March 12, 2024 • 35 mins
Prepare to have your mind stretched to its most whimsical limits, as we share the incredible tale of "Deux's Face," a calf with an extraordinary twist on life. Your curiosity will be piqued by our discussion of polycephaly, and you might find yourselves reflecting on the unexpected delights that nature gifts us, echoing those virtual anomalies in Fallout 76. Then, delve into the world of wildlife mysteries with Adam Hartstone Rose, who brings to light the curious behaviors exhibited by animals during solar eclipses. Picture Galapagos tortoises in an eclipse-driven flirtation or gibbons crooning eclipse ballads, while we unwrap the secrets behind these quirky animal escapades.
Strap on your skis and cowboy hat as we take you through the snowy rush of skijoring in Leadville, Colorado, where skiers and horses form an electrifying duo. You'll be mesmerized by the tales of camaraderie and skill at play, in a sport that’s as much about heritage as it is about the thrill of the race. From the odd to the awe-inspiring, join us for a rollercoaster of tales that promise to entertain, inform, and leave you in wonder at the myriad spectacles our world has to offer.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
What's going on?
What's going on?
Are you weird yet?
Seriously, how's everybodydoing tonight?
And, like Jesse said, are youweird yet?
(00:31):
That's what I want to know.
Well, let's hear it.
Are you guys weird, yet?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I'm not sure you are.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I don't know either.
I don't know either.
I'll tell you what.
We've got some awesome thingsin the news this week.
So, like every week, if youdon't know, we are a podcast
that brings you weird and funnynews every single week, and
we're going to do that this week.
So, without further ado, let'sget into our first story.
(01:02):
What do you say?
All right?
All right, here we go.
Let's get into our first vaultwe go.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That reminds me of the time I came out of vault 76.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
So you were times.
I should say what, whathappened when you came out of
vault 76.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I'd usually die pretty fast and forget stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So you die.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And then well, I immediately fight a robot, like
each time I play it.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So this robot shows up.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
It's kind of like well, I exit the vault and you
know, go down some steps andthere's a robot there that's
willing to kill people and Istart shooting or I start
attacking it like moron, and itusually kills me.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
This sounds very familiar.
It should, I feel like we knowthis story.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
You should know it's the story so other with other
man can talk.
I'm sure other people would do.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So is this what?
It sounds like, you sneaking,and then all of a sudden, when
you see the robot, Now it's morelike Wait, do we have a?
Oh man, I wish I had a like the.
(02:34):
Remember the punch sound effectthey used to have.
Yeah, I think I have thatsomewhere and I don't.
I can't find it now.
I had a punch sound effect.
Here we go.
So, yeah, anyway, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So, besides our silly business, Well, this story kind
of ties in with my story Alittle bit, if you know what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Right.
So if anybody doesn't know,we're referencing the game
fallout 76.
And when you get out of thevault, there's a lot of things
that are messed up.
What's some things that aremessed up?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Well, for instance, I've seen two headed cows, and
that really ties into what thestory is.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, so that is one of the things that is messed up
and, believe it or not, ladiesand gentlemen, we do have some
weird news related to this topic.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
There was a rare two-faced calf born last month
on a Louisiana farm and it'sflourishing despite the odds.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Wait, wait, wait.
Do I have a sound for that?
Hold on.
So basically, what you'resaying is we're in fallout
without a sound Fallout, withoutactually having been there.
Yes, we're in fallout with thecow, here we go.
(04:03):
I had to add that.
All right, why don't you tellus how this came about and
what's going on with this?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
A rare calf, born with two faces, four eyes, two
doses, two mouths and two ears,continued to flourish Thursday.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Continue to flourish.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Thursday, eight days after its birth at a Southwest
Louisiana farm.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Probably means it's still alive.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
That's what their version of flourish means
they're watching it intently.
Let's see how many days it'llstay alive.
This mutation is still alive.
It's still there.
The owners of Breaux Farms LLCand Cossinade Breaux Farms.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I don't know what you're saying it's Breaux.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I'm pretty sure that'd be Breaux, breaux, breaux
, breaux Anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
It's the Breaux Cord, breaux Cord.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Breaux Cord Farms LLC and Cossinade, a community
about 90 miles west of BatonRouge, said the calf, which
appeared normal, from the earsto the ears, the ears back
Appeared.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I just said appeared.
Oh OK, Was named Duke's Face.
Duke's is French for two.
The chance of this type ofbirth is one in 400 million.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You read that Duke's face.
I read it as Doe Face, doe Face, whatever, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I mean, I don't see D-O-U-G-H, d-o, Dukes, eric and
Don Breaux.
Breaux said in a post onFacebook what are these names?
We know this calf will have ashort lifespan and will most
likely only live a few days.
That's kind of sad.
Don Breaux said she has beaten.
(05:58):
She has beaten a lot of odds bybeing born alive.
Don Breaux.
Most calves with polycephalythe condition of having more
than one head are stillborn.
Some live for several hours ordays.
According to Ripley's, believeit or not, the oldest living
two-faced calf survived for 40days.
That's kind of sad.
(06:19):
I wish they would live longerthan that.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You know, I've heard of animals having two heads, but
I've never seen a cow have twoheads.
That's pretty crazy.
That's like something straightout of a video game.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like youexpect it in a video game in
some sort of apocalypticsituation, but not in real life.
You more or less think thatthat's out of somebody's
imagination.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
We need to go there to see it.
I want to go see it.
Take some pictures Before itdies.
Stand next to it.
Do it again.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
At eight days old.
How old is this article?
When did it was posted?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
It just got published .
Oh, this is recent.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
A Duke's face is making.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I don't know how to say that Slow progress under the
care of several veterinariansand the Broxies.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Broxies or the Bro's, the Bro's, the Bro's, the
Facebook post.
She has trouble lifting herhead, bro's like oh yeah, she
has trouble lifting her head butis holding it up more and more.
She is getting stronger.
I forgot the woman voice.
Again, don Bro said an update.
I don't know, it's hard to tellwhen she is not standing on her
own yet, so she is unable tonurse on her mom.
(07:35):
We have been bottle feeding herfrom the start.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
That was beautiful, that was great acting.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I meant to do it from the.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Acting.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I meant to do it from the beginning, but I kind of
forgot to.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
No, that was great.
Acting what?
Why can't I talk what?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
do you?
You can't, we can't talk at alltonight.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Everybody applaud for his voice acting, his
phenomenal voice acting.
Yeah, anyway, next time you act, they might react like this I
just need to read slow next time.
All right, all right, all right.
So let's keep going here.
(08:14):
Let's see.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Well, there is another article, Mike there
might be another one.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Wait, wait, wait.
