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Well, viewers, it's part 10 of the Napoleonic War series.
Your distended prostates that have been hanging out the back of yourself since episode six,
it's time to quietly fold them back in.
Yeah, it's sort of like when Prince Charles folded up the British flag in Hong Kong.
Very similar.
Can we get the footage, please, of the handover of Hong Kong, please.
All empires must fall.
It was one of the lessons of history.
It is.
including this podcast series.
Today it's
it's the great
mistake that many men make in history
thinking they can last forever.
Yeah.
But we had to,
the story has come to an end.
This is the final part.
This is our viewers now
watching their prostates
being rolled back in.
Look at a bit with the flag.
There's a bit where there's like a folded up flag.
Yep.
It's almost like a repatriation ceremony
for a dead troop, actually.
Fireworks going.
Prostates being taken down.
Billowing in the wind.
A lovely speech. We've had a great time, haven't we? We've had a beautiful time. What a great 10 episodes
that's been. I've had the best time talking about Napoleonic wars. But now we must hand
the series over to the Chinese. It is their series now. They will manage it. The Napoleonic
It's hard to say. It's hard to say. It's hard to say. But they've earned it. It's theirs now.
To recap, Napoleon has finally been defeated on the battlefield, decided.
Yes.
Waterloo was where Wellington saw him off.
There are 50,000 human casualties.
Is it named after that Abba song?
It is.
Abba was first.
That's why they called it Waterloo.
Again, it was his favourite.
It was Wellington's favourite song, right?
It was his favourite song.
Again, very hard for the Chinese to say,
Waterloo.
I don't know what they're going to do with this series
now that they own it.
The Napoleonic Wars,
Warrington at Walthoroo.
I think other names
that he might have called it
radioactive or summer by Calvin Harris were the other options.
For the battle?
Yes, those were the other options.
But he decided that Waterloo was in there as well.
But he went for Waterloo.
That is his favourite song.
Bangarang was an option.
It's probably the gayest thing about Wellington.
It was a huge ABBA fan.
And you know what?
You can tell that we're just circling the plug hole here.
We're just,
we're trying to postpone handing the series over to the Chinese.
But the prostates are being rolled up now.
Yeah, an awkward goodbye.
The flagpoles are bare and the series is in the hands.
Chris Patton has now left
and in the rain
God Prince Charles looks good
anyway
more importantly
50,000 human casualties
10,000 dead horses
How many horses
die in the polionic wars
Total Charlie just scores on the doors
Nay their name
Bodies have been looted
Let's go to the cricket pavilion
and see the scores on the doors please
Scores in the doors how many horses
I don't know there was that many horses
Roughly 1.5 million to 2 million
well that's completely insane that's a horse a cast as far as I'm concerned
this is a sad day
Napoleon has been defeated now
Waterloo the battle itself only lasted nine hours yet it destroys
20 years of work yeah of conquest
the school shooter has finally been asked to leave the school
I don't think the school shooter gets asked to leave
well this one does that's what's fascinating
the FBI says could you please
Okay, put your gun down and go home
and think about what you've done
because there's a quarter million
there's two million dead horses in that school.
You've got a saturday detention for that.
Yeah, we're going to have to have a big chat about this
when you go in tomorrow.
Yeah.
Why'd you get suspended?
I killed a syringer kids at school
with an AR-15.
Yeah.
Couldn't get the drama.
It's fucking bullshit.
Couldn't get the drama class though.
I thought they're all trees.
I've got absolutely murked.
Now, on the 18th of June 1815, the day of Waterloo,
Napoleon, abandons the battlefield, trots back to Paris.
As he loves to do.
He loves abandoning the battlefield.
Now, he expected to find his ministers preparing for yet another campaign.
And yet he finds politicians preparing to remove him from power.
First thing he does, after Waterloo, at arrives back at 8am, he demands a bath.
A scolding hot bath because he hadn't slept in days.
And he was suffering, as we know, a decisive bout of piles.
In the way that you'd talk about World War II,
potentially being,
the Hobbespornian view of World War II
being a battle of factories, right?
Could you argue Napoleonic Wars
was a battle of hemorrhoids?
I would say that.
I would say this is a hemorrhoid struggle.
Himeroidian struggle.
Yeah, you'd have to say this is really 20 years
where piles is at the...
Piles has never been more important.
Yes, it was Napoleon's Piles
and Wellington's distinct lack of piles.
Yes, because he was a straight man
who'd never fiddled down there.
He'd only ever cleaned...
He'd used his bum as it was intended.
Yeah.
To expel.
to expel
not to welcome
invite
not to invite.
Okay
invite only
was Wellington's
asshole
and he was never
asking no one
protected their southern border
more than
if only Wellington
was alive today
to be honest
our southern border
would be
clean
and it would be
no argy
would have even
even know what it
would not try it
they wouldn't
have fucking
tried it
anyway
Napoleon quite often
was having baths
instead of sleeping
he found baths
a sort of
replacement for sleep
this is when
this is the
one of the west
with Napoleonic things about Charlie actually
is you have a...
You're a big bath guy,
you're a deep love of bath.
I've showed you my bath.
I've seen your bath.
I was surprised about how
lovely your domestic life seemed.
That's what everyone says.
It's a clean flat.
Your room seemed kind of clean.
It made me more suspicious
and then on the way back
it kind of made me kind of angry.
Why?
It sort of implies that you sort of live
a relatively peaceful life
and then on the way here
it goes wrong.
You just start deciding to,
you know, you paint the Joker mask on
and you come in here with the state of anarchy.
Every man's home is his castle.
Right.
Okay.
But then, but his workplace is his latrine?
Like what's...
Yes, and my work is my toilet.
I guess that's what upsets me.
Every man's home is his castle and every man's work is his toilet.
Now, Napoleon had not slept in days and to treat his piles, which had, we can say, lost him, Waterloo, that he was given leeches.
Yes.
So, now, run me through that as a man who knows more about piles than me.
I would say...
Pals correspondent, Finn Taylor.
Papa.
Yep, yep.
Hello.
Hi.
Hello.
I'm just, I'm standing outside my own asshole here.
And as you can see, it's completely fucked.
It's a blood bath.
It's a blood bath.
We've done 10 episodes of Napoleon and I'm hanging out of the back of myself.
I'm trying to roll the flag back in.
Like, it's like a cartoon tongue at the moment.
But I imagine what leeches do is that you put leeches on, on the hemorrhoids themselves
to try and bleed out the piles, to try and make it less taught, saggier piles.
