Friday the 13th - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 3/13/26
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🗓️ 14 March 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Guest host Connie Willis and author Dr. Leo Ruickbie trace how Friday the 13th became the most feared date on the calendar.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Now here's a highlight from coast to coast AM on IHeart Radio. |
| 0:08.9 | You threw an article at me at one point when it was around Friday the 13th. |
| 0:13.8 | And the article was something you wrote in the Daily Express back in 2013. |
| 0:20.8 | You've been doing this a long time. |
| 0:23.2 | Why are we so scared of Friday the 13th? |
| 0:27.2 | You know, it's still happening. |
| 0:28.6 | People still feel the same way. |
| 0:30.0 | And I think the reasons that you've written down are pretty much the same reasons |
| 0:33.8 | that people still stick with. |
| 0:36.4 | Oh, absolutely. |
| 0:38.0 | But you know, the interesting thing is because, you know, we've had a Friday of the 13th already this year, |
| 0:44.4 | and I was speaking to somebody at work, and she said, oh, doesn't that just come from the film? |
| 0:52.4 | You know, the film Friday the 13th and turned into this big franchise and endless sequels of it. |
| 0:59.7 | And I was quite interested in that reaction because I think it shows a little bit of a sort of disengagement from our own kind of folklore. |
| 1:10.0 | People are just looking at |
| 1:11.5 | pop culture |
| 1:12.7 | thinking it comes from that |
| 1:14.3 | and |
| 1:15.3 | you know |
| 1:17.3 | an interesting little sort of factoid |
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