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The Wild Cards Mail it In

from The Wild Card Podcast · host Ron Blair, Jeff Curtis, and Jared Eaton

Welcome to The Wild Card Podcast!  This is episode 70 of our attempt at this whole podcasting thing!! Today's episode features: Jared Eaton asking the most important multiple choice question of all time, Jeff Curtis emotionally checking out, and Ron Blair reminding everyone of the importance of Halloween! Throughout the episode, you'll hear the three of us discuss such varied topics as: the way this podcast is about looking for America(?), our favorite Halloween costumes, our reviews of the new Crown Pointe Theater and the new Halloween movie, a blooper commercial prototype after the episode (have you ever wondered what the ones we don't use are like?), and occasionally we part from our tangents to discuss our first dip into The Wild Card Mailbag! Today's first topic is from Kelsey Floyd: a deep dive into The Mandela Effect.  Our second is an examination of The Bechdel Test as recommended by Hannah Bowman.  Join us on this journey to wherever and we're sure you won't forget our Postal Podcast!Please like/subscribe and leave comments below! Let us know your thoughts on the Mandela Effect and/or the Bechdel Test,  how many of Jared's questions you got correct, your favorite Halloween costumes, and if you are interested in being an official Deckhead! P.S. “"And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends…They are now and then mothers and daughters. But almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men. It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen’s day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of a woman’s life is that."”~Virginia WoolfP.P.S. Bite the Edge!P.P.P.S. Check out The Wild Card Podcast on Buzzsprout and Apple Podcasts!

Welcome to The Wild Card Podcast! This is episode 70 of our attempt at this whole podcasting thing!! Today's episode features: Jared Eaton asking the most important multiple choice question of all time, Jeff Curtis emotionally checking out, and Ron Blair reminding everyone of the importance of Halloween! Throughout the episode, you'll hear the three of us discuss such varied topics as: the way this podcast is about looking for America(?), our favorite Halloween costumes, our reviews of ...

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This week's episode of The Wild Card Podcast is brought to you by voting. Voting is the fundamental right of every citizen that enables them to choose the leaders of tomorrow. Hey guys, do you want to do that? The minimum age for voting is 18.

It's Halloween! Voting not only enables the citizens to vote for political parties, but also helps them to realize the importance of citizens. It's Halloween. Jeff, tell the decades more about the importance of voting.

Jeff, do you think we'll see the minimum age? In the 2014 midterms, only 36% of the eligible voting age population voted. Donald Trump was elected with fewer than 75,000 votes in three states. And I want to go trick or treat later, but I'm not going to do that.

Every member of Congress is up for election, as well as one-third of the senators. There are also governorships and state House legislatures up for election, Ron. If you don't like what's going on, the only way to change it is to vote. If you love what's going on, the only way to defend it is to vote.

If you don't vote, Ron, I don't want to hear you complain for the next two years about government or politicians, because you did nothing to change it. But I'm afraid the bookie man, I don't want to. And if the politicians have made it so hard that it isn't easy where you live to vote, then you need to go vote their asses out of office. Don't let anyone stop you from voting.

If you're right, it's your right. But every vote counts! Because today's have OK old crusty bones. What are you going to do on November 6?

Well, I'm going to vote! For Halloween to be 365 days a year. Well, at least you're voting. Come on, you're dumbass.

Welcome to the Wild Card Podcast. I'm your host, Jared Eaton, and my co-pilots on this journey to wherever are my good friends, Jeff Curtis, and Ron Blair, who is A, an Asinine Asshole. B, a bodacious bastard. C, a curmudgeonly carpenter.

D, a dastardly dumbship. If you said E, all of the above, you get one point. I was thinking, I was thinking about all of this. I'm all of this.

Absolutely. Unapologetically unachievable. I said C, I'm talking to you. I did.

That's the one that got me. You're welcome. I'm glad. I'm going to bring that.

From Medgley-Cupburger. That's me. That's awkward. We just said it.

We're going to bring it there. That's the one that got me. So our resident bodacious bastard, we tell everyone, everyone who's gathered, what this podcast is all about. And remember, we are now on Apple Podcasts.

Oh, so we have to do it while action. Well, of course. For the people who are just tuning in, this newest episode, let them know what the Walker podcast is all about. It's about marrying our fortunes together.

