1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:19,440 Speaker 1: You're listening to an Airwave media podcast. Delicious friends and 2 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: welcome to Who Did What Now? The history podcast That's 3 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: not your history class with me your host Katie Charlewood, 4 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: history harlot and reader of books. Oh and books do 5 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: I have to share with you? So I mentioned this 6 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: on my socials because I have far, far too many 7 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: books because I buy a book and then if I 8 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:45,520 Speaker 1: really like that book, I will then buy a prettier 9 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 1: version of that book, especially if I can get like 10 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: a cloth bound or a hardback like it's I just 11 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: I just love it, Okay. And so what I've done 12 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: is if you're in any paid tier of Patreon, doesn't 13 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: matter what paid tier it is. If you're on it, 14 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 1: you are like eligible to win a book, and I 15 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: will send you a book. I'll just send it to you. 16 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,399 Speaker 1: I will send it all over the world, doesn't matter. 17 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: I don't care. I'll send it to America, I'll send 18 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 1: it anywhere. Speaking of books, actually, I've had recently just 19 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: different publishers contact me to you know, discuss topics that 20 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:28,680 Speaker 1: are in books that they are released. So they send 21 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: me books for me to read as research. And I've 22 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 1: had a few publishers do this, and the most recent 23 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: this annoyed me, right, So this annoyed me. The most 24 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: recent was this woman contacted me. She's doing pr for 25 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: this book, and she asks for my address and I 26 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 1: was like, great, here's my address. This is after a 27 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 1: back and forth of a couple of messages, and she goes, oh, 28 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: I didn't realize you in Ireland. I can send you 29 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: a link to a digital copy instead, Bitch. If I 30 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 1: wanted a digital copy I would have asked for a 31 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 1: digital copy. You offered to send me a book, a physical, 32 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: tangible book that I can touch with my hands and 33 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: smell and do all the weird stuff with. That sounds 34 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: worse out loud, but yes, send me a fucking book. 35 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,399 Speaker 1: Like a publishing house can't afford postage of one book. 36 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 1: You're trying to tell me that really to Europe. Sure, 37 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,799 Speaker 1: But like, what bothered me most about all of this 38 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: is the fact that I consistently post on all my 39 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: socials than from Ireland. I say on the podcast that 40 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 1: I live in Ireland. I speak Irish in several of 41 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,799 Speaker 1: my videos. Right, And even if you ignore all that, 42 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: even if you go, well, maybe she didn't see this 43 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: or didn't hear that, that's fine. The contact section on 44 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: my website the postal address has an Irish address. It 45 00:02:55,280 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: says Ireland on it, So how someone could have seen that? 46 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: It just means that they didn't care. So if they 47 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:07,079 Speaker 1: don't care, why should I you know what I mean? 48 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: Like other companies who are, you know, not as big 49 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: and don't have, you know, that sort of promotion funding, 50 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: they can do it, so why the fuck can't they? Anyway, 51 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: if you're in Glasgow at the end of the month, 52 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: my last show was sold out, I have another show 53 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: at the Blue Dog. It's accessible, it's great. I'm really 54 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: excited to do it. I'm gonna be talking about a 55 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: really awesome Scottish lady that I hope you're gonna want 56 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: to hear about. So yeah, you can go book that. 57 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: It's up now, go to event right that. You don't 58 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 1: have to use papal for this one. You can pay 59 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: with your card of whatever type of card you have, debit, credit, whatever. 60 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: But I know what you're thinking. You're thinking quite your 61 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 1: chipper Jabber and Katie in fact me, in fact you 62 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: I will. But first we've got to get our source on. 63 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: Our sources are the woman who gave birth to Rabbits 64 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: by Lucas Riley. What Mary Toft felt, Women's voices, pain 65 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: Power in the Body by Karen Harvey. Imagining Monsters, Miscreations 66 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:20,160 Speaker 1: of the Self in the eighteenth century England by Dennis Todd, 67 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:32,039 Speaker 1: An Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits by Edward White, The Confessions 68 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:34,720 Speaker 1: of a Rabbit Woman and other recently digitized tale from 69 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: the austri Library by Mary Yarl remarks on a short 70 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:43,919 Speaker 1: narrative of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits by Thomas Braithwaite. 71 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: Deception and Detection in eighteenth century Britain by Jack Lynch. 72 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: Birthing the Nation, Sex Science and the Conception of eighteenth 73 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: century Britons by Lease of Foreman Cody, The Anatomus discected 74 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: or the Man Midwife Finally brought to Bed by Lemuel Gullibar. 75 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: Some Observations concerning the Women of Godlymen and Surrey by 76 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: Sirius Alers. And of course our best is our Favorites 77 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:22,359 Speaker 1: Biography dot com and History dot com iOS Eating comfortably good, 78 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: Then let's begin. The story of Marytoft is often relegated 79 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: to like the Footnotes and the Annals of Weird History. 80 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 1: It is this corn. It is this hoax. It is 81 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: bizarre and grotesque. It is painted in a way that 82 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: puts the blame on Mary Toft and things are about 83 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: to get dark, lads. It's gonna be ghastly, to say 84 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 1: the least. And I'm gonna get you a trigger warning 85 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 1: now because we're going to be discussing abuse, assault, sexual, emotional, physical, 86 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 1: all of it. We're going to talk about miscarriage. We're 87 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: going to talk about a lot of stuff, and it 88 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 1: is going to be incredibly unpleasant. And if you thought 89 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: it was like oh ho ho hits the women who 90 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: gave birth to rabbits, No. And also it's going to 91 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: get iky very fast, and it's going to continue being ikey, 92 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: and if you have a gentle stomach, you will probably 93 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: be picking by the end or crying. You may cry. 94 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 1: But as many of you know, if you've been listening 95 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:44,239 Speaker 1: to me for a long time, I have a vested 96 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:50,919 Speaker 1: interest in this because my entire area of expertise, or 97 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: my main area of expertise I'm starting to get good 98 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:57,160 Speaker 1: at like interesting deaths, but my main area of expertise 99 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: is the rise of sensationalism and the use of prinice propaganda. 