This Paranormal Life - #211 Magnetic Man - The Real-life MAGNETO

Episode Date: May 4, 2021

Magnets. How do they work? 'Scientists' claim that there is nothing paranormal about the force of magnetism, but try explaining that to one man whose life was changed forever when he turned INTO a magnet.BUY OFFICIAL TPL MERCHwww.thisparanormallife.com/storePatreonpatreon.com/ThisParanormalLifeYouTubeyoutube.com/thisparanormallifeTwittertwitter.com/ThisParaLifeInstagraminstagram.com/thisparanormallifeSecret Society Facebook Pagewww.facebook.com/groups/thisparanormallife/Edited by Kami Tomanwww.tomanedits.comResearch by Amy GrisdaleIntro music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can trees talk to each other? Do I have x-ray vision or can everyone else see through Windows too? Answers to these questions and more on this episode of This Paranormal Life! Yo! And welcome back to This Paranormal Life. This is the weekly comedy podcast where every Tuesday we investigate a different paranormal tale, case or beast and get to the bottom of whether it's truly paranormal or not. Woo!

As always, you're joined by professional paranormal investigators, Kit Greer-Molvena, that's me, and this guy, Rory Powers, across from me. How are you today, Rory? I'm doing pretty good. I've been moving apartments for the last couple of days. So that's been a bit of a stressful process. couple of days. So that's been a bit of a stressful process. There is so much dust flying around my apartment that I'm actually wearing sunglasses right now while we record indoors because my eyes are so sore. Do the sunglasses have to have a camera in them? Next question. Okay. I just am a little bit on edge on the count of you're staring at me and

there's a camera with a red light on it. Yeah. Well, it's just kind of like, you know how in those movies where the mob boss is given a wire to wear to the meetings so that... I shouldn't be telling you this, actually. Never mind. It's for fun. Okay. So you started one track of logic there and then you kind of detoured off it very fast.

No, no, no. I just thought, you know. You said you're investigating me? We don't document enough of our lives behind the scenes. Tango is compromised. RP Tango is compromised. So I think it's important that we- You feel like you're just documenting me as well.

No, I just think we should just sit down. Should I get a pair of the glasses and document you also? I just think we should sit down, friend to friend, and just talk about some of the incriminating shit we've done over the years, buddy. I don't even know what you're talking about. Just maybe, let's just talk about some of the things that we've done that, you know, it'd be funny for our listeners to hear some of the illegal shit

that we've done over the years. Listen up, Tango is about to speak. You never talk like this. Tango is about to speak. Listen listen he's about to spill spill the beans so i think just i think just maybe say one illegal thing that you've never put your finger to your ear and talk to seemingly not me on the podcast before we've got the son of a bitch now okay that's tango has no clue what's about to happen i'm not gonna tell you incrimin incriminating s*** If you're clearly talking to some kind of sting operation with the police It's a bust! He knows! He knows!

Okay Tango is compromised! Me! Tango me! I eat a tooth filled with cyanide What's the point in having a code if you immediately just go off code and explain the code? Tango me! Me! I tell you. All right.

Tango is compromised. That means it's gone tits up. That's not what it means, by the way. It has a specific operational meaning. I don't know what's going on there, to be honest. That's between you guys and Rory, I guess. This week, we're going to dive right in to today's investigation. Listeners, we're in Bucharest, Romania, in 2004,

where 34-year-old Aurel Rylanu lived with his mother in a very poor neighborhood on the outskirts of the country's capital. Okay. Up until this fateful day, Aurel's life had been relatively normal. And even on this particular morning, he woke up and got himself

ready like usual. He was in the bathroom looking in the mirror when he accidentally pulled on the necklace round his neck, yanking it and breaking the chain. Oh crap! Aurel would later recall, I was wearing a fairly heavy necklace and the clasp broke. He bent down and picked up the broken clasp before looking in the mirror. To his astonishment, the heavy necklace was still exactly in place,

stuck to his neck. He moved around and tried to shake it off, but it wouldn't budge. I saw it in the mirror. It was open and yet still stuck to my neck. I became curious about what was happening and tried it with other objects. Spoons, books, lighters, even the TV set, which is kind of heavy. They all stuck to me. A TV set stuck to this son of a bitch. I hate when you make me read the line that you know I'm going to have problems with. That's such a f***ed up thing to say, Rory.

