WEBVTT 00:07.186 --> 00:09.807 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking so up really insecure in the pocket that we're absolutely sure. 00:09.827 --> 00:11.847 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't know everything. 00:12.748 --> 00:13.488 [SPEAKER_00]: Whoo! 00:13.828 --> 00:15.428 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, I am your host Kelsey Dera. 00:15.488 --> 00:21.550 [SPEAKER_00]: And y'all, this might be the most chaotic episode of Gobbyli. 00:21.970 --> 00:23.150 [SPEAKER_00]: Tom's an alien figure. 00:23.250 --> 00:24.911 [SPEAKER_00]: I've ever done. 00:25.051 --> 00:26.451 [SPEAKER_00]: Cause I'm somehow stupid. 00:26.511 --> 00:28.132 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, I'm literally sweating y'all. 00:28.932 --> 00:30.072 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm probably out of breath too. 00:30.172 --> 00:30.852 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me just take a breath. 00:30.892 --> 00:31.192 [SPEAKER_00]: Here we go. 00:31.213 --> 00:32.053 [SPEAKER_00]: It's still cleansing breath. 00:35.874 --> 00:36.594 [SPEAKER_00]: I hope that helped a little. 00:37.287 --> 00:50.511 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I, this is going to be the most insane episode ever because I, uh, last minute on a whim, uh, very impulsively bought a ticket to Munich Germany to go visit the athlete. 00:50.992 --> 00:54.353 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is a couple of days ago, and I'm so 00:56.013 --> 00:59.654 [SPEAKER_00]: Less than thirty minutes ago and I'm just now recording this episode. 01:00.394 --> 01:04.115 [SPEAKER_00]: I was like I will not leave until this fucking episode is recorded. 01:04.135 --> 01:07.036 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if I'm late for an international flight. 01:07.636 --> 01:10.617 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to do this freaking episode because I don't want it to be late. 01:10.697 --> 01:14.178 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to miss an episode and this is one of my favorite segments. 01:14.258 --> 01:17.198 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a host throughout history. 01:17.278 --> 01:18.619 [SPEAKER_00]: Now this is going to be a little different. 01:18.639 --> 01:19.759 [SPEAKER_00]: We've never done this before. 01:20.419 --> 01:28.652 [SPEAKER_00]: because I asked a friend a former producer and lovely, lovely friend of the pod to actually write this script for me. 01:29.900 --> 01:33.261 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, normally I'm the one who is always doing the research. 01:33.301 --> 01:34.781 [SPEAKER_00]: I pick out the girly. 01:34.801 --> 01:36.022 [SPEAKER_00]: I watch all the videos. 01:36.162 --> 01:38.302 [SPEAKER_00]: I write little notes as I'm talking. 01:38.342 --> 01:42.603 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I'm always the one who's absorbing the information because I like that stuff. 01:42.623 --> 01:47.085 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I really like to, I feel like the best way I learn it is by actually doing the research myself. 01:47.105 --> 01:49.785 [SPEAKER_00]: It's hard for me to just like read off of something and remember it. 01:50.726 --> 01:56.567 [SPEAKER_00]: I also drank a crazy energy drink right before sitting down, being like, this is a good idea. 01:56.647 --> 01:58.308 [SPEAKER_00]: And now my heart is beating out of my chest. 01:59.657 --> 02:03.178 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a thirteen hour flight in my boobs that I don't have are sweating. 02:03.658 --> 02:05.119 [SPEAKER_00]: So just bear with me all. 02:05.419 --> 02:06.780 [SPEAKER_00]: I know the energy is frenetic. 02:08.020 --> 02:12.562 [SPEAKER_00]: So I am going to actually be reading this with y'all for the first. 02:12.642 --> 02:24.046 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to be learning as y'all learn and hopefully I get this right because I feel like I definitely inject a certain way of telling these host throughout histories and we're going to see what happens. 02:24.186 --> 02:25.566 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, let's all take a sip of water. 02:25.646 --> 02:27.267 [SPEAKER_00]: If you have your water, take a sip. 02:36.165 --> 02:39.188 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's dive right into it. 02:39.248 --> 02:40.369 [SPEAKER_00]: Here we go, y'all. 02:40.529 --> 02:45.393 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the hose throughout history, the adora edition. 02:45.923 --> 02:48.584 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, like I wonder if it's the adora from the adora? 02:48.844 --> 02:49.744 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's not the adora. 02:50.604 --> 02:51.505 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the adora. 02:52.385 --> 02:52.745 [SPEAKER_00]: Isn't it? 02:53.785 --> 02:55.166 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't Google it. 02:55.366 --> 03:00.847 [SPEAKER_00]: The adora from stage girl to Empress and the speech that saved an empire. 