Two In The Think Tank - 159 - Tarrare, The Man Who Ate Anything

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Starting point is 00:01:23 You could start your new career in months, not years. Take classes online or on campus Visit PlanetBroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates Hello and welcome to another episode of do go on my name is Dave Wanuki and I'm here with Matt and Jess Where are you though? We are at a glass table. In London! Hey, here we are. I'm looking at a window and it's London out there. Big time. Yep. Look at that guy there, he's English as.

Starting point is 00:02:17 Hello, Gopna! There's this Bobby down there. Bobby, yeah, Bobby Fraser. Yeah, we know all the locals, we've met him. We'll be in here for about 36 hours, would you say? Yeah, where do we just went there to 22A Jump Street. Jump Street. Great film. Johnny Depp. What? He's a bad guy and that's all I have to sound the matter. That's in the old man version. Yes. What are we talking about? No, shake speed. Two 21B Baker Street is where we went today. No, no, no, 21B Baker Street. B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B popped off on you guys. And we went to the pub. Stop rubbing things on us.

Starting point is 00:03:05 Jess, don't make it weird. But it is, it's so cool to be here. It's a real, we're a little bit jet lagged. I think we got cocky because we thought we'd been it. Because when we got here... After 24 hours of travel. It's so far. I cannot stress enough how far away Australia is from everything, except other parts of Australia.

Starting point is 00:03:31 And even then, a lot of parts of Australia. Yeah, quite far away from where we are. So we travel for 24 hours. We got detained at the airport. Sure, it was for about 10 minutes, but I'll still tell people I got detained at the airport. And then we got here. Matt was in bed by 7. I was in bed by 7.30. We slept for 12 hours, and then we felt great, and we're like, we've done it. I felt like King of the World, I'm like, suck my dick, jet lag. Yeah, I was real cocky, and then last night we crashed pretty hard. And today I woke up

Starting point is 00:04:02 at 5 a.m. and did not go back to sleep. So I'm going to crash soon. I have already crashed. I feel we should explain and we were detained because there are a bit suspicious of three young beautiful comedians coming in, not because of any... I did not mention the young and beautiful part to be honest. We weren't smuggling drugs or anything. Oh yeah. And they found that out the hard way. The hard way for us. They're like, do you have any drugs in you? And we're like, modern, we played it coy. Yeah. Because we cute like that.

Starting point is 00:04:31 But anyway, we're here in London. It's wonderful to be here. We're excited. We love it. It's so great. Matt, did he stand up show? We met a lot of do-go-on listeners there. That was so, so, so cool.

Starting point is 00:04:40 I'm so, so cool. The Bill Murray. What a great comedy club. It was awesome. Yeah, so cool. Very cool. I was very jealous that London has such a cool comedy pub like that. Yeah. And the show was great.

Starting point is 00:04:52 We were very proud of you. Hey, weren't we Dave? I was so proud. We proud. That's probably the proudest. Yeah. It was fun looking across it at my comedy mum and dad over on the side there.

Starting point is 00:05:03 You kept giving us a few thumbs up like, huh? This is gone all right. I loved that, because I love attention. Even when it's the middle of your show, I like to getting a little bit of, a little bit of jest time. Well, I knew that, and I didn't want any outbreaks of rage or anger in the middle of the show.

Starting point is 00:05:19 That's so true, yeah. I knew it was such a poor hate you every now and then. You're part of it, you're part of it. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. I'm acknowledging you hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey show. Well, when this comes out. Oh, okay, yes. So don't panic. Oh, God. Jet lag. Because we're catching the train up to Edinburgh tomorrow. And you know, we were getting off the train and getting straight on the stage. What a way to do it.

Starting point is 00:05:55 Yeah, I mean, I have the train to run my report. I guess. Train to stage. Yeah. Train to stage. I like, I like. So that's very exciting. But before we do that, we've got a, well, I guess, a studio episode, not in studio that we're going to record here, right here, right now. It is my turn to report on a topic that neither of you know what I've chosen.

Starting point is 00:06:17 It's exciting. That's a, yeah, as we do every week. Yeah. And the excitement never wears off. Every week, it is as exhilarating as the last. I think from now on, we should do it in a never wears off every week. It is as exhilarating as the last. Yes. I think from now on we should do it in a different Capital City every week. Oh, that'd be great. In the next week. Yes Paris the week after. Oh, okay Do we ever get to go home or Cairo? Okay, that's a no. We're not going home. No, no

Starting point is 00:06:41 We're traveling for the rest of our lives. It's gonna be great. How are we gonna fund this? There's so many questions here Dave I'll work it out there. We're traveling for the rest of our lives. It's going to be great. How are we going to fund this? There's so many questions here, Dave. I'll work it out there, I'm worrying. Okay. Okay, so I've got a question to get us on to topic. This is our first post-block episode. Oh yeah, I'm going to have a bit of a block downer. But let's not let that down a last. Let's welcome to Blow Vemba. Blow Vemba. Oh! Where we all do the drug blow which is Naisley inhaled

Starting point is 00:07:08 cocaine Thanks grandpa Cool then yeah, I'm right It's also I mean bloke can be a lot of things this can also be a cash song cash song. It's all funny depth film going like this A Kesha song. Kesha song, it's also a Johnny Depp film. Going like this. I'm picking that up on the mic and I'm luckin'. Yeah, you bring out what I'm blowing down.

Starting point is 00:07:30 One of your thousand noises is just blowing. Yeah, I'm a big bad wolf. That's why they call me the big bad wolf. Back. Yeah, I'm huffin' and I'm a puffin'. That was a question. All right. My question for you is bid abstract because I don't think you get the topic but it's fun. It's a bit of fun. My question is if you had to eat your body weight in one food, what would it be?

Starting point is 00:08:01 I mainly went to peanut butter but that would be awful. Look, I don't want to guess you wait, but kilos of peanut butter is not fun. How dare you! Assume I wait kilos. Well, I could have gone with tons. Stone? My dad's soup. Anyway, yeah. You get that measure of things in stone.

Starting point is 00:08:20 It's a lot of kilos of peanut butter, and it's a lot of... I mean, it's a lot of kilos of peanut butter and it's a lot of I mean it's a lot of kilos of anything Well played water can it be water Now it's gotta be solid. Yeah, it's Okay, we're not often fork No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Yeah, bread It's not in one sitting is it just like well it really should be oh should be but is it I'm gonna say I'm gonna say this is a hot dog eating contest No, but possibly a pretty cursor to that before the hot dog eating contest

Starting point is 00:09:04 Many hundreds of years earlier. There was I'm gonna this is the topic the world's greatest eater a man from France named Tera Ray topic, the world's greatest eater, a man from France named Terraray. Terraray. And I'm going to give you the report on the history of this big eating life. Wow. You got a big farmer. I'm talking about big eating. Yeah, big farmers on the big farms. So before I tell you them, feel this topic was suggested by many people have suggested suggested this really it's been suggested by Kevin Dylan from Ireland Lauren from South Carolina Zoe from Melbourne Davis Pearson from Yakima Nitish Batch from St. Louis Alex from Cleveland Danny Francis from the Netherlands and Lisa Honeyford from Hamilton that's a worldwide topic very international Louis and Louis so Louis that's embarrassing I'm pretty sure he's a human at. Very international. Lewis or St. Louis? St. Louis. That's embarrassing. I'm pretty sure. He's a human atlas as well. I think it's

Starting point is 00:09:49 St. Louis. Damn it. I am atlas. I wanted to correct you, but your confidence defeated me once again. Well, that's that's how you win arguments. You pretend to be more confident. Something that you really should be. Faker to you make it. Baby. All right. So this is a call me right? I thought we're actually recording a video of this and I just look straight down the barrel and that was me calling the camera baby Don't ever call the camera baby. No, who could it who can I call baby? No one a baby maybe Seems gonna weird to yell baby at a baby. Well, if you it's like a fresh baby that they haven't decided on a name yet. Fresh baby.

Starting point is 00:10:26 It technically is called baby. I'm allowed to yell baby. Or when somebody puts baby in the corner, you're allowed to call that person, baby. Yeah, I yell that when baby tries to turn around. Baby! Back in the corner. Back in the corner, I'm the person who puts baby

Starting point is 00:10:40 in the corner. That's you, your body. You would be that type, I reckon. I haven't seen that, maybe. Oh, you're masked, you're simply masked. Even I don't know how that dresser don't. Had the time of my life. Yes.

Starting point is 00:10:55 I've never felt it. I've never felt it. I've got to tell you, the dancing is so dirty. Oh yeah. It was a little bump in and grinding. Yeah, they're in mud. Oh, OK. Yeah. Oh, you thought like Do you know that I just thought they were fucking no?

Starting point is 00:11:10 Absolutely not dancing in mud. They're fucking in mud Oh, that's fucking mud fucking mud crabs of a mud. Okay All right, here we go. Sorry. We've gone off early But I've also gotten this person's name to Ra Ra Raare. That's quite a nice name, isn't it? Love it. A Tarrare was born in near Lyon in France in 1772. It's a bit like Ferrari, but different. We don't know his real name, but he's just known to history as Tarrare.

Starting point is 00:11:37 It's not 100% clear why, but Bombom Tarrare was a popular French expression at the time, used to describe powerful explosions and it may have been applied to Terare because of his prodigious flatulence. Oh my God Dave, you threatened a priest with an explosion. Yes, when I said bom bom. He was like, oh my God, this is a terrorist attack. You just whispered a term on the way out of the chair. Dave, you're on a blacklist somewhere.

Starting point is 00:12:04 Yeah, I'm just like, I just said to him, explosion. What? The people who don't know, quite a while back, Dave, told us to, when he was in France and he was trying to fake French on the way out. So he sold a priest, a phrase that he thought sounded French because he's panicked. Yeah, I sat there for two or three hours in a service and like, I didn't understand a word, I didn't want him to know that I had not appreciated the service. So, uh...

Starting point is 00:12:28 You sat there for a long time, too. I just went, I knew what else would have just nodded. Yeah, I would have gone for a nod. I wouldn't have sat for two or three hours to be honest, I would have excused myself and if anybody gave me a way to look, I would have just clashed my bum. And said, bomb, bomb bomb, tarare. I have prodigious flatulence. And they would have said thank you. If you're excusing yourself. We.

Starting point is 00:12:56 So, bum bomb or tarare also could have just been his stage name because he was born to be a star. A star. This kid is going to be a star. And boy could that star eat? Fat, oh. Eat. Which caused him to fart.

