S&W Episode 689: Self-immolation

Sick and Wrong Podcast

Dee Simon and Kate Rambo

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 117 minutes

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The recent acts of self-immolation in Washington DC prompt Dee and Harrison to discuss the motivation behind the ultimate act of defiance. Canadian man accused of ordering child sex doll found not guilty. Uber passenger’s death draws attention to vomit fraud allegations. Phone calls. Sign up for the Sick and Wrong Patreon to access bonus...

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0:00.0	And then there stepped forward, a very frail old man in his 70s who turned out to be this priest,
0:07.0	a kwan duck, and he assumed the lotus posture.
0:11.0	And another priest stepped forward and poured gasoline over him, and then suddenly a towering flame.
0:18.0	Ha ha! Flissing Flame.
0:29.1	Listen, living, listening to the Synchron.
0:32.5	Sick and Ron.
0:33.8	Yes.
0:35.9	You listen to Sick or not?
1:10.9	The Sick and Wrong, the world source for Antisocial Commentary. God, what a bunch of scumbags. Good evening. Welcome to Sick and Wrong, the World Source for Anti-Social Commentary. One of your host, Steve, Simon. I'm Harrison. It's cracking there, Harrison. No. Nah. Sounds like you had a rough weekend this weekend. Yeah. Rough week, rough weekend. Everything's rough. It's always rough, though. Everybody's got rough, yeah. But then again, you're not setting yourself on fire in front of the White House. It's not that rough. I haven't gotten there yet. Do you hear about that guy?
1:13.3	I did hear about that guy.
1:13.9	Yes, I did.
1:20.1	It's a crazy image of this dude just walking through, what is it,
1:22.8	Ellipse Park, right by the Washington Monument,
1:24.9	just engulfed in flames.
1:26.3	See, it looks like the human torch,
1:28.0	like an Indian version of the human torch.
1:35.9	Yeah. And it's, so this guy on, this is on Wednesday, set himself on fire in a park south of the White House. You end up dying, actually, from the injuries. They identified him as Arnav Gupta,
1:42.2	33 years old of Bethesda, Maryland. I guess he had been
1:47.1	reported missing for about a week. And then they found him on fire. But he lit himself on fire
1:52.9	in this park and he was caught. There's video. I don't know if you had a chance to see the video.
1:58.1	He should check it out. He was caught on video, just calmly strolling through the park, just engulfed in flames. And it's funny, too, because in the video, you can see these people, like, and there's the picture, actually, I'm going to posted to the site. You'll see this guy just kind of nonchalantly walking the cell phone behind the burning man, and's just like hey look at that there's a guy
2:18.2	on fire over there so wacky see something weird every day in DC yeah but yeah this uh he erupted
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