Weirdest Thing: Bat boning.

"The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week" had a segment on bat boning, the practice of hardening baseball bat surfaces by rubbing them with cow bones. They all acknowledged the joke potential to get it out of their system, and then spent the rest of the segment trying to stay dignified. Trying.

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Corinne: "So what's important to realize here is that you can bone a bat incorrectly-"
Rachel: [Half-snort] "Wow."
Corinne: "- and make problems worse."
Rachel: "You always want to bone carefully."
Corinne: "Always carefully. It's just sound life advice, for sure."

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Corinne: "So now, naturally, people try to automate it. Rollings owns a patent for a bat bone rubbing robot."
Rachel: [Snort]
Sara: [Wheeze] "Oh. God."
Rachel: [Cracks up]

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Corinne: "He said, 'And I boned it, so it wouldn't chip.' Which out of context is... Something."
Rachel: [Laughs]
Sara: "'And I boned it!'" [Giggles.]

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Rachel: "Thank you for all of that. I'm really proud of how I didn't laugh the entire time!"
Sara: [Chuckles.]
Corinne: "There was no giggling. None."