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Nov 1, 2022

WT: Teens On The Loose

from Weird Things Hosted by Andrew Mayne

The episode opens with Halloween talk: Bryce asks why roads in Wyandotte, Michigan were closed for trick-or-treating, and the hosts riff on teenagers cleaning out the candy. Justin explains his neighborhood plan to give out full-size bars, both to get the candy out of the house and to build a good reputation where they live (L21-L23, L41-L45, L49-L53, L59-L69, L83-L85, L95-L97). From there the conversation moves through a Wyandotte cockroach-infested vacant house that led to three city blocks being closed, plus a long pest-comedy tangent about roaches, recycling jokes, and an improvised hypothetical about helping a friend who is being wrongfully evicted. That turns into a ghost/knight distraction bit and then into a real news item about a Massachusetts woman accused of using bees against deputies during an eviction, before the episode shifts to science stories about NASA's Lucy spacecraft photographing Earth and the Moon, an aye-aye lemur apparently picking its nose with its long finger, and a Mars impact crater detected by InSight and imaged by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (L213-L217, L227-L245, L253-L265, L401-L405, L421-L457, L529-L537, L545-L565, L617-L625, L685-L705, L721-L749, L781-L793, L857-L877, L905-L913, L1021-L1029, L1081-L1089, L1105-L1138). Key topics Halloween candy strategy and teenagers: The hosts joke about giving out candy on Halloween, including full-size bars, fun-size candy, dinosaur sounds as a reward system, and the idea that teenagers arrive late and h

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