Ever battled an ailment but still managed to find joy and laughter? That's us this week! On a lighter note, we're zooming in on some oddball news stories from around the globe and have a chuckle over them. We chat about our recent struggles with health, the resilience of youth, and give you a sneak peek into some exciting stuff we’re cooking up for future episodes. Plus, a shout out to our amazing Facebook community!
Ready for a wild ride? Picture a horse escaping on a cargo jet and the consequential fuel dump - a whopping 20 tons of it! We muse over the bizarre protocol involved and take you through a captivating research project that crosses the paths of nature and technology. Indulge your curiosity with us as we explore the fascinating world of necrobotic spiders and a pneumatic gripper inspired by dead spider corpses. We weigh the ethical dynamics and potential applications of this unique blend, creating a captivating debate.
We love a sprinkle of absurdity! A stolen golden toilet, a man's ambitious attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an oversized hamster wheel - we've got it all. We speculate on the daring motives and potential pitfalls for these daredevils. Wrapping up this episode, we pay homage to the culinary delights of Boston and urge you to share your favorite Bostonian dishes. Tune in, enjoy the weirdness and we promise to keep you engaged, entertained, and eager for more!
Ever battled an ailment but still managed to find joy and laughter? That's us this week! On a lighter note, we're zooming in on some oddball news stories from around the globe and have a chuckle over them. We chat about our recent struggles with health, the resilience of youth, and give you a sneak peek into some exciting stuff we’re cooking up for future episodes. Plus, a shout out to our amazing Facebook community!
Ready for a wild ride? Picture a horse escaping on a cargo jet and the consequential fuel dump - a whopping 20 tons of it! We muse over the bizarre protocol involved and take you through a captivating research project that crosses the paths of nature and technology. Indulge your curiosity with us as we explore the fascinating world of necrobotic spiders and a pneumatic gripper inspired by dead spider corpses. We weigh the ethical dynamics and potential applications of this unique blend, creating a captivating debate.
We love a sprinkle of absurdity! A stolen golden toilet, a man's ambitious attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an oversized hamster wheel - we've got it all. We speculate on the daring motives and potential pitfalls for these daredevils. Wrapping up this episode, we pay homage to the culinary delights of Boston and urge you to share your favorite Bostonian dishes. Tune in, enjoy the weirdness and we promise to keep you engaged, entertained, and eager for more!
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Speaker 1:I will, occasionally at least.
Speaker 2:You don't sound very committed.
Speaker 1:I am very committed.
Speaker 2:You don't sound very committed. Hey, why are?
Speaker 1:you bowing your head Energy, energy, energy, energy, energy, energy.
Speaker 2:Energy, energy, energy. Welcome back to Weird World Variety, my name is Matt. This is my co-host sitting across from me. I'm Jesse. What's up guys? So if you can't tell right now, we are both dying, literally.
Speaker 1:Between healthiness. Yeah, I feel like.
Speaker 2:I feel like winter came in.
Speaker 1:Just smack us around a little.
Speaker 2:And we weren't ready for it and kicked our butts Like.
Speaker 1:But there's no snow Some newbies on the field.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but there is no snow, of course. Yeah, as yet. Let's not jinx it.
Speaker 2:It might still happen, yet he says oh man so we're trying, we're going to try to make it through this, we're still committed. Alive today, but if we sound a little rough. That's why we both ended up getting sick. Actually, I ended up getting sick not long after Jesse, I think maybe I might have got him sick unintentionally, but I don't know. I don't know because it hit me pretty hard and I was out for a few days Sleeping, no something. Yeah, I was sleeping, other part was dying, but yeah, we.
Speaker 1:The other part was dying. No Trying to recover, I still see you, okay.
Speaker 2:Trying to recover. But yeah, man, how are you Jesse?
Speaker 1:I'm freaking delightful. Okay, I am full of energy. I'm going to explode with the power of youth.
Speaker 2:Dude, we have so much fun stuff for our audience today we had to get on here, dying or not, and say we had to report this Because we're that crazy, we are lovely fans because we I mean we have to like the amount of cool, funny things happening. You might have heard all the bad news on the news.
Speaker 1:If you watch the news, we ain't here to talk about that, though, but we're not here to talk about that.
Speaker 2:We're here to bring you Joy, the other side of the news, which is weird, funny, crazy. So that is going to be our first section today.
Speaker 1:I hope you're watching with your ears.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I haven't said it yet. Watch with your ears. We do have a Facebook page and community, so if you would like to join our Facebook community, please do so. We don't have anything else for you right now, but we will in the future, so keep tuned in and, without further ado, let's get right into it, because you know what? We just going to smash this out today? Here we go.
Speaker 1:Punch smash. Read All right.
Speaker 2:So the first one.
Speaker 1:Hey, what's with that sigh?
Speaker 2:So the first one it's a legal sigh that I have to do before each section. They actually put it in my contract that I have to sigh before each section. Yeah, what? He's giving me a very suspicious look.
Speaker 1:Why are you talking about it?
Speaker 2:Anyway, but it's all in the contract.
Speaker 1:You know. Read the contract. Read the contract.
Speaker 2:So here's, here's a. I got a question for you, so for who Me? Yeah for you, no for you. No, I've got a question for my cat. It's not in the room right now.
Speaker 1:You wouldn't have a cat either anyway, because you don't even like cats that much I've got a question for you.
Speaker 2:So we know transportation, but have you ever heard of two modes of transportation coming together at the same time?
Speaker 1:Netrium batteries on roller skates.
Speaker 2:There you go, electric skateboards probably right.
Speaker 1:What Electric skateboard?
Speaker 2:Yeah, electric skateboards electric scooters, all that kind of jazz, and then also flying cars. We talked about flying cars in the past.
Speaker 1:We have the technology right now and they're not making it. We have the technology Nobody's making it it's clearly obvious.
