Helen Keller – Truth or Myth? EP 79

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// THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE — WE JUST CAN’T AGREE ON IT
CASE OPEN

CASE FILE No. 79  //  HELEN KELLER: TRUTH OR MYTH

Helen Keller: Truth or Myth?

filed: jul 2, 2024  //  runtime: 66:33  //  hosts: jorge, sean, eric
// THE SHORT VERSION

A viral TikTok theory claims that Helen Keller, the deaf-blind American author and disability rights activist, faked her achievements with help from her teacher, Anne Sullivan. On this episode, the hosts trace where the meme comes from and lay Keller’s documented life story alongside it.

Keller lost her sight and hearing after a childhood illness at 19 months old, then learned to communicate through Sullivan’s finger-spelling method starting in 1887. She went on to graduate with a bachelor’s degree with honors, publish more than a dozen books, and travel the world as a lecturer and activist until her death in 1968.

The hosts weigh the doubts raised by the online theory against Keller’s documented accomplishments, landing on the idea that while parts of her legend may have grown larger over the decades, her underlying resilience was real.

“The legend is bigger than the person.”

— the guys, on the record
// THE EVIDENCE
  • Helen Keller was born June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, and lost her sight and hearing after a severe childhood illness at 19 months old.
  • Anne Sullivan, a Perkins School for the Blind graduate who was herself visually impaired, arrived in Alabama in March 1887 and taught Keller to communicate through finger-spelling, famously breaking through with the word ‘water’ in April 1887.
  • In 1904, Keller became the first deaf-blind person to graduate with a bachelor’s degree, with honors, and went on to publish 14 books and give hundreds of speeches and essays.
  • Keller toured 35 countries over an 11-year period, met 13 U.S. presidents, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, while Sullivan remained by her side as her lifelong teacher and interpreter until Sullivan’s death in 1936.
  • The online ‘Helen Keller hoax’ meme, which took off on TikTok, claims Keller could not have written her books or genuinely learned to speak, and suggests Sullivan was secretly producing the work behind the scenes.
  • The meme also points to disputed feats, like Keller briefly handling the controls of a plane with an interpreter relaying instructions, and reports that she could communicate in English, Latin, Greek, French, and German, as reasons to doubt the official story.
// CASE QUESTIONS
Is the Helen Keller conspiracy theory real?
It is an internet theory, mostly circulated on TikTok, claiming Helen Keller faked her achievements with help from her teacher Anne Sullivan. It is not a historically supported claim. Keller’s education, degree, and public career are documented, though the hosts note that some retellings of her story may have grown more impressive over the decades.
What illness made Helen Keller deaf and blind?
According to her mother’s account, Keller became sick with a high fever at 19 months old. At the time it was called ‘brain fever,’ but experts today believe it was more likely scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness left her unable to see or hear.
How did Anne Sullivan teach Helen Keller to communicate?
Sullivan used finger-spelling, tracing letters into Keller’s palm to spell out words. The breakthrough moment came in April 1887 when Sullivan ran Keller’s hand under a water pump and signed ‘water,’ after which Keller signed the word back and quickly began learning dozens more words.
Did Helen Keller really fly a plane?
According to the story discussed on the episode, Keller briefly handled the controls of a plane crossing the Mediterranean Sea from Rome to Paris, with her interpreter relaying the pilot’s instructions to her by hand. The hosts treat this claim skeptically, calling it one of the harder feats in her story to believe.
// THE FULL TRANSCRIPT
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Hey everybody, welcome back to the Conspiracy Podcast. Yes, good to be back. Oh yeah, it’s been a little, little break for us. Yeah, a little break. We really, I mean for us recording wise, I’m saying it never happened. We, we were recording, that’s what happened. Hope everybody’s doing good. Hope your drive’s well. Yeah, hope, I mean commute, or you’re like working the night shift, like some of our homies. True. Yeah, that’s right, God bless you. Uh, tonight we have another VIP request that we are doing. In this, these people, we’re not going to say this person, these people have been a supporter since the very beginning.

Uh, we know them very well. Uh, it’s for Bri and Matt, and um, we love you, we appreciate you guys. They’re, they’re what we call rich people. Yes, status. They’re also people we know personally. Yeah, we know, we actually personally know them. We’re not going to say anything else. Yeah, we’ll leave more personal information, but for Brianna and for Matt, they selected the Helen Keller hoax. I can’t even, I can’t even like think about it. I’m like, it is, uh, it is in the realm of absurd. It’s a little insane. Um, it is in the, that realm. I don’t want to, uh, insult anybody either, so like, this theory, while it’s entertaining and we’re gonna have fun with it, etc, we were paid to do this, this is all it, what it is.

Okay, so say the theory is wrong, then we’re just spending an hour [bleep] on a person who had a disability, not even one disability, multiple disabilities. Yeah, exactly, so I don’t want to, you know, just as a disclaimer, um, Helen, this one’s for you. This for you, Helen, if you could hear us, this one’s for you, cuz when she de, she, all the things, this one’s for you. And in summary, so she’s blind. Damn it, she’s also dead. Oh well, maybe like maybe now she can see. And he, oh my God, we’re off to gra, we don’t mean to be insensitive, you know, we just.

But in short, Helen Ker is known as an American author, a political and disability rights activist, a lecturer, and a world traveler. Her remarkable journey began when she became a deaf blind child. This is like at 19 months old, like, like the dou, like the double whammy. Like how do you even, how do you learn how do you become a speaker, how do you learn how to speak when you can’t hear, like it’s crazy. Yeah, yeah man, you know, you know what’s weird, like when you, unless it’s a hoax, but we can find, know it’s like, I, I when I hear myself talk, I think it’s weird.

I’m like, what the [bleep]. What about when you watch yourself like on video? Oh, it’s bizarre, it’s, it’s the worst. Right, well remember, we used to, we used to have headphones and I would listen to my, I would hear myself, and like God, I sound [bleep] weird. Yeah, so this, this theory, uh, took off on Tik Tok, go figure. Oh [bleep], classic. Yeah, this is a Tik Tok conspiracy. I actually feel worse now, it’s Tik Tok conspiracy, but the general consensus on Tik Tock conspiracy is that she faked it. She faked her achievements, she couldn’t write a book, she couldn’t fly a plane, and she, then, the, the theory is, is that that her teacher was a behind the scenes, just phony.

Her, her, her teacher was like, like, like a front, basically. Well, I mean, or like maximiz profits, like, you’re deaf, I mean trust me. Yeah, we, we’ll get into it more, we’ll get into it more, but I mean essentially, it’s so she had a teacher and her name was Ann Sullivan, and the theory is, is that an Sullivan was like, I’m doing really well with my student, but she’s deaf blind, so she just faked being a good teacher, does that make sense? Oh, okay. Okay, yeah, so say, say you’re commissioned to to teach a deaf blind person how to do something, and you’re paid, like, there, there’s no like baseline, there’s no like, what do you compare it to.

