The Appetite
True Weird Stuff
Now! Media
4.9 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Today's True Weird Stuff - The Appetite
Tarrare was a French Showman in the 1700s who had an insatiable appetite. His eternal hunger terrorized him to the point he literally tried to consume everything: live animals, garbage, inanimate objects, and even human flesh. The curious case of the 100lb Tarrare baffled even the greatest medical minds, and the medical findings of his autopsy were the definition of truly weird stuff.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, true weirdos. We just wanted to take a minute and thank you so much for your support. |
| 0:04.6 | True Weird Stuff has won the best history podcast in the Women in Podcasting Awards, |
| 0:09.8 | and we've also won a Signal Award in the paranormal category. |
| 0:14.2 | And that's only happened because of you, our fellow strange people. |
| 0:18.6 | Thanks. |
| 0:19.0 | Stick around if you want after the episode for a little bonus content and conversation. |
| 0:25.7 | Feed me. |
| 0:27.8 | You've been hungry, right? |
| 0:30.4 | Haven't we all said about a gazillion times? |
| 0:33.5 | I'm sorry! |
| 0:37.2 | Of course, you're not. not really, just feels that way. |
| 0:41.5 | Then you have a little snack or a double bacon cheeseburger or whatever and it's all good. |
| 0:47.2 | You're satisfied. |
| 0:48.0 | You can get back to thinking of other things unless you can't. |
| 0:53.2 | Unless no amount of food can fill that aching emptiness |
| 0:57.5 | because your hunger consumes you and nothing can ever, ever be enough. |
| 1:04.0 | Eating is all you can think about. |
| 1:06.8 | Food, food, food, food. |
| 1:09.0 | Food. |
| 1:13.1 | And there's nothing you won't put in your mouth. |
| 1:18.1 | And they got a small beam of light against the mirror. |
| 1:22.3 | Oh, real, wow, real, wow. |
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