Going In Blind...Myths (Part 4)

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

Alright, this is Brendan Stacy with Let's Wind with Brendan Stacy. And we have our what we've been calling our myths part four. But you know me, I'm a stickler, and when I was reading things today, I actually I guess I kind of knew this in the back of my mind, the difference between a myth and a superstition. And the myth just usually has a story with a moral, but there's no scientific backing to it. Okay. Whereas superstition supposedly falls into the supernatural and people believe it and it involves luck. So there's that too. So we kind of have been given a mix of both, I think. Yeah, we have.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

I guess not knowing there is a difference, but there were some we'd pause and go, Well, maybe it's a superstition. Don't step on a crack and break your mom's back. Is that a superstition or is that a myth?

SPEAKER_00 0:38

I think that's a superstition.

SPEAKER_01 0:40

See, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:42

That's okay. We we know what we're talking about. But we have a list, and you know, I talked to people at work, and then Camille chimed in with some. So we've got some, and you're walking in blind to this one. You don't know any of these. I'm 100% blind. I think we came up with some of them before. Okay, we're just gonna go for it. Can't wait. Have you ever heard don't turn on the dome light in the car at night? Because it's illegal? Well, because yeah, that you were told. And I think parents told their children that. So because it is hard to drive with it on. It is.

SPEAKER_01 1:07

Yeah, I have heard that. I've also heard that uh driving barefoot is illegal, but apparently it's not.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

Did you look that one up the other night?

SPEAKER_01 1:14

No, but a long, long time ago I asked one of the popos and he said it it's not illegal. Okay. As long as you can safely operate your vehicle, they don't care what you're wearing or not, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 1:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

It's not indecent exposure to have my little piggies out.

SPEAKER_00 1:29

Well, I don't like barefoot, so well I love being you know me. If I can kick them shoes off, they're coming off. I know. I think I remember my parents telling me that though. Yeah. Because we'd take these long trips and be driving at night, and I want the light on so I can just like in here right now, needed some light, and I don't know, they're like, it's illegal, we can't leave it on. Somebody will see us. Mm-hmm. Believe it or not, in all 50 states, it's not explicitly illegal, is the quote it says. But the dome light reduces night vision. Okay. I know I couldn't see if it was on. No, I'd have a horrible time with it. And we don't like overhead lighting anyway. I know. It does not flatter us. I think this was a Camille one. If your ears itch, somebody's talking about you.

SPEAKER_01 2:09

I have heard that one before, definitely.

SPEAKER_00 2:11

Okay. I think there's something biblical with that one. I need to look more into that. Yeah, I'd like to know.

SPEAKER_01 2:16

I know, that's kind of wild. You're looking at me like, okay, we're supposed to know that. Aren't you the Bible? I don't. I I'm not the Bible, and I don't know what your ears itching would mean in the Bible.

SPEAKER_00 2:28

The left ear, if it's itchy, somebody's talking bad about you. And if it's the right ear, it's somebody's talking good about you. Okay. That's all I know about that. Not much anything, but it was from ancient Rome.

SPEAKER_01 2:38

From ancient Rome, that baffles me that the some of these myths go back that far. You know how you're left-handed and right-handed? I'm right eared. Meaning, like if I had a headset on, like at work, we have to wear the little headsets, you know, where we can communicate. If it's not in the right ear, I can't no, which one's this? Yeah. If it's not in the right ear, I can't function. So it's so weird. I'm always like, I'm right eared, I'm right-handed, I'm right-eyed. No.

SPEAKER_00 3:05

Are you left footed? No. I mean, if you were gonna write a skateboard, which one would you put on the board? Definitely right. See, I'm a left. That's weird because I write with my right hand. If you kick a ball, which foot do you use? Right. I do too. Yeah. For that.

SPEAKER_01 3:19

Kickball. Remember back in the day? We could start an adult kickball games group. Tell me more.