It has more info down here.
Let's see what Really yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
All right, are you sure?
Yeah, yeah, this is the lastone.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
This is the last part of it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Duke's face, or doface, is using a sling for
support as she works on buildingher leg muscles.
An update from the bros saythat they brought her outside to
get some sun and a little timewith the other cows.
The calf is not for sale Notthat sad, because I would have
bought it and one of theirupdates, the bro, said they are
not allowing any visitors orphotos.
(08:58):
Oh, come on, we couldn't go getone anyway.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
That's a ball.
Now, you can't prove it existsbecause there's no photos.
Really, hold on, hold on, holdon.
What do you guys think?
Do you guys think that shouldbe booed or not?
Yeah, that's what we arethinking.
That's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I really wanted a picture with this.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Come on man, how are you not?
Going to let people takepictures.
Duke's face.
It's not going to live thatlong.
This is history, history in themaking.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Come on, and one of their updates, the bro, said
they are not allowing anyvisitors or photos.
For the calf's safety and forher well-being and our privacy
we are not allowing any mediainvolvement.
So they can't prove it exists.
They declined an AssociatedPress interview, so somebody
obviously offered to buy it orsomething I'm assuming.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I guess they probably got calls right away from media
and everything.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
She does not appear to be suffering or any pain.
Another Facebook post said weare monitoring her constantly
and taking it day by day.
She has beaten many odds, butonly time will tell her fate.
We are hoping for the best andpreparing for the worst.
This is the reality of caringfor God's creations.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yeah, except we don't .
I'm glad to have any photos.
I glorified God right there,yeah, but we don't have any
photos.
Like, how are you going toprove it existed if you don't?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
have a photo I don't see.
Well, they said they don't wantphotos taken, but they could
have at least uploaded one ofthe runs.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, that sounds sketchy, bro, that sounds
sketchy.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
This could be quick If we're not even going to
upload one.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Maybe this is clickbait.
It's clickbait, they're lying.
They're lying.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
They're lying.
Well, you heard about atwo-faced calf, born apparently
Supposedly.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Here's a nice segue into our next article that
you're going to do.
Yeah, um, I don't know.
There are things that causemutations.
Now, one thing we've neverproven is what is solar eclipse
cause of mutation?
I?
Wouldn't even think that thatwould do anything to a one, but
doesn't that sound like anothersci-fi game?
(11:02):
Yeah, like where?
Like it's the ominous solareclipse and it caused a mutation
in the animals.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Hmm, I don't know.
I mean, it's like a humanturned into a werewolf, like.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know, but this is your
next article.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I got another one about introduce us to what this
is and related Uh well, mattalready kind of gave you the
kind of, but go ahead and givehim the time.
Spoiler, how do animals reactduring a total solar eclipse?
Science is planned to find outin April.
There's a solar eclipse comingup soon.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
So that means there's an investigation going down.
There is a video.
We could watch the videosometime, but for now is that
flamingos.
Yeah, that was the start of thevideo.
So you know it's probablyshowing like B roll of a bunch
of animals.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
All right, for now, let's see what this is,
washington.
When a total solar eclipsetransforms day and the night,
will tortoises start actingromantic?
What Well, giraffe scallop,will ape sing odd notes?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I don't know.
I don't know the question andit is.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I never thought to ask that is a strange,
researchers will weird.
That's weird for you.
Well, here, on a weird variety,researchers will be standing by
to observe how animals routinesat the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas
are disrupted when skies dim onApril 8th.
Hmm, they previously detectedother strange animal behaviors
in 2017 at a South Carolina zoothat was in the path of total
(12:37):
darkness.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
All right, everybody say it together oh, oh.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Oh, what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
All right, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I'm done.
I'm done.
What's going to?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
happen.
To our astonishment, most ofthe animals did surprising
things, said Adam Hartstone Rose, a North Carolina State
University researcher, who ledto observations published in the
journal Animals Simple Animals.
There you go.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
While there are many individual sightings of critters
behaving bizarrely duringhistoric eclipses, only in
recent years have scientistsstarted to rigorously study the
altered behaviors of wild,domestic and zoo animals.
Seven years ago, galapagostortoises at the river banks zoo
in Columbia, south Carolina,that generally do absolutely
(13:43):
nothing all day.
During the peak of the eclipsethey all start breeding Whoa
Gaze at Hartstone Raise.
The cause of the behavior isstill unclear.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
It's romantic, I guess.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I think I see why would just say something about
tortoises being romantic or turnthe lights out.
I made it.
I made a pair of sea amangs,gibbons what Gibbons that
usually call to each other inthe morning, saying unusual
tunes during the afternoon.
Eclipse Interesting A few malegiraffes began to gallop in
(14:16):
apparent anxiety.
The flamingos hover aroundtheir juveniles.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Okay, I've got a theory about this.
Well, me too.
All right, hear me out, hear meout.
I got a theory.
Everything that we've seen inbehavior also seems like it can
be related to another thingwhich causes a change in
behavior, and that is frequency.
You ever studied that?
(14:42):
How sound can affect the mind.
I'm wondering during a solareclipse, does the frequencies in
the air change?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Well, it's the moon blocking the sun, or the other
way around.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Oh, let me look here.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
It's a moon, I think, walking a sun right.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Oh, I get them mixed up all the time.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Just take this solar eclipse.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I am.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Well, to take what is moons ascending?
What Ascending nude?
Yeah, so it's the moon blockingthe sun, the moon blocking the
sun, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I had a few.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I mean, I was pretty sure that's what it was.
It's like the one you see inall the movies, where the Mayans
are got like the sort of on tosomething right there, because
the sun emits ultraviolet raysand the rays probably have some
sort of interference or whatever.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I'm.
I'm seeing a lot of trends offrequency involving everything
in life, so like sound affectingeverything, whether it's light
emitting a certain frequency,whether it's radio waves,
whether it's, you know, whetherit's lunar, whether it's having
to do with the universe.
So I feel like a lot of changesthat happen on the earth have
(15:58):
to do with frequency.
There's also rumors ofdifferent lights and frequencies
being able to heal and beingable to modify the body in
certain ways too.
So I'm wondering if it hasanything to do with that.
That's all.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Well, the dress being anxious.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah.
And they're mood changing andthey were talking about them
singing different tunes.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
The turtle breeding don't make a lot of sense to me,
but the turtle breeding is kindof funny.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
All right, what else you got?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
in April, Hartstein raises team plans to study
similar species in Texas to seeif the behaviors they witnessed
before in South Carolina pointto larger patterns.
