Get Your Freak On! The History of Freak Shows!

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Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Join the Dweebs as we discuss the history of Circus Freak Shows and some of it's most colorful characters.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Tim Scott, and welcome to this week's podcast of History toweaves.
0:15.2	This week, the topic is Freak Shows.
0:18.0	Time to get your freak on.
0:19.3	We're going to talk about the history of freak shows and some of the more colorful characters that participated in those shows. Time to get your freak on. We're going to talk about the history of freak shows
0:21.1	and some of the more colorful characters
0:23.1	that participated in those shows.
0:27.5	So as always, my co-host here on History Weeks
0:31.5	is the incomparable Brandy,
0:37.1	Blue Hair Beauty, Armin. How are you, Brandy? Well, I'm well now herman how are you brandy well now how are you
0:41.5	Tim I'm fine and of course we're joined by the distinguished Colonel Charles Bolrigo
0:48.8	Hoggwaters the 3rd affectionately known as the southern gentleman. How are you, Charles?
0:55.4	Well, I am finer than a frog has split four ways, Timothy.
0:59.9	Man, that's pretty fine. I really am going to quit teaching you things.
1:04.6	Okay, so let's on to the freak shows. So, Randy, won't you tell us a little bit about the history of freak shows?
1:12.7	Well, they've actually been around England since the 1600s. They included things like
1:18.5	giants, dwarves, fat people, very thin people, can join twins. And they even, since it was back
1:25.0	in the 1600s, they even had just people from exotic countries that were there.
1:29.7	Like Canada or something.
1:30.9	Yes, definitely like Canada, London.
1:33.5	Yeah, those kinds of things.
1:35.8	Freak shows were particularly popular form of entertainment during the Victorian period.
1:40.9	Everybody loves a freak.
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