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Stab Yourself to Health and Happiness: The Bizarre Rise of the Lebensweker · Ridiculous History

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Speaker 1: Ridiculous History is a production of I Heart Radio. Welcome
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Speaker 1: back to the show Ridiculous Historians. Thank you, as always
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Speaker 1: so much for tuning in today's episode. Just a heads up,
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Speaker 1: today's episode has some graphic body stuff involved. I think
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Speaker 1: it's well intentioned, but just so you know this is
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Speaker 1: this is a bit of a gross episode today anyway.
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Speaker 1: I'm Ben. I am not currently uh Life Awakener user now,
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Speaker 1: but I did hurt myself today to see if I
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Speaker 1: still felt and it turns down I did feel uh
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Speaker 1: and it hurt. Man, It hurt when I hurt myself today.
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Speaker 1: That's what today's story is about. It's about hurting in
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Speaker 1: order to feel better or something, uh, through the eyes
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Speaker 1: of a German innovator, medical wizard, slash quack slash I
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Speaker 1: don't even know what, by the name of Carl Bound Streight,
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Speaker 1: who was born in eighteen o nine, and he came
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Speaker 1: up with something like you said, Ben, the German translation
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Speaker 1: of Life Awakener isa uh. And this was in eighteen
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Speaker 1: forty seven, and he was inspired to create this device
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Speaker 1: which I will you so eloquently described off. Mike, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna let you do that again, hopefully, Uh. I feel
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Speaker 1: indulge us. But it was something that occurred to him
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Speaker 1: when he was bitten on the hand by mosquitoes um
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Speaker 1: and realized that his arthritis felt better when he was
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Speaker 1: being bitten nats rather but you know little bity dadfly things. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And uh, talking earlier off air with our super producer
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Speaker 1: Casey Pegrum, Uh, we built a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: theory about what was happening when Carl saw these bugs
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Speaker 1: biting his hand. So in his in his mind, the
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Speaker 1: bug biting the hand created an opening in his skin,
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Speaker 1: an artificial poor and this allowed the sickness or the
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Speaker 1: toxins or whatever you want to call them, to drain
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Speaker 1: from his body. What may have been happening, depending on
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Speaker 1: the animal, whether it's a mosquito or you know, whatever
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Speaker 1: kind of buget is, it may have just been injecting
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Speaker 1: him with something that numbed his hand, right, a chemical
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Speaker 1: that a bug would use when biting. But he didn't
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Speaker 1: think about that part, No, he did note. Instead, Carl
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Speaker 1: decided that he would build something like this, uh, and
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Speaker 1: that this would be a new medical revolution. The libans waker,
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Speaker 1: the life awakener. It it looks like and and we're
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Speaker 1: all adults. Here it looks like a sex toy that
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Speaker 1: is incredibly violent. It has a one end. It's it's
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Speaker 1: an ebony rod, and on one end there are these
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Speaker 1: spring loaded needles, kind of in a circular shape. Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: And the idea is that if you are if you
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Speaker 1: are using this, you will put it against your body
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Speaker 1: and certain strategic spots you'll pop the needles. They'll puncture
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Speaker 1: your skin, creating what he calls artificial pores, but what
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Speaker 1: the rest of the world would recognize as puncture wounds.
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Speaker 1: And then you would apply a proprietary oil of Karl's
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Speaker 1: own design, and this oil would create blisters on those wounds. Ben,
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Speaker 1: was this oil of the snake variety. That's a good question.
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Speaker 1: I am tempted to say. The answer is yes, or
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Speaker 1: at least it's yes, if you're talking about how this
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Speaker 1: would be uh, this would be used. He called this
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Speaker 1: the ex n thematic method or and we are not
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Speaker 1: German speakers, folks or boneshit dismiss. Let me give it
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Speaker 1: a try, Let me give it a try. I believe
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Speaker 1: it is bound shedditismus. Yeah, yeah, or or the ex
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Speaker 1: thematic method, like you said, whatever the heck that even
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Speaker 1: means that sounds like some made up nonsense, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: he he believed probably uh, in his heart of hearts,
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Speaker 1: that this really was a cure all like, like it
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Speaker 1: would care whatever ailed you. Um. And so he he's
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Speaker 1: set to work trying to hip the world to his
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Speaker 1: genius and and this miracle device. Right. And as we
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Speaker 1: will find, he wasn't the first person to think of
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Speaker 1: something like this. Let's let's dive into Carl's life, how
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Speaker 1: he how he got to the life awakener, and see
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Speaker 1: how the rest of the world, how the rest of
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Speaker 1: the world felt about his magical cure all device. So
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Speaker 1: Carl was born on a farm in December of eighteen
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Speaker 1: o nine. He was a Prussian citizen. Uh. He was
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Speaker 1: a wood turner and mechanic by trade. When he was
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Speaker 1: about sixteen, he took up an apprenticeship with a local merchant,
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Speaker 1: mainly because his parents wanted him to go legit and
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Speaker 1: they were like, Carl, you know, you're sixteen zeroly eighteen hundreds,
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Speaker 1: you're basically a man. Now get a job. When his
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Speaker 1: father passed away in March of eighteen thirty one, Carl
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Speaker 1: left his apprenticeship and he went to study at a
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Speaker 1: place called the Felenberg Institute, which at the time was
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Speaker 1: quite prestigious. Yeah, it was at Hawful near Baarn in Switzerland.
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Speaker 1: Um and that's where he got yeah, which you would
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Speaker 1: consider kind of a tech prep education right in in uh,
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Speaker 1: in more hands on physical crafts or trades like mechanics, horticulture.
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Speaker 1: There was some physics and chemistry thrown in there as well.
