S5 Ep425: The Urban Legend of “Evil Otto” & How to Admit You’re Wrong

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True Crime, Relationships, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Back in the 1980s, video games were new and people didn’t quite know what kind of impact they’d have on the world. Enter: Evil Otto. He was an arcade game baddie who is rumored to have caused 3 REAL deaths! Bethany digs into the story behind the unnerving smiling face. Then, Kathleen’s pulling up to the dinner table because she’s ready to eat her words. What is she admitting she was wrong about? And why are we programmed to not want to admit we’re wrong?

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What We Talked About:

9:20 - Evil Otto
30:35 - How to Admit You’re Wrong

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Bethany's Sources:
https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Evil_Otto

https://gaming-urban-legends.fandom.com/wiki/Evil_Otto_is_Real

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFr-fdML15E

https://gaming-urban-legends.fandom.com/wiki/Evil_Otto_is_Real?file=BerzerkNews.png

https://gotgame.com/2013/12/27/gamebusters-myth-7-berzerk/

https://retrobitch.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/dying-to-play-the-berzerk-curse-fact-or-fiction/

Music: “In the Labyrinths of Hell,” Leva (via artlist.io)

Kathleen's Sources:
https://www.vox.com/even-better/23198698/how-to-admit-youre-wrong
https://inspiringtips.com/humble-ways-to-admit-you-wrong/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/smarter-living/why-its-so-hard-to-admit-youre-wrong.html

Transcript

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0:00.0	How are the days are coming? How are the days are coming? How are the days are coming? How are the days are coming?
0:06.6	Yes, it's official. Holidays are coming. Coca-Cola Zero Sugar brings the magic this Christmas.
0:15.2	This is the season, it's always a real thing. How are the days are coming?
0:19.8	Stop laughing, this is erotic. I'm on a new medication and think it's making me lose to me.
0:26.6	I would have been a Ted Bundy victim. Yeah, I had no idea that so many people out there felt the same way I did.
0:33.0	Now I want a peanut colada and a quiet taste.
0:37.8	This is an acquired taste podcast. I'm Bethany Watson, your Victorian library designing home depot every day visiting.
0:45.8	I'm driving everywhere instead of walking, so I'm back to wearing ridiculous footwear friend.
0:51.8	And I'm Kathleen Haney, you're I just spent a blissful 24 hours totally alone in a huge house with a pool to myself.
0:59.6	And I'm feeling so good sipping on my 7-Eleven coffee. I have a new Instagram handle and a new website friend.
1:08.0	Yay! And every week Kathleen and I get together to discuss our lives and what's weird in the world and we invite you to join us.
1:14.4	Kathleen, what are you talking about this week?
1:16.4	This week I am talking about how to admit you are wrong.
1:21.0	Cancel the segment. No, no, no, no, no, Bethany. No.
1:24.8	I think this is something that maybe both you and I need to really dig into.
1:29.8	No, because sometimes I see what you did there. I'm shutting you down.
1:33.8	I am wrong a lot of the times. You were wrong a lot of the times.
1:37.8	And you know what? We have a very particular type of friendship.
1:41.8	Relationship with business partners and friends.
1:44.8	Which sometimes makes for like a, I don't know, like a messy mud pie of a dessert.
1:49.4	Yeah, strange bedfellows. This is strange bedfellows.
1:52.2	What's on your plate this week, Bethany?
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