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weirdos happy holidays and you guys thank you so much for making us the most listen to show on Amazon music you guys
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[ __ ] rule that was Unreal truly Rule and you know what growing up one of our holiday traditions together was watching
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The Wizard of Oz as a whole fam so we couldn't think of a more fitting way to spend today than to revisit the fan
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favorite episode 281 the Dark Side of The Wizard of Oz take a trip with us over the actual rainbow and hear about
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its unsettling history and the actual Peril that the actors went through to create one of History's Greatest classic
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films enjoy the holiday break you guys and we will be back on Thursday ho ho ho Mary
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ashas hey weirdos I'm Ash and I'm Elena and this is growing your own [Music] lofos no I'm totally kidding it's
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actually morbid it is um but I was just watching a Tik Tok about growing your own loofah and I really want to grow my
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own loofah now Ash got real invest you know how some Tik toks are one minute and some are like 45 minutes and a half
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yeah I was on one of those ones that's 45 and A2 minutes not actually I think it's like the max is three but it feel I
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was going to say I think it's three but it feels long just being hyperbolic but anyways I just saw one of those really
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long Tik TOs and this guy was growing his own loofah he grew a couple of them and then he was like peeling it which
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looked really satisfying like I was like I want to do that and then he took the whole thing out and it was like gigantic
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I was like you could cut that in half put one in your kitchen sink put one in your shower and I was really thinking
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about that but then I was like kind of looks like it would hurt on your body she did she when I say she had all of
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those stops and she had them all out loud I can vouch for that most of my thoughts happened out loud when I met
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Alina it was a fun little process to watch it I always love someone like having an argument with themselves and
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then like coming to a conclusion with both sides of their brain like both sides of the argument that happened in
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their brain come together I don't know if I even came to a conclus come to a conclusion yet but I I believe in you we
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had to start working so I'll come to a conclusion later today and I guess I'll let you guys know next episode yeah if
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I'm going to grow my own loofah or not cuz what we've come down to I think is that you were concerned it wasn't going
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to feel good and then you said on my skin no he said on my body on my body I don't think it would feel good on my
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body like it looks rough like it looks like I'd be like it looks almost like um like a pmus stone it does which feels
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good on your foot but you're not going to pum a stone your shoulder exfoliation station is where we are but like these
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days I guess you're not even supposed to exfoliate as much as I used to think I feel like everything's stupid yeah me as
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well but anyways I don't even know the climate in which you're supposed to grow alofa so I guess we can just move on
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yeah we'll move on from this we'll figure it out don't worry we'll update you you
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know are you on drugs right now are you all right and I'm like no I'm on life and the answer is no we are not say no
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to drugs but you know it's just it's the holiday week it's the holiday season it's almost Thanksgiving I'm going to
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eat a lot of food I'm excited I'm going to be cooking today like crazy I'm hosting doing Thanksgiving I'm doing
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Thanksgiving so it's going to be it's going to be interesting I'm particularly excited about your your pumpkin and Sage
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pasta your are you making the pesto bread that I requested am cuz I make it excited about that and I'm honestly two
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more things I'm also really excited about the sausage stuffing oh yeah and um the strucel the sweet potato
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casserole yeah you're all invited see you there and you know what I'll post some recipes cuz they're all recipes I
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found on like the interwebs so I I'll post some recipes in case anybody any of that sounds good it does uh but yeah I'm
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excited I love I like cooking a turkey I like doing a little herb butter rub underneath the skin all up in there how
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do you feel about going into like the cavity oh I mean that's my job so it is but how do you feel about it the same I
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feel about my job oh yeah yeah I thought you meant like it's your job cuz you're
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cooking tury literally is my job to go into like cavities that no one else wants to go into yeah describe your job
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and a really weird way you go first I guess yeah there it is I'll go first I cut dead things off of people
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yeah so it's just kind of mine as well it's a turkey it's easier I think do you put um like lemons or likees let let me
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let you let you all know in case you're wondering you got to put a little Citrus
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in there I got put a little bouquet of herbs maybe some time some Rosary some parsley yeah you got to you got to
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really get the aromatics in there and you also rub it in Salt right yeah that's a brining process some people dry
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brine some people don't brine at all do it's really up to everybody I I've brinded before do you even brine you
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even bro she doesn't even brine here did you even brine bro yeah and you want to
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put some like garlic and onion in there like really get it going do you ever uh do you put a shallot in there yeah oh I
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love we love a shot we love a jean shallot in there and the really important thing is basting my dudes base
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that gosh darn Bird that's important even if you cook like a chicken yeah Bas the hell out of it Bas forever it makes
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a difference even when I make like chicken breastesses I Bas them you got to base that [ __ ] it it works but you
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know that's been a Thanksgiving with us lofas and thanksgivings with Ash and Elena so we're right on target here I
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think we're right on Brent True Crime uh True Crime you know lofas and CRI and turkeys uh but yeah today's also going
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to be kind of like a different episode a little bit it's like we're in the dark spookiness but this is like a different
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one I feel we've never really done anything like this particularly I'm very excited I'm pretty excited so let me
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we'll we'll start this off the proper way yeah so I Elena um that's you that's me I have been obsessed with the wizard
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of oz since I was a little little girl uh I used to literally have to dress up like Dorothy every time I watched it uh
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I had the ruby red slippers had the outfit my mom would braid my hair I know every line of that movie I watched a
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100,000 times it's adorable so that was like my jam when I was little and I was always wondering when I should allow the
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girls to get into it cuz like I'm weird and like I I watched a lot of [ __ ] that
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I was like wow I can't believe that didn't traumatize me such as Lain but maybe it did I don't know the girls of
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watch Labyrinth and they love it but uh but but where's it a Oz you know some people I remember Drew was saying the