It's about having some real estate there in your bag. It's about buying a pack of cigarettes and walking off, looking for America. I don't know what's on. Welcome to Look for America.

We're quoting song lyrics. That's the song that was playing as I run this down this morning on the way here. I'm glad you were prepared. Simon and Garfunkel's there.

That's how we roll. That's how we roll. It's one of my favorite songs. Ron, I'm so proud of you.

We made it at least a minute in this episode without mentioning that today is Halloween. Oh my God. Did you guys know that today is Halloween? I mean, I say that, but anyone was actually listening to the beginning of the 30-minute episode.

But there was actually a 40-minute episode portion. You made it this long. How many times have I lasted over the past year? I've mentioned Halloween.

I think we're something about Halloween a lot even before we got anywhere close to Halloween. Oh yeah. I started celebrating in August. 33% of the episodes are about Halloween.

What's Christmas is over? It's Halloween. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.

The whole year round except for that month and a half space. Speaking of which, on last week's episode, we gave a little teaser that we were going to do something together. We did. We went to the new Crown Point cinema.

Crown Point Theater. We saw the new Halloween movie. So what are your fresh takes now that's been a week? I like the theater.

There. That's really neat. I like walking in and seeing the ushers in uniform. I like seeing them in the best because it harkens back to the old days of when you'd go into the theater.

It was a special event to go on every other Tuesday. I like it when I get a meal there. I like it when I get a meal there. I like it when I get a few corn dogs.

It's more than I had to look for. I was in the French. The French were in the French. They were so good.

They were like curly fries. They were amazing. I'm going to put a pot for Ron. Holy fuck.

I'm going to put a tin on it. I went in there the other day to drop the car off with Michelle and I bought a small pot for him just so I could eat it while waiting for my kids to pay. It held the butter salt. It was so good.

I liked the way the concession was set up. It wasn't for lines. It was a nice cafeteria style. We want to check out.

It's beautifully convenient. Everybody there has always been very polite and nice. The service is fantastic. Jeff bought our tickets.

Didn't have to wait in line. Just walked up there and showed them your phone. That was it. I didn't see where you could buy a ticket.

They were a little kiosks over on the right hand side. That's it. That's where you get your tickets. Amazing.

The building is beautiful. The first thing that captured me was the sliding door. It was fantastic. I'm already sold.

It was beautiful. It was beautiful. It was a little couch. I'll tell you this.

I was quite nervous. I took our seats. We were on the screen. I'm on the third row or further back.

When you said first second row, I guess there's a space between the seats and the screen. We were watching the trailers. It was disorienting. It was very nervous.

I was going to be a bad experience. As soon as the movie started, I was flying back. What did you recline back? I don't like sitting that close either.

I stopped eating and I reclined back so I wasn't worried about the catch up falling over my shirt. It was almost like a round vision. Everything was so huge. Watching that night when they showed it close up.

It was a huge thing. It was beautiful. What about the movie? Oh, God.

I love this movie. It's my second favorite Halloween movie. Although a popular opinion does not agree with me. I'm the horror fans.

I hope it's the last Halloween movie because it ended in such a way that it gave a very satisfactory ending to the whole thing. Honestly, it gave it a satisfactory to both from the Laurie Strode and her family side as well as from Michael Myers side. I'm not the big horror movie fan that I was as a teenager or that Ron and Jared are. I don't deserve insane booking as Ron, but I like Halloween.

Not many people are as big as I am. It's not really my cup of tea, but I enjoyed the movie. It was a well-written, well-made movie. The characters were all unique.

They weren't talking a name bullshit. It was conversations that you could believe people were having. It was relationships that you could be. In the evening, Brian, and David Green.

I found myself invested in the characters and the relationships with each other. I'm not a slasher movie. When he did his first killings, I checked out emotionally so I wouldn't feel anything when he was doing these other things. There was a couple of plot things that I expressed around earlier that didn't make any sense to me.

I'm a huge fan of this series. I'll just drop all suspension of his movie and roll at it. Michael Myers universe is that he can be slowed and stopped momentarily, but he has a force of nature, a pure evil that can't be put down. Oh, yeah.

This gives no spoilers, but he gets his hands blown off and he just doesn't phase him. He gets three fingers blown off or whatever. And just there he is. He gets hit full speed by a car.

Yeah, force of nature. He puts it down for a while and gets shot a couple of times. The first one he got shot and stabbed in the eye and he was a chest. I love that there were Easter eggs that nodded and winked at all other ones that they had scrapped.

