Sometimes extreme disrespect does warrant a noisy counterattack. But Boudicca nurtured a very literal take no prisoners attitude. But I think she can act as a source of encouragement for those of us who struggle with expressing dissent.
touch people with my passion and with this pain that I possess. And through Ezekiel Boudreau, touch people, pierce their heart pierce their soul so that they can say, wow, I feel something different, I sense something different.
And what she was doing there was very visibly channeling Boudicca from the past. And we talk a bit about Boudicca later. B. COATES: Yeah. So Elizabeth was like the ultimate kind of motivational speaker.
But this pressure does still remain. And our next subject is Boudicca on sticking up for yourself. B. COATES: So she's Norfolk's best known queen.
She rolled my hair and put my lipstick on. In the glass of her boudoir. There's nothing wrong with loving who you are, she said, 'cause he made you perfect, Babe.
E. FOLEY: And she actually, she turned up in a long white velvet gown with armor on a gray horse to make her red hair look particularly good. And what she was doing there was very visibly channeling Boudicca from the past. And we talk a bit about Boudicca later.
So this is all according to their historian Tacitus. He's the best source that we have for what Boudicca then did. So instead of being cowed by this, or accepting the inevitable sexual violence that comes to women in situations of conflict, Boudicca set the world on fire.
Everything that happened with her kind of sex and death thing had really freaked them out. But Tacitus was himself grudgingly impressed with how Boudicca dealt with what he acknowledged was extreme dishonor. B. COATES: Yeah. I mean so, obviously, the offenses against Boudicca are much more serious than anything we might come up against in our normal working lives,
after her revolt, because it was so significant to them. She died by suicide, Boudicca, to avoid capture. And to add insult to injury, her name has been misspelled for quite a long time as Boudicea, and that is apparently due to a kind of typo
Because he'd been working with a nuclear pharmacist, who had become a mentor to him. And he'd asked the guy, David Boudreaux, so how do people in Africa get these things when they're sick? And he said, well unfortunately Taylor, usually they can't.
I play that guy. My name is Russell Hornsby, and I play Ezekiel Boudreau. So I just want to start out with a note of gratitude.
But we are also, as you said, Liz and Beth. E. FOLEY: And we're here to talk about "What Would Boudicca Do, Everyday Problems Solved by History's Most Remarkable Women." B. COATES: It's been a really amazing year for the sort of the amplification of women's voices, particularly in the UK with this centenary year of women's suffrage.
Her reputation rests on her unusual levels of assertiveness, or what you might call bloodthirsty revenge-fueled aggression. Anyway. E. FOLEY: So Boudicca's story's full of holes and legendary embellishments, but it's generally agreed that she was the chief of the Iceni tribe in East Anglia about 2,000 years ago.
After the Romans invaded Britain, they made an agreement with her husband that he would be able to continue to govern his own people, very generously. But when he died, that gentleman's agreement did not extend to the ladies, and they immediately took Boudicca's land, and not content with just that, they also publicly flogged her and raped her children.
He's the best source that we have for what Boudicca then did. So instead of being cowed by this, or accepting the inevitable sexual violence that comes to women in situations of conflict, Boudicca set the world on fire. She led a full on revolt, and she burnt the cities of Colchester, St. Albans, and London to the ground, killing almost all the inhabitants, both Roman
But Tacitus was himself grudgingly impressed with how Boudicca dealt with what he acknowledged was extreme dishonor. B. COATES: Yeah. I mean so, obviously, the offenses against Boudicca are much more serious than anything we might come up against in our normal working lives, and murder and mutilation are definitely not the response to any everyday problem.
She died by suicide, Boudicca, to avoid capture. And to add insult to injury, her name has been misspelled for quite a long time as Boudicea, and that is apparently due to a kind of typo essentially in one of Tacitus's manuscripts being copied when they were copied by one person to another.
So I am one of the real Cajuns, even though my last name doesn't show it, my mother was a Primeaux. And if you have any Cajun jokes, it's the Thibodeauxs, Boudreauxs, Primeauxs, OK. So I am I'm one of those Cajun folks.
I had the whole experience. But I thought sourdough, as a flavor, went back to the Gold Rush, because the famous bakers-- Isidore Boudin was the founder of the Boudin Bakery, and he, in fact, was in San Francisco during the Gold Rush.
And they then sort of trail around, and I thought this was actually kind of interesting. I, and then I took the film and accelerated it. So it's a 72-hour performance, set on a, on a, on a traffic island off the coast of Union Square, as we set up a boudoir, and