What's more unlucky than having your car burst into flames?
- Having it happen twice. - Let's talk about that.
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- Good Mythical Morning. (sighs) - Today we're gonna talk about bad luck.
And I just wanna say right off the bat, we wish you the best of luck...
- We do. Best of luck to you. - …in life today, and for the rest
of your life. Typically, when one speaks of bad luck, you start to think about
things like getting a flat tire on the way into a job interview...
- (groaning) - …or stepping in cat barf, barefoot.
- Oh, has that happened to you? - Well...
- Has that happened to anyone? - …it was very un--
- Of course it happens to people... - Yeah.
- …if they're unlucky. - It's probably happening to somebody
- right now, statistically speaking. - Ooh! Sorry about that.
Somebody watching this show. Oh, sorry for that.
But today, we are taking unluckiness to a whole new level. In fact, to a total
- extreme. Two extremes. - Right. I have done some research on
- the world's unluckiest man. - Oh yeah.
Some interesting things happened to him that will make you thankful that you're
- not him. - But I don't wanna give short shrift
- to the ladies. - Don't shrift it up. Don't shrift it.
So first I wanna share with you who I believe to be the world's most
- unluckiest woman. - The most unluckiest?
- Most unluckiest! - Wow, that's really unlucky 'cause it's
- also incorrect grammar. So incorrect. - (laughing)
(Link) Jeanne Rogers of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. She has been quoted, Rhett,
as saying, "Dying doesn't scare me, but living scares the crap out of me."
- And here's why. - Okay.
She's gotten a whole litany of stuff here that makes her the most unluckiest woman.
For starters, when she was 18, she and a friend were taking pictures on a cruise
ship off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
- Oh, that's lucky. Got to take a cruise! - "Marther's."
Then it takes a turn when she starts backing up to get in the photo, and
- Jeanne falls off the back of the ship. - Oh, that's bad.
- And if it couldn't get worse, it did. - (quiet laughing)
- It did get worse so it did. - Okay.
- She's unlucky, so it got worse. - Yes. I'm assuming so.
Her friend is running to get help, falls, hits her head, faints, and
can no longer get help, so the ship just goes on. Finally, she comes to,
and then she realizes, "Oh yeah, that's what just happened," so she goes and
finds help. They have to turn the whole ship around, and there she is, just
- waitin' in the water. (stammering) - Jeanne.
- Just waiting. Unlucky Jeanne. - Waitin' for her picture to be taken.
Years later, she was selling cosmetics door to door with her son. Let's pause
- there. Think about that. Okay, move on. - (laughing)
- She noticed a funny bird was flying by. - Ah! Li'l funny bird!
The funny bird landed on her head. It turned out to be a bat, and the bat was
- attacking her. - A bat's a very funny bird.
- (laughing) [inaudible] - So funny, it's a bat.
It began peeing on her head, biting her head, and attaching itself to her scalp.
- Wow, this bat was… crazy. - She continued to go door to door,
- but this time… - Bat-urine crazy.
She was no longer selling cosmetics. She was now just trying to get help, but
people were so freaked out, they wouldn't come to the door. She finally went to a
- vet, who smoked the bat out of her hair. - Oh, the vet just didn't smoke him,
- so like (inhales) - (laughing)
- "Wow, you got a bat in your hair." - (laughing)
- She smoked it out. I get it. - Yeah, the vet smoked it out.
- That's a thing that you can do? - Not to mention...
- I'm going to the vet. - …she's been struck by lightning twice.
- She's been mugged… - Hold on. Don't just skip over that.
- Don't give that short shrift. - No, she's...
She's been struck by lightning? I mean, the bat in the hair: okay, that can
- happen to anybody. Twice?! - She's ben, uh...
The odds of that are 1 in 700,000, for it to happen once.
- She's been mugged, meh. - Unlikely.
- She's been shot… - "Meh, she's been mugged."
She's been shot at while on horseback, and she's fallen into an open manhole.
(laughing) Oh, gosh. That's like… No. No, she hasn't.
On a happier note, she accidentally pantsed Mr. Rogers at the pool.
- Huh? - This is a true story, you know...
- (Rhett) THE Mr. Rogers? - (Link) Mr. Rogers, THE Mr. Rogers...
- (Rhett) My neighbor? - They have the same last name.
(stammering) The Rogers family was paged. They both get out of the pool.
Somehow, she grabs onto THE Mr. Rogers' drawstring and pulls his pants down
- at the pool. How unlucky can you get?! - He probably had, like, long johns
- under his bathing suit, though. Right? - 'Cause he's so wholesome.
'Cause he's Mr. Rogers. He had a speedo at least under there.
So then, he proceeds to beat the crap out of her.
(laughing) The one flaw Mr. Roger's character...
- No. - He sicced a bat on her.
No, he wasn't that upset. He just pulled his pants back up.
- Yeah. "Oh my!" (laughing) - She says, "Life's a trip.
- Don't go anywhere." So that's it. - That's the world's unluckiest woman.
That makes her the mo-- So can the unluckiest man top that?
- Is my question. - I don't know. You be the judge, Mythical
Beasts! This guy, Frano Selak. He's a 95-year-old music teacher from Croatia.
He's basically living in a Final Destination movie.
- What do you mean? - Well, in 1962, he was traveling by
train from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik when the train suddenly derailed and fell into
an icy river. So he's on a train that falls into an icy river.
