Kristen this is crazy it's crazy right it's kind of amazing it's awesome yeah

Hello welcome to guides the unknown I'm Kristen and I'm her little brother William and this week we are talking about celebrity myths and urban legends a lot of

rumors yeah about like you know a tier a listers right that are frequently

unfounded yeah I definitely found a lot of things where I had to pass over it for the

show because there were so many things that were just like this somebody

wrote this online and that's all there is to the rumor there's no backup or evidence or really even

speculation it's just something that somebody said it's just

something that an idiot said so weird yeah it's something that somebody said to make

fun of a celebrity and there's no origin for it honestly I think that's sort of what

made this kind of thing tricky for us is that there's not always an origin point to find because it's just, I don't know,

Douglas wrote it on the internet anonymously and then it just took off for some you can't

because it was just so weird yeah basically yeah there's no explaining why

something became popular to keep sharing these are almost like memes right these

rumors just people took them and ran with them yeah totally so we're

gonna start with wills because I think that it is one of the best known like most

enduring celebrity urban legends of all time.

Oh yeah.

The Richard Geer and the Gerber story.

This was wild.

Okay.

So Richard Geer and the Gerber is what made me want to cover this story to begin with.

So very famously, the idea behind this story, the rumor is that back in the mid-s film actor Richard Geer was rushed to the

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