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monkeys freaked him out and I remember John was like no the flying monkeys are like scary and I was like I don't know
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guys yeah it's funny because I thought I don't know men that they were I men that's how I usually feel just kidding
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um I always thought that like they were a little bit scary but then they are in watching it with the girls I realized
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I've only seen it once that's wild to me that's really wild I only watched it one
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time and then it's not that I didn't like it I think I just like didn't really get that F you Vibe with it or
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you don't like it's it's a I think it's like one of those things you watch it and you're either like wow this is my
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entire personality now or you're like eh maybe I'll watch it again someday yeah see I watched Coyote Ugly when I was
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little and I felt like that was my entire personality and I people I feel that is You're The Wizard of Oz and I'm
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Coyote Ugly yeah I think those honestly describe us pretty well yeah yeah but you know I I was worried I didn't know I
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was like it's five good and then this past Halloween a couple of people in their dance class and their school had
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Dorothy costumes and I was like oh and they were like what's that about oh people are people are watching wizard
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ofos but I was like I don't know and they came home one day and we like I really liked that outfit yeah who's
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Dorothy can you so I started explaining it to them and this is how I usually introduce movies that I'm not quite sure
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if they're ready for yet like Labyrinth I did this too we talk about it a lot talk about like the plot we talk about
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it we talk about the story and then what I'll do is I'll show them little clips of it every now and I'll like at this
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fun clip of them in the Dairy forest with the with the winged monkeys and I'm like do you like that and they're like
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that's cool and I was like all right we're here so after a few days of that I was like let's do this we had like they
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were so excited we sat down as a family we watched the wiard ofas I was in my glory like I was when we watched
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Labyrinth it's those are my favorite things about being a parent is like showing them those things you're like oh
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I watch love it you relive your childhood like the happiness and like like memories from your childhood you
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see it through their eyes and so we sat down we watched it they adored it they watched it how many times since then
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probably a hundred times and it's only been like two weeks like I feel like a terrible aunt but yesterday one of them
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was like tit will you watch that with me and I was like oh you want to watch like
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anything else yeah you're like I literally can meanwhile I'm like let's watch it again but and of course while
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we're watching it I immediately was like guys who's your favorite like you got to
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have a favorite of the gang you know so I I knew that my little feral middle child was going to love the Cowardly
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Lion yep cuz she herself is a lion she loves Lions not cowardly but a lion not cowardly and she loves Lions oldest I
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knew she was going to dig the Scarecrow I just had a feeling yeah kind Vibes kindes she likes that whole that he had
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the leader of the pack all and they both love Dorothy they think she's like that
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just go and my littlest one just loved the whole thing she didn't know what to do but so I we got in the discussion of
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I was like you know when I was little I was literally in love with the Tin Man yeah like in love with the Tin Man my
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mom can tell you I used to be like can I marry the Tin Man and mom was like you can't but like that's a nice thought and
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I don't know what it is and I've never really like fully thought about it like and I think it's just now it's cuz
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before it was like you're little and you're like I love the Tim man whatever you move on you grow up and all of a
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sudden watching it with the girls again I'm like suddenly like you don't move on
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or grow up I didn't move on from that cuz CU I still think the Tin Man's hot what's that about me like I was watching
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it and I was like no I'm still like really attracted to the Tin Man He's from our neck of the woods you said
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right he is a lot of them are from Boston like the uh the wicked witch Margaret Hamilton she was from Boston oh
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[ __ ] I didn't know that edit Margaret Hamilton is not from Boston I just wanted her to be sorry about that uh Ray
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buer the Scarecrow Boston um I actually think I'm not sure if ber I think his name is I'm not really sure I'll get to
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it in a second but the guy who played the uh Cowardly Lion he might have been from around here too A lot of them are
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from here and the Tin Man you said was from is from Dorchester so I and he has like a thick Boston accent and I think
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that's like ingrained in my brain to just automatically like connect to that's the most attractive when he says
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like the Tin Man forgot to get the tin uh the tin maker forgot to give me a hot a and they both go no hot no hot just
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like yes I love you Swoon and then I realized that not only do I love the Tin Man but I love Jack Haley the man who
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played the Tin Man it was a big realization week for me like I really had like a I was it was a journey it was
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an Eat Pray Love situation I just like had to go through it God that movie um I never saw that movie or read that book
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but I feel like it's a journey of sorts so it's a journey watching the movie cuz
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it's 42 years long yeah this was my like my journey through why do I find the Tin
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Man attractive and I realized that I find Jack highly [Music] attractive you should do one of those
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Tik toks where it's like show your childhood crush and then show who you married and like just is there any is
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there any resemblance like is the 10 the 10 man's pretty tall he is he's tall he's kind kind eyes he has a hat he has
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no hat but he he has hat you know yeah and he's got he's got very expressive eyes I wonder if he has a nice jaw he
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love a nice J he has a great JW I I definitely have a type that is for sure we we all know that but so this is this
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is what brought me this big long story that I just like feel like you all needed to know because we I also had
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like a really fun conversation on Twitter with a bunch of listeners about this and like they were saying a ton of
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them were into the Tin Man and they were like oh my God I thought I was alone and
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then a lot of people were like I was a scarecrow girl so like we got or like I was a scarecrow guy and we got like this
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big discussion of like why the hell do we find these yeah and it was really fun so like thanks for getting into that
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discussion with me and it made me think about the fact that wait I remember coming upon all these weird dark like
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[ __ ] up things that happened during the making of this movie which is funny that like we're all so in love with like
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well those of us who are like into this movie and find it loved like you can just be like well that was the 1930s I
