Podiots - Podiots: Episode 129 - Visits From The Hat Man

Episode Date: September 10, 2023

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during the Volvo Fall Experience event. Conditions supply, visit your local Volvo retailer or go to explore Volvo.com. Pickax. I had a real horror movie-style nightmare the other day. It was really horrible. I dreamt that... I know people... No one likes to hear about the people's dreams,

but this is really short, so I'll just tell you it. Basically, I was just walking through a really nice, sunny field, with my wife right we're walking along and then all of a sudden I noticed that like she was just crying like weeping to herself

but like kind of she didn't necessarily want to know want me to know that she was crying but I noticed and I was like what's wrong what's wrong and she went what's that weird thing and I like followed her gaze

thinking she'd seen something and there wasn't anything there there was just like a tree stump on the other side of the field and I was like what do you mean what weird thing what weird thing and she just looked at me and she went in our house at night

and I was like Oh, my God, what on earth does that mean? And then I woke up in my house at night at like 4 o'clock in the morning. And I was like, I didn't see the weird thing, but I felt its presence. I thought it must be there. This is a warning from my ape brain telling me something's here. I think that is the thing in your room trying to communicate with you in the dream world. It proposed you awake.

Yeah. Well, sweet dreams, Peter. like you've got a haunting in your hands. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Are you the kind of man who would appreciate a haunting or would it objectively terrify you

and everywhere? No, I mean, if I actually was haunted, which I, you know, I don't necessarily put much stock in that, but if I actually experienced a ghost in my house, I don't think I'd be that happy. You had your demon, didn't you,

in your house? Oh, yeah, the sex demon. The sex demon? Yeah, yeah. I sadly haven't had any more run-ins with them or any other ghosts. I say sadly, I'm very much the kind of person

where I don't think I'd sleep for a year if I saw something in my room, heard something in my room, I'd never feel comfortable again. That's the kind of horror that scares me. Like, you know, I don't mind going to see in like a slasher film or a monster movie,

but the other day, Amy was saying to me, oh, do you want to go and see this? I can't even think what it was, but she sent me a trailer. And it was like a ghost or demon, like, you know, possession horror movie. and I was like, you know what? No, I don't. Thank you very much. That's the kind of stuff that spooks me, really.

Yeah. Yeah, I can take blood guts and go any day, but there's like stuff in the dark. That's enough. Like, woods, nah. Screw him. At nighttime. Nah, let's not. I did hope I'd grow out of my slight fear of the dark by this point. But now I've got adult brain and I can think about more complex and scary scenarios, which is great. Nice one. Thanks. Why did we evolve this way? How you do, Ben? Hello. You're right, Ben. I'm good.

I was just enjoying listening to you to talk about ghosts and goblins and real adult fears like taxes and stuff. Yeah. Those are the scariest things. Yeah. I'm good. No spooky things happened to me. Although I did, I was laying in bed the other day and I could have sworn I just saw a spider in front of my face. Ooh.

Like I tried to, I tried to, like a little one. In the dark? Yeah. No, the TV was on. I can't remember the exact scenario but basically I clearly wasn't awake properly and I saw what I thought was a spider so I just reached out I just like tried to grab it

my partner was like are you all right and I said yeah I thought like because at that point I woke up and I thought I felt really you know how you do you just feel really silly like I thought there was a spider but there's not a spider it's fine don't worry it's okay she was like she doesn't like spiders

and I pretend like I then went into full damage control mode like no no it wasn't a real spider promise. It was just a fictional sleep spider that I saw for a moment. But it was safe. It's okay. Don't worry about it. I don't know why my reaction was just to sort of reach out and try and grab it, like in my fist. Apparently that's quite a common, like when you're kind of half sleep and half awake, a lot of people just see spider-like creatures, which I've also had in the past. It used to happen a lot in my teenagers where I'd wake up just and like open my eyes.

I'd see, like, several things scuttle across the bed very quickly. Like, just as I open my eyes, I see the more scuttle away. And, good Lord, nothing wakes you up more at, like, three in the morning than that sight. They're, like, desperately, like, you're still in kind of bed-brain mode, and you start, like, rattling the sheets. I'm where are they, wow, they? I saw you guys. It's a common, it's also a common, like, bad trip, isn't it, that people see spiders? Someone in my family, who I won't name, described, I think he took magic mushrooms once,

and he just, he could like see spiders in front of him. Even when he shut his eyes, it was like he could still see them, not just in his mind's eye, but like they were actually there in front of him. And he just couldn't get away from them. So, yeah, not good. What fun. It's apparently a thing if you take Benadryl. I'm not sure what the English equivalent of Benadryl is,

but I think it's just some kind of like over-the-counter medicine, but people found out if you ate a whole bottle of it, this isn't medical advice. Don't do this. This is the opposite of that. But you get visits from the Hatman and you start seeing like Spine. A hat man? No.

The Benadryl hatman. Does everyone get the same hat man? Apparently, yeah, it's like, it seems to be like a recurring figure when you're having, well, not a jolly time, just living a nightmare on Benadryl. Does it say that in the little pamphlet that comes with it? Maycores Hatman. Oh, dear.

Awful. Well, we're a bit early for Spook Month, but that was a pretty spooky intro, I reckon. Yeah. I was about to say, do you guys? want to go on a shared hallucination now for the next hour or so. Yeah, I mean, that is what it's like. Oh my God, Mikey. I've just seen what you posted.

What have you put there? I think I've seen that picture before. Oh, my God. I can't take Benadryl because I owe the Hatman money and I don't want to see him. That's a jumper. Oh, I want that. I can't want to take Benadryl now. I know.

It's one of those things that, like, objectively, everyone who's ever tried, it says it's like it's just a nightmare. I can't want to visit from the Hatman. I bet the Hatman's great. Yeah, maybe we'll get along. If I'm ever feeling lonely one night, I'll just, you know, invite the Hatman round. Oh dear. That's a good way of saying taking drugs.

Tonight I'm inviting the Hatman round. Sorry, I'm busy. I've got the Hatman coming. Well, on that note. Shall we move on, gentlemen? Yes. Hello everybody and welcome to Pottie. It's the official Vidiates podcast. It's a conversational podcast where we take some questions from you at home and obey the law of the three us, where everybody brings a thing along to talk about.

I'm Ben. I'm Peter. And I'm the Hatman. Ooh. Oh, no, he's here. Hello, I'm Mike. Just kidding. You say, you know, it's like a sort of an epithet for taking drugs one night.

A guy used to live with at uni, when he was seeing his dealer, he referred to, I think it was a guy, but it was like a code name. He said, I'm off to see Lucy Goodbags, because Lucy had good bags, I think. That's great. That is the lamest way to describe a drug dealer. I know, yeah. It also sounds like slang for going to see a drug dealer. It's not very good. No, I mean, I don't think it was even, it wasn't like a thieves can't so that the police didn't know what he was talking about.

