December 31, 2025 • 39 mins
Jerry & Amanda talk about the truly strange case of a Frenchman from the 1700s named Tarrare who couldn't get enough to eat.
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Speaker 1 (00:33):
Hey guys, Welcome to episode eight of Wickedly Weird with
Jerry and Amanda. I'm Jerry, I'm Amanda. Amanda's been a
couple of weeks since we recorded there.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It has been lots of things have been going on.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Well, do share what happened.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I had to spend a lot of money to fix
my car. That happened.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That's never good.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
No, I thought the brakes were on my car and
that was not the case. Like the hubs or something
thing went on it. I don't know what hubs are.
The hubs went, the hubs went, Yeah, hubs went. I
don't know. I know it was a five hundred dollars situation.
That was more than that. And then I had to
get like my shocks and struts done too. It was
like seventeen hundred dollars and all was sudden done.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh nice, I want to throw up in my mind.
So so the hubs, like the calipers, the I.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Don't know what a hub is. I just know that
it was lots of money they have.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
They have a hub assembly, which is you know, it's
a bunch of different stuff in there and it's possibly
you know, but.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, she said a hub and I was like, I
don't know, just fix what you need to fix because
I needed Behagle, so get her done and then let's see.
Then there was a crackhead. I think it was a
crackhead roaming my parking lots. I was like, I was
out and I don't know, I had like I was
like hosing something down, and he scared me because he
came around like a bush with his little Chihuahua, and
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I was like, oh, He's like, I'm sorry to mean
to scare you.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
And like.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
What did I think to say was are you lost?
I'm like, are you lost? And he just kind of
looked at me, and then I went, I see you,
and that's like all I said. And then I went
back in the house like a weirdo, like.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, I'm sure he was probably more freaked out by you,
and he probably wouldn't a crack head. He was probably
just walking his dog.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
No, he was. He looked a little crackheady. He looked
a little sauff. So it's just kind of.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Like, so it's just you sound like you sound like
the type of people that live in these mellion dollar houses.
One time I was driving around with a girlfriend and
her kids, and we were in this neighborhood that was
nothing but million dollar houses on golf.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I have a million dollar house now, but he was
suspicious and a murder just happened up the street from
my house. So there there was like a homicide. And
so now I'm always and there's like cops everywhere. I
don't know, it's just not it's weird. So I was
just like, I see you, Like, who the fuck says
that me? I say that to somebody.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Well, what I was telling you is we were we
were riding around in that neighborhood at time, and we
were just admiring how awesome the houses were. And one
of them had this had this circular you know driveway
where you you know, it's like something you'd see on
most of the movies and stuff like that of the
fancy houses. And yeah, you know, we we drove we
drove up. We shouldn't have, but we drove up and
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we were just driving through the driveway. It's like, he
come running out of her house is twenty five years ago.
She come running out of our house basically doing the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You know, I see you.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
It was like, what are you doing with it? Like
we didn't even stop. We literally just just we came
and we just wrote. But she's seen it, and I
could see why. You know, you're out in the expensive house,
an expensive you know neighborhood, no.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Little woodshack and whatever. And I'm like, but he just
I've never seen him before, like I normally see, like
I've never seen this guy before. He shirtless, he looks dirty.
Like maybe maybe I'm just being judgy, but I don't know,
something like something I don't know. It's just something that
didn't sit right with me because I've never seen him.
And then he like walked to the back and like disappeared,
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and I'm like, I don't know, like I don't know
where he went. And then like of course I had
to go back and investigate to see like where he
could have went.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Oh, of course I wouldn't expect anything less, No, I.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Had to like see and so like I'm out there
in the back and it's like it's like a wooded
area and like there's definitely a path to something, but
I was getting chewed up alive by mosquitoes, and like
I had to stuff being so impulsive because for all
I know, he was just like he was bad, you know,
what I mean. I'm like, I gotta I gotta rail
myself in Amanda. What are you a nut job?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Me stalking homeless people. So I was like, really, I'm like,
who is this guy? And normally I don't care, but
it was just so random. It's like on a main street,
like why are you in this parking lot? You have
a sidewalk, you have a side street you could go down.
It was just so bizarre, and of course I just
had to investigate it. I had to know. And I'm
not normally like that, but he was giving me the
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heb gbs. I took one look at him and I
was like, I see you, but I've.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Never seen you as a judgy type. Now I have
to worry constantly you're thinking about me.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
No, you don't have to know because you don't look
like a crackhead. So it's fine.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Now. If I lost the weight that I needed to,
I would anyways. So I had my heart procedure that
went well, so a lot of people reaching out, so
thank you for that. You know, this show was way
behind where my other show is, so you know it'll
be weeks before anybody. Here's this episode. This episode record
in July and it won't come out to the right
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near the end of August.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So right, so, what the hell did I say to you?
Did you get restarted yet? You haven't been restarted yet?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Right, Yeah, I've not been restarted, but you know, who knows,
there's there's still plenty of time in today. Maybe I
can get restarted before we get off the air.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
No, don't get restarted on the air with me, because
then I don't know what I'm gonna do, because You're
probably going to go pass out, and it's just you're
just gonna hear and that's going to be it.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
They told me that if I'm driving and it happens
that I asked them, I'm like, well, what if this
happens while I'm driving, right, And they said that it's
not something. See, it's just like the paddles they use
on TV, right, you see on TV. But because the
paddles have to go through your skin and all that
other stuff right in there, they're a lot more supercharged.
(06:24):
So because this is the inside my chest and wirre
diffrectly to my heart, it doesn't take as much supposedly,
so you don't have that big flip up in the
air that you see on TV when they do it.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, clinically dead when they're doing that. When you're being paddled,
aren't you like debt Like you're dead when you're being paddled,
right right, that's.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
When this goes off. This goes up when my heart stops.
If my heart completely stops, there will be time for
anybody to get there. It'll shock to try to bring
it back. That's what it does.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
But wait, but then you have to call nine one
one after it happens.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And they said they go on about my day, called
the doctor. What let him know that it went off?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I mean, I'm sure they probably want you to come
into the hospital. But it's not a nine one one thing.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
But if you turn into a zombie, like you get
paddled and then you're a zombie.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I talked to a guy the other day that said,
hiss went off seven times over the years, and my like,
my phone did that's oddly enough the yeah, it's a
professional and and that's funny enough times seven times over
the years.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Over the years.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
His friends a day, no, no, no, no, jesus.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
You are kind of robot. That's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I am. I'm like the bionic Man.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I love that. So for now on you have to
call me Terminator.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, it's called the shock Eater.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
That's how we'll start doing the show. I'm on da
You imagine people, Amanda. Can you imagine being so hungry
that no amount of food could satisfy your hunger? You
probably can't because you probably are in a constant state
of the mousies.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Mm hmm. Depends really all depends on the mood and
what I have in my kitchen and if I feel
like cooking.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
What if, at the same time, you're hopelessly poor and
you have to eat everything from rocks, to garbage, to
medical waste to live animals just to fill your stomach.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Just shoot me, just kill me. Actually, I think I
know the story. We'll see if you do surprised.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I want you to yell it out. If you know it, well,
can tell you what it is.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yes, okay, I think it's that dude that went to
the hospital and he like ate a baby, right, is
the guy that ate the baby eat a baby? And
like he went on and he was like eating tires
and can he's like a goat. He had some like
rare disease or something.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It's possible it might be the same thing, but it's
not going to come across the way you just said.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
It eats babies, all right.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
So that was the situation with a man named Terrere.
