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@TheSpark878

2 жыл бұрын

Please stop with the weird jangly background music on this channel. It's distracting and adds zero value

@jendubay3782

2 жыл бұрын

Hello fresh is doing union busting. No thank you.

@marcelmais6430

2 жыл бұрын

Simon please repair your SW Light in the background.

@davelebowski2859

2 жыл бұрын

Hellofresh is not recyclable or sustainable. Kinda undermines simons credibility hearing him spout falsehoods for ad money

@SilentRacer911

2 жыл бұрын

That opening is on point now

A poem about Ergotism, written by Sam O'Nella "Holy shit i'm blasting out of both ends! My hearts a-seizin, my lungs a-wheezin, The fuckin walls are melting. I can hear Satan's voice. He's telling me, to invest in Apple. What does that mean? Why does he want me to buy apples?"

One has to wonder: how many tests did the CIA need to run, just to prove that LSD makes people trip balls?

@BigBadBossu

2 жыл бұрын

that wasn't the goal, the CIA was frantically trying to make truth serums, mind control drugs, etc and they were gifted a weird new drug LSD after which antics ensued

@rubiconnn

2 жыл бұрын

@Jack Monson It was declassified that the CIA sprayed hallucinogens over San Francisco around the same time. It was probably the CIA.

@debbylou5729

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, a long time. Everyone wanted it so having enough on hand was needed

@UrMomsSuperRichEx

11 ай бұрын

They’re still testing…

@joshua22267

10 ай бұрын

I'm watching this on some good old LAD

Check out the penal colony of Macquarie island in Tasmania, we were told that they intentionally baked bread for the convicts with Ergot, as it was easier to control insane convicts than just furious ones. Believable if you saw the conditions they lived under.

@drphosferrous

2 жыл бұрын

You said "penal" lol

@trentvlak

8 ай бұрын

That's diabolical!

When I saw the title, I thought this happened in medieval times.

@comlitbeta7532

2 жыл бұрын

Well it did also happened in medieval town, the most famous event in france is i think the Strasbourg dancing plage of 1518, also suspect to have been caused by food poisoning

@Sienisota

2 жыл бұрын

@@comlitbeta7532 I thought the dancing plague was theorised to be mass hysteria?

@caitcorcoran5431

2 жыл бұрын

Saaame

Usually I roll my eyes when ergotism gets brought out as a hypothesis for literally any weird thing ever that's happened in history but this is honestly probably the the best possible explanation in this case

@p1nkfreud

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. I have literally taken LSA (the LSD precursor found in Ergot, Morning Glories, HWBR seeds, etc) intentionally as a misguided youth - at doses hundreds of times higher than could be naturally ingested from a little bit of mold on your bread - and the majority of the “effects” were nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. I do recall seeing the walls get a little wavy for like an hour. But that’s it.

@erikgilson1687

2 жыл бұрын

@@p1nkfreud I have not taken LSA but I have done LSD and shrooms and this really wreaks of hallucinogens than trail off as opposed to stuff like the Salem trials or the dancing plague etc that don't even remotely match up to how any modern hallucinogen works. It's either mass hysteria from social pressure or something else

@p1nkfreud

2 жыл бұрын

@@erikgilson1687 I agree with you that this sounds much more in-line with actual psychedelics - I’ve done a lot of them, LSD, P cubensis, DOC, DON, 25B-NBOMe, Mescaline, 2C-C, LSZ, AL-LAD, 4-ACO-MiPT, 5/6AP(D)B, this was all my shit in college around a decade ago. My point though is - I think they were dosed with something. Just not LSA.

@Goldenkitten1

2 жыл бұрын

@@p1nkfreud But can't the amount taken definitely have an impact on side-effects? Not to mention that different people respond differently to ALL medicinal compounds, not just hallucinogens? I mean consider that me and my mother both suffer from depression, my depression can be treated by just about any anti-depressant available whereas my mother can ONLY be treated by a very specific medication despite the blood link. Same thing happens with all sorts of hallucinogens, one guy is having the time of his life while the other is convinced he's covered in ants and that everyone is plotting against him. Between the amount consumed, their physical state (size, weight, age, etc), health (diseases, pre-dispositions) and anything else that might have been consumed during that period you could easily have had a wide range of reactions from incredibly minor to downright psychotic. I'm not saying you're wrong but we know how wide a range of reactions even basic medications can cause now to the point that one anecdotal incident of "Well it didn't do it to me" isn't really telling.

