Foreign Accent P*do Syndrome | Caligula (Part 1)

27 Oct 2025 · 1 h 3 min · 24 chapters

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In short

Ancient Rome’s third emperor, Caligula (Part 1), framed as a “blueprint for tyranny.” The episode covers Rome’s shift from republic to emperors, the reliability of Suetonius as a source, Caligula’s upbringing, and how Tiberius’ rule on Capri allegedly shaped Caligula’s later cruelty and debauchery.

Guest backgrounds

Horatio Gould and Charlie (co-hosts). Both present as comedic historians; they reference other episodes (e.g., Nero) and use modern analogies and tabloid-style claims.

Key claims

Germanicus dies in Syria after rumors of poisoning by Piso; public grief is blamed on Tiberius’ lack of mourning. Tiberius allegedly banishes and destroys Agrippina (loses an eye, dies). Tiberius is portrayed as running an “Epstein’s island” on Capri with sexual exploitation of boys. Caligula is nicknamed from childhood “caligae” (boots). On becoming emperor, Caligula reverses bans/exiles, ends trials, and funds massive “bread and circuses” spectacles, including slaughtering huge numbers of animals.

Notable examples

Suetonius’ sensational “On the Emperors” style; Caligula stealing Alexander the Great’s breastplate; building a shrine with statues dressed in his current outfit; renaming the month of September; and early spending on games and blood sports.

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Caligula: The Random Emperor

0:03 to 0:28

Discussion about Caligula's bizarre actions and historical context.

Caligula: The Random Emperor

1:55 to 3:42

Discussion about Caligula's bizarre actions and historical context.

“welcome back to the most history i'm joined by horatio gould random um what just random i think caligula is very very random right it's very like he fucks his sister he makes his horse a fucking politician.”

History of Ancient Rome

3:42 to 6:01

Overview of the early history of Rome and its emperors.

“They're the opposite of a chess grandmaster.”

Suetonius and Roman Emperors

6:01 to 7:38

Exploring Suetonius' accounts of the Roman emperors.

“and he wrote this just really sensationalised sort of account of all the emperors.”

Caligula's Background

7:38 to 12:37

Detailing Caligula's early life and family background.

“the best preserved source is the Mail Online which is why it's so juicy yeah exactly but it's like if you could only the royals now it's only the Mail Online yeah So it's like the queen killed Princess Diana.”

Caligula's Background

12:40 to 14:00

Detailing Caligula's early life and family background.

“You try to open WhatsApp in Turkey or your phone explodes.”

Exploring the Free Market

14:00 to 14:39

Discussion on bank holidays and digital security using VPNs.

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Exploring the Free Market

15:02 to 15:28

Discussion on bank holidays and digital security using VPNs.

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The Childhood of Caligula

15:43 to 18:08

Discussion about Caligula's upbringing and his nickname's meaning.

“You know, you've gone to school with some kids who are raised in barracks and stuff.”

The Death of Germanicus and Public Reaction

18:10 to 21:09

Exploration of the impact of Germanicus's death on Roman society.

“three or four years ago, but now he's hit a real stride.”
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Tiberius and His Rule

21:10 to 24:16

Discussion on Tiberius's rule and the political climate following Germanicus's death.

“I'd drop kit mine so it's like a small bounce.”

Tiberius on Capri and His Lifestyle

24:18 to 28:00

A humorous exploration of Tiberius's life on Capri and its excesses.

“I just can't but you'd go on you'd go on an eating like the opposite spree Like a school shooter, but with buttons.”

Humorous Anecdotes About Erections

28:00 to 29:40

Exploring the awkwardness and humor of needing to pee with an erection.

“Have you ever tried to pee What do you mean you're not sure?”

Caligula's Debauchery on Capri

29:40 to 31:00

Introduction to Caligula's lifestyle and notorious behaviors during his time on Capri.

“Funnily enough, can we put a pin in that?”

The Rise of Caligula and Tiberius's Death

31:00 to 36:23

Discussion of Tiberius's reign, Caligula's rise to power, and the intrigue of succession.

“But it's like, so he didn't seem to want to be emperor and it sort of makes sense because he's, not only is it hard to get messages around in ancient Romans we've discussed, he's on an island.”

The Rise of Caligula and Tiberius's Death

36:26 to 36:40

Discussion of Tiberius's reign, Caligula's rise to power, and the intrigue of succession.

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Caligula's Early Reign and Public Reception

39:25 to 42:00

Exploring Caligula's initial actions as emperor and the public's response to his rule.

“So you're spending that on the Olympic opening ceremony?”

Caligula's Controversial Reign

42:00 to 44:34

Learn about Caligula's controversial decisions and their implications for Roman society.

The Eccentricities of Caligula

44:34 to 47:56

Explore the eccentric behaviors and extravagant lifestyle of Emperor Caligula.

“There's cock throwing, fox tossing, this sounds adjacent to beef eating, goose pulling, human baiting.”

Caligula's Financial Mismanagement

47:56 to 52:14

Understand how Caligula's spending habits affected Rome's economy and his popularity.

“This is in the first year, months, right?”

The Impact of Illness on Leadership

52:14 to 56:01

Investigate how Caligula's illness changed his behavior and governance style.

“So he runs auctions himself, but drives the prices up so that - What I love about these mad emperors, they love doing other jobs.”

The Discussion on Paedophile Button Syndrome

56:01 to 58:45

Exploration of a bizarre medical case linking brain tumors to paedophilic thoughts.

“and I can't turn it off I mean it's not far off though you heard about this right?”

Caligula's Health and Accent Changes

58:45 to 1:00:06

Discussion about Caligula's potential illnesses and how they affected his character and speech.

“Anyway, we don't know what happens to Caligula.”

Caligula's Health and Accent Changes

1:02:34 to 1:04:05

Discussion about Caligula's potential illnesses and how they affected his character and speech.

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1:55welcome back to the most history i'm joined by horatio gould random um what just random i think caligula is very very random right it's very like he fucks his sister he makes his horse a fucking politician. Yeah, you're right, actually, he is. Random! You don't have to be mad to work here, but it bloody helps. You're saying that he's the first millennial in many ways. Yeah. Random! Today we're talking about Caligula. We're back in ancient Rome, which after a week in prehistory feels like yesterday. Yes. It's a joy to be back in the Nazis of the ancient Rome. It's true. Yeah. It's our second Roman Emperor.

