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27 - Vlad the Impaler -The Real Dracula · Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood

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Speaker 1: some creepy and dark stories from history. And but everything
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Speaker 1: history is really full of joy. Yeah, you're not wrong, okay,
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Speaker 1: in fact you I will, But first we have to
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Speaker 1: get our source on, so let's do it. Our sources
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Speaker 1: are Vlad the Impeller in Search of the Real Dracula
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Speaker 1: by mg True, Vlad the Impeller, The Good, the Bad,
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Speaker 1: and the Monstrous by Kat hands It, Vlad the Impaler
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Speaker 1: by Elizabeth Miller, The Reign of Dracula in fourteen forty
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Speaker 1: eight by Mittai Kazaku, In Search of Dracula by Florascut
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Speaker 1: and mcneae, and of course our favorite websites, the Smithsonian
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Speaker 1: dot com and biography dot com. And you know what,
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Speaker 1: damn it, let's we may as well reference it. For
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Speaker 1: Amstocker's Dracula, when you think of October and the spooky season,
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Speaker 1: we think of a few creatures. We have ghosts, were wolves, zombies,
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Speaker 1: and of course vampires and the most famous vampire of all, Dracola. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I have watched far too many hommor horror movies, and
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Speaker 1: also for Amstocker's Dracula. Start going on a writer and
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Speaker 1: Keanu reeves, I've seen that too many times. It's it's
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Speaker 1: not good, it's it's probably warped me somehow. But we're
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Speaker 1: just gonna We're just gonna live with it. I think, YEP,
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Speaker 1: I want to apologize for any Romanians listening who have
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Speaker 1: to listen to me pronounce things terribly. I tried, but
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Speaker 1: we'll see how we go on. So, the most famous
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Speaker 1: vampire in the world, Ramstockers, Count Dracula, was inspired by
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Speaker 1: a man who was probably more terrifying than the legend
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Speaker 1: that spawned from his existence. I'm going to put a
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Speaker 1: content warning now. Actually, things are kind of get very
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Speaker 1: dark and very gory pretty quickly. So if you're off
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Speaker 1: put by anything horrific, including the manners in which men,
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Speaker 1: women and children were slaughtered, probably best to skip this one. Okay, cool.
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Speaker 1: So Vlad, Young Lad, Baby, Vlad Everybody's Lad was born
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Speaker 1: somewhere between fourteen twenty eight and fourteen thirty one CE.
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Speaker 1: We're not entirely sure when we didn't rent it down.
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Speaker 1: And I know what you're thinking, Wow, we don't have
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Speaker 1: an accurate birth date for a man who ruled I know.
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Speaker 1: But and the thing about Vlad is he was the
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Speaker 1: second born son, so he wasn't really that important. He
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Speaker 1: had an older brother and a younger brother. If he
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Speaker 1: had any sisters, I don't know they're they're not listed.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not even sure who his mother was I
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Speaker 1: did look up, but at this point I'm not entirely
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Speaker 1: sure she was named his father. On the other hand,
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Speaker 1: Vlad the second of Vilakia earned the nickname, earned a
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Speaker 1: new surname. That are cool because right because in fourteen
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Speaker 1: thirty one, which may or may not be the year
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Speaker 1: that Vlad was born, King of Hungary inducted Daddy vladd
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Speaker 1: into the Order of the Dragon, the whole purpose of
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Speaker 1: which was to keep the Ottoman Empire at bay. The
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Speaker 1: King of Hungary he basically goes on and becomes the
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Speaker 1: Holy Roman Emperor. It's a thing, oh geography time. Who
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Speaker 1: doesn't love maps and shit. Basically, areas like Transylvania and Vilakia,
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Speaker 1: which are now in Romania. Romania didn't exist is a
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Speaker 1: country until I think the eighteen hundreds, so at this
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Speaker 1: point it was still a bunch of territories under the
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Speaker 1: rule of Hungary. So Daddy Vlad he was actually originally
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Speaker 1: from Transylvania, Vlad the third er of Lad but Vlood
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Speaker 1: the Impaler was very much based in Volakia and never
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Speaker 1: actually set foot in Transylvania unless he was just passing through.
