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96 Spoons and a Deadly Dinner | Weird News

• Barbara & Teja Arboleda • Episode 85

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In this Loi Dunk: Weird News episode, Barbara and Teja serve up two stories that land somewhere between “impressive” and “sounds sussy.”

First, Barbara introduces us to a man who went to the trouble of breaking his own Guinness World Record by balancing 96 spoons on his body. Why? We’re not entirely sure, but we respect the dedication to cutlery-based glory.

Then Teja brings us an unsettling yet oddly compelling case from Australia: a woman accused of poisoning her in-laws with a mushroom dish. Was it a foraged faux pas or something more sinister? That's up to the jury now.

Read the full stories
• Spoon balancing champ: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2025/5/man-balances-96-spoons-on-body-to-break-own-record-i-can-stick-any-object-to-my-skin
• Mushroom murder trial: https://apnews.com/article/australia-mushroom-trial-erin-patterson-wilkinson-60b08cdcc496032499ec9676681289a5

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Weird news.

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Oh. Just look at me and tell me weird news.

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Weird news.

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Yeah?

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Weird news.

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Oh weird. How weird.

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Weird news. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Weird news.

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What's the weird news?

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Well, we each brought something to share.

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Okay.

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Mm-hmm. You want to tell me first?

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You can go first.

unknown:

Oh, okay.

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Because you're a lot weirder than I am. That should be true. It's like the you know, the the pace car.

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Mm-hmm. Okay. All right. Cool. All right, so I'm on upi.com and uh put under odd news.

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Oh.

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Man balances 96 spoons on his body to break his own world record.

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Are there's like metal spoons?

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They they are in fact metal spoons. And you know, first of all, there's the question of why would one try to set a world record for balancing spoons on one's body? I I don't think he broke it for the second time. He actually broke it for the third time.

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Wow.

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Yeah. And that's balanced 96 spoons on his body.

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How long do you have to keep it stuck to your body?

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Ooh, good question. Right. I don't know. Like is it like a minute? Oh.

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Wait, not balancing. It's stuck to his body. Not balancing, right?

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Oh no, no, no. It says it says balancing. It does say balancing.

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Oh, so not so not like one of those things like you put in your nose and it sticks to your nose.

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You have to somehow balance it on his body. I don't know how, I don't know how.

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And are they like teaspoons, like tablespoons?

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I don't know. I have biddles. Actually, there's a so there's a video and it shows this guy standing here, right? Somebody is putting the spoons on him. So the question I have is is it really him that beat the world record, or is it the person doing the spoon balancing on his body who beat the world record?

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Oh, unless he was directing them. Like move spoon number sixty-four.

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Doesn't matter.

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Two degrees left and sixteen degrees north. Side. Port side.

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Yeah.

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XYZ.

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Well, apparently Mr. Moktari.

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Wow, that sounds like a TV show.

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Mokhtari. He's an Iranian man.

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Oh, okay.

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Abul Fazel. Abul Fazel Saber Moktari. That's his name. 54. Um, years old. Not inches or months. Yeah, years old. Um, apparently he said he has been sticking objects to his skin since he was a child.

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So it's not balancing, it's sticking.

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I don't know. Maybe he's a gecko. Or has gecko heritage?

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No, but wait, it did you watch the video?

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No. I just thought it was funny. Why you said here's a video of the body. Anything, I mean it, any object, anything that has a surface I can stick to my body, such as plastic, glass, fruit, stone, wood, and even a fully grown human.

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Is that what he said?

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It's in quotes.

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Even a fully grown, he can stick a fully grown human.

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He is part gecko.

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Wait a minute. A fully grown human? Can't you just say a person?

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Remember that that thing we got?

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He's not even a human being. I can I can attach a fully grown human to my body.

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Well, like the Incredibles or something? I like the Elastigirl.

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A fully grown human? Who says that? I don't know.

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Mr. Mokhtari says that clearly. Unless he's you're kicking it yourself.

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It is the microphone.

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Okay. Well, you're bugging them. Stop it.

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It's the microphone. It's like on my.

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Stop it.

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Okay.

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We might just have to have them on the outside in order to get you to not like pick at it.

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Probably.

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Plus, you're taking over Mr. Makhtari's thunder here.

