As an art student I can say this is true.

Artists in the wild recognise members of their pack by their collections of oddities. Opposing pack groups are also recognised in this matter and are given "constructive crittisisum" ultimatrly destroying the other clans moral and already non existant self esteem. However wild artists will team up with opposing clans to fight a larger enimy, sutch as "karens" or "people who pay with exposure".

@@nikonikoknees4488 lmao

The story: it was a bag of human teeth Me, looking nervously at my collection of human teeth:

dollightful

Lmao

I mean it just makes sense. Paper, doll heads, teeth.

@@xxmidnight12xx18 I mean, have you heard of that one tiktoker who collected hair loose hair to make a wig? Nothing surprises me anymore...

@@JustCallMeEmily to be honest what goes on on tik tok doesn’t surprise me anymore.

You jest but the last time I went to camping I collected remnants of an old doll and its still sitting in my drawer because I haven't decided what to do with it yet

Yep

O h n o

im rlly questioning, it was a lot of the same thoot of a single person or a a type of thoot (like canine, molar, incisor)??

Haha irony

@@izyccor I think it was the exact same tooth cloned several times with the only difference being what state of decay it was in

LOL

I know right?

I love it when he disses him it's hilarious 😂😂

I need an update to this comment

Who do you think he hates more Martin or his predecessor?

@@KatanaDen his predecessor. He seems just irritated with Martin, but especially after ep.04 seems genuinely insulted by his predecessor's lax work.

And it was fucking charred?? Like what Jared did to the Latin book in the other episode??

That's what I thought too

That was exactly my first thought, that it was just coating. I don't think a fully metal heart would stay in the middle of things as light as packing peanuts. And if it had sank to the bottom, against the pavement, the person picking it up would feel it.

Yeah, it should have been way heavier if it was pure metal.

Like a metal crown on a tooth....

@@hhylobates4098 god I hate that... that makes or so much creepier

i dont think anyone but waste managment people can fully grasp the actual horror that this story causes

Ooguhuu your right (°ー°〃)

This is what I thought too! Though I was inclined to interpret it as a sort of bait so that this tooth fairy persona could… eliminate the other garbage man as well. I was wrong about that, at least.

I thought about it too

Wow. But why did they do that? Just to scare the main dude?

That's a good point, didn't ever consider that. I just took his impression of being texted by his friend for granted, but it could easily have been this. @torttania Can't have such a lovely gift-wrapped present be missed and just tossed in the trash, now can we? Tbh, there's other lore reasons that could apply to why, but it'd be a spoiler to mention them so I won't.

Why do you have teeth posts???

@@elliscrawford7026 I like teeth

@@CeramicGod Ok, you're clearly an evil doppelganger

Your what now

@@pendularnuncius2618 👀

Jon in S1 is frustrated by what he perceives as Martin being lazy. Let's just say their dynamic changes *quite a lot* in the following seasons.

this is episode FIVE, bud, give them a minute to get to know each other... how far in are you now? Let's just say if you don't want to listen to a podcast with a gay couple as the protagonists, you're going to be disappointed

@@happy99soup82 well I'm up to date and I get that they didn't exaggerate this time

Lol this comment is hilarious after MAG 200 haha

tfw its literally canon

we cannot erase our sins

we all make mistakes in the heat of passion jimbo

SAME!!

... And that is why investing in a shredder is worth it

hey, maybe one of them picked it up and enjoyed it. or maybe it became their source for dramatic readings to make fun of

WarriorGirl302 Lol, this is one of my favorite episodes.

This episode makes me question my neighbors trash bins now☠️☠️

@Jasmine Dawn Harrington Hell yeah. I still have all my baby teeth somewhere

ALL 2780 OF THEM

can someone tell me what happened more or less in ep four, i didn't see this ep subtitled in my language. I don't know any English, this is all Google translator

"The teeth" is never something I expected to be followed by a colon

dont worry they were probably just an art major

@@binkbonkbones3402 I mean, the teeth have to do something.