SPEAKER_00 3:25

Okay, the Bible warns against people with itchy ears. It's from Timothy 4 3, meaning listeners who reject absolute truth in favor of teachers who simply tell them what they want to hear. I understand that. That's too that's too much for me right now. The metaphor for itchy ears, O's, the original Greek word for itching, literally means rub or tickle. It describes a restless craving for novelty, comfort, or validation. Have you heard that you're supposed to walk out of a cemetery backwards?

SPEAKER_01 3:53

No, I've never heard of that.

SPEAKER_00 3:55

That came from Camille, and I had heard that one. I don't know if I told her that when she was little. It's supposed to be so the spirits don't follow you. It confuses them.

SPEAKER_01 4:03

Huh. I didn't I I've never heard of that one, but I'm gonna take your word for it.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

Wow. I'm gonna have to start paying more attention.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

I know. There's some spirits I'd like to take with me. Go get them.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

I'm gonna go get them. Come on. I know they're saying that you don't want wandering souls. You have to outsmart them by coming backwards. Do you like the sounds of wind chimes? Yes. Okay, those are for spirits. Mm-hmm. Too, to keep spirits away. Had you heard that one?

SPEAKER_01 4:24

No, but I like the sound of them.

SPEAKER_00 4:26

I know, I do too. It has something to do with the vibrations and sounds. It clears negative energy, so it would keep negative spirits away. And that dates back to 1100 BC. They had them in the temples in China and also Rome to prevent the evil eye. Oh, there's evil eyes. I just assumed that was an Italian thing from watching the Golden Girls too much. But you know, Sophia's always talking about the evil eye.

SPEAKER_01 4:47

Yeah. I know I'm almost thinking about the evil eye like the other eye, the third eye.

SPEAKER_00 4:52

Oh, the third eye? Oh, I don't have that. It's like a second sight. Don't want it. I don't want to see other things. All right. Now this is a good one. I think of your mama on this one. The blue bottles and trees.

SPEAKER_01 5:02

Mmm. Yes. She had a wine tree, a wine bottle tree, I should say. And it was beautiful. So what's it supposed to know?

SPEAKER_00 5:09

I didn't know that was so much of a thing. The blue is supposed to resemble the water in the heavens to act as a bridge between the living and the dead. Wow. They're supposed to trap spirits because they're attracted to the shiny bottles, and then during the day, the sun destroys them. Who knew? I know. We gotta get some blue bottles. Superstition or not, I'm thinking we need a blue bottles and make wind chrums out of it. I know at World Market you got some blue wine bottles. We I'm sure we do. We're gonna have to be drinking wine out of the blue bottles now.

SPEAKER_01 5:39

We could do that.

SPEAKER_00 5:40

I'm sure we can. I wouldn't be opposed. All right, and this was a Camille thing too. Can't believe I didn't hear it. I've even sold real estate, but maybe you being from Georgia and blue porches. Does that mean anything to you? The ceilings being blue. And if you type in haint blue and just hit images, plethora. I just couldn't believe it. All right, you're supposed to paint your porches haint blue to trick spirits into thinking it's sky or water. And it's popular in South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia. No. I know. Now when we go to those places, we'll be looking. It's supposed to protect the house and the people inside. Wow. I know. I did not and it's primarily ceilings on a porch. And it's called haint blue. Haint? Haint. H-A-I-N-T, and I think it comes from the word haunt.

SPEAKER_01 6:24

I know. We're learning. I am learning something.

SPEAKER_00 6:27

We're getting smarter by the minute.

SPEAKER_01 6:28

I'm learning more than I ever knew. If anybody knows about that, we are basically primarily southern now. Then you can chime in and let us know like, did your grandparents believe that? Or no? Do you do that? I mean, on your house.

SPEAKER_00 6:40

I don't I mean, I wonder if Camille knew that from selling real estate. But I sold real estate for years and n didn't know about the blue roof.

SPEAKER_01 6:46

Now we're gonna have to um talk to Curry and make her look keep an eye out when she's riding around.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

Yeah. See if she sees anything. I know. All right, now this one I remember from Scouts. Were you told to hold your breath driving by a cemetery? No. Never? You've never heard that as a kid or in school? Or that was a thing when we were driving around. Oh. Kids would be like, Hold your breath, there's a cemetery.