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Speaker 1: But this did seem like the kind of preparation for
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Speaker 1: a life as a craftsman of some sort, or like
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Speaker 1: a physical not laborer, but you know, a skilled laborer,
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Speaker 1: but someone that would work building things or or you know,
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Speaker 1: cultivating the land. Uh. And I want to point out
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Speaker 1: it's interesting if you take a look at this device
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Speaker 1: we're talking about. In addition to looking like something of
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Speaker 1: a of a naughty sex toy, it also looks sort
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Speaker 1: of like a short table leg. So I'm wondering if
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Speaker 1: his background as a wood turner or his like woodworking
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Speaker 1: crafts kind of figured into his design here. I'm pretty
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Speaker 1: sure the answer is yes. Or maybe it was just
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Speaker 1: a quick way to make use of like some you know,
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Speaker 1: ununiformed table legs that couldn't use anywhere else. Anyway, I digress.
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Speaker 1: Once he got out of this university system, he he
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Speaker 1: he was, by the way, a stand up student, absolutely model,
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Speaker 1: and he became employed as an instructor at the institute,
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Speaker 1: at the very institute that he graduated from UH. And
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Speaker 1: during his time there at the bound Schipe, he learned
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Speaker 1: of several classical languages. He also required quite a an
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Speaker 1: extensive knowledge of you know what, what at the time
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Speaker 1: would be considered the cutting edge of medicine, but what
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Speaker 1: we now know, you know, was a lot of shooting
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Speaker 1: in the dark. Let's say, right, yeah, so this is
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Speaker 1: a this is a situation that a lot of us
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Speaker 1: will be familiar with. He was not a doctor per se,
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Speaker 1: but he was well read, so he would be familiar
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Speaker 1: with a lot of the current medical theories of the time.
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Speaker 1: He would have an understanding of some aspects of anatomy
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Speaker 1: and so on. He volunteered and joined the Prussian military
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Speaker 1: and served from about halfway through eighteen thirty two to
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Speaker 1: eighteen thirty three. After his time there, he settled down,
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Speaker 1: He took a he took a job as a mechanic.
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Speaker 1: He got married UH and he had a daughter, and
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Speaker 1: then after that his first marriage must not have worked
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Speaker 1: out guys, because he eventually started living with another person,
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Speaker 1: and he and the second person, Caroline Dorothea Hurchin, had
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Speaker 1: six sons and five daughters. You heard that right, six sons,
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Speaker 1: five daughters. They had eleven children. They got married around
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Speaker 1: number four, I believe. Yeah, you know, a lot of
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Speaker 1: times these holistic types have a healthy appetite for the
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Speaker 1: carnal pleasures. Let us say, and also just you know
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Speaker 1: God's gift of magical procreation. Um, look at Wilhelm right
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Speaker 1: and orgon energy exactly. It isn't like, I mean, orgon
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Speaker 1: energy is essentially, you know, the sexy power from within, right,
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Speaker 1: isn't that like harnessed kind of like yeah, it's the uh,
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Speaker 1: let's see, let me get a seventies enough voice for this,
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Speaker 1: the central powers of the universe in in case he
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Speaker 1: maybe throw some disco music on there. Absolutely, Oh my gosh.
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Speaker 1: And let's just double back really quick and remind everyone.
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Speaker 1: Bound Side had no professional medical training or experience, but
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Speaker 1: he felt very confident in his invention of an assortment
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Speaker 1: of medical accoustra mot. He He made a smallpox vaccinator
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Speaker 1: a breast pump, which I have to say is pretty
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Speaker 1: forward thinking because that is still something that is very
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Speaker 1: much used today. And you know, obviously motorized is probably
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Speaker 1: more comfortable than his original design, but still pretty forward thinking. Um.
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Speaker 1: He invented a type of mouth wash and various blood
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Speaker 1: cleansing medicines and oils. Um. He invented something called horrifically
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Speaker 1: the artificial leech um, which was very similar to the
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Speaker 1: design of the resuscitator or the awakener Um, which, by
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Speaker 1: the way, Resuscitator and awakener both found like they could
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Speaker 1: be nine inch Nails album titles. Just putting that out there,
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Speaker 1: I think you're also kind of going through a nine
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Speaker 1: inch Nails phase this week. I think you're right then,
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Speaker 1: and there's there's nothing wrong with that. Also, I love
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Speaker 1: the Johnny Cash cover of Hurt Classic. Yeah, we've got
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Speaker 1: to give credit where it's due there. You're right, Uh,
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Speaker 1: he would not let something as insignificant as medical qualifications
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Speaker 1: stop him from dreaming big. And I do want to say,
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Speaker 1: in a somewhat reluctant defense of Coral here that blood letting,
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Speaker 1: or the idea of curing and ailment through the forced
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Speaker 1: extrusion of various bodily fluids, that's that's a really old idea,
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Speaker 1: and it was common in the Middle Ages as well.
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Speaker 1: Blood letting was through various times in history, not just
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Speaker 1: in Europe, but in China as well, considered a legit
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Speaker 1: treatment that could cure any number of conditions from what
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Speaker 1: we would call hypertension today two more kind of wou
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Speaker 1: woui uh, pseudo scientific stuff like heartsickness. It would definitely
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Speaker 1: make you feel a little bit lighter, especially in the head.
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Speaker 1: Anyone who's donated blood is familiar with that, oh totally.
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Speaker 1: And again this would have been the kind of like uh,
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Speaker 1: practical you know, or rather conventional wisdom that he would
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Speaker 1: have been reading about. You know, this is just a
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Speaker 1: couple of steps beyond like the humors and a lot
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Speaker 1: of the really really kind of out there dark Ages stuff.
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Speaker 1: But bleeding people out was you know, kind of a
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Speaker 1: remedy as old as the hills. Uh. And he was
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Speaker 1: just kind of capitalizing on that, which which had a
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Speaker 1: lot of backing. So he wasn't like going completely out
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Speaker 1: on a limb and like making up this this really
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Speaker 1: wild stuff. I mean, to his credit, he was doing
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Speaker 1: some interesting innovative stuff like I just I just happened
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Speaker 1: to I just googled antique breast pumps, um and and
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Speaker 1: and they found an article on a HuffPo called two
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Speaker 1: hundred years of breast pumps and eighteen images. So he
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Speaker 1: definitely was very early to the game. Uh and as
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Speaker 1: far as like designing a breast pump, which again is
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Speaker 1: a device that's still used today. Again, eleven children, Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: exactly a lot of he's made for tv ad noal.