Took me a while to get it, but still funny!

oh my god

Lepitorus I’m wheezing

Where?

Lol its gura guwrs tooth tooth fair bag

It's just tooth time boys

It's a Tom Haan adjacent one, just that Jonny took the Tom Haan arc in a more canonically meaty one. This is a Flesh statement though.

@@mimkyodar I think this one is The Stranger? Because I'm pretty sure this episode ties into a later episode, Anatomy Class

@@corvidaesy8008 It doesn't. Johnny has confirmed it was intended to be Flesh

@@corvidaesy8008 There's overlap among almost all the powers, it's likely both. For example the anatomy class students were DEFINITELY Stranger, but they performed pretty Fleshy acts like Jarod

why?

That was a pun wasn't it 😭

@@alilweeb7684 was a joke because inside the bag was Alan’s heart and Alan was a former coworker of the statement giver

Thanks for clarifying

with your theory, and since most teeth come in pairs, dude could've still robbed a few graves. 1390 of them, but still

@@arantzavzc I think they were more talking about the DNA in the tooth. I think That the tests said they all came from the same person and same tooth

@@noname-kx4cu isn't it more the shape? isn't that how dental records work? so 2790 identical teeth.

@@tmaxgo6696 Depends on country/etc. Taking DNA tests on confirmed human teeth to match with missing person reports would make sense though. Makes you wonder at which point the technician started to freak out. "Okay, so tooth number three. Same DNA. Huh, twins?" A few minutes later "Tooth thirteen. Well, would you look at that. Same DNA. That's it. I quit!"

WEll maybe if Martin would stop being so terrible, John wouldn't have a reason to be rude about it.

Don’t worry John gets better. And by that I mean he falls in love with the assistant he hates so much currently 😂 lmao

this is pretty hilarious when you've listened to all the other episodes esp. season 5 XD

Riiight

(bag full of teeth spills onto the pavement) ugh, fucking art kids

Graham Newday this comment wins

*john cena voice* are u sure about that

Oooor maybe a writer who does a really deep research about everything in their story and did some experiments with dolls to know the exact sounds/scratches/damages to them. Well. Maybe they also wanted to know how cramped the character's hand would get after writing something for a thousand times, and wanted to know the exact damages to one tooth using corpses from cemetery (or maybe it was a fucking maniac that lives somewhere else and keeps a poor person in the basement (Allan?!!! they added Allan???!!!) and makes them butcher dolls and writing one phrase...)

Personally, I’d assume baby shower cleanup.

Maybe it's because, in a normal situation, teeth should be inside the mouth, aligned side by side in two rows (one up, one down), so when you see teeth outside a mouth and/or scattered randomly, your brain automatically goes "wait this is not right". I realize now that it was probably a rethorical question but since I've already written all that might as well keep it haha

Right? Every time I see them I just want to throw up, few times I almost did and idk why

I know this is probably a rethorical question, but honestly I think it's because of how many people you should 'collect' from tk get enough to fill a trashbag. Like that's a LOT of teeth. You never see so many in one place, and people have around ~28 teeth in their mouth. It's,,,, yeah

Okay i just now finished and the fact they were the SAME tooth is even worse

I think it’s the symbology. Teeth are for self-service, right? You eat with teeth, talk with them, animals defend themselves, etc. all pretty necessary things. When teeth are removed entirely, you become worried about whoever they belonged to. But when they’re there, just not in the way you expected, it’s worse, because it suggests that whatever the teeth belongs to is also not what you expect, and maybe dangerous.

Question is which bin the teeth go in

@@fevre_dream8542Since some of them have decayed to some degree, they cannot be reused or recycled. Pity.

​@@fevre_dream8542 Composting, of course. Like eggshells do

The second the word "ritual" appeared I feared

People: freak out over the word "ritual" Me, a witch: discreetly puts candles away before anyone notices.

