Human Lightning Rod: The Life and Death of Roy Sullivan

History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2017

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Join Tim, The Colonel and our very special guest host, Ricky Hardy from the Squirm podcast, as they discuss the Human Lightning Rod Roy Sullivan. Sullivan was a park ranger in the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Between 1942 and 1977, Sullivan was hit by lightning on seven different occasions and survived all of them.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone and welcome once again to History Dweeps. My name is Tim.
0:09.3	Welcome to the podcast where we take a lighthearted look at the dark side of history.
0:15.8	And the topic of our podcast today is life and death of Roy Sullivan.
0:22.1	Roy Sullivan was an interesting character who had a issue with lightning.
0:29.3	And we're going to talk about his many interactions with the...
0:35.4	I believe lightning had an issue with him.
0:37.4	Yeah, he attracted lightning. I believe God had an issue with him, to me.
0:37.6	He attracted lightning.
0:38.4	I believe God had an issue with this man.
0:40.5	He didn't live a clean life to me.
0:44.0	So this is a really special episode because we are very happy and excited to have a very special
0:51.1	celebrity guest star on our podcast. It is probably the funniest man in
0:58.9	podcasting today. Ricky from the podcast Squirm. How you doing, Ricky? Yeah, really good. Celebrity. That's
1:05.9	the first time I've ever been called a celebrity. Oh, dude, your podcast is hilarious.
1:12.7	You make Chuck even sound good. You know, will i will i will i will say this i have never never listened to a podcast
1:19.0	an episode now i loved a whole series but that this the shit presence episode. Do you like that?
1:27.7	Oh my, my God.
1:29.2	It was hilarious.
1:30.5	Guys, that's my life.
1:31.6	That's my life.
1:32.6	You're walking my life.
1:34.3	That's the pain I go through, my poor mother.
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