Hollywood Urban Legends w/ James Oliva
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Hollywood: Stars and Glamor, but also murder and curses? It’s more likely than you think. We’re joined by audio drama creator, James Oliva, to do a deep dive into the urban legends and spooky happenstances of Hollywood and the movie industry. Featuring William Shatner as the virtuous hero(???), why an incubus should be called a dudeubus, and the story of James Dean, Lesbian Icon.
Content warning: discussion of death, suicide, sexual assault, domestic violence, homicide, and motor vehicle accidents. If you are looking for support around any of these topics, visit rainn.org or text/call the Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255.
Guest
Thanks to James Oliva for joining us this episode. Check out What’s the Frequency in your podcast player, and follow him on Twitter @jamesoliva76!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast episode 68, Hollywood Urban Legends with James Oliva. |
| 0:04.4 | Oh gosh, this is one that I wanted to do for a while now. |
| 0:08.2 | I was pretty drunk during this episode. |
| 0:10.4 | Me too. |
| 0:11.3 | I don't remember a lot of it. |
| 0:12.7 | All right, that's good. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm sure it's great. |
| 0:14.2 | Yes, James is a wonderful and enthusiastic person. |
| 0:18.1 | We actually did an episode of Spirits with him beforehand, but it was not a real |
| 0:25.1 | episode of spirits. It was our crossover with Greater Boston. Yeah. Yeah, but that was a lot of fun. |
| 0:30.7 | It was very fun. And he was in character during that episode, but we did what sounded like a real |
| 0:36.0 | spirits episode about this fictional universe's urban legends. |
| 0:39.4 | So we'll link that one in the show description, but it was very good. |
| 0:42.6 | I almost just said in the doobly do and I hate myself for it. |
| 0:45.5 | You weren't even a vlogger. |
| 0:48.5 | Do you know who never says doobly do? |
| 0:50.4 | Our patrons because they're good people. |
| 0:52.6 | Exactly. |
| 0:53.3 | Our newest patrons. |
| 0:55.7 | Welcome to Palmer, Tristan, Amber, Allison, caleb milo patrice and jessica there's so many of you this week |
| 1:00.9 | hello hello welcome yo welcome and also not welcome but an eternal thank you we love you we see you you are invited to our house anytime |
| 1:12.4 | you always have a seat at the table but you have a seat at the table yes to neil philip julie |
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