He stuck a TV set to his own body and it didn't and it stuck to him yeah like he's some sort of velcro man exactly like that Rory what are you doing if one day you wake up and you got a TV set stuck to your body

next question I refuse to answer this question what would I do if I woke up and my hands are made of cheese why don't we ask that well that's never happened and whereas this happened very much it happened uh this is a insane hypothetical question uh but a bit of scary one you know i do wear a necklace and it is made of rope for this very reason. I am too scared to one day wake up. It's pretty bizarre that you wear a noose around your neck. It really is.

I'm ready to go at any minute. Any second, they're going to kick down the door and find out all the incriminating shit I did before I changed my name to Rory. To Tango. So I have to have the noose ready at all times. But yeah, you do wear a necklace. This would be quite alarming if you tried to take it off or indeed it snapped and yet it wouldn't get off you. Yeah.

Aurel was completely baffled by this and went to see a doctor, hoping there was a reasonable explanation. You say you think you're magnetic? Haha, that's definitely a new one. Well, let's give you a good check over and see where we are. I'm going to have a listen to your heart. He produced his stethoscope and began listening...

Don't you put that anywhere near him! ...began listening to Arul's chest. But when the doctor tried to remove the stethoscope, it was stuck to Arul's skin. My god, I've never seen anything like this. Arl was confused, but also kind of tickled that he had this weird new power. He started testing it out, trying to see how heavy he could go. He found that focusing his mind on an object released a feeling of magnetic attraction. Wow. He started with cutlery, so he challenged himself to clear a whole table

with his magnetic skin. Soon, with practice, he was lifting 50 pounds without using his hands. Another TV, to be precise. That's a world record. And we're not talking about the power of a fridge magnet here. These huge objects would hold in place as if they were glued. Wow, so wait so is he doing this like through telepathy or is he like placing his hand

on the object and it's stuck to him and he just lifts his hand up how are these being controlled yeah it's a good question he's i believe placing these on his body using his hands right so he maybe put it to his bare chest or his back or something like that and it would stick there and he would remove his hands it would stay there wow isn't that crazy the mental bit seems to be over or the psychic bit i should say seems to be over his use of concentration the more he concentrates on it he seems to be able to increase the sticking power right right right crank up those electromagnets inside his body exactly it's almost like uh i don't know he's like a skunk or something and like if they get scared they can't help but release this like shit gas but for him if he gets excited uh metal starts flying from all over the world towards him you know something's

gone wrong when uh when somebody asks about your superpower you start by saying it's kind of like a skunk it's like all right say less say. They start trying to back away slowly until the metal belt on their waist pulls them forward. He became obsessed with making the most of his new gift. He studied himself, learning his limitations. His strongest body parts were his chest, neck, and forehead. It only worked on bare skin, but weirdly enough, he could actually pick up non-metal objects as well as metal ones. So he's just straight up sticky. He's a sticky guy. Yeah, I think he mentioned at the beginning he was trying books, which seems bizarre.

Yeah. So it is a bit of a Velcro man. Okay, okay. He decided to contact the most reputable newspaper in the newsstand the sun christ he wrote them a letter i mean this is a good call like you know he's contacting the sun after contacting every other legitimate news organization on earth right who wouldn't pick up the story but we've said it a million times in this show, for anyone who doesn't live in the UK, which is more than half of our listeners, The Sun is widely regarded as a piece of shit,

rag newspaper, which regularly prints awful racist, classist, terrible news. Yeah. It is, unfortunately, the most widely read paper in the UK. Is that true? Which really explains a lot about this country.

But one fun thing about them is that they are one of the only... Paranormal News enjoys bizarre news coverage in the UK. Most news organizations around the world do not consider the Paranormal News, except for the UK. We love it here. They will happily, on the front cover

of a newspaper put a ufo story or something like that oh yeah yeah we don't care it's great so our rule wrote them and included some photos demonstrating his abilities the uk journalists were so impressed that they brought him to london so they could see it with their own eyes the audience gathered to watch our rule walk up to the television and lean over it I love that they were like, no f***ing about with cutlery or f***ing fridge magnets. Get that 50-inch flat screen on your back. Let's see if these handguns stick to his palms. Let's see if these bullets are deflected by your skin.