Starting point is 00:13:09 We don't know too much about his childhood, but we do know that he was always hungry. At the age of 17, he could eat a quarter of a cow on his own. New. And this was despite weighing a mere 100, 100 pounds, which is 45 kilos and considerably less than me. And I struggled to eat a quarter of a chicken. Yeah, that was your comedy weight, that wasn't a 45?

Starting point is 00:13:30 No, 52 was my comedy weight. Your comedy weight. He used to, yeah, when he's comedy fit, he's down to 52. That's right, but since giving up comedy, or stand up, it's, you know, I don't mind looking, looking quite fat, as I do now. You'd be hitting the saw on us before we'd come back.

Starting point is 00:13:47 Oh, that's right. Gotta get down. They won't let me on stage. You know, yeah, they way you before you go on stage. Oh, I know. Yeah, it's brutal. So he's skinny, but can eat a quarter of a cow, which is the equivalent of being able to consume his own weight in beef, which is why I asked you what you would, what you would definitely not beef. It's a rifices and an over and friends they call

Starting point is 00:14:08 it both. Is that true? It's true. It is true. It's just a doubt. But I don't think they say like you do. It's one of the things where if you go to a bus, you go to France and you try and say their language and you think you're nailing it and they still look at you like Sorry, what yeah, what are you trying to buff? Oh? You're trying to say balls Yeah, I'm like I'll come on. That was so close. Yeah It's like in a French person speaking English. Obviously, they're still speaking English with a French accent You know, I like sorry. I have no idea what you're saying. What is a liberary?

Starting point is 00:14:47 Liberary. Do it. Maybe in the middle, please. Please. Do I tell you? Say it after me. Why? Barry. Why, Barry?

Starting point is 00:14:56 Why, Barry? We're going down the law, Barry. Liberary. What the... What did you do? I don't tell you about it. Someone else in Paris has done this walking tour and the scar Suns about the the bobo's with like the Bohemian something there was two different things and I was sort of like hipster Bohemians and I and then this guy walk past was very similar. He described and I said a bobo and he goes

Starting point is 00:15:20 Sorry like a Is he a bobo? I think I don't What are you trying a Bobo? I said oh a Bobo Yes, yes, the thing we were just talking about and I clearly pointed out a guy You've definitely Told us that story and I'm really hoping that it's been on air so listens are going. Yes. Yeah Matt. I probably is. I'm so furious. Now it's a great walk. I'm fair enough.

Starting point is 00:15:49 Great walk. It's a great car. And you saw Bambas. Yeah. So that's a win. Yeah. It was the red light district. There was a lot of Bambas. Well, it was the red light district. Okay. Ferrari may have been a bumble. We're not sure. But despite its small size in many ways He was he was built to eat He had baby we were born to eat Yum yum yum yum

Starting point is 00:16:15 No, no, no, no And we perfected that joke That's a team effort He had he had an incredibly large mouth. Oh, okay. And he's putting the mic on his mouth. He did it. No, my teeth getting the way. Oh, Jeff looks like a snake. Go again. Yeah, it doesn't feel good. I reckon that we just chose which marks are gonna be our own one forever. Yeah, I'm gonna mark this one, yeah.

Starting point is 00:16:47 I'm gonna mark this one, yeah. He also had our belly, any lips, which man he was able to... What does that mean? He had one? Belly, any lips. Oh, it is very thin, I'm in. Thin lips. Which, for some reason, he was able to wolf down large meals with ease,

Starting point is 00:17:03 because of his life, because you know when you're eating your lips getting the what Is this one of those things where I was like it was so early in history that people weren't didn't know that animals and people were different and I was like a snake came to town I'm like oh this is you got in town pretty pretty quiet but he's quite bloody loves it It's his body weight Look at that he just had a quarter of a cow. It was only last century that discovered the difference between animals and people. There's a story because there's a story told on primates a while ago about this town in England where a shipwreck came.

Starting point is 00:17:39 It was a French shipwreck and a monkey washed up on shore and they thought it was a French man and they hanged him. That's true? Yeah, it's got Hartley pool. I've said I pronounced that wrong in the first place and people were furious. Listen to Prime mates and hear me muck that up. I've got a lot of tweets about it. I think I said Hartle pool, but it's Hartley pool. Okay, and their sporting teams are still called the monkey hangers. For a long time, it was like, it was a... I mean, the look of shock on Jess in my face right now. Yeah, it's not wild.

Starting point is 00:18:12 So for a long time, that was like a bit of a put down, but it's one of those ones that come back around and they're sort of vaguely proud of it. It shouldn't have come back around. They hang a monkey. Yeah, we hanged a monkey. We fucked a monkey, whatever. Wait, it is way there in that case, dude.

Starting point is 00:18:28 When people like, it's used against you but then you try and reclaim it. Yeah. So what about a fucked a monkey? We'll call the team the monkey fuckers, whatever. It's like, all right. Nobody wants to play for the monkey fuckers. We're not getting away.

Starting point is 00:18:40 All right, fine. The monkey hangers. Okay, great. The monkey lovers. The monkey. I hangers. Hmm? Okay, great. The monkey lovers. The monkey. I think it was the other French spoiler. That's so weird. I mean, how do they explain the tale?

Starting point is 00:18:52 Yeah. Yeah, there's a darker explanation which one to do, because it makes me sad. But, oh, it's a while ago. But, yeah, there's, they've got statues around the town, including one that's clearly a chimp. It's not a monkey. Your whole town is built around the identity, including one that's clearly a chimp. It's not a monkey. Your whole town

Starting point is 00:19:06 is built around the identity of monkey hangers and the statue for the monkey hangers is a chimp ANSI, which is an ape. It does matter. But it does, doesn't it? Yeah, it really does. It bothers you. Let's get back to the Ada. What you were talking about him being a snake, being a snake for a man, well, Tara, he could apparently separate his two jaws, or his just his jaws, should say, by up to 10 centimeters or four inches, that's the gap he could get. So he probably get all three of these microphones in. Wow.

Starting point is 00:19:37 That's f**k's. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He also had a large belly that hung so low that he could wrap it around his waist when it was empty. So he had a lot of skin going on. What? That doesn't make any sense. Yeah. It was also like having a big mouth and a big stomach is fine, but if there's a big bottle neck in the middle,

Starting point is 00:19:57 then it's not, you're not going to be able to eat that fast, right? So he must also have a huge snake like a suffocated. Yes, the opposite of me, because I have many bottlenecks. Yeah. That's what stops me from eating. Have you gone public about that? Yeah, I'm sure about how you have it stretched out by a doctor. Yeah, I've talked about it on this part.

Starting point is 00:20:17 I still have a poison wound. Yeah. You're the real hero here, Dave. Thank you so much. Basically, if I do need to explain it to Cascas, this does sound weird out of context. A few years ago, I discovered that the reason I'd been eating slowly in my whole life was because in my suffocates,

Starting point is 00:20:32 I have several narrowing passages that are called a soft geolwebs or a soft geolrings. You got a web to suffocate. I got a web to suffocate. It's basically end up to sort that out. They put you to sleep, put the camera down there, which it sort that out they put you to sleep put the camera down there Which they couldn't it was so tight they couldn't even get the camera down there so they stretched it out They put a balloon down there called a bogey and then they inflated

Starting point is 00:20:52 It's like American army talk isn't it for a bomb? And they said the bogey or something some sort of American army anyway, but the bogey is landed the bogey Yeah, maybe that's for the president or something. Oh the president's the bogey. It's what they call Trump. He's the bogey. Bogey. Because he's, yeah, he's not a great co-oper. Yeah. He's the triple bogey.

Starting point is 00:21:12 On every hole. Oh, he's on the calling card. This is Tarrarae, not Trump. Was his stench? Oh, God, this poor guy. He's stunk big time. What the... Oh, this poor person. I mean, he's eating a big time. What the oh this poor person?

Starting point is 00:21:25 I mean he's eating a quarter of a cow in a day. That's not a recipe for a beautiful scent apparently sweating all the time in an age before Deodorant and bathing he was not a guy you wanted to be close to. It's for bathing? Yeah, they didn't bathe. Yeah, surely you know that at all. Yeah people They didn't bathe. Yeah, surely you know that. At all. Yeah, people didn't bathe. Why? What do you think people are having baths and chowls?

Starting point is 00:21:51 No, I know. It doesn't make a shame. Yeah, you just splashed some water on yourself. I know there was a time where people were worried that it would be bad for you. Oh my god, that's so dumb. Caron Day, England. current day in England. Looking out the window. No, it's a very beautifully centred country.

Starting point is 00:22:08 It's very subtle. I've been sniffing about and it is good. I did mean to say this and I was going to do it off-pod, but stop smelling the locals. It's not customary here. It's rude. It smells great though. They smell great and you can subtly smell them if you're standing behind someone on a bus Right, but stop going up to waiters and and and and they say table for three you go

Starting point is 00:22:34 Yes, we'll take the three. I always sniff before I make a booking You're like Table for no thanks. Yeah, that's terrible. Yeah. Come on, guys. I'm not going to eat here. What have you had a quarter of a counter date? Well, according to a report in the London Medical...

Starting point is 00:22:52 Well, they all stink, though. Yeah. But he's particularly bad. Oh, that's bad, if you're the worst of a stinky bunch. Oh, dear. I guess there'd be normal as well. If everyone stinks, Does anyone stink? One of the things I think about when you go back in time,

Starting point is 00:23:08 like a few hundred years, and you know when before that surge and they just sort of throwing buckets of shit into the street, I just think any modern day person would probably pass out instantly for a smell. Because they're obviously more used to it, as used to it as any human can get to this. No, I'd just kill myself. Oh. Immediately. Yeah, that'll just kill myself. Oh.

Starting point is 00:23:25 Immediately. Yeah, that's the problem. I always think that like, you know, time travel would be so fun to go and see a Shakespeare play or something, but yeah, everything about the time apart from maybe the Shakespeare play. And I don't even like Shakespeare. So anything, so really nothing.

Starting point is 00:23:39 Yeah. There's nothing. Like you could even 10 years back, I think, would be, there'd be so many things you're like, oh, I don't like this about that. Yeah, it smells terrible. We'll move forward. It smells like Link's nothing. And like, you could even 10 years back, I think, would be, there'd be so many things you're like, oh, I don't like this about that. Yeah, it smells terrible. We'll move forward. It smells like Link's Africa. I'd go back to the 80s.

Starting point is 00:23:51 Yeah, smoking everywhere, is that what you're about? Might be my number one. I'm sure I'll smoke everywhere and get a pin. Look, I'll live through it and it was good. Yeah, all the time. All right, I remember. I and it was good. Yeah, more time. I remember, I'm sure I remember something, Perms. Do you remember the concept of Perms? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:24:12 OK, cool man. Dab to go on. According to a report in the London Medical and Physical Journal, quite he often stank to such a degree that he could not be endured within the distance of 20 pesos. I love endured, isn't it? That's outstanding. Is everyone stinks?