Look, she’s alive, I deserve a r, we’re making great progress here, like look at her, trust me, she’s doing great, she didn’t do that before. Yeah, whatever she’s doing right now, that’s, I taught her that. So Helen Coler was born, born on June 27th, 1880, in Alabama. Damn, God, it’s sorry, it’s just like, not only, old, born, 19 months, you’re deaf and blind, it’s also the 1800s. Godamn, like worst, the worst. It’s like a 27 on the cards, it’s real bad. She was the firstborn daughter of Arthur Captain Henley Keller and Kate Everett Keller. She had four siblings, two older brothers from her father’s first marriage, and two younger, iing, who were 6 and 11 years different in age.

The family lived in a home called Ivy Green, and in the 1880s had become a busy, prosperous little town, which is Tuscumia. Sounds like [bleep], where’s it’s Alabama. Welcome down, it’s Alabama. Yeah, while they struggled with money, the family was able to sustain a lower upper middle class position. So lower upper middle class, how can he be lower upper, lower upper either? Lower middle or upper middle? Okay, lower, lower upper middle, here’s the concept, you shop at Whole Foods, but you’re, you’re not rich, so is that upper or lower? Upper lower, upper okay, well what if I don’t shop at whole fits? Well then you’re in lower.

I’m just like a peasant, you’re not making it, butd poverty, it well, I got, I go to Publix, but I still go to Walmart for like water. Well, you know, Publix is actually upper, I mean that’s expensive. You know what’s more expensive? H Foods. Yes, that’s true. Yeah, that’s true. I wonder where Trader Joe, Jo’s, low, lower upper. Yeah, I think lower upper middle. L, lower upper middle, I would say. Trader Joe’s middle? No, Trader Joe, Trad Joe, is so cheap, though. I know, it’s a crazy, but, but a 45 minute, dude, I’ve got two packs in the freezer. You say the hash brown? Oh, they, you like the McDonald’s style hash browns, bro, and I like, I air fry them to like crazy crispy.

There’s not a lot of food that I’m aroused by, but like a crispy hash brur. Oh, you can do six of them, that’s like whole [bleep] PL. I don’t need two, I need [bleep] six right now, big old St, dude. I got some, and I was like, I literally just put [bleep] the public’s Gourmet on them, I was like, God, I’m such a piece of [bleep] dude. I’ll get, I’ll get, I’ll get crispy ones, I’ll get, I’ll get, I’ll get soft ones, I’ll get even frozen ones, just. Oh, dam, damn, they’re so good, snack on that at night watching TV. Any, I don’t think they had, I don’t think they had Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods back then, but U, yeah, but this family, the color family, was in the lower upper middle class.

Fine, whatever, I guess, I guess her father had been a captain in the Confederate Army, that’s why he had the nickname Captain, blah blah blah. Uh, he married Kate in 1878, she was 22, he was 42. Oh wow, totally fine, I guess, I guess, I guess you could do that back in the day, even if you weren’t rich, totally fine. Well, he was lower upper, lower upper middle, he’s got just enough coin to like [bleep] city to pull, P, pull the 22y old, you see this one and a half bedroom house, baby girl, like get over here. As you can see from this episode, we’re, it’s going to be a little bit more ridiculous.

Yeah, our own, our own commentary. Yeah, so 20 years, is that fine? Oh, totally, totally, 100%. Yeah, especially back in those days, 4222 is a solid number, that’s fine. Oh, for sure. It wasn’t like he was like, it was like 384. Yeah, that, like, all right, probably still fine back then. Yeah, back then. Yeah, so Kate, who had lived a Southern bell lifestyle, uprooted her life and quickly realized how little the two had in common. Instead of the lavish life she was once used to, she now tended to her own garden, prepared their own foods, bacon, H, butter, etc, to cut cost. Oh man, she married down, she did, she married down.

Yeah, and she was 22, he was 42, I mean, I mean it’s like right around our age, well not his, but run ours. Yeah, yeah, that’s good, that’s fine. He must have had a good, like, he must been like hella game, Captain, spitting barso Captain. Well, he was in the Confederate Army, Los, I know, like loser, like he’s, like, like, can’t even, like’s, like he, like hides his medals, because he doesn’t want people to know. So when Helen came along, Kate was thrilled to direct her attention to her nice. The very early years of Helen’s life were normal, she was a healthy and happy child.

Her mother said she was gifted when she began to speak at 6 months old, and she was walking by one. Damn, wow, that is, until tragedy struck, Helen got extremely sick with a high fever when she was only 19 months. Doctors at the time believe she had something called brain fever, today experts say that that’s more along the lines of scarlet fever or menitis. Okay, so you’re 19 months old and you get, I mean it’s menitis or whatever, it sounds like menitis more than you got the brain heat, got the dis, got the, or trail. I, so I mean it’s right around that time, good.

After recovering, her mother said that she no longer responded to the dinner bell, and she was unable to see hand waving in front of her face. So this sickness left Helen Keller deaf and blind. Damn, damn, that sucks. And for those of you who don’t know what deaf and blind is, it’s you can’t see and you can’t hear. I mean, I, everybody knows, if they didn’t know, we got clar for the Sean, or what, what you mean, what you mean, death blind? So it’s, it’s, I’ve never met somebody death blind. No, I’ve met someone, I’ve met, I’ve met both, I’ve met death and or, yeah, but never, it’s like a double whammy.

The double, the double devil’s horn. I’ve never heard that, ex, the devil’s horn, like, what, we’re leaving that in, 100%. Like no way, I’m, oh man, I started sweating on that one. The family, with little knowledge on deaf blindness, because now that’s one word, de blindness, began to raise her as they knew, her as a hearing family would. So meaning, um, they thought that she could maybe hear something, but she was definitely blind. They’re just like yelling at her. Yeah, they thought that she could hear, but she was deaf, you mean? I go back and say no, as a hearing family, like meaning, she could hear, but she was blind, they thought that she could hear.

Oh yeah, yeah, exactly, cuz obviously when you, you could tell when somebody’s blind. Yeah, cuz you’re like [bleep], don’t flinch, like what? But being deaf is a little bit harder, because you’re like, why would they be doing that? I like, I like the [bleep], what, fle, L, money, she’s like, they’re like, damn. But I mean, somebody who’s deaf, you kind of go, are they hearing me or just ignoring me? Right, yeah, or they, are they hearing anything? Kind of like my kids, I was going to say, like my daughter, like sometimes I’m like, is something wrong, but she looks at me and she’s like no, and then like runs away.

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She would cling to her mother’s skirt as she tended to household chores. She would feel people’s hands as they did things, and quickly developed 60 plus home signs. Okay, okay, I love you, but, but like home, meaning like just like in her home, she came up with her own basic stuff. Yeah, yeah, like, um, dinner. Yeah, yeah, classic, classic home sign, another one, another beer. M, another beer, death blindness ain’t good, I don’t like it, got to drown it out. I got dr it out, got, got to [bleep] drown my sorrows. Are we going to get a lot of [bleep] for this episode? [Bleep], yeah, 100%, guaranteed, it’s okay though.

