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Ep.233 Top 5 Craziest Deaths Ranked From Flying Cows to Electric Thrones

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In this wild episode of The Days Grimm Podcast, hosts Brian Michael Day and Thomas Grimm dive into the strangest, most unbelievable deaths ever recorded. From a man taken out by a flying cow to a Viking killed by a dead man’s head, this “Top 5 Deaths of the Week” special is equal parts shocking, hilarious, and oddly fascinating.

The guys count down the most bizarre and darkly ironic ways people have met their end—featuring real stories like:

 A convicted killer who escaped the electric chair, only to die by electrocution on a metal toilet

 A dancer strangled by her own scarf in 1920s France

 A Viking warrior bitten to death by his enemy’s severed head
 An Indian man killed midstream by a flying cow after a train collision
…and more!

With their trademark blend of humor, history, and WTF moments, Brian and Thomas remind listeners that sometimes truth really is stranger (and Grimmer) than fiction.

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Give me some juice, Daddy.

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Baby Elfit! Baby Elf is Baby Elf! Don't act like you don't know me! Baby ain't no biscuit! This bit will make you so I know you'll see this little bit! Hello!

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Hello, hello, everyone, and welcome to another thrilling episode of the Days Graham. My name is Brian Michael Day. My name is Thomas Graham. God bless you. Um Tom, I'm ashamed to admit it. We've been slacking.

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What you mean?

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We've been slacking.

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We're coming off a highlight against some good episodes.

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Yeah, we are we are coming off some real what the kids might call uh bops. You know what I mean? Yeah, real uh uh the opposite of whatever, you know, the opposite of dog water. Real ditty parties and yeah, jelly, ky. No, we've been slacking on deaths of the week. Do you or do you not agree? I concur. Um, and it's a real bummer, man, because there's a lot of people that just tune in just for the death of the week. We've had a lot of input on that, right?

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Over the years. Yeah, we've even had a few people that have came in and they were like, dude, where's the death of the week? I was waiting on it the whole time.

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Yeah, shout out to Paul. He was one of them most recently. We got through his interview and he was like, dude, I was ready for the death of the week, right, the whole time. I was like, dude, my bad. Um so this week, we are not interviewing anybody. We are gonna give you, the viewer, the listeners, we are gonna give you a uh death of the week episode. Top five. Top five edition. I'm gonna say top five. Top five this week.

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This week's top five. Yeah, this plural we found. What uh I mean, however you want to break it down. Five deaths ranked.

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In in the twenty or thirty or so that we found today that we were like, nice. You know what I mean? Yeah. So we went with the top five for today. Uh and we're just gonna kind of tear through 'em and um, you know, see what happens. Tom, I believe, has the uh the list. We're gonna start coming in at number five.

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Yep, I titled this one Dead Hooker.

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Okay, so here we go with uh coming in at number five, Dead Hooker. Uh hopefully there's some cool graphics on the screen or something for that. Coming in from independent news. Uh-huh. Yep. Um, dancer warned she was being bugged with tracking device. Twelve days later, she was murdered.

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Obsessed ex-marine strip club customer stalked an exotic dancer, put a tracking device on her car, and ranted on social media he was being taken advantage of before shooting her dead. Say police.

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Rachel Sharp writes, oh, is that the actual writer? Yeah, and there's the there's Okay. Um Lady of the Evening. I dancer.

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I uh I mean I think I have to edit out Lady Boy look like I mean Thailand. Thailand.

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This is uh again, this is uh the young lady's name. Uh oh, should we just leave that out? Yeah, I don't know. Leave it out.

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This is no joke, and sometimes you think it'll never be you, so-and-so warned on an Instagram video last month after discovering a tracking device placed on her vehicle. Twelve days later, she was dead, allegedly shot and killed along a Texas highway by a stalker who had become obsessed with her after visiting the strip club where she worked.

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Now I'm wondering, is this in El Paso, Texas? I'm really wondering. This sounds like an El Paso, Texas type of story. Uh they go on to write Within hours of her death, uh, 54-year-old former US Marine Stanley Zeliga was in police custody and charged with her murder. Uh the warning signs, it seems, had been there for some time. Refer back to the Apple fucking air tag that he strapped to the fucking hood of her.

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The 22-year-old mother of one, aka she was a stripper, had confided in both her manager at Rick's Cabaret Strip Club and her family members that a creepy customer called Stan was stalking and harassing her. Eminem wrote about this guy, you know what I'm saying?

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Stan. Shout out to Eminem, dude. Yeah, I mean, dude, he predicted it, you know. He literally is the uh who's that guy that tells the future? Uh Monogmon Ogmonog. Sure. Yeah.

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There was also the discovery that her car had been bugged with a tracking device, like we've already mentioned, like six times. Then there was Mr. I'm gonna call him Salinga. Fucking fuck this time. Zelinga.

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Yeah.

