The Bird Show.

Let me tell you history is a lot more fun when you don't have a test waiting for you at the end of the semester.

History is actually just a lot of gossip when you don't have to worry about taking AP histories,

DBQs at the end when you're going to write about the Pope or something.

It's way more fun when you just get to talk about the fun, juicy stuff. So I have a segment called Yield Gossip where I get to talk about the juiciest and most

salacious stories from history and it doesn't get any juicy or more salacious than

Casanova. Because turns out he was a real man. I thought this was just like a fictional character.

You know what I mean? Like Moby Dick or something. Like he, you know what I mean? Like he's just like a

way. He's just like a figure of speech. Like if you want to call someone kind of like, you know, a schmoozer, you just call him a Casanova.

Turns out this man was real and kind of the original F boy.

So we're talking about the man, the myth, the walking venereal disease that was Giacomo

Casanova.

So what's his name again?

Jackamo Casanova. So, what's his name again? Jackamo, Cassanova.

He was Italian.

So I want you to picture the most heinous man you have ever dated.

Now, give him a powdered wig, a stack of romantic poetry.

That's Casanova.

Like all good lovers, he was tall, dark, and emotionally unavailable.

So this man was born in Venice in 1725, and he came out the womb like, hi, I'm here to make

questionable choices and destroy lives.

He was born to his mom who was an actress, which is the 1700s version of that Instagram

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