Richard The Niro and Salad Cream Pacino | Saladin & The Third Crusade (Part 2)

2 Apr 2026 · 1 h · 22 chapters

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In short

Part 2 of “Saladin & The Third Crusade” covers Richard the Lionheart’s 1190s campaign, the capture of Cyprus, the Siege of Acre (1191), the final assaults, and the Treaty of Jaffa (1192), ending with a “score draw” over Jerusalem.

Guest backgrounds

The episode is hosted by Finn vs. History’s Horatio Gould and includes Charlie (co-host). No separate named guests appear in the transcript.

Key claims

Richard and Saladin are portrayed as mutually respectful “equals” (like the Heat analogy). Richard’s scurvy recovery is attributed to Saladin sending fruit and snow. The Siege of Acre is described as a brutal stalemate involving scurvy/dysentery and water poisoning. After Acre, Richard’s forces secure ports (Acre/Jaffa) but fail to hold Jerusalem; the Treaty of Jaffa grants Christian pilgrims safe passage while Jerusalem remains Muslim-controlled.

Notable examples

Cyprus conquest after Isaac mistreats crusaders; Acre’s siegecraft (trebuchets, tunnels with straw/pig fat); Saladin’s fruit-and-snow aid; Acre’s surrender terms (return of the True Cross; release of 2,000 prisoners); Richard’s execution of 2,500 prisoners; Arsuf battle leading to Jaffa; Treaty of Jaffa (Sept 2, 1192).

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Cinematic Characters of the Crusade

0:49 to 1:07

Discussion on the notable figures of the Third Crusade, likening them to cinematic characters.

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Cinematic Characters of the Crusade

1:36 to 2:49

Discussion on the notable figures of the Third Crusade, likening them to cinematic characters.

“I really like these questions where you're just completely on the back foot.”

Quotes and Humor from the Crusaders

2:49 to 4:23

Exploration of quotes and humor related to the characters and events of the Crusade.

“It's a lot like Heat, I feel, this crusade.”

Historical Context and Life Expectancy

4:23 to 5:44

Examining the historical context of the 1190s, including life expectancy.

“if the if the patron number starts to tumble if the daily mail come for us i'm walking out the door I'm just...”

Crusader Relationships and Diplomacy

5:44 to 8:05

Discussion on the relationships between Richard I and Philip II, and their impact on the Crusade.

“I've thrown the microphone to clap, and I've hit my balls with the microphone, and it really hurts.”

Cultural References and Humor

8:05 to 13:12

Using humor and cultural references to discuss the Crusade and its characters.

“plea for a third crusade because Saladin.”

Cultural References and Humor

13:16 to 15:23

Using humor and cultural references to discuss the Crusade and its characters.

“I want to look at pictures of people's piles.”

Cultural References and Humor

15:28 to 15:40

Using humor and cultural references to discuss the Crusade and its characters.

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Richard the Lionheart's Journey to Cyprus

16:26 to 18:56

Learn about Richard the Lionheart's arrival in Cyprus and his confrontation with Isaac.

“We are talking about Philip II and Richard the Lionheart, who were bed buddies at best.”

The Strategic Importance of Cyprus

18:56 to 21:00

Explore why the conquest of Cyprus was crucial for the Third Crusade's supply lines.

“Now, the conquest of Cyprus has major strategic consequences for the crusade because it's a naval base and supply lines to the Holy Land, right?”
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The Siege of Acre

21:00 to 25:32

Delve into the details of the Siege of Acre and the conditions faced by soldiers.

“Acre is, I believe, in modern day Israel.”

Richard and Saladin's Unlikely Friendship

25:32 to 28:01

Understand the complex relationship between Richard the Lionheart and Saladin during the Crusades.

“Richard I and Philip II, they fall ill with scurvy.”

The Siege of Aker: Tactics and Terror

28:01 to 29:12

Explore the intense tactics used in the Siege of Aker and the terrifying conditions faced by soldiers.

“Okay, well, that seems like it shouldn't be called a siege.”

Nutty Putty Cave Incident: A Tangent

29:13 to 31:40

Delve into the Nutty Putty Cave incident and its disturbing implications.

“Yeah, so he took a wrong turn and then I guess what was terrifying is he was there for about 36 hours.”

Richard the Lionheart's Strategies

31:41 to 34:16

Learn about Richard's strategies at Aker and the moral complexities of his decisions.

“He doesn't have the same sort of sense of humor as the Charlie Kirk killer.”

The Aftermath of Aker and the Battle of Arsaf

34:16 to 42:01

Discuss the events following the Siege of Aker and the next challenges in the Crusade.

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Richard's Defensive Strategy Against Saladin

42:01 to 46:09

Explore Richard the Lionheart's tactical maneuvers during the Crusades, comparing them humorously to ice skating.

“He's trying to play on Richard's ego and say, come on then, come and actually defeat me.”

The Outcome of the Third Crusade

46:10 to 49:29

Delve into the significant events leading to the Treaty of Jaffa and the implications for both sides in the Crusade.

“So what he did well there Even though he had a very defensive plan, when it broke, he was like, I'm going to commit fully.”

Communication and Information in the 12th Century

49:30 to 51:11

Understand how communication was managed during the Crusades and the challenges of information dissemination.

“yeah because it did like set up vital crusade states in the Middle East again yes it did The number one thing was Jerusalem.”

The Fates of Richard and Saladin

51:12 to 56:00

Learn about the final years of Richard the Lionheart and Saladin, including their legacies and the humorous commentary on their lives.

“You would steal a fat woman's farts, put it in a jar, and say it was a papal relic of Jesus Christ's farts.”

The Final Years of Richard the Lionheart

56:00 to 59:34

Explore the later years of Richard the Lionheart's life and his ultimate fate.

“So he spends his final years, it's very sad, fighting to regain the lands in France.”

The Final Years of Richard the Lionheart

59:58 to 1:01:12

Explore the later years of Richard the Lionheart's life and his ultimate fate.

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1:24Welcome back to Finn vs. History. Once again, I'm with Horatio Gould. Hi. And this is part two of our epic dive into the Third Crusade. Yeah, our romp. Our romp. Through the Middle East. Through the Holy Lands. Has anyone romped through the Middle East ever? Horatio Gould. I think it's a consistent romp. I really like these questions where you're just completely on the back foot. Well, I'd say it's been a consistent romp. Should the A's of consent be lowed? Horatio Gould. Yes. No, I mean, what? Interesting. Very interesting. Not a paedophile. I mean, yes, I am. What age should it be? 14. Horatio Gould.

