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Astonishing Legends

Choose Your Own Adventure

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2016

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Tonight we are joined by an old friend of Scott's, David Sullivan, or Sully to his friends. Sully has had some interesting things happen in his life, especially when heard through the filter of Astonishing Legends. He relays a few stories that start out pretty light and get progressively darker and darker as the show continues, and by darker we mean real dark. So if you're in the mood for an episode that evokes images of rabies, fate, the forgotten dead and sociopathic behavior, tonight's episode is just for you.

Tonight's Quote:

“A scarecrow is just a hoodlum who marked the cards that he dealed, and pulled a gypsy switch out on the edge of Potter’s field.

—Tom Waits, Potter’s Field 1977

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Credits:

Episode 048 - "Choose Your Own Adventure" Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Edited by Sarah Vorhees, Ryan McCullough Sound Design, Research Assistance by Tess Pfeifle and the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a,k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or "ARC." for short. Copyright Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess 2016. All Rights Reserved.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Estonishing Legends is supported by Harry's, the Great Courses Plus, the podcast remarkable lives, tragic deaths, and Zip Recruiter.

0:06.5

Hi folks, we're back.

0:08.8

For tonight's show, we asked some of you to phone in some segues for our commercials and boy did you ever deliver.

0:14.4

We had more submissions than we knew what to do with, so thank you very much.

0:18.7

If this works, we'll continue with it in the future.

0:21.3

Well, we're heading into our favorite time of year here, close to Halloween.

0:24.8

We'll not take responsibility for sleep loss related to the topics of our next couple of shows,

0:29.2

but we can take responsibility for the bad dreams they might bring.

0:33.3

We'd like to point out that Estonishing Legends is mixed for your headphones,

0:37.2

but we'll still sound great in your car or over your high fidelity system.

0:40.8

So sit back, settle in for your commute, or crack a bottle of wine by the fire, but please not both.

0:46.0

And enjoy our first show of the Halloween season.

0:54.8

Welcome back to Estonishing Legends.

1:04.6

I'm Scott Philbrook, and this is Forest Burgess.

1:08.1

A scare crow is just a hoodlum who marked the cards that he dealed and pulled a gypsy switch out on the edge of Potter's field.

1:15.8

Tom Wates, Potter's Field, 1977.

1:19.2

Join us tonight for a series of stories about what it was like to enjoy both the freedom and the risk

1:24.4

of being a kid in the 70s.

1:36.0

Tonight we're going to talk to an old friend of mine that I worked with for about, I think it was about seven years in New York City,

1:41.5

and the bitter trenches of television commercial-

1:44.3

It was production.

1:45.0

Close production, yeah.

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