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Uh his own Instagram, which was filled with posts and rants about the victim, claiming he had paid her thousands of dollars and accusing her of being a prostitute. That's why I said dead home.

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Again, Lady of the Evening is preferred. However, they go on to say the 22-year-old exotic dancer's fears for her safety then became a reality when she was found dead behind the wheel of her car on 2 6 October. A spokesperson for Fort Worth, goddammit, Dallas. Son of a bitch. Uh, a spokesperson for Fort Worth Police Department told the independent, again, our source, uh, that the department had not received any reports of either the tracking device being placed on her car or of Miss Saldana's uh being stalked and or harassed by Mr Zalinga Zalinga prior to her termination.

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And like one thing I think like is like you know, like don't ask, don't tell is like just in the military. You know what I'm saying? Like when you're outside and like you're being stalked, like you told your family and like your boss, but like a report should have been filed. Hundred percent, dude. You know, like you gotta you gotta say something because like like you just read in this that like you know the police department there had no indications that something like that.

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See something say something, folks, especially for our fellow women of the evening out here. I mean, you hear all too often that like people that are just people like okay, serial killers. Let's just take a side note here, a little side avenue. It is most frequent that serial killers will target women of the evening because they're the they go missed, you know, they go unmissed essentially.

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Not only that, but I think it's like you know, they're looking for somebody to play mommy to them. Yeah. In a way, they all have mommy issues, and yeah, that's fucking they the I mean they're you're paying somebody just to show you affection.

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How is there no fucking report, brother? That's what I want to know. Like, how is there nothing said when so many people knew? Right, doesn't her like a dick now.

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You think that he's got like a body count of like lost dancers, and it's just like uh it's been it's been 25 days since last incident, you know what I'm saying?

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They have a fucking OSHA, a fucking uh tracker. 13 days since our last homicide. Uh now Google if that cabernet is cabaret is still open, dude. Is it still open? Uh you don't want to keep reading this article first? Yeah, we can. So what happened to Adam here?

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Um details of the shocking slang of the she was slaying, all right, of the 22-year-old exotic dancer in Fort Worth, Texas uh were revealed and the arrest warrant charged charging the customer of the club where she worked with her murder. Do you think he went back there? Police received a 911 call after 8 40 p.m. on 26th of October from a witness who reported seeing a silver sedan speeding up before what's that kerning? Careening off an exit ramp onto a grassy area of highway 183 near Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. Caller said they approached the vehicle and saw bullet holes in the vehicle's passenger side and a person inside later identifying it as the woman of the evening.

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So this was a moving shoot. This was a he was driving alongside her, is what it sounds like to me. Yeah, a little pull-up. He pulled the strap. Yeah. He pulled the straps.

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Man, somebody got road rage. He got blue balls, my guy. God damn boy. He he fucking she was pronounced dead on the scene. Three gun runes were noticed in the car, three gun show castings, and so oh, and broken glass at an intersection nearby where police believe the shooting took place before the car entered the street.

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Oh, it was at an intersection. But still, nonetheless, he he pulled the strap. He straight up uh Lil Nas fucking triple extensioned her ass. You know what I'm saying? What was that rapper's name that got capped at a gas station? Wasn't it extension? I don't know, a handful of them have gotten capped. Yeah, but like he straight up just like pulled out the fucking gat, dude. Um but yeah, so officers found uh Saldana's passport in the car as well as clothing, quote, consistent uh consistent with those worn by exotic dancers, and quote. Uh, and that's again from the warrant. Um Rick Strip Club was within view of where the shooting took place, so officers visited the club to ask if uh if she worked there. What a great game of clue. Yeah, these top-notch detective work, guys. Top notch. Um, according to the arrest warrant, the manager confirmed Mrs. Soldana worked there, but hadn't been there uh that day. I would say the same fucking thing, too. You know what I mean? Covering your own ass.

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Um, like we can skip this. It says just according to the arrest warrant, the manager confirmed that she worked there and pointed them in the direction of this ex-veteran known as Stan. Um, dude looks like hold on, and we have a lot of things.

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Dude looks like he's tried to strangle himself. We have a picture of Stan on screen here.

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Um And is this like Majin Buu? Look at that forehead. I've never seen a forehead remote.

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Give me a little zoom action. I really want to get a close look at this gentleman.

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Look at what happened here. Like, I mean, I assume maybe they pulled him out and threw him on the ground, and that's what this is, but like.

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Some of those scars are deep, dude. That's Vietnam shit right there. Um, yeah, and this picture is uh his mugshot after being arrested for the murder uh via Fort Worth Police Department.

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Well, and the manager said that she was frightened of Stan and showed the officer the victim's 14th October Instagram videos where she discovered the tracker. They also showed them the suspect's own Instagram, which was filled a post about her, including where he appeared to be irritated by her threatening to report her for prostitution. Then they went through the manager's phone and noticed that she had just been there three hours earlier. So he lied. It says the post appeared to be a screenshot indicating that he had paid the victim$3,000, which he claimed proved his allegations that she was working as a prostitute.

