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Appearances
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 31 – Jan
Four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding. But the price has gone up, so now I only buy one.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 31 – Jan
Three or four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding. But the price has gone up, so now I only buy one.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 31 – Jan
Hey, I want to learn about VeChain. I want to buy some blockchain or whatever it is that they're doing.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 31 – Jan
Every time I hear about my dad, it's, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 31 – Jan
If the cops and everything would have done their job properly, my dad would have been in jail. I would have never existed.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 31 – Jan
I didn't want to be talked out of this plan. After I post this, I am turning off my phone for exactly this reason.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 31 – Jan
I kept just kind of asking everybody, anyone else think this is strange?
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 31 – Jan
You'll notice that about me. I don't lurk. I'm out there. I'm an action kind of girl.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 31 – Jan
Three or four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding. But the price has gone up, so now I only buy one.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 31 – Jan
Hey, I want to learn about VeChain. I want to buy some blockchain or whatever it is that they're doing.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 31 – Jan
Every time I hear about my dad, it's, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 31 – Jan
If the cops and everything would have done their job properly, my dad would have been in jail. I would have never existed.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 31 – Jan
I didn't want to be talked out of this plan. After I post this, I am turning off my phone for exactly this reason.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 31 – Jan
I kept just kind of asking everybody, anyone else think this is strange?
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 31 – Jan
You'll notice that about me. I don't lurk. I'm out there. I'm an action kind of girl.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 31 – Jan
Four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding. But the price has gone up, so now I only buy one.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 31 – Jan
Every time I hear about my dad, it's, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 31 – Jan
Every time I hear about my dad, it's, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
Blood Vines
The Grape Broker: 2
And then all of a sudden one day, you know, some feds showed up and things kind of came to kind of like a screeching halt.
Blood Vines
The Grape Broker: 2
His chin was down, he looked blue, and his neck looked out of place.
Global News Podcast
The Happy Pod: The cafe spreading the joy of dance
The passport being taken, the being in a house and not feeling like they can leave.
Search Engine
The Mystery of the Vape Shop Kratom
I was taking them all throughout the day. I would wake up first thing in the morning, immediately feel like crap because of the day before and need to take another one.
Search Engine
The Mystery of the Vape Shop Kratom
I tried to wean myself off and I went into full-blown opiate withdrawals.
Search Engine
The Mystery of the Vape Shop Kratom
I had horrible restless legs. Restless legs, hot, cold flashes. Chills, puking. Extreme dizziness and nausea. I couldn't go to the bathroom, constipated. Super, super dry skin. I hated it. Man, I hated how my body felt. Some depression. I just wanted it to end.
Search Engine
The Mystery of the Vape Shop Kratom
Kratom supporters are fighting to keep the plant-based substance from being banned last month.
Search Engine
The Mystery of the Vape Shop Kratom
What they're doing is they're selling it in gas stations and head shops under the name Tia Red or Zaza.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
Eso es una cosa maravillosa. De verdad, maravillosa.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
Now we're just talking about when the cheat's going to happen in Detroit. Are you serious? The cheat's going to happen at 2 in the morning. Already we report of a truck with California plates showing up in the TCF center.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
I got to tell Ira, because he's down there. He's watching for the steal to come in.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
Well, yeah, tell him that word has it a truck with California plates showed up. But why is a truck showing up this time of night? All the ballots should be there already.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
What do you know about black widow spiders? What do you know?
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
Fantastic. That is exactly what most people know about black widow spiders. And you're totally wrong.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
So let me tell you, I'll start with the Black Widow name. The idea that the Black Widow eats her husband or the spider they just mated with. That she, you know, is a murderer dressed all in black, mourning a husband that they just killed.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
Many species of baby spiders, which are called spiderlings, often eat their siblings right after hatching. And some species of spiderlings even eat their own mother after hatching. Oh, and sexual cannibalism, which is like eating your mate after he has done the deed with you, is very common in the spider world. Oh, but you know who's who is not common that much for is black widow spiders.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
They only do this in captivity. It's practically never been seen in the wild in the northern hemisphere.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
So the male Black Widow will sometimes go around to the female's web and sort of clip off little parts of it so that she has no exit routes. And then he will go up next to her and like calmly like sort of caress her. And then he throws... a web of his own over her to then copulate with her. Oh. And the scientists have called that web the bridal veil. which is so not what that should be called.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
Are you serious? Oh my God. But this, it strikes me as a very weird behavior. And if I were a person naming spiders and saw that sometimes the female ate the male after eating, but also that the male does this crazy thing and like ties down the lady, basically, I might name the spider after that. But why didn't they? Because they were men. Yeah.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
And they thought it was exceptional that the female killed the male. Oh, my gosh. Can't have that.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
So from 1950 to 1959, the data we have says that there were 63 deaths in the U.S. from black widow spiders.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
So most of the reported black widow bites from this time happened in what were called outdoor privies, outhouses. So black widow spiders, they enjoy dark, low to the ground sort of places. They especially love to make their cobwebs between two objects. And so because bugs like stinky places, you know, like imagine flies, right?
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
There's flies in outhouses that it makes a great like food supply, right? And to get to the stinky stuff, you got to go through the bowl, right? Right, right. So putting your web there is excellent. So imagine this. It's the 1950s. You're a dude. You need to go number two. You make your way out to the outhouse. You sit down and you junk hangles there. Hangles. Yep. That's what she said.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
And as it does, it hits the cobweb. And the usually non-aggressive black widow instinctually runs over and bites down on the new creature that has landed on its web. Oh, my God. OK.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
It is, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. There's like not even you can't even imagine a better situation tailored to getting bit by this like usually very non-aggressive spider. They don't come after you.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
The skin there is less thick and there are lots of nerves there, right? And this is a neurotoxin venom. So... Oh, oh, oh. Perhaps being bit on the genitals sends the venom going into your body in like a faster or stronger way than say if you were bit on a callus on your foot.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
So yeah, I think that the world should know that they've been lied to. And that this black widow spider is not that bad.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
I think that's what it looks like, renaming her. Black Widow spiders were not always called Black Widow spiders. They've had many different names. Some of the names are the Hourglass Spider, the T-Bar Spider, the Miwok people indigenous to California called the spider Pocomu, The one she likes best, though. The shoe-button spider.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
It was like my whole chest was in a vice grip.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
I imagine like the worst cramp that you've ever had in your life.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
Like a Charlie horse in your leg, but that being my whole back.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
Like a really bad Charlie horse that doesn't stop and envelops your whole chest, right?
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
I was like twisting up my body and I was like holding on to the side panels of the vehicle and bracing myself when it was happening. And so weirdly enough, I kind of wondered like, is this like what it feels like to go into labor?
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
Oh my God. I do not. I do not like that at all. No offense to the people who named that the shoe button spider back in the old days, but that is a very lame name.
This American Life
848: The Official Unofficial Record
Have you ever seen a Black Widow spider? Like, they look cool. You know, they are sort of like, sort of a spider you shouldn't mess with. And they probably have a bad rap, but I do like Black Widow. Like, it gives it some power. And I think those spiders definitely have power.