Do Go On - 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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Sunday night. Welcome to Do Go On. Hey, Feel it. Hell yeah. Thank you so much for coming out. Easter Sunday. My name is Dave Warnocky. Welcome to another episode of Do Go One, but it's not just one. It's not just two. It is three people on stage tonight. Can you please go crazy for Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart? Yeah. Yeah, we did it. We did it. We're back. How are you? Are we good? Are we good? Sunday, well, halfway through a long weekend. Well, I don't fucking know. You're the math. This feels 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. You did that during bookcheat 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 idiot. But I like that you just can't lie. Yeah, oh, I know the crowd. Someone will yell, fact check. Fact check that. No, they're yelling, fuck head.

Sounds like, sounds like. Which in many ways there's much worse. But great to have you here, nonetheless. Anyway, happy Easter, everybody. Yeah, happy Easter. Thanks for avoiding your families. Yeah. I think of you as our family.

Oh, yeah. Is that what happens today? Yes. Yeah, welcome back. Start the show. Who's heard the show before? Love that. Thank you.

Great. Other end of the scale. Always we say, don't be shy. Who's never heard the show before? He's not one of us. He's heard it once so that he doesn't count. He's heard it. Hold on.

Actually, hearing it once and never again is worse than never hearing. You've had a go. Not for me. Do you remember which one you heard? What do we talk about? Did you pay any attention? Sounds like we.

one of Dave's reports. Did it go for three or four hours? 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. Jess and 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 first before you? 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. He's been real bitchy lately. So, good luck. But he is going to reap your shreds. Yeah, for sure. In that T-shirt. Do the thing.

Do the thing. Rown. Thank you. 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 out of the wardrobe system. Kitty's got claws. Sorry.

Not true. I love this. All you have is like picking on our clothes. What else can I pick on? Oh, so many things. We are deeply flawed. All right, I'm working into this new character. A sister? Why don't you upgrade your laptop?

Poindexter? It doesn't quite work. Something won't work, you know? I didn't need that today, Dave. I don't know quite no of that makes any sense either. Surely it would be the poindexers 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 four or five minutes ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 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? I'm looking forward to the meat shower. What connects?

Yeah, any 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. All right, so I'm going to tell five strange but 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? Strange but true.com. A lot of them are actually from the New York Times. Oh, yeah. In an article that was... Merman Huff. 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. But I looked up and I found the original thing. So 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? Rao. Okay. She couldn't find anything to wear. Been absolutely roasted there.

Also, Brayden Douglas from Brisbane. Also nodding, I don't think. Makes more sense that one. Yeah, that's very much. All right, well, let's get cracking. I'm not going to kick down there, so. We have started a little bit later. Does anyone have another show to run off to if we go a little over?

I love the spokesperson. I've checked with everyone. That's good. So, yeah, I'll just double-checked that. Otherwise, this will be a short app. Happy for three hours? You guys can stay for three hours. I saw the food fighters play once.

Oh, okay. They did maybe an hour and a half, and they come back and they say, we're going to play three more songs. And they're like, not three more, four more songs, not four more, five more, and the crowd's cheering and cheering. He got up to 17 more songs. I was like, please, no. Please.

How do you have that many songs? Oh, my God. play ever long and fuck off they play for three hours oh anyway we won't be doing that what was Dave Grohl wearing what was he yeah you don't have the legs for it anymore

let me tell you that I'm more committed to this bit than Dave is I'll let it go on again I think I'm not good at it I think he's lost the sort of passion for it yeah I think so maybe you're In fact, I think he's really pussed out. I'm like, something will come.

Something will come. The benefit of speaking as slow as I do, normally something comes. But not always. All right, let's talk about the Caribbean Cup. I don't think I'd say that, but here we are. Yes, that's right. We're going to talk about the Caribbean Cup. This one's from 1994.

Normally the aim of the game of soccer. 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 bend it like Beckham. Oh, you're okay. All right, this is for you then, Dave.

