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Incredible News Stories You Won't Believe
Ever had a snake bite you in the least expected place? Or wondered what it’s like to come home to a parrot that suddenly speaks Spanish? Get ready to laugh out loud as Scott and Jim return from a two-week hiatus to share some of the quirkiest and most bizarre news stories from around the globe. We kick off with personal updates, including Jim’s hilarious struggles adjusting to a new school year with multiple teachers, and reminisce about our own school days. The camaraderie and nostalgia set the stage for a string of jaw-dropping headlines that are bound to tickle your funny bone.
From the outrageous tale of a truck spilling beer all over a Mississippi road to the unbelievable incident of a woman tragically humped to death by her pet camel, this episode is packed with stories that are as strange as they are entertaining. We also delve into the shocking mishap of a New Zealand food bank accidentally distributing candy laced with methamphetamine. And if that wasn’t enough, you'll hear about the bewildering discovery of a Belgian man who found out his wife of 19 years was actually born a man. Each story is delivered with perfect comedic timing, ensuring plenty of laughs and gasps along the way.
The absurdity doesn't stop there! We recount the plumbing nightmares and childhood fears of critters in the pipes, then switch gears to a British parrot returning home after four years only to speak Spanish. Imagine the chaos when the Oscar Mayer wiener mobile flips on a suburban Chicago highway or the hilarity of Tommy Harris being banned from a Chinese buffet for an unspeakable act involving seaweed. And don't miss the wild maintenance mishap in a women’s restroom, drawing comparisons to a Grateful Dead concert. This episode promises an unforgettable mix of humor, shock, and the downright bizarre, making it a must-listen for anyone needing a hearty laugh and a break from the mundane. Tune in and let Scott and Jim bring some much-needed levity to your day!
Thank you for joining us on today's show, as always, we appreciate each and every one of you! Talk to you soon.
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On this episode of the PowerPoint Podcast. Scott and I peruse the interwebs for some odd and weird news. Also, we talk about what's been going on with us.
Speaker 2:Hey Scott, stop the presses to the Powerspoint Podcast, season 5, Episode 24. It's been two weeks since our last episode, but really, who's counting, jim? How the hell are you?
Speaker 1:I'm good, very good. How are you?
Speaker 2:hey, I can't complain this time really. You know it doesn't do any good anywhere, it is so little. Jim is back in school yes, he's back in school.
Speaker 1:He's all uh getting situated with the new uh, because this year he doesn't just have one teacher in fourth grade, it's like he goes to there's two other teachers and they all move around to different classes like they do in the middle school and high school. So I think this is where they just get them used to going to different classes for different subjects now, when you were in school.
Speaker 2:Did you like that, or did you like the elementary style where you're just one teacher for the year? I?
Speaker 1:kind of like the one teacher Because when I had to go into the middle school, I agree because, yeah, what?
Speaker 2:When you get that mix of teachers, I feel that you always get the one bad apple out of all of them and it ruins it all the whole thing. Yeah and yeah. I like the one tea myself.
Speaker 1:But then that's the bad part If you have a bad, if you have one teacher and it's a bad teacher, then you're stuck with it One bad teacher teaching you everything.
Speaker 2:True, true.
Speaker 1:You know you just got to suck it up and I don't know wait till next year, but it seems kind of rare so far. Knock on anything that all his teachers have been like kind of good that they haven't been real mean. Like you know our back in our day what teachers used to be monsters and stuff sometimes and you couldn't tell anybody about it.
Speaker 2:You know back in my back in my day I used to get battled by every single teacher man. My parents like signed a waiver that thank you.
Speaker 2:They got tired of doing it, so they they told somebody else to do it that's amazing I mean it was okay, like when you got the little fragile, timid teacher, you know, but they usually have a bad hit, you know they might hit like one cheek instead of both, so it hurts worse. But then you got that intimidating ex-football coach who's still pissed off because they lost the championship game and he's going to take it out on every single ass that lines up in front of him and he got cut by the jets back in the 70s, or he's pissed off and he wants to like take it out on everybody dude, we had one teacher.
Speaker 2:He was an english teacher. He's dead now, but his name was mr lavenda. And uh it, if you didn't want to do anything in the class for that day, you'd just come in and tell him and then stand at the desk and then he would swat you and then you can go mess around. You didn't have to do anything. Oh my God, I used to love it. Man, that's amazing. Girls would even line up and get smacked.
