Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart was Darn Near Unkillable
Ridiculous History
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4.3 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Born to an aristocratic Belgian family, Adrian Carton de Wiart could have lived the easy life, with a plum job in government or law. Instead, however, he embarked on a bloody, hyperviolent career across multiple wars and decades. He was shot repeatedly, lost an eye, survived wounds that would kill an orindary man and, when doctor refused to remove his shattered fingers, Carton de Wiart ripped them off himself. Join Ben, Noel and Max as they learn more about this unkillable soldier.
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| 0:00.0 | Ridiculous history is a production of I Heart Radio. The Welcome back to the show, Ridiculous Historians. Thank you as always so much for |
| 0:31.1 | tuning in. Let's hear it for the man the myth legend, our super producer, |
| 0:35.4 | the unkillable Mr. Max Williams. |
| 0:37.8 | Oly, Oly, Oly, I'm free. |
| 0:40.8 | Yes, I just got to ask that at the top of the show why art that's the question that we've been |
| 0:45.0 | asking for generations what even is art what's the point with our arts weather |
| 0:49.9 | art whether art whether art whence art is one of the big reasons for living, honestly, if you ask me. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.0 | And if you're saying, who is that guy we're asking? |
| 1:00.6 | That guy is Noel Brown. I am Ben Bolin we are we are as you as you folks know |
| 1:09.0 | ridiculous historians like you we love very strange stories and we can't believe we didn't get to this guy |
| 1:18.2 | before no people often say that it doesn't matter how many times you get knocked down just |
| 1:25.1 | how many times you get up like that song. |
| 1:28.3 | You never you're never gonna beat me down. You take a whiskey drink you drink a |
| 1:32.4 | vodka drink and drink the cider drink, you |
| 1:34.8 | drink the lager drink, you know the one. Yeah. You sing the songs? That remind us of the |
| 1:39.2 | good times and then you're pissing the night away. Right. |
| 1:43.0 | Funny story, funny story about that band. |
| 1:46.1 | They started as a collective of anarchist. |
| 1:49.7 | Absolutely true. |
| 1:50.9 | The funny thing is there's a great, there's a really crazy sort of plunder-phonic noise, the art band called Negative Land that I think I've mentioned before on the show I'm a big fan of that they made a whole record where they sampled you two and they got sued and they're like a big |
| 2:07.2 | proponent for copyright infringement as art speaking of art but they made a collaborative record with Chumba Womba that samples |
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