The aim of the game of soccer is to get the ball into the net past 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 math.

between Granada and Barbados in the 1994 Caribbean Cup. Heading into this... Did you say cheer other than cheer? Oh, good year. That makes a little more sense. Cheer was funny, but yeah, good year. Heading into the final group match, there was only one spot in the next round up for grabs

between these two countries. Granada 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, Granada could have won by any margin or lost by one and they still get through, right? Due to some quirks in the tournament's rules,

no drawers were allowed, normally in the earlier stages I'll have drawers. But in this competition, no draws were allowed. Everything went into extra time, and then penalty goals. On top of that, oh boy. 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. They're just making it up as like that. Are you following basically the idea, though?

Oh, yeah, yep, yep, yep. Oh, 100%. Hondo, mate, mate, yes. You bloody ripper. Okay, so Barbados got to an early 2-0 lead. All right, so if they blew the sign and then they were through. But unfortunately for them, Granada struck back, bringing the score to 2-1 with only 7 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, I don't want to have to come into that. I'll stop to say it, whatever. So I'll just fucking do it. Yes, I will dance. I am a monkey.

Because of the quirk of the rules, Barbados realized 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 Granada.

They'd park the bus, and with only a few minutes to go, and Granada 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 golden goal, which would count as two goals. So he promptly powered the ball past his own

stunned goalkeeper to make it too all. So all of a sudden it's two-two, and the goalkeeper was like, what the fuck are you? You figure out of your player? Now Granada needed to score a goal at either end to avoid extra time so that they could go through to the final. So the Granada players, I've seen the footage of it, it's wild, 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 Barbadalians had anticipated this move and rushed to defend the Granada goal as well as their own. So they're sort of split and defending both ends 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 into extra time, which sent Barbados into the final. So that plan worked. As was to be expected, the Grenadians were not amused. Granada 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 wouldn't you lock him up. I think he was being genuine, too. 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. Soccer.

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 baffled. And this was the first strange but true story. You love that?

I loved it. Hugh. The second I thought you were making fun of me. All right. Well, let's get into... That's Dave's job. He's the bitch. Go on, get him. Football, I more prefer polo.

Dave has a drama degree. He's very good. You can tell. Dave, for the people at home, you can't just do the hand. You've got to say the hand. Oh, sorry. Rav!

That was a bit of Jack Nicholson. Okay. Anyway. All right, 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. It's so long. All right. Wife returned after having fine funeral. Then Valenti learned he had buried the wrong woman.

It's not done. Asked 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 are going to be like, geez, man, just writing a bit.

Old school. It's not me. But you were alive then. I mean, I was alive. I used to arrive 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, let me know. Great. Declaring that the city falsely notified him that his wife was dead and saddled him with the expense of a funeral for a strange woman, Ignacio Valenti, who lives at, it's so funny that in the old times,

they'd give the full address in the other. who lives at 311 East 16th Street. Why is that relevant? 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. Valenti is an Italian. They don't do this anymore, do they?

But interesting. Is that the whole sentence? No, there's a comma. Valenti is an Italian, which made me instantly relate to him as a Swiss Italian. Man, 116. And about six weeks ago, he quarreled with his wife Angelico over the way she cooked macaroni. Play another stereotype much, buddy?

I can say that. As a result of the quarrel, the wife left Valenti's home declaring she would rather die than return. Oh, no. When Valenti's rage had cooled about the macaroni, he became worried over his wife and started a search for it. He just got hungry. But he refused to eat the macaroni

In that state I wanted al dente It's my culture, I know I know a bit of the lingo So he eventually got worried over 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 us all a 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 shown the body, said he declared it had been changed. Quote... Hold on, the body or the clothing? I wouldn't be seen dead in those clothes. Wow. Sorry, sorry.

You did what you had to do. Yeah, thank you. He recalled that the Morgkeeper 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 foot and half. Hair color can change.

And then Valenti said, this woman was better looking than my wife. Is that the kind of change they go through after death? No, the more guy's like, yeah, why do you think I got a job here? They're all hot. They're all hot. Did he in here?

Yeah, oh my God. But apparently, so he said, But the woman, she's better looking now and apparently the morgue guy replied, death beautifies them all. This morgue guy's a fucking creep. All right, I was kidding, but he really is creepy. Burf.

You're right. Certified, perp. Smothering his doubts, Valenti 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. Valenti and had the strange woman attired in it. The funeral was held,

and Valenti footed the bills he declared. Notice of the event was published in the Italian papers and the real Mrs. Valenti read it and then headed for home. Valenti, on arriving home, discovered the real Mrs. Valenti rummaging about for a wedding dress. What has become of it, she demanded? Why, I buried you in it three days ago. So casual.