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Quote, the manager indicated that Abigail was frightened of Stan because he was stalking and harassing her, and quote, again per the warrant. Um the victim's family also told police uh Miss Saldana had spoken of her fears that the man Stan was stalking and harassing. It's just like a reiteration, and this is the same shit over and over again. This article.

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For 17 minutes.

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Yeah, basically blah blah blah. Um more Instagram post here. Um here's where I'm at on it, man.

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Okay, so here we go. Police obtained a search warrant for his home after then after he then refused to leave the property. They entered to found him on a balcony, apparently self-inflicting wounds to the neck and face.

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Ah, that's what those cuts were. Okay, yeah. Dude was fucking manic.

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Um, he believed that he had a future and that they had been enjoying each other's company in quotations for the last three months, but he claimed he was taken advantage of and he had paid her thousands of dollars.

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Pause there, pause there. Gent gentlemen at home listening or viewing this podcast right now. If you ever pay for any sort of uh insertion type of services, know that she does not love you. I'm just saying that. Like clearly, know that she does not love you.

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Uh, there is no future. He said, I never thought I'd be one of those guys to be taken advantage of, sharing awareness that they had been enjoying each other's company. And then he said, uh, if you only leave your second job being in a high-end prostitution ring, we could move forward. Yes, this pays two thousand dollars per session, but it's illegal, and I have a boyfriend whilst having sex with other men. Ooh, spicy. Um yeah, and then it's yeah, then it's exactly the text, and yeah, whoa, whoa, hundred dollars, two hundred dollars, one thousand five hundred, five hundred, seventy four hundred, five hundred, seventy four eighty, five thousand three hundred and sixty, two thousand four hundred and seventy-four, two thousand six. What does this guy do for a living?

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Uh whoa. Oh, it gets really aggressive here. Um, one of the posts reads, I Damn, I need that N-word.

SPEAKER_03:

That's gonna choose me over his family because blood ain't thicker than this fat pussy. Yeah. Oh yeah, she was a hooker for sure. Dude, she was just trying to get dog walked by a veteran that has some issues. You know what I'm saying? Bruh, she said, I got that WAP.

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What do you want?

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What are you willing to pay, bro? This bro was paying. Paying for that people classify as fat ass pussy.

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Go back up to the statements. Go back up to the statements, the the the financial. This is fucking wild to me that we're posting homeboys fucking bank balance.

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No, he posted these on Instagram. Oh. The suspect posted images of the payments he claimed to have made via Instagram.

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Never in the world of history has anyone ever been proud to be like, look how much I paid for this prostitute. Look how much I paid for. Yeah, bro.

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I'm balling. You got a Rolex. I got a hooker with apparently a fat pussy.

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Yeah, I got a Vietnamese lady that I'm gonna murder in 17 minutes.

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Right, dude, just one from the Philippines at that rate.

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I mean, you could. Okay, that gets edited out. Uh, so you can we do not condone that sort of behavior. It sucks because she's like, she's gorgeous, dude. Um, so that was number five. Can we also, real quick side note, why is it almost I think we've talked about it before, but why is it always so much worse when we talked about talk about someone getting murdered when they're attractive, man or female? Everyone always has so much more impotent. I don't find this lady that attractive. She's not ugly. You think she thinks she is ugly? There's just things I don't like. Okay, alright. Racist.

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Uh the the nose, the the fake eyelashes. Like if those weren't there, maybe I get you, I get you.

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But either way, with the statement still is to be made. Why is it like the Peterson trials? Because she was beautiful. We all the whole nation was like, Where's Miss Peterson? Blah blah blah blah blah blah. She knows because she was fucking beautiful. Sure. Okay, moving forward. All right. Uh that that was number five, dead pro dead prostitute, dead. Okay. Uh coming in at number four, Tom.

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This one's uh Scar Strangle. This is pretty good. I just got I pulled up her Wikipedia to start so we can know more about her before we get into her death.

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Give me some zoom action here.

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So Isidore Duncan, born May 26, 1877. Post-Civil War. Nice.

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Died. No, or or they don't know what day she's going on. They don't know what day 26 or 2010.

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She died a day later. I wonder how she celebrated her brother. She was one when this happened. How did she celebrate her birthday? You know how dude, I had a grandma that had lied about her age to go to work early. Nice like at a young age, and so like eventually when she was older, like they were like, Oh, we're celebrating your 80th, and she was like, I'm actually 78. She's like, uh But yeah, and she died September 14th, 1927. She was an American-born dancer and choreographer who was a pioneer of modern contemporary dance.

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Quick math said she was 29, right? No, that's wrong. Um, she'd be 49. No.

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What is add two, which makes us 80, plus 20. So there's 22, and then add 27 to that. So 49. 49, that's what I said.

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Not 39, I'm an idiot.

