Two In The Think Tank - 285 - The Kentucky Meat Shower and other Strange But True Stories

Episode Date: April 7, 2021

On 3 March 1876, large chunks of meat rained down from the sky over Olympia Springs in Bath County, Kentucky, but what was this mystery meat? Tune in to hear this and many other STRANGE but TRUE stories! Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Buy tickets to our streamed shows (there are 12 available to watch now! All with exclusive extra sections): https://sospresents.com/authors/dogoon Check out our AACTA nominated web series: http://bit.ly/DGOWebSeries​ Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-Topic Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] Check out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/ Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:https://bleacherreport.com/articles/74831-barbados-vs-grenada-in-94-the-most-bizarre-match-everhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Caribbean_Cuphttps://www.nytimes.com/1904/03/15/archives/wife-returned-after-having-fine-funeral-then-valente-learned-he-had.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1932/06/18/archives/goat-is-still-goat-despite-magic-rite-psychic-investigators-fail-to.html

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Hey, feeling. How, yeah. Thank you so much for coming out. Easter Sunday. My name is Dave Hwarnicki. Welcome to another episode of Doogawon. But it's not just one. It's not just two. It is three people on stage tonight. Can you please go crazy for just Perkins and Matt Schu and Yell!

Yeah, we did it. We did it. We're back. How are you? Are we good? Are we good? Sunday, well, half way through a long weekend. What? Three quarters. Three quarters. You're like one of the easier ones. All right, well, I don't get holidays. I work every day. I'm working right now.

I'm mining Bitcoin over here. That's not true. That's not true. I like it. You did that during book treat as well. You said something that was obviously not true and they went that's not true. And everyone's like yeah we're not fucking eating it but I like that you just can't lie. Yeah, oh, I know the crowd song to yell fact check fact check that No, they're yelling fuckhead Sounds like sounds like which in many ways is much worse But great great to have you here nonetheless all the happy Easter everybody happy Easter Thanks for avoiding your families. Yeah.

I think if you were the outfamous. What about Jesus? Oh, yeah. Is that what happened today? Yes. Yeah, welcome back. Start the show. Who's heard the show before?

Oh, that. Oh, that. Thank you. Great. Other end of the scale. Always weak state, don't be shy. Who's never heard the show before? Woo!

All right. There's a guy. He's not one of us. He's heard it once so that he doesn't count. He's heard it. He knows it. Actually, here we go once and never again is worse than never here.

You've had it go. Not to me. Do you remember which one you heard? What do we talk about? Did you pay any attention? Sounds like one of Dave's reports. Did he go for three or four hours? Yeah, it was about a murder. It was about a murder.

All right, that could be any of 15 or 16 episodes. I do love murder. Yeah. Well, sometimes it's a murder, but sometimes it's other stuff. We take it in terms of a report on a topic often suggested by a listener. And it is Matt's turn to report on something. Just, I actually have no idea what he's going to talk about. And we always start with a question.

Matt, hang on. Can you let my computer boot up before? Yeah. While it does, I just want to warn you, Matt, that Dave Lately has been a little bit of a bitch. Yeah, sorry. I haven't been cutting my claws. Sorry.

Oh, yeah. He's been a real bitch lately, so good luck, but he is going to repeat his rest. Yeah, for sure. In fact, he should. In fact, he shirt. In. In. Do the thing.

Do the thing. ROW. Thank you. I've been working on that. I've been working on that. I've been working on that. I've thought about that every day since you did it, and I was like, I'm going to throw him under the bus so hard.

Well, you need to think about me when you're picking something under the wardrobe sister. LAUGHTER It is gut close. Not true. All you have is picking on our clothes. What else can I pick on? Oh, so many things.

Oh, yeah. We are deeply full. All right, I'm working into this new character. Sister? Ooh, why don't you upgrade your laptop? Point Dexter? Tell me what I work, you know? I didn't need that today, Dave.

I love it so much, it's so dark. I don't know a quote, no, that makes any sense either. Surely it would be the point Dixers who had updated. The cool guys are using an old Dell. Yeah, I'm rocking a 2017 model. Vintage. Have you explained this yet? Probably about five minutes ago. We started with a question. We're ready for it. My question is,

What connects a strange but true soccer match with a strange but true story about an undead wife and a strange but true story about a meat shower? What connects them? Yeah, what connects those? Well, I'm looking forward to the meat shower. What connects them? Yeah, what connects those? I'm looking forward to the meat shower. What connects them? Yeah, and he guesses Dave? Is it that they're all strange but true?

It is that they're all strange but true. It was hiding in plain sight. Well done. You cracked the code. I told Jess that answer before we started. I said, here's one for you, don't tell Dave. The answer is they're all strange but true. Did you forget? I was going to let him do a joke one first and then I was going to swoop in and be the hero and get it right. And then the piece of shit nails it.

I've never done that before and I'll never do it again. Yeah, it's not worth it. I'm an idiot. Alright, so I'm going to tell five strange bit, I think true stories that I found on the internet. It's hard to tell, they're on the internet. But I think they're true. Okay. What website are these from? Strangibrettrue.com. A lot of them are actually from the New York Times.

Oh yeah. In an article that was called... Moment half? the New York Times. Oh yeah. In an article that was called... Moment half? The New York Times just got it. I'll give that the reverence it deserves. Some of them were reposted on the New York Times on April 1st. So... But I looked out and I found the original things,

unless they really committed to this bit. I think they are genuinely... All right. But this first one's definitely true. It's about the 1994 Caribbean Cup. So this was suggested by Katie O'Day from Brighton, you in Katie? Dave, what do you think about Katie? Okay. She couldn't find anything to wear. Ben absolutely roasted there. So, Braden Douglas from Brisbane.

Also, not in, I don't think. Makes more sense that one. Yeah, that's for Alan. Alright, well let Douglas from Brisbane. Also, not in, I don't think. Makes more sense that one. Yeah, that's for Alan. All right, well, let's get cramming. I'm not going to kick down there, so. Eyes in. We have started a little bit later. Does anyone have another shoulder run off to?

If we go a little over? No, we go. I love the spokesperson. I checked with everyone. That's good, so yeah, I'll just double check otherwise this will be a short end. Happy for three hours. What are you guys gonna stay for three hours? I saw the food for I just play once. Maybe. Oh, okay.

They did maybe an hour and a half and they come back and they say we're gonna play three more songs and they're like not three more. Four more songs, not four more, five more. The crowd's cheering and cheering. He got up to 17 more songs. So police, no. Police! How do you hear that, Macy? Oh my God! Oh, play ever long, fuck off. They play for three hours.