Hey, huh. Don't you remember? You are so forget. Well, first you forget how to make macaroni the way I like. like it, and then you forget that you're dead. 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 moorkeeper was forcing him to believe that it was the body of his wife through that moorkeeper's full on horniness. This was another

strange but true story. It's good when you shush an audience. Shut, shut up, shut the fuck 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 of it will be worth it.

All right, that's two down, three to go. Bloody hell. 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. 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 Brockin, Germany's Magic Mountain. I looked into this. I looked up the mountain. I've never heard of. Have you heard of Brockin? You're a German man? Can't say my heritage has ever brought me across the Brooklyn.

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 well known in dark magic circles, so much so that it's been referenced in lyrics by heavy metal bands such as Coven.

Coven. COVID-19. Big fan. Fate's warning in Cradle of Filth. And there's even a German black metal band named Brockin Moon. So it's actually a pretty badass mountain, all right? Back to the group of Amher. eminent German and British investigators on top of the mountain.

In accordance with ancient right, the investigators attempted to change a billy goat into a young man. I love 1930 science. The investigators observed... That implies that if it turned into like a grown man, they'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 first,

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. Scraping of church bells. Okay. They used the proper pine fire. They described a circle of the prescribed size and they uttered every one of the Latin incantation stipulated for such goings on. witches have frequented the brocken ever since man can remember

the smallest boy hereabouts can tell you that says that in the article, a weird line, isn't it? That journalist has asked a lot of little boys. Little boy! You there, little boy! Dave, you might make sense at this line. Even Goethe, G-O-E-T-H-E. Doesn't matter.

Even Goathe in his Faust Oh, Gerta. Is that right? Even Gertrter in his Faust? Forced. Faust. It's like that famous German story.

The Faustian pact, yeah. Recognised that this was a place where no ordinary things happened. He wrote, The Witches on the Broken's Tale, the Shooter's Green, the Stubbles Pale, and high above them,

Throne's old neck. It's gibberish. Doesn't matter. Could have edited that bit out. But I really, I wanted Dave to show how smart he was, which he barely did. Oh.

It looks like the bitch has been bitched. 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 in toned. 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 stop. Please. 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.

Have come up the mound to watch this. Huddled in overcoats to protect them from the swirling mists. There really wasn't 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 uh... I split it again. They put the white sheet over the

goat and he counts to ten and then the maiden who was pure in heart whisked off the white sheet and there stood the billy goat. Somehow it hadn't turned into a boy. I don't know was there a boy shortage why? We need more boys!

There's another way to make boys. No goats required. Similar to a classic Phil Collins album. No code required. Is that it? Jacket. Jacket. Jacket.

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 had heard of it. The article ends with the line, The spectators applauded heartily, and the investigators said they were satisfied. This was yet another strange but true story.

They probably get less good as we go along with you. Adam, all the stories so far, that's the least believable. The goat did not become a boy. We all know that goat became a boy, okay. What are you trying to hide, journalists? You're hushing it up. This one might be the wildest one yet. Actually, did I say five, they're six.

All right. I am feeling a little Dave Grohlish. All right, the next two are pretty short, though. John R. Erickson is a children's author. Shut up. Not you. Oh. John R. Erickson is a children's author

whose Hank the Cowdog series has sold more than 8.5 million copies. Hank the Cowdog? Yeah. They put a white sheet over it. Started as a boy. So this children's author wrote an article that really grabbed my attention.

It was called Strange But True 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 porch animals, that's, to be honest, the weirdest part of this whole. Have you heard that phrase? Portch animals.

What's the porch? Do you know what 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 tweet Matt.

In the late 1990s, our family had an assortment of porch animals, two or three dogs. I mean, can you not count that many? 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 every second. They've 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 an indoor one. He's all the load of this big house. It's 30 people on the porch.

He won't let him in. I'm guessing this guy's like their version of Paul Jennings or something. It's so fun. I don't know why. Just in case anyone here was like, what's a children's author? Put it in terms I understand. I've said multiple things that I will edit out.

Mainly because I'm like, what am I doing? I'm going to go back and edit them all in. Oh. And then I'm going to edit in. silence after them. Long, long stretches of silence. 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, was the porch cat who was lucky to be inside.