@p1nkfreud

2 жыл бұрын

@@Goldenkitten1 Do a quick google search. LSA doesn’t do much to anybody - check out it’s binding affinities; It actually treats 5HT-2A and 5HT-2C pretty indifferently. Not to mention that LSA can actually kill you, it has a very real “overdose” limit, so you can’t just take an infinite amount until it works, like with traditional lysergamides. However, where it IS very much like LSD, is that it is very unstable to light and temperature. Not sure how you could bake ANYTHING let alone bread and not destroy any minuscule amount of LSA that was in there, even IF anyone had ever truly tripped from LSA in the first place. There have been like one or two case reports where people who were on certain meds or had certain conditions reacted more strongly to LSA, but it still wouldn’t cause anywhere near the tripping that was described here, and even if you wanted to work that hypotheses, you would have to assume that this entire town was on MAOIs or were all right about to have their first schizophrenic episode, and then the LSA triggered it…I’m sorry there’s better odds of me walking down to the store and winning a peyote cactus from a lottery ticket.

Entire town? That's nothing. Right now the entire WORLD is insane

@jamesrobinson9176

2 жыл бұрын

Yuuup

@Wormworttea

2 жыл бұрын

@@jayspeidell Watch it be one of those pesticide or fertilizer

@genesisjordan2440

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but imagine the entire world took an astronomical amount of LSD. Way worse

@RonPaulOrDie

2 жыл бұрын

No, the world is the exact opposite of insane right now. The new variant arose in the vaccinated and there's no vaccine for it and is largely symptomless, so we should take boosters! We're following science!

@fuckYTIDontWantToUseMyRealName

2 жыл бұрын

That was the first thing I thought!

In Australia we take in the barely and wheat before the first rain. Once the rain hits. The rest is stock feed and must come in asap with harvest trucks working at night as well. We try to be the best export quality.

@debbylou5729

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure people do this everywhere. Grain can have this fungus if just a little moisture gets in. Isn't Australia mostly desert? Pretty sure lots of countries have random rain

An entire town that went crazy?! I'm here for it.

@gazlink1

2 жыл бұрын

Just French things.

Minute Simon started telling the symptoms I was "Ergotism."

I read about this as a kid and was fascinated - the book is called "The Day of St Anthony's Fire". Never understood why it wasn't made into a movie.

@slymandrake

2 жыл бұрын

Check out 'The Grapes of Death' by Jean Rollin, it's a very French zombie film! Similar theme - village goes insane after consuming contaminated wine.

@jaywilliams8386

Жыл бұрын

As a child, I also read an article in Life magazine called "The Town that Went Mad". Yes, it sounds like a great movie idea. Hello, Mr. Spielberg.

There was an interesting episode on "The X-Files," episode title, "Never Again" where a man went kinda nuts when he received a tattoo that was contaminated with ergot.

@foxtailedcritter

2 жыл бұрын

Man I miss X-Files legit spent weeks binge watching it.

@unstable_one4838

2 жыл бұрын

@@foxtailedcritter is it good? Been planing to watch it forever but never got around to it

@RCAvhstape

2 жыл бұрын

@@unstable_one4838 It's good but it's a bit dated so you have to cut it some slack. I watched it back when it aired and watching it now it's very much a 90s TV show. Still good and creepy though.

@theceoofcrackcocaineandamp5961

6 ай бұрын

True documentary footage too, truly harrowing, I will never forget watching that…

Prince Arthas, arriving in Pont Saint Esprit: "Sargeant, what did those crates contain?" Sargeant: "That's just the local grain shipment. Don't worry, it's already been distributed amongst the villagers." Prince Arthas: "Oh, f..."

