Encore: Paraskevidekatriaphobia aka The Fear of Friday the 13th

This episode originally aired in Season 1. We're bringing it back by popular demand.

It's Friday the 13th and things are getting eerie! Join us as we talk about urban legends that everyone thought were true in the 1980s. 

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to Children of the Eighties. Hi, I'm Jim and

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joining me as my co host as always from Middle Earth.
As Holly Hobbit.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Is that my new name?

Speaker 1 (01:28):
I got? You did?

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
You did?

Speaker 3 (01:31):
My smokers laugh.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
So yeah, you're Holly Hobbit. You're not now you're known
as Holly Hobbit.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Why am my head? It was? It was Holly Hobbit
in my head? Like I still now have to like
think for a minute because it still seems natural to
say Holly Hobbit.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
It was not it was Holly Hobby.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
I think Holly Hobbit is more interesting. Maybe that could
be like some more podcast merch.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Holly Hobbit. Yeah, just a little tiny elf like creature.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, a girl hobbit.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah. Okay, so now we've got to eat the crust
and Holly Hobbit. What do you think about that?

Speaker 3 (02:17):
It's random, but I love it awesome.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
So this episode is going to air on Friday, October
the thirteenth, which is Friday the thirteenth, and so to
kick off our I guess Halloween themed kind of episodes,
even though this really doesn't have anything to do with Halloween,

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this particular episode, but we are going to talk about
some urban legends and things you know that we had
heard in the eighties as kids that we thought were
true because it was pre.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Enteredet you right, Yeah, wouldn't you say? The Inner that
took care of a lot of the urban legends?

Speaker 1 (03:02):
It did, it did, But yet they still somehow go
on and now they're spread on the Internet.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yes, yes, now they may even now be more ridiculous,
oh for sure, because there now we have like Reddit
and just organizations and websites where they just base everything
off of just ridiculousness, or you know, somebody.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Can shoot a fake video or whatever, right, and AI.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
I mean, yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
This should be a fun episode.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Of I hope. I think it's going to be fun.
What what makes to you, like, what makes an urban
legend believable?

Speaker 1 (03:45):
That's a good question, and that's something that I had considered.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Is it the relatability?

Speaker 1 (03:50):
I think it's I think that there's a little bit
of relatability. I think maybe in some of these cases,
you know, somebody famous is used, but you don't really
know a whole lot about them, so you're like, oh, yeah,
I think maybe that could be true. And then I
think some of it is just childhood gullibility, wouldn't you say?

Speaker 3 (04:13):
I you know what, Yes, I do think that ninety
eight percent of the time it is just the childhood gullibility.
But I know, I hate to keep harping on this.
What about the razor blades and stuff in the in
the Halloween candy adults fell for that too.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
So supposedly that was somewhat real.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well, I know, but I've got a couple when we
get into today's episode, I've got at least one story
off the top of my head that I can tell you.
There were news reports on this as if it was real,
and I thought it was real, and doing a little
bit of research before the episode today I found out no,
it was all made up. Really, So I do sometimes think,

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I don't know, the media somehow can get on board
and maybe that then gets the adults on board. I
don't know, but I think we as a society we
love a good urban legend and a good like conspiracy
theory and all that craziness.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, for sure, I would agree with that because it
just sounds cool, and it sounds like maybe it's something
that maybe everybody doesn't know, and now you're in the know,
and so then you want to go tell somebody.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
I like good gossip, right.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
And so then it goes on and on and on
and on and on.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Well, and that also reminds me of you know, we're
big fans of the Goldbergs, and Beverly Goldberg always had
basically what I would consider to be an urban legend
where a friend of a friend of a friend died
from that, right, or you know, lost a toe from
that or you know whatever that the fear is what

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always she used to motivate her kids.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
That also reminds me of a Freaks and Gear, you know,
where the dad was telling the story about, you know,
and trying to scare his kids and well, my friend,
you know, my friend, and hen said some random name.
You know, he tried that once what you're getting ready
to try? And you know what, he's.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Dead now, right right?

Speaker 1 (06:16):
So what do you think of first when you think
of let's just talk about Friday the thirteenth for a second,
because that's what today is, Friday the thirteenth. What do
you think of when you hear Friday the thirteenth?

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Black cats? Okay, I had a black cat growing up,
and we always kept him close by on Friday the
thirteenth because, and maybe this was an urban legend now
that I'm starting to tell it, we always thought, or
my mom or nanny who we know loved a good

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urban legend, there's always a fear of something happening to
our black cat on Friday the thirteenth. You know, those
devil worshipers were going to come get him, so well,
always kept him.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Close the devil worshipers. Friday the thirteenth makes me think
of a hockey mask. I mean, well, yes, very good, right,
because it was the nineteen eighties, you know when Friday
the Thirteenth the movie series started, but the original movie
was nineteen eighty and then they basically kind of started

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releasing one once a year, beginning in eighty two or so.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
So we won't like go down this rabbit hole too far,
but I have just one question for you concerning the movies.
Did they scare you as a child?

