Timothy Dexter, born in 1747, and businessman extraordinaire, was quite a dude who showed everyone just what he was made of. He was not to be underestimated as many would learn. Next we’ll look at a very strange mental condition called Cotard’s Syndrome in which the sufferer actually believes themselves to be dead. Then Mel will take us just down the road to Niagara Falls where we’ll learn about the local haunting known as the Screaming Tunnel. Lastly, Rod will regale us with another potpourri of absurdities which are funny, freaky, and frightening.

Christmas is a time of giving, but some men get an unpleasant surprise when they give a little too hard. This is a cautionary tale, fellas. Next, Mel will tell us about some Christmas traditions from some other cultures. Then we’ll meet a couple who have setup a GoFundMe to buy the rights to a much hated Christmas song so they can remove it from existence. Lastly, we’ll look at some of the most popular Christmas toys that people lost their nog over.

A very brief bit of coolness about Howard Johnson’s. Mel will then tell us a sad, cautionary tale about a young woman who committed a horrific case of self-harm while using crystal meth. Rod will then tell us about a bizarre turn of events when a young woman bought a DNA ancestry kit. She never could have imagined what it would show. Mel will then tell us about Dr Robert Liston, a 19th century surgeon who held the record for the fastest amputations in medical history, and often at a price. Lastly, we will look at a common, if not creepy approach to family photos in the mid 19th century.

In what is probably a mix of ego and stupidity, we will learn of a Toronto corporate lawyer who got his cheque cashed. Mel will then tell us a very disturbing story out of Austria. Seriously, if you’re especially sensitive to stories of abuse, this might not be a story for you (start 13:25, end 29:00). Next, financial hardships have pushed a lot of people into taking extreme actions to address their problems, but this Filipino man should have chosen a different approach. Then we’re down in Florida where a female prison inmate was impregnated by a male prisoner without their ever having met in person. Lastly, we have a light story involving a kangaroo in a diaper.

Our first story is rather disgusting. So if you’re eating, you might want to finish up before listening. That’s all we’re saying about that one. Mel will then take us back to 10th century Ukraine to meet Olga who shows that vengeance and kickin’ ass are by no means gender specific. Not that any sensible person could think otherwise. Then we’ll nip next door to Russia to learn about some fascinating and bizarre transplants made by a scientist who could rightly be called mad. Lastly, we’ll go to the 1870’s and look at an incident in which meat fell from the heavens. Sure wish that would happen with some chicken wings.

This is our first ever recording on location, and we were at Rural Roots Brewing Company in Elmira, ON. Cannot recommend it enough! Great beer, great staff, and great wings too. We open on a chat with owner and proprietor Roger Lichti. Mel than tells us about someone with entirely too much money who went bananas for a banana. Next, Rod amazes and confounds us with some absurd facts. Then we’re off to Florida where an idiotic stunt involving fireworks inside a car may have ended a man’s manhood. Ever been to Iran? Me neither. But let’s go and meet a man who has not bathed in 60 years! Eww! Lastly, neuroscientists have taught rats … to drive. Why would you not?

The Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever designed and tested, and the largest human-made explosion. It’ll blow your mind! Next we’re off to Mel’s home province to learn about a series of mysterious and as yet unexplained loud booms reported in 1978. We will then meet four people whose attempts to commit insurance fraud could best be described as grizzly. Lastly we will learn about a burgeoning population of hippopotami in Colombia. Colombia? That’s right, you heard me. Colombia.

Anyone who has flown knows that it is not an overly comfortable experience. Cramped seats, screaming kids, mediocre food. But here’s one thing I hope none of us will ever have to experience. We will next meet a man who while under the influence of GHB decided it would be best to insert 15 hard boiled eggs into his rectum. What an oeuf! We rely on doctors to dispense healing treatment as spelled out in the Hippcratic oath. It is perhaps the greatest of betrayals for a doctor to use his or her training to cause harm. This doctor must have skipped that part of his training. Lastly, we’ll go back to 1518 when several dancing plagues swept through the area of what was then western Germany. Was it mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning, which is very much like LSD?