But yeah, it was, I don't know if it was like if there were some origins to it from like back home for him. Like I met him at uni, so I don't know. But he just said, yeah, oh, you know, Lucy Goodbags was the name for his dealer. Lucy Goodbags. I've just Googled Lucy Goodbags. And it's not, there's juicy Lucy designs. They make bags, but that's it. Are they good bags?

I don't know. No. hard to say yeah well how are we all doing on this fine fine stiflingly hot late summer's eve it's a bit close isn't it

yeah it is yeah it's a bit flipping close that summer that we didn't get all summers finally here so that's you know that's nice yeah doing okay apart from the you know the heat but it's actually because I'm now in my house

as opposed to my old flat it's still bad but it's not as bad so that it's a bit more bearable which is nice good congratulations yes thank you you made it and how are you Michael I'm good I've got nothing his brain is falling out of his ears so far this evening for anyone he's watching at home you probably will notice beads of sweat dripping from me and it's it's it's unstoppable so like right now I mean you can probably tell by the fact I started going on about the Benadryl man and all this crap. I'm on one today, so this might be interesting.

I've got sweat brain. You might see the Hatman just from heat stroke, to be honest. You don't need the Benadryl. He's hoping. Maybe I keep focusing on sweating more. He'll come visit. Yeah. Yeah.

It's a lot hotter down there for you. The kids are screeching. Are the kids screeching near you guys? They are. I've had to shut my windows. Yeah. Always screeching. That's all they do.

Is it just the time of, it's 1922 and it's time for kids to screech. Yeah. It's just kids time. Back in bloody school, they think they can come home and screech. They should be knackered. You should have died of heat exhaustion by now. Exactly. Yeah. Good children do.

I saw a headline earlier today that said the government has now published a list of schools in England suffering from crumbling concrete. Crumbling concrete. Brilliant. I've heard about this scandal, the concrete scandal. It's nuts. I haven't heard about the concrete scandal but I did hope that maybe it would reduce perhaps the screeching of the children

Yeah Yeah, they shouldn't have won the schools And just let them all crumble with all the occupants inside Sure, yeah, why not? It's like hundreds of schools They've had to close any Any room or building that is made out of this concrete It's like a massive problem

Because apparently they've known about it for a while as well And they've just sort of been back their heads in the sand You know, the UK is a good country. It's great. Citation needed, but I was told that a primary school classroom's roof fell in over lockdown. This was a while ago. Oh, my God. And, you know, they were just lucky that there wasn't like, you know, 30 children in there.

And then since then it's just been, you know, they've been having advice from like surveyors and stuff. And they've now been told this can't go on any longer. You need to close all of these schools. So it's going well. Fucking hell. Man, imagine that. You've just had six weeks off for summer holiday. You come back and find out, oops, school's not open.

All right. More holiday then. As you know, sadly, we've got experience through COVID. Now everyone can teach from home. So actually, you know, the kids are still getting moved into it. That's still be, anything to stop the screeching, basically. That's all I, maybe I should invest in like an air rifle or something. I'm pretty sure I could shoot them from here.

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I'm also going for a nuts one, but I would like the two-parter. I am become D's destroyer of nuts. That's my personal favourite this time around. Amazing work, pod squad. Love you. Michael Johnson, that's your name. You're in charge of listeners submitted things this week. You're darned, I am. So I'm going to throw it right back. Back to you, Ben. How would you like to kick us off with your viewer submitted thing?

I would love to. Let me just click the relevant tab. Here I go. And I would like to thank. I would like to thank. I would like to thank. Groovy Pasti at Groovy Pasti for submitting this news. I understand a lot of people submitted it, Mikey, but this person was the first person. Yeah, this was the first one to get in there. So I'm well done. You won the race. Okay. Here we go. This is from WSBTV.com. Apparently they're celebrating their 75th anniversary. this year. Congratulations. Oh, happy birthday. Atlanta flight forced to come back after Flyer has diarrhea and then quotes, all the way

through the plane, pilot says. All the way through. I saw an out-of-context video clip of this this morning and I was like, what is that? And then I just thought, this might be on poddietz, so I'm not going to look any further. You were bang on. You know our listeners.

and our viewers too. So here we go. Here's some context for you. It is something that most flies probably believe would be unimaginable, but a Delta flight from Atlanta had to turn around Friday after a person on board soiled themselves.

Delta confirmed that flight DL194 from Atlanta to Barcelona had to turn back because a passenger on board was having a medical issue. The flight was about two hours out when Business Insider reported that it had to turn back. In an audio transmission from the flight deck posted on X Boo, posted on Twitter

by an aviation enthusiast the pilot said this is a biohazard issue We've had a passenger who's had diarrhea all the way through the airplane so they want us to come back to Atlanta

How much diarrhea is that? Well, I'll give you some more information Mikey because it sounds like they had to replace all of the carpet in the plane The video is not good of the afternoon So someone took a video

from on the plane? Yeah, it's afterwards. It's not filming someone, shitting everywhere, but it's, yeah, it's what happened afterwards. I think it might be a member of the crew, because the plane's empty at that point, so. Jesus. I mean, that is not in the article, as you might imagine. But in the statement from Delta, a spokesperson said, our teams worked as quickly and safely as possible to thoroughly

clean the airplane and get our customers to their final destination. We sincerely apologize to our customers for the delay and inconvenience to their travel plans. The flight ended up being delayed about eight hours before taking off again for Barcelona. There's an embedded tweet here from the person. I assume it doesn't have your video in, Peter, but there's an audio recording of the pilot saying

that there's a biohazard issue, which was quoted. There's some, what is this? The FAA flight strip that says passenger diarrhea all over. That's what it says on it. Oh, no. There's some more information. And someone tweeted Delta saying, idea what's going on with DL194 in flight for almost two hours,

and now heading back to Atlanta with my son on board. It would like an update as to what the issue is and what the update is on getting to Barcelona. And Elle has replied and said, thank you for tweeting with Delta. My name is Elle. Please send a private DM for assistance. No extra context.

Right. Given there. But someone else does reply and say both my wife and I were on the flight. It was a mess. The pilots made the right decision to turn around. The ground crew ripped out the carpet and put new in. Considering the circumstances, did a great job, along with the attendants and the pilots.

Oh, dear. Good. I've found a video, and it's grim, man. It's absolutely grim. It's really bad. It's the baddest. Someone else's replied, before I watch this and feel unwell. My partner was on that flight.

It was pretty bad. I'm so sorry. If you're eating, maybe stop. It was dribbled down the aisle. Smelled horrible. The vanilla scented disinfectant. It used on it only made it smell like vanilla. shit after the plane landed.

