Weird World Variety with Matt and Jesse
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Weird World Variety with Matt and Jesse
Toddler's Claw Machine Caper, Mummified Monkeys in Luggage, and Our YouTube Adventure
Ever wondered what goes through the mind of a toddler daring enough to scale the insides of a claw machine? That's exactly what we're chuckling over as we recount the tale of an adventurous tot in an Australian mall and the Queensland police's plush toy rescue mission. Childhood dreams clash with reality in this humorous look at the great claw machine escape. And if you've ever had to stop little hands from swiping expensive store items, you'll nod along as we share personal anecdotes, like my son's selective distaste for dirty hands—unless, of course, snacks like Cheetos are involved.
Hold onto your hats because we're not just reminiscing about arcade games and parenting tactics. We've got a story about a canine hero at Customs and Border Protection sniffing out something you won't believe. Speaking of unbelievable, we also investigate the curious case of mummified monkeys discovered in a traveler's luggage at Boston Logan Airport. From the quirky to the macabre, we bring to light the serious global health implications while still embracing the oddities of human behavior. And let's give it up for the customs dogs keeping our borders safe!
As we gear up for our next big step, launching into the world of YouTube, we invite you to join us on this vibrant new platform where we promise auditory and visual delights. While we're at it, we're opening the doors wide to our community—your stories, your comments, your concerns are all welcome. Be a part of the conversation as we grow together. Buckle up, Matt and Jesse here, ready to guide you through the weird and wonderful without ever hitting the snooze button on life's wild stories.
This is the WWE coming at you live reporting from an Australian shopping mall. Are we really? We are live on scene with hello kitty wait. Oh, hello kitty, what. And?
Speaker 2:apparently the Queensland police and hello kitty from our Australian shopping mall. Welcome back to word roll variety. We are on the scene at an Australian shopping mall. We wanted to report on this live. We've got some weird news for you today, jesse. How weird is the news?
Speaker 1:it is super weird super weird how weird, because from the last episode we went from a kangaroo to an Australian shopping mall.
Speaker 2:Now we're going back to people and exactly you know little people, so why don't you topple this story for us?
Speaker 1:topple topple the story toddler gets stuck after climbing into a claw machine looking for a toy in Australian shopping.
Speaker 2:Now putting that aside, pause. Have you ever had the intrusive thought as a kid?
Speaker 1:to climb into the machine. I barely remember being a kid. So no, I don't think so.
Speaker 2:I have always wanted to do this wanted to climb into a yes claw machine because I've always wanted to like, figure out, like, is there a way that I could reach my arm in there and get like the toy that I had, the thief mindset as a kid. Well, claw machines were such a rip off, I can get a free toy claw machines were such a rip off, you would put in like $10 and it would even grab the toy grip right no, they don't grip at all and you can set those things to grip like one out of 81.
Speaker 1:I think I would rather the points be sharp so that punctures whatever.
Speaker 2:I'm kind of trying to grab well, I know for sure I'm getting it. It's also on them to program it.
Speaker 1:Program the claw to grip well, they must program it on the weakest setting so that nobody wins or very rarely wins.
Speaker 2:I was just trying to tell you that they program it one out of 50 times, one out of 100 times, one out of 200 times. That's how they program it.
Speaker 2:So, as a kid, there's always thought it would be fun to climb into a claw machine now if you were playing hide and seek. And you've seen YouTube. These days there are a lot of hide and seek versions where people climb into claw machines. I've seen that. What? Yeah, so the claw machine? They'll make it so that somebody can get in. Well, you're famous, you can climb into it and seek. Then again, internet was barely used, if at all, when you were Henry now most of those videos are set up, so I don't suggest anybody do this in real life.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't they have already like prepared against this by now? Uh I mean the whole smaller or something, Clown machines are pretty secure.
Speaker 2:I don't know how this kid even got in here. To be honest, he doesn't look like he would fit. I mean, maybe he doesn't look like he, I don't know maybe that's a pretty big toddler right. That's pretty big. So how in the world did he get in there? They have a video of it, he teleported I knew like look, look, look at this guy. He's stuck in there Like security and police are like, uh, what's going on?
Speaker 1:But if he crawled in there, couldn't he crawl back out?
Speaker 2:Uh, not if the trap door locks, because he probably got through the trap door. The trap door doesn't go the other way, or no?