1:56Ah, shit. You've done it. You fucked it. You fucked it. Get me as Paxman. I'd love it. That would be my question every time. Because it looks like you're opening up and then you just turn it to someone that's out next to you. Nick Clegg. It's such a great hospital pass. Age of content, should it be lowered, ratio of gold. Brilliant. Anyway, we're talking about the Third Crusade. In our previous episode, we went deep. We did. We went really deep on Salad Cream and Richard the Lionheart. The two main characters in this story. This is the most cinematic of the Crusades, probably. Probably, yeah. And we're in the 1190s, I think.

2:35Is that right? This is a crusade where there's more talent on show. The first crusade I find funnier and weirder and stranger because there's a lot of idiots making terrible decisions. Yes. But this seems to be based around charismatic figures on both sides. Yes. And that side's much more cinematic. It's a lot like Heat, I feel, this crusade. I am listening. Where it feels like, it depends which side you are, who's Al Pacino, who's De Niro, but they both have a lot of respect for each other and view each other as sort of like equals. I guess Pacino's Richard the Lionheart because I can't imagine Saladin going, she got a great ass.

3:12I can't imagine. It's a good point. Well made. It's one of the only impressions I can do. So I do get it out at any point I can. But yeah, that's the two of them and that's why they're often. Sorry, it's also funnier when you know, when you watch the interviews about how they made that film and you realise that he, Michael Mann, made Al Pacino do that scene 50 times until he shouted that. And he went, no, yeah, that's what it was. Got it. Could have just told him to do it, but Pacino just lost it. And to be honest, I've watched it many times. Sometimes he's too much for me. Sometimes he's not.

3:41Do you know what I mean? Sometimes Pacino's a little too much. Don't let yourself... So this is something that Saladin would have said. Yeah. Don't let yourself get attached to anything you're not willing to walk away from in 30 seconds flat if you feel that heat around the corner. Yeah. That's what Saladin says. Yeah, that's him. Yeah. He feels the crusade is coming. He's like, let's get out of here. let's go get out of here leave the wife see you later i also if i was ever to get a tattoo it would be that quote is that what you're like with your family yeah they don't know that but that is what i'm like that's what i'm thinking the most tied down man in comedy in my head thinks he's in i've got i've got a tattoo on my arm the most stable rooted man in comedy attached to anything you're not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat kids and a mortgage if the if the patron number starts to tumble if the daily mail come for us i'm walking out the door I'm just...

4:29We lost three patrons, Finn. I've gone. I've gone. I've gone. I've left my wife and kids. I've gone. Three patrons is a tragedy. It's heat. It's the heat coming around the corner. It's the heat. God, I love fucking... I love heat. It's the best. I shouldn't have brought it up. Anyway, we're talking about medieval heat. Yeah, it is medieval heat. It is. It's the third crusade. We're in the 1190s. We should place this. We didn't actually place it last time. We sort of did. We only did half of it. I don't think we did. It was before fiber powder. Let's not get into fibre powder. I feel that we've...

5:01What have you found, Charlie? The life expectancy in the UK in 1190 is about 32. Christ, that is poor. So I'm doing well for 1190. Charlie, this is about... I'm dead in two years. Yeah, that makes sense. You're living like the Middle Ages, though. You're eating dog food. No, but again, you've made this point. The average is heavily influenced by a high rate of child mortality. So if you make it past eight, you're sorted. You're into your 50s. Yeah. Is it before the Magna Carta? It is before the Magna Carta. Just? Just. Before the Magna Carta. And is it after... Yeah! Done it the wrong way around.

5:35Yeah, so it's before the Magna Carta. After Roland the Farta? No, I think it's before Roland the Farta. No, I think Roland the Farta's in the First Crusade, isn't he? Let's have a look. 12th century. Here we go. Has Charlie just nailed that? King Henry II. Yes, it is. Oh, look at that. Wow. He's pulled it back. Do you know what I've just done there? I've thrown the microphone to clap, and I've hit my balls with the microphone, and it really hurts. An injury? Yeah. You've got to be careful with occupational hazards. You're an athlete. Going to have to have a minute. We might need to have a, get some oils and stuff.

6:07You might have to fill while I see pink and yellow spots. That happened to me while I was walking across the playground aged about eight or nine and you know those miniature footballs that like size, yeah, got one just square in the nads. Someone like absolutely Hitzelspergered it across the playground. And it's the pain that shudders through your ancestors, you know, in Moorland. Make it all feel it. It's that painful. my granddad my granddad's in edinburgh he's like oh oh oh like a voodoo doll presbyterian voodoo doll but yeah magna between the magna carta and roland the farter wow do you know what we've not we've not even we've have we unlocked a new the rhymes the rhyming placements that because that could be if we try and do that from now on one thing you do have to appreciate we'd ever pre-plan these they're always off the dome yeah but magna carta roland the farter is pretty extraordinary wow i mean that's what you have for having a poet producer you know does he poo where you anyone else does no but he knows a million ways to rhyme with farter yeah he's got that like locked down yeah you you should be you know how there are those people on instagram who just who are trying to be rappers who just post the one rap they do like over and over again um piss poor but I'm poo rich.

7:19Yeah. Well, that guy, I wear Nike, you wear Schlesinger, I am the pilot, you are passing that guy. It's like that. Yeah. It's that one song he does, he just does it over and over again. You should do that with your... Roland the Fartre, Magna Carta. Yeah, all that, all your poo poems. Anyway, so, betwixt Roland the Fartre and the Magna Carta, it's the Third Crusade. That's terrific stuff. Really good. You're like an aging striker who has been... A cultured finish. ...on the bench for ages and you've come on and you've just got yourself a one year renewed contract with one lucky goal. Yeah. Because really, there's been a lot of, there's been a lot of problems recently with your production.