SPEAKER_01 7:07

I've never heard that one.

SPEAKER_00 7:08

I know, because you don't want your mouth open. The recently departed can get in your mouth and possess you.

SPEAKER_01 7:13

Oh my goodness. That might be a far-fetched one. You think so? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 7:17

They're out there floating around.

SPEAKER_01 7:18

I never heard I'm too sober for this.

SPEAKER_00 7:20

I'm so sad that I don't remember a lot of their names. If anybody recognizes me and was in my Girl Scout troupe, reach out. BStudios at myyahoo.com. I'd love to hear from you. That's where the I hate rabbits came from. There are a ton of things that I learned off these Girl Scouts. Because I was an only child. I learned a lot from them. Another one that tucking your thumbs in in the cemetery to protect your parents. Okay. No. We won't go there. I haven't looked it up. I just remember. All right. What about the apple peel? If you peel it all off in one long string and then throw it over your shoulder, however it lands, that initial is supposed to be the man you're gonna marry. That's a superstition.

SPEAKER_01 7:56

I didn't need a lot of apples, obviously.

SPEAKER_00 7:58

I'm gonna do it and see if a beef or Billy Idol pops up down there. Do it. I am, I'm gonna do it. I'm an impatient person and I talk fast and move fast, and I don't know if I could handle the patience to make sure that thing didn't break before I got to the end. That would be the hardest part. To have one long spot.

SPEAKER_01 8:13

I think it's not supposed to have anything to do with your husband. It's supposed to teach you something about patience.

SPEAKER_00 8:17

Well, that one does go way back. It's supposed to be over the left shoulder, and it's from the 18th century folklore from Scotland, Ireland, and England. I guess all those people were doing it. And now I'm thinking I need to. It's been a long time since I've had actually had an apple. Yeah, I'm not crazy about apples. I know, I'm not really either. And they have them in a bowl at work in the cafe. I'm gonna have to steal an apple. You hear that? I'm coming for an apple. Just so I can peel it. Now I don't know if you told me this or probably. You're gonna accuse me of it. About the ring finger has a vein different from the other fingers, and that's why we wear a ring on it.

SPEAKER_01 8:46

I have heard something about gets closer to the heart. I don't know about the vein, but the left ring finger is supposed to be because it's something to do closest to the heart.

SPEAKER_00 8:55

Egyptians used to think that the vein led to the heart, but really all fingers have veins that drain blood, so it's nothing special. We just follow that. That is more of a myth, I believe, because there's a meaning behind it.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

I mean, I'd never think about doing it different. I know.

SPEAKER_00 9:08

People will continue to display their ring on the back to somebody on that ring finger. Let's not change that one. Let's keep it. I think some countries are the other hand though. Oh, really? Yes, for some that's something I'll need to look up to. I should have done more prep for this one. Especially me going in blind because I don't know nothing. All right, what about oh, never whistle in a cemetery. I should have put this with the other ones.

SPEAKER_01 9:27

I haven't. But you know, I've told you, my family really doesn't do funerals, so I don't spend any time really in a cemetery. We'll have to start.

SPEAKER_00 9:35

We'll do some grave rubbing. So you wanna go?

SPEAKER_01 9:37

I want to go to that one downtown I've told you about, where you can walk through it. Kenny Rogers are buried there, there's a fun bar across the street. There you go. We'll do it. And you could sit on the top, they have a rooftop deck on top of the bars, and you could sit out there and actually look over the cemetery.

SPEAKER_00 9:51

Oh, that's the one you went to six feet under. Six feet under.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

We'll have to go.

SPEAKER_00 9:55

We'll do it, but don't whistle.

SPEAKER_01 9:56

I won't whistle. It summons the devil. I usually don't make a habit of whistling, but I'll especially not do it that day.

SPEAKER_00 10:02

Okay. It says that it awakens spirits and summons the devil.

SPEAKER_01 10:06

Unless we could get Kenny Rogers to come over and drink with us.

SPEAKER_00 10:09

You think we could?

SPEAKER_01 10:09

He's buried right there. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 10:11

You see, you've learned a lot of that because you didn't know he was dead.

