The Disturbing History of Last Meals, Part One: A Creepy Origin Story
Ridiculous History
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4.3 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
It's a classic trope of crime stories and folklore across the planet: a criminal due for execution is granted one last meal as a send-off to the afterlife. But where exactly does this strange practice come from? The Biblical Last Supper is by far the most famous example of a last meal in the Western world -- but, as Ben and Noel learn in this special two-part episode, this is far from the first example of this bizarre, at-times ghoulish practice. Tune in to learn more.
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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 |
| 0:31.2 | tuning in. Let's give a special shout out to our guest super producer |
| 0:36.5 | Paul Wigu deckants for whom the bell tolls, Deccans, as an alternative perhaps. |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm Bebulen, Yornole Brown. |
| 0:49.0 | We have a very strange series for you today folks |
| 0:56.0 | For a while long time listeners to both this and our show stuff they don't want you know |
| 1:01.2 | You may have noticed that Noel and our good buddy Max Williams |
| 1:06.0 | and I have been going through kind of a phase. We go through phases with fascinations, right? |
| 1:12.0 | Sure. Yeah, Fascination Faces. |
| 1:15.0 | Fascination Faces, which does feel like an album name for a group you would have at some point. |
| 1:20.0 | Like a new wave band, I guess I'm thinking of Fascination Street by the Cure but |
| 1:24.3 | Oh yeah. Fascination phases maybe would be by the human league perhaps there it is |
| 1:28.8 | along those lines yeah yeah yeah and one of our one of our phases recently is the concept of a last meal. If you could have one last meal before you died, if you knew you had one final notch before you passed from this mortal |
| 1:45.4 | plane, what would you pick? |
| 1:48.2 | And no spaghetti. |
| 1:49.2 | Mop spaghetti. |
| 1:50.2 | Mop spaghetti. |
| 1:51.2 | Unless, do not miss your chance to. |
| 1:54.0 | There it is. |
| 1:55.0 | It's worth it. |
| 1:57.0 | No, I feel like I owe a lot of our colleagues an apology on this subject because for what a month now maybe |
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