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Uh but she had uh um done work through Europe and the United States. What kind of work? Is this another one? Just a done acclaimed through great uh great acclaimed uh Lady of the Evening. What kind of work is she doing? I don't know. Born and raised in California, where she lived and danced in Western Europe, US, and Soviet Russia from the age of 22.

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We also, the Days Grim does not condone Soviet Russia, just have to throw that out there as well.

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Um, whatever. Let's see. Uh her parents divorced, she moved with her mother and her family to Oakland, California, where she worked as a seamstress and a piano teacher. Okay. Um, bunch of bullshit there. Um, let's see. Oh well, we can just go straight to her death.

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All right, let's get to the meat and potatoes, dude. So here we go. Dancer. Isidora Duncan is killed in car accident. Now, folks, don't jump the gun on the history channel. Don't jump the gun on car accident. It gets it gets pretty spicy here. Again, this is uh history.com, written November 13, 2009. Last updated May 27th, 2025. Uh, on September 14, 1927, dancer Isadora Duncan is strangled in Nisse, France, when the enormous silk scarf she was wearing gets tangled in the rear hubcaps of her open car, uh, parenthetical uh affectations. I don't know what that means. I think it's like a news article or like a paper. Affectations, uh said Gertrude Stein when she heard the news of Duncan's death, uh, quote, can be dangerous, end quote. Anyways, we go on to say, uh, they go on to say Isadori already covered that.

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She was born, loved to dance, blah, blah, blah. Duncan was not a classically trained ballerina. On the contrary, she was a free-spirited bohemian whose dances were improvational and emotional. Okay. Probably uh prostitute. Well, they didn't do prostitution. Jesus Christ. It was uh doubling down on the process. Maybe she was like an early burlesque. Ooh, I like that. Some lingerie. Yeah, they were choreographed, she said, to rediscover the beautiful rhythmic motions of the human body. Definitely burlesque. In contrast to the short was it? Tutis? Twitus. Tutis. And stiff shoes that the ballet dancers wore. She typically danced barefoot, wrapped in flowing togas and scarves. Big fan of the scarves. Um female audiences in particular adored her in an area where classical ballet was falling out of favor with many sophisticated people.

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Uh, with many sophisticated people, da-da-da-da-da. Um, Duncan's performances celebrated independence and self-expression. So it sounds to me.

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Right here, though. You we skipped this little thing right here.

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And when what was that? Uh and when the scantily clad dancers themselves were more often than not, quote, sponsored. By wealthy male patrons. Yeah.

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Uh I just wanted to include that little bit of.

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Listen, folks, we're not saying prostitution, but we're saying we're we're tap dancing around it. You know what I mean? Quite literally. Uh Duncan lived a life of um consciously bohemian, lived a self-consciously bohemian life, eccentric life, offstage as well. Um, she was a feminist and a Darwinist. I like that. Only the strong will survive. Uh, an advocate of free love and a communist.

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Which was like a trend, though, around that time, though. Like there was like, you know, like the possible communist party of America.

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Don't love that. Don't fucking love that at all.

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Meanwhile, her life for this, her American citizenship was revoked in the early 20s.

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Fuck yeah, America. Uh, meanwhile, her life was a tragic one, especially when it came to automobiles.

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Sheesh in 1913, her two small children drowned when the car they were riding in plunged over a bridge in Sicily in Paris. And Duncan herself was seriously injured in the car accidents in 1913 and 24. Jesus Christ, this woman.

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Stop riding cars. Go back to horse and buggy. Right. Get one of those big wheeled bikes. On the day she died, Duncan was a passenger in a brand new convertible sports car uh that she was learning to drive. As she leaned back in her seat to enjoy the sea breeze, her Which she had worn since she took up communism.

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Can I finish my Yeah, I just wanted to throw that out there.

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She leaned back to enjoy the sea breeze, her enormous red scarf, which she had worn since she took up communism. You know what? This is a win for the home team. Um, somehow blew into the well of the rear wheel on the passenger's side. Uh it wound around the axle, tightening around Duncan's neck and dragging her from the car onto the cobblestone street. She died instantly. Now let's scroll down a little bit more, brother. Um, is that all we got here? Okay. Now this just looks like a timeline.

SPEAKER_03:

On the same day in history. Oh, wait, this is today in history. Never mind. Okay.

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Okay, we don't care about that. That's actually really interesting, though. I want to come back. Well, just don't close that site. Um so Lady gets in like three car accidents, dude. The third one being the final, obviously. She's really not that pretty. Uh, dancers don't have to be beautiful, though. It's about the movement of the body. Are the movements beautiful? Ah, her her baby daddy's name was Sergey. Sergei Yezinin. Yeah, he was a commie.

SPEAKER_03:

Apparently, she had a lot of fans, you know, a lot of paintings of her.

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Yeah, she is documented well for the early 1900s, which is very, very peculiar. Not a lot of photographs uh and paintings of people were being done. She must have been a pretty big fucking deal. Right. Um, so thoughts on this is uh, or my thoughts on this are rather that I have two automobile accidents and my kids die in them. I think I go back to horse and buggy, or I just start hoofing it everywhere. I just start walking a lot more.

