The Absurd
By Rod and Mel
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Welcome friends to The Absurd. A podcast about things absurd. News, histories, mysteries, and strange goings-on. Our stories are freaky, funny, and sometimes frightening. So sit back, get comfy, and get ready for The Absurd.
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Satanic Panic, What’s In A Username & The Wrong Boy
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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Cowardly Coppers, Naked Lunch & Freezer Geezers
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Aug 19, 2026 |
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From Dublin To Mr T, Flower In The Attic, Burning Sensation & Bumble Black Widow
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Aug 05, 2026 |
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Down Under Self-Checkout, Ellen Greenberg, Half Hangit Maggie & “Bring A Gun!”
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Jul 29, 2026 |
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Mid-Air Check Out, Cyborg Beetle, Alive In The Morgue & 12 Years A-Standing
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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Micromanaging, Golden Boy, Hungry In Hungary & Nut Shot
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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Open Heart Botchery, Cosmetic Roulette, Cookie Crumble & Saroo’s Incredible Journey
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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255 At Seven, “Toxic Lady”, The Unsolved Murder Of Karina Holmer & Mutant Rodents
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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My Lai Massacre, Twin Dads, Powderfinger & Springfield Three
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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Out In The Outback, Mushroom Magic, Hiking Horror & Crow Bro
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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Burnt Snake On A Plane, Falcon Sex Hat, Rosemary Kennedy & Project Graham
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Boozy Belly, Burger King Doe, Lost In The Woods & Two Of A Kind
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Denis Lortie, Mullet Mania, Monster Mom & Robot Wolf
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May 27, 2026 |
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Mystery Bag, Smokin’ Vag, Disarmed Survivor & Unit 684
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May 20, 2026 |
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Mayhem’s Mayhem & Lottery Misfortune
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May 13, 2026 |
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Love Canal, Bring In Your Dead, What If We Never Die & Don’t Mess With Mama Bear
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May 06, 2026 |
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Seven Years In Three Weeks, Missing Scientists, A Father’s Anger & Mortuary Monsters
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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It Was Just A Prank, Hickey Of Death, Sky Heroine & An Eel-Conceived Plan
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Bonus Ep 10: Woman With The World’s Widest Tongue, Madame LaLaurie & Listener Q&A
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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Chimp Wars, Bloody Nose Nightmare, Lottery Loser & Cat Flap
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Mexican Corpse Bride, Are We All Infected?, Lobster Boy & Jonestown
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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The Life and Death of Noelia Castillo, Skeletons In Dijon, Illegal Baby Names & Four Finger Discount
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Eyes Out Tongue Off, Adrift For 48 Days, Swallowed A Chopstick & Doggy Suicide Bridge
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Ant Smuggling, Maltese Mystery, Sad Case of Rahma Haruna & Veni, Veni, Veni
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Bug In The Butt, Deadliest Blizzard, Rent-To-Solve & My Lovely Camel Hump
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Smallest Man In The World?, Double Arm Transplant, Bodily Absurdities & Sand Trap
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Little Girl Lost, Seatbelt Stupidity, Hypnosis Horror & In The Deep End
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Dead Holiday, Fart You!, Mushroom People & No Swimming
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Four Loko Loco, Head Cook, Maid Disorder & Afghan Absurdities
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Felony Fries, Pickering Lost Boys, Anti-Slackism & Bum Bomb
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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The Discovery Of Steve Carter, Love In Stereo, Orphaned On The Ocean & Brain Fart
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Bonus Ep 9: The Amazing Mary Vincent, Chimney Horror, Physician Heals Himself & Felt Presences
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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Rat Pack, Brave Boy, Chip Wreck & Homer’s Homage
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Skeletons In The Closet, Fifth Of Five, Swill Milk & Whack Job
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Best of 2025 - “Mel Has A Cold” Edition.
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Best of 2025 - Party Like It’s 1694, Hedviga Golik, Flight Unattendant & Absurd Baby Names
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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National Lampoon’s Christmas Squirrel, Mel’s Christmas Q&A, Jólakötturinn & The Mistletoe Bride
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Whale Of An Explosion, One Woman Town, Frasier The Lion & For The Want Of A Snake
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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A Bit Of Absurd, Sniper Safaris, Giggling Granny, The Girl Who Sneezed & Hellooo Dolly!
