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Welcome back to Finn versus history.
I'm still joined by Horatio Gould.
Still.
And we're still here.
It's Napoleon part eight.
Part eight.
The school shooter has, things are starting to go wrong for him.
Right.
The police are masked outside.
Yeah.
Like Ossiman Deus, he has run out of fat kids to massacre.
He is not, doesn't have enough ammo to turn the gun on himself.
Oh, fuck.
Is there anything sad?
A little school shooter.
He's run out of bullets to kill himself.
Always leave one in the chamber.
Or is he too cowardly as well?
because he thinks he killed himself
when it comes to it, his survival instincts kick in.
Oh, no. Oh, no, I don't want to die.
Oh, fuck.
We left off.
Napoleon had met his match in Russia,
which did what Russia did
and just set fire to the place.
I mean, you can't, you can't really,
it's not cricket.
I mean, we're not playing that game.
We could all just, we could all just get in Ireland ourselves,
you know.
So I guess Russia had kind of ruined it.
Did he have them?
Was that?
Yes, white jeanne.
To the al-Aqabar...
As a country, they al-Aqabar Moscow.
When do they rebuild Moscow, Charlie?
I was looking at this on Chachshabit.
Oh, please, please.
Cook.
It was a young king, remember, and he's one of...
Chatjvetyvati ranked some third best Russian monarch.
I've been getting a lot of rankings going.
You can't understand history unless you rank it.
I need to rank it.
You need to rank it.
And I like how, you know, you try and ask people who know about history and they go, well, it's a complicated thing.
You watch Chat Chb-T.
Here's one, two.
I'm like, just give me a...
None of this bullshit.
Just give me a definitive ranking.
But he, because he was young, he had a long reign after this
and spent about 20 years rebuilding it.
Most of it was wooden.
So it was all burned.
And he rebuilt it similar to like after the Great Far of London.
It was like rebuilt it in stone and stuff.
So Napoleon has had to retreat.
Now, meanwhile, on his other front,
Wellington is cooking in the peninsula.
Yes.
Now, the Duke of Wellington, look, it's episode eight.
You've made a lot of cum noises this series.
The prostates are imploded at this point.
Right.
Okay.
They're hanging out of the back of themselves.
They're pinksocking it.
Every night I'm hanging out of myself.
Every night of the week, I'm hanging out of the back of myself because we're not,
and we're not even at the climactic battle yet.
You know, and there's so many battles still to go through.
Now, Wellington, he'd learned how to beat Napoleon in Spain.
Yeah.
So Napoleon's brother, Joseph.
He had two brothers, I think, or he had maybe more.
He had Joseph.
He had Jerome.
Hey man.
Jerome was his adopted brother.
Yeah.
They're like the Paula Hitler's of this story.
Paula Hitler.
Say her name.
Paula Hitler, who was Hitler's sister who worked in HR.
What happened to Paula?
Can we get Paula story up?
Let's get a point.
Before we get into...
Pause this.
Why have we not dealt with the second most important women in history after Ava Brown?
Paula Hitler.
What happened to Paula Hitler?
She died of natural causes in 1960.
Suspicious.
In Berthus Garden.
was still at the nest?
Yeah.
Well, that's good to know.
That's good to know
that it stayed in the family
was her job.
She gave a recorded
television interview in 1959.
She's a broadcaster.
She was she?
No.
No, she just had one interview
because she's Hitler's sister.
That doesn't make her abroad.
It doesn't make her Terry Wogan.
Paula Hitler.
Paula Hitler worked as a housekeeper,
office secretary and military
hospital secretary during her life.
She lost her job at a Viennese
insurance company in 1930
when her identity was discovered.
After which she was financially
supported by her brother.
Well, that is
lovely. Yeah, that's nice. You've got to
take care of the people you come up with. Also, how sad is that
because, you know, it heard just because of
what her family did. It's discrimination.
Yeah. It's discrimination. She didn't do any of that
stuff. She's the innocent Paula Hitler.
She was a secretary. Paula Hitler's views on Jews,
please. Sorry, we should use
her name that she identified as Paula
as Paula Wolfe. Which is what she changed the name.
What was Paula Wolfe's opinion on the Jewish
people, please? Because I think it's time
we exonerate. Yeah. You know, not all
Hitler. Hashtag not all Hitler's.
She was not politically active. This is the problem
with sisters, brothers, there will be quotes.
Sisters do have an ability to keep their mouth shut in a way the brothers don't.
I've written a book, my sister, kept her mouth shut, kept her mouth shut, you know?
Yeah, the other tailor.
The other Taylor.
When people are looking in history, they'll be, they'll scour the internet for some
about it.
Exonerate her, yeah?
Let her live her life.
Paula Taylor.
She shared personal observations regarding her brother's ad-offs and
anti-Semitism, while maintaining a posture of denial regarding the Holocaust, a posture
of denial.
So she's denying the Holocaust?
But she's, no, no, no, no.
She's maintaining a posture of denial.
I don't want to look at what's going on.
I don't want to see it.
Whatever it's going on over there, I don't want to know.
I don't want to know about it.
Whenever you do in your own room is up to, is your business.
You're my brother and I love you.
Yeah.
But you make it hard sometimes.
You know, we'll always be family.
Have you seen that film we need to talk about Kevin or, you know, the book?
We need to talk about Adolf.
Once again, I feel my brother's loose hand across my face.
Recalling her brother as a young boy,
he remembers her brother as a little boy who led all the others
when they played Cowboys and Indians as children.
Makes sense.
Right.
Anyway, Paula Hitler, friend of the pod,
sister of the pod,
up there in the family tree with every woman.
Errol Musk is the grandfather.
Paula Hitler is the pod's sister.
However, we must get back.
to the opponent.
Now, Wellington, the cold, cautious, arch-conservative.
He is brilliant.
Doing more research on him.
He is exceptional.
A phenomenal character.
He is one of the straightest guys, because I also think his defensive style of warfare
is inherently straight.
Well.
There's something he feels like he's defending his ass.
No one defends his ass more.
Well, listen, this is why Napoleonic wars are the straightest history gets,
because it's all about defending your rear.
I don't want to be outflanked.
You know, that's why I'm walking through Soho and I'm constantly, you know, I'm walking in a defensive square.
We'll get to Waterloo, but Waterloo is the greatest defensive action of your rear car.
Yes, it is.
Yes, it is.
It's the greatest, it's the strangest thing that's ever been.
And so that's why when I walk through Soho, I am in a square formation, right?
Because the gay cavalry, cavalry is gay.