When he turned around to face them, the TV was fixed firmly to his tummy. Like a Teletubby. Oh my God. He turned around and screamed. It stayed and Tinky Winky was born. It stayed in place as he walked around the room to the delight of the newspaper staff and the fbi agent just off screen said time for tubby bye-bye before producing a rifle

the red dot sight on tinky winky's little round head it stayed in place for several minutes before he prized the tv off his torso with great difficulty. And for his next trick, he did the same with a plank of wood full of nails. So they were trying to kill him. Jesus, yeah. No, I guess it was just a disused piece of wood. Becoming magnetic changed Aurel's life. He packed in his job at the hospital he worked at and became a kinotherapist, a movement therapist. the hospital he worked at, and became a kinotherapist, a movement therapist. He now uses his magnetism to help people recover from

accidents, although not really sure what connection is there. Like if there's a bullet in their body and he can just like draw it out? It comes out straight through their heart. Or does he just like go to the children's hospital with a TV

stuck to his belly and just kind of stand there while they all watch it? It's like, does this help? It's like, we really don't need you to pay you to do this. There is a TV stand just in the corner. Plus, anytime you blink, the channel changes. So it's just very, very unhelpful. But as proud as Aurel is of his powers,

he doesn't really shout about it from the rooftops. I tend to keep it a secret from people in my hometown because I'm afraid of being branded a freak in their eyes. It really shows you how X-Men was bang on. I mean, if Jesus himself came back the second coming and started performing miracles, he would be rounded up and paraded as a freak show. Society would not accept him. Yeah, but he didn't do too many i mean

all of his all of his powers had lessons behind them right wasn't that it you know so it's like hey you know i'm gonna i'm gonna feed all these people because i'm pretty i'm pretty strong why do you walk on water i don't remember actually that one that was about faith no that was about faith i believe it's like having trust in the lord you can walk on water i don't know what the fish one was actually there was one with the fisherman oh he stopped the storm didn't he yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so he kind of had lessons he wasn't just like yo check this out then he just like made a tornado right run through a town because he was like and that's nothing to me i can do way more but do you think that would that would work these days i mean i guess it works for like banksy isn't it he just like graffiti stuff vandalizes things and he's like

yeah but there's a deep message man and everyone's like you're a you're a millionaire for this right okay yeah you can get away with if you try and say there's a message it's like writing an essay at school if you can justify all your points you get an a so if i like broke into a casino and stole a bunch of chips and then when they like pin me down on the blackjack table twisting my arm i'm like it's a message it's a message about consumerism you're saying they should let me go because i'm jesus well it didn't happen the first time it's not gonna happen the second time i run out of the casino leaking fish and bread at the end of one interview he made a point to make it clear he was single and looking saying

the last serious relationship i had was four years ago i would very much like to get married the one thing i can't attract is the ladies i actually repel them they are the north to myself in terms of that's magnet lingo. You guys don't know about that shit, but I'm actually pretty big in the magnet world. I repel them magnetically and physically. Because I attract skunks. It's a bizarre side effect.

Yeah, pretty poetic. You can attract all these things, and yet you can't attract love. The one thing he can't stick to himself is a wedding ring. Someone else has to do that. But maybe chicks actually do dig pies, because it didn't take long for one woman to get in touch. That's right, Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan

contacted Aurore over Facebook for magnetism lessons. What? She said, I've always been interested in off-the-wall abilities, and this is a really interesting phenomenon. I'd love to find out more about it and try to pinpoint what causes these supernatural abilities. Okay. I don't know what to say about this.

I feel like you're not taking this seriously when it's factually correct. Lindsay Lohan tried to get superpowers over Facebook. Yep. I'm in. Her goal was to learn to lift metal objects with her mind. It was why... You know sometimes when actors fall off and you're like, oh, what happened there? Did they do a couple of shitty movies and maybe the industry forgot about them?

In her case, she got pretty, sidetracked pretty bad. Look, who hasn't contacted strangers on the internet before in an attempt to try and get magnetic powers? I can't say I haven't. I've sent money in envelopes across the world at the promise of being able to do much less things than magnetically stick objects to my body. What's like, I mean, it seems bad that you've done this more than once,

but what was the most recent one? To love. It was to feel love, to comprehend love. So you just sent a woman on the internet cash? It was a man, actually. Right. You insensitive ass. Okay, well, that's fine.

Did it work? No, it didn't work. Can't you tell fine did it work no it didn't work can't you tell by my cold exterior that it didn't work they couldn't teach you love they could well i don't know yet because i haven't received the return package i send the money they send the love then i like i'm not sure that's how love works i don't know i don't understand okay that's not at all you seem to have a grasp of how it worked when we were criticizing our role but now? I don't know. I don't understand. Okay, that's not at all. You seem to have a grasp of how it worked when we were criticizing Auro, but now you yourself don't seem to understand how love works at all. The first package they sent, it looks like a bag of Skittles.