SPEAKER_03:

Maybe don't wear a fucking enormous scarf.

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Well, she's got to support that. I mean, they're incredible. Second takeaway is folks, folks at home, proof exists. Communism is not the answer. Am I right, Tom? I mean, God will take you out. Am I right? I mean, it's it's plain and simple. It's right here, it's in the text. Read read between the lines, right, folks. You know, God hates communists. Um, so just stay away from it. And honestly, you know, uh okay. Maybe not. But maybe edit that.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh so um the next one here, what's category number three. Coming in at ranking third.

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I've titled this Deadhead Bites. I like that. I like that. Very ominous, very vague. Uh, here we go. Source here is stiffenal.co.uk. These fucking website suffixes are getting out of control.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, and it's in the UK, so you can only trust it so much.

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Um, okay, so here we go. Uh, bitten to death by a dead man's head. Um, the unfortunate, deserving, and true tale of Sigurd East E. Isteenson. I don't know. Give me a little zoom here, Daddy. Um, one of the slightly odd pleasures I had when I was studying at the university was learning of various terrible ways that people died. Oh my god, are we gonna read this guy's entire article or can we sum up? I'm I'm I'm reading what you're pulling up for me. Um so scroll down a little bit.

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So this guy is he's got a class project, he likes doing what we do and pulling up death of the week. He doesn't do it at all this shit. Yeah, yeah. He said, however, I need not have studied the Mongols and others to witness bizarre deaths. My favorite one ever is quite close to home, is the unlucky and frankly unlikely death of whatever Sigurd E.

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We're gonna call him S. E. S. E. So S. E. Alno as Sigurd the Mighty, was the second Viking Earl of Orkney. Orkney. Um, these remote islands are off the northeast coast of Scotland, and like their neighbors, the Shetlands. The Shetlands are roughly of the same latitude as Alaska and St. Petersburg. Fucking cold. And closer to the capitals of five other nations uh than to London itself. Okay, nice. Don't know why I need to know that. Right. Due to their proximity, these islands quickly fell victim to the Viking raiders who then went about turning them into Viking strongholds and bases to mount further attacks on Britain and elsewhere.

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Nice, dude. Can I make a point here? Why the fuck does a dude mention the Mongols when that's the fucking complete op but technically another continent? Yeah, technically. We're talking about the fucking Scandinavians, dude.

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Right.

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Anyway, so Stanford. Stancy was a leader in the Viking conquest of northern Scotland, where they succeeded in conquering the modern day countries of I don't even think these are countries anymore. Kathnis and Sutherland. No, I think they're part of the British Isles. It is recorded in the ancient history of the book of the Ornigay Saga that Sird Sergid Seagurd challenged the indigenous ruler Mael Brigatet, uh, the buck toothed to a 40 man aside battle. What the fuck? What is these Brits, man? Are they just like you bring 40, we bring 40? I think so. Just like 40 v 40. Kind of like musket, like the Revolutionary War, where they just stood in a fucking line and shot at each other.

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It's like a fucking Call of Duty lobby. We're like, alright, bring 40, I'll bring 40, dude. 2020 lobby. 40v40. Uh returning in another glorious Viking victory, Seagird fastened Male's uh seathered head to his horse's saddle and started to ride back north. During the ups and downs of the horse ride back, male's dangling seathered and bucktoothed head. This dude's adjectives are wild. Male's dangling, seathered and bucktoothed head uncontrollably and accidentally bit Seeger's leg.

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So I think really he just tied this dude's severed head to his horse and the tooth just kept hitting his leg.

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It's still a bite. Um they go on to say the wound on the leg quickly became infected and inflamed infected and inflamed, and before he reached home, Seeger had had dead. Had died. Fucking Jesus Christ. This kid's in college. Uh as unlikely as it was, he had been killed by the head of a dead man and the cheated Mayow and the cheated Mayow managed to get his revenge after death. It is thought he was buried at Seagirt Howe near the present day town of Dornock in Sutherland, Scotland. I was incorrect. Sutherland is part of Scotland, not Britain. Um interesting enough, uh I've never heard of a post mortem bite causing a death. This is fascinating to me. This is fascinating.

SPEAKER_03:

It is interesting. But like I said, I think it wasn't really a bite. It was more of this dude's teeth just bumping into this dude's probably like a sprayer calf.

SPEAKER_02:

But there's something there's something to be said about the celebratory nature in which he took the head. Had he not been so flagrant, had he not been so boastful. You know what I mean? You could have just left that dude's head in a bag or or on the side of a fucking road or in a ditch. Or you could have, I don't fucking jerk off with it or something, but don't let it bite you. Don't let it bite you.

SPEAKER_03:

But dude, so we've had so many deaths that are just due to like infections from dumb shit.