Speaker 1:My God, that is such abuse and oh I gotta be in the class, that's oh my god, that's crazy. We're gonna have to gather up our school, our school stories and tell them on an episode.
Speaker 2:I definitely have some of those. Today's topic is a fun one that we are in back. Everybody seems to enjoy around the world because everybody has those newspaper that they read and they're like, come on, this can't be real. And you get a laugh or two, just like this place. You know, you might even get more than three reading those newspaper clips. When we come back from the commercial we're going to jump right on this odd headline news.
Speaker 1:You're listening to the Bowers Point Podcast. We're the guilty pleasure you'll be proud of.
Speaker 2:All right, we're back and again. Before the commercial I said we were going to bring back a fan favorite. We're going to be talking about some odd headline news, not just in a small little town or area, but around the world. So you good with that oh yeah, it's, it's, it's.
Speaker 1:I mean, I remember listening to you and lynn talk about the headlines and stuff and they were pretty funny. And now that it's my turn, I looked up and I couldn't believe some of the stuff I read even as you read it, you question it.
Speaker 2:Like when I read this stuff, I believe that you should get the whole story just off the headline. So if you ask me what's that story about, I'll say I don't know what's in the headline. I don't know, man, I just love headlines. But you want to start it off, or you want me to start it off.
Speaker 1:I'll start it off. We're just reading the headline or are we reading the article?
Speaker 2:Well, I do the headlines only, but you can go ahead and read the article.
Speaker 1:Okay, here's the headline Number one truck spills a load of beer into Mississippi Road and that's not so much funny. But when you hear part of the story, a little couple sentences, that'll tell. Okay, the police in Mississippi warned drivers to avoid an area Wednesday when a truck lost its load of beer into the roadway. They temporarily closed the street in Oxford, mississippi. It's home of the university of mississippi, so it's a college town kind of okay. The police department got it and went. They went on x, I guess formerly twitter and they told they said please use another route. The department posted and no, you cannot come and help clean up.
Speaker 2:They had to actually post that our kids would be uh, as kids would be partying and taking it back to the dorms they had to warn everybody hey, don't come over here and say you're helping maybe they were, uh, the cause of it. What happened to the driver?
Speaker 1:like the, rack it, didn't it? Just, it didn't really say, he just said it just had the truck tipped over or something and lost a whole bunch of beer. And of course if that happened around us you know northwest Indiana they wouldn't have been able to post it. Everybody just would have been running after that beer.
Speaker 2:You know, when you said Mississippi Street, I automatically thought of your work oh yeah, because you're close to it, yeah, and I was like, oh man, let's get in the car and go, you know, but it would have been gone like you said. You know, this is oxford, mississippi. Some beer and let's still go. Yeah, all right, man. So for my first one, it's uh, here's the headline out to death by pet camel. Wait, what was the first part? It says um h-a-u-m-p-e-d. What? By humped to death by pet camel, a camel, a woman owner, after trying to mate with her, the 10 old animal weighing 320 pounds, knocked exotic pet owner pam weaver down, trying to straddle her. Her family had considered buying her a llama or an alpaca but found them to be too expensive. What?
Speaker 1:Oh, my God, oh, so Okay, wait Now the question to ask what did she do to intimidate that animal to hump her, that camel to hump her?
Speaker 2:I don't know, man, it's like a dolphin.
Speaker 1:when it's aroused, you play with its blowhole or something, and it's going to try to come after you I tell you what her hands must be velvet, because when if you're going to pet the camel and it's going to excite him that much to where he jumps on her and crushed her.
Speaker 2:And the question is, the question is did it finish?
Speaker 1:Oh, they left the whore part out. Poor Pam Weaver. Oh see now her family. It's their fault because they didn't want to spend the extra money to get the other animals.
Speaker 2:And seriously, how much cheaper is a camel than a llama or an alpaca?
Speaker 1:I don't know the going rate of a camel, let alone a horny one. Three daughters you should have went for the female, or Pam Weaver oh my God.
Speaker 2:What's your next one man?
Speaker 1:Okay, the next one. New Zealand Food Bank distributes candy made from a potential lethal amount of methamphetamine.
Speaker 2:You know I read this yesterday. I was trying to find stuff to talk about. What a mess up.