Oh, anyway, we won't be doing that. What was Dave Roll wearing? What was he wearing? He doesn't have the legs for anything. One more me tell you that. I'm more committed to this bit than Dave is. I'll let it go. I think it's lost the passion for it. Maybe your seniors' whites.

In fact, I think he's really pushed out. I'm like, something will come. Something will come. The benefit of speaking as low as I do normally something comes, but not always. Alright, let's talk about the Caribbean Cup. I don't think I'd say that, but here we go. Yes, that's right. We're going to talk about the Caribbean Cup. This one's from 1994. Normally, the aim of the game is soccer. I don't know, I'm probably explaining this a bit to you too. Some sports lovers out there will already know this. The aim of the game is to get the ball...

I've seen Bendant like Beckham. Oh, you got it, all right, this for you then, Dave. The aim of the game of soccer is to get the ball into the net, pass the opposition's goalkeeper. Okay? Normally. Is this necessary? Well, that's normally the case. But in this strange, but true tale, that is not how things went down.

Let me take you back to the infamous match between Grenada and Barbados in the 1990. In the 1990, 94 Caribbean carp. Heading into this. Did you say cheer other than cheer? I good cheer. That makes a little more sense. Cheer was funny. But yeah, good cheer. Heading into the final group match, there was only one spot in the next round up for grabs between these two countries. If Grenada won by any margin, they were through. Due to gold difference though, Barbados, Barbados, fuck that up.

Needed to win by at least two goals to progress. So basically Grenada could have won by any margin or lost by one and they still get through, right? Due to some quirks in the tournaments rules, no draws were allowed, even normally in the earlier stages I'll have draws. But in this competition, no draws were allowed. Everything went into extra time and then penalty goals. On top of that, on top of that, organizers for some reason made the rule that goals in extra time would be worth two goals.

And the first team to get one wins just sounds like, yeah, it makes no sense, but. That's just making it up as a... Are you following basically the idea though? Oh, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Yeah. Oh, 100% hand-o, P. mate, yes. Oh, okay, so... You Pee, mate, yes. Oh, OK, so. Anybody rip her?

LAUGHTER Oh, OK, so... So, Barbara Scott, to an early, to Nell Lee. All right, so if they blew the sign, then they were through. But, unfortunately for them, Grenada struck back, bringing the score to 2-1 with only seven minutes remaining. This meant that if Barbados wasn't able to score in the final minutes, they would be bundled out.

But this is where it gets strange, but true. I mean, it's all been true so far. Oh, okay. Because of the quirk of the rules, Barbados, Barbados, I don't want to have to commit to that. It was tough to Oh, okay. Because of the quirk of the rules, Barbados, I don't want to have to commit to that because I have to say whatever. So I'll just fucking do it. Yes, I will dance I'm a monkey. Because of the quirk of the rules, Barbados realize that their way through to the next round might have to come via scoring for the opposition. What?

What? The Bleacher Report takes it from here. One Barbadian striker realized that his team were unlikely to score another goal against Grenada. They'd parked the bus, and with only a few minutes to go, and Grenada playing an ultra-defensive tactic. So instead, he decided that their best chance of winning was to make the game go into

extra time and score a gold and gold, which would count as two gold. So he promptly powered the ball past his own stunned goldkeeper to make it too old. So what was on his suit, too? And the goldkeeper said, what the fuck are you? You think I don't even know? Now Grenada needed to score a goal at either end to avoid extra time so that they could go through to the final. So the Grenada players, I've seen the footage of it, it's warped, so they were initially stunned by the goal and then suddenly realized what was going on. They turned around and headed for their own goal. Now the comedy really starts as the Barbadeans had anticipated this move and rushed to defend the Grenada goal in it as well as their own. So they sort of split and defending both ends of the until the whistle went for extra time. And in the end, Barbadian

ingenuity was rewarded as one of their strikers scored the winning goal four minutes in extra time, which sent Barbados into the finals. So that plan worked. As was to be expected, the Grenadians were not amused. Grenada manager James Clarkson was furious, saying, I feel cheated. The person who came up with these rules must be a candidate for the madhouse. He's going to block him up.

I think it was being genuine, too. The game should never be played with so many players on the field confused. He didn't like it. The game should never be played with so many players on the field, confused. He didn't like it. The players shouldn't be confused. Sucker. Our players did not even know which direction to attack. Our goal or their goal. I've never seen this happen before. In football, you were supposed to score against your opponents in order to win. Not for them. He was badful. Not for them, he was better. And this was the first strange but true story. Oh!

Brilliant. Oh, no. Do you love that? I love that. I love that. You, is that going to help you make in front of me? All right, well let's get into the... That's Dave's job, he's the bitch. Go on, get him. Football, I'm all prefer... Polo.

football I'm all prefer polar. You know, Dave has a drama degree. You can tell. You can tell Dave for the people at home you can't just do the hand you got to say the round. Like that was a bit of Jack Nicholson. Okay. Anyway. Alright the next one comes from and this is going to really impress that person over

there, the New York Times. Oh! It's a story from March 15th, 1904, and the headline is long, and it really tells the whole story, and I thought about not saying it but fuck it. Wife, it's so long. Alright. Wife returned after having fine funeral, then Valente learned he had buried the wrong woman. It's not done. Ask City to pay the bill.

Strange sure, but also true. All right, declaring that the city falsely notified him, so this is direct from the 1904 edition of The New York Times. So some of the language you're going to be like, geez, man, this is right in a bit old school. It's not me. But you were alive then. I mean, I was alive. I used to

are like this but I've evolved. Maybe you can like decipher it for us. Yeah if there's anything that doesn't make sense to you then let me know. Great. Declaring that the city falsely notified him that his wife was dead and settled him with the expense of a funeral for a strange woman Ignacio Valente who lives it. It's so funny that in the old times they'd give the full address in the article. Who lives it? 3-1-1, East 16th Street. Why is that relevant? Well, New York was a small town back then, I guess. Has filed a bill for $250 against the

city. The auditing Bureau of the finance department now has it in charge. Felente is an Italian. They don't do this anymore, do they? But interesting. Is that the whole sentence? Not is a comma, OK? Felente is an Italian, which made me instantly relate to a Mazza Swiss Italian man, 116.

At about six weeks ago, he quarreled with his wife Angelico over the way she cooked macaroni. Playing in the serieta much, buddy. I can say that. As a result of the quarrel, the wife left Valente's home, declaring she would rather die than return. Oh, no. When Valente's rage had cooled about the macaroni, he became worried over his wife and started to search for it. No, he just got hungry.

