The Lost Weekend (GT Mini)

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

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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The winner of a 1984 MTV contest with Van Halen got more than they bargained for. More Ghost Town: https://www.ghosttownpod.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: https://bit.ly/3MClU8o Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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