30 - Caligula: Rome's Monstrous Son

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2017

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Special guest episode! The hosts of the wildly entertaining Crime and Sports and Small Town Murder podcasts, James Pietragallo and Jimmie Whisman, ride along for today's suck on ancient Rome and one of the tyrants it created, Caligula. Was Caligula a debaucherous madman? Or, just product of the times he lived in? Was he both? Find out for yourself on the most torturous, sex-crazed, over-the-top Timesuck yet. And PLEASE, help keep Timesuck keep going by filling one a 30 second survey at http://podsurvey.com/TIMESUCK

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0:00.0	March 18th, 37 AD, two days after the death of Tiberius,
0:04.6	Gaius, Julius, Caesar, Augustus, Germanicus.
0:08.5	Commonly known as Caligula is announced by the Senate
0:10.8	as the third emperor of the Empire of Rome.
0:13.4	Son of the revered military general, Germanicus,
0:16.6	great grandson of Augustus, first emperor of Rome.
0:19.8	Just 24 years old, he'll be dead in less than four years
0:22.7	at the age of 28, but his name will live forever
0:25.6	and become synonymous with debauchery, depravity,
0:28.7	inhumane torture, abuse of power, absolute corruption
0:32.6	and sexual excess.
0:34.2	We're going deep, we're going dark on both the Empire of Rome
0:37.8	and its most infamous emperor with a pair of very special
0:40.6	guests in this torture, laden edition of Time Suck.
0:45.0	You're listening to Time Suck.
0:54.5	Wow, big show today, everybody, big show.
0:56.0	Very excited, thanks to Time Suck or Dustin Cypher's
0:58.0	video Facebook for asking for Caligula.
0:59.9	Huge thanks to Time Suck or Jesse Howard
1:01.7	for sending me a ton of Caligula info,
1:03.2	including pointing out the quote.
1:04.8	An important thing to remember in this episode
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