It was thoroughly clean. They didn't leave until around 2.30 a.m. Oh, man. You were just maybe for the rest of your life. If you smell fake, like chemical vanilla smell, you will just remember this forever. Remember that.

Someone else says, I remember this exact mission in Resident Evil 6. Leon was never the same after this biohazard incident. It's a biohazard issue, yeah. Okay. What have you sent us here then, Mikey? Oh, is that just a photo or a video? it's like midway through the article is the video i can't it's just brown like going down the entire

length of the plane kind of aisle where aisle i'm just going to hide that i don't want to look at it yeah that's a good shout i won't add this to the uh we won't add this one to the thread but find it if you want to see it and if you do why just put a nice picture of a plane on there there you go there you go wow i could not imagine being that person um yeah thoughts and prayers and medication to that person. That is so humiliating, isn't it, that that's gone viral for that poor person. Yeah.

Bless them. Fortunately, you know, there appears to be zero information out there about who they are, even what demographic they were, age, you know, gender. So they're pretty much anonymous. I mean, everyone on the plane would be able to describe them if they had to, but hopefully none of the people covering this. in their articles are going to say

and how would you what was the person do you know their name do you know where they live can we publish that information because God yeah it's bad enough that a plane of 200 people saw that happen

but yeah bless them well wishing them a speedy recovery and please rehydrate whoever you are because you've lost a lot of liquids there God yeah it sounds like it was a lot thank you very much you're welcome um Peter would you like

to treat us to your thing, I'm a jig? I would. This is according to the irish times.com and it's a write-up of a historical event that I've been meaning to cover and I found this pretty decent write-up of it at last. I mean, I could have maybe written my own thing in the time that it's taken me to actually find this, but I'm lazy. And as long as I say, it's from the Irish times.com written by Dean Ruxden, that's me covered. So here we go. The night, a river of whiskey, ran through the streets of Dublin. So, this is about the 1875 Chamber Street Fire, or the Dublin Whiskey Fire.

At William Smith's inquest, his father James spoke to confirm that he was a labourer, unmarried, and 21 years old when he died. That was on Tuesday evening. The previous Friday, William met his neighbour, John McRane, at the corner of Bow Street in Dublin's north inner city. Word was quickly spreading of a huge fire engulfing the liberties. It was 10pm on June 18, 1875, and the two young men decided to cross the city to take a look.

Earlier, at 4.45pm, Malone's Malt House and a bonded storehouse on Chamber Street, where some 5,000 barrels of whiskey and other spirits were being stored, were checked and all was in order. At 8pm, the alarm was raised, according to a report in the Irish Times. The fire quickly spread As the flames reached the wooden casks holding the liquor They burst open Sending a burning river of whiskey

flowing through the streets Oh my God Yeah By the time William and John set out for the blaze The flow measured two feet wide And six inches deep And stretched more than 400 metres Down one side of Mill Street

Livestock was common in the city At the time And the squeals of fleeing pigs added to the chaos as the tenements rapidly emptied of residence. Amid the frightening bustle, crowds gathered along the stream of alcohol. For many, the Inferno presented a rare opportunity. It is stated, this is a quote now from the Irish Times, it is stated that caps, porringers and other vessels were in great requisition

to scoop up the liquor as it flowed from the burning premises, and, disgusting as it may seem, some fellows were observed to take off their boots and use them as drinking cups, reported the Irish Times on June 21st. Do shoes hold liquid? Like, would the liquid stay in there? Not long.

I mean, just to quickly scoop it up, you know, I guess it's like cup in your hands. You know, it sort of flows out between your fingers, but you can quickly have a bit of whiskey. What was the result? Continues the quote from the Irish Times. Eight men were carried in a comatose state to Meath Hospital, 12 to Jervis Street Hospital

3 to Stevens Hospital and one young man to Mercer's Hospital And even these numbers do not represent the entire of the person's Put Hoare de Combat By the Drink That's written in italics because it's French or Latin or something

Fancy In all 13 people are understood to have died As a result of the fire But none of the deceased perished in the flames nor did they die of smoke inhalation. Each one succumbed to alcohol poisoning from drinking freely of the derelict whiskey.

Ah, ha ha! Legend. Among them was the aforementioned Mr. Smith. Mr. McRane described how William drank from the flow near the coom, scooping it up with his cupped hands. He drank a great deal. What I drank was out of a jug. Nearly everyone was drinking it.

The deceased suddenly fell down and became insensible. Two men, strange, helped me to bring William part of the way home as far as Meath Street. We then met some other men, neighbours, who helped to bring him the rest of the way. William arrived home shortly before midnight and was brought to Richmond Hospital the next morning in a state of profound coma. He improved slightly under treatment, even regaining consciousness at one point, but died on Sunday night as a result of alcohol poisoning.

I wasn't laughing at him. I was laughing at just the phrase profound coma. Profound coma is an interesting phrase, yeah. That's good, that's very good. Some of those hospitalized in the aftermath had better fortune. This is a quote again from the report. In the other cases, the patients were treated in the usual way, and having recovered, were discharged on Saturday morning, perhaps sadder, and it is to be hoped, wiser men.

Hundreds of police officers, soldiers and firefighters, led by the first chief of Dublin Fire Brigade, Captain James Robert Ingram, attended the scene within 15 minutes of the alarm being raised. They were later commended for their bravery in quelling the fire and moving residents out of harm's way. This continues though. I mean, it's now sort of describing the fire. Where is it? A number of pigs were destroyed while the Irish Times also reported a case of canine suicide in the aftermath of the fire. Excuse me? On Tuesday night, a dog ran through the open door of the home of William A.

in Dominic Street Upper, Dominic Street Upper, the animal was foaming at the mouth and evidently either rabid or suffering from delirium tremens at the hands of laptop whiskey. The dog dashed madly about the house knocking over furniture and attacking the homeowner.

When Mr. Eyre fended off the dog using an iron bar, the animal ran upstairs, jumped from a top floor window and terminated its existence in the road below. That sounds like a man killed his dog. Yeah, and thought, oh, I know what I'll say.

It was on the night of that fire, and it jumped out of the window. What this article doesn't actually include, I've only just realized, is that part of the way that they kind of dealt with the fire and the fact that, remember, this is a flowing fire of whiskey, or flowing river of whiskey on fire, is that they used horse manure to, like, build a sort of, of dam and to kind of soak up the whiskey as well. So yeah, it's a really strange story this, but that is pretty much it. It says at the end, in the present case, the unfortunate victims

apparently could not restrain themselves, as I understand, from the burning fluid. So there you go. The death toll was one suicidal dog and 13 people, none of whom died of fire or smoke. They drank himself to death. Also, that article doesn't make it clear that part of the reason that they died of alcohol poisoning, because you'd think, like, all right, you might have all the free whiskey in the world, but like, hopefully you wouldn't drink so much that you would kill yourself. But I think what some of them didn't realize is that it was sort of undistilled, kind of in quite a raw form, this whiskey. And it wasn't really ready to be drunk. So that is partly why they ended up giving themselves alcohol poisoning.