7:58But one rhyme and he's, anyway, so. That's the magic. King Richard the Lionheart is responding to Greg VIII's plea for a third crusade because Saladin. Please. Saladin has turned Jerusalem into Jerusalem. Yeah, there's cameras everywhere. There's cameras everywhere. where van drivers are up in arms. Bone snatchers, nothing's been done about them. Knife crime, you know, what even is this city anymore? Yeah. It's illegal to be polite. Yeah. They've closed all the pubs. Yeah. Richard I is setting off with Philip II of France and Frédéric Barbarossa. Now, Richard I and Philip II are supposedly more than friends.

8:39Horatio Gould. Horatio Gould. Well, so Philip obviously helped get... Were gay benders. Horatio Gould. Well, I think the phrasing of that probably is not the right term. But did they fuck each other up the ass regularly? Probably, yes. What are we calling benders in the 1190s? What's the equivalent term? Mud sniffers. I mean, crusaders, in a sense. Yeah, crews. Cruising. The crusaders. Yeah, this is probably why they did it, because they misunderstood it. I mean, sodomite, bugger, effeminate man, vices against nature. Oh, I love that one. But yes, they viewed it very much. The F word is around, is it?

9:20No, it's just before the F word. Lovely. Oh, interesting. Yeah, there's another one. So it's after Roland the Fartor, and it's before Roland the... Anyway. So yes, supposedly Richard I and Philip II. Put the crews in crusade. Yeah, that's great stuff. That's absolutely great stuff. um but yes because philip obviously put richard uh on the throne philip is the king of france and sorry what's the throne in this it's a little bit like now i've helped you go on then now you gotta help me yeah um but how do we know that these guys had a potential it's very much be barnt bow right well there's a chronicler called roger of howden right okay says bitch at the burst and bill up the beckons yeah bum each other beg you now roger of howden is not an uncle who works at Houndons Kitchens.

10:08He is a chronicler who says the two kings eat every day at the same table from the same dish and at night their beds did not separate them. Yeah. Which now that could mean they have dinner together every night and sleep in the same bed or it could be euphemisms for just sort of rimming each other all the time. Yeah. Because it was meant to show how close the diplomatic relationship was. But I guess one behind closed doors. So eating from the same plate. So supposedly you would share a bed in the 12th century as a sort of powerful diplomatic symbol. So like if you'd sign a treaty with like the EU, Keir Starmer would be in bed with Ursula von der Leyen.

10:43Yeah. Or like it would be like Trump and Xi Jinping spooning. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or I mean, they probably should bring that back. It probably would foster closeness. Or is it quite annoying? I think another man sleeping in another man's bed, it can be quite annoying. You're quite used to your own night time. Are they tops and tailing? Yeah, you've got a nighttime routine. You can't imagine like when they signed the nuclear deal, Obama and the Ayatollah are tops and tailing. You can't imagine that. Yeah. I think you also get quite set in your ways about how you like things. Oh, with your beds? Yeah, I think it would actually lead to more tensions because you'd argue Ayatollah probably snores.

11:16He looks like he snores. Oh, yeah. He needs a pat fucking mask. He snores when he's awake. Yeah. Yeah. Grumpy kids. He's grumpy. Yeah. Well, rest in peace. Rest in power. Have you heard the new Ayatollah's gay? Is he? Type in new Ayatollah gay. Grumpy kids' son is gay? this apparently is what no wonder he was so grumpy

11:42I a gobbler I a gobbler I a gobbler I a gobbler your nobber gay gay gay gay yeah I guess so the gay I fuck gay sorry I fuck a gay gay gay gay gay I like gay it's it's it's it's

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16:52And now Richard goes in April 1191, while sailing east to Jerusalem, a storm scatters his fleet. Okay, so several ships, including his sister Joan and his future wife Balenciaga or whatever she's called, they're wrecked off the coast of Cyprus. Now, survivors are reportedly mistreated by Isaac, the ruler of Cyprus. who's a Byzantine noble now instead of offering the hospitality which you're meant to offer to crusaders or Christian pilgrims he exploits them and he seizes all the ships and he then seizes all the weapons and stuff that's intended for the crusade and then he captures all the royal hostages to try and secure a massive ransom right which is very aggy for a Cypriot yeah come on reign it in this is a thousand years after you went to bed what are you doing?

17:42What are you doing up? What are you doing up at this time? It's 1190, Cyprus. Go back to bed. So Richard arrives, is obviously furious. I mean, this is you sending your kids to bed. Yeah, back to sleep. Now, now, light off. Don't make me Japan you. Okay. Richard then launches an amphibious assault on Cyprus and captures Isaac immediately. You know, obviously you're thinking of a D-Day landing scene, but the D-Day, you know, the Nazi gunners are just in plastic chairs with arrows. It's not the same. Oh, please. No, they're coming. I could... Oh, he's... No, he's stopped. So, upon his surrender, Isaac says, don't chain me in iron, mate.

18:23Don't fucking chain me in iron. Go on, fuck off. Come on, isn't it? Isn't it? And Richard mockingly agrees and then has a set of silver chains forged for him. But it's interesting, the Brits in Cyprus, right? There's a long history of that. And also, right now, the RAF base that has been sending any fighters that were helping with the Strait of Hormuz is coming out of the base in Cyprus. So this is the beginning of a British base in Cyprus to aid conquest in the Middle East. So it's the same thing. It is, you're right. The same thing. You're right. The echoes of history. Now, the conquest of Cyprus has major strategic consequences for the crusade because it's a naval base and supply lines to the Holy Land, right?

19:09which also means that Richard has secured a sort of independent power. Now, we haven't talked about Frederick Barbarossa, who he actually goes to, he sets off first, before Richard and Philip, to the Holy Lands. He has the largest crusader army ever assembled. He's medieval Hitler. He's medieval Hitler, right? He's stinky Hitler, right? 20 ,000 men, German fighters. He's crossing a river in maybe Turkey or Syria, falls off a horse drowns and then everyone else is like oh do we just go home they just sort of go home because in this in this day and age and this is what Hitler named his operation after yes yeah it means that yeah but he also united all the German tribes so I think it's not named after him falling off a horse although actually it's quite funny I suppose in that the eastern front was essentially just fell off a horse and now shit let's go home then yeah sorry historians say that if he had survived and got to the Holy Land, that would have been the main fight.