03:00.947 --> 03:01.747 [SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, okay. 03:01.827 --> 03:02.788 [SPEAKER_00]: It's giving goddess. 03:02.848 --> 03:04.028 [SPEAKER_00]: It's giving raiding queen. 03:04.128 --> 03:04.708 [SPEAKER_00]: I love that. 03:05.248 --> 03:05.568 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 03:05.648 --> 03:05.929 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh. 03:05.949 --> 03:06.429 [SPEAKER_00]: This is funny. 03:06.469 --> 03:08.669 [SPEAKER_00]: She wrote it like this is beginning of the episode. 03:08.749 --> 03:08.829 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 03:08.849 --> 03:09.430 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just going to write. 03:09.590 --> 03:10.670 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just going to read what she wrote. 03:11.270 --> 03:12.951 [SPEAKER_00]: Hello, my sweet, comfy, comfy, comfy dawns. 03:13.031 --> 03:13.591 [SPEAKER_00]: That's cute. 03:13.971 --> 03:26.057 [SPEAKER_00]: Mike is hot, coffee, questionable, and welcome to host throughout history where we reclaim the word hoe as a badge of honor for anyone who defied the script, stirred the pot, or turned patriarchy into their side also. 03:26.117 --> 03:26.877 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I'm not gonna lie. 03:27.457 --> 03:28.958 [SPEAKER_00]: So far, she's spot on. 03:30.016 --> 03:32.718 [SPEAKER_00]: You did not have to do all of this, girlie Bob, but thank you. 03:34.359 --> 03:40.843 [SPEAKER_00]: This week's hoe is the adora of by, oh, by Zentium, by Zentium. 03:41.503 --> 03:46.186 [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's the by Zentium Empire, by Zentium. 03:46.206 --> 03:46.827 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, we're gonna go with that. 03:47.807 --> 03:52.771 [SPEAKER_00]: Born Dirtpore, damn, drug herses, dragged through the mud by historians. 03:52.891 --> 03:57.654 [SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, and still rose to be one of the most powerful women in world history. 03:58.625 --> 04:00.266 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, not know about this girly. 04:01.107 --> 04:11.815 [SPEAKER_00]: She went from a stage girl to Empress of the Byzantine Empire, past laws protecting women, and dropped the most savage, don't you dare speech in history? 04:11.835 --> 04:15.678 [SPEAKER_00]: That literally kept constant to noble standing. 04:16.178 --> 04:21.823 [SPEAKER_00]: So, grab your drinks, let's cuddle our pets, and dive into this scandal. 04:23.043 --> 04:24.705 [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, that was such a good intro! 04:24.905 --> 04:27.287 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, she's broken it up into acts, I like that. 04:27.427 --> 04:27.627 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 04:28.940 --> 04:33.003 [SPEAKER_00]: Theodore was born around five hundred CE. 04:33.884 --> 04:34.905 [SPEAKER_00]: Does anyone know what that means? 04:35.746 --> 04:45.354 [SPEAKER_00]: CE, Christ, Enterprises, Christianity, Christian, entrepreneurs, century European. 04:45.414 --> 04:46.775 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go with century European. 04:47.636 --> 04:56.143 [SPEAKER_00]: and Constantinople, which is modern day Istanbul as we know it, her dad ran the bears at the hippo drum. 04:57.004 --> 04:57.765 [SPEAKER_00]: What is that? 04:57.985 --> 05:05.592 [SPEAKER_00]: You can picture the NFL, but instead of players, cheerleaders, it's chariot races and animal fights. 05:05.752 --> 05:12.498 [SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, I don't love that, but I wonder if when she says she ran the bears, she literally means he ran bears. 05:13.291 --> 05:16.874 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, well, dad seems like a questionable guy, but a hustler nonetheless. 05:16.994 --> 05:18.836 [SPEAKER_00]: He ran the bears at the hippo drum. 05:19.837 --> 05:24.681 [SPEAKER_00]: When he died, said to see it, but that's what happens when you're an animal fighter guy. 05:25.162 --> 05:28.164 [SPEAKER_00]: When he died, her family got tossed into poverty. 05:28.464 --> 05:30.706 [SPEAKER_00]: I hate to see it when the dad's the bread winner. 05:31.387 --> 05:33.547 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he dies and you have no backup play. 05:33.567 --> 05:34.808 [SPEAKER_00]: You have no financial savings. 05:34.928 --> 05:35.128 [SPEAKER_00]: All right. 05:35.928 --> 05:40.489 [SPEAKER_00]: To survive, Theodore and her sisters performed on stage. 05:40.749 --> 05:43.849 [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, comedy skits, burlesque style entertainment. 05:44.329 --> 05:46.350 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes, and this is italicized. 05:46.910 --> 05:48.650 [SPEAKER_00]: Very sexual. 05:48.870 --> 05:49.450 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 05:49.650 --> 05:50.690 [SPEAKER_00]: It's giving stripper. 05:50.830 --> 05:53.291 [SPEAKER_00]: It's giving, I'm picking up midnight dancer. 05:54.391 --> 05:59.992 [SPEAKER_00]: Ancient historians like Procopus, a shady gossip blogger if there ever was one wrote. 