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History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

The Curious Life of W.C. Minor

History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4619 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

William Chester Minor was a skilled surgeon, U.S. Army Officer and distinguished scholar. He was also a lunatic who was obessessed with prostitutes and murdered an innocent man. Minor would go on to help established the Oxford English Dictionary while serving out his sentence in an insane asylum.

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0:00.0

Hi and welcome once again to History Dweeps. My name is Tim. Welcome to the podcast where we take a

0:10.8

lighthearted look at the dark side of history. The title of our podcast today is the curious life

0:17.6

of WC. Minor. William Chester Minor was an American Army surgeon during the Civil War.

0:27.3

He went on to be one of the main contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary,

0:34.5

despite Brandy being a lunatic.

0:37.7

Well, you've not done too bad to me.

0:41.3

That's right.

0:42.3

Thank you, Charles.

0:44.0

So we'll talk about his very interesting life.

0:47.9

But before we do, let me remind you, we are a comedy podcast.

0:52.0

We cover history and true crime.

1:00.1

And we do use adult humor and we use adult language. So if you're easily offended, please check out Insight or one of the other podcasts because we are probably not what you're looking for.

1:10.7

But if you have a sense of humor and you are okay with shenanigans, we do have shenanigans, Brandy.

1:16.9

We do have shan.

1:17.9

But I'm not really sure about how much comedy we have.

1:21.1

I feel like we're being a little arrogant when we say that.

1:23.9

It's relative.

1:25.8

We attempt to be a comedy podcast, Timmy.

1:29.5

I'm not sure that we always put it out of.

1:32.4

You have, you know, fake it till you make it, what I always say.

1:35.8

That's true.

1:36.6

That's what I do with orgasms.

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