Several other zoos along thepath are also inviting visitors
to help track animals, includingzoos in Little Rock, Arkansas,
Toledo, Ohio there you go.
Indianapolis Interesting.
This year's full solar eclipsein North America, chris Cross,
(16:51):
is a different route than in2017 and occurs in a different
season, which give or givingresearchers and citizen
scientists opportunities toobserve new habits.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Well, so this sounds kind of exciting for them
actually.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
So animals know some.
They know stuff like they cansense things.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
The animals are, like we've said before.
They're smarter than we givethem credit for a lot so, and I
feel like they have instinctsbased off those frequencies and
things that interrupt theirdaily lives.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
So they know something's off.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah, I feel like.
I feel like this is a reallycool science experiment.
This is definitely somethingthey should study.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
It's really high stakes.
We have a really short periodto observe them and we can't
repeat the experiment Said it?
Oh, there's another woman voice.
It's really high stakes.
We have a really short periodto observe them.
We can't repeat the experimentsthat Jennifer Saruta,
university of Tennessee,entomologists who observed a
(17:54):
honeybee colonies, who observedhoneybee colonies during the
2017 eclipse, nice.
The honeybees that Sarutastudied decreased foraging
during the eclipse, as theyusually would at night, except
for those from the hungriesthives.
Okay, is that a woman?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I can't tell, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Normally it's during a solar eclipse is a conflict
between their internal rhythmsand external environment, said
University of Alberta's Olavrepel I don't know if that's man
or woman adding that bees relyon polarized light from the
Sunday navigate.
Yeah, cuz it could be.
Both could be either, yeah.
Nate Bickford, an animalresearcher at Oregon Institute
of Technology, said that Solareclipses actually mimic short,
(18:43):
fast moving storms when skiesdarken and many animals Take
shelter.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Man.
So this okay, so it keeps going.
But basically what they'redoing is they're just waiting to
the eclipse happens and they'restudying Different types of
animals to see what theirreactions are.
And that's interesting becauseyou would have think they would
have done this by now.
You would have thought, youwould have thought, yeah, but I
(19:15):
mean like you would have thoughtthey would have studied this
more in depth, with how much westudy animals, like we do study
animals pretty in depth, butit's pretty interesting that
they're just now, in recentyears, getting to Studying solar
eclipses cause against animals.
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Well, there were a bunch of clowns the year before,
that's true, we did talk aboutthe clown them the clown Demik
of 1984.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Except it was 2016.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, so I don't know .
That seems very interesting.
As far as, like animals,reactions to solar eclipses,
that's crazy.
But yeah, I'll tell you what.
Let that leads us right intoour next section.
Here we go, take it away.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Matthew.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
All right.
So our next section, speakingof animals.
I thought this was interestingbecause it has to do what with
this?
(20:37):
It has to do with horses, allright, so I thought it was
interesting.
I thought it was interestingbecause I was like this is crazy
, so let's check this out.
This is the title, and I'veseen this pop up in social media
lately and get more famous.
This is actually a thing.
I was like what is going on?
So recently we talked about allthese new trends coming out and
(21:01):
different things going on.
This is one of those crazytrends.
What do you get when you crossrodeo with skiing?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
The wild and wacky skidgering Skidgering Now.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I'm going to show you a short video on this and, for
our listeners at home, we willdescribe what is happening in
the video and this will tell youa little bit about it.
Should show you a little bitabout the sport.
Aside from the ad, yeah we'renot sponsored by them, so sorry
guys, we are not.
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
What in the?
So the guy is skiing behind thehorse.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yes, so for our listeners on screen, they are
going down a snowy trail and oneof them is riding the horse, so
that's the, basically thedriver, the guy behind is on a
rope and he's going through anobstacle course on skis.
Now he has to take the stick.
Watch this again.
(22:03):
He has to take the stick andcatch rings on the way down this
obstacle course and he getspoints for how well he does it.
That's crazy for him, you know,not wrecking and all that kind
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
It looked kind of fun .
This is one of the sports I saw.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
There was another one that I saw that included kind
of like moguls.
So they were Moguls, yeah, sothey were skiing and they would
ramp off these moguls, but thehorse was.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Wait, what's a?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
mogul Just like that.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, it's like a hill.
When you said moguls, I thoughtyou were talking about a rich
person.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
No, moguls is what they talk about in skiing, when
they go down the hill andthey're doing the knee thing,
where they're bouncing off thehills and then they ramp.
Yeah, so there was one likethis, but with moguls.
But, as you can see, this is avery popular thing now.
I guess I don't know when thissport came out, but it became
more and more popular and nowit's viral and there are plenty
(23:00):
of moguls.
There's plenty of moguls anddonkeys and horses and all that
stuff.
Look at this Donkeys.
We're crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, I said it looks fun, but it also could be
potentially dangerous it couldbe dangerous.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
But it also looks like something you and the bros
kind of got together and decidedyou were going to do Not the
ones in Louisiana, where we wereHold my drink kind of deal.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I totally forgot to say to read, but not those bros.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Bro, all right, so let's let's read to the audience
a little bit more of what'sgoing on.
All these articles that we gottoday are from AP newscom.
If you want to join us or kindof our go to news.
Hey, they've got a lot of weirdnews.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
They've got a lot of regular news too but they've got
a lot of weird news.
That's like that's where themost is.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
AP newscom slash oddities.
Are y'all weird yet?
Yeah, weird yet from us Allright, leadville, I want to say
Colorado, leadville, colorado.
Nick Burry clicks into his skibindings, squats to stretch his
knees and scans the snowy racecourse.
Moments later he's zipping pasta series of gates at high speed
(24:07):
and hurting, hurtling off jumps.
He might be hurting too, butit's not gravity pulling him
toward the finish line, it's thebrute force of a quarter horse
named serious.
Oh, look at that Speaking ofnot not the X and I mentioned.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
And then we see serious, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Welcome to scheduling and extreme, and I don't know
if we are pronouncing that wrong.
In extreme and quirky wintersport that celebrates the
unlikely melding of rodeo andski culture in the US mountain
West.
It's a heart pumping whiteknuckle competition in which
horses and sometimes dogs, snowobels and even cars tow skiers
(24:51):
by rope at speeds that can top40 miles per hour over jumps as
high as eight feet 2.4 metersfor UK listeners and around
obstacles as they tried a lance,suspended hoops with a baton,
typically a ski pole that's cutin half.
Every winter, thousands ofpeople converge on the mining
(25:14):
town of Leadville, colorado,high in the Rocky Mountains
elevation 10,158 feet or 3,096meters, lining downtown's main
street and packing the saloonsto witness one of the most
popular scheduling races in thecountry.
