Old News Nonsense Vol. 14 – Bats, UFOs & Boiled Meatballs

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Hold onto your spaghetti, folks. J and Kai are back with another chaotic crawl through the weirdest corners of old newspaper archives.

We kick things off with a headline that makes Kai’s smile vanish in real time: A Bat in Her Stomach. Yes, you read that right. A woman allegedly carried a bat in her belly for seven years before emitting it... and that’s just the start of the body horror buffet.

Then, it's a family food feud for the ages as a furious Italian shares her real meatball and spaghetti recipe after Rudolph Valentino’s version made her blood boil. J and Kai not only dish on the recipe, they consider cooking it up themselves. (Measure with your heart, they say but what if your heart is dramatic?)

From there, things get... chewy. We head to a nursing home where participants built and raced fully edible cars made of cucumbers, meatballs, and bread loaves. Who needs Mario Kart when you've got macaroni mufflers?

Redneck culture takes the spotlight with a colorful deep dive into the chaos of the Lone Cabbage Fish Camp. Gator bites, frog torsos, airboat rides, and a taxidermied Bigfoot head all await. Yes, there’s a fashion critique too. 

But that’s not all! We meet:

• A goat arrested for butting doors in search of sandwiches
• A lost racing turtle who sparked an adorable investigation
• A parrot held for profanity, who beat the charges by singing a hymn
• And a Canadian UFO club who found... a porcupine (close enough)

Whether you're cleaning the house, chilling on the toilet, or deep in a frog leg-induced food coma, this episode is your perfect dose of weird history. It’s weird, it’s warm, and it’s 100% Old News Nonsense.