🤡 Did You Know That The Circus Clown Theme Was Originally A Military March?

It was inspired by Roman gladiatorial fighting!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
So I asked you a moment ago what you think
of when you hear this music circumstance. Yeah, well it
was actually written by a band master of the Austro
Hungarian Army. His name I'm going to spell this soonerame,
I don't trust myself to say that loud Julius f
you c ik spicy future.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
That's few of course.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
It was written in eighteen ninety seven and it was
called the Entrance of the Gladiators. So that piece of
music was actually written as a battle march, and it
was written to imagine how the gladiators enter. It entered
the Colisseum. Hard to picture, isn't it. Yeah, so they

(00:46):
that's what they That was what it was written for.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, because when you think of you think of Gladiator. Well,
it was a song to evoke war, non humor of clowns.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, that's right. Would have made the Gladiator film quite different.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies
of the North, General of the Felix Regions, loyal servant
to the true Emperor Marcus Aurelius, father to a murdered son,
husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
I chop him off too.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Can I have a go? What do we do in life?
That's my signal?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
And you know I'd be cheering for the lions, the
lions to rip the heads off the clowns, wouldn't you
futuick me