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don't know like going on but when you really look into it you're like damn the making of this movie was like a
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harrowing Adventure do you know what I feel like it's not that I don't like The Wizard of Oz but I feel like I like feel
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that when I watch it like I feel the darkness cuz I remember yeah the first time I watched it and like I guess the
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only time until recently I was just like H like I I didn't feel good about it yeah see I feel great about it I
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apparently am not intuitive to the darkness but now I'm like wow it's a lot of dark [ __ ] my empathetic ways so what
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we're going to do today is we're going to go through all the [ __ ] up Dark Secrets Behind The Wizard of Oz because
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some people have actually asked us to do this in the past and recently when I mentioned the girls were watching it
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somebody was like you got to do you got to do the weird stuff behind The Wizard of Oz behind it's like the man behind
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the curtain and actually I think it was Michael from the spookies podcast that was like you guys should cover that and
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I was like like little do you know little do you know working on that now so let's start we're going to go through
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some of these things I'm just going to go like list by list but we're really going to get into them so the first
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thing we're going to talk about because it's the most important is the Tin Man makeup because obiously Jack Haley uh
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there is a big long very longstanding like Legend myth rumor that is untrue oh that John even thought was true that the
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Tin Man the original tin man who played him died because of the makeup they put on him that's a big long Legend of this
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movie that people are like well the original Tim man died from the makeup and they had to replace him no that
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didn't happen in fact John used it cuz I when we were watching it I mentioned how
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like I was like oh my God Swoon Tin Man and he was like too bad what happened to
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him huh like he made a joke like that's too bad and I was like nothing happened to him and he was like what do you mean
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I was like let me tell you a story nothing happened so something did happen to the original Tin Man but it's not
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what we think so Jack Haley was not the original tinman buddy ebson was originally cast as the scare as actually
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not even the Tin Man the Scarecrow oh and Ray buer who is the Scarecrow in the movie was originally cast as the Tin Man
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so like slippity swaity so at some point they decided to switch roles because I think Ray came out and he said that he
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really felt he was better suited for the role of scarecrow and he like just really liked that part and he want he
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thought he play it better does he does a great SCC like it wouldn't have worked switched no so we have buddy abson who
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is like in The Beverly Hillbillies he was like a very well-known comedic actor all that good stuff like everybody knew
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who he was at the time he was cast as the Tin Man so Epson started rehearsals and the Wardrobe fittings for his new
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role and everything was going fine with wardrobe everything he said in fact he said quote I was a guinea pig they
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didn't know how to simulate the Tin Man's garments so I found myself doing tests with clothes made of real tin and
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clothes made of silver paper and clothes made out of cardboard covered with silver cloth the makeup was just as bad
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try this try that in the end they glued a cap on my head and covered it with glued on and and covered it and glued on
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a rubber nose and a rubber chin and then covered the whole thing with clown white
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makeup and then powdered aluminum dust onto my face and head oh so yeah everything's going fine
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everything problem totally fine I don't see anything in there that could go Ary no so everything was fine he was covered
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with aluminum dust every day and that was fine he had recorded every line of the Tin Man songs and when they began
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filming so he was already he had all the songs recorded everything was ready to go things went well until October 13th
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1938 which was only 9 days after they started filming abson suddenly said I'm feeling horrific and he was having
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labored breathing he was having chest pains his arms and legs were cramping and like just like like completely
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cringing up he could barely walk he was like passing out and he said uh he was quoted as saying quote one night after
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dinner I took a breath and nothing happened they got an ambulance and had me go down to Good Samaritan for a
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couple of weeks my lungs were coated with that aluminum dust they had been powdering on my face oh my God he was
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blue and barely breathing when he arrived that's so scary his lungs were coated with aluminum powder yes he was
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put in an iron lung dude was in an iron lung and spent weeks in the hospital recovering then after that he had to
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spend more than a month recovering at the Coronado Hotel in San Diego he had like just lay in bed for weeks oh God
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now this is what's nuts everyone at the MGM Studio producing the film was just pissed MGM got pissed about like a lot
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of things back in the day that were actually their fault like I'm sorry what they were Furious that he was missing
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filming and literally demanded him back on set that's cute he was literally dying of respiratory failure in an iron
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lung and they were calling the hospital saying he needs to be back on set yeah well uh he's in an iron long right now
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yeah he can't come to the phone right now like I'm sorry like Taylor Swift remix it's wild and he was quoted as
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saying it seemed they couldn't understand that an actor could get sick they were Furious
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mvin looy kept and he was like the head of the studio kept calling the hospital and saying he can't be in bed he's due
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on set and Jack Dawn called me to tell me I couldn't possibly be sick because he had used aluminum dust pure aluminum
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dust on my face so they're saying you can't no it's not and they're trying to cover their ass too no no it can't be
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the aluminum dust because it's pure you're like that's actually exactly why I'm so sick right now well and that's
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what's crazy is at the time they did think pureum umum dust was pretty fun wow like they would they did not in fact
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I found a paper published in the Journal of environmental and occupational health
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policy you know it right yeah I read that at night yeah it's a really good one to fall asleep there was a period of
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time between about 1943 in 1979 where people who worked in mine in mines I almost just said miners but I
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thought you guys would confuse that and be like people under the age of what uh like mine worker miners you you get it
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now uh they they were literally forced this is wild to me this is such a dark thing in
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history they were literally forced to inhale aluminum dust as an experimental medical treatment and a preventative
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measure to stop a disease of the lungs called silicosis so not only were they like
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breathing in the fumes from like you know mining mining but also they were like hey can can you sniff some of this