So, there go. Would you, though, if you saw alcohol running down the street, would you just drink it? No, in streets. Even if you thought it was safe. Streets that are full of squealing pigs and horse manure being used to soak up the fire. How bad is that? Yeah, very strange. Not the most pleasant scene to get drunk in, especially, well, it's, well, yeah, whiskey's one of the flaming spirits, so it is, it is on fire.

Like, imagine taking your shoes off and just dipping it into this river of fiery brown, liquid like it's impressive no one caught fire but i respect i respect them for being committed to it and really really trying to get that free whiskey but good lord good lord they did it upstream from the shit damn oh yeah me too and maybe that some people did catch fire but certainly no one died of that so yeah um it's it's a strange old story but there you go that's the uh the dublin whiskey fire for you. Wow. I don't want to smell that.

No, you don't. It's got to burn your insides. You don't want to smell it because it's pleasant. I want to smell it because it would be an experience. Much like flight, I don't know, whatever the code was. Much like the flight that was turned around. Yes. It would be an experience to smell it.

Delta Airlines. Only need to have it once. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Or maybe, like, I was like what I thought, like, when the first time I got punched, like, you know, you'd assume, oh, we've done it once. You'd never want to be punched again. But here I am many years later, still gagging to be punched again for some reason. There's something about it. But I don't think I'd be chasing the same high of smelling poopies. Are you being sincere right now, Mikey? Yeah, it's weird. It's like, for some reason. You want to be, what? Hang on.

You could get punched if you want to. I'm sure. Yeah, but no one, no one's taking me up on it, yeah. I mean, I've, like, genuinely, like, considered doing. doing a bit of boxing just to get battered up a bit. I don't know, I don't know why. Is this weird? Yeah. Just like, there's a quick one too, not like a full on face fight, just a whopah. And then, yeah. Like, do you want to join like a fight club or?

No, that's scary. Like, just like, just like a gentle, not gentle. Just like enough to feel it, but not enough to be incapacitated. You want to ask someone kindly to punch you in the face twice. Hmm. Yeah. In as safer way as possible. Yeah.

Yeah, you know, like a little bit of a thrill in a controlled environment. It's just like a roller coaster. I'm sure that there would definitely be some people who would oblige, probably even some listeners. This isn't an open invitation if you see me on the street to come clock me on, please. It's him! Get him, boys!

Is that really weird? I can't say I've ever heard of that before, but some people do like to be beaten up for sexual reasons, and some people like to be beaten up because of the... There's like an adrenaline, endorphin thing. I'm more on the adrenaline and dolphin side of things, I think. It's just an interesting sensation. Anyway, thank you.

We learned a lot about Michael Johnson. Thank you, Peter. We did. You're very welcome. Very welcome. I'm going to very quickly move on. I'm going to do my viewer submitted thing. Okay.

This one was submitted by Sarah at, at Bags for Dice on Twitter. And this is an article from ABC 7 News, eyewitness news. And the headline reads, Dog runs away from home, sneaks into Metallica concert at SoFi Stadium. Oh, brilliant. Fantastic. Come on, boy, get that, get it.

The article begins. You may have seen this on social media. A post about a dog that was allegedly abandoned at a Metallica concert at So-Fi Stadium in Inglewood last weekend. But, as is usually the case, there is more to the story. It turns out that the German Shepherd wasn't abandoned. Abandoned, she just likes to rock. After a few days of online outrage over a dog owner purportedly leaving their pup at

So-Fi, Metallica updated the story, posting on Instagram and saying, Despite reports to the contrary, our friend's storm, snow. out of her home adjacent to the stadium and made her way to the gig all by herself. Wow. After a full night taking in the show with her Metallica family, Storm was safely reunited with her actual family the next day. Good. How did the dog get in? Maybe it'll explain.

No, there's not much more to the... She's not meant to Sandman. She just heard it and had to go get it. But surely the security, you're like, oh, hold on. You've got a ticket, love. Come on. You're not on back here I can picture exactly what happened

Security saw this dog approach You thought Huh That dog's walking up to us And then walked straight past them And they went Um Oh well

I'm not being paid to do that And I just left it It probably knows someone inside Yeah Yeah Yeah it's probably seen it around a lot It's a regular Yeah

The article continues The four-legged fan had a great time listening to her favorite songs and there's a couple of Metallica puns in here so get ready master of puppies yeah that's one of them well done that's great yeah yeah

they've also got barks eternia I don't know enough about Metallica to get that one no I don't no and the mailman that never comes anyone no no idea

no it might be that might be a sandman thing oh wait no tongue in cheek reference to some of the band's most well-known songs. Well, one out of three is not bad. That's the article. And the article finishes up on.

And in case you were wondering, no, you definitely shouldn't bring your fairy friends to the M-72 World Tour, the band added. But this dog sure did have her day. What fun, what fun. I respect the dog. Like, yeah, go get it. And it looks like it made its way to, like,

a seating area. It grabbed a seat. so it's doing it right snacks yeah yeah yeah go a few beers watch Metallica that's a good old time and then you know bam you just mooch on home at the end live across the road

and you come back with some wonderful tales brilliant I can't be good for a dog's hearing no probably not no absolutely not but hey it's worth it damn it oh I kind of want to see a dog at a gig now

I don't think I've ever seen any animals inside a music venue no hmm I mean there's a good reason for that. Yeah, as you've just described. Yeah, they'd probably be a bit startled, wouldn't they? Yes, it is quite a lot. Maybe like, what's the, what is that BBC thing,

where it's like classical music, like proms. Proms on the park, not Pims on the park. Dogs like parks as well. There you go. I think that's an adequate way to kind of get the animals used to being in music venues, and then we work them up to Metallica. That's the healthy way to do it. I think someone's really poorly photoshopped

a dog in front of this crowd of people at a concert, but there seems to be video footage of the dog. I don't know if that's Photoshop, that photo you've sent. I think it's just, I don't know, maybe. That's a weird one. I suppose it is actually Photoshopped, yeah, because the quality in the background is like an old photo, yeah. Oh, yeah, there's just, sorry, there's a photo here.