The spectacle billed as thegranddaddy of them all has been
(25:38):
a tradition here since 1949.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
That's all.
How will we never hear of it?
Till now, though.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Dude, I don't know.
I think it's just because itgot famous recently.
So because of it being famous,it yeah.
Because of it being famous,whatever, and getting more and
more popular, is starting todrift on to TikTok.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Gaining popularity.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
That's what I meant.
All right, it's just the pureadrenaline that gets me to do it
.
And then getting these twodifferent groups of people
together with the riders andskiers usually they don't hang
out and getting them together wematch pretty well, said Murray,
who wears a fringe to leatherpants with his ski gear.
(26:24):
In a nod to the sports Westernvibe, skijoring draws its name
from the Norwegian word Ski Ski.
I don't know your, maybe it'swith a K?
It's the same thing with a K,or means he driving?
Okay, it started as a practicalmode of transportation in
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Scandinavia and became a popularin the Alps around 1900.
Today's sport is inherentlydangerous and injuries are not
uncommon.
There you go.
What were you just talkingabout?
Do it among writers and skiersalike.
Indeed, one of the first ridersin the Leadville race earlier
this month toppled off his horseand had to be helped off the
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track as he shook his head.
And confusion.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
It's not a half rodeo .
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Unless you get hurt Exactly, it's got to be
dangerous.
Otherwise it's not a rodeo.
Murray did well in thecompetition despite skiing with
a separated shoulder from a hardspill during the race two weeks
earlier.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Well, it sounds like it tickled.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah, it sounds like it could have been broken bones,
but he got off pretty easily.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Wrong turn, taking a jump wrong.
Go tell wrong.
You could end your season.
Then hospital bills rack up.
But it's just for the thrill ofit, said Murray.
At 26 year old, from MeekerColorado.
Another skier, jason Decker,pulled out of the race at the
last minute because he broke hiscollarbone in a crash during a
recent contest.
He sometimes wears a protectivecup about valuable lesson
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learned after being hit in thegrind by a flying chunk of snow
flung by a horse's hoof.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
It's not uncommon that my hands are shaking a
little, even after all this time, because the horse's nostrils
are flaring and I'm about readyto grab a rope that attached to
the saddle.
And if I'm not ready to go,then things can go bad really
quickly, said Decker, a 43 yearold engineer from Pagosa Springs
, colorado, who has been skiingsince he was two and skidoring
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for 14 years.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
That's kind of odd.
He was only skiing regularskiing for two years.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
No, no, he was skiing , since he was two years old.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Oh, since he was two, yeah, so he said, skiing for
two years.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Especially you, benning.
If you live in Colorado, it'skind of like automatic that you
can learn how to ski in snow.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Savannah McCarthy, a competitive ski juror, said she
was 12, describes a similarnervous energy before she mounts
her horse for a race, but onceshe is speeding down the course,
her world goes silent.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I mean she's having fun.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
I don't get a thing when I'm running, she said.
When it's happening you reallydon't have time to think about
anything, but when you get doneyou're like holy cow.
That was insane, said McCarthy,a 24 year old financial broker
from Durango, colorado, who haswon the Leadville Race nine
times.
One of her more memorablemoments was when her horse
slipped, pulled back andheadbutted her, breaking her
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nose.
Delightful.
Then there was the time shelost control of her horse, fall
in a race and smashed into aminivan.
Both the riders and skiers saythat these moments the crashes,
the speed, the raucous crowd andthe camaraderie make ski
drawing what it is, and thesport is growing.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
All right.
So what do you think of thissport, man?
What do you think about this?
Well, would you try it?
Would you personally try it Ifyou knew how to ski?
Or you could be the rider onthe horse.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I'll steal the horse Eventually, I guess.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Hey, bring that rider back here.
What's he doing?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I don't know man, I'd have to be pretty bored, or?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
just just like excuse me guys.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Adrenaline pumping to do it, I guess I think it'd be
dangerous?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah, but it'd definitely be interesting, for
sure.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
It's getting to a minivan, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I don't know, man.
All right, speaking of sports,let's head to our next one.
Auburn student makes a 94 footlength of the court putt and
wins a car.
A car, lucky, wait, wait, I gotsomething for this.
Here we go, yeah, but no,seriously, he wins a car.
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What the heck they wereoffering a car?
Is that a he?
I don't know, I said he, she,whoever they them this there
person, that human and AuburnUniversity student connected on
a long distance shots, draininga length of the basketball court
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putt on Saturday to win a car.
Connor Boyle made the 94 footputt rolling a golf ball from
one baseline and through a signnext to the opposite basket
during a promotion in the secondhalf of Auburn's game with
Georgia.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
I'm pretty sure that's a guy.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yep, maybe we don't know.
Well, we're assuming.
We're assuming.
After the putt found the smallopening on the sign, boyle raced
around the court celebratingwhile fans erupted and TV
cameras showed Auburn guardKatie Johnson looking on the
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bench with a stunned expression,mouth wide open.
Are you great?
Like like he was did honestlywell, no, I would be going crazy
too If I saw somebody make ashot like that and win a car.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
I kind of like to be very happy for her.
What I like to what we callthat Excent, not accentuate a
dramatize, dramatize.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, drama he ruptured like erupted.
No, but honestly, I'd beexcited to if my friend won a
car.
That'd be sick, especially ifhe didn't have a car.
Well, you can imagine being abroke college kid like yes, you
can be.
You can imagine being a brokecollege kid and and also like
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you, yeah, I was definitelybroke college kid.
But you can imagine being abroke college kid like you only
get if you get any money perweek.
You get so much money per weekit's hard to pay for anything.
So imagine getting a car likeyour first or second year in
college.
That's insane.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I imagine going to college a lot.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Well, there's that.
I don't know what to do aboutthat one you know it was the
first winner of the promotionthis season, winning a car from
a local Toyota dealership.
There you go.
Hey, there we go, my favorite,brand, Craig noise, a writer
from the university's studentrun site, the Auburn Plainsman,
won a car in the contest inFebruary 2023.
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It was the first time a studentmade the putt since 2014.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
So there was somebody else that did in 2014.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah, that's crazy.
That's a long putt too.
You imagine the length of abasketball court.
How long you have to put thatthing.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah, that's why they made it.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
That's why they made the prize a car Two years before
the clowns.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yeah, pretty much.
I just like mentioned theclowns.
I think it's funny.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
No, but I can't help it.
So, ladies and gentlemen, nexttime you participate in a
contest, to put across thiscourt just know, hit it with all
your might.
So you can win a car, you couldbe competing for a car and,
honestly, that's all the time wehave for today.