Does it work?
To drain the trapped blood, relieve pressure.
Are the leeches like this is fucking disgusting.
No, they're like, they've had worse Mondays.
Yeah, they're loving it.
They're loving it.
They're in different between.
Thirsty Thursdays for the leeches.
Yeah.
It's happy hour for the leeches down there.
It's fucking ladies, like, down on the piles.
You don't see all those city traders all up on the street corner outside pubs.
That's what the leeches are.
It's Soho at 5 o'clock.
This is fucking brilliant.
Absolutely brilliant.
Sun's out.
We're all standing around drinking pints.
Yeah.
So, anyway.
There's a schooner score.
leach.
This is hemorrhoid scorer.
I'm here outside
of Finn Taylor's piles and we're going to have 60 seconds
for the hundred perfect piles.
Let's go.
Yeah.
By this point,
the French people's fascination with the poland is starting
to ebb.
Because what once was their great emperor
who had given France an empire,
had dominated continental Europe.
And you know...
Made France a brief super state.
Yes, exactly.
Well, he had sort of...
We haven't really talked about this.
He claims that he was trying to basically unite Europe,
but he wasn't really.
He was trying to make Europe.
So he was trying to make the EU.
He did make the first EU.
That's kind of his legacy.
And however, at this point, he's just a chubby, smelly man with piles who can't win a battle.
The coalition armies, the seventh coalition under Nick Clegg, they have arrived at the gates of Paris.
And pressure is mounting for Napoleon to abdicate for a second time.
Now there was a guy called Marquis de Lafayette who had fought to the American Revolution.
You're a big player in the American Revolution.
Big player.
He's back in France, is he?
And he's saying that France must not be dragged into another dictatorship.
And Lafayette declares the liberty of the nation is in danger.
Because obviously, I suppose you have the American Revolution and the French Revolution,
and they go in very different paths.
Yes.
In what sense?
Well, and that the American Revolution, you know, is it Washington's actually an incredible, you know,
he's one of the very seismic figure
and that he gets power
and then relinquished it.
Which is unlike basically anyone in history.
Yeah, it's kind of the defining act
of American politics.
Whereas French Revolution,
it just descends into a bloodbuff.
20 years of bloodbath and then Napoleon.
And then a military dictator, basically.
And then the king back for a bit.
And the fatest king ever comes back.
Yeah, it's a complete mess.
I don't realize.
But it's also, you can see the two different,
the kind of the different way the countries go,
can you?
Top historian got asked if the French Revolution was success and he responded in one of the drollest ways possible
He said it's too early to tell
That's good stuff. Yeah, but that's a very droll. That's as far as it gets
Yeah, that's Gandhi being asked about democracy isn't it? Yeah
And it's like, oh, what do you think about with civilization? Yeah, can't wait to see it. I can't wait to see it
I can't wait to see it come to wait to you know love love you done the place. Can't we just see one of it's finished. Yeah
Walking into Manchester real Beethoven brother stuff. Yeah
What is it Charlie?
And interestingly, something I picked up on is that
Okay, go on Charlie.
If Napoleon had been wearing boots in the same manner that Wellington had been,
then we'd be wearing nappies on our feet.
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So Napoleon briefly considers trying to dissolve the constitutional assembly by force.
However, his closest advise him said, no, this is going to be another coup.
It's over, mate.
Okay.
And so the chamber passes another resolution to basically say Napoleon's fucked.
So like Charlie, they throw that coup into the toilet.
Yes, exactly.
Yep, cooing in his hands, throwing in the toilet.
and he realizes quite quickly.
I mean, this is, this is only a day after really he gets back,
that he doesn't have the support.
And so on the 22nd of June 1815, Napoleon abdicates for the second and final time.
He proclaims his four-year-old son, Emperor Napoleon the second, right?
See what you're doing there?
Yeah, okay.
Okay, I see what you're doing there.
He's four, okay?
Is he really going to rule as emperor?
now he then gets quite sad obviously
he goes to the estate of his
late wife Josephine
the one with the black gums
and he just goes into her room
and like huffs her panties
and cries
I mean he yeah he basically
he's locked himself in her room for three days
and just smells all her stuff I think
he's asking everyone if he's a good boss
yeah do you like working for me
did we have good times
did I make you laugh
and he's just huffing her pants
weeping.
It's a tragic end.
You know,
and I guess it's the,
I'm always thinking
with the similarities
with Hitler,
you know,
Napoleon tries to kill himself
after,
what was it,
Leipzig?
No,
after his first application,
before Elbe,
he tries to kill himself.
Yeah.
But I'm just thinking
if Hitler had lived,
you know,
would he have been,
would we have exiled him,
you know?
Interesting.
Would we,
would he be sort of rattling
around,
huffing on pants?
I just, I've been thinking a lot about, sorry to bring it back to Hitler.
Please.
But I've been thinking a lot about.
Let's just, let's just stop, stop falling the prostate back in for a second.
Just leave that little tongue out.
I do think there's a, there's a cinematic option.
I do think, you know, have you seen the documentary searching for Sugar Man?
Yes.
I do think there's an option that we find out Hitler's still alive.
And he's Sugar Man.
And he's, he's number one in Columbia.
Yeah.
Well, he's 128 years old.
How old would Hitler be if he's still alive?
Because there's still a chance.
1889.
We've never seen his body.
It'd be...
Couta Tenga.
It'd be a hundred and...
He'd be the longest...
He'd be the longest living man in the world.
He would be...
You know what?
He'd be 137 years old
and it's the only person I would wish to
take over from Ethel Caterham
who is, I think...
She's leading.
I think she's winning now.
I think Ethel is now the oldest living woman.
So, hashtag come on Ethel.
Come on Ethel.
Let's get that trending.
Give her a facial.
Spaff on it.
Spaphanethel.
We need to moisturise that face.
She does, yeah,
she looks like a cliff.
So,
um,
she looks like the white cliff of Dover.
Yeah,
it's beautiful.
That's a face that stopped
a thousand small boats.
Yeah.
But what I'm saying is probably the,
the way I'd most like to see
Hitler come back.
Because we're trying to think,
what's the most dramatic way?
You maybe want a documentary
with talking heads about the life of Hitler.
And then you're watching it,
as you watch any documentary about Hitler.
And you're just adding it to the pile.
Maybe this time.
it's different.
Maybe yeah.
