CLASSIC: The Poetic Justice of Death by Molten Gold

Ridiculous History

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🗓️ 31 August 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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It's a grisly death familiar to many fans of fiction and fantasy -- a hapless, greedy villain meets their end by having molten metal, often lead or gold, poured upon them or down their throats. But was this morbid means of execution ever used in real life? Join the guys as they dive into the deadly science of real-life murder by molten gold in this week's Classic episode.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the show Ridiculous Historians. Thank you as always so much for tuning in. I am Ben Bullen on the road yet joined as always with our super producer
0:10.0	Mr Max Williams, our pal, Noel Brown, is on some adventures, but all three of us are very happy
0:18.0	to report we have not died due to molten gold.
0:22.2	So two quick things, first and foremost,
0:23.8	this episode came out originally on April 12th, 2018.
0:27.0	That was my birthday.
0:28.6	I'm not gonna say how old I turned on that date,
0:30.3	but it was my birthday.
0:31.8	April 12th? April 12th is my birthday. April 12th.
0:33.0	April 12th is my birthday.
0:34.0	It's also the same day the Civil War started and FDR died.
0:37.0	Which are three ostensibly unrelated events.
0:41.0	Exactly.
0:42.0	But the other thing I was going to say is as the writer of the ridiculous royal deaths series, I have come across this death multiple times.
0:52.0	Yeah, it's agree. And I, and every time I've... I have come across this death multiple times.
0:52.6	Yeah, it's a great.
0:53.6	And I, and every time I saw it, I'm like,
0:56.0	I'm not gonna write about that.
0:57.0	That is too grisly for a family show.
0:58.9	Yeah, we did a whole episode about it before.
1:01.3	And I see that now that y'all are way more cop than I am.
1:04.0	Well, I did kind of conscript you and thanks for sticking with us, but yes, it is a grisly death, it is an unclean death. It's one that is so notorious it became, it became fertile
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