Red Ice TV - October 10, 2024


Cultural Customs： Time To Bring Back The Brazen Bull？


Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

133.28256

Word count

350

Sentence count

32


Summary

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In this episode, we talk about torture in the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Middle Ages. We also hear about a new addition to The Torturer's Apprentice, a musical homage to torture devices used in the past.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Well, speaking about the Stone Age, well, technically the Bronze Age would be more appropriate.
00:00:05.840 Here's one cultural custom that we can pick back up, I think.
00:00:08.780 Many people talk about, you know, putting pedophiles in wood chippers.
00:00:11.360 Or there's a lot of popular talk about the trebuchet or like the catapult right now.
00:00:15.240 Any of those will do.
00:00:16.000 I'm open to ideas here.
00:00:17.340 But hey, hear me out here.
00:00:18.920 Here's another one.
00:00:20.040 Have you ever heard of the brazen bull?
00:00:23.120 Apparently the worst torture device in history.
00:00:26.920 So you actually put the person inside of the bowl here, right?
00:00:32.320 While you actually heat it up from the outside with a fire underneath it.
00:00:37.060 I can think of a few people that are worthy of this treatment.
00:00:41.200 This is a shiny brass replica of a bull, but much more than just an ordinary statue.
00:00:46.720 This hollow bull, made without a face, has a cover on its side.
00:00:50.500 The victim being placed inside this bull and scorched with the heat of the metal until the bull turned red from the burning fire below.
00:01:00.380 In the head of the bull, various pipes designed by Perilus and some complex tools such as whistles were placed.
00:01:07.940 Thanks to these instruments, the voice of the victim turned into a voice resembling the bellowing of an angry bull.
00:01:15.640 How about that?
00:01:16.220 Talk about being creative, huh?
00:01:17.340 Wow.
00:01:18.060 They talk about the British having some advanced torture things.
00:01:21.020 Well, like in the Middle Ages, I guess, overall, the medieval period or stuff like that.
00:01:24.420 But this is funny.
00:01:25.240 Yeah, but even using the voice of the tortured person inside as part of it is like, wow.
00:01:31.420 Well, you know, I'll tell you, some people definitely deserve this.
00:01:35.600 As I said, I can think of a few.
00:01:37.440 Yes.
00:01:37.760 Perhaps you would care for a little light entertainment while you wait.
00:01:41.820 I have been composing a short opera.
00:01:55.680 Would you like to hear a song or two?
00:01:57.420 No, thank you.
00:01:58.220 Oh, you'll love it.
00:01:59.660 It's a comedy.
00:02:00.820 It's called The Torturer's Apprentice.
00:02:06.540 Here's the overture.
00:02:07.580 The Torturer's Apprentice