July 8, 2025 • 12 mins
From the Bermuda Triangle to quick sand and piranha's, what were you terrified of?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gem Nations saw something the other day on socials.
This woman has said, is it just me? Or does
no one disappear in the Bermuda Triangle anymore? Remember when
the Bermuda Triangle was every kid's fear.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Every TV show.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Was about the Bermuda Triangle. At any minute you could go.
You could go sailing from your own home off the
coast of Western Australia one centimeter off the coast and
you'd be fearful you'd be sucked.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Into the Bermuda Trying your triangle was everything.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
You could go in your backyard pool and you could
be sucked into the Bermuda.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Tribalghs and Bermuda Triangle. These were the things.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
My dad was an airline pilot and back in those
days I used to fly to Bermuda and the dad,
do you go into Bermuda triang gus all the time,
fly off the top of the thing.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Remember, wasn't there a movie where the plane got sucked
into the Bermuda Triangle?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Was that a real thing?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
The squadron disappeared, But what happened They were all following
each other and because it's a large expanse of water,
they got confused where they were going.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
They were running out of fuel.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
They got to one point and then the squadron leader said,
I think we're going the wrong way. We're not heading
towards land. So they kept going back and forth, mucking around.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
That sounds fearful to me. There's something wrong with a
magnetic law.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It was just the guy just pushed it on a
little bit further. No, Nos, the Bermuda. When we were kids,
we had the Bermuda triangle board.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Game was it was what was that?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
It was this game so you had a bunch of
ships you had so it was a flipboard flapboard game.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And then there was.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
A hurricane, a plastic hurricane that would sit over the
top as magnet rich underneath it, and you would you would.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Roll the dice. It was quite e confusing, roll the dice,
then just.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Spin the wheel, spin the wheel and you coordinates and
then you would move the hurricane.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So the hurricane didn't move on its own, and then
you had to move.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
You had to move with your hand a bit like
a winger board, and you'd move it to whatever it said,
and you went around collecting sugar and lumber.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Every kid's dream, every kid's dream lumber.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Kids today and I know any sentence it starts with
fearful of No. Not just that, but I mean imagine
the computer generated games of the Bermuda Triangle that they
could have scared the hell out of them.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You were scared from.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
A board game that wasn't scared. I was a big
fan of the berm Triangle. I was told in the
eighties that there was someone going arounds. If you went
to the movie theater, don't sit in the aisle because
I'll stab you for.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Of heroin that was in your Bermuna. Every arm was
on heroin in the eighties.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
And if you said it you went to go and
see Smoking in the bandit, don't go and sit in
the aisle because someone's going to stab you in the
arm and you'll be addicted to heroin.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And did that ever happen to anyone you knew?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
No, I still wear a singlet all the time. I
don't want to be on heroin. Other drugs that are
better than that. But what I'm saying is.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
What are you saying?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
That was my.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Maybe that's the thing. It's like, well, kidnappers, kidnappers, that
was a big one. There's a whole lot of kidnappings
when I was younger, and you were terrified that someone
had come through your window and kidnapp because back in
those days, everyone got kidnapped.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Your parents were just they it was like dawn to dusk.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Well, these days they didn't know where you were. These
days you.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Can open your phone and see a thousand terrible things
that happened those days.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I don't thinki'ds get kidnapped, but they were the.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Big things that were on our news.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So it was your irrational or maybe rational childhood fear.
Quicksand not so much because of Gilligan Zion and all
those movies.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
We thought that.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
If you lived to adulthood and survived quicksand, it'd be
a miracle. I used to practice how to lie flat
on the sand because that's how you wouldn't get sucked
into the quicksand and.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Just have a hat left on the basketball.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
On the actual basketball court at Carling for the hired
practice every.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Day blowing starfish.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Well, look, the tribal drum is going to beat for this,
your childhood terror rational irrational?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, you're irrational, childhood terror.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Razor blades in the pool slide?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Do I need to say more the waters.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And I couldn't tell if I'd be more terrified if
they pointed downwards or sideway and.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
People would say oh ah and I but I pushed further.
