Non-Biblical Signs of the Apocalypse
- Does Allison in the chat have any relatives in the studio room?
The hosts play their recurring game: strange news stories are read aloud and the room votes whether each is a sign the end is near. Stories include a Wisconsin woman who bit off her husband's tongue in Sheboygan, a toddler stuck in a Pennsylvania crane vending machine, a naked spirit-photographer in a Picayune cemetery, a dead squirrel deposited at a Bartonville Hardee's drive-through, a camel named Lulabelle falling on a South Florida church audience, a marijuana plant decorated as a Christmas tree in Germany, a 178-pizza prank order after a Bob Dylan show in Amherst, a 73-year-old who smashed his Motel 6 room to free a nonexistent trapped person on a prank caller's instructions, a German DIYer who walled himself into his own basement, and an update on the Kentucky beard-eating case. Verdicts are mixed, with the beard-eating probation and the motel-room smashing judged 'end is near.'
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