2:32We will do all the Roman emperors. Oh, we're knocking them off. Yeah. we're noshing them off we're noshing them off they'd love that they really would they would they'd fucking get about dirty little fellas yeah they put Charlie to shame they really do these guys are Charlie's kind of a Roman Emperor incarnate really he's like a Roman Emperor with no money sort of like I've run out of pants exactly run out of what? pants you're not wearing any pants are you? no it's actually much comfier they didn't wear pants though they just wore a loincloth we don't know actually yeah method do you want to google if the Romans wore pants?

3:03I'd love to Caligula is the third Roman emperor he's sort of the is he the maddest? Maybe he's the maddest maybe but we also don't know if any of it's true yeah but fuck that we could say that for anything it's true like what? we don't know what happened at all we don't know what happened on 9-11 we don't know we can't know that's what this podcast is about but he only reigns for four years but he's become sort of the blueprint for tyranny. It's true. But I mean, we should probably set it up with like, so there - Should we do a potted history of ancient Rome? Because we must remember our listeners are very, very thick.

3:42They're the opposite of a chess grandmaster. Opposite of good looking? Yeah. They would lose to someone with Down syndrome at chess. Okay. Our listeners. So like the Turing test, the Turing test would have worked on them in the like 70s. The first computer would have outsmarted them. Yes. You know the Turing test? Pong. They can't win a pong. it's like we'll know when the computer's taken over when they can like when they can when you think a computer's a human right and they the first computer would have won the turing test against our listeners yes yeah because they're like well that's not that's a person that's the person so that's our listeners so potter's history of rome uh a a a wolf a guy sucks off a wolf yeah um then they there's kings yeah and then about 500 bc ish yeah they start a republic so obviously when people think of rome it's this long history it starts in like i don't know 300 bc it ends in 500 ad but the prime of rome where gladiators set that our idea of rome is sort of post julius caesar when the emperors start yeah there's only seven emperors i think There's actually loads, but there's a sort of 200-year golden period.

4:54Oh, right, really? Sort of. Oh, I guess there's a, yeah. Yeah. And from Augustus, who's seen as like sort of. Yeah. Augustus is Blair. Well, I was about to say he's seen as the greatest politician of all time. Yeah, I mean, potato potato. He's a god. I mean, was he involved in Gaza, Augustus? Augustus. I think get him in. Get him in to start managing it. If Blair can't do it, Augustus can. Augustus is the guy after Caesar. And he's the go. And he sets up the idea of the emperor for Romans. And basically all of these mad fucking cunts are. Augustus is such a good leader that these mad cunts are just following in his line.

5:35They're allowed to do this. It's much like the Labour Party after Blair. Mad cunt after mad cunt. And then Suetonius, who's a sort of gutter journalist. Yeah. A sort of tabloid writer. TMZ. Yeah. Paparazzi. He wrote a sort of, what's it called? what's the book he called? I'm not sure. It's called, of course you don't know. It's called On the Emperors, I think. Yeah. Or On the Emperors of Rome. What's your favourite book? One second, Charlie. Charlie, we were actually trying to, and he wrote this just really sensationalised sort of account of all the emperors. And it's one of the only sources left.

6:13I can't believe he's been producing a podcast for nine months. We're just getting into it. Stop, stop. Guys, guys, what's your favourite book? Guys, guys, guys, guys, what is your favourite colour? Quickly, quickly. Genuinely, genuinely, my four-year-old would be better at this. What is your favourite colour, Charlie? Red. Right, anyway. Glad we got that done. Sorry, you're somewhat suetonious.

6:44What's your favourite book, Charlie? Kintsuki's Kingdom. What happens in that? is that a graphic novel it's there are pictures sometimes yeah there you go but basically this boy meets a Japanese old man on a beach and he takes him under his wing but not in a nonce way what did you learn from that book the boy gets taken under the Japanese guy's wing yeah I learned that you can be friends with anyone right I mean yeah your best mate is an 8 year old woman called Teresa Rama is she Japanese no she's she did marry a Bengali man though right he's dead now okay anyway Suetonius is much more interested in it's basically if the main source or history of emperors left was written by the Daily Mail yeah and that's basically what the main thing Mail Online Mail Online yeah it's basically everything else gets destroyed and the main the best source the best preserved source is the Mail Online which is why it's so juicy yeah exactly but it's like if you could only the royals now it's only the Mail Online yeah So it's like the queen killed Princess Diana.

7:51She was having gang bangs with the whole Alphard family. Harry's a Nazi. That is what we're going off. And that's why it's great. That's why it's really good stuff. So according to him, it's just, they just keep electing fucking mad cunts. Because we did Nero. We did Nero. And I feel Nero and Caligula, for me personally, they blend into one a bit. Similar, yeah, they're both emperors for a short time. Good time, not a long time. Yeah, good time, not a long time. Very good time. They're young. And that's part of the problem, is that the older emperors tend to do better because there's a built-in respect.

8:26Yeah. But then we should really start the story with Tiberius, who's the emperor after Augustus. And he kind of... So he goes Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula. And Tiberius is the second emperor. He doesn't want to be emperor. He's a general. What does he want? Well, he's an old man who gets adopted by Augustus. so we have to start by saying that he is like a 50 year old bloke who gets adopted which is humiliating yeah so he's got a pacifier in his mouth yeah he's like i'm a general i'm a military veteran yeah and you've adopted me he was left on uh he was left on augustus's doorstep in a big basket naked like that caligula's early life he's born on the 31st of august in the year 12 yeah it's good to be good to be back the 12 should we replace 12 12 is so it's jesus 12 12 uh jesus is 12 at this point yeah how old's hitler uh hitler's but a sparkle in some roman's eye um uh so this is after julius caesar yeah it's before caesar salads yeah that's the year 12 so no one had a caesar salad at this point if you said a caesar salad they'll be like is that what we made of julius caesar yeah we made a caesar salad out of that emperor yeah we cut him to shit No.

9:40So his full name is Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus. Right. Which sort of means German thrasher. Yeah. And they just love putting other people's names in their name. It's very confusing. Yeah. It'd be like Horatio Finn Taylor Gould. Yeah. And that's Charlie. And it's so confusing. It's like Brazilian footballers where they have like 20 names and they have like one name that they're known by, which is none of their names. Yeah. It's like so confusing. Bill. It's like Bill. Yeah, I love Fred. Yeah. His name is like Wow Felix Prince Felix. and you know him as John. You're like, what the fuck is going on?

