Episode 647: The Horrible History of Chimney Sweeps

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True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This week, the boys gather round the fire to unwrap a very different kind of Christmas story, one full of soot-choked flues, abusive child labor, and some of the most evil bosses in history. From spooky chimney lore to the deadly zig-zag mazes of Industrial London's Architecture, we’re climbing on into the horrifyingly brutal world of Britain’s chimney sweeps.

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0:00.0	There's no place to escape to.
0:02.9	This is the last podcast.
0:05.0	On the left.
0:07.2	That's when the cannibalism started.
0:12.3	Who's that?
0:14.9	God, so many ways to kill a boy.
0:22.6	They're really, you know, you can't even count them.
0:25.6	Jam them up.
0:26.6	Set him on fire.
0:28.6	Beat him to death.
0:29.6	Stop them to death.
0:30.6	Starve them to death.
0:31.6	Sit on them.
0:32.6	Freeze them to death.
0:33.6	Yeah.
0:34.6	Yeah.
0:35.6	You just crazy.
0:36.6	You just can't even imagine all the different ways. It's like for every type of boy. Yeah. There's just crazy. You just can't even imagine all the different ways.
0:39.3	It's like for every type of boy.
0:39.6	Yeah.
0:41.1	There's a way to kill him.
0:53.2	You can take out their eyes and shove them up their ass. I mean, they can live. They can live from that. Then they can die of pneumonia. Yeah, yeah, that's the thing. You never know what's actually going to take them out. But that is the difference between a boy in a chimney sweep, right?
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