Cavalry is gay.
Because they're on horses.
Woo!
Charging down there.
Yeah.
They, you know, they will just run.
They can't, you know, they can't, they won't impale themselves on the bayonets.
Yeah.
Yeah, Wellington start to learn how to beat the French in the Peninsular War.
He's a defensive general, although I think that does some discredit,
but he prefers sapping enemy numbers,
and he only thinks he should attack to basically confirm a victory.
He thinks victory is one in defence.
But also the fact that that's relatively similar to Monty,
do you think it's just more because of playing with British resources,
seeing as we're not a land power?
Yeah, it's definitely a...
I was discussing with Gemini, my AI friends,
and I wasn't just going,
can you rank the generals so I know who's the best?
I was having a quite informed conversation
about whether, you know, Wellington essentially...
Do you like me? Am I good guy?
Am I good boss?
Do you like working for me?
I mean, I pay for your pro tier, but, you know,
what if I didn't?
Would you just answer my questions?
It's my knob.
It's my knob, normal science.
It's that normal size?
Anyway, yeah, I was having a conversation because Wellington arguably invents the kinds of tactics that end up as World War I.
But he invents it a generation, like 100 years before.
Because before this, it was all about, you know, when we, I mean, we're rushing ahead.
But you want to get people, you want to intimidate the opponent by showing them all your forces.
You're standing.
It's kind of, it's theater.
Yeah.
Wellington, straight man, hates theater.
was like, I'm going to hide all my troops.
I'm going to trick him.
Concealment.
He invents tactical concealment.
Yeah, a millionaire wearing billabong shorts, you know?
You don't need to front your cash.
Exactly.
Let it speak for itself.
Let my bellabong shorts speak for myself.
Are you a millionaire or you just wearing billabong shorts?
So, he also invented the Wellington boot.
That's about a straight shoe as you can get, really.
And it becomes all the rage after he invents it.
Now, he had not the up boot.
he had allied in Spain
with a 68 year old general
called General Questa
he observed battles
from a carriage drawn by mules
and he refused to fight on Sundays
because you know whatever
the week needs a nap in the week
and so he had to be hauled out of his coach
onto a velvet cushion to watch battles
which only angers Wellington
and makes him intrinsically more anti-Spanish
right okay
so he basically thinks these Spanish allies
are fucking stupid
he likes the Portuguese
Yes.
Because, you know, these people have...
And he ends up creating these defensive lines,
the lines of Torres Vedras,
which is a sort of secret 25-mile network
of forts, redoubts, tank...
I mean, what we would look at as tank traps or pits,
which basically...
And then he backs out...
Basically trenches almost.
Sort of, this is it.
He kind of invents trench warfare 100 years before.
And then the European powers,
they forget what he does.
They forget that he beats Wellington, that he beats Napoleon with this.
And then they all kind of default to like, oh, attacking swagger and Elan, right,
which is why on the first day of the Somme and the start of the World War I,
the French troops just walk in red trousers towards machine guns.
Yeah, they get rolled by the Germans.
Yeah, it's another Germany, Brazil, 7-1.
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The Battle of Victoria is where Wellington smashes King Joseph Bonaparte's army.
He ends French rule in Spain.
And then he also basically takes all of Joseph's looted art and gold and rescues it.
Does he put it back?
One small side thing is that his big campaigns before this were in India.
and he was actually quite attacking in India
because he had far less men.
He beat an Indian force of 40,000 men
with 7,000 men using quite expansive.
So you had that element to his game as well.
But he kind of thought it was almost cheap or gay to attack.
Yes.
It was much more manly and straight to lie there.
Hold on. Hold on.
Probably the most Protestant general there is.
For sure.
So he's been cooking in Spain and Portugal.
and after June 1813, he starts to incur into southern France.
So Napoleon's southern border has been breached.
It's his Falklands.
Now, meanwhile, in the East, in March 1813, a sixth coalition has risen, okay?
Russia, Prussia, Britain, Sweden, Austria and many of the German states.
and this sixth coalition
have decided not
Nick Clegg is not in this coalition
That's the seventh coalition
That's the seventh coalition
Which we're coming to
Nick Clegg is a crucial member
of the seventh coalition
This coalition
They think they've worked out how to beat Napoleon
Finally which is the Trachenberg plan
Sounds like it's going to work
The Trakenberg plan
Is a plan that means
Whenever we find Napoleon
We get smoked
So why don't we
go after his generals or his marshals and their forces
and basically run away from Napoleon.
Go after her ugly mates.
Thank you.
You know, you see the pack of women at the nightclub.
Well, I'm never going to, it's never going to write with her.
Don't go from the centre.
Neg the ugly one.
You know, outflank the uglys on the sides.
Find the weak one.
Tear the weak one away from the pack.
The less mobile.
The less mobile.
You know, the fat one in a wheelchair.
you know
I can cause
the cavalry
yeah
I also form squares
to avoid the
devastating cavalry attacks
the British cavalry attacks
of women in mobility scooters
and seaside towns
ah
trying to steal my chips
no
well the women are trying to steal your chips
yes well that's
modern day cavalry
modern day cavalry
it's me
in a defensive square
sea gulls and women
in movement
Seagulls and women in the military school with crutch.
That's their sabre.
The modern day cavalry is the one-armed crutch.
Anyway, basically because Napoleon is so good,
and because so much of this is mind games,
he's trying to make the allies do something,
and they end up doing it because they're just spooked.
Whereas the other marshals don't have this aura.
Yeah.
So.
Yeah, definitely.
There's a sense of confidence, morale,
or that you're destined to victory if you see Napoleon's leading you.
Yeah, totally.
do.
So after, I mean, he's, bear in mind he has lost, what, 600,000 men in Russia?
Yeah, it's the worst disaster in military history.
Yeah.
Up until this point.
The big army.
Yeah.
He's lost the big army.
Small army now.
It's now a small army.
So he now assembles another one very quickly, rapid conscription.
Yeah, media army.
Mediarmie Moien.
The teenagers that are barely old enough to shave are drafted.
Yeah.
I mean, they're French.
must have significant bum fluff though.
Sure.
An old grenadier said they smell more of school books than gunpowder.
Basically, they haven't actually like fired their guns.
So why is this guy smelling kids?
Hey?
Why is this guy smelling kids?
He's an old grenadier.
That's French slang.
They basically haven't fired their guns yet.
Yeah.
And also, you know, there's, the French are not using rifles.
Yeah.
The French are only using muskets.