And then there's that dramatic talking head,
much like in the Scorsese documentary
when they end each episode
by introducing one of the key players
in his life, be it DiCaprio or De Niro.
At the end of the part one,
you see this old 137-year-old man
with this old tash,
he's got tattoos all over him.
And he sits down and he's fiddling with the mic
and it says, Adolf Hitler,
and then it ends.
I think that would be the best way
for Hitler to come back.
Yeah, I mean, it'd be absolutely brilliant.
A Netflix talking head.
Yeah.
How old Stillborn Hitler now?
Stillborn Hitler.
He would be in his 90s.
No, but Stillborn Hitler, we must,
Stillborn Hitler is not someone's name.
Yeah.
I mean, probably in the records,
the name is stillborn.
We need to give people context.
I mean, there's been a long,
you pulled that out from a month,
months ago.
That was Gay Lord Hitler's relative
who did not,
who died at birth.
Yeah, Dr. Gaylord Hitler,
who has no relation to Hitler,
which has an unfortunate name.
Yes.
One of his relatives was Stillborn.
But Charlie thinks that means he was called stillborn Hitler, which is, as we said, probably the only first name you could give a Hitler for us to think, well, that's a bit of weird.
Hang on.
Well, I've been able to that.
I mean, the second name is the problem.
We'll get to that.
But stillborn.
And then all that shortens down to either.
Stilly.
Anyway.
Napoleon is depressed.
He's huffing Josephine's pants.
And his reflex, okay, is to try and escape to the United States.
He says he envisions a new life
I shall become a farmer on the banks
of the Ohio
I don't know I wouldn't buy that for a second
Yeah really
You can't be
You couldn't settle down like that
No no no this guy's impossible
You need to imprison him
He can't he can't
I mean there's an interesting counterfactual
Would he have if he'd settled in America
Would he've lived long enough
To see the American Civil War
Hmm
Well he would have been
I mean he you know the piles
Was an indicator
Yes he probably wouldn't have right
Serious
Civil war was that 50 18 50
60 65 is
Right, so that would be really an old Napoleon, but he probably wouldn't survive because he would have been his 19.
Now, who would he afford for? Because in 1802, Napoleon reestablishes slavery in French colonies.
Right.
So, you know, what...
But you would have loved to see him have one more run out.
Oh, an 80-year-old Napoleon.
In American Civil War, a new kind of blank slate.
Or is it like Hitler and Brazil?
Is Napoleon just there?
Loving it.
Fetché noir-un-cote cote, Katera, you know?
Regrets.
I've had a few.
Lounge singer.
Well then again, too few to mention.
So now he goes to the port of Rochfort where two frigates are ready to carry him across the Atlantic.
A frigate.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But the British Navy is...
A British frigate.
Is anticipating his move.
There's a heavy blockade, a suffocating blockade, patrolling the French coast, inspecting every vessel.
And so Napoleon is trying to think these inner circle trying to pitch these increasingly mad,
escape plots.
They want to force him
into a barrel
but he's fat and got piles
so they can't.
You know, he's trying to get
in the barrel
and he's like,
oh, I've got to go face down
but then there's lids shutting
on my piles.
That's going to be sore.
It's very much like,
yeah,
he's seen this recent
about two days ago.
Trump got put into a suitcase
pretty much.
Really?
I don't,
I think there was a threat
from a guy
with a kind of RPG.
Yeah.
And then BBC did tell on Trump
though.
I don't know why they're
telling around the tricks though
because basically he got into Air Force
1 and then he had a secret
way out and went in like
it looked like a suitcase luggage hole and they went
into another plane. I guess he's just
showing them it's like a kind of
fuck you. Yeah but I don't want to keep that secret.
Yeah but he can't. Yeah.
He needs to know. He's also boasting about
all the threats he gets I guess. Yeah.
He also needs you to know that he
because he gives to charity. But imagine taking him out
being the Iranian guy to take him out with an RPG
on the airport. Was that what was going to happen?
Yeah.
It wouldn't be in the airport.
No, he's like off the air.
He's in like that little kind of charm.
You know the little fields next to airports?
Right, right.
I always want to go in there, but they never let me.
But like going and standing there.
Like the final scene of heat?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just RPG and Trump from there.
Yes, very much so.
Yeah.
And sitting back on a little bollard.
Loving it.
Lighting it.
I don't reckon you'd sit back.
I reckon you'd run.
Oh, just on a chair.
Yeah.
Police sirens are coming.
I did it.
Come take me.
I did it.
In a way, you know.
Now, his brother Joseph looks very like Napoleon.
so he offers to swap clothes and stay behind
and be captured while Napoleon slips on a ship
but Napoleon refuses and says no
you know don't take don't take the route for me
then the uh they try to
he basically trying to think about his mythic end though isn't he
constantly he's trying to think narratively
well it's the romantic era isn't it so uh you know
the idea that he lives too long
so that he's just a fat guy stuck in a rock
with his piles nursing his piles for company
is not romantic.
No.
You know, Nelson's death is romantic.
Nepilion.
Nepilion.
Yeah.
Terrific.
Nepilion bum is apart.
Ah.
I was like, oh no, no, stop because you've nailed it and you've gone too far.
But actually, Napoleon's bums apart.
Bums falling apart.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, that's really good, Charlie.
Yeah, it's good.
So, anyway, basically at some point,
the escape schemes
don't really work
he's worried
he's going to get executed
but about a month
after Waterloo
he walks aboard
the HMS
Belarusophon
and surrenders himself
to Captain Maitland
and he compares himself
to the Athenian general
Themistocles
do you know who that is
I've got no idea who that is
that's quite a smug face
is that Captain Maitland there
yeah he's got a bit of a Beethoven's brother
it's not it's not Emily Maitlis
it's not Emily Maitlis
How would he surrender himself
to him
Very smart man.
How would I surrender to Emily?
I'd just be naked on all of, just, I'm, Emily, just whatever you want.
I'll do whatever you want.
Are you covered in calm or poo?
What do we say last time?
What did we say last time?
I think it was poo.
No, no, she's watching us, poo ourselves.
And then we're getting off and her going, yeah, it's absolutely disgusting.
And we're embarrassed, but loving it.
But loving it.
Yeah.
God is smirking.
He's very smirming that.
We're looking at a photo of Captain Maitland now.
He's absolutely chuffed with himself.
He's got on the podium.
Oh, there we are.
Oh, look at the captain.
dragged him.
Napilesian.
That's what he's just said.
He's just thought of Nepalsean.