10:11Is it like how, you know, like Chinese students will come and call themselves like Nigel? Yeah. Is it a way of making themselves? No, because this is in their own country. Oh, right. Because I went to school with some Chinese kids who chose an Anglicized name. Like, yeah. One called himself Memphis because he liked Elvis. Right, right. And you're like, well, that's not really a name here. That's not really. But it's fun to just like, just choose a name. Yeah. Like I just go, yeah, I'm called Noodle. I like noodles. It's the same, isn't it? You're just taking one thing from a culture and saying i'll yeah i guess if i was like if i was studying abroad in china to fit in i might call myself noodle girl no no no no noodle noodle one name just noodle oh i guess are you chinese no no i just did that i just uh chinese-ified my name i'm just called soup because you sound you sound fucking chinese because your name's noodle yeah that's not an english name hello hello my name's wanton oh right you're born here no i'm actually from england oh funny that yeah you got a chinese name you go to a bar in china with some tough chinese guys you say your name's new you're like no he's all right he's one of us prawn toast get this guy what's your name number 34 yeah you must have been born around here crazy crazy

11:28oh anyway anyway what the fuck are we on about caligula Caligula's a little boy born of the year 12 yeah so Caligula is his nickname and he hates Caligula he hates it this is very funny he spends his life his father is Germanicus who is like the goat if Augustus is the I don't know if he's Zidane then Germanicus is Henri he's like one of the big guys he's a great general who basically must have conquered most of their territory in Germany that's why his name is Germanicus yeah killing the barbarians I fucking fucked up the Germans. Because the Roman Empire is always engaged up north in Germany.

12:09Because at this point, Germany, it's like, it's the Germans without the order of Hitler. It's chaos. It's chaos Germans. It's chaos Germans. This is before they started running on time. Before they started suiting and booting themselves. Right, yeah. Before the trains. It's mad. Yeah. They've got the same instincts, as we know, from the prehistoric series where we found a little 30-thousand. But it's primal. It's primal. It's primal Nazis. Yeah. as opposed to when they become civilized refined this episode of finversus history is brought to you by surf shark our friends at surf shark they are our friends now if you're traveling are you being on your holidays anywhere nice say you're going to turkey to get your horrible hair and teeth done exactly and you want to whatsapp your thick girlfriend yeah if i'm there with a massive bandage on my head yeah and i want to be picked up by my thick stupid girlfriend and I'm like trying to use WhatsApp.

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15:47He's one of those military kids. You know, you've gone to school with some kids who are raised in barracks and stuff. Yeah, a little bit. Their dads are in the military. They're always away. They live on barracks. He's basically spending his entire childhood in a war zone. And so his mum dresses him up in the uniform of a Roman soldier. And all the soldiers love him. He's sort of like a mascot. He's like a gunasaurus. Right? But they put him in the little Roman boots, which the Latin is caligae. and then his nickname is Caligula, which is sort of translated as bootykins. Right. Which is very funny to think that like a tyrant is known in history as bootykins.

16:30Yeah. It's sort of like - Like Hitler being called like Little Tash. Mr. Schnuffleflump or whatever, or Pookie. Yeah, like Hitler being called Bumfluff. Yeah, exactly. If we knew Hitler as Bumfluff in 2000 years, people were like, oh, Bum. One of the original German tyrants, Dr. Schnuffleflump. Yeah. but that being the name he's used when you're talking about his evil and he'd hate it yeah that's the thing he'd fucking hate it but you don't think it makes him a bit more even scarier the fact that he's like a nutter yeah I guess so it's like the Joker right it's like kind of like more terrifying in some ways yeah little poopy pants you know little poopy pants oh yes Dr.

17:05Poopy Pants is here no one no not Dr. Poopy Pants no please Dr. Poopy Pants is coming please spare me ah Yeah, you're right. It is more scary. So Dr. Poopypants, Bootykins, is a child. He's spending his childhood on the battlefield with soldiers. And then suddenly, Germanicus is, we should actually say... Germanicus is probably in line to be the... To take over from Augustus. Let's go, yeah. They love him. The Roman people love him. He's effectively the Roman equivalent of Alexander the Great because he's conquering all this territory. he's a big military guy his mother is Agrippina the elder who is Augustus' granddaughter so you don't really get more blue blood your grandfathered in than Caligula and then in 19 AD Jesus is in his kind of teen phase fuck you mum he's hating his mum he's jacking it hard at this time this is the Jesus wank years we're into now this is prime wank years he discovered it about three or four years ago, but now he's hit a real stride.

18:14Yeah, he's not doing six a day in 1990. His dad's watching him wank all the time. That's a lot. Yeah, but he's into it. He loves it. He loves it. He leaves the door open. Dad.

18:26So anyway, 19, Jesus is jacking it. And in Syria, not far from where Jesus is playing with his hog, Germanicus suddenly dies. I don't know if that's related. He's like, he's very powerful, Jesus, right? Is he doing miracles at age 19? when does Jesus oh he's doing miracles no Charlie can you google when does Jesus start knocking out miracles when does he stop knocking on his fucking when does he put his hog away and start turning water into wine well because he was just a humble carpenter to the edge of 30 and all his shit was yeah shit so he only had three years at his peak it was only three it was only three yeah he got a lot done it's like Mia Khalifa he found out she's only in the industry for three months she was like what you know change the game I've seen thousands of films of you so you are a cinephile sorry you are a film bro then after all you're a cinephile yeah well why aren't we doing me a califa film club yeah why are we doing kurosawa's fucking ran rather than ran through me a califa

19:31jesus what are your favorite films probably uh all of me a califa's oeuvre i'm a completist I'm a Khalifa completist I've got the box sets Blu-ray yeah can you get her on we watch the family every Christmas I've got them on 35mm mate I'm getting the projector out oh my god BFI OMAX is doing a 35mm print of me and Khalifa as an entire body of work Q &A afterwards god there's cheese there's nibbles there's Khalifa you've got to watch it on the 70mm print it's just it's how she wanted it to be seen fuck so Jesus only had three years doing miracles that's mad amazing he is the son of God man amazing yeah I guess you just converted live on the pod.

20:08Yeah, that's sick. So anyway, so yeah, age 19, I don't know what he's doing. Isn't it funny? Sorry, it's funny that being like the prophet and son of God, whatever, is sort of his plan B. He was like a carpenter first. Yeah, and that didn't work out. And he fell back on. So he became a fucking magician. Because normally if you're a magician, that doesn't work out. And then you become a carpenter. Yeah, he was a carpenter. No money in tables. He was struggling. He gave it a good 10 years and he thought, I need to think of something else. Do you reckon he was just a really shit carpenter? I think so.

