Talking 'Napoleon' With 'The Age of Napoleon'

Napoleon facts! Napoleon fiction! Piggystyle sex and shootings on pyramids, as we talk Ridley Scott's 'Napoleon' with Age of Napoleon host Everett Rummage.

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“Sir, two horses have just struck the twin towers.” (via Sony Pictures)

Greetings, #Content lovers! I planned to have a new review for you today, but I spent a big chunk of last night in the ER trying to find out if I was having a stroke. Great news, I wasn’t! I’m just Bell’s Palsy bros with Laremy now (if any old-school readers remember that now-very-old story). I’m okay, I just blink weird now. Hopefully temporary.

Aaaaaanyway, the other good news is that this week on the Frotcast (that’s my podcast, it lives on Patreon), Matt and I discussed Ridley Scott’s Napoleon with Jen-you-whine Napoleon expert Everett Rummage, who hosts the excellent Age of Napoleon podcast.

We had a great time discussing all of the facts, fictions, and controversies of the Napoleon movie, from whether survivor’s balls are actually a thing to the written record on whether Napoleon really made piggy noises when he desired cunnilingus. Oink oink! Matt and I both read different, very-long Napoleon biographies for this one, in addition to both seeing the almost-three-hour movie, which easily counts as the most research we’ve ever done for a podcast. Come for the history, stay for the terrible accents.

Check that one out in the player above, or on Patreon.

The Frotcast is just one of the podcasts I do (the other being Pod Yourself, our Sopranos rewatch podcast-cum-The Wire rewatch podcast). You can subscribe to that on Apple podcasts, and/or listen early and ad-free on Patreon (the same Patreon, thank God!). Don’t you wanna do that, huh huh huh???

God, it’s exhausting promoting shit, isn’t it? It’s almost as bad as working for other people. Maybe that’s why my right lower eyelid decided to go on strike.

Anyway, take it sleazy out there in #Content land.