Oh God. So, as an example, she learned how to milk cows through feeling others, and she would act like she was cutting a loaf of bread if she wanted a slice. The fact that she like, how do you even know, how do you even know what bread is, although she can’t say, the, the, she can’t do the mouth thing. I did, why not, she can make, she can make, yeah, she can make sense, she can talk. Well, she just doesn’t know what it sounds like. Well, you know what, I heard she was deaf blind. Yeah, so yeah, she wasn’t mute. Exactly, yeah, well even if you’re mute, you can still like click, it’s like you just don’t talk, you can make sounds.

True, yeah, but there is the example of somebody who is deaf, who, they sound different. Well yeah, cuz they can’t hear themselves, like, yeah, I’m not, I’m not trying to be a dick, it’s just what they sound like, it’s, it’s a, it’s full fact, like it’s, it’s just cuz you, you’re able to temper like the way you talk, cuz you can hear yourself talk, it’s true. No, I imag, I’m not disagree, like Eric, hello, I’m not disagreeing. Anyways, edit. So she also learned to identify people by feeling their face, clothes, or vibrations in the house, doing a little raar, like little R Charles, like feeling a wrist.

Do you remember Face Off? They did? Oh yeah, that’s true. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don’t think I’ve seen Face Off. I, I’ve seen the movie, and they’re apparently, they’re going to remake it, idiots. Really, with them fing remaking everything, man. I, I heard it might be with it, with be like so old, that’s fine, like what’s going to be like later, like grandpa Face Off, like, I, we’re going to do Face Off again, Face Off too, like they switch back. I want to take your face off and die hard 13’s coming out too, I know, it’s like [bleep] die last. So her mom would even knock on the walls to call Helen for dinner.

Oh, she could feel the vibration. That’s right, her other three senses were incredibly heightened, and Helen was innovative given her means. Yeah, okay, I see, she’s like, she’s like [bleep] Daredevil. Yeah, a good example is Stevie Wonder, there’s a lot of stories out there. I mean, it might be a good example of a hoax, there’s a lot of good examples where he would, I think even some celebrities have said he would get on the elevator with them. Yeah, Shaq. Yeah, was it Shaq story, and he’s like, what’s up, sh. Yeah, he’s like, what’s up, sh, and he press like 56, and he presses his like 100.

I know, like what the [bleep]. Yeah, but maybe like he knew how Sha smelled, which even sounds worse. Yeah, it’s Shacks, here, that makes sense. I don’t know, but there’s, have you seen the stuff where like somebody like it’s at a concert or some [bleep], someone like waves at Stevie Wonder and he waves back? I saw that, I’m like, he can’t [bleep] feel the vibration from the away, like, let, be honest, that [bleep] can see. But the idea is, is that if your one sense is cut, then you know, over 20, 30 years, then you’re, yeah, you’re little, like, was the comic book guy. I just said Daredevil.

Oh, you, I didn’t hear that. Nope, not, I’m sick of covering for you. So while Helen was very clever, she became frustrated because of her inability to communicate like others. There was an incident where she overturned her baby sister’s crib, luckily being caught by her mother in time, like kind of in a fit, and fit of rage, you know, she maybe she knew the baby was there. I was like, yeah, oh you’re going to be, you’re going to be all [bleep] normal. I would be mad, I would be very mad, wouldn’t you just be mad? Oh, you can’t see anything, you can’t hear anything, dude.

H, yeah, I mean, I’d be done. Oh, for sure, I, I’d [bleep], I mean, I’m not, vibrate here to myself, to Cliff, [bleep] you man, oh my God, we’re going to get cancelled. She, God damn it, she would stand between two people having a conversation and feel their lips while they were talking, and she would try to touching their, like Face Off, she, she’s like, keep talking, everything’s normal, everything’s fine, everything’s fine, just keep, pretend like nothing’s happening, like her fingers, like in their mouth. Okay, yes, uh, I feel like she was just doing that just to be weirdo, appar, I need to, I need to be touching her back.

Apparently she would try to mimic the same movements within herself, so she would like see you doing like [bleep] and hoes and she would tr, well she wouldn’t see anything, but yeah, I know, it’s so hard to even communicate, like knowing what’s happening. She would erupt in temper tantrums, and soon her family knew that they had to get help before, like they can, they can’t deal, they, of course, I’m surprised that she made it that far, I would have [bleep]. The dad was like, like a Civil War veteran who knew how to skin rabbits, and that was about it, there was no, yeah, Die Hard rac, like [bleep] Confederate captain.

So Helen’s father, in January of 188, 7, wrote to Michael Agonis, uh, the director of Perkins School for the Blind, and requested a teacher for young Helen. Luckily, around this time, a promising student named Anne Sullivan had graduated as valedictorian from Perkins, in June of 1886, that would go on to become a lifelong component of Helen Keller’s life. Wait, so she’s, she’s blind, and literally the blind leading the blind. So Ann suvin had almost no usable sight until she was 15 years old, where she restored some of her vision. How she get, L, she, she, she remained visually impaired for the rest of her life, so then she was able to go to the Perkins School.

So an Sullivan’s journey was nothing easy, she contracted a bacterial eye disease called tracom at the age of five. This infection left her partially blind. By age8, her mother died, and her father abandoned her and her little brother Jimmy within 2 years of her death. Wow, what a [bleep] douche. So the two kids were sent to a poor house called Twix spury, in Massachusetts, which is a home for orphans, criminals, and rejects. I feel like it’s where like Annie was like, I know dude, Twix Berry sound terrible, sounds like Voldemort’s beginning. He sh, he’s like it, yeah, he’s like in the little like prison, and like Dumbledore comes, Dum comes like the book, bookcase that’s on fire, like I feel like this guy’s evil but I’m not going to do anything, he like, I can talk to snakes before I kill him, it’s like sick, he’s like, uh, it’s the prophecy, but I’m not going to pursue it, I’m g let it happen, no big deal.

Uh, okay, so 3 months after arriving at that orphanage, Ann’s little brother died, and she was subjected to horrors in the overcrowding of the housing. The building had a 500 person capacity, but it was at 2,000 occupants during her time. Jesus [bleep] Christ. Uh, there are unconfirmed reports of cannibalism, sexual abuse, and corruption within the orage. Damn, yeah, an was able, how does it get that bad for these kids, the kids are like, you look [bleep] delici, what’s that book where they, uh, what’s that book where the kids go to the island, oh, um, you know what I’m talking about. Yeah, it’s it’s a no [bleep].

Yeah, the Lord of the Flies. Yeah, Lord of the Flies, it’s basically Lord of the Flies about an orphanage, lord of the orphanage. Yeah, um, Ann was able to get out and sought an education and ey surgery. So good for her, finally leading her to Perkins School for the Blind, and later being selected for Helen K’s family. I mean, you would think that she would be like prime target for like, you know, first on the dinner menu, is she was like, but she can’t defend herself, she’s blind, like you think they would just like pick her off, like easy pickings. So good for her for getting out.

So Anne Sullivan, 20 years old, she arrived in Alabama on March 3rd, 1887, and immediately began communicating with the then six-year-old Helen using finger spelling. So that’s the concept of tracing your finger on your palm, so you go pee, or you go, whatever, the confusing part about it for me though is, how do you learn the alphabet before that? I know, cuz like she was blind and deaf when she was 16 months. Yeah, and like how, I mean, I know they said she was talking, but I highly doubt she was like ripping the ABCs off before. I don’t know, she talking, she was a badass, month or what was it like, some, yeah, like 6 months, and then 18 months she was like a, maybe she was just like.