Speaker 1:there's probably a key door to the back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, see the see the lock on the side here. That's a key right there, so they should be able to open that up, no problem.
Speaker 1:Is this section? I'm opening it up. No cause.
Speaker 2:Then again, the people who own the claw machines are not there, so they don't have the key to get in. So that's also an interesting oh man. Imagine being a third party. You only go to that mall once a month.
Speaker 1:Well, the police could smash it right yeah if they had to. Yeah, there it is. I knew it, they were going to smash it. I had a feeling they were going to smash it.
Speaker 2:Then they would just report to the third party what happened. So I mean, and then it would probably fall on the third party to pay for the damages, even though you know that was his fault.
Speaker 1:And they charged parents.
Speaker 2:I guess you can't really build a kid.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but they could build a parent.
Speaker 2:They could. I don't know if they did, though, but anyway, any old house Brisbane, australia.
Speaker 1:Australian police came to the aid of a three year old after he became trapped inside a club. I mean at a suburban shopping mall.
Speaker 2:Video of the unusual rescue Saturday was shared on social media by Queensland police on Thursday. It showed the toddler sitting inside the glass wall box filled with plush toys, blissfully unaware of his predicament. The boys father.
Speaker 1:Timothy Hopper said his son had disappeared into the claw machine's prize dispenser and inside it in a split second.
Speaker 2:So he found a way. Don't know how he did it, but he found a way. I had zero chance to react to it. It was unbelievable how fast he climbed up there.
Speaker 1:The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported Hopper saying the video then shows the officers and the boys, parents, encouraging him into a safe corner the back of the machine and to cover his eyes, while the police shatter a glass panel to free him unharmed.
Speaker 2:The video ends with one of the officers joking with the boy you want a prize. Which one do you want?
Speaker 1:Freedom or the plushie.
Speaker 2:Well, no, they probably did give him one, but that was just a really funny like. They probably did give him, I would imagine, like especially if the toddler yeah, come on now, whatever you wanted. It's just funny. It's not going to do anything harm.
Speaker 1:And the guy that owns the like smash it happens.
Speaker 2:The guy that owns these claw machines is not going to lose money on one toy Like they like they said.
Speaker 1:they said it. He does have to replace the machine glass. Yes, that's the only thing he'd probably lose money on.
Speaker 2:But I don't think this glass is super expensive only because it's such a small panel.
Speaker 1:You'd have to get it right from the manufacturer or whatever it might be.
Speaker 2:And I don't know.
Speaker 1:Maybe put it back on there Also it's another.
Speaker 2:No, I think it just sits in there, to be honest. If you had to do that, then yeah, it could potentially be maybe I kind of compare it like anything glass related to, like when you're replacing car glass, because car glass is heavy duty. Right, so if you have smaller panel glass and especially where that's like partially plastic, it should be less expensive.
Speaker 1:Have you ever replaced a window? Yeah, a House window, car window what?
Speaker 2:yeah, car windows mostly, but house yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not always that easy, depending on the size, shape.
Speaker 2:But you're also talking about a lot thicker glass that what he's? That was that look, the claw machine glass is not. The claw machine glass is nothing. This stuff, like the house windows and the car, that's expensive. That's thick glass, this is so. It shouldn't cost him too much, is all I'm saying. I mean, but it was more funny than anything that he got stuck in there. So moral the story. Keep an eye on your toddler yeah, crazy parents, watch your kids. I can honestly relate.
Speaker 1:Why is he'll be on the news like this?
Speaker 2:I can honestly relate how hard, it is to keep up with a toddler, because You'll be shopping.
Speaker 1:I'm so glad I ain't gonna be there.
Speaker 2:You'll be shopping at Walmart in one minute. They're with you. You turn around and they're just Wandering off.
Speaker 1:I want to deal with that, at least not right now. You're like hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I would probably use that kid leash honestly the child leaves. Yeah, I think I would use that.
Speaker 2:That's a very controversial subject. I don't care, I'm just saying my kid, I'm saying there's there's pros to it, but I'm saying it's, it's funny because it's controversial.
Speaker 1:Oh well, if you don't like it.
Speaker 2:I think it's fine, because most of those are safety oriented, like they just have a vest. So it's not like that crazy. It's not like you're putting a lot of straps on your kid or nothing. It's just it's just a vest.
Speaker 1:I think I'm out right now. No, they have.
