YHWH v JOVE – Vespasian #19

Life Of Caesar

Cameron Reilly & Ray Harris

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4.4 • 594 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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On this episode, Cameron and Ray wrap up the fall of Jerusalem in September 70 CE — Titus strolls into the ruins, declares Yahweh helped him destroy Yahweh's own temple, and the boys go deep on the genuinely wild linguistic coincidence that the Roman sky-god Jove and the Hebrew God share the same name. Then it's grim accounting time: survivors get sorted into gladiators, mine slaves, and beast-fodder, Josephus rescues some mates, and rebel leader Simon Bar-Gioras emerges from a tunnel dressed in a white robe trying to pass himself off as a ghost. Plus Cameron's AI fact-checker contradicts itself mid-episode, Ray declines to answer questions about his Michael Jackson glove, and somehow it all makes sense.

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0:00.0	When in Rome?
0:01.0	No!
0:02.0	Oh, when in Rome?
0:04.0	No!
0:05.0	Yeah!
0:06.0	Rays got the sources, cams got a rant to Mike's one roaming road.
0:24.8	Julius crossing Rubicons, toga in battle mode.
0:30.8	Welcome to Vespasian Papa Bear, episode 19.
0:36.6	I just noticed we're both wearing green shirts.
0:40.4	So that was in the, that was in the memo.
0:43.6	It was in the memo?
0:43.7	I mean, never mind.
0:45.0	Next week's blue, but this.
0:46.5	Okay, go ahead.
0:47.1	I interrupted you.
0:48.6	You go ahead.
0:49.9	Well, in our last episode, we got to the end of the siege of Jerusalem finally.
0:58.1	So one morning in September 70 CE, depending on the sort, like I read some sources that
1:05.3	say it's like September 26th.
1:07.3	I read other sources that said, no, I was earlier in September.
1:11.0	Right. Not exactly sure when it was in September no, I was earlier in September. Right.
1:11.5	I'm not exactly sure when it was in September, but at some point in September, everyone seems to agree it was September.
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