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Speaker 1: It's it's him and his wife freaking out with eleven
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Speaker 1: eleven kids, going full Tasmanian devil cartoon reference right, going
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Speaker 1: full Tasmanian devil in the house, and he throws up
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Speaker 1: his hand and he's like, there's gotta be a better way,
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Speaker 1: and there was. It was an antique breast pump. Also,
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Speaker 1: you know, like I said this, I'm interested too as
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Speaker 1: to why the most out there thing we remember him
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Speaker 1: for is this life Awakened. I guess because it kind
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Speaker 1: of caught on. But we'll get there in a second.
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Speaker 1: So back to seven, when he's sitting in his room,
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Speaker 1: his his ailing you know, arthritic hand, you know, absolutely
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Speaker 1: throbbing um and he, you know, is being overtaken by
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Speaker 1: these hungry mosquitoes, mosquitoes or gnats or bitey flies, depending
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Speaker 1: on the source. Um, mosquitoes doesn't make the most sense. Been,
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Speaker 1: You're right, because they do when they bite inject you
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Speaker 1: with a chemical that makes it not hurt as much, right,
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Speaker 1: so you don't notice it. So it's almost like an
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Speaker 1: organic painkiller. The insects injects into you so that you
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Speaker 1: don't feel it when it's sucking you know, your blood,
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Speaker 1: and then you don't feel it until after it leaves you,
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Speaker 1: and that's when you feel itchy because there's an irritant.
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Speaker 1: So this happens, he realizes, Ah, whatever's happening about this
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Speaker 1: situation is causing me to feel better. Uh. He seems
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Speaker 1: to us associated more with I don't know, Ben, It's interesting,
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Speaker 1: like is he associating it with the poking, with the
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Speaker 1: loss of blood, with the injection of the chemical that
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Speaker 1: science probably had not yet recognized at the time. Like
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Speaker 1: where do you think his head was? I think it was.
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Speaker 1: I think for him it was the the puncture the wound.
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Speaker 1: When a mosquito bites, you'll see swelling because of histamine.
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Speaker 1: Histamine is a big deal to mosquitoes because it increases
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Speaker 1: blood flow and white blood cell count around an affected area,
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Speaker 1: causing inflammation and swelling. And that's also why mosquito bites itch.
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Speaker 1: The histamine sends a signal to the nerves around the bite.
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Speaker 1: Chemicals in mosquito saliva bug spit also prevent blood from clotting.
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Speaker 1: We know in in his book about this that he
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Speaker 1: published in eighteen sixt we we know that he believed
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Speaker 1: he believed you were essentially creating an escape hatch for
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Speaker 1: disease in the body by by puncturing it. So he said,
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Speaker 1: quote how in a quite simple and natural manner, the
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Speaker 1: morbid matter that may be found in the body may
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Speaker 1: be extracted from the suffering parts and removed without the
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Speaker 1: loss of blood. Uh. He was convinced that recreating a
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Speaker 1: mosquito bite on an extreme scale would allow pain and
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Speaker 1: various poisons to leak out of the body. He was
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Speaker 1: making a new door for disease. I mean, it's just
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Speaker 1: a couple of steps removed of like drilling holes in
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Speaker 1: the skulls or at least demons, right trep nation. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And so this does catch on and he becomes kind
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Speaker 1: of the talk of the town. Uh. There's even like
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Speaker 1: a biography written about him by a guy by the
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Speaker 1: name I'm laughing because he's just absolutely It's almost like
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Speaker 1: he was hired to write the most glowing biography. Imagine
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Speaker 1: this guy Albert Volkman, who I'm assuming was just a
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Speaker 1: bit of a fanboy. He compared bounce Shite to innovators
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Speaker 1: such as Edward Jenner, who discovered vaccination, Joan Gudenberg obviously
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Speaker 1: the inventor of the printing press and movable type, and
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Speaker 1: Christopher Columbus, uh the war criminal. Oh and and and
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Speaker 1: James Watt, inventor of the steam And I think Christapher
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Speaker 1: Columbus has known for something other than that, but that's
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Speaker 1: usually what comes to mind for me. Um. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: this this thing is absolutely chock full of hyperbole, including
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Speaker 1: the savior of humanity referring to bounce shite and his
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Speaker 1: his his, you know, doing of God's work. Basically. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And to be clear, Carl got a lot of people
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Speaker 1: on board this. This treatment would be an example of
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Speaker 1: what we call counter irritation techniques, you know, creating inflammation
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Speaker 1: in one spot on the body for the purpose of
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Speaker 1: relieving it in a different spot. And originally he was
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Speaker 1: originally he set like office hours from eleven am to
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Speaker 1: noon for one hour, you could come see him and
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Speaker 1: have your life awakened euphemistically. But business was booming, and
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Speaker 1: eventually he threw up his hands again, just like in
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Speaker 1: his infomercial that we made up earlier, and he said,
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Speaker 1: there's got to be a better way. So he decided
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Speaker 1: and that instead of just administering the life awakener treatment himself,
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Speaker 1: he would sell it directly to the public and directly
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Speaker 1: to other people who wanted to set up a life
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Speaker 1: awakener practice. Well into the twenty century, well into the
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Speaker 1: nineteen hundreds, folks, people were trying to cure all sorts
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Speaker 1: of stuff with the contraption. We're talking yellow fever, epilepsy, heartbrokenness.