The whole history of Halloween except for the first movie was scrapped, but they still nodded towards them. They acknowledged the importance of these films in the series, which was really nice. Well, I thought the character development with the, um, Lori and her, her daughter and her daughter. I thought that was all well done and made total sense from the first movie.

And they basically pre-tended like none of the other Halloween movies are made between the two. Which was smart, which is why this one I think was so good because they could just be 40 years later off the original movie. Yeah. But it made total sense.

Those relationships and why they did, and I love the way that, you know, the daughter, her daughter who has been alienated from her all these years at the end, at the end, she, all of the training and all of that, she hated her mother, makes her do. It paid off. Well, I have two sides of the coin kind of thing about this. One, I was really impressed from a horse perspective that you didn't know who was safe.

No. Because I mean, all the characters were, I don't want to say likable, but had enough depth that you thought were going to survive and a lot of them don't. But there's a moment within the first 15 minutes where the filmmakers show you we will do anything it takes to scare the shit out of you. Nobody is safe.

What really impressed me about the film is that, uh, first of all Michael Myers has always been, uh, supposed to have been nothing more than the shape as it was described in this way. There was a force of nature kind of thing where you question whether he's human or not. The embodiment of the book. The embodiment of the book.

The embodiment of the book. Pure evil. This movie shows more of his face than any of them ever has. Uh, besides the first one where you see it very briefly.

And second of all, when he doesn't kill the baby, when he contemplates killing the baby, uh, that becomes a decidedly human choice on his part and injects the humanity into him that is required to make him scary. Because what scared people about Halloween is that could really happen. Yeah. Even right.

Even James on Mascara, you're going, well that's so ludicrous. That's probably not going to happen. It's so out there. But Halloween was totally believable.

What the? I think it lost a little bit from the original. Now I have a lot of students recently. You talk with the original.

They're like, it's so slow. It's a perfect film. But from today's standards, people with AD and nothing exciting happens immediately. It's all just stalking.

Yeah. I like that about it. I think it's a lot of tension because you don't know when or what is going to happen. Whereas this one is a more traditional slasher.

But it does follow the first one very nicely. I just lost the stalking. There was a lot of indiscriminate killing early on. And while that is a horror movie thing, it wasn't a Michael Myers thing for Halloween 1.

And that was the only, the only part of the movie I didn't care about is he kills a lot of people that aren't necessarily connected to the person he's trying to get to. Right. There was the indiscriminate killing that made no sense. I mean, that I didn't get with the movie.

There's a number of people that he killed that didn't make sense. It made sense when he killed people when he was escaping. It made sense that he would kill cops when he was trying to escape. It made sense that he was trying to stalk Laurie and her family.

It made sense that he killed someone so that he could get a weapon. But some of the other killing didn't make sense. It seemed like he was too passionate. I don't think he was necessarily going after Laurie and her family specifically.

I think much like the first one, it becomes a matter of coincidence and happenstance. Like the first one, he just goes back to his home after he escapes. It goes back to that house and Laurie talks about the key. He sees this attractive young girl.

And then he follows her for the rest of the day. Her friends just don't have to get caught up in all that. In this one, he's indiscriminate. He escapes.

He's indiscriminately killing. And then he sees the parents leave the house. And that's the house that he stalks the first time around. And it just so happens that she's friends with Laurie's granddaughter.

And that's how that's all involved. Yeah, but she never actually showed up at that house. I think he was planning on going after Laurie because the beginning of the movie starts out in prison with the reporters coming to him and talking about him and her and connecting that. And so I think that planted the idea in his head to have this reunion with her.

That's my only criticism of it, but I still had a blast giggling like a child. Oh yeah, I got emotional. I'm talking about it. The last half is as suspenseful as any film on our scene.

Well, speaking of Halloween, let's do our favorite section. Okay. I was trying to figure out what we could do favorites while I was thinking about it a lot. But we haven't talked about favorite Halloween costumes.

We haven't had them, have we? Is this favorite Halloween costume we'd like to have or that we've ever worn? Go for it. I don't care for costumes.

No, you remember dressing? I had an ET costume that I really loved. I love that thing. It was eight or nine.

The only costume I remember having as a kid. I had more than one. I couldn't hear it. But no, I lost my time.

