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a look into the podcast on Josh Clark. There's just buy stuff, you should know. Did the intro Jerry said we're wasting too much time in the beginning, yeah. She said that she wished. She had. A third MIKE's issue could ask a question every once in a while, so we can get, israeli soldier for lunch that I have not even much actually saturated Gear Delhi Square Chocolate. Airmail inside I had a baby baby, Ruth I acknowledge the bar courtesy of discovery channel. Thank you. Indeed, bar I had a bad cherry coke, and that's healthy. My think they live forever at a green apple. In some omens, in green t you're all about the omens are an hour to its super food. Their reminds me of give you a recipe for rested omens. One of my friends told me last night. It sounds really good. Don't you just Rustam? Well, there's some other stuff mix together, sent out

no recipe algal he's on the alpine brown diet. I watched me to sea weed salad last night. You alive, and I was just like he's gonna weep at any moment, Jerry, so frustrated right. She had heard calf muscles are about to burst out every legs. Well, maybe we should send her to Vegas. I got somethin else. Ok, yes did. You know that national gang week has come and gas is there such a thing? No, ok, just ruin the whole thing. Well just tell me about national gangway, ok national Gang week as well, all the gangs around the United States together and come up with a clever pay. It planned a murder, unwitting and innocent people, so the creeps

The blood give heard one imagines with the Mongols and the House angel children. The wires M fourteen M thirteen. I wanna get shot in the head for this agreement. Now. What is it? I can remember? I M S, thirteen sure man. Anyway, all the gangs get together and they come up with the planet. There going to perpetrate this year. This December it was a baby, a faint baby or possibly a real live baby. If they had female gang members who are willing to give up their infant child for a little while right in a baby seat, side of the road covered in blood. Although uninjured did just kind of doktor d looked like their bleeding in an effort to trap evil motorists, who would you know, inevitably stop female what things motorist yet that Yasser slightly curse might take tongue drivers. But

Not to be confused with the drive by here, which is again activities for the needs of the two to trap, female motorists who would stop and try to save the baby's okay, help it and then out of the bushes, come some gay members who beat and rape and murder her. That sounds to me, like an urban legend Josh to tourists who police departments issued warnings about this really this past December. So ridiculous, when pressed about there since they both said in our actually, we can't verify any. They sit on passing along just an idea yeah. You know the other began. When I remember hearing this myself was if someone flash, headlights at you, any flashed back than its again. And they ll turn around and follow you and kill you the one I heard with them. If they, if you see somebody driving without headlights on and you flash and they'll turn around and kill year, that is part of a again initiation Sinatra. Now it's not,

and over talking, but obviously are urban legends. But more specifically the article is called how urban legions work. We decided to call this podcast. Why do we believe urban legends in a will get? for sure sure I mentioned Vegas early on that because of the very popular old story that the man goes to Vegas in each had up with it nice lady at the bar and goes back to the room with her, and then he wakes up dazed and confused in a tub of ice. The next day, with a side hurting with a note, saying, call man one one and clearly his kidneys have been removed. Upon examination is kiddies. Remove this actually gave me a moment of terror chuck because fewer remembering the organ donation podcast. We talked a guy named Mohammed Celine Conrad, who had a kidney removed her, and I thought I did we get taken impasse Lombard.

Formation nervous Exit Tom she write turns out. Tommy was right. I went in double check the sources and I saw a picture of the guy with, like the huge sewn up incision. His kidney was removed. There was an ABC news. Yeah that was real. There is pretty much five, alright, but that that story was a round long before they happen to him yet, and I think we even postulated that that urban Legend gave rise to actual fact drank yes, and that does and sometimes life imitates art near the way around. Sometimes it's something from apply. The horror movie or sometimes Urban legend is inserted into the plot of a horror movie right. Like the hook killer. You wanna tell that one. Well, yeah that one's been around since nineteen fiftys when teenagers first started going parking, which is when they would drive out to its inspiration point and then make out and neck, and the story goes that the they hear the story. It's always some someone

escaped from an insane asylum right back when you who has this is worth hooked hand. Hand and then that the they hear someone scratching in the car and they don't do anything and made us leave and they get home later and find that a hook is sticking into like the door handle right, not true. Now and it's there and the vague as one of the biggest kidney one are considered cautionary tales right. Ever common hallmark of many urban legends, that they are cut, cautionary tale, write, em and most cautionary tales also involves some sort of morality twist to write like yet in the most extreme cases, the guy who is in Vegas, who was chatting with the girl. Was actually married. Any went back to her hotel room, so the moral of the story is done. On your wife right or else rang, really horrible things happening in the case of the teenagers. In the fifties it was teenagers netting as you put old Man and the the