But he refused to eat the macaroni. Yeah. In that state, I wanted Eldente... It's my culture, I know. I know a bit of the linger. So he eventually got worried over her and he reported her missing to the police. He gave a careful description of the woman and finally on being notified that the body of the woman answering the description was at the morgue, he went there, accompanied by

his two-year-old daughter, which makes it so little grimmer. He identified, well, I mean we know she's not dead, so I guess it doesn't really. He identified the clothing of the dead woman as belonging to his wife, but when shewn the body, said he declared it had been changed. Quote. The body of the clothing. I wouldn't be seen dead in those clothes. Ah! Sorry, sorry. You did what you had to do. Yeah, thank you.

He recalled that the morgue keeper declared to him after he said, oh, she looks different. The morgue keeper apparently said, they all change after death. They all shrink about a footnote. Hair collar can change. And then Valente said, They all change after death. They all shrink about a footnote. Hair collar can change. And then Valente said,

this woman was better looking than my wife. Is that the kind of change they go through? One of the more guys like, yeah, why do you think I got a job here? They're all hot! They're all hot! It's Bay City in here. Oh, my God. But apparently so he said,

the woman's, she's better looking now, and apparently the morgue guy replied, death beautifies them all. Oh, guys are fucking creeps. All right, I was kidding, but he really is creepy. Yeah. Berve. You're right. Certified, BIRF.

LAUGHTER Smothering his doubts, Volante says he had the body brought to his home and then in response to an old request made by his wife got out the wedding dress used by Mrs Volante and had the strange woman attired in it. The funeral was held and Valente footed the bills he declared. Notice of the event was published in the Italian papers and the real Mrs. Valente read it and then headed for home.

Valente on arriving home discovered the real Mrs. Valente rummaging about for a wedding dress. What has become of it she demanded? Why, I'd bearish you in it three days ago. LAUGHTER He's so casual. Hey, Han. Don't you remember?

You are so forgetful. First, you forget how to make macaroni the way I like it. And then you forget that you did. LAUGHTER She convinced him that she was really his wife. Oh my god. And then he went after the city asking them to pay him $100 which he spent for the funeral of the wrong woman.

$40 of wages lost through grief. And the illness that followed the shock of finding his wife alive. Not when he found out she was dead. The illness really hit when she came back. And $110 for the Bridal Costume, which he had placed on the corpse. He asserts that he never would have accepted the body of the other woman, whose identity is still unknown, unless the more keeper was forcing him to believe that it was the body of his wife

through that more keeper's full on horniness. This was another strange but true story. It's good when you shush an audience. Shut up, shut the fuck up, shut the fuck up. I have a really good joke, shut the fuck up. Especially when you're not sure if it will be worth it. Alright, that's two down three to go, buddy. This one's from the Associated Press, a little more modern, June 18th, 1932. And the headline is, goat is still goat, despite magic. I am in.

I mean, those headlines, they sound ridiculous, but also, if I read that now, I'd be like, I have to click on it. Yeah. I have to click on it. So this is how the article reads, a group of eminent German and British investigators into psychic phenomena ascended tonight to the top of the broken Germany's magic mountain. I looked into this, I looked up the mountain,

I've never heard of a broken German man, and he can't say my heritage has ever brought me across the book. So I looked it up, I'm like, how magic is it, and on its Wikipedia page. Yeah, all right, how magic we're talking. Apparently it's like it's well known in dark magic circles, so much so that it's been referenced in lyrics by heavy metal bands such as Coven Coven. Coven. Coven 19, a big fan. Fates warning in Cradle of Filth, and there's even a German black metal band named Brock and Moon, so it's actually a pretty badass man.

Back to the group of Ammonent, German and British investigators on top of the mountain. Back to the group of Ammonent German and British investigators on top of the mountain. In accordance with ancient rite, the investigators attempted to change a billy goat into a young man. I loved 1930s silence. The investigators... That applies it like if it turned into like into a grown man that'd be disappointed. Pretty important to be a young man. The investigators observed every requirement set forth in the high German black book. As demanded by the formula, the experimenters had the assistance of Miss Gloria Gordon of England,

a maiden of pure heart. They anointed the Billy Goat with blood and honey, and the scrapings of church bells. Blood honey and a scraping of church bells. Okay. They used the proper pine fire. They described a circle of the prescribed sides, and they added every one of the Latin incantations

stipulated for such goings on Which is have frequented the broken ever since man can remember The smallest boy here about can tell you that Says that in the article we line, isn't it? That journalist has asked a lot of little boys Little boy You there, little boy. Dave, you might make sense of this one. Even Goath, G-O-E-T-A-G, doesn't matter.

Even Goath in his fast. Oh, Goerter. Is that right? Even Goerter in his fast, forced, fast. It's like that famous German authority. The fast, yeah. Recognise that this was a place where no ordinary things happened. fast, forced, fast. It's like that famous German authority. The first, yeah. Yeah.

Recognized that this was a place where no ordinary things happened. He wrote, the witches on the broken sail, the shooters green, the stubbles pale, and high above them, Throne's Old Nick. It's gibberish. Doesn't matter. Could have added to that bit out.

But I really, I want it Dave to show how smart he was, which he barely did. Oh, looks like the bitch has been bitch. As prescribed by the old right, the goat was led into the magic circle by a silver cord. They did everything by the letter here. After it had been anointed, a white sheet was thrown over it. All the proper abricadabra was intoned. Then, in a weird monotone, Harry Price, director of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research in London, boomed one, two, all the way to ten.

That sounds like Dave Grohl. Doesn't it? Please. Please. And in your mind, are you picturing a crowd here? Yeah, people in a circle, maybe all around it. There's more than a hundred spectators. Oh, shit. They've come up the man to watch this, huddled in overcoats to protect them from swirling mists.

There will be, well, anything to do. Nothing to do in the 30s. You just go see a train pass by or see a goat, stay a goat. Well, I did spoil it earlier, but they put the white sheet over the goat and he counts to ten. And then the maiden who was pure and heart whisked off the white sheet and there stood the billy goat. Somehow it hadn't turned into a boy. What? I don't know if that was there a boy shortage wire.

We need my boy. There's another way to make boys. No goats required. Similar to a classic Phil Collins album. No goats required, is that it? Jack, it's a fact. That was so close to being good. Just imagine how good it would have been.

Can you imagine if he'd written a different album title? And any of you would have heard of it. The article ends with the line, the spectators applauded Hardly and the investigators said they were satisfied. This was yet another strange but true story. They probably get less good as we go along. Adam all the story so far, that's the least believable. The goat did not become a bully. We all know that goat became a bully, okay. What are you trying to hide, Janus?

You're hushing it up. This one might be the wildest one yet. Actually, did I say five this six? All right. I am feeling a little Dave Grolish. All right, the next one is pretty short though. John R. Erickson is a children's author. Shut up! Ah.