I said, well, how did they glue it on there?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
No, they stick it in the joins.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I've had the stick it in the joins.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Oh, listen to this guy who thinks he's going to
be sucked into the Bermuda triangle from Cronulla.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
How did I stick it in the joins? And then
they'd be facing that way. So it's not going to
slash you anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
No, it would you go anyway you went over. It
would not be great.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Look, I'm not going to say it's pleasant. It's not
something you're setting up for the weekend.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I don't have a board game of that.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
But if your feet hit at first, it would break,
it would snap the blood.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You'd scrape up your shin and all the way up
and it'd be like a hangar and wipe your body.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
So you're going down the slide and you were those
ones that goes down stomach first.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Your stomach first, No, but it started your foot and
it appeal or your skin back.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yes, it would wouldn't, Yes, it would.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Let's go. If we can do this, I'm going to wild.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
All right, your childhood terror? Yes, what was yours?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I still have this fear.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
But I can't get into bed without the light.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
Turned on because I have this fear there's somebody living
under the bed or something under the bed that.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Is going to slice my achilles tendon with an eye.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Why do we all still have that? Was there?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
There's something about this achilles slicing that that's a part
of something.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Because that I watched.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
The movie, Yes, that.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Was Trilogy of Terror.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I think you saw it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
A little doll its little necklace came off.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Also in cemetery as well. Really yeah, he did it
as well in that he was ripping it off from
the Trilogy of Terror. Come on, man, Stephen King was
ripping it off. Yeah, he ripped it off from Truant.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Well when is it about dead pets?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah? But the guy you know, their little dead kid
comes back?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Spoiler alert, Hello Rebecca.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Hi, how are you going?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Very well?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
What was your irrational fear?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Do you remember them blow up man at the kayats
the inflatable people?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
We still have them, don't we?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
I think there is some my sister told me that
they used to come to life and they were a
real person. So every time I'd see one, I'd be scared.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yes, the not just kaya but Christmas decorations. Rebecca, that
was a good one. Your sister got you a beauty Hello, Line, you.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Don't still believe that, though we would like to know.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
No, I don't think she does.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Leanne has joined us, Hellolyanne, what was her irrational fear?
Speaker 7 (06:37):
My heart races going back to this, but in my
grandma's garage, she had a box of firelighters that had
a picture of a little lucifer devil with a picture work,
and I was convinced the devil existed in her garage,
and I would have to shut my eyes to get
into the car.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
What a little lucifer firelighters still make actual sign that
the devil was in your mother's garage.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Devil she lived in the garage and the devil was
a she.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That's modern kind of makes sense really, Thank you, Leanne
and Craig.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Hello, Craig, what was your irrational fear?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Hello man, morning Jonesy. By irrational fear, you might remember
back was a phenomenon called spontaneous human combustion.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Was there a whole lot of them? Because was there
a whole lot of movies or docos about it?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I just remember the image of a lot of shoes
with some smoke coming out of them.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
That's there would be nothing less except for a small
piece of machine and a shoe stopped. Now I've never
heard of it since.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
That's not interesting.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Was there ever a case of someone spontaneously combusting?
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Well, there was a series of cases. I used to
have a collection of books called Unexplained with a big X.
It featured all through them, and it just seemed to
be prominent, like the triangle, And now no.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Longer it wasn't even human combustion is always no spontaneous
human combustion.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
So you just went up the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Wow, Craig, you're still slightly fearful.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
I'm terrified III years old.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Thank you, greg.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Andy.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
What was your fear.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
After losing my swimmers as a water slide part? The
razor blade won the same as you?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, and did you which way did you picture?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
The razor blade would go a cross ways, so you
went going to peel your skin off all long ways,
so it sliced.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
You, well, probably long ways yeah, you know. I was
thirteen and lost my swimmers and it's freaked.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Me right out. But not because of razor blades. You
just lost it because poor elastic. I'm presuming in water pressure.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
I have no idea, but it freaked the hell out.
I mean, that's all I knew.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
To put a razor blade long ways or a crossways
and a water slide is very hard to adhere.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Well, I think we've discovered that these things aren't rational.
That's why we're calling it. You're a rational childhood.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
You You had a feel you'd be injected with heroin.
Were watching the Ladis James Bond film.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
That I say, don't sit in the aisle because drug
dealers would get.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You malteser under your skin. Eleanor has joined us.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
What was your fear? Eleanor?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Harry Christnas Harry they.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Were everywhere for a period of time, and I used
to really scam and I used to play the tambourine
at school and I was terrified that grabbed me.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
And then join the group and we're orange and tambourine.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
The Harry Christners and the Orange people were they the
same thing?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Remember the Orange people? The Barguan and Sheila, remember she
lasty minutes on sixty.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
What can I say?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Tough titties.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, that's a very good fear, Elinor, because you were
good at the tambourine, they'd select you to join this.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
How they get you against your will?