He lived in France in the seventeen hundreds.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I think this is it.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
He was born in seventeen, seventeen seventy two, and even
as a child, his appetite was of epic proportions. Before
he was a teenager, he could eat his weight in
beef in the course of a day.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It's gross.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Think about that though. If he weighs seventy five pounds,
that's worm. I mean, that's a lot of meat in
one day.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
That's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That's a lot of anything in one day. Seventy five
pounds or so.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
An guess how much is that like? And not pounds?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, that's a small child, that's probably that's an eight
or nine year old kid.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That's my son. Yeah, eighty pounds. That's gross.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
So his parents couldn't afford to feed him, so they
shipped him off to Paris. He's in Paris, it's the
late seventeen eighties and he's got no money, so he's
a fallen in with a group of beggars and performers
and pickpockets. These people did nothing but roam the streets
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of Paris and just tried to do whatever they could
to make money. But Terrera soon realized that people would
pay to watch him eat all sorts of odd and
what most people consider inedible objects. This included This included.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Stones, yeah, quarks, live animals, What do you mean live animals? Like?
He didn't even tell them, He just ate them. He
just stuck them in his mom. That's nasty.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
He'd even eat an entire basket of apples, he would
swallow them whole, one after thegether.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
What what did he look like?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Well, we're gonna get to that. But because of eating
these enormous quantities of odd items, not surprisingly, he ended
up at the hospital numerous times, usually with severe intestinal
issues that could only be treated with harsh lacislatives or
if their harsh laxtives were back then.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Nope, I don't want to even think about it, though,
he caused, pause, pause, What do you think do you
think they do? You think they like put stuff on
like a cloth and shoved up his tush like some
I don't know, like I feel like they like, I'm.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Sure they had eight mmas in this late seventeen hundreds,
but like, really.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Quick, did they have tape worms in the seventeen hundreds too?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah, how come they didn't? Okay, whatever, tell your story,
let's hear it.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Well, he always recovered, so that was a good thing.
This sisness, though, was going to stick with him for
the rest of his life. And there aren't too many
pictures of him. You asked what he looked like. He
said that he had particularly soft hair and for the
most part, normal facial features. But he had a huge tongue,
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a massive jaw that opened up like a trapdoor, and
his mouth was oversized.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
But that lady on TikTok with the big mouth. Have
you seen her?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I don't know if I ever or not. This was
supposed to be four inches wide. Oh boy, boo, your
mouth is probably two inches wide.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I don't know. That's grown up lit. He's just eating
animals on the streets.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Come here, kat, they said. If his they said, if
his cheeks were completely stretched out, you could hold a
dozen eggs or apples in his mouth.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Apples are in different shapes, so that's you're it could
be big, giant macintosh apple. You never really know.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
But no matter how much he ate, he couldn't gain weight.
At the age of seventeen, he only weighed one hundred pounds.
But he had loose skin that was hanging like in
big folds over his jowls and over his midsection. When
he would eat, it would almost inflate, so he would
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gorgeousself and this thing would like inflate until he was
completely filled up. All that loose skin was filled up,
and then afterwards he become really lethargic and just like
fall into a deep sleep.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Maybe this is something, guy, what the fuck? Like, what
do you mean loose like hate like people that have
had like like severe weight loss.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
It would probably look like somebody had severe weight laws.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
What the frig? And it like in so wait, did
it poff up like Popeye?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah, it would puff up after he would eat so
much that it would he would fill his whole.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Body out, And no one thought that this was a problem,
Like what is happening?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
They all knew it was a problem, they just didn't
know what it was. So even when he slept, he
would make these chewing and swallowing motions of his mouth
and he would pass they said it was. It was
these horrible amounts of gas from both ends. That look
on your face is priceless. I wish people could see it.
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Oh man, he had the ability to keep almost everything down,
so he never threw up, but he had this chronic
diarrhea so bad that one doctor described his diarrhea as
feeded beyond all conceptions. That it means that it was
like it was just there was so much diarrhea because
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of how much he ate was it was more unbelievable then,
so like.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
The doctor didn't even believe what he was seeing. He's like,
this guy's a freak of nature exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
He was also known to sweat profusely, and he has
such bad body odor that no one could stand to
be any word.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
This is the guy, this is the guy.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And these things got worse as he ate.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
He was like oily too or something. Right. Wasn't there
something about oil with him?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I didn't see anything about the oily, But that doesn't
mean it doesn't mean that case. He didn't seem to
have any strange conditions other than the fine hair, the
body odor, and the appetite, and that suggested that he
might have suffered from some type of hyper thyroidism. Another
theory is that he might have had hyper polyphasia that
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in a way could have explained it, and that's where
part of the brain has a has an issue, and
that would have called it. Well, the louse skins probably
where he ate so much and then he lost the weight,
But he just lost the weight almost instantly from diarrhea,
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rather than the people who lose it over you know, two, three, four, five,
six months, so fucked up. Apparently the same thing happens
these people with polyphasias. They eat and eat and eat,
and they're never satisfied.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
He shall.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
In seventeen ninety two, war broke out and Terreer actually
joined the Revolutionary Army. Life in the army was pretty
difficult for him, though, because he couldn't get enough to eat.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
He shall his enemies.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
His military ration didn't put a dent in his appetite,
so he resorted to do in odd jobs for other
soldiers in exchange for a portion of their food. But
even with that it was not enough. So what he
did was he would go out and and go to
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the garbage scraps and find anything that he could possibly eat.
In a matter of months, his health as you could imagine,
deteriorated to such an extent that they started giving him.
The army started giving him four times the regular rations.
This didn't help at all. He couldn't even do his
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basic tasks in the military with four servings of food today.
So eventually two of the army's physicians became fascinated with
his condition and they wanted to see what was going on.
Their first task was to see if he was being
real or if he was just fakingness to try to
get out of the army, because you know, nobody wants
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to go to the front line now. Well, to test this,
they decided that they were going to put a mess
of food in front of Terrere that had been prepared
for fifteen laborers. If he could eat these two large
meat pas and that just sounds disgusting on meat pie,
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and four gallons of milk, I would prove it would
prove to them that he actually could eat all this
food and he had that disorder.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Wait pause, If you drink too much milk, though, doesn't
that make you vomit? Like, isn't that?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I mean? I would guess if you're lactose intolerant.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Black toes intolerant. Nah, like I didn't think that mattered.
Like I thought, if you drank like way too much
milk like you like projectile vomited. That's why when they
had they had to do away with like milk drinking contests,
people were pukin.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Well they did they we had. We just did a
story about a woman a dad from a water drinking contest.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I've heard of that story. That was wild.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
It was like a very lute your electrolytes. So she did.
But regardless of the fact, we know you hate milk,
and so you're a milk hater.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
And I don't hate milk. I'm just not I just
can't drink it. Conspiracy milk theory.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So he eats every bit of this food that was
in front of him and then continue to drink a
bunch of cooking grees. What and then and then he
went to sleep.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
What do you mean cooking grease like cooking grees? That's
so gross?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Now, they said, if he hadn't. Once he had enough
rest and an abundance of food, Terrer was partially recovered.
The doctors allowed him to stay at the hospital even
longer than he probably should have been, just so they
could study him a little bit, but soldiers weren't short supply.
It was the war, and his supervisors I requested he
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be given back to normal status as a soldier. Well,
the doctor didn't really want to give up his prized patient,
so he hatched a plan that would allow Terrer to
do some special things. So this plan had Terrera to
eat a small wooden box with a note in it.