I'm not going to lie. But, you know, to a cold-hearted guy like me, maybe everything looks like a bag of Skittles. So if I have a couple more of them, maybe I'll start to feel something. And you know what? I think actually maybe you could do with a couple of love nuggets yourself. So maybe don't stop judging me and have some of these. That's a bottle of Tylenol. Hmm? You're taking prescription medication, sir. How many of those did you just eat? Well, I do feel pretty loved up right now. So.

Too many then. Is that, how many am I supposed to have? Nine? Is nine too many? I think you paid an Indian doctor to write you prescriptions over the internet. I think you said, I want to feel love. And he said, I can numb your pain. I said, what's the difference? And sent him 20K in a bag.

No, you idiots, Rory uh that's not how love works love is why don't you tell me about love then asshole if you think love is uh love well of course you wouldn't know anything about love love is indescribable it's like i'm seeing a cherry blossom on a spring day that's pretty actually it's actually a lot like walking on a white sand beach. How is that love? With your dog. Right.

I guess you love the dog. You could have just said the dog. It doesn't have to be the white sand beach. It's like smelling a beautiful flower in the rain. Okay. I think you're just reciting things that you read in a poem. I'm going to take it from here, all right? Because I think I know a little bit more about love than you do, okay?

Love is everything. Love is a big old kiss on your forehead. Love is the fresh smell of a baby. Love is when you're hungover and you have a big gulp of pineapple juice and it's so cold that it makes you cry as you're sick in the toilet. No, love is way closer to like, you know when you really need to shit and you just take the perfect dump. Right, right, right. I'm starting to get this.

I'm starting to get this. Like love is when you're feeling ill and you do an enormous burp. And then all of a sudden your stomach feels a little bit better or or you're sick everywhere and it's all down your clothes and stuff but you're about to shower so you don't even care that's love right love is when you piss yourself but you don't have to worry about it because you brought a spare pair of trousers i'm starting to get this okay i understand it now yeah i think i gotta be honest i came down you pretty hard truth be told i didn't know what I was talking about, but I think we're getting there. We're getting close.

I think we're definitely getting close. Yeah. I do need to understand though, because I am married and my wife is getting increasingly impatient. I don't know how to talk to her. To the emotions. Yeah, I understand.

I understand. Love is like going to a playground and bursting a little kid's football right in front of his eyes and just feeling the power rush through your veins i think that's love that makes sense yeah see we're getting we know what love is what we're trying to say is lindsey lohan was clearly out there looking for love in all the right places she actually flew uh our role out to la obviously she's not going to go to Eastern Europe, apparently.

And we are yet to see progress of Lindsay Lohan's mind and metal bending abilities. Should he have been on a plane? Should he have been on a plane, sir? I don't think that's safe or right. If I have to turn my iPhone onto aeroplane mode every time it takes off, a man who is half magnet shouldn't be allowed to ride on a commercial airline.

Yeah. That seems dangerous. They should have put him in a shipping container and sent him via airmail. No, no, not airmail, boatmail. This did happen in... The boat crumples into a ball and sinks. Damn it!

Yeah. This did happen in 2007, though, so I'm not actually sure she ever successfully learned right okay rory what do you think of this uh weird story so far human magnets uh i like it i mean we did a story before about people who can affect computers by touch so why can't someone control metal with a touch interesting yeah we got that one uh was that the one you're talking about it was like a listener submission yes yeah yeah yeah where someone had the power oh the sliders yeah sliders that's what it was yeah yeah little bit of crossover

actually you're quite right it's the same kind of wheelhouse you know fascinatingly our rule is far from the first person to claim to be magnetic. This phenomenon has been reported at various times for generations, at least since the mid-1800s. For some, it's a natural ability, but others gain powers because of external forces. That was certainly the case for Leonid Tenkaev, a 76-year-old factory worker from Russia. So, like, some people just get it, like, naturally, and other people is like, your father was a man and your mother was a magnet? Well, that would still be natural. That would be pretty natural, actually, yeah. Don't get it twisted.

The marriage of man and magnet is not natural. Anything but. But if you're born that way, that would be natural. One year after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. Jesus! In 1986, Leonid started picking up bits of metal on his skin. One year after the accident, his dad f***ed a magnet. It's like, okay, so it had nothing to do with Chernobyl.

He went crazy from Chernobyl. Even stranger, his wife Galina, daughter Tanya, and grandson Koila all developed the ability at the same time. Wow. Three generations of the same family were affected by these magnet abilities. The family were examined by doctors in Russia and Japan, and their powers were deemed to be genuine. This was even reported in the Guardian newspaper.

