Preview - Bonus Episode #2: Ask Us Anything!
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Hi Janina. Hi Emma. How are you? I'm good, how are you?

I'm pretty good. It's our second bonus episode. It is our second bonus episode. We made it. Livia is here to join in the party because it is close enough to her dinner time that she is doing the cat thing where she is making the saddest muse any human has ever made or any cat has ever made. Yeah. Because she has never suffered like she is suffering right now. No one has ever suffered. No one. No one has ever suffered. This poor beleaguered cat.

Yes. So if you can hear little kind of sad noises, then that is her. She is a tiny little. Yeah. I've just realized I'm going to have to actually look up what the Roman ghost hole is called again because I've forgotten. Yeah. We're coming into this extremely. I haven't even looked at these questions.

No. Until right now. Okay. So we decided that we would just do a kind of AMA. Yeah. And so everybody on the Discord and everybody on the Patreon could ask a question and we would just go through and ask each other the questions. Yeah. And so thank you to everybody who asked us. I have looked at the questions and they're super fun.

And quite a good range. And I love how many people here are obviously also Rex Factor listeners and have therefore got the correct taste in podcasts. The first one, I put this first because I figure it is probably the most obvious one, which is from Amanda Hendrickson, who, if I remember correctly, is the amazing dress designer. How

How did all of you meet and start podcasting together? Do you remember how we met, Janina? I remember this moment so palpably. So we met through a guy that Emma was dating at the time, a friend of mine. But we met at a party, a tiny little party in a one-bedroom flat in Old Street, around Old Street. Yeah.

and um of our friend Lily who's a delight and we were just sitting near each other on the couch and I can't remember which way around it happened but one of us heard the other mention the show Slings and Arrows which is a show that almost no one has seen but that no like eight Canadians have watched it yeah it was never I don't think it was ever aired anywhere outside Canada but

One of us mentioned it and the other heard and we were like, you've seen Slings and Arrows? Because anyone who has seen it knows that it's like the best TV show ever. It's such a good TV show and hardly anyone has ever seen it. It's really hard to get hold of still. Yeah. I watched it because another boyfriend of mine once Googled like best TV shows of all time and then illegally downloaded them all. Yeah.

And it was like number one or number two. And we watched it and it is one of the best TV shows of all time. And then I'm always recommending it to people. It is about a Canadian Shakespeare theatre festival. Yeah.

And it's incredible. It's so funny. It's so good. It's so moving. Each season is structured around a different Shakespeare tragedy. For a hot second, it was like legally on YouTube, like the Canadian TV people just put up a bunch of their shows. And because it had never been broadcast anywhere else, no one had any license deals that stopped them from having it available everywhere. But it's not there anymore, which is a real shame because it is just...

If you know Kids in the Hall, it was written and stars a couple of them. Mark McKinney. Mark McKinney. In Superstore. So if you've seen Superstore, you might know that. And yeah, it's just fantastic. And then we were like, well, obviously it's the only two people in the world who have seen this. We must be soulmates. Yeah.

and have been friends ever since. And then I think that I had been talking about doing a podcast after I wrote Agrippina. I remember you complaining about how all history podcasts were three hours long and they were all just men and none of them were fun. Yes. So you wanted to do one?

Yeah, because I think this was probably the time when hardcore history was the history podcast and there were no ones that were just entertaining or not just one guy kind of talking. And me and Janina are chatting.

And then I kept going on about it. And eventually my now husband, Connor, bought me or forced me to buy while we were drunk on the sofa in the middle of the night, forced me to buy a microphone. It was like, you're doing podcast.