There's a dog just sat in one of the seats watching Metallica. let me send you a photo it's taken from the back like it's been caught in the act hang on it's a good photo I'm a fan of this here it comes

just watching the show it looks so happy it's taken a seat on one of the seats which is the best bit brilliant oh my god what of you I mean to be fair

that dog in front of the dog is just two people stood facing the dogs that that dog has a view of crotch instead of Battalica Dogs like crotch, though, so it's all good. It's all good. Ah, wonderful. Ah, brin, melty brin.

Who's next? Pete, yeah, uh, wait. Yeah, Peter, you've done your thing thing. Now, Ben, you can do your thing thing. It's my turn. That's right. Good on, Michael. Knocking out the park. You'll be able to go to sleep soon.

I can't. It's too warm. My thing is the story of Angus Barbary I believe that's how it's pronounced I'm probably murdering that pronunciation Angus Barbary the man who didn't eat for 382 days Wow It's a new story from history defined dot net

But there's loads of write-ups It has a Wikipedia and article and everything Have you ever wondered just how long the human body can go without food In June of 1965 Angus sorry Barberi a seemingly average normal Scottish man, that's just two words that mean the same thing back.

Captured the world's fascination. He embarked on what would become an unbelievable 382-day fasting journey. He decided to attempt to overcome his food addiction and lose weight. Barbary shattered all records and expectations, stupefying scientists and public onlookers. His remarkable fast defied all conventional beliefs

and pushed the boundaries. It painted a vivid portrait of a man striving to conquer the shackle of obesity. It's a bit colourful, isn't it? The language. Also, don't paint this as a healthy way to do that. Don't just not eat for you. My God. If you've got a food addiction, you don't just stop overnight. I'm going to insert some important context momentarily, but I'm just reading the introduction. How did he do it? How does a man's mind and body emerge intact after an astonishing 382 days without eating a morsel of food? Ultimately,

the spell-binding story of Angus Barbary, a man who dared to reshape his destiny, captured the attention of the world, and inspired countless individuals to push their limits. I agree. The way this article is glamorizing this is extremely irresponsible, in my opinion. It's a very interesting story that we'll get to. However, when I was looking for a writer of this, I found something from diabetes.co.uk that says, don't try this at home. This is an incredibly unusual case and one of the most extreme examples of a starvation diet ever recorded. Because Angus was extremely overweight, his body was more prepared for a fast and to burn fat. But once the body has burned through its fat stores, it needs energy from

food to function properly. For people of a normal weight, fasting for long periods can cause health complications, including increased strain on the heart, even with nutritional supplementation. Therefore, fasts of this length should not be attempted by anybody. They are from a time in the 1960s where long-term fasts were being studied with frequency, but there are other studies from this time where patients experienced heart failure and in some cases died of starvation. So needless to say, despite the fact that this is a fascinating story that this man actually managed to do it, please ignore the embellishments and the colourful language used in this article because they do make it sound like, hey, isn't he incredible? Maybe you

should try that too. Don't. You could be incredible if you do this. Don't try it. And just cut to the man who's withering on the floor unable to move. No energy to do anything. What is it? Did he incredible? Look at him. He's a warrior. This is a very special case. So please do not attempt this. And you are beautiful, just how you are. You certainly are. So here we go. Very little information is available about Barbary in his life before his record breaking fast and weight loss. He was born in 1939 in Scotland and by all accounts lived a normal, uneventful life. His father owned a fish and chip shop. By the start of his fast, Barbary was working there for some time. As a young adult living in Tayport, Scotland, issues with his weight began to be apparent. By 27 years,

old, Barbary weighed 456 pounds, which is about 32.5 stone in Britain. In June 1965, the 27-year-old was voluntarily admitted to a hospital in Dundee. He hoped that he would walk out with his weight in check. That's not how that works. You can't just walk in at 400 pounds and then walk out with all that weight gone. I don't know what they're implying there. Only a short fast was planned, but Barbary would instead go on to fast for an astonishing 382 days. In June 1965, Barbary marched into the University Department of Medicine. This was located at the Royal Infirmary of Dundee. He weighed £456, as we know, and he committed to fasting his way to health. Barbary quickly blew past the initial plan of a short fast, but he was determined to

continue. As part of his fasting process, the consumption of any food was off the table. He was only allowed vitamins, electrolytes, some yeast for important amino acids, and finally beverages like black coffee, tea and sparkling water. Some would take offence with the fact that Barbary occasionally took his tea and coffee with a little milk or sugar, but in all reality, his calorie intake remained close to zero for the entire duration of the fast. What was that? I was just saying good lord. Yeah, I forgot like, yeah, you can't even have like a Coca-Cola. You're going all in on the big zero. No, no calories. He used both intermittent fasting as well as the starvation. diet. This was a prolonged fast for weight loss. Because during a fast, the body turns to its own fat stores for energy through a process called autophagy. And during the fast, Barbary was losing weight quickly, as you could probably imagine. He was shedding almost a pound a day on average. Monthly, he was losing around 22 pounds. As the months passed, Barbary held to the fast. The number on the scale continued to fall. Impressively, he was free to come and go from the Merrifield Hospital where Angus's doctors were continually monitoring him. I don't know why he was.

that's impressive, while at home he always resisted all temptations. The fast wasn't all great, of course. He quit working at his father's fish and chip shop on Nelson Street. That's bad. One can imagine the mental and physical difficulties of such a protracted strict fast. Yeah. But Barbara's ultimate weight goal was to reach 180 pounds. At that point, he planned to end his ludicrous fast. And after an astonishing, extraordinary 382 days on July the 11th, 1966, he accomplished it. He broke his fast that July morning with a boiled egg and some bread with butter. He told the on-looking press, after that, it went down okay, I feel a bit full, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I feel a bit full, I suppose you would, yeah. Yeah, you've not eaten for over a year. So he only stopped because he hit his target weight. It wasn't even like, he was like, I simply, I'm going to die. You know, I feel really unwell, and I mean, maybe that as well. But he basically stopped because he just reached the point that he wanted to. too and just started doing that now it can stop right wow i was thinking like what a bald egg and toast is like what a kind of boring return to food but yeah like if if like you in your head you're like

i'm going to like i'm getting like 20 pizzas and you know have like a proper dine out but i think you'd literally explode from that kind of amount of food and also i guess you just want crackers and toast it's a thing isn't it when people um have been starving You can't just give them a load of food because they will die. Yeah, there's a very specific way to bring someone up from starvation, I think. Yeah, like in sub-Saharan Africa and stuff, it's, it was part of the, it's been part of the difficulty and, like, how do you treat people like that? So he lost 276 pounds over the course of his 382 day fast, and his fast was met with plenty of controversy and skepticism. The question was the same that has always been asked, how long can a man go without food?

