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This is History.
I'm joined by Arachio Gould.
Hello.
And this is part two in our romp through the life of Caligula.
The Chinese paedophile.
The Chinese paedophile Roman Emperor.
If this is the first episode you've ever listened to, pause.
Go back to episode one.
This one needs quite a lot of context.
Caligula is a young man who has been emperor of Rome for 10 months where he had a stroke
and woke up with the Chinese accent and he was a paedophile.
We think.
We think.
We don't know.
We don't know.
We made up.
To be fair, we're adding about as much of this as Suetonius is.
We're modern-day Suetonius.
We are, to be honest.
We're Graham-Hangogging it.
Exactly.
Fuck it.
I reckon in a Chinese voice.
I mean, yeah, we cannot slag off Suetonius
because he was just famous history for the Roman era.
Exactly.
It's just salacious, unfounded bollocks.
Yeah.
We're having fun with it.
He's having fun with it.
It's history fan TV.
It is.
When was Suotonia?
How long after Caligula's reign was Suetonius written?
28 years
Oh yeah
So
Yeah, bollocks
Who knows
Yeah
Who fucking knows
Load of bollocks
So we left off
In the last episode
Colligula was on his deathbed
Gravely ill
Yeah
And people thought
He was gonna die
Yeah
And he comes back
Crazier than ever
So they line up a successor
Now I have to apologise
And said that
I may have jumped the gun
On some of the narrative
Right
I may have got something wrong here
Impossible
I don't believe it
And no well
Gamellus
Who Tiberius
had appointed
joint successor with Calicula.
Calicula did not kill,
it hasn't killed him yet.
But you've already told people.
Yeah, yeah, that he died earlier.
But he hasn't.
He hasn't.
He's still alive.
And so they line up Gamalus, his cousin.
His cousin?
Has that ever happened on a history podcast?
You know that in the first half of it?
I said he wasn't dead.
You know how I said he had a Chinese accent?
I probably didn't.
Caligula suddenly recovers.
He makes a miraculous recovery.
Miracra.
Accuracy, but maybe he sounds like that.
We don't know.
We can't know.
We can't know.
And he goes on a revenge spree.
So he starts with Gamelis.
Fair enough.
And he accuses Gamelis of taking preemptive medicine against a poison.
Which is kind of amazing.
Yeah.
So Gamelas thinks that Caligula has poisoned him.
And he's saying, I'm accusing you of thinking I'm trying to poison you and protecting yourself.
Yeah.
Therefore, I'm going to poison you.
No, he then says, right, so you have to kill yourself.
So quite Japanese.
It is very Japanese.
Gamelis is so young
that he doesn't know how to hold a sword or use it
so soldiers have to help him kill himself.
So it's like when you're teaching someone
a golf swing, you get behind them, it's all in the hips.
It's all in your hips.
And it's the stars.
You know like a horny golf teacher?
Like it's all in your hips, baby.
He's just doing that.
Have you got a fantasy of being
if I'm going to fare with a golf teacher?
No, I've got a fantasy of a big, strong Roman guard
teach me how to kill myself.
Right, okay.
Standing behind me going, it's all in the hip.
But do they, how supuku-y is, they don't supuku themselves, do they?
No, they, they, um, they emo it in the bath, right?
They slit their wrists and they,
and they, they are emerymering it in the bath.
They slit the wrist and maybe they slit their throat.
How, Nero does, Nero meets his end in similar way.
Yeah, and then they say, we, we forgive you, and he's like, well, I've done it now.
I've done it now, I'm fucking dead.
Bit late.
Yeah.
They go, they run a hot bath and then they let all the, the, the, they stick my chemical romance on.
Yeah.
they do welcome to the black parade
and they just they bleed out
yeah
they paint their nails
and they do their eyes
snakes on the wall
you're all snakes
but they go on TikTok live
and say
yeah
that's what Gamelis does
so but there are
there are all these stories of like
the court of the emperor
that basically
they were trying to jockey for position
while Klegel was on his deathbed
so he's lying there
speaking of Chinese accent
like like an Arsenal corner
they're all
sort of jockeying.
Yeah, a jockeying position.
The love train is working its way through.
Haram McGuire's there.
When do you need me?
Come on, slabhead.
Right.
So one of them says,
because they're trying to show
how devoted they are to the dying emperor
because they think he's going to die
so that then there's going to be a power player.
He says, well, I will go and act,
if he lives, I'll go and get in the Coliseum
and I'll be a gladiator.
You always say shit.
This guy can't fight for shit, right?
Another one says that, oh,
let me die so the emperor can live.
Kligula wakes up and he goes,
I heard that.
that let's do it right to be fair he does a lot of pretty non-cricot things yeah but that's kind
of awesome though i don't people i'd really do back that go on then people throw that shit around
but it's chicken isn't it obviously yeah if i wish it was me well maybe it is you go yourself do it
oh oh fuck off no do it do it you said it so do it to be fair that that's good stuff yeah i like
that well you know some of his other stuff i i think is a bit unfair it's pros and cons it's
good and bad that is that's great that's absolutely great so what he does the guy who is uh
He's a nobleman.
He's maybe, is he an actor or something?
Yeah.
Anyway, he gets into the Coliseum
and he goes up against a trained,
and within seconds,
he's just fucking stabbed a shit.
Yeah, it's a theatre actor versus a soldier,
isn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
I'd love to see that.
To be fair, I would love to see that.
What, like a film,
hard man who pretends to be a soldier against a real one.
Ross Kemp against Ray Winston.
Yeah.
And Ross Kemp just fucks him up.
Yeah, that'd be good.
I guess.
Yeah.
Is it the rumor
The Ross Company?
Are we allowed to say it?
Probably not.
Well,
Ross,
if we can rhyme it
we can boss Bemp
and Lord and Bambsey
Bum each other
Beggilly.
I don't know if rhyming
is illegal
Borg and Borme
and Bambi and Bambi
Bambi Bambi Bambi Bambi Bavitian by a
Bledgutia
Bledgently
Bledgely.
Bust
Press
I don't
This is belgidly
It's not rhyming
It's just saying B in the top.
Bemp
was bummed by
Borden Banzi
Why does it be
because bummed is the worst bit
It would be Fennie on
Would be any bun
Bown Bid Bowe is
I don't think
Boss Ben Bum's Borden Bansy
Can we just fast forward?