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Speaker 1: But these areas, these principalities, basically sat between Christian Europe
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Speaker 1: and the Muslim lands of the Ottoman Empire, so Transylvania,
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Speaker 1: which is like just above Vlakia. They were constantly involved
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Speaker 1: in these like big bloody battles because you've got Ottoman
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Speaker 1: forces come in one way and you've got Christian crusaders
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Speaker 1: coming the other. You know, there was always something going somewhere.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, so Daddy Vlad he gets inducted into the
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Speaker 1: Order of the Dragon, a Christian military order. Who knew
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Speaker 1: when he has the surname Drakul, Vlad the third becomes
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Speaker 1: son of Drug, which then turns into Dracula. So it's
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Speaker 1: a good thing. So just in case we were wondering
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Speaker 1: how the fuck they got Dracula from Vlad, there you go. Also,
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Speaker 1: in sort of modern Rumonian Drakool actually means devil, so
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Speaker 1: it kind of works in several levels. So yeah, there's
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Speaker 1: constantly these battles going back and forth, and Vlad the
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Speaker 1: second is like the prince of this principally. That's why
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Speaker 1: as the fucking birds, and Daddy Vlad is called to
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Speaker 1: this diplomatic meeting in fourteen forty two with the sultan,
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Speaker 1: with the Turkish Sultan, and apparently it was bring your
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Speaker 1: kids to work too, so he brings little Lad Vlad
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Speaker 1: and his younger brother Radu. But surprise, surprise, it's a trap.
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Speaker 1: So Vlad the second and his two younger sons are arrested.
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Speaker 1: All three are arrested and they're held hostage. Daddy Vlad
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Speaker 1: gets released on the condition that he leaves his two
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Speaker 1: boys behind, you know, as an insurance clause. Yeah, the
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Speaker 1: Ottomans really wanted Daddy Vlad to behave himself with regards
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Speaker 1: to this war that was going on between Hungary and Turkic. See,
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Speaker 1: this is a common thing that happened in the medieval
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Speaker 1: era is someone would take the child of an enemy
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Speaker 1: and raise them. And they do this for two reasons.
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Speaker 1: One so the enemy wouldn't start shit because you know,
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Speaker 1: one would assume you'd want your children to stay alive.
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Speaker 1: And the second part is by raising the enemy's children,
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Speaker 1: by teaching, training, all this stuff, it makes them loyal
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Speaker 1: to them and not their family, or at least that
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Speaker 1: was the idea behind it. It would be classic conditioning,
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Speaker 1: training and socializing the child to be part of that culture,
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Speaker 1: in those beliefs and have them more aligned with you
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Speaker 1: than their family. The enemy. Under the Ottomans oddle Vlad
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Speaker 1: and his younger brother Radu. They get taught philosophy, science,
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Speaker 1: the art. They're having a whale of a time. They
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Speaker 1: also train them to become skilled horsemen and moor bo.
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Speaker 1: Surprisingly enough, it was not peaches and cream, because although
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Speaker 1: they are you know, training them and stuff, at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, they're still prisoners. And there were
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Speaker 1: occasions where Vlad was imprisoned and tortured and was no
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Speaker 1: stranger to the punishments inflicted by the people who were
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Speaker 1: raising him. And it was while he was being held
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Speaker 1: in the Ottoman Empire that Vlood witnessed how the Ottomans
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Speaker 1: impaled their enemies. Don't worry, it gets worse while they're
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Speaker 1: being held. So about five years later, after they've been
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Speaker 1: taken hostage, Daddy Vlad is the victim of a coup.
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Speaker 1: These local warlords oust him as the ruler, take him
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Speaker 1: to the swamps and assassinate him and Daddy Vlad. He
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Speaker 1: actually got off pretty lightly because of his older brother, Mircha,
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Speaker 1: who technically should have become leader after Daddy Vlad died,
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Speaker 1: ends up being tortured, blinded, and buried alive. So well
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Speaker 1: Vlad and his brother are treated. You know pretty well
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Speaker 1: by the standards of the time, his younger brother. He
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Speaker 1: basically went over to the Turkish side. But Blood Flood
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Speaker 1: wasn't really super happy, but the fact that he'd been
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Speaker 1: held captive and that his father and brother had been assassinated,
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Speaker 1: I mean, as life events go, probably not a fun
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Speaker 1: way to have things. A year later, Flood is released
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Speaker 1: and he is a man with a mission, and he
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Speaker 1: is looking to take back rule of Vlakia from his cousin,
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Speaker 1: Vladislav the Second, and this is the first time he
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Speaker 1: does this effectively. So he utilizes the connection he has
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Speaker 1: and embarks on a campaign with the military support from
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Speaker 1: these Ottoman governors from northern Bulgaria. And lucky for Vlood,
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Speaker 1: Vladislav wasn't actually there. He'd gone to the Balkans to
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Speaker 1: fight the Ottomans. Unfortunately, this victory was short lived because
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Speaker 1: Vlood gets deposed after only two months, because Vladislav comes
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Speaker 1: back and he's got a bigger and he's got a
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Speaker 1: bigger and better army. This is where history kind of
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Speaker 1: gets marque. Between fourteen forty eight and fourteen fifty six,
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Speaker 1: we have no fucking clue where Blood is or what
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Speaker 1: he was doing, oh, you know, was that he switched sides.