the more the moral of the story is: don't have premarital sexual, yet should look a parking card. Do things like this? You shouldn't know nothing, right. So the what's interesting about this is that urban legends, flecked, r, o morality. Our own values are in fear of any time think about that from the fifties to than ninety ninety, when the first four folklore is dumb, I guess chronicled that Vegas kitten. Story right in forty years, I went from nothing too cheating on your wife right and one could argue, There are values had expanded like that or devolved to the same degree in that same period of time to the point did you hear a bunch of him when you were first going to college? When I look back Some of the stories I pass along that I'm sorry, I couldn't be more ashamed. I heard these ever passed him along you didn't now, even if, in passing along, I believe, some of them, yet it there's a couple of common ones:

one is the be careful if you and adorn Romano someone you dont, know cause you wake up every day and feel all groggy in, like you, ve been taken advantage of for very good reasons your roommate, was knocking you out and performing indecent acts on you. What you slept sodomy, not true, very much, an urban ledge as is the the if your roommate kills themselves. You get straight aids that quarter, which I have to say, forms the premise of one of the greatest Zack Morris movies of all time what's a dead man on campus degeneracy that now there was a great movie that was the plaza. Yet there was a hopeless he smokes long in their movie. Its current startling for having grown up on his excellent say by Isabel, I was he Zawoiski

her name is that Israel, not yet I dont, remembers his real name. Ozark was his character and say by the belgian zero Blanca is active here. Listening with them is an email telling us your real name. Now it will look it up in a second set on bother. I prefer an email from Ok, so check like we said that these things kind of tender reflector. Morality, our own values- and you said they reflect our fears in this absolutely true. There's a lot of When legends, I would even say the vast majority of them- have to do with some sort of fear right right and that's what we pass him along is because they resonate with us. We have low ones in our lives and our people we care about, or at the very least we're having the day- and we don't want some stranger to fall into some horrible misfortune- surpass these along here and if their passing on to a person who maintains the same kind of fears and maybe the same level of fears and the same dopey believe ability Ville absorb them, fear them and pass them along

themselves, it many times it's also regionalized. So what may be if you're in Seattle. It could be a neighborhood in Seattle, where this happen fear in could be EAST Lake. They get regionalize and all of a sudden, you think, while I may not be true, but I should tell my friends this on the internet citizen, an email out just in case, because it's happening right here, right envy M, because it's in a place that you can visualize it has that much greater of an impact on you fear. Once again sure I mean if you can visualize your fear, you can fear even more good point, the skin of the Mai tombstone. Should we talk about some some dead giveaways that you're in fact hearing in urban leginn and not the real thing totes it into a friend of a friend. That's the classic. Deafened F, O F is what they call and actually, if it happens to a friend of a friend, usually when you pass it along you're, not gonna, say a friend of a friend, because you just

lost credibility right there here, I'm so you're going to say it happened to my boyfriend, shocks friend or happened chucks, for you know It happened one of his friend who neither one of us have ever met yeah right that that personalized is it a little more bring hello further or if I worry real liar, We are really desperate for attention. I would say it happened to chuck, even though chucked Urania happened to a friend of his yeah, but I'm just gonna gloss over that part, because I really want you to believe what I'm saying drive. You believe what I'm saying then I can more easily believe what I'm saying. Right right and people innately want to believe their friends when they hear things and People in Wanna tell a good yarn so couple those together spin the yarn and that other than is cut. Spending have kids call it, but those two together and you get urban legends yeah, actually remember the first urban leginn, I heard,

but he read in Montana, Bestridden Highschool, actually legless written Radford, Redford, the tea He told me, I remember the so distinctly about the Eddie Murphy and later, I used to be Reggie Jackson before that The story is the lady gets on the elevator in its summer African American, with his large entourage or a doll? It's a dog It's a guide dog yeah! It's the crux of it. Ok well see changes at the hallmark of an urban legend. Two changes per story. Costs are given the lady will clutch her person, fear and then later on, she finds out it's at a hotel that her hotel stay was paid for its like courtesy of Eddie Murphy. We got the best laugh. I've had an weeks because we scared you, oh yeah, that's how mom told it how does your mother she said that, and I think, if I remember correctly, she told me that it had happened. Do a friend of hers

she works with friend. Well, that's a red said. I remember it was his mom someone his mom work with own clear. In this case, it was Lionel Richie, already Jackson, I think, of other variation in her was rejected, Survival Ricky. I never heard Eddie Murphy friends what decade bodies in their there in like a very nice hotel that allows huge dogs and the guy has a dog with their sure. Yes, oh yes, he's more intimidating and died. The woman is trying to avoid eye contact scared, clutching a purse that kind of thing and then all of a sudden, the guy goes sit lady, and went down in the elevator in the guys like I was talking to my dog and then her hotel stay is paid for right, Reggie, Jackson or Lionel Richie or any more the right or one imagines PD, the azure or jazzy, but others. If you listening. You lied to me buddy way back when, when we're eating turkey sandwiches after school, you lied to me, remember, distinctly and I'll. Never forget it

