Everything Is Real, by Garbage Brain University

Why you can’t study wild parrots! Why parrots keep their boyfriends forever! Why they crap out little hard balls that contain baby parrots! And at least a couple more parrot facts await you in this, the 204th episode of Garbage Brain University.

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Natalie & Drew talk corrective lenses, the biggerator, the Spicy Girls, and why throwing things around makes your life worse in every way.

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Natalie & Drew talk about where Valentines Day came from, the gory story of the original Saint Valentine (and why he was an alien,) why Saint Valentine may have been three people (or three aliens,) Ohio Mud Week, hog-sucking, hole-getting, and more.

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Natalie Dee & Drew present to you the bizarre story of Mothman, the legendary West-Virginia-based creature that might be real. Or not real. Maybe he’s real, but constructed by the CIA. We expose the facts, explore all of these theories, and more, right here, right now.

Here’s an illustration of M-Man himself, as drawn by ???? in the year ???? (see, we told you it was mysterious.)

It’s The Smiling Man, aka Indrid Cold, as drawn by someone who saw him, supposedly!

Our friend Elissa, who you’ve heard on our Cemetery and Haunted Prison episodes, took these photos (above) in the Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant, WV. The actual watch and chapstick from the movie Mothman Prophecies! A letter from a Kennedy! And a very nicely made Mothman quilt. It’s the largest collection of Mothman memorabilia in the world.

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What happens when you shoot a UFO 1,400 times and it flies off without complaint, in front of thousands of onlookers? The Battle Of LA took place in 1942, and reveals the bizarre nature of unidentified aerial phenomena. We give you the evidence, including a strikingly similar case from over 400 years ago, and let you decide whether or not it was “just a weather balloon.”

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