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EPISODE · Sep 1, 2022 · 35 MIN

BOX465: 18th Century Robot Music Is Shrill

from The Box of Oddities · host Kat & Jethro Gilligan Toth

It terrified the settlers of the Great Plains in the late 19th century. And we are only now beginning to fully understand what it was. And what's better than a robot duck? A robot duck that poops! The mysterious "Prairie Madness" and the incredibly inventive mind of the 18th-century inventor and artist Jacques de Vaucanson. Do not reheat BOX465. Doing so may cause it to warp or melt. Listen to The Shallow End here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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