06:01.292 --> 06:03.676 [SPEAKER_00]: That Theodore served countless men. 06:04.317 --> 06:05.479 [SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, that body count. 06:05.519 --> 06:06.520 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's go queen. 06:07.502 --> 06:11.688 [SPEAKER_00]: And even described obscene acts involving geese. 06:14.071 --> 06:14.372 [SPEAKER_00]: What? 06:16.143 --> 06:20.928 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I want to imagine that obscene acts involving keys. 06:21.629 --> 06:22.209 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 06:22.229 --> 06:27.575 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to just like pretend this was a different time, right? 06:29.337 --> 06:30.658 [SPEAKER_00]: Porky-based porcupus. 06:30.738 --> 06:32.980 [SPEAKER_00]: I hope that's how you say his name because it's giving porcupine. 06:33.841 --> 06:39.067 [SPEAKER_00]: Porcupus claim that she would lie on her back and take all comers as a teenager. 06:40.200 --> 06:43.962 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, um, do we believe this is actually real or is this just men being gross? 06:44.502 --> 06:50.304 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, how do we treat the way we define our sources all the way back that, right? 06:50.464 --> 06:54.526 [SPEAKER_00]: Like it might be slut shaming, like I might be a little exaggerated. 06:55.466 --> 06:59.608 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, sounds like he hated a powerful woman that wanted to do what what she wanted to do with her body. 07:00.330 --> 07:01.191 [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, here's the key. 07:02.011 --> 07:08.355 [SPEAKER_00]: While men wrote her off as a ho, the adora was learning how to read the room. 07:08.475 --> 07:08.975 [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. 07:09.075 --> 07:18.920 [SPEAKER_00]: She figured out how the men worked, how they were moving, how the power dynamic shifted between the dudes and that street smarts need stage craft combo. 07:19.120 --> 07:21.962 [SPEAKER_00]: Who turns out that was one day going to save an empire. 07:22.322 --> 07:27.548 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, okay, little teaser, little climax coming, no pun intended. 07:27.568 --> 07:32.993 [SPEAKER_00]: Also, I love that she was basically like watching the chess board from above. 07:33.033 --> 07:35.916 [SPEAKER_00]: She was like, okay, clockiness, okay, who's in power here? 07:35.957 --> 07:38.039 [SPEAKER_00]: Who's like the Big Dog, who's the alpha? 07:38.139 --> 07:42.523 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, you know, it's sugar baby, but like I'm going to become the sugar daddy also. 07:43.224 --> 07:50.359 [SPEAKER_00]: By her teens, she traveled east, becomes a cortisine, whatever that is, even spends time in North Africa. 07:50.679 --> 07:52.744 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, as a mistress to a governor, okay? 07:53.705 --> 07:54.425 [SPEAKER_00]: She just came right out. 07:54.665 --> 07:56.566 [SPEAKER_00]: She just was like, this is a career path. 07:56.646 --> 07:57.927 [SPEAKER_00]: I do choose to accept it. 07:58.767 --> 08:01.368 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, things with that and did messy apparently. 08:01.968 --> 08:02.868 [SPEAKER_00]: And she was abandoned. 08:03.128 --> 08:05.809 [SPEAKER_00]: Go figured by that African governor makes sense. 08:06.090 --> 08:06.850 [SPEAKER_00]: And she walks. 08:07.250 --> 08:07.830 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my God. 08:08.170 --> 08:12.912 [SPEAKER_00]: She walks hundreds of miles back to Constantinople. 08:13.572 --> 08:17.334 [SPEAKER_00]: She was also broke his hell sick, but still standing her ground. 08:17.474 --> 08:17.774 [SPEAKER_00]: That's 08:18.554 --> 08:43.824 [SPEAKER_00]: hilarious talk about the greatest walk of shame of all time you literally go from Istanbul down to North Africa become a mistress to a governor and then he dumps you and makes you walk back to Constantinople okay tell me women can't do anything okay who's last man that walk back to Constantinople this is hilarious um 08:45.315 --> 08:46.877 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, don't know if this is a rumor. 08:46.937 --> 08:48.018 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, is it actually true? 08:48.139 --> 08:50.141 [SPEAKER_00]: I wonder if she was like, you're nasty. 08:50.241 --> 08:52.144 [SPEAKER_00]: You said you were going to leave your wife for me and you never did. 08:52.244 --> 08:53.525 [SPEAKER_00]: Your broke is a joke I'm leaving. 08:54.226 --> 08:56.889 [SPEAKER_00]: And she was like, I don't know, looking to get her steps in. 08:57.550 --> 08:58.912 [SPEAKER_00]: That's wild, right? 09:00.714 --> 09:03.695 [SPEAKER_00]: Actu says, this is time for the meet-cute. 09:04.436 --> 09:06.317 [SPEAKER_00]: Enter Justanian. 09:07.297 --> 09:17.421 [SPEAKER_00]: If I've ever heard a freaking like fantasy novel, like romanticy name for a prince, it's Justanian. 09:17.582 --> 09:18.642 [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know if he's a prince. 