Josh. That was a lot of time to try to give up the one dead, give away. Four unafraid really were so we'll go through. Some of these other wins quickly actually already dead there. Many variations, that's a dead give away. The topic is one. Is often on the news or one that people gossip about. Yet that's a big one like we got it. We stuff podcast forwarded email about census, workers yeah. The sentence is about to happen, so now don't open your door unless they have a confidentiality agreement and certain other things. I didn't I'll settle murder you, where we had this morning now calves that when their ironic, but that actually and when the census worker we thought was killed, but it turns out of the suicide saw I'm so spin off with a real new story and get morphed yet, which is the kindest, Harry, because a lot of urban lessons have been portrayed, as fact in the news, yeah newspapers.

That's another reason: people believe them is cause. They trust the news when they ought not, which is sad because, really, frankly, you shouldn't you shouldn't. You should take all news stories with green assault in a is just some dude or chick reporting something going to file a story just like we do. We get things wrong all the time. Clearly by shaking your head Davis away their people. Now we call ourselves out night village I think it's funny that we do there and we need to do that because in this day and age, pretty much our entire job or at least a significant portion of a check is avoiding giving out false information. We have to go through and verify it, which is getting increasingly. Yet we try. We definitely do we were talking about pop culture and sometimes movies will work it, and the other way around in the movie goodwill hunting remember. They The story about the guy who gets pulled over by the cop cause he's drunk

and then an accident happens in the cap has to run to the accident and the guy jumps in it, Argos home the car comes next morning in the guidelines is it he was ever out drinking until he looks and notices that in his driveway he had jumped in the squad car by accident rate, not true right, but it's an urban leginn. It wasn't goodwill hunting, but the simpsons which one you know how you the story about like a mouse in a coke bottle member the Simpsons they Barney in homer visit. The duff worry in the. Eyes on. The landfill is on the line, checking the bottles as they go by like good good nose, good needle and they need his head and like Hitler, said if you bought up here, that's a good one. Did you see the Youtube clip of Hitler? Finding out, that's got brown One, the Massachusetts and at sea I did you send it to make. Is that an urban life but it's got Brown really when the senator he really did without made up. Oh there's a pretty it's pretty much impossible. The trace the

region of a any urban legend very Non ever knows where they come one of the reasons why, because it follows oral tradition or used to generally right right, folklore, it is folklore in its actually study by cultural anthropologists them folklore, which I think is probably a sub set of Cultural Anthropology and the the payday have you seen the encyclopedia urban legends. Now I used to having a cartoon book, though, of urban regions critical nice. The encyclopaedia of urban legends is fairly anthropological in nature. Yes, pretty thick Tom Tom Google books, you can check it out The author of a gene Herald a broom Van Harold Are you doing this to me? Are you talking to your mouth or to me both ok, the author Jane Harold Broom Van kind of laments that the the internet has removed that aspect, the oral tradition

digitizing it now. I use click forward brought in and brooding suggests that the golden age of of urban legends was the sixties of the eighties yeah other they ve been around a while longer than their right. Yes, since thirty and forty they said I found even further back than that, apparently F. Scott Fitzgerald twenties referred to contemporary legends, resisting they d. The critic. Take this to mean the same thing: re urban licensure and then even before that, I think in the eighteen Ninetys there is a french colonists who asked to cities, maintain folklore just as rural areas too interesting to answer. There's a big fat, yes, obviously lead. Yeah, so that when they are actually called out as urban legends like we said it goes back centuries tradition of folk lore, she's historians are bigger.

