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A Manhattan‑sized interstellar object just got weird: Atlas 3I is accelerating in ways gravity alone can’t explain and shining bluer than the Sun. We unpack what those signals really mean, why a comet’s outgassing is still the benchmark explanation, and how a December window could settle the debate with clearer measurements. Yes, Avi Loeb floats the “alien engine” idea; we stress‑test that claim against spectroscopy, trajectory modeling, and the history of tricky small‑body photometry.

Then the universe gives way to a very terrestrial jolt: a Kentucky resident expecting medication opens a box packed with severed arms and fingers on ice. As shocking as it sounds, there’s a real medical logistics framework for anatomical donations and surgical training. We walk through how those shipments are supposed to work, what likely failed, and what anyone should do if sensitive biological material lands on the wrong porch.

Finally, we wade into the swirl around an official’s jet travel logs, accusations of perks, and a country “sensation” few have actually heard. Beyond the headlines, we focus on rules, oversight, and how context gets lost when outrage leads. It’s a tour from deep space to doorstep snafus to public accountability, all wrapped with a lighter debate about when it’s fair game to spin up the Christmas playlist and when the tree should actually go up.

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Well, hello and good morning.
Happy Monday.
Here we are in November.
My one of my favorite months.
I love November.
Don't know why, except maybeit's the beginning of the
holiday season.
Perhaps maybe Halloween is over.
I don't really care too much forHalloween.
I know egads.
I know unpopular opinion, butwhatever.
Uh moving on.
We have Thanksgiving this month,which is always good.

(00:23):
I love the holidays.
Okay, let's see here.
What do I have on my X-Feed?
I have three stories for you.
We have an update on theManhattan-sized interstellar
object 3i Atlas.
We're just gonna call it Atlas,as it accelerates and turns
bluer.
Possible signs of alien enginefrom Harvard Scientist.

(00:46):
And you know which HarvardScientist this is, our favorite
Avi Loeb.
I think the man is nutso, butyou know, who knows?
The Manhattan-sized interstellarobject atlas exhibits signs of
non-gravitational accelerationand appeared bluer than the sun
as it passed our local star,which could be signs of an alien

(01:10):
craft engine, according toHarvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb.
Well, the object'snon-gravitational acceleration
was recorded by NASA this weekand indicated a dramatic
outgassing, which could beexpected from a comet, and would
mean the object would lose halfits mass and exhibit a huge

(01:33):
plume of debris in the comingmonths.
Loeb suggested in a recent paperthat the acceleration, along
with the object's startling blueappearance, could be signs of an
artificially constructed craft.
Come on, Ivy.
Quit smoking the dope there.
Alternatively, thenon-gravitational acceleration

(01:55):
might be the technologicalsignature of an internal engine,
he wrote in a medium post onFriday.
Well, he's writing it on medium,so it must be true.
Medium is also like Substack.
I've I have not yet quitefigured out Medium.
I think I want to start overthere and write on it, but I
haven't figured it out.
They make it too complicated.
Maybe it is for the smartpeople.

(02:16):
Who knows?
It could be potentially beexplained by a hot engine or
source of artificial light, hewrote, adding that it could also
be a natural signature of acomet.
So either way, it could be acomet, it could be an it could
be a uh extraterrestrial.
He covered his boat all of hisbases, isn't he?

(02:36):
Good heavens.
Earth's why did why does he dothis?
Why is he doing this to get hisname out there and people
talking about him?
That's why.
Earth's telescopes wereprevented from directly
measuring the interstellarvisitor as it came within 172
million miles of the sun whileour pale blue dot was on the
opposite side of our local star.

(02:57):
However, several crafts thatorbit the sun just ahead of
Earth were able to takemeasurements that showed a rapid
brightening with the supposedcomet appearing distinctly bluer
than the sun.
The hue is very surprising incontrast earlier observations
which showed the object to bered then changing to green.

(03:19):
Well, I'm sure it changes colorsas it hurdles through space.
Uh I think there's probably justa natural state.
Atlas is expected to make itsclosest pass to Earth on
December 19th, zooming by at aroughly 167 million miles away.
167 million miles away.
That's still quite a long waysaway.