We stopped trick-or-treating when I was standing. My brother felt he was too old to trick-or-treat anymore. So therefore I didn't get to trick-or-treat either because both of us are neither of us. So I remember going as a ghost and wearing the sheet and it wasn't my favorite because it was a frickin' pain in the ass.

That sheet was in the way every time I was trying to get candy and walking and tripping on it. So I don't have a favorite one. That's only one I remember. I think I had it vampire twice when I was like seven and eight and I stopped.

I remember enjoying that one. Yeah, that was the last year you went. One eight years old. Have you guys done any older?

Do you have any costume parties where you had to dress up or anything? I always dress up as me. I always wear it all against it. I think I mentioned last week where I was a dick for Halloween.

I just drew a mark on the top of my book. I'm going out of my house wearing a costume and being seen in public in this costume. I'm telling you, people look at this and think the other people. We can't talk about last week out.

Nope. No, we were in costume all the time. I didn't realize that you wanted to relax. I didn't realize that you wanted to have three or four years ago.

It was pretty much me but with plaid and pants. I'm like, I wasted extra pens in my pocket. I got some glasses. I carried a red pen.

It was like Crankton's grammar. It was more of the accent of the costume. You looked no different than you do right now at this moment. That was it.

That was it. Now what about your children? You guys have children. You have the experience of dressing them up as well.

Well, what was that like? Amanda has always decided what she wants to be and so then we move heaven out and earth to figure out how we're going to do this costume. Then a week or three days before Halloween she wants to change it to a different costume. Of course not.

My favorite Amanda idea for a costume which she changed her mind was. When she was three, maybe when she was three, she wanted to go as a purple cow. As a purple cow. As a purple cow.

I love the idea of her going as a purple cow but then when Halloween came she wouldn't be the towel so she would just wore purple. That's such a unique idea of being a purple cow. That's brilliant. No one had done that.

They still have it. No one has done this still. My kids just this week had an Instagram battle or Snapchat, Instagram, one of those. Social media.

Where they had posted her wearing a cute little pumpkin costume that we, I don't even know where we got it, but it was a toddler costume. And then him wearing the same pumpkin costume so they had a who wore it better contest online and I'm not sure who won but they were both adorable, Caleb won that one because he's the most beautiful child. He's this gorgeous, charismatic child that's stupid. And yeah, yeah.

And so that's the most memorable costume from those guys. What do you think? We actually named him Damien Caine Blair. I think we would have dressed him like Damien from the almond in the short.

He would have looked like Angus Young in ACDC. That's what we would have gone with there. Damien Caine Blair. Blair.

It really waters it down. Save by it Halloween. God damn it. So long Halloween.

It was good being with you this season. I know we got two weeks old runs next episode which I'm sure we got horror. What's my next I'm going to be about? And I would think everything I mentioned was horror.

It was something happening with horror. Yeah. I watched Inness and Blood last night which was a John Landis movie that I had never seen. And there's a minimum of Landis movies that I had never seen.

And I thought, oh wow, he'd be great to do a podcast on it. And then I realized the amount of horror movies that he's done or something dark. I'm silly. I love the guy but he did American Werewolf.

He did Inness and Blood. But he also did Trading Places. He's like, that's going to take a Friday movie. But he also did Schlock back in the day.

So he's dipped his feet into horror for quite a few times. It's why he likes only movie. And then I was like, I can't. I can't do anything related to Halloween.

Or by some of the movie. He's done several that weren't whole of it. Yeah, most notably the schoolhouse. That's right.

I'm not the big one. Yeah. I'm completely wrong. One of your first episodes is about our childhoods.

Yeah. I was about like childhoods. You've done several of the top five things. That's the kind of stuff I love.

I just love talking about us. Talking about us and our interest in getting to know us. We'll be doing that for 70 episodes next. Wow.

We're going to go with it. Yeah. All right. So we're going to switch to the Juretter episode portion of the podcast.

I'm glad you've embraced the Juretter episode. The Juretter pronunciation is correct. Yeah. So these two topics we're going to be discussing today.

Two. Two for one. Both came from listeners of the podcast making suggestions that I've tried to kind of combine into something cohesive. Right.

So here's the connecting tissue that holds the episodes together is both things are named after a person. You were male. The four. Yeah.

The wild part. They went in. Here we go. That's the episode.

This one is 100% for the fans. Absolutely. 69 episodes for us. One for you.