Starting point is 00:24:30 Well, he was constantly sweating and not surprisingly, according to some sources, he had almost constant diarrhea. Adding to the smell, apparently, his shits were nasty. But so they wait, when you say constant diarrhea, is he just shitting himself all the time? That's why you can eat 45 kilos of beef. This is a constant flow. It's also why I was a very fast runner.

Starting point is 00:24:49 He was sort of jet propelled. Yes. It's projectile diarrhea. What? Yeah, what? Did he consider that his bad diet might have played a part, or he just didn't put that together at all? Well, his appetite was so insatiable that at around this age,

Starting point is 00:25:04 and his late teens, his parents kicked him out of their house, complaining that they could no longer afford to keep him. Well, this is a real sad life. So, Tarrara made his way through the countryside, living as best he could, which meant begging, stealing, and occasionally just rummaging through the trash.

Starting point is 00:25:20 So he wanted to work, and he needed to eat. So why not eat to work? Yeah. I love this. You got to play these drinks. True. He became a traveling showman, quickly becoming famous as the man who could eat anything. Oh, he fell in with a band of thieves and performers who would travel across France, putting on their different acts and supplementing their incomes by pickpocketing the audience. Good, yeah. That's why the hand that feeds you. It's a way of guaranteeing that they're going to put something in the hat.

Starting point is 00:25:50 He literally did that. He would eat the hands. Wow. They look down the missing finger. Wow. Tarrarae could swallow anything. Any's acting would swallow. Corks, stones, and live animals' whole, all for the joy and disgust of the crowd.

Starting point is 00:26:07 Live animals' whole. Oh, that's not nice. Yeah, according to allthat'sinteresting.com, great website. Quote, his massive deformed jaw would swing open so wide that he could pour a whole basket of apples down his mouth and hold half a dozen of them in his cheeks like a chipmunk. That is not true. It can't be true. Unless apples back then would grape size, that's not true Dave.

Starting point is 00:26:32 It's true. All that's interesting and true. We've really got on board that word, sorry. I then left the group of travelling vagabonds, love that word, to take up employment with a travelling quote, doctor, and I do not mean a good doctor. Tarrari would swallow stones and live animals to draw attention to this traveling charlatans

Starting point is 00:26:54 dubious medical cures, basically, to help himself stuff. And I'm not sure how swallowing animals would help, but I guess he would yell, I swallowed a pigeon, I'm cute. Yes. And then what, the doctor would go, Do you think they'll go a pigeon? You can all buy, and everyone else is trying to swallow a pigeon, it's absolutely impossible. It's like, why are we buying this doctor's pigeons?

Starting point is 00:27:13 They're everywhere, flying rats. Yeah, but these are swallowable pigeons. Yeah, pigeons. They're even coated in gelatin. Come on. Easy to digest. They just slide right on down. Oh, Conan Jelladon, all that's made from animal stomachline anxiety. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:27:29 Ah, wait. That's made from boiling bones. I don't do that. Just give me the pigeon Jelladon free, please. I'll choke it down. Thank you. Yeah. So he's eating all sorts of stuff as a performer. Now, you're going to eat like that. Eventually, it's going to catch up with you somehow. One day something got... What, eating stones isn't gonna be great for you long term. Get out of town, Dave. Very hard to do, yes.

Starting point is 00:27:53 I love these traveling with a doctor. And the doctor's like, eat that stone. I'll sell something and this will be good. Oh, for me. It's not good at all. Well, one day something got caught. Yeah. And he had to be treated for a bowel obstruction. He needs to poop. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:28:12 After being treated by a surgeon, he offered to show off his talents by swallowing the surgeon's watch and chain. What? When will you learn? The surgeon was not amused and allegedly replied that he would cut Tarrari open with his sword if he had to to recover his valuable possession. Why a sword, surgeon?

Starting point is 00:28:29 Surely you have a skull. I his doctor was Zoro. Oh, perfect. He only does Z in surgery. I'd be okay with that. Yeah. Couple of triangle flaps. Oh, stomach.

Starting point is 00:28:42 You'd be, well you just said you'd be okay with that. I'm not going to think about it. I thought of it more like just a scar in a shape of triangle flaps. Oh, stop it. Well, you just said you'd be okay with that. I'm not gonna think about it. I thought of it more like just a scar in a shape of a zit. Yeah, but there'd be other things like, oh, no, I've got a cut on my leg that needs a, that needs to be stitched and he'd be like, well, I'm afraid I only do inscriptions. I've got a splinter doctor.

Starting point is 00:29:03 Oh, I don't have a finger anymore. Thank you, doctor. Thank you. After he's stripped of the hospital, the medical community began to monitor his unique abilities. They began to study him in the hopes of identifying the cause of his eating behavior. Your neck's not a great word, is it? It's a word that... Not when you're seeing a doctor. Oh, that's exactly what I got when I got the Asophagus thing. You make. Went to a specialist and I'm like, oh yeah, how, you know, like, what do you do usually in the situation?

Starting point is 00:29:33 He goes, oh, I'm not really sure. I've never seen this before in someone in a young person. I'm like, oh, okay. And he's like, yeah, I'll have to consult some people. And I said, if this doesn't work, what are you doing? He's like I'll have to make some calls I'm not sure. Oh that doesn't instill confidence It's funny. It's like black your way through mate. Come on just black it make me feel good Yeah, I'll be fine. We've got a few options. Yeah, I got a few options

Starting point is 00:30:01 I might have to send you to it another guy. I know who's really great and deals with this stuff. That's how I would do it. Basically, he was like, yeah, I've been a specialist for 25 years and I've never seen this. That's pretty cool. I'm going to have the operation. He brought a friend in who was visiting from England. He's like, oh, this is another surgeon.

Starting point is 00:30:20 He's here to observe the procedure. Basically, you're a freak show kid, and this guy wants to watch. Yeah. Don't blame him. Is that why we're in here in England to get revenge? Yeah, that's right. We're going to track this guy down. And I'm going to perform surgery on his esophagus.

Starting point is 00:30:35 Love it. See how he likes it with a sword. So basically, the medical community are absolutely in love with Tarrarae they they've never seen anything like it But science wasn't super advanced back then So basically all that would happen is they would give him different things to eat just to see what would happen to him So and being a person who never ever felt full you're gonna try anything to satisfy your hunger There was almost nothing he wouldn't eat things he ate were not limited to a live eel a snake

Starting point is 00:31:09 What a what a range so far Different type of eel a door snake he apparently ate a cat Alive cat. I mean I'm not much of a cat person, but that's still fun. Is that, as I do things on your list, a cat? And a lot of cats. No, it was a lot of fun. You're going to go, how many things are you going to go through here, if you think? He also ate a huge dinner that was meant to feed 15 laborers, including two enormous meat

Starting point is 00:31:39 pies and four gallons of milk. That's a lot of milk. Oh, yuck, no. That's like over 10 liters. That's too much milk. I want to drink two liters of chocolate big M. What? In one?

Starting point is 00:31:51 Why? I was on break at a supermarket, and I was on special. And I was basically a challenge. You want to die right here? No, I got so fast through it. I reckon I got two thirds of what I said, and I was like, I gotta go for it. And there's a few it, so I said I was like, I gotta go for it.

Starting point is 00:32:06 And I was a few other people in the room, they're like, you gotta go for it. The tea room's all behind me, and I'm just pouring them. Oh, into the glass, two very sophisticated stuff. You're all like that. Basically, shotting the smell. You're not like sipping it over a long time. Yeah, yeah, it was in a 15 minute break. And I finished it, and then I stood up, I tucked the chair in, I walked into a run,

Starting point is 00:32:30 to the bathroom and just it all came straight back out, out the mouth. And then back to work. Back to work. Sort of dusted my hands up. And then you got back to pushing trouble. Back to pushing trouble. No, that was... Yeah, that is... I think...

Starting point is 00:32:47 That was a wasted break. I realized that was too much milk. Probably too much milk and too much sugar in one quick... Yeah, good point. I forget about the sugar side of things. Yeah, it was fine. What a time. Like, teenage boys... Or teenage humans, probably, just can eat. And it doesn't.

Starting point is 00:33:02 Like, I used to eat a six-pack of donuts. Or it'd probably add six-pack of donuts, or would have probably had six-pack of donuts and that milk. Oh, yeah, you had, I had friends who'd regularly 12 pieces of toast for breakfast. 12. Yeah, you said.

Starting point is 00:33:14 How many minutes do you spend toasting? Yeah, two. Yeah, that's like half a loaf of bread. I'd have three big salad sandwiches, cheese and salad sandwiches for lunch at school. So it's been the first half a lunch I'm just sitting in. It cares you don't know how eating salmon. Oh, sorry, that will definitely grow some people out. Some people can't handle that sound. Other people listen to it to go to sleep. Asamara. Yeah, that's weird. I asked Mr. Whatever it is.

Starting point is 00:33:45 That's weird. What else is weird? The shit this guy's on. I don't think anything is as weird ever in the world than this story or telling this right now. Oh, it's amazing and fucked. I wanted to finish off. After he ate the 15 men's worth of food.

Starting point is 00:33:59 He ate 15 men's worth of food. He went into some sort of food coma for a few hours. We've all been there. Every Christmas. Oh, Christmas, it's so hard to keep your eyes open. Christmas, I can know. But then I go back for dessert every time. Doesn't it, don't you feel like a real failure now though? Like that's a food coma. Well, yeah. What other way of having it like, you know, a food light nap. Yeah. Oh, what did you have? A couple of roast potatoes. Yeah. Yeah, what did you have a couple of roast potatoes? Yeah, ooh. Oh man, like three salads.

Starting point is 00:34:26 Take a hike. Have an eel and talk to me. Oh, yuck. Have 12 liters of milk and we'll talk. No, absolutely not. Never, no, yuck. I can handle two. Is it six times that amount?

Starting point is 00:34:38 Oh, gross. And that's just like to wash things down. You just ate the table. Just sounds like he's just, I'm picturing a snake man. He's just like dropping his lower jaw and just, I'm imagining that multi-pie and character. Oh yeah, I see that.

Starting point is 00:34:56 A whether, a scene. Better get a bucket. I appear to have stepped in Monsieur's bucket. So close, it's so good in there. I love. John Cleese is so good at that. Another English topic we did, we'll draw a listing before all the English topics were done. And there's so many London things, we're going to try and get to as many of the land as we can possibly do. We're not going to knock them all off, but we did go to 221 A Baker Street. And then we also went to 221 B Baker Street.

