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This is episode 96 of the Bear and Curadh podcast.
We're going to talk about urban legends.
What are the chances that any of these are true?
Mmm, do-do-do-do-do.
After his death, Walt Disney's body, or just his head, was placed in a cryo stasis chamber,
located somewhere beneath Disney World, or have got, doesn't seem very likely to me.
Just didn't he die like in the '50s, before they even had heard of cryo stasis?
Well, they had refrigerators and ice boxes back then, didn't they?
Yeah, but the butt, it has to be prepared with, like an antacid type solution, because in a
moment, like when you have fresh strawberries, and you put them in the freezer, and when
you get them out and thaw them, they're like mush.
It's because all the little ice crystals inside the cells all expanded and made into little
spikes and burst the cells open, and turns them into mush.
Well, the same thing happens to your body's, your cells in your body if you freeze it.
Okay.
So, they have to replace the blood with, like, antifreeze, to keep the cells from doing that.
It's interesting.
And I doubt they had any of that technology back then.
I do never know.
I mean, they got to come up with something, and I don't know.
It seems pretty far-fetched; it'd be interesting if it was true.
I doubt we would ever know in our lifetime.
No, no, no, no.
Maybe not.
It seems kind of neat, but yeah, I don't think it's very likely.
The Jersey Devil is a legendary creature, said to inhabit the pine barons of South Jersey.
The creature is often described as a flying biped with hooves, a goat-like head, leathery
bat-like wings, horns, small arms with clawed hands, and a forked tail.
Oh, that's appropriate.
Because it is, well, it's a really loud sundry clap.
It has been reported to move quickly, and often described as emitting a high-pitched blood-gurling
screen.
See, I grew up with the Jersey Devil.
So, growing up where I did in South Jersey, actually, you know, when we went to dinner, we used
to creep that one time.
Okay.
Leads point is out by where that Mrs. Leads was supposed to be, the Jersey Devil's mom.
Apparently, I thought the pine barons was a federal wilderness area.
It is, but he was, that's where he roamed, that's where he's supposed to roamed.
No, I mean, why would there be a restaurant right in the middle of a federal?
The pine barons are close to there, but he was born at Leads Point, Mrs. Leads, which was
on the way to where we ate dinner.
And then...
The 13th child and she cursed him, but she did that.
She cursed him because she didn't want any more children apparently, she was in an abusive
relationship and cursed the child, said, "If I have another child, may he be a devil?"
And apparently, when she gave birth, he was born a devil, clapped his hands, flew off into
the night, and no one ever saw him again, except, you know, for the war and legends and stuff
like that.
But now I remember my mom and dad trying to scare me and my sister with the Jersey Devil.
You know, and then there's, you know, going up to you here, folks, where we used to go out
to the pine barons and there would be like cold, like, cold fish activity out there, people
going out there, they'd say else is just stupid crap young kids do.
But, you know, there's rumors that there's more cold fish than people dressed in robes going
out there doing things, I guess.
I never ran into any of that, but we used to go out there and just look around and mess
around.
But the pine barons are so huge, I mean, it's a very big, heavily wooded area, so it all
sounds completely plausible.
No, it's not possible at all.
But it was just me growing up with it, you know, I mean, it was a folk war, there was pretty
close to home, so now I doubt it, I mean, there's people who say they've seen them, they're
lighting them on the side of the road, stuff like that, but I don't believe any of it.
I don't think there's anything like that here in Kansas, there's nothing who'll be careful
when you go out at night, the book of boo will get you, nobody has, there's nothing like
that here.
Well, kids are rotten in your jersey, we all know that.
Oh, so they need some supernatural thing to scare them.
But yeah, this is going to need some, but yeah, I mean, we used to, you know, you go out
into some of the swampy areas, it's like that, and you can see where people were having bonfires,
just like cold-ish, cold-ish stuff, activity, so to beckon it or to protect themselves from
it.
To beckon it mostly, from what I understand, so, but I just thought that was going to need
to put this in here, so, but there's a ton of people who said they've seen them, and, you
know, there's stories of them, and you can hear his hopes on the roof of your house, sometimes
if you live in the Pine Barrens, there's all these stories, you know, that he's been around,
that there's...
So, how many times did you see it?
I've never saw it.
How many times did your friends see it?
Never.
