Patton Oswalt

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1,066 appearances 7 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 8 Jun

Patton Oswalt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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You're Dead to Me · Emperor Nero: ancient Rome’s most infamous ruler · 30 Jan 2026 podcast

I don't have a spell check on my phone.

That might explain a lot.

I actually did.

I was surprised.

I didn't know I knew so much.

Not at all.

Literally and figuratively, I'm not comfortable in that world.

I know the name Emperor Nero, and for some reason, I just picture him looking like Dom DeLuise, but that's just because of the Mel Brooks film.

Wait a minute, was that character supposed to be based on Nero?

Oh, a Romulan.

Well, OK, I do know enough to know that the Roman city of all white columns and white buildings is actually false because it was actually very brightly painted.

And it was that paint that, of course, chipped off over the centuries.

And that's where we have the white ruins.

But it was actually a very colorful metropolis with kind of their version of Times Square signage everywhere and graffiti and all of that.

Am I right in thinking that?

In the middle, like abutting each other almost?

He had a bronze beard when he was a baby?

In his defense, Friday night is party night, man.

And you knew that when you took this job.

Yeah.

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