20:11Hitler versus the Jihadis. Yeah. That's a fight we all were denied. Yeah, come on. ISIS versus Nazis. ISIS versus Nazis. Come on. Come on. Who's going to give us that? Yeah. It's like AJ and fucking Fury. But it's like those fight simulators. Fight, you cowards. Do you know what I mean? Do you know those fights when you can do like 10 ,000 dinosaurs versus 10 ,000 wizards? Yeah. It's like, it's one of those ones. Nazis versus ISIS. But for neuronorms. ISIS versus Nazis. Anyway, we were denied ISIS versus Nazis because the Nazis drowned in a river in Cyprus Richard the Lionheart marries Prolenciaga the marriage is politically useful but it does not produce any legitimate heirs which again adds to the speculation that he was a well he couldn't get it up do you think like I don't understand surely he'd just stick it in a once at least to get a kid but if he's in love with Philip he wouldn't do that to Philip no right interesting Philip's quite a gay name yeah it is now the Siege of Acre ladies warning we will be discussing trebuchets we will be discussing siege politics siege castles trenches if you've left the house without any spare knickers you're on your own go back if you can get off the train it might be too late cross the platform get on the other train going the other way text work saying you'll be late yes chafing beware please apply nipple tape now so the European monarchs arrive in Acre in 1191.

21:36Acre is, I believe, in modern day Israel. Don't actually know. It's our, yes, northern Israel. Right. Oh, is it a holiday place now? It's not Tel Aviv. That really is the cruising crusaders. Anyway, so, now the siege of Acre, Saladin had been, it was a crusader, no, it was a Muslim city. It's quite, this is quite confusing. Yeah. This is like lasagna of a siege. The Middle East is non-binary. What? Gender fluid. Its identity is... I think it is quite binary, famously. Well, it's constantly fluctuating. It's someone who can't make up their mind if they're trans or not. Yeah. So, the Muslims are defending the city of Eka, right?

22:18Which is in sort of northern Israel, today's language. Just outside that, Crusader forces are surrounded and they're trying to breach the defences. And then outside that, Saladin's army have surrounded the Crusaders, cutting them off from the mainland. Doesn't sound quite gay. So they're forcing on two fronts. Do you know what I mean? This feels like an organisation of an orgy. Do you know what I mean? Now, are orgies ever organised to that extent? I think sometimes. I think certain. There must be some sort of gay cultures that are very regimented. Yeah. And I imagine there was probably some gay Nazi.

22:52What did the gay Nazis do? I imagine they organised it like this. Charlie, what have you found? A Reddit thread is thinking about hosting an orgy. You need advice and tips. Light a few zenty candles or anything to help mask the smells of sex. Yeah, I think the smell is a big problem with an orgy. No hard liquor. Isn't that part of the vibe, though? I think more for chem-sexy stuff. Maybe if you're French, but yeah, that's part of it. But surely if you're in that mood, then you want that smell. It's afterwards when you're cleaning up that you want to get the air freshener out. I don't know, it wouldn't be for me.

23:27It's not for me. Apparently the team that cleans Berghain on Monday morning it's like they're literally just mopping up cum. Well, yeah. I mean, I don't know how groundbreaking. There's probably a lot of people who pay money to do that and they don't have any cleaning tools, put it that way. Yeah. They're on all fours with their mouths open, cleaning. It's a self-cleaning club really, isn't it? That's where the piss goblin is, right? Yeah, he's bird kind, isn't he? They don't even need toilets. Yeah. The money they save on plumbing, on cleaners. Yeah. It's kind of amazing. It's a terrific business model as a club, isn't it?

24:02But morally, it's a stain on the planet.

24:09Anyway.

24:12Now, the conditions at the Siege of Acre is horrible. Scurvy and dysentery is... This is very much still very orgy sort of vibes. Again, are we talking about the Siege of Acre? Is that what I call my, you know, some kind of orgy? eyewitness accounts describe a hellscape of rotting corpses and foul water this is me in burghine my god have you no shame this is an eyewitness account for burghine just here jeremy clarkson goes to burghine this is a most violent sickness has seized the legs and faces swelled up they had such swelling in their face that their teeth fell from their mouths now the air was corrupted by the stench of the corpses that many of the most noble and valiant knights died from the smell like your girlfriend on holiday with Charlie.

24:56The smell. She's got taken back in a body bag. So Saladin's forces and this is not cricket. They throw dead bodies into the rivers to pollute the water sources. It's an early form of biological warfare. Yeah. This is a man from northern Iraq with chemical weapons. It all starts here. I'm listening. Yeah. Saddam. The echoes of Saddam. So. Saddam. Saddam. Saddam.

25:26So now, despite the brutality, the Third Crusade is more remembered for the fact that Richard and Saladin were quite nice to each other. Yeah, it's heat. It is heat. Richard I and Philip II, they fall ill with scurvy. I wonder why. Yeah, was it AIDS? Who knows? Richard's teeth are starting to fall out and his hair falls out in clumps, maybe because of stress. He's got high cortisol. To put it mildly, phillips loses a finger toenails their faces swell up to the point of being unrecognizable but salad cream upon hearing of their illness sends them fresh fruit and mountain snow to cool their drinks there's it's just a bit there's like a gay vibe going between all three there's like a there's just there's a tension there yeah there's an there's an element of um of is this the high point of medieval chivalry is this when this is really i think 100 years war probably is when it really so that's in about 100 years but it's it's around here for sure yeah so um eventually their symptoms pass because of saladin's fruit uh now we don't know what what can we do we find out what fruit it is charlie can you google what we don't know if richard's a fruit we it's the jury is still out if is it a fruit eating fruit i mean if if richard was a fruit then philip the second would be cured straight away because he's got his mouth in his ass it seems yeah maybe fruits don't cure scurvy.

26:47Two wrongs don't make a right. Two fruits don't cure scurvy. What is it, Johnny? He said pears and plums. Pears and plums? You've made that up, haven't you? No. Pears and plums. Pears and plums. But they didn't know that fruits cured scurvy at this point, did they? And where has he got the ice from? Snow from the mountain. He's up at the mountain. Is he up on the mountain? Yeah. Sounds delicious. Pears and plums in a load of snow would be lovely. Surely the snow would have melted before it got to Richard. That's what I was thinking. But imagine if you put it in a big enough thing and then run it down.