Yeah, apparently at the Perkins School they teach you how to, that’s like a method, so I’m assuming she learned some [bleep] at Perkins School. Yeah, and it was how to teach somebody who’s blind, and or not blind and deaf, but blind, how to do the alphabet on your palm, you know what I mean, like it seems. Seems like you could, at first Helen did not take to the motions and became frustrated with an, biting, scratching, and hitting her. She later recalled thinking how spoiled Helen had been, because of her family shape their lives around her needs and demands and never ending tantrums. So funny, she’s like, that, that [bleep] has everything, I can never imagine being like, oh, this blind, de person, [bleep] spoil, [bleep] the opposite of spoiled, but meanwhile, this chick’s like also blind, and like grew up in the [bleep], like the trap, like, like she, the only one that qualifies as calling her spoil, six of my best friends got eaten.

So finally, at dinner one night, Helen was helping herself to everyone’s plates of food gathered at the table, a famous scene from The Miracle Worker, which is a, you know, is a story about this exact scene, eating off every month. As she got to Ann’s plate, an made it impossible for her to get the food. Helen became angry, but an kept her foot down, even demanding the family out of the room after they tried to intervene. Following that, basically, she’s like, I’m canceling your spoiledness, you’re done, and I’m going to teach you, compared to you grabbing everything you want, oh this is mine, oh that is mine, you know what I mean, like that was the, the, you know, totally, I mean, that’s, I meant, that’s great, I’m like, do it.

Yeah, you’re going to learn a day. Yeah, you’re going to learn a day, how ruthless you have to be though, to do that to like a deaf blind kid. I don’t know, I mean, I mean I guess she had her own horor, she had her own horror thing, and oh, and she’s blind, she’s not going, feel bad for, she’s like numb to that, she’s like, I have no sympathy. Oh, of course not, she’s like, [bleep], I can’t see you, up, tell the family, I can hear your [bleep] [bleep], I, it’s like, I, I hear your little little grubby fingers, following that day, and knew that in order to further her teachings with Helen, she would have to separate her from the home, she had to come to rely on the family, agreed and allowed the two to stay in a cottage that was on their plantation grounds.

I thought it was like, I’m going to take her down to tberry, oh my God, show, show what life’s really like, although it, it always, it’s like a red flag to me whenever I he, in the late 1800s in the South, in the South, in Alabama, from an ex Civil War veteran, plantation, I always hear it and I know, in the college, I was like, is that the slave quarters? Like this is where progress for Helen’s education really began. The first two weeks were challenging because Helen was confused as to what this strange new person in her life was doing to her, but despite her aggravation and remain patient, placing items in Helen’s hand while finger spelling the object’s name.

So you basically put a a can, and then in this, in this hand, you, you finger spell can, C, an. Yeah, pretty, pretty simple, actually. Uh, an had arrived in Alabama in early March, and by April 5th, Helen had a monumental breakthrough. While running Helen’s hand under a flowing water pump and signing water, a new light came to her face and it all made sense. She signed back water for the first time, and because of her own excitement, Helen learned 30 vocabulary words within 6 months. Helen would then learn over 570 words and learn Braille. Damn, good for her, wow. Yeah, cuz I would, I mean, I, I would have just given up, vibrated the cliff, like you said, like, I just, no way I’m not even kidding, like I know we joke, but I mean if that happened to me right now, I’d be like, uh, I mean you really have to reeval, wait, I mean I’m, I’m going to, I’ll, I’ll figure out, you know, where my safe is, and [bleep] I’ll feel the code and and I’ll feel that safety, right off.

An’s teaching techniques were unique in the sense that she talked to Helen just as she would anyone else. She would finger spell out full concepts and try to answer whatever questions that Helen had about the world around her, despite the time of day or the complexity of the question. She allowed Helen to feel the vibrations from her throat as she spoke, and use her hands to understand her mouth movements and nose breathing patterns. Wow, but still, like it still seems so difficult, like yeah, I get it, like you could, but you still can’t like read their lips, they’re blind, and then, man, imagine you ask like, like what is the universe, and like she’s like, 17 hours later, can you imagine trying to, can you imagine trying to explain the universe, oh my God, I’d be like, that’ be like, no, too complicated, yes, sorry.

She became known as teacher to Helen, and, and was never called anything otherwise, and an stood by her side for the rest of her life. Damn, that’s a dedic, she was still getting paid, you know, I don’t really know, I don’t really know, the [Laughter] the 160 hours this week. I’m sure she was getting paid, you know, there, I mean I just don’t know how this upper upper lower middle [bleep] class family was going to be. Yeah, I, I would assume it’s not a lucrative business. Yeah, no, yeah. By 1888, an knew that she had reached her limit of education with Helen, and took her to the Perkins School for the Blind, the same school that she attended earlier.

It was here that Helen began, like, formal education. She recalled, I joined the little blind children in their work and play and talked continually, I was delighted to find that nearly all of my new friends could spell with their fingers. Oh, what happiness to talk freely with other children, to feel at home in the great world, that’s Helen. I, I’m sorry, I’m, it’s just like, it’s hard to, it’s hard to, it’s hard to conceptualize talking freely, yeah, with your finger, and you’re like, everyone like just write on me, they talk like, and like it’s great for her, I mean good, it’s [bleep] good for you girl, but man, I, it’s hard to fathom, it’s really, it’s hard to conceptualize, cuz like I’m so used to talking, yeah, to, yeah, yeah, after a fall, imagine a kid too though, cuz at that point she’s probably like, I don’t know what was it like, maybe around 10 years old or something.

Well, this is 1888, so she’s, uh, she’s still kid, she was born, she’s 1880, so she’s eight. Oh wow, so yeah, she’s eight, and so apparently, and, and we’ll put this on our Patreon, but that’s her first letter at seven, how, damn, she writes [bleep] better than I do. Wow, okay, she wrote that [bleep]. Yeah, how well, supposedly, huh, supposedly, watch it, just be, watch it just be some chiv, and she’s like, how do I ride like a de vine chick, like an Sullivan’s like, I got to drink a little bit, and then I’m going to do a little, do a little letter. Yeah, I can’t have, be can’t be making great progress, great progress here, great prog, she wrote this [bleep] letter, meanwhile, like, like, like [bleep] Helen’s over in the corner, like, I’m hungry, I like, said Chad JBT, I’m sorry, I could, think Chad JBT, write me a dead blind letter.

So after a falling out that they had with the school’s director, Helen and an left the Perkins School. They didn’t really know what they wanted to do later, but afterwards the duo traveled to the Northeast to further her schooling. It wasn’t always easy for the two of them though. So in college, the Proctors, which were, you know, people who inspected and watched tests that were being happening, kids, the Proctors were to prove that Keller was not a fraud, but there was still gossip both on and off campus about whether it was Keller or it was Sullivan who was completing the work. So these rumors, this is not a rumor that started on Tik Tok.