This wasn't The Sun, by the way. The Guardian wrote this a few years back. A quote from Dr. Atassi Kono. There is absolutely no doubt that the objects stick as if their bodies were magnetic. So a few years later, 300 people with magnetic powers went to a conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. What? There's that many people? Yeah, apparently. It was a convention that many people? Yeah, apparently.

It was a convention for sticky people. I wonder if they stick to each other. They turn into one giant ball. Our researcher Amy combed through all the descriptions of what went on at this conference and compiled a short list of all the reported feats demonstrated on that fateful day. For one, a lady named Marinella Brankova

supported a 15-pound weight from her vertical palms. reported feats demonstrated on that fateful day for one a lady named marinella brankova supported a 15 pound weight from her vertical palms so if you imagine waving to someone like your hand up vertically yeah and she held a 15 pound weight to her hand not using her fingers obviously yeah of course i think i can do that using my hand i can hold shit that's heavy yeah so several magnet people could attract metal filings even while wearing thick rubber gloves oh shit that's heavy, yeah. Several magnet people could attract metal filings even while wearing thick rubber gloves. Ooh, now that's cool. Victoria Petrova, a Bulgarian woman,

entertained the crowd by making objects move around her body in time to music. What? Okay. One attendee would hold several items at once on his body and was able to drop specific things when the audience made requests. Right, right. So you can kind of turn off the magnets

at a certain part of his body. I like that one. I think that it definitely demonstrates something a bit more sophisticated, doesn't it? Yeah, we're seeing a certain level of control here. These people have got past that awkward, early superhero stage where it's like, you know, you're getting ready for school in the morning and you're like, all right, finish my cereal. Oh, the spoon, it's stuck. And you're

like, oh, I got to go get the bus. And then you're like banging against the side of the bus. You're like, oh, oh, you know, you're getting stuck to everything. You're dragged along Indiana Jones style along the ground. Yeah. These people have mastered it. They can turn it on and off at the flick of a mind switch. People that have studied magnetism in humans say the power is most intense in the upper body. Some can pick up objects of almost any kind, whereas others require a specific material. The ability is heavily associated with Eastern Europe, seemingly because of the radiation from Chernobyl and other events. But the fact that the phenomenon predates Chernobyl means we can't say there's a clear link

but it is weird that they all seem to come from kind of russia ukraine bulgaria romania i mean you said i mean the first case was so recent and you said there was a whole convention for it are there any videos of this being put into action oh yeah i'd love it if if a guy with a tv stuck to his chest walks into the studio and you just play a video on the TV. I'm like, the dude is enough. The guy here is enough. Got a MacBook stuck to his chest. I lift up my shirt and I'm a f***ing Teletubby now.

So behold, this is a video of five-year-old Erman from Kosovo. What the hell? Okay, they're placing objects on his chest and it says this kid is a human magnet. One of the things they put on him was a bowl. They really are sticking though. Yeah. Yeah.

This is weird. He's getting... Yeah, coins are being stuck to his body, but coins aren't magnetic, are they? No, I don't think so, not usually. Yeah, so there's a lot of things being stuck to him that I wouldn't say are magnetic. This is the thing, people's magnetic abilities

are definitely different from one person to the next. Wow, that kid does not look happy to be doing that at all. Yeah, that one's pretty bizarre but i think it illustrates well that um yeah these people it's not always metal you know i was kind of looking at his skin as well and thinking to myself you know if this was some like greasy little boy uh i'd be like they might have covered him in glue who knows but his skin is actually it appears to be completely clean and dry yeah yeah there's nothing that looks funny about it really i guess we didn't see what was on the other side of the

objects they're being placed very true can i do this do you have a metal spoon why i don't think i've ever tried to place metal against my chest before i mean i don't have a metal spoon in the studio right now, but let me get one. I don't know, man. Give it a go. I guess he's going to get me some spoons. I'm just going to go ahead and... Oh, shit, that's cold. Jesus. That little boy didn't complain.

Funny that. Rory's a magnet. I mean, he's a f***ing magnet. I don't know what to say, guys. It's lit. I i mean it is sticking to my chest oh my holy take a picture take a picture what were the chances look at that look at that what the hell i lost it damn it i had i did stop focusing my chi that's what it was you you really did have it for a minute.

It's not as hard as it looks. That's what I will say. I see you bounce a bowl on there. Yeah, it's no TV set. All right. And that coin isn't sticking, is it? I don't have any coins, but the spoons did work. All right.

Well, you know, thanks for that. Thanks for throwing a little spoon in there. What's the phrase? Are you okay? F***ing throwing a wrench in the... What's the phrase? Throwing a wrench in the cogs? The machine?

