Episode 40: George Psalmanazar & Mike Philpott
S'laughter: True Crime Podcast
S'laughter: True Crime Podcast
4.5 • 981 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Technical issues mean that the tale of George Psalmanazar has been cut slightly short... Before his death, he went on to become a theological essayist and friend of Samuel Johnson (author of the flipping dictionary), but I'm sure you'll agree that none of that is as interesting as his life as an imposter.
Lucy also discusses her research into the crimes of Mike Philpott, who was definitely one of Jeremy Kyle's worst guests...
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| 0:00.0 | The Slaughter podcast will be discussing topics that some listeners may find disturbing. |
| 0:05.0 | If you're still listening to these episodes, do you realize you've wasted over 39 hours of your life? |
| 0:12.0 | Carry on. |
| 0:14.0 | Hi guys, |
| 0:17.0 | Hi guys, |
| 0:18.0 | welcome to the latest episode of Slaughter. |
| 0:20.0 | We stopped counting. |
| 0:21.0 | We stopped caring. No one's had a wash before we got here today no I just straight wash I did have a bath but I didn't wash my hair |
| 0:28.7 | Right show off thankful that it's a podcast |
| 0:33.5 | So I'm going to give you my story first. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm going to give it to you. |
| 0:37.8 | This story is a gift to you. |
| 0:39.1 | Oh, thank you. |
| 0:40.1 | So this gift of a half an hour, it goes back to 18th century London, where an exotic man called George |
| 0:48.9 | Salmonaza was causing a stir with his book about his former life and adventures in the far off island of Formosa. |
| 0:57.0 | What are the things I've never heard of here? |
| 0:59.0 | Well, Formosa is now known as Taiwan. |
| 1:02.0 | Oh, I've heard of that. Yes. So his... |
| 1:04.3 | So his... My things are made. His stories of savages shocked and entertained the |
| 1:09.7 | British public for years until after his death when he brought out a tell-or memoir and |
| 1:14.8 | people were to discover that things weren't exactly what they seemed. So his |
| 1:20.8 | name as I said is Salmoneza. It is a made-up name. |
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