Speaker 2:They have complete freedom to wander wherever they want, but the least.
Speaker 1:Just make sure that you don't lose that Funny with that knocking over shelves and stuff. Like they say they run around right around the corner to the next you have to watch out for that.
Speaker 2:You do have to watch out for that, kids.
Speaker 1:You're clad or an, everywhere kids love to touch stuff man.
Speaker 2:I mean as a child. They want to explore, they want to know what the world is, so they want to touch everything. I remember my associates when I back, when I used to sell like shoes. My associates would roll their eyes because any kind of kid would come in and want to touch the most expensive. Jordan, or like the most expensive thing, get their oily hands all over and maybe they just ate or something in there. It's like no.
Speaker 2:Everyone around stores like it he, he mostly, he mostly kept to himself there that he did it, he did explore and he did touch stuff, but it wasn't like it wasn't. Because here's the difference between my son and a lot, of, a lot of other kids he doesn't like his hands messy, so when he's touching stuff, his hands are usually pretty clean, like you, whenever he yeah, like so if his hands get messy, he doesn't like it, he'll wash his hands. So like, immediately flip out, you got lucky.
Speaker 1:Sounds like so well.
Speaker 2:There's. There's your own pros and cons with that. You know what I mean. But like he would like not want to get his hands messy, so if he touched stuff, it's usually he wouldn't have anything on it. Now, hmm, the that sounds kind of ideal to me the one outlier of that is if he gets into a bag of Cheetos or Doritos and then goes to touch stuff, because he will get his hands messy for those If he doesn't like it.
Speaker 1:You said he'll wash it.
Speaker 2:Right, he would, but I'm saying once he eats cheetahs and Doritos, he wouldn't necessarily go to wash his hands right away. That's what I was saying. So but anything else, like if it's mud or what he'll be like yeah, I gotta wash my hands, yep. Yeah, that's just him, that's him.
Speaker 1:That's funny.
Speaker 2:Well, speaking of surprise things when you don't want them, this is an interesting story that I thought would be Weird to talk about a C Bp dog. I believe it's the patrol dog or whatever.
Speaker 1:Customs and border protection dog.
Speaker 2:Okay, so a custom is in border protection dogs, so basically kind of like airport security dogs. Same idea sniffs out something unusual in passengers luggage mummified Monkeys, kind of creepy and they have a photo. Look at this thing, bro. What in the world is that?
Speaker 1:It's like two monkey heads on top of a rock.
Speaker 2:Three one, two, three, yeah.
Speaker 1:That is Now what the heck's up with it. There's a hole in his head. What's going on there?
Speaker 2:There's at least three there.
Speaker 1:Oh, so the top of his head or back of his head? Oh, here we go.
Speaker 1:Boston AP all right, a US customs border patrol dog Same thing, sniffed out something unusual in luggage from a traveler returning from Africa mummified monkeys the passenger returning from a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo reported that the luggage contained dried fish, but an inspection at Boston Logan Airport revealed dead and dehydrated bodies of four monkeys. Oh, so there's only three in the picture, but there's four. The traveler said he brought the monkeys into the US for his own consumption.
Speaker 2:What Well Ryan visit, a CPB spokesperson, said Sunday is what Raw or minimally processed meat from wild animals, sometimes referred to as bushmeat, is banned in the US Because of a threat of disease.
Speaker 1:The potential dangers posed by bringing bushmeat into the United States are real. Bushmeat can carry germs. It can cause illness, including the Ebola virus or Ebola Sorry, said Julio Caravia, local port director for Customs and Border Protection.
Speaker 2:The incident happened last month, but was made public on Friday.
Speaker 1:Seth said Sunday that no charges were filled, but all are filed. Sorry, but all the luggage was seized and the nearly nine pounds or four kilograms of bushmeat were marked for destruction by US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention probably lit that stuff on fire.
Speaker 2:They're all like get rid of that.
Speaker 1:That's pretty awful. I did not expect it to say he brought it for his consumption. I was expecting to be like I'm a archaeologist or something that, or whatever a preservation of museum person, something like that.
Speaker 2:I've heard of wild game, but this is another level it's bones in it. Oh, maybe it's dried out.
Speaker 1:It's like dead skin. Why would you want to eat?
Speaker 2:it's like beef jerky. I just wanted to know it's not a little judgmental here.
Speaker 1:I like animals, but that's just great.