27:13Nothing gets past this guy. Nothing. but I think if you put it in a big chest and run it down, you might have some left. Right, okay. So Richard recovers from his scurvy. He eats salad, creams, pear and plums and eventually the final assault on Akan. He's crucial to breaking the siege. This siege is brutal. It's going on for two years. I think it's one of the longest sieges. I'd hate sieging. Maybe until the siege of Leningrad. Maybe. Two years is longer than Leningrad. Oh, Leningrad. No, it's 800 days. Sorry. Is there a time limit on a siege? Is there a time limit? Well, it implies that movement.

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27:50Is there like a... You can't have a 10-year siege. You can. How long was the siege of Leningrad? Longest siege. Let's have a look.

27:58Oh, 33 years, yeah. Yeah. Okay, well, that seems like it shouldn't be called a siege. That's like a naval blockade, though, isn't it? Moroccan forces against the Spanish-held city of Coita. 33 years. Wow. And then around the same time was won for 21 years. This is kind of the golden age of the long siege. So, Aker, the siege intensifies, and then the Crusaders employ advanced medieval siege craft. Ladies, grip your armrest. Fellas, lock in. Massive catapults and trebuchets. To weaken the masonry. Quickshot launchers. If you're sat next to a woman on a train, give her a minute, give them some space, give her some tissue.

28:43sappers start digging tunnels beneath the city they prop these tunnels up with timber supports and then once the tunnels are dug they fill them with straw and pig fat then set fire to the timber to try and collapse the walls above from the inside to counter that the defenders of the city dig their own tunnels to intercept leading to hand-to-hand battles underground pretty fucking terrifying terrifying it's like the nutty putty cave incident but there's also there's another guy at the other end what is the nutty putty cave incident you know about the nutty putty type in the nutty putty cave incident i thought we talked about this it's pretty horrific this is a guy who went um under ground caving and then he took a wrong turn and he ended up sort of like sadam upside down sadam upside down sadam right so we're just looking i'd switched to video as we're looking at a photo now of a man who could not be more he could not be more of the wrong place of anyone i've ever said yeah so explain what you what you could see right now i can see what looks like um well there's clearly a way he was going and then he's gone sharply down and he seems to have hit some kind of um he's at rock bottom you'd say really is his guy has hit rock bottom i mean it's it is it is uh my girlfriend a bottomless brunch uh very much Oh yeah, it's the woman behind the sofa in the bottomless brunch.

30:06Yeah, so he took a wrong turn and then I guess what was terrifying is he was there for about 36 hours. Oh my God. And they were trying to get him out. And then, yeah, he eventually, the blood ran to his head and he died. He died just from being upside down for 36 hours? Surely his heir, did you not die from him? I think it was the pressure eventually killed him. And where is Nutty Putty Cave? And why has he got such a stupidly funny name? I think this is a common spot for cavers. But yeah. Because that's like to his family. It's probably anyone's nightmare. No one understands why you would ever cave.

30:40Most people. But this is like. But what's so funny is that to his family, that name will be as hallowed as like Auschwitz. Nutty Putty. Nutty Putty Cave. Do not bring up Nutty Putty. Please. Can you stop making light of Nutty Putty Cave? But I guess this is how people with anxiety feel. in social situations. It's like a fucking CBeebies show, Nutty Putty Cave. But it represents people with anxiety. That's how they feel during social interactions. What, like they're stuck in Nutty Putty Cave? What, just face down? Right. Why have you got Mr. Tumble up? I don't know, it just sounds like he would maybe live in Nutty Putty Cave.

31:15Mr. Tumble and Nutty Putty Cave. If they sent Mr. Tumble to rescue you from Nutty Putty Cave, I'd be like, do you know what, leave me in here, actually. He creeps me out a bit, that guy. But that, but there's another French guy at the bottom with a knife. Oh, yeah. Horrible. absolutely horrible subterranean i mean again it's the middle east it's fighting in tunnels yeah not much has changed no anyway um so after two years of stalemate acre falls within weeks once richard arrives because his fleet establishes a total blockade sinks a muslim ship carrying 650 soldiers and all their food the garrison then begins to starve within acre all points gained for sure yes uh nothing cannot be a computer game yeah richard has two primary trebuchets called bad neighbor and god's own sling uh got it yeah ladies take a minute god's own sling is pretty hard yeah that's what i call my trebuchet god's own sling and bad neighbor yeah so this is like when they used to write um write on bombs so they were dropped on the Japanese yeah yeah what would they write like fuck you sorry it feels kind of irrelevant when it's a bomb and it's gonna explode isn't it well they'd write on bullets yeah like wouldn't they say like eat metal well the guy shot Charlie Kirk oh yeah what did he write on the bullet what did he write said read this if you're gay that's pretty cool and so the poor coroner is another victim oh fuck well I'm gay now I guess fuck fuck add me to the list and then Mangione Tony had delayed an eye to pose.

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35:20And eventually the soldiers get in. A final assault, July 1191. And then there's surrender terms and the defenders are exhausted and the city surrenders all its weaponry. This is what the city's commanders agree to without Saladin's permission. They're going to surrender the city. They're going to return the true cross, the bit of words that Jesus definitely died on. And they're going to release 2 ,000 Christian prisoners. This period is like, you know, the whole game of girls bathwater thing? Yes. It became like a whole thing that an online Twitch streamer, attractive girl who plays games, sold her bathwater for thousands and thousands of pounds.

36:06Yes. They're sort of doing this with Jesus, right? Yes. It's basically like Jesus' farts in a jar. You've captured Jesus' farts in a jar. Those are my Christian farts. It's kind of the same thing. It is the same. But now we don't have a God, you're putting it saying, I want to smell that Twitch streamers knickers. Yeah, I just want some fat check on the internet to fart in a jar. But it's the same impulse. People used to go to church. We used to smell Christ's farts in a jar. and now we're just smelling smelling some fat woman playing World of Warcraft's farts and the West has fallen anyway Aker surrenders on the 12th of July 1191 Richard and Philip raise their banners which I imagine is the pride flag says triumphantly triumphantly woo and so does Leopold V of Austria however he'd done nothing and they were like who are you there's then discussions with Salad Cream about the surrender and whether so they both got hostages on both sides again very similar parallels to today king philip goes to france because uh he's ill weirdly one thing that they should have taken from hamas these guys is paragliders that would have been great in a siege yeah could flown over the walls yes you're right so that's one innovation but again this is around is this around you know we did our flight series and there was that muslim guy who has written himself into the history of flight yeah more because he doesn't have any brain cells But that was the sort of early Hamas paraglider, wasn't it?