Starting point is 00:35:23 Which was in many ways more interesting. And more relevance. Yeah, that was less queues at A, though. I just got straight to the front. We're just knocking on some person's door. Yeah, that was... Hello! Let me insure Luxnapour.

Starting point is 00:35:37 Have you ever met him? What's he like? Answer me! And I was... Is this guy called Dr. Watson? Like a boring... Yeah. back to the other cute. Yon! We literally yonned in his face.

Starting point is 00:35:50 So Terraré is being studied, but then the Napoleonic Wars broke out and Terraré enlisted to fight for his country. Bit of a patriot. I love that. He enlisted in the War of the First Coalition in France, where France took on the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Britain, Spain, Portugal, and the Dutch Republic all at the same time, and one.

Starting point is 00:36:11 Really? So where is this in the Roman Empire's history? Obviously right at the end. No, this is the 1700s. So what's the Holy Roman Empire doing? That's just at this stage, it's just like a couple of blocks in Italy. Yeah, well, I mean, it's just like a couple of blocks in Italy. Yeah, well, I mean, it's precursor to Italy really, yeah. But it's a Roman Empire. So France is really, it's taken on everyone at the same time and winning. Love that. At this stage anyway. But this is in no way thanks to our friend Tarrare, because he didn't end up fighting. He wasn't physically able to.

Starting point is 00:36:42 He helped out his fellow soldiers to carry out their day-to-day tasks and then ate their rations as compensation. The army tried to keep him going by quadrupling his rations, giving him four times as much food as any other soldier, and then he ate other soldiers snacks. Why was he important enough to them to waste so much food? I don't know, I guess they just wanted to become a... He's a really good hacker. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:37:04 But he still ended up in the military hospital because no matter what he ate, hungry, hungry hacker. Hacking back then was like hacksawing, chopping people apart. Yeah, he was a magician. No matter what he ate, he's out of time. Can I have a volunteer? You ill. Getting my box.

Starting point is 00:37:24 Oh, where's he putting that eel? That was gross. Now that was gross. He had a live cat with that. Hey Dave, can you read it out the bit where I asked the dumb question about the Roman Empire? No. Fuck. So basically, he ended up in hospital because no matter how much further gave him it,

Starting point is 00:37:45 this wasn't enough to keep him going and he didn't have enough energy. There wasn't an attempt to take advantage of his talents when they tried to use him as a spy and a courier. So he started eating the evidence. HUM, NUM, NUM, NUM, NUM, NUM. Actually not that far from the truth. Yes! To prove that he could eat anything, Terrari was asked to eat 30 pounds of raw liver and cows lungs as a demonstration. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Basically his mission was they fed him a wooden box with a secret message inside and then let nature take its course

Starting point is 00:38:26 And he they would fish it out of the latrine how big is his bottle Pippin wooden boxes I imagine being the poor imagine being the guy that was assigned on the way out That now that would look like a snake like dropping his jaw That now that would look like a snake like dropping as jaw Not your butt his butt. Come on. Sorry. I don't want a big love up here Imagine being the the boy young soldier that they're like all right Can you just fish out of the latrine the box that they got just shut up? We need it, but then again he always had, so you don't have to shift through solid shifts.

Starting point is 00:39:06 I'm like, a wooden box would make itself pretty. You just hose it down a bit and then grab it. Did you like that's the thing that I think? Do they have rubber gloves back there? I don't know, this is a gross, sir. I don't know how to tell it. But I once, when I was a toddler, I had a coin and my parents had to make sure it came out.

Starting point is 00:39:24 Yeah. No good. So I'll regret saying that but it days and days of examining just in case it was that day yeah I guess when it's a toddler they probably you touch the bottom metal detector Oh, this kid's shit in the heaps of coins. He's paying out. This is a gold bar. Gold bar. So they did a test run and it seemed to work okay. And then another at the French Army headquarters on the Rhine, when Napoleon himself, may or may not have been present two options there

Starting point is 00:40:07 I'm gonna say may All right still love it confirmed. He still may have been there. Yeah. All right. I won't I won't commit may or may not May I have been there may have been? So an operation an Operation per box was given the green light. That's not what it was called. They did not call it that. Or should I say the brown light? You didn't call it that, they called it that. Dave, you wrote that joke, didn't you?

Starting point is 00:40:34 Yes, I did. And you were very proud of it. Bloody good stuff. What noise did you make when you wrote it? You spoke over it, so probably probably you'd probably read it. Dave, sorry. But I didn't get it.

Starting point is 00:40:44 When I don't get a joke, I don't respect a joke. Oh, yeah, if you've got to explain a joke. I'll just edit it in here. And Operation Proof Box was given the green light. Or should I say, brown light. I get it now. I missed the set up there. Thank you so much.

Starting point is 00:40:57 That was what the key part I missed was the green light light. And do you still think it's a good joke? I don't think it's a good joke. But I get it. I mean, yeah. I mean, is it a joke might be a stretch? I mean, there's seven or a couple of sentences back to back. It's a quality joke.

Starting point is 00:41:10 That is a good joke, Dave. I was just trying to be cool for just saying. Yeah, be cool for me. I'll just try to win just a respect. I'm just trying to be cool for just saying. Play it cool, Matt. I reckon she's starting to respect you. Hey, she can't hear me.

Starting point is 00:41:24 She's not wearing headphones, but I am. Yeah, you can hear me. I can hear me. Can you hear me? You're not wearing headphones either. He said that. Can he? But I don't know who's saying it. What are you guys talking about? Respect. Cool man. I love that song. I've said cool man too many times today. Cool man. Jess, I think you're starting to win mad over by saying cool man to reckon. Yeah I just want him to respect you starting to respect you. Yes. I respect everyone. Thanks Dave That's why you're my favorite. Okay, so Operation Poobox Given the brown light. Yes, and it definitely wasn't called Poobox. Well, it's probably called. What are they called?

Starting point is 00:42:00 Man, man box. Man head. It's a mad shit shit I think box is box. Box. Mono equals one. Rale equals rail. All right. Had to get a Simpson's back. Yeah, he got it.

Starting point is 00:42:14 Now you're going to do what you're going to do. His first mission, which he chose to accept, was to deliver a message to a French Colonel who was held prisoner behind enemy line in a Prussian fortress. Okay. So he has to deliver a message. So he gets his way to that person, pops a squat, shits in front of them, and then reads the note out to him.

Starting point is 00:42:36 His memory is awful. That's the thing you don't have to know about. Hands in the box secretly. They think he's just handing over any old piece of poo, but really, inside that poo is a box, and inside that box is a note. And on that note, it says, remember to wash your hands. And then on the note, it says, just listen to this guy's got a message for you. Well, apparently, you would be surprised to know this didn't end up working out. Yeah, because we just explained that it's stupid. Not I've actually got written here

Starting point is 00:43:06 And not just because she didn't message is an insane plan But the real hole In the plan but hold was sending to Raro who only spoke French into Prussian territory where they speak German He was almost immediately captured and tortured Tarar I thought he had swallowed a really important top secret message. Oh my God, it's just going to be like call your mother or pick up milk or something. Apparently all it said was quote, if you hear anything about Prussian movements report back. Movements, bowel movements. Oh my God, that was so pointless. Basically, it says if you hear something, let us know. That's kind of implied in your ways, isn't it?

Starting point is 00:43:45 You think that this kernel would probably be thinking many minutes. Kind of been sitting on all these big wall segues that would end it all. What do I do with all this information? No one's told me to tell anyone. I'll wait for the operation to books. Which I assume is happening. So the Proshans found out about the plan. Then they found out it was only a test message and that it was meaningless so they let him

Starting point is 00:44:06 go. This is for our right. At first he was sentenced to death, but after a mock execution and a bit of a beating he was allowed to go home. So they did let him go. Is a mock execution when they just like stand in front of you pointing and insulting you? Yeah, you're standing. You stand on the next round your neck.

Starting point is 00:44:24 Yeah. And nice hangy guts, you're dildo. It's basically like an 18th century roast. Yeah. Tell me you still got it. That's a great, I hate roasts. Yeah, I don't enjoy them. They're so popular in America. I hate them with a passion.

Starting point is 00:44:40 I think they are very lame. Apparently still, like, I was listening to someone talk about a reason They're like still one of the highest rating comedy shows on American TV and one of the few places that you can Quickly become a star. It used to be Carson now the closest equivalent is probably the roast is that what someone was I hate it. It's so mean and they all seem like such lame scripted jokes. Oh, yeah, Jerry Seinfeld, yeah. You'd finally get the taste of George Costanza's dick out of your mouth. It's like that is pretty funny.

Starting point is 00:45:13 What? Yeah, they know it's not where you go. All right, so you're either I'm going to make fun of you because you're fat, you're old, you're a slut, or you're, man, that's it, they're the three. They're the big three. Yeah. Or you've had some kind of trouble with the law.

Starting point is 00:45:30 Right, or your face looks funny. Or something. It's some real shallow, shallow burn and usually probably doesn't it. It's just like they're just, it's awful. It's a variation of similar jokes you've heard a million times. So I feel bad for this guy for having a mock roast. Basically because he's sitting there cringing. But it's got to be something more to it for them to be so popular, right?

Starting point is 00:45:53 Yeah. I haven't watched many to be honest. Because they're too cringey, I don't like it. Yeah, right. So I won't watch. I think maybe it's the kind of thing that might be more enjoyable if you're in the room or something. And also, like there are people who are right at it. This episode is brought to you by Progressive.

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Starting point is 00:47:17 Like, so that's the thing, and that can be fun, it's sort of, because it's almost like a content, it's not just one way as well, and one gets a ride over a plaza, so it's not like it's full main, because it's almost like a content, it's not just one way as well. Everyone gets a ride over a plice, it's not like it's full mean and everyone's in on the joke. Yeah. Roast battles and stuff like that.

Starting point is 00:47:32 But no, not for me, thanks. I'd like to participate in a compliment battle. I prefer this a fun idea. I prefer rat battles. Yeah, you would. I prefer eel eating competitions. I prefer eel eating competitions. You do have a big mouth if you really want to open. I've never noticed that. I do eat pretty fast.

Starting point is 00:47:51 You do eat fast, yeah. Because we've been having a few meals together lately and you always finish first. Yeah, and I always. No, no, no, no. There's a etiquette is that you try not you eat to the pace that everyone, the sauce, put it on. Nothing your food goes cold, just eat your food. We're not insulted. It's we're impressed. I'm always like, damn Matt, good job. Oh, I'm so jealous.

