5 • 710 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Everyone’s experienced it. You’re at a social occasion where someone’s telling a story that happened to some guy they know, and you can’t help but think – hold up, that can’t be true. Like how a buddy of theirs had a snake swim up through their bathroom toilet, or how they heard superglue is strong enough to stick furniture to the ceiling. Or even that the Dalai Lama worked for the CIA. But here’s the crazy part. All of those, and many more so-called myths, are actually factual! So, strap in, and let’s unpack some of the craziest stories and claims you probably always thought were nonsense, proven to be true.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | Everyone's experienced it. You're at a social occasion when someone's telling a story that happened to some guy they know and you can't help but think. |
0:07.6 | Although, that can't be true. |
0:09.6 | Like how a buddy of theirs had a snake swim up through their bathroom toilet or how they heard super glue is strong enough to stick furniture to the ceiling. |
0:16.6 | Or even that the Dalai Lama worked for the CIA. |
0:20.2 | But here's the crazy part. |
0:21.8 | All of those and many more so-called myths are actually factual. |
0:26.3 | So strap in and let's unpack some of the craziest stories |
0:29.4 | and claims you probably always thought were nonsense, |
0:32.2 | but are actually proven to be true. |
0:36.4 | You're listening. |
0:37.0 | You're listening to be true. For several decades, you're listening, you're listening to be amazed. |
0:40.3 | For several decades now, one myth has stuck around about rock bands with a love for pranks back in the 1970s. |
0:52.3 | According to rumors, certain rock stars would use super glue to stick furniture to the ceilings |
0:57.7 | of their hotel rooms. |
0:59.6 | Then the next day, they'd leave it as a surprise for the hotel staff, who I'm sure were |
1:04.4 | absolutely thrilled. |
1:06.5 | While the specifics of who these bands were have been lost, either to time or lawsuits, the premise |
1:12.4 | remains an intriguing one, but could it have actually happened? Well, for starters, Gorilla Glue |
1:17.7 | demonstrated the impressive strength of their particular brand back in 2008. They managed to |
1:22.6 | lift an entire truck laden with additional weights to a total of 8,000 pounds using two steel plates, |
1:28.0 | gorilla glued together and secured to a crane. |
1:30.8 | The world's greatest verifiers of myths, the Myth Busters, also put this question to the test |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Be Amazed, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Be Amazed and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.