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, a little bit.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
I just don't remember being scared.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
That's funny. We watched it more like so if I
watched it alone, I was a little bit frightened. But
if if there were a bunch of people around watching it,
then it was more of like a mystery science theater, right,
a thousand kind of thing, you know, because you're just
you know, cracking jokes and making fun of something that's

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just so utterly Yes.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah, So Friday the Thirteenth got its start long long ago,
and there's many urban legends on how it got its start,
you know, mythology and even.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
You know, even it started in early Christianity as well.
You know, Jesus had twelve disciples, so on the Last Supper, right,
there were thirteen people there. Jesus and his twelve disciples,
and the thirteenth supposedly was Judas, who would betray Jesus

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and then and then he would die on Friday. Oh yeah, right,
So that is one thought or legend about how it started.
And then you know, it's kind of difficult to figure
out when it really started. But you know it's gone
on and on and on through centuries of Friday the

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thirteenth being bad luck. And so I did a little
bit of research on it, and people have always believed,
here's an urban legend for you that more accidents and
more bad things happen on Friday the thirteenth. The reality
is is because people believe that superstition, they're actually more

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cautious and more careful on Friday the thirteenth. So there's
actually less accidents and bad things that happen on Friday
the thirteenth.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
I thought you were going to say, because people it's
just in their minds, Oh, this is Friday the thirteenth,
something's going to happen. Then they're just more aware of
things when they do happen.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
And that's probably probable too. I don't even want to
say possible, I'd say that's probably likely, right, that that
would happen, that they would remember that. So I've never, honestly,
I've never truly paid attention to when the thirteenth falls
on the calendar. I may if I'm looking at a

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calear and I said, oh, that's going to be Friday
the thirteenth, But other than that, you know, it doesn't
come to mind. But some of my research shows that
over the last four hundred years, did you know, because
of the way leap year works and everything else, that
there have actually over the last four hundred years been

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more the thirteenth has fallen on a Friday more than
it has any other day of the week. No, really crazy,
So distribution of the thirteenth day per weekday over four
hundred years, So maybe not over the last four hundred years,
but just over four hundred years. Is going to happen

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every four hundred years, Right, It'll fall on a Monday
six hundred and eighty five times, and the same with Tuesday.
On Wednesday, it's going to fall six hundred and eighty
seven times. On Thursdays six hundred and eighty four, Also
on Saturday six hundred and eighty four, and just like Wednesday, Sunday,
it's going to be six hundred and eighty seven Fridays.

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It's gonna happen six hundred and eighty eight times.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
So it's gonna happen anywhere from one to four more
times over the course of a four hundred year period,
so that maybe, you know, have something to do with
it too.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
That's interesting. You know, my parents got married on a
Friday the thirteenth.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Did they really?

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (11:20):
And there wasn't any bad luck there.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
So they had a wonderful marriage.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Oh, they were fine. They stayed married for what like
forty something years.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Something like that. Yeah, they got it was September thirteenth,
which was a Friday, nineteen seventy five.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Wow. So yeah, so forty one years.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
A little bumpy, but they, I mean they made it.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah. So I mean listen, I mean show me the
perfect marriage and I'll show you a liar.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
I mean, I don't know if I should call you
scholar Jim or preacher Jim today over there, I'm not sure.
But the vibes you're dropping it's throwing me off a
little bit.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Oh wow. Okay, well then let's get into it. Let's
get into some of the urban legends that we heard
as kids during the eighties. That may or are not true.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Okay, Okay, can I start, you start? Okay, the pop
Rocks mixed with a soda would cause if you ate
the pop Rocks drink that, like, washed it down with soda,
it would cause your stomach to explode and you would die.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
I think we talked about this on the previous episode.
Sure did, But how do we know that for sure?
Who died from that?

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Exactly? No one.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
No Mikey from like oh well that was.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
The urban legend. Was that Mikey from the Life serial commercials.
He likes it, the cute, little freckled, chubby cheeked boy
that allegedly this happened to him. So obviously it's real, right,
even though nobody, you know, I hated say nobody saw
his body in the casket. Maybe I'll edit that part out.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
It was easy to say that though, because Mikey was
in the Life Cereal commercials. I think that probably from
the seventies or maybe.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Even the late sixties. So his contract went with Life
Cereal went through the mid eighties.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Oh it did, so.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
I don't know exactly when it started, but yeah, sometime
in the seventies, but it ran for a really long time.
I don't know where people got Mikey did this and died.
I don't know where they came up with the two.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Maybe it's because it was somebody that everybody knows, right,
because in the eighties and the seventies there were only
three or four stations, and so you would see the
same commercials over and over and over again. Everybody watched
those commercials. It wasn't like commercials nowadays may show up
on NBC all the time, but I'm not going to

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see them because I'm not watching NBC. I'm doing a
streaming or whatever. But I think everybody probably knew who
Mikey was, right, right, And then all of a sudden,
Mikey disappears from the public eye. So we can say
that Mikey died by eating pop rocks and drinking soda
and his stomach exploded and he died, because really, who's

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going to disprove us?

Speaker 3 (14:23):
Well, yeah, they were there. We didn't have snopes, right,
so when this started happening, though, this was interesting. I
know I nerd out on these. Let me give you though,
just to just to don't roll your eyes. Yes you did,
you roll your eyes. Do not roll your eyes. This
is interesting, Oh, I believe it. Candy executives obviously when
this rumor started, they panicked right because they saw right,

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so what was They saw the writing on the wall
about what could possibly happen. They coughed up half a
million dollars to run full page ads in big metropolitan
newspapers to tell people this is not true. Pop Rocks
are safe. They tried to get Mikey the actor, to

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do a pop Rocks commercial to prove he was really
still alive, but his parents well, first of all, obviously
his parents were wanting to protect him, do what was
best for him, but he was still under contract with
the Cereal people, so he could not appear in another commercial.
But anyways, the candy company, they ended up losing tens

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of millions of dollars. They went under and had to
destroy three hundred million pouches.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
No way, really, Yes, see, I after hearing this rumor,
I still ate Pop Rocks. I just don't think I
drank soda with it. And then it was proven, so
I guess the candy company couldn't prove it. But what
they should have done was just got Robert England to
prove it for them like he did in the movie
Urban Legend in nineteen nineties.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Well, so this is funny to me. You thought, well,
you could still eat the pop rocks, just don't mix
it with the soda. But really, are you still going
to take the chance? I mean, obviously the answer is
yes for you. Are you still going to take the
chance of ingesting this candy? That what if there was
still some soda left in your belly from like a
couple of hours before and it mixed, Like you were

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still going to take the chance that you're going to
put something in your belly that could cause everything to
explode on you and die.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Do you think I was that deep of a thinker
at like thirteen years old?

