Nick Pell
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6,773 appearances
18 recordings
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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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He didn't drive home.
He
Yeah, the there was a guy in my old man's union whose daughter was having something like fifty grandma seizures a day.
Oh my god.
They would do fundraisers for her.
So to kinda like bring it back to what we're talking about, yeah, there's people who have epilepsy that's so bad that drilling a hole in your head can seem like shit, if that's gonna stop this, I'll give it a shot.
She was having seizures constantly.
Yeah.
Yes.
really bad epilepsy where you're like, you know what?
Drill a hole in my head.
So the the ancients, like in addition to the d the epilepsy thing, they thought it was good for migraines and other chronic pain disorders.
Okay.
No one is really sure of the extent of it.
Maybe common, maybe rare, we don't really know.
Sometimes in tribal societies, people would keep the bones as an amulet.
It was believed it could ward off evil spirits.
Other times it was a a rite of passage.
Sometimes this was into a secret society.
Sometimes it was into the shaman class.
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