- [inaudible] - Pretty unlucky. 17 people drown,
but not Frano. He manages to swim to safety, and he only ends up with a
- broken arm. So that's kinda lucky, - Wow!
unlucky all at the same time. Next year, 1963, not to be outdone, he decides he's
- gonna take his first airplane flight. - Oh, no.
This would turn out to be his last airplane flight. So the plane starts
- going down in the middle of the flight. - Because he's on it.
And the door flies open and sucks him out. So it's like one of those...
It's like a movie. This only happens in the movie, that you get sucked out of
- the plane. - Did he land in an icy river again?
- He landed in a haystack. - Oh.
I'm not making this up. He landed in a haystack and survived.
Everyone else on board, all 19 people, did not land in a haystack.
- They died? - They stayed in the plane and died.
- He got sucked out and lived? - Yeah. Link, I'm only gettin' started
with this guy. There's a 1 in 4 million chance that you'll be in a plane crash.
I don't know what the chances are you'll be in a plane crash, be sucked out, and
then land in a haystack. No one has done the research on that.
After the train and the icy river thing, too.
In 1966, that's a few years later, he's in a bus. He's like,
(Russian-like accent) "I'm not going in this plane any more, heh. I go on the
plane with no wings: the bus."
- (laughing) Transportation… - (laughing)
Transportation does not work for this guy.
So, this again, but he cannot avoid an icy river, because it skids off the road into
- (through laughter) an icy river! - What?!
He swims to the shore, mostly unharmed. 1970...
- Still livin'. Still tickin'. - He's like (same accent) "I don't ride
- my bus now. I ride my car." His own car. - 'Kay.
So he's in his own car. Do you like when I do an impersonation of him?
- Do you like that? Tell me to stop... - I love it.
- …if you don't like it. - It's accurate. It's accurate.
His car spontaneously bursts into flames, because his fuel tank explodes.
- That happens every day. - He narrowly escapes.
(same accent) "But he decides to -- I will keep to ride the car." I have to get
around somehow. 1973: car fire again. This time...
the faulty fuel pump causes flames to shoot out of the air vents.
This is like having a blowtorch. You turn on the heat, and it's blowtorch.
- (laughing) Yeah. - Singes most of hair off.
- How much hair did he have? - Uh, I don't know. I haven't seen the
- pre-pirctures, Link. - Oh.
But listen. There's a quiet period for 22 years.
- Oh, just a ticking time bomb. - 22 years later in 1995, he's not --
(same accent) "I only walk. I walk everywhere I go."
- (laughing) - He gets run over by a bus.
- What?! - (laughing)
- He got run over by a bus?! - Gets run over by a bus. Again,
- walks away with just cuts and bruises. - Was the bust full of icy river water?
No, it did not knock him into an icy river. 1996, the very next year, he's
driving. (same accent) "I drive again. Why not?!" He's driving again through the
mountains, and he runs headfirst towards a giant truck. He swerves to avoid it,
sending the car off of a 300-foot cliff. Now, you gotta think this is it.
Frano -- he's going to die now. What can he do?
(same accent) "Well, I jump out of car into tree."
- What? - He jumps out of the car --
like a freaking Tom Cruise...
- like Mission Impossible. - He's like a stuntman.
Jumps out of the car, lands in the tree, hangs out in the tree until rescuers
show up. And then everything, at the age of 76, everything takes a turn in a
new direction, because he starts to think to himself -- I'm sort of interpolating
here -- you know what, I may be the luckiest man in the world...
- That's what I'm thinking! - …'cause I've survived all these things.
That's what I'm thinking. He's simultaneously the unluckiest and
- luckiest at the same time. - And he proves it. He goes and buys
- a lottery ticket, and wins - (Link) No...
one m-m-m-m-million dollars! Or what is -- rubles?
I don't know how many rubles that is. I don't even know if that's the correct
- term. By anyway… he wins the lottery! - I can't...
- I can't even believe this. - It seems like a movie, but
apparently it's all true. He gives away most of the money. He ends up finding
love with his most recent wife, his fifth wife. Fifth time's the charm.
- Did he get lucky? - And he gets… probably with all of them.
- (laughing) - (laughing) Uh, and then...
he gets featured in an amazing Doritos commercial, recounting his story...
- (Link) Okay. - …and all the things that have happened
to him. So now he's even getting royalty. You know, he's gettin' that commercial
- money. No, he's not royalty, - He's now royalty?
he's just making that… residuals is the word I was looking for.
- Wow! - (same accent) "Residuals. Now I make
- residuals." - And what's his attitude like?
- He's just, you know what, he's just like, - He's lovin' it.
"Throw me in an icy river. I don't care. I've married five women. I've almost
- died a million times." - He needs to be a stuntman in movies.
This is amazing. Let us know the most unluckiest thing thats's ever happened
to you, but just keep it positive in the comments.
- And thanks for liking and commenting. - You know what time it is.
- I'm Annabelle. - And I'm Olivia.
- And we're in - (both) Nashville, Tennessee.
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Click through to Good Mythical More. We share our auto accident brushes with
- unluckiness. - "Shout out to toothpicks."
- Shout out to you, toothpicks. - ♪ (solemn trumpet) ♪
(Rhett) More Americans choke on you than any other object.
(Link) But you're so essential that you're included in some Swiss Army knives.
(Rhett) Archeological evidence shows that Neanderthals used you.
(Link) And when you're lackadaisically hanging from some dude's lip, you
- automatically make him look cool. - If it's 1956.
(unison) Toothpicks.
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