09:18.662 --> 09:19.382 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to find out. 09:19.502 --> 09:20.543 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he was a senator. 09:21.183 --> 09:25.005 [SPEAKER_00]: An ambitious senator with his eyes on the throne. 09:25.425 --> 09:27.546 [SPEAKER_00]: When a hustler meets a hustler, we love to see it. 09:28.126 --> 09:29.627 [SPEAKER_00]: He meets the adora, wonder how. 09:30.502 --> 09:33.463 [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, clocking not just her beauty, but her wit. 09:34.003 --> 09:35.503 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember our girl was a stage performer. 09:35.783 --> 09:36.623 [SPEAKER_00]: She's got the yuck yuck. 09:36.663 --> 09:37.244 [SPEAKER_00]: She's got the jokes. 09:37.264 --> 09:40.144 [SPEAKER_00]: She's got the laugh and go figure he falls hard. 09:40.604 --> 09:40.924 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 09:41.844 --> 09:43.925 [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, he loves he gets victimitized by that pussy. 09:44.545 --> 09:45.765 [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, there's only one problem though. 09:46.465 --> 09:47.366 [SPEAKER_00]: Roman law. 09:47.966 --> 09:48.946 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, this is interesting. 09:49.486 --> 09:57.988 [SPEAKER_00]: Roman law at the time literally barred actresses dancers and sex workers from marrying politicians. 09:58.488 --> 10:04.271 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how I feel about that because on one hand, what does that have anything to do with politicians? 10:05.091 --> 10:07.492 [SPEAKER_00]: Truly, I wonder back then what were they worried about? 10:07.552 --> 10:12.374 [SPEAKER_00]: Was it like politicians were too much like theater actors already? 10:12.414 --> 10:13.815 [SPEAKER_00]: They didn't want that. 10:13.875 --> 10:15.856 [SPEAKER_00]: I have more questions about that. 10:16.516 --> 10:26.221 [SPEAKER_00]: What a weird law to have a law against politicians, marrying actresses, dancers, and sex workers. 10:28.085 --> 10:28.905 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna look more into that. 10:30.006 --> 10:31.086 [SPEAKER_00]: What was their solution? 10:31.566 --> 10:35.327 [SPEAKER_00]: Justinian, rewrites the law. 10:35.587 --> 10:39.748 [SPEAKER_00]: If you wanted to, he would, ladies, that's right. 10:40.208 --> 10:41.829 [SPEAKER_00]: He freaking changed. 10:42.449 --> 10:43.829 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's just frighten. 10:43.849 --> 10:47.550 [SPEAKER_00]: And by that word, I mean, legislation. 10:49.951 --> 10:51.571 [SPEAKER_00]: My lack of sleep is catching up to me. 10:52.272 --> 10:54.072 [SPEAKER_00]: He changed legislation. 10:54.492 --> 10:56.613 [SPEAKER_00]: So he could marry her. 10:57.570 --> 11:00.191 [SPEAKER_00]: Say it with me now, red flag. 11:00.952 --> 11:08.015 [SPEAKER_00]: If you won't change his bad habits, green flag, if he changes the entire legal system for you, that's right. 11:08.195 --> 11:08.695 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 11:10.096 --> 11:10.736 [SPEAKER_00]: So they married. 11:12.317 --> 11:13.037 [SPEAKER_00]: They just married. 11:13.117 --> 11:14.318 [SPEAKER_00]: He changes the law. 11:14.358 --> 11:16.419 [SPEAKER_00]: He is a senator after all. 11:16.939 --> 11:19.280 [SPEAKER_00]: And he says, JK, I think we should all try this. 11:19.340 --> 11:20.661 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe see how it goes. 11:21.061 --> 11:22.822 [SPEAKER_00]: See if it's what it's all about. 11:22.842 --> 11:24.023 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a stupid lie anyway. 11:24.763 --> 11:25.223 [SPEAKER_00]: They marry. 11:25.883 --> 11:39.329 [SPEAKER_00]: And when Justinian becomes emperor, okay, rising the ranks, climbing the corporate ladder in five hundred and twenty seven C E, the adora are girly pop is crowned co Empress. 11:39.829 --> 11:42.630 [SPEAKER_00]: Not that side piece, not a plus one. 11:43.070 --> 11:50.873 [SPEAKER_00]: She is a co ruler, which is very cool to give like that much power to a woman as a man back then. 11:50.893 --> 11:52.253 [SPEAKER_00]: We love that. 11:52.834 --> 11:53.614 [SPEAKER_00]: People are pissed. 11:54.764 --> 11:58.026 [SPEAKER_00]: They do not like seeing our sex worker in a position of power. 11:58.066 --> 12:00.147 [SPEAKER_00]: They say, uh, we don't like that. 12:00.587 --> 12:02.788 [SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to make a petition, which is so stupid. 12:02.969 --> 12:10.032 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, what are you walking around with like a freaking stone tablet in a pen asking people to like sign your little stupid change shot work petition? 12:11.133 --> 12:15.275 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, they don't like her and they take the petition all the way to court. 12:16.016 --> 12:18.757 [SPEAKER_00]: And she still sits beside him on the throne and she's like, Ella, guess what? 12:18.797 --> 12:21.399 [SPEAKER_00]: I am the court bitch and I say your petition is stupid. 