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Banco Rio Breakout, Lois Gibson: Forensic Artist, Nightmare Fuel & Exam Day In Korea
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Thirteen Years Found, Elementary Car Thief, Dirty Teddy & Haiti The Hard Way
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Religious Nut Jobs, Crying Boy Curse, Corgi Cop & Dead In A Dinosaur
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Larry Flynt, Greatest Web Designers, Zippity Sting Sting & Circleville Letters
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Unit 731, Travis Goes Ape, DUCK! & Train Crash Ghosts
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Villisca Axe Murders, Robert The Doll, Dungarvon Whooper & Murder Castle
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Ball Boy Cousin, Canadian Dexter, The Most Kissed Face Ever & Nico-less Cage
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Wrinkles The Clown, Dr Giggles, Ghost Dog & Locked In The Trunk Of A Car
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Tylenol Terror, Getting A Leg Down, Have They Found Amelia’s Plane & Skin Glove
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Wash Your Hands, Doc, Coming And Going, Stone Baby & QAnon Shaman For President
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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The Soap-Maker of Correggio, Russian Dolls, Million Dollar Baby & Grizzly Dude
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Chainsmoking Baby, Surgical Sex, World’s Luckiest Unluckiest Man & Sluglife
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Algonquin Remains, Plaster Caster, Argentinian Weirdness & Basketball Bottom
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Turkish Basket Job, Radioactive Rhinos, A Mother’s Love & Singing Search and Rescue
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Best Rub Around, Bat To The Mouth, Tanning Death Bed & Angel On The Beach
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Ant Wars, DIY C-Section, I Scream You Scream We All Scream For Breast Milk & Buddy Beluga
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Italian Mummies, Encephalitis Lethargica, Sleepless In San Diego & Three Parent Super Babies
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Ornamental Hermits, 50 Years On A Bike, Boozey Apes & Hungry Humphrey Hippo
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Wild Rites of Passage, Fire Ant Free Fallin’, Where Was Annabelle? & Tonga Boys Are Tough
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Ed Gein, 18 Years At The Airport, On All Four Legs, Worst Traffic Jam Ever
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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A Hand On His Leg, DIY Botox, Island Of Dolls & Classroom Rave
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Bonus Ep 8 - Gwada-Negative, Cultural Sleep, Load Of The Flies & Sweary Parrots
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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He Blowed Up Good, Baby Tossing, Battle Of The Joshs & Liam’s Day Out
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Butterbox Babies, Halifax Explosion, One Carrot Ring & Phantom of Winnipeg
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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School Bus of Terror, The Shame Flute, Richest Dog in the World & Fork You, Heretic
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Xerxes The Dumb, Battle Of The Bulge, Drunkard’s Cloak & Freak Diving
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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The Book That Kills, Murder Shrooms, Up Yours! & Trapped Between A Rock And A Rock
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Party Like It’s 1694, Hedviga Golik, Flight Unattendant & Absurd Baby Names
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Cold Turkiye, Wandering Womb, The Evaporated & We Looked Everywhere
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May 28, 2025 |
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Bonus Ep 7: 1st Anniversary Listener Q&A
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May 23, 2025 |
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Preemies At The Circus, More Attic Antics, She Is You & The Eunuch Maker
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May 21, 2025 |
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The Rhinoceros Party, Lions Gonna Lion & Kafka’s Doll
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May 14, 2025 |
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Imaginary Lover, Couch Potato, The Great Imitator & Aloha, Mr Plane
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May 07, 2025 |
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Life In An Elevator, The Elephant Poop In The Room, Smalltown Takedown, Shipwreck Kelly
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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A Cornucopia of Absurd, This Water Tastes Funny, Family On All Fours & Poop Needle
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Hooked On A Feeling, IVFu%k-Up, Big Belly Binary & Dem Bones
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Teddybären Picknick, Dire Consequences, Humans For Harvest & Food Horrible Food
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Under The Bed?, Grandma’s New Baby, Rabid Kidney & Swiss Spaghetti Tree
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Old Timey Quackery, Big Money Dog, Eternal Snickers & Denver Spiderman
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Chinese Truman Show, When Babies Were Brave, Ancient Worms & Werewolf Syndrome
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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In-Flight Nudie, Three Days In A Box, Cave Grave & Ice Cream 911
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Taxidermied Philosopher, Strange Tale of Phineas Gage, Living Skeleton & Big D Empathy
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Scratch Ticket Shenanigans, Pontiac Prison, She Pees Freely & Shot By A Tree
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Parenting: Doggy Style, Bald Is Gold, Whale of a Whale Tale & Is Paula Abdul’s Plane Is Missing
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Ghost Ships, Twin Jims, Bullet Dodge, Tiktok Tool, & Ohio Money Shot
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Mel’s Rock Talk, Swiss Cheese Pervert, Blood Countess & Bonehead Wings
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Bonus 6: VB Hooker, German Spanking Island, Very Superstitious & Bad Ink
