Welcome to Meteor Roots Radio. This is Abby Martin.

And this is Robbie. How is everybody doing today?

Doing great. Valentine's Day. Oh, I didn't even realize it's Valentine's. We were recording on fucking Valentine's Day.

I know. I know. This corporate hallmark holiday doesn't mean shit to me.

Doesn't mean a goddamn thing.

I mean, people probably already know this, but it's originally comes from like a Roman holiday that involves torture and rape, basically.

Totally. It's a sadomasochistic holiday. It's really interesting.

It's like there's a part of the original Valentine's Day celebration where

Roman men were allowed to just like it basically play like spin the bottle like whatever

they would do back then and then like whoever the bottle like landed on it was like we're

like hooking up like they didn't have a choice you know it was just like landed on it was like we're like hooking up.

Like they, and like they didn't have a choice.

You know, it was just like a, basically it's like a sex slavery game.

And then they would throw the woman into the alligator pit after.

Oh really?

No, I just made that up.

Yeah, the Roman times are, it's like the most crazy era ever, like the vomatoriums.

Yeah, we hear so much, it's a lot of like mixture of like myth and reality that kind of collides.

And probably the only like film or anything I've seen that tries to like represent that is the movie Caligula.

Have you ever seen that? Oh, it's fucking crazy it's it was made i i want to say it was made by like a porn director

or it's made by someone from the porn industry who was like somehow like a penthouse like

high up penhouse person and it's it's malcolm mcdow from clockwork orange plane

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