100 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 1: In the late modern period, and Mary Toft is a 101 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: victim of propaganda. I mean, she's a victim of a 102 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: fuck ton of things, but propaganda is one of them. 103 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: And I'm here to set the record straight. I mean, 104 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: I might just be one voice, but you're listening to me. 105 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: So that's one more than yesterday, I guess. Yeah. Cool. 106 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: So our story starts in the seventeen hundreds, like the 107 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: early seventeen hundred, seventeen oh three to be exact, when 108 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: Mary Toft is born, as many people are, so how 109 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: do they start their life? Mary is born Mary Danire 110 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: in Godalming in Surrey, England, in seventeen o three. She 111 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: is the first of many children to a poor, poor family. 112 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 1: They're peasants, they're dai laborers, they are their working class, 113 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: could be an easy way of putting it. And so 114 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: life isn't exactly easy in Surrey, really an easy life 115 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: being a peasant. Don't know if you know that, but 116 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 1: it's it's not exactly a cake walk. But Mary, she 117 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: grows up in sorry, and we don't really know much 118 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: about her life. We know that she probably helped whatever 119 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: her parents were doing, if they were working in a field. 120 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: She was probably beside them. If they were having chickens, 121 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: she would collect their eggs. You know, you lived and 122 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: you worked, and it was typical and normal schooling wouldn't 123 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: have been a thing, especially for her because Mary's a girl. 124 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,839 Speaker 1: So being a girl means that she wouldn't have had 125 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: a formal education. And even if there was a school 126 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 1: for girls, her education would have ended fairly quickly because 127 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: only boys really went on to anything longer. And considering 128 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 1: the social class that she was in. No Mary, she 129 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 1: is illiterate. She never learns to read or write because 130 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: it's not necessary for her position. This much we know. 131 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: But she grows up esh and when she's seventeen she 132 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: meets Joshua Toft and they get married. Now he's eighteen 133 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: and she's seventeen. This could be weird, but they get married. 134 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: And it's odd for the time because people think, oh, 135 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: people get married at fourteen and twelve and whatever. The 136 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:42,199 Speaker 1: royals were betrothed like it would be a political alliance. 137 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: It was quite rare for someone that young to get married, 138 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: like older men would marry younger women because of like 139 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 1: fertility and things like that would be the purpose to 140 00:09:54,120 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 1: produce more airs. But things like that a young married this, 141 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 1: it's not common. It's it's a bit wild, to be honest. Now, 142 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: if you're getting married at this age, it means one 143 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 1: of two things. You're either madly head over heels in 144 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:24,319 Speaker 1: love or it's a shotgun wedding. It could be either 145 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: of those things. We don't know. We're not sure. All 146 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: we know is it happened, and they get married. Now, Joshua, 147 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 1: he works in a textile mill. Now, his family, their status, 148 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: their class status is a way bit higher up than Mary's. 149 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 1: So they would have been clothiers many months ago. So 150 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: way back they would have been clothiers, they would have 151 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 1: had a higher rank in society, they would have had 152 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:04,840 Speaker 1: more steam. But over the years, the money and whatnot, 153 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 1: it it dwindles away. And even though they still have 154 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 1: this sort of status, like their status is still higher 155 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 1: than what Mary's would have been in her family, but 156 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: they don't really have the financials to back up. So 157 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 1: he's he's from a slightly higher class ish like a class, 158 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 1: like half a class up, like a we step up, 159 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:35,959 Speaker 1: and not a fuld class like they're they're not even 160 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 1: middle class, right, they're not that far like they're they're 161 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 1: working class, but just like a wee bit above, you know, 162 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: like we stole up and that's them, and so they 163 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 1: probably still have some feelings about that and a sense 164 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 1: of self importance that maybe other families wouldn't. Now Joshua 165 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: is number six of twelve, like he's got siblings either side. 166 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: He is hands from frozen not hands, yes, hands, And 167 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 1: people are thinking, oh, what a weird and dastard like 168 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,960 Speaker 1: connection to make my friends. You have no fucking idea, 169 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: but I'm going to tell you, and it's gonna get worse. 170 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: So they get married and they end up staying in 171 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: this cottage owned by a farmer. And it's sort of 172 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: kind of a lease ish because part of the deal 173 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 1: of written this cottage from this farmer is they've got 174 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: to go work in this hop field. Now, hops is 175 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 1: a grain of some kind. They use it in beer. 176 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: I do not drink beer, but I hear it is good. 177 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:56,079 Speaker 1: I don't drink beer. I don't know it's fine. So 178 00:12:56,120 --> 00:13:01,680 Speaker 1: he is doing some time in this field, is Joshua. 179 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 1: Joshua's there for a wee bit, but he's also doing 180 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 1: some time up in the textile mill for his family. 181 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 1: So he's he's kind of burning it. The candle at 182 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 1: both ends, you know. And Mary, Well, Mary is every 183 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 1: day slogging about working in the fields. And not only 184 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 1: is she working this like grueling labor every day. It's 185 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 1: not fucking easy, mate, You try working in a field. 