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Speaker 1: So instead of you know, utilizing and keeping the support
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Speaker 1: from the Ottoman Empire, he turned his eyes back to Hungary.
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Speaker 1: In fourteen fifty six, this shit hits the fan, Constantinople
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Speaker 1: falls and becomes and falls under Ottoman rule, basically putting
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Speaker 1: the Ottoman Empire in a position to invade all of Europe.
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Speaker 1: And Vlad is known as being incredibly anti Ottoman, so
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Speaker 1: he's already in the right place. And in nineteen fifty six,
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Speaker 1: Vlad meets Vladislav in battle and defeats him by cutting
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Speaker 1: off his fucking head up being proclaimed the Vovoid of
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Speaker 1: Volakia in fourteen fifty six by the King of Hungary,
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Speaker 1: and just to ensure everyone knew where he stood, the
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Speaker 1: first thing he does is he stopped paying an annual
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Speaker 1: tribute to the Ottoman Sultan, which was the only thing
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Speaker 1: before that kept the peace really between Vilakia and then
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Speaker 1: the Turks. But and that wasn't the only thing vladd
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Speaker 1: did to consolidate his power. On Easter Sunday fourteen fifty seven,
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Speaker 1: the twenty four to twenty five year old Prince Vlad
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Speaker 1: the third of Vilakia, he hosts a banquet on Easter Sunday.
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Speaker 1: So he's throwing this big Easter celebration. He invites all
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Speaker 1: the nobles of the realm, the nobleman, the boyars. He
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Speaker 1: knew they would challenge his authority because you know, and
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Speaker 1: he had and he had a weak surprise waiting for them,
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Speaker 1: and no, sorry, they were not going to go hunting
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Speaker 1: for chocolate eggs. And where they're finishing off their meal.
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Speaker 1: Vlad asks all the noblemen, all of this boyer class,
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Speaker 1: how old they were and why have they had so
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Speaker 1: many princes in their land? And that's when they knew.
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Speaker 1: And the reason he asked them this particular question is
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Speaker 1: because he wanted to know which of them were involved
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Speaker 1: in the coup that overthrowed his family, leading to the
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Speaker 1: deaths of his father and brother. So he takes all
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Speaker 1: the noblemen outside and they are impaled. You're probably thinking
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Speaker 1: they were impaled, that's pretty bad, but it's worse than
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Speaker 1: you think. Generally, a steak or pike would be sharpened
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Speaker 1: so that it could easily go through a body. Basically,
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Speaker 1: he had two ways in which he could steak them,
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Speaker 1: one of which is the Assyrian method, which usually means lowering, lower, lowering, lowering.
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Speaker 1: The victim stirnham first onto the steak, which is a
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Speaker 1: quicker death bill. Vlad said, fuck this for a game
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Speaker 1: of soldiers, and he decided to go with the turk
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Speaker 1: push method. But he decided to take it one step
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Speaker 1: further because instead of using a sharpened steak, he preferred
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Speaker 1: them to be blunt. Generally, the steak would be pushed
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Speaker 1: and warning this is not going to be a pleasant
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Speaker 1: listening experience while a person is still alive. They are
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Speaker 1: laid on the ground and the blunt steak or pole
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Speaker 1: is pushed through the anus and slowly pushed inch by
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Speaker 1: inch through the body until it comes through the mouth
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Speaker 1: or the chest. And the reason that Vlad chose a
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Speaker 1: blunt steak was so that it wouldn't perforate any internal organs,
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Speaker 1: meaning that it could take days for the victim to die.
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Speaker 1: So after they were physically impaled, the steak would be
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Speaker 1: lifted up and pushed into the ground. But what about
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Speaker 1: the women and children, I hear you ask. The women
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Speaker 1: and children, still in their fabulous Easter attire, are seized
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Speaker 1: and he forced them and all their finery to rebuild
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Speaker 1: his fortress. His castle, and he made them work until
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Speaker 1: their fine clothes fell off their body and they were
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Speaker 1: working naked. And then as a reward when they were finished,
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Speaker 1: he impelled them to clearly, as Vlad notes, revenge like
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Speaker 1: a bachel sip is a dish best serve called. And
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Speaker 1: Vlad earned the moniker Vlad Tippies, which means Vlad the impeller.
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Speaker 1: So under Vlad's rule, Volakia was basically stable and orderly.
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Speaker 1: That being said, he was unbelievably vicious. At one point,
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Speaker 1: Saxon merchants, who were once allied with the noble families
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Speaker 1: who you know, were involved in the coup blood has
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Speaker 1: them impelled a couple of years later, just because he can.