@Shinzon23

2 жыл бұрын

*Frostmourne noises*

Consistently one of the very best channels on YT. I recommend Martin Lee's book Acid Dreams. One of the most informative books on the topic.

ah yes the LSD Bread, the relative of the poppy seed muffins.

@TheLittlestViking

2 жыл бұрын

I had a friend when I was a kid whose mom was abusing oxy, and was a supervisor working in a lab. She knew in advance that they were going to have "random" drug testing, so she brought in poppy seed muffins for everyone so that they would all test positive so that she'd be in the clear and would have time for the oxy to clear her system before the re-test. Diabolical. Of course, this was the 90's, so testing wasn't as accurate as it is now.

I wouldn't be surprised if ergotism is the reason for that dancing mania stuff as well. Sounds fun though.

@drphosferrous

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking Kuru on that one. It normally infects eaters of human brains but i hear you can get it, or other types of spongeform encephalitis like madcow, from oxtail.

Me, clicking on video:Ergot? Me at the end of the video: Ergot.

Not the first story I heard where French people go mad over bread

@McScrubington

2 жыл бұрын

We do like our bread

@romankeller314

2 жыл бұрын

Chop chop chop

@katherinetutschek4757

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@TheFlyTransGuy

2 жыл бұрын

If they didn’t le mis would have been way shorter.

Some people think the compounds produced as mold battles viruses and bacteria in our walls floats on the nano particles of dead mold hyphae causing chronic systemic inflammation leading to multiple medical problems. There are something like 20% of the US taking antidepressants. A lot of houses have poorly remediated water damaged buildings. Considering the number of pharmaceuticals that are created from mold it is not that far fetched.

@c0athanger

2 ай бұрын

I wish I could tell all those on antidepressants about psychedelic therapy 😞

Perrier bottling plant? Nuclear power station? No wonder my Perrier glows in the dark! Just kidding, don't sue me Nestle.

@owenshebbeare2999

2 жыл бұрын

Your Perrier is moderating fission reactions inside you, just to made sure you don't go critical

It was aliens. One of our lizard overlords casually mentioned it to me the other day.

I can't help but wonder if the bread was laced with LSA from morning glory seeds. The symptoms seem to be pretty close. It would make sense to test LSD, and ergot mixed into grain against a different type.

@evan5935

2 жыл бұрын

Lsa doesnt provide visual or auditory hallucinations, purely physical sensations 🤷‍♂️

@karlajaeger2082

2 жыл бұрын

@@evan5935 I've heard differently from a study in 2013. But it also causes nausea, vomiting, and spasms. Kinda like myristicin from nutmeg.

@karlajaeger2082

2 жыл бұрын

@@samarnadra i agree. I think it has to do with the probable cause being baked bread eaten often. Since bakers and their employees would almost always have fresh bread it's likely it was just ergot infused rye or barley.

sounds like the fear toxin used by the batman villain scarecrow

Curious about the hundreds of pages of poetry 🤓📝

Great presentation of the information. What a terrifying experience it must have been, no wonder the community has scars!

do 1 on the history of milk. and the different kinds from 0percent to whole and etc

Before I watch…is this about the town where the US put LSD in the water supply (I think) @ WW2?

@giselematthews7949

2 жыл бұрын

Almost, but no cigar.

@Aztesticals

2 жыл бұрын

The symptoms lasted too long and lsd is too unstable in water we now know. You would need a tanker truck of the stuff to effect a whole town for s week

'Ponson Aprit'? I had to go to google maps and look up the actual town to figure out what you were saying. Give me strenght, it's Pont-Saint-Esprit.

@owenshebbeare2999

2 жыл бұрын

Blame the ignorant American scriptwriters and editors. If it isn't American they don't care much for accuracy.

Has no one made a movie about this? FUCK it would be good.

Winter? Unfortunate? ...Simon, my dude, you don't understand winter at all...

In a few hundred years there'll be hologram videos about that time between 2001 and 2020 where the US collectively went insane 😂

I legit just heard about this but I love hearing different view points and Simon has some unique ones 😁

there was a behind the bastards about this, I love when you and Robert Evans overlap, my favourite orators of darker content.