Are you a weird yet?
Are you a weird yet?
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Yeah, I am very weird.
I hope you are.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
I like why?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
because it has been awesome.
Thank you If you guys have beenlistening.
Remember we've got an IG pageYouTube and a YouTube and a
Facebook and email.
Just search weird world varietywith Matt and Jesse.
That's all you got to search.
Look us up, comment, send usyour stories and always or don't
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, whatever.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Stay weird, stay weird.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
So from the WWE, this is Matt and Jesse signing off.
See y'all later, okay, see ya.
What's going on?
What's going on?
Are you weird yet?
Seriously, how's everybodydoing tonight?
And, like Jesse said, are youweird yet?
(00:31):
That's what I want to know.
Well, let's hear it.
Are you guys weird, yet?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I'm not sure you are.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I don't know either.
I don't know either.
I'll tell you what.
We've got some awesome thingsin the news this week.
So, like every week, if youdon't know, we are a podcast
that brings you weird and funnynews every single week, and
we're going to do that this week.
So, without further ado, let'sget into our first story.
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What do you say?
All right?
All right, here we go.
Let's get into our first vaultwe go.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That reminds me of the time I came out of vault 76.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
So you were times.
I should say what, whathappened when you came out of
vault 76.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I'd usually die pretty fast and forget stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So you die.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
And then well, I immediately fight a robot, like
each time I play it.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So this robot shows up.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
It's kind of like well, I exit the vault and you
know, go down some steps andthere's a robot there that's
willing to kill people and Istart shooting or I start
attacking it like moron, and itusually kills me.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
This sounds very familiar.
It should, I feel like we knowthis story.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
You should know it's the story so other with other
man can talk.
I'm sure other people would do.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
So is this what?
It sounds like, you sneaking,and then all of a sudden, when
you see the robot, Now it's morelike Wait, do we have a?
Oh man, I wish I had a like the.
(02:34):
Remember the punch sound effectthey used to have.
Yeah, I think I have thatsomewhere and I don't.
I can't find it now.
I had a punch sound effect.
Here we go.
So, yeah, anyway, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So, besides our silly business, Well, this story kind
of ties in with my story Alittle bit, if you know what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Right.
So if anybody doesn't know,we're referencing the game
fallout 76.
And when you get out of thevault, there's a lot of things
that are messed up.
What's some things that aremessed up?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Well, for instance, I've seen two headed cows, and
that really ties into what thestory is.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, so that is one of the things that is messed up
and, believe it or not, ladiesand gentlemen, we do have some
weird news related to this topic.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
There was a rare two-faced calf born last month
on a Louisiana farm and it'sflourishing despite the odds.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Wait, wait, wait.
Do I have a sound for that?
Hold on.
So basically, what you'resaying is we're in fallout
without a sound Fallout, withoutactually having been there.
Yes, we're in fallout with thecow, here we go.
(04:03):
I had to add that.
All right, why don't you tellus how this came about and
what's going on with this?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
A rare calf, born with two faces, four eyes, two
doses, two mouths and two ears,continued to flourish Thursday.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Continue to flourish.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Thursday, eight days after its birth at a Southwest
Louisiana farm.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Probably means it's still alive.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
That's what their version of flourish means
they're watching it intently.
Let's see how many days it'llstay alive.
This mutation is still alive.
It's still there.
The owners of Breaux Farms LLCand Cossinade Breaux Farms.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I don't know what you're saying it's Breaux.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I'm pretty sure that'd be Breaux, breaux, breaux
, breaux Anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
It's the Breaux Cord, breaux Cord.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Breaux Cord Farms LLC and Cossinade, a community
about 90 miles west of BatonRouge, said the calf, which
appeared normal, from the earsto the ears, the ears back
Appeared.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I just said appeared.
Oh OK, Was named Duke's Face.
Duke's is French for two.
The chance of this type ofbirth is one in 400 million.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You read that Duke's face.
I read it as Doe Face, doe Face, whatever, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I mean, I don't see D-O-U-G-H, d-o, Dukes, eric and
Don Breaux.
Breaux said in a post onFacebook what are these names?
We know this calf will have ashort lifespan and will most
likely only live a few days.
That's kind of sad.
Don Breaux said she has beaten.
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She has beaten a lot of odds bybeing born alive.
Don Breaux.
Most calves with polycephalythe condition of having more
than one head are stillborn.
Some live for several hours ordays.
According to Ripley's, believeit or not, the oldest living
two-faced calf survived for 40days.
That's kind of sad.
(06:19):
I wish they would live longerthan that.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You know, I've heard of animals having two heads, but
I've never seen a cow have twoheads.
That's pretty crazy.
That's like something straightout of a video game.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like youexpect it in a video game in
some sort of apocalypticsituation, but not in real life.
You more or less think thatthat's out of somebody's
imagination.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
We need to go there to see it.
I want to go see it.
Take some pictures Before itdies.
Stand next to it.
Do it again.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
At eight days old.
How old is this article?
When did it was posted?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
It just got published .
Oh, this is recent.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
A Duke's face is making.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I don't know how to say that Slow progress under the
care of several veterinariansand the Broxies.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Broxies or the Bro's, the Bro's, the Bro's, the
Facebook post.
She has trouble lifting herhead, bro's like oh yeah, she
has trouble lifting her head butis holding it up more and more.
She is getting stronger.
I forgot the woman voice.
Again, don Bro said an update.
I don't know, it's hard to tellwhen she is not standing on her
own yet, so she is unable tonurse on her mom.
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We have been bottle feeding herfrom the start.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
That was beautiful, that was great acting.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I meant to do it from the.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Acting.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I meant to do it from the beginning, but I kind of
forgot to.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
No, that was great.
Acting what?
Why can't I talk what?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
do you?
You can't, we can't talk at alltonight.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Everybody applaud for his voice acting, his
phenomenal voice acting.
Yeah, anyway, next time you act, they might react like this I
just need to read slow next time.
All right, all right, all right.
So let's keep going here.
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Let's see.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Well, there is another article, Mike there
might be another one.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Wait, wait, wait.
It has more info down here.
Let's see what Really yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
All right, are you sure?
Yeah, yeah, this is the lastone.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
This is the last part of it.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Duke's face, or doface, is using a sling for
support as she works on buildingher leg muscles.
An update from the bros saythat they brought her outside to
get some sun and a little timewith the other cows.
The calf is not for sale Notthat sad, because I would have
bought it and one of theirupdates, the bro, said they are
not allowing any visitors orphotos.
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Oh, come on, we couldn't go getone anyway.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
That's a ball.
Now, you can't prove it existsbecause there's no photos.