Speaker 2:We have the technology, electric cars, which they're also talking about, water propelled cars and all this other stuff, what they're talking about?
Speaker 1:water now, yeah, hydrogen, and After killing the guy who made the first water, car, of course, of course.
Speaker 2:Wow, gotta talk about the future, can't be stuck in the past.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean they kind of want to stay stuck in the past with the oil.
Speaker 2:So I mean, but what about a horse and an airplane?
Speaker 1:Yeah, hold on.
Speaker 2:I was trying to think of something witty, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:But Horseplane, horseplane yeah.
Speaker 2:So what about a horseplane? Well, actually I have a story for you A horse it's not a horseplane, but a horse loose on a flight to Belgium. It is a cargo jet to turn back around and go to New York. I thought this was hilarious because I was like, wait a second, they can't keep a hold of their cargo Number one. Number two why are they flying a horse to Belgium?
Speaker 1:And how the horse sneak on. There is what.
Speaker 2:I want to know.
Speaker 1:Do you have somebody miss a horse walking on a plane?
Speaker 2:I have no idea I mean, unless I mean it is a cargo jet.
Speaker 1:So it could have been legal. It's not commercial Right.
Speaker 2:So obviously they had some way to secure the horse. Wait, wait wait, wait.
Speaker 1:Think about it, though. Why would a horse also okay after walking onto the cargo plane? Would it just walk behind a grate somewhere and hit there?
Speaker 2:You would think that they had a, and that's my question. You would think that they would have some sort of cage, or not a cage necessarily, but maybe a stall set up for the horse or some boxed in area.
Speaker 1:Oh, it already had one.
Speaker 2:So where he wouldn't get, he wouldn't get loose right. So apparently it escaped.
Speaker 1:It didn't walk on there. It had a horse in there already.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Cause it was part of this cargo jet, so we're going to read about this right now. This was November. This was updated November 15th. This was part of AP news. Yeah, you got. Well, you got the next. You got the next one. This was updated November 15th. 2023, New York. A cargo jet headed to Belgium from New York had to turn around mid-flight after a horse escaped its stall and got loose in the hold, According to air traffic control radio. How would you like to get that call?
Speaker 1:It already had a stall in the plane.
Speaker 2:Yes, it had its own stall. But imagine you're doing air traffic control and you get a call.
Speaker 1:And we got a horse loose in here.
Speaker 2:We have an escaped horse. What's that conversation like? I really want to be there for that conversation. What happens?
Speaker 1:in that conversation the other guy I communicate. What do you call it? Telecommunicator or whatever He'd probably be like. Can you repeat that back to?
Speaker 2:me, sir, can you repeat what you just said?
Speaker 1:A horse.
Speaker 2:And what's the protocol for having an escaped horse on a plane? The Boeing 747 operated by Air Atlantic Icelandic that's a mouthful had just started its flight across the Atlantic Ocean on November 9th, when the pilot radioed air traffic control in Boston and said that a horse on board had escaped its stall. We don't have a problem as a flying wise, but we need to return back to New York. We cannot get the horse back secured. That's what they said. We cannot get the horse secured, basically the pilot said on air traffic control, meaning they couldn't get the horse under control. Why, which?
Speaker 2:amazes me that he even got on there in the first place. The controller cleared the aircraft to return to John F Kennedy International Airport. The pilot said that, due to the plane's weight, he had to dump 20 tons of fuel before going back to New York.
Speaker 1:I think I would have sooner dumped the horse.
Speaker 2:I know that sounds cruel. But I know that sounds cruel.
Speaker 1:I like animals, but dumping 20 tons of fuel, that sounds horrible dude Like awful 20 tons. Like that had to be, awful for the environment too.
Speaker 2:But wait, so that doesn't make any sense, though he was too heavy to turn around.
Speaker 1:Sounds like it, but I love animals as much as the next guy. But I would have got out of your horse Because the alternative is worse.
Speaker 2:The controller gave the OK and alerted nearby pilots about a fuel dumping in progress.
Speaker 1:See, you're making the worse.
Speaker 2:Approximately 10 miles west of Martha's.
Speaker 1:Vineyard, making it worse by dumping fuel instead of the horse.
Speaker 2:The 747 pilot had one more request. I do believe we need a vet, a veterinarian, I guess you call it for the horse. Upon landing, he said Is that something you can speak to New York about? The controller said he would pass it on. The cargo flight was disrupted was reported by ABC News. Flight Landed at Kennedy, took off a short time later and successfully arrived at Leeds Airport the next morning, according to the traffic tracking site Flight Radar 24. My gosh dude. Ok, so first of all, you got this horse on there, lost control of the horse, had to turn back around, but instead in the process of turning back around, had to dump 20 tons of fuel.
Speaker 1:I don't even make it back.
Speaker 2:I don't even know man.
Speaker 1:The stupidity of people.
Speaker 2:How about let's just not bring a horse on an airplane?
Speaker 1:I appreciate the care more about the horse than fuel, but also dumping fuel seems like a really bad idea.
Speaker 2:I would love to see this on a commercial flight. Like you know how you have to like when you're going through security, you have to check in and if you have to declare something, you have to declare something to airport security. What do you have to declare? I have a horse.
Speaker 1:I got this.
Speaker 2:See how that conversation goes.
Speaker 1:They go mammal back.
Speaker 2:You mean a dog, sir, a cat? No, no, I've got a horse.
Speaker 1:They go name mammal back.
Speaker 2:Need to get them to. Need to get them to what was it? Belgium Need to get them to Belgium ASAP. We got to get this horse. Why, man, I don't, I don't get it, they'll get. They'll have horses across the world. I don't understand, but I guess, if you, need the horse you need the horse.
Speaker 1:That was definitely one of the weirdest ones I've ever seen. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:All right, let's move on to the next one. Which one would you like to do, jess, because I know you got a few?
Speaker 1:You know which one I want to do Go for it. Let's keep that steam going.