Speaker 5 (09:58):
You're terrified of big groups of them?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, shaving your head yeah, next minute
you'll be shoeless walking down pitt Street.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
But you'd be very comfortable in those robes.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, I know you could let your stomach out, so
that would be nice. There's hit and miss with that.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Helen has joined us.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Hi, Helen, good morning all.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
My fear has been buying a house that faces the water.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Well.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
We looked at one, we turned it down. It's James
Bond again and Miami Vice. The question I asked was
that how often is my petrified is that people are
going to come in by jetski or boat and hold
me for hostage or robey. That is my absoluenceere and
it still stays with me.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
So do you think you got this from Miami Vice?
She said you were saying.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Oh, in every episode someone would get hurt. With James Bond,
they always went in on a boat led jet ski
and it has stuck with me. The real estate thought
i'd lost the plot. My husband said, oh gosh, you're serious.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
So how are you a grown per and thinking this?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
I am sixty four next month, actually so yes, and
I still have this fear.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
So so this wasn't a childhood this.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You gonlock your windows and draw and door out to
the street, but somehow, mysteriously they'll come in through the
back exactly exactly.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
They've got the secure gate that you've got at the
room right at the front to get in. That's safe.
And I'm looking at the water, thinking, okay, I've seen
the shows that happens. They don't go through the front,
they go.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Through the water, and this way you're living in a
landlocked area.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Now I'm near the water, but I'm not that close
to the water. They've got to get to a few
places before they get to me.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Does balaklava men and take someone before you have their
bush out the back?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
No?
Speaker 5 (11:46):
But I've actually got a chance to run if they
go to the what ones in front? I'm okay, I
feel securing that way.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I'd love I'd love to have been there. When you
describe this to the real estate agent.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
These are childhood irrational fees. These are irrational fees happening.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
We're going to give you a waterfront mansion, but decided.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Against a Sula says, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Nothing
And Amanda gem Nations saw something the other day on socials.
This woman has said, is it just me? Or does
no one disappear in the Bermuda Triangle anymore? Remember when
the Bermuda Triangle was every kid's fear.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Every TV show.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Was about the Bermuda Triangle. At any minute you could go.
You could go sailing from your own home off the
coast of Western Australia one centimeter off the coast and
you'd be fearful you'd be sucked.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Into the Bermuda Trying your triangle was everything.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
You could go in your backyard pool and you could
be sucked into the Bermuda.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Tribalghs and Bermuda Triangle. These were the things.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
My dad was an airline pilot and back in those
days I used to fly to Bermuda and the dad,
do you go into Bermuda triang gus all the time,
fly off the top of the thing.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Remember, wasn't there a movie where the plane got sucked
into the Bermuda Triangle?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Was that a real thing?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
The squadron disappeared, But what happened They were all following
each other and because it's a large expanse of water,
they got confused where they were going.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
They were running out of fuel.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
They got to one point and then the squadron leader said,
I think we're going the wrong way. We're not heading
towards land. So they kept going back and forth, mucking around.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
That sounds fearful to me. There's something wrong with a
magnetic law.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It was just the guy just pushed it on a
little bit further. No, Nos, the Bermuda. When we were kids,
we had the Bermuda triangle board.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Game was it was what was that?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
It was this game so you had a bunch of
ships you had so it was a flipboard flapboard game.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And then there was.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
A hurricane, a plastic hurricane that would sit over the
top as magnet rich underneath it, and you would you would.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Roll the dice. It was quite e confusing, roll the dice,
then just.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Spin the wheel, spin the wheel and you coordinates and
then you would move the hurricane.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So the hurricane didn't move on its own, and then
you had to move.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
You had to move with your hand a bit like
a winger board, and you'd move it to whatever it said,
and you went around collecting sugar and lumber.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Every kid's dream, every kid's dream lumber.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Kids today and I know any sentence it starts with
fearful of No. Not just that, but I mean imagine
the computer generated games of the Bermuda Triangle that they
could have scared the hell out of them.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You were scared from.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
A board game that wasn't scared. I was a big
fan of the berm Triangle. I was told in the
eighties that there was someone going arounds. If you went
to the movie theater, don't sit in the aisle because
I'll stab you for.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Of heroin that was in your Bermuna. Every arm was
on heroin in the eighties.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
And if you said it you went to go and
see Smoking in the bandit, don't go and sit in
the aisle because someone's going to stab you in the
arm and you'll be addicted to heroin.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And did that ever happen to anyone you knew?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
No, I still wear a singlet all the time. I
don't want to be on heroin. Other drugs that are
better than that. But what I'm saying is.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
What are you saying?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
That was my.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Maybe that's the thing. It's like, well, kidnappers, kidnappers, that
was a big one. There's a whole lot of kidnappings
when I was younger, and you were terrified that someone
had come through your window and kidnapp because back in
those days, everyone got kidnapped.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Your parents were just they it was like dawn to dusk.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Well, these days they didn't know where you were. These
days you.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Can open your phone and see a thousand terrible things
that happened those days.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I don't thinki'ds get kidnapped, but they were the.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Big things that were on our news.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So it was your irrational or maybe rational childhood fear.