SPEAKER_02:

It's wild that like we are such we are just sacks of water. You know what I mean? We're so susceptible to like these tiny little bacteria that can throw off your whole that can just fucking microbe. It can terminate you. Now, my final uh take home here is uh the Vikings fucking the Vikings are sick.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, they went hard.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, Vikings are fucking he literally challenged a dude 40v40 dog. Right. And then won and then took the dude's head.

SPEAKER_03:

His head, his head. I've been trying to get into that like Viking show, but I just I can't. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_02:

I don't get into like the Norse uh Nordic stuff. I'm not big into it. Probably because I'm British by nature, by blood. So all right, so that's wrapping up number three. That's okay. So now Tom, I I want to go these final two, bringing in the silver and then bringing in the gold. I do want to do some a fair amount of digging on these two. I want to do our due diligence.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, we got more info on the second one than we do the first the number one.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, we can do some on the spot digging for one. Yeah, I guess that's true. Coming in at number two.

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I'll have it titled as Electric Throne.

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Here we go.

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What happened here, Tom? This is from UPI.com. Not sure what the fuck that means. Like it. This is from March 8th, 1989. Good year. Good year. Killer avoids electric chair, but is electrocuted on toilet.

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Bold. Bold. Oh, and it's South Carolina. I love this. Let's go.

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A convicted murderer who avoided the electric chair was electrocuted accidentally while sitting naked on a steel toilet in his cell, prison officials said.

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Is this the guy? Francis Archibald, spokesperson Oh no, that's the spokesperson for the State Department of Corrections said, Michael Anderson Godwin, aged twenty-eight, apparently was trying to fix a pair of headphones connected to his television set Sunday when he bit into a wire and was a little What the f can I say this is in 1989?

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Prison's been cushed since 1989. No, sure. As long as you're not getting fucked. You know what I'm saying?

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Like I would get fucked there, but like I'm you know for sure you're getting fucked. Right. For sure. Look how cute you are. Right. Yeah, dude. No, what the fuck?

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Why is he biting dude? 1989, clearly in his own cell with a TV and a pair of headphones. Bro, they were going hard. I mean, I guess they didn't care if dude strangled himself, but like, anyways.

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Go back real quick. The final sentence is what gets me. Age 28 was apparently trying to fix a pair of headphones connected to his television set Sunday when he bit into a wire and was electric. Why are you biting into a wire? He was clearly in prison because he wasn't very smart. What are you, a beaver? What are you trying to crimp a fucking circuit? What are we doing here, folks? Uh quote, it was a strange accident, and quote, that Arkbald uh Archibald said, goes on to say he was sitting naked on a metal commode. End quote. So they called it back then.

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Love a good use of the word commode. Um correction officers making a routine check found him in his cell. Uh prison officials said the inmate was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison in '83. So he had only been in jail six years. An earlier verdict that he would have sent or that would have sent him to the electric trail had been overturned on appeal. So he had escaped getting the electric chair. He had appealed it and was just going to spend life in jail with no electrocution.

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Dude, clever fella, not clever enough to not to fucking not bite into fucking live wires. Right. Also, moreover, what cord was he chewing into? Is this a second is this a secondary second article that says the exact same thing? God bless you. Thank you. Uh apparently was trying to fix better headphones connected to the television setup. They literally quoted that directly. Um God, talk about fucking okay, and now we have a picture of the individual. Uh, let's go ahead and get some zoom action on that, dude. I gotta sick mustache. I gotta get in this. This is actually glasses. Yeah, dude. This is um Urkel's real dad. Okay, so Michael Anderson, Godwin avoided the electric chair, but bro, is this the mugshop?

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They were had some flair. Like this guy got a button up and a sweater on.

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Honestly, you pop that collar, you're probably pulling.

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He's got three shirts on.

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Yeah, dude's balling out. Dude is balling out, dude. Uh 1997, South Carolina, man, da da da robbed. Oh, here's why he went to prison. He uh initially robbed a woman at knife point while in prison for the robbery. He was allowed uh outside the jail for permitted something. Work release. Work release. It was during one of these 19 uh in 1980, Godwin sexually assaulted and murdered a woman named Mary Elizabeth Royham in 1983. Godman was convicted of her murder and sentenced to life in prison. Go back up to the picture of this. No, shit, kinda looks like him a little, you know. That's number two. With a stash. I'll tell you what, here's okay, we gotta have some key takeaways on all of these, man. And I think the key takeaway is um don't fucking bite into cords, clearly, because that's what got him.

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Um but then secondly or like I think what got him was the fact that he was on the toilet that was steel, that just conducted it and basically closed us up and kept him, yeah, kept him on the toilet.

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You should never chew a fucking cord though.

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Or unplug it at least, you know, if you're gonna chew it. What are we doing?