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So sorry, but I don't understand.

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I don't either.

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Fully grown human?

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I don't know.

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I grew this in my backyard.

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Okay.

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It is a human being.

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So it's 52 seconds long, though. It's not very interesting.

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So it is on YouTube, and it is on balancing, it's stuck.

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It is on the Guinness World Records site, and you can see them actually, this person actually putting the spoons on the person's body.

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He also has scoliosis. I can see that.

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Well, I don't know how this is work. Is he just like super sweaty? Or what's the like I if I was staying? It looks like it looks like armor or something as they're putting it on.

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I love the music.

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I know, it's really funny. So it's just a 52-second video. Don't leave here. Wait till after this episode to watch it. Yeah, there we go. Alright. Cool. Alright. So, yeah, there's that.

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What do you know? You go to the work the next day and you say, yeah.

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I broke a world record.

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Yeah, broke a world record. If you could break and stood there half naked and uh 96 spoons stuck to my body. I can also do a fully grown human. Would you like to see that?

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No, I would not. Great.

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What do you mean I'm fired?

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What do you mean, HR? What? HR?

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96 spoons on my body.

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Just because I asked Janet if she wanted to be stuck to my body. Why is she calling HR on me? I don't get it.

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I'd marry.

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I don't get it. It wasn't, I didn't mean it that way.

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There were only spoons.

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Alright, what did you bring?

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So this the headline is Australian woman on trial for mushroom murder of in-laws says she was trying to fix a bland lunch.

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That sounds very suspicious.

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Well, yeah, it does, right? First of all, um. Well, you know, I was mowing the lawn today and there was a big mushroom on that side of the lawn.

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Did you eat it?

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I did not, because I didn't want to murder myself.

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No, that was a good one.

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I don't know anything about mushrooms.

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No, me either.

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You can't just pick a mushroom and put it in a salad.

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You could have been very happy.

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We don't know which way we go.

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Or very dead.

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Yeah, or both.

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One or the other. You could be happy and then dead. Oh, yeah.

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Anyway, so this is a picture of her, and she's like, she's she's looking over like over her glasses and looking over her shoulder, like, you look like a mushroom also.

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Oh. Okay.

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You know, so is that I put 97 spoons on my body.

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Oh, hmm. Okay.

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So she um uh she brought her relatives over.

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Okay. Her in-laws specifically.

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Her in-laws come on over to tell them a tragic story, you know, about you know, about what she's going through.

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And wait, she brought them over to trauma dump them?

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She was basically gonna be consulting her friends. Yeah, basically.

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Wow. Maybe they they took the mushrooms themselves.

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Wait a minute, they died.

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Oh. Maybe they just pretended. Maybe it was like Princess Bride. Oh. They were just mostly dead.

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Um so she brought them over and she's like, oh, you know, it's a bland meal. I'm I'll I'll I'll I'll add I'll add these, I'll add these mushrooms.

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Where'd she get the mushrooms?

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Well, she went to go get them somewhere.

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Where? Well, I it doesn't clear. Are we talking supermarket? Are we like, did she just like pick them? Uh she get them on a street corner.

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Apparently she she she picked them, but she uh she also did but then she went on to say that she splurged on expensive mushrooms. So she was basically trying to backtrack into or lie about where she got them from, and uh you know purported not to know the inherent dangers of these particular mushrooms.

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No, no, no, wait. So so okay, so she makes a meal and it's terrible, and her in-laws call her out on that, at which point she says, I'll show you. Let me add a little special ingredient. She goes out to her backyard, picks some mushrooms, chops them up, puts them only in hers, says, I'm allergic to mushrooms. Well, she did have a lot of things. And oh, so she ate them too.

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Well, apparently she's commitment, but not really. That's commitment to the I mean it it's clearly it's a murder.

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It's a little suspicious. So then, but then she tells people, No, I bought these mushrooms, and then where's the container? Well, there was no container. Why was there no container? Because I picked them up with my hands.

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I don't Well, you know how you can get bulk mushrooms?

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Yeah.

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You know?

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And so you know, just go to like Star Market, find the poisonous mushroom section. Excuse me.

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Excuse me. Excuse me. Yes. Um, uh, can you tell me where the mushrooms are? Oh yeah, right over there, right, you know, right behind you.