Barbary's fast went far beyond almost anyone thought possible. Even if he proved it possible to last an entire year and 17 days without food, many still could simply not believe that such an extensive period could be healthy. Yet, despite all manner of doubts from family, the press, and even his doctors, Barbary persisted. After his fast, doctors W. K. Stewart and Laura W. Fleming at the University of Dundee led a study on Barbary to judge the effects of his fast. They found that his prolonged fast had resulted in No ill effects. I don't believe that.

I refuse to believe that. Yeah, it doesn't sound right. I mean, like, it doesn't sound right. I guess. I'm sneaking jaffa cakes on the side. Yeah, he's probably like nibbling on leaves and stuff to get something in him. But I mean, I guess, yeah, if you're getting your, like, your key nutrients in, um, your body's still getting energy, but nah, I get, I get woozy if I haven't eaten

like 12 hours and like that's, oh, no. I mean, even just the fiber from like, you know, the roughage that you need to, to like, I mean, yeah, did he poo? Maybe he didn't poo. Yeah, I bet he poohed like maybe once a month or something. There's nothing in him. No. He just pisses all the time.

Oh my God, wow. Maybe. I don't know. He does still hold the Guinness World Record for longest recorded fast. Wow. Do we know how long he lived? No, actually. I can find out right now for you.

But that is the story of what was his first name? I'm just trying to looking at some photos now. Angus, sorry, Angus Barbary. So here is a before and after photo of him. Oh, okay. And here is... Oh, my.

Wow, yeah. He stood in his old trousers. He certainly looks like he hasn't eaten in 380 days. Yeah, he's very, very thin. He lived from... Well, he didn't live the longest life. Yeah, no. he was born in 1939 and he died in 1990 so he was 50 years old right um there's there's no

information on how he died it just says he died in september 1990 so maybe he was knocked down by a bus and he was perfectly healthy could have been we don't we simply do not know but that's the story of angus barbary very much was tasked for over a year i mean i admire the dedication but holy molly just not not not that not that please no thanks no thanks I just want to eat a chip you know just one chip just one chip imagine just being around other people eating it would just be so difficult I just as well he left the fish and chip shop because that would just be torturous I do wonder if like he had like dreams about food or like I imagine the first couple of weeks were pretty pretty intense but then does it be does it

get to a point where like you repulsed by food and like I don't know it seems like he like he got back on it pretty quick like without much much uh issue like he's happy he's happy eat so i don't know this feels like he's built different and i'm not sure how like it just seems impossible in everywhere yeah you think after maybe after months you would reach a point where you you just have a completely different mindset towards food like i can't imagine that at month eight that it feels any worse in month nine than it did in month eight because it's just you've just not had food for over half a year so it's all the same but yeah man Crazy.

But just look at me now. Treat the treat day that he had. He has boiled egg. Boiled eggs and buttered bread. Poising Krispiao. Oh, God, very good. All right, thank you very much, Ben. Very interesting.

You're welcome. Peter, would you like to present your viewer submitted thing to the class? I would. It's submitted to us by Jack Squires at J. Squires underscore comedy. who says, oops, I've just opened Spotify, whoops. It's from the Metro, written by Lucy Scholding Met, but it's hyphen Met. So I guess that's just her Metro account. Lucy Scholding, I'm going to assume.

And the headline is, Mum says her Hunter's Chicken looks just like terrifying film character. Oh boy. It's my favourite article. this food looks like something and the press came and reported on it. Yeah. Before we even, before I even start reading, I'm just going to give you this photo, Ben, and you can enjoy that.

Oh, no. It's awful. Right. Has there been any development on our Discord user who's got the famous potato? Oh, yeah, I don't know. Oh, yeah, yeah. They've posted a few more pictures. Yeah, I think it might not.

When was the last one posted? It wasn't too long ago. Yeah, about a week ago. We haven't heard anything in a week, so I'm going to presume he's not with this, or he's rotting, and is no longer of his... It needs to be sent to the Metro. The Metro would love it, I'm just saying.

They weren't going to get on that. Oh, my God, right. Yeah, yeah, there we go. Put this on Twitter, tag the Metro, and then, yeah, you're onto a goldmine. Do you take it to a model village? Yeah. For context for those at home.

This is a picture of... Mr. Blubato, I think, he was called sat at a tiny train station waiting for a train surrounded by he's not going to fit on that train so good

if you haven't already and you're not part of our discord go go have a scroll through the potty it's channel on there there's like there is a just a myriad of images of this little potato man in just so many places

on those travels yeah so a mom got a fright when she went to serve her family dinner and saw one of the scariest horror movie villains of all time staring back at her. Chantelle Warwick cooked a hunter's

chicken dish for her, her husband Steve and their three children after work, and at first, nothing was amiss. But she quote, nearly peed herself when she plated it up and saw what was staring up at her. The chicken has been likened to Michael Myers

from the Halloween films and leather face from the Texas chains Massacre franchise. The cheese stretched over the chicken breast looked scarily like the infamous mask and there were markings of wide eyes, a nose and a gaping mouth in all the right places.

Leatherface is a character from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series, first appearing in the horror film series in 1974 as a member of a family of cannibals with his face masks and a chainsaw. So not someone you want to see when you're about to sit down to eat dinner. But it didn't stop Steve, who agreed that the face was

horrible, tucking into the dish anyway. Good. Oh, no, this is horrible. Now, before I continue, I put it to you that I find the nose at the very least questionable. I think that nostril holes have been made in that intentionally. I don't know. Certainly the nostril on the left looks... Yeah, it's very, very perfect. Looks like it's been done with some sort of implement but yeah it looks manufactured in a sense but there there is a natural resemblance with yeah whatever the sources does look like hair and yeah yeah yeah there's definitely i think they may have just sort of enhanced it slightly but yeah for those who are maybe driving or something and can't search it's on their phone what do you in texas chains or massacre hunter's chicken um it is

like the proportions are there like it's like the the bit the bit of chicken does form the the the outline of a face and then within the cheese the saddest looking cheese i've ever seen like it looks like it's plastic um but yeah it is like it's got a kind of weird texture to the skin as it's like a mouth it's just like imagine a scary looking face made out of cheese um with no no no no soul behind the eyes yeah and it's it is it's scary accurate and i'll be on the thread of course but um so this is the best part though with these articles you know it starts with the obvious, like, such and such from London saw the face of Anne Robinson in their turkey dinner, but then they have to pad it out with just silly quotes from the person who

they're like on the phone for about half an hour. So, Miss Warwick, who owns a transport business, oh, they're not married, and they've got three kids, terrible. Oh my God. She said she was grateful her three children didn't spot the terrifying face in the dinner. She added that despite the fact she found it quite cool, she hopes that it never happens again. Writing on social media on July the 19th, Ms. Warwick shared a photo of the scary looking chicken dish with the caption, I decided to make Hunter's chicken for my other half and got the shock of my life when it came out looking like Michael Myers from Halloween. When I looked at it, I nearly peed myself. I shouted to my husband, Steve, Steve, take a look at this.