186 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 1: That's why. That's why you don't know how to pick berries, 187 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: Like you can't do it with speed or skill and 188 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 1: not get stabbed a bunch of times from the brambles. 189 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 1: But yeah, hotfield's grueling labor, et cetera, et cetera. And 190 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: Mary she has to travel like two miles to get 191 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 1: to this field from her house. You'd think woul it 192 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 1: being the farmer's cottage, it would be easier. Don't know 193 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 1: how she gets there. Sometimes she has to walk. And 194 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 1: the thing is being a young woman who is wed 195 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:10,839 Speaker 1: and has a teenage husband, and it's also a teenager herself. Well, 196 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,560 Speaker 1: she gets pregnant, She gets pregnant, She ends up giving 197 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: birth twice. She has I believe, a son and a 198 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 1: daughter and they are fine, I guess, But she gets 199 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: pregnant a third time. I think she's about twenty in 200 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: her early twenties. Twenty three, twenty three, she gets pregnant 201 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: a third time. So yeah, I mean she has two 202 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 1: kids before the age of twenty one, which is which 203 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 1: is a lot. It's it's like I've got two kids 204 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 1: and I am older than that, much older than that, 205 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: and I'm like, no, I don't think and also don't 206 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 1: have them much later because also you get tired when 207 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: you're old, like I just want to nap. I couldn't 208 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: imagine having like small children. Now, no, thank you, I'm 209 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: too old. I'm in bed by nine pm most nights, lads, 210 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: I'm not staying up. No midnight feeds for me. These 211 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: babies are closed for dinner. No, no, we have finished serving, 212 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: thank you. So anyway, back to Mary, she's pregnant and 213 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 1: she's walking two miles to the fucking field, which she 214 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 1: is then going to do back breaking labor in when 215 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 1: she's very clearly pregnant. So in order for other people 216 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 1: to accept that she's pregnant, she would have had to 217 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 1: have what was called the quickening. So the quickening is 218 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: about four months. You have to be at least four months. 219 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: It's when you see the stomach swell, it's when you 220 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 1: see the actual bump appear, and sometimes it's when you 221 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: can feel a kick. So depending on how how it 222 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: is judged at this particular period of time. That's why 223 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 1: it's deemed that pregnancy would only be agreed upon at 224 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: that point, which is why a lot of women would 225 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 1: manage to not get hung and would get a stay 226 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: of execution because they'd be pregnant. Sometimes they just be 227 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 1: shagging the guards, which honestly, I mean, you're gonna throwing 228 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 1: a fifty to fifty chance at that point, because like, 229 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 1: the number one cause of death of women throughout history 230 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 1: is childbirth. The second is men, but childbirth, and so 231 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: it is a fifty to fifty chance there to get 232 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: pregnant and then you know stay of execution and when 233 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 1: in a certain death to like maybe death. So that's 234 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 1: not too bad really when you think about it. But yeah, 235 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: Mary is in the field and someone is with her 236 00:16:53,120 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 1: and she has a miscarriage and it is horrific. She 237 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 1: describes a flushing feeling, which I can only assume is 238 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 1: is like when your waters break, it just gushes. Is 239 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: someone who has experienced this a couple of times, it's 240 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: just like whosh, I hope that makes sense to you. 241 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:26,199 Speaker 1: My random sound effects about splosh right out. And so 242 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 1: she just gets this severe pain followed by this flushing feeling, 243 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:40,199 Speaker 1: and she suffers a spontaneous abortion, often referred to as 244 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:44,439 Speaker 1: a miscarriage, which is a terminology that I don't like. 245 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: I don't like the term miscarriage because it feels like 246 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 1: it's placing blame instead of using a medical term, like 247 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: if someone miscarries, like a miscarriage of justice, it's putting 248 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 1: the blame on the pregnant person instead of, you know, 249 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 1: the fact that it's just a medical issue. It's just 250 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 1: something the body did. Might not be anyone or anything 251 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:17,680 Speaker 1: specifically to blame. It can be something that just happens. 252 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 1: And I know we like to put reasons behind things, 253 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 1: but sometimes some things just don't have a reason, and 254 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: it sucks. But it just there isn't always an answer, 255 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:35,399 Speaker 1: which also sucks. But yeah, spontaneous abortion because that is 256 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:38,159 Speaker 1: the technical term, and that is the one I prefer 257 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: to use because it's clear, it's concise, and I think 258 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 1: it takes away the weaponry of language. On both sides 259 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: of this argument. AnyWho married of suffers suffers throughout this 260 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 1: whole story, but her womb is emptied, and whatever comes 261 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 1: out of her, whether it's like placenta or whatever, it 262 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:22,360 Speaker 1: is described as monstrous, which I mean, I get your 263 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 1: living in a society in which religion rules supreme and 264 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:30,880 Speaker 1: science is new, and a lot of people don't have 265 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:35,399 Speaker 1: an understanding of basic medicine, even the doctors, and so 266 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 1: when something like this happens, you know, something like this happens. 