20:37I haven't seen any of his tables. Table scape falling over. People were sitting in his chairs. They collapsed. Anyway, so this is, Jesus is a sort of teen at this point. Spotty. Spotty teen. Hi, hi. I think so, Jesus. My dad's going to come and get your dad. Germanicus dies suddenly in Syria on campaign. And the rumors are that he's poisoned by a guy called Piso. He's like a general or he's some kind of, he's a governor. He's a Roman governor. There you go. Gov. Gov. for our peas you alright Guff anyway when the news of Germanicus's death reaches Rome they go fucking apeshit livid apparently Suetonia says that people get rid of their kids their newborns they just go get rid of that it is Diana just shut their newborns they go wow this is fucked what a world we're bringing this kid into oh right it's like climate change it's like I'd rather not have kids I don't think the woke lot who aren't who are worried about climate change are throwing their kids in the river I think they're just not having kids it's a different time though it's the same instinct I don't want to raise my kids in a world without Germanicus.

21:37Flop. In the bin. Straight away. I'd drop kit mine so it's like a small bounce. Like the rugby drop kit. Johnny Wilkinson. Wilkinson! You have to let it bounce a small bit. Yeah, Johnny Wilkinson 2003 workout final. This is me. I'm a Roman mother as soon as I find out Germanicus. So you're cradling your baby. Yeah, my first kid. Do you know what's funny is that they thought so they knew he was ill and then fake news news spread that he'd survived oh right but that's quicker right you've already you've already started so this is it so this is my this is my germanicus is ill this is my my husband chucks me the kid oh no no he has died wilkinson what i like is there's someone throwing it back to you yeah someone just chucks me the baby and then he's just leaving your kid yeah yeah but if you have like eight kids then you need to make it quicker right yes you're right you're right right this one's You got granny just firing the kids into you.

22:33You're grabbing it and just... Anyway, so when Germanicus does... He is confirmed dead. Yeah. Right. The whole Rome goes mad. You know that footage of Buenos Aires when Argentino win the World Cup and they all come out onto the streets? You've seen that. No. But I imagine when Germanicus, just all these babies flying out the window. But now it is very similar to Diana because Tiberius is, at this point, he's on Capri. He's kind of ruling from afar, sort of by proxy. Because were you saying Tiberius didn't want to be a ruler? Yeah, he didn't want to be. He was grumpy. He wanted to have his end away on Capri.

23:09He wanted to be a paedophile in peace. OG Epstein. Yeah, in many ways. We'll get to that. But he doesn't grieve enough for Germanicus in the minds of the public. So it's very similar to when the queen was sort of accused of not being emotional enough after Diana's death. But again, she's just a, you know, she's a model stoic. Exactly. Wasn't she? There is suspicions that Tiberius killed Germanicus. Yeah, there's a... Which kind of tracks because he was going to be the one to take over, right? Or maybe he could have taken over in Tiberius' lifetime. So it might have been like a rifle to his. I think it's more that Tiberius is just wants, wants the love.

23:50Oh, he's got jealous. Sort of. And Germanicus is kind of a loved, I love the figure anyway so Tiberius then is convinced that Agrippina who's Germanicus' wife is plotting against him and so banishes her to a remote island she then gets she gets beaten up loses an eye goes on hunger strike and dies I just can't I just can't relate to going on hunger strike I think it's pointless I just can't but you'd go on you'd go on an eating like the opposite spree Like a school shooter, but with buttons. He's on an eating spree. Hide, we've got an active eater. But could you do it as like a protest, but it's the other way around?

24:31I will not stop eating. Yeah. Well, yeah, I will not stop eating. That's the protest. And people are like, what are you doing this for? Nah, no reason. You can do it free Palestine, but it's just you eating as much. I won't stop. Guys, there's a ceasefire. No, it didn't matter. It won't last. It won't. I hope it won't last. I don't trust him. I don't trust him. what is he seven he's eight yeah he's taken to capri tiberius basically brings him to war zone to a pedophile island yes he's gone from gaza to epstein's island it's an intense upbringing sure that's why we're trying to sow the seeds yeah of his tyranny later yeah there's a lot going on in his childhood if he was this would be a two-parter on diary of his ceo yeah he's got a lot of trauma the intro enough would be insane what what bartlett would be like sorry what you fucking what your granddad was the biggest pedophile ever most creative pedophile yes we'll get to that yeah we'll get to that now tiberius on capri now we mentioned this uh we touched on this in our nero series um but he supposedly according to suetonius according to tmz uh he has a whale of a time on capri he has these squadrons of um boys yeah uh he has the little fish swimming between his legs and off them off while he's swimming he has the tight bums yeah uh which does what it says on the tin um they would the tight bums these boys they would have threesomes in front of him to try and stimulate his flagging libido yeah exactly um which is you know i mean foreplay isn't it it's one way of doing it i guess they didn't have um viagra this is pre-viagra so you'd have to have young boys having threesomes that's any chance the original viagra so like snake jammers for his flagging old cock exactly yeah um and this is what people would do in the roman days and you know i remember this once when we i was in a pub i must have been 1920 my mate spiked my pint with the blue pill that you can buy in the vending machine right and then i just had a raging lob on the bus home uh so how does viagra what does it does it is it like a painful erection it's it's under it's an undeniable erection it's not one you can hide I've never I actually wonder how that works so like he gave it to you and how long before it was just like there's maybe a 20 30 minute lag did you get the horn or was it just up no it's just rock hard and it's not like a because the reason so you got an erection and you're not horny no and I'm just on the bus home it's tough it was a really good prank because there was a lag I left the pub and then I was on the bus being like fucking hell what's going on here this is like when I was 8 and I went over a speed bump and I got an erection you know but this is crazy I'm on the bus home with a huge lob on but the reason Viagra also you could listen to people without being horny but also the night bus is one of the least horny places to be but there's a not even London an Oxford night bus home to the villages and then I get off the bus and I'm all like crouched and I've got to sneak in humiliating anyway the reason Viagra exists is that you can be really horny but you've got a floppy willy right so it's not it doesn't make you horny it just sorts out the willy issue it's a blood flow thing it's a blood flow thing I didn't realise it was permanent rock on and I thought it was like, it's not permanent.