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They put a note in the box and had he
eat the box. If the box passed through his digestive
system intact, Terrera could then be used to deliver top
secret documents with nobody having a clue what was going on.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Hold, So then he'd have to diarrhea of that. Oh
my god, you'd have to diarrhea of that out? Would
he not?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yes, he would.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That's stopped up. That's nasty.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
So to demonstrate, the doctors made Terrera eat this box
in front of a bunch of high ranking French officers. Afterwards,
he was rewarded with a wielbarrow of raw bull organs.
What that he devoured completely?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
This is gross. This is a gross episode raw organs.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
That's two days later he passed the box. How bad
your diarrhea? Where it takes you two days to pass
all that. But I guess if you're eating that much food,
I would have thought that it would have been that
same day.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
But what isn't going to digest?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Right?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
So did he like ship out a box?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
He did?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
He shut out the whole box. The looked like, what's
happening right now?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I don't know how big the box was, to be fair,
but it's still a box. The commander pulled the box
out and UH the letter was perfectly legible, so.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
No big deal to Rear.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Was test with carrying an important message to UH, a
kernel who had been over and captured by the Persians.
So when it was time to leave, he dressed up
as a German peasant. He ate the box and that
night he crossed into Prussia. I said Persians, but they
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were Prussians. Now, his inability to speak the language kind
of drew suspicion on him, and they decided that, you
know what, you probably don't belong here, and they locked
him up, which is exactly where he needed to be.
He needed to be in pressure. Locked up, that's where they.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Hold on a second, back to the box, how is
he not choking on the like? How big is his
like his.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Throat and his mouth were much bigger than the average.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
But he's fitting a box down there, like the box.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Don't know how big the box is.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I need to know because now it's gonna hont now.
Now I'm gonna have to figure it out if I
need to know how this is happening.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
But once he got caught, they didn't give He didn't
give any info. Even though he was interrogated pretty pretty roughly,
they didn't find They didn't find anything on him he should,
so they really didn't have much to go with. But
they sent in the prison for some further questioning. Now,
after a few days, he because he didn't have anything
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to eat.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
And now he was starving, he's dying.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
He tells them that he's got this box inside. So
they chain him to a latrine and they wait for
it to pass. Sure enough, it did, and they opened
it up and there was a message, and the message
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that was actually a dummy message, though that was meant
to be just confirmation that this plan would work. They
didn't really have anything, you know, they gave anything a way,
so other than that, everything seemed to be you know,
it was like, well, I mean, the guy's pretty much worthless.
So instead of killing him and keeping in prison, they
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sent him back over to France. Now, they weren't going
to send him to the guillotines or the gallows to
be hanged, I guess is what they did. But as
a last second decision they said, yeah, no, we're just
going to send you back to France. Once he was
back in France and he crossed the front line, he
was like, I definitely don't want to go through this anymore.
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So he went to the hospital and he said, you
know what, if you will let me stay in the hospital,
I will forego to any test whatever that you want me.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
To do and e a small child.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
And well, you say that, but that's not necessarily what happened. Now.
While he was in there, the doctors tried everything from
tobacco pills to a strict diet to him eating boiled
eggs and vinegar. I don't know where that came from,
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but nothing worked. But as you said, during his time
in there, to where was eating and eating and eating,
And eventually he would start sneaking out of.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
His room and babies.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Going through the garbage piles and the butcher's shop and
eating whatever he could and on warm. One occasion, he
was caught inside the hospital drinking blood from the blood
letting department and suspiciously even the morgue.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
See what I tell you, he's eating something that's not
he shouldn't be eating, like all of that, but also humans.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
One doctor said that he thought he could find a cure,
but his colleagues were not happy about it, and they
were like, yeah, we probably just need to go ahead
and get rid of the guy. He did manage to
convince them for a little bit longer that it was
a you know, a psychological problem that could probably be cured.
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But this was about the time when a fourteen month
old baby in the hospital went miss scene I told you,
and they said it went missing under mysterious circumstances. It
was unclear whether he had anything or not to do
with it, but at the same time he did flee
the hospital, never to return. Years later, in seventeen eighty nine,
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the doctor was told his doctor that was on his
side whole time, that Terrer was at a hospital in
Versailles and he wanted to see him. So when the
doctors went and saw him, Terrera told him that he
had swollen a golden fork two years earlier, and he
thought that that might have been what was wrong with him.
The doctor Xamdini didn't find a fork, but he did
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find out that he did have a chronic last stage
case of tuberculosis. So Terrer ended up passing away a
few months later, and that obviously it was from the
tuberculosis had a lot to do with it. But he
also had a bout of diarrhea that left him in
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very bad dehydration, and that's what eventually took him out.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
But all the other boats of like all the other
boats of diarrhea did not leave him in severe dehydration
like what.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I don't know why this one, this.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
One really took him down like what not?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
And autopsy was done and it proved that his mouth
and his throat were abnormally large, and it looks as
if his body had been in a state of severe
infection for years. His bladder and liver were not of
normal size, and his stomach was massive and covered in ulcers.
At the end of the autopsy, they still never determined
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what the problem.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Was, so they don't know. Can like we dig him
up now and find out, like what.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Is I'm so cut I would think I would think
that would have been done already, you would.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Have thought, right, because like that's crazy, Like he's just
going around eating babies and shit, like, come on, he
did how does a fourteen month old missing? Like that's
not a clinky.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Dank And he did eat live animals in the past,
so yeah, that's a cannibal. That's probably what he did.
He was drinking blood from the blood blood letting patients,
for God's sake.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
He's stinky and zombie. Gross I mean, or rip I guess,
but like, did you eat a child? I don't know,
like he probably.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Did, and they said he was in the morgue, but
I mean I would have There weren't any stories about
missing body parts or anything.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, but like what if he was doing weirdo shit,
like just like small things you didn't notice, you know
what I mean. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
With everything else he was doing, I don't think there's
nothing he could have done that would have been much weirder.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I mean, he's eating boxes and shitting' I don't that's gross.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
If all that's true, how is that not the most
weird person ever?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yeah, it's pretty fucked up. Imagine imagine you walking in
on him just gargling up some blood, Like what are
you doing? Like is that how he got to burg loses?
Like I don't know if that's bloodborn, but.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Well, I mean it's airborne, but I would think that
that's still possibility.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
So it was like a giant human mosquito, gross, just
sucking up blood, lapping it up. Like but also how
did he pass military stuff?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Like don't you have to be like I just they
needed anybody back then, I mean there was a war
going on. They just took anybody. Yeah, they didn't used
to have all these requirements for the military. I mean
back in the yeah, and the Civil War and stuff
like that. They you know, it didn't Matthew was sixty
years old. You'd go. And then eventually they started putting.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
In rules like you can't be five and joining the military.
That kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well you could, it couldn't be if you were the
only son in your family. You couldn't be drafted and
stuff like that. You could still sign up, but you
couldn't be drafted if you were the only son. And
so there was all kinds of rules and regulations and
effect and you know, then then they start there used
to be so many people want to go into military.
They could be pickyn't choosie. But you know, then it
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got to where there wouldn't that many people anymore. There
you go. It eventually got back to that level again.