initially I thought it looked like Frankenstein Um Um Um Well I think you mean Rankin's monster actually Look like Frankenstein though

Not really But then definitely Michael Myers from Halloween It was horrible Steve saw the face And said it looked horrible too He still ate it though He didn't care Mine looked like a regular

Hunter's chicken It was fine I enjoyed it a lot I said to him I thought it was pretty cool as I'd never seen anything like it before it was, this just goes on and on it was quite scary I'm hoping it never ever happens again

I've never seen the Texas chainsaw massacre so I had no idea to begin with but looking at pictures people were posting of leather face on my post it's definitely like him it's horrendous it's not what you want to see looking back at you from your dinner my husband ate it

he's a braver person than I am That's for sure. I'm not a massive fan of horror films. I've not watched it yet, but it's on my to watch list. So the article wraps up. The post ended up with over 7,000 likes, comments and shares, with lots of people agreeing that Hunter's chicken

looks scarily like the horrible character. The dish consists of a chicken breast wrapped in bacon covered with cheese and barbecue sauce. Miss Warwick said she didn't make it too often, but said her husband loves it, so she'll sometimes treat him to it and serve it with chips. Well, I'm glad this made the article.

And the meal was called the hunter's chicken, and it's called that because it involves chicken and hunts. Is there any word, Peter, on where they bought the chicken from, which supermarket? Oh, I don't think so. Actually, the article doesn't yet finish.

It's just there's like a end of the how. How does it not yet finish? Missmore, it continued. I stuck it in the oven, and that's how it came out. I didn't see it straight away. There were others in the dish, so I took those out and plated them up.

I went to take that one out with my fork and when I went to do it it was like oh my god and pulled my fork out which made a little which made the little nose indent there you go I'd like to think that they're desperately trying to leave

her house at this point and she's still talking yeah talk about my transport business put my transport business in the article please she says it was 100% worse after the nose the hair is the barbecue sauce the cheese makes the face

where the eyes are I think it's where the cheese has melted into the barbecue sauce. The mouth bitch must be the bacon coming through. Well, Miss Warwick was convinced she saw Michael Myers in the Hunter's Chicken. Others commented saying it was Leather Face. One person said, that's some Texas chainsaw stuff. And another took to the comments to add, holy smokes, this is horrifying.

Did you still eat it? Yeah, I'm not sleeping tonight. Thank you very much. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at Web News. There you go. Do it. Get in touch with their news team. Yeah.

I've got a good one for you, yeah. Good grief. Those things, they just have to pad them out with all that rubbish at the end. It's like in the first three lines, it's here's the photo of the thing, this is what it looks like. Anyway, now let me tell you what chicken is.

God. Oh, God. Amazing. I will never tire of Metro articles and all their fillets. Yeah. How do you hit your word counter? Let me show you.

Mm-hmm. All right. Thank you very much. Peter. Thank you for sending that in. Dear listener. Dear listener. And I am going to move on to my thing.

I figured we'd go to another historical figure although maybe one you've never really considered before. How about the man who invented the saxophone? Oh. Turns out

he has quite the story to him. So let's all have a little learn, eh? Mikey, I almost brought this, like last week or the week before. So I'm going to sit back and enjoy your rendition. Well, I'm going to not take credit for this. This is from TodayI Found Out.com written by the lovely Carl Smallwood. Thank you for letting me, for writing this so I could use it.

Thanks. The favoured instrument of the likes of former President Bill Clinton. The saxophone has variously been described as everything from. the most moving and heart-gripping wind instrument to the devil's horn. Devil's horn, that's nice. Yeah, I've got the devil's horn. Rather fittingly then, the Instruments inventor, Adolf Sachs, was a similarly polarizing figure and led a life many would qualify as bad ass.

I reworded the opening paragraph a bit there. I realize led a life, many would qualify as bad ass. doesn't really quite fit what you're about to hear. It's more of just unfortunate, I guess, but in a badass way. Born in 1814 in Belgium, Sax was initially named Antoine Joseph Sax, but started going by the name Adolf, seemingly almost from birth. Though why he didn't go by his original name and how Adolf came to be chosen has been lost to history, unfortunately. Not so many Adolfs around anymore, really.

Oh, this is Adolf with a pH, so I think that name's due to come back in style. Sax's affinity for wind instruments quickly became apparent in his early teens when he began improving upon and refining the designs of these instruments, as well as coming up with inventing totally new instruments all on his own. But we're getting ahead of ourselves here because Sax was immeasurably lucky to have even made it to adulthood, given what he went through. as a child. Described as chronically accident-prone,

throughout his childhood, Sacks fell victim to a series of increasingly unusual mishaps, several of which nearly cost him his life. The first occurred at age three when he fell down three flights of stairs and landed... Bad ass. That is so badass, man.

Just fucking rad, do it again. Yeah, do you flip, yeah. And he landed unceremoniously at the bottom with his head, smacking on the stone floor. Sick. Badass. Yes. Rad. Reports of the aftermath vary somewhat from him being in a coma for a week to simply being bedridden for that period, unable to stand properly. This isn't all him getting injured, but this is just his child.

This is the childhood section of his Wikipedia article, yeah? Right. A young Sachs would later accidentally swallow a large needle, which he miraculously passed without incident or injury, which, um, yeah, congratulations. That's good job. Smacks a phone. Smacks.

Very good. There you go. Bab, got him. He also just drank a concoction of white lead, copper oxide and arsenic one day as well for fun. Good. In another incident, he got, this is so loony tunes.

In another incident, he got blown across his father's workshop when a container of gunpowder exploded when he was standing next to it. His dad worked for the Acme Corporation. you got Blastity inside the room had like black suttle over his face and his white eyes peeking through

and when he stood up there was just a silhouette against the wall where the ash had gone around him um do da da yeah we've got oh oh oh and yeah another one courting death he was injured while walking in the streets

when a large slate tile flew off a nearby roof and clocked him on the head oh my god Jesus I think he's very unlucky good lord And this is all before he invented the saxophone. Yeah, at this point, he's like... What to think?

The invention of the saxophone was as a result of all these injuries. Only a man who's repeatedly been hit in the head could come up with this. This is my favourite bit. All of these injuries led Saxes, understandably worried mother, Maria, to openly say her young son was condemned to misfortune before adding, he won't live. Yeah, I don't live. Oh, God.