He's just thought of Nepalzian
Bums falling apart and he's going
Oh, he'll hate that.
That's really going to eat away at him.
Nepilesian bums apart.
But the British essentially,
they get him on board
and then he goes back to Britain.
Is it Plymouth?
Yeah.
The ship anchors off Plymouth
and then basically becomes a fucking tourist attraction.
Like thousands of people
come and just look at him
and he's just kind of like.
Michael Jackson visiting Fulham, isn't it?
Yes, very similar.
So Napoleon basically becomes a tourist attraction.
He walked out on the deck at 6pm every day,
waver the crowds, people sold telescopes,
commemorative souvenirs, refreshments.
And he's looking at the crowds through a spyglass,
and he's zeroing in like World Cup camera directors.
He's just zooming in on fit women.
He's like, oh-huh, and so he's loving it, you know.
The ship's surgeon kept a journal
and recorded that Napoleon
became transfixed by a general's daughter
in the crowd.
He said to the British officers,
I never beheld women with such beautiful bosoms.
Well, that's nice, isn't it?
They're growing big down in the southwest.
Milky British women,
lolloping along the coast.
And again, this is, you know,
this is before, chubby funsters.
This is before the British seaside
becomes the intense cavalry charge
of women are mobility scooters with single crutch.
Pre-mability scooters.
Hey?
Pre-mability scooters.
Yeah, we should place this actually.
This is 1815.
So this is before the first mobility scooter.
Yes.
And is it...
But it is after a proto-mobility scooter that Henry VIII was designed, was given in Hampton Court where they would haul him along police.
Yes.
So there was an indoor mobility scooter, essentially.
But the external mobility scooter was not invented.
Yes, Charlie.
Can you ever see yourself getting one?
one of these when you're older.
I mean,
as a young man,
it's actually hard to imagine,
but I think that's probably
a lot of hubris to that.
And there's a sort of,
there's a invincibility of youth
that you haven't really considered.
I'd rather,
I'd rather be one of those old blokes
who clearly needs one,
has no,
does like two fake hips.
Yeah.
And like inches at a time,
I'd rather be that.
When you look kind of like
your kooky.
Yeah.
Random.
Random.
Who's this guy?
You can't.
And even though your personality
is not random,
your walk begs to differ.
Yes, I have a random...
I'd like a sort of silly random hip gay
rather than the armobility scouter.
You want to, like, tripwalking, basically.
Basically, yeah.
I want to, sorry, I want to end up,
you know the...
When the people do the green screen,
and they have to be apes,
and they've got the two crutches.
You know, there's like...
With the bumbles on.
That's how I want to travel,
but without the green screen.
Right.
So I got two crutches, and I run forward on all fours.
Like Andy Cirque.
Yes.
now Napoleon has been kept off of Britain
he
So that's old people
Yeah it's this guy
It's this guy yeah
Yeah yeah
Yeah see that you got his little crutches in his hands
That's kind of
I want some of
To be moving
Now the Prussians
When I stand I'm still
It's just when I move
I immediately go
So you want to go grandpa
You're like yeah
Now the Prussians want to
to execute Napoleon, but Wellington is against this.
Yeah.
Because he says, again, Wellington is an arch-conservative.
Yes.
He does not like killing the men at the top.
He says, I was determined that if the sovereigns wish to put him to death,
they should appoint an executioner which should not be me.
So they don't, he's asking for asylum.
I mean, this is ridiculous asylum seeker.
Ridiculous asylum seeker, you know.
You're not a woman or a child.
You're clearly of military age.
So this is, I mean, this is the long line to asylum hotels, isn't it?
Well, yes.
A asylum seeker being kept in the local area causing a ruckus.
Yes, it is.
And there are people looking at this ship going, fucking hell.
This is a four-star accommodation for the opponent.
And also, he is pervin on them.
And there's a bit of sexual harassment actually going on for a silent seeker.
And he's a terrorist.
I mean, this is the first asylum hotel.
Yeah, this is G.
This is the long road to G.B. News.
He's asking for asylum.
No, you're literally Hitler.
Yeah.
So what the British do, and this is a real victory of empire, you know, because
The British, they go, we've got this fucking rock.
2,000 miles off the coast of Africa.
We have an island called St. Helena,
which the Portuguese had discovered a few hundred years before.
And it's now a trading post basically to re-to-wet the ships as they go to India.
And we're going to go send, we're going to fucking send you there.
And you're just going to, it's the ultimate exile.
It's basically just ejecting you into space.
Yeah.
Basically in the middle of nowhere.
And this is why, as Britain, you've got to have these islands.
Is it still British, actually?
It's yet another, it's yet more evidence, you know, the Falklands, the Chagos Islands,
San Diego Garcia.
Rise up the Chagosians.
We need to.
Shout out the Chagosians.
Diego Garcia.
This is why you have to have these islands for naughty boys who you don't want to give asylum to in the UK.
It is still British.
Well, thank God.
Thank God.
Rejoice.
Yeah.
Prostates back out.
Yeah?
Prostates are still flying in St Helena.
Now, Napoleon is stunned by this news that he's going to be sent to St. Elena.
He says this is worse than an iron cage.
He's transferred to HMS Northumberland.
There's a 10-week voyage.
Because he genuinely thinks that he'll be given a cottage and the Cotswolds.
Yeah.
And he'll be able to just chill.
I do, it must be completely delusional thinking that.
But he seems convinced that he'll just be given.
Yeah.
Like an or May's draw house, basically.
They are ordered to refer to Napoleon as general.
apart. This really annoys him.
General bumps falling apart. General Bums falling apart.
Sorry, General Nopalzian
Bums falling apart. And he hates
this. So Napoleon
plays chess on board.
This is interesting, I thought.
But Napoleon is notoriously terrible.
And so his French
companions, because he's going with like
three or four of his closest aids.
They don't really know where they're going.
And then when they get there, they're like, oh, fucking hell
this is far, man.
What I like about him being terrible at chess is it sort of
undermines chess as well.
I think, well, actually, I'm practicing myself
because it actually means I'm a great strategic man.
And when it comes to practical applications,
because I know chess.
I like how this shows that there's actually
probably no causal link.
It's got nothing to do with it.
It's just a really, really nerdy game.
So, yeah, about 20, 20 people of his personal,
he's got an entourage with him.
He's got the So Solid crew.
Get a bit of the So Solid crew up, please.
But his French companions are terrified
of upsetting his ego, so they intentionally let him win
so he never loses a game.