We always wanted to go see it, but, you know, just one of those stupid little, like, every
legend, like it says, so, but going up, that's, you know, in that area, that's what you did,
kind of, so, nobody around here just anything like that, maybe some cow-chipping.
Yeah, no, maybe I've never done that either, because the Utah monolith was a metal monolith found
in San Juan County, Utah, was found by a group of USU biologists in November, 2020.
Similar monoliths have been found worldwide; some believe that the monoliths placed around
the world are connected to extraterrestrials.
Well, the first part is true, they did find a monument in the middle of the desert.
A monolith, and it does seem strange that someone would go to all the trouble to put something
like that out in the middle of nowhere, where nobody would know about it.
And they're pretty big, weren't they?
Well, I think it was like two stories tall, something like that.
Like a big metal box, right?
Yeah.
Sort of like the monolith in 2001, a space Odyssey, but made out of stainless steel instead
of a black substance.
Hmm.
That's interesting.
And this thing about monoliths showing up all around the world, some of them, I don't think
deserve mention.
Okay.
Sorry.
Like, one of them was made out of gingerbread, obviously hoax, or to get...
Something in the headlines in the movie.
A kind of doubt has anything to do with extraterrestrials.
If they came to our planet and wanted to make themselves known, they would do it something
a lot more direct than just putting up a bunch of monoliths around.
Yeah, I would think so.
Yeah.
And I think most of the ones that we see now are copycats.
Hmm.
Yeah.
That's interesting, you know.
It seems like a lot of work for not a real obvious point.
Yeah.
You never know what people would do these hoaxes, I guess they would be called one of them.
But now I mean...
And I thought they found...
Didn't they find some other steel structures like the monoliths besides the gingerbread one?
They found steel ones, right? There were matching ones.
Yeah, but they're all different, because one of them is made out of gingerbread.
Okay, okay.
All right, I'm misunderstood.
I'm sorry.
It's not like there's a bunch of...
The same uniform monoliths that have just been dropped from some place, that they're all
different.
Oh, okay.
So, yeah, that's silly then.
That's too bad.
I think it would be kind of neat if it was, actually.
And of course, it was like 2001, the space Odyssey was like an obsidian.
There is something that there are not just monoliths, but monuments erected all around
the world, like Stonehenge, but all over North and South America, all over Europe and
China and whatever, and it seems to me like people were saying I was here, and they make
these things out of stone so that they'll last a long time, and people, thousands of years
later, would know that they were there.
Yeah.
So, do you think, like, Stonehenge and those places are going South America and all over the
place?
Do you think those have alien ties, or...?
Often people say it, well, they had to be done by aliens because these things weigh like
20 tons, and what kind of primitive Stonehenge people are going to hold a 20-ton thing around.
That kind of short shrifts are ancestors, I think, that they were a lot more able than we
get them from them.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm sure.
Yeah.
So, I would think, I don't know, I think it's very interesting, but I think you're correct
when you say that.
It kind of short changes them.
They weren't smart enough to come up with this, and even like the great Pyramid, it could
be done by the technology they had then, it's kind of like an overwhelming "why."
Yeah, just because you could do it doesn't mean you should, but I mean, don't they say that
Pyramids were made for their kings, their pharaohs?
Yeah.
So, I mean, they viewed their pharaohs as gods on earth.
So, God commanded theemic Pyramid?
They'd make a pyramid; you know what I mean?
I imagine the ones that actually did all the work, probably didn't have the best living
in the world.
Oh, no, at least with the pyramids in Egypt.
The crews that worked on the Pyramid were like the highest people in the society.
They were well taken care of, they were well fed.
They had competitions amongst each other to see--
To go out there in the middle of the mountain?
Yeah.
The blocks.
Yeah.
The blocks.
I'd be poor at it.
The records of that.
Oh, really?
I didn't realize that.
That's a pretty cool one.
Yeah, it wasn't done by slave labor.
Oh, okay.
I thought it was.
No, at like 10 to 20s or 30s, I mean, they took years and years and years, then it--
I would guess once a person became pharaoh, that was probably their first job to get a monument
made to themselves.
And a lot of people keep speculating that why would they do that in the middle of the desert?
Well, it wasn't a desert when they made them, it was actually fertile ground.
Well, back then.
From Nile Delta.
Yeah.
It's very fertile.
Yeah.
Well, very, very interesting.
A young woman is bitten on the cheek via spider.
