The Sound of Blue Balls | Beethoven: The Great Composers (Part 2)

Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Finn versus History as ever. I'm joined by Horatio Gould.
0:18.0	Today we're talking about Ludwig band Beethoven.
0:21.5	Sick Beethoven.
0:22.9	Sick beethoven.
0:24.4	The Incells orchestra man.
0:26.9	My God.
0:27.8	I mean, I love this stuff.
0:28.8	I had no idea how sick Beethoven was.
0:31.3	It's sick.
0:32.0	Yeah, he's like an absolute nightmare of a guy.
0:35.7	Yeah.
0:36.1	It's awesome.
0:37.1	He stinks. Yeah, he smells bad. He's completely an absolute nightmare of a guy. Yeah. It's awesome. He stinks.
0:55.9	Yeah, he smells bad. He's completely off his face. Yeah. He looks like a tramp. Maybe died of virgin. Yeah, probably. It's like, it's the in-cells conductor. He really is. He's the in-cell god. Proper German, this guy. Proper, proper German. We're on our way. this is our classical music series yet we've dealt with Mozart
0:57.6	now Proper German, this guy. Proper, proper German. We're on our way. This is our classical music series. We've dealt with Mozart. Now, Mozart dies in 1791. Beethoven is born in 1770. There's a bit of overlap. Yeah, and potentially they meet. Potentially, we don't know. We don't know. But whereas Mozart was a kind of heavenly adored, impish little ADHD prick.
1:11.1	Yes.
1:11.6	It was a gift from God.
1:13.1	Beethoven was a stinky autistic man.
1:15.1	Yeah.
1:16.1	There's no doubt in my mind that he's autistic.
1:18.1	And he writes...
1:19.1	And the devil put his hand up his ass and played him like a puppet, I feel.
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