Quicksand not so much because of Gilligan Zion and all
those movies.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
We thought that.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
If you lived to adulthood and survived quicksand, it'd be
a miracle. I used to practice how to lie flat
on the sand because that's how you wouldn't get sucked
into the quicksand and.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Just have a hat left on the basketball.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
On the actual basketball court at Carling for the hired
practice every.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Day blowing starfish.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Well, look, the tribal drum is going to beat for this,
your childhood terror rational irrational?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, you're irrational, childhood terror.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Razor blades in the pool slide?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Do I need to say more the waters.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And I couldn't tell if I'd be more terrified if
they pointed downwards or sideway and.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
People would say oh ah and I but I pushed further.
I said, well, how did they glue it on there?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
No, they stick it in the joins.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I've had the stick it in the joins.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Oh, listen to this guy who thinks he's going to
be sucked into the Bermuda triangle from Cronulla.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
How did I stick it in the joins? And then
they'd be facing that way. So it's not going to
slash you anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
No, it would you go anyway you went over. It
would not be great.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Look, I'm not going to say it's pleasant. It's not
something you're setting up for the weekend.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I don't have a board game of that.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
But if your feet hit at first, it would break,
it would snap the blood.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You'd scrape up your shin and all the way up
and it'd be like a hangar and wipe your body.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
So you're going down the slide and you were those
ones that goes down stomach first.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Your stomach first, No, but it started your foot and
it appeal or your skin back.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yes, it would wouldn't, Yes, it would.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Let's go. If we can do this, I'm going to wild.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
All right, your childhood terror? Yes, what was yours?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I still have this fear.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
But I can't get into bed without the light.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
Turned on because I have this fear there's somebody living
under the bed or something under the bed that.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Is going to slice my achilles tendon with an eye.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Why do we all still have that? Was there?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
There's something about this achilles slicing that that's a part
of something.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Because that I watched.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
The movie, Yes, that.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Was Trilogy of Terror.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I think you saw it.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
A little doll its little necklace came off.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Also in cemetery as well. Really yeah, he did it
as well in that he was ripping it off from
the Trilogy of Terror. Come on, man, Stephen King was
ripping it off. Yeah, he ripped it off from Truant.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Well when is it about dead pets?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah? But the guy you know, their little dead kid
comes back?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Spoiler alert, Hello Rebecca.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Hi, how are you going?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Very well?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
What was your irrational fear?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Do you remember them blow up man at the kayats
the inflatable people?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
We still have them, don't we?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
I think there is some my sister told me that
they used to come to life and they were a
real person. So every time I'd see one, I'd be scared.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yes, the not just kaya but Christmas decorations. Rebecca, that
was a good one. Your sister got you a beauty Hello, Line, you.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Don't still believe that, though we would like to know.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
No, I don't think she does.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Leanne has joined us, Hellolyanne, what was her irrational fear?