The bite swells into a large boil and bursts open to reveal hundreds of tiny spiders escaping
from her cheek.
That just gives me the fricking willies.
I don't believe it's true.
I think what's more plausible is that she could probably--she could probably turn into something
like Spider-Man.
So, a radioactive spider.
It's a radioactive spider, so it's like spider-woman.
She can swing from building the building and climb onto the elements and fight bad guys.
But no.
Yeah.
It seems just as plausible to me.
Yeah.
You're not going to get--well, I hope not--if this really could happen, move me into a box
because there--put you in a Ziplock bag.
Yeah.
No.
Because I cannot imagine burning down the house around me, burning it all down.
Yeah.
No.
But no.
It's almost like an old-sized tale.
It sounds like it's--I think it's more like a poor amount, too.
The fuck is that?
We're two different things we're put together in the wrong way.
Okay.
Because they have found spiders that lay eggs in batches, and the young spiders all come
pouring out of this nest.
Yeah.
But having the nest in a woman's face just doesn't seem very likely to me.
No.
Yeah.
I mean, they say, how many times do you eat a spider a year because you fall asleep?
Well, that's--I think that's a very interesting thing because the USDA has rules on how many
insect parts can be in your food.
It seems obvious to me the answer is zero.
Yeah.
But it's not.
So, I mean, they obviously know that we eat insects, unknowingly, all the time.
Yeah, and that's crazy.
It doesn't even bother you with the least of the thing about that.
No.
I mean, you know, well, you don't--
I had some pet spiders when I was a kid, and kept them in jars, yeah.
You did?
Why?
It was fascinating, fun to watch.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
The only thing I really remember about that is my mother's saying, how did you get that
spider in that jar, and I said, well, I scooped it up.
She was afraid that I was picking up spiders and putting them in jars.
But no, I'm smart enough not to do that.
You just step on them.
You just kill them.
You don't put them in jars.
That's what you--
Yeah, no.
Well, putting in jars is probably not right, but killing them is definitely not right because
they eat those bugs that you don't want in your food.
And you step and kill them those bugs, too.
There's billions and trillions and--one spider, these people would be like, no, it's an
oops spider, it's a good spider that'll leave it alone.
There's billions to replace it, so, yeah, nope.
That's if you can get me close enough to kill it.
Every one of the seven billion people in our dipped on a spider every day, there'd be no
spiders in here.
We can't even decide on who to like to put in office.
We're not going to all decide to kill a bug.
No, it's just, yeah.
It's kind of like when you go to the park and you see somebody who sees like a flower blooming
and they pick that flower and you go, well, you shouldn't do that and they say, well, it's
just one flower and I go, well, if all seven billion people pick the flower every day,
there'd be no flowers.
That's true.
Yeah.
But there's probably plenty of people who never go to a park and actually look at anything
like that.
I see.
Look at their phone.
Yeah, so, yeah, I just hope that that's not true, but I'm pretty sure that's not true.
All right, Slenderman is depicted as a resembling a sin a naturally tall man with blank and usually
featureless face and wearing a black suit.
Slenderman has commonly said the stalk of duck or traumatized people, particularly children.
It doesn't seem very likely, but I think this is a creepypasta.
Yeah, I mean, you know what a creepypasta is.
It comes from sort of a, it comes from cutting and pasting a creepy story.
Okay.
So, creepypasta, creepypasta, people who have in the past past pasted a forwarded story.
That's where the term creepypasta comes from.
And I think that's where this came from or how it got to be popular is just people wrote
stories about some creepypasta and people forwarded it a lot.
You heard about the story about the two girls in Ohio and their friends to appease the
Slenderman.
The Slenderman.
Yeah.
And the Slenderman and the people here about the Mothman, you've heard about that one too.
Yeah.
So, these all seem to be like, well, like we said, urban legends, to put fear into the
kids.
Yeah, they all seem to be moral lessons of some kind.
Yeah.
Like, if you do that, the Slenderman is going to come and get you.
And they also seem to be just slightly pseudo-siancy, just where you'd have, unless you did a lot
of research, you could go, well, that might be true.
It feels like it gives it some sort of credence.
Yeah.
Or, wait a minute.
That could be.
It's not like a devil.
Like a whole devil with wings flying off, you know what I mean?
It's an actual--
Well, I think the difference on the Slenderman is it wasn't parents who told children about
it was people on the internet told other people on the internet.
Yeah.