Starting point is 00:48:16 I wish I could be. Yeah, really, we should raise you. I'm just YouTube because you're like, that is how you meant to eat slowly, chew your food, you don't overeat then. Yeah. But I'll slam it down and then be like, ooh, a little bit too much. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:48:29 But because there's a half hour delay, right? I see, like, apparently that's one of the keys to being healthy as. Eat slowly. Eat slowly, yeah. Anyway, back to the report. So we left the army and went back to hospital to try and get some more answers.

Starting point is 00:48:43 It was placed under the care of renowned surgeon surgeon George Didier, the Baron Percy. What a name, love, very good. What a title. George Didier, the Baron Percy, unlike the other weirdos, apparently did really want to help the very hungry man. He had a lot more compassion than the other doctors that were like, eat that, eat this. But I say that. He tried, but his treatments were not exactly what we'd call conventional today.

Starting point is 00:49:08 Attempted antidotes included doping him up with opium, then tobacco, employing vinegars and mineral waters, and bizarrely stuffing tarare full of soft boiled eggs. Sadly, none of this seemed to work. Weird. Who would have thought? Wow. Disappointing. Yeah. No, there was.

Starting point is 00:49:28 Failure. Another failure. No, we'll never know. There wasn't enough food in the hospital to satisfy as a ravenous hunger. And Taurara would sneak out at night to look for sustenance. And he took it wherever he found it. Imagine if he was alive today. On every corner.

Starting point is 00:49:43 He'd be a superstar. Oh yeah. He'd be a super star. Oh yeah. He'd have a reality television. But there'd just be so many options for him to eat, you know? Cheap, affordable, fast food. Yeah, so many things. And he'd be beyond, yeah, because isn't there that show,

Starting point is 00:49:57 there's that show man, it's the world or whatever. Man versus food. Man eats the world. That's what I would call tararae show. Yes. Did you say what's terraris mean? Did you is that translated to something or you know, it's not clear? Oh, I just sounds like there's a food that it sounds like Terraris isn't there? Doesn't matter. Not sure to be honest.

Starting point is 00:50:18 So he was naked hospital. He would eat awful rejected from butchers and sometimes even garbage. He would eat roadkill and according to TV tropes sometimes fight wood cats over who would get to eat the roadkill. And then you need the cats. This is pretty gross so prepare yourself for it. Oh really just. It's all been a bit gross but yeah okay. Yeah it's like everything you've said has been grossed. But prepare yourself.

Starting point is 00:50:42 It tells you it's been a safe spot. Like in France when everyone stinks, but he stinks. Yeah, this is it. I found another level. He would eat bandages and human blood from surgeries. Oh, yeah, that's no good. And it was even court trying to sneak into the morgue to eat the corpses.

Starting point is 00:51:00 There's something, okay, I was going to say something very obvious there. There's something wrong with him. Well, I mean, he's in a hospital. He was on Newshans, Newshans, and several of the doctors complained that Tarare would be better off in a lunatic asylum. But Percy defended his presence at the hospital. That is, until a toddler mysteriously disappeared from the wards. I read this in multiple places. No!

Starting point is 00:51:23 It is not known if he was definitely responsible, but Tarare was the wards. I read this in multiple places. It is not known if he was definitely responsible, but Tarrari was the prime suspect, and because of this, the furious doctors finally had an excuse to kick him out of the hospital for good. Oh! So no. Okay, even if he didn't, the fact that so many people believed they probably did. You don't have much for choice, do you? No, but it's just like, you've got your that far, that people would believe that you would eat a toddler. No, no. I did interpret in some places as those doctors that wanted to get rid of him to go to a lunatic asylum,

Starting point is 00:51:59 we're like, all right, we'll use this as an, but then other places were pretty adamant that he may have eaten a child. So we can't help so long so long that that's awful Terraray disappeared from the history books for a while he resurfaced four years later after being admitted to a hospital in Versailles After he was so weak he couldn't even leave his bed Terraray believes his trouble stemmed from swallowing a golden fork. Oh What how did he think that was gonna?

Starting point is 00:52:22 following a golden fork. Oh, how did he think that was going to winch his hunger? But the doctor said, no, no, you have advanced to burculosis. Oh. So that's what he was sick and dying from. He reached out to surgeon Percy, his old friend, who came to his side as soon as he could, but by then nothing could be done. And Tarrara finally passed away in 1798 at the apparent age

Starting point is 00:52:40 of only 26. Oh, wow. 26. So that was, he left home at 17. So all that stuff, and there was four years where we don't know what happened to him. So most of that stuff happened over five years. So we did quite a lot of stuff.

Starting point is 00:52:53 Wow. Doctors were reluctant to perform an autopsy on Tarrare's body as it went pretty rank pretty fast. He seemed to decompose way faster than a usual body. I think he's an alien. But the chief surgeon at the Versailles Hospital eventually stepped up to the plate and cut him open. He found that Tarrari's gullet was unusually wide what you were saying Matt. Right. This is the exact opposite of me.

Starting point is 00:53:19 Right. See, just had a big, big down side. He could just swallow anything. Right. And when his giant jaws were forced open, he could see all the way into Rare's enormous stomach. So he could see all the way down. So if you put him in a position, like he's dead body, and opened up his mouth, look down the esophagus, it's so wide, you could see into his stomach. Yuck!

Starting point is 00:53:40 Which was huge. Covered in past and filled almost the entire abdominal cavity. So he had a bigger stomach than anyone else. Also, abnormally large was his liver, gallbladder, and his stomach had many, many ulcers. Not surprising, because he swallowed all that horrible stuff. And quote, the golden fork that he swallowed was never found. Ah!

Starting point is 00:54:02 It was never found. I don't understand. It was after discovering this that according to the London Medical and Physical Journal again, quote, the stench of the body was so insupportable that M. Tessier, who's the chief surgeon of the hospital, could not carry out his investigation to any further extent. So this is a man that for a living opens up bodies, but it was so gross. Even he had to be like, I can't, I can't go on. That's, I can't go on. Incredible and so gross. So gross.

Starting point is 00:54:33 Now, so that's, that's the story of his life. I've got some possible explanations that people have brought up over the years as to why he was able to eat like this. May I? Please. Mold people. Oh yeah. It was a mole person inside him. Living inside. May I? Please. Mull people. Oh yeah. It was a Mull person inside him. Living inside eating all the people.

Starting point is 00:54:47 All the food. You don't want to get a tapeworm? And apparently, tell him. Every time I thought I had a tapeworm? Yeah, because it takes away all your sustenance. Yeah. You played that system of a dance song a lot. Yeah, why did I think that?

Starting point is 00:54:59 Were you feeling a bit tired? Because it's one of the symptoms. You know, I was tired and I... Yeah, you saw a tapeworm crawling in the air. Yeah. I think I'd like, I dropped some weight. Oh, that's a good point. And I just assumed it must have been a tapeworm and not any kind of...

Starting point is 00:55:16 I love a real jump to it. Yeah, no, I really thought I had a tapeworm. I always jumped to the conclusion of... Anyway, I tell us what other conclusions people have jumped to. Whilst things may have been exaggerated over time, many of Tariwara's eating habits were documented thoroughly by doctors. So there is not, I mean, a lot of this probably could be sort of urban legend to an extent, but he definitely was alive because there's many written accounts from medical people at the time.

Starting point is 00:55:46 So the medical word for uncontrollable hunger and eating is polyphagia and not being able to swallow which I suffer from is dysphagia. Pollyphagia. So he's got polyphagia. He had polyphagia. The BBC speculates that tarare might have been suffering from a form of hyperthyroidism, a condition that occurs due to the excessive production of thyroid hormones. Symptoms include increases in metabolism, excessive diarrhea, sweating and thin hair,

Starting point is 00:56:15 all of which match descriptions of Tarare. He sounds like he looked gross. Yeah. Other medical theories. Not that I'd be be that judgey way. I just made sounds like physically he'd be yuck to look at. Physically, just physically. He also sounds like he was a bit of a dull person to be around.

Starting point is 00:56:38 But physically, ugh, not appealing. Eating a live eel is so boring. Yeah, no good other medical theories include that you may have had uncontrollable diabetes or damaged to his brain's limbic system, which I believe would have that's the thing that would shut off when you're full and you would never never never feel full. But Jan Bondensen, a medical historian at the University of Cardiff in Wales, which we are a lot closer to than we usually are, who was written a book about tarare and other medical audities, says, we probably won't see anything like him again. Medicine has improved greatly since the 18th century, and anyone like

Starting point is 00:57:13 tarare would hopefully be diagnosed and treated appropriately these days before things spiraled out of control. Hopefully you'd be like, my child can eat half a horse, can you look into it? And they wouldn't just be like, eat this stone. Yeah. Let's see what happens. They might be like, we're having a hard time out of the horse. We're having a hard time out of the horse. We're a head of butt.

Starting point is 00:57:36 What have we stuff you full of boiled eggs? We find out. Probably they thought that would happen. We started this show with mention of eating competitions these days. Yes. So I thought I'd just briefly wrap up with that actually. These days, they're... Are you going to wrap it?

Starting point is 00:57:51 Please, guys, please, guys. Please, guys. Thank you, Jess. Yeah, well, sorry. Sorry I started it, but you're welcome that I finished. Yeah, Jess, can I also say thank you. I would have been very embarrassed. Yes.

Starting point is 00:58:02 You would have looked quite the fool. These days, the closest thing we get to this is the major league eating league. It is major league eating is what I meant to say. An organization that organizes professional competitive eating events, the MLA, and television specials. Have you heard much about the MLA? Do you know how much were?

Starting point is 00:58:21 No. Only vaguely. I've reckoned there was like a superstar guy a while ago Who's name I'd probably reckon us have heard I will mention this superstar The league as it's annual Nathan's famous 4th of July eating our international hot dog eating contest on ESPN So it gets aired on proper sports channel the reigning champion is American Joey chestnut. Joey chest. You know Joey Joey chestnut is a fantastic name. It's so good.

Starting point is 00:58:47 And it would be so great if you had some kind of nut allergy. Two chestnuts. That'd be very funny. Well, be ironic. I'm hungry. You know what's ironic? Aronic is Wayne, Wayne. Wayne, are you ready to?

Starting point is 00:59:01 Are you ready to? I'm having a stroke. I think we're all a bit hungry. And Jellie, are you hungry? I'm so hungry. This reporter's made me hungry for eel. Oh, no, no, no, no. So Joey Chestnut is the rating champion. After winning his sixth consecutive hot dog eating contest in 2012, by eating 68 hot dogs.

