Not All Roman Emperors Are Visible | Claudius (Part 1)

0:12Welcome back to Finversus History, joining me is Horatio Gould. Today we're talking about Claudius. We're back in ancient Rome. These have been some of my favourite episodes. Yes. We're going back to the ancient world, but these are very much the lily pads in which you feel safe. I love the Roman emperors. It's the only place that you feel you can... It's the wall of the ice rink which you can hold on to in the ancient world. Yes. It's the only place where I get to explore the ancient world where you're not half asleep or purposely nosediving the podcast. I don't think that's fair. I think I found a prehistoric statue of a guy doing a Hitler salute.

0:49Yeah, that's true. That really fired me up. That got me through that episode. Yeah, you're very much sure. We're talking about Claudius today. And we're also, sorry, we're dressed as the sofa today. We are dressed as the sofa. And before anyone comments, I'm aware that there will be a lot of gunt on show in this episode. You're a gunt buncher. My gunt is bunching in this suit. There's a lot of material in it. I'm essentially dressed as a corduroy curtain. And I apologise to any ladies watching but my gunt is punched. But it sort of looks like we're like kind of hit men who are trying to hide. In the sofa.

1:23In the sofa. We're dressed up as one of the cushions. I mean, I'm dressed as the sofa cushion. You're dressed as the wall. We're assassins at a Nigerian wedding. We're going, what are they wearing? We're going to have to dress as they do. Yes, I do. For anyone looking, I've got a lot of room in the fupa. My pussy air is not as fat as it looks in this suit. But we digress. Yes, we need to talk about Claudius. Okay, so we have previously, we've talked about Nero, who is the emperor after Claudius, and we've talked about Caligula. Probably our wildest episode, I'd say, was Caligula. And this episode will be a kind of sequel.

2:02Where are we? So this is the emperor. Claudius is between Caligula and Nero. It's betwixt the mad cunts, basically. Yes, Caligula and Nero are bywords for tyranny. but Claudius is kind of the hipster's choice. I think so. He's my favourite emperor we've looked at so far. I think it's a very interesting story. It doesn't follow the normal narratives because a lot of Roman emperors, they're either like chads or they're just mental with no real light and shade. It's just, I marry my horse. It's just a zany... Well, I'll fuck you then. Yeah, I fucked everyone's wives. I burn it all down. There's not really any sort of nuance there.

2:39It's just full throttle. I'm mental. but Claudius has a lot his whole life story is very kind of the most interesting character it's a very unique story actually of any ruler really but we ended the last episode with Caligula now Caligula had been a promising early leader he'd been raised on Tiberius who was Epstein Epsteinius Epstein's island so it's not been a great the track record so far for Epstein no it goes Blair, paedophile, mad cunt Claudius, mad cunt and Caligula had been assassinated by his Praetorian guard he'd been a promising ruler but then he'd had a stroke and the stroke had pushed down on the paedophile bit of his brain and the foreign accent syndrome so he'd gone to sleep at Caligula he'd woken up a carigara and he was then assassinated by his Praetorian guard because he was fast bowling babies against the wall was he not?

3:33no they then took his baby and they Cambodian cricketed it into the wall sorry Yeah. So, yeah, it's the long road to Pol Pot, bowling babies against trees in Cambodia. They took Caligula's son, they killed his wife, and they take his son and they play squash with it, I think was the term you used. They chucked it at a baby, lights out, night-night. But hiding behind the curtain in the corridor where Caligula was assassinated. Quivering. Quivering. Quivering, drooling, was a disabled man with Tourette's who would go on to inherit the Roman Empire against all the odds. But who is this man? How did we end up here?

4:14How did we get here? You're probably wondering, you're probably wondering how I got here. That's how Claudius would say. So Claudius is discovered quivering underneath the curtain. A coward. A coward. And I love a coward. Historically, there's something brilliant. Heroes write most of history. True. But it's nice when you see a true quivering coward. There's something inherently funny about someone who's truly cowardly. Yes. And that he then goes on to become emperor in a world of, you know, chads. I mean, as you said. It's not a very woke time. As you've said, part of the reason I like the Roman emperors is incredibly binary, masculine, fascistic time.