But yeah, because I mean you imagine, if you've got
a club foot, you couldn't be in the military, or
if you had.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Just like small like colorblind, you can't be. I know
that's one.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I could see how that that could be.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
I think it's colorblind and you can't have like asthma
or allergies. I don't think. I'm not sure. I think
the allergies are like within reason because like what do
you do if you're on the field and you come
across the peanut you know what I mean? Like now
now what.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Well you know what I mean, what are you fighting
in Georgia?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
No, I don't know. Like if someone's eating a peanut
butter and sandwich and they have a peanut allergy, I
don't know, Like, like, what are you gonna do now
you're out? You're just out there bumming out? That's terrible.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Have we got the enemy coming over there? But we
got worse problems. There's a peanut field. Oh fuck, not
a peanut field.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Oh No, I mean, like, come on, there's so many
crazy things that you just gotta like the fine prints.
I'm telling you what. Wait, hold on, I know you
got to go, But I have one more question about
this gentleman. Okay, answer no, you probably definitely don't. But
did he also eat like human organs as well? Like
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do we know if he was doing that?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I didn't hear anything about human worlds.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Maybe that's what he was doing in the morgue. He
was fishing around looking for like just like organ and
they wouldn't know if it was like bagged up or something,
you know what I mean, Like, how would they know?
They probably?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I just couldn't imagine being in a situation where you
were so constantly hungry to where you just wanted to
eat anything and you felt the need to have to
do it. That would be a horrible situation to be in.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I would be like, fix me, now, fix me, now,
hurry up and fix me.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
He tried, nobody could fix him.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
It was also the seventeen hundreds. They didn't even know
what was happening. He was probably like twenty five when
he died. How old is how old was he when
he died?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You know what, I threw my paper weight. He was
born in seventeen seventy two and he died. Yeah, he
couldn't have been very old. I don't think he probably
mid thirties at most at best.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, so he didn't live super duper long.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah, because it just said several years later he got
a call and so I don't know what how long that.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Was severally he got a call for what the army.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Oh, the doctor got to call several years I was
in the hospital, So I don't know. I don't know
when that took place.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Can you imagine? But like how it Oh my god,
that's so crazy. I mean, like I said, I did
hear about this story, but like I just remember when
I was listening to the emphasize on how we ate
a baby. Maybe he didn't really eat a baby, but
stranger things.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
It was suspicious.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I mean, that's very suspicious.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Baby disappeared and he did. He had been going into
drinking blood and going into the morgue. So it's I
would say more than likely he probably ate the baby.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
But that's fucked up. God.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I mean, I wonder if he killed the baby first.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
I don't want to know. I don't even want to know.
Don't even say it out loud. Keep it in there.
He probably just we're just gonna he ate animals too,
so live ones. He didn't even cook him or anything.
You just ton't.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
I've been watching these videos from the Wilderness Men or
the Wilderness Cooking.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Oh. I think I've heard of this.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I've been posting some of it. I think it's in Cambodia.
I don't know it. It's obviously somewhere in Asia, but
they are. You know, they're out by the river and
they're just going out barefoot and shirtless and grabbing whatever
food and I'm just getting them and cooking them in
this giant walk. This is some of the most gross
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and and and it's not even the food. The food's
gross too, trust me. They're eating salamanders and broaches, bats.
They grabbed a bunch of bats up and started cooking
them and the bats weren't even dead yet. Put them
in a bag, and they are eating these things. And
they're eating bones and everything.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Eating bones, yes, unlike the bats.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
I don't have no idea how they're doing this and
the salamanders and all this stuff, but I'll send you
some videos.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Oh please, can't wait to see that.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I'm hooked on them now. But anyways, it's like when
they eat, it's literally like they haven't eaten in six months.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I mean they're super skinny.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yes, but they know how to cook. I mean they
literally have and they know what YouTube is because they've
they've got to picture them holding their awards, the plaques
that YouTube sends for getting so many views and stuff
and the and the video quality is excellent quality.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
So they know what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
No, I mean they have like cutting boards and they're
cutting the spices up and stuff they put it. I mean,
they know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
They got a primitive you know, that's fucking wild. See,
no thank you, no thanks. I mean, like I was
watching a movie and it was just a movie, and
I forget the name of the movie, but like the
guy eats a tarantula like it's alive and just like
bites it and like all the goog comes out of it,
and I have to like fast forward through that part
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because it's disgusting. I'm like, and I have to like
fast forward through it because it's so gross. Like I
can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I'm gonna send you some videos.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
I love that for me, actually wait, have you have
you gone down the Britney Spears rabbit hole?
Speaker 1 (35:42):
No, not the recent one. Oh no, there's some stuff
after she tried to get a picture with that basketball
player in the France.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Yeah, but you hear she's like possibly an imposter. I
can't stop like watching all the videos.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
No, but you know that's coming out with Jimmie Fox.
Jimmy Fox might be in a look at these two
pictures of different he looks. I've seen the same thing
with Joe Biden. I've seen it with Uh Who's Who's
the chick that there's another conspiracy Avril Levine.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Oh yeah, she's supposedly like supposedly the real Avril's dead,
and she's like in like supposedly like it's like in
an album cover. She even like has it blatant in
your face, like I've seen it, and I'm just like,
oh my god, I got to stop doing this at midnight.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
That stuff's been going on for years. I mean, Paul
McCartney supposedly was dead. There were the there was the
PAULA was dead rumors back in like sixty seven or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
I think that one's real because I've actually seen side
by sides, and the gentleman that replaced him does not
really look like the one that is deceased. And he's
dead for real now, I think too right, Like and
there are the Beatles, aren't there him?
Speaker 1 (36:52):
And Rne left?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Oh the imposter and Ringo gotcha?
Speaker 1 (36:56):
They called him faux Paul h Yeah, there was like
George Harrison. It's supposed been a documentary that was all
George Harrison. It wouldn't. It was somebody doing his voice,
but it was talking about how it all took place.
It was pretty cool, and it's almost impossible to find
these days. I saw it like ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
I remember seeing that stuff wild.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
And then you got Tupac. You know, people saying that
there's people saying that he wasn't really dead, and those
couple of albums that came out afterwards, it's just him
doing new music, it would and stuff from the vault.
And so these stories are always going to be around
the celebrities. Yeah, Elvis, Elvis has never died.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
He's actually you've seen and I know this is gonna
sound so bananas, but have you seen the photo of
this old guy who's always a Graceland? And they did
like a side by side of him and Elvison. They
aged Elvis and they're like sucking identical. It's creepy, and
it's probably not. It's probably just good genetics and they
look similar, but like you know what I mean, I'm like, oh,
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that's so weird. Like in this AI and everything else
out there, you don't really ever know what you're looking at.
But even so, it's just harder to get away with
stuff too, because everything's on the phones. Everything is everyone's
recording stuff. So I just feel like, like the whole
Britney Spears thing, you heard about her husband and how
he's got a screen screen room, care about this whole thing? Yeah,
(38:14):
if you look it up, it's fucked up. I'll send
you a video. And then there's another photo of him
posing with Britney Spears, but they like zoomed in on
his glasses and there's actually really nobody sitting next to him.
It's really weird.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Well, next week we're gonna we're gonna let you get
in detail with that, So brush up on it, little one.
Oh god, hey, that's what we're doing this show.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
That's you. You've got to remind me.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
I will remind you. I'll remind you in the middle.
I'll remind you on Monday.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Yeah, remind me on Monday, and then I can be like,
oh my god, have you heard about Princess Diana? And
then i'll get you going down that hole too.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
All right, So what's what we need to do? Just
a whole show and conspiracy theories because.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
They're nuts insane.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
All that rests us up for this week.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
All right. Well, you have a good rest of your week, buddy,
you too. Ah, right bye.
