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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

The Lost Weekend (GT Mini)

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Ghost Town

Social Sciences, History, True Crime, Science

3.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The winner of a 1984 MTV contest with Van Halen got more than they bargained for.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Working for the weekend, I'm Rebecca Leib.

0:02.6

I'm Jason Horton, and this is Ghost Town.

0:20.2

Get ready for the MTV Lost Weekend with Van Halen.

0:23.5

There you have the guts to enter this contest.

0:26.0

Destination unknown. You'll have no idea where you are.

0:29.6

You'll have no idea where you're going,

0:31.6

and probably no memory of it after you go,

0:34.0

but it'll be the whole weekend.

0:35.6

We shouldn't call it a contest,

0:37.0

because we don't know what's going to happen to the winner.

0:41.2

Here's what we can tell you.

0:42.6

We'll wait till the last minute to let you in on wear

0:44.9

and when you're going.

0:46.0

Just drop us the right post card and the big black limo

0:48.3

takes you and a friend of the MTV Laird jet.

0:50.4

Then you're off on the Lost Weekend with Van Halen.

0:53.1

This ain't no one night stand.

0:55.3

That's right. You win two days of Van Halen,

0:57.6

and concerts, parties, food, sound checks, loud music, and...

1:00.9

How about a little joy ride in the back of my limo?

1:04.0

MTV gives you a thousand bucks and unmarked bills

1:06.4

and a portable VCR, so you'll have the evidence on video tape.

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