5:00Yes. Men with big chins and broad chests chucking babies against walls. Yeah, it could be like as far from woke as you can sort of get the Roman era. There's none of the idea of social justice is just so far. It's about how many barbarians have you suppressed. Yes. You know, any form of weakness is seen as weakness. I tell you what is quite woke is that only the Praetorian guards are allowed to have a sword in the city of Rome. Yes. That's quite woke. Sure. That's like in America. I mean, I can't take a gun to a school. That's red tape. Yeah, it definitely is. You know, they don't have an open carry policy in Rome.

5:35Yeah. that uh so again let's just refresh the roman emperor timeline julius caesar crosses the rubicon at some point then augustus blair the titan uh he is the sort of he becomes a god he adopts an old man tiberius uh who then becomes a pedophile epstein on an island in capri now uh living on um growing up on this island is caligula uh when caligula is assassinated claudius is discovered behind the curtain quivering now he is born claudius on august the 1st uh 10 bc um and like any roman emperor or brazilian footballer he has too many names and they're also all the names of other people in this story so i'm not actually going to say what his name is because it's just going to confuse each other's names it's going to be too i'll be horatio gorge charlie milner finn taylor that would be my name yeah horatio it's too much anyway so he's born in modern day Leon Lugdenum, and he is the first emperor to be born outside of Italy.

6:33Now, he's blue blood in terms of Roman stock. The Julio-Claudian line. Which is very important. Ladies, how many times must I warn you? You're not welcome here. Yeah. Okay. Wear two pairs of pants if you're tuning in. We're discussing the Julio-Claudian line. his father is Nero Claudius Drusus his parents Olivia Drusilla who is married to Augustus and Tiberius Claudius Nero now that is the last three emperors but that's none of them okay so that's like that's like Rubinio being called Ronaldinho Ronaldo Rivaldo yeah he's nothing to do with them or Keir Starmer called Tony Blair Gordon Brown David Cameron yes forget all of them um his mother is antonia the younger and her parents are octavia the younger who's augustus's sister right and mark anthony right so patra's um the personal trainer who lives in dubai so the julian claudian line that's it because it went from a republic to an emperor by it's about trying to trace it back to either julius caesar or more importantly augustus yes who was such successful ruler he calmed everything down and it's basically all of these emperors are trying to state their claim to going back to augustus it's the opposite of tony blair who wasn't successful but everyone's trying to distance themselves from him so it's like how much stock have you got in the labor party well how close were you to blair yeah yeah yeah um so claudius is a descendant of julius caesar through the julian line uh which is very important now he has two older siblings one of them is Germanicus who is Caligula's dad Germanicus is the popular general hero so he got the name Germanicus so Tony Blair would if he'd been successful he'd be called No he'd be called Cosopus Sierra Leoneus and Northern Ireland that's Tony Blair we must not just judge him by Irakus Germanicus is not called I don't know, fucking Gawlius.

8:46Yes. Right? Yeah. Because he's defined by his successes. For sure. Personally, I see Tony Blair as Kosovus, Sierra Leoneus, Northern Islandus. Yeah, sure starters. Yeah. Yeah. Minimum wages. Civil unionists. Okay? There's lots of us's in Tony Blair's name that's not Iraqis. Universitius. Universitius. Polytechnicus. Yeah? He did a lot. He did a lot. Anyway. In 1991, two hikers in the Alps found a body melting in the ice. They assumed a fallen climber. What they'd actually found was a 5 ,000-year-old murder victim. Welcome to Buried Evidence. Join archaeologist Professor Raksha Dave and me, historian Rebecca Radiel, as we dig up some fascinating true crime through history.

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11:37It's very late, isn't it? 90s. So is it like you're not allowed to deal sodomy, but you're allowed to... You can do it in your own home. But you can't be a sodomite dealer. No, you can't be buggering someone in a public car park. What's buggery? Is that... That's public sodomy, isn't it? Yeah. Charlie, could you just find out the legal definitions of buggery, sodomy, and then just homosexuality? All I know is that any privately educated man of a certain age has been buggered. Any... Buggery is... A specialised British English word that refers to anal sex and sometimes other non-procreative sexual acts.