As we discussed in our, in our sharp deep dive.
on the patron, you know, rifles and muskets, the technology, the French aren't getting into the new
technology.
Why not?
Because they're stuck in their ways.
Yes.
They're all like...
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Exactly.
But it's broken.
It is broke.
The economy, the country is in the toilet after 20 years of continuous warfare.
They've also got no fucking horses.
Nay, their name, because the horses all died in Russia.
Yeah.
So in this period, Napoleon is only sleeping three hours a night.
And sleep's very important.
You never regret
sleeping instead of doing anything else
You know
It's never worth trading sleep
For that thing that you're going to do
Yeah
It's three the worst number of hours to get
Explain
I think if you
As a man who has tried every single type of hours
You know what
You often see people ranking number of pints
Do you want to rank hours of sleep
Because you've done I think every hour
Yeah you have
I think seven is the best
Better than eight
Yes
I think 15 minutes is better than three hours
Interesting
Wow.
And I think anywhere between three and five is basically fucked.
But then once you hit six, six onwards is fine.
Six is good.
Eight is too many.
Fifty minutes is better than three hours.
I came to work on 15 minutes.
And we did all right.
Did we?
When have you been on the worst?
When you felt the worst working?
Because you did some crazy late nights back in the day.
I think when I missed the caveman shoot.
How many hours was that?
I think I got like five, but it was such a mess.
It was genuinely.
It was such a man.
It was that I woke up so...
Terrified.
It was late and started masturbating
because it was...
Well, I'm sure he did.
God, this is so...
Oh, my laugh at me.
I'm going to lose my job.
Yeah, waking up to that was devastating.
Yeah.
You need to get...
I think for me, seven hours is good.
Well, that's the health.
That's the healthy amount.
The three is fucking horrific.
Well, having...
Well, when you have newborns and stuff,
I mean, you'll just take anything.
You can get three, four hours, five hours.
But you're a father and you do it for them.
Yeah.
Yeah, this is the point Charlie's making is
when you do it is meaningful,
it's for someone else.
There's a purpose to it.
Charlie has none of that.
You just stayed up too late,
gooning and you're late for work.
Yeah, I've been cradling my child,
getting him or her back to sleep,
and you've just been awake or not,
cradling your hog.
You just cradling your hog.
I do this for you.
Just cranking it.
Shh.
Shhh.
You know, on seven screate.
Oh,
fucking hell.
Anyway, to these kind of people,
these teenagers that are gooning all night,
the Napoleon hires in his army,
you know,
because all the actual men,
he's left in Russia,
they're in the bin.
And also the Russian army,
these are such experienced veterans
who have been through all of his big battles.
Yeah.
Like all the Kremlin
all,
yeah,
it's decreasing the proportion
of actual good troops
is now way,
way,
where low.
What is it,
Charlie?
Nothing.
Right.
I was going to say Kremlin,
but it doesn't work at all.
Cremendler Cremlin.
It's not far off.
It's just, yeah, it's a bit wrong.
Napoleon?
Napoleon?
Yeah.
Part A, that's an absolutely devastating question to ask.
Yes, Napoleon's French.
Good.
Sort of.
He likes onions.
Onions.
Crucially.
Yeah.
And part of Wellington's tactics is the scorched earth thing.
So he's taking all the onions away.
So that when the French are...
Caramelizing them.
He's caramelizing them.
He's eating them like apples, he's straight man.
But he's taking all the onions away,
so when the French are foraging,
they have got their onions.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
You take away the onions,
you kneecap the army.
So somehow, in 1813,
even though he's got all these squeaky French
exchange tools with bum fluff,
he still remains terrifyingly effective on the battlefield.
The spring campaign of 1813,
lads,
prostate check.
Napoleon, he wins victories at Lutzen and Bautzen,
and for a minute, it seems possible that he can recover from Russia.
Who are these victories against?
Against the coalition.
Again, he's doing what he always does.
He's separating them out.
He's making sure they don't all coalesce.
That's his main thing is that he's so fast because he just is fast
that he can knock out allies one by one.
So these coalitions, they're not working together quick enough.
This is in Saxony.
So this is in the remains of the First Reich.
Yeah.
Now, there are opportunities for peace in 1813 in the summer,
and they kind of, they paused for negotiation in June 1813.
Now, the difficult thing, the real moment of hubris is that he is married to a, what, 18-year-old,
who is the daughter of the emperor of Austria, France Joseph.
Yeah.
So in June 1813, he was married.
there is a temporary armistice
which gives the Allies time
to negotiate its strategy
I was like sorry
Russia and Prussia should have changed
you can't both be called that
go on
it's too silly
what do you mean
I'm the Russian
you're the Prussian
is there's two
you can't just put a P in front of
another country's name
Pingland
England and Pingland
where's Pingland
where we're saying that is
Ireland
yeah that's quite funny
that is quite funny
England and Pingland
England and Pingland over there
I'm going to start calling
I'm touring
this autumn.
I'm coming to Belfast,
Cork and Dublin.
Still tickets left for the pinguish leg
of my UK tour.
It just sounds silly.
Austrian Emperor Francis II
is Napoleon's father-in-law.
An in-law. It's not an easy relationship.
It is not, and yes, you don't want to
declare war, genuine war on your in-laws.
For sure. It's a tough one to manage.
Did he ask Francis II's permission
or blessing when he proposed
to his daughter, I'd like to know that.
What is it, Charlie?
Do you in any way feel that Amanda's dad
is your dad at all?
Is it like...
Definitely a father figure in my life, definitely.
But would you ever call a dad?
Very different, very different father figure, you know.
He's not gay.
That's for one.
For one.
You know, he's a very...
He's not my dad.
He's not my dad, for two.
A very practical man.
An esteemed member of the community.
Is your dad practical?
He can play the trombone.
Yeah, I'll let that lie.
We neither us have dads who have any DIY skills.
No.
Yeah, that's a, your dad's quite DIY.
I don't know if he is.
He likes pots though, pottery.
Pottery?
He does pottery in his shed.
Right.
He likes clay.
Yeah.
Did you ask Beebe's father's blessing when you propose?
No, he didn't actually.
That's disgraceful.
Napoleon did ask for his blessing.
Well, that is, that's good.
It's classy.
That is classy.
It's always nice.
And it's his blessing, not permission.
you know, that's the way to do it.
I'm doing it anyway.
I'm doing it anyway, but, you know,
is that all right with you?
Well, it's not.
Well, fuck you then.
Fuck you.
Fuck you, mother-in-law.
Yeah.
