judge you, we'll judge you.
Speaker 3:I'm going to judge you a little bit.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to trick them into doing that?
Speaker 3:No, we won't. Actually, we're looking for a fourth cause. You want to be on the show? Come on, it'll be great. All right, the show come on, it'll be great, all right. Well, let's move on to something that is far less serious or is it? Taco bell love. This story is quite fascinating and I want to hear your thoughts, alejandro, specifically. Yeah, I have the app.
Speaker 1:You're you are a premier member reward I just got sick of showing up at the drive-thru unprepared. I'll take the what do you got today? With the app, you can prepay, preorder.
Speaker 3:They refer to you as Mr Dowling.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh hello, Mr Dowling. I'm a preferred customer. I get a free room now.
Speaker 3:Oh fantastic, your stall awaits. Mr Dowling. Here's your special napkin toilet paper with your engraved name on it. Do your dirty business on this golden toilet. I was speaking with Jerry obviously human Jerry, not dog Jerry about this yesterday and she had some thoughts as well which I'm sure she'll share with us on tomorrow's episode. Share with us tomorrow on tomorrow's episode. So a Taco Bell employee is sharing a secret menu hack and it has the Internet abuzz and really no one knows what to think of it.
Speaker 3:So she says order a steak, quesarito, okay got it right there then she says you want to add rice, steak and sauces to a flattened burrito. So everyone's like, okay, it's pretty base right now. But then she says you want to add cinnabons as a sweet treat, roll it up and then toast it. Okay, and that is supposed to make a fantastic sweet and savory burrito that you can get off the secret menu of Taco Bell.
Speaker 2:A steak Cinnabon burrito.
Speaker 3:Yes, a steak Cinnabon burrito. Hey, I'm listening, okay, so does that sound good at all? Do they have Cinnabons? They have Cinnabons. I asked that question and it has been confirmed.
Speaker 1:Wow, because I've seen the cinnamon twists and those balls.
Speaker 2:It's been confirmed.
Speaker 1:Wow, because I've seen the cinnamon twists and those balls and the sugar balls, and the sugar balls too, yeah.
Speaker 3:But they do have Cinnabons. Evidently they have Cinnabons.
Speaker 2:I didn't know that.
Speaker 3:That must be a recent contract that they got.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm trying to picture the steak and a Cinnabon.
Speaker 2:I would do it with ground beef, so it gets in there.
Speaker 1:It's in.
Speaker 3:Cinnabons what it's like in Secret Window when Johnny Depp was like I've done it the whole time. I'm stunned.
Speaker 1:You know I'm not fully. I'm not all up in mixing my desserts with my dinners, because I'll do it at breakfast.
Speaker 3:You're the George Wallace of separating sweet and savory as an Alabama governor.
Speaker 1:for those that don't know, but of course, at breakfast it's great, you know, like if you mix sausage with pancakes and syrup for some reason I love that that works Like a McGriddle, but this one makes me a little nervous for some reason. I love that that works like a bit griddle, but this one makes me a little nervous for some reason but sweet and savory it's, it's good.
Speaker 2:You can like kettle corn's very good, that's good.
Speaker 3:But the question I think comes in with the cinnamon. Yeah, is because that's why I don't like skyline chili, because they add that fucking cinnamon. Yeah, that's too much. I I agree it creates a strange. I feel like cinnamon might be. Some people don't like oregano or cilantro. Yeah, cinnamon's very controversial for a sweet and savory, I guess.
Speaker 2:Well, mccormick makes a Southwestern cinnamon steak rub mixture with cinnamon, oregano and paprika.
Speaker 1:Huh, huh.
Speaker 2:Well, I'd try it.
Speaker 3:I ain't gonna turn it down.
Speaker 2:Throw it in there, I'll guzzle it down.
Speaker 1:But there's people that eat dried mango with pepper on it.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I don't like that.
Speaker 1:I don't get that at all I tried it, and even they do it with fresh fruit.
Speaker 2:People put tahini on it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I tried it once because I'm like I gotta do it. There's a fruit cart here. It looks appetizing and it was terrible. Like why would you want to eat fresh mango with hot sauce all over it? Ridiculous.