267 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,199 Speaker 1: I mean, it could have been something as simple as 268 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:53,359 Speaker 1: a fatal people abnormality which was then spontaneously abort it. 269 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 1: It could be something as simple as that, but we 270 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 1: don't know because we don't have any like we're not 271 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: photograph from the eighteenth century, don't have any sketches. That 272 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,400 Speaker 1: being said, the men didn't have strong stomachs back then, 273 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,120 Speaker 1: I mean, they were afraid of periods, so who knows 274 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 1: what they would deal with this. So because Mary has 275 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 1: suffered through this incident, what then happens is she goes home. 276 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 1: She gets sent home, you know, for like a week 277 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: or two, not too long, just enough to get some 278 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: rest and you know, do some very basic, basic healing, 279 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:35,120 Speaker 1: and she's away for a few weeks, and she goes 280 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 1: back to working in the hop fields as she does. 281 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:43,879 Speaker 1: Which anyone who's ever gone through that, anyone who's ever 282 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 1: suffered that loss physically, emotionally, whatever, it fucks with you. 283 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 1: It messes with your head, and you have all these 284 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 1: hormones going through your body, and you were going through 285 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: a lot of the time emotional turmoil. You've got all 286 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 1: these things going on from all these different angles, and 287 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 1: it's overwhelming and upsetting. And what Mary needs right now 288 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 1: is help and care. But Mary doesn't get that. So 289 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:24,639 Speaker 1: in look the third week in September in seventeen twenty six, 290 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 1: there's all these issues going on. The landowners, they're the 291 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:33,680 Speaker 1: lower classes. They're not too happy with it, and so 292 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: they start doing these mass protests, like they go into 293 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: areas where there's deer, where there's rabbits, because rabbits are 294 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 1: a symbol of the elite, right, they're a symbol of 295 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: the elite, and it's because they can't. So what happened 296 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: back in the day, Actually sidebar is that rabbits were 297 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: not wild. They were domesticated, and lords would have rabbits 298 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: because sometimes they wanted away, sometimes they wanted their super 299 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 1: soft fur to make their gorgeous courts or what ebbs. 300 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,879 Speaker 1: So they had all that, and so rabbits were a 301 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,719 Speaker 1: sign of the elite, of the privileged. And then what 302 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,359 Speaker 1: happened is rabbits. You know, they shag a lot, and 303 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: so these so many rabbits that they just couldn't contain 304 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 1: them all and then they broke free. So rabbits exist 305 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 1: because rich people didn't know how to look after them. Really, 306 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 1: So yeah, rabbits are a symbol of the elite, as 307 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 1: are like deer and sort of there's fish lakes and stuff. 308 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 1: So like Joshua, Joshua Toft, he ends up being involved 309 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 1: in this mass protest in a lake basically against one 310 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: of the landowners, because of course he is so's he's 311 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 1: clearly got opinions and a viewpoint, especially regarding the higher classes, 312 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 1: as do his family. But yeah, Joshua was six of twelve, like, 313 00:22:56,040 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter like anything after two in the order, 314 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,159 Speaker 1: and you're not getting shit, mate, You're just there's nothing 315 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 1: for you. You're going to find another avenue. And so 316 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 1: his mother and sister decide that they're going to involve 317 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: a plan with Mary. So Mary is back in the field. 318 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,920 Speaker 1: This is one week after so it's like the twenty sixth, 319 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 1: twenty seventh of September seventeen ninety six, and she's back 320 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 1: in the fields, she's working and she just grabs her stomach. 321 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 1: She has this severe pain. She was trying to catch 322 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:44,120 Speaker 1: a rabbit. She says, this is the tail. She saw 323 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:47,280 Speaker 1: a rabbit. She was trying to catch the rabbit. She 324 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 1: was so hungry. She really wanted this rabbit because they're poor. 325 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: They wanted something to eat. She gets this pain. She 326 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: couldn't catch the rabbit. It's his pain in her stomach. 327 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:05,399 Speaker 1: And then gives birth. And she does it in front 328 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,160 Speaker 1: of a bunch of people, so other people who are 329 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: in the field with her, and what comes out of 330 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 1: her vagina is this weird creature? Now, this creature is weird. 331 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 1: It's got like legs and a slimy backbone. See it's 332 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 1: it's it's a cat with an eel in it. There 333 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 1: was no nice way to say this, Okay. So the 334 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 1: mother in law and the sister. One of them is 335 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 1: called Margaret. Maybe both of them are called Margaret. I 336 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 1: didn't care to learn their names because they're fuck wits 337 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 1: and I hate them. So what do they do to 338 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: the postpartum you know, Mary, twenty five year old Mary? 339 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 1: What do they do? They make her open her legs. 340 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 1: They take a dissected cat whose head they have cut 341 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:17,119 Speaker 1: off and removed its guts, which they then replaced. I 342 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:18,679 Speaker 1: mean had to be a small cat, right, So that's 343 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: a kitten. Why did they say cat? That's a fucking kitten. 344 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,120 Speaker 1: That's disgusting. It's not my worse, right, that's worse it 345 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: is They cut up an eel. They also cut off 346 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 1: its head, and they remove some of it I guess 347 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 1: put that inside the desiccated remains of the kitten, which 348 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 1: they then insert into Mary's vagina. So she quote unquote 349 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:56,679 Speaker 1: gives birth to this thing, and they contact the local 350 00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,439 Speaker 1: doctor who's they're like, look, she's given birth to this creature. 351 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 1: And yeah, John Howard is called upon and he comes 352 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: to the scene and he's looking at this thing and 353 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 1: they're like, witnesses saw her give birth to this. Look 354 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 1: at this thing. And he's like, that looks like three 355 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:22,679 Speaker 1: legs all the tabby cat and the backbone of an 356 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:26,440 Speaker 1: eel that it doesn't have a head. Where's its head? 357 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 1: If she gave birth to a creature, where the fox 358 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:34,880 Speaker 1: it's head? And they're like, oh, that, I don't know. 359 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:40,679 Speaker 1: Maybe it came apart somewhere. It's a wee shame. So 360 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:45,400 Speaker 1: he's like, right, okay, see you So John howard. He leaves. 