Hey guys, Welcome to episode eight of Wickedly Weird with
Jerry and Amanda. I'm Jerry, I'm Amanda. Amanda's been a
couple of weeks since we recorded there.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It has been lots of things have been going on.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Well, do share what happened.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I had to spend a lot of money to fix
my car. That happened.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That's never good.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
No, I thought the brakes were on my car and
that was not the case. Like the hubs or something
thing went on it. I don't know what hubs are.
The hubs went, the hubs went, Yeah, hubs went. I
don't know. I know it was a five hundred dollars situation.
That was more than that. And then I had to
get like my shocks and struts done too. It was
like seventeen hundred dollars and all was sudden done.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh nice, I want to throw up in my mind.
So so the hubs, like the calipers, the I.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Don't know what a hub is. I just know that
it was lots of money they have.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
They have a hub assembly, which is you know, it's
a bunch of different stuff in there and it's possibly
you know, but.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, she said a hub and I was like, I
don't know, just fix what you need to fix because
I needed Behagle, so get her done and then let's see.
Then there was a crackhead. I think it was a
crackhead roaming my parking lots. I was like, I was
out and I don't know, I had like I was
like hosing something down, and he scared me because he
came around like a bush with his little Chihuahua, and
(01:56):
I was like, oh, He's like, I'm sorry to mean
to scare you.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
And like.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
What did I think to say was are you lost?
I'm like, are you lost? And he just kind of
looked at me, and then I went, I see you,
and that's like all I said. And then I went
back in the house like a weirdo, like.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, I'm sure he was probably more freaked out by you,
and he probably wouldn't a crack head. He was probably
just walking his dog.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
No, he was. He looked a little crackheady. He looked
a little sauff. So it's just kind of.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Like, so it's just you sound like you sound like
the type of people that live in these mellion dollar houses.
One time I was driving around with a girlfriend and
her kids, and we were in this neighborhood that was
nothing but million dollar houses on golf.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I have a million dollar house now, but he was
suspicious and a murder just happened up the street from
my house. So there there was like a homicide. And
so now I'm always and there's like cops everywhere. I
don't know, it's just not it's weird. So I was
just like, I see you, Like, who the fuck says
that me? I say that to somebody.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Well, what I was telling you is we were we
were riding around in that neighborhood at time, and we
were just admiring how awesome the houses were. And one
of them had this had this circular you know driveway
where you you know, it's like something you'd see on
most of the movies and stuff like that of the
fancy houses. And yeah, you know, we we drove we
drove up. We shouldn't have, but we drove up and
(03:22):
we were just driving through the driveway. It's like, he
come running out of her house is twenty five years ago.
She come running out of our house basically doing the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You know, I see you.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
It was like, what are you doing with it? Like
we didn't even stop. We literally just just we came
and we just wrote. But she's seen it, and I
could see why. You know, you're out in the expensive house,
an expensive you know neighborhood, no.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Little woodshack and whatever. And I'm like, but he just
I've never seen him before, like I normally see, like
I've never seen this guy before. He shirtless, he looks dirty.
Like maybe maybe I'm just being judgy, but I don't know,
something like something I don't know. It's just something that
didn't sit right with me because I've never seen him.
And then he like walked to the back and like disappeared,
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and I'm like, I don't know, like I don't know
where he went. And then like of course I had
to go back and investigate to see like where he
could have went.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Oh, of course I wouldn't expect anything less, No, I.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Had to like see and so like I'm out there
in the back and it's like it's like a wooded
area and like there's definitely a path to something, but
I was getting chewed up alive by mosquitoes, and like
I had to stuff being so impulsive because for all
I know, he was just like he was bad, you know,
what I mean. I'm like, I gotta I gotta rail
myself in Amanda. What are you a nut job?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Me stalking homeless people. So I was like, really, I'm like,
who is this guy? And normally I don't care, but
it was just so random. It's like on a main street,
like why are you in this parking lot? You have
a sidewalk, you have a side street you could go down.
It was just so bizarre, and of course I just
had to investigate it. I had to know. And I'm
not normally like that, but he was giving me the
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heb gbs. I took one look at him and I
was like, I see you, but I've.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Never seen you as a judgy type. Now I have
to worry constantly you're thinking about me.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
No, you don't have to know because you don't look
like a crackhead. So it's fine.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Now. If I lost the weight that I needed to,
I would anyways. So I had my heart procedure that
went well, so a lot of people reaching out, so
thank you for that. You know, this show was way
behind where my other show is, so you know it'll
be weeks before anybody. Here's this episode. This episode record
in July and it won't come out to the right
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near the end of August.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So right, so, what the hell did I say to you?
Did you get restarted yet? You haven't been restarted yet?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Right, Yeah, I've not been restarted, but you know, who knows,
there's there's still plenty of time in today. Maybe I
can get restarted before we get off the air.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
No, don't get restarted on the air with me, because
then I don't know what I'm gonna do, because You're
probably going to go pass out, and it's just you're
just gonna hear and that's going to be it.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
They told me that if I'm driving and it happens
that I asked them, I'm like, well, what if this
happens while I'm driving, right, And they said that it's
not something. See, it's just like the paddles they use
on TV, right, you see on TV. But because the
paddles have to go through your skin and all that
other stuff right in there, they're a lot more supercharged.
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So because this is the inside my chest and wirre
diffrectly to my heart, it doesn't take as much supposedly,
so you don't have that big flip up in the
air that you see on TV when they do it.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, clinically dead when they're doing that. When you're being paddled,
aren't you like debt Like you're dead when you're being paddled,
right right, that's.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
When this goes off. This goes up when my heart stops.
If my heart completely stops, there will be time for
anybody to get there. It'll shock to try to bring
it back. That's what it does.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
But wait, but then you have to call nine one
one after it happens.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And they said they go on about my day, called
the doctor. What let him know that it went off?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I mean, I'm sure they probably want you to come
into the hospital. But it's not a nine one one thing.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
But if you turn into a zombie, like you get
paddled and then you're a zombie.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I talked to a guy the other day that said,
hiss went off seven times over the years, and my like,
my phone did that's oddly enough the yeah, it's a
professional and and that's funny enough times seven times over
the years.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Over the years.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
His friends a day, no, no, no, no, jesus.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
You are kind of robot. That's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I am. I'm like the bionic Man.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I love that. So for now on you have to
call me Terminator.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, it's called the shock Eater.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
That's how we'll start doing the show. I'm on da
You imagine people, Amanda. Can you imagine being so hungry
that no amount of food could satisfy your hunger? You
probably can't because you probably are in a constant state
of the mousies.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Mm hmm. Depends really all depends on the mood and
what I have in my kitchen and if I feel
like cooking.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
What if, at the same time, you're hopelessly poor and
you have to eat everything from rocks, to garbage, to
medical waste to live animals just to fill your stomach.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Just shoot me, just kill me. Actually, I think I
know the story. We'll see if you do surprised.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I want you to yell it out. If you know it, well,
can tell you what it is.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yes, okay, I think it's that dude that went to
the hospital and he like ate a baby, right, is
the guy that ate the baby eat a baby? And
like he went on and he was like eating tires
and can he's like a goat. He had some like
rare disease or something.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
It's possible it might be the same thing, but it's
not going to come across the way you just said.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
It eats babies, all right.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
So that was the situation with a man named Terrere.
