ODDBALL - Surviving The Skirvin Hotel
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Dan Le Batard
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🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Welcome to Oddball and Happy Halloween. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Charlotte Wilder, that's a me and El-Hassen. |
| 0:25.6 | Cool new little intro for Halloween there, I mean. |
| 0:28.8 | Yeah, it's the usual theme music with just screaming in the background. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm very excited about this episode, I mean because we recently went on |
| 0:35.4 | Pobletory finds out to talk about something that we've come to learn more about |
| 0:39.7 | than I ever thought I would, which is the alleged ghost, haunting NBA players at the Scurvin Hotel in Oklahoma City. |
| 0:47.0 | Yeah, we went on Pablo Torrey finds out to explain it to Pablo in costumes that might seem a little bit insane. |
| 0:54.0 | In 2008, the Seattle Supersonics moved to Oklahoma City. |
| 1:01.0 | In the NBA, in the Clark to Barton Agreement, there is a certain |
| 1:05.1 | class of hotel you are allowed to put your team in. Right, typically it's like |
| 1:09.2 | a Ritz-Carlton? Yes. Well the closest thing to a hotel of that stature in Oklahoma at the time in 2008 |
| 1:16.6 | and for quite a while thereafter was the Scurvin Hotel. Pablo, the Scervyn has a deep dark secret. |
| 1:26.2 | It was founded by this guy, W.B. Scervyn, William Scervyn, an Oklahoma. |
| 1:30.9 | He was just womanizing his way around Oklahoma City and the legend is that he had an affair |
| 1:37.3 | with a housekeeper named Effie. Effie got pregnant and to prevent a scandal, |
| 1:48.6 | W.B B locked her in a room on the 10th floor of the hotel. |
| 1:56.0 | Effie had the baby, allegedly went mad, jumped out of the window, holding the infant. I mean, like horrific stuff. |
| 1:58.6 | And she has apparently been haunting the hotel ever since Pablo. |
| 2:02.2 | So you guys can all check out Pablo Torrey finds out for so much more. |
| 2:06.0 | It was a really fun conversation with Pablo and he asked some very good questions as he tends to do. |
| 2:11.0 | But in our last few weeks of reporting, we've talked to players, |
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