361 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:50,439 Speaker 1: The surgeon's like no, no, no, no no, And so 362 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 1: a little while later again Mary talked, yet again goes 363 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:05,240 Speaker 1: into labor and birth animal bits, so there's like a 364 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: cat leg, a rabbit leg, bits of another bit like 365 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,680 Speaker 1: it just things. And the doctor's like, okay, cool, Yeah, 366 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 1: I'm still no head though, so that's a no for me. 367 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: So the mother in law missus toft, Mother toft, I 368 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:31,439 Speaker 1: should whatever the fuck toft dickhead toft. She then goes 369 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 1: and gets the jaw bone. Oh a rabbit. No, I 370 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 1: don't know if you've ever seen a jawbone, but it 371 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:46,879 Speaker 1: has teeth, and she decides to shove the jaw bone 372 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 1: up into Mary inside her. Now, this causes Mary, I 373 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 1: know you're going to be shocked at this, but excruciating 374 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: pain because she's being stabbed internally by a rabbit's job 375 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 1: one gets to the point where she has to ask 376 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,639 Speaker 1: someone for help to remove it from her because she's 377 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,760 Speaker 1: just in so much pain. So the next day when 378 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 1: her mother in law shows up, she's fucking livid. Not Mary, 379 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 1: the mother in law, she's livid that she's removed the 380 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 1: job bone, and so she takes like the top part 381 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,960 Speaker 1: of the head, so like the job own was the underbit, 382 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,880 Speaker 1: so like the skull ish but with still feting things 383 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 1: on it. She shoves that up inside her daughter in law, okay, 384 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 1: up inside her daughter in law, so that when the obstetrician, 385 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: the surgeon John Howard, once he shows up, the man 386 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,560 Speaker 1: midwife once he shows up. Yeah, they literally called him 387 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 1: a man midwife. It's the whole thing. When he shows up, 388 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 1: she just conveniently goes into labor and then outcomes this 389 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 1: partial rabbit head with a couple other bits, and he's like, wow, 390 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 1: I guess this is real now because she has like 391 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 1: it's got a head, and this is where things go 392 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 1: from bad to worse. So John Howard finally has his 393 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 1: proof with this wee rabbit skull that Mary Toft has 394 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:33,880 Speaker 1: in fact given buff to rabbits. And so he is 395 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: rubbing his grimy wee hands together because he's about to 396 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 1: get the notoriety that he so wants. This is an 397 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 1: era basically, I should say this now, this is an 398 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 1: era of the freak show of like imagine Pete Barnum, 399 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 1: so you would go and see like the Bearded Lady 400 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: or Siamese Twin are conjoined twins. Is they're now known 401 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:07,719 Speaker 1: and you know, like a tiny person like somebody with 402 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 1: like extreme Dwarfism, or like a giant like Merrick, the 403 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 1: elephant man, John Merrick. Like people would go and see 404 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 1: side shows, freak shows, so on and so forth, and 405 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 1: anyone who was an oddity. You know, people would invite 406 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 1: them to dinner. It would be you would show them off, 407 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: kind of like in the regency period where they would 408 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 1: show off pineapples, which is like just another sign of 409 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 1: colonialism or whatever, but they would do that in order 410 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 1: to show their status and their wealth. And when you 411 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 1: had someone like this that you could parade around your 412 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: dinner or your ball or party, it made you like 413 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:51,080 Speaker 1: cock of the walk, tip top, you know, the person 414 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:58,280 Speaker 1: to know. So anyway, they did that and and that 415 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 1: was just what they did. It was a thing, and 416 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,280 Speaker 1: so you could make money like Terra, remember Torall, the 417 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 1: cannibal spy who would just like eat clocks and watches 418 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 1: and stones and sticks and live cats. Yeah, possibly an infant. Yeah, 419 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,880 Speaker 1: people would pay for that, like it's the freak show. 420 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 1: You would see that them do the things contortionists and whatnot. Whatever, 421 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 1: they would go and do that. But There was a 422 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 1: case as well of Peter, who I'm probably gonna discuss 423 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 1: sometime because it's they call it the forbidden experiment. So 424 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 1: he is known as this feral child. He's Peter the 425 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,360 Speaker 1: wild boy. He's saying, it's this feral child, right, And 426 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 1: because he's you know, feralle like Romulus and Remus, raised 427 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 1: by animals. There's this theory that states that, you know, 428 00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 1: if children don't hear language before like the age of 429 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,200 Speaker 1: four or whatever, or age of three. I'm not sure. 430 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 1: I have to double check my notes on that one, 431 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 1: because it's been a while since I've studied awful, awful 432 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 1: psychological experiments, and you don't have the ability to create language, 433 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 1: or understand language, or create language to reproduce words and 434 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 1: so on and so forth. So Peter the well boy, 435 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 1: he was like taking around all of these regency households 436 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 1: to show off. Now, when you look at some of 437 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 1: the information regarding Peter, to me anyway, it seems like 438 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 1: he was non verbal autistic. We just didn't have a 439 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:33,080 Speaker 1: word for it then. So but that's another story for 440 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 1: another day. And Peter bloody deserved better. But anyway, I mean, 441 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,760 Speaker 1: he did pretty well considering the regency, you know the 442 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 1: year that it was. So anyway, Mary Toft, over the 443 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:52,200 Speaker 1: course of a few months, Mary Toft gives birth to rabbits, 444 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 1: like many, many times, I think over the entire period. 445 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,760 Speaker 1: It's like seventeen. So she does this over and over again, 446 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 1: and little tiny rabbit parts, bitty pitty rabbits, baby rabbits, 447 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 1: small rabbits, but like not a whole A lot of 448 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 1: the time, a lot of the time they're in pieces. 449 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:17,040 Speaker 1: And she does this consistently with the help of John Howard, 450 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 1: over many, many months. And it gets to the point 451 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,960 Speaker 1: where news of this reaches the London papers. I mean, 452 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 1: I mean we're in sorry, so we're not too far really, 453 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 1: I mean if they were in Yorkshire, you'd be like, 454 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 1: really London, really, if they're in Manchester, Jesus, can you 455 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:43,200 Speaker 1: imagine if they made it that far. Anyway, they managed 456 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:48,480 Speaker 1: to make the news. It hits London and scientists, doctors, 457 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:54,800 Speaker 1: the elite, the medical professionals are just intrigued by this, 458 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,600 Speaker 1: and they're bring her down here. She needs to be studied, 459 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:03,040 Speaker 1: and so they bring her to and the news of 460 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 1: this information. They study her, they watch her give birth, 461 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:12,880 Speaker 1: give birth, and she produces these rabbits, these downy baby rabbits. 