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Common Movie Myths List from September 17th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I have one of those things, unless you have something else.
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  Speaker 2: One of those things?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: What things? This thing?
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  Speaker 1: It's Radio From Hell with another list. Because people love
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  Speaker 1: a good list. X96. This is a list of common
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  Speaker 1: movie myths.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: That you think are true.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, bear in mind that your announcer there said people
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  Speaker 3: love a good list.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a good list.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Things you see in movies that you think are true because...
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  Speaker 1: You have seen them in movies.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, silencers make guns whisper quiet. Movies often show
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  Speaker 1: silencers turning gunfire into a soft whisper. In reality, suppressors
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  Speaker 1: only slightly reduce the noise.
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  Speaker 3: It is not the Hollywood love. You can do better
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  Speaker 3: if you just get a pillow.
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  Speaker 1: Lasers are visible beams.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's not true.
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  Speaker 1: You only see lasers in fog or dust. Otherwise, it's invisible.
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  Speaker 1: But in movies, you will often see, like, the red
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  Speaker 1: laser bill.
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  Speaker 2: The red laser, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Quicksand pulls you down like a vacuum.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, that one.
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  Speaker 1: You actually float. While it's tough to move in, it's
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  Speaker 1: not the dramatic death trap that Hollywood portrays.
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  Speaker 2: I thought for sure we were going to have a bigger...
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  Speaker 2: Quicksand problem.
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  Speaker 1: I did too.
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  Speaker 3: As we got older. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Hacking takes 10 seconds and lots of fast typing. Excuse me.
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  Speaker 3: Usually.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's usually how it's done.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry. They're being noisy out there.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that was more disruptive than somebody fishing ice
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  Speaker 3: out of the thing.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. When cars get into accidents, they burst into
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  Speaker 1: giant fireballs.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's just the truth. No, I actually have seen
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  Speaker 3: that happen.
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  Speaker 1: A giant fireball.
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  Speaker 3: Many years ago, I was in Los Angeles. It was
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  Speaker 3: New Year's Eve. I was watching TV at a friend's place,
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  Speaker 3: and we hear this screeching of tires and this crashing,
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  Speaker 3: and we run to the window, and this car just went.
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  Speaker 3: Huge fire.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, if you hit it just right, the gas tank
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  Speaker 1: or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't happen often, but I would imagine.
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  Speaker 1: Memory loss wipes your personality clean. Amnesia in movies is
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  Speaker 1: often shown as a total personality reboot, but in reality
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  Speaker 1: it usually just affects the memory, not your whole identity.
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  Speaker 3: Now, what is this list we're doing? I can't remember.
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  Speaker 1: It's things in movies and TV that you think are
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  Speaker 1: real because you've seen them in movies and TV. Ventilation
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  Speaker 1: ducts can support a crawling adult.
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  Speaker 3: Well, well, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Real vents can barely support a cat, let alone Bruce Willis.
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  Speaker 3: Or anybody else. Now, Jeffrey's tubes can. Well, that's different.
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  Speaker 3: But they're kind of vents.
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  Speaker 2: They're designed for that.
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  Speaker 1: And knocking someone out makes them sleep for hours.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Movies show knockouts like a safe nap. In reality, being
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  Speaker 1: unconscious is a brain injury and staying out for hours
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  Speaker 1: is dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Defibrillators restart a stopped heart. Films make defibrillators look like
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  Speaker 1: resuscitation machines. Offscreen defibrillators reset chaotic heart rhythms. They don't
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  Speaker 1: magically revive a stopped heart.
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  Speaker 3: Now, did not know that. All right. Hmm. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I'd have to look into that. I'm not quite sure
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  Speaker 3: that's accurate.
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  Speaker 1: People die instantly from a single gunshot. Well, I guess
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  Speaker 1: it depends on where you're shot. Films suggest a single
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  Speaker 1: gunshot ends everything in a heartbeat.
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  Speaker 3: The truth? We have stories all the time in the
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  Speaker 3: news about people who are shot four, five, six times,
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  Speaker 3: and they're not dead. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It says immediate collapse is uncommon and many people remain
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  Speaker 1: awake for some time after being shot.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: Car doors can stop bullets.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: On screen, car doors stop bullets like shields, but in reality,
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  Speaker 1: those doors are just thin sheets of metals and bullets
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  Speaker 1: punch right through them.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Security cameras have unlimited zoom and perfect resolution. Movies show
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  Speaker 1: detectives zooming in endlessly in grainy footage until it's crystal clear.
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  Speaker 1: In reality, pixels can't be enhanced into clarity. Chloroform knocks
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  Speaker 1: you out in three seconds.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Remember when that was always a thing?
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  Speaker 2: You just put the cloth over the face.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you just.
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  Speaker 3: Well, now, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: It.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it can.
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  Speaker 1: This says in reality it takes several minutes. It's unpredictable
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  Speaker 1: and dangerously imprecise. But in movies, it's just a cloth
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  Speaker 1: over the face.