27:38It's not permanent. I still got it. It should be hard this whole time. It's not one shot, one kill. You've got a boner for the rest of your life. Like a fucking like myth. Yeah. Would that be a nightmare? The golden gun. Boink. Would that be a nightmare do you think to have? It was a nightmare, yeah. But forever, if you had a permanent boner. Well, yes, it would be a nightmare. Of course it would be a nightmare. What are you talking about? I'm not sure. Have you ever tried to pee What do you mean you're not sure? Have you ever tried to have a piss with a boner? I love doing that

28:07All your feet are off the ground. You're getting one now. I'm genuinely getting one now. Christ. I've got a semi. Right. It's got like a half one.

28:17So every time you piss, you've got to basically helicopter to the toilet. You see me, myself and Irene? No. Jim Carrey, one of Jim Carrey's best films. There's a moment where he's trying to pee with an erection and it just goes all over the bathroom. It'd be a nightmare having an erection. That would be crazy. Yeah. I mean, what, you get told, you get told your mother's in hospital. Fucking hard as a rock. And the doctor's like, put that away. There's so many situations where it's inappropriate to have a massive lob on. Job interview. Someone's keen. You don't have to be hard to work here, but it helps.

28:54I mean, there's something, if you do it with confidence, there is something very powerful about always being fully aroused. You have to be so confident, though. I'd wear tight trousers. Yeah, yeah, what were you saying? And even trying to fire someone with a massive lob. we're trying to pass it off as a disability wearing a badge saying not all disabilities are visible but some are look at the look at this no i don't think you pass up as disability you just pass it off as virility right right so you're just always walking around and you're just and what is it and what no but the problem is is that that's kind of that's that's verging on sexual harassment isn't it but then i guess it's your body so if you if you frame it if you frame it as this is just my body this is who i am yeah this is a sort of i'm not a pro-lifer i'm not pro I'm a pro-lob on.

29:36Right. Yeah, there you go. Preepism. Permanent boner. It's a permanent boner. Let's get images up. Now, that might even be... Funnily enough, can we put a pin in that? Because I think that comes up in the research in the next episode. Really? The word, the Latin word. Anyway. All right. So, fucking hell, where were we? So, he's on Capri and... He's been creatively noshed off. Yeah, there's a lot. So supposedly Suetonius tells us that on Capri Caligula is schooled in the arts of debauchery. So he's, and his sisters, this is where maybe his grandma or maybe it's just before he goes to Capri, he lives with his grandma and his grandma supposedly walks in on him in bed with his sister.

30:18And she's loving it. The grandma? Yeah, they're all fucking sickos. Suetonius quote, he lived in habitual incest. It's a habit. It's a habit. You know, you've got to change your habits, don't you? You do. What's that Aristotle quote about habits? A habit is what you repeatedly do. Therefore, excellent should become a habit. Incest should become a habit. So he's, and he's got three sisters. His favorite is called Drusilla, which is not a name that I think should come back. This is my baby Drusilla. It's too close to Godzilla, isn't it? Yeah. Anyway, look, we've got, we've barely started this fucking narrative.

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30:53We've barely sucked off this emperor here. We've only got to the tight bumps. He's not even come yet, so we've got to finish him off. So Tiberius, the original Epstein's Island, on Capri, he would, you know, if there were, if there were people he didn't like, he would chuck them off the cliffs and then you have people in the boats below the horse to like smack them. To make sure that they're finished. But it's like, so he didn't seem to want to be emperor and it sort of makes sense because he's, not only is it hard to get messages around in ancient Romans we've discussed, he's on an island. Yeah.

31:18So how is he running the biggest empire in the world? What's his general called? He leaves a guy in Rome who goes apeshit. Oh really? I can't remember his name, but. Everyone's going, this is what's crazy about this period. it's not like a couple of bad eggs but it's post-democracy they've had well it's post-republic they've had a kind of golden age yeah of but then isn't this the golden because at the same time as having the maddest emperors it's also this is the most powerful the roman emperor has ever been called pax romana which is this 200 year period where the i think mainly covers the first emperors after caesar yeah and i think it's because they don't have that many um foreign wars to fight they have kids sucking them off yes it's like well but there's no more lands to conquer yeah get fucking goblin get goblin so he's on capri and uh now his sisters get assassinated and supposedly they didn't know they don't i think yeah tiberius kills his brothers or someone kills his mum oh everyone everyone's dying all the time in his family but basically nefarious ways learns to just sort of button up and keep quiet keep his head down yeah not down there um get underwater his sisters are yeah some of his sisters are alive but he's one of like nine and anyway his family members are killed while he's on the island but he keeps sturm because he knows that if he if he sort of chips he gets a little chippy he's gonna his head's gonna be next but there's a prophecy that tiberius is rearing a viper for the roman people and a python for the world okay um it's not his it's not his perfect direction it's rearing it's rearing a viper you've done your viper reared i have caligula is married to a woman called junior cloud alert she dies during childbirth we don't know we don't know much about her um uh anyway this is the beginning of caligula caligula starts racking up wives yeah um now tiberius dies in uh what year is it is it like 37 i think right 37 so jesus died for jesus is already dead right jesus has had his last um He's touched his hog for the last time.

33:18So Tiberius is the emperor when Jesus dies. Yes, yes, he was. Anime. But that's in the Middle East, isn't it? But the Romans are there, aren't they? The Romans sent him to death. Romans and the Jews, I think. Are mandating it. Yeah. Now, there are allegations that Caligula smothers Tiberius in his sleep with a pillow. But again, that's not verified. pride so if you're conspiracy theorists it does seem like is it you have an absolute field day in ancient rome yeah everyone's fucking no one knows what's going on yeah so tiberius before he dies he names caligula and his uh his grandson gemellus yeah as joint heirs right uh which is obviously a recipe for disaster what i understand is how that because augustus didn't have any kid heirs so he adopted an old man so he adopted it does feel like it's not like natural there's always a mad succession crisis that's why in those first five emperors after caesar the julio julio julio caesar line whatever it's called claudian line julio claudian every time an emperor dies there's a conspiracy theory about that they were they were like knocked off yeah because it's all no one can hold on to power there's no it's all their kids get killed there's no bloodline yeah yeah and it's very new this is only the third right succession so they're getting their eye in a little bit sort of so tiberius has suspicions of caligula um and but he also detests gemellus right so he kind of just says well you you both do it yeah so i don't want to pick yeah um anyway on succession um caligula basically just fucking kills gemellus fair enough he just gets him does he order him to kill to kill himself or i think he does anyway he gets rid of him and he then delivers this very uh overly emotional funeral speech for tiberius yeah um he goes through rome and when Tiberius dies it's kind of the opposite of Germanicus it's a good move it's like people are really happy because like finally Epstein's it's just very similar actually did he kill himself?