37:34Well, wasn't he just jumping off buildings? But he had some kind of gliding thing. You know, it was the long road to October 7th, whatever his name was, Ibn something. I don't remember what his name was. Anyway. So what would you do? If you're showing that in a film, would you have him jump off? And then as it's flying, it goes into the plane that goes into the World Trade Center. Yeah, the montage. Yeah. And it ends with... No, he sees it all in his head. He's like, oh. Yeah. Anyway. So King Philip goes to France. him and Richard are bickering over who gets to control Cyprus and then who would get Jerusalem if they get it.

38:08This leaves Richard the Lionheart as the sole commander of the crusading forces. So there'd be no exchanges of prisoners by August the 20th and because of the stalling, Richard acts decisively, robustly and slaughters two and a half thousand Muslim prisoners in sight of salad cream. Right. So some people say war crime. Others would say he was backed into a corner. He was firm. He was firm, but fair. Group high five. Yes, exactly. He went around and high fived all of them. Yeah. And what happened after that is their own fault. I've just given you a high five. Why is your head falling off? Idiots.

38:45So Salad Cream immediately ordered the execution of 1 ,600 Christians, which is a tragedy and a disgrace. And his name should be Mud, because that's awful. That's absolutely awful. This is your hero, really. Anyway. Disgusting. So it's pretty bloody at this point, the mascot. Having had lots of chivalry, the crusade is descending into blood. What is it, Charlie? Sorry, Charlie, you're looking like - You're just looking like nothing's on. No, you're looking like a fox on a hunt who thinks he's smelt something. You're literally like this. You look like my dog when she's seen a squirrel. She's like, I'm coming for you.

39:19What's wrong? You're just sat quite far to the right of the sofa. I don't know if you - Fuck it. Crack on. Interestingly, took my daughter to the doctor yesterday and you know how we were having a discussion about what we call her front bum yes yeah within a yeah with normal context yes yeah i didn't bring it up you know how we were calling you called me at one in the morning saying i've got some new i've got some new ideas your daughter's front bum um for the nom the nomenclature of your daughter's twat uh anyway so she'd been she'd been having she i think she's got a uti basically right uh and she went to the we went to the doctor and the doctor because she's four now doesn't talk to me she talks to her okay doctor talks to her and she's like okay it was a lovely bloke and he goes so so what you know do you know where you are she's like yeah i'm at the doctor's and he's like do you know why you're here and she went yeah and she went so why are you here then um you're going to have a look at my fanny and the doctor just loses it and he goes he goes right is that right and then i went no but i was like no no he is a bit of fun um but yeah but this is when we're talking about what to name my daughter's front bum, Fanny has won out.

40:30Now, decisively. So Fanny's defeated all the competition. Much as Richard the Lionheart at Aker was decisive, Fanny has now, in her head... Twat has been crushed. Twat has crushed. Minge didn't stand a chance. Salad cream, that's not there, apparently. We can't call it salad cream anymore. Get your salad cream out. Salad cream's horrible. That's got to be one of the worst names for a vagina. Anyway, yeah, no, so Fanny's won. And I don't feel, I still feel slightly weird about it, but there's no right answer. But it's Victorian, so maybe it has a level of like softness because of the amount of time it's been around.

41:05Yes, I guess so. Anyway, back to the Battle of Arsaf, which is not what I call her back bum, but it is an absolute battle down there. The 7th of September, 1191. The Crusader forces then having successfully defeated the Muslims at Acre, they move down the coast to the port of Jaffa I'd call it maybe the port of Jaffa yeah your daughter's friend no don't call it the port of Jaffa that's tasteless Saladin's light cavalry continuously harasses Crusader lines this is harassment now this is genuine harassment now this is the tactic this is what Saladin's trying to do is what he did at Hatton is he's trying to lure the Crusaders away from the water supply into the hinterland into a big decisive battle.

41:59He's trying to trick... Is that reverse Russians? Totally. He's trying to play on Richard's ego and say, come on then, come and actually defeat me. But Richard holds firm and manages to stay in a defensive formation along the whole coast. It's much like when you're ice skating for the first time. I'm so bad at ice skating. But you're hugging the wall, right? That's me the entire time. And that's where you're strongest is when you're hugging the wall. Yeah. and Saladin's trying to get you to come out to the middle when you're weak there's a gay guy in the middle going come on be free and he's doing things and I'm like no no no I'm not going to be lowered into the middle but it's sort of like you could bum me out there having a fight with a gay guy on an ice rink is like having a fight with a shark in the ocean yeah it is no I'm not coming out there I'm never coming out there how am I meant to win I'm on your territory the ice is gay gay men are on ice straights don't do well on ice it's true it's when we're at our weakest i haven't the girls the ice is for the gays and the girls that's why he's a great king it's a great king he was not salad creams like spinning on the ice you know playing disco music and spinning and richard the lionheart's like no it would be very funny to see kind of you know figure skating doesn't seem to have crossed into the Paralympics and the Special Olympics.

43:23Now, I don't... Is that true? I've not researched that. Charlie, can we look... You know, is there wheelchair ice skating? I have everything crossed. But I would like to enter the Paralympic figure skating and just hug the side and see how they mark me. Here we go. BBC Sport asked me anything. Why is figure skating not from the Paralympics? March 2026. Fans tuning into the Winter Paralympics will have spotted figure skating missing from the programme. because the sports are not an international level. Yeah, because there's a lot of people just fucking like me holding onto the sideline. Anyway, okay, let's get back to the third crusade.

43:59Or maybe it should be straights doing figure skating. Yes, the Paralympics. Straight men should enter the Paralympics in gay sports and vice versa. Right, so yes. What other gay sport? Badminton? Badminton's gay. Figure skating's gay. I think luge is straight because you're just fucking it down the hillside. what about double luge when you go weirdly straight even though you have just strapped another man's ass to your cock no it's two straight blokes just going on table tennis is gay table tennis is gay rock climbing is straight yes very much so shot put is straight discus is a bit more gay though yes discus is gay javelin straight javelin is straight as an arrow straight as an arrow long jump is straight triple jump is gay what's the one where you jump pole vault no the is that what you're trying to get over the thing without knocking it yeah have you seen have you seen the footage of the pole bolter who catches his willy yeah glorious phil babs himself on a pole i think the way that you have to avoid you know how it's like you're just avoiding that's gay yeah yeah that is um but yeah so straight men should oh this is this is oh straight men should enter the paradigms within gay sports that should be a new category you know agreed motion carried claire balding is she an olympian or a paralympian she was in horse riding which is gay so she's an olympian because she's gay do you see what i mean yes yeah faultless logic thank you um rowing is straight for sure where on earth are we the crusaders this is him he's holding onto the side of the ice ring i'm currently holding onto the side of the ice of course down the coast.

