Caligula: The MAD Tyrant🔥
In last week’s episode, we dove into the story of Caligula — young, popular, and widely seen as a relief after the reign of Tiberius. Rome expected stability. What followed was something very different…
Within a few years, executions became public events. Senators were forced to watch friends and family die. Accusations didn’t need evidence — they just needed to catch the emperor’s attention. Caligula didn’t just punish enemies; he used humiliation and spectacle to remind Rome who was in control.
He drained the imperial treasury on games, palaces, and personal obsessions, then turned to confiscations and death sentences to refill it. He openly mocked the Senate, forced nobles to run beside his chariot, and treated Rome’s political class as props rather than partners in government.
This episode walks through how those choices escalated — from shocking behavior to outright terror — and why no one was able to stop it. Not the Senate. Not the guards. Not the institutions that were supposed to limit imperial power.
By the end, Caligula stops feeling like an exaggeration and starts looking like a warning. His reign only lasted four years, but it exposed just how fragile Rome’s system really was — and how quickly authority can turn destructive when it goes unchecked.
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PEAK INSIDE THE TENT…⛺️
The American Space Age didn’t start with NASA.
It started with Nazis.
At the center of that story is Wernher von Braun—the man who helped Hitler build the V-2 rocket and later became the architect of America’s Moon program.
Von Braun joined the Nazi Party in 1937 and the SS in 1940 while running Germany’s secret rocket base at Peenemünde. The V-2 was a technological breakthrough: the world’s first true ballistic missile and the first human-made object to reach space. But once it worked, production moved underground—into tunnels carved by concentration camp prisoners. Tens of thousands were enslaved. Between 16,000 and 20,000 died from starvation, disease, beatings, and executions. It’s said that Von Braun visited the sites, knew how the rockets were built, and kept working.
But when Nazi Germany collapsed, he didn’t wait to be captured—he chose the Americans. His team destroyed documents, hid others, and carefully curated what survived. This is where we meet Operation Paperclip — the secret program to bring German scientists, engineers, and technicians to the U.S. for military and technological work. The U.S. erased his SS past and brought him along with over 100 Nazi engineers into the country.
But here’s the insane part:
The first human-made object to reach space was a Nazi weapon.
The first photograph from space was taken by that same weapon.
The first American in space rode on a rocket designed by a former SS officer.
And the first humans to walk on the moon got there using technology born in concentration camps, likely funded by Hitler.
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