Speaker 3:Your name's Alejandro.
Speaker 1:You should kind of be on board with this. By the way, Chileans don't like hot food.
Speaker 2:Is that right?
Speaker 1:They can't stand it, like my cousin tried my dad's chili and she was like ooh, you're literally Chilean and you don't like chili. They don't do hot.
Speaker 3:Really Okay. Well, as I mentioned, the internet really was confused on how to react here. What about you, Ben? I am with the internet in my confusion. I would not. It would not be something that I would even fathom. No, if you had me create 10 special items from taco bell, this wouldn't be in like. I would take a chalupa and I would well. I mean, I've done certain stuff. Where I get a bean, I get a bean and cheese burrito. You know, take a chalupa, open the burrito, put the chalupa in there wrap it in you know, do stuff like that.
Speaker 3:Wow, wow. I've done a lot of different sort of creative Doing food surgery. Yeah, yeah, I've done a lot.
Speaker 1:I mean, I didn't know you were this advanced.
Speaker 3:Yeah, a lot of people just think I'm a goof, I know, but I'm actually quite brilliant. Yeah, there's a fantastic movie called May, where a girl put her own friend together. She made a friend off of other people's body parts. Oh wow, it's a great horror film. If you ever have a chance to see it and I like to do that with my Taco Bell I get a platter, I get a whole bunch of stuff and you kind of mix and match and have fun with it. Wow, kind of create a Frankenstein's monster situation, which of course does make me a legal doctor nice. But when it comes to cinnabons and steak, that's where I'm like. I'm also not really a steak guy at the fast food joints because it's never good, it's just not good steak yeah, it's gonna be ground beef for me yeah, because that's mostly soy and everything else too, right?
Speaker 2:they got horse meat in there, it's all yeah great, they season it so much that you can't even tell they.
Speaker 3:They're rats sometimes, hey you know, we got a rat story coming up. Oh really.
Speaker 1:Tastes good. I was just doing a little foreshadowing. Well, that's how good you are at radio, but there are some people that think you can unlock certain flavors by mixing weird stuff, Like I swear. I was so intrigued by this when I went to one of those fancy ice cream shops in West Hollywood when I went to one of those fancy ice cream shops in West Hollywood. Oh like the Salt and Straw or something like that.
Speaker 1:And there was a flavor that was blue cheese and pear ice cream cone and I thought it was the most bizarre thing I'd ever seen and I'm like you know what Usually I wouldn't I'm going to buy this right now. It was the worst thing I've ever had in my life to throw up. That's hilarious. I kept thinking like this pear ice cream is pretty good, if not for this blue cheese.
Speaker 3:I don't know you bought it, it's ridiculous. I like blue cheese, but it's mold, right, it's bacteria.
Speaker 1:Imagine guys eating blue cheese in ice cream. I don't like it Exactly.
Speaker 3:I don't like that one bit. Yeah, some things are left. Some things should be left to the states. I think it was a joke. That's my segregationist point of view.
Speaker 1:I agree with you. I think it might have been a joke on some level. They're like let's put a fake flavor up and see if anyone's dumb enough to order this on a day. And you're like, here, I am, yeah, and they see you walk in and they're like those are just the sweatpants we eat.
Speaker 3:That's the guy we want. We got one, we got one. There was a I forget the name of it, I'm sure it's closed now. It was an ice cream store in Brooklyn. That was all the all the ice cream had booze in it, which really cuts your margins in your market.
Speaker 1:I mean, rum is pretty good, yeah, but you can't serve it to kids.
Speaker 3:It's a 21 plus ice cream joint I don't think they made it.
Speaker 1:That's another thing. You don't really need to mix that much, in my opinion, to have an alcoholic shake.
Speaker 3:No, I don't need it, because that's just going to rumble the tumble and then you're going to end up like Winnie the Pooh taking a massive dump. I up like Winnie the Pooh taking a massive dump.
Speaker 1:I think we're in agreement that we should segregate dessert.