462 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 1: They're all dead, dead rabbits. And again she tells them, 463 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,920 Speaker 1: you know, she was pregnant, she dreamed of rabbit, she 464 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,400 Speaker 1: tried to catch it, and next thing, you know, just 465 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:28,680 Speaker 1: rabbits shooting down her. Birth control, no birth canal, I mean, 466 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:33,920 Speaker 1: it's definitely a form of birth control. So it gets 467 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,040 Speaker 1: to the point King George the First, who's not even 468 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,880 Speaker 1: in England at this point. He's in Germany or whatever 469 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:43,320 Speaker 1: it was at that point. One of the German states, Hanover, 470 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,440 Speaker 1: whoever he was, he's the House of Hanover. I don't know, 471 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,680 Speaker 1: there's too many Georges. George the First didn't even bother 472 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,279 Speaker 1: learn in English. He didn't care. He was like the 473 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:56,880 Speaker 1: nephew of Queen Anne, who Yeah, it was a whole thing. Basically, 474 00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:01,120 Speaker 1: they didn't want a Catholic to rule Britain, and so 475 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,759 Speaker 1: they're like, he's the next Protestant. He'll do. But oh 476 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 1: he was a dick as well. He was such an arseolo. 477 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,919 Speaker 1: We'll talk about him sometime in the future, but yeah, 478 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:16,000 Speaker 1: he ends up sending his his British I say British. 479 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:22,360 Speaker 1: It was even British. He was Swiss Nathaniel Saint Andre 480 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,560 Speaker 1: he he he's a physician. He's a doctor. He's Swiss, 481 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,279 Speaker 1: but he practices in England, so he's he's meant to 482 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:33,200 Speaker 1: be like the doctor to like the royal household to 483 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:36,480 Speaker 1: the king, except the king isn't in England, so it 484 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:41,920 Speaker 1: doesn't really matter. So Saint Andre he, I mean, he's 485 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:43,880 Speaker 1: meant to be the super great doctor, right, He's supposed 486 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,600 Speaker 1: to be the best of the best. That's why he's 487 00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:50,160 Speaker 1: like the physician to the royal household. Yeah, but he's 488 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,560 Speaker 1: I mean, he was desperate to get involved in this 489 00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:57,680 Speaker 1: because this man he loved the drama. He loved it. 490 00:35:57,760 --> 00:35:59,919 Speaker 1: He loved to get elbow deep in it. And he's 491 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:05,000 Speaker 1: certainly tried. So he ends up having a look at 492 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:11,000 Speaker 1: these rabbits. She gives birth to rabbits, and he's like, yay, wow, amazing. See, 493 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:14,319 Speaker 1: there's this theory that if you think about something when 494 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:18,680 Speaker 1: you're pregnant, that sort of manifests like into the fetus. Right, 495 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,000 Speaker 1: So like John Merrick, the elephant man, Like there was 496 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,160 Speaker 1: a story that his mother dreamed of elephants or was 497 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:29,600 Speaker 1: startled by an elephant, and next thing you know, John 498 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,600 Speaker 1: Merrick was born and he was born with all these 499 00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:37,680 Speaker 1: Oh there's a term for it, jig I got Oh, 500 00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:42,080 Speaker 1: my goodness, I can't say the word where gigantic gets them. 501 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,359 Speaker 1: There's like bits of you get bigger, they grow when 502 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,880 Speaker 1: they shouldn't. Oh, I've seen I've seen it happen to 503 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:54,680 Speaker 1: testicles as well. Don't ask, don't ask why. I read 504 00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,920 Speaker 1: a lot of weird stuff and see so many weird 505 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:03,160 Speaker 1: pictures that are now seared into my brain. But yeah, 506 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,000 Speaker 1: so they were thinking, oh, she was dreaming of a rabbit, 507 00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:08,200 Speaker 1: and then next thing you know, she's given birth to rabbits. 508 00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:11,759 Speaker 1: This makes perfect sense. And Saint Andre is like promoting this, 509 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:18,200 Speaker 1: and he's telling everybody, and so the nobleman, the noblemen 510 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,840 Speaker 1: are so impressed. You've got this. It's so impressed. And 511 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:28,040 Speaker 1: it gets to the point where the king then sends 512 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:36,480 Speaker 1: like another physician, like his German one, Alh's doctor Alurhs. 513 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,720 Speaker 1: So Alers is there and he finally gets to England. 514 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,719 Speaker 1: He watches her do the birth whenever, and he takes 515 00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:49,720 Speaker 1: one of the rabbits and he decides to check its lungs, 516 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,040 Speaker 1: so it takes out his lungs and he puts it 517 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:58,200 Speaker 1: in water, and the lungs float, meaning that the rabbit 518 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,440 Speaker 1: breathed air. If it was a fetus and it had 519 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:05,160 Speaker 1: not lived outside the womb, then its lungs would not 520 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:10,799 Speaker 1: have inhaled, it would not have breathed, breathed, breathed, and 521 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:17,440 Speaker 1: they wouldn't float, right. So he's like, that's weird, that's suspicious. 522 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:22,560 Speaker 1: So then they're like, okay, this is strange. And then 523 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:30,319 Speaker 1: she gives birth quote unquote again and they're like, I'm 524 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,799 Speaker 1: gonna check this rabbit. And he takes the rabbit, does 525 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,680 Speaker 1: a wheel atopsy on it and checks its stomach, and 526 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:39,759 Speaker 1: inside the stomach of the ba baby rabbit is hey, 527 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,520 Speaker 1: meaning that you know this did not originate inside her body. 528 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,040 Speaker 1: And he's like, okay, but how are they getting up yere? 529 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:48,000 Speaker 1: This doesn't make any sense. Like these are full rabbits, 530 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:52,960 Speaker 1: by the way, with claws and teeth and all the 531 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,120 Speaker 1: other pointy bits. Like they did not declaw any of 532 00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:57,879 Speaker 1: the other legs, by the way when they first shove 533 00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:00,120 Speaker 1: them up. I want to make this clear. And and 534 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:06,000 Speaker 1: they inserted the animal pieces and carcasses and bones inside 535 00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:13,000 Speaker 1: this poor woman's vagila. Anyway, it gets to the point 536 00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,880 Speaker 1: that they're like Okay, we're gonna lock her in this 537 00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:21,800 Speaker 1: room and just keep her under observation, just to make sure. 538 00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:28,320 Speaker 1: And then a man is trying to you say, a man, 539 00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:32,439 Speaker 1: a young fella. He's trying to sneak into Mary's room 540 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:38,920 