SPEAKER_01 10:13

I didn't know he was dead. And that that made me sad because I was a country music DJ. I know. He had to have died after I stopped gaining knowledge about country music stars. Bless his heart. I know. Him's gone. Probably all that plastic surgery you had to dip him in.

SPEAKER_00 10:25

Yanked him too.

SPEAKER_01 10:26

Oh man. Couldn't breathe. He was such a good looking guy, that Kenny Rogers back in the day. If he'd have just let himself just age like fine wine, he'd have been better. Maybe still laughed. Oh well.

SPEAKER_00 10:36

All right. Your toys will get mad if you don't put them away.

SPEAKER_01 10:39

That's definitely a parent being like, listen. I'm sure.

SPEAKER_00 10:42

And that has to be everywhere. Or movies like Toy Story and stuff with Chucky. Annabelle. You know, in my world, they all kinds of stuff. Puppet Master, they're all coming alive. They had to be put away. Here's a secret. Okay. Camille used to be scared of ventriloquist dummies. There's a word I can't say yes. Ventriloquist dummy. And you don't know how many times I've wanted to throw some money down the tube and just send one to her. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:03

A crazy looking one, at least. That's funny. There's got to be a phobia for that, just like there is clowns.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

Yeah, I don't think she's ever watched Dead Silence because of that. I'm gonna have to find out. Yeah. Yeah, she doesn't like that stuff. But yeah, I'm sure that's parents. That's where that started from, you know, clean your room or they're gonna come alive at night. And be mad. They're gonna be mad that they weren't put away.

SPEAKER_01 11:20

I don't know if I'd go as far as saying they're gonna come alive. That would just say they're gonna be mad. I guess they'd have to be allowed to be mad.

SPEAKER_00 11:26

I wonder if I did tell Camille that now I think about it, because she sure used to line up those Barbie dolls in perfect little line. They're by the left side of her closet in that house in Spring Lake. They were all lined up, hairbrushed and everything.

SPEAKER_01 11:36

Maybe she just liked her shit organized.

SPEAKER_00 11:38

That's probably exactly what it is. Okay, here's a superstition. Rain on your wedding day.

SPEAKER_01 11:42

I have heard that one. Right, it's supposed to be a big thing. I've heard it both ways, yeah. I've heard it if it rains on your wedding day, it's bad luck, and I've heard if it rains on your wedding day, it's good luck. I don't think it makes a damn difference.

SPEAKER_00 11:51

Well, it is supposed to wash everything away, give a clean slate so everything's fresh and new for the future. Sweet. I know it sounds good, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_01 11:59

I wish you could just go in a zapper and just like all of your past be zapped away.

SPEAKER_00 12:03

So I don't even remember it. I know, right? Yeah. Some of it I want to, some of it I could just toss in the trash. Another one that came up with the weddings just while I was reading. This wasn't one, was the term tying the knot. And it talks about how wet fabric, because of that rain, is harder to knot. Yes. So that's supposed to be a thing and to make the union stronger if it rains on you. And get you it has to get your clothes wet. You can't be out there with umbrellas. Oh. You don't want the big downpour, you just want to sprinkle.

SPEAKER_01 12:27

You just want to sprinkle, yeah, because you want to mess up your hair. It rained on uh Tyler Nancy's wedding day. Oh. But that to clear umbrellas, and those turned out to be really pretty pictures.

SPEAKER_00 12:36

Aw. The clouds in the sky when it's about to rain make the best pictures for weddings. Yeah, I know that that's a thing. I'm sure, because he wants a guy squinting in the bright light. Then everybody looks like this. Yeah, you got it. All right, now this was me. You know how I am. The clock has to be going up when you get married. Definitely say your vows. Yes, so that was a big thing to get married at 3 30, 4 30. I actually got married at 6 30. And at first that chapel tried to say 6. Nope. Has to be 6 30. We start at 6 30 and it has to be going up. I was like 5 30 or 6 30, but I wanted it to be dark. Yeah. Because I got married on Halloween. Yeah. So 6 30. That's when it happened. And it says the reason is the minute hand should be ascending towards the heavens. Of course, I wasn't thinking that at the time. I just wanted my good fortune and the marriage to work. It says it gives positive momentum within the marriage. There you go. And that's what I wanted. And did sure work for you. It did. Exactly. I wish he'd have lasted a little longer. Don't we all? But I mean it was good while it lasted. Put it that way. It was a good one. Gave me good memories. Oh, this was one that made me laugh because it I don't know this person. And I when I was reading, it was one of the comments. I think this is hilarious. I've never heard this. She was told as a child that the ice cream truck only played music when they were completely sold out of ice cream.