35:15Epstein yeah very similar yeah it's true he is the OG Epstein the echoes of history yeah who knows was he bumped off? I like the crying you know the former guy's funeral is a great move it's the Gaddafi it's the Gaddafi at Nassau's funeral yeah it's a real it's a great because now they're dead you need to just be it's also not the only time that Gaddafi will come up in this series okay there's a lovely there's a lovely bit of symmetry later on looking forward to it so in on the 18th of March 37 four years after Jesus' death Caligula's honeymoon period begins okay the first few months everyone's loving it yeah he's he's declared he's only 24 years old which the Senate are worried about because they don't like him young yeah they they they think there's like oh he's got the arrogance of youth There's a real respect for grey-haired statesmen in Rome.

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38:55Yes. Because as we talked about in our Nero series, part of the role of Roman Emperor was they sort of also had to be like Danny Boyle and they had to put on these big spectacles for the public. So they were, they were at the same time military commanders, prime ministers and like theatre producers. And he didn't, did none of that. Yeah. And so the coffers were very, very full. And so similar to how Major actually... Because he didn't spend anything. No. Major gave Blair a good economy. Because he was frugal. because he was frugal but he also he took a lot of the crisis major Blair comes in and is able to just start handing out yes you know sure starts or whatever right and so it's that feeling of optimism that you always forget the guy before Tiberius did a similar thing so Caligula comes in it's a fucking spending spree brilliant he slaughters supposedly 160 ,000 animals within the first three months to celebrate you got it though he starts he reverses all the like he recalls exiles he ends the trials he republishes books that have been banned big feasts but it's bread and circuses right that's the big thing is that if you want to control the populace you give them food seconds and then you give them entertainment right yeah he supposedly spent 2.6 billion circuses I don't know how you pronounce it and I asked chat GPT yesterday circuses not circuses I asked him cestuses cestuses cestuses and I get up how you pronounce that and I chat GBT'd this as what's that in today's money and it is 300 billion pounds.

40:30Right. So you're spending that on the Olympic opening ceremony? It's a G7's like defence budget. Right. G7 countries. But it's on Cirque du Soleil. It's on like just... It's on the Blue Man group. Exactly, yeah. So what he likes, so he gets into, he likes tossing money at crowds and getting them to run for it. so already there's a sort of there's a glint of the evil in him yeah he starts paying everyone bonuses yeah his Praetorian Guard now the Praetorian Guard are the crack squad who they're the only ones who are allowed to carry weapons in Rome and they protect the emperor throughout all of these stories the Praetorian Guard that's their key you've got to have them on side yes and if you don't that's how you get fucked is that like the mob like the Gestapo no Praetorian Guard it's more like if the Varangian Guard which is the Viking It's basically if the beef eaters weren't symbolic, right?

41:24It's very similar to imagine the beef eaters were the only people who were allowed to carry weapons in London. If only nowadays. Yeah. In Sadiq's London. Christ, everyone's got a knife. Yeah. And every time you fucking post a tweet and the SWAT team come fucking blasting. The beef eaters come knocking down your door with their pikes. No, beef eater is not a slur for a man who likes to do cunnilingus. Oh, right. Horrible. You heard about him? I've heard he's a fucking beef eater. imagine if you had to wear that when you went down the woman i'll just get my cloak i'll just get my hat on get a picture of my beef eating hat imagine coming coming through the door in that and your wife's like oh hello here we go i know what's going on tonight then come on put the hat on the rough i mean maybe that's why the rough's there christ so anyway the praetorian guard gets bonuses he renames the month of september germanicus after his dad that's nice which is nice yeah what would you call well that'd be me like me calling november jeremy october jeremy december it doesn't really make sense yeah it'd be august peter august peter october jeremy december anyway uh he includes his sister's names in the imperial oath and this is very important everyone starts thinking that he's got a rock on for his sisters yeah supposedly and how much of a big no-no is that in front in france in france is the culture sidebar it's the culture in france the culture you gotta do it for the culture in france it's the culture but in rome it is a big no-no because they're into for some sick fucking shit so i don't know so they don't like it no incest isn't cricket right no so is this why in gladiator which is taking from this period right that's why he's he fancies his sister Joaquin Phoenix's character does it oh yeah maybe yeah so it's all playing on this sort of shit it's Joaquin Phoenix and Gladys are sort of based on Caligula and Nero yes so he's spending loads of money on all the games he loves the Colosseum he loves blood sports there's clearly a sort of I'd love to see a sadomasochistic streak in there but genuinely a lot this is like a classic question where do you most like to go back to yeah like a day in history for a day to be a Roman peasant yeah going to the coliseum at the height of blood sports would you go see a ball if you think about in spain now yeah yeah no if you no one was judging you if no one was judging me i'd go i mean it's spectacle isn't it yeah hemingway went to the ball ring and wrote i wrote um it's called death in the afternoon you wrote that sorry i read it i read the book i wrote that

44:01ernest hemingway is my nom de plume it's my pen name hemingway but genuinely i think we got a do a Hemingway episode. His life is amazing. There's a Ken Burns six-part documentary just on his life. Oh, I've got to get into that. He read his own obituary because they thought he died. He wrote it. They thought he died in a plane crash. Yeah. He was lost in the wilderness for two days, comes back and in the morning he's just reading his own obituary. That's amazing. Come on. That's good stuff. But yeah, if I can go back for a day, I've thought about it through this whole series. I do think height of Roman blood sports.

44:34This is quite interesting. Sorry, this is a list. Is this a list of blood sports? Yeah. So I didn't know this. There's cock throwing, fox tossing, this sounds adjacent to beef eating, goose pulling, human baiting. Now octopus wrestling. I would back myself for getting this for octopus. Get octopus wrestling up, please, Charlie. Let's see what's going on there. Octopus wrestling, octopus wrestling involves a diver grappling with a large octopus in shallow water and dragging it to the surface. Right. But this is blood sports in general. This is not Roman blood sports. Although it was called wrestling, it was not wrestling per se as most octopuses are rather skittish.