She was surprised when Lee jumped up and sat on her chest. when he purred Dave How does that sound? It's a horny horny cat Okay well that That really changes this next bit

If it was a horny cat That fully changes this Next part of this sentence When he purred stared at her And moved his front paws up and down Cat's a purve So the cat's on the chest Cat's on the chest

Fiddler around with the nips. Is that 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.

No way. Yes, way. The headline for this was strange but true pet tales. He led with that. I didn't read the second one. My wife had a headache. No. And that was written by a man who's come up with some sort of cow-dog creature.

Yeah. Genius. Wow. All right. Here's an even quicker one. Let's see if I actually do it quickly. I love this one. This was suggested by listener, Grace Brooks.

Grace in? Is that someone pretending to be great? Grace ain't in, man. Thank you, duty, on sound. So Grace Brooks suggested this. It's about Susanna Salter, who became the first woman mayor of the United States. So first woman, mayor. Mayor.

Mayor. We get a lot of tweets about that. The first woman mayor, she went in as a woman. She went over her. All right. So, Susanna Salter was elected mayor 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 loss that would humiliate women and discourage them from running. Men are cool. As candidates didn't need to be made people. public before election day, Sulta did not know she'd been on the ballot before the polls opened. On the day, she was like, what? 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 two-thirds majority. So these guys 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 it's so good what a cruel little morsel there did you see how quickly I went I didn't control that it just happened do you believe in love after love with my very good share in person that is a very good share impersonation

holy shit if you didn't share that round. 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?

What's three hours from 840? Great. All right, great. Well, the last one's a bit longer anyway, okay? And this is the one, Dave, you were most excited about. And this is probably what... Oh, yeah. This might be the titular...

I forgot about it. Did you forget about it? Do you... I have, yes. But also, you just pulled the weirdest face I've ever seen. You went full Stephen. I... No shame.

I am really excited about this. All right, yeah, hit us. So this episode's probably going to be called The Strange Case of the Kentucky Meat Shower and other strange but true stories. Oh, okay. This was suggested by Hannah White and Canberra and Eric Parody from Ottawa

and Emily Noddle from Melbourne. Emily's here? That ever happened. It happened twice in primates today. It's never happened. One more time? Oh, wait, Hannah is here as well. From Canberra?

Yes. Oh! That is actually sick. That's pretty great. That's so good. Strange but true. Eric is... So of the people who are...

suggested it, the people here are in a two-thirds majority. I mean, I hate to make excuses mid-show, but I'm real tired. Come back next week, I'll be back on. I'm killed every other time we've done this, so this is a weird

misstep. Every other time? Every other time. Yeah. I actually kill in a two-thirds majority. Saved it. So, for this one, I'll be quoting a bit for the start from an article by Beck Crew of the Scientific American. 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.

A bit ironic, I guess. In a town called, well, she's getting rained on by meat. She's making something to clean. But the thing you 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 amusing. That they are. Yeah, keep saying them 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... Yeah, there's a fucking hole in it. There's a hole right up.

Right up. Right up the clacks. You could ask for a refund and I wouldn't mind. Look at that. What? I'm so sorry. This guy says he'd be expert. Hold him to it.

You pay on the way out, sir. So she's outside, Alan, or he, Alan Crouch, could be, whatever. Alan Crouch is outside making soap. No, yes, his wife. Fuck, all right. 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. 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 good, wouldn't it?

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 Beck 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 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 centimetres squared.

That's a big chunk of beef. But most are about 5 by 5 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 flavour of either venison or mutton which is like old deer or old lamb right old lamb being sheep probably if I only there was a word for this the English language language is beautiful He goes like, it's so beautiful. I love a language.

I just love my name. Thank you so much. Genuinely needed that. Someone in the audience said, I'm doing great. Which is a massive lie, but I'll take it. The first explanation came three months later when someone called Leopold Brandeis received and analyzed 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 Nostock. Did it do that, Nostock? No.

It's a type of cyanobacteria that forms colonies surrounded by a protective gelatinous envelope. Nostok 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 Nostok 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 Slubber Okay those are our new nicknames Eye shotgun Star Slubber I'm changing the group chat immediately I'll be Star Jelly, thank you. Problem is... What's that leave, Dave?