Anyway, so, his greatest,
probably his greatest strategic failure, actually,
is that he allows Austria to join the coalition,
which leads to,
gentlemen,
clasp your pink sock in your hand,
the Battle of Leipzig, 1813.
This is the largest battle in Europe
before the First World War.
Over half a million soldiers participated
and it is the bloodiest battle
of the Napoleonic War. You have
200,000 French against 400,000
coalition troops.
It is a meat grinder.
Now, that
said, Tsar Alexander I first and
King William III of, I don't know where he's king of,
they just watch drinking
champagne from the nearby hill.
Classy.
There's a guy called
Joe Chim Murat, who leads
a 10,000 man cavalry charge that nearly breaks the Allied lines.
He's Napoleon's brother-in-law.
He designed his own uniform.
Let's have a look at it.
Skin tight crimson red leather breeches.
A tiger skin over the war horse.
This is like Charlie's tracksuit bottoms.
A fur trimmed cloak and a massive bicorn hat with a huge ostrich plumes.
Wow.
Awesome.
A tiger skin over the horse.
That's a lovely touch.
Are you trying to make it make them think that you're riding a tiger?
Yeah.
Sort of, I guess.
I mean I don't I think that's actually
I think the tiger skin and the skin tight red trousers
The skin tight red trousers don't think have aged well
No
But I do think tiger skin and a horse
There's something about that
So Napoleon frequently mocked his fits
Devastating
Anyway
We don't know much about the battle
Leipzig I think in the
That's not one of the battles that gets talked about
I feel
Even it's such so consequential
And arguably more consequential
Than Waterloo in some ways
I don't know no
No no no no
No, holding my prostate.
No, absolutely not.
Explain that.
Why is it more controversial than all to do?
Well, it's his first proper military defeat on the battlefield.
Yeah.
And it ends up with the kind of beginning of the end properly for him.
This is the big turning point.
And it shows that it can be beaten on a battlefield.
Yeah, but the reason he's beaten is that the allies just work together and outnumber him.
And so he was always going to.
He's defeated by friendship.
He was always...
Yeah, that's the real lesson of this.
But I mentioned Battle of Leipzig
in German history.
This talked about a lot
because I guess we have a quite waterloo-centric
because it's more British,
but we don't know about this
because we weren't involved.
Do you think?
I think we paid for it.
I think we funded it.
Yeah.
I think we paid for it.
I think we paid six million pounds.
Yeah.
Do we?
I know, it's such a big number.
I don't know.
But that's not exciting in the...
In when you're teaching history.
No.
No.
We bravely bankrolled it.
We bravely bankrolled.
And so what happens is that midway through the battle,
Saxon troops start marching towards the Allies.
The French think they're launching a charge
because the Saxons were fighting as part of Napoleon's German Empire.
And then they just turn around and start firing at him.
So mid-battle defections, they get trapped in this vice.
They have an escape route planned,
but then they accidentally blow these bridges.
while they're still on the wrong side of it.
They're two, Saxon.
Yes, yeah.
And then 30,000 troops are just stranded and taken prisoner.
And I listened to a quite boring podcast about if Napoleon had won Leipzig.
And they say, no, no German state, no World War I, no World War II.
It's that crucial.
Yeah.
Because this is where Prussia becomes, like after this, you, Prussia is now the,
the main power in the in yes it becomes the alpha german state which basically leads to the german
empire um and with no prussia you get no world war one gives them the confidence i mean so the prussians
lost to austerliss right yeah this is sort of their revenge revenge and they're getting their
confidence and the prussians are coming more and more dominant in central europe now having defeated
napoleon at leipsic napoleon licking his wounds uh he runs back to france and the for the
armies cross into France for the first time since the outbreak of the Revolutionary Wars
in 1793.
I mean, it's amazing that he still managed to get a force together off to Russia.
That's what's crazy is that he's still having people fighting through.
The big army.
Yeah.
He lost the big army.
You can't lose the big army.
You can't lose the big army.
In October 1813, Wellington crosses the river from Spain into France.
December 1813, Austrian troops marched through Switzerland into eastern France.
January 1814, Prussia and Russian armies cross.
the Rhine. We now get into the
six days campaign.
February the 10th to 15th,
1814, still
this school shooter is firing
off. He's still finding
teachers to mow down.
He just found the drama department.
Oh my God.
Is there ever
is there ever
a better department
for a school shooter to find than the drama
department? That's my dad was a drama
teacher and I can tell you now
that they would all be dead for a school
to take them out.
There's no one, you know, like if...
I don't know how much of a take that is.
I bet drama students, they would all be killed
if they got shot on the head by a guy.
No, listen, I spent my childhood in schools.
Sure.
Okay, I lived in schools.
Me too.
My parents were...
No, no, I'm not saying a hot take.
Listen, mate, I went to school, all right?
Can you let me cook?
Because I actually went to school.
unlike some people in this room
who were homeschooled
right
right so my parents were teachers
I lived in a girl's boarding house
I was a stud pig
I was reared as a stud pig
yes as we've discussed it
I was a homebred panty sniffer
I was rattling around foraging for sniffy
pants
now my point is
I was rattling around schools in the holidays
you know in many ways that was my place
that was my playground.
I was bouncing around, you know?
A rattle implies that there's...
Yeah, I was bouncing.
Imprised that there's hardness.
I was,
I was jolly and I was bouncing around departments, okay?
Looking for something to do.
Is that what you'd like to do, though?
I was like a big inflatable pinballing around.
You never ruffled once?
No, no.
Right?
My point is, I was very familiar with the topography of private schools in the Oxfordshire area.
You know, if I had wanted to, I would have been a phenomenal school shooter, okay?
Because I knew the ground.
I'm like Wellington at Waterloo.
I would have hidden.
You need to make sure, because it's quite a solitary thing by the nature of being a school shooter.
Exactly.
You don't have a lot of friends.
You don't have a lot of friends.
That's the reason you're a school shooter.
You know?
So the key thing is making sure your rearguard's defended.
Well, obviously.
My rearguard has to be defended.
Because the only friend you have is geography, really.
Well, the geography department are getting it first.
because they're the only one to understand the geography of the school.
Exactly.
You take them out, suddenly you've got free reign, okay?
So you have to take over the geography department.
Now, do you think some of the drama students,
I've obviously did drama at GCSE and A level,
so I'm kind of a bit of a scholar.
I'm putting a dick away, mate.
And if I wanted to get my dick out,
I could mine it very, very well.
Of course.
Because you've got an A level in drama.
But I'm saying...