Speaker 2:Let's go for it For animals, all right.
Speaker 1:Apparently, scientists are reanimating spider corpses for research.
Speaker 2:I knew you would like this one. Hold on, I'm going to click on it.
Speaker 1:Zombie spiders Okay.
Speaker 2:Why are we re-? It just sounds like okay. Now I know you're a love of spiders, but I also feel like this sounds like a bad idea Reanimating spider corpses, Dude, that is awesome.
Speaker 1:Zombie spiders Like okay.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to jump right into this. That's exactly what we need Zombie spiders.
Speaker 1:Yeah, why not All?
Speaker 2:right, let's see what you got, let's hear it.
Speaker 1:Okay, that spider you squished. It could have been used for science. At least that's what Fay Yap and Daniel Preston think. Yap is a mechanical engineering PhD student in Preston lab at Rice University, where she co-authored a paper on reanimating spider corpses to create grippers or tiny machines used to pick up and put down delicate objects. That sounds pretty cool, dude. Yap and Preston dubbed the use of robotic materials for robotic parts necrobotics and think this technique could one day become a cheap, green addition to the field. The picture looks pretty cool, dude, Like they have a spider body attached to like a needle and they're using it to grab it also looks kind of cruel.
Speaker 1:It's pretty freaky looking.
Speaker 2:Dude, it looks like a claw machine.
Speaker 1:Imagine a claw machine.
Speaker 2:Imagine a claw machine, but instead of a claw you have a spider.
Speaker 1:It's the spider at the bottom. It's kind of creepy. That is awesome, dude. It's kind of creepy, creepy, crawly corpses. All right, let's hear what else they got it all started when Yap noticed dead spiders curled in the corners of the lab one day. Why did they die on their backs with their legs curled in? The question led her down a classic spiral of scientific curiosity, did it?
Speaker 2:I don't think it would lead me down a spiral. I mean it would me.
Speaker 1:I love spiders, my boy. We did a really quick search online and we found that spiders do not have antagonistic muscle pairs, she said. Instead, they rely on flexor muscles to curl their legs inward toward their body and hydraulic pressure to extend their legs outwards. Since Preston's lab focuses on soft robotics, they saw the spider biology as inspiration for a pneumatic gripper or claw-like device.
Speaker 2:Oh my god.
Speaker 1:But instead of a classic metal claw, they use something much spookier a spider corpse. Why, why?
Speaker 2:didn't we Dude? Why didn't, why couldn't we have reported on this article during Halloween?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was like the perfect Halloween article what day was it? They have a video of this. What date was this post? Let's see October 18th. It was before Halloween. I can't believe. We just now seen this.
Speaker 2:Like bro they have a video. That's awesome. I mean, hold on, oh my lord, I will get to that. Go for it.
Speaker 1:From corpse to claw. When spiders die, their muscles tense up. So when the spider is alive it can actively control the valves in each leg too, so that it can have this walking motion. But when it dies it loses the control over these valves. Yap explains. Yap wondered if she could reimpose control over the spider legs using compressed air.
Speaker 2:So we play the video.
Speaker 1:I can play the video. I suppose you want to commentate.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm going to turn my sound off. The main thing about spiders is that they actually don't have antagonistic muscle pairs. So in a human, we have our biceps and our triceps. They work to fold the flex and then extend the elbow joint, but when you think about spiders, they have flexor muscles that will bring their joints and appendages in towards the body, but they don't have extensors and instead they do that with hydraulic pressure that they generate inside of the main cavity or chamber of their body, and so because of that, when they die, that's why you see spiders curled up, but at the same time, that means that we can use hydraulic pressure and we use the spider here it goes Spider claw Dude.
Speaker 2:That's so creepy and for those listening, he was explaining how the joints work and why they started this research in the first place.
Speaker 1:Man. That is crazy.
Speaker 2:It's crazy and creepy.
Speaker 1:It is kind of sad to see a spider impaled.
Speaker 2:Is that on the sign-up list?
Speaker 1:Oh, my lord so.
Speaker 2:Reaching down to a light switch maybe yeah, that's crazy. What you didn't want to sign up for the muscle donation. You know how they have like here, pause the video. You know how they have like an organ donation where you like, sign up and you die. Yeah, you should just sign up for a second waiver that says you can use my body however you want and play with me like a rag doll after I die.
Speaker 1:How do you know they won't do that?
Speaker 2:I mean you won't, You'd be dead.
Speaker 1:I mean, as far as we know, a bunch of people are rare in a cemetery.
Speaker 2:Well, what if I want to?
Speaker 1:know, I mean, you never know. Let's give all of our had a look at some kind of let's give all of our fans nightmares for the rest of their life.
Speaker 2:You think you're going to do a cemetery.
Speaker 1:What do you know if you are going to?
Speaker 2:be experimented on for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1:Now rest your death, the rest of your death.
Speaker 2:That's true, that's true, said that wrong. Rest your death. Oh my gosh. All right, tell us more about this. Why are they doing this?
Speaker 1:The. I'll just continue where I left off. The injected air pressure is the dead spiders Hemo lymph, a rough analogue of blood that hasn't yet dried up in the corpse. The hemo lymph adds pressure to the joints, created a claw like grabbing motion, and Yap says the experiment worked. With an exclamation point, I'll say the necrobots, as Yap and Preston call them, could pick up fragile materials like wires and even other spiders up to 130 percent more massive than the reanimated spider grippers. Interesting Dude. We have the summoning Jiu Jitsu now with spiders Summoning Jiu Jitsu.
Speaker 1:Who needs necrobotic spiders? Preston says this was the first time a full animal was used as a robot. We've seen researchers use, for example, feathers from a bird for robotics applications. He says, other than that we're not aware of people using biotic materials. But beyond the novelty, yap and Preston say that the spiders are plentiful, convenient for researchers. Researchers sorry Spiders in this case serve as a really good source material because nature does all the work for us. We don't have to build this pneumatically actuated gripper from scratch. We just use nature in this sense to harvest the spider and use it for the gripper.
