Ian Smithson
speaker
851 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 May
Ian Smithson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If I live to 100, I'm going to be in severe pain and have a whole lot of bits and pieces falling apart.
You'll be fucked.
Because, yeah, but I'll be artificially kept alive, artificially in a sense that medical science will keep me alive.
So I think people who lived in their 90s, 200, 300 years ago, were probably one of the very small group of people who were fit.
And because anybody who had anything wrong with them died before that.
Surely you would have, you know, like- Well, no, if you're a king, you're probably not going to have as big a problem because- I don't know.
You'll be eating high quality food.
For better or for worse, and often for worse, you will have had medical people around you keeping you-
Using leeches and bleeding you.
Bleeding you and doing all sorts of horrible enemas.
That's it.
I think it helps.
Yeah, exactly.
I haven't killed anyone yet.
I read one the other day.
Somebody was talking about an ancient cure for malaria was to slice open your abdomen, pull your intestines out, wash them in salt water and then put them back.
Now, it was probably a cure for malaria because nobody died of malaria after having that done to them.
Yeah, we'll just disembowel you.
Yeah, we'll sew you up again.
You'll be fine.
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