372 - The Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning

Do Go On

Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke

Fact, History, Facts, Comedy

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

In 1951, hundreds of residents of the small French town of Pont-Saint-Esprit were struck down by a mystery illness that caused mass hallucinations. People thought they were being chased by tigers, others grabbed weapons and chased each other, one man jumped into a river because he thought his belly was being eaten by snakes. What had caused this mass event? Was it as something as innocent as bad food, or was there something much more sinister afoot?

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, just a few letting you know that I'm doing a live book cheat podcast in Melbourne
0:05.3	this Saturday, December 10, 2022.
0:08.7	It's our Christmas special with special guests Nick Mason and Naomi Higgins.
0:13.1	Gonna be a lot of fun and you can get tickets at doogawonpod.com.
0:17.5	Place the code Christmas for 20% off.
0:37.6	Hello and welcome to another episode of doogawon.com.
0:40.9	My name is Dave Hwarnicky and as always I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart.
0:45.1	David Hwarnicky.
0:46.1	Jess Lodayv, how good is it to be alive?
0:49.4	It's one of the best things to be alive.
0:51.2	I love December, it's the most festive time of year outside of block.
0:55.6	It's a real sort of slow curve out of block.
0:59.7	Yeah, yeah.
1:00.7	We've got the Christmas season, the new year season and then you know back to real life.
1:08.8	Nine months of horrible months.
1:12.6	Depression.
1:13.6	But blocks are the beauty of block now being two months long means we're only ever ten
1:17.8	months away from a block at the most.
1:20.2	That's right.
1:21.2	Yeah, it's January 1st.
1:22.2	It's so, so soon.
1:24.8	But this is the further time between blocks right now.
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