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Speaker 1: I I always love the terms the turn of the
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Speaker 1: century terms for various various ailments, Like you know, you
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Speaker 1: could just make something up and it would sound legit,
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Speaker 1: you know, like someone had the trembling Eastwoods, or someone
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Speaker 1: had dirty hoof or Judas tooth. Judas Tooth also would
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Speaker 1: be a really good nine inch Nail's album. So I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna let go of this um shooting the Judas Tooth.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty fantastic. Would that even it doesn't matter, let's
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Speaker 1: leave it, leave it leave it to the imagination. But yeah, man,
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Speaker 1: I mean he really is like a household name. Like
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Speaker 1: he said, he was treating patients himself one on one,
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Speaker 1: he kept office hours and all that. He also created,
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Speaker 1: uh you know, some of these cure all kind of
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Speaker 1: lotions and potions and all that. One that he called
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Speaker 1: oileam bound shite, which was an oil that was meant
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Speaker 1: to be uh slathered over these little welts and creative
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Speaker 1: those blisters that you mentioned, like you said, to essentially
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Speaker 1: simulate what would happen with an insect by and if
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Speaker 1: you made these blisters and they started, O case, they're
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Speaker 1: getting a little gross here, guys. Uh, these blisters would
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Speaker 1: start to use pus and and uh he looked at
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Speaker 1: that as being the sickness leaving your body. Kelsey Evans
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Speaker 1: is an archives at the University of California and San
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Speaker 1: Francisco who actually came across a resurrector kit in their
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Speaker 1: collection of over a thousand pieces of historical paraphernalia. Um,
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Speaker 1: and yeah, he he really want He basically had to
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Speaker 1: build a whole new kind of school of medicine, of
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Speaker 1: holistic medicine, medical thinking around this device because he had
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Speaker 1: to you know, move units. Right, so he called this
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Speaker 1: in a burst of uh modesty bound shiteism, which is
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Speaker 1: kind of like Casey, you know, before you and I
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Speaker 1: got in a podcast when you were leading the Pegramist movement.
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Speaker 1: This is true. I mean, you gotta you gotta pick
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Speaker 1: a good name for a movement. And what's better than
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Speaker 1: just calling yourself out there? Well, I mean it depends
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Speaker 1: on the name, case on the case, by the way,
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Speaker 1: but pegram is um has a ring to it. Brown
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Speaker 1: is um not so much bolon is um. I would
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Speaker 1: sign up for that, thanks man, I'm blushing. I would say, uh,
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Speaker 1: it's all in the suffix, right, So if you if
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Speaker 1: you don't if brown is um doesn't quite it doesn't
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Speaker 1: quite puncture your pores, maybe you could go for something like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: just make the end fancy brown adivideis m okay, Thanks man,
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you trying. Still not sold, still much more.
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Speaker 1: I'm a lifelong ben a knite. But here's the thing.
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Speaker 1: Here's the thing, um blood letting, you know, self mutilation
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Speaker 1: for the purposes of, you know, making yourself feel better
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Speaker 1: by hurting yourself. Surprise. Surprise started to kind of wane
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Speaker 1: in popularity a little bit as time went on. Uh,
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Speaker 1: it was no longer satisfactory for patients to be jabbed
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Speaker 1: with oily needles. Uh. They began to kind of look
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Speaker 1: at this with a little more suspicious and realize maybe
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Speaker 1: this wasn't actually providing the cure all you know, magical
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Speaker 1: one stop shop remedy that it was you know, meant to. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: His theory is essentially that you can stab people and
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Speaker 1: if you stab them the right way in the right place,
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Speaker 1: they will get better. That's that's his whole deal. Do
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Speaker 1: you guys remember the I Love Lucy bit where Lucy's
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Speaker 1: doing a commercial for this like supplement called Vita Meta
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Speaker 1: vegamin And it's like a really nasty tasting supplement like
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Speaker 1: liquid that has like vitamins, uh, meat and vegetables in it.
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Speaker 1: With the big joke is that it's also like alcohol,
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Speaker 1: and the director keeps making her take a take a
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Speaker 1: you know, swig of it every time she says a
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Speaker 1: certain line, So, of course the joke is by the
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Speaker 1: end of it, she's absolutely blotto. But one of my
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Speaker 1: favorite lines, and the ad copy for this commercial is
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Speaker 1: spoon your way to health. Uh. This version for this
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Speaker 1: topic today would be stab your way to health. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we also want to thank Charles Sturt University. They have
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Speaker 1: They have a great write up of this available to
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Speaker 1: read uh free online and Atlas Obscura. I quite like
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Speaker 1: the way they explore some of the other quote unquote
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Speaker 1: innovators in this field. John Linden, follower of Karl's, also
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Speaker 1: made some pretty broad claims. He had a book called
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Speaker 1: The Manual of the Exanthematic Method of Cure, and he
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Speaker 1: said that this could cure tape worms. Here's his reasoning.
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Speaker 1: After repeated applications of the life awaken or quote the
22:56
Speaker 1: tape worm, the unwelcome guest will soon become disgusted with
23:00
Speaker 1: quarters and be compelled to vacate. So Lindon is saying
23:04
Speaker 1: that what you're doing is, if your body is a city,
23:07
Speaker 1: you're ruining the neighborhood. Yeah. I'm assuming the tapeworm is
23:11
Speaker 1: meant to escape through one of these puncture wounds. I
23:16
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's a little vague. I will say
23:19
Speaker 1: it's also funny, and this is probably just like urban legend.
