From Mummy Feet to Teddy Bear Nightmares: News That'll Curl Your Toes

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Trump's sudden dismissal of the Epstein files as "radical left Democrat" fabrications raises eyebrows, particularly since both Epstein and Maxwell were arrested during his presidency. What exactly is motivating this abrupt desire to "move on" from a scandal that's captivated public attention for nearly two decades? The timing feels suspicious, especially considering authorities seized evidence while Trump was still in office.

The news cycle takes an even darker turn with two profoundly disturbing stories that showcase humanity's bizarre side. A Wisconsin hospice nurse amputated an elderly patient's frostbitten foot without permission, planning to display it in her family's taxidermy shop with the ghoulish warning "Wear your boots, kids." Despite facing charges that could have resulted in 40 years imprisonment, she escaped with no jail time and minimal fines. Meanwhile, California authorities were sent scrambling after discovering what appeared to be a teddy bear wrapped in human skin—later revealed as a macabre creation from an Etsy shop specializing in horror props. The shop's robust 4.5-star rating suggests a disturbing market demand for such nightmarish items.

Between political distractions and genuinely bizarre news, it's easy to lose focus on what matters. As Miranda Devine suggests in her New York Post piece, perhaps this Epstein drama serves primarily to distract from more pressing political concerns. Before wrapping up with lighter fare about salad preferences, there's a recommendation for Mr. Shons' thought-provoking guest post "Four Revolutions That Need to Happen If We Need to Save the Republic" at anamericanist.com. In a world where truth increasingly seems stranger than fiction, maintaining perspective becomes more challenging—and more necessary—than ever. What strange headlines have caught your attention lately? Share your thoughts and don't forget to subscribe for more morning musings that venture beyond conventional headlines.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning, good morning.
Good morning, it's Monday.
Man, where did the weekend gooff to?
I don't know.
It went by so fast.
Let's see.
We have a couple of disturbingstories for you, but before I
get into that, let's talk aboutEpstein Files and Trump for a
second.
He put out on his Truth Social.
I guess it was Saturday morning, maybe Maybe it was Friday

(00:26):
night, I don't know, I can'tremember, but y'all.
Now he wants us all to move onfrom the Epstein files and get
this.
He says that it is documentsmade up by the radical left
Democrats, just like the dossierand the laptop and the Russia

(00:49):
hoax, all of that.
What in the world is going on?
Why do you think he wants us tomove on from this?
Now I wrote a couple of pieces.
One on the Victor Girls was mylatest.
One on the victor girls was mylatest one on the victor girls
blog, asking this kind of thesame question.
You know, is there any real,after nearly two decades, of all

(01:12):
of us out here hyping it up andtalking about it?
Maybe there really isn'tanything there, or or what's
really probably happened is theywere all that.
All of it was destroyed becausethey had plenty of time to do
so, when four years of Biden wasin office.
Now, get this, get this.
Remember, though, epstein wasarrested, and so was Ghislaine

(01:37):
Maxwell was arrested when Trumpwas president, so they seized
all of this when Trump waspresident.
So they seized all of this whentrump was president.
So I'm just saying, you know,hmm, makes you go.
Hmm, all right, let's move onto these disturbing stories.
I don't know why I picked thesethings.
I just think they'refascinating, but they're kind of

(01:57):
gross too.
All right, hospice nurse whoamputated patient's foot without
permission for use in sickeningtaxidermy display escapes jail
sentence.
What, oh my gosh?
What is wrong with these people?
A Wisconsin nurse who amputateda patient's frostbitten foot
Okay, here's what I don't get.

(02:18):
I thought frostbitten feet werefrom being in the cold, but
this is not so In this case.
We'll read on.
She removed a patient'sfrostbitten foot without
authorization and planned to useit as a ghoulish display in her
family's taxidermy shop wasgiven a sweetheart plea deal in

(02:38):
which she will serve no jailtime and she'll only got to pay
$443.
443.
Why 443?
Where do they come up withthese amounts?
I don't know.
Mary k brown is her name, 40,she's 40 years old.
Pleaded no contest to amisdemeanor.
Misdemeanor charge ofnegligently abusing a 60 62 year

(03:00):
old patient at spring valleysenior living health care campus
.
Oh my gosh, oh.
The patient died days later, soshe's not being charged with
murder, though no definitivelink was made between his death
and the amputation.
According to criminal complaint, she was initially charged with

(03:20):
intentionally causing greatbodily harm well, I guess so and
mayhem and physically abusingan elder person.
But the felonies, which couldhave been carried a maximum of
sentences 40 years weredismissed after pleading guilty
to a lesser charges.
Why, why, why did they offerher to plead guilty to lesser

(03:42):
charges?
I mean, this is insane.
If I was the family, I would behighly pissed off.
So get this.
The victim, doug McFarlane, wasbeing treated for severe
frostbite in both feet aftersuffering a fall in his home.
His feet had become necrotic,remaining attached to his leg by

(04:05):
only a tendon and two inches ofskin, and he was moved to
hospice care later After cuttingoff his right foot, which she
referred to as mummy feet, shetold nursing home colleagues she
planned to preserve the footand display it in a taxidermy
shop owned by her family.