Not you. Oh. John R. Erickson is a children's author who's Hank the Cowdog series has sold more than 8.5 million copies. Hank the Cow Dog series has sold more than 8.5 million copies. Hank the Cow Dog? They put a white sheet over it. Start it as a boy. So this children's author wrote an article that really grabbed my attention.

It was called Strange Betrue Pet Tales. And I'm like, well, this sounds like it'll be right up the alley of this report today. How strange, though. You judge for yourselves. John R. Erickson writes, in the late 1990s, our family had an assortment of poor animals, which is, to be honest, the weirdest part of this whole. So, because of you, that phrase, porch animals. What's the porch you know it is? Dogs and cats that just live on the porch.

They're outside animals. Right, yes, outside animals. I love the differences in language. That's how Americans talk over there. And they'll be listening along right now going, that's correct, I will not sweeten that. In the late 1990s, our family had an assortment of poor animals, two or three dogs.

I mean, can you not count that many? I didn't count that, I know. Two or three. Can't be specific. And several cats, even vaguer about that We had always been dog people and had not been as close to our cats But mark our son developed a friendship with Lee a black and white Tom and Lee won the rare privilege of spending time inside the house. Oh my god I forgot that wasn't his kid, that's the cat. Okay.

I did get a little confused everything. He also got porch children. Two or three of them. Two or three porch kids. One day my wife, Chris, who was a porch wife. I think she was in his door. The load of this big house.

It's 30 people on the porch. He went a little bit. I'm guessing this guy's like their version of Paul Jennings or something. It's so fun. What a... Doesn't, I don't know why. Just in case anyone hears like, what's a children's author?

Put it in terms I understand. I said to anyone, he was like, what's a children's author? Put it in terms I understand. I've said multiple things that I will edit out, just like I'm mainly because I'm like, what am I doing? I'm gonna go back and edit the mull-in. Oh. And then I'm gonna edit in silence after them. You won't have to edit that in.

Oh, farm stretches of, and then crickets. Nah, it's too much work, fuck that. One day, my wife, Chris, developed a severe headache, which was unusual for her. A little brag there. Yeah, lucky Chris. She laid down on the couch, and was surprised when Lee, who you might remember, is the porch cat

who was lucky to be inside. She was surprised when Lee jumped up and sat on her chest. When he heard Dave, how does that sound? Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Okay, well that really changes this next bit. If it was a horny cat that fully changes this next part of this sentence. When he perred stared at her and moved his front paws up and down. Cats are perred. Perred? So the cat's on the chest.

Cats on the chest. Fiddler around with the nips. Is that what cat nips are? Filler around with the nips. That is what cat nips are. I'm learning so much about pets tonight. This was meant to be one of the short ones. The cat then crept forward and began pressing his paws against her head, almost as though he were giving her a massage.

After a while, the headache went away. And this was yet another strange but true story. The way this way. The headline for this was strange but true pet tails. He led with that. I didn't read the second one. My wife had a headache. No. Ha ha ha.

All right. And that was written by a man who's come up with some sort of cow dog creature. Yeah. Genius. All right. Wow. Here's an even quicker one. Let's see if I actually do it quickly.

I love this one. This was suggested by listening Grace Brooks. Grace in. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I love this one. This was suggested by listener Grace Brooks. Grace in.

He starts on pretending to be great. What? What? Grace in it, man. What? I think you do it on sound. So Grace Brooks suggested this. It's about Susanna Salta who became the first woman mayor

of the United States. So first woman, Maya. Maya. We get a lot of tweets further. The first woman, she went in as a woman, she went over her. Alright, so Susanna Salta was elected Mayor Mayer of Argonia on April 4, 1887, and it was a surprise even to herself. Her name was placed on a slate of candidates as a prank by a group of men against women in politics, hoping to secure a lost or would humiliate women and discourage them from running. Okay. Men are cool.

As candidates didn't need to be made public before election day, Sulta did not know she'd been on the ballot before the polls opened. On the day she was like, well, on election day, the women's Christian Temperance Union voted for Sulta on mass, and also did powerful Republicans also agree to vote for her, which led to Sulta securing the victory by a 2 thirds majority. So these guys were like, well, fuck women up here. Oh no.

That backfired in a big way. But it also goes down in history as yet another strange but true story. MUSIC APPLAUSE What's on Slaps, it's so good. What a cruel little... I know. Morphal with it.

Did you see how quickly I went? I didn't control that. It just happened. Do you believe in love at love? It's my very good share. That is a very good share of personations. Oh, shit. Yeah, I'd prefer if you didn't share that. Sorry, I mean I couldn't help myself. I thought it was very good too, but something within me just had to say something.

Hey Dave, when is this meant to go to? You got time for a moment. What's three hours from eight fully? Right, oh I got time for another one. Well the last one's a bit longer anyway, okay? And this is the one day of you were most excited about and this is probably what this might be the titular I forgot about it. Did you forget about it? The desp... I have, yes, but also you just pulled the weirdest face I've ever seen you at full Stephen I

No shame I am really excited about this. All right. Yeah, hit us So this episode is probably gonna be called the strange case of the Kentucky meat shower another strange but true stories Okay, this was just by Hannah White and Cambera and Eric Parody from Ottawa and Emily Noddle from Melbourne Emily's here It happened twice in primates today Oh wait Hannah is here as well. From Canberra. Oh.

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Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. So of the people who suggested it, the people here in a two thirds majority.

I mean, I hate to make excuses, Mitch. I'm real tired. Come back next week. I will be back on. I'm killed every other time I've done this. This is a weird, every other time. Every other time. Every other time. Yeah.

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And this story goes way back to the 3rd of March, 1876, when large hunks of flesh fell from the sky over Olympia Springs in Bath County, Kentucky. Still keen. Hell yeah. If you don't like it, I know two people you can blame. According to a New York Times article published the following week, so way back in 1876, the phenomenon occurred right nearby the house of one Alan Crouch, whose wife was outside making soap when it happened. Bit ironic, I guess. In a tankled butt, well, she's getting rained on by meat.

She's making something to clean. But the thing to clean, that's also made from fat. I don't know if it's ironic, let's be honest. I keep finding connections that aren't I'm using. Yeah, keep saying I'm out loud. I can't stop. But I will now. I'll just read and I'll see if you guys can pick up the slack for fucking once. Yeah, well, you should change your slacks. Honestly, I should've...

Yeah, there's a fucking hole in it. There's a hole right up, right up. Right up, the clack. You can ask for a refund and I wouldn't mind. Look at that. What? I'm so sorry. Look at that. This guy I'm so sorry. Look at that. I'm so sorry.

