Ep. 64 | No Reservations/The Bitter End
MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries
Wondery | Ballen Studios
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
No Reservations:
A Spanish marathon runner develops a mysterious obsession with gourmet food. But what seems like an innocent new passion may be more dangerous than he thinks.
The Game:
After going through her normal morning routine, an otherwise healthy woman finds herself at death’s door. In a mad rush to save the woman’s life, her doctors try to understand why her body is suddenly shutting down with no explanation.
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| 0:10.7 | A man in his 40s was sitting in a cafe, munching on a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch. |
| 0:19.5 | Now, usually, the man had more lavish lunches, |
| 0:22.6 | but today he was in a hurry to get back to work and this was all the cafe offered. But then, |
| 0:27.7 | the most wonderful smell filled the air. The man inhaled deeply enjoying the heavenly aroma |
| 0:33.3 | of whatever this food was. It smelled like this incredible hot dish. He looked around to see which |
| 0:38.6 | table the smell was coming from. But as he scanned the restaurant, all he saw were other patrons |
| 0:43.6 | eating basically simple sandwiches just like him. And then he remembered, this cafe didn't even |
| 0:49.0 | serve hot meals. But at the same time, he realized he knew that scent from his childhood. |
| 0:55.7 | It was the smell of the delicious Spanish-fried eggs that his mother used to make, called Huevos Roto. |
| 1:01.3 | This was not the man's first phantom smell. |
| 1:04.0 | A few weeks ago, his apartment had filled with the amazing aroma of his mother's cooking, completely out of nowhere. |
| 1:10.5 | But now, in this cafe, just |
| 1:12.2 | like that time in his apartment, the sweet smell suddenly turned sour. The man could taste |
| 1:18.0 | something metallic in his mouth, and the foul odor of sour milk lingered in the air, making |
| 1:22.7 | him gag. And so suddenly a wave of panic crept over the man. He didn't know why he kept smelling things that weren't there. |
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