And that's how it's going to be. As I mentioned, both of the portions of the podcast are named after a person. So question number zero. Because I've already written everything else first before I figured out I should play Tidy's together.

It's probably a good idea. If something was named after you, what would it be? What would be named after you? It would be an adult book story.

It would be some sort of sex toy named after me. Oh my God. I would be really proud of it. Yeah.

Just to be like an anthology of historical stories. Yeah. I could do that. I could do that.

Welcome to the Curtis house. The museum for historic tales and whatnots. Here is our not- The first house my parents and I lived in was in Clark, we moved from that house somewhere between my fifth and sixth birth. He says before I started kindergarten.

I vaguely remember the land of the house. I remember we had dogs and I know the names and I can't picture what they looked like. I remember where they were in the backyard. I have a couple of shade memories of being in the den area that was like a garage turn into a den.

Sitting on an old, ugly couch. Vague memories of my bedroom being down the hallway on the left. Having bookshelves waking up from an afternoon. But the most vivid one is going further down that hallway and back on the right.

There was like a spare bedroom kind of thing. Opening the door on my right hand on my left hand was like in the back of the door. As I opened the door at Pinch Night, I remember that injury. I couldn't have been there.

I was walking in my corner very old. I have other memories after that at that house. I know I was two or something. I don't know what happened after that.

I don't know what happened after that. I don't know what happened before that. Just the door. It's funny you tell that story because I was picturing it.

There was like a hazy border on the memory because I'm watching a picture. I didn't know what was going to happen. I thought it would even pop out of the closet and just jack in the box with a monster in it or something like that. My earliest memory is a fuzzy memory of my mom handing me a popsicle and a playpen.

Wow. It's really funny. It's really funny. I have a memory similar to Jerry's where I was crawling under a table and playing with the light socket and I shot myself.

No, I don't have anything to compare to that. I remember climbing up my dad at my grandmother's house that I live in now. Like, grabbing his belt and then just climbing his body. And that same year I think I got a wee ba-wobble place set.

They don't fall down. They never fall down. This was between my third and fourth birthday I want to say. That and I faintly remember getting stuck in a corn crib to where I thought it was fun.

Yeah, they come. There's an angle. It's where they snore corn. But it's not like a silo.

It's on the ground. And I have a... It's like a crib in a bedroom. Yeah, I'm not sure.

But I had climbed back there to the point where my parents couldn't reach me because it had become too narrow. And the further they tried to climb in, the more I backed up and I was just laughing and giggling. I did a lot of shit that really... I should be dead.

Being like a 70s kid. Living out in the country, I should be dead. That brings to mind a memory of mine from... And I only have barely a little bit memory of mine, but my parents have told the story over and over again.

I don't know how much I remember and how much I just remember them telling me. But when I was like two, I was sitting in the pickup truck, my dad's pickup truck. And he had gotten out. We were at the house and I was sitting in there and I'd lock the doors.

And there was a kind of old pickup truck where you couldn't open it with the key if... I don't know if the key was inside or what, but I locked... They couldn't open... Oh, because I'd lock myself in.

Oh, how horrifying is that? Eventually they got me out because obviously I'm here. But I... Just don't...

On fact, every week, Justin had trouble with it. He tracks the window. He tracks the window. I mean, that's the story I was expecting.

I was like, and it was hot that day. It was so hot. And they forgot that I was in the truck. No, they were running out of time.

And then a secret arm attacked the car. I started to dive the hydration of my mother and me, clutch the window man. It wasn't too big of a... It was a different sacred arm altogether.

Alright, so question number two. How trustworthy is memory? Not very... I don't know.

I trust mine. Okay. Let's put it to the test. I trust...

I trust portions of it, but I know that when... Like, eyewitnesses are the least reliable part of any of these investigation because what you... You remember highlights and then you start basically filling the blanks. And then you can't remember which was a real memory, which was a...

You believe that when you made up. So here's our test, our memory test. Starting with last week's episode. Go in reverse chronological order by the topic.

So what was the topic of last week's episode? It was the ultimate challenge Halloween. The Halloween episode, okay? And the one for that was Jeff's episode.

The spies. The spies. The spies. And then what was mine before that?

Oh, fuck. I don't know. I thought we'd get pretty far with this. I thought we could do this for...

It was a far too easy back. Okay. So it was the wrong... Exactly.