This guy says he's Bayex. Hold him to it. You pay on the way out, sir. So she's outside. Oh, he, Alan Cratch could be, whatever. Alan Cratch is outside making soap. No, yes. He's wife. All right, whatever. Alan Crouch is outside making soap. No, yes. He's wha-fuck, all right.

Mrs. Crouch. Mrs. Crouch. The article wrote at the time, The Meat, which looked like beef, fell around her. The sky was perfectly clear at the time, and she said it fell like large snowflakes. Is this it? I wasn't sure if people would be like,

oh, what a bloody dream. But no, you're more going, this is a bit yuck. No, I'm thinking what a dream. What if it fell perfectly on a barbecue? That'd be cool, yeah. That'd be great. At the Crouch Residence, Mr. Harrison Gill, whose veracity was described by the New York Times as unquestionable.

That's pretty voracious. Yeah. He visited the day after the alleged flesh falls. Beautifully put. Beautifully put. Flesh falls. That one, that's a bit crew, so don't thank me for that. It's beautiful.

Wordliness. You're so close. So close. Yeah, you can do this. I'm edging to the... Okay. To the edging at the end of the report. So who's this unquestionable man?

Mr. Harrison Guild, and he unquestionable. He visited the house after the alleged flesh falls and noted the presence of meat sticking out of the fences and scattered across the ground. At least one of the hunks measured 10 centimeters squared. That's a big chunk of beef. But most are about five by five centimeters. They were apparently fresh when they fell,

but having been left out all night, they were now spoiled and dry. Two unidentified gentlemen turned up to taste the meat rain. We'd prefer if you don't name us in this article. But we're having a delicious time. They declared that it had the flavor of either venison or mutton, which is like old deer or old lamb, right?

Old lamb being shaped probably. If only there was a word for this. English language is beautiful. I think there's one that's so beautiful. I don't like this. I just love languages. Thank you so much. I genuinely needed that. Someone in the audience said I'm doing great, which is a massive live, it'll take it.

The first explanation came three months later when someone called Leopold Brandys, received and analysed some of the specimens that had been preserved in glycerine. He announced that the meat was not actually meat at all. Quote, at last we have a proper explanation of this much talked about phenomenon. It was reported in the scientific American that year quote goes on. It has been comparatively easy to identify the substance and to fix its status. The Kentucky wonder is no more or less than Nostoc. It is a type of cyanobacteria that forms colonies surrounded by a protective gelatinous envelope. Nostoc is known to swell up into a translucent jelly like mass whenever it rains.

Because it's so inconspicuous when dry, for many years, people believe Nostoc to float on the breeze until it rained, which caused it to fall from the sky like hail. Colourful nicknames such as Star Jelly, Witches Butter, and Star Slumber. LAUGHTER OK, those are our unique names. Charlie, Witches Butter and Star Slumber. Okay, those are our unique names. I shall go and Star Slumber. I'm changing the group chat immediately. I'll be Star Jelly, thank you.

Uh, problem is... What's that leave Dave? Witches Jizz or something? Yes, yes, which is Jesus. Yeah, that'll be my nickname now. So he was so sure of it, this man, that I named. Leopold? Leopold Brandys.

He was so sure of it, he said the rain made it wet, not turning it into that. Oh, interesting, Leopold, because they said it was a clear sky. Oh! There was no rain, it was a perfectly clear night. Leopold, you dumb fuck! Do a bit of research. Fuck I hate Leopold. He said, I really was a plant from Big Mutt.

Coming down, pretending that it's no stock. Who's heard of that? No one. Sounds made up, doesn't it? Yep. Brandy Sleepold, the dog, had given a couple of mystery meat samples to a president of the Newark Scientific Association, Dr. A. Mead Edwards, who said it was likely

that the meat was actually lunged issue of a human infant or a horse. I don't know if I trust this guy. Lung's, do you reckon the infant lungs and a horse lung? Oh, I couldn't tell a difference from them. Oh, I'm a doctor, though, so. Another histologist, Dr. J. W. S. Arnold, studied the specimens and agreed, concluding in the American Journal of Micropsy and Popular Science that they

consisted of some kind of animal cartilage and lung tissue. Confusing. Eventually seven samples were examined by several scientists who confirmed two to be lung tissue, three to be muscular tissue, and two were said to be made of cartilage. So how did they come to be involved in the infamous Kentucky shower of flesh? Oh! I hate that! Dr. Castell Kastinbahn, who wrote in an 1876 edition

of the Louisville Medical News, positive that the substance was actually about of projectile vulture vomit. Oh! Still loving it, Dave. Yeah. Yeah. that the substance was actually about of projectile vulture vomit. Still loving it Dave. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck yeah. Having obtained a sample of his own,

customed by and set fire to it, and observed that it smelled distinctly of rancid mutton. That was his scientific test. I'll just set fire to it. Yeah, I've looked at it. That's what it is. I'm a scientist.

It's ridiculous. So fire, heaps of shit. Eh? Nope. Where'd you park, by the way? Me of that smoking building. I'm gonna burn your house down. So this is from Matt? Oh.

Look at me when I tell you. Yes. I'm gonna burn your house to the ground. Can you let me get my insurance in order? Oh, well that's just mean then. Dave, your house is fine. Thank you. Matt's gonna need somewhere to stay. You can live on, you can live in my porch. It's really big. Big. It's real big.

So this is a quote from Castanbarn. The only plausible theory explanatory of this anomalous shower up here we go. Here we go. He's fucking science come. Leave it. Leave it. I thought Jess was leaving. She's not just needed drink.

I mean, f**k and hell, I can't hardly pronounce a word in this quote. But everything I said so far, the shower appears to me to be suggested by the old Ohio farmer, the disengagement of some vultures that were sailing over the spot. From their immense height, the particles were scattered by the prevailing wind over the ground he wrote. The variety of tissue discovered, muscular, connective, fatty, structuralist, etc., can be explained only by this theory. Two species of vulture of fanden can tuck you, the black vulture and the turkey vulture, and both of which are known to projectile vomit their stomach

contents as either a defense mechanism or to make themselves light enough for flight. What a nightmare! So this is a possibility, but what the mystery meat actually was is still unknown to this day. It is actually a mystery topic. But Neatorama gives a little bit of a fun, bit of closure, hopefully, here. Great website, neatorama.com. I assume.

So there's a little addendum from Neatorama. There were many theories on how it happened, but none were proven at the time. So the incident was relegated to the strange and bizarre news category. Then Kurt Goad moved to Kentucky to teach art at Transylvania University, which you might remember from the Transy book heist. So he's working on that same university as an art skier, much prefer to those science cunts. So he heard of this story. He did a deep dive into all the documentation from that period, which was little, but enough to make him a little more curious. Fascinated with the

meat show, to begin with, a serendipitous fine in 2004 stokedisada even further. He was clearing out storage closets at Transylvania University when he stumbled upon an old glass jar sealed with a cork stopper. It contained a chunk of white fatty-looking meat suspended in a pale yellow liquid. Oh God! The label was... The label was... Sciences evolved. They used to set fire to it. Now they just drink it. I'll figure this one out. The label was faded, but the words Olympia Springs could still be made out and he was thrilled.