Speaker 3:To some degree, you know what I mean. To some degree, it's a precious thing. Yes, absolutely. But then again, sometimes it does work. But one person responded on social media. They say that's already my favorite thing to get Fucking psycho.
Speaker 2:I invented it.
Speaker 3:Oh you all. That just shows you what the internet is Like. This person's like secret item Cinnabon steak quesadilla. They're like I've already done that, I already knew about it. Yeah, wow, what do you want? Want an applause? Break you, fucking fat shithead. Another fast food fan said girl, you're doing the Lord's work, so that's how it works.
Speaker 1:She was excited to try that.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes. But then other people they say you lost me at the controversial Cinnabons.
Speaker 2:Yeah, lord's work. I think plumbers would disagree with that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh Lordy, look what I just laid down, don't worry, don't worry.
Speaker 1:Mr Plumber Guy, it's sweet and savory. Yeah, oh Lordy. Look what I just laid down.
Speaker 3:Don't worry. Don't worry, mr Plumber Guy, it's sweet and savory. Yeah Ugh, I'm here to fix your toilet. No, like, literally, yeah.
Speaker 1:And it probably smells a little like cinnamon.
Speaker 3:Ugh, I bet you, yeah, the worst plumbing job's got to be in Cincinnati. Ooh, you got the Midwest already. We're Midwest boys. We can say this they're a hearty eating bunch. Yeah, but then you got the cinnamon on top of it. Anyway, let's go to our comments section. Any comments on this?
Speaker 2:Pano's asking about what about a Guinness shamrock shake? That'd be delicious.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's totally different. Yeah, but Guinness is not necessarily savory. I think of Guinness it is almost a sweet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's light, yes, it's very light. Talk about something precious.
Speaker 1:I want my Guinness alone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, claire is talking about Taco Bell overseas, saying the place is just as seedy looking as it would be out here. Yeah, fries and a chocolate frosty is so good, and a vanilla frosty too, those are very good. Okay, that's a solid point. Yes, I'll give you that one, zoe and Vanessa both agree on that?
Speaker 3:Okay, all right, so I think you can. The compromise is a good salted fry and a shake. You know what I?
Speaker 1:just thought of another thing, something like orange chicken or the McNugget with the sweet and sour sauce. Sure, sure.
Speaker 2:That's kind of.
Speaker 3:In the ballpark. That's in the ballpark, but it's again that, cinnabon. Really, that's going to be your controversial stuff there. Yeah Well, you mentioned a man, or you mentioned eating rats, right? Yes, yes, so this was a story that comes from beautiful New York City.
Speaker 2:New York City.
Speaker 3:Yes, it was on 149th Street and 3rd Avenue in Mott Haven. 49th Street and 3rd Avenue in Mott Haven. It's a minute and 15 second long Instagram clip and it shows a man in the Bronx just eating a rat. He's pulling the rat apart. Do you want to watch the video? If you want to push, play on that. It's pretty impressive actually. Is it all the way up at the top? He's pulling the piece.
Speaker 2:If you can't find it, you can't find it. Oh, he's literally like not even hiding that it's a rat.
Speaker 3:No, he's not hiding it. Why would he care? Yeah, exactly this is my rat. You better leave my rat alone.
Speaker 1:Don't bother me, unless I've eaten my rat. Oh my Like. I can't imagine that's a secret like thing he has 1-4-9 at 3rd.
Speaker 2:Avenue. I can, oh my God.
Speaker 1:This is fucking unbelievable. Look at this shit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it is unreal, nah, and people are just. New York is amazing, oh my God, the tails there. People are just walking by just like another day, another day in paradise.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, it's like a rat taco now.
Speaker 3:Yes, so he's literally pulling it.
Speaker 2:He's disemboweling it. Yes, oh my Right there on the corner, tasty little morsels.
Speaker 1:Yes, he's eating it with a Cinnabon.
Speaker 2:He's got his Crocs on too.
Speaker 3:Yes, okay, so we've heard the audio.
Speaker 1:I got to tell you about my rat hack, yeah, so the.