Speaker 2:Do not show this article to the animal activists out there. Oh my Lord, dude, can you imagine? Like OK, I'm going to show you this. Like OK. So instead of like just making robots, now we're using animals as robots. There's got to be something inhumane about that.
Speaker 1:I mean, they're not humans, so inhumane. It doesn't apply. Ok, but you know what I?
Speaker 2:mean In animal, just dead corpses.
Speaker 1:Hey, I love spiders. This is I mean I'm conflicted here myself, like I'm not sure, but if they're dead already, I mean if they was already dead they're using think about this on a massive scale, though.
Speaker 2:Would you like to see your dead corpse dog running around being animated?
Speaker 1:Heck yeah, I would, because I'm a weirdo like that. We need a therapist. Spider corpses are also biodegradable, which, preston argues makes it better for the environment than any other robots. I mean, which often result in a waste.
Speaker 2:Oh my Lord.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've been pressed and already seeing other researchers and non researchers trying out the technique. Someone reached out from Austria and said we did this together. It was a father and son duo and they said you know, we did this in our backyard and it actually worked on the first try it's messed up, so it's not just science. That's so wrong.
Speaker 2:It's so many ways.
Speaker 1:So maybe the next time you see a spider grow up in a corner, consider channeling that panic into science.
Speaker 2:The image that I have in my mind is when you're reanimated an animal and the body is just decaying right in front of you as you're trying to use it for reanimation.
Speaker 1:Start man. Oh, my God. I have no doubt that this is just a start.
Speaker 2:This is the start of zombie animals.
Speaker 1:Now they're going to be looking at the other things that animals can do.
Speaker 2:This is not good. This is not good. What is the earth? Okay? Is everybody okay?
Speaker 1:This is not okay that something fishy is going on everywhere, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Okay. So I have another funny one for you, because this we have, like the creepy spider thing, I wanted to like pull this one up, Okay. So I'm going to, I'm going to click on this.
Speaker 1:Is this something I don't have?
Speaker 2:No, you got it. You got it in front of you.
Speaker 1:It is.
Speaker 2:this is AP News. We're back to AP News, which one. Four men charged in theft of satirical golden toilet titled America at Churchill's birthplace. Now, when you look at the picture of this, it is a legit golden toilet.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, some of it looks porcelain.
Speaker 2:Here's my thing. None of the room matches said golden toilet yeah.
Speaker 1:Why would you not have a gold toilet in a gold room? It's like a gold toilet on a silver floor.
Speaker 2:Does it not look like this Hear me out Does it not look like when you go to the store and you buy a cheap golden necklace?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just picked this out of that. Bin back there.
Speaker 2:Like okay, it's not just solid gold, it's like the cheapest gold toilet you could think of. But as you will know, this is. This is real, this is real, as you just read, four men were charged Monday over the theft of an 18 karat gold toilet. Oh, I mean yeah, but in London dude, they got nothing to do over what is going on.
Speaker 1:It's cold, dude, it's cold.
Speaker 2:Apparently they really wanted that gold Juice. The sprawling English country mansion where now this is Blenheim Palace. Is that am I saying that right? I have no idea. Blenheim Palace? The sprawling English country mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born. Now, if you know anything about Winston Churchill, pretty, pretty pretty pretty crazy historical story. If you don't know, read up on Winston Churchill. It's pretty nuts. The toilet valued at 4.8 million pounds 5.95 million dollars US for US, yes, so for our American people that that's 5.5, 5.95 million dollars was an artwork.
Speaker 2:it was an art piece Titled America. Quote unquote.
Speaker 1:Of course. Why would they have a toilet called America in London is what I want to know.
Speaker 2:A gold toilet called America.
Speaker 1:That's just weird.
Speaker 2:That's. That was definitely an artist's commentation. I don't know Con commentary I was just put.
Speaker 1:Hey, somebody wanted to say they stole America Probably somebody did want to steal. I bet that's all I'm supposed to what it's about I wanted to own America. I wanted to own America.
Speaker 2:I have got America. I now own it.
Speaker 1:I got America, I did right now.
Speaker 2:Intended as what we just said pointed satire about the excessive wealth by Italian conceptual artists, which also is a false commentary. As an American, I can say because there's so much wealth in the world, bro, you cannot even understand. It's not even just America, it's all around the world. You just look at who owns it. All right, but it's really funny. It is really funny is I don't really take offense because I think that's hilarious. It was a part of an art installation at Blinheim Palace near the city of Oxford, which is really weird as well because, like we said, the bathroom doesn't match at all, like it's just a standard, looks like a public bathroom, a standard public bathroom and then a gold throne. It is the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life. It's not even that clean, all right. Anyway, moving on, so we don't gross our fans out. The Crown Prosecution Service. The Crown Prosecution Service said Monday it has authorized criminal charges against four men ages 35 to 39, which, if you think about it, this sounds like something somebody would do in college or after college.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so those ages are totally right up the alley man. So I don't think there's an age for theft.
Speaker 2:You're gonna break that toilet down and sell it. How are you approaching the pawn shop, the?
Speaker 1:next day. No, yeah, you definitely don't want to keep it as a toilet, that's for sure.
Speaker 2:Like how are you approaching that pawn shop?
Speaker 1:I'm definitely cutting it up. It's a dead giveaway.
Speaker 2:They are accused of burglary and conspiracy to transfer criminal property. Seven people had been arrested over the heist, but no charges have been brought until Monday. Four years, four years after the hand and never ever imagine getting that phone call dude.
Speaker 1:Somebody cut that up, so it wasn't a toilet or something.