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it's it's an experiment oh wait until you hear how they did it so silicosis is a lung disease that's called caused by
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long-term inhalation of crystalline silica dust um or the particles and these are found in a lot of
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environmental structures like stone rock clay things that miners are working with
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uh miners who were diagnosed with this would at first just find themselves having this like nasty cough all the
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time like it's almost like Black Lung kind of thing just they would have shortness of breath and it really isn't
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diagnosed for like years usually all I'm thinking of right now was Zoolander right when he says like I think I've got
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the black LP you just like looked like him you even in the [ __ ] hand you got to to
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the it's so good it is is the best I tried not to like it when I was younger but it's funny uh but it would be found
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on chest x-rays like years later so what would happen was these employers would blow
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this finely powdered version of of aluminum dust called McIntyre powder into the changing rooms of the miners
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and they did this through the [ __ ] air systems so they would just be in their changing area and there's aluminum
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dust particles being blown in through all the air ducts for experimental purposes now in this paper in that
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journal this paper is called trading one risk for another consequences of the unauthenticated treatment and prevention
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of silicosis in Ontario miners in the McIntyre powder aluminum inhalation program me as well and it's by Janice
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Martell and Lee l sorry sorry t uh but yeah two really smart people and I'll link this paper so
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you can go look at it because I'm sure you want to but yeah I'm going to read it uh in this they talk about a guy
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named Jim Hobs and they said he was 37 years old for the first time that he tast that he tasted aluminum dust it was
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March 1978 whoa and it was his first day going underground at Rio algam Quirk to
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uranium mine now after changing from street clothes into his mining gear Hobbs followed the other miners into a
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tunnel like building that led to the cage that would transport them underground for their 8-hour shift of
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Drilling mucking and Blasting the building dubbed the gas chamber by those who entered it was lined with benches
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and Hobbs followed the routine of the others taking a seat and waiting for the cage call before that call came and
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after the last man entered the building the doors shut at both ends the ventilation fans stop and the supervisor
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yelled what would become a familiar phase to a surreal phrase in a surreal ritual that Hobbs would experience prior
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to every shift for the next year and a half oh my God breathe deep boys that's what they would yell what in
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1978 yep the hiss of compressed Airlines was quickly followed by a cloud of black
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dust filling the room obscuring hobbs' vision of all that surrounded him as he took his first breaths of very finely
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ground aluminum powder swirling rapidly from punctured canisters attached to the
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airlines his chest felt heavy his Exposed Skin and clothed were blackened a metallic taste formed in his mouth and
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he soon joined the choir of coughing and gasping arising from the others oh my God after 10 minutes the doors opened
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and Hobbs and his shift Partners were herded into the cage his first industrial medical treatment was over
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and he had to do that every day for a year and a half what like why why were they trying
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this what were they trying to get was going to stop uh silicosis what so yeah That's how little
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concerned they were by aluminum parter which is why they called the hospital and we're like no he needs to come back
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here nobody you're fine it was pure aluminum dust we're not worried about it thank you and the doctors were like and
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the doctors were like and even the doctors were like okay uh we're not like vibing with that aluminum
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dust thing like all of us kind of feel like it's probably going to become a problem in a few years but if we're even
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ignoring that if that's if he's not just being poisoned by it an iron lung he's still having an allergic reaction to it
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so like something's happening bad here and so yeah so they were like yeah no he can't come back like I'm sorry that's
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not something that can happen now Buddy Epson cuz of course you're like uh sue the studio absolutely my first thought
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well buddy abson said he didn't sue the studio because it was a very different time and all of the studio execs were in
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each other's Pockets which I'm sure it's not that different than now I was going
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to say but if he had sued MGM he would have been blacklisted by all other studos yeah because you're a difficult
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actor at that point he said quote you didn't just Sue lightly you didn't just Sue lightly Sue MGM because it was a
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power and there was a certain cohesion between the Moguls they all used to play poker together on Saturday nights and
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decide who were the good actors and who were the bad I mean look at Jee harlo MGM showed up to her husband's like time
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death scene and was like yeah we don't need to call the police we know what happened fine we're the we are the we
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are the investigators here yeah they were a power yeah absolutely so after a few weeks of trying to get him back from
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like the brink of death um to then paint poison on him again and have him do it again like that was their plan like
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let's put you back in the makeup they like we're making a [ __ ] movie guy yeah so finally they gave up because
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they were like we can't wait any longer and he was really really sick so they were like we can't wait for you so the
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head of the studio mvin looy decided to just fire Epson and he grabbed Jack a Haley to take over as part of the Tin
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prices now um I wrote in my notes now Jack Haley is a babe literally has nothing to do with anything else I'm
00:28:18
saying I literally just wrote it in my notes and I just realized that I love to write myself little notes that like
00:28:23
maybe I'll say that was for me but like I'm giving it to you guys I do that sometimes too and I wrote I just need to
00:28:30
clear that up for myself I literally wrote that next so whatever he also had the weirdest contract that wasn't very
00:28:37
weird then but sounds weird now what it said basically and this was something that like was like I said wasn't weird
00:28:43
then a lot of actors and actresses had this basically he could be forced to play any role in these Studios because
00:28:49
his contract basically put him on loan to them oh like they could just call him and be like we got a roll for you get in
00:28:56
here now you have no say in it oh wow so they called him up and they didn't offer
00:29:00
him the role they called him and said hey you're the Tin Man get in here you have no choice okay and so he had to and
00:29:06
he said quote the type of contract I had I had to respond to their commands I had
00:29:11
no choice I was under contract and they could lend me to any Studio it was the most awful work the most horrendous job
00:29:18
in the world with those cumbersome uniforms and the hours of makeup but I had no choice wow like you didn't know
00:29:24
saying it I love that he was like I [ __ ] hated it yeah he was like this sucked uh his costume was crazy heavy
00:29:31
part of it was like really metal so a t so hot like he said so hot he couldn't sit so he would lean against this thing
00:29:38