Verifying and writing things down and folk Loris tell stories with their mouths have like we do. But this is a good teacher, folklore stool with their mouths of it should be, and, like you said, check, this is go back centuries. If that, further and again all legends reflect the young, the feelings, the fears that kind of thing- the culture at the time so were before in the u no pre industrial each year, most fairytales ahead, something ban happening tumor set in the woods right like Hansel and Gretel or snow white or whatever yeah he's fairytales were sent the woods, because the woods were still very scary. Places thought with bandits and bears and scary monsters. Yeah super freaks. One thing I thought was interesting: is the famous website snow stock com, yeah, really can put an end to a lot of these internet. If you're smart enough to go. Look at snobs these internet rumours that get started, but one

That was interesting, was reading this goes. That snubs evidently gets a lot of angry emails because people want to believe their friend so much that their friends and not made this up, that they will ye male slopes angrily and say, you're calling my friend a liar. This really happen, and we said it happened to his best friend and synopsis like death, even response they like Senator address or we can send a guy, they come hit. You with attack, hammered right, and I have some swamp land in Florida. I can tell you exactly we're talking about the origins of these things chuck right. Indeed, right so folklore, Santa apologists and pretty much any smart person can point to actual events that are may be misinterpreted or expanded upon become the source of urban legends e G. Temporary tattoos laced with LSD right that could have been birth out of the real practice of

I must make LSD, would oftentimes put it on our guest, still do put it on like a stamp with a cartoon character, yeah, and so that might have gotten confused with a temporary tattoos. The word spread the sudden and what I love is that the story goes as they they give him these lsd Tattoos to get the kids hooked on it right, which is the silly yeah, it's not physically the thing at all nor psychologically they think about it. I imagine it much more psychologically, averse of than anything, probably so, I'm getting nostalgic Halloween lots of urban legends around Halloween yeah with it. And had candy in the razor blades and the apple. You know it's crazy, as we are talking about how the organ thief actually probably got the data from the urban lightened. There have been instances of people tainting hollowing, candy yeah after The urban legend was around a really interesting most of the world. That heavily razor blades- and I have said this is from slopes right of pretty law.

Article I now hoeing candy with razor blades and and needles, but most of the ones that have actually been perpetrated were hoaxes or they wanted to get attention or something but poison. Candy act, Does it come up many many times around Halloween and you know in non hollowing days the other three hundred sixty four days, kids die in apparently around yes- and this is not an urban legend apparently in I don't remember what state it was in, but a friend of my friend told me that the little kid died after getting into his uncle stash of Heroin awful answer. The family actually sprinkled his candy hollowing candy, with hair with heroin from uncle staff to protect the uncle. Look like somebody hurriedly poison, the kid with with her and there really happen it happened would have. Snubs is wrong about all this

I've had that horrible feeling, before horrible thought, sat upright embed like two zero parts like synopsis, just as one dude you don't bother. Researchers is like all. This is true in he's like the wizard behind the curtain, and I guess we should if you these email, urban legends too, so you dont for them around two year to your friends and family? be wary of anything free. Obviously, that's it. That's a debt giveaway, usually well, that's just like the pigeon drop. Yes, sir, do you just If anybody's are talking about money and you ve never met them, he don't wanna, respond, write another dead, given Josh's. If you ever get an email that starts with a line if he forward this email, Colin or if it says this is not an urban leginn colon, then it's probably urban legend yet and then of course, There is a famous Niemann, Marcus, cookies email which have actually receive. I have received,

well I've never made a move. You know others regular cookies, Tom Harris's, their delicious. Really. I think he made him for this article. That is, research power. Yet will detail this one. This is a very famous one so back and I think that and these late Ninetys there is an email that was sent around were talked about: the Niemann, Marcus Chocolate chip, cookie recipe, which made some delicious chocolate chip. They say right, which are good ship cookies and a woman apparently asked for Niemann Marcus somebody at the store to give her the recipe for the cookies and they gave it to her, but they charged her for they said to fifty and when she gets her bill later that month, she sees that they charge two hundred and fifty dollars right set of two dollars and fifty cents for this recipe. The woman finds it outrageous contact me Marcus near like, while our cookies are really good. We're not gonna refund your money right.

He would forward the email, the recipe in an email to everybody and spread it around yet to get back and even Marcus you're, my crutch chuck, not true Josh. They didn't even make the chocolate chip cookie at the time. They didn't even make the chocolate chip cookie at the time in the eightys. It was MRS Fields not Niemann Marcus and before that it was the Waldorf a story. A hotels, red velvet cake. Take that stupid people who believe already males who, I am sad to say it not only did my mom path along bunk information with the line already slash, Reggie Jackson, storage, her, but my dad I found out is a birthmark Really. Are you kidding me yeah he's not in any kind of us structure to organise capacity. Another fact he wasn't even aware of the term Bertha right, but he believed afforded email that was Bertha in nature right which, again, that was a real currents. There were people out there.