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Speaker 1: Also in addition, furthermore, when when the Ottoman Turk's diplomatic
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Speaker 1: envoys had an audience with Flad, they politely declined to
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Speaker 1: remove their hair because of some religious custom, and Vlad
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Speaker 1: the third he commends them for having sach religious devotion
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Speaker 1: and promises that their hats would forever remain on their
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Speaker 1: heads by having their turbans nailed to their nailed to
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Speaker 1: their heads. So Vlood is constantly at war with the Ottomans,
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Speaker 1: and he becomes this hero of the area because he
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Speaker 1: is protecting Christian Europe from from the Muslim invaders, and
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Speaker 1: and all of his victories over the Ottoman invaders were
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Speaker 1: celebrated through Vlakia, Transylvania, the breast of Europe. Even Pope
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Speaker 1: Pious the Second was.
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Speaker 4: Like, yep, go Vlood, You're you may be harsh, but
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Speaker 4: you're getting the job done. So when Vlood is at
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Speaker 4: war with the Ottoman Empire, he does two things. The
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Speaker 4: first thing he does is.
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Speaker 1: Destroyed towns, villages, everything is destroyed, and he makes sure
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Speaker 1: to take prisoners. So he destroys the lands, the animals,
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Speaker 1: everything is destroyed, and he takes the Ottoman people as prisoners.
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Speaker 1: So in fourteen sixty two, the sultan, the one who
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Speaker 1: actually conquered Constantinople, he invades Vilakia and he makes it
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Speaker 1: all the way to Vlaki's Volakia's capital city, Targovista. But
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Speaker 1: not only is the city, but not only as the
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Speaker 1: city deserted, but in front of the capitol he finds
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Speaker 1: the bodies of all of the Ottoman prisoners of war,
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Speaker 1: all of them impaled. I don't know how to explain
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Speaker 1: the scope of this. There were thousands, there were thousands
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Speaker 1: of decaying bodies that at this point were being picked
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Speaker 1: apart by crows and other vermin. These were men, women,
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Speaker 1: and children, and their even reports of infants pinned to
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Speaker 1: their mother's chest in the forest of the impelled. And
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Speaker 1: this site was so repulsive that the invading sultan said
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Speaker 1: fuck this for a game of soldiers and got the
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Speaker 1: hell at a dodge and returned to Constantinople. Not long
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Speaker 1: after this mass impalement of Ottoman prisoners of war load
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Speaker 1: ends up forced into exile. Vlad is forced into exile
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Speaker 1: in Hungary because he just can't defeat the Sultan. But
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Speaker 1: it wasn't Aldom England because during this exile were part
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Speaker 1: of which he was imprisoned. He got married and had
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Speaker 1: two kids, so he wasn't like doing nothing this whole time.
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Speaker 1: So I mean, I mean, that's that's nice. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: do you remember Vlad's younger brother, Raju, He who had
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Speaker 1: been lay totally into the Ottomans. He's governor in Volakia
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Speaker 1: of Lad's imprisoned and exiled, but he dies in fourteen
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Speaker 1: seventy five, and a bunch of sort of noblemen of
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Speaker 1: the area they want Vlood back, you know, They're like sure,
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Speaker 1: he impaled some people, but at least the trains ran
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Speaker 1: on time. That's oh, that is a very niche joke. So,
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Speaker 1: with the help of Moldovia, Vlood retakes the throne a
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Speaker 1: year after his brother's death. But again, unfortunately for Vlood,
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Speaker 1: this success, like his first one, is also short lived,
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Speaker 1: because later that very year, he is marching towards, surprise, surprise,
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Speaker 1: yet another battle with the Yottomans. As he's on his
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Speaker 1: way there, trip trapping along, there's an ambush and he's beheaded,
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Speaker 1: and the legend goes and his head was taken and
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Speaker 1: delivered to the Sultan in Constantinople as a trophy for
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Speaker 1: him to display above the city gates. Now what happened
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Speaker 1: to the rest of his body, We don't actually know.
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Speaker 1: It could be in Snagov, it could be in Comana.
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Speaker 1: It could be in Bucharest or Danube, or we're not sure.
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Speaker 1: We don't know where it is. It's it's somewhere, and
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Speaker 1: so ends the story, and so ends the story of
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Speaker 1: Vlood the Third Lavoida or Volakia, otherwise known as Vlad
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Speaker 1: the Impala. So what did we learn today? We learned
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Speaker 1: that Vlad is not short for anything, nor was he
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Speaker 1: ever actually involved in Transylvania, and that that connection was
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Speaker 1: somehow made later on, and that being cruel and harsh
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Speaker 1: is fine as long as you get results, and no
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Speaker 1: matter how many men, women or children you horrifically impale,
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Speaker 1: you will still find someone willing to marry you and
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Speaker 1: don't read bram Stokers Dracula, it's not that good. There
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