{"id":914,"date":"2025-01-27T16:24:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/?p=914"},"modified":"2025-05-16T15:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:01:53","slug":"episode-121-a-vlad-halloween-special-part-i-super-based","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/episode-121-a-vlad-halloween-special-part-i-super-based\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 121: A Vlad Halloween Special Part I: Super Based"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy Halloween to the D.U.S.E. Nation! For your holiday enjoyment, Eli and Mel bring you the most based of European leaders: Vlad the Impaler! Nothing screams Halloween more than the story of one of the most feared and effective Balkan leaders in all of European history. Vlad Dracula witnessed his father&#8217;s rise and fall, was held captive by a bunch of Muslims, and eventually took his father&#8217;s place at the helm of Wallachia, a tiny country smack dab in the middle of Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. Born into the heart of a world in conflict, it&#8217;s no wonder that our boy Dracula might have had a problem with diplomacy or anything else that couldn&#8217;t be solved by punching a guy in the face. Really really really hard. So settle in, grab your ill-gotten candy, pour yourself a drink, and listen as the D.U.S.E. regales you with the bloody history of Wallachia and their greatest leader, proving that Vlad Dracula wasn&#8217;t an evil guy. He was really just&#8230;Super Based!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: A Vlad Halloween Special Part I: Super Based\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/0iNOlDKXtawkDS7t3CWvqj?si=ba6edcc90b154c4e&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Music Credit: &#8220;Game Boy Horror&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/zombiedandies.bandcamp.com\/\">The Zombie Dandies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally aired October 31, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A Vlad Halloween Special Part I: Super Based<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/episode-122-a-vlad-halloween-special-part-ii-really-liked-trees\/\">A Vlad Halloween Special Part II: Really Liked Trees<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Halloween to the D.U.S.E. Nation! For your holiday enjoyment, Eli and Mel bring you the most based of European leaders: Vlad the Impaler! Nothing screams Halloween more than the story of one of the most feared and effective Balkan leaders in all of European history. 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