Speaker 3 (16:28):
You're not that deep of a thinker now? Oh so, yeah,
I guess so.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
The deepest thinking I've done in my life was just
at the beginning of this podcast. Yes, true, true, Okay,
are we ready for the next Urban li Yes? Remember
one of the great songs of the eighties in the
Air Tonight by Phil Collins my favorite great drums. You know,

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Phil Collins is one of my all time favorites. I
did not know that, so I read an article I
wish I could remember it a little bit better, but
it was like a like a Rolling Stone article or
something he was quoted as saying making some reference to
not feeling like he was very liked right as an

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artist as an artist, and when I read that article,
I just felt really bad and my heart went out
to him. So anytime anyone mentions Phil Collins, my response
is always like, oh, I love Phil Collins. I actually
like Phil Collins. I think he's one of the biggest
music stars of the eighties because there was his solo
stuff plus what he wrote with Genesis and what he

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performed with Genesis, and so put those two together and
it's a huge collection. So the song in the Air Tonight,
do you know what it's about? Urban legend has it
that it's a He wrote it because he was far
away but close enough to see some a man who

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allowed somebody else to drive and did not help him.
And so Phil found out who this person was, sent
him tickets to his show, put him in the front row.
This guy was so excited, and the guy comes to
the show and when Phil Collins starts this song, the

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spotlight goes on this man and Phil Collins just stares
at him angrily. And sings this song to.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Oh the guy who watched the person?

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Yeah, the guy who watched the person drown Because then
the lyrics is, you know if you were drowning, if
I saw you drowning, I would not lend a hand. WHOA, Yeah,
that's totally made up. That did not happen.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Phil was asked about it and he just said, honestly,
I don't know what the song was about. I just
had a lot of anger and bitterness when I wrote it,
and I think maybe it might have had a little
bit something to do he was having problems in his marriage.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
I was going to say an ex wife.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yeah, it could be. And so Phil Collins did not
watch somebody else watch a man drown and then invite
him to his concert and sing this song, write this song, God,
sing this song for him.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
If that, if that story had been true, I was
going to have to change what I always say about
Phil Collins from I love Phil to I can't stand him?
That built the animal?

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Why would you? Why would that make you upset with Phil?

Speaker 3 (19:27):
Because why would he watched somebody watch? Like to me,
he's as guilty as the person who watched.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Well, I think maybe he might have been in a
situation where he could not get there. Oh, okay, right,
I don't think. I don't think he sat at the
edge of a pool while another guy sat at the
edge of a pool and watched some man drown. I
think this may have been in a lake.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
He was too far away, and he was too far away.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
That's how the urban legend went. But being young enough,
I didn't ask enough questions, and I believe that for
a long time, and I was like, oh, that makes
this song even cooler.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
That gives it a dark turn. But quite honestly, thinking
that he may have possibly wrote that about you know,
a wife or an ex wife, that also gives it
a dark turn.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Haven't you felt that way about somebody before? Though at
least for an instant, right, Like maybe you didn't harbor
with you forever. But you're like, yeah, if I saw
that person on fire, like I wouldn't. Oh yeah, absolutely,
you don't give him a drink of water.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
Luckily not you. But yes, I'm sure at some point
you've thought that about me. Well, no, okay, I got
one for you. Are you ready? I'm ready, mister Rogers,
you know childhood Fred Rogers. Yes, mister PBS mister Rogers neighborhood.
So there's an urban legend that he was either a

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Navy seal or a Green Beret in the Vietnam War.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
And yes, I've heard this. And the reason why he
always wore long shirts and cardiggins on his PBS show
was to cover up all the tattoos that he had
on his arms yep, from being a Green beeroer.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
So basically, the legend goes, he had a sleeve right
of tattoos. So that's why he always had to wear
the old school long sleeve cardigans.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Right, So, how many confirmed kills did he have?

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Exactly? So turns out that is an urban legend. He
was an ordained minister right out of pretty much college.
He went into doing his TV shows for children, slash
minister things. Not to mention he was too old for Vietnam.

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He was too young for World War Two. He was
too old for Vietnam.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Maybe he could have been in Korea.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
He was not, though, So let's don't keep this now, let's.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Keep it going. Fred Rogers was in Korea. He served
with Allen Alda and BJ Honeycut.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
There you go, that's exactly on the mass unit. That's
exactly that's exactly what it is. I'm just picturing mister Rogers,
you know, not wearing his little long sleeve cart again,
maybe he's got like a wife beater on, and he's
got those sleeves of tattoos.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
I am picturing him with you know, camouflage makeup on
his face, coming out of a dirty river like Martin
Sheen and Apocalypse Now.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
And he was always so like controlled and soft spoken.
And then that was because of the rage slowly burning
inside of him.