12:22.259 --> 12:29.224 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, this is pretty scandalous because the elites back then were calling her a shameless harlot. 12:30.204 --> 12:32.846 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's my goal to be called a shameless harlot by somebody. 12:32.866 --> 12:35.048 [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, church fathers. 12:35.928 --> 12:36.268 [SPEAKER_00]: Great. 12:36.609 --> 12:38.230 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's hear what they have to say about this. 12:38.670 --> 12:41.052 [SPEAKER_00]: What do the church daddies think about our girl? 12:41.872 --> 12:45.275 [SPEAKER_00]: They say she was the downfall of morals. 12:45.595 --> 12:46.095 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay. 12:46.135 --> 12:49.938 [SPEAKER_00]: So she's like the Roman times Eve, right? 12:49.998 --> 12:55.903 [SPEAKER_00]: Like she was the original sin of our like, um, brave heart days. 12:57.632 --> 13:01.554 [SPEAKER_00]: But the working class, I'm gonna go ahead and guess that they love to her, right? 13:01.814 --> 13:02.194 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see. 13:02.755 --> 13:14.540 [SPEAKER_00]: The working class, women, sex workers, and anyone else who would be normally treated by this system, they saw a woman who came from their world now in power, right? 13:14.620 --> 13:15.800 [SPEAKER_00]: The globe of this century. 13:17.181 --> 13:17.981 [SPEAKER_00]: And it begs a question. 13:18.482 --> 13:23.444 [SPEAKER_00]: Do we think our role, the adora actually loved Justinian, the way he loved her? 13:24.455 --> 13:25.496 [SPEAKER_00]: Or was it strategy? 13:26.336 --> 13:27.357 [SPEAKER_00]: And frankly, doesn't matter. 13:27.497 --> 13:28.158 [SPEAKER_00]: Can it be both? 13:28.838 --> 13:30.399 [SPEAKER_00]: I think yes. 13:30.720 --> 13:34.362 [SPEAKER_00]: Once in power, the adora doesn't just sit around in purple robes. 13:34.402 --> 13:38.746 [SPEAKER_00]: And that makes me think, okay, she was actually doing this to like be a boss and do stuff. 13:38.766 --> 13:40.567 [SPEAKER_00]: She wasn't just gonna be like a housewife. 13:40.607 --> 13:43.689 [SPEAKER_00]: She wasn't gonna just be that like arm candy, right? 13:44.550 --> 13:47.572 [SPEAKER_00]: She decides, she's gonna start writing policies herself. 13:48.333 --> 13:48.593 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 13:50.375 --> 13:56.757 [SPEAKER_00]: So she writes policy that outlaws certain forms of forced prostitution. 13:57.157 --> 13:58.698 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, we love that. 13:59.878 --> 14:04.639 [SPEAKER_00]: She also sets up safe houses for working women leaving sex work. 14:04.719 --> 14:07.300 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my God, she's like a mother Teresa, a prostitution. 14:08.320 --> 14:11.361 [SPEAKER_00]: She expands divorce rates for women. 14:12.902 --> 14:16.323 [SPEAKER_00]: And she also gives women property protections. 14:17.000 --> 14:20.783 [SPEAKER_00]: which is crazy, because this is the sixth century babes. 14:21.343 --> 14:27.227 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, most of the world is still gonna treat women like cattle up until like the eighteen hundredths. 14:27.347 --> 14:32.691 [SPEAKER_00]: But the adora, our girly was basically saying, actually, who's get healthcare? 14:33.071 --> 14:33.472 [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. 14:34.388 --> 14:40.771 [SPEAKER_00]: She was the original health care advocate for women saying, you guys get this, we get it too. 14:41.892 --> 14:44.253 [SPEAKER_00]: But her biggest moment was still to come. 14:44.493 --> 14:46.494 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I love how you're writing these climaxes. 14:46.754 --> 14:48.415 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, we're going to go take a quick break. 14:48.515 --> 14:52.757 [SPEAKER_00]: And when we come right back, we're going to see what else our growth, the adorn gets herself into. 14:59.889 --> 15:02.791 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so it's, uh, fifteen. 15:03.051 --> 15:03.651 [SPEAKER_00]: No, not fifteen. 15:03.771 --> 15:05.673 [SPEAKER_00]: It's five hundred and thirty two CE. 15:06.273 --> 15:08.474 [SPEAKER_00]: My brain can't understand that math in year. 15:09.515 --> 15:12.697 [SPEAKER_00]: Constant to no bull explodes in chaos. 15:13.218 --> 15:15.879 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like two rival fan clubs against each other. 15:15.899 --> 15:17.881 [SPEAKER_00]: The blues versus the greens. 15:17.961 --> 15:19.962 [SPEAKER_00]: That's an interesting example of what you mean by that. 15:20.322 --> 15:23.584 [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, and it sparks riots at the hippodrome. 15:23.724 --> 15:27.206 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, but this isn't like Lakers versus Celtics. 15:27.487 --> 15:27.607 [SPEAKER_00]: It's 15:27.987 --> 15:35.012 [SPEAKER_00]: politics, plus class warfare, plus gang violence rolled into one. 15:35.052 --> 15:37.333 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so it sounds like it's like three gangs. 