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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: Beast of Gevaudan

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The first truly international news story covered a beast that terrorized the French countryside, eviscerating dozens of villagers for three years in the 1760s. How about that?

Transcript

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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.

0:34.3

Hey and welcome to the short stuff.

0:35.8

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and it's just us but that's okay because we know Dave's here

0:40.6

in spirit watching over us like this Obi-Wan Kenobi-esque type dude who kind of gently

0:48.2

guides us in the directions.

0:49.7

He wants us to go without us realizing that making us think that we have free will but

0:54.9

it ultimately just being an illusion.

0:58.2

And this is the story of the beast of Jevodon.

1:01.9

That was a great who was that?

1:05.0

Oh, Melo Legosi.

1:06.4

It's a pretty just walk through my basement and put a little sleeping stuff on a napkin

1:12.9

put it in my face and I woke up and now I'm recording.

1:15.6

Was it Jeff Bridges?

1:17.2

You're Sandra Bullock?

1:20.1

What?

1:21.1

Have you ever seen the vanishing?

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