But, yeah, if he did. And once he got past his plight of just being knocked the hell out repeatedly, he properly started digging into instrument inventions. And he started showcasing his instruments around in Belgium. And he got to a final in a competition with his instrument. So he entered at the age of 27. And it was, this one was actually, this competition in particular was actually to be the public debut of the saxophone. But when Sax wasn't around, someone, rumoured to be a competitor, who disliked the young upstart,

kicked the instrument, sending it flying and damaging it too severely to be entered into the competition. The cutthroat world of instrument-making competitions, who's got to guess? I didn't know about any. I was basically just going to say, yeah, the guy who met the saxophone nearly died in all of these ways. and that's news to me. The actual competition, that's wild. It's wild. I mean, he had a tumultuous childhood,

and his adulthood continued to be tumultuous, just thankfully in a less physically painful way. Yeah. And I think he kind of had a few incidents like this while he was in Belgium, so he said, screw this, I'm getting out, and he decided to move to France because he heard that the French military

were looking to revolutionize their bands, and so he figured that was, his best shot of, you know, making it and getting it accepted and part of the culture of music. And yeah, he wanted to go to Paris and, you know, leave. Wait, hold on. Reading's hard. Yeah, there we go.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm getting there. Ah, yes, there we go. And when he got to France, he very quickly made a name for himself. And it wasn't long before he gathered the funds to open the Adolf Sachs musical instrument factory. Ooh, he's doing it. He's doing it.

Uh, the young Belgian upstart, who was seemingly a prodigy when it came to inventing and improving on existing implements, threatened to leave the other musical instrument makers in Paris in the dust. You're not going to believe this stuff. That's nuts what this sacks can do. Said rivals, thus began resorting to every underhanded trick in the book to try and ruin him. From frequent slanderous newspaper articles to lawsuits to attempts to have his work boycotted. In spite of these efforts, yeah, we don't like this newfangled sacks, get out, ban their sacks down with sacks. Pretty much is kind of how it went. In spite of all these efforts to put him down, even resorting to performing behind a curtain to keep the design of his instrument secret, he did eventually fulfill his dream of having his instrument be used by the military and was awarded a contract with them.

As a weapon? As just, I mean, as just an instrument, I guess. Yes, yeah, just the military was big on marching bands and stuff. It was like, yeah, come on, we'll use your sax. Sounds like a good time. So clearly his rivals knew he had something good then. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

I mean, have you ever heard of sax before? Oh, music to my ears. Sax is like, is the one non-standard instrument I'd love to learn. Non-standard instrument? What's a standard instrument? I guess keyboard. No. but yeah him getting this contract only spurred on the haters more at this point a group of instrument makers created an anti-sax club of sort where they devise plans to try and bring him down and kind of pool their resources together to make it happen brutal they repeatedly sued him but none of them ever really kind of came to anything because it was all quite baseless and just flippant as you can imagine oh my god I keep losing myself as

There's so many words. Wait, where the hell did I... Where did you get to, Mikey? Where did I get to? Use the military, got the contract. They sued him. Yes, there we go. At this point, he was just really fed up with the whole thing.

And an infuriated sax counted by withdrawing his pattern application and giving the other instrument makers permission to make a saxophone if they had the skill. So he's like, hey, look, you think. this is the next big thing. You do it then. I'm giving you a... Yeah, you do it then. If you want it so bad, you can have it.

He gave them a year in which to recreate the instrument, but no one could bloody do it. Ah. Uh-huh. And for a while, he kind of coasted. It was quite nice. You know, he had his contract with the military. He was doing well, making his instruments, making good money.

And then after a tumultuous few years in the military in France, the contract was rescinded, and he was cut off, sadly. At this point, apparently, his haters weren't happy with just metaphorically ruining his life and his business. At one point, Saxes' workshop mysteriously caught fire. Bad ass. Bad ass. And in another incident, an unknown assassin fired a pistol at one of Sax's assistants thinking it was Sax. Oh my God. It's a conspiracy by Big Bassoon or something.

Big wind. And things kind of kept getting rocky and rockier for him. At this point, he was totally desistute, not a penny to his name. And luckily, a friend came along and gave him 30,000 francs. Oh. Which is quite nice. I could do with a friend like that? Yeah, me too.

That would be great. Unfortunately, this wasn't a gift as Sacks had assumed and it was in fact alone. Oh. So, yeah. So when the benefactor, Benefactor died a couple of years later, his heirs noticed this transaction had taken place and hunted sacks down for everything he'd get, demanded the money within 24 hours. Oh my gosh. He's going to have to put on the best sack show this country has ever seen. I should have really found out what 30,000 francs is valued at.

We can look that up. Yeah, 30,000 francs in 1852. Okay. And yeah, so with this kind of plight in front of him, he just decided to leg it out of the country and go to London. And even then, he still wasn't safe. He was caught, and they basically got him for everything he had, made him file for bankruptcy,

and he had to close his factory, unfortunately. But the military came back, gave him a new contract, and from there, thankfully, that's the end of the ups and downs. It was all pretty smooth sailing from there. The instrument grew in popularity, and he seemed to do quite well out of it. And there was a fun little extra tidbit at the end here. On the side, when he wasn't fighting countless legal battles

and inventing and making instruments, Sacks also had a pichon for dreaming up alternate inventions, such as designing a device that could launch a 500-ton, 11-yard-wide mortar bullet. He called it, and this isn't a joke, the Saxo Cannon. if only that made it into regular

regular usage and he also designed a truly massive organ intended to be built on a hillside near Paris capable of being heard clearly by everyone throughout the city

when it was played lovely I wish we got that look at this that he made as well the six piston trombone ooh look at that It's amazing.

I just opened his Wikipedia page because I was sure that there was at least one thing that he did that nearly killed him that he didn't mention and I found it here. Several times he avoided accidental poisoning and asphyxiation from sleeping in a room where varnished furniture was drying. So that's pretty dodgy. And apparently, you know, he said his mum said he won't live.

Apparently his neighbours called him Little Sack the ghost which is nice oh man little sacks wow I didn't I hadn't really read any of the

the later life stuff that's pretty exciting life he lived yeah I think in the end he did all right out of it I hope so he the boy deserves a break

please yeah and that that is that is the story of Adolf thank you thank you very much well thank you Mikey for that

excellent I'm desperately trying to find All it's trying to do is convert 1,852 francs into pounds Which is not what I want it to do I'm struggling to find what francs were worth in 1852 So you can convert French francs into your road No, I don't know Oh wait, hold on, okay

I've got something, it really has The equivalent of 30,000 francs in the year 1852 in the currency of. You got great British pounds in here? Sterling? Pound? There we go. Wait, euro.

Let's do euro in the year. Okay. Oh my God, this is hard. Oh, data for any of the currency units is missing for any of the years you want to compare. Good. It's also just showing me where to buy coins from 1852 if I wanted to collect them,

which is also. not very helpful citation needed but it's probably a lot yeah yeah yeah it sounds a lot enough to make him flee the country trying to pay it back yeah

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