Throwing a wrench in the works? Throwing a spoon in the f***ing machine's cogs? You know, we have talked in the past about other people, allegedly, able to manipulate metal with their minds. Uri Geller, probably the most famous example. We did a whole two-part series on him. And he, if you remember, was able to bend spoons with his mind. Our researcher, Amy, has written here,

it's pretty impressive on first viewing. He can tickle a spoon and it flops over like it's made of butter. But that's just a trick. You could do it yourself at home today if you wanted all you have to do is bend a cheap swim back and forth and then it will eventually snap all right well if if you think it's so easy i mean i mean we actually gave it a go on the podcast it was actually pretty difficult i love that you're calling out the statements in your own case like i could not be in this room right now oh everyone thinks it's so easy everyone thinks it's so easy make a video of you bending a spoon

and send it to us uh no to be fair to amy we did give that case a double no yeah we did we did we did which is fair enough but all the stories we've heard it does beg the question is this true magnetism or anything approaching that kind of living breathing thing have the power of magnetic attraction it gets pretty interesting once you start looking into it because as we might have touched on in the past some animals do have this ability they can sense magnetic forces sharks eels birds can get around using using the Earth's magnetic field. Even bacteria called magneto... Even bacteria called magnetotactic bacteria can align themselves with the Earth's magnetic field. It's been suggested that these bacteria

may have even come from another planet, like Mars. They might have arrived to Earth on a meteorite. And maybe that's how some of the animals maybe even including us could perhaps sense electromagnetic things that's pretty cool that's a pretty cool theory i like that a lot i like uh i also like scientists just claiming things came weird things came from another planet yeah i'm a big fan of that it's a nice little cop out because i think the some people say that about octopus yeah isn't it or jellyfish one of them oh yeah another planet yeah i think

mushrooms as well in general because don't they always say mushrooms they're closer to animals than plants man really yeah because they're like they breathe oxygen like us i don't know some other things you could have a pet mushroom sure just walk him around oh no you're saying i could like feed him and teach him tricks and shit i could actually get him to work for me you're saying i could ride a mushroom down oxford street is what i'm hearing i could walk a shiitake down shibuya you're like i think what i'm saying is you could eat a mushroom that will make you think all of those things are happening but scientists did figure out that in a couple

of studies it is actually possible to turn a human into a magnet at least for a small amount of time if you listen i'm not a scientist if you electrocute someone not a lot just a little bit they will turn into an electromagnet is that true yep i've been zapped before and i haven't felt necessarily any powers from that before oh like what were you zapped by uh i've been electrocuted uh you know when you know when you get uh zapped when you touch metal things and you best believe that's love is that love that's love i love a railing yeah or the old i think whenever i was a kid you know you get you you're putting in a plug in a socket or something you get your finger caught in there and you zap yourself yeah i was trying to think what's the most what's the most elemental damage i've ever been dealt in my life before

sure like a pokemon like water damage yeah water damage fire damage and it is for sure fire damage i had a pretty bad fire damage accident where it was uh it was a pancake tuesday oh and we were uh you know having fun as a family all together flipping pancakes and it was my turn to flip the pancakes awesome can't wait i've been flipping these guys for a while everyone had done some great flips i thought it was my turn to flip the pancakes. Awesome. Can't wait. I've been flipping these guys for a while. Everyone had done some great flips. I thought it was my turn. I was going to blow everyone out of the water.

Maybe do a triple flip, something that's never been done before. I've been cooking all day, so my hands were a little oily. So when I went to flip the pan, the pan slipped out of my grasp, and the pan and pancake both flew into the air and started rotating instinct kicked in peter parker instinct yeah my brain went complete autopilot mode and uh before the pan could hit the tiles i grabbed it with both hands from the bottom which was basically searing metal uh uh ign my hands, igniting my flesh. And it was awful.

I completely burned the insides of both of my palms. No fingerprints for years. Right, that's why I haven't been caught doing any of my various crimes. That's like a f***ing Joker origin story. I leave a trail of syrup behind me. It's my calling card. The pancake man oil because you've been cooking all day um the burns were so bad that uh you know there were

those burns where you have to keep them in cool water and the second you take them out it's like yeah warm warm hot hot fire burning again put them back in in again. So I had to sleep in my bed. I had to sleep on my floor, sprawled out like Jesus on the cross with my hands in two ice buckets of water the entire night. And of course you pissed yourself because that's how it works.