like it was like a board that was like specifically made for actresses and huge gowns and corses when they couldn't sit
00:29:45
down they would just lean against this to get any kind of relief oh my God so he would they had one there and he would
00:29:50
just lean on it and actually uh he would do this like between shots a lot like just to get some relief cuz he literally
00:29:57
couldn't sit his back must have been killing him and it was funny because uh the guy who played the Cowardly Lion
00:30:03
Bert he said that it pissed him off because he was his costume was so heavy we'll get into his costume don't worry
00:30:11
uh cuz his costume has some dark [ __ ] too but he said it used to piss him off because he also was like an insomniac in
00:30:18
real life so he said he would walk by Jack Haley just leaning against a board in full costume out colds between shots
00:30:25
like he was like that dude could fall asleep to a board and he's like he used to piss me off I was like [ __ ] that guy
00:30:31
like why can he sleep like that and I can't even sleep in my bed God that's hilarious I just like I'll link the uh
00:30:36
book I found on this it's really interesting there's a lot of like behind the scenes stuff yeah I love that but so
00:30:42
he just stepped in he wasn't told [ __ ] about why Buddy Epson was fired either cuz you just like in those days you went
00:30:49
in and people got fired all the time for like everything anything for gain at THM
00:30:54
exctly at thod so you go in and you didn't ask questions you just okay this is mine uh I guess luckily for him they
00:31:01
did change the way they did the makeup which shows that they definitely knew it was a person in the first place they
00:31:07
made it into an aluminum paste instead of a dust so he wouldn't be inhaling the dust but you're still inhaling aluminum
00:31:14
to some degree to some degree I'm sure he never had any problems after it afterwards but um they what they did was
00:31:20
they painted white grease paint on him like clown makeup yeah and then they paint they used the paste that had
00:31:26
aluminum dust in it to put that aluminum Sheen over him so it wasn't dusted on like with Roy Ray it was literally
00:31:33
dusted on so it was just like yeah and like all this it makes me think of like translucent powder that's exactly what
00:31:39
it is and you're just like yeah cuz it just gets like all over you but unfortunately this pace did get into his
00:31:45
eye and it caused a bad infection in his right eye and he was gone for 4 days while they had to save his sight oh my
00:31:52
God he was going to lose sight God did they like discard all aluminum based products after this no they didn't so
00:32:00
while all this is going on by the way Ray buer as the Scarecrow was also dealing with the horror of the makeup he
00:32:07
had to wear every day too cuz we're not in like the you know you know the uh Tom savini kind of
00:32:14
makeup here like we're not in like the 2000s like we know what we're doing we're in 1930s they're doing what they
00:32:20
can exactly and when you actually look at the scarecrow makeup in that you're like that's pretty good and the Tin Man
00:32:25
makeup is like tin's great the Scarecrow looks like a burlap sack like is his head but it was gnarly it's not like now
00:32:33
they have like you know the're really like they have certain brushes and stuff that they use and like substances that
00:32:39
can take the makeup off really Nic too and gently they would just tear that [ __ ] off yeah and what Ray buer the
00:32:47
Scarecrow said was quote I came home exhausted and had two burban old Fashions the drinks were therapeutic I
00:32:53
needed the alcohol to let me down and they had enough sugar to to kind of give me a lift so I could manage to eat my
00:32:59
dinner and fall into bed oh man that's how they felt at the end of these days now he remembers nothing else about this
00:33:06
like these months he said but quote going to bed and getting up and going to work and half the time I don't even
00:33:11
remember that so they were just like they were just Trucking through and when you hear what they did to keep Dorothy
00:33:18
on task oh yeah they the filming days were insane and they were in these like a lot of people like think that Dorothy
00:33:26
you know or Dorothy Judy Garland had it like easier in the costume sense which she did she did in the ense but she had
00:33:33
it bad in a different way yeah she had it like real [ __ ] bad they had yeah they had these gnarly costumes that they
00:33:40
were spending like literally like 13-hour days in they couldn't take them off cuz they weren't willing to redo the
00:33:46
makeup so if you broke for lunch you either tried to eat lunch in that makeup if you couldn't too bad oh my God the
00:33:51
lion costume I can't imagine being in that for like 13 hours a day oh yeah and what both um Ry and uh Jack Haley said
00:34:00
was quote The Mask wasn't porous so you couldn't sweat you couldn't breathe through your skin you don't realize how
00:34:06
much you breathe through your skin until you can't do it we felt like we were suffocating oh my God yeah he also
00:34:12
discovered after the last take of the film that the corners of his mouth and his chin were permanently lined from his
00:34:20
make yeah like they he said it took months and months for them to even fade like the corners of his were like had
00:34:27
like lines like a Joker makeup oh my God yeah and I know it's insane and Jack Haley said that his costume was quote no
00:34:35
less awful they pulled my hair back as flat as they could and put some sort of rubber skin over my head and glued it
00:34:42
down behind my ears they covered my face with cold cream then they took a white chalk like Salve and painted my face
00:34:49
white the idea of the white stuff was so was to close my pores so the silver paste that made me look like I was made
00:34:56
of tin wouldn't damage my skin they painted my face silver and glued on a silver nose they glued a strip of rubber
00:35:02
That was supposed to be tin under my chin and glued each individual rubber Ribbit onto my face then they painted my
00:35:08
lips black because painting my face silver made my mouth look too red oh my God coloring my lips black made my gums
00:35:14
and tongue duller I couldn't breathe through my face none of us could and Bert lar had it worst of all and then
00:35:21
like think of God only knows what they were using for glue like nowadays you use like liquid latex or gum and what
00:35:28
was the thing that you used for yeah but this was probably like glue on your skin
00:35:33
this probably [ __ ] like Gorilla Glue probably is like let me super glue this to your face and rip it off every day
00:35:38
well and when Haley says that Bert L had it worst of all Bert L played the Cowardly Lion yeah that was real lion
00:35:46
hide yeah you told me that the other day and I'm still not over it the Cowardly Lion's costume was made of real lion
00:35:52
skin real lion fur real lion hide it was 90 lb and and it smelled they said ew of
00:35:59
course it did yeah and they said it literally smelled and they was so heavy to walk around in so heavy to move in
00:36:05
they said that he would take it off at the end of the day and literally be dripping with sweat oh I a um yeah I
00:36:12
can't I I couldn't even talk I'm like yeah and then his face he had like a lot of prosis on his face like he had a lot
00:36:18
of you know the like mouth area it's supposed to look like a cat so they made it so his mouth couldn't open that wide
00:36:26
so he eat and for 13 hours a day he's just like sitting literally and they said he would literally have to eat
00:36:33
drink only like a milkshake or soup or something he could suck through a straw basically and he said that because if he
00:36:40
tried to chew he would break the prosis and they didn't want to redo it they be pissed so he literally couldn't eat and
00:36:46
he would get pissed I guess like at um Jack and Ray for like noming in between shots whenever they could because he
00:36:53
literally couldn't and every once in a while he would just like get pissed pissed and just like grab a sandwich and
00:36:58
just like bust through his makeup I don't blame him hangry is a real thing because these people all of these actors
00:37:06
were literally like starved on set like they were not given food like and if they were given food they were like told
00:37:12
that they were fat and like out of it's insane well then think about you're lugging around in 90 lb costume all day
00:37:18
where you literally like can't your body can't even cool itself down so you're sweating you're super hot and then you
00:37:26
can't eat I wonder how much weight that guy lost oh yeah oh I'm sure and they said that they had to use a ton of Ark
00:37:32
lighting uh from different Studios to get the effect of all of these sets and you know and so it is a billion degrees
00:37:41
and so they would literally between shots like run over to the doors and like open the doors and just get fresh
00:37:46
air and like breathe like all of those all the main four actors would literally they said would just be like gasping for
00:37:52
breath outside the door between shots like trying to get any kind of what a this is AAL torturous
00:37:59
experience but yeah so the Cowardly Lion had a tough pure just only based on the
00:38:05
fact that he's wearing real lion fur yeah [ __ ] that and then you can't eat it's like insane and that's 90 PBS
00:38:13
really wild so 13 hours a day now let's get on to some of the other makeup issues and some of the accidents that
00:38:20
happened on this set yeah so the Wicked Witch of the West was played by Margaret
00:38:24
Hamilton she's phenomenal we love we love her uh now let's talk about her makeup obviously if you've seen the
00:38:31
movie She's Green from head to toe yes uh green makeup back then was made with copper oxide it was made with copper
00:38:39
which is toxic yeah so the makeup people said that they had to be completely thorough when REM moving her makeup
00:38:45