23:21
Speaker 1: But if you heard of the idea of on of
23:24
Speaker 1: purposefully taking a tapeworm to like lose weight, Yes, yeah, yeah,
23:28
Speaker 1: it seems very ill advised. Yeah, I I don't have
23:32
Speaker 1: personal experience. If anybody has a confirmed case of someone
23:36
Speaker 1: let's call it tapeworming. If you have a confirmed case
23:39
Speaker 1: of someone purposely tapeworming, then let us know. I've also
23:42
Speaker 1: heard that you can apparently coax them out of your
23:44
Speaker 1: butt with a piece of cheese. I have not been
23:49
Speaker 1: on that particular corner of the internet. Noll. Hey man,
23:53
Speaker 1: it's a it's a scary place, and you know, but hey,
23:55
Speaker 1: who knows it might be true? Um So tapeworms aside,
24:01
Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about how this device supposedly worked,
24:06
Speaker 1: some of the pseudo science or possibly potentially a little
24:09
Speaker 1: bit of real science behind it, and also some of
24:11
Speaker 1: the marketing behind it, because this is where it gets
24:14
Speaker 1: pretty fascinating, Like how much money was he making off
24:16
Speaker 1: of this scam? Yeah? So okay, you, first off, the
24:20
Speaker 1: engineering here is consistent. The device actually did stuff. But
24:27
Speaker 1: whether this stuff it did actually helped people is a
24:31
Speaker 1: whole different Uh, is a whole different bag of tape worms.
24:36
Speaker 1: So on one end of this staff of this rod,
24:40
Speaker 1: you you'll see a little loose movable piece that's connected
24:44
Speaker 1: to a very tightly coiled spring. This controls the thirty
24:49
Speaker 1: needles that are sheathed inside the sort of barrel shaped
24:54
Speaker 1: container at the end. So what you would do if
24:56
Speaker 1: you're applying this, you pull back a small handle a
25:00
Speaker 1: out two inches to retract those needles and then you
25:02
Speaker 1: release it to boom, snap them forward, and they pierced
25:06
Speaker 1: the skin. Back to our infomercial, which I'm not letting
25:10
Speaker 1: go because it's very appropriate for this, you can buy
25:12
Speaker 1: the resuscitator for eight dollars and it's a kit, so
25:17
Speaker 1: you don't just get the resuscitator. But wait, there's more.
25:21
Speaker 1: You get a little booklet about how cool this method is,
25:24
Speaker 1: and you get a bottle of this proprietary blister oil. Yeah,
25:29
Speaker 1: but you gotta keep buying the oil. You know, you
25:32
Speaker 1: only have to buy the resuscitator one time. You gotta
25:34
Speaker 1: keep getting the refills because it is proprietary. Like you said,
25:36
Speaker 1: you couldn't just get like linseed oiler and petroleum jelly.
25:40
Speaker 1: I don't know. And this oil, he claimed, would keep
25:43
Speaker 1: the wound open longer than it would, you know, if
25:47
Speaker 1: it was just left to its own devices to heal naturally,
25:49
Speaker 1: which would you know, give the wound more time to
25:52
Speaker 1: vent the body of impurities or as he referred to
25:55
Speaker 1: in the booklet straight up evil, you know, like bad
25:59
Speaker 1: body posts. Um. He explained that immediately after being punctured
26:04
Speaker 1: by the resuscitator, you you were meant to apply the
26:08
Speaker 1: oil with a chicken feather or a small pencil. Huh
26:13
Speaker 1: how does that work? You? Uh? This would be I
26:17
Speaker 1: was imagining this. I'm speculating here. But let's say let's
26:22
Speaker 1: say Casey puts the life awakener. I know you're not
26:26
Speaker 1: happy about being the example here, Thank you, Casey. So
26:30
Speaker 1: Casey puts his life awaken er, you know, on on
26:35
Speaker 1: like his side, let's say lower right Torso kind of
26:39
Speaker 1: at the end of the rib cage pops himself with it.
26:43
Speaker 1: But he doesn't. He doesn't want to waste his oil.
26:46
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to just like slather it in a
26:48
Speaker 1: swath across that series of thirty puncture wounds. So instead
26:52
Speaker 1: he takes a little pencil and he dips, he dips
26:54
Speaker 1: it into that little bottle of oil, and then he
26:57
Speaker 1: kind of paints into the pores, into the wounds. And also,
27:01
Speaker 1: I'm imagining the alternative implement the chicken feather, you would
27:06
Speaker 1: use like the pointy end, like the quill end of
27:08
Speaker 1: the chicken feather, to do something very similar. Yeah, yeah,
27:12
Speaker 1: I think I think you're on the money there. So
27:14
Speaker 1: if you wanted a more concentrated experience, if you just
27:20
Speaker 1: didn't have time to carefully paint this irritant oil over
27:24
Speaker 1: your new wounds, you could double down. You could go
27:28
Speaker 1: hard on the paint. You could put the oil on
27:32
Speaker 1: the needles before you pulled the trigger or pulled that
27:38
Speaker 1: switch and pop them into your skin, so it would
27:42
Speaker 1: become a kind of injection. That comes to us from
27:45
Speaker 1: Kelsey Evans, who is an archivist at the University of California,
27:49
Speaker 1: San Francisco Library. She I love this is the cool part.
27:55
Speaker 1: We don't say this often enough about archivist, but one
27:58
Speaker 1: of the weird benefits of working in that kind of uh,
28:02
Speaker 1: in that kind of discipline, is that you can just
28:06
Speaker 1: run across some very surprising and weird stuff. And totally
28:11
Speaker 1: Kelsey ran across one of these kids, especially in San Francisco,
28:14
Speaker 1: They're on all kinds of wacky stuff there. Uh. And
28:17
Speaker 1: the thing is, you know, again, this was all like
28:20
Speaker 1: set out for you in that little pamphlet. Within about
28:23
Speaker 1: four to six minutes. According to Andough and bound Stride's
28:27
Speaker 1: own words, the skin with a light with an eruption
28:31
Speaker 1: resembling millet seeds, and patients would begin to feel a curious,
28:36
Speaker 1: crawling sensation. Uh. And again, like you said, for a
28:40
Speaker 1: more concentrated experience, dip the needles right on in that oil,
28:44
Speaker 1: and you're shove it on in there. And he almost
28:46
Speaker 1: as a selling point, likens it to a kind of injection,
28:49
Speaker 1: which I think is is interesting. I mean, it was
28:51
Speaker 1: a weird time. People were doing all kinds of crazy
28:53
Speaker 1: stuff they were used to, like leeching and blood letting.
