Optograms and Wife Salves
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🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Optography is the process of viewing or retrieving an optogram, an image on the retina of the eye. A belief that the eye "recorded" the last image seen before death was widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a frequent plot device in fiction of the time, to the extent that police photographed the victims' eyes in several real-life murder investigations, in case the theory was true. The concept has been repeatedly debunked as a forensic method.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to citation needed. |
| 0:24.6 | The podcast where we choose a subject, read a single article about it on Wikipedia |
| 0:28.1 | and pretend we're experts because this is the internet and that's how it works now. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm Eli Bosnick and I'll be seeing you through this evening, but I'll need an attractive |
| 0:36.6 | stable of studs for your perusal. |
| 0:39.3 | Heath, Noah, and Tom. |
| 0:40.7 | All right. |
| 0:41.0 | You need a stud finder for this wall of glory holes that's very upsetting. |
| 0:45.4 | I'm sure he meant to spell spuds. |
| 0:47.7 | Heath, he's not great at, uh. |
| 0:49.2 | Fair enough. |
| 0:49.6 | Yeah, that is fair. |
| 0:50.4 | I've actually often been compared to a Mr. Potato Head, unfavorably compared, actually, to a Mr. Potato Head. |
| 0:57.3 | It's true. |
| 0:57.9 | Because your arms aren't long enough. |
| 0:59.6 | That's also true. |
| 1:04.3 | Now, before we begin tonight, I'd like to take a moment to thank our patrons. |
| 1:07.7 | Patrons, without you, how would we know who Randy the Raw Dog went to |
| 1:12.0 | college with? And if you're wondering what the fuck I just said, you can stick around till the end of the |
| 1:16.7 | show. And with that out of the way, tell us, Noah, what person plays thing, concept, phenomenon, or |
| 1:20.6 | event we'll we'll be talking about today. Optograms and wife sales, according to the essay title. |
| 1:27.4 | All right. Tom, when the cats away, the mice will play. Are you ready? and wife sales, according to the essay title. |
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