Bavitiggini
Can we just fast forward
To the libel trial
Which I'm just like
What do you think
That just put in the letter B
in front of everything
Gives you a legal cop out
Bob Pess
Babona
Bavona
Bavna
Bavis
Fubbibibibibum
Bavibibibababababababab
Bavis
Bavis
Bavis
Bavis
Bavis
Bajis
Bajis
Bajis
Bip Bajit
What's you say?
How do you plead
Bop bilti Bipipit
Bipit
Bip Bip Bip Bip Bip Bipat
Bip Bip Bip Bambit
Bip Bip Bip Bip Bip Bip Bip Bit
I don't think
legally
that stands up
if you just put the letter B in front of everything
Allegedly
Well, we're not saying anyone's bame
I've already said
Bore beer baying beers
Boss bent bums born and bamsie
Or bobbubbabby bum bambi bum bobbin
B bone B bone B bone
B bone right
B bump
This this stops now
You know
As someone who listens to this rather than watches it
The last minute
Will be it have been so painful
anyway
Bori boss Ben
Right
Bory Borda
Bamsie
Right
Where the fuck
Where
What are we talking about
Bhabibba
We're not talking about
No so
Oh right
So he recovers from his deathbed
And then
He adopts this explicit
Rule by Fear
And this is famous quote
This is colligula's famous quote
So we've got from
Corrigaro
to Bopem
Bopet, bum bambi, baby, bambi.
Eventually.
A lot of fucking access here.
What is that?
That's an accent.
Is that an accent?
That's a speech pediment.
You know, that's legalese, isn't it?
Spy talk.
Yeah.
No, people train for years to get a law conversion course.
They just, that's what a big on a law conversion course.
Turned out, if you put B in from everything, it's fair game.
You can say anything.
You can say absolutely anything.
That's how our Capone got away with it was so long.
Yeah.
Buhbba-Bem.
I just got me he said.
Very good.
Yeah.
What do you say?
Bore-Bubbubbibbubbub.
Bobbibbub.
Bitbim, bim, bim, bim.
Big Billbun?
Big billion?
Big billion.
A beg bambamabababababababower.
Big billion?
Buh.
That's a big bumber.
Bibing,
Bipa Bipa Bipa Bauden.
Anyway,
Gallicular adopts an explicit posture of rule by fear.
He says this famous quote,
maybe in his Chinese accent,
read them hate me,
shall run as they fear me.
Christ,
let them hate me so long as they fear me.
Does he say this as he gets out of his deathbed?
Is it like a kind,
that seems quite cinematic.
Yeah.
Well, he's a different guy now.
He is.
He pressed his evil buttons.
Yeah.
He's had this pedophon.
his accent buttons pressed
and he's gone crazy
so soon after this
so bear in mind he's mad
he's had his buttons pressed
he's mental
is that what he means
by saying
don't push my buttons
don't push my feet
don't brain button
don't fret again my fucking
oh
don't fret again
my frontal cortex
you're pushing my buttons
you're making me speaking
you're making me speaking
a way of why
soon after he recovers
his favourite sister
who he's been
knobbing for years
yeah
Drusilla
yeah dies
age 21
you can't
Sandus, he's upset about this.
And he goes, you pushed his sister,
this incest button now.
Well, that was what you pushed.
His incest button was stuck down,
like when he wanted to keep on the keyboard,
stuck.
His incest button was stuck.
Yeah, perpetually.
We both get their babe abysp.
Caligula,
Caligula,
he names his daughter after her.
That's how much he loves her.
Yeah.
He makes her a god.
So he deifies her under the name
Diva Drusilla.
Go, Diva.
He's new money.
He's new money.
It's new money.
It's like calling your kid Deva.
My sister is the biggest fucking Deva in the world.
Deva Drusilla.
I call your kid Mercedes.
It's trash.
Yeah.
This is a footballer's daughter's name.
Deva Drusilla Banthia, Rooney.
Deva Drosyllabathia.
Yeah.
Crazy.
And so he then goes crazy and he imposes this period of mourning.
Now, you think it was bad when the Queen died and the radio was unlistable.
In this period, it becomes a capital crime to laugh.
he die.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You put to death,
then you just burps.
Sorry.
It's just so many things
working against this as a podcast.
Disrespect.
He was lounging about,
the way you did it was just so.
It wasn't like it came out.
It was just like,
you let it all hang out.
I don't even know if that was in the mic.
So for listeners,
they weren't.
No, it was.
It barely was.
If you get a burp,
you do it into the mic.
Who else is saying that to their podcast producer?
If you have to burp, you do it into the mic
so at least the listeners know you burped.
Yeah, so we don't look mental.
So we don't look mad.
So in this period, his sister who's been railing for years dies.
It becomes a capital crime.
It's a laugh.
You're put to death if you laugh.
Yeah, but his sister dies.
If you bathe, you wash.
What was he meant?
He was backed into a corner.
So everyone is miserable, stinky,
and they're not allowed to dine
with your own immediate family members
because that rubs it in.
Yeah, but Caligula,
he was back to his corner.
He was.
What else could he do?
Yeah, there's Pido button pushed down.
There's Chinese accent button.
The sister he rails has died.
Of course, no one should be allowed to
dine with their immediate family or bathe.
Yeah.
After Drusilla's husband,
Lepidus becomes widowed,
he becomes a lover to both her sisters.
So, near,
Sorry, Caligula has at least three sisters
I think he's one of nine
So Caligula discovers this
He discovers that his brother-in-law
was railing his two other sisters
And then he executes
His brother-in-law and exiles his sisters
You've got to have like a strong...
You've got to have zero tolerance on that shit
Only I can have sex with my sisters.
Yeah, if anyone's fucking my sisters
It's gonna be me.
His second wife, Livia Orestia.
I'm putting a bit of Latin, stink on that name
that's probably not ours.
Stinky.
Livia,
yeah.
During her wedding in 37,
to a console named Pizzo.
It's weird just the years.
This century's the weirdest for years.
37.
When it's like five.
Yeah,
because it feels like you're abbreviating everything.
Back in 37.
Yeah, in the 30s.
We should place this, actually.
So his reign is 37 to 41.
Right.
Do you want to place this one?
Right.
So this is after the invention of sandals
before the invention of Ugs.
There you go.
There you go.
Lovely.
Quick.
Quick single.
Get rid of it.
Get rid of it.
Sandals were the oldest known shoe,
dating back to 11,000 years.
So big,
big cushion.
Big cushion now.
And ugg boots.
I used to try and place it,
but now it's just...
Ug, the brand is founded in 78.
So,
1978.
Not 78.
Yeah.
