Hey everyone Sebastian here as the title of today's episode suggests I'm going to be discussing the Roman Emperor

Caligula if you're going to talk about the life of Caligula then you also have to explore

some pretty dark subject matter including

sexual violence of all sorts. So if you do not want to hear that or you are

listening with younger people be advised.

Thanks so much and enjoy the show. 2008 was a tough time to be a citizen of Naples Italy. A decades-long waste management crisis was coming to a violent crescendo.

The causes of this crisis were complex and involved the mismanagement of multiple Italian

governments dating back to the 1980s and the

illegal practices of the criminal organization known as the Camora who had

come to monopolize the waste management business in the southern Italian

region of Campagna. The issue had technically been at crisis levels since

1994 when the Italian government formally declared a state of emergency in the region around Naples.

But despite that, the situation was allowed to decline for over a decade.

Things finally came to a head in January of 2008 and what the

Italian authorities dubbed the emergency of the emergency. The latest twist in the

twist in the ongoing drama had resulted in tons of trash going

uncollected in the streets of Naples and the surrounding suburbs. The trash had started to accumulate in the streets

back in the spring of 2007 but by January after the Christmas festivities the

piles of trash had in some places become unsightly mountains.

Some of the people of Campania fed up with years of corruption and the deteriorating state of their home started protesting, sometimes violently.

At times during the unrest, massive piles of garbage were set on fire. Like I said, it was a tough time to be a citizen of Naples.

And yet, for some reason, in the spring of 2008, I thought it would be the perfect time to go to Naples.

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