Speaker 3:The man lifts the rat to his lips and then he uses his teeth to tear it apart, kind of like a pork chop. So he tears it apart for a while, gets all up inside of it and then he puts it up to his mouth like a burrito and eats it like that. So I do know that looked like a tapeworm hanging out of his mouth. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think he probably has a couple oh, probably got a couple of things swimming around in his guts, if he can handle eating a rat fully haired a city rat that does make it kind of worse, doesn, doesn't it Way worse.
Speaker 3:There is a massive rat infestation in New York City right now, so this guy technically is a hero. Yeah, I live here, no thanks.
Speaker 1:And also in light of what happened to the Hackmans. Yes, just cleaning her garage. Hantavirus, hantavirus, and he's just not afraid at all.
Speaker 2:Did this man travel to Santa Fe anytime recently?
Speaker 3:Yeah Well, perhaps we'll cover a little bit more on the Hackmans tomorrow. There was some evidence that the wife had made a phone call before. People thought that she was already dead, but apparently she had made some phone calls, so maybe she didn't die quite as early as some people thought. But anyway, Kyle, you were saying I'm at a loss.
Speaker 2:now, you're at a loss.
Speaker 1:Fantastic Was this guy, the handyman, this guy.
Speaker 2:He won't stop pulling its intestines out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's really going in, Dude, he's having a ball.
Speaker 3:Oof, yeah, yeah, and another one wow, oh, just in front of everybody yeah, no shame whatsoever in that man's game, and I blame the prices. You know, mcdonald's, you can't even get a big mac anymore without spending nine bucks. Yep, that rat. It's free, it's locally sourced. You know what was a great? I just watched for the first time Blade Runner. Oh, the first time, first time, yeah, really, I just watched it, which is so weird. It was just one of those movies that I just hadn't seen. Wow, what'd you think? I loved it. Beautiful, fantastically shot, very dark, very rainy, yes, very seattle-ish. Of course, it was here in los angeles, so it also reminded me a little bit about demolition man and, of course, demolition man, the homeless people. They're eating rats, right this is the future.
Speaker 3:Oh my god, we got the dumbest part of all the future movies and we're living in it now and this is us. Wow, this is brutal. And he doesn't care. The homeless man there doesn't care. Maybe he's not homeless, I don't know. I believe he probably is oh my. God. But he doesn't even care that this person's filming him. I know, and I'm not going to lie, he seems to be really enjoying it, yeah.
Speaker 1:I feel like if you're eating the rat, at that point you really don't care if you're being filmed or being seen, right being seen.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, we've talked about this before in other stories, like super crazy is calm, it's confident and this guy is probably out of his goddamn mind.
Speaker 1:And the amount of enjoyment he's getting from it. I have a question Would you trade having normal sanity? Or you could be that guy eating the rat and he's having the time of his life and he's happy, no worries, oh boy, that is quite the predicament.
Speaker 3:You know, that's one of those where I'm actually going to. I'm just going to be a little base Going to go with. No, I don't want to enjoy eating a dead rat. It was a rhetorical question, but happy as a pig in shit. I would like to know how he killed it. Was it more like Lenny from Mice and Men? A simple petting, then snapping of the?
Speaker 2:neck. That is a good question, because if he just stumbled upon a dead rat, it's like he didn't even earn it really, right, oh, he has to hunt that. Yeah, you have got to hunt.
Speaker 3:Like Meg says in our email today, she is family farming, eat local, grow local, and this man is certainly doing that. Very hipster, very hipster of him, very organic, seeing that video Very free again.
Speaker 1:You know what we eat cows.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we do, and we probably, as Kyle alluded to, we probably also eat rats. They just don't really tell us. But this guy's just going direct to the source and uh, yeah, good for him. What if it would have been like a year? There's just a food cart right where that is and he's working there and he's just like the number one rat seller in america.
Speaker 2:Like you know what rat meat's not that bad yeah, there was a chinese food restaurant that got in trouble in new york for doing dollar dumplings and they went out back and saw that they were making them with rats. What yeah?
Speaker 3:It's a buck. It's a buck, buddy. There was another video that kind of went viral. I was talking to my friend Jazzy about it and she was like I don't know if I should share this. It seems racist, but it was a halal cart and the guy had a bunch of oh yeah and that went viral.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it was very bizarre.