Speaker 2:Sir, you've been charged with the theft of a toilet with seven other people. Six other people. What do you mean? Remember, in Sir, we finally found the evidence that we needed the golden toilet is full. It was never found now, like we said, it was like a public bathroom. The golden toilet was fully functioning and, prior to the theft, visitors to the exhibition could book a three-minute employment.
Speaker 1:You can sit on a golden throne bro why would you make it usable? You could sit on a golden throne.
Speaker 2:But we said that because the toilet has been connected to the palace's plumbing system. Its removal Caused significant damage and flooding to the 18th century building. I'm sure it did, yeah, but a UNESCO, unesco World Heritage Site filled with valuable art and furniture that draws thousands of visitors each year, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, I want to I don't know if I'm saying that guys, yeah, I was saying that right when the artwork was installed in a bathroom prior to it being shown at Blinheim Palace, describe the toilet as cast in 18 karat gold.
Speaker 1:So it was in America before it even went to London, but it and it wasn't even solid gold.
Speaker 2:Oh, my lord, that's hilarious.
Speaker 1:The museum said the artwork invited viewers to make use of the fixture individually and privately to experience the unprecedented Intimacy with the work of arts in, oh my god, in 2021.
Speaker 2:The Thames Valley police, the force investigating the theft, suggested that it would be a challenge.
Speaker 1:Quote-unquote to recover the toilets.
Speaker 2:I wonder why Will we ever see that toilet again? Personally, I wonder if it's in the shape of a toilet to be perfectly honest, seriously down police and crime commissioner Matthew Barbara told the BBC if you have that large amount of gold, I think it seems likely that somebody has already managed to dispose of it one way or another. Yeah, which is what we said. The four suspects will appear at Oxford Magistrates Court on November 28th. Prosecutors said you think they're gonna actually convict anybody, because it doesn't sound like they have evidence of?
Speaker 1:Anything, it's a charge.
Speaker 2:They said they have evidence, but they don't have the toilet, so the only thing I could think of is Pictures camera around the palace, like where they win, or anything. I don't know if it like you would think okay, so you're accused of it. You would think that there would be cameras around the palace and you would think somebody would notice a gold toilet being smuggled out of a palace.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's a public Like museum almost right where they messed up 18th century building. Yeah, they probably messed up.
Speaker 2:It's a public museum, even old buildings you can install, can't like security cameras?
Speaker 1:I don't know man, that is kind of weird to see that they didn't have any cameras. I think that's their fault if they didn't have any cameras like bro.
Speaker 2:How are you gonna steal an 18-karat?
Speaker 1:gold toilet, the private affair. Oh well, this is one bit of gold we ain't got a watch over. This is a toilet.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh dude. Okay, winning doubt Gold it out, I guess. All right, moving on. What do you got for us, jess? Got another one worse.
Speaker 1:I Want to do the next money when I saw okay, what's the next one? The title is Coast Guard a resume, and trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the Atlantic, oh, yes, and I remember seeing that one. Whatever this is, does not look like a hamster wheel. It looks like it looks weird.
Speaker 2:Some kind of component turn sideways Well to me it looks like a bunch of exercise balls glued together.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I look closer and they look like.
Speaker 2:Exercise ball. I'm gonna click on it here, See if I can pull it up a hydropod made of buoys.
Speaker 1:It says Buoys.
Speaker 2:They look like exercise balls. Yeah, now the floats in between them look like the floats that you would see on a dock, like maybe he just janked those yeah, maybe and just put them together. Like what was this dude think? Was he trying to break like a Guinness World Record or something?
Speaker 1:We'll fly it. Let's find out.
Speaker 2:All right, let's go.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna go ahead and read this, so don't die on us. Try as he might. Riza Baluchi can't reach his destination without running a foul of the US Coast Guard. Hey, those guys are out there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the key problem is his vessel, a giant floating hamster wheel made of buoys and wire, self-propelled by Baluchi running inside. Baluchi, who lives in Florida after being granted asylum from Iran, was taken in by the Coast Guard last week aboard his vessel following several days of back and forth with the authorities. According to a criminal complaint filed in US District Court in South Florida, the Coast Guard, cutter valiant, came across yeah Baluchi and his homemade vessel about 70 nautical miles east of Tybee Island, georgia, on August 26 as the Coast Guard was preparing for Hurricane Franklin. He told officers his destination London, england. More than 4,000 miles away, hey 4,000 miles.
Speaker 2:Dude, what are you doing for food?
Speaker 1:Baluchi was asked for the vehicle's registration.
Speaker 2:This is wild. Okay, let's pause for a second. Look at the picture Legit for for the audience, legit looks like one of those tunnels that you would see in a fun house, where you would like walk into the tunnel and then the tunnel would rotate. You ever seen those? Yeah, you like at the end of the fun house. It looks like that, but on both ends we have paddles, what looks like exercise balls and dock buoys, all like strapped together so that you can, I guess, paddle forward. Here's the other question I have. There is no storage on this stupid thing. How is he supposed to go 4,000 miles? And what is the dude eating Like? Is he just fasting till he?
Speaker 1:gets there In the middle, it does look like there's a space where he can be. Well, yeah, there's a space in there. It kind of looks like there's boxes or something in there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but the whole thing rotates. There's no way you would be able to store anything in there. It'll just flip upside down. Well tough of a wear.
Speaker 1:Oh no, no, that's what he means, he's not very brave.
Speaker 2:You got to wait. I'd be my gas if he was using the most basic commercial for plastic wear since 1990. Let's throw some Tupperware in there, you'll be fine. Throw some water bottles, can you imagine?
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh dude, you want to see the picture of this thing. It's on nprorg.
Speaker 2:Nprorg.
Speaker 1:Look for Coast Guard Amster Wheel Reza Bullies and the other two wheels.
Speaker 2:It's under strange news. So if you want to go to the strange news section, it's under there, All right. Is there anything else you can tell us about this?
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, I'm going to keep reading it.
Speaker 2:Let's go.