28:57
Speaker 1: This was, honestly, probably a little bit more of a
28:59
Speaker 1: use are friendly experienced than just like the old school
29:02
Speaker 1: bloodletting where you just like slice yourself with a straight razor.
29:05
Speaker 1: That's where the whole barber pole situation came from, because
29:08
Speaker 1: I believe barber's were the de facto blood letters. Yeah. Yeah,
29:12
Speaker 1: back in the day, if you were uh learned enough
29:16
Speaker 1: to cut hair, then you were learned enough to cut
29:18
Speaker 1: off arms. That's that's the logic. I know, we're we're
29:27
Speaker 1: ragging on Carl a little bit, but blood letting was
29:32
Speaker 1: so common that it was applied to world leaders. You know,
29:35
Speaker 1: we can't forget that the President of the United States,
29:39
Speaker 1: George Washington uh, died after physicians drained nearly forty of
29:45
Speaker 1: his blood. No wonder the man was so pale. Uh. Yeah,
29:51
Speaker 1: that is wild. And again, like I said, you're you're right.
29:54
Speaker 1: We we are ragging a little bit just because it's easy,
29:56
Speaker 1: easy target for this era of medical stuff, because it
29:59
Speaker 1: just looking at it now through the lens that we
30:01
Speaker 1: have it all just seems so absurd. But hell, some
30:05
Speaker 1: of the some stuff that we do in the West,
30:08
Speaker 1: it's kind of absurd. Not to mention just the whole
30:10
Speaker 1: like healthcare system in general. That's a topic for another day.
30:13
Speaker 1: Neck Ties, look every every anytime you want to rag
30:17
Speaker 1: on people from the days of your look around the
30:21
Speaker 1: modern day, uh, and and see how much ridiculous stuff
30:25
Speaker 1: we do that we've just accepted as normal. If you
30:28
Speaker 1: want to learn more about the story of neckties, you
30:30
Speaker 1: can see a very embarrassing video of me from my
30:33
Speaker 1: brain stuff days on YouTube. But yes, you are absolutely right, Noel, Uh,
30:39
Speaker 1: there are so many ridiculous states. Now again, this is
30:46
Speaker 1: a legit medical process to coral bone shite. Well, and
30:51
Speaker 1: I was also that's kind of what I was getting
30:52
Speaker 1: to is this is an innovation over the most barbaric
30:57
Speaker 1: versions of what he's doing here. This is probably a
31:01
Speaker 1: little more focused version of blood letting because to to
31:04
Speaker 1: treat certain diseases, he would target certain parts of the body. Um,
31:09
Speaker 1: you know, like if you had, say, a toothache, a
31:13
Speaker 1: Judas tooth, a Judas tooth. If you had a Judas tooth,
31:15
Speaker 1: you get stabbed in the neck. If you had you know, say, uh, influenza,
31:20
Speaker 1: you'd get stabbed like under the armpits or something like that. Um.
31:24
Speaker 1: And there was sort of the method to his madness. Uh.
31:29
Speaker 1: And again like given the absolute wild wild west ness
31:33
Speaker 1: of of the medical profession, you gotta give the guy
31:36
Speaker 1: props for being a little bit outside of the box
31:37
Speaker 1: in his thinking. Yeah. But also, you know, our hearts
31:43
Speaker 1: go out to the people who tried to cure their
31:46
Speaker 1: baldness by repeatedly stabbing themselves in the spine. Yeah, there
31:51
Speaker 1: was something kind of like uh a lago kit to
31:56
Speaker 1: this because you know, anybody who is a fan of Legos,
32:00
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan. By the way, I just built
32:02
Speaker 1: the ship from the Mandalorian. It was was a very
32:05
Speaker 1: big for me. Um. Anyone's a fan of legos. You know,
32:09
Speaker 1: when you're a kid, you get the box and you
32:11
Speaker 1: get the instructions, and maybe you build the thing according
32:14
Speaker 1: to the instructions. But then you might take it apart
32:17
Speaker 1: and build your own thing, right. Uh, that's what people
32:20
Speaker 1: were doing with the Life Awakener. They would read the
32:22
Speaker 1: pamphlet and they would say, Okay, got it. Here's how
32:25
Speaker 1: you apply this to you know, your torso, nape of
32:28
Speaker 1: the neck, behind the ear, etcetera, etcetera. But wait, many
32:33
Speaker 1: many users said, what happens if I stabbed myself here? Instead,
32:38
Speaker 1: you know what happens if I stabbed myself in my
32:40
Speaker 1: foot or the inside of my elbow. I'm just picking
32:44
Speaker 1: random places. Uh. People wrote to him and told him
32:49
Speaker 1: about their results. They would say, I stabbed myself, Uh,
32:54
Speaker 1: you know X amount of times, But on the ninth
32:59
Speaker 1: stabb I cured, you know, the problem in my knee.
33:04
Speaker 1: And I think it's because I found the right place
33:06
Speaker 1: to stab and Karl was all about it, and I
33:08
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta ask you the elephant in the room here,
33:10
Speaker 1: I'm seeing in the list of the list of ailments
33:13
Speaker 1: that this thing was used to treat things like syphilis
33:15
Speaker 1: and ganarea. Where did you stab yourself for those m hm,
33:21
Speaker 1: right in the area or is there some other magical
33:23
Speaker 1: spot that targets the nether regions? You know, that is
33:28
Speaker 1: unclear to me. Also, folks, we need to just put
33:32
Speaker 1: everything on the table here. Uh. The none of the
33:35
Speaker 1: three of us have tried the life awakener, so maybe
33:38
Speaker 1: we are not being fair. Maybe we need to draw
33:41
Speaker 1: straws and if someone get some firsthand experience. Thankfully, the
33:46
Speaker 1: three of us also do not have syphilis, thank god.
