Hi, and welcome once again to History Dweeps. I am Tim, and the topic of our podcast today is the very first insanity defense.

It was used in a murder case involving a man by the name of Daniel Edgar Sickles back in the 1800s.

And he lived a pretty interesting life. And we're going to talk about his life and his dastardly deeds.

But before we do, let me introduce our panel. I'm joined, as always, by the very lovely and talented, the Queen of Mean, the mistress of the macabre, the Empress of Evil, pill-poppin, penis-loving, Brandy. How are you today, Brandy?

I'm good, Timmy. How are you?

I'm doing well. Are you excited about this topic today?

Well, I thought we were doing Don Rickles, so I'm just... You're taking a back?

Yeah, I'm surprised. But I usually am. You thought instead of Daniel Sickles, it was Don Rickles.

I did. That's my, and my bad. See, and I thought we were doing his father. Popsicles?

Popsicles. There you go. Okay. That was a terrible pun. Just off when, you're not here yet.

Oh, that's right. I forgot. So, so before we go to, uh, the Colonel Brandy, do you have any

words of wisdom for us today or anything you want to, you know, anything particularly you want to mention or are you just, just ready to go? I don't think so. Is there something that I'm missing? No, no, I'm just saying. I'm just, this is your segment. So I'm, oh, no, I'm good today. I'm good. I want to flash your breast or anything like that? No, you know what? I'm all right. I'm all right. You know, big thing. I had crackers with soup yesterday. Wow.

I know, right? All right. So that's your first crackers or your first solid food? It's solid-ish because, you know, I had to wait for him to get mushy. And I'm still supposed to be like a week away, but I couldn't take it. and I loved it so much. I ate a little too much, and then I was like,

you know, that's a funny thing.

It's like, you could go, you could walk by crackers all day long. Mm-hmm. But if you're starving, you get a cracker, it's the best motherfucking cracker you ever had. Crackers are the shit. You're like licking your fingers off, you know, if you're, if you're, so how long has it been since you've had solid food now?

Um, um, shit you're me like licking your fingers off you know if you're of your so how long has it been since you've had solid food now um well so middle of october wow so a month yeah wow

okay well we're in the next you get next week you get it a little bit more and yeah because i've

been sneaking peanut butter you just

saw me do that which is the best thing ever i thought you actually and i was down the hall here

to me and when brandy did her peanut butter and i thought she uh i thought there was something

sexual one on down here with With her and peanut butter?

I thought it was the morning.

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