I guess you could say the french was toasted....

10:41 "...this problem had never *CROPPED* up before" badadusch! lol ^^

@asiansarecool100

2 ай бұрын

Who types ba dum tsss like that 😂

Ive read the book based on this account. The days of st Anthony's fire. A real page turner.

Good video 👍

Before I even watch the video. Ergotism, isn't it?

Yes, this peaks my interest.

@MickeyD2012

2 жыл бұрын

Pique

@comedienne_historian

2 жыл бұрын

@@MickeyD2012 there’s that interaction we’re looking for, watch the self-important spell-checkers roll in, my guy~

Serious Simons ad reads is like a normal ad read on a normal channel. Kind of weird when I somehow mistakenly thought that I was watching BB Simon.

One of the many times I dropped acid with my buddies in the 70s, inside an icehouse with no windows and thick insulated walls where no sound got in, I used to joke we were part of a CIA experiment. Little did I know. Was a fun, and enlightening, experiment. Thank you so much CIA! The Unibomber might have a different take.

@78deathface

2 жыл бұрын

This was definitely a CIA experiment

@kennyhagan5781

2 жыл бұрын

They powered a revolution in music without even knowing what they were doing. From the Grateful Dead to the latest rap hit, they kicked the door open accidentally. I love the irony of that.

So everyone in that village is accidentally consuming laced bread and begin to have some of the wildest hallucinations in the world

Was hoping you would cover this do an into the shadows on mass histeria

Ergot usually grows on rye.

So far it sounds like a whole bunch of mushrooms spored upwind and let everyone in on a dose of psilocybin.

@jamesleatherwood5125

2 жыл бұрын

Oh... ergot... strikes once again.

@FeedScrn

2 жыл бұрын

An objective investigation should have been done... but with humans.. there are pre-concieved notions, conclusions, agendas to deal with... Not to mention hurt emotions from embarrassment, etc... So a clean investigation would probably have been impossible.

Great episode - I read articles about this in my youth and they were very matter-of-fact that the town was tripping balls from moldy rye. Clearly not an open and shut case-

MK ultra seems like the whipping boy for every abnormal phenomena. If you don't know just say MK ultra and you're safe.

I wonder if this is the inspiration for SCP-182

I watched the available episodes and went through reddit and wondered as soon as I got on KZread "I wonder if Simon ever covered this like with the UK BSE outbreak?"...And yes, yes he has. A whole year ago. Excellent.

And to think.... all the Celiac folks from the previous video were just fine! :D

Scary, a town full of people having really bad trips.

This video makes me think of a music video by the Avalanches called Franky Sinatra. A very similar premise, but involved drinks and the setting appeared to be either Florida or Louisiana.

I was right, ergotamine poisoning *pats self on back*

I'd love to see you do a video regarding the American Committee for the Defense of British Homes, I really enjoy your delivery.

I think its hilarious he made an attempt to pronounce the town name but said pain like the English word

Point St. Esprit is the sister town of my hometown, but I'd never heard of this before...

Aceeeeeeeeeed! Keep up the good work fella and stay safe.

I already have a microwave and Hot Pockets. I don't need overpriced meal kits that I actually have to cook myself, too lazy and poor for that.

@niftyp2320

2 жыл бұрын

I did the free trial for the 2-person meal Kits. Was pretty enjoyable and tasty with my GF. Forgot to cancel though and the Normal price is certainly not worth it.

@theaeon

2 жыл бұрын

Too poor I can certainly telate too lol, but that soup I made yesterday definitely beats out microwave food. But I'm definitely also too lazy to cook more than twice a week.

I once took a migraine medication that contained ergotamine, it didn't work

@Bubbaist

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. It didn’t do much for me. Luckily the triptans came along. Now I take Emgality once a month and it’s a godsend.

@owenshebbeare2999

2 жыл бұрын

Me too, it was useless.

The way he says “flour” 8:40

So much for French commitment to quality food.

So, Crazy Bread™ isn't safe..

I like how the thumbnails have to transition to look more like business Blaze sorry business Blaze

I read the tag line and thought ergot! have to watch and see if I got it right.

