Marcel Petio was a French doctor and serial killer who was suspected of killing around 60 people during World War II.

Marcel took advantage of desperate people for his own benefit and had a complete disregard for human life.

Most of his victims simply vanished and became a statistic in the death toll of war, but his luck eventually ran out,

and his head would be the price for his crimes.

Discretion is advised.

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I've been asked before how often I mess up at the beginning of an episode and just completely start over.

Well, this one should be a shining example that doesn't happen

very often. I can usually talk my way out of mistakes and what I meant to say or plan to say.

Like, let me go to my notes here where it has written what I'm supposed to say. It says,

talk about how you don't speak French and the episode today is dripping with French.

That's the one thing that I do have to edit and repeat and stress over.

It's how to pronounce names and cities that I'm not familiar with.

I've taken Spanish courses and a little bit of German, but French look way too hard

so I didn't mess around with it.

So please keep that in mind today as I absolutely destroy that language.

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