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The BrainFood Show

Caesar Part 2: Julius Caesar’s Pirate Adventure and the Long Lost Location of the Rubicon

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

Documentary, Society & Culture, Education, History

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start out by discussing how a teenage Julius Caesar became the head of his rather prominent family. We then move on to his little month-long or so pirate adventure and finally discuss where exactly the Rubicon was, which interestingly enough is only something that has been relatively recently discovered. This is [...]

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0:00.0

Welcome to the brain food podcast. This week, I guess it depends on how these episodes go out, but it could be, you know, maybe you've just had a nice weekend or maybe you've had a busy day at work because we do Mondays and Fridays these days. This is part two of our tangentially

0:16.0

related Julius Caesar ones and this one is much more related to Julius Caesar because last

0:20.2

week we were just caught. We did this whole episode, it was like, Julius Caesar and the

0:24.3

Cesarian section, and then it was like first five minutes, it's got nothing to do with Julius.

0:30.2

I mean, it's got a little bit to do with it but it's he he wasn't born by a C section that was not a thing

0:36.4

And here's an interesting story like this

0:38.3

I thought it's the arc of this as you'll see it when you see all the parts it's the it's the birth to death and

0:43.9

kind of the parts that most people don't I mean obviously a lot of people know a lot of

0:47.2

stuff about Caesar you learn about him in history and all this but we're kind of

0:50.5

looking at more of the stuff people you know might not know or have misconceptions about in this story arc so I thought

0:56.2

it's natural to start at the beginning when he's born.

0:58.8

Yeah I really enjoy doing that episode. Go back and listen to it if you haven't already.

1:03.0

If this is your first ever brain food,

1:05.0

go back and listen to all of the episodes.

1:06.0

Why not?

1:07.0

I mean, there you go.

1:08.0

They'll get progressively worse

1:10.0

as you get back to our first ones.

1:12.0

And different. If you're listening to this at the far future,

1:14.4

and different and very different because we had all sorts of different topics. And then if you're

1:19.6

listening to this in 2024 as you go forward, hopefully we get a whole lot better but that's

1:25.5

that's only something future Simon and David will know so today it's all about

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