If they saw an ugg,
it wouldn't blow their mind
as much as other things.
Yeah, because it's a very comfy shoe.
But they'd be like,
that's a great idea
putting sheep's wool in your shoe.
It's not a million.
It wouldn't
melt the Roman citizen's brain
sing a nug? No. It's not like a
bit, it's not like, I don't know, like a
Nike Air Macs. They saw a thigh-high boot, they'd be
like, what? Yeah, exactly.
If they saw moon shoes. Or a Healy.
If they saw a Healy, they'd be like, what the fucking
is. You've got chariots on your feet?
What is what's going on? Feet chariots.
Feet chariots. Do you think, how much of an advantage
with having Healy's be if you're a gladiator?
If you're a kind of gladiator with Healy.
Well, I imagine, because of the surface, it's not great for
Healy. Because Healy's are sort of built for shopping
centres, not really for colosseum's.
Yeah.
You'd get a lot of grit and sand.
But if the surface was all waxed, sort of, what's the floor in a shopping centre made on?
Lino.
Lino.
If it was Lino, then it'd be great, but that's not been invented either.
Why did you just turn to me as if I just knew that?
Because you know that shit.
Boring, that shit.
Boring pan, dad.
It's probably liner.
It's probably Lino.
You always know that shit.
I've done a house renovation.
Yeah.
Yesterday, I, uh...
You know which pan to use?
Yesterday, my kids have been stuffing.
toys down the plug hole
in the bath.
Not you've been for me
books off on my arse.
Kids have been shoving toys
down the plug hole again.
I can't go into work
because the kids have been stuffing
stuff on the plug off
you know what I mean.
It's dropping kids off at the pool
is that it reverse.
Dropping kids at the pool
is shitting out your ass.
Kids are stopping.
Yeah, I'm about to pick the kids
up from swimming.
Yeah.
Kids have been dropping me off at the pool.
Yeah, I've got to catch a bottle on my house.
No, they've been shoving toys down
the bath toys down the plug hole
They managed to get the plug out
You've got a stupid push plug
I don't like it anyway
I managed to
I managed to the bath wasn't draining
And I did it with a fucking coat hanger
And a plunger and unscrewing the pipes
You gave it an abortion
I gave it an abortion
You gave the plumber backstreet abortion
And but I didn't have to call a plumber
And I saved herself a call out fee
And I felt like a fucking
Is that that's that gets you fired out
I feel it felt like a boomer dad
Have you got any DIY?
You don't really DIY skills
I'm about the DIY, but I was like,
I can fucking do this. I can imagine you're right. I can imagine you're right.
I have a go and then I pay through the nose to
someone to clean up my mess. Yeah, I'm terrible.
I want to do it. Clean me up, well yeah?
I just got a tomato soup and I got, I get a tars rabbit to host me down.
I was to plumber around.
What do you mean? You just pour tomato soup over yourself.
Just wipe me down.
I'm a plumber.
Please just wipe me.
I was once doing, um, we had these LEDs in our bathroom.
You know, they're like sunk in any D's.
And they're annoying because you can't,
if the bulb goes, you have to,
it's actually like got a whole battery pack like a thing.
Right.
Anyway,
I got them out the ceiling.
I've changed them.
And this is like with exposed wiring.
I did one.
I was like,
I've done that myself.
Took about an hour,
but I did it.
Second time I did it.
It just nothing was working and I kept them to go
and turn the lights switch off.
Anyway,
I electrocuted myself and fell off a chair.
And I was like, right,
I'm never doing anything like that again.
What's the point?
Yeah.
Yeah, I could have died.
It's all stupid.
Yeah.
So stupid.
Anyway.
Were you proving?
Oh, it's like, right, okay.
Your job is being racist on a podcast.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's like asking him to be racist on a podcast.
It's like, and my wife's like, oh, you should do more on the house.
I'm like, fuck it, do you want me dead?
Yeah.
If I try and get in the back of a dishwasher, I will die.
If I, if I clean off myself, I will die.
If I'm watching up, I will die.
Do you want me to fucking die?
What's that thing about weaponised incompetence?
I'm like the logical employer that.
Get someone round.
can you
if I wipe my ass
I will die
we need to
toss rabbit
I like the idea
of tariffitting
every little thing
right
can you toss rabbit
someone
to tuck me
to tuck me to bed at night
it's basically
you're just outsourcing
everything
delivery
but for ars wiping
yeah
great delivery
driver just tucks you in
gives you a kiss
in the forehead
he's got toilet rolls
in his back
yeah
Yeah, weaponising competence, for those you don't know,
is when men supposedly go like, oh, how'd you do that again?
Are these the right things?
So you're not actually dealing with the problem
because you're making the woman actually talk you through it.
So she actually has to engage with the problem.
It's not my job to educate you.
Exactly.
Yeah.
There's that sort of stuff.
The logical end point of that is going,
if I wash up a plate, I'll die.
You do it.
Anyway, so he steals his second wife, basically.
That's what I was getting to.
Caligula steals someone's wife.
From where?
from, from, I think he does it at her wedding.
So there's a wedding going on and he goes,
yoink, that's my wife now.
And he forces him to another wedding.
He forces her to another wedding that day and marries her.
So it's like, you're in the church, right?
And it's like, does anyone have any reason why this is not,
should be like, yep, that's my wife now.
Shotgun.
And then just that's everyone has to be like, oh,
everyone basically just turns around and goes,
all right, this is the wedding now, I guess, back of the church.
Priest goes, one sec, let's go around.
And there's just some cunt, some, the groom's just some cunt.
Are you invited to this wedding?
I guess not.
Do you know the groom?
Well, that's my ex-wife.
The next day, Kalligla divorces her.
I mean, that's fucking hilarious.
Marriage on the rocks.
Nick someone at the ceremony.
Marries her next day.
Nah, fuck it.
So he's sort of like a Kaufman,
sort of, Andy Kaufman.
It's crazy.
He's doing like a lot of comedic stunts
that's satirizing ideas of, you know,
what is...
He has an insanely, I would say,
sophisticated sense of humor.
His sense of humor is crazy.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, it's also.
So the next day, what time?
He prohibits her from going back to the original husband that you nicked her from.
Well, fair's fair.
Yeah, come on.
Come on.
You shouldn't go back to your ex.
So his third wife, Lollia, 38, this is the year after, was with her husband who was a console.
Right.
And Kuligla, I should say, he has a big thing about, he had dinner parties with the sort of the consuls and the senates.
And the console.
I kind of rate this bit as well.