Wow.
but maybe a lot of what we did was sort of animal work a lot of it was maybe becoming trees and stuff like that do you think you can maybe blend into the surrounding better than any other student a drama student you can maybe become the war well my point I was saying a chair my point at this at my point they could play dead very well which is how you survive a school shooting oh it might be a bit too much though yeah oh oh I
Yeah, because I guess you're learning from like the sort of the Shakespearean style.
Like those old 60s films.
A school shooter comes in.
I'm struck.
Anyway, my point is, were I shooting up the school that I attended and lived in for eight years,
the drama department would be a fucking easy win.
Sure.
The teachers in there are cowards.
They're a feat.
you know,
their heads in the fucking clouds,
right?
Easy.
Were I to attack the biology department,
I would have a real fight on my hands.
Okay.
Okay.
Dr. Gunn,
who used to dissect foxes in the car park
off the back of his Land Rover,
blood pouring down into the drains,
you know.
This is boss level stuff.
A good guy, right?
He almost certainly had a loaded shotgun
under his biology desk.
Yeah?
Now, were I to somehow defeat
him but then move on to the chemistry department
certainly in the tenure of
someone who I won't weigh in for
name for legal reasons
I would have had a paedophile to contend with
I had a chemistry paedophile as well
chemistry pedophiles
bumping mics
private school bumping mics
at the New York comedy cellar
was your Peterer on a chemistry chair
sick
and that is why I couldn't go on Duke of Edinburgh
because our Duke of Edinburgh leader
There's a chemistry peter.
See, look, this is what you don't see.
You know, it's very easy to say.
It's a life of privilege.
Privilege.
Well, I didn't go on Duke of Edinburgh
because my chemistry was a paedophile.
All right?
Where's Stephen Barlow when you need him.
Anyway,
I don't know how we got onto this,
but my point is that Napoleon,
school shooting.
The original school shooter is still,
even though, this is what I was going to say,
the police are in the school now.
They're clearing rooms, you know,
They're in the drama student.
They're in the drama.
They're all dead.
Oh, no, I'm not.
Wow.
Brilliant.
Wow.
Brilliant.
Top marks.
Is that a tree?
Oh, my God.
It's a child.
Wow.
An Olivier is among us.
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So in the six days campaign,
he is outmaneuvering these huge coalition forces
that are now in France.
You know, he's 44, he's still cooking.
He's riding between battles.
I think this is the point.
Is this the point where in four days
he wins four basketball?
against four different allies.
I mean, he's just smoking them.
Because I think someone said that he's never
deadlier than when he's on his own turf,
defending his own land.
So he is still mercurial.
He is still the chess ground master.
And yet he's just running out of manpower.
And at this point, the coalition have realized
if you just, you know, when they form the sixth coalition,
maybe it's the seventh, actually.
They're like, they've got...
What, Clegg's getting involved?
When they've got, well, we're not yet at Clegg.
That's the seventh coalition.
But they've got basically a million.
men.
So, you know, it's kind of the end is inside.
Sure.
Even though he's cooking in kind of, I guess it's northeastern France, I think.
The allies are just able to outflank him, you know, and they just, they walk into Paris
in 1814.
There's not really much of a battle.
And Paris surrenders, Napoleon's not there.
He hears about it and he's like, right, we're going there to fucking save it.
What I find quite interesting is the Parisian women, though there's foreign troops in their city,
seeing the Cossacks, they looked exotic in their fur hats.
They all got the horn and were like really excited by this.
Yes.
Which I think says a lot.
It's amazing to have foreign troops walking into your city.
Yeah.
You're first thinking like, oh, my big, fuck.
Some new talent just arrived.
Fucking hell.
Gene pool just got upgraded.
Had worse Mondays.
Cossacks are in Paris.
Anyway, so yeah, he's like right.
We're going to go save Paris.
And this is where, uh,
This is kind of, this, well, this is his bunker scene.
Yeah.
This is sacriblot.
This is, yeah, well, this is the counterfactual.
This is, yeah, exactly.
The bunker didn't work.
He goes to Fontainebleu, which is, I think, is where his generals are based.
And he says, we're going to raise an army and take back Paris.
And they say, it's not, Steiner, Steiner had the Engref not forstein.
The Englef, it's not default.
But the asphalt, you used the bridge there.
Yeah.
It's bled in brown
Anyway
So Napoleon
realizes his generals
are not going to fight for him
And that this is the end
And so he has had a vial of poison
On him the entire time
Since the Russian campaign
So he drinks it
But it's so old
That it's not potent anymore
So rather than die
He just has severe stomach cramps
And vomits for a day
Which is, you know
Again it's quite a school shootery
So now
What happens now
and this is this is kind of an astonishing
he really gets away with this
because what the Allies do now is they have a bit of a problem
they're like okay so we have finally conquered
the kind of mother city of this empire
we have defeated Napoleon we're occupying Paris
but we can't kill him because he's technically a monarch now
and the whole reason we started fighting France 20 years ago
was because they killed a monarch.
So that's going to, and they're all monarchs.
But there's also, there's an awkwardness to the polioonic warfare
that I think goes out the window in World War II.
Where you take the capital, but then you sort of give it back.
You're not really, you're not really taking land.
Well, it's like Wellington when he was,
when he was thankfully cleared after the inquiry.
You know, and this is why he starts demolishing them in Spain
because he has the confidence for that
who's been exonerated.
Completely exonerated by an inquiry,
unlike our chemistry teachers who were,
pretend to jail.
yeah they they don't fuck up the city
yeah like you're like you're right
it's not but it's also like you're not capturing it
you're not trying to hold onto it it's not
it's you're playing a game to see who wins
yes and then you kind of like
but also at this point shake hands and say
well can we get some stuff in the treaty
that's because also at this point
whereas one more two you're taking land
and you're building empire yeah because at this point
warfare is done away from cities
yeah it is done like out there on a stage
and a field yeah and whoever wins that
then so they're just in Paris is kind of awkward
It's like,
it's not until you get to like
World War,
that's why the Russian thing is so mad.
They're anticipating World War II
by 130 years by going,
we're just going to burn our city down.
It's like,
no one's burning cities.
No one's burning cities.
No one's like sacking them.
You guys are nuts.
What the Allies decide
is they decide to send him into exile
because on a tiny island of Elba.
Which I just saw is right next to Corsica.
It's really close to Italy.
It's so close to France, actually.
It's probably in the French Riviera almost, you'd say.
But right by his homeland where he'll have the most loyal support in many ways.