33:52
Speaker 1: Ridiculous history syphilis syphilis free. It's true, I mean it is.
33:57
Speaker 1: It is one of the most historical ailments. Enough, uh,
34:02
Speaker 1: my goodness. But yeah, you know, to your point, man,
34:06
Speaker 1: I imagine that based on what we know about what
34:10
Speaker 1: part of the body you would uh you would treat
34:13
Speaker 1: for toothache or for you know, cramps or something. I
34:18
Speaker 1: imagine it would be applied to us some sensitive areas.
34:23
Speaker 1: And it feels it sounds incredibly painful, it sure does.
34:26
Speaker 1: And and and I've got to say a lot of
34:29
Speaker 1: this like you know, specificity around Like okay, if you
34:34
Speaker 1: want to this kind of ailment you you injected here.
34:36
Speaker 1: This seems like the kind of stuff that someone would
34:39
Speaker 1: make up to sound like they know what they're talking about, uh,
34:42
Speaker 1: when in fact it's all pretty arbitrary. Just like you know,
34:46
Speaker 1: in general, this device was I think we can pretty
34:49
Speaker 1: much accept and like we said, it really did. The
34:52
Speaker 1: whole craze surrounding the Resuscitator started to die down because
34:57
Speaker 1: people weren't as into blood letting and more. And not
35:01
Speaker 1: to mention, it was getting uh bootlegged a lot. There
35:05
Speaker 1: were kind of a lot of Resuscitator clones hitting the market. Um.
35:08
Speaker 1: But you know, up until the nineteen forties you could
35:11
Speaker 1: still get copies of bound Shite's booklet that came with
35:16
Speaker 1: the kit, so you know it was still somewhat in
35:19
Speaker 1: use by some. And we need to give some context here.
35:24
Speaker 1: So we said, let's say mid eighteen fifty four or so,
35:29
Speaker 1: the Resuscitator is near the height of its popularity, and
35:32
Speaker 1: you can get that kit for eight dollars. But how
35:36
Speaker 1: much money is Carl making here? It's time for the
35:39
Speaker 1: inflation calculator. You had to have the last boop, didn't
35:52
Speaker 1: you bet you had to have the last You were
35:53
Speaker 1: doing it too, We were booping chicken. We played chicken
35:58
Speaker 1: eight dollars that's two d and forty eight dollars, So
36:04
Speaker 1: this is not an insignificant amount of money, but also
36:07
Speaker 1: not too far off from like what we would see
36:11
Speaker 1: questionable medical devices today, costing things like you know, infrared
36:17
Speaker 1: radiation things for your lower back or whatever. There's a
36:20
Speaker 1: lot of those that you see now that definitely are questionable.
36:23
Speaker 1: Um uh. And that's the thing this this was very
36:27
Speaker 1: very much discredited. But there's also an important differentiator about
36:30
Speaker 1: this week. I think it's probably my fault. I've sort
36:33
Speaker 1: of been glumping it in with the idea of blood letting,
36:36
Speaker 1: but it wasn't really like about blood letting at all.
36:38
Speaker 1: It was about irritating your skin to make these blisters,
36:42
Speaker 1: and then the pustules that leaked out of your body
36:45
Speaker 1: or whatever would be the eradication of the of the
36:49
Speaker 1: you know, impurities. So it wasn't targeting the blood so
36:52
Speaker 1: much as it was targeting the skin. Yeah, but you know,
36:56
Speaker 1: I would I would defend Noll the null earlier in
37:00
Speaker 1: the show today because this is clearly descended from the
37:04
Speaker 1: belief of silvers and blood letting. Uh. It's just you're
37:10
Speaker 1: right in the idea that the pus in the blisters
37:16
Speaker 1: was thought to be the diseases leaving the body. But
37:20
Speaker 1: it's still saws a lot in common with blood letting
37:23
Speaker 1: of physiologically. If you are wondering, folks, No, there is
37:29
Speaker 1: nothing that ties stabbing your skin and forming a blister
37:33
Speaker 1: with healing these sorts of illnesses. What is a plucky
37:38
Speaker 1: inventor to do when there are so many imitators swimming
37:43
Speaker 1: in your wake. Well, in Carl's case, you had to
37:47
Speaker 1: double down on that proprietary oil, so his his irritant
37:52
Speaker 1: oil oleum bound shite. He guarded the recipe like the
37:57
Speaker 1: way that Coca Cola guards their rest, which is a
38:00
Speaker 1: great idea for an episode. But but but we eventually
38:05
Speaker 1: found out what it is. Uh. In nineteen seven, one
38:10
Speaker 1: of Carl's descendants disclosed the composition of the oil to
38:17
Speaker 1: a pharmaceutical company. It is mustard and pepper oil, tansy
38:23
Speaker 1: pepper olives, and something called Croton oil. I don't know
38:28
Speaker 1: croton oil, and I'm a bit of an essential oil
38:32
Speaker 1: uh aficionado, So this is obviously not widely in use anymore. Yeah,
38:36
Speaker 1: it's a poisonous, viscous liquid from a tree native to India.
38:41
Speaker 1: No fun, little self poisoning to cure what ails you
38:45
Speaker 1: self mutilation and poisoning. This is a nine inch nails episode.
38:49
Speaker 1: So this did go into decline. While you could find
38:56
Speaker 1: the booklet up into the nineteen forties in germ Any,
39:00
Speaker 1: the international sphere lost interest. It would be very rare
39:03
Speaker 1: for you to find one in the US from like
39:06
Speaker 1: the nineteen thirties on or something. So what happens to
39:10
Speaker 1: Carl after this? Remember he was charging some pretty high
39:14
Speaker 1: prices for his inventions, and this added up. He became
39:20
Speaker 1: pretty well to do. He moved on up to the
39:23
Speaker 1: east side of the socioeconomic scale. He became what we
39:27
Speaker 1: would call no Vourich new rich, and uh he tried
39:31
Speaker 1: to add I don't know, some swag, some credibility to
39:36
Speaker 1: his reputation with the upper class. So he wanted he
39:39
Speaker 1: wanted to do the thing a lot of the Novoich do,
39:42
Speaker 1: which is attained the respect and acceptance of the old money.