He's like, I know what this is. This is that. Lunch. Sky meat. Slash lunch. I have my lunch on the bloody bench today. Would you believe? What am I like? Determine to try and pinpoint what mystery animal rain down over Olympia Springs. Goad worked with a colleague in the biology department to have the sample genetically tested. Unfortunately, the sample was too old and contaminated to give any conclusive results. Then Goad got creative.

Much of his art work involves community engagement. So he had a taste lab based in Cincinnati, I analyzed flavor compounds of the meat sample, and reconstructed the taste into a jelly bean. Then he went around and he goes, you want to taste what that sky meat was? Have a jelly and people loved it. Would you do it?

Would you try that? No. He was not the thing he didn't tell him. He wasn't going to have some Vulture vomit jelly beans. He was saying, have some mystery meat joe. I mean, either way. Oh, no. Oh. Hey.

You got this. He's going one sentence left. I can tell because your text is size 42. I should say before I say the line, I can tell because your text is size 42. LAUGHTER I should say before I say the line, I ran out of Strange Betrude music. OK. But I found something else. OK. And this was the final Strange Betrude story.

And I'll see that channel over there. Get your hands off my wheels. This is a way we've got me on the cleanest people off. That is my report on strength, but true stories. That's doing it everybody. Have you read it? I think we're out of post, that's true, doing the report tonight. Just back at as rules. I'd be, thank you too, the European beer cafe everyone here.

I appreciate you being here. Esteban on the camera. Esteban on the camera. Emma helping out with all the stuff backstage. We've got 30 on set, and we appreciate that. And for you lovely people coming out on this Easter Sunday, thank you so much. And until, thank you. Thank you so much. And it's all thank you. Thank you so much.

I get normally that's what the co-host would do. They go and also big round of what but not us. That's an audience. Thank you Dave. I've got a co-audience in tonight. Appreciate that. But yeah, thank you so much. We'll see you next time. Good bye. Bye. Bye. Bye bye! Later! Bye! Bye! Hi! Hi! Thank you, David.

Have a great day. Woo! Woo! Woo! Well, well, well. What a triumph that was. We did it. Can you believe it?

The podcast is back. It's live again. I can't believe it myself. So exciting. But we don't have to bang on about that anymore. We've got now everyone's favorite segment of the show, the Fat Quot or Question section. I'm not sure if Bob did this last week, but you know, it'll be very difficult to do with that, may obviously.

On the master of this, make it look easier than it probably is. It's actually quite a difficult segment to run, but I'm not sure if Bob did this last week, but you know, it'll be very difficult to do with that,, obviously. On the master of this make it look easier than it probably is. It's actually quite a difficult segment to run, but I bloody make it happen each week. I'm padding, even though I could just pause the recording while I search for these, but no, instead what I'm doing is talking and letting it run, and I apologize for that. But all right, here we go.

We're gonna have four fact quotes or questions this week. Oh, the segment has a little jingle, which I guess, seeing as I'm here by myself, I'll have to do myself and it goes like this, fact, quote or question, ding. He always remembers the ding. All right, so the way this works is you get involved at either dogonpod.com or Patreon.com slash dogonpod.

And you sign up on the Sydney Shindburg level. There's a bunch of different levels. If you want, you can get on board for bonus episodes at a different level. The Sydney Shindburg level is one of the higher levels. You get nearly everything on there. You get the bonus episode, you get voting rights, you get access the Facebook group, you get the Christmas card at the end of the year, you get all those things and more. But the big one is you get to offer us a fact

a quote or a question. Now, this, the way this works is you get involved there, you'll get a message once you sign up with instructions to do it. If you're on that level and you're like, how do I get my fat quota question in? Send me a message on Patreon, Patreon. That sounds delicious. And I will help you out, but hopefully everyone on there is aware of what's going on. So the first one to come in this week comes from Jordan, Meet Tray Nassie.

He's a slid in a nickname even there. You also get to give yourself a title and Jordan's given himself the title of Silly Boy who makes up his own nicknames. I know another Silly Boy makes up his own nicknames. Anyway, so I might have, oh here we go. Jordan has offered us a quote. His quote is, don't quote me on this.

Dave Warnocky, suck it, I quoted you. I wonder when he said that, that's fun. You got got there Dave, sucked in, dickhead. It's a bit main when he's not here to defend himself but hopefully you can take that. Thank you very much Jordan. Now see with that hot takedown of David Warnocky, he had it coming. He really did have it too good for too long. Even though Jess and Dave absolutely nursed me through the episode you just heard, which for whatever reason I battled. I added it out quite a few times where I just said words wrong. I made some bad puns and I added them out as they bombed and no one

needed to hear that. You have to be there in the room to hear such quality. So the next one comes from Jacob Lane and Jacob Lane has given himself the title, Lisa S. No, that's too obvious. Let's say L Simpson. If you don't know Jacob, he's our resident Simpson's expert, and that's a write off the bat, a hot quote from the Simpson's. Jacob's asking a question. Let's hope it's addressed specifically to me.

Hey guys, oh, it's a a least two or three of us. Hey guys, I was just wondering what your favorite place you've holidayed to around the world is. I'm currently planning a trip to Japan and I'm considering extending that to some other parts of the world. So any recommendations will be greatly appreciated. Also, if I have to answer my own question, which I always appreciate, if you ask a question, the fact quote-a-question, I really do appreciate it if you answer your own question.

Which Jacob has done here? He says, I guess my favorite place I've holidayed is to the Doha International Airport. There was a train in there. That's pretty good. That is good stuff. Yeah, ideally one of the others would be here. They're probably more jet-setting holiday as the me. I've had a few great trips so in my time. I mean, the do-go on trips have been fantastic when we went to Ireland and the UK and we also went of course to Thailand at time which is pretty great but of holidaying places internationally.

Most of my experience at holidaying is around Caravan Parks in Country Victoria. That's when my family used to go out holidays when I was a kid which I fucking loved but internationally Let's say Really had a great time in Germany I'm getting around there Octobus Fest was a lot of fun and Yeah I haven't been to Japan, but someone I would really love to go to Japan

I had to my the first time I went overseas, I spent four days in Shanghai and that was amazing. It was just so exciting to get out and about. I just like the humidity and the atmosphere and everything felt so different. It was pretty electric feeling, I remember. So that would be a highlight. And not too far from Japan, if you wanted to head in to China as well. Yeah.