Speaker 3:He just walked, just the pigeons. He was going and grabbing pigeons and bringing them into his cart.
Speaker 2:Slamming the door shut.
Speaker 3:So I Texas Chainsaw Massacre. They've officially gone to New York. The Sawyer family is now in New York City.
Speaker 1:What is happening in New York?
Speaker 3:I don't know. I keep tabs on my friends out there and it seems like a massive shit show. Something's in the water? No, new York has great water.
Speaker 1:I've heard New York doesn't have great water New. York has the best pizza. You don't even know.
Speaker 2:They do, they do. What do you? Mean yeah, okay.
Speaker 3:What is this?
Speaker 1:yeah, okay, what do we mean? Yeah, okay, I'm fine with Little Caesars.
Speaker 3:Don't worry about it. Yeah, because you've never had good pizza. I got pizza yesterday from this place called Little Tony's.
Speaker 2:Everyone told me Little Tony's. I love Little Tony's. It looks right nice to it.
Speaker 1:You didn't like it.
Speaker 3:I want to know what Big Tony can do.
Speaker 1:Hey, I want to see Big Tony.
Speaker 3:No, I thought it was fine, but with the hype, like you hyped up Jack and Jill and that lived up to it, yeah, but Little Tony's yeah, maybe I didn't. I also got chicken and jalapenos, ah, so it was maybe my fault.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I was just in a mood you might as well eat a rat at that point.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was my fault. I Something real spicy, because I like spicy food. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Then I mix it with a Cinnabon. Didn't go down so well. Yeah, oh, yeah, maybe that would have helped. Yeah, no, there you actually should get the pasta. Oh, at Little Tony's. Yeah, because you get pasta with a side of pasta plus bread.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so you get three of the same thing and the bread is hard as a brick too. Yeah, you get three of the same thing and the bread is hard as a brick too. Yeah, I also got bread with the I forget with the little tomato. You can kick someone's ass with that thing. Yeah, that bread was. I gave a little bit to Jerry and he broke three teeth, like Stimpy does. Well, speaking of states that are a little bit wacky, let's go to Florida Back to Florida, Back to Florida.
Speaker 1:Yes, oh my goodness that story.
Speaker 3:Florida, back to Florida, back to Florida. Yes, oh, my goodness, that story is so sad. St Patrick's Day Be safe out there today, everybody. You never know what lunatics are about. So they're calling this man heinous, this fella. He decapitated two cats and he put them on a homeowner's mailbox. This guy is a stalker, right, and he's stalking this family, this Florida homeowner, and he decapitated the head of two cats and then he put them on the mailbox of the person he's stalking. The investigation is calling the acts heinous, violent, and they say he's killing innocent animals. It was launched when an unidentified homeowner in Bonita Springs, bonita, found the heads in a cardboard box on the top of their mailbox. It's unclear why the homeowner was targeted, nor to whom the cats belonged. Makes me think of Dumb and Dumber. Our pet's heads are falling off. Nor to whom the cats belonged. Makes me think of Dumb and Dumber. Yeah, our pets' heads are falling off.
Speaker 1:Or Seven the cat version.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, seven the cat version. Yeah, that would be great. Maybe they did have troubles.
Speaker 3:I do think the movie Cats was more troubling than the movie Seven.
Speaker 2:Especially the new one. Yeah, that's actually the only movie, right, that was Stephen Sondheim, right, oh?
Speaker 3:boy Not Cats I think that was Andrew Lloyd Webber. Andrew Lloyd Webber. I read something where they said he was so disappointed in the movie Cats he went and bought a dog. That was the headline I read. So the guy's name is Robert James Luther III. Very cool From the long line of great Robert James Luthers Carrying on the family name. He's 37 years old. He was found to have been in the area at the time and was arrested fishing nearby. Search warrants led to his phone. They say there were some disturbing cell phone videos where he made mention and depicts the deceased cats. Neither the motive for the disturbing crime nor whether he was known to the homeowner is immediately clear. So it's not every package you get is good. Yeah, sometimes you don't want a nice package at your doorstep, do you?
