{"podcast":{"title":"Remember Shuffle","slug":"remember-shuffle-5585594","podcast_index_feed_id":5585594,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/746c0164/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://twitter.com/RememberShuffle","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/19432353/19432353-1670009780857-f8df3b2069b4b.jpg","author":"Remember Shuffle","episode_count":125,"summary":"Remember the 2000s? A podcast about the dumbest decade in western history. So dumb most of it passed right through us without leaving us anything to think about, until now! We look at the most popular movies, subcultures, political movements, books, and video games of the decade and wonder what made them so popular to audiences in the 2000s, and how their legacy can still be seen today.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T14:18:45.904510+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/remember-shuffle-5585594"},"episode":{"title":"Gladiator E126: Are You Not Touching Grain?","slug":"gladiator-e125-are-you-not-touching-grain","published_at":"2026-07-18T14:40:21+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/remember-shuffle-5585594/gladiator-e125-are-you-not-touching-grain","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/remember-shuffle-5585594","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/remembershuffle/episodes/Gladiator-E126-Are-You-Not-Touching-Grain-e3m874p","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/746c0164/podcast/play/123001433/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-18%2Ffd09e385-8165-4cc4-6a67-c0d84178e2a3.mp3","summary":"The Shuffle Bois return to the well of 2000s Sword and Sandal films with the movie that started it all, Ridley Scott's 200 film Gladiator. After setting the table with some historical context about how the Roman Empire worked and the nature of actual historical gladiators, they turn to the film itself. They discuss the film's very end of history take on Roman history and politics, the nature of spectacle in a highly stylized film, the sexless hedonism of Gladiator, and its anachronistic view of patriotism. They close out with Ben giving a little book report on a wacky late antique primary source on the emperor Commodus and lamenting the film that might have been. ⁠ Give Remember Shuffle a follow on Twitter⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ And on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠@RememberShufflePod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to interact with the show between episodes. It also makes it easier to book guests. And don't forget to check us out on Patreon !","meta_description":"The Shuffle Bois return to the well of 2000s Sword and Sandal films with the movie that started it all, Ridley Scott's 200 film Gladiator. After setting t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5870,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/remember-shuffle-5585594/episodes/gladiator-e125-are-you-not-touching-grain/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/remember-shuffle-5585594/gladiator-e125-are-you-not-touching-grain.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}