So I had New Zealand, I had an amazing couple of trips to New Zealand. Once I went, spent a couple weeks in the North Island and it was kind of built around a trip to see the Saints play the first AFL game for the Premiership Points we played over there, which was pretty cool. And then I went back and traveled around the South Island,

which was amazing as well. Love both. New Zealand is a sick place to go. Maybe you could go there on the way back, or the way there. I mean, Jacob, you're coming from Australia. I don't know when this holiday is planned for, but we're not really allowed to leave, particularly, but it sounds like maybe New Zealand's an option, so maybe that's one to think about. All right, Jacob, hopefully that was enough waffle for you.

Appreciate the question very much. And your support. Next one comes from Roy Phillips, who's given himself the title of Tongue Twister Trick Tester, which is nice. And Roy has a fact. Here we go. I re-listened to the Lego episode and in it you mentioned that Lego are the largest makers of tyres in the world. I mean, I wrote that report and I don't remember that fact, that's a great fact. Makes sense, there's all those many tyres. Then I remembered something in the same vein. And it's that Disney is the second largest purveyor of explosives in the world behind only the US military.

That's a fun and or grim fact. I reckon that's right, and that's sweet spot in the middle of the Venn diagram of fun and grim. Well done Roy, you did it. I knew it could be done. Even though some said it couldn't be done, but I knew it could be done, and you buddy did it.

Well done Roy, Philips. Great fact. Grim and fun equals great. Well done. And finally, uh, mine, Galaga, let me see if I can find a her pronounce this name quickly. M-A-E-N pronunciation. There's a pronunciation there with two star ratings. So I don't know if I'm gonna trust that. See what this says. Apologies.

I met people listening. Hopefully you have the patience for this. Let's see. Min. Min. Okay. Well, that's not what I would have guessed so that's handy I looked it up. Min Gallagher who's got the title of Old School Video Game Historian of the Pod. I'm so glad you're here. Min because they're kind of the only games I've ever played.

It's saying I've only played video games really as kid. And they are very much old school now. The question is, what does John Curtin mean to you? Okay. Well, I get to the John Curtin hotel semi-regulier. It's a pub in Carlton, and John Curtin was a Labor Prime Minister in the good old days, or at least the old days, I think quite a while back, like first half of the 20th century. But that's a guess. Couldn't tell you much more about them. I think John Curtin's well-loved in maybe in the Labor Party, but I don't know, maybe not. And that bit, anyway, that's a great pub.

I've seen some great gigs there. Performed there as well, at least, a runner company night. But that's what I know. Anyway, Min Galiga answers the question as well, which I love. I've recently stated, oh my god, I need to have this in large a font. Oh, no, it says stated have this in large a font. I don't know, it says stator, but I think it means started. All right, let me go again.

I've recently started playing Civ VI on Switch, and the iconic leader given to Australia is John Curtin. And I had never heard of him before. I'm in the UK. Well, that's a pretty good excuse, I think. I mean, and I've never heard of him before, is John Curtin your most iconic leader? What did he do worth celebrating?

I know you like people who ask a question to answer it themselves, but JC means nothing to me. The Civ6 England leader is Queen Victoria Victoria and I know a bit about her. Okay, well yeah, I wonder if, I mean, I thought you were going to give more info there, so I should look up John Curtin briefly. Iconic leader, maybe it was a wartime leader. 14th Prime Minister of Australia, from 1941 to his death in 1945. So he was there for the big chunk of World War II. He was the leader of the Australian Labor Party. I got that right from 35 to 45 and it's longest serving leader until Goth Whitlam. Curtain's leadership

skills and personal character were acclaimed by his political contemporaries. He's frequently cited as one of Australia's greatest prime ministers. Oh, there you go. Maybe we should do a report on him sometime down the line. But yeah, I wouldn't have expected it to be men'sies or something. Men'sies was a prime minister of Australia for like, fucking, like 20 years or something that I might be over, stating that, but I don't know if that makes him iconic just because he did it a long time. Golf Whitlam's definitely one that I think

is pretty iconic as well. But yeah, John Curtin sounds worthy as well. Let me see if I can find out how long Menzies was leader for. He was on the other side, the Liberal Party, which is the Conservative Party in Australia, and he was a Prime Minister from 49 to 66. 66 actually found fact, the Saints won their one and only premiership, but he was booted out before then, so it didn't hold the office at the time. So it was in office firstly from 39 to 41, so about a bit over two years, and then again from 49 to 66,

which is end of 49 to start of 66. So let's say that is just over 16 years, so 18 or so years, so that's pretty wild. I don't know, yeah. Why, you've got the wrong guy, and he just, who's related to a prime minister, she'd have better answers. But yeah, hopefully that was something to you. I mean, if not, feel free to give it a bloody Google.

But hopefully that gave you some idea. All right, so that's the end of the facts, the quotes and the questions. Thank you so much, Min Gallagher as well as Roy, Philips, Jacob Lane and Jordan, me, Traynassi. Now it's time to thank a few of our other great supporters. And we normally play a little game. Jess normally comes up with that game for

the names since obviously she's not here today but I thought I'd take it in my own hands and I found a page of facts. I googled Strange Betrue facts and I got this page from thefactsight.com. 100 Strange Betrue facts that will shock you. So I'm going to give everyone a read out. I'm going to give you a fact. Hopefully that's just a bit of fun. The first person I'd love to think comes from Leopold in Victoria, Australia. It is Amy Tickner. Now Amy Tickner's strange but true fact is Donkey Kong got his name because his creator believed Donkey meant stupid in English and wanted to convey the impression that the character was a stupid ape. That is shocking. I mean, I knew it already because I think

I've talked about that on an episode of Primates, but still, probably shocking for you who heard it for the first time right now. And I apologize for you being so shocked, but I guess you were warned. Thanks so much, Amy Tickner, for your all your support and hope that fun and shocking fact. Knocked off your chair, but not in a way that hurt you permanently. The next one comes from Slacks Creek in Queensland from Madison Adkins. Madison Adkins, thank you so much. Here is your shocking fact. More than one-fifth of all the calories consumed by humans worldwide is provided by rice

alone. Wow. world wide is provided by rice alone. Wow, rice providing 20% of all calories consumed by humans. Humans, I hope you really enjoyed that shocking fact there, Madison. Pick yourself up off the floor because it is a true fact. You got to believe it. Next ones from Los Angeles in California. You know what it states? Michelle Lee. Hey Michelle, get ready for this. People can have a psychological disorder called bonethroppy

that makes them believe that they are a cow. They try to live their life as a cow. Whoa, bow and throppy. Wow, wow, wow, Michelle. That is a shocking fact, hope you're okay. But I appreciate your support. This next one, I'm not sure where they're from, but their name is fantastic, Avont Hill.

