Joseph Merrick, aka "The Elephant Man"

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Merrick was known as The Elephant Man because of his suffering from what we now know was Proteus Synrome. Learn all about this brave man in today's episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.7	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:41.4	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.1	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryan over there and Jerry's out there floating
0:48.8	in the ether like the omniscient green god of salad dressing that she is.
0:54.2	Wow.
0:55.2	This is Stuff You Should Know.
0:56.2	How long do you work on that?
0:57.8	Buddy that is off the cuff.
0:59.4	Don't you know me by now?
1:00.9	Off the dome as they say?
1:02.2	I don't say that.
1:03.2	I say off the cuff.
1:04.2	I'm not cool enough to say off the dome.
1:07.1	But you're shirtless so there is no cuff.
1:09.9	That is true.
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