Really, hold on, hold on, holdon.
What do you guys think?
Do you guys think that shouldbe booed or not?
Yeah, that's what we arethinking.
That's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I really wanted a picture with this.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Come on man, how are you not?
Going to let people takepictures.
Duke's face.
It's not going to live thatlong.
This is history, history in themaking.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Come on, and one of their updates, the bro, said
they are not allowing anyvisitors or photos.
For the calf's safety and forher well-being and our privacy
we are not allowing any mediainvolvement.
So they can't prove it exists.
They declined an AssociatedPress interview, so somebody
obviously offered to buy it orsomething I'm assuming.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I guess they probably got calls right away from media
and everything.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
She does not appear to be suffering or any pain.
Another Facebook post said weare monitoring her constantly
and taking it day by day.
She has beaten many odds, butonly time will tell her fate.
We are hoping for the best andpreparing for the worst.
This is the reality of caringfor God's creations.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yeah, except we don't .
I'm glad to have any photos.
I glorified God right there,yeah, but we don't have any
photos.
Like, how are you going toprove it existed if you don't?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
have a photo I don't see.
Well, they said they don't wantphotos taken, but they could
have at least uploaded one ofthe runs.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, that sounds sketchy, bro, that sounds
sketchy.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
This could be quick If we're not even going to
upload one.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Maybe this is clickbait.
It's clickbait, they're lying.
They're lying.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
They're lying.
Well, you heard about atwo-faced calf, born apparently
Supposedly.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Here's a nice segue into our next article that
you're going to do.
Yeah, um, I don't know.
There are things that causemutations.
Now, one thing we've neverproven is what is solar eclipse
cause of mutation?
I?
Wouldn't even think that thatwould do anything to a one, but
doesn't that sound like anothersci-fi game?
(11:02):
Yeah, like where?
Like it's the ominous solareclipse and it caused a mutation
in the animals.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Hmm, I don't know.
I mean, it's like a humanturned into a werewolf, like.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know, but this is your
next article.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I got another one about introduce us to what this
is and related Uh well, mattalready kind of gave you the
kind of, but go ahead and givehim the time.
Spoiler, how do animals reactduring a total solar eclipse?
Science is planned to find outin April.
There's a solar eclipse comingup soon.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
So that means there's an investigation going down.
There is a video.
We could watch the videosometime, but for now is that
flamingos.
Yeah, that was the start of thevideo.
So you know it's probablyshowing like B roll of a bunch
of animals.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
All right, for now, let's see what this is,
washington.
When a total solar eclipsetransforms day and the night,
will tortoises start actingromantic?
What Well, giraffe scallop,will ape sing odd notes?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I don't know.
I don't know the question andit is.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I never thought to ask that is a strange,
researchers will weird.
That's weird for you.
Well, here, on a weird variety,researchers will be standing by
to observe how animals routinesat the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas
are disrupted when skies dim onApril 8th.
Hmm, they previously detectedother strange animal behaviors
in 2017 at a South Carolina zoothat was in the path of total
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darkness.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
All right, everybody say it together oh, oh.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Oh, what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
All right, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I'm done.
I'm done.
What's going to?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
happen.
To our astonishment, most ofthe animals did surprising
things, said Adam Hartstone Rose, a North Carolina State
University researcher, who ledto observations published in the
journal Animals Simple Animals.
There you go.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
While there are many individual sightings of critters
behaving bizarrely duringhistoric eclipses, only in
recent years have scientistsstarted to rigorously study the
altered behaviors of wild,domestic and zoo animals.
Seven years ago, galapagostortoises at the river banks zoo
in Columbia, south Carolina,that generally do absolutely
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nothing all day.
During the peak of the eclipsethey all start breeding Whoa
Gaze at Hartstone Raise.
The cause of the behavior isstill unclear.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
It's romantic, I guess.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I think I see why would just say something about
tortoises being romantic or turnthe lights out.
I made it.
I made a pair of sea amangs,gibbons what Gibbons that
usually call to each other inthe morning, saying unusual
tunes during the afternoon.
Eclipse Interesting A few malegiraffes began to gallop in
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apparent anxiety.
The flamingos hover aroundtheir juveniles.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Okay, I've got a theory about this.
Well, me too.
All right, hear me out, hear meout.
I got a theory.
Everything that we've seen inbehavior also seems like it can
be related to another thingwhich causes a change in
behavior, and that is frequency.
You ever studied that?
(14:42):
How sound can affect the mind.
I'm wondering during a solareclipse, does the frequencies in
the air change?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Well, it's the moon blocking the sun, or the other
way around.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Oh, let me look here.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
It's a moon, I think, walking a sun right.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Oh, I get them mixed up all the time.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Just take this solar eclipse.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I am.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Well, to take what is moons ascending?
What Ascending nude?
Yeah, so it's the moon blockingthe sun, the moon blocking the
sun, yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I had a few.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I mean, I was pretty sure that's what it was.
It's like the one you see inall the movies, where the Mayans
are got like the sort of on tosomething right there, because
the sun emits ultraviolet raysand the rays probably have some
sort of interference or whatever.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I'm.
I'm seeing a lot of trends offrequency involving everything
in life, so like sound affectingeverything, whether it's light
emitting a certain frequency,whether it's radio waves,
whether it's, you know, whetherit's lunar, whether it's having
to do with the universe.
So I feel like a lot of changesthat happen on the earth have
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to do with frequency.
There's also rumors ofdifferent lights and frequencies
being able to heal and beingable to modify the body in
certain ways too.
So I'm wondering if it hasanything to do with that.
That's all.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Well, the dress being anxious.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah.
And they're mood changing andthey were talking about them
singing different tunes.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
The turtle breeding don't make a lot of sense to me,
but the turtle breeding is kindof funny.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
All right, what else you got?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
in April, Hartstein raises team plans to study
similar species in Texas to seeif the behaviors they witnessed
before in South Carolina pointto larger patterns.
Several other zoos along thepath are also inviting visitors
to help track animals, includingzoos in Little Rock, Arkansas,
Toledo, Ohio there you go.
Indianapolis Interesting.
This year's full solar eclipsein North America, chris Cross,
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is a different route than in2017 and occurs in a different
season, which give or givingresearchers and citizen
scientists opportunities toobserve new habits.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Well, so this sounds kind of exciting for them
actually.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
So animals know some.
They know stuff like they cansense things.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
The animals are, like we've said before.
They're smarter than we givethem credit for a lot so, and I
feel like they have instinctsbased off those frequencies and
things that interrupt theirdaily lives.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
So they know something's off.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah, I feel like.
I feel like this is a reallycool science experiment.