15:37.774 --> 15:40.916 [SPEAKER_00]: It's politics, class warfare, and gang violence all rolled into one. 15:41.580 --> 15:44.464 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh snap, I didn't know this for five days. 15:44.564 --> 15:45.925 [SPEAKER_00]: The city burns. 15:46.686 --> 15:48.849 [SPEAKER_00]: The palace is surrounded. 15:49.429 --> 15:57.078 [SPEAKER_00]: Three hundred thousand people packed the hippodrome screaming for our girls man's head for Justinian's head. 15:57.819 --> 15:59.481 [SPEAKER_00]: All the advisors tell the emperor. 16:00.302 --> 16:02.323 [SPEAKER_00]: Flee, you got a GTFL. 16:02.563 --> 16:03.804 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, they go kill you ass. 16:03.864 --> 16:05.305 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't be had you for sure, Z's. 16:05.805 --> 16:06.666 [SPEAKER_00]: You got to get out of here. 16:07.266 --> 16:09.087 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll sneak out the harbor tonight. 16:09.347 --> 16:10.048 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, we'll set it up. 16:10.068 --> 16:11.108 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll get you a getaway car. 16:11.488 --> 16:12.109 [SPEAKER_00]: You and your girl. 16:12.369 --> 16:15.291 [SPEAKER_00]: You did great wonderful things, but you got to go. 16:16.291 --> 16:17.472 [SPEAKER_00]: And just standing in pannings. 16:17.932 --> 16:18.272 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 16:19.053 --> 16:21.014 [SPEAKER_00]: He's ready to run, but you got to imagine. 16:21.274 --> 16:21.854 [SPEAKER_00]: I know what's coming. 16:22.395 --> 16:22.735 [SPEAKER_00]: Our girl. 16:23.155 --> 16:24.656 [SPEAKER_00]: She's wearing the pants in this relationship, right? 16:25.422 --> 16:35.085 [SPEAKER_00]: She stands up in the middle of the chaos in front of generals, senators, and her husband and says the line that saved the entire empire. 16:36.272 --> 16:41.036 [SPEAKER_00]: My opinion is that flight is not for an emperor. 16:41.056 --> 16:42.358 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 16:42.818 --> 16:46.241 [SPEAKER_00]: Purple is a fine color for a burial shroud. 16:46.802 --> 16:54.008 [SPEAKER_00]: I will never live without this title, and I will never see the day when I am not called Empress. 16:54.228 --> 16:55.569 [SPEAKER_00]: I know that's right. 16:56.370 --> 17:00.893 [SPEAKER_00]: She really said, I will fucking die in these robes before you strip me on my title. 17:00.913 --> 17:05.376 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you know the nastiness I had to do and endure to get here? 17:05.816 --> 17:09.239 [SPEAKER_00]: You think a couple of little gang members are gonna scare me? 17:09.539 --> 17:14.362 [SPEAKER_00]: You think thirty thousand people is enough to scare me and shake my core? 17:14.382 --> 17:16.364 [SPEAKER_00]: I love that my opinion is that flight. 17:16.824 --> 17:18.225 [SPEAKER_00]: My opinion, I imagine this how she said it. 17:18.750 --> 17:25.588 [SPEAKER_00]: My opinion is that light is not warm up, but it's a fine color for a burial shroud. 17:27.011 --> 17:32.136 [SPEAKER_00]: I will never live without this title, and I will never see the day when I am not called Empress. 17:32.396 --> 17:33.798 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, what an icon. 17:34.198 --> 17:36.140 [SPEAKER_00]: Why are we not giving that tattoo to cross our foreheads? 17:37.281 --> 17:45.630 [SPEAKER_00]: Translation, you can run if you want, but I'd rather die in power than live as nothing, which is so true, because then she'd always be remembered as like the girly pop-o-fleet. 17:46.831 --> 17:49.093 [SPEAKER_00]: The room goes dead silent. 17:49.969 --> 17:52.130 [SPEAKER_00]: the men are ashamed. 17:52.750 --> 17:53.890 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're like a shit. 17:53.930 --> 17:55.510 [SPEAKER_00]: We should probably regroup on this guys. 17:56.111 --> 17:57.271 [SPEAKER_00]: That was one hell of a speech. 17:58.831 --> 18:00.192 [SPEAKER_00]: That ignited a fire in me. 18:00.232 --> 18:02.552 [SPEAKER_00]: That got my lines of shaking in a quote, quicken. 18:03.893 --> 18:05.493 [SPEAKER_00]: So Justinian's like, I'm a back my girl. 18:06.393 --> 18:12.095 [SPEAKER_00]: And he deploys his general bella serious bribes. 18:13.115 --> 18:16.218 [SPEAKER_00]: the other side, so the people posing him to switch sides. 18:16.258 --> 18:17.900 [SPEAKER_00]: He was like, all right, fine, I'll give you some shmoney. 18:17.960 --> 18:19.142 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll give you some some bands. 18:19.943 --> 18:21.244 [SPEAKER_00]: And the army massacres the rebels. 18:22.786 --> 18:26.850 [SPEAKER_00]: That's interesting because I don't know who this enemy side is. 18:26.890 --> 18:30.955 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if they're good or bad and they're like using their power to stop the bad from overtaking the good. 18:30.975 --> 18:31.816 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what I'm going to believe. 