He lived in France in the seventeen hundreds.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I think this is it.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
He was born in seventeen, seventeen seventy two, and even
as a child, his appetite was of epic proportions. Before
he was a teenager, he could eat his weight in
beef in the course of a day.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It's gross.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Think about that though. If he weighs seventy five pounds,
that's worm. I mean, that's a lot of meat in
one day.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
That's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That's a lot of anything in one day. Seventy five
pounds or so.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
An guess how much is that like? And not pounds?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, that's a small child, that's probably that's an eight
or nine year old kid.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That's my son. Yeah, eighty pounds. That's gross.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
So his parents couldn't afford to feed him, so they
shipped him off to Paris. He's in Paris, it's the
late seventeen eighties and he's got no money, so he's
a fallen in with a group of beggars and performers
and pickpockets. These people did nothing but roam the streets
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of Paris and just tried to do whatever they could
to make money. But Terrera soon realized that people would
pay to watch him eat all sorts of odd and
what most people consider inedible objects. This included This included.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Stones, yeah, quarks, live animals, What do you mean live animals? Like?
He didn't even tell them, He just ate them. He
just stuck them in his mom. That's nasty.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
He'd even eat an entire basket of apples, he would
swallow them whole, one after thegether.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
What what did he look like?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Well, we're gonna get to that. But because of eating
these enormous quantities of odd items, not surprisingly, he ended
up at the hospital numerous times, usually with severe intestinal
issues that could only be treated with harsh lacislatives or
if their harsh laxtives were back then.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Nope, I don't want to even think about it, though,
he caused, pause, pause, What do you think do you
think they do? You think they like put stuff on
like a cloth and shoved up his tush like some
I don't know, like I feel like they like, I'm.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Sure they had eight mmas in this late seventeen hundreds,
but like, really.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Quick, did they have tape worms in the seventeen hundreds too?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah, how come they didn't? Okay, whatever, tell your story,
let's hear it.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Well, he always recovered, so that was a good thing.
This sisness, though, was going to stick with him for
the rest of his life. And there aren't too many
pictures of him. You asked what he looked like. He
said that he had particularly soft hair and for the
most part, normal facial features. But he had a huge tongue,
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a massive jaw that opened up like a trapdoor, and
his mouth was oversized.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
But that lady on TikTok with the big mouth. Have
you seen her?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I don't know if I ever or not. This was
supposed to be four inches wide. Oh boy, boo, your
mouth is probably two inches wide.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I don't know. That's grown up lit. He's just eating
animals on the streets.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Come here, kat, they said. If his they said, if
his cheeks were completely stretched out, you could hold a
dozen eggs or apples in his mouth.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Apples are in different shapes, so that's you're it could
be big, giant macintosh apple. You never really know.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
But no matter how much he ate, he couldn't gain weight.
At the age of seventeen, he only weighed one hundred pounds.
But he had loose skin that was hanging like in
big folds over his jowls and over his midsection. When
he would eat, it would almost inflate, so he would
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gorgeousself and this thing would like inflate until he was
completely filled up. All that loose skin was filled up,
and then afterwards he become really lethargic and just like
fall into a deep sleep.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Maybe this is something, guy, what the fuck? Like, what
do you mean loose like hate like people that have
had like like severe weight loss.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
It would probably look like somebody had severe weight laws.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
What the frig? And it like in so wait, did
it poff up like Popeye?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah, it would puff up after he would eat so
much that it would he would fill his whole.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Body out, And no one thought that this was a problem,
Like what is happening?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
They all knew it was a problem, they just didn't
know what it was. So even when he slept, he
would make these chewing and swallowing motions of his mouth
and he would pass they said it was. It was
these horrible amounts of gas from both ends. That look
on your face is priceless. I wish people could see it.
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Oh man, he had the ability to keep almost everything down,
so he never threw up, but he had this chronic
diarrhea so bad that one doctor described his diarrhea as
feeded beyond all conceptions. That it means that it was
like it was just there was so much diarrhea because
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of how much he ate was it was more unbelievable then,
so like.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
The doctor didn't even believe what he was seeing. He's like,
this guy's a freak of nature exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
He was also known to sweat profusely, and he has
such bad body odor that no one could stand to
be any word.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
This is the guy, this is the guy.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And these things got worse as he ate.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
He was like oily too or something. Right. Wasn't there
something about oil with him?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I didn't see anything about the oily, But that doesn't
mean it doesn't mean that case. He didn't seem to
have any strange conditions other than the fine hair, the
body odor, and the appetite, and that suggested that he
might have suffered from some type of hyper thyroidism. Another
theory is that he might have had hyper polyphasia that
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in a way could have explained it, and that's where
part of the brain has a has an issue, and
that would have called it. Well, the louse skins probably
where he ate so much and then he lost the weight,
But he just lost the weight almost instantly from diarrhea,
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rather than the people who lose it over you know, two, three, four, five,
six months, so fucked up. Apparently the same thing happens
these people with polyphasias. They eat and eat and eat,
and they're never satisfied.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
He shall.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
In seventeen ninety two, war broke out and Terreer actually
joined the Revolutionary Army. Life in the army was pretty
difficult for him, though, because he couldn't get enough to eat.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
He shall his enemies.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
His military ration didn't put a dent in his appetite,
so he resorted to do in odd jobs for other
soldiers in exchange for a portion of their food. But
even with that it was not enough. So what he
did was he would go out and and go to
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the garbage scraps and find anything that he could possibly eat.
In a matter of months, his health as you could imagine,
deteriorated to such an extent that they started giving him.
The army started giving him four times the regular rations.
This didn't help at all. He couldn't even do his
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basic tasks in the military with four servings of food today.
So eventually two of the army's physicians became fascinated with
his condition and they wanted to see what was going on.
Their first task was to see if he was being
real or if he was just fakingness to try to
get out of the army, because you know, nobody wants
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to go to the front line now. Well, to test this,
they decided that they were going to put a mess
of food in front of Terrere that had been prepared
for fifteen laborers. If he could eat these two large
meat pas and that just sounds disgusting on meat pie,
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and four gallons of milk, I would prove it would
prove to them that he actually could eat all this
food and he had that disorder.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Wait pause, If you drink too much milk, though, doesn't
that make you vomit? Like, isn't that?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I mean? I would guess if you're lactose intolerant.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Black toes intolerant. Nah, like I didn't think that mattered.
Like I thought, if you drank like way too much
milk like you like projectile vomited. That's why when they
had they had to do away with like milk drinking contests,
people were pukin.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Well they did they we had. We just did a
story about a woman a dad from a water drinking contest.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I've heard of that story. That was wild.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
It was like a very lute your electrolytes. So she did.
But regardless of the fact, we know you hate milk,
and so you're a milk hater.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
And I don't hate milk. I'm just not I just
can't drink it. Conspiracy milk theory.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So he eats every bit of this food that was
in front of him and then continue to drink a
bunch of cooking grees. What and then and then he
went to sleep.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
What do you mean cooking grease like cooking grees? That's
so gross?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Now, they said, if he hadn't. Once he had enough
rest and an abundance of food, Terrer was partially recovered.
The doctors allowed him to stay at the hospital even
longer than he probably should have been, just so they
could study him a little bit, but soldiers weren't short supply.
It was the war, and his supervisors I requested he
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be given back to normal status as a soldier. Well,
the doctor didn't really want to give up his prized patient,
so he hatched a plan that would allow Terrer to
do some special things. So this plan had Terrera to
eat a small wooden box with a note in it.