This is definitely somethingthey should study.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
It's really high stakes.
We have a really short periodto observe them and we can't
repeat the experiment Said it?
Oh, there's another woman voice.
It's really high stakes.
We have a really short periodto observe them.
We can't repeat the experimentsthat Jennifer Saruta,
university of Tennessee,entomologists who observed a
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honeybee colonies, who observedhoneybee colonies during the
2017 eclipse, nice.
The honeybees that Sarutastudied decreased foraging
during the eclipse, as theyusually would at night, except
for those from the hungriesthives.
Okay, is that a woman?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I can't tell, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Normally it's during a solar eclipse is a conflict
between their internal rhythmsand external environment, said
University of Alberta's Olavrepel I don't know if that's man
or woman adding that bees relyon polarized light from the
Sunday navigate.
Yeah, cuz it could be.
Both could be either, yeah.
Nate Bickford, an animalresearcher at Oregon Institute
of Technology, said that Solareclipses actually mimic short,
(18:43):
fast moving storms when skiesdarken and many animals Take
shelter.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Man.
So this okay, so it keeps going.
But basically what they'redoing is they're just waiting to
the eclipse happens and they'restudying Different types of
animals to see what theirreactions are.
And that's interesting becauseyou would have think they would
have done this by now.
You would have thought, youwould have thought, yeah, but I
(19:15):
mean like you would have thoughtthey would have studied this
more in depth, with how much westudy animals, like we do study
animals pretty in depth, butit's pretty interesting that
they're just now, in recentyears, getting to Studying solar
eclipses cause against animals.
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Well, there were a bunch of clowns the year before,
that's true, we did talk aboutthe clown them the clown Demik
of 1984.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Except it was 2016.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, so I don't know .
That seems very interesting.
As far as, like animals,reactions to solar eclipses,
that's crazy.
But yeah, I'll tell you what.
Let that leads us right intoour next section.
Here we go, take it away.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Matthew.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
All right.
So our next section, speakingof animals.
I thought this was interestingbecause it has to do what with
this?
(20:37):
It has to do with horses, allright, so I thought it was
interesting.
I thought it was interestingbecause I was like this is crazy
, so let's check this out.
This is the title, and I'veseen this pop up in social media
lately and get more famous.
This is actually a thing.
I was like what is going on?
So recently we talked about allthese new trends coming out and
(21:01):
different things going on.
This is one of those crazytrends.
What do you get when you crossrodeo with skiing?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
The wild and wacky skidgering Skidgering Now.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I'm going to show you a short video on this and, for
our listeners at home, we willdescribe what is happening in
the video and this will tell youa little bit about it.
Should show you a little bitabout the sport.
Aside from the ad, yeah we'renot sponsored by them, so sorry
guys, we are not.
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
What in the?
So the guy is skiing behind thehorse.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yes, so for our listeners on screen, they are
going down a snowy trail and oneof them is riding the horse, so
that's the, basically thedriver, the guy behind is on a
rope and he's going through anobstacle course on skis.
Now he has to take the stick.
Watch this again.
(22:03):
He has to take the stick andcatch rings on the way down this
obstacle course and he getspoints for how well he does it.
That's crazy for him, you know,not wrecking and all that kind
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
It looked kind of fun .
This is one of the sports I saw.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
There was another one that I saw that included kind
of like moguls.
So they were Moguls, yeah, sothey were skiing and they would
ramp off these moguls, but thehorse was.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Wait, what's a?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
mogul Just like that.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, it's like a hill.
When you said moguls, I thoughtyou were talking about a rich
person.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
No, moguls is what they talk about in skiing, when
they go down the hill andthey're doing the knee thing,
where they're bouncing off thehills and then they ramp.
Yeah, so there was one likethis, but with moguls.
But, as you can see, this is avery popular thing now.
I guess I don't know when thissport came out, but it became
more and more popular and nowit's viral and there are plenty
(23:00):
of moguls.
There's plenty of moguls anddonkeys and horses and all that
stuff.
Look at this Donkeys.
We're crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, I said it looks fun, but it also could be
potentially dangerous it couldbe dangerous.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
But it also looks like something you and the bros
kind of got together and decidedyou were going to do Not the
ones in Louisiana, where we wereHold my drink kind of deal.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I totally forgot to say to read, but not those bros.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Bro, all right, so let's let's read to the audience
a little bit more of what'sgoing on.
All these articles that we gottoday are from AP newscom.
If you want to join us or kindof our go to news.
Hey, they've got a lot of weirdnews.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
They've got a lot of regular news too but they've got
a lot of weird news.
That's like that's where themost is.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
AP newscom slash oddities.
Are y'all weird yet?
Yeah, weird yet from us Allright, leadville, I want to say
Colorado, leadville, colorado.
Nick Burry clicks into his skibindings, squats to stretch his
knees and scans the snowy racecourse.
Moments later he's zipping pasta series of gates at high speed
(24:07):
and hurting, hurtling off jumps.
He might be hurting too, butit's not gravity pulling him
toward the finish line, it's thebrute force of a quarter horse
named serious.
Oh, look at that Speaking ofnot not the X and I mentioned.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
And then we see serious, that's funny.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Welcome to scheduling and extreme, and I don't know
if we are pronouncing that wrong.
In extreme and quirky wintersport that celebrates the
unlikely melding of rodeo andski culture in the US mountain
West.
It's a heart pumping whiteknuckle competition in which
horses and sometimes dogs, snowobels and even cars tow skiers
(24:51):
by rope at speeds that can top40 miles per hour over jumps as
high as eight feet 2.4 metersfor UK listeners and around
obstacles as they tried a lance,suspended hoops with a baton,
typically a ski pole that's cutin half.
Every winter, thousands ofpeople converge on the mining
(25:14):
town of Leadville, colorado,high in the Rocky Mountains
elevation 10,158 feet or 3,096meters, lining downtown's main
street and packing the saloonsto witness one of the most
popular scheduling races in thecountry.
The spectacle billed as thegranddaddy of them all has been
(25:38):
a tradition here since 1949.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
That's all.
How will we never hear of it?
Till now, though.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Dude, I don't know.
I think it's just because itgot famous recently.
So because of it being famous,it yeah.
Because of it being famous,whatever, and getting more and
more popular, is starting todrift on to TikTok.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Gaining popularity.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
That's what I meant.
All right, it's just the pureadrenaline that gets me to do it
.
And then getting these twodifferent groups of people
together with the riders andskiers usually they don't hang
out and getting them together wematch pretty well, said Murray,
who wears a fringe to leatherpants with his ski gear.