Because it's relatively new from-- I don't remember it as a little kid.
I don't either.
I remember more so in the past like 20, 30 years, more so in the internet that's come around.
So, you know, I mean, it's-- all of these things I find them really interesting, just the--
Well, I think the moral lesson there is don't believe everything you read on the internet.
Yeah.
So.
This gun cape is an ape-like creature that is purported to inhabit the forests and swamps
of some southwestern United States, most notably in Florida.
There you go.
It's all we got to say.
Florida man.
Florida man, yeah.
And the people down there who are high on meth.
There was somebody.
Somebody in Pride 48 who uses the name Florida man.
Okay.
And was asked, "Why did you pick that name?"
It's just because there's so many stories about--
Florida man, people who convicted of crimes are doing stupid things and the article always
starts with a Florida man.
Well, no, this just reminds me of-- you know what it probably was, it's probably a raccoon
that someone who is high on meth or bath salts, probably salt in Florida.
I'd say more like a Baehr.
This is basically big foot.
Just think of--
I always think of big foot.
Oh, okay.
Huh.
That's interesting.
And I think most of the big foot sightings are people who come across a Baehr and the Baehr
rairs up on the back legs and they see this 11-foot-tall mountain of fur coming at them
and get scared.
And I think that's where most of the big foot sightings come from.
Yeah, but they could be very well through, you know.
People swear though, that it's not, that it's.
And when you're that afraid and you're running, you never really get a good look at it.
It's not like you sit there and stop and take a sketch of it, you know.
If you're smart, you're running.
So, no, it's just, that's interesting too.
I just can't get most notably in Florida, that's-- it gives it no credibility.
What's the point?
Especially when you mention Florida, yeah.
So, all right, this is an interesting one.
Skywalkers are Native American medicine men who I think I'm evil and are able to shape
shape the animals and other people.
Okay, there's a show on the history channel called The Legend of Skinwalker Ranch, something
like Skywalker Ranch.
It must be a storm.
No, it's not Skywalker Ranch, it's Skinwalker.
Skywalker Ranch is where--
Okay, that's right, that was stupid.
Here we get into, I don't know, like portals into other dimensions and creatures who can
shape shift and seems very unlikely, but I love hearing about stuff like that.
Yeah, well, I mean, back to the point, don't they think that that's where Bigfoot or Yeti's
come from, or other portals and--
Well, this is, yeah, I think in the--
Native American Southwest, you know, in the desert areas.
I think Bigfoot is mainly in the forest, too, for us.
Okay.
No, but, yeah, you hear about this and they take him on like shape shift into different animals
and beings and stuff like that.
It's interesting, but I mean, a lot of the Native Americans wear up and down about them, you
know, and they're really, really afraid of them.
And actually, they will not use the word "Skinwalker."
Really?
You know, somebody says, oh, there was this person who turned into a wolf, they would not
name them as a Skinwalker because just saying the word is bad luck and could invoke
the Skinwalker.
Wow, really?
That's interesting.
It's called same beetle just three times.
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
So, I guess from the next time I go visit a reservation, I shouldn't go through that, right?
So, I guess it's a thing in that, you know, it's a legend of something not like slender
man, that was made up in the last 12 years.
Yeah.
No, yeah.
This has been around a long, long time.
Probably centuries.
And I think people, they really want some explanation for strange things.
You know, why is there thunder when it rains?
Because Odin has-
Clothes as hands?
Yeah.
A lot of supernatural beliefs are trying to explain the unexplainable.
Yeah.
Hmm, before there was the science to explain it.
Yeah.
So.
Okay.
Alligator sightings in the sewers of New York City.
That's silly.
But it is New York City and I think they actually have pulled alligators out of the sewers
in New York City.
I mean, it's from people having pads.
You?
Okay, the listeners can't see that I'm rolling my life.
He rolled them I could hear them all.
But no, there's- there has been stories of people having pads that got loose.
And I'm saying when I'm saying the alligator I'm talking about, I'm putting my hands up like
a foot long alligator.
Or not.
Like, well, they didn't remember this week in the Pokémon of Bronx.
They did, um, um, confiscate, um, like a tempered alligator, the guy had as a pet for
like 40 years.
That was all over the news.
Didn't you not see that?
He kept it in the sewer?
No, he kept it in his house as a pet, but he had pictures of it and petting it all.
