The Weirding Hour

This week we go a bit off-topic and a lot off-the-rails while chatting about the weird origins of turns of phrase and making stuff with charcoal.

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Sources:

Bothwell:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythical_origins_of_language

Rhea:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/magazine/how-to-skin-a-cat.html

https://wordhistories.net/2017/05/09/no-room-to-swing-a-cat/

Nina:

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/14-expressions-with-crazy-origins-that-you-would-never-have-guessed/

https://www.stylist.co.uk/books/everyday-sayings-explained/124076

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bury-the-hatchet.html

https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/10-expressions-from-ancient-world.htm

Someone’s getting angry again this week as we talk (debate) over mysterious disappearances while making miscellaneous crafts! Can you guess who it’ll be?

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Sources:

Bothwell:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Jayme_Closs

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jayme-closs-wisconsin-teen-who-escaped-captor-2019-doing-good-n1253938

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10603086/jayme-closs-kidnapper-too-guilty-rape/

Rhea:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/bennington-triangle

https://listverse.com/2019/03/12/10-creepy-mysteries-of-the-bennington-triangle/

Nina:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bates_(physician)

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/516460/mysterious-disappearance-and-strange-reappearance-dr-william-horatio-bates

https://perfectsightwithoutglasses.com/

Today we're talking about three amazing heists and (mostly) making stuff out of wire!

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Sources:

Bothwell:

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/the-old-style-kent-crooks-who-tried-to-raid-the-dome-236957/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Dome_raid

Heist Podcast Episode 69

Rhea:

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/04/the-theater-that-shakespeare-stole.html

Nina:

https://www.latimes.com/la-tm-moonrocks23jun06-story.html?barc=0

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/moon-rock-thief-thad-roberts/582757/

http://einsteinsintuition.com/who-is-thad-roberts/about-thad/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/confessions-of-a-moon-rock-thief/

This episode promises a rollercoaster of emotions as we talk about people who are trapped! And we carve soap. Get listenin'!

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Sources:

Bothwell:

https://medium.com/chameleon/the-accidental-aquanaut-who-was-trapped-for-3-days-underwater-fcf03bbbaf53

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquanaut

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/12/nigeria-sailor-survive-air-pocket

https://explorersweb.com/2021/03/05/great-survival-stories-harrison-okene-the-accidental-aquanaut/

Rhea:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/trapped-elevator.html

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-down

Nina:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/502829/8-bizarre-places-people-have-gotten-stuck

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37196629

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/23/us-student-rescued-giant-vagina-sculpture-germany

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25618683

https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/california-man-gets-stuck-in-baby-swing-for-nine-hours.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-41167296

https://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/22/us/girl-stuck-in-barney-head/index.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40589631

This week we’re crafting with pens and talking science, including: a disease that’ll make your skin crawl; lady testicles; and of course our favourite subject - buttholes!

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Sources:

Bothwell:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5811176/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/morgellons-disease

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/may/07/morgellons-mysterious-illness

Rhea:

https://www.bibalex.org/SCIplanet/en/Article/Details.aspx?id=10296

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/84828632.pdf

Nina:

https://www.livescience.com/weirdest-science-of-2019.html https://www.livescience.com/64956-ctenophore-sometime-anus.html

https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2020/12/14/strange-science-weirdest-and-most-wonderful-stories-2020

https://blog.nature.org/science/2017/12/29/fantastic-fecal-phenomena-of-the-animal-world/

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/20/17595198/black-sarcophagus-bone-juice-campaign

https://www.change.org/p/let-people-drink-the-red-liquid-from-the-dark-sarcophagus

https://www.livescience.com/65461-spider-spins-web-in-ear.html

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-is-the-horror-that-sloths-have-to-go-through-every-time-they-poop

Today we're talking Munchausen Syndrome while making stuff out of tape. WARNING: at times this episode gets pretty gross so maybe save it for when you're not eating anything... enjoy!

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Sources:

Bothwell:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Garnett_Spears

https://eu.lohud.com/story/news/investigations/2014/06/17/lacey-spears-past-disturbing-stories/10659539/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-lacey-spears-a-mother-accused/

True Crime Brewery podcast- Lacey Spears episode

Rhea:

https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/munchausens-syndrome/overview/

https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/506936

Nina:

https://listverse.com/2015/09/03/10-shocking-cases-involving-munchausen-syndrome-by-proxy/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/articles/200709/munchausen-unusual-suspects

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Munchausen

Somehow we managed to make this week’s topic on hoaxes predominantly about genitals. We also made potato prints. It’s just how we do.

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Sources:

Bothwell:

Medical News Today

Rhea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relic

http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_holy_foreskin

Nina:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Toft

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/07/05/an-extraordinary-delivery-of-rabbits/

In this episode we talk predictions and make some anonymous papercraft; we predict it's gonna be a goodun!

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Sources:

Bothwell:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Camping

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25424916

https://www.livescience.com/14295-failed-doomsday-rapture-suicides.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/us/harold-camping-radio-entrepreneur-who-predicted-worlds-end-dies-at-92.html

Rhea:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/blind-mystic-baba-vanga-who-12208429

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Vanga

Nina:

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-simpsons-is-good-at-predicting-the-future-2016-11?r=US&IR=T

https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Blinky#cite_note-Skybox-1

https://gizmodo.com/the-simpsons-called-it-three-eyed-fish-caught-outside-5853988

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/3-eyed-fish-found-near-argentinean-nuclear-power-plant_n_1067679?ri18n=true

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36913915

Wikipedia

Youtube video Nina referenced:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkSTP3ZgBcs (How wealth changes people - Georg Rockall-Schmidt)

"How weird can nature be?" we hear you ask - don't fear, it's pretty weird! We also upped the weirdness this week with the classic craft 'choose your own drawing implement'; enjoy!

(Ps. sorry for the slightly more dodgy sound than usual - Nina's wifi decided to be a trashbag for this episode)

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To suggest crafts or topics: email [email protected]

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Sources:

Bothwell:

https://www.positive.news/society/justice/meet-the-forensic-ecologist-who-uses-nature-to-solve-crimes/

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/joanne-nelson-paul-dyson-prison-3437762

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jan/10/gender.uk https://www.essentialsurrey.co.uk/lifestyle/the-plant-detective/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Wiltshire#High-profile_cases https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-19075183

Rhea:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/defusing-africas-killer-lakes-88765263/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/killerlakestrans.shtml

Nina:

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2020/07/so-how-do-animals-swallowed-alive-actually-die-and-do-any-animals-ever-get-out-alive-after/

Wikipedia

Roll up for this week's episode on torture, featuring both famous and lesser-known torture devices - don't say we don't treat you! We also make some lovely torture collages.

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Sources:

Bothwell:

https://www.papermag.com/tickle-sluts-bdsm-sex-dominatrix-torture-2632850926.html?rebelltitem=23#rebelltitem23

https://culturacolectiva.com/history/tickling-torture-method-can-cause-aneurysm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickle_torture

Rhea:

https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/11/11/why-most-so-called-medieval-torture-devices-are-fake/

https://www.medievalists.net/2016/03/why-medieval-torture-devices-are-not-medieval/

Nina:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/medieval-torture-devices

https://www.medievalists.net/2019/09/archaeologists-discover-medieval-man-broken-on-the-wheel/

http://dannibal.blogspot.com/2012/02/torture-devices-that-are-based-on-lies.html Wikipedia