Ep. 95 - The Remains
The Conspirators Podcast
The Conspirators Podcast
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Whether it's an under the radar genre or a proper out there podcast, sometimes it's better when you get weird, especially when it comes to switching up your soft drink, introducing new Dr Pepper Zero |
| 0:12.6 | with the same blend of 23 unique flavors, |
| 0:15.4 | it tastes just as weird as regular Dr Pepper, |
| 0:18.9 | but with zero sugar and zero calories. |
| 0:21.7 | It's a taste you can't quite put your finger on. |
| 0:24.0 | Weird. But in a surprisingly good way, try more weird with Dr Pepper Zero. Back in 1976, the |
| 0:36.0 | in 1976, the production crew of the TV show The Six Million Dollar Man was preparing to shoot the episode Carnival of Spies in which |
| 0:45.8 | Steve Austin tracks an East German scientist to a traveling carnival that turns out to be the |
| 0:51.4 | cover for a spy ring planning to sabotage an American rocket. |
| 0:57.4 | The production crew got busy prepping the fun house of Long Beach's amusement park. in order to film a scene in which our overpriced |
| 1:04.9 | hero takes a spooky ride in one of the cars, |
| 1:08.0 | all ghouls, demons, and skeletons spring out all around him. |
| 1:12.1 | One of the film crew noticed the mannequin of a corpse hanging from a |
| 1:14.8 | noose in the corner that needed to be moved. But when he yanked on the mannequin's arm, |
| 1:20.6 | it broke off at the shoulder. |
| 1:23.0 | When the crewman took a closer look at the dismembered limb he now held in his hands. |
| 1:28.0 | He realized he was looking at a knob of yellow bone poking out beneath layers of desiccated skin. This wasn't a mannequin |
| 1:36.6 | after all, but the remains of a human being. |
| 1:42.1 | It turned out the hanging corpse was actually a man named Elmer McCurdy, a real life Western |
| 1:47.2 | outlaw who died in a gun fight with police back in 1911. Truth be told, McCurdy wasn't much of an outlaw. |
| 1:56.0 | By the early 20th century, the Old West that had been made famous in dime novels and cowboy movies was nearly extinct. The country was becoming industrialized. |
| 2:05.6 | And with the dawning of the age of automation, soon horses would be replaced by these |
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