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

Koro: The Great Penis Panic of 1967

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

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4619 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Koro is a panic disorder in which a patient is under the delusion that his penis is shrinking or retracting. In October 1967, Koro reached epedemic levels in Singapore.

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0:00.0

Hi and welcome once again to History Tweebbs.

0:07.1

I am Tim and the topic of our podcast today is the Great Penis Panic of 1967, Brandy.

0:14.9

I remember it well.

0:16.5

It was a banner year.

0:19.5

Thank you for joining the podcast where we take a lighthearted look at the dark side of history.

0:25.0

For any new listeners, I would like to remind you that we are an adult comedy podcast.

0:32.0

We use adult humor, so if that offends you, then...

0:34.7

Then you can just hit the fucking road now.

0:39.5

Or you could check out one of the other fine independent podcast out there such as california dreamin that's a very good

0:45.9

one and also they walk among us with our friends been and rosanna um collar me dad there's a lot

0:53.5

of good ones out there.

0:54.8

But we use foul language.

0:57.1

So if you are offended by adult language, then you probably want to tune out.

1:01.3

Although this topic, if this topic caught your attention, I don't blame you because it's an interesting topic.

1:09.1

We're going to talk about a...

1:11.1

It's a horrific topic to me.

1:12.8

An epidemic that broke out in 1967 in Singapore in which men...

1:19.6

It was kind of a mass hysteria thing where the men felt that their penises were disappearing brandy.

1:28.0

It happens.

1:32.6

So before we get to that, though, let me introduce our panel.

1:37.2

I am joined, as always, by a lady who is known throughout the land as Brandy the Benevolence,

2:01.0

Queen Brandy the First. How are you today, Brandy? I'm living the dream, Timmy. How are you? I'm doing very well. Excellent. Very well. Are you excited about this topic? Because you used to be penis loving. I don't know if that's changed. Have you had a penis panic? I know. I've never, never had a penis panic. I mean, have you ever like... Well, it's not to make light of. I just want to make that... I want to make sure... We're a comedy podcast, but... This is a serious, devil. This is a very serious topic. Don't be mocking penis panic. This is a serious medical... It's a medical condition. you're a medical condition well I, I just don't want you to belittle penis panic. Oh, I'm belittling the hell right out of it. I'm belittling it. Okay, so that was Brandy time. Yeah, I got nothing over here. It was a long-ass weekend. I would, but you have a, you host a different podcast. Would you like to give it a plug? I do host a different podcast. Do you talk about penises on that podcast? No, we don't. We don't talk about penises. It's very different. It's a very different podcast than this one. Okay. We, myself and my co-host, Rachel, we host a podcast about paranormal and spooky things and it's called Haunted Visions.

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