And it's not Idrisalba, but that must be who is named after.
Yeah, it's so close to France and Italy.
And what is it, Charlie?
What are you doing?
In exile, you kind of like, what are you just sort of reading?
We're about to find out.
So they send a thousand troops with him, who has a guard.
They basically say, you are still an emperor.
It's just, it's not France.
It's a model village.
Yeah.
That's what they say, is you're punishing.
Yeah.
Because they kind of think they're being graceful and they think they're being charitable.
And I think because the French Revolution...
Is that our respect, I guess?
Yeah, but also they cut a guy's head off in the French Revolution.
They'd encapsulated the king.
And the whole point of the Allies is that we don't like that.
Right.
This is how this all started.
So we're not going to do that to you.
We're going to give you...
And they were giving him toys who didn't get distracted and stuff?
Yeah, they gave him a toy empire, basically.
Because they thought that would keep him busy, basically.
You know, this is what they could have done with bin Laden
because they don't want the Poland to be a martyr.
Right.
So run me through what you would have given Bin Laden then?
I would give him the Silly Isles.
Yeah?
Yeah.
And then what is he allowed to have like...
Training camps.
Is he allowed to sort of run Ford Fiestas into like post offices?
Yes, exactly.
Yeah.
So he was like smaller scale.
No, no, no, no.
He's not allowed cars, bikes.
Right.
So bid planes maybe, like a small...
Yeah, the Wright Brothers planes with the bike and the thing.
He can fly those into the post office.
But again, the Siliyles is very close to Cornwall.
So it's a similar scenario where he escaped.
You go, how the fuck has he got?
Shit, Bin Laden's in Cornwall.
And that is why the Bin Laden's now living...
Is it Devon or Dorset, Charlie?
Dorset.
Thank you.
Yeah.
It was in Cornwall 9-11.
Did we talk about that?
Yes.
Was that the Rick Stein...
Rick Stein's restaurant, isn't it?
No.
No?
Cornish National.
Rick Riscoria was the head of security for Morgan Stanley
during the 9-11.
He saved 2.5,000 employees by ignoring initial official stay put orders.
Wow, so he was Cornish born.
Right, everyone, fucking get out of here.
Oh my God, there's another one!
Not another one!
That's what she said.
It's literally that.
It's literally Brendan from Bristol as 9-11 at the second playing.
Not another one!
Oh my God!
Anyway, he was helping people get out.
And then he died going back in to help others.
Inside the towers are collapsed.
What a hero?
Rick.
Is that what you're trying to do?
No, I didn't think so.
Oh, right.
What were you trying to go?
I was trying to find the attack on Rickstein's restaurant.
The Cornish 9-11.
We have talked about that.
Yeah, Cornish separatists.
Yeah, Cornish.
The Cornish National Liberation Army.
Anyway, they send Napoleon to Elber.
They give him some toys and a model village.
And in his place, they replace him with another man who was not really rattling around.
Bouncing about.
Louis the 18th, Louis the Large rolling around.
It doesn't show like traditional monarchy well.
It says here he was profoundly obese and loved chops, pastries and rich sauces.
What's amazing.
Yeah, but for the grace of God go I.
But what's amazing is that his whole family were like executed and causing huge revolutions that's completely changed France forever
because they're seen as these hedonists.
Yes.
While everyone was starving.
And it's amazing that even when he's lost the power, still in exile, he's still stuffing his fat face.
It doesn't imply that he's very focused on reclaiming power.
Have they learned the lessons of the revolution?
It's been 20 years.
He's just been getting faster and faster.
His nickname was le cocheon, meaning the pig.
Yep.
And Louis de la trante.
He had gout and dry gangrene.
He's sandgrin.
He is, Sandro.
Charlie, could you work out?
Tell us about dry gang green as opposed to wet gang green.
I did not know.
If someone said to say gang green,
the first question I say is dry or wet.
Well, wet or dry.
Dry green green is caused by loss of blood flow,
making the skin dry, dry, shrivel and dark as opposed to water.
Let's look at the images.
Let's see some rashs please.
Come on.
Dog rabbit.
It's a big green foot.
Wet gang green.
Here we go.
Lovely.
Oh, that's exactly what we want.
Okay.
So wet gang green from just my initial reaction looks much worse.
Yeah.
I'd like my grand green dry, please.
Like a martini
You want it really dry
Shaken, not stirred
Yeah, dry gangrene
Just looks like really bad athletes' foot
Wet gang green
It's like a ogre it's like Shrek's foot
Do you think anyone could pull off the name gangrene
Like gangrene
Or like gangrene is like
Your gang's called gang green
You're in the green gang gang green gang green
What's like Mr Gang Green?
I reckon that's what they say on the Reddit forums
For people who have gang green green green gang
We're in the green gang
Welcome, you just join the green gang
Yeah
We'll talk about it to each other
And feel better about it
We're the green gang.
Yeah, let's go off to the gangrene community.
Go after the chronically old gangrene community.
A bit too good for too long.
Yeah, fuck them.
How are you getting gangrene in 2026?
Come on.
So Louis did not try to restore absolute monarchy,
but he did restore the pantry.
He created a sort of constitutional monarchy
and kept a lot of the Napoleonic code.
But yeah, he was just getting faster and fatter.
And also, I don't think he really did anything.
He doesn't seem to have anything about him.
No.
Really?
So what is Napoleon doing while he's in exile?
He arrives in Elba, May 1814.
There's about 12,000 people there, one town, a few mines, and an annual income for Napoleon
that the Bourbons, the Louie of the 18th family, they...
So they were slow to pay?
Yeah.
So his invoices, he had to keep reminding them.
Yeah.
He set up automatic chasing.
Hello, this is due in three days.
Just wondering when it's going to come through.
But he establishes ministers, a court.
What is it, Charlie?
Are you a loser if you're in his army now?
Are you, the rest of the soldiers like,
I don't want to be in his kind of model fake town?
I don't know.
I mean, I think it's quite a confusing tone
because he's got, I think it's still pretty cloudy.
I wonder if these,
I wonder if these thousand people,
the thousand army are like his Imperial Guard,
who are the troops that still haven't lost a fight yet.
Probably, the Imperial Guard would probably want higher positions than that.
They're probably his more,
a lot of them were like Corsicans and stuff.
Oh, right.
And they're just going to be foraging?
What are they doing over there?
Well, they're basically...
So it's an island that functions.
It's an island he establishes a society.
So he gets like ministers, a court, uniform.
Thank you, Charlie.
It is similar to when Philip Schofield went on castaway.
