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Astonishing Legends

What's Gotten Into You?

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2015

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Legend:

Technically an invasive species has to kill off a pre-existing species to meet the definition of being invasive. After you hear this episode, we'll be you'll agree there are some things though that should be classified as invasive no matter what.

Background:

Tonight we talk with two guests. One who may never spend the night in New York City with a window open again, and another who although his Texas doctor was ultimately shot to death by a jealous husband, has a story about a visit to his practice a few years earlier that eclipses that event.

Tonight's Quote:

"Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint. ~ Joseph W. Krutch (Author, Critic, Naturalist)

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Interesting Facts

Jerry Browning's father was Master Chief Petty Officer on the USS Forrestal (CV-59) for 3 years. The Forrestal was named for the first Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal. Mr. Forrestal was the gentleman who multiple witnesses claimed showed up on Saipan to either rescue Amelia Earhart and her navigator, or if determining they were dead, perpetrate a colossal cover-up. Listen to our two part special on Amelia Earhart if this intrigues you.

Jerry's doctor, Dr. Kenneth Dooley was gunned down on July 4th, 1984 by Fort Worth District Fire Chief Joe Dinkins after he found out Dr. Dooley was having an affair with his wife Paula, whom he also shot and killed. Dinkins is set to get out of prison soon, and Dr. Dooley's widow just passed away in February of this year.

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Credits

Episode 014 - 'What's Eating You?' Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess, Ryan McCullough Sound Design Copyright Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess 2015, All Rights Reserved.

Photos: Jerry Browning, copyright Astonishing Legends 2015 - All rights reserved, New York's Super Cockroach - AP, Candiru PD, Ceti Eel Courtesy Khan Noonien Singh, Earwig and European Chafer (June Bug) - PD, Article on Dr. Dooley's Murder (Newspaper Archives)

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, so we're back. We took a little break. You took a little break. I needed a break. It was my son spring break. In fact, so well, that's the longest spring break in history. Well, longer than what I'm used to as a kid, which was like a week. Yeah. Yeah. Well, he had a week. We added a week and a half. Okay.

0:15.4

Yeah. And how did you get it? How did you get away with that? Well, it's TK. You know, the.

0:19.4

I see. All right. So he's not missing a midterm or anything. No, but they did give us a ton of. A ton of homework.

0:24.9

Yeah. He's in the public school system here in LA. And I can't believe how much homework he has for TK. Anyway, yeah, let's not digress. Let's.

0:31.8

Let's. Let's get this story going. I the first thing I want to say is tonight's show is a clean show. No bad words for people listening with their kids. Well, there is one is there. Yeah. Maybe one day.

0:42.4

Maybe you cut it out. You know, but Scott will clip that later or bleep it, which will be a first for him. No, I'm not going to bleep it.

0:48.2

If there's one bad word, hopefully you can take it. Tonight show is not paranormal. It is just if you're squeamish. There's like, there's a.

0:55.6

It's not blood and guts. Well, maybe a little bit, but it's more of a creepy, crawly, worst fears kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. So. Well, if you're prone to like, or if you have kids that are prone to get fixated on stuff, like my son, you know, we.

1:08.4

We saw a possum in the yard, like on a security camera. And I showed it to him because I thought it was neat because it kept. Excuse me, raccoon. It was raccoon.

1:15.4

It kept popping open this drainage drain like every morning. I would come out and this lid would be popped out on the ground. I'm like, what is happening every night.

1:22.2

So we go back. We look at the camera. It says raccoon. He goes over and he pops it open. I guess he's looking for bugs or something down there.

1:28.0

And I showed to my son. I thought it was funny. And then for the next week, he was like, the raccoon is going to come in the house.

1:33.9

So yeah, if you have a kid like mine, right? And they're young on the younger side. This show might not be for them. But that.

1:41.1

That hits on a theme, though, is that as adults, we enjoy a certain amount of comfort because we're intelligent creatures.

1:49.0

We can build barriers around us to keep things out. But what happens when those barriers don't work and things come in?

2:04.3

Welcome back to Estonishing Legends. I'm Scott Philbrook and this is Forest Burgess.

2:17.5

Two legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four legged also can come to seem pretty important.

2:25.2

But six legs are too many from the human standpoint. Joseph Wood Crouch.

2:33.4

All right. So we're take a little bit of a turn tonight with our show. It's there's no ghosts. There's no.

2:47.5

It's not real spooky or paranormal. But I will say there's a creepiness factor to it.

2:54.4

Yeah, it's going to let's just say this show is going to creep back into your head when you lay down to go to bed tonight.

2:59.6

Yeah, you know what I would say is that you may be skeptical. Even after you hear it, you say like, well, you know what?

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