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The East River Mammoth Tusk Hoax

Story of the Week with Joel Stein

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The Bone Wagon

The remains are on John Reeves property, which had been owned by this guy, Robert Osborne, decades ago. And he was part of something called the bone wagon, which sounds like something a year fraternity was shut down for doing, but that's not what it is. He says he ate some like woolly mammoth, right? I'm trying to imagine the texture of what something like that would. Of course, it's, you know, tens of thousands of years old. That's got to hurt the taste. One would imagine. A lot of hot sauce. Just to kind of say he did.

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