Oh, this started, that the Proctors were started. One of Keller’s Proctors, who was a former Perkins institution teacher, recalled that the dean put certain rules in place for Keller’s exams, quote, Miss suvin was to leave the building when the exam started, she, the dean would pay personally for two Proctors, one to Proctor Helen, and another to. Proctor Helen’s Proctor. This is so many Proctors. I mean, wow, they’re like, they’re really like, they’re, they’re like, no, this is [bleep]. I’m glad we, we cleared up the proor, really trying the Proctor of the proor. There was 17 Pro manager, the manager, like, they’re on the Boeing strategy here.

What do you do here? I’m the Boe Proctor, I just watch him, watch this other guy do stuff. The former Perkins teacher had a Braille typewriter to translate questions for Helen. An began to question her place in Helen’s life at this time, but was consistently reassured through their friendship there. So that was the big test, essentially. Yeah, but like, obviously, they, she passed. Yeah, she passed. She could, she, the rumors, the rumors persisted, and you know, this is not possible, this is, you know, it’s like building the pyramids. No way, impossible, la la la, the rumors started back then, it’s manmade. Yeah, yeah, they’re like, they were getting, they had apartments and they had [bleep] benefits, like [bleep], shut up, Eric.

By the way, I was at a dinner the other night, and the pyramids came up, I don’t know how, probably because we have a conspiracy. Surprisingly, a lot of people don’t believe humans built them. No [bleep], yeah, like that’s what we’ve been trying to tell you, more than that. Year we started, I think it’s like 80% of people, for sure, don’t think that, because it doesn’t mak sense, and not everyone’s as dumb as you. Really, high percentage, well, come on, this way, know, it’s like, don’t you want to be a part of the, a part of the, the majority. Yeah, want to be part of the majority.

By 1904, Helen had become the first deaf blind person to graduate with a bachelor’s degree, and with honors. I mean, I couldn’t even [bleep] I, and I’m fully blind, fullyy like I’m only partially blind, partially deaf. I know, I was like, blind to party, and I was like, I don’t see the school work no more. Also, with an, she purchased her own home in Massachusetts. How was she getting cash? She also loans out back in, she also published her first autobiography book called The Story of My Life. Please tell me she narrated it. Dude, I’m, I’m aud book D, I’m g, go, I’ll go on [bleep] aud, aud right now, and [bleep] listen to that [bleep].

In 19, my God, I need it. In 1905, Ann Sullivan married John Macy, who sparked the idea of socialism and politics in the mind of young Helen Keller. This, I’m sorry, this, the three lived together in their home until they got divorced in 1914. So they were living together for 10 years, and Helen was, I don’t want to say the third wheel, but basically she was, yeah, she was basically the third wheel. Wait, so wait, the homie married an, and then was just like there. Yeah, she’s like, don’t worry baby, she can’t hear us, but he, she can feel the vibrations through the house, she knows what we doing.

Talk about a devotion. Geez, I know, I mean, it’s also like you can’t just like leave, like she, yeah, well maybe she can, [bleep], got a bachelor’s degree of honors, like she’s fine, she owns her home, she’s a homeowner, home owner, she’s actually doing way better than I am. She’s crushing it, and I’m over here feeling sorry for [bleep] sh, crushing life. Okay, by 1916, Helen had a romance of her own with a man named Peter Fagan, however, the two would never go on to marry because of her family and Ann’s disapproval. Why? He’s like, I need to get the house, I need place to sleep, I a place to sleep, I need to get into that upper middle class, upper middle, lower, my ticket, my ticket out of poverty, baby.

So at the time, it wasn’t really socially acceptable to marry a handicapp person. Okay, it was like a, it was like a social stigma, like I don’t know, I mean it seems like he had, like that was like the perfect situation, like he’s like, baby, I’m watching football, she can’t say [bleep]. Yeah, perfect, perfect set up. I, I got Red Zone on [bleep], seven hours, so I gotta say something about Peter Fagan. Okay, so you’re at the bar, you already know where I’m going. Yeah, I just like saw the whole thing, I saw the whole, know where I’m going, for sure, dud, I just lived it.

It’s like 13 a.m., and you’re like, and you got chick’s like looking at the wall, you got you’re like, [bleep], she doing over there, you got Helen Keller in the back. This guy takes advantage of hel, and, and she don’t pay attention, and so he’s like, are you playing hard, you playing hard again, let me, let me holler at you, I said, you got digits, your postal code. I’m, I’m guessing we’re going to get about three or four one star reviews on this. Oh, that’s fine, whatever, I don’t give a [bleep]. No, no, I’m, what I’m trying to get to though, is like, he took advantage of her.

I mean, unless, unless she was like, let’s go, she like, finger right, come on, let’s go, I know, but how do you, home, he knows that, that’s, do you know what I mean, you get what I mean? Yeah, I mean, but maybe he was like, how do you know she didn’t like face swipe him, and like [bleep] touch his, talk to me, she like kept swiping down and further down, she’s like, all right, dud, she, she would have been [bleep], she would have killed the Tinder. By the way, kept swiping, was like, wait, what’s, what are you doing? She’s like, so she’s like, I guess, I guess, I guess the point I’m trying to make, I don’t like Peter fen, I think, he, you know what I mean, taking advantage, taking advantage, sh, maybe he was just trying to get on, she’s a deaf blind person, she needs love too, bro, it’s not like you have a pickup line, dog.

You saying that she doesn’t deserve? No, no, no, I’m not saying no, no, she should get, no, no, I’m saying she should get hers, but he, how do you know? I don’t know, yeah, I don’t know, I’m, I’m with, hor, I think maybe like was nice, [bleep] showed up, and she, maybe she was just like, they bumped into each other, he’s like, oh, B, bad. Like, so so so they’re at the bar, it’s like 1:30, she like bumps in, she like, like six gen, and hold up a second, let me, let me face swipe this, hold up, hold up, let me face swip this, like, oh, that’s up man.

Okay, so you’re at a bar and a girl comes up and face swipes you, I might be in, I’ll be like, oh okay, we’re going to go there, and then like, what is the whole time? I think that she’s just purposely talking to me, and I’m like, okay, where we going? She just Le by the hand, okay, and then the next day I’m like, so, uh, anyways, [bleep] dude, I don’t know that face FP move seems pretty legit. It does, especially like a drunk dude, like, so if you’re one, if you’re one of our 8% females, give the, uh, the face swipe a move, dud, I gu, well try it, well first of all, no, no, don’t, yeah, no, first of all, if you’re, if you’re a female, you don’t really have to do anything, we’re, we’re men, we’re [bleep], so like, if at the bar, just be like, hey, and you’re like, we’re like, yeah, what’s up, me, I love you too, I know, like, yeah, let’s, good, let’s get married, I love you too.

