Episode 128: Early Psychiatric Hospitals

Not Today

Society & Culture, Comedy, True Crime

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Psychiatric hospitals in the 20th century were a really terrifying place to be. In this episode we're going to discuss the conditions and treatments in mental institutions during that time, as well as a few people who experienced them and lived to tell the tale!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Steph. I'm Alex. And this is not today. So are we going to address the Alex in the room? Yes. Welcome back. It is me. It's
0:29.8	been no time, really. Just one one week yeah but an eternity so what what's
0:38.4	up like nothing new you know I had one week. Should I give an extra good thing this week? I
0:46.2	don't know. I guess you just couldn't resist? No I had to come back. Yeah I come back for the
0:51.3	story. This is what's up guys so Alex is going to be here sometimes and that's that's great. You know I kind of I kind of felt like this is how it was going to go down that sometimes you were going to want to hop back in when you could.
1:05.6	Yeah, I wasn't going to just go cold turkey.
1:08.4	Yeah, and I'm glad you did.
1:10.1	I mean, this is definitely an interesting one. So yeah I'm going warm turkey you're going warm turkey sure and you know I'm sure good good joke would you like a pat on the back
1:22.0	no I think I need to go already. I think I think you actually I need to go back. I think your time is gone. I think you need more time away. You're in time out. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, so I'm on sabbatical. Sure, sure. So here's what's up guys.
1:35.8	Sometimes it's gonna be me and sometimes Alex is gonna be here and you know sometimes
1:41.2	maybe there'll be someone else I don don't know. Hell, I make the rules and I don't know what's going to happen.
1:47.0	Mm-hmm. That's right. The world is my oyster. That's right. And we love that.
1:51.0	So I'm no longer a co-host. I'm now esteemed member. and we don't have to
1:55.0	no longer a co-host I'm now esteemed member of the public well you know we don't
1:56.9	we don't have to we don't have to put labels hey I'll put labels I make the rules
2:01.3	about me on my labels shit all right we don't got to get so aggressive about it god damn
2:07.7	Well anyway as this episode is out right now our bonus episode episode is up on Patreon. I will be talking about the
2:16.4	bone breaker killer and the description of that story is on July 29th
2:20.4	1995 17 year old Joseph Clark abducted 13-year-old Thaddeus
2:24.8	Phillips from his home in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Later known as the Bonebreaker
2:29.4	killer, Clark kidnapped fellow teen boys and systematically broke their bones.
2:34.7	This one is definitely intense, but if you are interested in hearing that story,
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