This is great.
Charlie, can you just Google what a.
Roman consular is just to give it
It's like a PlayStation. No, it's
It's like an MP or
Lord or, you know, it's a
Noble. It's the highest
elected public official in the Republic.
That's the Republic. We're in the Empire now
so I guess it's similar. It'll be similar.
Prime Minister. Anyway, whatever.
So what he'd do, he's had the dinner
Oh, so no, it's right at the top. So it's one of
two highest electives. Well, that's during the Republic
though. We're now in the Empire, so I don't know.
There won't be loads more though, well there.
No, anyway, it's a high, it's a public
official, whatever. He'd have these dinner parties
and what he'd do is he'd just take someone's
wife during the main
and he'd just go and
railer next door.
Her hair's all messed up. Yeah, come back and
he'd mark her out of ten.
Craig Revel Horwood.
Yeah.
Well, it's strictly come
dancing.
And he then would come back
to dinner and he'd be like, you know what?
She's absolutely rubbish in the sack. I'm going to, you're
divorced. You can do
better than that. This is, yeah, this
kind of sick to be fair
this is crazy
yeah
at dinner parties
they're so formal
and stuff I think
the idea of just
so stuffy
just yeah
you and me
and then coming back
her hair's all ruffled
rubbish
and you're like
you're like
I'd finish myself off
so his sex life
is insane at this point
right
obviously he's had
Charlie Sheen sort of stuff
yeah he's had
his paedify button pushed
his Chinese
accent button pushed
so rumours
start to spiral
about drunken orgies
little boys
married women's
virgins. He's obviously turned Buckingham Palace into a brothel. He made advances to nearly every
married woman in Rome. I mean, fair play. Do you know what I mean? Fair play. Is he just going,
is he doing door to door? You'd have to. Yeah. Every married woman in Rome. So he's like a male
Bonnie Blue. In some ways. Yeah. One at a time. Now, the relations, obviously. So he's an absolute
menace. I mean, he's just... He's a sex pest, to put it badly. To put it mildly. It's the fact
that he's just going from wedding to wedding and just...
Knicking, right, I mean, it does make weddings more exciting.
Is it a good jeopardy?
Is he going to turn up?
Is this going to be Caligula's wedding again?
We don't know.
Should I get a present for Caligula just in case it turns up?
Should we include him on the seating plan?
He steals brides from their weddings, has sex with them,
and then returns them, they carry on wedding.
They carry on the marriage.
It's crazy.
That's fucking madness.
Yeah.
He's a silly goose.
Yeah.
Yes, he's a silly goose.
He's the original silly goose.
So obviously, this relationship with the Senate.
Is this going to be worth it?
Probably not.
Well, let's carry on then.
His relationship with the Senate, right,
he starts to,
because you are,
I'm saying that because you are eating.
You're eating and, you know.
Panic chocolate.
Yeah, you're eating a pan of chocolate.
So maybe finish what's in your mouth,
bear in mind this is a fucking podcast.
Crazy.
So his relations.
He eats like he's at the fucking Coliseum.
I know.
He's just sat there like he's enjoying it.
He's like a punter.
this plays a bit fucking shit
so his relationship with the Senate
and the Roman elite starts to crumble because he's
you know it's not
it starts to crumble none of this is cricket yeah
why is it's fucking all their wives
and he's I mean yeah yeah yeah it's just
there's a bit of tension between him and the nose
because it's fucking all of their wives
yeah he's an absolute menace
she's not Ryan Giggs
yes you know in the dressing room
he's just fucking trolley dashing
so mid banquet he'd sort of laugh and say to the
consoles. What do you think? I can have your throats cut with a single nod.
You know, part of the comedian's role is you reveal the tensions that people don't want to
talk about. You reveal the subtext. I'll go fuck your wife now. Is that part of our role?
When I go to the comedy club, it doesn't feel like, right, you, outside. No, because you can't.
We just got married. Woo! Him saying, technically, I could slit your throat. Yeah.
He's revealing the power dynamics that are at play. That is the role of the gesture. I guess because
Let's, to get into this seriously, Augustus, Augustus is the first emperor.
His relationship with the Senate and the infrastructure was to hide the fact that really it was a dictatorship.
There was still this kind of surface level of democracy and Republic.
And Tiberius, it kind of gets weathered and Caligula genuinely throws it wide open and displays the despot for what it is.
Johnny Wilkinson's all of Augustus' work.
Just through the last minute, drop kick, done.
But do you find, so Augustus has known as like the, the most deaf political, like, uh...
Deft.
He's the most deft.
Yeah, you said, I heard deaf.
I always didn't take him seriously because he was called Augustus, and I just think of
Augustus glute.
Do you know what I mean?
It feels it undermines him a bit.
Yeah.
Because he's such a titanic historic figure.
Yeah.
But Augustus glute, I just think he's a fat kid being stuck in a pipe after eating too much
chocolate.
Think of me age 10.
Exactly.
Yeah.
It just sounds, Augustus doesn't sound like a great name.
No, but that's a gloop.
Roll doll has, has ruined.
He's ruined it.
But that's the Augustus I know what I mean?
It's not like, oh, damn, Augustus is here.
It's like fucking...
Little fat, little chubby boy.
Apparently during banquets,
during banquets, Caligula would have sex with his wife.
Well, a stop clock is right.
Yeah.
On top of...
He's like, oh my God, this is my actual wife.
What the fuck?
Well, don't worry, because his sisters are basically, they're below him.
How does that work?
So his wife's on top.
Yeah.
What do you mean they're below him?
Is he lying on his sisters?
Is this like, was this how they get the idea for...
It's just how they get the idea for a little...
I think it's a lasagna.
I think it's a lasagna.
Is this where they invent lasagna?
Is he the best amount of sauce?
If we replace the emperor with some ragu
and got some pasta sheets,
I think that would be really tasty.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe a chef is looking on.
Butty, he's a butty.
He's a sort of incest buddy.
Well, his wife's on top.
Yeah.
So it's only the bottom slice is incest.
Yeah.
So it's more like ham egg and chips.
Bung.
Sounds like a joke went wrong.
Boing.
Boing.
Oh,
Christ.
So,
I mean,
again,
this is very funny.
What's Christ doing?
Oh, he's dead.
Sorry,
Christ is four years,
four years,
dead.
Four years dead.
Good riddance.
Tonius claims,
Caligula makes high-ranking officials
run alongside him in his chariot in their togas.
I mean,
it's funny.
It's funny.