Speaker 1:and where are those amazon thieves when you need?
Speaker 2:them. Yeah, exactly, he's away.
Speaker 3:The porch pirates yeah.
Speaker 2:What'd you score? A box full of cat heads.
Speaker 1:Pretty cool, awesome. Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:That's the newest single.
Speaker 1:Like Jeff Daniels, you went and stole something awesome.
Speaker 3:Box full of cat heads yeah. Coming from Flumperdogs yes, I love Flumperdogs' new album, dude Box full of cat heads yeah. Their hit new song, toenail Guy I'm a toenail guy, don't fuck with me. I got toenails on my hands and fingernails on my feet.
Speaker 3:Well, that's fucked up, bro. Yes, so he was charged with two counts of aggravated stalking as well as two counts of animal cruelty. Luther was arrested and charged with those counts and I guess now he's just serving some time. According to police they say heinous violent acts, especially toward innocent animals, is beyond unacceptable and any offender will face severe consequences to the fullest extent of the law. I will push back a little bit because I don't think that cats are innocent. I think that cats are the serial killers of domesticated animals. However, don't behead them and put them in people's mailboxes.
Speaker 1:Oh, come on, what Cats are fine. I grew up with two cats.
Speaker 2:But it's either them or us.
Speaker 1:And they kept the mice out of the house. No, I'm not saying they don't do the work but because they're murderers.
Speaker 3:That's why they do that. Yes, I mean, yeah, they're, they are hunters. Yeah, they're good at it. Did you ever?
Speaker 2:ask your cat what they think about you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you died, they would eat your face within 24 hours no, if they show you their belly, that means they love you, because that's their vulnerable spot no, that's where they're showing where you're going to end up.
Speaker 2:Here's my belly, this is where you're going to end up.
Speaker 3:I'm going to eat your face within 24 hours of you dying here. Poor cats, this is what they say. The combined efforts of multiple units ensured the sick individual got locked behind bars before he could hurt anyone else. And then there's a picture of the guy, and I'm not going to say he looks like the kind of guy who would cut off two cat heads. But he does, yeah, but he does. But he's like again going back to Blade Runner, he's like a replicant. He looks fairly normal-ish but there is something slightly off.
Speaker 2:It looks like nobody's home behind the eyes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's cold. Luther III said he's going to invoke his rights and he's refusing to speak. He's not going to talk about it.
Speaker 1:So in your theory he's sort of like a Dexter, a really stupid Dexter, a bestiality Dexter, where he does other animals and species like cats, if they're serial killers, you know.
Speaker 2:He's getting them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I guess, I guess so.
Speaker 1:Ben, you gotta go with your own theory.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1:Dexter, but for cats. Maybe the cats deserved it, dare I say, do we?
Speaker 3:know they were innocent. Well, they always got their tails up showing their assholes. But that doesn't mean you should cut their heads off. No, no, of course not.
Speaker 1:They are all innocent creatures.
Speaker 3:Except for.
Speaker 1:Ollie, that's why we don't try them in the court of law. Well, not yet.
Speaker 3:We covered a sea otter. That was a serial killer and corpse rapist, ollie the sea otter and a serial killer and corpse rapist, yeah, oh wow, ollie the sea otter, yeah, and I do think a parakeet has taken the stand.
Speaker 1:Really? Oh, because they could talk it solved a crime.
Speaker 2:Yes, really it helped solve a crime. Yeah, it was like don't shoot. Oh, ah, little snitch, oh voices perfectly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was creepy and that was actually a plot point in twin peaks oh the bird says leo, no, oh right, I haven't got that far. Oh my god wow, these crazy animals. Then of course the whale, excuse me the killer whale from blackfish that would talk about cereal yeah, got three people yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, just lastly, sticking in the world of food and things that are disgusting, let's go over to beautiful China. An eatery was forced to close and compensate 4,000 guests after it was found that two 17-year-old kids took a massive piss in the biggest hot pot chain in one of their broths.