18:31.956 --> 18:32.837 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what I choose to believe. 18:34.121 --> 18:35.602 [SPEAKER_00]: Wow, it's bloody, okay? 18:35.782 --> 18:40.367 [SPEAKER_00]: They slay thirty thousand people in one day. 18:41.067 --> 18:43.470 [SPEAKER_00]: Yo, that's a lot of people. 18:46.055 --> 18:47.076 [SPEAKER_00]: Women, okay? 18:47.476 --> 18:48.076 [SPEAKER_00]: We hold the power. 18:48.357 --> 18:49.077 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't forget that ladies. 18:49.317 --> 18:54.781 [SPEAKER_00]: You can change a whole fucking goddamn empire in a city with just your words, okay? 18:55.861 --> 18:57.903 [SPEAKER_00]: But the Empire survives, and that's the most important. 18:59.304 --> 19:02.286 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't even imagine being the only woman in that room. 19:03.246 --> 19:07.889 [SPEAKER_00]: And I hope there was like other women standing off to this idea and like, fuck yeah, that's our girl. 19:08.049 --> 19:08.530 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's go. 19:09.150 --> 19:10.571 [SPEAKER_00]: Wonder if she practiced that speech in the mirror. 19:11.790 --> 19:13.113 [SPEAKER_00]: What's my purple shroud moment? 19:13.193 --> 19:18.483 [SPEAKER_00]: Have I had some, have I ever had it like a, I'm not, I will not, I shan't not. 19:19.425 --> 19:22.572 [SPEAKER_00]: What's a hill I would willing to die, to be willing to die on like that hard? 19:23.585 --> 19:32.468 [SPEAKER_00]: The only thing that's coming up for me is one time, I grew up in a cold-to-sack neighborhood where all the kids on this big, long street, we all hung out with each other. 19:32.508 --> 19:34.849 [SPEAKER_00]: We were like, various two, three grades off from each other. 19:34.889 --> 19:37.430 [SPEAKER_00]: It's all hung out after school, curriculars. 19:37.850 --> 19:42.932 [SPEAKER_00]: And I remember they were bullying one kid, and I was like, that's not right. 19:43.472 --> 19:44.573 [SPEAKER_00]: We're not gonna do that. 19:44.593 --> 19:46.073 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's the only memory I have of that. 19:46.113 --> 19:46.974 [SPEAKER_00]: But it did feel powerful. 19:47.997 --> 19:49.638 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, so here's the aftermath, right? 19:50.359 --> 19:53.821 [SPEAKER_00]: After the riots, the adores influence is unmatched. 19:54.461 --> 19:56.683 [SPEAKER_00]: I know she's pegging that just Danny after that. 19:56.723 --> 19:57.503 [SPEAKER_00]: She's like remember that thing. 19:57.543 --> 19:58.004 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to try. 19:58.044 --> 19:58.824 [SPEAKER_00]: We're doing it tonight. 19:59.765 --> 20:06.129 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, she co-builds the Hagia Sophia, which is still one of the most iconic buildings in the world. 20:06.149 --> 20:09.691 [SPEAKER_00]: What a name Hagia Sophia or had you maybe? 20:09.711 --> 20:10.472 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. 20:10.492 --> 20:12.193 [SPEAKER_00]: I got to look what what what what that building is. 20:13.134 --> 20:17.379 [SPEAKER_00]: brokers, religious disputes between rival Christian factions. 20:17.900 --> 20:22.126 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine moderating a group chat where everyone thinks they're the only one who's right that sounds about Christian. 20:22.967 --> 20:26.772 [SPEAKER_00]: And continues to pass laws that protect women, especially against trafficking and abuse. 20:28.533 --> 20:28.933 [SPEAKER_00]: We love her. 20:29.013 --> 20:31.494 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't believe I'm about to fly with like a mid-science infection. 20:32.134 --> 20:32.554 [SPEAKER_00]: Pay for me. 20:32.594 --> 20:33.954 [SPEAKER_00]: Please y'all. 20:34.074 --> 20:46.097 [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, Procupus, our porcupine guy, our gossip king writes the secret history, calling her, oh, this is a read, a whore who never had enough. 20:49.058 --> 20:53.499 [SPEAKER_00]: And pinks her as cruel, lustful, and demonic, okay, hater. 20:54.039 --> 20:57.400 [SPEAKER_00]: But here's the thing, men only write this way. 20:58.280 --> 20:59.781 [SPEAKER_00]: because a woman made them feel small. 20:59.961 --> 21:05.045 [SPEAKER_00]: So if anything, those haters are just like bad yelp reviews, right? 21:05.205 --> 21:06.646 [SPEAKER_00]: She's like, I stand on my business. 21:07.866 --> 21:10.208 [SPEAKER_00]: She dies not long after though. 21:10.288 --> 21:12.349 [SPEAKER_00]: This was in five, thirty two. 21:12.409 --> 21:14.871 [SPEAKER_00]: She dies in five, forty eight. 21:15.491 --> 21:21.455 [SPEAKER_00]: They say probably of cancer in her mid, forties, which maybe back in that time, though, is actually quite a long time to live. 21:21.916 --> 21:24.377 [SPEAKER_00]: Justinian mourn her for life. 21:24.717 --> 21:26.699 [SPEAKER_00]: He never remarries. 21:27.419 --> 21:29.940 [SPEAKER_00]: Damn, that guy had it down bad. 21:30.720 --> 21:36.202 [SPEAKER_00]: And her policies outlast her woven into bison teen law for centuries. 