Speaker 1: because he's trying to smuggle her rabbit corpses. And they're like, 541 00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:42,439 Speaker 1: what the fuck are you doing? And they're like, I 542 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,279 Speaker 1: was told I was paid by these women to do it. 543 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,080 Speaker 1: So like the mother in law and sister in law 544 00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,120 Speaker 1: had bribed this dude to try and sneak rabbits into 545 00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:55,520 Speaker 1: Mary's room, and so they try and do that, which 546 00:39:55,600 --> 00:40:03,719 Speaker 1: is weird, and ends up just confessing. She confesses. She 547 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,719 Speaker 1: tells them everything. She tells them the full story. She 548 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,160 Speaker 1: explains why, and then she explains that she was not 549 00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:13,200 Speaker 1: a willing participant, that she didn't want to do this, 550 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,440 Speaker 1: she didn't want to be involved in this, and that 551 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:24,640 Speaker 1: she was in so much pain, like this was excruciating 552 00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:30,520 Speaker 1: for her. And not only that, like your body, especially 553 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:35,960 Speaker 1: as a woman, is seen as as how do I 554 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:44,560 Speaker 1: put it distasteful if it has been tarnished, tarnished by others, 555 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:52,040 Speaker 1: you know what I mean? So your personal fuck, I'm 556 00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:54,560 Speaker 1: so mad, right, I can't even finish a sentence. I'm 557 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:59,440 Speaker 1: so fucking angry this per woman, like to put your 558 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:04,279 Speaker 1: body into display like that two other men, right, that 559 00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:09,240 Speaker 1: is belittling and demonizing, especially when we realize the Christian 560 00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:11,560 Speaker 1: culture that she would have grown up with and the 561 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:15,560 Speaker 1: purity culture which would have existed, and the fact that 562 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:21,120 Speaker 1: all of these men are are touching her. Like there's 563 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:26,160 Speaker 1: at one point where Nathaniel's saying andle he is like 564 00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:30,680 Speaker 1: checking her, he's doing a vaginal exam, and he sticks 565 00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:35,399 Speaker 1: his hand like into her vagina. And how she did 566 00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,680 Speaker 1: not die, by the way, because this is a period 567 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:42,319 Speaker 1: where women were always dying because male midwives were not 568 00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:46,160 Speaker 1: washing their hands between touching corpses and other icky bits 569 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:50,439 Speaker 1: before shoving their hands inside women. And like the fact 570 00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,839 Speaker 1: that she didn't get sepsis between the claws and their 571 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:57,520 Speaker 1: dirty fingernails, like shocking, absolutely shocking. It's a fucking miracle, right. 572 00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,920 Speaker 1: So he puts up there and he's looking inside and 573 00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:02,840 Speaker 1: he says, I don't see any rabbits in there, so 574 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:06,920 Speaker 1: clearly they're in our womb or whatever. Now she ends 575 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:10,480 Speaker 1: up then giving birth after that of rabbits, and she 576 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,440 Speaker 1: says that when he did the inspection, there was a 577 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,439 Speaker 1: rabbit inside her. He just didn't know what the fuck 578 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,480 Speaker 1: he was looking at, the supposed physician to the king. 579 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:25,040 Speaker 1: But yeah, Aler's is not into this at all. She 580 00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:29,040 Speaker 1: gets caught, and then other people start coming forward with 581 00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:33,520 Speaker 1: report saying that, yeah, her husband was buying dead rabbits 582 00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:35,560 Speaker 1: off a bunch of people, and he wasn't being discreet 583 00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:40,160 Speaker 1: about it. He would go to markets in farmers and 584 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:46,160 Speaker 1: he'd be like, hey, got any rabbits, baby rabbits, specifically 585 00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:51,200 Speaker 1: deceased baby rabbits. It's for my wife. She wants to 586 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:54,600 Speaker 1: eat them, even though there's very little meat on them. 587 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,399 Speaker 1: And if you eat nothing but rabbit, you will die. 588 00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:03,640 Speaker 1: Fun fact. The amount of calories that it takes to 589 00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:07,920 Speaker 1: consume rabbit. And if you were to eat nothing but rabbit, 590 00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:09,680 Speaker 1: if you have some carrots and peas with it, you're fine, 591 00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,880 Speaker 1: But if you eat nothing but rabbit, you will die. 592 00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:18,520 Speaker 1: You will die of starvation. Fun fact. But yeah, back 593 00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:22,480 Speaker 1: to Mary and the absolute bullshit tom fuckeray that goes on. 594 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:28,000 Speaker 1: So she ends up confessing her husband is caught out 595 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:32,440 Speaker 1: her husband. You'd think that if you know the mother 596 00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:34,200 Speaker 1: in law and sister in law being shitty. You're like 597 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:38,200 Speaker 1: a fair enough, that's family. It fucking happens. But her 598 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:43,960 Speaker 1: husband is doing this to her, and he's involved in 599 00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:48,560 Speaker 1: this scheme. Like it's portrayed that she deliberately tried to 600 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,960 Speaker 1: hoodwink all the higher ups, and it seems like this 601 00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,040 Speaker 1: may have been a plan from her in laws and 602 00:43:54,120 --> 00:44:02,520 Speaker 1: her husband. Again, Joshua, you absolute cockwomble. But this was 603 00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:09,839 Speaker 1: a painful thing to do from every angle, internally, externally, emotionally, Like, 604 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:15,560 Speaker 1: this is not something that someone would willingly do. I mean, 605 00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:20,000 Speaker 1: especially the fact that she was forced into this situation postpartum, 606 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:26,640 Speaker 1: Like she's not suffered enough. You're going to do this 607 00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:29,399 Speaker 1: to her. How little respect do you have for her 608 00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:33,360 Speaker 1: as a human, as a person that you think this 609 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:36,920 Speaker 1: is an okay thing to do. Y'all are oursels, Allia, 610 00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:41,600 Speaker 1: not you, but her family. Sorry, gentle listeners, delicious friends, 611 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:47,800 Speaker 1: best diys. I'm sorry, I'm just full of the rage. AnyWho. 