But it is weird.
It is weird.
This is Napoleon and his entourage on board.
But it is weird that someone would be that good on the battlefield
and that bad at chess.
But then I think Napoleon would have been good at poker.
Because really Napoleon-on conflict is about getting someone to do something
so you can defeat them how you want to.
Yeah.
When chess says that.
Is it?
Yeah.
You're trying to get them to make a mistake or go off to take a piece
so you can take a piece.
I just think it's so boring.
What's the way you can lose really quick?
That's the way you,
yes, the way you did.
Charlie a lot of Fools, mate, against,
is it you losing two moves?
Yeah, to an eight year old.
To an eight year old, yeah.
I was really upset.
How quick is it?
Fools, mate.
I was like, I didn't even realise that we really started.
Yeah.
Eight year old.
Two moves.
Two moves.
Yeah.
What was your first move?
I don't know.
Can we speak?
It must be there's only very few ways you can do that.
Yeah.
So it must be.
I just left everyone bummerable.
This is Charlie's tactical brainworking.
Now, there were so many rats on board the ship
that 140 chickens got slaughtered by this huge rats.
How big can rats get on ships?
Because also, I think there's rats on St Helena as well
and they end up taking his organs.
Half a metre, apparently.
That's very big, isn't it?
Look at the fucking state of that one.
That's Napoleon.
He kind of looks like Napoleon.
So he arrives in St Helena
And he thinks, fuck, this is shit
I mean, this is even
This is a place
The St. Helanans would go on holiday
To the Falklands.
That's how depressing it is.
Right, right, right.
So he's like, I wish I'd stay in Egypt, this is shit.
Yeah.
And then the British Parliament passes a law
To basically ensure they can legally hold him indefinitely.
Yeah.
So it's similar to the Blair after 9-11.
Yeah.
It's like we've just got to detain you
without trial. Now Napoleon in 1815 is 46 and while he's on St. Helena he makes best friends
with a 13 year old girl called Betsy Balcom. There's not a lot to do though. No and he's far away
and you know I suppose this is geographically would this be Southeast Asia for him? Yeah well
at Ebertsies Island maybe yeah he stays in her family's garden pavilion while his residence is being
built and he
flirts with the girl in French because she's
fluent. Well he's having his kitchen redone
so you got to sleep in a 13 year old
girl's bed until
sorry the kitchen's being redone. Your feet
stick it out of the end. Yeah, sorry. I'm having to work done
so I'm a paedophile for a bit.
They spent afternoons playing blind man's
buff, bantering.
Yeah. No, Betsy in the
Bluff. Sorry? Bluff.
Blind man's buff, yeah.
Bluff. Blind man's bluff.
Yeah, they're either playing blind man's bluff or 13-year-old's muff.
I don't know which way it is, but anyway.
Betsy insists the fondness was paternal,
but rumours of a forbidden island romance captivate Europe.
Does he do the blind man thing so he has plausible deniability of her age?
Clever. Very clever. Very clever.
Yeah, that's good.
Your Honor, I couldn't see her. I couldn't possibly know.
That's a good point. Can you just see if there's been any cases of paedophilia
where blindness has got them off?
Your Honor, I thought she was 16.
I can't see.
She said she was 16.
That's all I've got to go on.
Yeah, you'd have to do a long game
with the blindness, though.
Yes.
You've got to really be seeding that early.
Well, you've got to...
Like, when you try and get off work
with an illness
and you start coughing a couple days before,
you start sewing the seats.
You've got to be using disabled toilets
and you've got to be waiting for people knocking
and you've got to get out there.
You've got to be looking like this.
What I do?
What I do?
If I'm in a disabled toilet
and there's someone coming in,
and when I go out, I'm just like,
I'm like that.
I feel them.
I'm sorry.
You grove them as well.
Two crimes in one.
You're getting away with murder.
I wouldn't, well, I wouldn't be, I wouldn't be groping you if I was, I didn't see.
Colin Boone.
Colin Boone from Salisbury.
Sorry, this is crucial.
There's multiple legal cases.
Sorry, this is a crucial tangent.
Multiple documented legal cases where individuals accused of child sexual abuse.
Allegedly.
Were registered blind and attempted to use their visual impairment as a defense.
Right.
So they're registered on the blind offenders.
The blind register, which of course cancels out the sex offenders register.
Anthony Webb
knocking on people's doors
takes a lot longer
on the blind register
exactly
you're knocking
a lot of people's garden fences
just turn around
turn it away the other way
excuse me
I've got to let you know
that I'm registered blind
who you're talking to mate
Anthony Webb
an 81 year old
former Paralympian
judo instructor from Cornwall
okay
I mean that's
triple Bda right
on the bingo card
there
I think that's history fans
a Cornish
a Cornish sense
say.
Yeah.
Claims that the inappropriate touching,
this is during his trial at Truro court,
was entirely accidental due to his blindness.
The jury rejects the defence,
convicts him on six counts of indecent assault.
But is he,
is it inappropriate touching
because he's destroying this kid at judo?
Yeah, I mean, that's not inappropriate.
I mean, that's just a,
it's a martial art.
Colin Boone,
61-year-old from Salisbury.
Yeah.
Police sees 26 digital devices
containing hundreds of,
it's a lot of digital devices.
Yeah, I bet it was more than hundreds.
Yeah.
He said, I can't have looked at them or consumed them because I'm blind.
However, digital forensic evidence proved the images had been consistently saved in his device over a 10-year period.
Interesting.
And he pleads guilty.
Well, I imagine also you could catch out some blind people if they had sort of maybe child porn literary erotica and it was in braille.
That's the kind of...
Well...
That's an interesting legal grey area.
It's a...
Yeah.
Yeah. Braille child porn.
You know, because it's just dots, isn't it?
Who's being hurt?
Yeah, exactly.
You know?
There's platform Andrew Shaw.
Yep.
Let's platform him.
Right, we're just, we're just, with the opposite of no platforming, we are platforming.
Yes, platforming.
Blind paedophiles.
Andrew Shaw appeared before Blackpool Magistrate's Court.
It's an absolute tour of the British Pedo Isles, isn't it?
Cornwall, Salisbury, Blackpool.
He was facing charges of possessing 71 obscene images of children.
on his computer. He was registered blind.
Very low. And had a guide dog.
Yeah, but what I say, 71 is a very
rare case. It's nearly always
over 10,000 images. It's nearly always
about two or three terabytes. It's always
more child porn than you could ever watch in a lifetime.