Speaker 3:So these two kids, drunk off their asses, took a big old piss in the broth of a restaurant, forcing the eatery to compensate 4,000 people. This is good, old-fashioned juvenile fun. They didn't shoot up a school Unless you have hepatitis. Well, it's disgusting, I know it's disgusting, and obviously the kids need to be reprimanded and things need to be changed in their lives.
Speaker 1:I know you sound like you're judging, but did you not used to urinate at the movie theater? I?
Speaker 2:didn't do it. My friend did In what he would just piss on the wall instead of going to the bathroom. He'd just hide in the corner and just piss and watch the movie. He's an animal. I didn't do that ever.
Speaker 1:I don't know I mean what. You let it happen. I didn't stop it. Well what?
Speaker 3:are you going to do? Are you going to grab it and take it, lead him like a horse? Hey, get your piss. Stick out of here.
Speaker 1:Bathroom's over there buddy.
Speaker 2:You can lead a piss to the toilet.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I peed in a DJ booth one time. Well, you got to have fun Sparks flying. Yeah, Now I was talking to him.
Speaker 1:He'd be like you're doing a great job but anyway, so urinating in a soup Because I love egg. It's a communal soup. I love egg drop soup. I can't.
Speaker 3:No Texture oh come on, it's too boogery.
Speaker 2:I can't do it. Oh man, I'm going to think that next time.
Speaker 1:So you don't like sunny side up eggs probably, no, I don't.
Speaker 3:I'm kind of like Guy Fieri in that sense I'm a little freaked out by the eggs. Oh, there's little fetuses in there, like all eggs. A little bit, just a little bit. I mean, obviously I understand everything has eggs in it. That's how it's good. There's another thing they do in some Asian countries where it's the fertilized egg and you eat the baby. Yeah, that's great. I can't be doing all that. No, wow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's great, we'll go in there. I can't be doing all that. No, wow, no, no, no I can't.
Speaker 1:It's too odd. I mean, I get what you're saying, but where do you begin and end with that? Like I said, hamburgers.
Speaker 3:Well, that's what I'm saying. If you put it into a tube, it's totally different, it's a hot dog.
Speaker 1:What a hot dogs.
Speaker 3:No, I have no problem with anything really, it's just I don't want to look stuff in the eye. Like, you can go to Costco get the dog, yep, yep.
Speaker 1:Get the chicken bake and the double chunk chocolate cookie.
Speaker 2:We can't. We can't do that. Zoe's asking. Did they give the people at the Hotel Cecil money back for at least land being in the water supply?
Speaker 3:I think it gave some people superpowers.
Speaker 2:Yeah, back for at least lamb being in the water supply, I think it gave some people superpowers yeah, I don't think they did give no money back, and wasn't she in there? For like a week. Yeah, people were saying the water was tasting real bad. I wonder why.
Speaker 3:Oh, you're a dead lady in the siso hotel um, none of those people are doing anything illegal no, it's all homeless people that are in there yeah, so I don't think they can really get a refund. Yeah, so the two 17-year-old males at the Shanghai branch of Hayadillo. That's the country's biggest hot pot chain. They did this February 24th. They admitted that the employees working failed to stop the teens what and claimed they weren't alerted about the nasty situation until four days later.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I mean, how are you going to stop people pissing into the soup?
Speaker 3:Four days later. It was four days of customers being like this soup is better. Why is the soup so good today, hon?
Speaker 2:This is the video the dude was standing on. Oh my God, what is going on.
Speaker 1:I don't know what's worse that or the rat eating.
Speaker 3:Kids being kids, the rat eating, I think, is worse.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is the like wow.
Speaker 3:I would be upset if I went and had the soup there. They'd be like ah.
Speaker 2:Are you saying there was piss in here? Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:Interesting.
Speaker 1:How do they not get affected by this the business? There's got to be a few weeks where people are going to be afraid to go in there.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, people are real mad. The company owns over a thousand restaurants world worldwide and they were just unaware that this happened for four full days.
Speaker 1:And there are people that didn't notice I don't just like oh I, I don't care for this soup, but I don't think it's piss. You know what I mean. Maybe maybe they just don't think it's piss. You know what I mean. Maybe they just didn't like it.