To get,
like,
really respected people and humiliate them.
It is funny.
Imagine getting,
like,
the cabinet.
Imagine getting Rachel Reeves and her high heels.
to like run alongside
and Kirstama's just like
in a car.
No, do you know what it is?
It's, you know that thing where you drive
and you're picking someone up
and the doors open
and then you put an accelerator
just as they're about to get in?
Is that?
So these are some of the punishments
that high-ranking officials
so, you know, MPs essentially could get.
You could be branded.
You could be sent to the mines.
You could be thrown to beasts.
This is, he locked in cages.
He brings back sawing in two.
But is this, he's a showman?
It's not magician stuff, is it?
I guess it's a show, but is it a trick if they're dead?
Look at this.
Yeah, you're right.
Is it an amazing trick if it's like,
ah, ah, fuck, fuck.
Yeah, I guess it's not, you know,
you wouldn't do it for a book of kids party.
Yeah, it's not really a magic, it's just.
Sawing someone in two.
But it's still a spectacle in some ways, isn't it?
Because more like, how would you get a clean, a clean cut?
Do you know what I mean?
That's where the skill comes in, I imagine.
Sharp blade.
Very sharp blade.
Treesaw, I imagine.
starts just throwing random people to wild
animals to eat and I think it's
this I think at one point he's riffing now he's really
at one point he's like
I'm going to throw anyone to the
lions who I don't like and there's a line up
and he just picks everyone that's bald
everyone that's bald right bald can't get in there I mean
again it's like a sketch show it's like you know
he keeps coming up with new
premises you know how they say that it's only
only like you shouldn't judge a celebrity for cheating
on his wife because he has the opportunity to do
it and you as a normal
person don't have the opportunity that Tiger Woods has.
Right, right, right.
Exactly. Everyone's judging Tiger Woods is like, well, yeah, but he's, he's like...
If you had the opportunities, you'd be cheating on your life.
Yeah, so you should be judged by the opportunity, whether you have the opportunity to do it or not.
Are you saying, it's easy to judge Caligula, but you've never been in a position where you
can kill every bald man you see.
There, but for the grace of God go I.
That's what I'm saying is if I was Caligula, I may have just gone, I don't like
ball.
I wouldn't woken up going, I'd fucking ate bald people.
Let's get rid.
Yeah, just fleams their lines.
See what happens.
See what that looks like.
Yeah, it's how.
it looking like to be honest yeah he once said of the roman people if only the roman people had a
single neck i'd cut it through and he's quite nihilistic yeah well this is my point he's gone
mad and again he's saying that in a chinese accent um he never kissed the neck of his wife or
mistress without saying quote and this beautiful throat will be cut whenever i please it just i feel
like being it's a bit creepy that i think being caligula's wife it's a bit creepy that's a that's a
You wouldn't say that on a third day.
No, I think being Klingler's wife
I feel constantly tense, wouldn't you?
You'd be on edge.
I'll be on edge, I'll be on edge.
Is he the one who in Gladiated,
Jacking, Wachian Phoenix is based on?
Jacking.
Jacklin Phoenix.
You know, Charlie, we said that in the last episode.
How could you possibly know?
Do you know what?
At the end of this, maybe we'll see what you've learned.
Yeah, let's start doing that.
We should start doing that.
I think it would...
All right.
Yeah.
I'm learning a lot.
Yeah.
So he even threatened to torture his
wife to try and discover why she was so devoted to him.
What?
You got to find out.
You got to find out.
He was backed into a corner.
What are you meant to do?
And he's obsessed with killing people slowly, a thousand cuts.
He's obsessed with that.
He wants to see the death occur.
And we've got to bear in mind in the last episode, this is a guy who has a boy.
He was Gunasaurus for the army.
Yeah.
He's in the trenches.
He was grown up.
He was grown up.
He was growing up.
He was a traumatized boy.
Yeah.
Now it's all coming out of him.
Right.
So we get to
the most famous story about him
which has kind of been
DeMiff
Like, I don't know
Chinese whispered
Yeah, Chinese accent whispers
He has a horse
Who he absolutely loves
And his horse called Incatatus
Which translates as speedy
Yeah
Right
And the horse gets
Marble Staples
Yeah
Gets an ivory manger
Yeah
Gets a mansion
Gets like a budget
Has slaves
Imagine
being a horse's slave.
I don't think that'd be that bad.
Yeah, because it's not the worst master,
isn't it? It's not going to be whipping you.
No.
It'd be not quite nice.
It's been of doss, wouldn't it?
The respect.
Yeah.
You're already a slave.
You're on a date.
What'd you do?
I'm a slave.
Okay.
A horse.
Yeah, who'd I rather be?
The slave of the horse
or a Caligula slave?
A horse.
Where he's just sloping your head off.
Yeah, the horse would be fair.
Yeah, but if Caligula
thinks you're not doing a good enough job for the horse.
Yeah.
You're gone.
You're gone.
You're gone.
So basically,
but this one is not that...
People bring this up all the time.
It's not the maddest things he does at all.
This is just like...
People who like love their dogs.
No, it's not even that.
It's him just, it's him having fun with the form.
Yeah.
You guys think you're so, you're so powerful.
So the big thing is that everyone says that he made his horse,
he made his horse a console.
But I think he did, but it was done as like a...
It's just, it's not because he'd lost his mind.
He said he could and he said he would.
And it's like he was basically, it was satire.
Yeah, it was satire.
This is how it is view.
So let's talk about his military victories.
Right.
Because he does, again, he's...
On the Rhine.
On the Rhine, imagine.
He goes to Germania at this point.
Of course, it's barbarian Germany.
It's feral.
It's pre-Nazi.
It's not organized.
Germania sounds like a sort of a weird theme park.
So he stages a fake battle using his own German bodyguards as enemy troops.
Right.
He kind of dresses the Gauls as Germans, even though they're already subjects.
Yeah.
He's sort of like...
He sort of plays.
playing battle, playing soldier.
Also just these days
to be exhausted because it's one man's will,
it's no benefit to anyone else,
and there's thousands of thousands of people having to do it.
Yeah.
And it's pointless.
Yeah.
And it's not being filmed.
Yeah.
He also builds...
So just imagine those days.
You're waking up.
It's like a big organizational thing
and everyone is pulling towards this project
that doesn't mean anything.
HS2.
It's all like this.
Yeah.
He marches, he declares war on the sea.
Yeah, well, it depends what the sea did to him.
Let's hear.
