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Hello and welcome to you short stuff.

I'm Josh.

There's Chuck and there's Josh.

And with us in spirit is a fascinating person named Angus Barbieri who is the person

who went the one of the longest of all time without eating solid food.

We've covered fasting before here and there.

Did we do a show on only fasting?

Yeah, we did have, I think it was called fasting colon deadly or what?

Right.

And I know we covered the very famous hunger strikes here and there maybe in that episode.

But this one was not a hunger strike so much as a man that weighed 456 pounds in Scotland

in 1965.

Which little known fact is 21 stone.

That's right.

Not little known if you're from Scotland.

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