12:13Now that's it. I remember Joanne McNally when she came on saying that buggery is technically cunnilingus, which is very funny. Just to walk in on a man and go down the road, stop that buggery now. What are you doing? Wash your mouth out, you bugger. Yes. Claudius is down as Germanicus, who is Caligula's dad. Caligula. Sorry. His brother is Germanicus. whose son is Caligula. Now, Caligula, if you've not heard that episode, maybe listen to that one first. He is the emperor, and so he then goes on this huge killing spree where he sort of purges any potential rival. But Claudius is never purged. And why is that?

13:00At some point in Claudius' early childhood, he becomes very ill. and we don't really know historians are trying to work out what the modern day equivalent of this would be but his symptoms are uh partially deaf a stutter a limp and a constantly running nose and drooling all the time he also laughed inappropriately yeah while drawing so now basically if he was born now he would have a channel 4 series oh he did the commissioner of chattelport but this is a very very different time and the view of disability is is the opposite of the view of disability now i disagree i think it's actually quite a sophisticated understanding of disability because i didn't say it wasn't sophisticated so it's the opposite no i disagree okay because uh essentially when you when you then find out that he wrote several books he's clearly not mentally disabled he just looks clapped he's just a bit of a nerd right nowadays i would say we're getting very close to a stage where nerds are identifying as disabled in that if you let that autism uh if you sort of plow that furrow too far you will just push through to just people who are just a bit nerdy if you broaden the autism spectrum so much as you've often talked about how you prefer a disability that's binary yeah No, traffic.

14:24Traffic light system. What is it again? Green, normal, yellow, bit odd, red, down syndrome. Perfect. I know where I stand. I know where I stand. Green, yellow, red. Yeah, exactly. We've got the full traffic light system here on Twin vs. History. Okay. Now, exactly, under the 2010 Act, right, under the 2010 Disability Act, dyslexia is a disability. Well, I've got dyspraxia, so I'm disabled. Yes. I'm a modern-day Claudius. But this is my point, is that in the 90s, you were not disabled. You were just wobbly, right? Yes. In the 90s, you didn't have ADHD, you were just late. But then how is that similar to now?

15:02Because back then, they viewed it. They call him disabled when actually he's not. He's just a bit... It's not... Yeah, but being called disabled now is a benefit in a way, because there's a bit of status there. There's no status for being disabled back then, is what I'm trying to say. I agree with that. The categorisation, yeah, maybe they call it disabled. But if you're called disabled, it means that publicly, not only are you unvirtuous... You're saying there's a difference to now. They didn't, you know, you didn't get a free tablet. Anything that reminds them of any sort of weakness, it means that you're openly allowed to be mocked.

15:40And not only that, what I enjoy about this period is physical disabilities that you can't help were viewed as moral failings. Exactly, it's early phrenology. It's the long road to phrenology. is your head is too big to have a job here yes you can't work here yeah you can't come on any respect because of the size of your forehead whereas now it's reverse phrenology where your head's too big to work here do you want to be the boss oh my god you've just crystallized what my problem with today is is that it is reverse phrenology it's taking everything that we work so hard for and and flipping it and and it's inverting science yeah you'd be terrible for this do you want it yeah yeah have it you're clearly awful have have the have the company my point is is that uh they actually i suppose they're uh you know i grew up in a world where disability had quite a high threshold to and that threshold has been lowered sure as i've got older yeah i see in the roman age they had quite a wide net for what basically if you weren't ripped and tall you were disabled yeah which i feel like is the direction of travel is horseshoe right it's come back round yeah right so but you're right in that the status is very different you know that he was not getting a free laptop or a free stone tablet or whatever basically he has the impression that he's dim witted and unfit for public life because to be fair he's got a constantly running nose and he's drooling all the time and he limps he limps he's drooling and he laughs yeah it's like Charlie when he just laughs out of no reason and to be fair if you are voting for someone from public office and they're just like and there's a guy who's got really strong concerns about about immigration there's just guys just constantly running nose you can't even stop your nose running let alone the boats you know what is it Charlie it's the equivalent to stolen valour if you pretend you're disabled oh look around the equivalent is the year 2026 okay you just pop a sunflower lanyard on and park where you want shit where you want that's a disgrace fuck who you want don't think you can do that I got the look of the lanyard.