That's always what stands out. You know what I said?
71 is, you never have 70s.
Do you know what I say about child porn? Less is more.
And this is a very tasteful
pedophile. I'll tell you
what, genuinely, this is a collector.
You know, I'd say that we're sort of maybe experts in the
field. We've been covering Pino.
I'm not an expert in child porn and like to distance myself from that claim straight away.
I mean, we talk a lot about Peter.
I'm an amateur child pornographer.
I'm an amateur child porn collector.
I'm just saying that we we cover these cases more than most people.
Quality over quantity.
That's what I've always said about child poor.
But 70.
I'm looking at this.
What a old money tasteful be defile that is.
Wow.
Well, it's not, it's not, it's rare that you get a graceful child, child pornographer.
But Andrew Schrois.
Shaw, you know, tasteful man that he is.
It's like when you're buying kitchen appliances,
invest a lot of money into them so you want to
re-buy them. Get a good toaster. It will last you 10, 15 years.
So Andrew Shaw, registered blind,
had a guide dog. He had his defence lawyer
argue that his severe lack of vision made it difficult for him
to determine the age of the individuals and the images,
suggesting he believed he was downloading images of 16-year-olds or adults.
Interesting that he didn't go higher than 16.
Yeah. It's interesting that it was right on the line.
Yeah, because he clearly can see well enough.
Yes.
So he was like, I thought they were barely legal teens, not illegal teens.
Yeah.
But then why is that a category?
Why is barely legal a category?
It should just be legal or illegal, you know?
With the guide dogs.
It implies that he's there like, what's that?
And he's looking at the dog.
Like, can you bark three times if she's under 50?
With a stick.
Yeah.
How old is that kid?
I'll tell you what, in the innocent common, the 71 images does speak to his innocence.
It implies he's got a lot of images across the gamut.
of legality and only 71 dip into the illegality because that's very unpeedophile-like.
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So anyway, Napoleon's on an island on the South Atlantic looking at child porn.
That's how he spends his exile.
He's blind.
He's reading child porn, which is fine, because no one's really getting hurt there.
Anyway, his permanent residence, Longwood is a decaying farmhouse.
He thinks it's like living in a grave before death.
There are 2,000 soldiers and sailors stationed on St. Helena.
I mean, the jobs this man has created.
Who's paying for it?
It's what?
What's the British state again?
You know.
This is what's a Bibby Stop Home.
This is the Bibby Stockholm, right?
I don't know what that is.
You know, that fucking prison ship they built for immigrants.
Oh, right.
Yeah.
It's kind of horrendous.
They're like a hotel on the floating hotel.
Right, okay.
So naval patrols are constantly circling the island.
Centuries watching every road.
There are curfews for how far he could ride without an escort.
He also supposedly, he's trapped with these three other French couples.
And it's like a couple's holiday
It's basically a polychal
Yeah
And it was rumoured that he was sleeping
With one of the Albine de Montelon
And then Count Montelon tolerates the affair
Because Napoleon's showering the couple with money
How's he still got money?
Where's the money?
I don't know
But Albina eventually gives birth
To a daughter
On the island named Helen Napoleon
And the Garrison believes that it's his illegitimate child
He's still still singing it about
There's still threesomes going on
Right at the end
There's still cuckoldry going on
What is it Charlie?
Is it like a swing is
It feels like it
It feels like it
To do
Your mate was swinging the other day
Wasn't he?
He was asked
He was asked
He became apparent
Over the course of the evening
That he was in the presence
Of swingers yeah
He was being very pressurised
To get into the whole time
Yes a hand on his leg
And he liked that
No no no
No
He also had to stay the night
He had to stay the night
But in his own
In his own room
I see
Yeah
they walk amongst us
and there is dangerous
they swing amongst us
so there's a man called
General Hudson Lowe
who is responsible for
it's a great furrowed brow there
yeah that's a furrowed brow
that's who you want to guard someone on an island
he's responsible for
keeping St. Helena there
he's the governor
he insists on enforcing
every instruction sent from London
so they quarrel over who can visit him
Napoleon takes up guard
which is nice,
but then Lowe won't let him grow onions.
Oh really?
Because what happens when Napoleon eats onions?
He invades, of course.
Unions are a crucial part of his war machine
as we have learned during this series.
He thinks that he might be communicating in code
due to green being a Republican color.
Right.
So he thinks he's trimming bushes to,
it's like a semaphore.
Yeah.
Anyway, Napoleon, as sort of a psychological warfare with Lowe,
start to neglect his own hygiene routines.
What is a protest?
Yes, dirty protest.
He doesn't shave.
He doesn't wash or change his clothes.
He takes boiling hot sulphur baths,
so he'd sit in a tub for four hours at a time
Stinking egg bath.
In water that smells of rotten egg.
He looks a bit like Adam Kay at the end, Napoleon, I think.
Yeah.
Yes, I do see it.
Adam K really looks like Napoleon.
Oh, Napoleon. Dying Napoleon.
Yeah, he looks at the end.
And so, now, he looks like Adam Kae in the end.
Now there is a scheme to make Napoleon emperor of South America
because at this time, South America is throwing off the Spanish yoke, I think.
Yes.
This is the age of them all becoming independent countries.
Yeah.
And so a ship is sent to rescue him, but it got there to.
From who?
I don't know.
Argentina, Brazil.
Maybe.
I mean, what, Napoleon ended up in Brazil as well?
I know, it's where they will go.
So the plan was to rescue him from Longwood,
take him to South America,
and then unite Spanish and Portuguese colonies
into a new Napoleonic empire in South America.
But it gets there too late
and he's died by this point.
So how does he die Napoleon?
Rabbit.
Basically, what?
Rabbits?
It's not rabbits.
Before he dies,
he essentially just writes his memoirs
and this is where he makes his own myth.
Yeah.
Because he's basically...
So he writes his spare.
A Britterri's spare.
Yes, this is.
And again, it's Hitler writes a manifesto.
He doesn't write a retrospective.
We've been stolen from us as been Hitler's...
We've been robbed of Hitler's memoirs.
Yeah.
You know, I'm bidding for them.
We've got his objectives.
We don't know how much, you know, the what went well, even better if, analysis.
Yes.
Yes and, no.
What am I going to change?
Yeah.
So he basically reconstructs his victories.
He portrays himself as an enlightenment dictator.
Yeah.