(03:41):
Which will provide terrestrialresearchers their best chance to
determine whether the mysteriousobject is in fact a comet or an
artificial craft.
If it is an artificial craft,where are they going?
They're not coming here, that'sfor certain.
If we do not observe a massivecloud of gas around Atlas in

(04:02):
December, Loeb said, it could bean indicator of a propulsion
system.
This guy smokes way too muchdope, I'm telling you.
Morning report delivers a letOkay, I already let's see.
Loeb blasted NASA for notproviding images taken by the
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter'shigh-rise camera during its

(04:23):
close pass to the red planetduring the first week of
October.
Okay, you know what?
You can go finish reading that.
What do you think it is?
It's obviously just a comet.
It cannot be a spacecraft.
Come on.
This next story would freak meall the way out.
I would be freaking out, Jerry.
Uh, let's see.
Kentucky women, Kentucky woman,I'm sorry, receives package of

(04:45):
human arms, plural, and fingersinstead of medicine delivery.
So I get a certain medicationdelivered too.
I would freak out if I opened itand felt I would probably pass
out.
I have never ever passed out inmy 58 years of being on this
earth.
I would pass out at that.
A Kentucky woman who wasexpecting a medicine delivery

(05:09):
opened the package only todiscover severed human arms and
fingers on ice, according to areport.
After re what?
I didn't know you could do that.
I guess if you pack it on ice,it'll be okay.
I didn't know that you could dothat.
I didn't know that you couldtake body parts.
I knew you could do organs, likeyour internal organs, like a

(05:30):
heart, a liver, whatever,kidney.
But I didn't know you could doyour extremities like that.
Uh after receiving the gruesomesurprise on Wednesday, the woman
called 911.
I think I would probably who doyou call?
If you open up you do you callyour your pharmacy that sent
that you were supposed to getyour medicine from?
You know you're gonna be on holdfor a long time on that one.

(05:50):
Uh so I guess you would call 911if you want immediate response.
Uh so we were expecting adelivery of urgent medication
that was flown in on like aNashville airport thing, and
they delivered two boxes.
We opened one box and it turnedout to be human body parts for
transplant, like it's verymedicine medicinal.

(06:12):
She continued.
We're trying to know where itgoes.
We just didn't want to bepossession of a body parts that
don't belong to us.
Well, no duh.
Emergency responders then calledin Christian County Coroner
Scott Daniel to retrieve the twoarms in four digits.
Oh goodness gracious.
This is kind of scary though.

(06:33):
I didn't know that you could dothat.
But I'm not in medicine.
The package full of body partsoriginated in Nashville and was
slated to be delivered to aschool or hospital for surgical
training.
Okay, so training.
That makes more sense.
I am, by the way, I'm changingwhen I go get my license

(06:54):
renewed.
I am not being a donor.
No, sir.
I'm not gonna nope.
I'm changing that little box.
Okay, we were moving on.
Um I added this one.
I really don't care about thisstory, but I added it because I
was desperate to find anotherthird topic.
So here we go.
And I forgive me if you guyslike this guy.

(07:17):
Cash Patel hits back at attackson country music sensation
girlfriend Alexis Wilkins.
First of all, I don't know ifthere's a second of all, but
first of all, I don't even knowwho Alexis Wilkins is, but
they're claiming she's some kindof uh country music sensation.
Never heard of her beforeknowing Cash Patel.

(07:44):
FBI director Cash Patel defendedhis relationship with
girlfriend, country music singerAlexis Wilkins after the pair
received online backlash overthe weekend.
Patel's statement followedreports that he used an FBI jet
to visit the singer who sang thenational anthem at a wrestling
event in Penn State.
Oh, she must be really good ifshe's singing the national

(08:07):
anthem at a wrestling match atPenn State.
Come on now.
He writes, the disgustinglybaseless attacks against Alexis,
a true patriot, and the womanI'm proud to call my partner in
life are beyond pathetic.
Are you though?
Are you a partner in life?
Oh, where's that ring, CashPatel?