45:44Now, Saladin positions his full army north of the town of Arsuf in a final attempt to stop the Crusaders before they reach Jaffa. Now, while crossing open ground near Arsuf, the Knights Hospitallier, who had been bearing the brunt of the harassment, they break formation and they charge, which forces Richard to commit his entire army to a counterattack, which then takes Saladin's army by surprise because Richard had been so defensive, and they break Saladin's lines and force him to withdraw. So what he did well there Even though he had a very defensive plan, when it broke, he was like, I'm going to commit fully.

46:17I'm going into the ice. Fuck. What do I do? But by that point, the guy got figure skater was tired. Yeah. So. Dizzy from spinning. Saladin's field army is unable to mount a second defense and clears the path for Lionheart to secure Jaffa. So Jaffa secured an 1191 and it becomes the main operating base for Richard, which gives the Crusaders a fortified port. Beachhead. It is a beachhead. Calm down. men in Surrey who work in middle management. Calm down. So there, Richard can begin his plan to free Jerusalemistan and make it Jerusalem again. So the first advance on Jerusalem, Jerusalemistan, is in 1191.

46:58So they get to about 12 miles away, but the leadership starts to grow concerned because the winter conditions and the supply lines aren't there. And they realize that even if they capture it, they're not going to be able to hold it. So they withdraw. and the second advance is in 1192 and they again march towards Jerusalem and again they get there quite close but Saladin dismantles some of the city's outer defences so the crusaders can't use them for protection if they took the city so they retreat again and this is where the crusade starts to kind of peter out really because Richard orders another withdrawal and then Saladin launches a surprise attack back on Jaffa so then Richard sails back there to defend Jaffa yeah he legs it back he legs it back and he gets on a fucking horse and charges through the water uh and eventually reclaims the citadel so it gives everything to getting it back and he gets like and he he fights on foot have his horse kill but then saladin sends him two fresh horses because no king should fight on the ground no straight man should be on the ice there's something going on between them it's dirty yeah there is so then we get to the treaty of jaffa second of september 1192 and this is essentially where the third crusade becomes a score draw yeah and there's a great deal of respect it's the end of heat if it ended this is like the airport scene richard realizes he could never hold jerusalem saladin's army is very tired and so they uh they decide that the crusaders would allow to the coastline and the holy city would remain in muslim control but christian pilgrims were granted safe passage without being taxed so effectively this ends hostilities so it's it's um it's cricket really yeah at the end a lot of these stories they kind of end slightly petering out ways people you know barbara ross falling off his horse and drowning we'll get to how richard goes even this it just sort of it's a lot of fizzling out yes yeah but there's a there's an understanding i suppose that there are these two great warriors and they they're they're each other's equal it's like a dance yes it's figure skating it's um it's torland dean yeah but there's two great figureheads and they're each other's equals and so the third crusade ends with they haven't taken Jerusalem but they have got all the ports which sort of means they've got all the supply lines to sort of back yeah so both sides can claim success it's very contested if who won the third crusade really it is sort of a draw yeah because it did like set up vital crusade states in the Middle East again yes it did The number one thing was Jerusalem.

49:39Jerusalemistan continues to go into the dirt. So now what happens to... Do the Christians ever get Jerusalem back? We briefly regained control between 1229 and 1244 during the Sixth Crusade. Oh, interesting. But ultimately it's lost to Muslim rule. That's it. What is it? How do you really know who's in... In terms of... There's no phones, right? There's no phones. What, in 1190s? It must take a long time for anyone. There is shouting, though. Yeah, there's lots of shouting. You can shout. There's loads of shouting, but how do you know if anyone's if anything's true ever really because I've got no idea what's happening over there because I'm here and I haven't got a phone and you're stupid yeah yeah you are sick as well just surely the news cycle must take fucking ages yeah it did and like how do I know if I've won the war or anything yeah well I guess in this I know I'm hungry it ends normally with a treaty and then I guess it slowly disseminates via gossip people come home people like yeah riders I think gossip is much more important yeah i mean the phone is ultimately is just communication but on the phone so the people still communicate it just took longer yeah but also you you would have nothing to do with this if you were alive then what would i have been doing you would have been making porridge for some very very ugly woman at home your main job would have been to stir porridge and you would have a really shocking haircut right and you would have been hitting things why because i'm annoyed No, because that's what people did.

51:04The most ambitious you could probably do is get this fat woman who's been eating porridge and store her farts in the jar and say they were Jesus's. That was maybe at much. If you had any entrepreneurship, that's what you would do. You would steal a fat woman's farts, put it in a jar, and say it was a papal relic of Jesus Christ's farts. That's what you'd do. But you did not have that get up and go. You'd be stowing porridge. Yeah, with my wife. Very, very, very ugly woman. Yeah, well, if that's all I would do is just love her for my whole life. Yeah. which would be 30 years because Charlie's looking for a woman we were asking him because B was trying to work out what his type was we were asking for about celebrity crush do you have a celebrity crush who's like what's your sort I've told you many of my celebrity crushes yeah to be fair I've been very open about my celebrity crushes Charlie we couldn't find yours until you what did you say Miriam Margulies I mean that's I mean even I mean I like I like an older woman who's been on the BBC but that is quite rich for my blood and then we were all saying what the hell and you said I just want to kiss her boobs for hours kiss her boobs for hours but she's like she's she's like lesbian as rock she's an old lesbian who eats turnips all day radishes or whatever is that a slur no no she genuinely she eats berries her face in turnips all day or is it radishes she eats raw radishes baby's been on set with her she eats raw radishes like she'll eat 30 a day I mean I like a raw radish I wouldn't I wouldn't eat them every day though I would.