(26:24):
In a nod to the sports Westernvibe, skijoring draws its name
from the Norwegian word Ski Ski.
I don't know your, maybe it'swith a K?
It's the same thing with a K,or means he driving?
Okay, it started as a practicalmode of transportation in
(26:49):
Scandinavia and became a popularin the Alps around 1900.
Today's sport is inherentlydangerous and injuries are not
uncommon.
There you go.
What were you just talkingabout?
Do it among writers and skiersalike.
Indeed, one of the first ridersin the Leadville race earlier
this month toppled off his horseand had to be helped off the
(27:11):
track as he shook his head.
And confusion.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
It's not a half rodeo .
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Unless you get hurt Exactly, it's got to be
dangerous.
Otherwise it's not a rodeo.
Murray did well in thecompetition despite skiing with
a separated shoulder from a hardspill during the race two weeks
earlier.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Well, it sounds like it tickled.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah, it sounds like it could have been broken bones,
but he got off pretty easily.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Wrong turn, taking a jump wrong.
Go tell wrong.
You could end your season.
Then hospital bills rack up.
But it's just for the thrill ofit, said Murray.
At 26 year old, from MeekerColorado.
Another skier, jason Decker,pulled out of the race at the
last minute because he broke hiscollarbone in a crash during a
recent contest.
He sometimes wears a protectivecup about valuable lesson
(27:55):
learned after being hit in thegrind by a flying chunk of snow
flung by a horse's hoof.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
It's not uncommon that my hands are shaking a
little, even after all this time, because the horse's nostrils
are flaring and I'm about readyto grab a rope that attached to
the saddle.
And if I'm not ready to go,then things can go bad really
quickly, said Decker, a 43 yearold engineer from Pagosa Springs
, colorado, who has been skiingsince he was two and skidoring
(28:27):
for 14 years.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
That's kind of odd.
He was only skiing regularskiing for two years.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
No, no, he was skiing , since he was two years old.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Oh, since he was two, yeah, so he said, skiing for
two years.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Especially you, benning.
If you live in Colorado, it'skind of like automatic that you
can learn how to ski in snow.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Savannah McCarthy, a competitive ski juror, said she
was 12, describes a similarnervous energy before she mounts
her horse for a race, but onceshe is speeding down the course,
her world goes silent.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I mean she's having fun.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
I don't get a thing when I'm running, she said.
When it's happening you reallydon't have time to think about
anything, but when you get doneyou're like holy cow.
That was insane, said McCarthy,a 24 year old financial broker
from Durango, colorado, who haswon the Leadville Race nine
times.
One of her more memorablemoments was when her horse
slipped, pulled back andheadbutted her, breaking her
(29:22):
nose.
Delightful.
Then there was the time shelost control of her horse, fall
in a race and smashed into aminivan.
Both the riders and skiers saythat these moments the crashes,
the speed, the raucous crowd andthe camaraderie make ski
drawing what it is, and thesport is growing.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
All right.
So what do you think of thissport, man?
What do you think about this?
Well, would you try it?
Would you personally try it Ifyou knew how to ski?
Or you could be the rider onthe horse.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I'll steal the horse Eventually, I guess.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Hey, bring that rider back here.
What's he doing?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I don't know man, I'd have to be pretty bored, or?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
just just like excuse me guys.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Adrenaline pumping to do it, I guess I think it'd be
dangerous?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah, but it'd definitely be interesting, for
sure.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
It's getting to a minivan, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I don't know, man.
All right, speaking of sports,let's head to our next one.
Auburn student makes a 94 footlength of the court putt and
wins a car.
A car, lucky, wait, wait, I gotsomething for this.
Here we go, yeah, but no,seriously, he wins a car.
(30:50):
What the heck they wereoffering a car?
Is that a he?
I don't know, I said he, she,whoever they them this there
person, that human and AuburnUniversity student connected on
a long distance shots, draininga length of the basketball court
(31:14):
putt on Saturday to win a car.
Connor Boyle made the 94 footputt rolling a golf ball from
one baseline and through a signnext to the opposite basket
during a promotion in the secondhalf of Auburn's game with
Georgia.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
I'm pretty sure that's a guy.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yep, maybe we don't know.
Well, we're assuming.
We're assuming.
After the putt found the smallopening on the sign, boyle raced
around the court celebratingwhile fans erupted and TV
cameras showed Auburn guardKatie Johnson looking on the
(31:55):
bench with a stunned expression,mouth wide open.
Are you great?
Like like he was did honestlywell, no, I would be going crazy
too If I saw somebody make ashot like that and win a car.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
I kind of like to be very happy for her.
What I like to what we callthat Excent, not accentuate a
dramatize, dramatize.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, drama he ruptured like erupted.
No, but honestly, I'd beexcited to if my friend won a
car.
That'd be sick, especially ifhe didn't have a car.
Well, you can imagine being abroke college kid like yes, you
can be.
You can imagine being a brokecollege kid and and also like
(32:42):
you, yeah, I was definitelybroke college kid.
But you can imagine being abroke college kid like you only
get if you get any money perweek.
You get so much money per weekit's hard to pay for anything.
So imagine getting a car likeyour first or second year in
college.
That's insane.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I imagine going to college a lot.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Well, there's that.
I don't know what to do aboutthat one you know it was the
first winner of the promotionthis season, winning a car from
a local Toyota dealership.
There you go.
Hey, there we go, my favorite,brand, Craig noise, a writer
from the university's studentrun site, the Auburn Plainsman,
won a car in the contest inFebruary 2023.
(33:27):
It was the first time a studentmade the putt since 2014.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
So there was somebody else that did in 2014.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah, that's crazy.
That's a long putt too.
You imagine the length of abasketball court.
How long you have to put thatthing.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah, that's why they made it.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
That's why they made the prize a car Two years before
the clowns.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yeah, pretty much.
I just like mentioned theclowns.
I think it's funny.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
No, but I can't help it.
So, ladies and gentlemen, nexttime you participate in a
contest, to put across thiscourt just know, hit it with all
your might.
So you can win a car, you couldbe competing for a car and,
honestly, that's all the time wehave for today.
Are you a weird yet?
Are you a weird yet?
(34:17):
Yeah, I am very weird.
I hope you are.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
I like why?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
because it has been awesome.
Thank you If you guys have beenlistening.
Remember we've got an IG pageYouTube and a YouTube and a
Facebook and email.
Just search weird world varietywith Matt and Jesse.
That's all you got to search.
Look us up, comment, send usyour stories and always or don't
(34:40):
, whatever.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Stay weird, stay weird.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
So from the WWE, this is Matt and Jesse signing off.
See y'all later, okay, see ya.
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