Witches jizz or something? Yes, yes, witcher's jizz. Yeah, that'll be my nickname now. So he was so sure of it, this man that I named. Leopold... Leopold Brandeis. He was so sure of it. He said the rain made it wet.

No, turn it into that. Oh, interesting. 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. I mean there's a plant from Big Mutton, you know? Coming down, pretending that it's Nostock. Who's heard of that? No one. It sounds made up, doesn't it? Yep. Brandy's...

Leopold, the dog. had given a couple of mystery meat samples to the president of the Newark Scientific Association, Dr. A. Mead Edwards, who said it was likely that the meat was actually lung tissue of a human infant or a horse. I don't know if I trust this guy. Lungs, do you reckon the infant lungs and a horse lung?

I couldn't tell a difference between them. 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. Ew. 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? I hate that. Dr. Castenbine, who wrote, in an 1876 edition

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

Kastenbein set fire to it and observed that it smelled distinctly of rancid mutton. That was his scientific test. I just set fire to it. Yeah, I've looked down. It's what it takes. I'm a scientist. Ridiculous.

So far heaps of shit. Do you? No. Where'd you park, by the way? Hear that smoking building. I'm gonna burn your house down. So this is from... Matt. 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? No. Oh. That's just mean then. Dave, your house is fine. Thank you.

Matt's going to need somewhere to stay. You can live on my porch. It's big. It's real big. So this is a quote from Castenbine. The only plausible theory explanatory of this anomalous shower appeared. Here we go.

Here we go. These fucking science cuss. Leave it. I thought Jess was leaving. She's expensive. I just need a drink. I mean, fucking hell. I can hardly pronounce a word in this quote.

But everything I said so far, the shower appears to me that's suggested by of the old Ohio farmer, the disengorgement 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 are found in Kentucky, the black vulture and the turkey vulture, and both of which are known to projectile vomit their stomach contents as either a defence mechanism

or to make themselves light enough for flight. What a nightmare. Yeah. 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 Niederama gives a little bit of a fun

A bit of closure hopefully here. Great website, nidorama.com, I assume. So here's a little addendum from Nidorama. 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 Transi Book Heist. Oh, yeah.

So he's working at that same university as an arts guy. Much prefer to those science concerts. 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 showered to begin with, a serendipitous fine in 2004 stoked his ardor 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... Science has 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 weird sky meet. Slash lunch. I have my lunch on the bloody bench today, would you believe? What am I like?

Determined to try and pinpoint what mystery animal was. rained 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 artwork involves community engagement. So he had a taste lab based in Cincinnati, 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, have some vulture vomit jelly beans. He was saying have some mystery

meat jelly. I mean either. Oh no. You got this. He's got one sentence left. I can tell because your text is size 42. I should say before I say the line, I ran out of strange but true. music. But I found something else.

And this was the final Strange but True story. See that chap over there? This is the mic who got me on the finish people. That is my report on Strange but True Story.

Matt Stewart, everybody. A big round of applause for Matt Stewart doing the report tonight. Cheers back in its rules. A big thank you. to the European Beer Cafe, everyone here. Appreciate you being here. Esteban on the camera.

Esteban on camera. Emma helping out with all the stuff backstage. We've got 3D on sound. We appreciate that. And for you, lovely people, for coming out on this Easter Sunday. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much.

Normally that's what the co-host would do. They go on. And also, big red of what, but not us. Not us. I love that to an audience. Fuck you, Dave. I've got a co-audience in tonight. Appreciate that. But yeah, thank you so much.

We'll see you next time. Goodbye. Later. Bye. 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 fact quote or question section. I'm not sure if Bob

did this last week. But, you know, it would be very difficult to do it without me, obviously. I'm 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 going to have four fact quotes or questions this week. 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 do go onpod.com or patreon.com or patreon.com slash dogoonpod. And you sign up on the Sydney-Shineberg 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-Shimeberg level is one of the higher levels. You get nearly everything on there. You get the bonus episodes. You get voting rights. You get access to 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, 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 quote or question in? Send me a message on Patreon. Pastri-on. 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 Meat Trey Nassie. He's slid in a nickname even there. You also get to give yourself a title. And Jordan's giving himself a title. of silly boy who makes up his own nicknames. I know another silly boy who makes up his own nicknames. Anyway, so I might have, um, 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 mean when he He's not here to defend himself, but hopefully you can take that. Thank you very much, Jordan, Nassie, 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 edited out quite a few times where I just said words wrong. I made some bad puns, and I edited 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 right off the bat, a hot quote from the Simpsons. Jacob's asking a question.