And something I forgot to mention, you know,
he goes to Egypt 30 years previously and he calls himself Ali Bonaparte he would also meet
Islamic clerics dressed in like eight different versions of their religious dress yeah so
there's a there's a scene in a book I read where he's got like two turbans on yeah and he's
like I get it I don't worry brother um yeah salam alaqam you know he really thinks he is at the
cutting edge of enlightenment progressivism yeah and so this is what he paints himself
has this misunderstood genius.
You know, he's not defeated by superior enemies.
He's been betrayed by fortune.
But his health is in terminal decline.
His piles are raging.
He has a persistent cough.
He basically has stomach cancer.
Eema in his legs, that's swollen water, isn't it?
It has terrible medical advice, seemingly on this island.
Yeah, this is horrendous.
So he basically has a four-inch cancerous tumor
eating through his stomach lining.
by late April in 1821
he is violently vomiting
dark thick fluid
by May 1821 his bowels
have completely failed
His bowels have failed
His bowels have failed
They failed
Are you regular
I've failed
My bowels have failed
They failed today
And he's passing
Completely black tarry stools
Which is evidence
That his gastrointestinal
tract is hemorrhering
Right
Doctors believe his stomach issues
are caused by a sluggish bowel
Not a failing ball
Yes.
So to cure him, they give him a 600 milligram dose of heavy metal.
Which has mercury in it, I believe.
No, not Metallica.
Yeah!
So they give him, which is toxic with an emetic.
And basically, all this does is rip apart his remaining stomach tissue and gives him mercury
poisoning.
So he has agonizing non-stop hiccups, and dehydration that causes his organs to shut down.
Then in a desperate attempt,
to draw out the bad humours from his brain,
they shave his head,
and then crush a paste made of crushed Spanish fly beetles
to his scalp,
to burn his skin,
creates all these blisters.
So he's basically like...
Yeah, it's bad advice from the doctors.
It's bad medicine, really.
So in his final days, he's in his bed,
and he's in the sitting room
because the lights nicer there.
And supposedly his last words are France,
the army, the head of the army,
Josephine.
It's not the most romantic.
No.
Just listing things.
Yeah.
And May the 5th 1821, he dies aged 51.
I think he was like...
Is he doing a shagmary kill at the end?
No, it's...
It's Wales, Gulf Madrid.
Yeah.
Gareth Bale.
France, the army, the head of their army, Joseph.
And so he dies age 51.
Then there's an autopsy the next day.
I was surprised how little time we actually spend on the island.
There's only six years in the end.
Six years.
Yeah. And the next day an autopsy is performed and their doctors are shocked by the state of his body.
And they said that he'd lost all of his body hair and that he was very soft and had the body of a woman.
Slagging them off?
No muscles. They think because of all the treatment or something that he had a hormonal issue.
Right.
The cancer had caused his hormones.
So they got a bit of estrogen.
He had big tits, I think. Yeah. Big tits at the end.
Bored with big tits like Gail Porter.
Napoleon requests that his heart be cut out and sent to his son.
Now, we should talk about his son is Napoleon the second, but they doesn't do anything.
His nephew will become Emperor Napoleon the third.
He does not.
He was a huge figure in the mid-19th century.
And we will get into when at some point we delve into the beef tartar of the Franco-Prussian ball.
But interestingly, I was doing some research last night, always do your own research.
and there is still a contested
Imperial House of France
So every
Yeah, this is him
This is the current
Leader of the House of Bonaparte
Interesting
Yeah, look, he's just like a fucking banker
Is he successful?
Yeah, I think so
So he's the current
He's the great, great, great, great
Grandnephew of Napoleon
Is he made a lot of them made a play for power?
Well, I don't know
but there is, so he would be known as Napoleon the eighth, this guy.
It's just like, he looks like he just works in Canary War.
Yeah.
But after his death, you get bonapartism.
Right.
Bum's falling apartism.
Right.
Which is the belief.
Bum's falling apart autism.
Bum falling apart autism, which is an autism about your piles.
Right.
But no, it's the belief in that France should have a, essentially, a strong, strong man above the political fray.
And so Macron actually,
is sort of...
Of anyone in Europe.
There's elements of Bonaparte to him.
He seems to be of any leader in modern Europe
who's not like a sniveling civil servant, basically.
He's the only one who has a sense of history as a leader.
Totally.
Or his own place in it.
Again, it's that mythopitheirley or mythophilia,
whatever it's called.
He's making himself a mythic paedophile.
But then he's also, you know,
on Marsh, when that came to power,
it was a new party.
It completely poll acts as the political.
system. I'm above it all. I'm new. I'm a centrist.
You know, Bridget Macron,
you know, Joseph. Joseph.
Sorry, Joseph. Brian Macron,
as she should be known.
And so when Napoleon dies, they basically are like, well, he's buried and we're going
to bury him here because you can't send him back.
And then at some point in the mid-19th century, is it another king or is it Napoleon
III? One of the kings before Napoleon III negotiates the transfer of his
remains and then they give him a massive state funeral in France in the 1840s I think and he
is buried in this incredible tomb yeah in Paris is it in Lesin Anvalide or whatever
yeah and it's like six layers of yeah can we get the thought hey no no it's not like a
double decker no yeah there we go there we go there we go Napoleon's tomb and it's designed in a way that
you're either looking up at him
or you're looking down at him, but you're never on his level.
Interesting. Yeah.
There's six concentric coffins, so like Russian dolls.
So the first one's tin, then mahogany, then lead,
then a second layer of lead, then ebony, and then oak.
How come?
Hey?
Do you know why?
It's got like a nuclear bunker.
I don't really know why there's six dimmed coffins.
But on the circle around, there's all the names of his famous campaigns,
like Alstallitz and Borodino and all this stuff.
And then famously, the famous photo,
is that in 1940, when Adolf Hitler had taken France,
he goes to Paris, he looks down on Napoleon's tomb,
he takes his hat off as a mark of respect,
and he calls it the proudest moment of my life.
And he says, I think he says at this time,
on my gravestone, they will not have my rank
because my first and last name will be iconic enough, basically.
And is he wrong?
And he's dead right.
He's dead right.
Hitler sees like a beach ball again.
Yeah.
On my WhatsApp
Hitler's come out in the Times
seeing it like a beach ball still
nailing it.
Can we do Palais Maradona
headers please?
So there's a nice moment
where obviously they played
in different eras
Yes.