52:30She eats apples like onions, like I do. So that's your type, is it? You eat apple like onions? What, you chop it up and put it in a bowl of eggs? No, I eat onion like apple. And so does she. I actually got it off her. She's 84. She's amazing. She's actually loves to kiss her boots for hours. Yeah, she's like lived. She's got like lovely, look at her kind eyes. Like she's, I think physically she's sort of got quite a lot about her. And I... I think she's a national treasure. I'm not sure I want to bend her over a barrel. Kiss her boobs for hours I'm not sure I want to kiss her boobs for hours personally this is a matter of taste it's a matter of taste one man's Miriam Margulies is another man's pretty Patel okay so no I think she's amazing yeah and it's not just a one night thing she's about as lesbian as it gets I think I didn't even notice that at all yeah I think she would well I could pretend I've said many times but my type is still Shamima Begum definitely did something for me take two refugee Shamima Begum Shamima Bigbub when she had the glow up yeah that's me I suppose there was a real fork in the road for Shamima wasn't it glow up or blow up that was pretty good there but it was when she was in had the sideways face she's young in that second photo yeah I didn't tell the second photo I made it clear it was refugee Shamima Bigbub let me be very clear okay that one yeah I don't know yeah absolutely absolutely absolutely absolutely yeah absolutely yeah sweet queen shimims yeah what could have been we both live very near she's bethnal green yeah you know they should remake sliding doors but with you and Shamima Begum I'll tell you we've all been living near each other that's a very that's a pivot of a remake for that film isn't it off to Syria the black flag flying over a fucking jeep I don't know there's more for me in Shamima's story yet to be written Shamima Gould Shamima Gould anyway Saladin all the fighting means effectively his health declines and only six months after the Treaty of Jaffa Saladin dies of a fever age 55 it's all just you know no one dies in battle like in in a blaze of glory no they either they die on the toilet in a blaze of diarrhea but despite having been the ruler of this vast Muslim empire it's discovered that when he dies that he'd given almost all his wealth to the poor which is one of the five pillars is it of Islam yeah there's a lot about you're meant to give 15 % of all your earnings to charity of some sort well I did that it's just tax isn't it yeah it's just not it's just five pillars drunk uncle five pillars of Keir Starless Britain I give 50 % to Rachel from accounts yeah this place it's like living in a fucking Muslim empire let's move to Dubai that's what all these guys say Britain's gone yeah It's overrun by Muslims.

55:25Let's go to Dubai. Let's go to Dubai. Brilliant. So he reportedly leaves behind one piece of gold, not even enough to pay for his own burial. Now, what happens to Richard the Lionheart? Richard leaves the Holy Land in 1192, but has a disaster, has an absolute nightmare getting home. Yeah, it really does, to be fair. Like me trying to get home from an Italian wedding where it rains and they close every airport. They can't fucking handle anything. he travels through Europe into skies but gets captured by Duke Leopold of Austria who he had insulted at Acre and then gets handed over to the Holy Roman Emperor do you think it's Rasta hat dreadlocks could be well Lenin Lenin style yeah Lenin in the Rasta hat after a year in captivity he returns to England in 1194 to reclaim his throne from his brother John the cunt I think that's his name John the cunt is that his I think that's his given name Richard the Lionheart John the cunt You'd be annoyed if you were John the cunt, wouldn't you?

56:23Why do you get Lionheart? Why is it only those two? Why is it first come, first serve? Why am I the cunt? So he spends his final years, it's very sad, fighting to regain the lands in France. And then - Which he does very well, because even though it's less glamorous, because a lot of the, because the view of Lionheart keeps changing. He's viewed as the ultimate king. And there was a reevaluation in the Victorian age, saying it was actually a French guy who was absentee father, et cetera. so he's besieging some tiny little french toilet of a town um and while he's sieging the castle he gets shot in the shoulder by a crossbow bolt shot by a boy by a little boy a french boy and he gets gangrenous and he says i want to see the man who shoots me and then a little boy comes out and instead of ordering the boy's death he says well go on then what you got me fair play fair fucks you got me i know what does he say live on and by my bounty behold the light of day so yeah did he give him a hundred shillings no he says the event should give the boy a hundred shillings and then the king's men ignore that and then as soon as richard died the boy gets flayed alive and hanged yeah yeah which is very different to how you know i guess what that philip scofield's boy gets treated yeah nda to shit yeah you know protected to all intents and purposes.

57:43Do you reckon he'll be all right? I think he'll be all right. Apparently, Richard the Lionheart, when he was injured on his crossbow, said, bring me out and would fire a crossbow during the siege from his hospital bed. Yeah. Which is pretty cool, isn't it? Pretty hardcore. So he dies April the 6th, 1199, in the arms of his mother and having been killed by a child, a chronicler wrote, the lion by the ant was slain. Because everyone speaks like Yoda at this point in time. It's fucking irritating. And, And his body is divided and buried in different locations, which is sort of practice at this point.

58:16So his heart's buried in Normandy. His entrails are buried where he died as a kind of slight to the French toilet. That's what I'd like to happen to me, actually. Your entrails in France? My entrails, all the tripe bits of me, put them in France. But is it none of it's in England? No. Because he was barely there. Yeah. Because he was off on a crusade. So that's the end of the story, really, is the rest of his body is buried by his dad in Al-Njou so but there's a massive statue of him outside parliament because he remains the sort of great warrior king symbolic symbolic I think maybe is he the the first warrior like the warrior king before him that hadn't been no this sort of type of what really getting involved and you can't imagine King Charles you know I mean King Charles isn't allowed into fucking Mecca because his hands are sausages yeah he's haram he's got haram hands I guess the closest we've had is Blair rolling his sleeves up in Kosovo.

59:13Yeah. That's the closest. Yeah, that is. It's not close, but it's the closest. It's him right. Right. Touching Kosovo and boys' heads. Yeah. Boys' heads. Yeah, that is about. But yeah, Blair's Richard the Lionheart. Yeah. Blair the Lionheart. Blair the sleeves up. So that's the end of the Third Crusade. If you'd like more, we will be talking about Robin Hood. on the Patreon, which the legend of, which took place around this time, supposedly. So sign up to the Patreon where you don't have to print your own sword, but it helps. And if not, we will see you next week for a brand new topic. That's it from us.

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