Starting point is 00:59:21 Oh my god, one more Joey. In 10 minutes. 69, you are. He stated quote, I will not stop until I reach 70. Come on mate 69. This sport isn't about eating he said, it's about drive and dedication. And at the end of the day, sport hot dog eating challenges, both my body and my mind. Oh Joey, get read a book. It's not about eating. Get a girlfriend. This year, so that was 20. A toy friend. You'd have plenty of lovers.

Starting point is 00:59:48 Every hot dog. I reckon he smells great. So 2012, 8, 68. This year, what do you reckon you ate? In 10 minutes, how many hot dogs? Please 69. Well, I'm guessing it's going to be more because otherwise, what would you ask?

Starting point is 01:00:01 I'm going to say 73. 73? I'm saying 69. He ate 74 hot dogs. Oh, in 10 minutes. Which is one hot dog eaten every eight seconds. That's disgusting. What is it?

Starting point is 01:00:13 And what are they talking like? What's your competition regulation length? Oh, what are you reckon? And in bread as well? Yeah, they eat the bread. Well, no, I mean mean he's just a guy. Not every man who has a weird hot dog eating thing has been a bread. Yes, it's kind of disappointing that you went straight there.

Starting point is 01:00:36 But actually, yes, in this instance, you got lucky. You got lucky. His mom is his dad. Sorry, Joey Chessner. Other records that you could attempt on the Major League Eating website include the 7-Eleven Sports Slurpee, which is a 22 ant sports Slurpee,

Starting point is 01:00:53 which is in Australia, I guess the big one, what do we call? Large. Large. I thought that'd be some sort of thing. Lies to go on big gulps, but maybe that. Yeah, some of that was just a, yeah, maybe. So on 8-A-Full-One in 9 seconds in 2010. Oh my God, the brain freeze. Sort of thing. They used to go on big gulps, but maybe that was just a... Yeah, maybe.

Starting point is 01:01:05 So on 8-4-1 in 9 seconds in 2010. Oh my God, the brain freeze. I don't think you'd ever recover. I get brain freeze so easily. It's embarrassing. I'm getting one now. And then I have to say they're like, Oh, for ages.

Starting point is 01:01:18 No, I wouldn't even do it. It's not worth it. The most disgusting one to imagine on their website for me is... Oh, great. Yeah, but not. The blueberry pie, eating competition. I love for me is the blueberry pie eating competition. I love that. I love the blueberry pie.

Starting point is 01:01:28 Nine pounds of blueberry pie. I was nine pounds when I was born. So your way in blueberry pie eating hands-free. Oh. Eight minutes. So you're saying that's disgusting because you don't like the hands-free element, do you? I do not like that. I do not like that.

Starting point is 01:01:42 See, I think that's sexy. I love that. That is easily less gross than everything else you said. Yeah he ate a toddler and you were like how gross is this way? Delicious pie. Oh this is just a warning. Hopefully if anyone's eating at home, stop, maybe pause this and come back later. Okay. Honestly. No. No. He ate a delicious blueberry pie and got a little on his place.

Starting point is 01:02:06 I'm so sorry. I gave a warning for the blood bandages. Oh, well, I bring it up again. Oh, I've forgotten. What do you want to know the hands-free blood bandages eating record? No. Also eight minutes.

Starting point is 01:02:17 Did it simultaneously blueberry blood bandages? I think you're just worried that, yeah, there was blueberry on their face and probably on their clothes. It's, uh, for me that's gross. Use your hands. No, use an iPhone fork. Yeah, like a, like a human. Or... I think that would make you disqualified. Yeah, and you wouldn't get a day freeze.

Starting point is 01:02:36 What if you ate it using cutlery with your feet? I can get that hands free. Oh, my thoughts are. Yeah. So what did that move about? Pye eating? Yeah. In a way. In a way, isn't everything about pie eating? Yes did that move was about? Pye eating? Yeah. In a way. In a way, isn't everything about pie eating?

Starting point is 01:02:48 Yes. Can we have a pie, Lona? I'm so hungry. I need to get a pie. Yeah, mate. We'll get you a pie. I'll be great. She's got really serious and sincere.

Starting point is 01:02:56 And I appreciate that. We will find you a pie, I promise. I need a pie. Thank you. Thank you so, so much. But that's the end of my Terrari report. Wow. Dave, that was fascinating.

Starting point is 01:03:08 It's crazy. You can see why if anyone who has discovered that story, why they would submit it to the hat. Yeah, definitely. Because it's very, very strange. Understandable. But gross. Yeah, thanks to everyone.

Starting point is 01:03:19 Sorry, if you did find that gross. I tried to find definition of his name, but I could not find it. Was that what you were doing on the list? Yeah, so I'm not sure what it means. And even as a family name, on the family websites, it doesn't seem to have it. Or the family websites. I guess, oh, sorry, you don't have any family website knowledge. I don't know what that was.

Starting point is 01:03:38 No, I don't. OK. You were having to go a main weird way. And I thought, fire with fire. Did you? Why tried to? to but I lost I feel bad good Hey, well that means David you done. Yes, thank you. Thank you. What a great report. That was great Thank you sometimes a hideous report, but beautiful and I know honestly I found it a bit gross when I was reading But also it's one of those ones where it lacks unfelt. It's a low-thusthusome and offensive brute yet I can't look away. Yeah the Kramer. I

Starting point is 01:04:08 I think now it's time for a segment that just does a jingle for that goes a little something like this Just the segment just if you don't do it. I will wrap it go on Don't make him wrap it. No, I mean my wants to do it anyway., guess at this. We jet the world watcher. It's called fact-quadal question. And this week's fact-quadal question. I didn't know that noise was I'm sorry. I know, but he knows what that noise was. I just went, chika.

Starting point is 01:04:37 Chika. That's from the first Bueless Day off. Chika. No, no, no. How this week's? I was more of a bad noise. I don't know. No's ever made that noise. That's a dying bird. Yeah, it's being eaten by Taroa Ray.

Starting point is 01:04:54 Chicaa. Chicaa. Is it falls down? He's gullet. Oh, yeah. This week's Fact of Croto question comes in from Patreon, many galser. So the way this works is if you're a Patreon on a certain level, you get to give us a fact-quotal question.

Starting point is 01:05:07 We read out one a week. This week's Manigaza's turn. He's given us the title. This is his first one. If you have had a cycle around a couple times, but this is Manigaza's first fact-quotal question. You also get to give yourself a title. And Manig's given himself the title.

Starting point is 01:05:22 Junior Vice President of Nick Mason's Golden Tuxedo Rentals. Oh! Nick Mason being the official fifth beetle, slash fourth do-go-on. And of course the official president of the... Tuxedo Renting. Tuxedo Renting, so... Yes.

Starting point is 01:05:39 Because he's the world famous party boy, Nick Mason. And he has chosen to give us a quote. OK, and he's got a slight pre-rambled. Pre-ample. So a pre-quite. Pre-rambled. OK. So it starts.

Starting point is 01:05:56 A lot of people type out type as they talk. I like it. OK. He writes like people talk. OK, since you did an episode on Chessie Puller and other WW2 bad asses, that's World War Two, did you know that the Southern Cross on your Australian flag is also on the blue diamond of the first marine division?

Starting point is 01:06:17 And he hasn't even got to the fact yet, that's the preamble. Right, I know. To be honest, it's so far, I didn't know it. Here's the fact, which is what I love how many plays the Southern Cross is and how patriotic Australians will get a Southern Cross tattoo to show how proud they are to be Australian, but it's on everything everywhere. Basically because for people in the Northern Hemisphere, like us right now where you can't see it's a constellation in the sky

Starting point is 01:06:42 that everyone in the Southern Hemisphere can see basically. Yeah, so it's on a lot of nations flags, including ours and New Zealand and many others. But it basically looks like a diamond. I'd call it the southern diamond if I went back or the kite. Oh, a kite's cool, yeah. I guess New Zealand is a southern cross. It's only four. Yeah, they just don't have the little, they don't have the little weird.

Starting point is 01:07:02 I never thought about that. Yeah, yeah, cool. The bit of the southern cross that has nothing to do with the cross. They probably, they went with the right one. Yeah, they went efficient and they colored him in red. Yeah, that's bad, Adam. That's bad. I had a vote to change their flag, maybe a year or two back now, and it got voted down.

Starting point is 01:07:21 She's a bummer. Their new flags look great. I really, I want to show you a new flag. What do you sit on that? Question without notice? Wow. If it was like fully sick, then yeah. But if it was like average, then yeah.

Starting point is 01:07:35 Like it would have to really pimped it. Yeah, it'd have to be a fucking sick flag, eh? I'd be up for changing it nearly no matter what. If it was a poo box. It's the British flag is a quarter of it. And then the rest is sort of the New Zealand flag, slash a bunch of Pacific Island flags. I mean, the whole flag just looks like a whole,

Starting point is 01:07:55 it's basically the same as the New Zealand flag and a bunch of other flags. It's like, what's the point? So what do you propose? I propose my head. Oh, okay, I'm on board. Okay. Um, I'm off board. But just like cycling out, smaller and smaller around the outside and like a socket

Starting point is 01:08:13 Alex will. Oh, I'm sorry. Would that not cause some kind of hypnosis? And then, and then, I'm not even being carried into the Olympics. Everyone's like, and, and we're like crying and saluting it. So this is fact, man he's fact. The reason for this, the Southern Cross is on the blue diamond of the first marine division. The reason

Starting point is 01:08:41 for this was during the island hopping campaign of the Pacific islands and more specifically the battle of Guadalcanal Guadalcanal Guadalcanal the battle of Guadalcanal I love it bonus fact my mother's last name is Stuart so there's a slim chance Matt and I could be related thank you so much for that fact Manny thank you M, spelled the same way. Yeah. Manny. Nice. The real way, the authentic way. Manny, spelled the same. Yeah, Manny, spelled the same as Stuart. Wow. That's a pronunciation thing. It's great. You got that pronunciation. Thanks so much. Yeah, thank you, Manny. Thank you, Manny. That was a cool, cool factoid. So you can get involved on Patreon if you want to

Starting point is 01:09:24 at patreon.com slash to go on pod. All sorts of rewards, including two bonus episodes that no one else except for the Patrons here, we put out every month. So rad. So rad, so much fun. And the other thing we do at the end of the episodes with Patrons is we read out a few names of our great supporters from the Patreon. Oh, we definitely do. We love to thank the people that support us and make this possible. Tossible. Now we talked about Tarrari, big Eater Jess, anything in your mind that we could,

Starting point is 01:09:59 because we usually give a little game that we play with the name. I was either going to go with what they do or how badly they smell. How many paces could you get within then before you smell the retis go? That's a roast. That's a roast. Or we could roast them. Let's roast these bad boys and girls. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:10:23 I mean, you asked me for what I want, and he didn't let me finish. I clearly didn't want to, I don't want to roast them, because I'm like you, I don't. Okay, so then. I'm gonna stop you right there, as a feminist of this show, I want to hear Jess out. I think she's had a time.