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What are we doing? Secondly, why why you're on work release, dude. Play nice. You know what I mean? You got a chance. Right. Why are you fucking this up? And then he goes and fucking why were you fucking married? Yeah, well, he sexually assaulted that woman and then fucking killed her. Like, geez, dude, get fucking, yeah, hell yeah. Get fucking get fucked. He's lucky that that's all he got. That's my takeaway. Uh now, Tom, let's do. I I want to do like a little makeshift uh coming in at now number one.

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Yeah, man, cow death.

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I'm so fucking pumped for this. The Stratz Times. Uh The Straits Times. I don't know what this. Yeah, the Straits Times. Um that's S T S T R A I S T S Times.com. Okay, here we go. Um doesn't say when this article was written, but I believe it happened in 2023. Uh we might find later on. Yeah, what happened? Now we can't read now we can't read shit, Tom. Let's reload this puppy. Here we go. Give me a little zoom. Uh, you guys are gonna love this. And before we start, before we fucking start, dude. How many times have you thought about like while you're like pissing outside, you're like, I'm so fucking vulnerable? Or even worse, when you're shitting outside.

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That's why they say like dogs look at their owners. Like when you're outside and like the dog's shitting, they like look at you.

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They're reading you in case there's a threat. Do you feel that feeling though too, right?

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Like I mean, yeah. So like we went to the Grand Canyon a few birthdays back. Yeah. And I had to shit real bad. Yeah. As the sun was coming up, and I was like, oh, I got, you know, getting some photos, video of it, or whatever. But I was like, I have to shit real bad.

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Like bad, bad.

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Yeah, because we woke up and drove there a few years ago. Nine out of ten, you know what I mean? Yeah. So I just like start going off into the like the little wooded area that was there to go shit.

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Okay.

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And as I'm walking out there, there's just moose piles, like piles of moose shit. And I'm like, yo, I'm gonna shit out here, and a moose is just gonna fucking clap them cheeks, baby boy.

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That's a thousand plus pound animal, dude. That thing will fucking annihilate you. Right. Okay, folks. Uh enough leading leading into I just I want to build up the tension. You know, I I love a good it's worse in Afghanistan for me. I've pissed. Like in Afghanistan, like on a knee. You don't have your f you're outside the wire, you're in the woods, you're taking a leak, and I'm like, I could catch a fucking knife in the neck right now.

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You know, it's just or just a fucking brain and bullet.

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For all you folks that have a uh a phobia of dying while defecating or urinating, go ahead and buckle the fuck up. Uh, here we go. Indian man urinating on train track dies after being hit by quote flying cow. Um, and I believe the cow in in frame is the the killer. So let's let's move forward.

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Cattle deaths from train collisions are not new in India.

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Holy fuck. Oh God. Uh did not need to know that. Oh, this article was published on April 24th, 2023 at 0940. Um, so anyway, a uh a pensioner in India, which we've used the word pensioner before, uh that's a retired person. So a gentleman who's retired in India was killed when he was struck by a cow that was tossed 30 meters up in the air after it was hit by an express train. Before you go on, Tom. 30 meters. That is 60 fucking feet.

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Yeah, well, and uh that's a six-story building. If uh uh express trains move faster than like the trains we see here. Ah, so fast. Right.

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Oh my god, it's terrifying. I wonder if it derailed, but we'll go on to Okay, so the freak occurrence happened when Mr. Shivdayal Sharma, age 82, uh again, a retired gentleman, was relieving himself on the railway tracks in the city of Alwar in India's northern state of Rahasthan on April 18th.

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What's what's crazy to me too is like, didn't we learn anything from like the bubonic plague? Like India was clearly a British uh territory. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But yet, like relieving himself in public on the railway tracks. Big fucking no no. Do they not have depens in India?

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Uh the former railway employee was oh, he was a former railway employee.

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Dude, he was pissing on the track. He said, Fuck these guys. That's like like somebody that like Whirlpool relocated to uh, you know, Mexico. Pissing in a refrigerator.

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Yeah, you know what I'm saying? The former railway employee was hit by the animal and died on the spot.

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Didn't even have a chance. Another man who was also relieving himself nearby narrowly escaped from being hit by the flying animal. They're just like shoulder to shoulder, pissing on the tracks. Dicks out for whatever this cow's name was. He probably pushed the old man over. You know what I'm saying? Like, fuck, dude. The police who were informed of the incident sent the body to a nearby hospital for porse modem where uh before it was handed over to his family for cremation. Cattle deaths from train collisions are not new in India. The government data showed that trains in the country ran over more than 13,000 cattle in 2022. Good God. A 24% rise from the 19 or 2019. Okay. Because yeah, aren't cows considered sacred over there? You would think they'd stop trains. Yeah, they are. It depends if you're Buddhist. If you're Buddhists, it's a uh yeah, they're a religious figure. Thousands of Indians take their cattle to graze on patches of grass alongside the railroad tracks. The BBC reported. Many cattle owners also live close to the tracks or herd their cattle across the railway tracks to get quickly from one place to another.