So, he was like, he had it for like 20 years, but it was a full-grown alligator that he said
he bought no higher when he was a kid.
And he grew it and just, hmm, so when is he gonna harvest it?
Yeah.
Making it the boots.
So, you don't believe in this one at all, do you?
I guess of all the ones we've talked about, this is probably the most likely.
Yeah.
And it's the way it reads.
I mean, it's like I remember growing up and hearing this too, like there are alligators
living in the sewer, and I don't believe that, but there has been people, there's been
alligators caught and its basically pets being let loose.
They get too, uh, too overgrown where people just don't know how to take care of when they
let them lose.
And I mean, I think it was about a year ago where there was an actual alligator found
in a park in New York City, or it was, it was, it was in a park and, uh, it was, it was in your
death.
Uh, it was cold, um, it was a gray, uh, I mean, they basically had to rescue it.
It wasn't living wildly under the sewer and eating rats and all of that stuff, so, but so
they took one.
Okay.
Well, um, I want, I want to repeat that a lot of these urban legends sound like they could
have a little grain of truth to them.
Yeah.
So, I'm just a little tiny grain of truth.
My turn or your turn, huh?
Your turn, okay.
A group of mystics and Princeton scientists that developed interdimensional travel technology
in the abandoned town of Hong Tai in New York, and, and in New Jersey pine barrens.
I know.
Yeah.
Did that happen?
I've never heard of this actually happening.
Have you?
Um, no.
Yeah.
I've never heard of this.
I've never heard of Aung's hat, and you know, a lot of his favorite of the pine barrens,
but, um, it'd be really cool if it actually did work, but mystics and the world's, some
of the world's best scientists, I don't see them working hand in hand.
Mm-hmm.
So, um, and, and why would they want to do that in the pine barrens?
Exactly.
Why not in the actual laboratory?
Mm-hmm.
So, yeah, that's, that's a bunch of malarky.
Well, I was hoping you'd heard of that one because of New Jersey.
No, I didn't hear about that one at all.
The Roswell incident was a UFO, and it's an extraterrestrial crew that crash-landed
in the New Mexico desert near Roswell on July 2nd, 1947.
Then they finally come out and say that Roswell does exist, or, no, that's area 51.
Area 51 exists, not Roswell, but my form.
No, I don't know.
Do you believe in it?
It, um, the fact that a rancher found some mysterious debris, I think is probably true.
Well, we know that because there was like a news conference, but, um, I think it's just been
embellished and embellished and embellished over the years.
Yeah.
We have this whole story that came from some weird stuff on the ranch somewhere.
Yeah.
That's what I probably imagine.
It's kind of like, uh, when you were a kid, you played telephone, where did you give
like ten people lined up, and you'd have a story, you'd start at the beginning, tell the
story, and see how the story ended at the 10th person, you know what I'm talking about?
Yeah.
Around here, it's what I call, I can top that.
Yeah.
Somebody tells a supposedly true story, and then somebody else says, "Well, um, I had something
like that, but it happened this way."
Yeah.
It's like, who can tell the most outrageous story?
Yeah.
It's, um, I don't know, I think that's really what probably happened.
And, um, a lot of those people now have written books, you know, they've, Roswell is a UFO
industry.
Okay.
And now, if they've written books, they can't take that back.
Hmm, I mean, they did the quick frauds, I guess they are frauds, but, um, they don't want
to kill the golden goose.
Yeah.
Well, I tell a story like that, if it can make me some money, you know what I mean, but it's
all, no, no.
It's, like I said, all these are pretty interesting, some more believable than others, um, so.
The weather line stranger is hiding poisons or sharp objects such as razor blades, needles
or broken glass and candy, and distributed candy in order to harm random children, especially
during Halloween trick or treating.
That's the story.
That's the story that's been around forever.
Yeah, I heard about this crawling up as I can.
Every Halloween, there's an article about, don't, don't, you need to check your, your candy
and, um, if it's true, it's, it's probably happened many times, but they were copied
by cats from, from this story.
Yeah.
It's too bad if it is true.
Um, but I, I'm, I'm ever hearing this growing up, make sure you check your candy, check your
candy.
I mean, um, I don't think my parents ever checked my candy.
I wonder what that's that to say, but I really don't think they ever checked it.
Um, I think possibly it's like Santa Claus, um, parents say, oh, don't touch that candy
till I can check it and then they go through and they pick the stuff they want for you.