Speaker 2:And the haters will say at least it's not McDonald's.
Speaker 1:The monkey monkey advocates are really like well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but do it. It this way. It's kind of like just weird. Right, like that was pretty weird. First of all, it's illegal number one.
Speaker 1:I mean, this is weird.
Speaker 2:You can't bring in raw meat because of the dangers of disease. Second, we just got over a pandemic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we don't need a bowl over here now, we don't need another one.
Speaker 2:Third what the heck are you doing?
Speaker 1:I.
Speaker 2:Think some people just have a screw loose that that guy had Listen. People even in the wild, like, say, tribal, they cook their meat, eating it. Are you kidding?
Speaker 1:That is definitely one of the reason for fire was for them to cook through. This is definitely one of the weirdest stories yet, but having mummified Mummified monkeys, rotten and spoiled meat that's like. Dude, it's nasty.
Speaker 2:That's savage.
Speaker 1:Savage is probably much better than yeah oh dude, that's disturbing, I don't know. Thanks so much for the next mental scar.
Speaker 2:Thank you, lord, for our dogs that.
Speaker 1:That sniffed this stuff out bro, it probably hurt that.
Speaker 2:It probably hurt that beagles nose.
Speaker 1:That dog was probably His.
Speaker 2:Nostrils were filing like boss, I need therapy for three days after this. I just sniffed out some 10.
Speaker 1:I need a. I need at least a month off now boss, this is smelling kind of weird boss. Can you imagine if they were talking oh, it smells all nasty, it's over here.
Speaker 2:What's in your backpack. Remember when they said what's in here?
Speaker 1:What's in your backpack is you'd be the next thing, yeah what's in your backpack, like run wild what's in your traveling case?
Speaker 2:Dude, that's like going back in time, like we have all these abilities to cook me and preserve it and all the options and this guy's bringing back mummified. Oh my gosh. And it's not expensive either, like a ziploc baggies how much.
Speaker 1:I guess he could have not known that it was illegal or whatever, but he had to have.
Speaker 2:I didn't think that. Isn't that a? Bush meat Well yeah, well no, isn't that kind of thing like a worldwide rule for?
Speaker 1:a lot of countries. I didn't know that.
Speaker 2:I thought so just because off of Common sense it just would make well that it should be common sense, yes, but but they don't really talk about it.
Speaker 1:So I get, I don't know until today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they don't really talk about it.
Speaker 1:Did you Are you?
Speaker 2:do you already did? I did know that well I think. Well, here's the thing for me traveling a lot, I look up a lot of rules before going into a country. You have and if you look up, if you just look up common sense, traveling was that's one of the many illegal things that you're Not a cared enough to look it up or something or ask any. The other illegal thing is not. The other illegal thing is going into an airport and saying the word bomb. That's the other illegal thing.
Speaker 1:What my question is how do you get on the plane in the first place?
Speaker 2:I don't know and make it over here. Was it a plane? Oh, Actually.
Speaker 1:I didn't.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it told us it said Border patrol.
Speaker 1:I guess that makes sense.
Speaker 2:But I said border protection Returning from Africa, so it had to have been on plane right.
Speaker 1:It says airport yeah, Washington Logan Airport.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it had to been playing. How did he get past?
Speaker 1:How do you get it on the first plane and?
Speaker 2:because in Africa they don't stand for this mess. They shouldn't know they don't. They have a tight security system. Did I almost tell you that I almost got kicked out of Africa once? Oh, you have to you have to have all your affairs in order when you go over to Africa and they have to know where you're going. Like it's strict.
Speaker 1:Oh, so you have to like, I have a plan, a schedule or something, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you have to have contacts, like you have to know where you're going.
Speaker 1:So you have to provide them names and everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, so how did this mess I had to have?
Speaker 1:but there's not much other explanation for that.
Speaker 2:Where are you hiding your dead monkeys?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can't hide that smell either. I wouldn't think you imagine standing in the custom line.
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sure people would still smell that too. I just forgot the utterance, sir.
Speaker 1:That's all, unless they assumed it was him.
Speaker 2:He just stunk yeah they just assumed it was him, he's just like bad be. Oh, that's what. I'm sorry, you smell like dead monkeys. Oh, you have. No, you have no idea. Well, if that didn't mess up your morning, I don't know what will. But I Want to take this time to thank everybody who's listening to the shows thus far and also tell you that we have we're gonna have.
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