And Avont Hill, get ready for this fact. The name for the shape of Pringles is called a hyperbolic parabolic, hyperbolic parabolic, that's fun to say. So I'm gonna say one more time, hyperbolic parabolic. So thank you so much to you, Avonthill. This one comes from Birmingham in England. We're in Birmingham not too long ago.

Think until last week, Birmingham was our last ever live show. Yeah, and our very fond memories from it. This one comes from Jess Perrin. Jess Perrin from Birmingham. Jess is your fact. There is a McDonald's in every continent except Antarctica. That is a shocking fact. A thought Antarctica would have had one. Overall, there are more than 36,000 McDonald's restaurants spread across the globe. Wow. So, it's pretty fun. Alright.

Wait, it says, have a minute spare for five random facts? While this number is incredibly high, it makes perfect sense considering that this favorite fast food ranks as the second largest fast food restaurant chain in the world. Why not, it's bigger than it. Maybe subway. Anyway, whatever. The first McDonald's to open outside of the USA commenced operations on June 3rd, 1967 in Richmond, Canada.

Wow. I'm glad I had a spare minute for those five random facts. I don't understand what they were talking about there. Anyhow, let's keep rolling. This next great supporter come from South Okenden in Essex, Great Britain, and it's Matt Young. Matt Young, who's the name of a St. Kudder footballer in the 90s. I wonder if you are the same.

Now you've moved over to the UK. I wonder. Hope so. Either way, love your work, Matt. And here's your fact. Mr Potato Head was the first toy to be advertised on TV. That's a fun fact. That has shocked me to my very core. Thank you so much, Matt. This one comes from Roswell in Georgia and United States. Is that the Roswell? Can I only assume? So you've probably got used to being shocked. Will Garbers? And Will Garbers is your fact. A duel between three people is actually called a troll. That's fun. I think there's more sort of edging towards fun facts

than shocking facts, but facts all the same, I assume. I'm taking the word of the fact site.com. Thank you, Will. Got just three more to go now. I believe this supporter comes from Oakland in California in the United States, Connolly Strombach. And here is your fact, Connolly. The stage before Frostbite is called Frostnip. Stage before Frostbite is called Frostnip. That's when you nips get hard, I guess. It's when you know it's about to get cold, or probably already is.

Thank you so much to you, Connolly Strombach. Next support is from Canterbury in England. Canterbury, that's where the tails are from, I think. And this canterbury in is named Charlie Cleary. Here is your fun fact named Charlie Cleary. Here is your fun fact, Charlie Cleary, not fun, sorry, shocking fact. The two tiny holes in every big pen ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen, which helps the ink flow to the tip.

All right, and finally, thank you to Charlie, finally from Vancouver in BC, Canada. Shay Claire. Shay Claire, here's your fact. What have I done here? No, I think that's right. Here's your fact. In South Korea, there is an emergency number, 113, to report spies, special spy reporting number.

Hey, that's handy. That's pretty handy. Okay, so that's all our shout outs for today. I'd love to thank them all once again before we quickly go through our Triptage Club inductees, that Shay Charlie Connolly will Matt Jess Arvant, Michelle Madison and Amy. Now let's go through quickly through, because we've got a few, and normally Dave and Jess really handle this.

So welcoming these great people into the Triptage Club is my honor today. And I hope I do it justice. I'm going to have some, to be involved in this, you're going to be involved on the shout-out level for three straight years. And then we bring you in. I've got the clipboard here with the door list. Jess, I reckon she would have come up with some sort of like shocking

cocktail like maybe she would have called it a shocktail and it would have had like electricity in it and also the food would have been electric and then Dave would have got ice house to play electric blue all night or maybe Neil Young would be here to play his shocking pinks album in full of that rockabilly one. I think if I'm recalling that right. Anyway, it doesn't matter. It's going to be a fun time and everyone's or who's already in is here for the party to welcome you in. So I'm going to bring them in with a little bit of hype and then we're going to wrap up the show. So first up, I'd love to welcome another trip to each club from Clayton in Victoria. It's Katie Murphy. Hey, Murphy's Law says everything goes wrong, I think, but you're going right. Welcome in Katie.

All right, here we go. Next one from Manhattan in MT State, Montana, a reckon United States of Zane Hattonga. Zane Hattonga. Zane, a Zane Law is a radio DJ in England. Well, you make me Zane high as a card with your presence. Welcome into the club. Next up from Seattle, Washington, it's a long term listener and supporter. Like all of these people are Brian Kalella.

Brian Kalella, Seattle, the home, famously the home of Dr. Fraser Crane. Well, I'm listening to you, Brian, as you bloody kill it once again, conversationally. Well done, Brian, love your work. From Officer in Victoria, it's Ben Gould, Guile, or Gould, or Guile. Hey Ben, hey, you've got some Guile about you. And I'd love to chat to you for a while. Welcome in to the club Ben. From West Footscrown Victoria, it's CJ Diamond. Hey you're at one diamond in the rough CJ.

Welcome to the club as well. And from Detroit Witch in Worcestershire, Great Britain, it's Ernie Aroh Smith. Hey, your arrow shoots it's Ernie Aro Smith, hey, your arrow shoots true today, Ernie, and right through my heart, I'm in love with you. Alright, and from Chelsea, in MA, which maybe is Maine in the United States, I have to welcome in Michelle Stafford. Michelle Stafford, Staffie, Yourno Dog, Michelle, you're a bloody legend. Unless you think dogs are legends and you're a dog.

Welcome in, Michelle, you're legend. And finally, from Kalani, Kalani, from Killani in Dublin, Ireland, it's Tiernan Annas. Tiernan Annas, Tiernan. I won't be crying any tears tonight. Tiernan, unless they're tears of joy from the joy you bring me. The bloody legend, big tier-N-N. And a thank you so much to Tier-N and Michelle Ernie,

CJ Ben, Brian, Zane, and Katie. All the best people. I hope you have the best time in our tripditch club. It's so nice to welcome you in. And that brings to the end of the episode, if you need to know anything more about us, you can find out at dogoonpod.com. We are slowly redoing that website, so apologies that's taken so long. Most of you wouldn't even care and will know.

But anyway, it's happening as we speak. And yeah, all our social media just do go on pod. Please check those all out. Please come to see me at the Comedy Festival. I started with Better When I Was A Boy and you get tickets for our Comedy Festival.com.au. But until next week, we will have a special episode back in the studio with guest Naomi Higgins, which I'm really looking forward to. Till then, I'll say goodbye.

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