Speaker 1:That is, oh my God, that's hilarious. They contacted up to 400 people to track down the parcels because they were distributing candies in Auckland, new Zealand, or no, in Wellington, new Zealand, and for charity, like food drive kind of thing, and I guess let's see how much was it. One person died, I think. Yeah, wait, wait. Three people were treated at the hospital. Okay, just three people were in the hospital because I guess they must have had got a bunch. But here's the amount the amount and the amount of methamphetamine in each candy was up to 300 times the level that it would usually take to be lethal 300 times.
Speaker 2:Holy crap. Who made this stuff? Did they find?
Speaker 1:oh no, it just says uh hold on. The cops are coming to raid the place and they just packed it in the candy and called it a day they said that it was, uh, it must have been like a cross a border smuggling thing, that they were trying to get it across the border. And, uh, they say it had to have been an accident because each, each piece of candy, they said, was worth $608 American dollars.
Speaker 2:So now you've got a lot of happy homeless people running around.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you give, you get from. You give a meth candy and stuff and just like. And they said it was uh which suggested the amount of money per candy was suggested that it was donated or was donated. The donation was by an unknown member of the public by accident.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, Could you imagine that? You know how pissed the drug dealers have to be. You know they're like oh, we made it in the candy, and they're sitting there eating all the candy, hoping to get high. And they got the candy.
Speaker 1:What do you mean? You don't have the candy. Where's the candy? What is this crap? And they have two boxes that look identical and they just accidentally donated the other box. Oh my God, could you imagine the homeless people? Oh, we got candy. Cool, I love a Werther's. What is this?
Speaker 3:Oh my.
Speaker 1:God, just like freak out, give me more candy.
Speaker 2:They're all superhuman, all superhuman for like the next hour and a half. No kidding that much Awesome Punching bricks. Oh my God, that's crazy. That would be some good stuff, man. So that'd be some good stuff, man. So all right for my second headline. I got belgian man discovers wife of 19 years. She was born a man. That's not the, that's not the main part of the headline. Here's the second part. He says he understands why now she wasn't good at ironing. He says he understands why now she wasn't good at ironing.
Speaker 1:If that's the requirement, you mean to tell me in 19 years that guy didn't freaking know that his wife was a man.
Speaker 2:I was born a man. I don't know if it was a sex change, I don't, I don't know. But oh well, I don't know, I don. Oh well, see, I don't know, I don't know. You know they got married, so you know the love life has kind of disappeared. So I kind of believe it.
Speaker 1:Hell, he should have married the camel over there. That was an up that chick to bed, huff being Humphrey. Oh my God, I'd see I don't even know how far the surgery or whatever, with the original parts. I don't know what that sounds, just crazy.
Speaker 2:You know, take the methadone candy and the humping camel and see if he can survive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you take the candy. Good, you and the camel have some candy and then see what happens. Oh my God, that's crazy. What do you got? Oh, I got this. The third one's the wild one. Okay, read them all, I don't care. Time. A time.
Speaker 2:Man pained by snake bite testicles while sitting on, while he sat on his toilet you know, I have heard of stuff like this, like in australia, when they got bit by hunter spiders on the heads of their penises or the snakes come out of the sewers and just go straight in and bite Like what the hell.
Speaker 1:The Thailand. The Thailand man was uh, okay, pretty much. A snake came through the toilet, which is the biggest nightmare. When I was a kid always thought something was going to happen. Even to this day, I always check before I sit down. Right, it was nearly two meters long snake had bitten him in the testicles when he was on the toilet, okay. But he's previously seen the snake in the downstairs bathroom and when he was unable to catch it on several occasions. So he decided to close it off for a month and use the other bathroom upstairs instead. I mean, how are you going to just, how are you just going to like know there's a snake in the house and go, I'll just leave him down there?
Speaker 2:no, he's going to get upstairs okay, so you can't bother us hide your dogs and cat he went upstairs to take care of business in the bathroom.
Speaker 1:Okay, he felt something bite in his old bean bag down there, which was very painful. Yes, I was caught by a snake which was biting my you know, okay, what else. He immediately stood up and tried to pull the python that was hiding in the toilet bowl. He had a difficulty removing it. It's a python. Yeah, yeah, listen, when I I grabbed it, it also bit my finger. So not only it's taken two parts of him already, but I didn't feel any pain. Eventually he was able to feel the pain. Yeah, no kidding, I'd be still like screaming at a uh acapella with my first pay bite.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, and then your hand stapled, your, your nutsack all right, listen to this.