Okay, so back to the story, anyways, so, uh, they broke up, right? Yeah, like disapproval, it didn’t work out, you took advantage of my daughter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she’s blind. And around this time, uh, somebody by the name of Paully Thompson was brought in as a secretary for Helen. This, okay, so now it’s a trio of girls, Paulie, it’s Helen, and it’s an, an. Yeah, she, how did, how is she affording her own secretary, she’s rich, where is this money? Yeah, she’s killing, she’s a, it wasn’t like an inheritance, did she just like sell a book and all this [bleep]? Yeah, I mean I guess you would, you would try, not the same industry, but, um, what’s, uh, what’s his name, who passed, Stephen Hawking, he’s a celeb, no, I know, but I mean, he’s a handicap celeb, like, similar, obviously she’s not doing like, yeah, like, but similar C, like maybe speaking engagements, she can’t speak, so maybe [bleep], well she can’t, no, she, so many limitations, no, she’s only blind and death, it doesn’t mean she can, she can still speak, yeah, yeah, that’s right, yeah, cuz she even said in the beginning she was doing like, yeah, okay, so maybe they’re like, she could be like one of those like Oris and sty, she just gets paid, influencer, influencer, taking, taking [bleep] selfies with people, she just shows up at the bar just to bring the crowd in, she like, look what we got today, we got karaoke with Helen Kella, [bleep] hot ticket item, baby.

So instead, the three women moved into a new home in Long Island. Over the years, Ann’s health began to worsen, Polly picking up the slack and learning The Manual Alphabet to communicate with Helen. So sadly, an passed away on October 20th, 1936, at the age of 70. Damn, with Helen by her side. But see, but wait, that’s why it’s so confusing, because then like home home girls got to learn like that the physical alphabet, but how’s she doing speaking engagements, is she just, she’s touching everyone’s hand, tellone, what’s up, you know, like why can’t, oh maybe it’s, maybe she, no she can talk, but then they have to talk back to her with the hand, with the hand, okay, that makes sense.

Okay, but what’s weird is you can’t correct yourself, because you can’t hear yourself. No, so if you say locomotive, like you learn locomotive, and then you say it, you can’t hear it, but you’re like, that was G [bleep]. I was, I want to do this whole episode like that, straight up in character. Oh yeah, you should have done Helen K character. Like you listen to me, we do a podcast and you’re doing finger signs. God help me, this is not funny, guys. It’s so funny, it’s funny for like 18 people. I know, I mean this is 100 years ago, what are we going to do.

Helen described the discovery of an, as she touched her face, saying instantly she knew it was not the same, the features were fixed, waxing, all of Annie’s warmth and vitality were gone. Oh, she’s knew she was dead. Yes, and so she said, apparently she said, it’s not teacher, when it was the new girl, basically. In, oh, oh, she touching the new girl, I thought she was like touching like her, like corpse. Shate. Over the years, Helen’s success and moving story would be heard all around the world. She helped with the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind, the American Foundation for Overseas Blind, and the American Civil Liberties Union, just to name a few.

She would go on a series of world tours, to 35 countries over an 11year period. I don’t even, she’s killing it, I mean I just see this is, this is like the real like gross part of me is like, how’s she more successful than me, like this is [bleep]. She went on a, us, I know how an felt, like spoiled little BR. She went on a US tour, where she gave lectures, she educated, she advocated for deaf blind people, she published 14 books, she met 13 US presidents, what, she became friends with the, Elanor Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Alexander Granell, she received countless awards, including a gold medal award, I don’t even know what that is, she won an Oscar?

Wait, what, for what? She won the Presidential Medal of Freedom. What did she win an Oscar for? I don’t know, this is, okay, she’s, this is she’s killing it, she’s a fake, she’s she is aony kobby, but she’s like blind and deaf, and she, okay, this is [bleep] [bleep] I don’t believe it. So in 19, okay, okay, we, we’ll the end, we’re, we’re towards the end here of the story of Helen. Yeah, fine, a, in 1961, she had a stroke, and it led to her finally retiring from the touring, etc, and on June 1st, 1968, she was weeks away from her 88th birthday, Helen Keller died peacefully in her home.

That’s unfortunate, but hey, 88, that’s, dude, [bleep] slay it for this time, this time in the world. She had 12200 people at her memorial. Damn, I don’t even know, 1200 people, I feel like I have 12, I would, yeah, like, or less, why would at 12 that be like only family, M, some fringe C, well I don’t know, I, I have to go to Home Depot, I don’t know if I’ll make it, they only, like they only came there for like the free like orves. Yeah, that’s why I’m only going to have 12 chairs, so it looks packed, slammed, there’s like two people standing. Since then, both Helen Keller and an have been inducted into the National Woman’s Hall of Fame.

I didn’t know there was one, dude, I really know, like, no offense to ladies, but I never, is there a man’s Hall of Fame? No, well, I mean history, Earth, sorry, making [bleep] for that long history. Hello, damn, that was legendary, that was a good one. So just the extensive list of achievements in Helen Ker’s life, public doubt continues. I mean, dude, I, if you go literally, if you go on to Tik Tok and you search Helen Keller conspiracy, there’s thousands, go check right now, thousands of people going, she’s a fraud, she’s a fake, she’s a phony, like it was all, you know, it was all an, it was all, you know, fraud.

This, just think, this think of it this way, like, and here’s to me, here’s one of the main points that seem odd, is so she went to school and she got a bachelor’s degree with honors. Yeah, so it takes people who are can fully see and fully hear and fully right without any assistance, no finger writing, the same amount of time to get this degree, that, like, literally they have to convert it all to Braille, and then she has to finger hands. I’m like, really, she’s got six Proctors and like a whole, and you know, like the [bleep] the person who’s given like the lecture on the things, they’re like, I’m not going to [bleep] convert this to bra for you, like, why would I do like, figure it out.

Yeah, like, no way, I don’t get paid enough for this [bleep]. Yeah, I just see, maybe we already converted, I mean, what, she, not just for her, maybe she went to like the [bleep] University of Phoenix, and it was just like, was like this, so easy breezy. So many people question Helen K’s ability to produce 14 books, yeah, that seems wild, 475 speeches and essays, often drawing doubt in her ability to physically write them or type for that matter. To argue this, Helen was known to use a grooved writing board that stimulated writing on a line paper like, cited people. Oh, so like as she writes, there’s like little lines, so she knows not to go outside of the line or whatever.

Yeah, yeah, that’s why we’re, we’re looking at a letter, you see the other letter, when she was older, when she got older, one, well that was the first one, but then look at the older one, I think that’s better handwriting, that’s part one and two of Captain’s letter. Yeah, yeah, exactly, I’m saying, dude, she’s writing [bleep] ripping, curse of all, a scam, a scam, [bleep], this one here, and this is only when she was 7even years old, that’s pretty good, dude, that’s legit, better handwriting than me, that’s pretty good. Also, for seven, for for seven, death blind, come on now. But it’s also like, look at like, Helen right, Anna, uh, George will give Helen up, will Simpson will shoot, died, Jack will give Helen stick of candy, doctor will give mild medicine, mother will make M new dress.

The Voice slowly keeps coming out. Okay, so right here, before we get into the conspiracies, I’m gonna play, is not orness, bring me mys. Damn, know, how does she know that? It is the acute disappointment in not being able to speak normally. Okay, 475 speeches, like this dog, get the [bleep] out of here, I would, I would, I would instantly leave, I’ be like, nope, it’s not even, she’s speaking a different language, what the [bleep] is sounds, I know, like she sounds like a like Dory, like speaking whale, and she’s like, uh, lately on the ities of, okay, so this is the part, this is the statistic that I can’t get, bey, okay, you ready for it?