17:51Anyway, now, as you're saying, this is something that would not happen nowadays. Claudius' own mother describes her son as, quote, an abortion of a man that had only been begun but never finished by nature. I mean, that's pretty robust from a mother. That's 90s stuff. That's the era that I grew up in. That's what you're saying in the playground. An unfinished abortion. An abortion of a man. A monster. A man who Mother Nature had begun work upon, but then flung aside. Basically a Greek. Unfinished, yeah. A Greek guy. Yeah. Mother Nature is Greek in this regard. Not today. Shall I finish his brain?

18:30Nah, not today. Now, modern historians suggest that Claudius may have suffered from cerebral palsy. So it's like in Breaking Bad. What's his name? Yes, Walt Jr. jr uh autism uh and or tourette so i think i want to take autism out because we're i feel that's like clouding the clouding it i think it probably is if he's like i mean tourette fuckers yeah fuckers

19:05yeah yeah you can't be yeah yeah it doesn't really fit in with the um you can't be sitting in the senate you know doing that yeah i suppose it's the long road to the baftas isn't it um yeah autism i guess doesn't really yeah fit although although he probably does have it but I'm saying that it seems like the least of his worries. Maybe in the Roman perspective, you know, I mean, dribbling isn't really autistic, is it? He's sick of a lot of physical ailments as well. But also a constantly running nose. What is that? Hay fever? I don't know. Yeah. Well, again, is that where we're going today? We're not going to get a free laptop for having hay fever.

19:51What's a constantly running nose? What's that part of? Lots of people have that, though. Just allergies. chronic rhinorrhea my mate had rhinitis and he had to sleep with a tape on his mouth you've got so many mates you've got so many mates and they're all fucked in their own way Christ you and the boys in the sunshine bus I don't know chronically irritated nasal lining but you know it's similar to there's people you just can't vote for because there's that old adage that you know most people the general public at large actually are voting for whether they want to go for a pint with the person.

20:28Sure. You know, and that was trust is great problem. So I want to skip pints, just get straight to the bed. Then I've got someone who knows they want to blow. Yeah. It's like, I shouldn't be your carer. Yeah. You know, so he's a young guy. He's pretty clapped. But in nine BC. That's early. Early. Early stuff. Nine BC. His dad. Do they ever say like, guys, we've got to stop having this view of disability. It's the year nine. Guys, come on. This is so backward. How are we still talking about this in the year nine? But it's not the year nine. It's nine BC. Oh, fuck. So they wouldn't call it that.

21:05Minus nine. Hey? Minus nine. They wouldn't even know, but it's before Christ. You're right. Yeah. But when it's zero. Well, that's in crisis. Sorry, what do they call nine BC and nine BC? That's an interesting question. They would have just relied on a universal numbering system. Well, let's hear that. Maybe years after the ruling monarchs, local magistrates, or major events. okay so it'd be just like year two caligula year four no it'd be like the year of the horse right uh so drusus anyway drusus dies and yeah they're like we've got to have a more come on you can't call him you can't use that word you know he's it's the it's the year nine bc you know come on you've got to accommodate him he doesn't mean it you know it's an involuntary tick um so his dad falls off a horse whilst in germania uh and claudius is a young but he's an infant i think at this point uh and so care gets handed over to his mother who fucking hates him can't stand him mother can't stand him he's an abortion in her words i like i love how cruel the women are in ancient rome as well yeah the women play a huge role in rome and they seem to have a lot of power and they use that power for deeply dark reasons yes i think they i think his name became a word for like a slur like lame became claudius interesting like steven he is steven is hawking us yeah uh it was often weaponized to mock people with limited mobility or paralysis there you go brutal time yeah um it is like british tv in the 2000s yes yes it is yeah fat families his grandmother uh livia basically was so ashamed by her grandson that she couldn't even look him in the fucking eye so mum and you're getting double tip mum and grandma double team you don't have any there's no one you're turning to no your emotional safe space is going you are an abortion and then you go to your granny who's meant to granny the grandmother the non-italian it said that your grandma is the only person who truly wants you to do better than themselves in your whole life true but this granny says i this is a failed i pray aloud that the roman people might be spared so cruel and undeserved a misfortune as to have him as their emperor that's awesome it's crazy now she says this that's a good man she says this are that this is i have a lot of um empathy with this because that's my nan as well right would she like that about you she's a cruel presbyterian yeah she is yeah now she said this after um there was this kind of the myth of the the eagle right so he's playing in the garden with his with his siblings and then these eagles start circling above them and they're fighting in the air over like an injured wolf, a cub.

