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Bubbles the Puke-Eating Dolphin Bullies Fish Until They Vomit Lunch

September 29, 20268 min read

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Episode Summary

Norman Wicks upgrades his homelessness to a suspicious ambulance-van, Meade forgets to remember 9/11 on schedule, a dolphin bullies fish into vomiting lunch, and fraternity pledges marinate inside a humid basement full of condiments and mystery fluids.

Opening Chaos

  • Tim spends the past 12 months identifying as a low-battery smoke alarm, tormenting his girlfriend with endless beeping while somehow failing to detect an actual apartment fire.
  • Dr. Phil attempts compassionate intervention by threatening to shove two AA batteries up Tim’s ass. Modern medicine remains beautiful.
  • Two drag queens launch into a booth-side brawl, complete with a flying wig, chain theft and one combatant proudly emerging with her hair and eyelashes still attached.
  • The surrounding spectators provide catty commentary because every violent altercation deserves an unofficial judging panel.

Norman Wicks and the Emergency Ambulance-Van

  • Norman Wicks returns from the streets inside a larger, more dilapidated vehicle that he insists is an ambulance because it contains his medical equipment.
  • Police call it a van, neighbors report it after several days at the curb and Norman responds with his usual sophisticated legal strategy: screaming that everyone should fuck off.
  • An officer warns that parking enforcement will mark the vehicle, beginning the slow march toward a future towing incident Norman will somehow consider completely unexpected.
  • Norman and his son call 911 over the parking dispute, demand a sergeant and inform the dispatcher that police officers are bothering them.
  • The dispatcher immediately recognizes Norman and reminds him that a parking warning is not an emergency. Apparently, this is not their first romantic encounter.
  • Father and son scream over each other until Norman orders his son to shut up, proving there can be only one furious man shouting nonsense inside the ambulance-van.

Meade Forgets His Own 9/11 Tribute

  • Meade Skelton publishes a video titled We Forgot 9/11 after forgetting to make his own 9/11 video because he was preoccupied with how unattractive he feels.
  • Meade imagines that if he had died in the attacks, he would have selected his most handsome photograph for the newspapers—apparently from beyond the grave.
  • He recalls hearing that a small plane struck the World Trade Center before getting ready for “skew”, once again losing a fistfight with the English language.
  • Meade is depressed that coworkers discussed weekend plans instead of wearing flag pins and spending the entire anniversary emotionally submerged in national tragedy.
  • He complains about “professional widows of 9/11” wallowing in grief, then proceeds to wallow in 9/11 because it was a defining moment in his own life.
  • Barack Obama and the Saudis eventually wander into the lecture, because no Meade sermon is complete until history, racism and chronology are blended into a thick paste.

️ Distorted News

Taco Vendor Confrontation Devastates a Cleaning Business

  • Francesca Ortega, owner of a Southern California cleaning company, goes viral after confronting taco vendors, insulting them in Spanish and threatening to call immigration authorities.
  • Ortega reportedly complains that the vendors operate illegally, hurt rent-paying businesses and make the neighborhood resemble Mexico.
  • Her company’s listings are flooded with negative reviews, prompting Ortega to lament that the business she spent a decade building has been ruined.
  • In a particularly inventive counterattack, Ortega replaces her company’s public phone number with the number of an online critic, redirecting the angry calls toward him.
  • She later describes her behavior as a mistake, says she never intended to hurt anyone and reveals that she is pregnant. The world’s smallest violin remains fully booked.

Bubbles the Vomit-Eating Dolphin

  • A bottlenose dolphin nicknamed Bubbles has developed a revolting shortcut for dinner near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
  • Bubbles selects a bigeye trevally, isolates it from the school and chases it until the stressed fish vomits its recently eaten meal.
  • Once lunch comes back up, Bubbles stops the pursuit, eats the regurgitated food and allows the traumatized victim to swim away.
  • Researchers documented the behavior repeatedly between 2021 and 2025, including feeding sessions where Bubbles performed the trick as many as ten times in thirty minutes.
  • The dolphin appears to target fish with fuller bellies and refuses to harvest vomit from other species. Even a puke-eating sea monster has standards.
  • No other local dolphins have been observed copying the technique, leaving Bubbles alone at the bottom of the reef’s culinary dignity chart.

Fraternity Pledges Found Marinating in Mystery Fluids

  • Police investigating suspected hazing near the University of Wisconsin–Madison discover roughly 30 partially clothed young men packed inside a hot basement.
  • The pledges are reportedly covered in food, condiments and unidentified liquids, creating the atmosphere of a fraternity barbecue catered by sexual deviants.
  • Black walls and a thermostat set to 81 degrees turn the basement into a humid crockpot of ketchup, sweat and deteriorating human judgment.
  • Several pledges display fresh injuries that police believe may be consistent with physical assault, though none require transportation for medical care.
  • The chapter president and vice president are arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor hazing and disorderly conduct, but prosecutors had not formally charged them at the time reported.
  • Student rumors claim the mystery substance may have included feces. Authorities have not confirmed the exact ingredients in this deeply unwanted marinade.

Freak Voicemails

  • Unicorn Hamster introduces a newly possessed identity called David Super Hamster, forcing Tim to play an extra voicemail as compensation.
  • Goons, Bader and Jisbert explains how high infant mortality dragged down historical life-expectancy averages, confirming that not everyone simply disintegrated on their 35th birthday.
  • Davide encounters someone claiming dissociative identity disorder and responds by laughing, leaving everyone to decide whether the diagnosis or his reaction deserves greater scrutiny.
  • A closeted caller celebrates using “bitch boy” against spam callers and asks whether his secret sexuality grants permission to use a certain slur.
  • Tim recommends coming out in 2026, if only to simplify the increasingly complicated paperwork surrounding forbidden vocabulary.

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