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Running On Lego, Lawn Chair Larry, Call Me Bro & Butt Plug MRI
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Real Groundhog Day, Career Turnover, There’s Waldo & Dog Sitting Side Hustle
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Dexter (not that one), So You Think You’re Dead, Niagara’s Screaming Tunnel & A Fistful of Absurd Pt 2
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Penis Poppers, Old World Christmas Traditions, That One Song & Christmas Toy Crazes
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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HoJo Mojo, These Are Your Eyes On Drugs, DNA WTF, Dr Amputation & Freaky Family Photos
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Window To The Soul, Girl In The Basement, DIY Parachute, No Sex Pregnancy, & Renegade Roo
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Rat-A-Chewy, St Olga Don’t Play, The Dog With Two Barks, & Meat From Above
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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RR 411, Million Dollar Banana, Absurd Facts, Rocket In His Pocket, Grubby Geezer & Rat Races
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Big Bada Boom, Bell Island Booms, Bearly Believable & Cocaine Hippos
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Flight Number Two, How Do You Like Your Eggs? My Kingdom For A House & Dancing Plague
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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THC Pizza, Kentucky Fried WTF, Village Of The Dolls, & Freezer Of Fright
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Mel's Monster Mash, Cannibal Cafeteria, Do You Know The Mothman? & The Dating Game
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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What’s In The Ceiling, Randonautica & Live Organ Donation
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Rare Bear, My Parents Can’t Find Out, Helpful Burglar & Racist Robot
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Mushroom Mayhem, Dollar Tree Pee Candle, Retention Pond & A Tale Of Two Lauras
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Sucking At Liposuction, Toddler Fight Club, Trading Baby For Beer, & Oscar The Death Cat
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Bonus 5: Toe Wrestling, Korean Fan Fiction, Donkey Dump Dollars, & Speaking Of Cows
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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What’s The Beef With Cows, There’s A Mouse In My Mousse, Miss Swiss Puree, & Found Lost Boy
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Mercury Is Rising, Academic Abductions, Stop Eating Your Hair & Loser Loser Chicken Dinner
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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I Love You, I’ll Kill You, F**k Your Baby & A Garbage Way To Go
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Baby Hittin’ The Bottle, Bad To The Boner & Off To The (Sex Toy) Races
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Clown Fish of the Sea, You’ll Always Be A Part of Me & That’s Not Ketchup!
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Eat Yourself To Death, You Won’t Last An Hour, Missing At The Market & Mel’s Mess O’ Mandelas Pt 1
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Mike The Headless Chicken, Prince Phillip Is God & All Dolled Up
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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A Listener’s Tale, Legal Weasels, Psycho Parents & Everyone’s A Wiener
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Cheeky Monkey Business, Alaska Triangle & Nippon Rip
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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The Bottle Let Them Down, Relationship Baggage, The Woman Who Fell To Earth, & Snake Surprise
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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More Lies, A Bionic Girl, Flying Hippos, & Montreal Man Eating Fish
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Bonus Ep 4: The Depths of Fear & Junk In The Trunk
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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Money For Nothing, Bullies In Blue, Baby Baby, & Pooping On The Moon
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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That Bee Is A B, Anyone For More Boy? & Gender Reassignment Indian Style
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Blowin’ Up The Poop Tube, All For The Love of a Hen & Bang A Dong
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Bonus Ep 3: Always Check Under The Hood, Bee Beer, Driving While Stupid & Black Bear Sabbath.
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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Losing Richard To Be Richer, Teeth For The Toothless & You Two Should Get A Garage
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Them Boys Got Spunk, A Tear For The Twins, & Dating In The Time of Fonzie
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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The Hungriest Human Ever & A Seafood Vasectomy
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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A Bunting We Will Go & A Serious Bungle In The Jungle
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May 30, 2024 |
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Bonus Ep 2: They’ve Got Legs. They Don’t Know How To Use Them
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May 28, 2024 |
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Bonus Ep 1: A Fistful of Absurd
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May 26, 2024 |
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Unnatural Nature, A Haunted Lake, & People Being Absurd
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May 24, 2024 |
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High Off The Dead & The Ears of Mike Tyson
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May 22, 2024 |
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I Wonder if Bigfoot likes Mayo on His Sub
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May 22, 2024 |
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Lies Hollywood Told Me
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May 21, 2024 |
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Old Hags, Death by Potatoes & Chechnya Beats
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May 21, 2024 |