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The BrainFood Show

Caesar Part 1: Caesarean and the Fascinating Story of Dr. James Barry (a.k.a. Margaret Bulkley)

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

Education, History

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start out by discussing the fact that, contrary to what we speculated in a previous episode, World’s Fairs are actually still a thing. We then jump into the meat of the show, discussing whether Julius Caesar was actually born via a Caesarean operation and then look at the remarkable story of Margaret Bulkley, who is better known in history as Dr. James Barry- one of the first people to perform a Caesarean operation in which both the woman and baby survived. This is part 1 of what will be a 4 part series on Julius Caesar.  Stay tuned next time for when we jump into his life more directly by discussing a rather hilarious pirate adventure he had as a young man. Sponsor Note:  Go to ⁠surfshark.com/brainfood⁠ or use code brainfood at checkout to get four extra months of Surf Shark VPN. There's a 30 day money back guarantee, so you can try it risk free! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, just leave on work now. Sorry, it's a bit loud.

0:03.0

Um, basically, so I was thinking we could get Macies tonight. Had a big Mac on my mind all day and delivery fee on the app is now from 99P. So you win? Of course you are. Ah, love you. Bye! Exclusively on the McDonald's app. 18 plus service fee and small order fee may apply. Particip replacing restaurants. Serving times and teas and teas apply.

0:24.6

Hey, everyone, it's Kristen from True Crime Creepers.

0:29.8

Every week, I tell my friend in True Crime Newby, Mogab, about a case she's never heard before,

0:31.7

but that I've been obsessing over.

0:35.9

We talk about all the real-life creeps, from serial killers to con artists.

0:38.7

So if you're into dark tales with a touch of humor,

0:46.4

tune in wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the Brain Food podcast. In this episode,

0:50.8

well, I'm not really sure how many episodes this is going to span because people seem to really like the two parties we did about Teddy Roosevelt last time around.

0:54.5

And this time, we kind of started it thinking, we'll keep this, you know, into maybe one or two

0:59.9

parts. But this is really long and there's many different things. And it kind of all relates to

1:05.7

Julius Caesar, but some of it does like one of them's about cesarean sections and how that

1:10.6

kind of relates to

1:11.5

julius caesar but also doesn't really i probably think that'll be an episode standing alone in

1:16.4

itself we don't really know we're going to play it by year see how we feel and uh see when we need

1:21.0

to stop and come back next week because we just get fact exhausted i don't know if that's a thing maybe

1:26.2

this is this is, for reference

1:28.2

here, this is 17 pages long is the notes on this one, which I mean, I don't really know how long

1:33.0

are normally are. I know there are a lot of pages, but I feel like this is excessive. This is

1:37.6

dense. There's, this is like, normally there's a lot more bullet points in this, there's a lot

1:41.4

of just block text. We're both looking at a shared Google Drive document we have open in front of us and it's just this is this is heavy yeah yeah yeah should we do a little bit of follow up before we get into what could be I guess if you if you're listening to this you've probably already seen the title of this episode so you have more knowledge than we do about how long this one's going to last and what this is going to be all about. If it says like, cesarean sections, well, there you go. It's a one

2:04.6

parter. And if it says cesarean sections and something about a Rubicon, then it's going to be two or more. So here we go. Let's just follow up. Let's do a little bit of follow up from last week's episodes, world's fares still a thing. Did someone email us about this or hit us up on Twitter or

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