Speaker 4 (22:40):
No.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
See, I think if he had been a Green Beret,
I think one of those puppets would have brought flashbacks
to him and at some point you would have saw, yeah,
the rage come out.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah, he would have lost his mind.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
Yes, I like that one, mister Rogers a Green Beret
or a Navy seal. Okay, So here's one that I
heard when I was a kid, and that was that
there were alligators in the New York City sewer.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
So when you first mentioned this to me, I was
like what, But I stepped away and thought about it
for a minute. Yeah. I actually heard that too as
a kid.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
So rumor has it, you know that people were getting
like pet baby alligators right in an aquarium, and as
the alligator started to grow, they realized they could not obviously,
you can't take care of an alligator, and so they
would flush them down the toilet, thinking they were getting
rid of them. And in fact, the alligators would go

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into the sewer, they'd live on rats, and they'd you know,
whatever else was in the sewer they would live on,
and they would grow to be like these astronomical sizes,
and it was it was, you know, dangerous for anyone
to go through the New York City sewers because there
were thousands of gators there.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
So I agree with one thing that you just said,
that is dangerous to go to. Yes, don't we think
though that if a little, a little baby alligator was flushed,
that that the trauma of being flushed would probably do
it in.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, I mean I would. I don't know the science
or the physics behind it, but I would think. So.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
You're not Professor Jim Today.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
No, I'm not Bill kny the science Yea or anybody
like that, but yeah, I would think that. But as
a kid, you know, it's believable enough. Okay, alligators can
stay under water for a long time, hold their breath,
they can hold their breath and so they get flushed down.
They can hold their breath while they're being flushed down,

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end up in the sewer, and then there's enough rats
down there for them to live on pretty much forever.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
And then they team up with the teenage mutant Ninja
Turtles to fight crime.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
That just blew my mind. What else you got?

Speaker 3 (25:02):
You ready for? This one? Paul from Wonder Years, So
Kevin's Kevin's little friend.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
I know where you're going here.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
Yes, is actually the alleged horrible person Marilyn Manson.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yes, I heard this one too, that Paul had grown up.
They're the actor who played Paul had grown up and
become Marilyn Manson.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
They have never been seen in a room together, That's
all I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Well, neither is Bruce, Wayne and Batman.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
I'm joking about that. I have no idea if they
they've been seen together or not. So Paul was actually
played by actor Josh Saviano who went on and when
he grew up. He is now a big wig attorney.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Yes, I've heard that that's his side job when he's
not out on tour singing about beautiful people.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
Oh my gosh, Marilyn Manson's real name is Brian Warner.
So apparently Fred Savage once went to a Marilyn Manson
concert and Manson went up to him and said, hey,
you know we worked together one time.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Now, that's funny.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
It's funny. But he's so they're not as No, they
are not the same guy.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
He's not a good guy. Is that what you said?

Speaker 3 (26:25):
I don't, my goodness, you know, I get off on
these tangents. I won't this time, but think Bill Cosby allegedly.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, okay, well, we're glad that Paul has turned into
attorney and not a.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Bill Cosby want.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
To be, not a singer that does horrible things.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
So here's another one. I know we're going back and forth,
but this one is similar. So can I just piggyback
that Jamie from Small Wonder is really Billy Corgan from
The Smashing Pumpkins.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
I hadn't heard that.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
You haven't heard that?

Speaker 1 (27:03):
No, no, no, obviously this isn't. Neither one of those
were eighties rumors or eighties urban legends, right, but they
are urban legends about child actors from eighty correct.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Correct. The sad thing is is the actor who played
Jamie is actually has spent most of his adult life homeless.
So really, yeah, well that is sad. Dealt with some
issues there.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Oh man, I guess they didn't. Yeah, I mean that's sad.
That's all I'm going to say. Yeah, it's sad. What
happens to a lot of child actors. And obviously not
all all. I mean, Paul Saviano has done pretty well, right, right,
But but yeah, that's that's sad. But no, I had

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never heard that. So how did they disprove it? I mean,
other than it's just not true.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
It's just not true. Billy Corgan is Billy Corgan and
Jamie his real life name is Jerry Super. I probably
butchered that, but yeah, it's just been proved that they are.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
They've been seen in the same place at the same time.
Has Billy Corgan denied ever being on sweat not?

Speaker 3 (28:15):
So it could be maybe who knows.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Maybe the homeless thing is a rust so people don't figure.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
I actually kind of hope it is.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
That Billy Corgan and Jamie are the same person.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
I wonder if Vicky is part of the Smashing Pumpkins too. Okay,
so this one is an urban legend as well. But
there was also a movie made about it. I want
to say it was a movie maybe in the late
seventies or possibly the early eighties, but if you heard
the one about the teenage babysitter who is obviously babysitting

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young children, and then she puts them to bed and
she goes downstairs and is whatever, watching TV, talking on
the phone, well probably not talking on the phone with
her boyfriend, but maybe watching TV or doing homework or whatever.
And she starts receiving phone calls by some creepy man
asking her if she's checked on the children that she's watching,

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and it freaks her out, and he keeps calling over
and over and over again, so finally she calls the police,
and the police say they're going to put a trace
on the line, and it turns out she gets another call.
She hangs up. The police call her back and tell
her to get out of the house because the phone

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call is coming from upstairs, from a different line upstairs.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
That quite frankly gives me the chills.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Now, yes, well, there there was a movie called When
a Stranger Calls and that is the opening scene of
that movie. And I think it lasts like twenty or
twenty five minutes, and it is really one of the
more intense or frightening scenes in a movie that I've
ever seen. Uh, but it was also an urban legend,

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and maybe it became an urban legend prior to that
in the movie was based on the urban legend, or
it could have been that maybe some older kids had
seen that movie and then tried to scare the younger
kids in the neighborhood that you know, this had happened.
And so I remember hearing that as a kid long
before I saw the movie. And then I don't even

(30:31):
really remember the movie. I don't remember what happens the
rest of the movie other than you know, those first
twenty twenty five minutes.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
So when you get out, do you ditch the kids?

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Oh? The kids are dead?