Yes, very much, though.
It is a kind of rehabilitation, but on Napoleon's terms,
much like Schofield had the camera, you know,
and he decided what he told us on the island, you know?
And much like Napoleon wanted to thought he would be going to a,
better island,
Scofield was like,
oh,
you send me to an island
because I'm a paedophile?
Oh,
fuck,
not that one.
So,
Napoleon orders in 1814,
the great latrine decree,
where he forces
every homeowner on Elbe
to build an indoor latrine
within two months
or face severe fines.
So what's great about Napoleon
is he does do the dirty work.
He sees...
He likes it.
He likes it all.
He does the whole gamut.
Now, he's hoping
that his young wife,
Mary Louise,
will come and join him,
but she doesn't.
She stays in,
in Austria and starts a relationship
with a guy called Count Knightberg.
Still always getting cucked though.
Once, twice, three times a cuckold.
Cuckolded again.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, you feel like he,
this is again, the school shooter has been arrested.
Yeah.
Okay, he's not been shot.
He has been given exile in another school.
Sorry, is this the guy who cuckolded him?
I mean, he looks like he's trying to fuck your wife.
He doesn't, right.
Yeah.
But this is a school shooter that's been given like.
Sorry.
So I get that back.
The man, she told me not to worry about,
yeah, I'll look after your mind.
No, don't worry.
Like, that looks like he's up to no good.
Napoleon's been given like a different school
to still kind of shoot up a bit.
Yes.
Right.
A model school.
A model school.
Right.
A Steiner school, whatever, to shut off.
Oh, that's a blood bath there.
And yet, okay, he's still being cuckolded.
So he's still in love with Josephine,
even though they're divorced at this point, of course.
but he gets he manages to get one of his Polish mistresses
because he'd been having loads of mistress on the eastern front
and he also resented the surveillance by Colonel Sir Neil Campbell
and apparently he would walk around his villa putting on an exaggerated British accent
Hello!
That's a disgrace, that's an absolute disgrace.
So in May 1814 not long after Napoleon has arrived in Elba,
he hears word that Josephine, his wife with no teeth and black gums
dies of pneumonia.
She caught it off
Sir Alexander I first.
Was she nothing him off?
Was she nothering him off?
You can't catch...
Is pneumonia?
Is it?
No, you can catch a cold
and then it turns into pneumonia.
Right, it's a flu thing.
She caught it on a walk with him.
Wow.
Anyway, Napoleon finds out
via a French newspaper
and locks himself in his room for two days.
He said, and this is...
You would think this is normally the other way,
around. He says, I truly loved my Josephine, but I did not respect her.
Awesome.
That's an interesting, yeah.
Not only you say, I don't, I don't love, I've fallen out of love with her, but I do respect her.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, I love her.
I just don't respect her.
Can you love someone without respect her?
I guess.
Charlie.
Yeah, I guess so.
No, sorry.
I was saying.
Oh, no, sorry.
Right.
I love Charlie.
Sorry to Charlie because it's a sort of hit.
I know, I love Charlie, but I don't respect him.
Yeah.
Sorry, Charlie, do you think you can love someone
without respect in the?
No, you can, yeah.
Yeah?
You can, um...
Depends what you define as love.
Well, yeah, I'm a romantic love
I think you're talking about
because I think there's a lot of people
who don't respect their kids
but they love them through familial bond.
Well, it's just for pure genesis.
No, I don't think you can romantic
you love someone without respect.
No, that's why I mean romantic.
No.
No. The respect has to be there.
Yeah, it's an odd way around.
I truly loved her.
Uh, didn't respect her.
Anyway, now this is probably my favorite bit of the story,
is that while Napoleon is an exile,
Wellington becomes the British ambassador in Paris.
Right.
And Wellington says that he's not only content
with defeating Napoleon on the battlefield,
although he hasn't actually beaten him himself yet.
So what he decides is to sleep with as many of Napoleon's exes
as he can.
Straight man, say his name, right?
While Napoleon was exiled,
Wellington it says here
aggressively seduced
aggressively seduced
and slept with as many of Napoleon's
former mistress as possible
the singer Giusepina Grasini
Marguerite Georges
George said that Napoleon was more
affectionate but the Duke of Wellington
was significantly more energetic
which makes sense in some ways
for the characters not from their style
of warfare but Napoleon
he was a needy but quite soft and tender man
in some ways
the love for Josephine
but he's a one pump chump who'd fuck you
like a dog and then get off
but he, I imagine
before the fucking
there's a lot
Napoleon and after.
Yeah,
a lot of wooing and cuddling.
Yeah.
I think he's a lot softer in there.
Wellington's really giving it to you.
Hazzar!
Hazzar!
You know,
but there's no cuddling with Wellington.
No.
But that is to agree.
You sort of want to,
yeah,
I think,
imagine a woman probably wants Napoleon
to do the foreplay.
Tag in,
Wellington,
fucking.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Napoleon, slow build.
Slow build with Napoleon.
And then write,
tag Wellington in.
Ah!
Ah!
Anyway,
aggressively seduced.
That's what I like.
Wellington.
You know, at what point is aggressive...
Yeah.
Aggressive seduction become harassment.
This is very much pre-moot too.
Me too.
You know, Your Honor, it was not harassment.
It was aggressive seduction.
He was notorious philandra
with a series of high-profile mistresses.
Charlie, why have you got beef Wellington up?
Is that where you think he thought that was?
Oh, there's a sex position.
Read that out, Charlie.
Of course.
a sex position in which the girl lays face up
and the man takes a crap on her vagina and then fuck her
that was not what I was
Did you know that said that? No. Right.
But I knew it was going to say something like that
and I knew Charlie didn't want to read it
And I liked the pause Charlie took before reading it
You know I genuinely thought like oh it's going to be
Maybe that's a sex position named after how Wellington has
No, no, right
Right
How do you even
I guess I know how you do it but what?
I mean that is incredibly good
That's a closeted gay man right there
the girl lays face up and the man
takes a crap on her vagina
why's there no poo in this vagina
yeah gay golden ramsie
wow
wow
read the um
quote in sort of situ
please erasure
oh man my dick smells rank
after giving that beef wellington to this one
I think you're really getting the wrong voice
you've got to read it like um jerome bone apart
yeah go oh man my dick smells rank
I'd have to give a beef wedding of that chick.
Yeah.
Well, that's absolutely disgusting and has no place in this series.
My God.
Anyway.
Should we talk about Wellington's wife, though?
Because I think that's pretty funny.