Speaker 2:Maybe the piss got boiled out. That's all we can hope, I guess.
Speaker 3:Oh, my God.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that could be, that is true. Or, like Ben said, maybe it unlocks a new flavor.
Speaker 2:It's actually genius. It's the secret menu. Yeah, piss ramen.
Speaker 3:Piss ramen, yes, so they took a big piss in there, and then there was no word if it was cleaned out or if it was disinfected. So who knows?
Speaker 1:Throw out the pots.
Speaker 3:That's just time from scratch you just got to clean it, you just got to kill them. No, you don't.
Speaker 1:No, you got to throw it away and get new ones.
Speaker 3:Buddy, I hate to break it to you. I worked in a lot of fast food restaurants. People are pissing on the pickles.
Speaker 2:Oh, no, they're pissing on the pickles, they're licking the meats.
Speaker 3:Who the fuck is pissing and licking. Oh, buddy, you don't know. These kids don't care why should they?
Speaker 1:You know what I said before we started recording I'm hungry.
Speaker 2:I know I'm starving and and.
Speaker 1:Ben has ruined food for me. I'm scared. Now I'm going to fast for a few weeks.
Speaker 3:Who needs Vagovi when you got okay butt yeah.
Speaker 1:It might do me some good, but still yeah.
Speaker 3:Yep. The company said in a statement we fully understand that the distress caused by our customers by this incident cannot be fully compensated by any means, oh my God, and we are willing to do our utmost to take responsibility. So, technically, if you are in the mood for food, go to this place because they are on the apology tour, like when Domino's did two years of apologizing in their ad campaigns and came back with a better pizza. Do you remember that when Domino's was like, did your pizza experience suck? Yeah, oh yes, shoot us an email and then they would show like bad pizza. Be like pizza sucks.
Speaker 1:And be like pizza sucks and be like we're sorry. It was like greasy yeah, latter yeah, because it was awful for like years. Yeah, and chipotle when they had the coli outbreak.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry they have like 10 of them a year they closed down for an entire day yeah, and they come back stronger. The line's longer than I know it's insane yeah, wow.
Speaker 3:Well, after you have liquid shit for three days, you're really hungry and you need a burrito to fill. Ya, it's a vicious, vicious cycle.
Speaker 1:This reminds me of that scene from Problem Child 2, where Junior pisses in the lemonade and then the neighbor drinks it, and then he goes, mmm tangy.
Speaker 3:That is a fantastic series, although it does demonize the redheaded child A little bit, yes, which of course, the redheads, as you know, have been demonized for a long, long time.
Speaker 3:Yes, and we ain't never done nothing wrong. Alright, well, that is our fun St Paddy's Day episode. Thank you all so much for listening. Go out there, be safe if you are uh, celebrating, which I guess everybody celebrates. Same patties, the river is green in chicago. It was green the day dave matthews band dumped it shit all over there too, they got in trouble. Yeah, they're people all mad at him yeah, at least nobody's drinking that water yeah, and the river is yellow at that Chinese restaurant.
Speaker 3:I love that. Okay, everyone Check out Death and Entertainment with Alejandro Dowling, myself and Kyle Plouffe, and again patreoncom slash diebud Participate in the show. Do we have any final thoughts?
Speaker 2:Pano saying RIP Gilbert Gottfried.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:Problem child.
Speaker 2:Problem child.
Speaker 1:Yes, I was like, yes, okay, he okay. Problem child, problem child. Yes, I was like, yes, okay, he was, he was.
Speaker 2:it worked at the orphanage in the first one, and he's the principal yeah, people were saying, uh, jesus christ, about all the pissing in the movie theater jesus christ returning. Yeah, kyle's friends, you know pino said uh feed the cat heads to the rat man oh my god.
Speaker 3:See now, that is what we can do, see.
Speaker 1:Solving problems here. You know how they do the land, sea and air sandwich at McDonald's. You could do the rat pea and cinnamon bun.
Speaker 3:Oh, mix it with cinnamon bun and cat head? That'd be great. Thank you for listening everyone. We'll be here all week. Hail yourselves. Talk to you soon, bye, bye.