Speaker 7 (06:37):
My heart races going back to this, but in my
grandma's garage, she had a box of firelighters that had
a picture of a little lucifer devil with a picture work,
and I was convinced the devil existed in her garage,
and I would have to shut my eyes to get
into the car.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
What a little lucifer firelighters still make actual sign that
the devil was in your mother's garage.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Devil she lived in the garage and the devil was
a she.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That's modern kind of makes sense really, Thank you, Leanne
and Craig.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Hello, Craig, what was your irrational fear?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Hello man, morning Jonesy. By irrational fear, you might remember
back was a phenomenon called spontaneous human combustion.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Was there a whole lot of them? Because was there
a whole lot of movies or docos about it?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I just remember the image of a lot of shoes
with some smoke coming out of them.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
That's there would be nothing less except for a small
piece of machine and a shoe stopped. Now I've never
heard of it since.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
That's not interesting.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Was there ever a case of someone spontaneously combusting?
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Well, there was a series of cases. I used to
have a collection of books called Unexplained with a big X.
It featured all through them, and it just seemed to
be prominent, like the triangle, And now no.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Longer it wasn't even human combustion is always no spontaneous
human combustion.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
So you just went up the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Wow, Craig, you're still slightly fearful.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
I'm terrified III years old.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Thank you, greg.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Andy.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
What was your fear.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
After losing my swimmers as a water slide part? The
razor blade won the same as you?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, and did you which way did you picture?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
The razor blade would go a cross ways, so you
went going to peel your skin off all long ways,
so it sliced.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
You, well, probably long ways yeah, you know. I was
thirteen and lost my swimmers and it's freaked.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Me right out. But not because of razor blades. You
just lost it because poor elastic. I'm presuming in water pressure.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
I have no idea, but it freaked the hell out.
I mean, that's all I knew.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
To put a razor blade long ways or a crossways
and a water slide is very hard to adhere.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Well, I think we've discovered that these things aren't rational.
That's why we're calling it. You're a rational childhood.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
You You had a feel you'd be injected with heroin.
Were watching the Ladis James Bond film.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
That I say, don't sit in the aisle because drug
dealers would get.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You malteser under your skin. Eleanor has joined us.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
What was your fear? Eleanor?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Harry Christnas Harry they.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Were everywhere for a period of time, and I used
to really scam and I used to play the tambourine
at school and I was terrified that grabbed me.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
And then join the group and we're orange and tambourine.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
The Harry Christners and the Orange people were they the
same thing?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Remember the Orange people? The Barguan and Sheila, remember she
lasty minutes on sixty.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
What can I say?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Tough titties.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, that's a very good fear, Elinor, because you were
good at the tambourine, they'd select you to join this.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
How they get you against your will?
Speaker 5 (09:58):
You're terrified of big groups of them?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, shaving your head yeah, next minute
you'll be shoeless walking down pitt Street.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
But you'd be very comfortable in those robes.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, I know you could let your stomach out, so
that would be nice. There's hit and miss with that.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Helen has joined us.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Hi, Helen, good morning all.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
My fear has been buying a house that faces the water.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Well.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
We looked at one, we turned it down. It's James
Bond again and Miami Vice. The question I asked was
that how often is my petrified is that people are
going to come in by jetski or boat and hold
me for hostage or robey. That is my absoluenceere and
it still stays with me.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
So do you think you got this from Miami Vice?
She said you were saying.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Oh, in every episode someone would get hurt. With James Bond,
they always went in on a boat led jet ski
and it has stuck with me. The real estate thought
i'd lost the plot. My husband said, oh gosh, you're serious.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
So how are you a grown per and thinking this?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
I am sixty four next month, actually so yes, and
I still have this fear.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
So so this wasn't a childhood this.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You gonlock your windows and draw and door out to
the street, but somehow, mysteriously they'll come in through the
back exactly exactly.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
They've got the secure gate that you've got at the
room right at the front to get in. That's safe.
And I'm looking at the water, thinking, okay, I've seen
the shows that happens. They don't go through the front,
they go.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Through the water, and this way you're living in a
landlocked area.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Now I'm near the water, but I'm not that close
to the water. They've got to get to a few
places before they get to me.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Does balaklava men and take someone before you have their
bush out the back?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
No?
Speaker 5 (11:46):
But I've actually got a chance to run if they
go to the what ones in front? I'm okay, I
feel securing that way.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I'd love I'd love to have been there. When you
describe this to the real estate agent.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
These are childhood irrational fees. These are irrational fees happening.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
We're going to give you a waterfront mansion, but decided.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Against a Sula says, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Nothing
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