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They put a note in the box and had he
eat the box. If the box passed through his digestive
system intact, Terrera could then be used to deliver top
secret documents with nobody having a clue what was going on.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Hold, So then he'd have to diarrhea of that. Oh
my god, you'd have to diarrhea of that out? Would
he not?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yes, he would.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That's stopped up. That's nasty.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
So to demonstrate, the doctors made Terrera eat this box
in front of a bunch of high ranking French officers. Afterwards,
he was rewarded with a wielbarrow of raw bull organs.
What that he devoured completely?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
This is gross. This is a gross episode raw organs.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
That's two days later he passed the box. How bad
your diarrhea? Where it takes you two days to pass
all that. But I guess if you're eating that much food,
I would have thought that it would have been that
same day.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
But what isn't going to digest?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Right?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
So did he like ship out a box?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
He did?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
He shut out the whole box. The looked like, what's
happening right now?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I don't know how big the box was, to be fair,
but it's still a box. The commander pulled the box
out and UH the letter was perfectly legible, so.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
No big deal to Rear.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Was test with carrying an important message to UH, a
kernel who had been over and captured by the Persians.
So when it was time to leave, he dressed up
as a German peasant. He ate the box and that
night he crossed into Prussia. I said Persians, but they
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were Prussians. Now, his inability to speak the language kind
of drew suspicion on him, and they decided that, you
know what, you probably don't belong here, and they locked
him up, which is exactly where he needed to be.
He needed to be in pressure. Locked up, that's where they.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Hold on a second, back to the box, how is
he not choking on the like? How big is his
like his.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Throat and his mouth were much bigger than the average.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
But he's fitting a box down there, like the box.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Don't know how big the box is.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I need to know because now it's gonna hont now.
Now I'm gonna have to figure it out if I
need to know how this is happening.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
But once he got caught, they didn't give He didn't
give any info. Even though he was interrogated pretty pretty roughly,
they didn't find They didn't find anything on him he should,
so they really didn't have much to go with. But
they sent in the prison for some further questioning. Now,
after a few days, he because he didn't have anything
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to eat.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
And now he was starving, he's dying.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
He tells them that he's got this box inside. So
they chain him to a latrine and they wait for
it to pass. Sure enough, it did, and they opened
it up and there was a message, and the message
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that was actually a dummy message, though that was meant
to be just confirmation that this plan would work. They
didn't really have anything, you know, they gave anything a way,
so other than that, everything seemed to be you know,
it was like, well, I mean, the guy's pretty much worthless.
So instead of killing him and keeping in prison, they
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sent him back over to France. Now, they weren't going
to send him to the guillotines or the gallows to
be hanged, I guess is what they did. But as
a last second decision they said, yeah, no, we're just
going to send you back to France. Once he was
back in France and he crossed the front line, he
was like, I definitely don't want to go through this anymore.
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So he went to the hospital and he said, you
know what, if you will let me stay in the hospital,
I will forego to any test whatever that you want me.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
To do and e a small child.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
And well, you say that, but that's not necessarily what happened. Now.
While he was in there, the doctors tried everything from
tobacco pills to a strict diet to him eating boiled
eggs and vinegar. I don't know where that came from,
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but nothing worked. But as you said, during his time
in there, to where was eating and eating and eating,
And eventually he would start sneaking out of.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
His room and babies.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Going through the garbage piles and the butcher's shop and
eating whatever he could and on warm. One occasion, he
was caught inside the hospital drinking blood from the blood
letting department and suspiciously even the morgue.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
See what I tell you, he's eating something that's not
he shouldn't be eating, like all of that, but also humans.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
One doctor said that he thought he could find a cure,
but his colleagues were not happy about it, and they
were like, yeah, we probably just need to go ahead
and get rid of the guy. He did manage to
convince them for a little bit longer that it was
a you know, a psychological problem that could probably be cured.
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But this was about the time when a fourteen month
old baby in the hospital went miss scene I told you,
and they said it went missing under mysterious circumstances. It
was unclear whether he had anything or not to do
with it, but at the same time he did flee
the hospital, never to return. Years later, in seventeen eighty nine,
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the doctor was told his doctor that was on his
side whole time, that Terrer was at a hospital in
Versailles and he wanted to see him. So when the
doctors went and saw him, Terrera told him that he
had swollen a golden fork two years earlier, and he
thought that that might have been what was wrong with him.
The doctor Xamdini didn't find a fork, but he did
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find out that he did have a chronic last stage
case of tuberculosis. So Terrer ended up passing away a
few months later, and that obviously it was from the
tuberculosis had a lot to do with it. But he
also had a bout of diarrhea that left him in
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very bad dehydration, and that's what eventually took him out.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
But all the other boats of like all the other
boats of diarrhea did not leave him in severe dehydration
like what.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I don't know why this one, this.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
One really took him down like what not?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
And autopsy was done and it proved that his mouth
and his throat were abnormally large, and it looks as
if his body had been in a state of severe
infection for years. His bladder and liver were not of
normal size, and his stomach was massive and covered in ulcers.
At the end of the autopsy, they still never determined
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what the problem.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Was, so they don't know. Can like we dig him
up now and find out, like what.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Is I'm so cut I would think I would think
that would have been done already, you would.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Have thought, right, because like that's crazy, Like he's just
going around eating babies and shit, like, come on, he
did how does a fourteen month old missing? Like that's
not a clinky.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Dank And he did eat live animals in the past,
so yeah, that's a cannibal. That's probably what he did.
He was drinking blood from the blood blood letting patients,
for God's sake.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
He's stinky and zombie. Gross I mean, or rip I guess,
but like, did you eat a child? I don't know,
like he probably.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Did, and they said he was in the morgue, but
I mean I would have There weren't any stories about
missing body parts or anything.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, but like what if he was doing weirdo shit,
like just like small things you didn't notice, you know
what I mean. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
With everything else he was doing, I don't think there's
nothing he could have done that would have been much weirder.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I mean, he's eating boxes and shitting' I don't that's gross.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
If all that's true, how is that not the most
weird person ever?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yeah, it's pretty fucked up. Imagine imagine you walking in
on him just gargling up some blood, Like what are
you doing? Like is that how he got to burg loses?
Like I don't know if that's bloodborn, but.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Well, I mean it's airborne, but I would think that
that's still possibility.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
So it was like a giant human mosquito, gross, just
sucking up blood, lapping it up. Like but also how
did he pass military stuff?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Like don't you have to be like I just they
needed anybody back then, I mean there was a war
going on. They just took anybody. Yeah, they didn't used
to have all these requirements for the military. I mean
back in the yeah, and the Civil War and stuff
like that. They you know, it didn't Matthew was sixty
years old. You'd go. And then eventually they started putting.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
In rules like you can't be five and joining the military.
That kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well you could, it couldn't be if you were the
only son in your family. You couldn't be drafted and
stuff like that. You could still sign up, but you
couldn't be drafted if you were the only son. And
so there was all kinds of rules and regulations and
effect and you know, then then they start there used
to be so many people want to go into military.
They could be pickyn't choosie. But you know, then it
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got to where there wouldn't that many people anymore. There
you go. It eventually got back to that level again.
