Catherine The (Not So) Great! +RIP Val Kilmer
Puttin' On Airs
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4.9 • 928 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
The boys pay tribute to Val Kilmer in light of his tragic death and then spend a good hour up their own butts talking about cinema before professor CHO jumps in with a history lesson on Catherine The Great!
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Sources:Books:• Massie, Robert K. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman. Random House, 2011.• Rounding, Virginia. Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power. St. Martin's Press, 2006.• Montefiore, Simon Sebag. The Romanovs: 1613–1918. Knopf, 2016.• Catherine II. Memoirs of Catherine the Great. Translated by Mark Cruse and Hilde Hoogenboom, Modern Library, 2005.Letters• Correspondence with Voltaire and Diderot. Many of their letters to and from Catherine are collected in academic volumes and archives.Academic Articles & Journals:.Online• Encyclopædia Britannica. "Catherine the Great." britannica.com• HistoryExtra (BBC). • Hermitage Museum Official Website. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE_luEVRgClC6dPceGVEZeg/join
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| 0:00.0 | Catherine is crowned officially Empress in Moscow. |
| 0:03.3 | She's the HBIC of all the Russia, which I think stands for head bitch in charge. |
| 0:09.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:10.5 | I mean it does. |
| 0:11.7 | What do you mean you think that? |
| 0:13.3 | Well, I just got the acronym. |
| 0:15.7 | I don't have what it stands for. |
| 0:17.3 | It definitely means head bitch in charge. |
| 0:19.8 | It's funny to me that you, |
| 0:22.6 | one of the sources you used, |
| 0:25.8 | that they used an acronym like HBCIC. |
| 0:28.6 | I just assumed that you would have termed it that way. |
| 0:31.0 | And that made even funnier to me that you didn't later. Is a female leader or authority figure. |
| 0:35.0 | She is gone from being HBIS. |
| 0:37.4 | Yeah. Where are you from being HBS. It, yeah. |
| 0:38.3 | Where are you reading that? |
| 0:44.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.5 | It's a special show this week. Cho figured out. I would not have ever thought to put it together because mostly I'm focused on pranks and lies and tricks and jokes at this time of year. I'm a big practitioner and believer in April Fool's Day. I'm kidding. I think it's stupid. The worst holiday ever. We did debut this show on April Fool's Day appropriately, |
| 1:14.2 | since we're both very foolish boys. |
| 1:16.6 | Three years ago, the year of our fake lord, 22, April 1st, |
| 1:21.6 | which means it was our three-year anniversary. |
| 1:24.2 | How about that? |
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