Wild Boys: Strangers in Town
4/21/20261 hr 11 min
This week we're among the good people of Canada, Fam, in a community who opened their hearts to two mysterious brothers who wandered into town on day, claiming to have been raised off the grid with no connection to modern society. But somehow... they knew pop culture references...? Their story unravels in a wild way - come along with us for the ride!
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First 90 secondsGillian Pensavalle· Host0:00
Is it weird that I have never wanted a piece of fruit more?
Patrick Hinds· Host0:02
I know.
Gillian Pensavalle· Host0:02
Is that bad?
Patrick Hinds· Host0:03
Well, look- Is that good or bad? We know a couple people in this documentary are never getting scurvy, and I feel very good about that for them.
Gillian Pensavalle· Host0:08
But they're just getting everything else.
Patrick Hinds· Host0:10
I know.
Gillian Pensavalle· Host0:10
[laughs] My goodness.
Patrick Hinds· Host0:11
[upbeat music] Hi, Julia Bevilaqua.
Gillian Pensavalle· Host0:19
Hello, Patrick Heinz.
Patrick Hinds· Host0:20
Sam, join our Facebook group. It's the True Crime Obsessed podcast discussion group. Today as we record this, the NorCal TCO Facebook meetup group turns two.
Gillian Pensavalle· Host0:28
Come on.
Patrick Hinds· Host0:29
Hi, everybody in NorCal.
Gillian Pensavalle· Host0:29
Happy birthday. How cute.
Patrick Hinds· Host0:31
We also have a Discord.
Gillian Pensavalle· Host0:33
We do have a Discord. It's a Discord server.
Patrick Hinds· Host0:35
Discord server.
Gillian Pensavalle· Host0:36
And there are channels within that server.
Patrick Hinds· Host0:38
Yeah.
Gillian Pensavalle· Host0:38
And everyone's really nice and fun, and, uh, it, it's just, like, channels about the episodes, like Patreon episodes and regular episodes, but also channels about, like, random true crime stuff you wanna talk about- Yeah ... or, like, animal photos. It's, like, very nice.
Patrick Hinds· Host0:49
Somebody start a channel about surfing. Just start it.
Gillian Pensavalle· Host0:52
Great.
Patrick Hinds· Host0:52
I'll jump in.
Gillian Pensavalle· Host0:53
That's the thing, 'cause you can.
Patrick Hinds· Host0:54
'Cause you can.
Gillian Pensavalle· Host0:55
That's the beauty of it.
Patrick Hinds· Host0:56
Links to either, they're both in the show notes.
Gillian Pensavalle· Host0:57
Yeah.
Patrick Hinds· Host0:58
What are we talking about today?
Gillian Pensavalle· Host0:59
We are talking about Wild Boys/Strangers in Town. This is two episodes on Paramount Plus, but we're doing it in one 'cause we can.
Patrick Hinds· Host1:04
'Cause we can.
Gillian Pensavalle· Host1:05
Yeah.
Speaker 2· Soundbite1:06
[tense music] They were dubbed the Wild Boys. So-called Wild Boys. After they caught the country's attention with an unbelievable tale.
Speaker 31:14
There was a definite split in the community.
Tammy Ryder· Soundbite1:16
One was finding out who they were, and then there was a group of people, including myself, that were trying to help them. The younger one was extremely thin.
Speaker 5· Soundbite1:25
The situation was getting dire.
Speaker 6· Soundbite1:27
[gunshot] People started feeling unsafe.