That is pretty funny.
Do you know about his wife?
The original beef weddings.
Yeah.
So interestingly, he seemed to, he met his young.
Very hard to cook, Beef Wellington.
Yes.
Which one?
Well, both, actually.
Got what?
We've also got the Napoleon.
Okay.
Come on.
Come on.
Napoleon.
Do you read that out, Charlie?
The Napoleon is when you stick all four fingers in an orifice,
typically during a sexual act,
similar to the knowledge, number of photographs,
capturing.
So you put four fingers in it anywhere you want, basically.
I mean, they're going for interesting aspects of the two generals.
I mean, these are, we really are giving our patrons ammunition
that I pray for any woman who goes on a date with the patron.
Getting the Napoleon.
Getting the Beef Wellington out.
If you count,
I only know two positions.
Yeah.
The big one of them.
Which do you want to do first?
You have 20 minutes to make your decision.
Do the old John Motson.
He doesn't do chunkies.
Right.
Yes, his story with his wife,
so he meets a girl called Kitty, I think,
and then before he's made a day.
Yeah, it's like an 18 year old
and it's very like, you know, that age,
you meet someone and immediately say,
will you be with me forever?
Yeah.
But he's also not a,
he's not a general at this point.
He's not made a,
He says,
I love you,
we marry me,
she says no,
he hasn't,
because he hasn't
made a name for himself.
He goes to India,
is away for 10 years,
comes back,
will you marry me?
She says yes,
and then he can't stand
if the rest of his life
has a miserable marriage.
There's a quote where he immediately says,
oh,
she's actually really ugly.
I shouldn't have pooed on that fanny.
That's his quote.
I shouldn't have pooed on that fanny.
He lindoes his brother.
She has grown ugly by Jove.
At the altar.
Fuck,
I didn't realize it was at the wedding.
He was at the wedding.
But,
and this is why Wellington
is such a tactical genius.
they stay married for 25 miserable years
virtually ignoring each other
while he takes up a series of high-profile
mistresses and shits from their family
and then fucks them.
Yeah, what's nice about that
is virtually ignore each other
and they're sort of back to back
it means your rear is defended.
Well, that's exactly.
That's how you should sleep in bed
as a matter of couple.
Is there a more defensive position
than a miserable marriage?
Would you both turn the way?
It's an infantry square in bed.
You know?
No one will invade you.
Yeah. He had an
affair with a
courtisan and then
the courtisan threatened
to publish her memoirs.
This is a bit
after the pronoun wars
saying that he's
going to publish them
unless Wellington pays hush money.
He says publish and be damned.
Fuck off then.
Do it.
And then she said
that Wellington was a
quote most uninteraining
visitor and that wearing his
red ribbon he looked like a
quote rat catcher.
Well he was a rat catcher.
Yeah.
You know?
He caught the biggest rat of all.
Don't fucking hate the player.
I hate the game.
Who's this?
Who's that?
That's Kitty.
That's his ugly wife.
Yeah.
Well.
Well.
I wouldn't shit on her,
Fannie, put it that way.
It's absolutely appalling.
That's an awful thing to say to a woman.
It's the worst thing you can say to it.
She good looking.
I'll put it up in a funny if you know what to be.
I'll put it this way.
To shut up my feelings.
To be concise with my feelings.
Take what you will from this.
Do you have a lot of?
day last night.
Yeah, it was all right.
I don't know if it's going to last.
I wouldn't share the fan of it,
if you know what I mean.
And by that, I mean, I wouldn't actually do it.
Anyway, right.
Christ.
Must be so on hygienic to do that as well.
Yes.
Yeah, it probably is.
Yeah, it probably is genius.
Fucking hell.
Probably about as good of hygiene rating
as a regional Indian restaurant.
Worse, I reckon.
Hey?
Much worse.
Yes.
Yeah.
Probably, yeah.
Anyway, look, let's get off the
Beef Williamton's exposition and get back to the fact that he's in Elba.
He's in Elba and he's getting bored.
He's rattling.
Or he's bouncing because he's quite fat as well at this point.
Yeah, midway between a rattle and a bounce.
Anyway, yeah.
So when is this?
This is February time 1815.
Colonel Sir Neil Campbell, who is just sort of checking in on Napoleon with a Royal Navy Guard,
he has sailed to, I think, Livorno and the Italian Peninsula to check out on his
mistress and
Countess
Miniachi
and Napoleon
seizes this
moment to
quietly board a ship
with about a
thousand of his men
the inconstant
it was called
which is a massive
Inconsent?
Not the incontinent
No, not there yet
and he
disguises the ship
somehow, I don't know
how, and he
slips past
the naval patrols
that were circling
Elba.
They painted
over the French
colours and disguised
it to like a
British merchant vessel
and so the
tiny flotilla slips past the British blockade and he arrives near on teb which i just went to on holiday
lovely place on the 1st of march 1815 now though he knows there are royalist strongholds in the south
coast so he marches through the alps once again and he forms this route which is now known as
the route napoleon and he has a tiny column of a thousand troops wearing his hat and his great coat
is Greco
and he is met at some point
maybe in Grenoble by a series
of royalist troops who here he's coming
and they've been sent to arrest him
and then Napoleon steps forward
unbuttones his coat
takes his trousers down
and says look at this
he opens his chest
and he says soldiers if there is one among you
who wishes to kill his emperor
here I am
and then in the silence that follows
one voice cries,
Vive l'Enprue.
And Napoleon is on his way to Paris
to reclaim somehow the throne he lost
less than a year ago.
Maybe the ultimate aura farm,
potentially.
Incredible.
It's probably not been a more significant one
in history.
We're going to leave that here
for this episode.
In our next episode,
we will get to Napoleon's final 100 days
and the best battle of all time,
the goat battle.
It's the best battle.
It's the best battle.
what's best battle, this one's best battle.
This is top ranked S-tier battle.
Okay, Jack Mate is putting this top in this ranking.
We will get to the Battle of Waterloo.
See you next time.
They're getting more pained.
They are.
Well, it's painful.
It's fucking 10 wanks in a day.
It's a 10-parter.
You've got to think for these poor people.
That's already on the Patreon, by the way,
along with some terrific bonus episodes on Sharp.
Yeah.
And Birken Hair.
Lots of fun stuff there.
Review of Napoleon's...
What is it, Charlie?
The Ridley Scott...
We did a history of cuckolds.
That was a lot of fun.
Charlie wrote a cuck poem.
Anyway, we'll see you next time
for the greatest battle of all time.
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