21:37.543 --> 21:43.285 [SPEAKER_00]: So I think this porcupous guy was just salty that she probably wouldn't sleep with him. 21:43.305 --> 21:47.347 [SPEAKER_00]: Because he sounds like a real fucking loser. 21:49.467 --> 21:51.828 [SPEAKER_00]: Or I wonder if he was just like genuinely terrified of her power. 21:52.869 --> 21:55.730 [SPEAKER_00]: And the only way to knock a woman down in Vegas to try and start a rumor about her. 21:56.685 --> 21:59.366 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, so what did we learn, right? 22:00.226 --> 22:03.267 [SPEAKER_00]: Her reputation did not equal her reality, right? 22:03.307 --> 22:11.109 [SPEAKER_00]: Men called her a slut to dismiss her and then she used those same skills that they mocked her for to run their freaking empire. 22:11.989 --> 22:16.090 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine being a guy who was like, I think I had sex with her and I was like, yeah, okay, dude, whatever. 22:16.710 --> 22:22.915 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're like, no, I definitely felt the Empress and they're like Johnny's delusional. 22:23.495 --> 22:24.856 [SPEAKER_00]: He's been sitting too much of that need. 22:25.637 --> 22:27.118 [SPEAKER_00]: You can write your own code, all right? 22:27.698 --> 22:31.681 [SPEAKER_00]: She literally gave host health care and rights in five hundred CE. 22:32.262 --> 22:39.267 [SPEAKER_00]: If she could do HR reform in Atoga, you can send that one boundary text. 22:39.367 --> 22:39.748 [SPEAKER_00]: Am I right? 22:40.728 --> 22:41.909 [SPEAKER_00]: And she knew how to hold a room. 22:42.069 --> 22:46.771 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes one line said, with conviction, can turn cowardice into courage. 22:48.231 --> 22:52.213 [SPEAKER_00]: So when you hear, ho, remember the adohora. 22:53.487 --> 23:02.113 [SPEAKER_00]: She went from stage girl to Cortison to a survivor, a co-empress, a lawmaker, and an empire saver. 23:03.133 --> 23:08.557 [SPEAKER_00]: And that, my friends, is one hell worth knowing about art girl, Theadora. 23:09.637 --> 23:10.838 [SPEAKER_00]: Wow, okay. 23:11.078 --> 23:12.779 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, have you guys heard of this woman? 23:12.879 --> 23:19.564 [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like the fact that I didn't know she existed, makes me pissed at once again, the Floridian Public School System. 23:20.740 --> 23:26.145 [SPEAKER_00]: I would have been so much more interested in history and learning about these stories had we included female figures like this. 23:27.246 --> 23:28.006 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, this is cool. 23:28.126 --> 23:31.129 [SPEAKER_00]: She left in a list of host she nearly did. 23:33.050 --> 23:37.554 [SPEAKER_00]: So maybe I should read these to you and ask you guys who, which we should do next. 23:38.475 --> 23:39.816 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I'm going to say these names right. 23:39.936 --> 23:46.982 [SPEAKER_00]: So do you want to hear about firing the Greek courtesan who flashed her way out of a trial? 23:49.363 --> 23:54.886 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, do you want to hear about Losen the Apache warrior and medicine woman? 23:55.026 --> 23:56.286 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Ayahuasca. 23:56.386 --> 24:04.570 [SPEAKER_00]: It's giving plant medicine or Lola Montez, the Irish Spanish dancer who caused riots across Europe. 24:05.110 --> 24:05.490 [SPEAKER_00]: Loki. 24:07.451 --> 24:08.651 [SPEAKER_00]: So let me know who do you want to hear about? 24:08.711 --> 24:12.613 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it Firen, Firen, Losen or Lola Montez? 24:12.633 --> 24:14.554 [SPEAKER_00]: We just ate name and bitches the way we used to. 24:15.658 --> 24:17.099 [SPEAKER_00]: Ugh, okay. 24:17.119 --> 24:19.241 [SPEAKER_00]: I know this was kind of a short one. 24:19.401 --> 24:22.663 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't mean for it to be, but I gotta go catch a flight. 24:23.123 --> 24:24.024 [SPEAKER_00]: Honey, okay. 24:24.144 --> 24:28.527 [SPEAKER_00]: Next week's episode, I will be with my booth in Munich. 24:29.207 --> 24:30.528 [SPEAKER_00]: If you have any recommendations, let me know. 24:30.728 --> 24:35.752 [SPEAKER_00]: I also wanna know, like, what do you consider your purple shroud moment? 24:35.832 --> 24:39.654 [SPEAKER_00]: What was the moment that you like stood on business and gave an iconic read? 24:39.814 --> 24:43.337 [SPEAKER_00]: What is like your most iconic line said in front of an entire group of people? 24:43.853 --> 24:45.473 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me know, inspire us all in the comments. 24:46.034 --> 24:47.154 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't forget to rate and review this. 24:47.274 --> 24:50.415 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, also you can get the Freddy Tyler Paul Lex Row merch. 24:50.795 --> 24:51.555 [SPEAKER_00]: It is still for sale. 24:51.595 --> 24:53.156 [SPEAKER_00]: We have sweatshirts and t-shirts. 24:53.696 --> 24:55.116 [SPEAKER_00]: And I will see you next week, confidence. 24:55.637 --> 24:56.477 [SPEAKER_00]: Ta-da!