Let's hope it's addressed specifically to me. Hey guys. Oh, that's bad start. That's at 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 would be greatly appreciated. Also, if I have to answer my own question, which I always appreciate it, if you ask a question of 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 holidays than me. I've had a few great trips, though, 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 that time which is pretty great but holidaying places internationally most of my experience in holidaying is around caravan parks in country Victoria that's when my family used to go on holidays when I was a kid which I fucking loved but

internationally let's say really had a great time in Germany getting around the there. Um, October fest was a lot of fun. And, um, yeah, I haven't been to Japan, but somewhere I would really love to go to Japan. Um, I had a, my, the first time I ever went overseas, I spent, uh, four days in Shanghai and that was amazing. Uh, it was, yeah, it's just so exciting to get out and about. And it's just like the, the humidity and just the atmosphere and everything felt so different. It was, yeah, just was pretty electric feeling, I remember. So that would be a highlight. And not too far from Japan, if you wanted to head into China as well. Yeah. So New Zealand, I had an amazing couple of trips to New Zealand.

Once I went, spent a couple of weeks on the North Island, ended up, was kind of built around a trip to see the Saints play the first AFL game for, for, for, for, for, Premiership Points we played over there, which was pretty cool. And then I went back and travelled 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.

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. a waffle for you. Appreciate the question very much and your support. Next one comes from Roy Phillips, who's given himself the title of Tong 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 mini tires. 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 in that 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 Phillips. Great fact. Grim and fun equals great. Well done. And finally, Mine Gallagher. Let me see if I can find out how to pronounce this name quickly. M-A-E-N pronunciation.

There's a pronunciation there with a two-star rating, so I don't know if I'm going to trust that. Let's 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 ever played. Seeing as I only played video games really as a 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 Curtain. hotel semi-regular. 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 like well loved in maybe in the Labor Party, but I don't know mate, maybe not. And that but anyway, that's great pub. Seeing some great gigs there. Performed there. It was all. Well, they used to run a company night, but that's what I know. Anyway, Min Gallagher answers the question as well, which I love.

I've recently stated, oh my God, I need to have this in larger font. I don't know, it says stated, but I think it means started. All right, let me go again. I've recently started playing Civ 6 on Switch, and the iconic leader given to Australia is John Curtin. And I'd never heard of him before. I'm in the UK. Well, that's a pretty good excuse, I think. I'm in?

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 Civ 6 England leader is Queen 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 to him briefly. Iconic leader. Maybe it was a wartime leader. He was a wartime leader. 14th Prime Minister of Australia, from 1941 until his death in 1945. So yeah, so he was there for the big chunk of World War II. He was the leader of the Australian Labour Party. I got that right, from 35 to 45. and its longest serving leader until Goff Whitlam. Curtin'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 would have expected it to be Menzies or something. Menzies was a prime minister of Australia for like 20 years or something. I might be overstating that, but I don't know if that makes him iconic just because he did it a long time. Gough 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, fun fact, the Saints won there, won an only premiership. But he was booted out before then, so didn't hold the office at the time. So he was in office firstly from 39 to 41, so a bit over two years, and then again from 49 to 66, which is end of 49 to 49. at start of 66. So let's say that is just over 16 years plus. So I have 18 or so years. So that's pretty wild. I don't know. Yeah. Why? You've got the wrong guy. I need Jess, who's related to a prime minister. She'd have better answers. But yeah, hopefully that was something to mean,

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. Mitch Min Gallagher as well as Roy, Phillips, Jacob Lane and Jordan, Mitre Nassie. 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. Obviously, she's not here today, but I thought I'd take it into my own hands. And I found a page of facts.

I googled strange but true facts, and I got this page from the fact site.com. 100 strange but true facts that will shock you. So I'm going to give everyone I 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 thank comes from Leopold in Victoria, Australia. It is Amy Tickner. 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. Thank you so much, Amy Tickner, for all your support and I hope that fun and shocking fact. knocked you 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. Rice providing 20% of all calories. Consumed by humans. Humans. I hopefully really enjoyed that shocking fact there, Madison.