The wrong time. The opposite was the mall cards get lost. Okay. So Ron, back to you.

For me it was the treason with... Error. Okay. My turn again.

No. For Jerry. It was... I gave you a hand if you needed to.

We had something to do with the Z's. Nope. We're not going to do this. That's actually...

That's the history. The episode title was the mall cards passed the test. Oh, that's where he was talking about the two code breakers. Yeah.

That was John Carpenter. The mall cards do the Halloween thing. Next is Jeff's. It wasn't Amelia.

It wasn't Amelia. It wasn't Amelia. No, no, no, no, no. The pair was the one before this one.

I can't do the name because it would instantly give it away. The wild cards. And then there's one word. And this is September 5th.

Bond. That's right. That's right. I'm stressing over that.

I made it there and now back to August 29th. This is my episode again. There's no way you're getting this one. No, that's no way.

It was about... Pigmentation. It's a good title. Dang.

Was it the one where we... Wait, wait, wait. Almost a year. It was not the disease one.

No. I'm not here to remember that, but no. This is the one after the disease one. The wild cards come from away.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And then before that we had a wild card get spooked.

I was haunting Phil House. I was a show that we've been doing every week and we can barely remember what we've talked about. Our memories are not the most trustworthy things. Question number four.

I could probably come up with them easier if we're going into other orders. Yeah. Here's the thing. When the evil witch in Snow White uses a reflective object to find out who the fairest of them all is, what does she say?

Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who's the fairest of them all? No. Okay.

That's what everyone would remember. If I ask anyone a question that's exactly what they're going to say, she actually said magic mirror on the wall. Oh. Okay.

Question number five. From Jeff's favorite movie, Forest Gump. Right. Mama always said blank.

What did Forest Mama always say? Mama always said... But probably isn't... It is not about the chocolate.

It is not like a box of chocolates. It's close though. It was like a box of chocolates. Mama always said...

It's not like a box of chocolates. Yeah. Question number six. Are we getting Kelty Floyd's?

Yeah. We are. Question number six. What was the name of the HBO show that aired from 1998 to 2004 and featured Sarah Jessica Parker and her three friends gossiping about their love lives in New York?

Sex and the city. Sex and the city. Sex and the city. What do people think of sex in the city?

People are convinced it is sex in the city. Well, that's about more than four people, I would hope. Question number seven. For our final one of these four we actually get a topic.

Is there? Since you already know what I'm talking about. When did Nelson Mandela die? He's still alive.

He's still alive and well in Johannesburg 2006. This topic was recommended by official decked Kelsey Floyd's. The term Mandela effect was coined by self-described paranormal consultant Fiona Brum. And if you can't trust Fiona Brum, the paranormal consultant.

You can trust no one else. She has written on her website. She first became aware of the phenomenon that she deemed the Mandela effect after discovering that she shared a particular false memory called a confabulation. That South African human rights activist and president Nelson Mandela died in prison during the 1980s.

Well, that wasn't true. No, I don't know. But a lot of people remember him dying in that time. So who are the confusing Mandela for on that headline?

That's why I'm wondering. He actually died in 2013. Okay. Yeah.

He had been out of prison for 20 years. He was president of South Africa for several years. And it was in prison for almost 20 years. He spent 20 years in prison.

Yeah. I think at least. And then I remember when he got out it was a huge deal. It was a huge deal.

It was a time when they were finally negotiating the end of apartheid. I remember him coming and traveling the United States, making speeches. I went to one of his speeches on Boston. It was bad.

It was inspirational. I bought a t-shirt that I can't find. I can't wear it now. But yeah, I thought it was a great speech.

I mean, I feel like they're probably, I'm glad you both knew he had not died in prison. But a lot of people were convinced he had died in prison. And after a broom noticed this, she began noticing other examples. Like the Shazam movie?

That's why the cook. That Sinbad was in a movie about a genie called Shazam. And that was not correct. Wasn't that was Shazam?

And the movie was in a movie called Shazam. But I had heard, the first time I had ever heard of the Mandel Effect, apparently there was a children's show that a group of people remember. I'm going to go to the single example of the Mandel Effect has generated more online buzz in that of the children's book series and animated TV show, The Bear and Stain Bears. Quite a few people who grew up with this series, me included, remember the title of being Bear and Steen Bears.