I pissed myself before the pancakes hit the sky, my friend. So there was no more piss to be pissed. Yeah, all the liquid in my body completely evaporated as soon as I grabbed those pans. I'm just imagining an Olaf from Frozen style shriek as you catch the pan. Some pancakes are worth melting for. They really are. That was probably the most elemental damage

i've ever been dealt that was a critical hit that a flamethrower but in terms of electric i'm not sure i've definitely been zapped before just doing like um work in a home before like putting in a light bulb or something or as you said yeah plugging something in yeah i mean i always say i don't electricity is magic to me i don't understand how it works you know the weather's been heating up here i've been wearing my birkenstocks and wearing them right now he's got these rubber uh sandals on um just because i like to be lazy around the house and um i don't know how it works but because they're rubber you know it just if i touch anything or anyone i will shock. I thought you wouldn't because you're...

Oh, because it's not flowing out of you. I think that's it. I think I'm building up static throughout my day. And then whenever I touch things, because I'm not getting grounded, I zap things. This is the equivalent of Sonic the Hedgehog spinning his little legs. That actually makes it sound pretty cool.

He takes off, yeah. So if you touch me now, would you zap me? I don't know. There's only one way to find out. Oh, Jesus! You have to sleep with your hands in two f***ing pails of water. I'm pretty upset that every superhero story, you know, it's about someone befalling hardship and then being rewarded by powers.

You know, they go through something dramatic. That makes them a stronger person. Right. That's kind of the hero's journey of it all. All of my hardships have impacted me harshly. Sure. You know, if I, uh, if I try a little too hard on a skateboard, I bust my knee. Now I've got a bum knee. I don't end up with a super knee that can squat 200 pounds. I just have a bad knee now yeah if i go skiing and i accidentally try and go down one of the the bunny hill slopes and roll backwards down a black diamond uh i hit a tree i have a metal rod now for a spine you're more metal than man does that make me iron man in a way? Yes.

But in only the worst possible ways. It's true. I'm still waiting for the big payout. You know. Because I've had a hard life and I need the, where's the powers, you know? I got a busy week with work. I've taken on far too much to possibly deal with. You know, my reward for getting through that hellish week of stress. An anxiety disorder i have to go to therapy not because i broke my brain yeah that didn't happen to peter parker

he didn't have to confront his fear of spiders he just became jacked why didn't i wake up with f***ing flapjack hands or pancake biceps or something like that you know that's my origin story i burnt my hand on a pancake flipping pan imagine you blowing your nose the next morning and syrup comes out that's my dream that's my dream i want things to stick to me via syrup that's where you messed up though you you should have had syrup on those sticky paws instead of uh oil maybe if i hadn't differently yeah maybe if i hadn't put them in the water things would have been differently i would have had like flame hands by the morning those were the powers starting but i was like i was resistant to the change you're so right put them in the water put them in the water people

say you know what doesn't kill you will make you stronger. That's just not true. It's not true. Don't try, kids. And if you are flipping pancakes, hold on for dear life. They backflip with the pan. That would be pretty dope, actually. I'd like to see that. A backflip holding the pancake pan. That would be like a good TikTok, like being like, oh, you want to see this one? Here we go.

One, two, three. Then they do a backflip with the, keep the pancake in the pan the whole time. That's pretty cool, actually. I might try that. Let's actually fire up the grill. Do you remember your most elemental damage ever dealt? I think. I almost drowned once as well.

That was pretty bad, but sorry. I feel like you just want to tell your story. That's fine, that's fine. Okay, no. I mean, we pretty much got a note. I was flipping pancakes in a canoe. Yeah, all right. And things actually went south pretty fast.

Because I think the most elemental damage I've ever taken was probably the last time we went surfing. And you see those kids out there learn to surf. It all looks harmless. It all looks fine. If you go down on a three foot wave in the wrong way.

Yeah, it's pretty, pretty grisly. I almost drowned. There was bloodshed for sure. mean you you also uh broke your wrist recently skateboarding you could maybe count out as ground rock damage yeah earth damage earth damage counts what else is there wind i've been blown about a bit but not not painfully so, what else would there be? Space damage? Yeah, we're getting a bit fantasy here. So Rory, we're basically at the end of our journey of investigating the people throughout the ages that have claimed to be magnetic people, magnetic men.