Yeah, so he goes to the channel, the English channel,
as if to prepare an invasion of Britain,
and then he goes, actually, let's just fight the sea,
and he orders it to be whipped.
So people have to go and whip the sea.
He's random.
It is random.
He's not building.
You're right, it is no fielding.
You think he's going to do one thing, and then, whoa.
By bird, bold, building, bum, bit of boys, but be, but be.
Allegribee.
He gets his soldiers to collect shells and seaweed.
So it is very millennial, random girl.
Yeah, it's very like, that.
I've got a conch in my...
Yeah, it's like early Instagram
with the filters on it.
So when we...
You know how you're not meant to?
Apparently you're cursed
if you get a conch from the sea
and you take it away.
Go and do.
When, hey, maybe it's just Fiji.
So my wife and I were in Fiji
is years ago.
And I've been doing the New Zealand festival.
She came out.
We had a holiday in Fiji.
Fiji's brilliant, right?
Because of the diet.
Because of the breakfast
where you eat ice cream and bread.
Yeah, anyway.
I wonder what you like to.
We got a conch out of the beach.
Got a conch out of the...
She was like, oh, that's a nice shell.
Be romantic if you got it.
And we just started seeing each other.
Right.
So I was like, yeah, I'll get that conch, right?
And then we, so she's into shells, I guess.
And so we got it back to the hotel.
And you meant to dry it out because it's got a fucking mollusk in it.
Dry it out, take it home.
That's the plan.
Even though it's been told not to do that.
You get cursed for seven years if you steal a conch.
Anyway, the smell of this thing, right, as it dries out,
because it's like a living thing in there.
Right.
Fucking, it's a hotel room starts to think.
It's a sea pussy, right?
basically our hotel starts to stink of deep sea pussy right and then yeah a bussy a beach pussy and then on
the last night of the holiday we basically both got food poisoning right and uh i'd left the conch in a bag with
my um swimming trunks the swimming trunks smelled so bad that i basically threw the conch back into the
sea had to leave my full swing trunks in the bin we then had to get a 28 hour flight home and my wife was um had
severe food poisoning
both ends
the entire 20 hours
really yeah
I recovered
but I ate
but I had double meals
so it's happy ending
happy ending
yeah we watched
Utopia and I had
two dinners
but but the curse
of the conch
so you got the curse
of the conch
and then you threw it back
into the sea
and it balance was restored
hopefully but who knows
maybe in the middle
it's still seven years
bad luck
yeah
but the curse
of the conch
how long ago was that
well that was
that was 2018
so yeah
you'd come to the end
to the end of the seven years
back
but it's
I can't, the smell of it was so bad.
What does it smell like?
Yeah.
You already in love?
Yeah.
Had you told her?
Yeah.
Nice.
Yeah, yeah.
We'd known each other for years.
That's lovely.
Yeah.
That's lovely.
Yeah, that's lovely.
What does it, what do you smell of?
Deep Sea Pussy.
What is that, what is that?
Just pussy with deep sea.
Waterpum, put that again.
Waterpum.
Yeah.
Waterpum.
No, it's like, you know, sushi paper, dried seaweed.
Yeah.
That, but worse.
And with the kind of like...
Ancient mass.
Toilet water.
Fucking moaning.
Toilet water.
Toilet water sushi.
It's melt of toilet water, rotten sushi.
That's what it smelled like.
It was really bad.
It was the worst thing I've ever smelled.
Stop moaning.
Anyway.
Enough about the seapussy.
You can't talk about seapum
and expect me not to moan.
Yes, I can.
That's in your job description.
You can.
You've got to the touch.
chat yourself from the sexual jokes we make.
I can't.
I honestly can't. So the point
is that even though the elites
hate him, the military people
hate him, because they hate
him, the military people are
annoyed with him because he's whipping the sea, you know, he's wasting
money. Are you saying it's like a mental
health magazine cover?
Doctors hate him.
The consoles, hate him.
He had at some point
a prophecy that said
he would be killed by someone named Cassius.
So he starts killing people called Cassius.
So someone who called Cassius Longinus,
who I guess must be a noble,
but it turns out that in his Praetorian guard
there's a guy called Cassius Chiria.
Right.
And he's the Praetorian guard,
like his bodyguard.
They're the only ones to carry swords in Rome.
For power, you've got to keep them on side,
you've got to give them a lot of bonuses,
you've got to keep them happy.
Because that's where all the power in Rome,
fundamentally any transition of power
you need the Praetorian garden side
And Caligula had always be teasing
Kyria as like effeminate
And oh it's Cassius Chiria
He'd be mocking his high-pitched voice
Like, oh hello, oh Kyrie's here
Pretorian friends
Yeah exactly
Oh bus wanker
Yeah it's that
So
And this is what I wanted to draw attention to
I put a pin in the last episode
If you remember when we're talking about
Having a permanent boner
Yeah
Right let's just put a pin in that boner
And deflate it
that he would
so there'd be a
yeah
now that
what's that
cause?
Priapism
yeah
now he would
give
the Praetorian God
every day
a password
which was the
password for the day
it was like
some kind of
security thing
right
and he'd give him
humiliating
passwords
like
priapus
now what does that
mean
does that mean
permanent boner
in Latin
no
don't say yeah
look it up
look it up
you idiot
no it does
it does
look it up
you fuck it me
right
the Greco Roman
God of
fertility gardens and male generative power what's male generative or was it to give birth to
oh so the gone of erections so pre a priapism is a constant erection that's good to be called that
god of bonus god of bonus the bono I'd love to be called the god of bone of bonus I'd love to be called
the god of bone but wait the god of bone this is what's weird about roman gods though is that they
always triple up or quadruple with other shit yeah it's never like one thing yeah so he's the god
of bonus but he's also the god of gardening but do you know what I mean it's like
Alan Titchmarsh got a permanent log on well well Alan Titcher
March is going to have to make a lot of um he's like no no it's because of the gardening stuff
yeah yeah sure he's making all these offerings to the god of bonus no no no it's because i'm a gardener
i want um i want my plants to grow i need to give offerings fucking you're digging a trench
oh yes you're struggling no no my burners are fine you don't need a trow with that then do you
that's so funny but like given the choice what would you all three if you were the god of three
things what you're picking it'll be fucking it'd be mint pies no it wouldn't it would be um it'd be uh
pub snacks.
Soharanuts.