But yeah, because I mean you imagine, if you've got
a club foot, you couldn't be in the military, or
if you had.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Just like small like colorblind, you can't be. I know
that's one.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I could see how that that could be.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
I think it's colorblind and you can't have like asthma
or allergies. I don't think. I'm not sure. I think
the allergies are like within reason because like what do
you do if you're on the field and you come
across the peanut you know what I mean? Like now
now what.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Well you know what I mean, what are you fighting
in Georgia?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
No, I don't know. Like if someone's eating a peanut
butter and sandwich and they have a peanut allergy, I
don't know, Like, like, what are you gonna do now
you're out? You're just out there bumming out? That's terrible.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Have we got the enemy coming over there? But we
got worse problems. There's a peanut field. Oh fuck, not
a peanut field.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Oh No, I mean, like, come on, there's so many
crazy things that you just gotta like the fine prints.
I'm telling you what. Wait, hold on, I know you
got to go, But I have one more question about
this gentleman. Okay, answer no, you probably definitely don't. But
did he also eat like human organs as well? Like
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do we know if he was doing that?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I didn't hear anything about human worlds.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Maybe that's what he was doing in the morgue. He
was fishing around looking for like just like organ and
they wouldn't know if it was like bagged up or something,
you know what I mean, Like, how would they know?
They probably?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I just couldn't imagine being in a situation where you
were so constantly hungry to where you just wanted to
eat anything and you felt the need to have to
do it. That would be a horrible situation to be in.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I would be like, fix me, now, fix me, now,
hurry up and fix me.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
He tried, nobody could fix him.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
It was also the seventeen hundreds. They didn't even know
what was happening. He was probably like twenty five when
he died. How old is how old was he when
he died?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You know what, I threw my paper weight. He was
born in seventeen seventy two and he died. Yeah, he
couldn't have been very old. I don't think he probably
mid thirties at most at best.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, so he didn't live super duper long.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah, because it just said several years later he got
a call and so I don't know what how long that.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Was severally he got a call for what the army.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Oh, the doctor got to call several years I was
in the hospital, So I don't know. I don't know
when that took place.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Can you imagine? But like how it Oh my god,
that's so crazy. I mean, like I said, I did
hear about this story, but like I just remember when
I was listening to the emphasize on how we ate
a baby. Maybe he didn't really eat a baby, but
stranger things.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
It was suspicious.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I mean, that's very suspicious.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Baby disappeared and he did. He had been going into
drinking blood and going into the morgue. So it's I
would say more than likely he probably ate the baby.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
But that's fucked up. God.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I mean, I wonder if he killed the baby first.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
I don't want to know. I don't even want to know.
Don't even say it out loud. Keep it in there.
He probably just we're just gonna he ate animals too,
so live ones. He didn't even cook him or anything.
You just ton't.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
I've been watching these videos from the Wilderness Men or
the Wilderness Cooking.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Oh. I think I've heard of this.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I've been posting some of it. I think it's in Cambodia.
I don't know it. It's obviously somewhere in Asia, but
they are. You know, they're out by the river and
they're just going out barefoot and shirtless and grabbing whatever
food and I'm just getting them and cooking them in
this giant walk. This is some of the most gross
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and and and it's not even the food. The food's
gross too, trust me. They're eating salamanders and broaches, bats.
They grabbed a bunch of bats up and started cooking
them and the bats weren't even dead yet. Put them
in a bag, and they are eating these things. And
they're eating bones and everything.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Eating bones, yes, unlike the bats.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
I don't have no idea how they're doing this and
the salamanders and all this stuff, but I'll send you
some videos.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Oh please, can't wait to see that.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
I'm hooked on them now. But anyways, it's like when
they eat, it's literally like they haven't eaten in six months.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I mean they're super skinny.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yes, but they know how to cook. I mean they
literally have and they know what YouTube is because they've
they've got to picture them holding their awards, the plaques
that YouTube sends for getting so many views and stuff
and the and the video quality is excellent quality.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
So they know what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
No, I mean they have like cutting boards and they're
cutting the spices up and stuff they put it. I mean,
they know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
They got a primitive you know, that's fucking wild. See,
no thank you, no thanks. I mean, like I was
watching a movie and it was just a movie, and
I forget the name of the movie, but like the
guy eats a tarantula like it's alive and just like
bites it and like all the goog comes out of it,
and I have to like fast forward through that part
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because it's disgusting. I'm like, and I have to like
fast forward through it because it's so gross. Like I
can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I'm gonna send you some videos.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
I love that for me, actually wait, have you have
you gone down the Britney Spears rabbit hole?
Speaker 1 (35:42):
No, not the recent one. Oh no, there's some stuff
after she tried to get a picture with that basketball
player in the France.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Yeah, but you hear she's like possibly an imposter. I
can't stop like watching all the videos.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
No, but you know that's coming out with Jimmie Fox.
Jimmy Fox might be in a look at these two
pictures of different he looks. I've seen the same thing
with Joe Biden. I've seen it with Uh Who's Who's
the chick that there's another conspiracy Avril Levine.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Oh yeah, she's supposedly like supposedly the real Avril's dead,
and she's like in like supposedly like it's like in
an album cover. She even like has it blatant in
your face, like I've seen it, and I'm just like,
oh my god, I got to stop doing this at midnight.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
That stuff's been going on for years. I mean, Paul
McCartney supposedly was dead. There were the there was the
PAULA was dead rumors back in like sixty seven or
something like that.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
I think that one's real because I've actually seen side
by sides, and the gentleman that replaced him does not
really look like the one that is deceased. And he's
dead for real now, I think too right, Like and
there are the Beatles, aren't there him?
Speaker 1 (36:52):
And Rne left?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Oh the imposter and Ringo gotcha?
Speaker 1 (36:56):
They called him faux Paul h Yeah, there was like
George Harrison. It's supposed been a documentary that was all
George Harrison. It wouldn't. It was somebody doing his voice,
but it was talking about how it all took place.
It was pretty cool, and it's almost impossible to find
these days. I saw it like ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
I remember seeing that stuff wild.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
And then you got Tupac. You know, people saying that
there's people saying that he wasn't really dead, and those
couple of albums that came out afterwards, it's just him
doing new music, it would and stuff from the vault.
And so these stories are always going to be around
the celebrities. Yeah, Elvis, Elvis has never died.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
He's actually you've seen and I know this is gonna
sound so bananas, but have you seen the photo of
this old guy who's always a Graceland? And they did
like a side by side of him and Elvison. They
aged Elvis and they're like sucking identical. It's creepy, and
it's probably not. It's probably just good genetics and they
look similar, but like you know what I mean, I'm like, oh,
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that's so weird. Like in this AI and everything else
out there, you don't really ever know what you're looking at.
But even so, it's just harder to get away with
stuff too, because everything's on the phones. Everything is everyone's
recording stuff. So I just feel like, like the whole
Britney Spears thing, you heard about her husband and how
he's got a screen screen room, care about this whole thing? Yeah,
(38:14):
if you look it up, it's fucked up. I'll send
you a video. And then there's another photo of him
posing with Britney Spears, but they like zoomed in on
his glasses and there's actually really nobody sitting next to him.
It's really weird.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Well, next week we're gonna we're gonna let you get
in detail with that, So brush up on it, little one.
Oh god, hey, that's what we're doing this show.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
That's you. You've got to remind me.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
I will remind you. I'll remind you in the middle.
I'll remind you on Monday.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Yeah, remind me on Monday, and then I can be like,
oh my god, have you heard about Princess Diana? And
then i'll get you going down that hole too.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
All right, So what's what we need to do? Just
a whole show and conspiracy theories because.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
They're nuts insane.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
All that rests us up for this week.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
All right. Well, you have a good rest of your week, buddy,
you too. Ah, right bye.
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