SPEAKER_01 13:44

Oh my gosh. I have heard that. Really? Yes. Um, I don't think as a child, but when my kids were growing up, and I think I've told them that a few times.

SPEAKER_00 13:56

That uh that's not even a superstition. I mean, there's nothing, no luck out. That's just an outright lie. Yeah, that's just a bold face.

SPEAKER_01 14:03

Yeah. You told your kids that I I I I know around that time is when but I mean where we live, ice cream man didn't come really anyway.

SPEAKER_00 14:12

It was rare.

SPEAKER_01 14:13

Yeah, out in the middle of nowhere. So um when they were little. But anyway, yeah, I I've heard it and I do think it's hysterical. That's fabulous.

SPEAKER_00 14:22

I know, that's hilarious. Mm-hmm. All right. Well, I got one more on here, and I was watching the news and it made me think of it. I looked it up because I'm like, is that true? To wait 24 hours to report someone missing.

SPEAKER_01 14:32

I think when it's an adult, you're supposed to wait 24 hours when someone's missing, because adults are allowed to just disappear.

SPEAKER_00 14:39

They can, but if somebody's worried about you, they can call. It says it's not true. If you have a reason to believe someone is in trouble, call the police. And the example they gave is like a wife who's mad that her husband is an hour late, don't call. But if you have a friend that is going over to visit somebody that's been abusive to them in the past and they're not answering that you and you can't get hold of them to call. If they have a bad feeling, call immediately.

SPEAKER_01 14:59

I would say too, it would be one of those things to where if you know the person, you know, know your person and you know that creature habit or yeah, they absolutely they're every day. They're gonna do the same thing, they're gonna come home around the same time. All of these things. I know for elderly people that silver alert disappear, yeah. I know that kind of an emergency. But I just think if a grown-ass woman decides to take a minute and there's nothing wrong in the relationship, all that stuff.

SPEAKER_00 15:25

Too much of it.

SPEAKER_01 15:26

But nowadays, who knows? I mean, nowadays that missing person thing is real.

SPEAKER_00 15:30

I know. I'm gonna look up this barefoot thing.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

I always say that real quick. It's so funny. If and I know I could say this for both of us. If either one of us got abducted, they would very quickly pull over and be like, nah, you're not the one. Either we wouldn't shut up, we wouldn't quit whining, we wouldn't. We would just make their life so miserable if we ever got kidnapped that they would give us back. Sorry, bring them back. Sorry, dude. It's didn't mean to take this one.

SPEAKER_00 15:53

Is it illegal to drive barefoot? No laws.

SPEAKER_01 15:56

I didn't think the popo is lying to me, but you never know.

SPEAKER_00 15:58

I just don't like barefoot feet. As far as being out somewhere, the oils on your feet or something, pick up dirt and uh-uh. I'd rather have somebody walk outside in their socks and just dump them at the front door than.

SPEAKER_01 16:08

Oh no. In my own car. After a long day of work, I have absolutely kicked my shoes off. I don't like them in the floorboard when I'm driving because I I don't want them to accidentally get stuck behind the brake pedal and then I can't brake well enough or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

Then the bottom of your foot. It's touching the brake pedal and the Where your shoe has been. I don't care. Where when you go, you went in the bathroom at the movie theater, you don't know what kind of people are.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

I didn't go in the bathroom barefoot.

SPEAKER_00 16:30

Yeah, but the bottom of your shoe did.

SPEAKER_01 16:31

The bottom of my shoe did.