Like if you'd asked me before I read down the screen, what I was saying, that's what I would have said. That's what I would have said. That is one that I misremember. It's Bear and Stain.

So most of us remember it be E-R-E-N-S-T-E-I-N. Steen, instead of S-T-A-I-N, like Steen. Why is it not Bear and Stine? Like Frankenstein.

Well, it's Bear and Stine. It's Bear and Stine. I'll tell you why. I'm only here.

With some people going so far as to maintain that the fictional Bear's surname was changed along the way to make it less Jewish. What? It changed to what? They think it was changed from the leave that it was originally Bear and Stine because that's what they remember.

And someone probably changed it to Bear and Stain so it would be less Jewish. Wow. I thought some people were convinced. Here we go.

Let me give you some testimonials. I'm not this wrong. Let me stop here. The funny thing is they did change the name to make it less Jewish before, and I remember this as a kid.

They were called, it was the Bear Stain-a-Wish. Yeah, that's what's going on. They're Stain-a-Wish Goldman Bears. Yeah, and they were at the most of all, Stu-B-B-B-B-B-B-B.

Yeah, and they were at the most of all, Stu-B-B-B-B-B-B. Yeah, some of it was too hot. Some of it was too cold. And these were all for gold.

Goldbloom, Stain Bear. I went to Fiano Brew's website. I went through all of the topics, all these different topics, and I was looking at people's posts. Here are some posts.

I didn't know people's names. It's important. I too clearly remember it was Bear and Stine, even though I never read the books. Why would anyone change that?

It seems irrelevant. How could you remember something you've never gotten to my mom always pronounced it? Bear and Stine. Here's another one.

Does anyone remember the Bear and Stine Bears? I do. Although somewhere along the line, the name has been changed to Bear and Stine Bears. No record of Stein, which is definitely how it was when I was younger.

No question about it. Very aggressively. I would like to say that I would like to say that I would very clearly remember Bear and Stine Bears being Bear and Stine Bears. Is that my Donald Trump?

I very specifically remember it being pronounced STE-I. I mean STE-I would say Stein, instead of the Stine on the show. That was Trump's tweet. And the final one didn't used to be the Bear and Stine Bears.

Now suddenly it's the Bear and Stine Bears. Is this sort of anti-Semitic cover up? Well I was a lesser group in the 1980s and misinformed, misread and mispronounced. Wow, that's a lot of fun being put into something that ultimately doesn't matter whatsoever.

Here's my question. Do you think these four people actually care about this and how much do they think they just want to write something? I'll form them in Russian trolls. I believe all of them are very passionate because I teach young generation.

We don't even live when this was going on. But so many people want to buy into conspiracy theories. They want to believe in like a popular style. Something is beyond normal.

That life is so mundane as it is that something needs to be interesting. Here's what Broome says. These are simple errors in memory. They exceed the normal range of forgetfulness.

Even stranger. Other people seem to have identical memories. That's what gets me as people that have memories of something that never existed. Yeah, but the reason they remember it is because they've been mispronouncing it all these years.

And so they think that's the way it's really been. They've heard other people mispronounce it. And so that's what they remember is the mispronunciation. And they never knew that it was Bernstein in the first place.

The children's show that I had mentioned is some called Happy Town or something with people who were agreeing that the characters looked kind of creepy in it. And it never existed but I think there's a hypothesis that people are taking memories of shows that they don't remember little snippets in their brains and they're making one amalgamation of a show and then they're sharing it with other people who feel the same way. That's a memory and then that becomes a shared experience of something. Question number eight, what is the most famous quote from movie Cassablanca?

It's not here looking at you kid. Oh play it again Sam. That was never said that. Play it again for me.

Play it again for me or whatever yeah. Play it once Sam. Play it once Sam. Play it once Sam.

That's the most famous quote that wasn't the movie. But everybody mispronounces quotes it so you say it's a lot. Once that's why you think it's the quote because you're quoting the person quoting it, whether you've seen the movie or not. There are a ton of quotes out there.

How about Star Wars? It's like that harp. Wait just a second. It's like that no phone game.

It's, you know, where one person whispers to the next person, by the time he gets back around, it's just totally different. It's not that anyone deliberately changed it. It's that they heard it wrong. And so they repeated what they thought they heard.

Right. Let me see if I can do this. He told me what happened to my father. He told me, you killed him.

No, I am your father. No, no, I'll never join you. It's not true. I'll never join you.

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