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Holy shit. Hold on, go. No, da da. There's nothing more down. Yeah, there was. There was. In November 2021, railway minister Ashuini Vashna announced that fences or boundary walls were being constructed alongside tracks in areas prone to trespassing by cattle. Other measures to keep cows away include garbage and vegetation removal.

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Right, that was in 2021, and this guy got smoked in 2023, so they're clearly not building it fast enough.

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Sixty fucking feet. God damn. Can we find is there a clip of a cow getting hit by a train? I just I for I mean we don't have to show it on the podcast, but for my for research, for science. You know what I mean? Is there is there a clip that I can see what it looks like when a when a piece when a fucking thousand plus pound animal is just plowed by a train. Turn the sound off. Turn the sound off. I want to see this. Do we actually get to see this cow get smoked? Here we go. Now we're cooking. Oh, he's going like 30 miles an hour, dude. He's not gonna toss anybody. Oh, just obliterated. Right. Just obliterated. Uh Tom, I'll leave it up to you if you want to show that on screen. Yeah, I mean, it's not bad. Dude, um I okay, folks. Don't p don't hang for don't hang out near railways. Right. Hobos are there. Uh and they tell you as a kid, at least in the States, you know, stay away from the trailer.

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Did you ever put change on the train tracks?

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We had train tracks behind my house uh when I lived in Indonesia. Yeah, we'd put pennies on there and then go up there later after the train would flatten them and stuff like that.

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Yeah, and then they look like oblong and super cool. No, I mean I get it, but like they tell you as a kid, like, don't play on the tracks.

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You know what's funny to me also? Thinking about that, like that's probably illegal, right? You're damaging currency of some sort, just like you can't. It's property in the government, yeah. Right. It's tender. What about all these places that have you put in like quarters and a penny and they fucking roll out like an animal thing on them? Ooh. Like I had one of those books growing up. Like in Gatlinburg. Well, yeah, like I had one of those books growing up where like you went to all these places and you rolled change and like you got the thing. Like, I probably still have the book somewhere.

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Oh yeah.

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It's like a bunch of pennies from like Sea World and this zoo and that zoo. Yeah, like keepsake. Right. But like, isn't that technically illegal?

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You're defaming federal tender, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I believe so. Just like it is illegal to write on a dollar bill, but I mean you don't get in trouble for that. Remember Show Me's on the West Side? Shout out if any Evans Villians remember that place.

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I wonder if like Showmies was eventually taking money off the wall to keep their fucking lights on here.

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The fucking beer tabs.

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Right.

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I thought, dude, yeah, but don't play on trains, man, because I don't know what the average time it is for an express train or a fully loaded freight train to slow down, but like it's a long fucking time. Like it's multiple miles. If they see you, they can't just like pump the brakes, dude. You know what I mean? It's like it takes a good amount of time, and we're looking at express trains and the speed can go anywhere from 50 miles to 150 and miles can reach up to 160.

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Yeah.

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Um, that Gravitron, the float, the floating train that they built and well, yeah, those are high speed run-on magnet system.

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That's completely different. But those fuckers move, dude. Yeah. And apparently these are uh like express trains are actually ones that had people on it.

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So people got uh Yeah, they got to witness this fucking cow getting tossed 60 feet in the air. Likely it was pieces too, right? Don't you think? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he just got clipped by it.

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Yeah, it had to. I mean, we watched that clip, and that train definitely wasn't moving out of like a few.

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He got clipped by like a back leg or something. Right ahead. A head. That'd be our second head kill for the day. Yeah. Um, yeah, I don't know, man. Just don't play on tracks. Um, what was what came in? So let's run through the list real quick. Uh number five five was Dead Hunter. Deadhead. Yep, shout out. Number four was Scarf Strangulation. Yep, that was a good one. Three was Deadhead Bites.

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So clever, so unique. Two was Electric Throne. Electric Throne. Number one was uh Man Cow Death. Man, cow death. Yeah, it was man pissed cow death, but I didn't want to give the whole thing away, you know.

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Yeah, and I love a good urination story, man. I just I feel like, you know, those are those are memories you get to keep forever. Unless it kills you, but you know what I mean? Um But yeah, man, I don't know. I know we've been slacking on the death of the week, man. So I really hopefully this makes up for it. Yeah, I wanted to bring a little heat to the table, you know what I mean?

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And we'll try to include them more often, but not every episode.

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Yeah, not everybody's, you know, not everybody, not every uh candidate that comes through the door that's getting interviewed is once. Appropriate death of the week, or maybe it's not appropriate for the scenario or whatever. Um But yeah, dude, so we're just gonna do our best to uh keep on grinding, and we appreciate you guys uh taking 50 minutes to sit down and listen to uh our top five deaths of the week this week on The Day's Grim. Um, Tom, as always, uh I appreciate you. You know what I mean? Likewise. Uh it's been a thrilling episode of The Day's Grim. My name is Brian Michael Day. My name is Thomas Grimm. Thank you, sir.

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