@4:00 the sound track sounds like demon crest music

The Beard of knowledge.

"set and setting, folks" hahaha

My HelloFresh box was contaminated with ergot

It is now my new mission to find the poetry that was written during this.

@c0athanger

2 ай бұрын

Did you ever find any??

Simon please repair your SW Light in the background.

I gotta be honest though, if I am on death row and can only have one meal, its a freshly baked baguette and a coke. No big ass meal, let me enjoy the finer things in life then you can send me off.

@giselematthews7949

2 жыл бұрын

A coke????? No coffee?

This really reminds me of the movie Honeydew on Shudder.

3:23 Hey then, goodbye!

my theory on this is that it was another type of fungi that effected the grain that when baked causes it to release its toxin which causes neural damage to the consumer but since it was such a low dosage it took 48hrs to get into there system

@mgkleym

2 жыл бұрын

It's pretty plausible it was the CIA. Like there isn't proof but there is a decent amount of circumstancial evidence and they did a lot of fucked up shit with psychedelic drugs.

@Claytone-Records

2 жыл бұрын

@@mgkleym And not in a fun way.

@niftyp2320

2 жыл бұрын

This is more on the "weird shit" side of things, but there are plenty of theories related to people experiencing strange things in the woods like hallucinations and delusions. Rather than these lost hikers being abducted by aliens or Bigfoot, the theory goes that they possibly were exposed to botanical or fungal chemicals that we have yet to identify. Sounds ridiculous, but it's more plausible than the many theories to strange phenomenon

@Goldenkitten1

2 жыл бұрын

​@@mgkleym But why there? There were far easier targets that could be more closely monitored, pretty much the only excuse is at that point in time it would have been hard to track but really at that time that would have gone for ANY rural town anywhere. Seems more likely that mentions of the town were instead being noted by the CIA as an example of what a hallucinogenic attack during wartime could do rather than them actually being responsible. I mean the CIA definitely did shady shit (and still does) but we know from files that they readily tested on civilians right in the heart of the US, why would this one test need to be a small town in France that would be difficult for the US government to readily monitor?

@felicitybywater8012

2 жыл бұрын

@@niftyp2320 Agreed. Occam's Razor.

Reminds me of the Dancing Plague of 1518 (also in France).

How do I find that poetry that was written? Who was the author?

It would be cool if you did a video purely about mk ultra. It seems interesting

All those theories are just a coverup for the truth. A Great Old One was summoned.

Strange things that happens really are interesting

MK-Ultra also had all kinds of planned methods of putting assorted drugs in Water supplies.

The town that tripped balls would be a better title, LOL!

I’m sorry but the bit about someone jumping from a window breaking both of their legs and running off was effing hilarious

Little french village does it, gets a video. This happens in our workplace daily. Even the vending machine is at it.

This definitely sounds like Ergot. Or someone's LSD experiments.

Figuring out the truth is a pain.

Read " The Auriga Madness " by Brian Callison , awesome tale.👍

Always fun to hear a little anti-nuclear propaganda slipped in right next to some MK-ULTRA conspiracies. Really keeps the theme going.

That good old ergot

So is this why the French call bread "pain"?

Online food is loaded with salt and commercial ends at 1:31

Simon, I loved your dyed beard...what are you up to? EDIT: You were a GREAT proponent of your former advertiser's wares...

I'm about four and a half hours from there just now. Might go get some bread and buckle up for a wild ride. 🤣😵‍💫

4:59 No, that was just Danhausen.

I love your detailed overview of such unusual topics. But the low volume background music aggravates me. It's distracting and I dont think it really serves a purpose.

It definitely sounds like a fungal contamination to me, though what it could have been, we'll never know, given the lack of any evidence to test that with modern techniques...

Just want to be fed with garlic bread! 🙆‍♀️

Ergot was the first thing I thought of.

Could it have been moldy Ergot?😅😅 Edit: got further into the video and it was ya first conclusion, my bad lmao sounded like Salem

Getting a very "Dark Anthology games" vibe off of it.

My migraine medication contains ergotamine (and caffeine)....works well, but kind of worries me.