You wanted to see Barack Obama's birth certificate and he was not born in this country. Yet what that originally said that his birth certificate was doktor, that he was really a born in Kenya, right, yadda, yadda, yadda and therefore he shouldn't be president right, but that the that has taken on a life of its own side of this original idea. It's become in her Legend and afforded email urban legend, which are really the dregs of urban legend side, yet cause you're, not even in the time to spend a good yarn at that point. Now in that's why Bruin Vain was saying like it was best from the sixth, the eighties. You know, there's their spider eggs and a level Yom in Cannes hanging from my car doors in the car. Coming from upstairs and the great part about it, was that everybody was personalizing it because it happened in EAST Lake, What in Peoria Illinois? Is it raining where you are, and so there was the iter effort- and there is another- was personalization done to it in so people wearing

using an oral folklore tradition, without even realizing it and kept it alive and vital? Now it's just forwarding well you- and I remember clearly I remember rad lying to me in the night. The rooms are tender eleventh grade. You remember your mom telling stories like I remember this specifically in his kitchen yeah. I remember that day specifically, but I don't remember whatever jackass afforded me the the gang headlights Should we talk about a couple, a real ones: roquelaire, we wrap it up. Yet these are great Chuck shook, found some on cracked dot com. And the more fantastic ones. We actually do go in double check with snobs the big fat guy who doesn't check anything yes, a case of Chuck. Take it away, well, one of a mom has happened recently. Is that the famous Only when there's all manner of Halloween ones like we said where someone hung them

cells in their yard year with went what Pakistan we talk about, the I can't remember I can either, but we definitely did and the story goes it someone hung themselves and that people thought it was a Halloween Halloween decorations. Today, the body stay there for several days until they realize it was real, and this actually really did happen. Yeah and then there's the year, the one about the couple who spend the night in a hotel room and they can't figure out where the sun just coming from when they. Finally, you downstairs to ask for their money back the next morning the hotel management investigation finds a deadlock under the bed. Yet, apparently it's happened, a bunch of Yet Kansas City, Atlantic City, Florida, yeah, California, very distressing yeah and in a cracked. A blogger makes a good point that in these cases, in just about all them, what's insane is that the people spent the night in the room. The whole time almost invariably inertia great tone. The best were cracked is awesome. There's a funny yeah

girl, other website and no wonder you're fades the funhouse mummy. This one is the best whenever the myth is that a prop at a carnival was, I guess, in the in the scary. Funhouse was not a prop mummy, but it was in fact a real dead body. So if this story couldn't get any more fantastic you're, wrong. So great here's how the urban lives goes, the crew for the six million dollar man was filming an apple and they needed a fine house. So they went down the long beach to the New Pike Amusement Park great, and there is a me hanging in the shot and the director films. Apparently, it was like, unlike the dummy there's, somebody get rid of it. Some guy goes to grab the arm comes off and they notice a human bone inside right? You thought, while it's pretty a realistic yeah, and so they did a little more investigating figured out that it was a real corpse and mama. Embalmed human courts. That was actually hanging

in a funhouse through being that people took as a dummy right, six main Armand Chuck is true. It is true in that crazy, and it doesn't in their because apparently the body the undertaker had done such a swell job with the embalming process that he but this body on display for a matter of years. Japan, nickel, to come, see this body and then two guys that worked for the amusement park or no, when carnival disguise themselves as what his brothers, his brothers to come, claim the body and they actually stole the body traveled around the country, eventually ending up in long beach. Yes, what's even more amazing is that we know whose body this is. Yes, we do. It was a bank

robbing bandit named Elmer Mccurdy, who lived out his violent career at about the turn of the last century. Early twentieth century he was killed in a shoot out for forty six buxom to jugs. Whiskey and like you said, the undertaker did such a good job in LA museum. He charged people initially come look at this bandit and that was that so when they finally The rest, I think in like two thousand six really now it couldn't have been now know it would have. Couple years after the six million dollar man thing in seventy six right again, they they supposedly put cement over his casket so that nobody can dig him up and do the same thing all over again. True story: yeah, so cracked actually has a bad eleven of them over the span of a couple articles, and then I saw other sites that said they had real ones, but on again you can always believe everything of ugly

No, that's why I went and checked it out it snows and these they had the same story different slightly different, but all the facts were the same same names. They marrying print of a friend is at it ass. It man I mean we can go on urban later we couldn't. You could be in eleven, our pike Azure, but let's not make it that way. You want to learn more about urban legends. You can look it up in the handy search bar. Has the force contract cyclist? Now, it's not Josh. What We are not going to do less romantic as we are going to plug this thing like a finger in a dyke, so check go ahead. Then, if you're going to do that, let's do well. First of want to plug the new science pike ass. We talked about for a while, and it is called stuff from the science lab with our comrades Robert Lamb, who you might remember, from doing override rendition, the reading of the Jack the Ripper letter yet do both static. He doesn't that voice in the partner countries,

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