every night before she left because if they left any it could literally be fatal like it could poison her how did
00:38:51
it not poison her throughout the 13-hour day don't know so they said quote every
00:38:56
every night when I was taking this was like a makeup person every night when I was taking off the witch's makeup I
00:39:01
would make sure that her face was thoroughly clean spotlessly clean before you because you don't take chances with
00:39:07
green so when she was burned spoiler alert I remember that I didn't want to take any chances I knew that makeup had
00:39:14
to be cleaned off so we're going to talk about that burn situation and how they just said even when she was burned we
00:39:22
had to clean the makeup off remember that oh no oh I don't want to talk about that so in the scene where the Wicked
00:39:29
Witch of the West leaves munchkin land in like a puff of smoke in the beginning um and there's like fire and smoke there
00:39:35
was an accident so it was December 23rd 1938 they had put a false piece of yellow brick road where she had to exit
00:39:43
Okay so she was to back up onto this and it was rigged with an elevator to bring
00:39:48
her down and out of the shot while she was lowering down the smoke and fire would come up and obscure her going down
00:39:54
now they practiced this at ton because she had to go backwards and hit the spot just right cuz if the elevator went down
00:40:02
and only one of her feet was on it she could like break her legs yeah so I guess the opening of that Elevator Shaft
00:40:09
there was really narrow too so Margaret Hamilton was instructed and practiced a million times to bring her elbows in
00:40:18
tight as soon as it started going down because if she didn't she would literally break her arms or her
00:40:23
shoulders and they were liter they weren't like let's figure out a way to make that not happen they were just like
00:40:28
do your best hold your elbows in cuz if not you're going to break both your shoulders like wing it [ __ ] like what
00:40:33
and there was also two guys waiting Below in case she broke her legs coming down they could carry her awesome so
00:40:40
those were the concern being so thoughtful guys and weirdly those are the concerns they're worried about her
00:40:44
breaking her arms or like her legs going but we have like whole ass fire going on
00:40:48
but weirdly nothing like that happened she didn't break a leg or an arm or anything legs and arms were fine in fact
00:40:54
the first time they did this whole shot it was was perfect went off without a hitch Victor Fleming the director was
00:41:00
like psyched he was like that was perfect but he said as always we're going to do one more shot just to have
00:41:06
it in the Canam just in case oh no that's when you know too that's when you know and this is when the [ __ ] hit the
00:41:13
fan so Margaret Hamilton actually recalled something uh that Billy Burke said she's the one who plays Glenda
00:41:19
Billy Burke okay um she actually said quote we were about 40 feet away from the fire and Miss Burke shook her head
00:41:26
and said oh I'm not going to stand here and I said why not miss Burke and she said oh my dear it's much too hot and I
00:41:33
thought you're 40 feet away but I'm going to be right in the middle of it yeah right she was like ah [ __ ] like
00:41:39
what so they had taken a break and when they came back to do this second shot just the insurance shot uh a bunch of
00:41:47
mishaps happened nothing that got anybody hurt at first but it was you know she wasn't hidden by the smoke the
00:41:55
fire happened too late the fire didn't go off at all it was just like everything was [ __ ] signs from the
00:42:00
universe saying you already got your shot we got the shot we got the shot Fleming let's just let it go now she
00:42:07
said quote and this is crazy that this is how much Victor Fleming the director did not give a [ __ ] about these people
00:42:15
so she said quote and then we got to we got the Full Tilt of Mr Fleming's impatience and anxiety in no uncertain
00:42:22
language he told us to pull ourselves together and get the shot done he said there's no excuse for this the minute
00:42:27
she gets her foot on I want and I said Mr Fleming I want to get both feet on and he said yes yes of course but I want
00:42:35
this shot done right and right now uhhuh well it went wrong the fire went way too
00:42:42
early while Margaret Hamilton was not under the stage yet so the broom got uh caught fire the broom that she was
00:42:49
holding and it caught her face on fire she said quote I felt warmth on my face that's all it's still un unbelievable
00:42:56
there was a whole lot of running and Holo and shouting and my hat and my broom were on
00:43:01
fire and I didn't even know it she was literally in shock of course she ended up with first-degree burns on her face
00:43:07
mainly her chin nose cheek and forehead her eyebrows and lashes were completely burned off oh my God she had second and
00:43:14
almost third degree burns on her hands that was the worst part the skin on her right hand was completely gone goodby it
00:43:22
was just raw flesh goodbye just raw flesh oh my now remember that makeup the toxic green makeup thing did it not like
00:43:30
burn into her skeleton at that point well when the Flesh on her hands literally peeled off from the Burns they
00:43:37
still had to remove the makeup and the only way to do that was alcohol no mhm so they had to use
00:43:44
alcohol to scrub the toxic Co copper oxide filled green makeup off the hands of Margaret Hamilton after she burned
00:43:52
the flesh clean off of them and her face you know how like when older people are
00:43:55
like like I used to have to walk backwards up a hill um to school inow everyone in The Wizard of Oz has the
00:44:01
right to say I did they can they're like I had my hands cleaned with alcohol after suffering third degree burns and
00:44:07
like peeling my skin back M she said it was the most horrific pain she's ever felt in her life she was out for 6 weeks
00:44:14
healing and I bet they were pissed oh they were on her ass in fact her doctor answered the phone once while they
00:44:20
called her at home and he was like you're she's an idiot if she doesn't sue your ass like you're not she'll get back
00:44:26
when she's good and ready like f good for him I love that and they were probably like yeah watch her they were
00:44:31
like [Music] mhm she said the only reason she didn't sue is because she wanted to work again
00:44:49
and she never would have if she was sued but so did they have to pause filming then they did yeah and um she did refuse
00:44:55
to work with fire ever again in the movie she was figure it out I'm not working with fire now in fact when she
00:45:01
got back to set she was due to do that skywriting scene that surrender Dorothy scene which there's a band called
00:45:08
surrender Dorothy I remember like from high school yeah great band name surrender Dorothy so good I want to call
00:45:14
it I can't but good job guys yeah seriously was good one she was doing the close-ups cuz there's close-up shots of
00:45:22
her like on the Broom like laughing and there's smoke behind her I'm like yelling at doroth yeah just just
00:45:26
screaming and screeching um but it required her to sit on a seal a steel saddle on her broom uhhuh and it was
00:45:32
raised up and then smoke would pour out of the back from a pipe under the saddle
00:45:37
oh God that's how they rig this whole thing God I'd be like I don't want to do that now she was told by everyone no
00:45:41
this is completely safe don't worry about it you're good like when have we ever put you in danger before you know
00:45:47
this going to explode under my Bona DK but they mentioned you know if you'd like we did make you a fireproof costume
00:45:55
and she was like like why why'd you make me a fireproof costume if this is completely safe and it's probably not
00:46:01
even fireproof I don't trust a single thing you say so she was like no so she said she wouldn't do it with the smoke
00:46:08
in the fire she's like no she said she would do the close-ups she was like do the close-ups of my face add [ __ ] in
00:46:13
afterwards and she was like I don't know what to tell you with everything else so
00:46:17
her stunt double Betty Dano said she would do the rest now she was a young girl at this point she was she was
00:46:24
probably trying to like up be like an up so she's like I'll do anything oh yeah and she's a stunt girl so she's like
00:46:30
she's done a few things like this and she's like oh yeah you got to be down for anything but Margaret actually told
00:46:35
her before she left set that day she was like I'm really worried for you I don't
00:46:38
want you to do it like I'm worried something's going to happen and you're going to get hurt and she was like I
00:46:42
need the money I don't want them to think I'm hard to work with mhm Well turns out they did two good takes on the
00:46:48
broomstick and the third time the pipe literally exploded under her I knew you were going to say that she said quote I
00:46:55
felt as though my scalp was coming off I guess that's because my hat and my black
00:46:59
wig were literally torn loose they found them days later at the top of the stage
00:47:04
oh my God the explosion blew me off the broomstick I managed to grab it with both hands and throw my leg over it I
00:47:11
hung upside down while the men handling the wires lowered the broomstick to the floor and put me face down on the stage
00:47:18
she was completely burned and her left leg had a giant hole in it where her dress had be
00:47:26
confused cuz it was burned into this giant hole in her leg what the [ __ ] I want to hear what's
00:47:34
even better I don't quote while I lay there on the floor waiting for the ambulance the Wardrobe woman came
00:47:39
running in and she said what did you do with the hat I have to turn it in you know I'd be like there's a [ __ ]
00:47:47
hole in my leg and I suggest you get the [ __ ] away from me unless you'd like a
00:47:53