45:06not aggressive at all yeah it seems easy but this is not this is not Roman blood sports this is just general blood sports no I'm just but I go back to the list of blood sports because what was what's Rampakan what's that one that seems Japanese they're into some fucking shit sick shit big cat fight that's in Java Panthers released from wooden boxes are surrounded by warriors with lances trying to prevent them from breaking out well that sounds quite Roman that's very Roman that's bear baiting isn't it because Roman is fighting against a fucking we should do history of blood sports what do you think is the most horrific blood spot most horrific yeah I think bear baiting is the one I like the least bear baiting that's happening in Renaissance England right what is it what do you do just fight one I think you just prod it with knives and stuff and then it gets angry and then you just kill it or maybe someone there needs to be some sort of like it's similar to bullfighting I imagine yeah anyway I think they've got a little they've got like a mesh a net they've got a net on them and then they're just sort of prodding it with spears oh just make it a limit yeah Yeah, that's not a game element to it.

46:07It's not cricket. There needs to be, yeah, it's not cricket. No. How would you make it cricket? Well, if it's like... Give a bear a bat and start throwing balls at him. That's how you're making a fucking cricket. That's how you're making a cricket, Charlie. You put it in the stumps. Yeah. Mark out 22 yards. Get 10 other bears to field. Now, I don't know how good they'll be at that. No, that's cricket. But imagine standing there at the stumps and a bear is steaming into a bowl. Fuck me. Terrifying. That's cricket. What, all fours? That is cricket. Overarm, please. Paddington. Anyway. Nowadays, they're bear-baiting Paddington in London.

46:42Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. It's illegal. Siddiquistan. Anyway. Siddiquistan. Londonistan. Londonistan. Siddiquistan. Christ. Caligula's putting his beef-eating costume on and he's going down on his sisters. Yeah. He's dressing up as gods. He is, quote, ignoring masculine and even human conventions when he's choosing how to dress. Right. So he's cross-dressing. Yeah. I guess he's dressing up as a god. Maybe he's dressing up as animals he loves playing with the form he's a he's sort of drag he's in drag but a lot of the things we said in the nero episode right yeah playing with the form uh embarrassing the senate all this sort of stuff starts with caligula starts with colleagues yeah right my boy colleagues because this no one had seen this shit before he this is this is crazy so even before his first expedition as a as a military general yeah he um he takes the breastplate he steals alexander the great's breastplate from his tomb and how old is that at this point that's like 300 years old i'd say is it when's alexander the great charlie 300 bc alexander the great timeline me want to see it 300 bc uh 356 bc yeah so it's when he was born yeah so it's 300 years old so um but he nicks that from the tomb gets that on um he starts dressing as a god he's tried to deify himself in his own lifetime.

47:58Yeah. This is in the first year, months, right? So he establishes a shrine to himself. He makes life-size golden statues and then whatever he's wearing that day, he makes the statue wear the same clothes. Right? It's crazy. It's a bit vulgar. It is vulgar. Wait, what? So there's a guy who's putting a T-shirt on the statue? Yeah. So what's Caligula wearing today? It's like when you see people who dress their dogs up with matching outfits. yeah I like that I don't think it's very classy no I think it is it can be if you dress it like a spark shirt yeah if you make a shrine to yourself and say I'm a god and then you make a statue and you dress it like you I think that's a bit tasteless it's a bit new money yeah it's flash it is flash vulgar yeah making a temple to yourself it's just a bit it's a bit like come on come on there's no class to me yeah he spent heavily he pours out gold coins and rolls naked in them yeah that's down and fair at this point he drinks pearls dissolved in vinegar that can't be nice yeah but you gotta remember this is they don't have nice they're like six foods I guess this is like this is the first cocktail they're like posh cereal no no he's not eating pearls no he's dissolving the pearls yeah he's just miserable in the morning like fuck hell no they're not like all golden nuggets Charlie right they're not like Wee Toes but it's pearls in vinegar I had golden nuggets earlier yeah I know that's what you eat for breakfast and I think that is an issue I think you're starting your day right yeah that's a terrible way to start your day the best cereal how often do you have golden nuggets genuinely well currently Monday Friday five days a week but in general yeah because I've got a few boxes in a few you buy them in bulk do you yeah multi-pack but what's your standard breakfast over the last three years I do think this is where part of the problem is eggs and golden nuggets wow do you put like a fried egg when you put it on like a ramen do you put that a bowl of golden nuggets with a fried egg on top yeah yeah I don't know because you're getting everything out of that you're getting you're getting sort of strength from the egg I don't know if you're getting from the nuggets.

49:55Yeah. Yummy nugs. Good egg. Are you still crushing eggs because **** has been putting you on the egg diet? You've got piles. Guys, please. Is your pile out right now? No, it's not right now. Is your knob out right now? I want to see it. I've got a bum boner piled out. No. You've got a reverse boner. My personal trainer, we should just bleep his name. Yeah, okay. But this is fascinating. Yesterday, I went for a session with him and bear in mind, I've been seeing him for about five months. Up until yesterday, he's only just found out what I do up until yesterday he thought I was a history teacher it's because on our first session I said I would do a history podcast right because I don't you know I don't want to get into it yeah and he just heard teacher and then genuinely he's been asking me about history while we did our sessions he's like this guy oh god he knows and you're like I don't have a fucking toe boat yeah and then I don't have but you've eaten no I do a holocaust on our podcast and he's like what has he listened I don't know.

50:53Maybe he has now. I don't know. Anyway, my point is... Yeah, what's your point? My point is that... The point is your pile. The point is, it's not my piles, is that Caligula is not eating pearls and vinegar like breakfast cereal. Okay, fine, fine. He builds massive ships, which this is interesting. These are like floating yachts. These are huge super yachts. They're covered in jewels. They've got marble toilets. They might even have hot tub. They found... So Mussolini found the ruins and he ordered them excavated at great expense. and then they got destroyed during World War II but you can still go to a museum now and see all the water pipes which took which is how he basically had a hot tub on his yacht Caligula Caligula right yeah that's crazy anyway obviously so he spends this you know a G7's military budget in months in the first year on all these shows these yachts in order he then realises so it's starting to turn now because he's had to raise taxes and he's becoming a bit more unpopular with the exactly this is sort of like you know new labour when the financial crash comes in everyone's like oh you spent all the money close the shore starts if you've got maternity if you're on maternity leave you're on your own blah blah blah scroungers everyone's saying benefit thieves he imposes taxes on food and prostitutes that's the opposite of bread and circuses yeah brass tax you can't be taxing brass tax let's get down to brass tax let's get down to brass tax that's where that comes from that's where that comes from brass tax he imposes taxes on marriages so you get married you have to I guess that means that like in a, what you spend on your wedding, a bit of that goes to the crazy.