Starting point is 01:10:35 Matt, what do you reckon we should do? Good question. I'll fill this one. Jess, I like your options. Which one? What do you want? No, I'm not through one option. I reckon the thing they'll eat. I reckon the thing they'll be famous for eating. Okay. Yep, great. Yes, I like your options, which one? No, no, no, I'm not through one option. The thing that I'll eat.

Starting point is 01:10:45 I recognize the thing that'll be famous for eating. Okay, yep, great. Can I keep it up? They're gonna be the champion in eating this food, yeah. Blueberry pie. Go niche. Yeah, love it. Go niche or go home.

Starting point is 01:10:55 Love it. I'd love to thank, if that be okay. Please. I'd love to. And Jess, yeah. Of course. Okay, thank you so much. I'd love to thank Jason Sash Luke Hensley from Glendale Arizona

Starting point is 01:11:10 Yeah there's two names there so probably Jason but potentially Luke who are you who do you feel like you are? I'm more of an arm of Jason. Yeah, I'm totally a Luke. I'm totally a Luke. Totally a Luke. Dave. I'm a hyphen. I'm both. Yeah, you're a slasher. Who, or what do you reckon these two? I reckon it's going to have to be something like salt and pepper or something like that.

Starting point is 01:11:36 You know, something for Luke, something for Jason. Because they are two pieces of the same pie. Which is mainly how that works. Two pieces of a different pie. Which is the most mainly how that works. Two pieces of a different one. I reckon Neenish tarts. Yes! Well done. I'm not familiar. They're like a tart. Yes. But they're half pink and half like chocolate. Yeah. Sometimes you get white and chocolate but or pink and chocolate I am so the top of the mist sort of iced in those. So that iced sounds sort of like a hard iced um usually and then underneath that there's a sort of a white I don't know what it would be but it's like a sweet

Starting point is 01:12:15 brownish. Yeah it's almost like marshmallow but it's not marshmallow it's some sort of cream thing and then underneath that is often a layer of jam and then the tart. Is this the thing you can get in London because I want it now? Yeah, but it's pretty common in Australian, because I imagine we've ripped it off Europe somewhere. We've never thought of anything original, so I would assume we've ripped it off somewhere. Most things that we think... It might be called a Nanish tart here. Yeah, because they just call them tart, because we're in Nanish.

Starting point is 01:12:40 We're in Nanish. It's like German shepherds in Germany, just sheep. That's quite confusing. Well, I didn't, I don't make the rules, Dave. Is it like with Australian things, so many of the things that we're like, namely is the classic Australian things like Lamington or or Pavlover, nearly always New Zealand like, no, we actually came up with those. Yeah. Yeah. Funny. We suck. Far-lap, a famous race horse. Russell Crowe. New Zealand. How we came up with those. Yeah, yeah, funny. We suck. Far lap, a famous rice horse, Russell Crowe. New Zealand. How we came up with him. Sam Neil, we claim

Starting point is 01:13:10 Sam Neil. Yeah, another key we pretty, pretty cool, a pretty blazing, or brazen. Did you know I did a scene with Sam Neil? You did not. I did. What? I was in a scene. I was like, he came in as I went out on the catering show. No, I love Sam. I'm sorry, not the catering show, get cracking. But that episode was about food. She can see why I made the mistake. Fair.

Starting point is 01:13:32 Yeah, it was weird. Love it. I'm like, Sam Deel. You just hit, no, no, no, no, no. It's Sam Deel's ringtone. No. No, he's rigged a bit. Life finds a way.

Starting point is 01:13:48 He was in an episode of Sam Peter's podcast. I know. And Sam Niel was in the same podcasting studio that we normally do our podcasting. That is wild. We've got to give a proper plug to Sam Peter's podcast. Great show. I've been on a very recent episode yeah I've been on a few of our confessions of the idiots where Sam gets he finds online confessions and then reads them to a couple of guests

Starting point is 01:14:12 Past guests include Sam Neil That's that's a Jurassic Park that's got to be enough Feel you gonna get a good and he's got me in Dave something you've been on there. No, I will be When we get back from the UK. Yeah, I need to be on like the day we left and I was like look I'm going to be in on there. No, I will be when we get back from the UK. He asked me to be on the day we left. And I was like, look, I'm probably not going to make it. It sounds a very close friend of mine. He definitely knew we were going away.

Starting point is 01:14:34 Yeah. I was like, that's the day we leave. And he was like, oh, yeah. On that day, he was messaging me saying, have a great time. So good. I also think. So that's thanks so much, Jason and Luke.

Starting point is 01:14:45 I'd also love to thank from maybe a place that I'd love to visit, I think. Circleville, Ohio. No squares allowed. Yeah, if they let me in. Kevin McCready. Kevin McCready, the champion. Fuck. Oh, easy. Wow, I mean, I don't even fan. Fuck.

Starting point is 01:15:05 Oh, he's eating. Wow, I mean, I'm going to talk about... He goes from town to town. We're going to talk about he's eating habits, but wow. Yeah, Dave. He's one of the ribbons from here to... He's... what's he good at eating? I can't get my head out of the box.

Starting point is 01:15:24 Oh, yeah, Koga pops. Oh, wow. That is oh man. He'd get some headaches. No, but he's champion. That's right. He's built up a tolerance. A tolerance. A tolerance. Hey, it's not the fact that they're tolerant. I have a tolerance. I right, all right. Kevin Kevin McCraady the cocoa pop king. Yeah, king of the pop I call him like on the popper He's got a lot of names. He goes with a lot of names obviously cocoa popper. Yeah big popper Pop pop pop pop pop pop crackle cocoa pop crackler cocoa pops Coco pops doesn't cocoa stops. Yeah, all theseops. Coco-bops. Coco-bops. A. Coco-bops. Doesn't cocoa stops. Yeah, all those things.

Starting point is 01:16:08 That's an annotation. We gotta give him cocoa props. Yeah. Come on, yeah. Hey, sorry. If you just give me a moment, I'd love to give a few cocoa props. McCrady King. King amongst men.

Starting point is 01:16:20 Dave, would you like to thank some people? I would so love to thank some more. I would. And I would like to thank. I don't want to love to thank some. Oh, I would, yeah. And I would like to thank, um, um, would you name, and go. Let me hear you. Have you like to do the thing I offered you? Here we go. Oh, here we go.

Starting point is 01:16:32 Hey, I'm just grateful. No, and we love that. And usually, we'd say this is down the road, but today, this is exotic, this look. Yeah, you're right. Because this is so close to where I grew up. All the way from black burn in Victoria Am I saying that right? I think it's black barn. Oh black barn in Victoria Australia and black burn

Starting point is 01:16:52 Back when I used to live on the other side of the world. Yeah, my dad worked in blackburn for 10 years This is we have a few connections for this place on the other side of the world so we're crazy I would like to thank you should go to a cafe called Lily Love's George in Blackburn. That's everyone, everyone listening together. She's a very, very good one. A school friend of mine, and it's wonderful.

Starting point is 01:17:12 Very nice, I'm gonna go there. Well, the number one resident of Blackburn Victoria is of course Rachel Johnson. Rachel Johnson. I think it's Rachel J. Lily Love's Rachel. Mm. Wow. Yeah, Johnson and she is What are they serve at Lilly loves George? Um, are an extensive menu. What would be your go-to that she gave?

Starting point is 01:17:35 I had a great burger there one time. Oh, champion burger either you could travel the world with that one. That would be a There's always burger competitions at places and you can get a burger anywhere in the world Name a place. If you got a door, you got a burger. That's not a place. OK, the place you're naming is door? Yeah. OK, you can get a burger there.

Starting point is 01:17:55 Let me just name it. No, don't do it. Hey, now you keep talking, but for the people watching. Yeah, OK, so he's going to. I mean, we're in a place where there is like a chin up bar That's installed and I think it may be structurally integral to the doorway Matt's aim was to get 10 He's up to four five. I don't know if the camera's getting this isn't Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, cool six which is better than yesterday was it did you get five years?

Starting point is 01:18:23 So it's six your max You're proven for and a half, all right. Okay, great. We'll go by tomorrow. You'll be on 10. Jess is your turn. Get on that bar. Fuck no.

Starting point is 01:18:31 You've seen me try. I have. And I've tried it different times of the day because I was wondering if maybe I needed energy or maybe I didn't need energy. I didn't know my pajamas this morning. I did not. What I'll help with this is no energy.

Starting point is 01:18:42 In an attempt. An attempt so bad that it's not funny. I just feel sorry for you. Yeah, it's pretty lame. I'm gonna help with this is no energy. In an attempt, an attempt so bad that it's not funny, I just feel sorry for you. Yeah, it's pretty lame. I'm sorry. I'm a little weakling, but Rachel Johnson is the champion burger leader. And she, like actually any type of burger.

Starting point is 01:18:56 Really? Veggie, beef, chicken, pork, tomato relish. Oh, she loves a relish. Oh, love a relish. I love relish. Yeah, a relish relish. Fuck. I'm so hungry. Okay. Can we go get a burger? We can get anything. I'm an anish top In the back and a cocoa pop. I'm so hungry. I would like to thank now. This one is exotic no matter where in the world you are except for there I mean, I mean in Melbourne. This is exotic in London. This is exotic. I would like to thank

Starting point is 01:19:22 I mean, I mean, in Melbourne, this is exotic, in London, this is exotic. I would like to thank all the way from Win Tock, which is the capital of Namibia. What? Southern Africa. No. Absolutely true here. I would like to thank, I'm almost certain,

Starting point is 01:19:36 our number one Namibian supporter. That's amazing. And you can forever claim this, Mary Lee. Mary Lee. Holy cow, thank you so Mary Lee. Holy cow. Thank you so much. That's awesome. Namibia.

Starting point is 01:19:49 I had no idea. And Vintok, I think, that some people say, because it's actually, he was colonized by Germany. Right. So maybe a champion brat worst eater. Oh, okay. Brat's first, yeah. Great.