So there's a thing
called Saharanuts
which is actually
it turns out
it's local to
Oxfordshire
and Gloucestershire
based up the A40
It's one guy
who bought these
This is a very, very boring
This is intensely boring
Basically when I was a kid
All our local pubs had these
These things called Sahara Nuts
Google it up Google
You know what Sahara Nutt is
The big vending machine
It's a big vending machine
Yeah they're warm
Warmed chili
coated peanuts right
yeah that that thing and it turns
out now I thought what's the motto
sahara nuts
they're nuts they are nuts
they're nuts that's a great
that's a great marketing slogan I thought every
pub had them because that's why you started drinking in these local
booze it turns out they're very specific
to a stretch of the A40 where one bloke
invented them and then just sold them to pubs up and down that street
so you only get them in the Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds
no you get them in Sussex
they're fucking amazing I've seen a couple of
of dispensaries.
I'd be the god of that.
I love it.
Sahara nuts.
They are amazing.
Me and my sister.
Who's the guy who invented?
Who's the genius who worked that?
John Zahara.
They're fucking brilliant.
And then I have like a little red light.
It's like an incubator for nuts.
Anyway, I'll be the god of pub snacks.
Pub snack tapas is probably one of my favorite.
If I go on off menu, that's my starter.
Pub snack tapas.
So what?
You're doing scampy fries?
Scampy fries, pork scratching, Sahara nuts.
There's sweet chili crackers.
With a pint of lager.
Yeah.
Or local ale.
right yeah
fucking love pub snacks
yeah
I'd be god of pub snacks
so we're coming now to the
sorry what we're talking about
we're talking
oh yeah
so anyway so he'd give his
his bodyguard the password
what's the password today boss
permanent boner
you're the bono god
and he'd be like
oh god
this is so fucking embarrassing
this is humiliating
I have to say the guy up to people
and say the word bono god
I'm the bono god
maybe that's what we have to say is I'm the bono god
and clicker's there like
Anyway, so this fuels Korea's bitterness
And he starts an assassination plot
And apparently there are multiple plots, multiple conspiracies
And bear in mind, he's been emperor for less than four years
Three years, ten months
But he's done a lot of damage
He's done a lot of damage
He's fucked every married woman in Rome
It was his domestic policy
Like is he doing other
He builds aqueducts to be fair to the guy
And I think some of them still stand today
And he also, the Palatine Hill
He makes that more palatial
Right
Palatine
That's where we get the way palatial from
We don't have aqueducts anymore, right?
So is it...
There's a few in England.
But is it just like, is it...
We don't use them.
Or Thames Water.
Is it what is?
Do they...
Do they do the same thing as like...
Yeah, it's like Tyber Water, they who run the Aquedocs Nation Rome.
You got to call up Tyber Water.
My pipe's gone.
No, but that's what it is, right?
And they're speaking in that weird cockley Greek out.
I'm sorry, boss the water's gone eating.
Sorry, mired to your...
Sorry, mired your pipe's fucked.
Oh, the bloody aqueducts are fucked.
More like aquifact.
he's not aquifact sorry mate it's aqua fuck today sorry water works
iny ain'ty sorry sorry no no flashy toilet for three days yeah sorry about that
no no no flushing toilet for three thousand years just just drink tatwall don't flash toilets
aquifact didn't it anyway um the aqueducts are used as they're like their thames water
their temp's water the reason why rome could build bigger cities than they've ever seen before
it's because of the aqueducts.
It means they can basically get water
into the centre of the...
They also look amazing
and there's some...
Yeah, there's some in England.
The Ouse Valley Viaduct is a viaduct
an aqueduct.
No, it's a road because...
Yeah, fair enough.
Did you do Latin at school?
Badly.
Were you good at it?
You do at A level?
I did it, I did early GCSE.
He did it a year early.
On the 24th of January,
41,
Caligula attends a show
as he's been doing.
He's a showman and his shows are grim
and it's bear baiting
and it's throwing balls.
Queer baiting.
It's queer baiting.
It's killed Tony, basically.
Do you know that's not what queer baiting is?
What?
It's not just saying slurs.
Isn't it?
No, queer baiting is what Harry Stiles and Billy Elish was doing before she came out as gay.
It's like appropriating it, isn't it?
It's basically like straight guys painting their nails and wearing dresses.
And just like riding on the fact that they're queer to get away with more problematic behavior.
What you're baiting?
You're riling up the gays.
You're rattling the gays.
cages.
But so they then think why you,
are you gay?
Yeah, yeah.
You're kind of almost like cosplaying his gay
even though you're straight in order to say and do certain things.
Oh, to get more gay, just get more gay fans.
Yeah.
So if I start wearing eyeliner or like, if I started
paint, had pink.
Yeah.
So it's not what killed Tony are basically using
shouting slurs in stadiums.
That's not what queer baits is.
Okay, I see.
It's the opposite actually.
They're getting less gay fans because they're just
shouting the F word at
people. Right. But Harry
Stiles is wearing women's clothing.
Yeah.
If I started throwing in,
what do you think is the bare minimum queer
baiting?
Is that, is that queer baiting?
Get the, uh,
yes.
Yes, it's that, isn't it? If I just started doing that, if I started
clicking, that would be queer baiting. That would be
queer bait. We're trying to get it's fucking annoying.
Yeah. I was in a show once where
someone started, was doing that in the front row
and the comic, brilliant comic,
Ad Evans, just when you just fucking clap like a normal
fucking person. It was fucking brilliant.
The wind went out of its sales.
Because it's stupid.
I mean, if you've got a room,
if you've got a room where there's one toilet for everyone.
Gosh, I thought.
Just called one gay man the room of toilet.
There's one,
and there's one toilet in there.
Now, that's not queer baiting.
Why is Sherlock Holmes queer baiting?
The Carson crew of Sherlock have persisted denied
the race between titular detectives
to be seen as romantic.
Critics have called the depiction
queer bait.
Right, I don't understand that now.
So is it, are they basically saying
sorry?
Fucking kiss then.
So basically.
I was in the audience
and there was this toilet
in the front row
we kept clicking his fingers.
That's what I thought you said.
Isn't that crazy?
That's fucking crazy.
Well, it's not,
I didn't say it.
I know, but I just,
but that is mad.
You're actually that's a bit much.
That's mental.
For this pod.
You're behind it.
I don't think,
that's crazy what you just said.
I don't think I'm comfortable
with you calling all gay evil toilets.
I think that's mad.
That is mad.
Yeah.
So they're saying that
Benedict coming about Sherlock
is queer-based
because of how
subtextually horny
his relationship
with Martin Freeman
was in that show.
And they're basically like,
why are you going to fuck or not?
