Not All Roman Emperors Are Visible | Claudius (Part 1)
6/22/202656 min
Nobody Suspects The Disabled Emperor!
Claudius (Part One)
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First 90 secondsFin Taylor· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Welcome back to Finn vs. History. Joining me is Horatio Gould.
Horatio Gould· Host0:15
I'm the emperor.
Fin Taylor· Host0:16
Today, we're talking about Claudius.
Horatio Gould· Host0:19
Mm.
Fin Taylor· Host0:19
We're back in ancient Rome.
Horatio Gould· Host0:20
Yes.
Fin Taylor· Host0:21
These have been some of my favorite episodes.
Horatio Gould· Host0:23
Yes.
Fin Taylor· Host0:23
Um- This is, we- we're going back to the ancient world, but these are very much the lily pads in which you feel safe, right? I love the Roman emperors.
Horatio Gould· Host0:29
It's the only place that you feel you can... It's the, it's the wall of the ice rink which you can hold onto- Yes, yeah ... in the ancient world.
Fin Taylor· Host0:35
Yes, uh- It's the only place where I get to explore the ancient world where you're not half asleep or p- purposely, uh, nosedive in the podcast. I don't think that's fair. [laughs] I think I r- I think I found, I found a prehistoric, um, uh, statue of a guy doing a Hitler salute.
Horatio Gould· Host0:49
Yeah, that's true. That's true.
Fin Taylor· Host0:50
That really fired me up.
Horatio Gould· Host0:51
That, yeah.
Fin Taylor· Host0:51
That got me through that episode.
Horatio Gould· Host0:52
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're very, very much so.
Fin Taylor· Host0:53
Uh, we're talking about Claudius today.
Horatio Gould· Host0:55
Mm.
Fin Taylor· Host0:55
Now, we've done- And we're also...
Horatio Gould· Host0:56
Sorry, we're dressed as the sofa today as well.
Fin Taylor· Host0:57
We are dressed as the sofa, and I, before anyone comments, I'm aware that, that, that I... That there will be a lot of gunt on show- Yeah ... in this episode.
Horatio Gould· Host1:04
You're a gunt buncher.
Fin Taylor· Host1:04
I'm a gunt- my gunt is bunching in this suit.
Horatio Gould· Host1:06
Yeah.
Fin Taylor· Host1:06
There's a lot of material in it.
Horatio Gould· Host1:07
Mm.
Fin Taylor· Host1:07
I'm essentially dressed as a corduroy curtain.
Horatio Gould· Host1:09
Yeah.
Fin Taylor· Host1:10
And, uh, I apologize to any ladies watching, but my gunt is bunched.
Horatio Gould· Host1:13
Yeah. [laughs] But it, it sort of looks like we're- [laughs] ... like kind of hitmen who are trying to hide, uh- In the sofa ... in the sofa.
Fin Taylor· Host1:23
[laughs] Yeah.
Horatio Gould· Host1:23
Like, we're trying to tr- trying to... We've, we've dressed up as one of the cushions. I mean, I'm dressed as the, the sofa cushion. You're dressed as the wall.
Fin Taylor· Host1:29
We're assassins