(08:28):
Put a ring on it.
Okay?
Put a ring on it is all I'msaying.
She is a rock s if you're apartner for life, then you put a
ring on it.
You can't say you're a partnerfor life, okay?
Unless you're gonna marry her.
She is a rock solid conservativeand a country music sensation.
Never heard of her, Cash, whohas done more for this nation

(08:48):
than most of in ten lifetimes.
Like what?
What has she done?
I'm so blessed she's in my life.
Okay, well that's good.
I'm glad you I'm glad you're alltogether.
That's nice.
Uh so Patel added that attackingWilkins jeopardizes our safety
while also criticizing hisallies who have kept mum over
the controversy.
To our supposed allies stayingsilent, your silence is louder

(09:11):
than the clickbait haters.
Come on.
Well, he just wants to blameeverybody.
The attacks on Patel and Wilkinsbegan last week after Kylie
Serafin, an ex FBI agent andoutspoken cash critic, drew
attention to the FBI chiefs' jetlogs, which highlighted his trip
to see Wilkins perform at theReal American Freestyle Pro

(09:34):
Wrestling event.
Now, is it illegal to dosomething like that?
I don't know.
I don't know the rules andregulations for government
employees using jets to go to apersonal thing.
I imagine they would.
I don't see why not.
I personally do not have aproblem with it.
I mean, they're in that job.
How are they gonna get around?

(09:55):
I don't have a problem with it.
So they're gonna do it.
The conservative podcasterultimately accused Patel and
Wilkins of grifting off theAmerican public, sparking
outrage against the couple.
The revelations of Patel'spublicly available jet logs
allegedly caused the FBIdirector to oust Stephen Palmer,

(10:15):
a 27-year veteran of the FBI,who oversees the Bureau's
aviation units.
Oh, well, okay.
Palmer was reportedly told heneeded to resign or be fired, a
decision made in part overPatel's fury at the reports of
his personal travel, individualswith knowledge over the incident
told the outlet.
So if this is wrong, if this isagainst the rules, this guy was

(10:40):
just doing his job by reportingit, and now he gets fired.
I don't know if that's the caseor not, because I don't know if
it's against the rules or not.
I don't know.
And I really, like I said, don'tcare.
I just wanted to bring up thepart about her being a country
music sensation.
I've never heard of her.
Maybe you have, I don't know.
Um, so let's see, we need aquestion of the day.

(11:02):
Let's see, what are we gonna do?
Okay, since we started off withit being November in the
beginning of the holiday season,is it still too soon to listen
to Christmas music?
My answer is absolutely not.
It is not too soon.
I'm gonna start playing itimmediately because I love

(11:22):
Christmas music, it puts me in agood mood.
I love it.
It's not too soon, I promise.
Now, is it too soon to put upthe tree?
Yes.
The tree doesn't go up untilafter Thanksgiving.
Maybe, maybe, maybe it could goup a week of Thanksgiving,
maybe, and that way it can bedecorated for if you have
company over for Thanksgiving.
Because you know, they kind ofThanksgiving and Christmas kind

(11:44):
of go together, sort of.
I mean, maybe, I don't know.
I would not have a problem withyou putting up your Christmas
decorations the week ofThanksgiving.
We don't put ours up untilafterwards, though.
Maybe you can maybe there areother decorations you can put up
besides the tree forThanksgiving.
We don't really decorate a wholelot, but we will put up a tree.

(12:06):
Because we don't we don'tentertain, we don't have people
over.
We're just homebodies.
If we have anybody over, it'sour kids, our immediate family,
brother, sister-in-law,whatever.
But we don't we just don'tentertain.
We don't have friends like weused to anymore.
We still have friends, but wejust don't do things anymore
with people anymore.
Like when we were younger.

(12:27):
Okay, I've got off track here.
You guys have a great Monday.
I'm gonna have a fantasticMonday.
You know why?
Because we have Donald J.
Trump as president.
Amen.
Can I get an Amen?
Yes.
All right, thank you.
Have a great day.
Bye.