@@lelandbecker3233 Same lmao

​@@lelandbecker3233 ***GASPS IN 1800'S MALE***

Right, like call the police... Your friend is probably dead or something

​@@maguiAM13eeeh for all he knows they wouldn't believe him.

@@drinkerofpaint yeah, I guess, but at least this will be out of his conscience, you know? Now, I did love this story

Was literally thinking the same, like way to abandon your probably dead friend.

@@drinkerofpaintthey’ve already called the police for mysterious happenings at the same house when they found a bag full of human teeth. Why wouldn’t the police believe him when weird shit happens again?

Lmao it's not wrong with this episode being our first taste of The Flesh

Oh 100% and they we’re definitely tormenting the main guy

Ah yes. Teeth are quite a rare and tasty treat

Gotta munch munch crunch on them

“Do you value your teeth? Because I guarantee I know someone who DOES MORE” -Arin Hansen

@@loveydoveydoll4yeah, nhom nhom teeth

What kind of art project needs that many teeth? xD

OOH WHAT WAS IT ABOUT? IT SEEMS VERY INTERESTING

Cause it mean whoever colected them was collecting them for decades and with any means to collect them one might come up with that amount of time and dedication is disturbing.

@@theartistswings9810 They would all be different teeth though. They were all the same tooth.

If they were different teeth you could think it's just an insane person grave robbing or something similar, weird and probably dangerous, but very much human and explainable The same teeth tough? Completely unnatural, can't be reasonable explained

@@Guilloz96 (Hello from 3 years ago! Lol) I wasn't even thinking about it, but it also suggests a much larger amount of victims. ._.

Hopefully it was

"Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back"

Princess X97346 curiosity streams

I literally made the :o face 😭

Same lol

ooh i might be wrong, bc i ALSO have trouble remembering their names/dates/etc., but somewhere in s1, someone gets mad at jon bc he messed up some case names/dates and they wanted him to rerecord those case statements. again, not sure if this was one of the mistakes he made, but it might be!

In the forums it was confirmed that the date was misspoken on accident and then in Mag 33 Tim pointed out the inconsistencies to Jon about them being a year apart

@@GrandpaShagger69 Oh, thanks! I wasn't aware there was a forum.

omg you're so me when I first listened to this. I started my first relisten and I still feel that way even tho I know what's coming...jon and his plot twists during sentences!

As someone relistening, I hope you enjoy! And go listen to the blooper reels if you struggle sleeping too much :D

Just started this week and honestly same.This came out when I was 15/16 and even then I was still scared of horror. Tbh I think the only reason it doesn't scare me now is bc I'm an nbc hannibal fan😂

​@@song1of1fire1where are the bloopers?

**SPOILERS** * * * * * * * My guess is it’s closer to The Stranger. The teeth did initially make me think Flesh, but the doll heads, the fact that they’re all the same tooth, the anatomically correct heart made of inorganic material all point towards The Stranger. The Stranger is all about the uncanny, unnerving, and unknown. That’s this to a T. The Flesh is usually grosser and more visceral. This feels closer to the shape-shifting anatomy students, who were aspects of The Stranger. 😊

@@TheNitpickChick Nope, it's Flesh. Jonny confirmed in one of the Q&As. Flesh also delves into mass production, the fear that we are just meat and parts to be consumed or discarded. Its that side of the Flesh.

While I know it was supposed to be a proto-Flesh statement I still think it has Eye vibes as well.

Well everything is connected one way or another

metanight788 Me

yay friendos

Me.

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Me. I'm glad that Red recommended it ❤️

Even if your not using tractors or scythes it's still dangerous. Like the story mentioned in the recent Last Week Tonight episode about farmworkers, where a farm worker got dehydrated from doing hard work in the hot sun, and wound up going the wrong way, passing out before they found their way to water. In that particular case it was a child, but it can happen to adults as well.

