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List of Childhood Myths from May 22nd, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: But I do have childhood medical myths debunked. Experts weigh
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  Speaker 1: in on five common warnings. Would you like to hear those?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 1: Is it a list? It's a list of five things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, it's radio from Hell with another list because
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  Speaker 2: people love a good list x ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: And then I could even segue into foods you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to refrigerate. But I got a lot of stuff here.
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  Speaker 1: Number one. Here these are myths that you probably always
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  Speaker 1: thought were true, especially when you were a kid. Number one.
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  Speaker 1: Ginger ale relieves stomach aches. Yes, no, no, will actual
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  Speaker 1: ginger can help ease a stomach ache? Most commercial ginger
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  Speaker 1: ales don't actually have any ginger in the oh, the
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  Speaker 1: childhood myths persists. His parents give ginger ale to kids
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  Speaker 1: because it's sweet and bubbly. It makes parents feel better
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  Speaker 1: that they're doing something for their kid. Sometimes though, if
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  Speaker 1: it makes you burp, that's not that clear, is it. That's
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  Speaker 1: really what it is? If you can buy ginger beer,
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  Speaker 1: that is it has real ginger, like a bundle berg
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. My my wife and child have
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  Speaker 1: the tendency to get carsick, but if they remember to
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  Speaker 1: take ginger peel pills, before we go on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: extended trips that will stop that gum stays in your
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  Speaker 1: stomach for seven years. Of course I always knew that
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  Speaker 1: was fake. I used to. I used to think it
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  Speaker 1: went to Somebody told me, you will go into your
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  Speaker 1: appendix and flog up your appendix. Yeah, chewing gum. Can
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  Speaker 1: experts say now you probably shouldn't swallow gum because substantial
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  Speaker 1: amounts might cause an intestinal blockage. Yeah, but no, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't stay in your stomach for seven years. You shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: swim for thirty minutes after eating. That's a myth. Yeah
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  Speaker 1: you can, you can. You can go go swimming after
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  Speaker 1: you eat. It's fine. Chicken soup cures of cold? Does
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  Speaker 1: anybody ever really? It would be comforting.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds good. A ginger ale and some chicken soup.
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  Speaker 1: That's good. And uh and number five, you will ruin
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  Speaker 1: your eyes if you sit too close to the TV.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they told me all the time when I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid, and I ended up being extremely nearsighted.
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  Speaker 1: And I know you just assumed I thought that it
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  Speaker 1: was true. No, it's it's not true. Sitting too close
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  Speaker 1: to the TV will not ruin your eyes. I mean
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  Speaker 1: it could cause your eyes to get, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: strain them and you get you know, uncomfortable. But it's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna you won't.
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  Speaker 2: How about looking at your phone, looking down at your
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  Speaker 2: phone and uh giving you a hump on your What about?
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  Speaker 1: That's all that's you're trying to You're trying to excuse
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you're you're getting a dowagersump. That's what
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  Speaker 1: they call a dowager's hump.
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  Speaker 2: Saying, don't don't be bent over your phone.
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  Speaker 1: I've I've heard about that. Huh. I don't think it's true. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And you don't have to refrigerate ketchup? Did you now?
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  Speaker 1: We do? Yeah? I do? I do too. I bet
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  Speaker 1: most people do. Restaurants don't, but you yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: you really don't have to uh refrigerate ketchup? And I
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  Speaker 1: think the same is true of mustard. Uh. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to refrigerate jarred pesto. Oh wait, no,
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  Speaker 1: you do? You do? Yes, it should be refrigerated. You know.
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  Speaker 1: What you do have to refrigerate is anything that says
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  Speaker 1: on it refrigerate after opening that. That's the way, that's
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  Speaker 1: what I's the best way to determine. Yeah, I Look,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I look for now, Julian the chat room,
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  Speaker 1: who is a school teacher? Does I see the phone
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  Speaker 1: hump at my school on students all the time? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the problem? Well you mean it's a permanent
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  Speaker 1: fixture or is it just because.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing damage to your neck and your back and
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  Speaker 2: your shoulders and don't do it?
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  Speaker 1: Put your shoulders or or And we could make a
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  Speaker 1: million dollars with this, and we could get Richard karn
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  Speaker 1: to advertise it. We could build a special little brace
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  Speaker 1: that you put on keep your shoulders back. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: special little brace that won't let you bend forward like that.
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  Speaker 1: You'll have to bring the phone up to look at it. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: Julie's a librarian, not a teacher. Sorry. Build.
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  Speaker 2: Several people are upset that you did the Bougie story
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  Speaker 2: but didn't tell people how to spell it.
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  Speaker 1: B o U g i e. It's all right, bois yeah,
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  Speaker 1: b o U g i E bogi? Is that you
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  Speaker 1: people feel better now?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? People are happy now? Okay, people are saying and
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  Speaker 2: I am hearing.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, I also have twenty forgotten chill child actors and
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  Speaker 1: where are they now? It's Richard Karn on the listen. No,
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  Speaker 1: people like it's funny. They tell the names that you recognize,
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  Speaker 1: like Ana Chomsky in She's on Deep. Yeah, well it's
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  Speaker 1: not like she was just a child, he says. But
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  Speaker 1: these are child actors who've forgotten child stars and where
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  Speaker 1: are they now? But then then it goes into Jackie
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  Speaker 1: Coogan and Shirley Temple when they're old people. I know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand where were they now? They're dead dead
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  Speaker 1: you little BONDI Yeah, yes, weird list. We've hoped you'd enjoyed.
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