Speaker 1:Okay, this guy was able to remove the snake from the bowl and beat it to death with a nearby toilet brush. What a battle. He hurried down to call security guard to throw it away. He called his friends who live next door to send me to the hospital. Oh my god. Unfortunately or fortunately it was a non-venomous python. Oh my god, a python. That's just so stupid, I mean oh my god.
Speaker 2:And your wife walks in and she's like whoa, is that a python on you, or you're just happy to see me?
Speaker 1:yeah, here she hears stuff slam, the wall slam and she comes in. What the hell's going on in here? All of a sudden you've got a python with your balls bleeding and your uh and your finger bleeding. How do you help me? She's like you know. I thought I caught you in the past in weird positions, but this is too much.
Speaker 2:Oh man, oh God, do you happen to know a country that way? Or you said Thai.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thailand, their. Their plumbing system needs to be fixed.
Speaker 2:You think some kind of I was going to say filter, but you got to squeeze the stuff through.
Speaker 1:I don't remember, but as a kid I always remember like stories of stuff coming through the pipes, like snakes and and other things, and I always like get a little like trauma and I'm like looking down.
Speaker 2:Oh no, you know it's just like down in the South. You know people still have outhouses, like in them old houses, and you got to go at nighttime, you got to take a flashlight and make sure you know cotton mouse or water moccasins, like they coiled up and they're trying to stay warm you're gonna leech out.
Speaker 1:You're gonna leech on your cane. You're trying to get someone to help you kick it off.
Speaker 2:I can't reach oh man, what do you got? So for my next one, british parrot, missing for four years, returns speaking Spanish.
Speaker 1:Holy crap.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. It goes from oh, how are you? To your soy. Come on, it was, you know, like something, like weird Spanish dude Like oh, my God, that'd be awesome, I don't know man, so he flew to.
Speaker 1:he flew to some.
Speaker 2:Latin country, he would have to go to, like Spain, straight across the aisle.
Speaker 1:He'd be like you're not my parent, and then he'd start speaking. What was the first language? English, english, oh my God that'd be hilarious.
Speaker 2:I'd say, what'd he do? Go to university for four years, graduate, come back home, got a major in Spanish.
Speaker 1:Then his wife's complaining oh, you can't learn a language. Your bird can learn the language, but you can't.
Speaker 2:Damn birds man, no excuses. Yeah, I got one more or two. Yeah, throw it at me, man, because I like these.
Speaker 1:The Oscar Mayer wienermobile flips on its side after crashing along uh suburban chicago highway. Whoa, this was it. Uh like in july, oakbrook, illinois, one of the oscar meyer hot dog wienermobiles ended up flipped on its side and crashed into uh on the highway it was. Have you ever been in one?
Speaker 2:No, I've seen one, but I haven't been in one. Yeah, like when they show up to like Strax the grocery store, they let you inside. Oh really, yeah, it's like a motorhome. That'd be awesome.
Speaker 1:It was on I-294,.
Speaker 2:Northbound Figures. That's probably why I was late for work.
Speaker 1:The spokesman for Oscar Mayer says that he's grateful that everybody involved is safe and there is no injuries. They hauled it away in a flatbed truck.
Speaker 2:Parking's got to be ridiculous for that yeah.
Speaker 1:Because it's like all over 30 feet long. Feet long, yeah, you're taking up, like, yeah, you can't park even through two parking spots. You have to, like probably go at an angle or right right one lengthwise, I don't know how you would say it.
Speaker 2:So I got two, two left and I really want to see your reaction on this one. Okay, so the first one is from a local newspaper in Kansas. It's Tommy Harris, banned from Chinese buffet for shitting in the seaweed, what, what.
Speaker 1:Are you kidding me what? Oh my God, that's sick. Oh that son of a bitch. Oh my god, it's like shit oh, could you okay? Did they find out right away? Or did somebody eat it and start eating it and stuff and say this tastes like shit?
Speaker 2:I think they caught him and I think they caught him mid-act as I was hanging when he in mid-pinch.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, Could you imagine if someone tried to eat that afterwards? I've never tried seaweed before.