52:27Get less for murder. He then, he starts to fake auctions. So he runs auctions himself, but drives the prices up so that - What I love about these mad emperors, they love doing other jobs. Well, they're doing everything. They just love just doing - They're fucking cleaning the toilets, whatever. Now, when does a prime minister have time to do anything other than just sort of be constantly on the back foot? They're actors, they're fucking musicians. A senator fell asleep at an auction and then in air quotes, bought 13 gladiators for 9 million cestuses. What, they just got his hand and wrote? Yeah, basically.

52:55I'll buy that, right. He then starts to frame noble people for treason and then seizes their property. This is very funny. He forces strangers to name him in their wills and then when they live too long, he poisons them. Well, you sort of snooker'd be there. That's the ultimate inheritance tax. Right, I'm just going to kill you and take all your stuff. Write me your will. Are you going to kill me? No. Right, right. Bang. yeah now and this he starts to turn the imperial palace on the palatine hill into a brothel which is not now this is big outrage for the senators and the aristocracy we've got to remember that rome has this aristocratic class this class-based system and they've been running it for hundreds of years and this is early on in the in the empire and they're like this guy is tearing up convention and we don't like it yeah i guess i struggled to understand what the moral headspace of rome is because we understand it for you it's quite moralistic yeah exactly but i thought so but then all of these emperors are so fucking mad consistently that's why we have the saying of like living like a roman emperor because back then the p the people yeah um sort of love the drama of it because it's quite a martial stoic stoicism comes from it's populism right but later that's marcus aurelius right that's yeah that's that's after way after this but it's still that sort of culture rome strength is built on its order and its discipline they're not like the fruity greeks right no they're not but yeah that's what i mean is that they're so the idea that it's like turning um buckingham palace yeah into a mega brothel right right the people it's like you know everyday cab drivers would fucking love it the future liberals want yeah the future is that buckingham palace is a transgender brothel cab drivers would love it right they'd be like you won't believe what's going on in there but the mps and the you know the noble the nobility Jacob, he's mogul, like, this is absolutely terrible.

54:45Right, yeah. It's a disaster. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So he stuffs the palace with matrons and freeborn youths. He lent customers money at interest to then go and spend on his own. So he's running Wonga as well? Yeah, basically. It's like prostitute Wonga. He then records the proceeds of the brothel as, quote, Caesar's revenue. Right. Caesar means emperor for anyone who's just gone on the train. So only a few months into his reign, Caligula, falls gravely ill. Yeah. Yeah. And this is kind of what historians say is the turning point in his reign. Yeah. Yeah, well, they're basically saying that he goes mental.

55:28It's like when Hitler got into drugs. Yeah. Yeah.

55:34He's in bed. He starts listening to thrash metal. Yeah. He puts a flame bandana on. I mean, he's already pretty mental, but basically it's like when you get like someone gets a tumour and it pushes on the paedophile bit of the brain you know about this? this happened to you? your honour I've actually got a brain tumour that's pushing on the paedophile bit of the brain that is that's absolute phrenology the paedophile bit of the brain someone pushed the paedophile button in my head and I can't turn it off I mean it's not far off though you heard about this right? you've not heard about this so it's like foreign accent syndrome but it's paedophile syndrome basically someone basically got a brain tumour and whenever it grew, he had paedophilic thoughts.

56:17Whenever it was in remiss, it was, search up, it's true. And when he'd not stop having paedophile thoughts. So there is like, if something starts growing in your brain, you can become a, reports in the early 2000s detailed the case of a 40 year old teacher who after a sudden onset of uncontrollable, uncontrollable, is pushing it. Paedophilic urges was found to have a brain tumour. The man's abnormal sexual behaviour, which included an obsession with child pornography and sexual advances, towards his step door disappeared after the tumour was surgically removed. I think that could be coincidence.

56:46Do you think? As a paedophile who happened to have a brain tumour. I don't know if you can say that. He's trying to blame it on something else. You know, what is that saying? He's coming onto his step door saying, I've got a brain tumour. What is it? I've got cancer. I've got cancer. Go on. I've got cancer. Get your dick out. I've got cancer. I think that's... I've got cancer. These people are... It's the cancer. It's the cancer. Yeah. Your honour. I don't know. It feels a bit... I've not got cancer anymore. So it's cancer come back. I think that's a pedo button. I think it might be true. I think what's that correlation does an equal causation?

57:20Yeah, it's correlation I don't know if that's I think that's convenient. It's definitely a theory. It's potential. Because if you start fucking playing Fred again with your brain you'd start you'd be like

57:34you'd be like Chinese accent. You're a pedophile for a second. Well, that seven-year-old's attractive. Oh, hello. I'm from Devon. like what but get the clip of the Devon woman heroine from Devon have you not seen that woman the Devon woman who got have you not seen it get it up it's fucking incredible yeah but if that can happen then you can get the pinot button so maybe it's just maybe she should count her lucky stars she's not announced this woman basically cover your skull out let Freddie Gain go hell for leather a woman from Devon has Chinese woke up with a Chinese accent after a stroke heroine from Devon that's what she says my name is Sarah Colwell I am 40 years old I live in Piemann Born and bred here I've seen this About Five years ago now I had A stroke life event Yeah So this is what happens When you You just keep Pressing You keep fretting getting your head Yeah And you either You've got Chinese pedophiles Yeah It would be Very tough luck to get both Wouldn't it I've got foreign accent Pedo syndrome Oh hello Oh, for Devon, that's Seven Rob looks nice.

58:45Anyway, we don't know what happens to Caligula. I don't think he doesn't wait. Sorry. Are we saying that for the next episode, we're going to have to do all of it in a Chinese accent because Caligula gets foreign accents in. Oh, we don't know. We don't know which button was pressed. Okay. Anyway, he falls ill. We think he could be syphilis or something. It could be like a UTI. You know, people go mad and they're like, oh, people go mad. Yeah. It's before cranberry juice, isn't it? So his character changes dramatically. Right. He's on his deathbed. My name is Quirigua. I'm the Emperor of Asia Ram.

59:20He's on his deathbed and he sounds different. Oh, yeah. He's saying his accents change. You're Italian. Why are you speaking like that? My name is Quirigua.

59:40he's on his deathbed ancient writers frame this moment as the turning point where a young emperor turns into a despot into a Chinese beautiful

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06:44 German Thrasher

13:15 Bootykins on Tour

18:25 Germanicus poisoned

22:24 Paedo Island

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33:15 Caligula’s Honeymoon Period

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