Speaker 3 (30:42):
Oh good lord, this took a dark turn.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah, I mean he's a killer upstairs, like and he's
trying to get her to come up there.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Oh goodness gracious.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
But again, urban legend.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
That's not at all where I wanted this episode to go.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Urban legend, not real kids.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
That's scary. A girl that spent years in years babysitting, right,
it's a little freaky. Emmy will not babysit.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Because of the urban legend.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
I can tell you that right now.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Because of urban legend, you're not allowed to make money
as a teenager.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
She can do it some other way. We can dog
walk or something else. I don't know, but no babysitting.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
One thing I did want to say that maybe we
should have covered at the beginning of the show. But
I think what's kind of cool about the urban legends
is I think they're going to be regional or territorial,
and I think everybody's going to have heard of some
version of the story, but the details might be a
little bit different.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
I can see.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
So, you know, me being from the Midwest may have
heard kind of the same story that you've heard, but
maybe the details are a little bit different, Whereas maybe
somebody out west heard something, and somebody you know in
Texas or New Mexico had heard something, and some people
in the Northeast may have heard, you know, these kind
of urban legends, but the details may be a little
bit off. I think that's kind of cool, though. I

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would hope that people would share their stories on that.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
I would love to hear people give us feedback. Yes
on this, but the versions that they heard and that
they grew up believing.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, they'd be pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
That's what they would be, so cool. I hope people
do that. Okay, I have I have my urban legend
and it breaks off into like two little parts, but
it's all about the same person. So the first one
I'm going to go with, there were actually two Ultimate Warriors.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
There were.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
He came back to wrestle Mania eight and he was different.
Oh okay, So prior to WrestleMania eight he was the
original Ultimate Warrior, and then he came back to WrestleMania
eight and it was a new person. He returned with
different hair, he had much more or I guess, like
defined muscles. He was buffer, he and he was wearing

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a new costume.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
So he was pretty buff prior to Wrestlemeniate. I can
tell you that like he was. He was definitely on
the juice.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
Well, I saw pictures side by side when I did
my research. I mean, like, I feel like maybe he
had a little bit more spray tan afterwards. I mean really,
the difference was very minute. The other urban legends that
goes with the Ultimate Warrior that his he would he

(33:37):
tied his arm tassels too, tight, and it cut off
the circulation to his body and he died.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Now I am not scientist's jim here, but I can
tell you that people who have wounds like you know,
they're maybe gonna bleed to death, they tie a turn
of kit off on those limbs to keep them from
bleeding to death. But ultimately they lose that limb.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
Right, So he'd lose his arms but die.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
But he wouldn't die from it.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yes, didn't we watch a documentary on the Ultimate Warrior
at some point?

Speaker 1 (34:15):
We did? We like those documentaries on the eighties wrestlers.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
And he I think he died actually from a heart attack. Yah,
in what like twenty fourteen. No, it's not been that long.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
It hasn't been Yeah, it wasn't like thirty years ago.
But yeah, he he, he had you know, hardening of
the arteries and he died from that. I don't there
weren't two. I know there weren't two Ultimate Warriors.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
Are you sure about that?

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Well? You know, I probably quit watching wrestling for a while,
probably right around WrestleMania seven or just kind of I
want to say, maybe grew out of it for a while,
you know, became a teenager and older teenager and you know,
you get a car, you know, you start driving around,
you discover you know, girls, Yeah, you discover girls, and

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there's not as much time for TV watching. Yeah, so
I wouldn't have known that there was a second Ultimate Warrior,
but or that he looked different. But yeah, I'm calling
that a bunch of bunk. My next one, do you

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remember the legend of Bloody Mary?

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Jim stop right now. I'm so dead serious. This is
not even funny. If you say it, I'm leaving this house.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
What's gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
I don't know, but I don't want to find out.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
So no, let me talk about this, because this isn't
I mean, we're gonna bunk. We're gonna bunk this. So
I was told as a boy, as a little boy,
And of course, again I think just people used us
to frighten show. I think older kids thinks it's funny
to scare little kids, and I don't know why. I
don't know if that's still to this day, but I

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know for sure that was a thing in the eighties. Like,
there were a bunch of older kids in my neighborhood
and they like to tell me all kinds of stories.
You know that my house, the people that lived in
my house before experienced hauntings and all that stuff, you know,
just trying to scare me. So we were told as
little kids that if you went into a like a
darkened bathroom, maybe with a candle maybe, you know, just

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really dimly lit, and you said, you looked in the mirror.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
Don't say it, and you said you got to say it.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
So, so here's what I found in my research. So
I was told you say it five times.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Three times, No, not three five.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
I was told five times. But I've also read that
some people said thirteen times Friday the thirteenth, right, So
thirteen times to me makes more sense. If you heard
this as a kid, reach out to us and let
us know what you heard. But if you said the
name Bloody Mary five times in the mirror in a dark,
dimly lit room, that a that a ghost or a

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face would appear behind you in the mirror. Right.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
So I went to a church lock in back when
I was a teenager. And that's where you go and
you stay, you know, like a Friday night, and you
stay up all night and you play games. But you're
at church, you play games, you eat pizza, you snacks,
you watch a movie, what you know, you just have fun, right,
But we had two like younger kids tagging along that

(37:30):
technically probably shouldn't they weren't old enough to be there.
But at some point in the night they went into
one of the bathrooms and they did that, and I
would have been a little bit older at this point, right,
like I would have been probably I don't know, fourteen
fifteen maybe, And they came out of the bathroom laughing about,
you know what they had done, which I won't say

(37:51):
it because I'm not taking that chance. And I basically thought, well,
I'll miss you while you're you know, burning away else.
Like I was just like, are you kidding me? Like
you've done this in church? Like you're going straight straight south.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
So I have some you know, scientific phenomenon that can
explain away some of this. Did you know that staring
into a mirror in a dimly lit room for a
prolonged period of time can cause one to hallucinate?

