Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to episode thirty two of Wickedly Weird.
Speaker 2: I am Lebron James.
Speaker 3: And I am Mariah Carey.
Speaker 2: All right, this should be a fun episode.
Speaker 3: Tell me I don't know how to improv, I'll show you.
Speaker 1: Well, we have literally done that like the last three
episodes in a row. So it shouldn't be improv You
should don't know.
Speaker 2: It was coming.
Speaker 4: Well, maybe I thought you were going to switch it
up and try and fool me again, because your tomfoolery
is a.
Speaker 2: This is true, all right, Amanda.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So tonight we're gonna discuss a story that's gonna
make you say, what the fuck?
Speaker 4: Love those kinds of stories. Jerry, my life is what
the fuck? Just on the same page here.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So this story involves a gentleman by the name of
I Say Sagawa.
Speaker 3: Holy, she sounds like a smoothie bull dude.
Speaker 2: First of it's a guy.
Speaker 4: Oh, he sounds like a smoothie bowl. Have the Asai
krianberry water.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: He is a notorious celebrity in Japan. He's every bit
of four foot nine. He's short in stature, but not
in personality.
Speaker 3: Dorothy and personality, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: His notoriety was at a peak from nineteen eighty six
to nineteen ninety seven. Now, during this time, he constantly
appeared on Japanese television as well as being a guest speaker.
Speaker 2: Cause do you know this one?
Speaker 3: Wait? Is it just gonna You're gonna blink twice? But
is it the.
Speaker 4: Documentary on either Hulu or Netflix about the Japanese guy?
And he was like, I'm gonna be on live TV
for X amount of days and basically get tortured on,
like me, that guy.
Speaker 3: Isn't that one?
Speaker 2: No, that's not that one.
Speaker 1: I'll be going to bet though, that you know this
story once we get into it, because this is this
is one that you might not know all the details of,
but you probably know the jest of it.
Speaker 3: Well, I can't wait, but let's buckle up. I'm buying,
are you?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: During time, he's doing all these little appearances and stuff
like that. He even appeared in some horror movies. This
is how famous he was. He wrote some best selling
cookbooks and Amanda.
Speaker 3: What tell me?
Speaker 1: Do you know what his claim to fame as?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lot.
Speaker 3: He's a beauty page winner.
Speaker 4: Well he's My brain was trying to think I said
beauty pageant contestant.
Speaker 1: Trust me when I tell you that that would never
be the case. This is one hideous ass goofy's. Oh man,
he's so weird looking.
Speaker 3: I'll get a couple of brands.
Speaker 1: I'll send you a picture and we'll get through. He
but he's absolutely.
Speaker 4: Like pause, real quick. We're just gonna get off topic
real real quick. Don't get mad.
Speaker 3: But I was.
Speaker 4: I was on the Book of Faces there and I
and I saw like these people.
Speaker 3: It's probably fake news. I don't know, but these people can.
Speaker 4: Swim underwater, and they like train to hold their breath
for like X amount of time, and they can reach
like the bottom of the ocean some stupid that's probably
not all the way true.
Speaker 3: And they like make.
Speaker 4: No like they made goggles out of like this type
of wood, and I forget the name of them, but
they're like indigenous to some part of Baisia I think
or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fucked up.
Speaker 4: I'll have to send you the article, but anyways, I
don't know anything that was true. I'm going to send
it to you and you can look it up and
then we can discuss it next episode.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, his claim to fame was food, but
not just any food. So while he was studying in Paris,
this is back in nineteen eighty one, I'm getting to.
Speaker 5: Cannibalism, he invited a classmate by the name of Renee
Heartfeldt over to translate poetry for him.
Speaker 1: Heartfelt was twenty five years old, she was a Dutch woman,
and this translation was actually for an upcoming assignment that
both of them had.
Speaker 2: So she agrees to come.
Speaker 1: Okay, while she's reading a poem at the desk at
Segaway's apartment, he walked up behind her and shot her
in the back of the neck with a Honting rifle.
Speaker 3: She could have been still alive a little bit, which
makes that terrible.
Speaker 1: He then had his way with her remains, but his
ultimate plan was to eat her.
Speaker 4: Nope, yep, it always has to be the cannibals with you.
It always does, doesn't it. You just really gotta get
in there.
Speaker 1: We we've literally only done a couple of episodes, which
does a.