SPEAKER_00 16:32

Yeah. So it's touch that pedal, there's your shoe, and then here comes your barefoot behind it, and then you're walking in the house and put it up in your bed.

SPEAKER_01 16:40

Oh my god. Yeah, I don't do that. I would do it in the and I do it all the time. Oh my god. But when I'm at I do it most of the time when I'm when I've been at work, I do have sock feet on at work, and then I just take my socks off and I come in the house immediately. I guess people I know, I just expect everybody to be barefoot in the house because that's how everybody I know does it. But you know, we don't eat in the floor here, we don't lie in the floor here, we don't I wouldn't want somebody's shoes on the furniture. No, no.

SPEAKER_00 17:08

I that just kills me. People like curling their legs up with shoes on on the couch or something. Absolutely not. That would be that would be where I draw the line. I'd be like, now we gotta get a new couch.

SPEAKER_01 17:17

Don't put your shoe feet on my furniture. Right. But definitely curl up and put your feet on there. You know that I don't mind at all. Not your shoe feet. I'm not as crazy as you are. I'm crazy.

SPEAKER_00 17:27

All right, so just don't come up missing or I'll start putting out a silver alert.

SPEAKER_01 17:31

Well, you know, technically that would uh be a thing.

SPEAKER_00 17:34

I know. I'll say like she might have fell.

SPEAKER_01 17:35

She's a fall wrist. Fall risk. Over 50. Losing her mind, she can't remember shit. Especially like if somebody left their cell phone behind. Or although I am getting to that point too. I mean, I've been forgetting my work watch lately. I've been forgetting my work key. I'm in charge of opening and closing doors. I've been I forgot my key lately. I try and keep all my work stuff behind. Yeah, silver alert me. You can silver alert me. Especially if I left my phone here because then you can't track me. I'm on everybody I know's 360. That'd be awful. Something bad happened. Yeah. That'd be terrible. It would be. Now, sometimes I'll then I disappear from people's life 360 because I do turn my phone off a lot to let it just rejuvenate, reboot. I know some people don't ever turn their phones off and they wait till it starts acting up. My phone's old enough now that I'm trying to keep it going.

SPEAKER_00 18:19

I restart mine.

SPEAKER_01 18:20

I don't turn it off off from sometimes and just put it on the charger. Especially when it's dead dead, it'll charge faster, I think, when it's off.

unknown 18:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 18:28

In my head.

SPEAKER_00 18:29

Well, I guess we're gonna call it on that one. If you have any more miss, we'll definitely make another show. You can contact us at bsstudios at myyahoo.com. Um, we are gonna record tomorrow, and Stacy and I are going to a comedy show tonight, and we will review that. How about that? It's the same week we went to a movie. We went out twice this week. I know. Well, we're not gone yet. If the tickets are bought, we'll go.

SPEAKER_01 18:49

I know. The tickets are already paid for us. But I'm excited about it. I think it's gonna be fun. Yeah, it's gonna be a fun time, so I'm excited too. Well, uh, on our next show, we'll definitely have to talk about how the movie went. We'll talk about how the comedy show went. Our adventures out in the world. How about that? Which we never do.

SPEAKER_00 19:04

In the same week. And at night. At night. What the hell are we doing? I know it's gonna be dark when we drive home. Don't let me forget my glasses and don't forget your fried pickles. Absolutely. I do have coupon. Right. I know I would have never gone anywhere worried about my coupon when I was younger. We'll turn around and drive home for a coupon. Jeff worries about them too. If we go out to trivia or something, do you take those coupons from Hammerheads?

SPEAKER_01 19:28

I know. Well, that's because he opens that mail only to look for that coupon just for us. He knows it never makes it there. It's rare. It's so rare. Or we haven't been in so long and it's expired. Yeah, we forgot about them. But anyway, so that's funny. Coupon. I got my coupon and I'm going out. That's right. Good night.

SPEAKER_00 19:45

Yes. So we will be back for more.

SPEAKER_01 19:48

All right, that's a wrap on Let's Wine with Brennan Stacey. Bye.