612 00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:56,000 Speaker 1: She's held for a bit and like they try to 613 00:44:56,120 --> 00:45:00,440 Speaker 1: try her on what's the term now, Yeah, she was 614 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:05,920 Speaker 1: charged on a statute as being a vile cheat and impostor, 615 00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:11,440 Speaker 1: so her and John Howard before the bench in like 616 00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,960 Speaker 1: December and he ends up with a fine of eight 617 00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,480 Speaker 1: hundred pounds, which is like over one hundred and fifty 618 00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:21,799 Speaker 1: grand in today's money, and very tought. Is kind of 619 00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,960 Speaker 1: held for a while and then let go. So in 620 00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:29,239 Speaker 1: April the following year they let her go because they 621 00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:35,480 Speaker 1: don't really know how to charge her for this, like 622 00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,440 Speaker 1: how do you? And I think as well, like the 623 00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,839 Speaker 1: galleys in the court, they were filled with people, people 624 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:45,239 Speaker 1: who were desperate to find out information about it. This 625 00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:49,360 Speaker 1: was like the talk of London, and I think a 626 00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:53,560 Speaker 1: lot of people, like even at the time, between the 627 00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:56,120 Speaker 1: fact that you know, the symbolism of the rabbits and 628 00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:00,719 Speaker 1: someone impoverished in illiterate like Mary Toft, there would have 629 00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:04,759 Speaker 1: been there would have been some cajoling, you know, and 630 00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:09,879 Speaker 1: some consideration. So she ends up being told like she's 631 00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:11,680 Speaker 1: saying that she won't do anything of her again. She 632 00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:13,560 Speaker 1: you know, she won't want for anything as long as 633 00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:17,279 Speaker 1: she lives, no worries, peace out. I won't be doing 634 00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:21,200 Speaker 1: this shit again. So she ends up buggering off, getting 635 00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,479 Speaker 1: the heck at a dodge, saying fuck this for Chemis 636 00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:27,360 Speaker 1: soldiers and just calling back to live her life. And 637 00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:32,000 Speaker 1: so she goes back back to Surrey and back to 638 00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:36,040 Speaker 1: her husband, because of course she does, because it's the 639 00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:39,040 Speaker 1: eighteenth century. What else is she going to do? Right, 640 00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:46,240 Speaker 1: She goes back and she ends up having another child 641 00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:50,200 Speaker 1: with him, who I think is fine. We don't really know. 642 00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:55,480 Speaker 1: There's probably someone out there related to the Tofts, like 643 00:46:55,640 --> 00:47:00,640 Speaker 1: chances are there's I mean, he was one of you know, twelve, 644 00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:06,200 Speaker 1: so there's going to be something somewhere. There has to 645 00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,920 Speaker 1: be a relation still existing today. It would be weird 646 00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:12,200 Speaker 1: if there wasn't, like somewhere in the bloodline. Really deluded, 647 00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:16,720 Speaker 1: but it's there. But Mary told she just lives out 648 00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:21,359 Speaker 1: the rest of her life. She just loves it, not 649 00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:33,200 Speaker 1: really doing anything, not really causing any issues. But the 650 00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,760 Speaker 1: next we really hear of her is in seventeen sixty 651 00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:43,840 Speaker 1: three when she passes away of presumably old age, because 652 00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,880 Speaker 1: she's because she's six. I mean, she's sixty. That's not 653 00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:51,320 Speaker 1: that old. But you know, I feel like she's suffered 654 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:55,719 Speaker 1: enough in life, but she's sixty. It's the seventeen hundreds. 655 00:47:56,480 --> 00:48:00,359 Speaker 1: Who knows what happened to her? But she dies and 656 00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:08,680 Speaker 1: her obituary runs in the London newspapers alongside high society. 657 00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:16,239 Speaker 1: So aristocrats. I almost said Aristo cats the Aristo cats Mill, 658 00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:21,720 Speaker 1: the Tabby's coming back from her, But no, the the 659 00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,880 Speaker 1: obituary is in the papers next to the astocrats, because 660 00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:29,160 Speaker 1: like she was still such a fascination and still so 661 00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:36,880 Speaker 1: well known that they put her there. But yeah, she 662 00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:43,719 Speaker 1: passes away and is then buried on the thirteenth of 663 00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,920 Speaker 1: January seventeen sixty three. I don't even think she was sixty. 664 00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:54,240 Speaker 1: I think she was fifty nine. But yeah, she passes away, 665 00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:05,719 Speaker 1: gets buried, and then is used as a weird footnote 666 00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:11,480 Speaker 1: for I don't know the medical crap in history and 667 00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:14,760 Speaker 1: to show women is conniving and so on and so forth. 668 00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:20,840 Speaker 1: But yes, so ends the story of Mary Toft, Queen 669 00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:26,560 Speaker 1: of Rabbits. If you liked my retaelling of this story 670 00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:28,399 Speaker 1: as I try not to fall off of a chair 671 00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:32,600 Speaker 1: hiding in the back room at my work, please feel 672 00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:34,640 Speaker 1: read to rate and review five stars. If you're not 673 00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:37,640 Speaker 1: going to write in review five stars, you can just 674 00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:41,760 Speaker 1: send me a strongly worded email that I won't read. 675 00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:44,480 Speaker 1: I can generally tell why the first sentence, if it's 676 00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:46,319 Speaker 1: going to be like nice or not, and if it's 677 00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:50,279 Speaker 1: not nice, whether fuck would I bother? But anyway, that's 678 00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:54,759 Speaker 1: the case, so you'll know. But the two oh, I 679 00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:58,759 Speaker 1: have sent in a proposal, a book proposal to a publisher, 680 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:02,040 Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens there. So yeah, that happened. 681 00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:11,040 Speaker 1: And yeah, recommendation time. So for reading, I'm gonna recommend 682 00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:17,960 Speaker 1: there's this book called butter right, Butter, Butter, Butter, and 683 00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:23,960 Speaker 1: it's recommended to me in Waterstones by a man is like, Oh, 684 00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,640 Speaker 1: you liked lessons in Chemistry, you might like this book 685 00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:32,320 Speaker 1: about poison butter and I was like sold. So that's reading. 686 00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:37,960 Speaker 1: For watching, you know, I watched shard Lake and it 687 00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:41,520 Speaker 1: took me like a good half an episode to really 688 00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:45,560 Speaker 1: assimilate with where I was going to be. But yeah, 689 00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:48,480 Speaker 1: that was pretty good. So watch shard Lake. It's weird 690 00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:51,000 Speaker 1: and Sean Bean's in it, and you need to tell 691 00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,400 Speaker 1: me what you thought of his eyebrows. Okay, am I 692 00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:55,800 Speaker 1: the only one that sees something strange? But Sean Bean's 693 00:50:55,800 --> 00:51:00,120 Speaker 1: eyebrows and shard Lake, just look at it. Consider it all. 694 00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:05,920 Speaker 1: I'm saying, I have a feeling. And for listening, I've 695 00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:09,200 Speaker 1: been listening to Katie Bezar. Actually I find it really 696 00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:13,640 Speaker 1: really fun and and don't actually no, there's this. There's 697 00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:19,280 Speaker 1: a song by Thomas mack Ain't No. It's a country 698 00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:21,479 Speaker 1: song and it's about trying to talk up to girls 699 00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:23,440 Speaker 1: in the bar and he gets rejected and stuff, and 700 00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:27,120 Speaker 1: it's very funny and it's very catchy and you should 701 00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:28,759 Speaker 1: go listen to it. But I am going to go 702 00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:30,920 Speaker 1: and see my kids now because they are waiting for me, 703 00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:35,240 Speaker 1: and I'm going to bid you all good night. Adios. 704 00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:38,480 Speaker 1: Au revoir of Where Is There? My Friends A Babbie