Speaker 3: Couple of like let me taste the zum taste good?
Who even things like that?
Speaker 2: You're getting ready to get some good stuff here.
Speaker 4: Oh, I can't wait for this. It's gonna haunt my nightmares.
Gerry Berry, so go away.
Speaker 1: Considered himself a short, weak, and ugly. I'll tell you this.
His eyesight was perfect, of.
Speaker 4: Course it was, of course it was so he could
see all the beautiful people around him.
Speaker 1: But he was yeah, he was completely hideous. Man, this
guy just wait, do you see this guy?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Pictures.
Speaker 1: So he considered heartfelt to be tall, beautiful, and full
of life. So he felt like that by eating her
he could absorb her energy and that would like transform
him in some way.
Speaker 3: He said, it's like Marry Batthery. Isn't that her name? Something?
Bathy Elizabeth Battery little aloud Yuck. They're all discussed thing.
Speaker 1: He tried to eat her flesh raw, but it was
tough and it didn't taste very good. So sh he
went to the store. He bought a butcher's knife and
he began slicing parts of her body.
Speaker 2: Off to cook.
Speaker 3: He's disgusting.
Speaker 1: Yes, he ate most of her face and chest. At
least he started with the best parts. I'll give you that.
Speaker 2: He also took.
Speaker 3: She was chicking chest. Yeah, oh all right, that's that's awesome.
He's cute, not no moa.
Speaker 1: He also took pictures of each stage of his dining experience.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: He would then store the rest of her in the
refrigerator for later, which I mean that's good. I mean,
you know, botulism is no joke, Amanda.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: He put the parts that.
Speaker 1: He couldn't eat into two suitcases.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: He tried to dump them in a lake, but he
was caught red handed while trying to do so. Officers
found parts of renee heartfelt inside the two suitcases.
Speaker 2: He was carrying.
Speaker 3: Did he just come clean right then and there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he had no choice, Pretty women, I'm psychotic.
Speaker 1: You're not going to believe what happens next, though, and
I'll tell you after this quick sponsor break, all right, Amanda.
Luckily for Cigawe, but unluckily for the rest of Japan.
His parents were extremely rich. His father had one of
the top attorneys in the country take on his case.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: Of course, therefore.
Speaker 1: He was able to avoid any jail time at all.
Because he was declared legally insane. He was held in
a French hospital. When a Japanese author published a story
about him, people in Japan became morbidly curious about his story.
Speaker 3: Oh no, that's when he.
Speaker 1: Started to gain his celebrity status. Of course, this actually
played a part in France deporting him back to his
home country of Japan. Once he was back in Japan,
he was quickly deemed to be legally sane. Now with
no charges against him, Sigalway then checked himself.
Speaker 2: Out of the hospital.
Speaker 1: He remains a free man all the way up to today.
Speaker 3: Get out. He's still walking around eyeballing people.
Speaker 1: Yes, he served no prison time, and like I said earlier,
he made plenty of appearances on television and even became
a well known food critic.
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, nope, absolutely not. That's gross.
Speaker 2: You think that's gross? Y, go ahead.
Speaker 3: You're he is like Gordon Ramsey of people.
Speaker 1: Like I don't think he's a food critic of people.
I think he's a food critic of just regular food.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, but when you make in his meals, you're not, Like,
I don't wonder if this is what he was thinking
when he had all this extra meata on his hands, Like, no, nope,
that would do it for me. Not a fan zero
to ten stars, gross.
Speaker 2: Well check this out.
Speaker 1: He also went on to write a book of about
killing Renee heartfelt, and in the book, she goes into
explicit detail of the killing and what a race aftermath,
but the partaking, enjoyment and the food.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, what do you mean?
Speaker 4: Like they just couldn't be like, oops, my gun, friendly fire,
my gun fell.
Speaker 1: It's amazing to me that someone could commit such a
heinous crime and not only escaped justice but also go
on to become a celebrity and profit.
Speaker 4: Off of it and brag about it, like, look what
I didn't I didn't get caught.
Speaker 1: The good thing is that over the years, the newer
generation started to detest Sagawey, so in lay their years,
he struggled to find employment and he didn't do rare
what So the fun fact Segawey get this, he was
actually born in Kobe, Japan, which is obviously known for
their Kobe beef.
Speaker 2: How about that for irony?