Speaker 3 (38:25):
No, that's weird.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
Yeah, Facial features may appear to melt or distort or disappear, rotate.
You may see things such as animals or strange faces
you know, might appear.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Wait, what Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
I mean depending on how long you know, you do that,
you know, you can hallucinate. So I think, you know,
maybe that's where this got started. I don't know, maybe
people were trying to scare you know. I don't know
where it got started. All I know is I was
scared to do this as a kid. I refuse to
do it as a kid. And I believe that this

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was also led to the movie candy Man, the nineteen
ninety one ninety two movie candy Man, where something similar
would happen where people would stare in the mirror five
times and say candy Man and I'm not watching that,
and a guy with a hook would appear behind them,
and then usually that didn't work out well.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
For the person. Listen, I'll watch Friday the thirteenth, I
will watch Nightmare on Elm Street. To me, those are campy, right,
no pun intendent on the camp part. But no, I'm
not watching anything.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
You're not watching the Candy Man.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
That stuff is could be real. I'm not taking that chance.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
It could be real. No, these are called urban legends. Okay,
that's funny.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
You ready, yep, let's move on. Did you ever hear
about that there was a ghost showed up in the
background of a scene in the movie Three Men and
a Baby.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
So, yes, I have heard this. I saw Three Men
and a Baby a long time ago, just once and
probably not in full, so this wouldn't have meant anything
to me, but I have heard that.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
Yes, So Three Men and a Baby had Tom Selleck,
Ted Danson, and Steve Gutenberg. I remember it as a
really cute movie. I think we should probably watch it
one day just to see was it really or you know,
is that just you know, little Lens is a kid
thinking it was a good movie. But there is a
scene that if you look in the background, but they

(40:46):
say it's a ghost of a young boy, really, what
it is is there's like a sheer curtains in the background,
and on the other side of the curtains is a
cutout of ted Danson's character because I think he was
an actor or a musician in the movie, okay, And

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there was a cutout of him dressed like in a
fancy talks and a hat in the in the movie,
and that's what you're seeing in the background. I guess
maybe the curtains kind of distored it to some extent,
but it is not a ghost of you know, the
alleged boy that died on the set of the movie

(41:28):
that's not true.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
That reminds me of the Wizard of.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
Oz, right, And they said it was like, what an
actor and he hung himself?

Speaker 1 (41:37):
Yeah, yeah, an actor who hung himself because he didn't
get a part or whatever. It was a munchkin, yeah,
or messed up or something. And yeah. So you see
something like drop down in the background that's like a
shadowy and then it kind of goes back and forth,
and people say, somebody hung himself, but.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
That's not to be true, correct, correct?

Speaker 1 (41:59):
So so I guess there wasn't a ghost and three
men in a baby.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
No, no ghost. This the ghost of Steve Guttenberg's career.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Steve Goudberg was a big star in the eighties.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
He was, but boy, it ended after the eighties, didn't it?

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Pretty much?

Speaker 2 (42:19):
He was on.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
Wasn't he one of the teachers on the Goldbergs. No, yes,
I'm almost positive.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
I don't remember. I say no. Without doing any.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Quick reason, I'm gonna say yes he was. He was
a teacher on the Goldbergs. Okay, So the next urban
legend that I remember hearing as a kid that scared
the tar out of me.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
And still to this day, I check my back seat
before getting into my car.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
What So, supposedly there's a lady driving, you know, in
a car, and she pulls into like a gas station
or whatever, and she's pumping gas and it's dark and
in the kind of the middle of nowhere, and there's
this weird gas station and actually she's not pumping gas.

(43:13):
That's weird gas station attendant shows up to pump gas
for her, right, And so he's pumping her gas and
he's really weird and he's kind of got like a stutter,
and so she's like freaked out, right because she thinks
that this guy is like he's bad news, right, and
he's weird. And so when he gets done pumping her gas,
she pays him and he's trying to tell her to
get out of the car. He's like, man, I think

(43:35):
you need to get out of the car. And she's
like no, and he's like, no, really, you need to
get out of the car. And you know, she's good, course,
she's nervous and she's scared and she's like no, and
and she's start and he's like ma'am. He starts pulling
on her door, right, and she's got her door locked,
she rolls up her window and she drives away. And
then she's driving away, the guy's yelling, but she can't
hear him, Like, there's somebody in your back seat, right,

(43:58):
And so that was also in the movie Urban Legends
as well. But I had heard this, you know, long ago,
because basically that movie is based on all these things
that we heard as kids. Right, that's actually a really
cool movie. That'd be a cool Halloween movie to watch.
But but yeah, I heard that as a kid, and

(44:19):
I and and it terrified me. And so whenever I
go get in a car, I will always look my
back seat. Even now, not so much anymore, but I did.
I did for a long time. And in fact, there
was a time when I was younger, like in college,

(44:41):
I had I had an older car that had the
electric windows, right, the automated windows, but it had broken.
They had come off the track, so you could slide
my windows up and down just by pushing on it. Right. Well,
one of my friends knew that, and he slid my
window down, unlocked my door, and hopped in my back

(45:01):
seat and like and like laid down and it probably
would have made me have a heart attack. But somebody
came in. I was working it office depot at the time.
Somebody that I knew came in and goes, is it
your birthday? And I'm like, no, it's not my birthday.
Why he was like, well, I just saw one of
your friends, like, you know, climb into your car, and

(45:24):
I thought they were trying to, you know, play a
prank on you for your birthday. So sure enough, I
get in my car, right, I don't say anything, you know,
and I'm driving.