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  Speaker 3: They don't use chloroform anymore in operating rooms. But I
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  Speaker 3: am old enough that I remember having chloroform, I think,
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  Speaker 3: when I had my tonsils out. And it was pretty quick.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was like, you know, one, two, three, bam.
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  Speaker 3: Like modern ones are. Back to the defibrillator.
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  Speaker 2: CPR is for heart restart. Defibrillation is to fix atrial fibrillation.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Common heart rhythm disorder, where the upper chambers of the
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  Speaker 2: heart beat chaotically and out of sync with the lower chambers.
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  Speaker 3: I'm reminded of the story that Bob Odenkirk, and somebody
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  Speaker 3: ran and got a defibrillator machine from the.
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  Speaker 2: But they were also performing CPR on him.
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  Speaker 3: So maybe his heart hadn't completely stopped.
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  Speaker 1: I guess so. Drowning victims thrash wildly and scream. No.
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  Speaker 1: It's usually silent because you slip under the water and nobody.
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  Speaker 3: You can't scream because your lungs are filled with water.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. Good guys can hack back instantly. Movies show
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  Speaker 1: good hackers striking back in seconds. In reality, cyber security
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  Speaker 1: is slow and usually illegal. Really?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: Bombs always have a ticking timer with big red numbers. Well,
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  Speaker 1: of course.
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  Speaker 3: How are you going to build tension? Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: It's counting down. People can jump through glass windows unharmed.
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  Speaker 1: That happens all the time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, really not.
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood heroes jump through glass windows like it's nothing, but
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  Speaker 1: it's just a sugar glass prop. Real glass would cause
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  Speaker 1: much damage if you jumped through it. Yeah. Cops have
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  Speaker 1: to say they're a cop if they're asked. Movies love
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  Speaker 1: the idea that asking, are you a cop, forces undercover
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  Speaker 1: officers to spill the truth. In reality, undercover cops can
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  Speaker 1: keep their cover no matter how many times the question
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  Speaker 1: gets asked.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this is ruining movies for me.
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  Speaker 1: Cars can flip just by grazing a curb or tapping
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  Speaker 1: another car. Movies make it look like a tiny tap
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  Speaker 1: can send a car flying.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever we see that in movies, we always shout, who
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  Speaker 2: put that ramp there?
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  Speaker 1: It's got to have a ramp.
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  Speaker 3: They have that special....
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  Speaker 1: Truth serum. Films love the idea of a serum that
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  Speaker 1: reveals all. The truth is these mixtures sedate rather than
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  Speaker 1: compel honesty. They don't work as advertised, which is why
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  Speaker 1: they don't use them in real.
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  Speaker 3: Sodium pentothal.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone who's arrested gets one phone call. Films make it
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  Speaker 1: seem like every suspect gets a phone call. Truth is,
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  Speaker 1: phone calls are privileges, not universal rights. Regulations vary widely,
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  Speaker 1: but speaking to an attorney is the only... guaranteed.
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  Speaker 3: Protection it took me forever to get my phone call
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  Speaker 3: it did i mean i kept asking for it they
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  Speaker 3: said not.
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  Speaker 1: Now um calmly walking away from explosions movies love showing
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  Speaker 1: heroes strolling away from explosions in slow motion but in
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  Speaker 1: reality that fiery blast isn't the killer it's a shock
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  Speaker 1: wave the pressure crushes you and makes it calm walking
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  Speaker 1: away Impossible.
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  Speaker 3: But the guy from CSI did it. You see that
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  Speaker 3: in some movies, though, which is pretty dramatic. It shows
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  Speaker 3: people sort of walking or running away from the blast,
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  Speaker 3: and then the shockwave hits them, and then they go flying.
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  Speaker 1: I believed this one. You can pull a grenade pin
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  Speaker 1: with your teeth. No. On screen, pulling a pin with
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  Speaker 1: your teeth looks cool, but bite down hard enough and
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  Speaker 1: you'll lose teeth long before that grenade comes loose. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Pins are designed to be difficult to pull to resist accidents.
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  Speaker 2: For safety, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, this missing persons report require a 24-hour wait.
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  Speaker 1: On screen, there's always a 24-hour wait, but real life
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  Speaker 1: isn't like that, of course. Investigators move quickly, reporting a
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  Speaker 1: missing person right away. Saves precious time.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so next time I have somebody missing in my family,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like the last time it happened.
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  Speaker 1: You waited 24 hours.
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  Speaker 3: I waited 24 hours before I contacted the police because
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  Speaker 3: I thought they would say, you know, you have to
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  Speaker 3: wait because they might come home.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a thing.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: There, see that?
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  Speaker 1: I think that was helpful.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 1: Sure. Was that a good list?
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  Speaker 3: Ruined the movies for me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I will never remove a pin from a grenade using
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  Speaker 2: my teeth.
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  Speaker 1: Nope.
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  Speaker 3: Never.
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  Speaker 2: We hope you've enjoyed another list with Radio From Hell
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  Speaker 2: on X96.