The Backstory: Immortality: young blood and monkey testicles
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
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🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
What would we do to live better, longer, or maybe even forever? Lots of quests for immortality involved mystical potions or objects. And one very popular fad in the 1920s involved transplanted monkey testicles!
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| 0:00.0 | The quest for immortality is kind of the holy grail for human life. |
| 0:05.0 | Would you want it? |
| 0:06.0 | What would you do to get it if you did? |
| 0:08.0 | Well, centuries ago, blood from children and teens |
| 0:12.0 | seemed to be the magic potion. And guess what? For some folks, it still is. |
| 0:16.4 | And then there was the 1920s craze for transplanted monkey testicles. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm Patty Steele, searching for forever. Next on the backstory. |
| 0:27.0 | Hi, I'm Susie Esman and I am Garland. Yes, you are and we are the host of the history of Curbier Enthusiasm Podcast. We're going to watch every single episode. It's a hundred and twenty two including the pilot and we're going to break them down. |
| 0:45.0 | And by the way, most of these episodes I have not seen for 20 years. |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah, me too. |
| 0:49.0 | We're going to have guest stars and people that are very important to the show like Larry David. |
| 0:53.2 | I did once try and stop a woman who's about to get hit by a car I screamed out. |
| 0:56.8 | Watch out and she said don't you tell me what to do. |
| 1:00.1 | And Cheryl Hines. |
| 1:01.2 | Why can't you just lighten up and have a good time? |
| 1:04.4 | And Richard Lewis. |
| 1:05.4 | How am I going to tell I'm going to leave now? |
| 1:06.8 | Can you do it on the phone? |
| 1:07.6 | You have to do it in person? |
| 1:08.6 | What's the deal? |
| 1:09.6 | Not telling cable, you have to go and he's a human being. |
| 1:11.4 | He's helped you. |
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