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What what which one of these are poisonous?

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Yeah, I just want to know which one are you.

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Where are the in-law mushrooms? What? That'd be like so the shiitake mushrooms, button mushrooms, portabella mushrooms, in-law mushrooms.

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In-law mushrooms. Death to all mushrooms.

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I don't know. But but now what?

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Well, she said she had foraged for mushrooms in the past, so she knew mushrooms.

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Clearly not.

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Clearly not. Well, no, clearly she did because she killed them. She used the mushrooms.

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I know I know how to forage.

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Yeah.

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So I know exactly how to do. I've done this before. I know exactly which mushroom is which. Oh, wait a minute.

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Kill.

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Oh, but not the so I know exactly which mushrooms to pick, but I the no, I don't.

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I buy the that the coffee you just drank, because you came to my house to ask me for a statement, and uh that coffee had in it uh mushrooms as well because you know, flavor. That's what you know.

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Yeah.

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That's what they do these days. They drink mushroom coffee kind of thing.

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You know, there's a forager on Instagram that I follow.

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It's also a murderer.

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She talks about foraging.

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Oh.

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Trying to remember her.

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Is her theme song tralala?

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No. It is not. But also she knows a whole heck of a lot about plants.

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Well, you'd have to.

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Yes.

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Because what else are you gonna forage for? Mushrooms. Because mushrooms aren't plants.

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Oh, right.

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Right? They're fungi.

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So they're not animals.

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No.

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They're not plants.

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No, they're fungi.

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They're not bacteria, they're not viruses.

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No. They're fungi.

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Mushrooms are weird.

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They are. They're fungi.

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Do you think they're aliens?

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Well, they look like aliens. Some of them look like aliens. Some fungi look like they're toys. My cousin texted me an image of this funny-looking mushroom in her backyard, and she she poked at it and it went, it's just like like jello. I said, What the and she's a horticulturalist, so she knows about plants and and fungi.

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So you want to be careful around her.

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Well, I this is why she lives so far away.

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Oh, okay. Got it, got it, got it.

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Unless I get it in the mail, you know. I'm not gonna put it in my salad.

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Normal. Well, I'll say it. But what happened? Um like, did she is she like guilty? Is she what did they what's happening?

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The trial continues on Thursday, so I don't even know what to do.

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Oh, when when was that?

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Cross-examination. If she's convicted, she faces life prison for murder and 25 years of attempted murder. Uh, because not everyone died. That was um June 4, 2025. So nothing. Oh, just so wow, so that's really four days ago.

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We need to follow up on this.

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Wow, yeah.

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So June, oh wow, okay. So that's then this coming Thursday. So yeah, okay. So we we need to like, we need to mark that to follow up on it.

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She uh she insisted she'd bought all the mushrooms at stores, even though she said she knew it was possible that forged mushrooms had accidentally found their way into the meal. Accidentally found their way into the because fungi, apparently her, to her, fungi can walk. You know?

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Found their way.

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Found their way into the meal.

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Cool. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Yep. Yep. So I have a baggie of store-bought mushrooms.

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And suddenly they're on the red line and they're going to Park Street.

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Yeah, I mean, but only those foraged mushrooms.

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Only the foraged mushrooms.

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Then they're like wild, wild on mushrooms.

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This is how the sound they make, mushrooms.

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Really? Really? Okay. Well, is that how you know foraged mushrooms from store-bought mushrooms?

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If you listen carefully, there's no stethos and you hear a then they're foraged. Just right, and you shall not put those in your salad.

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Oh, that's a good way to know. Alright, tip.

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Yep.

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Or your scone.

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Ooh, mushrooms and a scone.

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I'm not sure about that. Yeah. Add some marinara sauce. Might as well be a pizza. A thick pizza.

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Calzone?

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Okay, calzone, that's what I'm just thinking of. Oh, okay. I can't remember what it's called though.

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Yeah.

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Alright, cool.

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Okay.

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Sounds good.

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Well, that was weird.

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Yeah. That that was That was weird. And uh. So we're done with that.

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Yeah. It's gonna be a weird ending. Which is appropriate.

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Awkward ending.

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Awkward ending. A weird ending. This is a weird ending.

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Awkward ending.

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And now for a weird ending.