Yeah.
So it's like,
well,
I'm turned on,
kiss.
Yeah.
Fucking kiss.
But that's like
straight baiting,
isn't it?
That's just me
walking past the room
and going,
oh, stop it with them.
You do?
What do you want me to do
with Chebs like that?
That's like me
doing that, isn't it?
It's just...
It's not straight bait
Yeah, it is.
It's the same, isn't it?
When does it stop?
When does it stop?
When's all this queer bathing stop?
Would you say that is there any accusation of you two?
We're definitely, it's unbelievable queer baiting.
This is queer baiting.
Is it?
No, there's that guy who keeps commenting who's saying,
whenever my mum sees me watching this at the telly, he says,
Who's that queer?
Is that queer on the TV?
You're watching that queer on the TV again?
I think wearing pink socks are like,
Who's that bloody queer on the telly?
It's kind of awesome, though.
I do love those comments.
It's just so funny
just watch the podcast
of the TV
and a mum coming in
probably with a fag in her mouth
saying who's that
queer in the telly?
Who's that internet
queer on the telly?
It'd be funny
to put that on your next poster
queer on the telly.
Who's that queer on the telly?
Anyway, look,
we're getting to the end.
We've got to make this tense.
We've got to...
Build it up.
We've got to...
If this was a noiser production
there would be some sound effects.
Charlie, can you give us
some tense sound effects?
Not hornet.
Not horny.
God.
Charlie.
Charlie, do your job.
Okay.
Tense.
Dada.
Okay.
Colligula is as a show.
Dun, dun,
dun,
done,
come on.
Come on.
He's going to stop coming to it
if you don't fucking make use for.
You're actually funny.
Colligula attends a show.
He's amused himself
watching censor scramble for seats.
he hadn't reserved any for them.
He laughed when a priest's rogue
was staying with Flamingo Bar during the
Sauclos.
After the performance,
it's normal Caligula.
He's making fun of the nobles.
He leaves by a corridor.
A courtier lured Caligula
aside to see some noble youths,
some sweet noble youths,
rehearsing a play in his honour.
They set up this as a choke point.
So they make this little play
into a like a small corridor.
Cassius,
Chayrilla.
Chiaiaia.
Chiaia.
Cassius Paella.
I mean, there's four vows in that word.
Yeah, it's a lot.
It's a lot.
We didn't even get to the tenth bit of the story,
and Charlie's just come, and he's asking...
Damn.
Right, here we go.
Caligula walks down an alleyway.
He's been tricked by saying there's a play with some young youth in it.
Yeah, so he's hung over, he walks down in alleyway,
and he meets his Praetorian Guard,
and one of them asks for the password.
Take on say I'm the bono god
I'm the bone of god and then
and then the first blow
is struck down on Caligula's neck
and it hits his shoulder
and this is Cassius Caiera
and then all the
pro the Praetorians
they mob in and they start hacking it
It's fucking whackamol, isn't it? It's whackamol in there
and he gets
What is the big moment?
He's being hacked to death
And this is what's playing.
It's quite weak for a...
Can you play the music you think you're...
What do you think you're doing?
Do you think you're doing Beethoven's fifth?
Is that what you think you're doing?
Dunla-na-da-da-da.
I'm going for this, yeah.
Dan-da-na.
Yeah, okay.
Oh, fucking, yeah.
Beethoven's fifth chromosome, more like.
Right.
Caligula staggers, calling for help.
Help.
But senators pile in.
Imperial freedmen.
It's a piling.
It's a pylon.
It's a bundle.
They all pile in.
It's a Twitter pylon.
It's a bundle with swords.
Yeah.
And apparently he's, his head is split open, his throat is slit.
They start stabbing his genitals.
He stabbed over 30 times.
Right.
Apparently, people, rumors, so clay, that people start eating him.
Right.
So they all just got mental.
They go mental.
They go, it's a frenzy.
It's a feeding frenzy.
It must feel amazing.
And in the chaos, some senators start to toy with the idea of restoring the Republic.
But the Praetorian Guard, who need an emperor for their power.
And this could be my favorite emperor.
Yeah.
Claudius.
Because most these people are fucking...
Now, Claudius is disabled.
Yeah.
So most these people are...
are mental kind of...
Charles.
Most of these people
are mental sort of like
archetypes of a despot.
They make sense to the Roman emperor.
Claudius is a nerds
with a lisp and a spitting problem.
I've reached books.
He sees like the most unlikely person to become emperts.
They find him hiding behind a curtain.
Oh, God. He's like a cartoon cuck.
Yeah. And because basically
he's the least offensive option
at the time,
The Praetorian Guard, full of alphas, like, we need someone.
They just say, well, you're your fucking emperor.
They also kill Caligula's wife, and then they throw his infant daughter against the wall, which is quite grim.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's not cricket.
Come on, play squash with this daughter, that's not nice.
Got the squash goggles on.
Right.
You know, anyway, so, Caligula is murdered at just 28 years old.
God.
Barely longer than...
The 28 Club.
The 28 Club.
Jim Morrison,
Winehouse, Hendricks.
Caligal's up there with him.
Basically, from the minute he dies,
the kind of spin starts about how bad he was.
And so any unfinished public works,
they write Nero's...
They write Caligula's name off it,
scratch it off and put Claudius.
Yeah, we can't know how much is true.
I mean, I imagine he was pretty mental.
I imagine there's still a lot of stuff.
Some of the things are probably exaggerations,
but I imagine it wasn't like,
no, he was actually a really nice guy.
It's mad to think that, like,
what are people going to exaggerate?
What's the tabloid exaggeration of Bonnie Blue?
Do you know what I mean?
Right.
Like, if you're actually insane.
Yeah.
And the tabloid's...
10,000, I guess.
It's great.
Yeah.
It's nuts.
Most beautiful woman that's ever.
Sorry, child.
I think that's a bit.
Yeah.
Helen of Troy.
Anyway, so he dies,
having rained only three years, 10 months,
28.
And yet, and he, Caligula, is the archetypal tyrant.
Yes.
um which is
because he's there's a purity to caligula
yeah he almost lacks depth
because it's just pure mac
that's why it's very very funny it's good stuff
yeah but it's not like the modern
despots where there's kind of like
it's it's he was there for four years
yeah and it was just
Chinese pido lasagna
well that's what the episode's called
yeah so actually was that your sum up
Charlie what have you learned
um caligula was a Chinese
pedophile um lasagna who was eaten
yeah well I guess
Yeah, yeah.
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