Speaker 1:I just in the cracks of this, they ask for its registration. Ha, ha, ha ha.
Speaker 2:Sir, license and registration, please.
Speaker 1:He said it was registered in Florida.
Speaker 2:Is that wheel registered, sir?
Speaker 1:But it said he couldn't find the registration according to the complaint. Oh, he couldn't find it? How?
Speaker 2:convenient. No wonder why there's no storage on this stupid thing. Even if he had registration, it'd probably fall out.
Speaker 1:Ha, ha, ha ha. The Coast Guard assessed Baluchi's vessel, known as a hydropod, and determined he was conducting a manifestly unsafe voyage. According to Coast Guard special agent Michael Perez in the complaint, which is not identifying Baluchi's starting point, oh my. God the officers then approached Baluchi in a small boat and instructed him to join them. They were ending his voyage due to it being unsafe.
Speaker 2:Ha ha, ha ha.
Speaker 1:Baluchi replied that he had a 12 inch knife and would attempt to kill himself if the officers attempted to remove him from his vessel.
Speaker 2:Oh my God. According to the complaint.
Speaker 1:The dude was crazy. He didn't want to be there. No more. Apparently the officers returned to the gutter and stayed nearby. When the officers tried again over the next day or so to get Baluchi to join them on a small boat, baluchi discovered or displayed two knives and threatened to hurt himself if officers wanted his vessel.
Speaker 2:That's lame, bro, come on.
Speaker 1:Baluchi also threatened to blow himself up, along with his vessel.
Speaker 2:With what? There was nothing there.
Speaker 1:The officers saw him holding wires in his hand and believed him.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't. There's nothing there. I'd be like go for it.
Speaker 1:The following day, a second Coast Guard gutter named Kim Campbell arrived and sent a small boat to Baluchi to deliver food, water and word that the hurricane was expected.
Speaker 2:That's insane.
Speaker 1:Baluchi refused again to leave his vessel and told the officers that the bomb wasn't real. Why would you tell him the bomb wasn't real?
Speaker 2:Obviously it's not. Do you see how much space is on this? There is not much space on this thing at all, let alone a compartment for a bomb. But that's what was letting him get his way. Oh my Lord, dude, I know he just completely compromised himself. He's like, yeah, I'll blow myself up. Oh wait, it's not real officer. But don't you dare, don't you dare, I'll do it.
Speaker 1:On August 29,. Campbell once more sent a small boat, and this time was able to safely remove Baluchi from his floating hamster wheel.
Speaker 2:This guy had to have been on something.
Speaker 1:Baluchi was brought ashore in Miami Beach last Friday, where he was released on a $250,000 bond.
Speaker 2:There you go. You got arrested and you got a $250,000 bond for all that trouble.
Speaker 1:While his case is under way, he's barred from travel outside the Southern.
Speaker 2:District floor. I wonder why.
Speaker 1:And may not go to the ocean or board of vessel on the ocean. A special condition added to his bond agreement.
Speaker 2:We'll read that next section.
Speaker 1:It was not his first try. This was far from Baluchi's first encounter with the Coast Guard. He has attempted voyages in a similar homemade vessel in 2014, 2016, and 2021, all of which resulted in US CG intervention. Baluchi's a man of big dreams and unorthodox methods. Not long after arriving in the US, he was profiled in the New York Times as he began a quest to run across the country. Oh my God, Forest Gump style. Forest Gump style. He reportedly finished a coast to coast journey not once, but twice.
Speaker 2:OK, the coast to coast thing is believable.
Speaker 1:I've seen a lot of people do that he was also the focus of a short documentary from VICE about Baluchi's 2014 and still, in 16 attempts to travel from Boca Raton, florida, to Bermuda, a distance of more than 1,000 miles, by running inside his homemade floating bubble.
Speaker 2:There's a video also explains his motivation. Yeah, if you want to watch the video, nprorg, that's enough for me. Let's talk about this for a second First, off. I understand what he was trying to do trying to break some records Cool. Here's my problem. That's really cool If you get approached by said Coast Guard what he's doing is potentially resisting arrest.
Speaker 2:Get off your stupid boat. You can always try again another day, but now he's not going to be able to try at all because he's going to be barred from traveling. He's going to be arrested, probably, and he set out on a $250,000 bond right now. So, dude, that was just way more trouble than you ever had to do. If you just said, ok, I can come back another day, it's cool, and just got on the boat with a Coast Guard, because, look, this thing looks like audience. If you go, look at this picture, it looks like a home project. He could probably build it in a week. Like it is definitely not worth what he went for and the dude's got to be smoking something.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry he wanted to out bad. Apparently he wanted to leave bad enough to make this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but he was also like he wanted to do this record thing, but he was also threatening self-harm and other stuff. So unnecessary, so unnecessary. Dude, if you're going to do this, do it. You're not famous dude, but if you get caught, you get caught, you just be like OK, cool, and you go with the Coast Guard. Everybody has a nice day, you don't have to get arrested over it Like, oh my gosh man.
Speaker 1:I sort of understand it's too much. I sympathize a little.
Speaker 2:I get what he was trying to do, but you didn't have to get arrested for it, bro, like there's plenty of people that have boats and whatever and if they don't have registration, you just go with the Coast Guard and go about your day.
Speaker 1:He's chasing his freedom. Man, he's like freedom.
Speaker 2:Freedom. Yeah, so he threatens self-harm and a bomb. You sure the Coast Guard took that nicely.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, that was the wrong way to go about it, oh my lord man, All right.
Speaker 2:So next time you make your own boat, ladies and gentlemen, don't threaten the Coast Guard. Let's not do that. That's not a good idea, at least in my book.
Speaker 1:The point of it was a bubble boat. A bubble boat, a floating hamster wheel.
Speaker 2:Okay, the vessel itself is adorable, though, if you want to go, look at the picture, it's hilarious.