They get all the good stuff that Snickers and we have a, that's true.
It could be very true.
I'm bad bad.
It's a piece of peanut butter cup.
Sorry.
Sorry, Bill.
Um, so yeah, um, I don't, that'd be really bad if there was actually people who would do
that in my opinion.
I would not be surprised if there are some.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
People are run, people are just sterile, so, um, but yeah, but I think, I do like, I believe
we use it.
I think it's a copycat.
Mm-hmm.
Stuff.
Yeah.
I mean, let's, let's do that.
But it was like this year, like, uh, when we were handing out candy to the pawn shop, um,
people, you know, taking the candy, like, oh, we'll take yours.
There's supposed to be a bunch of bad candy this year.
I'm like, I heard the same thing last year, I heard a 10-year-old, or that, um, people are candy
coating drugs and handling them out.
No, it's going to happen.
That would be expensive.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, they're like, uh, it's like the, uh, edibles, people are handing out edibles.
Anyone who takes edibles isn't handing out their drugs just for free.
No.
They're taking them themselves, and they're just going to hand them to some random kid, but
yeah, that's just stupid.
So, all right, giant mutant killer hornets created by exposure to radiation from the Fukushima
nuclear disaster have killed several people.
And guess what?
They're going to release Godzilla, and he's going to save us.
I was thinking that sounds an awful lot like those old black and white monster movies
they had on Saturdays.
Yeah.
I mean, when you remember joining the pandemic, there was the, there's hornets that they found
that were from like, over, you know what I'm talking about.
No.
Yes, you did.
And what?
It doesn't tell familiar.
There was, like, these hornets that came over from Japan, they, they, I can't remember,
they're like, hornet killers, but they were, they were huge, and they found them in Washington
to have a state, and, um, they found like one hive of them or something like that, but
they said, you know, it's the next bad thing.
And it was like, you sure that's not just an urban legend.
No, it was, it was, it was in the news, and they actually had them on the news, but they
never came over.
Apparently, this one badge of them somehow came over on a ship and seemed to, but I can't
usually follow weird stuff, and I don't remember it.
Yeah.
It was, it was on there because, because they, so did they check for radiation, but that's
what I thought of when, whenever that first, I was like, you know, but I can't remember
what they call them.
I think something silly, too, it was like killer hornets or something or something real
imaginative.
I'm sure.
Yeah.
But, uh, they were, they were mean and nasty looking, but all hornets are mean and nasty looking,
keep them.
But you don't step on them, too?
Oh, I, I run from them.
Surprisingly, they didn't have a few in a jargon up.
And you're afraid of bees, too.
I don't like any kind of insight.
Really?
I mean.
I'm not scared of bees growing up.
I wouldn't have to go to my grandfather's farm and he had, I think, four beehives to help
pollinate his crops.
Okay.
And, uh, one summer, I had a job of throwing all of these tin cans, taking them out of
the barn and, um, throwing them into a pit in the back.
And so, I had to carry like one gallon tin cans from the barn, past these four beehives, hundreds
of times and, uh, I got stung once, but I'm not, I'm not scared of them.
I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm much more afraid of spiders and stuff like that.
Bees I just try to avoid, but they're around.
I mean, I know the importance of them, so I don't, you know, yeah, I just don't mess with
them, but I prefer not to be around them, just like anything, anybody that's smart because
they can sting you, but, um, uh, you kind of have to be doing something that would,
add to their attention, yeah, just just walking past a hive of bees, it's not going to kill
you.
Yeah, but it's my look though.
I trip and fall into it.
That's it.
So, it's just better to see really far away from them.
[laughs]
I'm glad I can make you laugh.
All right.
Men in black are men dressed in black suits who claim to be government agents who are
asked for threatened UFO-wint necessary victims of alleged alien abduction to keep them
quiet about what they have seen.
Okay.
You've heard of the men in black movies.
Oh, yeah.
Um, that's where that comes from.
Yeah.
I don't think a lot of people know that the men in black were associated with UFOs.
Oh, really?
They've just heard of the movie and they think that it's like some kind of secret government
thing, but, um, it originates from UFOs.
A lot of people who were abducted or had encounters or whatever were visited by men in black
non-descript government people until they quiet.
Okay.
Did that happen to your mom and dad?