Speaker 3: That's gross. All of that's gross. That was a growth.
Do you get me something happy? No?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't like happy stories.
Speaker 4: I mean like sometimes we should probably throw themny and
we just talked about them and getting eaten.
Speaker 1: Well, he was happy. So it's kind of all on
how you look at it.
Speaker 3: You know, I just really didn't like that. That is disgusting.
And got away with it.
Speaker 1: It's like with the Titanic going down. All those people died,
people like, all's sad story, but the lobsters.
Speaker 2: They were freed.
Speaker 3: Stop just stop yuck.
Speaker 2: Would it help if I told you a joke, Well
that clands the.
Speaker 3: Palate, Well its the palate. I don't know. Sure, let's
do it. Nothing morbid, It's not morbid.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of so it's a little Johnny joke. So
Little Johnny's in the house and his parents say, hey,
we're going over to the neighbor's house. They just had
a new baby. But the new baby was born deformed.
Speaker 2: He doesn't have.
Speaker 1: Any years, so please, little Johnny, do not say anything
about the baby not having ears. He says, okay, no problem.
Speaker 2: They go over.
Speaker 1: They look at the baby, and Little Johnny looks the
mom and says, he sure is a handsome baby. And
she said, well, thank you, Little Johnny, and she said
he said, how is his eyesight? And she said, well,
his eyesight is perfect, and he said, oh, okay, that's fantastic.
So they leave, and when they get back to the house,
the father and mother said, I'm very proud of you.
Those are some good questions and Uh. He says, well,
I'm just glad the kids got good eyesight. And he
said why and he said, because I don't know where
he was going to put the fucking ends of his
glasses at.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 3: That's a good one. Seeing that's an ee slapper. That's
a good one. Oh. I love that. How was your week?
Speaker 1: My week was okay, nothing fantastic, nothing strange happened. We
changed the podcast over to our heart radio, so we're
starting making that now. That's that's been a positive so far.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's good. I'm liking that. I'm liking that
new use.
Speaker 4: Did I tell you about how I got so sunburned
that my body hates me? And so my son burned
faded and I'm back to a pasty white. But I'm
now itchy and my skin is not feeling. I feel
like a lizard, like I feel like my skin should
lozard off, but it's not.
Speaker 2: I got some burnt last week too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not the best. It's really stupid.
Speaker 2: Well I didn't look.
Speaker 1: So we go to the beach and not my legs
and feet are so white and we get out there
and the sun's blaring. I put like, what's that sun?
Block or whatever on. But this stuff is probably like
four years old.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's any good or not.
Speaker 3: That's why you got burnt.
Speaker 1: But I put it on, and you know, normally you
will feel like certain areas of your skin getting really
hot or burning, so you kind of.
Speaker 3: Know, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Well my legs and my feet, I didn't feel anything.
I get home later and my feet are like really sore.
But sometimes I retain water and my feet kind of
swell up and it feels like that. So I thought,
I said, I gotta get these shoes off. And then
when I took my socks off, it was like my
fet were blood red. I was like, oh, oh, that's
what the problem is.
Speaker 3: The bottoms of his feet.
Speaker 4: Once we were in Disney, and he didn't I don't
even know what he did, but he burnt the bottoms
of his feet, like blistered, burnt.
Speaker 3: Needed help.
Speaker 1: Tracy did that about a month ago. We went to
a beach and it's got this really long boardwalk, you know,
the wooden boardwalks. Yeah, and I had taken some stuff
back to the car already, and it was one of
them was a bag that had her little flip flops
in it. So yep, we go walking and you know
she's walking fast, but it's a good little walk for
where we had to go. And that whole bottom part
of her foot, where you know that underneath your toes
were that touches down there whatever part that's called not
the heel, but the other part, that whole part blistered
and that that one piece came completely off.
Speaker 2: This cannibal would have had a fill day with it.
Speaker 3: No, okay, you're an ass.
Speaker 4: That's awesome. I love that everyone involved in this that
is so gross. All right, Well, on that note, my fringing.
Speaker 2: He didn't know how he's gonna keep his glasses.
Speaker 3: What not.
Speaker 2: That I went back to this little joke.
Speaker 3: Oh, I was like, what I thought?
Speaker 1: You glitched you?
Speaker 3: All right? I won't see you. Find folks next week.
Good bye,