Mhm, what, none of the previous ones, apparently she could speak English, Latin, Greek, French, and German. Okay, this is bll, she just [bleep] fraud, 100% like, no, no, she can’t, I’ve been trying to learn German for like two years and I couldn’t even get like, if I went to a coffee shop with you, you’d be like, you’re ridiculous, you can’t do it. [Laughter] M, but apparently five languages, okay, we’re going to play a clip for you, just to show you how she speaks, and tell me that she, she could speak it different, okay, no way, like cuz the language that she’s speaking in isn’t English.

Yeah, it’s straight up. So, uh, a majority of the theories come from, remember when she left the school because she had a falling out with the Perkins School, is that you remember that? Yeah, so the it, like she was there, she went back there with, with an, with an, yeah, and then they had a falling out, falling out with the headmaster or whatever, they dipped, and they dipped. So the theories come from the fact that the headmaster was like, bro, you don’t, you’re not passing like, and then they pieced out, and then, you know what I mean, that’s the theory. Oh, and O, they probably like, you could easily s up agreement, like you want to bring some prestige to your [bleep] school, that’s right, I think she needs a bachelor’s with honors, master’s degree, advanced masters, she speaks five languages, so I’ve been told, I translate everything, trust me, trust, trust me, trust me, I translate everything, I can understand, we finger talk this [bleep] out all the time.

So, so essentially, there’s mainly like two conspiracies behind it, right, one is that, uh, she was a fraud and she knew what she was doing, and she was just smart, she was just real smart, she was conniving, like it was a long game. Yeah, oh, she’s been doing it since she was like, this is like a [bleep] Christopher Nolan [bleep] long, long game, at first, starting when she was two, they were like, no honey, you cannot have any more biscuits, and she’s like [bleep] buy, yeah, she’s like, I got nothing to lose, I got nothing to lose, I’m going to take, I can’t, I can’t hear you.

She basically, it’s the theory is that Helen was the first fake it till you make it, but then she made it, she got like hella rich, she’s like, just keep making it. So then the other theory is that an played a major role, yeah, right, and a secretive role in Helen’s life, centering on the idea that she never left her side. I know, it’s also like even though she gets married, it’s like, move in with me, Helen. I, some, some, some argue that the speech that Helen learned from an wasn’t based in truth, and in fact, an was making Helen sound more intuitive than she truly was, when she was interpreting for her, right.

Oh, that’s why she was like just like [bleep], just make it sound legit. So in the clip we played, it would be kind of like me going, okay, so say something extremely intelligent about like, I don’t know, [bleep] like, like gravity and la, and I’m like, and the things, and, and then you’re translating, yeah, and I’ be like, well, if you actually take the co valent bonds of the, the, the adjacent carbon there, on, with the say sto gometry play, then you can see how then the, the advanced laws of Aam’s Razer coming play, for me, just like no, like we’re actually serious, like literally.

On this video, like what, she, that, that is what she sounds like. It’s, but that’s the theory, is, is that, is that Sean is, Sea is making up like in intellectual conversation, that, and you were just like saying random [bleep], and they’re like, I’m like, uh, so you can make the check out to an. Exactly, so that’s basically, I mean we, we kind of dumbed it down into like a simplistic, well, she, she was pretty much like, Helen was just like, I just want to have a friend, like I want to like be with my homie, and then an’s like, we can make a, we can make this thing go.

It’s also alleged that that an may have contributed her own work and essays and exams in her later schooling, versus Helen doing it herself. So basically, like an passed and got a degree, I have a really hard time believing that, she, not not that she wasn’t smart enough to, I’m not saying that, I just have a real hard time that she’s going to like be able to do that. Maybe if they were like over for a 15-year period, she got her degree, okay, sure, yeah, that would make more sense, other than like she finished early, and she, you know, she graduated 2 years with a [bleep] bades, I’m like, [bleep] out of here dog.

But I mean, you know, the counter of that is essentially, she was just her friend, I, I think, you know what I mean, and she was by her side the whole time, and she became friends. Yeah, I, I get, no, they were totally homies for sure, and that’s what I, I think that, like Helen was like, sweet, this is like my only friend, why would want to leave her, and they, they could communicate each other easily, but I think that I think an was more or less like, I’m trying to be that upper middle low, upper L, upper middle lower, I’m trying to go to Whole Foods next weekend, like we need to make it go right, I need that organic beef, seriously, like I heard they sell [bleep] ostrich eggs there, let’s go, like I’m ready to try it.

So the biggest conspiracy centers around how Helen Keller was able to actually accomplish all the things. I mean she’s basically the Forest G, yeah, you know what I mean, all the presidents, and the, the metal freedom president, the gold medal, I don’t know what the gold medal’s for, just all the things, like the world record for the 100 meter death, yeah, dude, she’s, it’s like unbelievable, yeah, she went to, she’s been to 35 countries. So the questions are, was she fully blind, was she fully deaf, or was she partially deaf, partially blind, uh, or none at all? F, the, yeah, or none at all, you know what I mean.

Uh, as most of us can relate to learning words through sounds, Helen Keller had the unique experience of learning words through pure spelling and no sounds. And then also too, like the whole thing, like, obviously I don’t really know, cuz I’m not blind or death, like with the, with the mouth touching, I’m like, how the fuckes, like, what does that have to do with anything? Yeah, cuz she was like trying to figure out how to make, figure the lips, yeah, yeah, yeah, cuz also too, it’s like, yeah, how do you, you even if you learn the alphabet, you don’t know how they sound, totally, you don’t know how to like make a, ah, yeah, or like, or like a, or or making, or like multiple letters, like, like U, mouse, like O, OU, and Aus, and like, maybe she just had, English is hard as [bleep], maybe she had a nothing, not not to mention she could speak [bleep] German, [bleep] Brazilian, [bleep] she’s like reading sans cript and [bleep] Jesus Christ, she like the arc of the Covenant, know, she’s like, yeah, aliens built the pyramids, I read it%, I read it.

So one of the last stories’s, like, yep, yep, aliens build pyramids, and that’s, and said she was abducted. Yes, wait, what, what was that again? An. Yes, yes, okay, so one of the last stories about, um, her in a feat that she accomplished was that, uh, she briefly maneuvered a plane that was flying across the Mediterranean Sea, from Rome to Paris. How she, like kick, like go into the cockpit, and I, and I quote, I quote, the plane crew was amazed at her sensitive touch on the controls, and explained that she flew the plane calmly and steadily. While this seems like an impossible feat for a deaf blind individual, it’s, it is, apparently she wasn’t alone, and she didn’t, she didn’t necessarily land it, her interpreter, it was an, her, her interpreter, her interpreter Paulie hand talked her to exchange the pilot instructions, and they were suspended in the air, supposedly Helen Keller flew the plane for 20 minutes.