Speaker 3 (45:33):
And you could have had a wreck.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
And Luke pops up like hey, and I'm like hey, Luke,
like and he was like, well what you know, why
weren't you scared?

Speaker 3 (45:41):
You could have had a wreck, you could have had
a heart attack. You guys could have both ended up dead.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
I mean I was in my early twenties. I'm probably
not going to have a heart attack.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
You never know. So I grew up. This just made
me remember I grew up, And I don't remember what
started this, what scared me the first time, but every
time I went into my bathroom, you know, we had
like the shower curtain and mom had like the decorative
you know, flower curtain. You know, making it pretty, and
of course it was closed every time I, you know,

(46:11):
was pulled across to close off the shower. Every time
I went in there, I would karate punch the curtain
because I thought somebody was on the in the tub hiding.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
Yeah. No, I was always like if the curtain was closed, Yeah,
I was always afraid to go into the bathroom.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
Always every time went in there, and I would just
karate punch it and then just go about whatever I
was in there to do.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Karate punch it, I would rip it open. Yeah, you know,
like if there's a killer in there, like he's going
to have to chase me, Like, I'm not gonna He's
not going to get me while I'm doing my business.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
He's not going to catch you with your pants now,
nice pun. Okay, are you ready for mine?

Speaker 1 (46:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
The urban legend is the Pink Floyd album Dark Side
of the Moon lines up with the movie Wizard of Oz,
So if you listen into the album while you're watching
Wizard of Oz, it all winds up together.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
I've heard this. I think somebody told me start the
album when the lion roars for the third time at
the beginning of the movie and that the album would
go perfectly with the movie, and I thought that was
about the coolest thing that I had ever heard in
my life. I never but I never tried it. I
never did it, never tried it. But I just thought, Wow,

(47:29):
that's awesome that they were able to do that.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
That blew your mind.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
Let me guess it's not true.

Speaker 3 (47:34):
No, it's not true. Dark Side of the Moon engineer
Alan Parsons said that it was not true. He said
that the band had no way of playing videotapes in
the studio at the time of that they recorded the album,
so there's no way that it was even possible for
them to do that had they wanted to. But he
went on to say that he was disappointed by the

(47:58):
results because he tried play the film while listening to
the album and he said, it just didn't. It didn't.
They did not line up and it did not work out,
and he was disappointed.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
Oh wow. And you know what else he said, but
that he's the eye in the sky? What Alan Parsons
project Eye in.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
The sky see right over in my head. How many
urban legends did you hear back in the eighties about
oh if you played so and so song on the
record player backwards that it was like some secret hidden message.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Oh yeah, all the time Blood Zeppelin was. All the time,
Blood Zeppelin was doing some major devil worshiping if you
played their album backwards. Yes, trying to think if I
had heard anybody else, but I for sure heard Blood Zeppelin.
Of course, You've got the Strawberry Fields Forever with the Beatles,

(48:56):
with the Beatles, you know, and actually at the end
of that song they do kind of play you know,
it sounds like they're playing it backwards, and it sounds
like John saying I buried Paul, because there was a
legend going around in the sixties that Paul McCartney had.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
Died, and really he said, he didn't say I buried Paul.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
What did he say?

Speaker 3 (49:17):
Cranberry sauce.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
Okay, I can see how people mix mix those two up.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
He was talking about how much he likes Thanksgiving meals.
He wasn't talking about a dead Paul McCartney.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
Cranberry sauce. Did he say I like cranberry sauce?

Speaker 3 (49:35):
No, I think he just said cranberry sauce.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
I mean, that's kind of random, isn't it. Like I
feel like I feel like he was trying to stir
the pot with the with the urban legend or the
rumor that Paul had died, probably probably having a little
fun there. All right, I've got one more. This one's
going to freak you out too. When you were a kid,

(49:58):
were you ever like when you were going to bed,
were you ever like afraid like of something being underneath
your bed? I mean, I'm afraid now, but like did
wouldn't you like get close, you know, as you got
closer to your bed, like you just take off running,
like dive into your bedroom.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
I mean my bedroom was kind of small, but I
would flip the light off at the door and I
would leap from the doorway into bed, like I never
took a step after that light was off.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
So we were always afraid of something under the bed.
Heard this story, heard this, this urban legend, not a
story that there was a girl who went to bed,
you know, and she was, you know, laying down, and
she kind of had her hand leaning over the bed.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
Well that's her first mistake, exactly like your tuck your there,
I have no limbs.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
Tuck your appendages in.

Speaker 3 (50:51):
Yes, no limbs are off the bed when I sleep,
because that's just asking for trouble.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
So but she feels her dog licking her hand right,
and she kind of, you know, pushes it away, and
then she feels her dog licking her hand again, over
and over and over again. Turns out wasn't her dog.
It was a killer underneath the bed who kept licking
her hand before then coming out in the middle of

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the night when she was asleep and murdering her.

Speaker 3 (51:23):
That is horrible. I could see why you kept the
quote unquote bad ones, because I would have cut them.
I see now why you gave me the urban legends
that you did. But I don't even want to talk
about that other than if you're stupid enough to sleep
with your appendages off the bed, then just be prepared

(51:43):
for something crazy to happen.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
We were always afraid that something was going to grab
a sudden.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
Yes, I sleep rolled up like a burrito, like any
god fearing human.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
Would sleep like a burrito. Yes, where are you a newborn?

Speaker 3 (51:59):
Yes? Okay, I got one more for you. This is
the one that I actually thought was real.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
I think I know where you're going. I think I
thought this was real too.