23:52And then the cub falls from the eagle's grasp into the arms of Claudius. Right. And that then an oracle makes a prediction that he will become emperor. Because the wolf represents Romulus and Remus. Yeah. So similar to when a bride chucks the bouquet, some eagles chuck a wolf cub and a disabled guy gets it. Yeah. And then they're like, well, you're going to become the protector of Rome. And then his grandma says, oh, I hope that doesn't happen. he's fucking he's clapped he's clapped that cannot happen the poor roman people do not deserve the misfortune of having my clapped grandson run so um he as a result of this because he's still sort of blue blood and at this point in 9 bc who is emperor is it tiberius or augustus yeah is it peter or blair who's in power in 19th it is all that blair's in power so and augustus has a long and maybe the most successful.

24:42Things can only get better. Augustus is pressing the flesh outside Downing Street. Augustus is Blair if he didn't evade Iraq. Yes. That's it. That's what he is. God, imagine. He'd still be Prime Minister. You'll still think about it. He'd still be Prime Minister. He'd still be Prime Minister. In some ways he still is. He still is. He fucking still is. The amount of WhatsApps I got when he came out and he broke cover. This is your penis when Tony Blair says anything in the Times. I'm listening. I got so many WhatsApps and people saying fucking Blair's seen it. That's the circle you've created. Blair's seen it like a beach pool still.

25:18Yeah. Yeah, but also you're saying that like, God, you must be such a big deal. You've only selected people to hang out with who will message you that. That's a very selective group. I don't give out my number to anyone. All of your WhatsApp groups are going to be people who have the exact same. Anyone to the left of David Miliband, I do not give out my number to.

25:40so yeah Blair would he's still he's the only guy you know who's still seeing things still sees them clearly the day that Blair dies and we lose his third eye this country is completely ruined yeah but do you see he can't keep his hand out the cookie jar he said some interesting things about domestic policy as he often does but then he was like it was a mistake not to join Trump and Iran it's like Blair history is long flair you gotta fucking you gotta realize you've got your hand slapped stop going back there he can't help it he's construct look at him look at his piece look at his piece he's dazed every morning he's been whipped around his fucking nine bed islington townhouse by that fucking piece of ass he doesn't know what he's thinking you know do you think sheree told him off iraq in the documentaries really because sherry gave up her own political career for tony so she's got a lot of her own.

26:34But also there's a conspiracy theory that Cherie was actually running the show and that Cherie was the puppet master for Blair. Right. And that Cherie's actually... Cherie did 9-11. I don't think that's a conspiracy theory. Yeah. But you heard it here first, folks. Cherie Blair did 9-11. Yeah. She organised it. She wanted to go into Iraq. Yeah. She'd always hated Saddam and she orchestrated the 9-11 attacks so that her husband, who is nothing really, you know, he's all mouth, no trousers. She's got the fucking trousers. She's weakened at burning fucking Tony Blair. You can see in that photo, she's got her hand up his arse.

27:12Yeah, like a puppet. Playing him like a puppet. We have to be close to America. That's her saying that. Ventriloquist. High. High. High. High. Anyway, yeah, Kosovus, Northern Islander, Sierra Leone, he is in power when Claude is entrusted with very few official responsibilities because he's a little sort of clapped disabled boy. His mother's words. His mother's words, sorry. Not my words, those are his grandmother's words. Fucked in the head, as his grandmother would say. No, he can't live in an official world because he's completely fucked in the head. His bonce is gone. But his bonce isn't gone, is it?

27:49It's not. It appears to be gone. Well, this is incredibly annoying, but his bonce is not gone. The great question is how, you know, there's an idea that maybe he grows out of his disability but does that happen um no there's not well there's a theory saying that you have a disabled child you'll grow up well yes but there's a theory that uh he he learns that he's on his underestimation is actually a sign of great strength and he plays the fool yes he's tom wamsgam he's tom wamsgam that's why he's a that's the archetype that exactly what is it charlie is Is he who the emperor in Monty Python with the lisp is based on?