39:47
Speaker 1: And he went hamd with it. And unfortunately that is
39:51
Speaker 1: sort of a fool's errand doesn't have been I believe,
39:53
Speaker 1: you know, I I believe so not to not to
39:57
Speaker 1: wax two philosophical, but one thing history has proven is
40:02
Speaker 1: that if you want the acceptance of others. The first
40:07
Speaker 1: thing you should do is work on accepting yourself. Oh
40:10
Speaker 1: that's get advice, Ben, that's very good advice. That is
40:13
Speaker 1: the app that is our that is our ridiculous history,
40:15
Speaker 1: affirmation of the day. There we go, casey, can we
40:21
Speaker 1: get more? You know? Think? Okay? Yeah, not not close
40:25
Speaker 1: enough to get a suit. So bound Schei did die eventually,
40:30
Speaker 1: despite his best efforts to look forever, uh, you know,
40:34
Speaker 1: with self mutilation and poisoning on October one, eighteen seventy three,
40:38
Speaker 1: um as as a result of an ailment of the
40:41
Speaker 1: heart that he apparently was powerless to control. Um and
40:46
Speaker 1: it may have actually been caused by his diets. Yeah,
40:51
Speaker 1: so busy stabbing himself in the neck, he forgot to
40:55
Speaker 1: curtail the red meat. And after he passed away, his
41:00
Speaker 1: widow and his children carried on the business. The Life
41:04
Speaker 1: Awakener was being produced all the way up to nineteen four,
41:10
Speaker 1: and it may have continued in production past that year
41:14
Speaker 1: had the building not been destroyed in a bombing attack
41:19
Speaker 1: by Allied forces. Now we know what a lot of
41:23
Speaker 1: a lot of folks are thinking in the audience today. Guys,
41:27
Speaker 1: I'm sold you're saying I am going to stab myself
41:31
Speaker 1: to wellness. I need a life awakener right now. Uh,
41:35
Speaker 1: you have persuaded me that this is the bleeding edge
41:39
Speaker 1: of medicine. Where can I get this treatment today? Right? No? Casey,
41:44
Speaker 1: don't you guys think like, what would you say? Easily
41:49
Speaker 1: of the folks listening are sold on this, right. Surely
41:52
Speaker 1: there's some sort of medieval spa you can go to,
41:56
Speaker 1: you know, like an experiential thing, you know, where they
41:59
Speaker 1: cover you with leeches and stab you in the neck
42:02
Speaker 1: with a weird, needily chaired leg for a thousand dollars.
42:08
Speaker 1: If you go to Switzerland, uh, you can find a
42:13
Speaker 1: clinic that still offers this treatment. They call it acupuncture
42:17
Speaker 1: of the West. It is similar to what you describe
42:21
Speaker 1: their no um and they will explain the process in detail,
42:27
Speaker 1: so you know what you're getting into. Uh. And it's
42:31
Speaker 1: it's an evolution of the same idea. You know, you
42:34
Speaker 1: irritate the skin, you apply an oil, you let the
42:39
Speaker 1: blisters grow, thirty six hours pass, and then you assess
42:44
Speaker 1: the blisters. So if you're sold on this, uh, and
42:48
Speaker 1: if you happen to go to Switzerland, let us know
42:52
Speaker 1: how it goes. Feel free? Not to send pictures, but
42:55
Speaker 1: we would we would enjoy hearing this story. Uh no,
42:59
Speaker 1: I think that sit now. I do want to say,
43:01
Speaker 1: you know, I've I don't feel like this inventor thought
43:05
Speaker 1: of himself as a sneak, oil man or a grifter.
43:09
Speaker 1: I think he thought he was doing medicine. I think
43:11
Speaker 1: he was a true believer. You're right, then, I I
43:13
Speaker 1: do agree, because he had a history of you know,
43:15
Speaker 1: like I said, I mean, we said from the start
43:17
Speaker 1: a lot of his inventions were pretty smart. This just
43:19
Speaker 1: happened to be the one that took off and clearly
43:22
Speaker 1: you know, the least actually effective. Um. But it reminds
43:25
Speaker 1: it does remind me in some ways. Uh. You know,
43:28
Speaker 1: holistic medicine in general. Sometimes it gets a bad rap
43:31
Speaker 1: in the West, um, because of our focus on a
43:35
Speaker 1: pill for every ill and all that stuff. Uh So
43:37
Speaker 1: I think there's a middle ground where like there is
43:39
Speaker 1: a place for holistic medicine or just taking care of
43:42
Speaker 1: oneself and like mindfulness and just you know, meditation and
43:45
Speaker 1: things like that to just be a better, more whole
43:48
Speaker 1: human being. But it does remind me of things like cupping,
43:52
Speaker 1: which is as a very interesting uh technique where you know,
43:55
Speaker 1: certain massage therapist types take these little suction cups and
43:59
Speaker 1: you know, little really pump them on your skin and
44:02
Speaker 1: they leave these big, nasty, giant, hicky things and supposedly,
44:06
Speaker 1: you know, rids you of impurities or whatever. I don't
44:09
Speaker 1: know if I buy it, but it's very popular and
44:11
Speaker 1: it's something that's still available as a spa service pretty widely.
44:16
Speaker 1: And with this we close today's episode The Tale of
44:23
Speaker 1: the Life Awakener. Have you seen one of these in
44:27
Speaker 1: real life? If so, let us know, And let us
44:29
Speaker 1: know also some of your other favorite, uh weird medical
44:33
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44:37
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44:40
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Speaker 1: He can stay away for as long as he likes,
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