Speaker 1:I definitely want to watch this video. This is a long article. You know what I mean. Yeah, let's. Well. I guess we ain't got time to read all that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we don't. We got to get to our last section and we have more news, but we're going to save some of these stories for the next episode. But, yeah, I want to get to our last section before we end our episode because we're kind of running out of time today. But, yeah, we've got more for you guys next time. All right, let's hit our last one. I got one more for you. Here we go.
Speaker 2:Speaking of crazy and wacky things, one of the coolest things I like to do is travel. Just like that did dude, that did dude, but maybe not like that. I like to travel in general, okay and legally. The other thing that I like to do is try food. So today not illegally, legally so today we're going to talk about a certain city that's actually pretty famous. We're going to talk about Boston and we're going to talk about the 10 classic Boston dishes and where to find them. All right. So these are the top 10 classic Boston dishes that if you go to Boston, you got to try them. All right, this is what they say you got to try. This is by bostoncom. If you want to follow along, here we go, let's get into it. Number one you know it, we know it, everybody knows it Boston baked beans.
Speaker 1:Baked beans.
Speaker 2:Now, what do you think about baked beans, guys? Do you like baked beans?
Speaker 1:They're good.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to be a bean fan, but no, okay, I will say that I'm not a bean fan necessarily. As far as baked beans, I do like. I'll tell you what I do like. I do like the mixed ones, like my dad makes this baked bean dish. It's like several different kinds of beans and it's really sweet. It's made with, like brown sugar. It's delicious.
Speaker 1:All right, my back door usually causes problems. Well, that's another issue for another day.
Speaker 2:All right, let's see. Let's see where they got them. They don't call it being town for nothing, with a history of being served during native american. Meals being slowly baked in molasses are not only a nod to the times of your, but also when the city was awash in molasses during its part in the triangular trade. Quote unquote. The dish is traditionally served in a small crock with brown bread sitting sidecar places that you can get this bean town pub rebels. Guild men, not new men, not to me grill and tavern.
Speaker 2:I don't know how to say that, sorry guys. Oak long bar and kitchen union.
Speaker 1:Oyster house Number two Me no to me.
Speaker 2:Oh no, what was number two? Just Boston cream pie, the famous Boston cream pie. What you got.
Speaker 1:Maybe I can read it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, read the well, just the next paragraph.
Speaker 1:As the story goes, omni Parker house is the birthplace of this dessert, which identifies more as a cake than pie. Sweet customers layer between yellow butter cake and glaze with chocolate.
Speaker 2:If you don't know what Boston cream pie is. The one that they're showing doesn't look like a pie necessarily. It looks like a dessert tart.
Speaker 1:I can't look like a cupcake to me, right Like it's. It's very fancy A flat cupcake. Yeah, it looks like a flat cupcake, but it looks good.
Speaker 2:It looks good, but it's like one of those cookie cake. It's like the size of your palm. I would say I want one. It looks good. Yeah, I'll try one for sure.
Speaker 1:And you can find them at flour bakery and cafe, omni Parker house. Sns restaurant Co Co Rico.
Speaker 2:Sounds cool.
Speaker 1:And Bova's Bakery.
Speaker 2:We got to try all of them. So if we're going to do this, we need to go to every single restaurant and just ask for. Boston cream pie.
Speaker 1:Boston cream pie.
Speaker 2:Sir, one order of Boston cream. No. Two orders of Boston cream pie, please, sir. Sir, two orders, please. Thank you. Give me a green bar. Number three cannolis, Cannoli. You ever had a cannoli?
Speaker 1:I've had one I think I might have from Hannah Marie.
Speaker 2:I like the chocolate chip cannoli, so it's pretty good. It's an Italian neighborhood like the North End within its city limits. It's no wonder Boston loves these pastry and cream masterpieces and as home to one of the city's biggest culinary rivalries, Mike's versus modern Boston knows where you get them is just as important as what kind All right there are available at the Eat Italy.
Speaker 1:Eat Italy. I like that name.
Speaker 2:That's a pretty cool name. I never knew that actually existed. Mike's pastry, modern's pastry. So there's the rivalry Mike's and modern.
Speaker 1:I don't know how to say this Nibo, Cucino and Inoteca.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's pretty close. That's crazy. And Parm, parm.
Speaker 1:Makes you think of cheese.
Speaker 2:Now this next one my family would like. I'm not a big fan, but I know my family would like.
Speaker 1:I have Number four. I never ate that because it sounded gross. Clam chowder, I've heard it's really good, true, new England. Clam chowder pronounced chowder, if you please is a rich and thick concoction of shellfish, salt wort or bacon, potatoes and cream. Don't forget the oyster cakes, crackers, the oyster cakes, sorry. Oyster crackers.
Speaker 2:That's a new one, oyster cakes.
Speaker 1:And the oyster crows. Oyster crows.
Speaker 2:I had cake on the brain.
Speaker 1:I guess, and the places, the most popular places to find them, the Boston sale loft. Legal seafoods, that's what it's.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not illegal seafood, it's got to be legal seafoods, bro Moon cusser fish house, pyrotin and company, and salty girl.
Speaker 1:What if that's like not like how you say it they're just like look at that. They're roasting us right now. Maybe something about to be like I can't believe. You just said that Salty girl, salty girl, I want to go to Salty girl, man, I'm going to walk into the salty girl. I mean, it's a seafood centric restaurant, is what it says.
Speaker 2:Looks pretty good. Number five Frappe, frappe, milk.
Speaker 1:Everybody loves frappe.
Speaker 2:Milk and syrup make up a milkshake. But add ice cream and it miraculously becomes a frappe. Thick and filling the dessert Drink is an exercise in living your best life. And of course you know you can kind of get frappes everywhere, but here's the ones that they are advertising. So Boston burger company JP Licks that's kind of funny. Sullivan's castle island Veggie galaxy, castle Island. I'm going to take my kids Walburgers, veggie galaxy.