Pick yourself up off the floor because it is a true fact. You've got to believe it. Next one's from Los Angeles in California, United States. Michelle Lee. Hey Michelle, get ready for this. People can have a psychological disorder called bonethropy. that makes them believe that they are a cow. They try to live their life as a cow.

Whoa. Boanthropy. Wow, wow, wow. Michelle. That is a shocking fact. I 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. Avant Hill. And Arvon Hill, get ready for this fact. The name, for the shape of Pringles is called a hyperbolic parabolid. Hyperbolic parabolid. That's fun to say. So I'm going to say one more time.

Hyperbolic parabolid. So thank you so much to you. Avon Hill. This one comes from Birmingham in England. We're in Birmingham not too long ago. I think until last week, Birmingham was our last ever live show. Yeah. And I have very fond memories.

from it. This one comes from Jess Perrin. Jess Perrin from Birmingham. Jess, he's your fact. There is a McDonald's in every continent except Antarctica. That is a shocking fact.

I thought Antarctica would have had one. Overall, there are more than 36,000 McDonald's restaurants spread across the globe. Wow. That's pretty fun. All right. 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. I wonder what's bigger than it.

Maybe subway. Anyway, whatever. The first McDonald's to open outside of the USA commenced operations on June the 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 was the name of a St. Kilda footballer in the 90s.

I wonder if you are the same. Now you've moved over to the UK. I wonder. I 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, United States. Is that the Roswell? Can I only assume. So you've probably gotten used to being shocked. Will Garbers? And Will Garbers, here's your fact.

A jewel between three people is actually called a trule. That's fun. I think these are more sort of edging towards fun facts than shocking facts, but facts all the same, I assume. I'm taking the word of thefactsite.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 Strombeck 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 Strombeck Next support is from Canterbury in England Canterbury, that's where the tails are from, I think. And this Canterbarian is 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 you, Charlie. Finally, from Vancouver in BC, Canada. Shea Claire.

Shea Claire, here's your fact. Have I, 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 shoutouts for today. I'd love to thank them all once again before we quickly go through our Triptitch Club inductees. That's Shay, Charlie Connolly, Will, Matt, Jess, Arvint, Michelle, Madison, and Amy. Now let's go through quickly through, because we've got a few. And normally Dave and Jess really handled this. So welcoming these great people into. the Triptage Club is my honour today and I hope I'd do it justice.

I'm going to have some, to be involved in this, you've got to be involved on the shoutout 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 Pink's album in full,

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 who's already in is here for the party to welcome you in. So I'm going to bring him 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 into the Trip Ditch Club from Clare. 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, I reckon United States, it's Zane Hottonga. Zane Hatinga. Zane. Hey, Zane Lowe is a radio DJ in England.

Well, you make me Zane high as a cart 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 Colella. Brian Colella, Seattle, famously the home of Dr. Frazier 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, Gwil, or Gile. Hey, Ben, hey, you've got some Gile. about you. And I'd love to chat to you for a while. Welcome in to the club, Ben. From West Footscray in Victoria, it's C.J. Diamond. Hey, you're one diamond in the rough, CJ. Welcome to the club as well. And from Detroit Witch in Worcestershire, Great Britain, it's Ernie Arrowsmith. Hey, your arrow shoots true today, Ernie. And right through my heart, I'm in love with you. All right. And from Chelsea in M.E., which maybe is Maine in the United States.

I'd have to welcome in Michelle Stafford. Michelle Stafford, Staffie. You're no dog. Michelle, you're a bloody legend. Unless you think dogs are legends, then you're a dog. Welcome in, Michelle, your legend. And finally, from Kalankeleene, Kalini, from Killenny in Dublin, Ireland. It's Tiernan Annas.

Tiernan annis. Tiernan. I won't be crying any tears tonight, Tienan, unless they're tears of joy from the joy you bring me, your bloody legend, big Tiernan, Ennis. Thank you so much to Tiernan, Michelle, Ernie, C.J. Ben, Brian, Zane and Katie. All the best people. I hope you have the best time in our Triptage Club. It's so nice to welcome you in.

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