Larry King Live (CNN) - 2002-03-28 - Ripley's Believe It or Not

Name: Larry King Live (CNN) - 2002-03-28 - Ripley's Believe It or Not
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[0:00] They agreed and uh this is what we have

[0:03] now.

[0:03] >> The appeal of Ripleys which was

[0:04] originally a comic strip, right? And

[0:06] then there were even museums. Ripley was

[0:08] what?

[0:09] >> Well, there still are. There's about 22

[0:10] museums I think throughout the country

[0:12] uh worldwide. Uh the appeal is that

[0:14] everybody everybody likes to look at

[0:16] someone who's different and ask the

[0:18] question why why why have you done this?

[0:20] Why do you have your hair long like

[0:22] that? Why do you uh look like this? Or

[0:24] why do you act this way? And it's really

[0:26] the fascination uh with other people.

[0:28] It's sideshow circus though, isn't it?

[0:30] >> Well, it started off uh Robert Ripley

[0:33] used to say uh high class freaks is what

[0:35] he used to say. Uh and then it it's it's

[0:37] it's absolutely evolved into what we

[0:39] have today, which is a whole different

[0:41] ball of wax. What we do today is we

[0:43] certainly don't classify any of our

[0:44] guests as freaks. We say uh this person

[0:47] does this and this is why they do it and

[0:49] this is why it's important to them. And

[0:50] here they are.

[0:50] >> And here they are.

[0:51] >> We give an example of this. We're going

[0:52] to show you a clip of it might be a

[0:54] typical example of what might occur on a

[0:57] Ripley's Believe It or Not. Watch.

[1:01] When this man hits the streets, people

[1:04] can't help but stare. [music] Because

[1:06] though he was born and bred in Los

[1:07] Angeles, California, he's so obsessed

[1:10] with world cultures, he's painfully

[1:13] transformed his own physical appearance.

[1:15] Believe it or not, even stretching his

[1:18] lower lip with a tribal lip plate.

[1:21] >> [music]

[1:21] >> I'm the only