How fast are they with this [bleep] hand talk, he’s like, okay, so here’s the thing, she like, how fast can you can like relay that information? So we have three things, yeah, we have three things. Then she, she drove through, uh, the gridlock traffic in LA alone, and got to the shew, she got to North Atlanta from South Atlanta in 10 minutes, impossible, it’s [bleep] impossible. Okay, so there are three things, uhhuh, one, uh, she was lying, and she overid her abilities, or she underd did what she actually could do, she over did her disabilities, yes, exactly, okay, two, and did it, y, okay, okay, three, resiliency of man.

You know, while I’d like, I’d love to love to believe that the female, I mean it’s not necessarily male, it’s not a male female thing, it’s more just if, if this was, if she was dude, I would be probably more skeptical, there’s no [bleep] way he did that, it’s more like what you have to do to survive, yeah, totally, and could you overcome the worst [bleep] things, you see this in like people who have amputees, and they live like a full life, they live more than I do, totally, Iron Man, like Runners with like, oh yeah, I was like Marvel, no, no, Iron Man did it, iron did it, billionaire playboy built a suit, did it hella good, but yeah, I get what you’re saying, I get what you’re saying, they, they run, they have no legs, and they run, yeah, you know, a whole marathon, yeah, yeah, so those are the three mainstream theories.

Okay, yeah, I just, I think that there’s just, there’s just too many, there’s too many things that like, if she would have did like less stuff, I’d be like, accom less, yeah, to be totally plausible, but like 476 speeches, she published 14 book, countries, she’s like, she’s more, she has more books published than [bleep] Harry Potter, I like, get the [bleep] out of here, like are you kidding me, that’s true, and then she, a bachelor’s degree with honors, like, true. I just think that, I think that it was mostly an, and I think that, I think maybe, maybe Helen wasn’t as like fully, fully off the deep, and as she was, but then I, I think that it was mostly an, like trying to like play it up, and I think Helen was just like, [bleep] yeah, I’ll go along with it, cuz you’re, you’re my friend.

Oh, so they’re together, I thought they were together. I think, I think, I think thaten, but maybe it’s not a conspiracy, but they just together decided, I think, I think we’re going to ride the wave, I think an was like, the, she was like the architect of it, and I think Helen was just like, well you’re my only friend, let’s do it, yeah, she was like fot, and then that even goes back to what you were saying about like survival, like that’s her only person that she could survive, and she’s not going to let her go, yeah, she like represents, do anything, she going do anything, there’s a crack here, this is going to change your life, okay, I get it, I get what you’re saying though.

Yeah, so, so you guys are think, an, I’m think more, an is the guy, is the person, I’m thinking that, hey, she could have been motivated by that upper lower middle, whatever, I, yeah, and it had that rough, that rough upbringing, she was like, she, she saw like, oh, I could live a [bleep] hot, oh I could live a great life, she’s like, I already got like most of my sight back, and then not to mention, also you know, she was the teacher, so this was also a way for her to be validated, or, or, what the word I’m looking for, acknowled, validated, what I did, I [bleep] taught her everything she knows, exactly.

Okay, okay, okay, that makes sense, okay. Honestly, I had, I had never heard, uh, the whole story, no, I had, well that too, honestly I had never heard the whole story, but I had never heard and her Helen Keller speak, and after that, it just brought a little bit more clarity, as I was expecting to understand like a little bit of it, little bit, I didn’t, dude, she was [bleep] speaking king on, bro, I have no [bleep] clue what she said, and then, and then, and would be like saying some super sophisticated [bleep], I was like, is she that articulate, like damn right, it’s like, seems it seems farfetched that she would understand large concepts, yeah, do you know what I mean, get, I get basic concepts finger, in order to explain, like it’s super like, now, now let’s assume that it was true, that at 6 months old she was talking, uh, I mean that’s pretty young, obviously talking, so, so she could have been like this super smart, I don’t believe that, I know, you know what I mean, kind parent, you know, [bleep], also, also it’s after she’s famous, oh yeah, true, when she was born, she had an abacus, okay, she was like, she was tax, you know, like all the documentaries about Tom Brady, and all the coaches that you know, like I knew he different, I threw a football to him one time and in the 7-Eleven parking lot, and I showed him how to twist it a little bit, and then I knew he was special.

I knew he was real special. But me, meanwhile, like in real life, they’re like, [bleep] loser, Tom, like, I, no idea who this guy is, he’s like, everyone hated me. So I kind of chocked that up to like, well, you know, embellishment. Of course, all right, so you’re thinking along the same lines, just, you know, I’m kind of, I kind of am with you guys, um, who, okay, I’m kind of with you guys a little bit, I think it’s more ant, I, yeah, I think she was amazing, and she did things that, that she had no business doing, because she, because of her resiliency, and because of her, totally agree, because of her, whatever, I would have given up instantly, but I think, I think there’s probably half the achievements, uh, I was thinking more like hundredth of them, I don’t, I don’t buy that she speaks Greek, no, hell no, well it’s in brail, but still, I’m like, so, so I don’t know if that’s her fault, or the legend, the legend SP, the leg mean, no, it’s 100 years, she slayed, she slay, you know, 100 years have gone by, you know, the hundred years have gone by, and all the stories, yeah, yeah, exactly, but my thing is, like, why did she met 13 presidents, like I know why, like, well, the, who was rep, publicist, overcoming, they were really like exceptional at their job.

So what did we, did we, what did did we solve anything? I think it was an, and I think Helen Kell in her own right was amazing, and, and it’s a testament to her ability to [bleep] overcome, but there’s no way, yeah, there’s no way, yeah, she, no, there’s no way she’s going to [bleep] finger sign 14 books, yeah, and then and then 500 speeches where she’s, you know, [bleep] get the [bleep] out of here. I think an was really smart, and an wanted, kind of, kind of manipulated her, and then Helen was like, and been with me, I’m going ride or die, she was, I’m going ride or die.

All right, mine, mine is, uh, ride or die, right there, like, I, a see what it says right there, yeah, in our own words, Helen give mild medicine, Helen right Anna, George will give Helen up. Mine’s, mine’s simply, the legend is bigger than than the person, I mean, I think you’re, the legend is like, okay, you know, ex, it’s like exp, are you kidding, you’re making it sound like, yeah, you should, it’s kind of like Billy the Kid, you know, the more you research Billy Kid, I’m thinking, I’m thinking more like Indiana Jones, it doesn’t even exist, I mean it was just like a kid, it was like a, like Billy the Kid is an example of like, it’s a 17-year-old kid who went and killed like three or four people, oh, and they were like, he killed a thousand people, and who’s the most famous Western outlaw of all time, probably Billy the Kid, you know what I mean, and you go, yeah, there’s nothing more than that, well, yeah, that’s mine.

Jorge, last, last, last words? No, no, I agree with Sean, actually. Oh wow, of course, surpris, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise, all right, of course, there you go, great mind sing. Well, that’s what we got guys, uh, thanks again to Bri and Matt, we love you guys, it’s a good one, thank you guys, we’ll catch you guys next time on the Conspiracy Podcast, night night. I was going to be like, I was finger signing Jorge under the table. Re notes provided by Caprice, edited by Eric, produced and hosted by Shan, Jorge, and Eric.

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