What are you thinking in all of this? Do you think this is a legit paranormal phenomenon where some people are magnetic or is this some kind of trickery afoot? I like this story. I like the idea behind it. I especially love that Lindsay Lohan tried to get involved and turn magnetic herself. You know, it's it's one of those things where sometimes you become an A-list celebrity and the glitz and the glam of Hollywood just isn't enough to satisfy you anymore. Um, and you need to become magnetic, you know, it's like, uh, like drug users, you know, they say it starts small with harmless drugs and then, and then that's not, they can't get high enough off that anymore. Right. They need cocaine. And then after cocaine, you want a little

crystal meth baby. And then eventually that's not enough and you need to become magnetic that's the ultimate high yeah exactly stick in a tv to your tum tum so i like that i like bringing in that element to the story um for some case for a case that's so well documented uh i was expecting a little bit more physical evidence, even in terms of scientific explanations. Because there is kind of the explanation that you said where it's like, okay, maybe it's linked to radiation because a lot of these people came from the same location. But it's weird that that hasn't been more finely defined.

You know, you said there's almost 300 people that came forward that can do it. How is there no similarities between those people that can better explain the phenomenon? I would agree. I think that's a red flag in this all. And there is a number of red flags. You know, I think this is an under-investigated topic.

I think we did have those Russian and Japanese doctors who looked into this and claimed that at least a couple of people they looked at were actually magnetic. So some scientists somewhere believe this. But I think some of the shade that's been cast on this is due to maybe some bad actors in the scene. Right, right, right, right. So I'll finish by showing you one of the more famous clips of a magnetic man on TV.

You might remember a gent we've talked about in the past, specifically, funnily enough, in the Uri Geller episodes, James Randi. And he kind of made it his life's mission to disprove all things paranormal, wherever he could. Bit of a party pooper in that way. Oh, I do remember this son of a bitch.

Yeah. Wasn't he really rude? To Uri Geller? And in this video, James Randi is being shown people who can stick items to themselves and he's got a little trick up his sleeve i'm going to ask the challengers to put the powder on their hands and on their chests and then make the object stay there.

So at this point, James Randi is not applying baby powder to the chests of the guys who've been sticking things to themselves. As you can see, he's having tremendous difficulty sticking things to himself. Yeah. He's giving it a good try as well. Busted. Wrecked. 수고하셨습니다. talcum powder is not going to interfere with electricity or any other kind of energy one thing is certain it's not psychic power wow what a damning voice clip so after the conclusions uh what do you think bud paranormal uh i don't know if paranormal abilities can all be rendered disabled by baby powder.

I think that's maybe a bit of a red flag. Okay. Look, I can see. To be honest, when I started working on this one, I was certain this was going to be a double yes. You had me there for a while. Because there appears to be, like I said, scientists who have said, look, I think this is real. These people do seem to be magnetic. They've done some amount of tests and we're happy.

They're magnetic. But it gets so muddied by seemingly a large amount of people who just are sticky. They've been eating pancakes and they got the syrup over on their chests and they're claiming to be paranormal. It's like all these stories. and they're claiming to be paranormal. It's like all these stories. You know, we have no idea how many genuine UFO encounters there are out there

because the waters are so muddied by the people making false claims, being drunk off their ass when it happened. Yeah. You know, they make the whole thing a bit of a laughingstock, which we don't appreciate.

All right. I know we said this is a comedy paranormal podcast, but I'm getting pretty pissed off. I'm getting fired up as well. And I don't appreciate, all right? I know we said this is a comedy paranormal podcast, but- I'm getting pretty pissed off. I'm getting fired up as well. And I don't appreciate actually anyone making light of the situation. It's rude and I don't appreciate it.

So stop, if you laughed once during this podcast, stop listening. You did try to stick a spoon to yourself earlier. Well, it worked as well. If the thought of me as a child, completely butt naked with my hands in two ice buckets of water crying as my mother fed me pancakes if that made you chuckle in the slightest turn off the podcast because you're not we're not worthy you're not worthy you're a joke you're a joke to us yeah

if the thought of me trying to flip an already pretty pathetic looking pancake into the sky and the pan slipping out of my greasy little weak nerd fingers and me screaming oh no my cake as it soared through the air if that makes you laugh turn off the podcast because you don't deserve to be here if the idea of me surfing in um borderline six inch high waves, along with children who were who were being graceful and beautiful at doing this, of me tumbling and flailing and crying and screaming when I got the tiniest bit of saltwater in my eyes and having to be rescued by two six-year-olds. If that's remotely funny to you, turn off the podcast. Turn it off right now because we didn't come here for laughs. We came here to investigate metal men, which is a laughing matter. It is a double no, by the way.

It is absolutely a double no, for sure. Just to be clear. It's nonsense. Shit. It was close, though, wasn't it, guys? Yeah. You had me for a second there, Mulvanna. For the...

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