Not that I know of, but maybe, maybe the men in black put that thing in their eyes and
wipe their memories.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
You know, I mean, did they always say that there's some sort of non-descript government agents
that always comes out for something or other?
It sounds possible.
Oh, yeah.
Why?
Yeah.
Soon.
But, I mean, just watch the exiles a few times, kind of like, giving out drugs to kids.
Why would the government do that?
Yeah.
Why pay it any credence?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So, I don't know.
It's kind of neat to think about, but, um, I think the government's going to come out and
do it.
They're just going to do it anyway.
I suppose, yeah.
Mm-hmm.
He's going to stop them.
And now that the government has released UFO footage, I think that they are primed to,
um, their prophet, perhaps, their priming society to consider UFOs legitimate because
they're possibly they are.
Mm-hmm.
And then it's easier to prime people to say, yeah, that they aren't, and slowly.
And then, nonchalantly, just when they were like, oh, look what we have here, man.
I remember an episode of Star Trek, where Ryker went down to this planet and, um, he had met
with, like, some scientists or politicians or something and said, we think your society
is ready to join the Galactic Federation, um, and the, the King or President or whatever
said, well, I have carefully considered this, and I don't think our people are ready for
that.
Mm-hmm.
So, possibly something like that happened years ago and maybe they're getting people ready
to, to accept known for some time.
Well, can you imagine, like, what's these evangelicals and stuff like that, um, why would that change
their faith?
I mean, the definition of faith is to believe no matter what.
Well, because there's a whole idea of God creating earth in the universe in five days without
the window.
Well, we've known that for a long time and they still believe the earth was made five thousand
years ago.
That's true.
Okay.
Yeah.
I think I would be fucking hilarious.
I really do.
I just, it's one of those slap my knee, point at them in my ass like, ah, ah, so, um, but now
you're right.
I mean, the people are going to believe what they're going to believe anyway.
They'll probably blame it on Biden.
So, or Obama, or Obama, exactly.
So, Horta are ugly creatures seen by minors in caves composed of a material similar to
Fibrous Aspectus.
They feed on rock with the aid of an extremely corrosive acid.
This is a start check episode.
I knew you would.
I thought I would slip that by, you know, I read that the right away and I knew exactly what
it was.
It's a good episode from when I know about it, but no, I think that's my favorite episode
of the season.
It is.
You rave about that episode because then they, she was protecting her, John, wasn't she?
And that's, yeah, so, but no, yes, no, I, how dumb do you think I really am?
God.
I read that and I'm like, he's trying to get me here.
So, no, I knew about it right away as soon as I read the Horta part, I was like, he thinks
he's going to get me.
So, I was just going to let that one go.
James Dean died in a high-speed car crash.
People who picked in, picked up and took home parts of the vehicle as souvenirs also died
in car crashes.
Well, this is another one of those.
I've never had this.
Just could be possible.
Yeah.
And it doesn't mean-
Who's going to research that?
Well, and it's not like what's his name Carter who opened the King Tut's tomb.
People said the, the favorose curse was that everyone who was in the project was going
to die.
Well, everyone dies.
Yeah.
That's a big prediction.
It starts to.
But this one says also died in car crashes.
Yeah.
Um, I never even heard of this actually.
You know who James Dean is.
Yes, I know who James Dean is, yeah, but I just never heard of people.
But that's kind of really morbid though, too, to buy to pick up souvenirs from a car crash.
I can see people doing it.
It's like going to Jeffrey Dahmer's estate sale and buying his cutlery.
I mean.
Oh, that really got me.
I mean, why would you do that?
I can see people not just as souvenirs, but as like an investment.
This is going to be worth something someday.
Yeah, I'm not sure.
And people do buy weird shit.
I mean, so.
But yeah, no, I never heard of that, but, but like you said, people buy all the time.
I mean, they're born as they start dying, so, but you had to die all in a car crash.
So, we've got more steak knives than we need.
We need to get on Etsy and so Jeffrey Dahmer steak knives.
Are you slightly never clean?
Oh, my.
All right.
We saved the best for last week.
Yes, we did.
So, what's your favorite joke this week?
Why is it that the library has no books on suicide?
Oh, no, I'm afraid to ask.
Give it a guess.
Why?
I have no idea why.
Because nobody returns them.
Oh, God.
That's good.
That's a really good one.
That's terrible, but it's a good one.
Oh, okay.
It's funnier when you just come off with a funny question.
Yeah.
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