matching one I was just lit a full flame you what I'd be like you can take the Hat when you find it and shove it right
00:48:02
up your like I am bruny the Fire Spirit from Frozen 2 right now and you are asking me where that hat is can you
00:48:10
you're laying first of all face cuz I can't even even have like the nicity to put you on your back like what and then
00:48:16
she's like I need to hand in that hat I need to turn that in you know it's like you're going to get in trouble today
00:48:21
okay you're going to have some explaining you know what you should site explosion for you didn't turn that in
00:48:26
person was exploded in the Hat I don't know hat hat literally exploded she had permanent scars on her legs from it I
00:48:34
guess and I guess later at some like some kind of Hollywood thing I don't know if it was like it was like years
00:48:40
later she ran into Victor Fleming and he tried to look under her skirt to see the
00:48:46
scars because he said he felt so bad what he tried to see her leg scars because he wanted to see how bad it was
00:48:55
I'd be like well my leg exploded so that's how bad it was how bad it was what the [ __ ] Victor yeah I'd be like
00:49:01
Victor get away from me you bad news get your bad news okay now Victor Fleming speaking of him I'll skip ahead to
00:49:09
something with him because please do he so he actually wrote and admitted to this incident he said quote when Judy
00:49:17
Garland couldn't stop breaking into giggles at the pseudo menacing advance of Bert L's Cowardly Lion so when they
00:49:24
first meet the Cowardly and he runs after Toto yeah and then she whacks him on the nose I guess she kept breaking
00:49:30
into Giggles cuz that's funny and I guess Bert L was really funny cuz he was like like just like coming at her so she
00:49:36
kept laughing I was going to say she was literally young and so he said quote he
00:49:42
escorted her off the yellow brick road and said now darling this is serious slapped her in the face then ordered her
00:49:49
now go in there and work and she said it yep happened and every everyone around the set said I saw it happen he
00:49:57
literally slapped a 17-year-old girl in the face and was like get back to work and stop laughing wow they weren't
00:50:04
kidding when they said things were different back then and then he I guess immediately felt bad so he started going
00:50:10
around to the crew and asking people in the crew to punch him in the face good and so they were all like no
00:50:17
cuz they're like I'm going to lose my job I don't know I it's a really weird way to handle that situation instead of
00:50:22
just like going to her and saying I feel really bad also how many of the crew you
00:50:27
know he hadn't met any of the crew so he's literally walking up to them and they're like hi I'm Joe Mr Fleming nice
00:50:33
to meet you like no I won't punch you in the face kiss please punch me and I guess Judy like saw this happening
00:50:40
because she immediately went back into the scene the scene you see in the movie is exactly what happened right after she
00:50:46
got slapped the first take she did was the one in the movie oh wow so the one you see in the movie is right after she
00:50:51
just got slapped in the face by Victor [ __ ] Fleming so abused it's really sad it's horrific what they did to her
00:50:58
she actually heard all this like that he was walking around like asking crew members to punch himself and I guess she
00:51:05
like overheard this and she went over to him and said cuz he was like you should
00:51:10
just punch me in the face to her to which I would say okie do and I guess she said I won't do that but I'll kiss
00:51:16
your nose and she did oh what a cutie what what they did Judy so wrong yeah they did her dirty they did her so wrong
00:51:24
yeah I would have punched Victor FL stream kiss like that's your time just K but like what a what a pure and
00:51:29
wholesome human what a strange way who was like led into such a shitty path of life oh yeah watching the movie ruined
00:51:38
me ru me I mean her real name is Francis gum huh yeah now speaking of Dorothy and
00:51:45
the horrific things that were done to her Judy Garland had the saddest life at 14 she was working on her first real
00:51:51
movie called pig skin parade it was about like a football coach horrible sure does and the head of the studio Lou
00:51:58
uh Louis B Meyer I don't know if it's Louis or Lewis but get ready for the Tweet about that my guy but uh he's a
00:52:06
piece of [ __ ] so I literally don't care what his real name is good um he would
00:52:10
call her quote fat little pig in pigtails wow so I don't care if it's Louis or Lou don't okay um [ __ ] said
00:52:18
that child let me tell you Mr glass house should have kept his rocks to himself go ahead and Google what he
00:52:23
looks like yeah name again excuse me Glass House Louis B mayor I think it's Lou um but yeah like go away Mr glass
00:52:33
house we're loading this is when she started exactly exactly like I'm s was there a mirror on set that day sir like
00:52:39
please now this is when she started being placed on these crazy diets of only like soup and cigarettes and all
00:52:46
that [ __ ] seriously now for Oz the studio exacts focused heavily on her weight and basically made her feel like
00:52:54
[ __ ] that she she even had boobs cuz she was 17 at this point she's like turning
00:52:58
into like that time when you're getting women have boobs and now Dorothy was supposed to be like a younger girl like
00:53:06
she was supposed to be like I think in the book she's supposed to be like 12 oh but I think in the movie they have her
00:53:11
more around like 15 so cast a 15-year-old if that's what you want well and so they were like we want you to
00:53:16
look younger than 17 so obviously she's not so they were literally documenting her food intake for months leading up to
00:53:23
shooting wow the Studio execs are documenting a young girl's food intake for months and that
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is like and obviously did but will affect you for the rest of your life 100% if you start eating like that this
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stuff was the reason she died the way she did and like developing that relationship with food is so dangerous
00:53:44
so dangerous so sad they also kept her on a steady pill schedule at this point as well they would force her to take
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what they called pet pills to stay awake AKA meth and downers to sleep and chill
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out so she would sleep for like 4 hours and then they would just like shake her awake Force some pet pills down her
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throat and make her work for like days straight before she would crash again oh my God now during filming of Oz she was
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on a diet of soup dozens of cigarettes a day and black coffee that's it Jesus can
00:54:14
you imagine her stomach and on top of it they made her wear crazy corsets under that dress and strapped down her chest
00:54:22
as tight as they could to make it so she didn't look like she had a chest wow so
00:54:26
she was and that's like against her will like and she's sitting there having to like and it's painful and she's having
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to like pretend to be this like peppy yay like iest young girl and yeah like I just can't imagine like condition her
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stomach was in with all those cigarettes coffee on like an empty stomach and then
00:54:46
pills yeah my God like can you imagine how sick she felt all the time no because I've had to go on like medicine
00:54:53
before where like I've like like I broke my pelvis and they had to put me on morphine and you like you couldn't eat
00:54:59
and I was the sickest I have ever been I can't imagine having to be in that state
00:55:05
while doing a movie where I was also just being treated like [ __ ] all the time yeah like when I had um whatever
00:55:10
pain pill they gave me after like the my first C-section I took one of them and I was
00:55:16
like so sick I was like I never taking that like w wow I could not handle that cuz I'm just usually I have like a
00:55:23
pretty good pain tolerance like good one and so I usually can get like if something hurts I'll take like a Adil
00:55:30
and it's like that usually is fine for me so but this I was like oh I just got cut open maybe I should take this oh my
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God never again I was like no this is not worth the sickness I feel we had to go back to the doctors when I was like
00:55:42
that and we were like yeah like I can't take this they had me take a half and even a half I was still like horrible I
00:55:48
see I was like they just gave me Motrin afterwards and I was like that's all I can do yeah but on top of all of this
00:55:54
with Judy Garland um some of the actors who played some of the um characters in Munchkin land they were like sexually
00:56:02
assaulting her on set good yeah um and her husband one of her husbands later said quote they would make Judy's life
00:56:09
miserable on set by putting their hands under her dress my God the men were more
00:56:13
than 40 years old at that point and she's 17 and she like is just turning 17 gross and she's like made to look like a
00:56:21
child in that like way younger what the [ __ ] guys just really messed up and I get I do um from what I read though I
00:56:29
guess the three guys like the the lion Tin Man and scarecrow were like super protective of her and they were all like
00:56:36
good dudes and none of them did anything like that and they were like really tight as like a little unit like a squad
00:56:42
yeah I love that so that's nice to know at least she had like she had the comfort of that some kind of protection
00:56:46
there but uh another thing that's really crazy about this is um if you've seen if