They have a lot of respect
This is what I kind of
You kind of want
between Napoleon and Hitler
Yeah
This is on like a TV show
That they're old guys
And they respect each other
But then just for old time's sake
You can't ever see them
This is what you want really
Yeah a bit of this
Yeah great
Napoleon and Hitler
the two goats just showboating.
Wow, that's very impressive.
They're good at football.
Well, they're very good.
Well, they're very good. The two goats.
Now, during the autopsy, allegedly, Napoleon's doctor slices off Napoleon's penis, gives it to a French piece to smuggle off the island.
It becomes a historical artifact who buys it and says it looks like a mummified eel.
It remains in a private collection to this day.
And there is, and I was going to ask,
there is a Wikipedia article called Napoleon's penis, okay?
Which, now I want to know how many other penises have their own Wikipedia article.
We've got Rasputin.
Rasputin's penis.
Napoleon's penis.
What other historical figures have a...
Can we chat GPT that, please?
Yeah, please.
This is crucial.
Because to honest, not being a world leader and getting a penis,
Wikipedia article is arguably more impressive.
Well, that says something about your penis.
Yes.
you know Napoleon
Blue whales
right
so maybe not
I guess this is
we've reached the end
of the Napoleon story
he is dead
he is buried
Hitler is looking down
on him
his penis is in the hands
of a private collector
what else is that man
collecting
we don't know
but that's still out there
that penis
is still out there
if you're listening
send a picture in
please
I'd love to
I'd love to
we'd love to have
it in the studio
actually
along with any other
historic penises
so to
sum up, I mean, how do we
Napoleon in France is quite an interesting
question because they sort of
he's kind of completely
rehabilitated almost. I mean,
they kind of, they think of
they basically love him.
Well, it's very unfrench.
It's very unrevolutionary
in many ways. They haven't really
apart from maybe you could argue like
de Gaulle, they haven't really had
big political figures that are sort of
dominating in that way. No.
In the modern era, it seems to be, it's
quite like anti-daz type of nationalism.
But I guess for anyone who wants to restate that,
like what's Marine Le Pen's view on Napoleon?
Are they, do they co-op?
Does the right co-opt Napoleon into their mythos?
I think they're sort of a Napoleonic tradition, isn't there?
But the whole notion of empire, Napoleon sort of starts.
He's Napoleon as a foundation of a modern France,
praising his efforts, you know, build lasting national institutions.
Strong, yeah, strong centralisation.
Yeah.
mixed critical perfects.
All right.
So yeah,
it's left and right, really.
Yeah.
It's Churchill, right?
I guess so.
I guess it's Churchill or maybe it's someone
more like Oliver Cromwell.
Yes, I mean, yeah.
You really separate the weak
from the chaff with Cromwell.
Yes, but I suppose,
what we actually did, Napoleon is kind of
as a similar, he was slaughtered sacred cows.
Right.
Don't call that host people.
I'm sorry, sorry.
Cromwell was robust.
It's robust against the sacred cows.
But I suppose the main thing Napoleon has given us and given me is the Napoleonic Wars,
which I still, now that we're at the end, maintain.
Box office.
It is absolute box office.
It is a 19th century space opera of colour, of smoke, of military tactics that I can
understand, and I could have done if I was there.
It's, you know, the warfare from this point onwards, loses a bit of class.
Loses a bit of class.
You know, the Gatling gun
will be invented
at some point soon
in the 19th century.
Wars, you know,
this is the beginning.
It's sort of like a war flesh light,
isn't it?
A bit like that,
you know, it's like you don't have to work as much.
It's the,
it's the quick short launcher.
Yes, the quick shot launcher
otherwise,
the Gatling gun is invented
and wreaks havoc in third world country
as much as the quick shot launcher does today.
Yeah.
But this is also the dawning of the Pax Britannica
because after Waterloo,
1815,
there is not another
battle on the mainland
European continent
until the Franco-Prussian War
there's the unification of Italy
There's Crimean War
The Crimean Wars I wouldn't say
It's on the continent
But basically the European powers
Don't really all fight again
Until 1914
Yeah which
It creates a world order that's not broken
Until 1914
Yes
And
And France
We haven't gone into the Franco-Prussian War
We are going to do a series on it
I don't know a lot about it
But it seems pretty traumatising
For the French
Franco-Prussian War is awesome
because it's basically the Napoleonic Wars
but with trains and friend of the pod
off of Bismarck.
Okay, right.
So we will get into the Franco-Prussian War at some point.
And the Prussia successor of Waterloo
is what makes then the dominating German state
which will eventually lead to Germany.
French-Brusherian War, World War I, World War II.
Hitler.
So this has been the Napoleonic Wars.
Go on, Charlie.
The prostates are folded.
The flags are down.
Charlie.
I was trying to get one in under.
the line.
What I was going to ask you, Charlie,
we're at the end of a 10-part series.
What country is Napoleon from?
No, with our patrons,
bonus, five bonus services,
but this is the biggest series we've ever done,
I think.
What have you learned?
Well, I think it was really interesting
with Napoleon is that, you know,
he curated his own image
through paintings and memoirs.
You know, so it's maybe an analogy
for how we today curate our own images
using social media and AI.
And it, you know,
it brings up interesting questions.
What are you reading?
About truth.
What are you reading?
Very interesting questions about truth
and ultimately there is no truth.
It's always a kind of curation.
What are you reading?
What are you reading, Charlie?
My, nothing.
Well, this is my truth.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What does that say?
What does that say?
Because I just think it's truth.
Does that say circumcising the mandem?
Stop circumcising the mandem as a t-shirt.
Now, why is that relink to...
It's that relevant.
It's very true.
You know, you have to live by codes.
And mine is that we should stop circumcising the mandem.
Well, that's the Charlie Onet Code.
That's right.
So this has been a 10-part series.
And what we'd like you to take away from it is to please stop circumcising the mandam.
Okay.
From all of us here, a serious note to end on this historic series.
Listeners, I hope you've had a great time.
I've absolutely loved it.
It's been brilliant.
Next week, the door will be open.
The women will be allowed back in.
The pigs will be out of the shit.
Pigs are out of the shit.
We'll be a pig out of shit again.
I don't know where we'll be, but I hope you've enjoyed it.
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I mean, the archive of stuff in there now.
It's astonishing.
The bodily and library in there.
It's astonishing.
Three pounds a month, that's all it is.
Body odoury in library, alright?
We've got to go before Charlie does another pun.
Stop circumcised the mandem.
This has been the Napoleonic Wars.
We'll see you again soon.
Goodbye.