(04:26):
As a graphic warning about thedangers of frostbite.
She planned to display a signwith the foot that said wear
your boots, kids.
According to the charges, thislady is gross and sickening and
I don't know why they offeredher lesser charges.
All right, moving on, anothergross and disturbing yes, I know

(04:46):
, gross and disturbing.
Monday, a teddy bear purportedlywrapped in human skin left on
California sidewalk, spookinglocals and cops, in a twisted
prank.
That is right, folks.
You've seen it all over X thismorning.
It not real, it's a prank.
It's not real skin that we knowof.
Okay, here we go.
A teddy bear that appeared to bewrapped in human skin was left

(05:10):
on a sidewalk in california ofcourse california spooking
locals and authorities whoopened an investigation into the
gruesome find, which isbelieved to be a twisted prank.
Um, so this person evidentlybought this, these, somebody
makes these on, they have anEtsy shop and they make.
They have a picture of it too.

(05:30):
By the way, if you go over tomy ex file and click on the
story, I don't have a picture ofit.
It's gross.
It's gross but it's not real.
Um, otherwise, I don't thinkthey have a picture of it.
Apparently, this person has anEtsy shop that does this kind of
thing.
Why, I have to ask why Is therea demand for this?
Apparently?
And here's the thing, now thatthey know this is an Etsy shop

(05:53):
person, watch, this person isgoing to be inundated.
Flooded with orders.
Now this is gross, okay.
Flooded with orders now this isgross, okay.
Uh, authorities in california,san bernardino county, rushed to
a local convenience station onbear valley road yes, it's bear
valley road after receivingreports of human remains left

(06:16):
outside.
Around noon on sunday, theyfound a teddy bear sitting on
the sidewalk, but the figurinelacked the typical soft fur the
Cuddly Kids toys are known tohave, and instead featured an
almost leathery, human-like skinthat had been stretched and

(06:37):
pinned to its body Y'all I'mthis is gross.
Its body y'all I'm this isgross.
The bear, too, featuredhumanoid.
Okay, let's move on to the.
Okay, we're moving on with two.
I don't want to describe it wellwhile the investigation
continues.
The bear may very likely havebeen planted on the street at
some sort of as some sort ofprank etsy seller dark seed

(07:00):
creations said, taking creditfor the horror movie prop yes, I
made the bear in the news video.
Yes, that's my Etsy shopscreenshot on the news article.
Yes, I did ship that bear to anEtsy customer in Victorville,
california last week.
Yes, you can still order onetoo.
No, I did not have anyknowledge of the buyer's

(07:23):
intentions, nor was I involvedin a prank on the other side of
the nation from me.
The user wrote on facebook darkseed creations, a shop on etsy
with four and a half starratings, sells an array of
macrby products, all featuringhuman-like skin on normal
objects Ew, why?

(07:43):
Like ties with faces on them ora stomach-churning $100 human
leather baseball hat?
Ew, why do you do this?
Why would people want this typeof thing?
This is gross.
I'm not going to finish readingthat.
Ugh, my stomach is turning.
There's another story here Ihave from the New York Post, if

(08:04):
you want to go read it.
It's from Miranda Devine andshe.
This is what it says Epsteindrama is an unnecessary
distraction for Trump admin andplays into the hands of malign
Dems.
So there you go, go read thatpiece.
A lot of people are sayingdon't be distracted by this.
You're playing into theDemocratic's hands with midterms
.
Don't fall for it.

(08:25):
Keep steady, keep focused, keepRepublican and conservative All
right.
We need to move on to thequestion of the day.
Oh, but before I get to thequestion of the day.
Please go check out my blog atanamericanistcom.
Mr Shons has written a guestblog post over there and it's
called the Four Revolutions thatNeed to Happen If we Need to

(08:47):
Save the Republic, and it's avery good piece.
It makes you think.
He gives you just enoughinformation to make you go, hmm,
and maybe think for yourself.
It's a great piece.
Go read it and share it too.
All right, question of the daywhat goes on your salad or what
goes in your salad?
I like to have you know, ofcourse, regular lettuce, romaine

(09:09):
, whatever iceberg.
I don't really like spin, I'mnot necessarily a spinach or
anything like that.
I like my regular iceberg orromaine lettuce.
Then I like cherry tomatoes,bell peppers meaning you know
the red, yellow, orange onescucumbers, maybe some green
onions Do you call them greenonions or do you call them

(09:30):
shallots or scallions orshallots, I don't know.
I call them green onions salads, I don't know.
Uh, I call them green onions.
Um, I like, just almost.
I don't like raw, I like okay, Ilike baby carrots, but I don't,
I don't like carrots in mysalad.
I don't really particularlycare for that.
I don't really like cheese onmy salad either.
So I'm a pretty basic, boringperson when it comes to salad,

(09:53):
and I like thousand Islanddressing.
Uh, is this a funny thing is Ididn't used to like it when I
was younger, but now I love it.
Okay, that's it.
That's the question of the day.
All right, gotta go.
Thanks for listening and lovey'all.
Bye.