I’m pretty sure it was the weird students with generic names, the ones that put the teeth in their teacher’s apple, trying to figure out how to present as normal, anatomically correct humans

@@elspeth6244 Well maybe that would work for the teeth, but what about the prayer paper and the dolls? And why make Alan Parfitt disappear? Why the metal heart with his name on it? The first time I listened to this, I thought each of the bags must be some kind of remnant or symbol for a different missing/dead person, but I don't know who/what would have taken/killed them or why. I feel like we can cross off the Buried, the Corruption, the Dark, the Desolation, the Eye, the Vast, and the Web as none of them seem connected to *any* of the bags or event as a whole. But other than that? I feel like I could at least make weak arguments for the rest. Dolls are often related to the Stranger. The Prayer Paper makes me think of the End except this feels way too active for the End and the fact that the thin strip seems to just keep going also feels a bit Spiral. Alan Parfitt's obsession, which may or may not be how each previous victim was lured in, almost seems like Eye or Hunt, but the patient waiting around is definitely not hunt. It's weird to think the teeth might be anything *but* Flesh, though I suppose Spiral could also make it happen. Overall, I think the Spiral/Distortion having fun and drawing from other entities is the most likely explanation, but. Yeah, unlike a lot of other episodes, this one only gets *weirder* in hindsight.

Ludere Igne Assuming that they are the students, I would have thought that the dolls would have been used as a means of learning what a human should look like and that Alan’s disappearance was a way of them aquiring a cadaver for further study of human anatomy, hence why they don’t breathe or undestand how a heart should beat in later episodes, as their only experience had been with a dead one. I would assume that the metal heart was an attempt at ‘creating’ one for their own bodies. I can’t figure out what the paper is though and I agree that multiple entities might have been at work in this statement.

Ludere Igne Assuming that they are the students, I would have thought that the dolls would have been used as a means of learning what a human should look like and that Alan’s disappearance was a way of them aquiring a cadaver for further study of human anatomy, hence why they don’t breathe or undestand how a heart should beat in later episodes, as their only experience had been with a dead one. I would assume that the metal heart was an attempt at ‘creating’ one for their own bodies. I can’t figure out what the paper is though and I agree that multiple entities might have been at work in this statement.

I think jonny has said that this was a very early version of the Flesh, before they were entirely sure how it worked

Peter my friend what the hell have you learned?

@@dantevitale5714 not to throw away anything incriminating.

great point

I think you'll end up liking it. It's a bit of a slow burn.

I think it was more that people think that once they throw it away no one's going to know or find out about whatever it was, so they never think about hiding it better from the people who get rid of the garbage. Idk

Some people throw away illegal things, evidence of crimes, or straight up stuff you should bury. Yeah

If possible, you could burn it or shred it into as small pieces as possible and distribute it over several different wastebags that you put out in front of different houses on different days. If it's organic material, you could try feeding it to pigs as they eat almost anything. Throw it into a lake or river, preferably not the nearest to you. If it's heavy enough to sink, find a place where the body of water is deep so the chance of it getting discovered is minimized. If it's not, tie some heavy stuff to it. If it floats, throw it in a river with strong current so it gets carried a few kilometers downstream. If you have the means to get some and safely do so, you could dissolve it in acid. Or, as you suggested, find the most remote piece of land you can and bury it. It's possible to combine several of these options. And I should probably stop telling the internet how to dispose of stuff the way serial killers probably do it because I'm starting to sound like one...

I mean, it's a good pairing.

FUCKING KNEW IT IM NOT ON A RE-LISTEN IVE JUSTED WATHCED THE 5 EPSIODES TDAY FUCKING. KNEW. IT.

can someone tell me what happened more or less in ep four, i didn't see this ep subtitled in my language. I don't know any English, this is all Google translator

imagine you’re just walking down the street and out of the corner of your eye, you see this bulging trash bag tied with a green bow