Speaker 3 (52:08):
Michael. The urban legend is Michael Jackson owned the elephant
man bones.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
Yes, I had heard.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
That that is not real. He did not. Is that
not crazy?

Speaker 1 (52:19):
Yeah, until you just said that, I thought that he did.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
So Michael Jackson was very I don't want to say obsessed,
but he he was. He related to the Elephant Man's story.
He felt that they had some connection there, some parallel,
which is so sad it is because they did not.
It's very very sad that.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
He could the Elephant Man would do the moonwalk.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
But so here's where it comes in that I think
that we all thought it was real. He had a
manager who just for laughs released this to the media
back in nineteen eighty seven that said Michael Jackson offered

(53:08):
half a million dollars to there was a medical school
in London that has his remains. So it was actually
in the news.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
Oh so he put about. So it was an urban
legend that started himself.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
And then at some point the manager came back out
and said, we've upped our offer to a million dollars.
It was not true. He never made the offer. The
bones were not up for sale. They are still used
in some way at this medical school, you know, for students.

(53:43):
But that's just kind of a sad. It's sort of
a sad story that he felt that connection. I guess
he had a severe body dysmorphia. And that just breaks
my heart because he was a he was a beautiful,
a beautiful boy.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
I thought maybe the bones had been passed down to
Paris and Blanket. Oh my gosh, they're still in the
medical school. Are we sure that Paris and Blanket don't
have they didn't share the bones.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
I'm pretty sure that they did not.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
Okay, I mean, that's kind of disappointing. That is sad though,
that Michael Jackson felt that way.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
So Oprah interviewed Michael Jackson in nineteen ninety three. I
don't know if you remembered that big interview that she
did with him, and she asked and he talked about
that he felt this connection with the Elephant Man. But
he laughed and he was like, where would I put
somebody's bones? No, I do not have the elephant man bones.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
Oh, I did not see that. I did not see
that Oprah interview. I didn't watch a whole lot of Oprah.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
I did. I loved I loved Oprah back in the day,
but now that you don't have anymore, right.

Speaker 1 (54:50):
No, that's all I have.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
Okay, well, I've got something for you that you don't
know about because I like to do this to you.
So we were talking about urban legends.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
Right, things still are, as far as I know, uh,
weak topics of di I fall asleep. No, okay, maybe
I had narcolepsy.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
I wanted to end the episode with urban legend and
urban legend that there's actually some truth to.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
Ooh, so my curiosity is peaked.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
The Simpsons came out in the late late late eighties. Yes,
the Simpsons I think got started on the Tracy Ullman Show.
Correct didn't actually become its own sitcom until I think
like nineteen eighty nine, so just barely hit our decade.
But still they did and the Simpsons over the years,

(55:49):
it's still thirty something years later, it's still on the air.
They have predicted numerous things that have actually really happened society.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
I have heard this, and I think they got more
right than Back to the Future too.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
Did absolutely absolutely, of.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
Course they have had thirty years.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
So but I saw something that said they've got like
thirty something things that they've predicted that have come true.
I'm not going to read all of the thirty things,
but here's a few of them. That Siegfried and Roy
would be attacked by tigers.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
Really, yep, they got half of that right.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
Disney buys twentieth century Fox.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
Okay, that did happen.

Speaker 3 (56:36):
Richard Branson goes to outer space. Wow, the big one.
Donald Trump becomes president.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
I actually heard that, And they predicted that like a
long time ago, before he even thought about getting into politics.

Speaker 3 (56:50):
They must have known his ego, right, the Nessay is
revealed to be spying on the public.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
Well, that's true.

Speaker 3 (56:59):
That's actually in the Simps movie Faulty Voting Machines.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
Oh, the Hanging Chad. Did they predict the hangar?

Speaker 3 (57:08):
They did? No, I don't know about that. The pandemic.
They predicted a pandemic would take over the world.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
Well, in fairness, that's just using history to well, yeah,
you know, I think a lot of people knew that
was going to happen.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
The rise of video chat.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
Yes, that's something Back to the Future did.

Speaker 3 (57:32):
And a FIFA scandal involving the World Cup. I don't
know anything about soccer, but you're laughing. I know you do.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
So yeah, there's all kinds of scandals in FIFA.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
It's a crooked organization.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
So now I think people, or at least I would
if I watched The Simpsons kind of look for things.
Yes see, yeah, you know, hey, what's going to be
the next one?

Speaker 1 (57:56):
Did they have? Did they have Biff's Gambling book?

Speaker 3 (58:01):
Totally?

Speaker 1 (58:02):
Did? That's good stuff.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
That's real good stuff. This was a fun episode. You've
totally creeped me out.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
That's the point where we're coming up on Halloween the
point and it's Friday the thirteenth. So the point was
to try to creep you out without forcing you to
watch scary movies, which I know you hate.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
Yes, yes, but I would love to hear from our listeners.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
Absolutely, we'd love to hear if you what had heard
the same things but with a little bit of a
different twist.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
Yeah, Or if there's something that we didn't talk about
that we had heard, I would love to hear about that.
So you can find us Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. You can
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Speaker 1 (58:46):
Address Children of the nineteen eighties at gmail dot com.

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us a review. Is that it is that all? I
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Speaker 1 (59:03):
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Speaker 3 (59:09):
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Speaker 1 (59:12):
They're out of Minnesota. Three buddies that grew up together
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Speaker 3 (59:15):
Good guys, good, fantastic.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
Very supportive of our podcast, and I really enjoy listening
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Speaker 3 (59:23):
So yep, if you like us, you will like them.
And until next time. I'm Jim and I'm Lindsay, and
we are children of the eighties.