335: Sweeney Todd

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Tv & Film, Arts, Comedy

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Everything okay? You haven't touched your meat pie! Sweeney Todd may have been popularized by Stephen Sondheim, Tim Burton, and Johnny Depp, but he goes WAY back. This story of a murderer and his girlfriend's cannibal cuisine has DELIGHTED families for centuries! Now eat up! [YouTube Version] Sources and links. Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon, along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch on YouTube. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and ...X? For more, cruise through our LINKS

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0:00.0	Whoa? Why are we talking about this?
0:08.0	Hello, welcome to guides the unknown. I'm Kristen.
0:11.0	And I'm her little brother, William William and this week we are talking about
0:14.7	Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Your good friend Sweeney that's right he's a bad
0:21.4	man who is offering haircuts and a little extra death and then popping you
0:28.4	into a pie.
0:29.4	That's right.
0:30.4	I wrote down just for like this little opening segment.
0:32.3	I was like just to make sure everyone's on the same page here's like the tightest
0:36.8	synopsis of this idea this concept of Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
0:41.2	Sweeney Todd is a barber in London in the disgusting 1800s is what I wrote.
0:46.7	Rats everywhere. So gross, so disgusting.
0:51.1	It seems like they don't even need the human bodies. No. Rats abundant.
0:56.0	Duh, eat the rats. Yeah, it couldn't be more obvious.
1:00.3	That's right in front of you. By the way, this episode was suggested by our viewer and listener Jesse.
1:06.0	Yes.
1:07.0	In the YouTube chat last week, we record live every week.
1:10.0	YouTube. love it. Yeah. I think it's a top. It depends on the okay as we get into it I've got some
1:25.8	history of like where the story came from yeah but so together they have come up
1:30.0	with a very efficient operation of murder and theft.
1:33.2	Sweeney Todd kills his customers
1:35.6	and then steals their valuables.
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