Starting point is 01:20:03 Have you visited Afro-Curtle? I have not is that's the reason I'm quite familiar with where this is because For a long time my dream has been to go on a safari in South Africa and maybe a Botswana finish up in Victoria Falls Right can I come if you honestly? I've been looking for about eight years to find someone that would go with me. I'll be so keen I Will drive you to the airport. Thank you so much. That's because that's a reaction I get from a lot of people. I would have thought my girlfriend is like no thank you. I was going to say you have a long turn partner you've traveled with a lot. I know yes. She's not on board. Not on board with there. Going to Africans Safari but mad if you are like I can survive. I can survive. It's amazing. And honestly Mary Lee if you could somehow spread the word and we could get a cult following in the video

Starting point is 01:20:46 and we could make this like a, some sort of part of tour, please do that because- I thought it'd be great. Then it's all tax-duckable. Yeah, I'll be able to afford it. That would be so, so great. But thank you so much for your support. That is awesome.

Starting point is 01:20:57 genuinely mind-blowing that you're listening there. Okay, now it's my turn. What was, and Josh was bratwurst. Bratwurst. Bratwurst, yeah. Yeah. was, and Josh was bratwurst. Bratwurst. Bratwurst, yeah. Yeah. There's someone about a bratwurst with like onion and cheese. This is a vegetarian talking.

Starting point is 01:21:13 Look, but you know, I've had a laugh before. I don't believe that for a moment. The first 14 years of my life, I... My life began when I stopped eating, man. When I was a kid, there were times when I was young, we'd have a family roast. And then at the end, dad would be like, do you want the bones?

Starting point is 01:21:31 I'd take this big bone. And I'd go in the backyard. What like a dog? A dog that has been chewing. Yeah, no. I hate my boyfriend will eat, like, to the bone. And I just have to look away. Like I'm glad you're having a good time but I'm not going to be looking at you for the

Starting point is 01:21:48 next five minutes. Why don't do that anymore? Tofu doesn't have a bone. That's true. And if it does, take it back. Yeah, that's not tofu. I would like it's a dog that was called Tofu. That's a cute dog name.

Starting point is 01:22:01 That's a sweet loophole. It is a great loophole. I'm eating tofu. I would like to thank from Mill Waukey. I'm Mill Waukey here. Thank you. I was going to do that too. I was so close as well.

Starting point is 01:22:13 I'd like to thank Lee Roberts. I'm Roberts here. The Mill Waukey Bucks are the NBA team. Maybe it could be eating D-O. Oh, yep. LAUGHTER Bucks. Bucks. Uncleucks. Bucks.

Starting point is 01:22:25 Uncle Daddy War Bucks. What, he's eating the mascot. Well, yeah, that's just, you know, like Australia eats the coat of arms, the kangaroo and Amy was often. Okay, why do we do that? I gotta say, Bucks are having a great season this year. Second only in the Eastern Conference to the Raptors.

Starting point is 01:22:43 They've won eight only lost one Impressive, okay, but what does Lee eat? Oh, didn't we say is he is he not eating? I like money What yeah? What about what about money? But it's been like dollar bills that have been Knashed into a big yes with the antlers and ever I love that a big buck with the antlers and everything. I love that. Does he extravagant? I love that.

Starting point is 01:23:05 Thank you. And I love that our two ideas could mesh together like a paper mesh egg. And we made one mega idea. And Dave didn't help at all. Yeah, that's what I loved about as well. I love that Dave played his normal role of not helping at all. Yeah, he's not a team player. He's a tennis player.

Starting point is 01:23:23 Yeah, so I tennis. So I tennis. Doubles, go away not a team player. He's a tennis player. Yeah, so I Double go away leave me alone. Let me ace the court Spoken like a true tennis player and can oh my god. This is a fantastic name Can I thank the last person? Yes from Bellfast? Oh? Northern Ireland. Oh, oh a beautiful part of the world. I would like to thank Shamus Duffy ah shamus duffy what a brilliant. He's in on the patreon facebook group Ben he's been a key contributor. Shamus. I mean I Want to say like

Starting point is 01:23:59 Irish you right, you know, I'm pretty sure he's in Australia who's moved up our bell fast Well, he's clearly got Irish background. Yeah, it's clearly moved there because he loves Irish stew with a name like shameless Duffy like your parents Have are either from Ireland or grandpa like you have that background and if you don't they obviously just really love Island and the Irish go through all the possibilities. And if one of them is, but the other isn't, then that was a nice compromise. Is it a compromise when you go? Well, obviously you got a very Irish surname.

Starting point is 01:24:37 The compromise is, we'll also give them a very Irish first name. Yeah, that's a good one. Middle name is Greg. Because what the other one is from somewhere where a cat in the live classic cat name Greg. Yeah, so shame is eating Irish stews. I reckon. But I mean, I'm open to suggestions. And you haven't got any other ideas of things shame is good. No, Irish stew is good. It's delicious. Duffy, what a Duffy like Duff beer from the Simpsons? Ah, beer drinking. Beer and stew. Oh, because it could be Guinness, Guinness, Guinness stew. Yeah, I was in Guinness stew. Guinness stew. Guinness stew. Sorry, Shamis, if that is

Starting point is 01:25:17 too big. Sorry if you were also a vegetarian. Well, a vegetarian Guinness stew. Yeah. Oh, can I have one of those? Yeah. We are very hungry. Yeah. What a cruel game we've played at the end. Three hungry kiddies. Yeah, we should, we should eat. Yeah. Help me. Help me. I think we've also made a lot of people eat during this episode. Yeah, definitely. Probably a lot of people not eat for a while. Yeah, no, we did both. Because first we put them off food and then we started talking about how hungry we were and then we talked about delicious foods and now they're hungry.

Starting point is 01:25:48 If anyone is trying out the yoyo diet, I think we're helping out a lot today. You're welcome. I think anyone's been eating since they've imagined someone eating blueberry pie with just them out. That is so yuck. Yeah, that's the bit that's put it on off. Oh, so yuck.

Starting point is 01:26:01 Yuck, yuck, yuck. I'm sorry about that. Yes, you should have put your face out. Let me talk about that whole section. It'll be four minutes of I think that brings us to the end of the show and what an end By the way my you know, I'll say from the two-and-a-thing town podcast. Yes, he calls blueberries bloops Yeah, look at that I like that. I like bloops incredible

Starting point is 01:26:24 Yeah, it's one of the best. And everything, and I'm not even vaguely surprised that he calls them something. So whimsical and delightful as Bloobs. I also call them Bloobs. Yeah. You do have so much in common. I'm pretty sure he coined that. Wow.

Starting point is 01:26:38 I will thank him. I'm going to message him now. I reckon they come up with five sketch ideas every week. He's very creative. Yeah. Yeah, surely he coined blooms. Yeah, blooms. Well, I'm pretty sure I coined totes. You coined totes.

Starting point is 01:26:52 I'm toying in here. Hungry. We can tell. Yeah. All right, we gotta wrap this up, but thank you so much for everyone that listens to the show, first of all. If you want to support the Patreon, you can obviously do that, but if you don't have any money, or you know that kind of thing, another that listens to the show first of all. If you want to support the Patreon,

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Starting point is 01:27:17 and they came because their friend got their phone and just downloaded a podcast app because they'd never listened to a podcast before and subscribed to our podcast. And now they've almost listened to all our episodes. Wow. They weren't yeah that was just because of that. So do that. Still your friends phones download something without their permission. Oh sorry yeah no I didn't. No that is it is highly illegal. I think you do it. Honestly. But no that would be a cool thing if you could you know in the

Starting point is 01:27:42 dark night. Or if you've already done that another way you can do it is of course give us a review on the old iTunes Help helps us be more Disadorable We also have a couple of other podcasts in our MIDI pod network now days podcasts go on super strong Oh, yeah book cheat a new episode just dropped this week with special guests Josh Earl from don't You Know Who I Am, one of my favorite planet broadcasting podcasts, and Laura Dunhamen, one of my favorite Melbourne stand-ups.

Starting point is 01:28:10 So funny. And we talked about the book of Mice and Men, the John Steinbeck classic. Studied it at school. You did? Yep. There also didn't the Mega Death song of Mice and Men come up at all. It did not come up. The best laid plans of Mice and Men sometimes are at all? It did not come up. The best laid plans of Mice and Men

Starting point is 01:28:25 sometimes are often go awry. Sometimes often go awry. Yes, or the original wording in the Scottish dialect, because that's a quote from Robert Burns, probably Burns, the poet. Did you have to write that in your essays? Sure, yeah. Well done.

Starting point is 01:28:41 You remember it all these years later. Yes, but okay, I'm still super young, thank you. Yeah, yeah. How do you remember it all these years later. Yes, but okay, I'm still super young. Thank you. Yeah. How do you remember it from last century practically? Oh my God. But yeah, check that out. And of course, primates, Matt.

Starting point is 01:28:51 Primates has been so much fun lately. Last week's episode with Ben Russell and Stu Dolman, I reckon it was one of the funnest we've done. It was about David Attenborough documentary. And both of them are great impersonators and improvises. So there's a lot of funny tangents about David out and Brody getting up in the different things. Michael Cain made quite a few appearances.

Starting point is 01:29:11 Quite a few. And this week's episode, we're going to record soon, probably record tomorrow, and we'll come out tomorrow with you two. First time we'll all three of us are going to be on the Primates podcast, which is exciting. It's going to feel so different. It's going to be a very different thing.

Starting point is 01:29:25 To now. Hey, when we do that tomorrow, let's make sure we've eaten beforehand. Yes, great call. And maybe I'll have a second coffee. We'll eat during the movie that we watch. Oh, yes. I like that. See, this is why I made this podcast to be more fun than do go on, which is like the nerds

Starting point is 01:29:46 oh we're learning and reading. Primates is all about being idiots. Yeah I had the same thing for a book chat I was like I don't want to do any reading so oh hang on. It's all gone horribly good. Oh no I've done the opposite of what I wanted to do. No but you do you will learn a lot about primates and how they are beautiful animals. And, you know, we can learn some of that. Well, creatures, great and small. And humans are also primates, and that's something.

Starting point is 01:30:12 What? Yeah, I'm so sorry. Can we have a loophole and just watch die hard? Yeah. Great. Awesome. There's heaps of primates in that film. All of the people are. Like the guy, the dad from the Steve Irkish show,

Starting point is 01:30:25 who's a cop in that. Why, he's so good in that. And the guy from Bruce Willis' life. Yippee-ki-yay. Yeah, Bruce Willis. Motherfucker. Also, the guy who we did a podcast about that time. Bruce Willis.

Starting point is 01:30:39 Rick Alkman. Alkman. Alan Rickman. Yes. It's a great film. That's what we're saying. Anyway, we've got to go. Get Christmas film, best Christmas film ever. Getting contact anytime. Do go on pod.com, it's our website and you can submit a topic. You can go to the Patreon, see any upcoming live shows and of course do go

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Two In The Think Tank - 159 - Tarrare, The Man Who Ate Anything

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