Speaker 2:I thought seaweed was green. This is like mud.
Speaker 1:There's still mud on it. It tastes a little weird. Someone's still trying to chew away Good old Tommy Harris oh, that son of a gun.
Speaker 2:He's the guy we need on this. He needs this.
Speaker 1:We need that guy on our show I wonder if he was drunk or sober. Was it a tiktok thing?
Speaker 2:either one of those men are like it's still ridiculous. Imagine when it's going up on top of the thing and just squatting and because in front of people.
Speaker 1:oh my god, that reminds me a couple weeks ago at my store. The maintenance guy came running to the manager and had to apologize and say I didn't know, I didn't know and I'm listening, what the hell is he talking about? And he proceeded to tell the manager that he went to go clean the women's room and he was saying is anybody in there? Is anybody in there? And nobody answered. So is anybody in there? Is anybody in there? And like, nobody answered. So he went in there and there was a lady sitting in the sink, yeah, and cleaning, cleaning her. Uh, yeah, her who on the whole bottom area, like a baby bird in the in the back in the sink, and he, like he was like what the hell? And he ran out and he told the manager did anyone come screaming at you? He said I didn't want to see it, he was freaking out, but she was baby birding in the sink.
Speaker 2:It was just like when I used to work at Hardee's on the toll road and Grateful Dead would come in the concert. So you'd have all the hippies camping out around Hardee'sies and portage and then, uh, they would be up in the sink washing. They'd be like in the bathroom just sitting there like flipping their nails, like, yeah man, it is ridiculous.
Speaker 1:I'll have to start writing down some of what happens to me or some of the stuff I witness at work, and let you know It'll be a. I'll gather a bunch up and then I'll let everybody I'll keep the names private for lawsuits or anything. We won't talk about small mark. No, no, not at all. Nothing coincidentally like it.
Speaker 2:So I have one last one man, and I don't know why, this one it makes me laugh From Lancashire. Sorry if I mispronounced that in the UK the headline was I wasn't flashing my willy, I was shoplifting sausages.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God Wow.
Speaker 2:I swear, I swear, swear. The sausage, a sausage officer. It was a sausage, it was spotted dick and you know that. That that's all I got. You know? That's hilarious. Look, this segment always makes me laugh and and I think I only do it like once every great often nowadays, just to let the world build up with more stupidity, yeah and and uh, tommy harris, if you're out there listening and you're shitting the seaweed more than once, uh, contact us. We want you on our show. We want, we want your side of the story. You know, we want your side of the story did?
Speaker 2:they run out of tp and you just wiped a seaweed. Is it no restaurant's fault? We want to know bc osaka's don't get no, no, no, not osaka's. Hey, before we leave real fast, I want to just thank everybody who's been supporting the podcast by listening and wherever you are in this world and I really appreciate you guys, and I know Jim does as well and keep listening and tell your friends about us. Like us, share us and follow us, and you know, just just tell your friends about us. I'm not asking for money, I'm not asking for anything else. So, uh, just tell your friends about us, tell them to listen. They have to listen to the show.
Speaker 1:So give it a try, everybody, just tell them, give it a try.
Speaker 2:And if they say, well, what did they talk about? I don't know, they don't even know, they just do it know. Say, hey, what do you got? That's what we'll talk about what do you got?
Speaker 2:right, and if you want to talk about something or you want to hear us talk about something, email us at powerspointpodcastyahoocom and we can contact me through instagram at us powers31911. Uh, look us up on facebook. I don't even know what that is anymore, but just look up Scott Powers or Jim Banks and yeah, or Twitter podcast Scott or X now. So, jim, before we get out of here, yes, we need that quote. It's been two weeks, all right.
Speaker 1:Here's the quote the more weird you are, the more fun you are.
Speaker 2:I really agree with that one, you know, because you don't have no cares.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and also, you never know who would love the person you hide. All right, just be yourself. In other words, just be yourself, in other words, be yourself, and that that might attract the person. That's like dude, you're awesome.
Speaker 2:Right and.
Speaker 1:I don't care what the cop said about that, you're awesome for me and Jim.
Speaker 2:We'll talk to you maybe next week. If not, we'll definitely talk to you in two weeks. All right, bye, bye.
Speaker 3:Bye.
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