Nick Pell
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first heard Jan 2025
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Nick Pell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The classical world, the Greeks and the Romans, by the time we get to that part of human history, it's the main treatment for epilepsy and other similar disorders.
Hippocrates and Galen both recommended it for the purpose of treating epilepsy.
My epileptic father, I bet, is real glad.
He grew up in the age of phenobarbital and not trepanation.
your dad had epilepsy.
Wow.
He does, but it's more like the Julius Caesar falling on the ground and then wondering where the hell you are type than the convulsive kind of epilepsy.
He has like the falling sickness, as it's called in Shakespeare version of it.
So yeah, he just falls to the ground and then he's
dazed and has no idea where he is or what's going on.
Which is great when you're a iron worker.
Allow me to assuage your conscience.
He was probably fine.
probably fine. 'Cause
It is, but it's not like everybody with epilepsy doesn't do that.
Okay.
Yeah, there's a guy at my gym who regularly has seizures and like I've seen him have a seizure.
There's not a hell of a lot you can really do. 'Cause falling is the main thing that's gonna
what I was concerned about.
Do you did pretty much everything you could do by moving a weight off of him and assuming that he didn't drive home, which given that the story took place in New York He didn't drive home.
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