Speaker 1:Dude Walburgers.
Speaker 2:Walburgers, that sounds good too.
Speaker 1:They actually made a show called Walburgers. Did you know that? No it's the Mark Walburgan is two brothers.
Speaker 2:Oh, it does say. It does say Walburg owned restaurants.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Interesting, I did not know that. That's cool, there was a show dude All right, number six. What are your family's favorites?
Speaker 1:Lobster mac and cheese. Lobster mac and cheese. Your family's favorite. Well, we couldn't call this American classic a Boston original. Adding lobster to its melty goodness is a recent New England tradition that's sure to stick around, because lobster and cheese.
Speaker 2:Oh, the reason why I said that is because they love seafood. Oh, okay, so yeah, yeah, lobster mac and cheese I've heard that's very good too. I haven't tried lobster mac and cheese.
Speaker 1:I've never.
Speaker 2:I've tried a lot of seafood, but I haven't tried lobster mac and cheese.
Speaker 1:I've never tried it for you. And the best places in Boston to get this is Capitol Grill, Ocean Prime Summer Shack. I like Summer Shack. That sounds cool, Tano.
Speaker 2:No idea.
Speaker 1:And Yankee Lobster Company. Yankee Lobster Company.
Speaker 2:Sounds interesting. Number seven Number seven. Going along with that lobster roll. This seemingly simple Boston favorite sparks huge debate. Should the lobster be mixed in mayo or melted butter?
Speaker 1:I think I'd try melted butter.
Speaker 2:I like the butter idea. I'm not really a big fan of the mayo idea Available at B&Joy. B& I can't talk B&Joy. I'm lucky I'm still alive. B&g Oysters Eventide.
Speaker 1:Sounds like a video game name.
Speaker 2:Right James Hook and Company, pauly's Row 34.
Speaker 1:Hey, pauly, let me get some of that. Hey Pauly, lobster roll.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go to Row 34 and sit down at Row 34.
Speaker 1:I'm going to go to Row 34 and sit in Row 33. Just because Number eight Roast beef sandwich. Oh, I wonder where that's from.
Speaker 2:I didn't know that was a thing in Boston. Roast beef sandwich, really.
Speaker 1:Not for the faint of appetite. The areas roast beef sandwiches are stacked with heaps upon heaps of roast beef. Tradition dictates slices are sandwiched into an onion roll, but rolls are made to be broken.
Speaker 2:Let's just clarify this for the audience. This is not an Arby sandwich. This is not Arby's. This is looks way better, like 10 times better, than a roast beef and Arby's.
Speaker 1:I don't think Arby's is going to be on that list. No.
Speaker 2:Well, let's hope not. Let's see what you got.
Speaker 1:Rico's salamiria, cursers, roast, beef and seafood. What's with Cusser Cutties? I've actually heard of cutties. I'm pretty sure they had that in a TV show I watched.
Speaker 2:I've never been there. Sounds like you've seen it.
Speaker 1:Harrison's roast beef and Kelly's roast beef.
Speaker 2:You go to Harrison's, you go to Kelly's. That sounds like another rival, cutties. I might be thinking of something else, but anyway it sounds like something it would be in a show, I would go to Boston to try roast beef sandwich, that's for sure. Yeah, I would definitely go to Boston to try the cream pie, because the Boston cream pie is legendary.
Speaker 1:I got a joke you bite into the sandwich. Well, it's definitely not Arby's.
Speaker 2:It's definitely not Arby's. Yeah, don't insult the owner of the restaurant. Right, traditional clam bake? All right, coastal and casual. A typical clam bake includes lobster clams, corn and red potatoes wrapped together and steamed over a fire. Consider it beach time minus the sand. What's it have again? Ok, lobster clams, corn. I would try it. I guess the Banks Fish House, the Barking Crab.
Speaker 1:The Barking.
Speaker 2:Crab, which is awesome, I love that name. The Bootleg Special. Bootleg Special that's great, that's legendary Little Whale Oyster Bar and Neptune Oyster. All have it All right, and number 10 is Yankee Pot Roast. Yankee Pot Roast.
Speaker 1:Popular in frugal New England kitchens. Yankee Pot Roast of yesteryear included tough cuts of beef roasted for hours to tenderize and was served with root vegetables. Think of carrots, potatoes, parsnip and turnip.
Speaker 2:You know what it looks like. To me it looks like a down home country meal. Yeah, like an iskill it, I am pretty sure.
Speaker 1:I've seen people make stuff like that plenty of ink, that looks pretty good, I would try it Parents and other wise.
Speaker 2:It looks good.
Speaker 1:And the best place is to find this dish.
Speaker 2:I feel like it would go good with hot sauce.
Speaker 1:Maybe the Dubliner Irish Pub, henrietta's Table, the Loft, merchant's Row and Pleasant.
Speaker 2:Cafe. That is awesome. Ok, we got to plan a trip to Boston. We're going to open a Patreon for all of our fans. We're going to add a tier 10. And if you donate to tier 10, it will go to our trip to Boston. So we can try. We can try all the new foods and make plenty of jokes along the way.
Speaker 2:Oh man, dude, that sounds awesome. We got to go to Boston just to try these. I think we got to make a trip. I think we got to take a weekend and make a trip because I definitely would try these. If you guys have Boston dishes that you like or ones that you don't like, please let us know, Comment in our Facebook community or send us a message. And also, if you guys have any ideas for the show or have some stories and strange news you would like us to talk about, let us know.
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Speaker 2:Our Facebook community or our email, which we'll have in the show notes. So thank you, guys. We appreciate you, and everybody listening Today was awesome. Jess, we got to get out here. Bro, we're out of time.
Speaker 1:All right, and thanks for listening.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're going to get some of these stories on the next episode. So, from the WWV, stay weird y'all, stay weird everybody, and we'll see you guys next time. Later.
Speaker 1:Later.