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you remember the poppy scene yeah where the wicked Witch of the West causes them
00:56:56
to fall asleep in the puppies puppies uh well lucky for them Glinda casts a counter spell during that that
00:57:03
causes snow to fall and they all wake up unfortunately Glenda was like kind of the maybe she was the bad guy here
00:57:11
because the snow that fell was 100% asbestos oh [Music] yeah [Music] now this was the 1930s and asbestos was
00:57:34
actually used in Christmas decorations then like fake snow what the [ __ ] but still this is wild to know now yes
00:57:41
especially when you watch it and you're just like oh that's just straight up a and it's all over their faces all over
00:57:47
everything literally like in their mouths like it's just like they're just like living in it and it's it's funny
00:57:54
because I read a one of the articles I read was on Atlas obscura and they put it best by saying The Wizard of Oz quote
00:58:00
literally douses its main characters in carcinogens correct that's literally what it does and when you watch the
00:58:07
scene you're just sitting there being like poison yeah all over your body you're all being doused in poison
00:58:16
wowos and a last little well last big thing that I'll touch upon which is like kind of the saddest thing to me um but
00:58:24
I'll leave you on well no I'm going to leave you on a sad note I'm sorry but uh I'll give you a couple things after this
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but um the woman who played Auntie M who Auntie M and Uncle Henry you're just like I love you I love you so much her
00:58:36
name was Clara bandic and she was famous she was like on Broadway and tons of movies yeah this was actually one of her
00:58:42
like smallest roles but like she took it cuz she just loved the movie and they loved having her name on it now she
00:58:50
after The Wizard of Oz was in like failing Health um it was like through the 1950s and she was going blind um she
00:58:57
was the victim of severely painful arthritis all over her body and they couldn't get it uncontrol back then just
00:59:03
real quick too this is like um a suicide trigger so just this is going to be a minute where I'm going to talk about it
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so April 15th 1962 she returned to her home after church she placed photos and letters and momentos from her career all
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around her she surrounded herself with newspaper clippings of her career her Awards movie credits she got dressed in
00:59:25
a royal blue gown she did her hair and she took sleeping pills and she laid on the couch with a gold blanket over her
00:59:32
and placed a plastic bag over her head oh wow she passed away that way and she left a note that said quote I am now
00:59:39
about to make the Great Adventure I cannot endure this in agonizing pain any longer it's all over my body NE neither
00:59:46
can I face the impending blindness I pray the Lord my soul to take amen oh apparently so sad she is buried very
00:59:54
close to Charlie grawin who played Uncle Henry her her husband like yards away like right next
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to each other is that just like a weird Co I don't know if it was like meant to but it's like a nice little like thought
01:00:08
how sad is that like she had this and she had this beautiful amazing career yeah can I say something weird
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it's like beautifully sad like the way that she did it I'm like I'm glad that she was able to like take control of the
01:00:20
way she wanted to do she was in control of it that was what she wanted to do but
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like sad that she had no other option like it's such a bummer that like medical stuff has come so far and it
01:00:30
hadn't come that far to relieve her of any of that pain that is really sad cuz I can't imagine being in chronic pain
01:00:35
and there's nothing no nothing Artis like just watching I obviously have never like gone through that but
01:00:42
watching people go through that I can't imagine yeah I really can't and to have it all over your body yeah I hope she
01:00:49
did have a great adventure excuse me I hope she's having a great she still having that Great Adventure She's Over
01:00:55
the Rainbow having a blast oh that one really yeah I know thanks I know I'm sorry do you have anything good in there
01:01:01
I guess this just shows you how close like the three main charact like the um Ray buer and Bert L and Jack Haley were
01:01:09
uh when I think Ray was the last one to pass away out of all of them um and when
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Jack Haley died he gave a eulogy at his funeral and he said Jack it's going to be a very Lon it's going to be very
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lonesome on the yellow brick road now really that's how they were and just to leave you on like not the saddest of
01:01:28
notes but more like wow Margaret Hamilton get it okay the Wicked Witch's lines most of them were cut and a lot of
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her scenes were cut from the final film because execs and focus groups said the performance was way too terrifying they
01:01:40
said kids literally couldn't handle it go off like so Margaret Hilton just scared the [ __ ] out she was like that's
01:01:46
what I was hired for so she's only on screen for like 15 minutes in the film but she had tons more oh that sucks it
01:01:54
hard like she was terrified I would I wish they had like uh did a version like where they could have released that
01:01:59
version I know I'm like can we have her deleted scen I see her scary ass scenes for real I wonder if they could ever
01:02:05
uncover them someday I know I wonder I think that there's way to do that who knows have they I'm not even sure I
01:02:10
should look I know let's find out but that is some of the Dark Secrets I found about the yellow the yellow Road the Y
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was about the yell BR road but about the wiard of Oz and how [ __ ] up the filming was wow that was really
01:02:22
entertaining question it definitely is cursed I feel I feel like I'm it's a lot I feel like I'm
01:02:30
never going to watch that movie the same with your children you watch it get like
01:02:33
and you're like w you watch it with a different you exploded you had to go to the hospital you almost went blind you
01:02:40
did this and for in the second half of the film I haven't looked to see this but Margaret Hamilton's wearing green
01:02:47
gloves instead of green makeup because she could they even when she came back it hadn't healed enough that she could
01:02:53
put makeup on so she had had to wear gloves on her hands oh wow and I want to look for it the next time I watch now
01:02:58
yeah cuz I guess she also said that like Victor Fleming grabbed her hand when she
01:03:02
came back and was like it looks good and she was like no that's like freshly healed skin like it's not it looks
01:03:08
pretty but it's thick enough to do anything and like that's how nasty W Victor filming sounds like the worst and
01:03:13
I wish that everybody he had asked to punch him in the face actually did punch him in the face I know that would have
01:03:17
been nice but yeah that's the dark [ __ ] about The Wizard of Oz oh and just like
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cuz I I people might be wondering uh because there's this big legend that one of the actors who played one of the
01:03:30
munchkins like hung themselves in a tree on set you can see it in the original part of the film that was completely
01:03:37
untrue what people were seeing was a bird that they had on set that like puts its wings up and kind of looks like it
01:03:43
and people have photoshopped like an actual hanging person in there it's not true it didn't happen or is that what
01:03:50
they want you to think yeah there's no I mean there's absolutely no evidence or no police was say we know all the other
01:03:56
horrific things about what went it would have leaked out but it's still in a very
01:04:00
enduring rumor because everything I was reading I every every time I would like peek over at comments of it like any uh
01:04:07
like you know little movies about it or books or anything uh there was always a million people being like well someone
01:04:14
hung themselves on the set like that is an enduring rumor people really believe that and I did I did for a while when
01:04:20
that R first came out I was young and I remember trying to see it I was like what is like and you could see the bird
01:04:27
and I remember being like is that but it's not it's a bir yeah I remember definitely hearing that I never looked
01:04:32
for it though yeah that didn't happen though at least not that that you can find anywhere well that's uh settling
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that it didn't happen yeah but everything else happened in this so thanks for that yeah it's a [ __ ] up
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movie but I thought it might you know it's a holiday week we're just gonna give you this weird weird off episode
01:04:51
that's still spooky but like in a different way yeah humans are weird they certainly are you know I really enjoyed
01:04:57
that that was that was a cool episode yeah I just wanted to do something a little different yeah I like that hope
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you guys dug it it's your show go off yeah it's my show man yeah well we hope that you keep
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listening and we hope you keep it weird but not s that you decide to direct a movie and do any of the things that were
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done on this movie set thank you and good night bye Follow The Yellow Brick Road Follow the yellow brick road or
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don't [Music]