28:30Possibly. Could be. Possibly. I don't know. There's a big show. There's a big TV show called I Claudius in the 70s. My parents go on. It was apparently a huge deal. It was the equivalent of succession, but in the 70s. And it's Derek Jacoby played I Claudius. Who did Christopher Biggins play? Do you remember? Maybe Caligula? When I was producing a live podcast, he was the guest. Yeah. And that's when he came straight out and said that, this was 10 seconds into meeting him whole room told him that Prince Charles was frequented gay clubs in the 80s that was like told everyone 10 seconds in pretty extraordinary entrance we've covered that he would taste brilliant Biggins we have covered that he would taste brilliant can you find out what Biggins played in iClaudia yes a suckling Biggins I believe is what we said yeah he played Nero he played Nero okay Biggins is Nero oh wow look at a young Biggins gorgeous tastier when he's young Oh, it's like veal.

29:26I would love to eat I, Claudius Eero, but Eero Biggins. He looks like sort of gay Rowan Atkinson in there. Delightful. Anyway. Yeah, no, he's passed. He's passed. I wouldn't want to eat that biggins. That's like an old dairy cow. Anyway, so he now, he's a massive history guy, Claudius. Yeah, he doesn't show his history fans well, I don't think. Seeing as he's like a sniveling nerd loser. who can't go to fight in Europe and instead retreats to his book and goes, they're going to become really smart at history. Well, it is Dan Snowdram. He's got Dan Snowdram. But Dan Snow is a Chad. That's what's funny about him.

30:06He's a tall, booming voice. That's why he stands out in the history field. Yes, he is. It's because he's a rare case where he's actually, he's tall, strong. He looks like he's not a fucking nerd. Men want to be him, women want to fuck him. Dan Snow. Dan Snow, you know. He's James Bond. He is. history is James Bond you know no one's talking about Sandbrook or Holland the next Bond they're talking about Snow yeah Snow's in the run Snow's in the running I'm putting my hat in the ring for Snow right anyway so who do you think the biggest Chad is in terms of kind of traditional British broad like Ben Fogle Maidley Maidley Maidley who's in the running Maidley Maidley's bringing a knife to that fight do you think yeah Ben Fogle Danny Dyer Maidley's he's been in that El Salvador prison I saw that yeah no he's fucking people up you reckon yeah absolutely he's got no you think medley's tasty in the fight yeah absolutely absolutely I don't know he's got no social awareness well didn't that really help him he's got a complete lack of energy he doesn't hesitate doesn't hesitate to ask the question whatever's in his head what's wrong with you then he doesn't hesitate who's the one who really fell off Eamon Holmes he's fucked it hasn't he isn't he quite ill actually No, I think he's a bit naughty.

31:24Yeah, naughty Holmes. I think he might be really unwell. I think Eamon's naughty. Anyway, we're in danger of committing libel, which was... Eamon Holmes has had a stroke. Okay, breaking news. Who's he stroked? No, enough. Breaking news. Eamon Holmes has had a stroke. I guess that's what you... What? 23 hours ago, he's issued a... He had a stroke 23 hours. Right, pause this. Pause, Claudius. Men, listeners, I hope you're sitting down. Oh my God. He's got Beethoven's brother syndrome. Eamon Holmes has released the smugest face. No, I think that's the stroke. I really hope that's not a smug face.

32:09Had worse Mondays. I've had a stroke. Right. Wow. Okay, listeners, I hope you're sitting down. Eamon Holmes has had a stroke. Get well soon, Eamon. Yeah, from all of us here. film versus history. GB News will not be the same. I don't know why you're so fucking smug about it. Anyway, look, let's get back to Claudius's... He says he can't wait to be out of his gown and back into his suit and tie. That's what you think. Starting or growing your own business can be intimidating and lonely at times. Your to-do list may feel endless with new tasks and lists can easily begin to overrun your life. So finding the right tool that not only helps you out, but simplifies everything as a built-in business partner can be a game changer.

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