WEBVTT - Human beings like to use power. 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.720 It is the Jesse Kelly Show, Final hour of the 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:08.200 Jesse Kelly Show on a Friday, and absolutely wonderful Friday, 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:11.040 and we have so much great stuff still to get to. 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:15.680 Some guy wants to yell about Iran. Some guy is wondering, 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:19.480 are all his employee, all his coworkers just suddenly lazy? 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:23.520 All that, we'll talk about, trips with your kids you 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.520 can take as a father or mother, and so much 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:28.760 more coming up in the final hour of the Jesse 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.440 Kelly Show. But first, let's do another immigration update, shall we. 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:37.080 This is I need to read this emon. I've got 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:41.440 a hobby. Who is she? Well, you know this guy 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:45.760 abdul l said, running for senate in Michigan. This is 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:49.280 his sister. Now, remember how many times we've talked about 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:53.920 how the communist sees himself. He sees himself as a 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:59.520 communist first, and he will always put communism first. If 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.000 he's in your church, communism is first. If he's in 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.039 your company, communism is first. If he's your school teacher, 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:09.400 communism is first. If he's a general, communism comes first 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:15.080 before everything else. The party always comes first. He is 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:20.160 an infiltrader and sees himself as an infiltrator. His intention 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:25.479 is to use whatever you have mistakenly allowed him into 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:29.720 use it for the revolution. What's that sound like? Ow, 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.880 let's go to Amon, please explain it to us. 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.360 The University of Chicago it's evil, like, you know, it's 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.160 a colonial landlord, Like why would I? 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.000 Why would I put any of my term employer? By 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:45.080 the way, University of Chicago, I'll start it again. University 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.680 of Chicago is her employer. I think former now, but listen, the. 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:52.000 University of Chicago. It's evil, like, you know, it's a 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.720 colonial landlord, Like why would I? Why would I put 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:57.760 any of my political energy into this space? 0:01:57.800 --> 0:01:58.920 And I kind of had a little bit of. 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.960 Disdain for for like people who spend a lot of 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.960 time doing that. We don't have power. We could shift 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.000 the moral authority all we want. We've won the moral question, 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.280 like that was the imperative that we've had. We done 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:17.040 check like put Palestine in the national consciousness. We did it, 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.280 you know, make people sympathetic to Palestine, teach the history. 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:21.720 We did it. 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:23.480 Like now you have white boys on the North side 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:27.359 of Chicago being like, hey, man, free Palestine. I'm like, oh, okay, now, 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:31.040 did not see it? Coming glad it's here. I think 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.000 the question that I'm asking myself and I'm asking you 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.520 to ask yourself, is where can I actually build power? 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:41.000 Turns out I work at one of the biggest employers. 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:41.639 In the city of Chicago. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.600 I work at a place that is a landlord, a 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:50.120 health care provider, a police force, right and a place 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.560 where I have access to thousands of people that I 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:57.040 could potentially organize. However, but I'm just like, actually, this 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:00.040 is where I need to build power, right, Like, this 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:04.680 is my big best possible structural leverage. And so I do. 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.040 I do one on ones with my liberal colleagues who 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:08.920 are like, well, I don't know, but you know, I 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.040 just think we should live the life of the mind. 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:12.119 Here are in a high park. 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.560 I was like, yeah, you know, I hear you totally. 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:23.240 Yeah, you see how they see themselves. You're confused why 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.920 that lady who runs the library set up a tranny 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.880 section in the kids section. That's because you think you're 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.960 looking at a librarian. You're looking at a communist. A 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:41.280 communist wearing the skin suit of a librarian. She's there 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.360 for the revolution. She's not there to make sure the 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:48.240 books are in order. That's something she does that's kind 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:52.720 of an annoying side gig. That's how they see themselves. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.480 Dear Shogun. I've been with my current employer for twenty 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.840 one years, and I can't help but feel like the 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.400 people I work with now don't give a crap about 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:04.360 anything anymore. That drives me insane. People telling me they 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.800 don't want to do anything above and beyond for customers. 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:10.400 Am I crazy? Or is the quality of the workplace 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:14.560 in serious decline? Did the lockdowns really destroy everything? Well? 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:18.640 I could. I'm very tempted to go off on the 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.680 mass importation of foreigners right now and how that has 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.600 destroyed customer service, but we'll set that aside. You've heard 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.400 me go off on that enough. You mentioned COVID, and 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:30.600 I'm glad you mentioned COVID. Let's do one of my 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.440 favorite things and talk about what I told you a 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:37.360 long time ago. I told you during the COVID lockdowns 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.360 that this would that we would suffer economically for generations 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:45.359 for years. Yeah, all true. Do you remember what I 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:50.800 said about COVID, the remote work that was popping up 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:54.760 for COVID, and how negatively it would affect the entire 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.640 economy in the United States of America Jewish producer Chris 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:59.240 is not in his head. I bet you remember if 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.840 you were listening. In case you weren't, or in case 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.360 you happened to forget. What I said was this, everybody 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.640 wants to work from home. Totally get it. I love 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.680 wearing my Jammy's too. Everyone wants to work from home. 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.240 I just want I'll go to my desk and sit 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.159 with my dog Buffy and on my computer, right and 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:17.880 you never have to go to work. I got it 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:22.119 because we told people they had to stand six feet 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.320 away from everyone else. This is still the dumbest thing 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:29.880 I've ever heard in my life. Companies started closing their locations, 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.599 if not outright closing it, they told employees, Hey, just 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:37.320 go work from home. This was not a rare thing 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.080 in the United States of America. This was the norm. 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.680 Work from home, work from home, work from home. It 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:49.920 became how people think about work. When the work from 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.640 home orders started stopping. I know, that's a weird way 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.839 to put that. When companies started putting out the memo, hey, 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.120 everyone come back to work now, they had to kind 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:05.240 of baby step their way into it. Lots of times, Hey, 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:09.839 everyone's required to come into the office once a week, 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:13.760 just once, guys, We're not gonna ask every day. Why 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.799 why didn't those companies just step up and say, Okay, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.120 this work from home crap is over. The COVID stuff 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:26.719 has passed. Get your butt into the office. You know 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:32.720 why people would quit. You know why people would quit 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:40.599 because the mindset of the American worker changed. Some people 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.080 have taken themselves completely out of the workforce and they 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:49.479 never returned. They got used to leaving work, sitting at home, 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:55.920 collect a government check of some kind, just kind of exist. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:02.640 Other people going into the office. It's now a burden. 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.359 I don't like this. I used to work in my 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:11.080 Jammi's at home with Fluffy. Now I have to get up, shower, 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.520 make myself presentable. I have to go deal with people. 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:19.000 Oftentimes people I don't like. I mean, who likes their 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.720 co all their coworkers, I don't like either of mine. 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:27.880 That's how it works right now. The mindset of the 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:33.040 American population, the American employee population has changed, and people 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.240 just don't want to be there. Oftentimes it's not universal, 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:41.559 but it's true. Hey, part time, it's not nice. Those 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:43.920 thirty hours of work. The last two weeks had to 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:49.200 be exhausting. Glad you took Monday this week to recover. Okay, 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:54.040 you know, Don Junior? Can you ask him what exactly 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.840 dad was thinking? With the Iran adventuring, this will not 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.960 only torpedo are midterms, but could very well bury Vans 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.360 or Rubio ticket in twenty eight. How can either of 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:10.440 those guys divorce themselves from this colossal blunder. Trump has 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.840 always been a no foreign war guy, yet here we 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:19.040 are very frustrated anti communist here. I can't deny this 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.960 blunder when debating them food question, what's the go to 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.200 taco bell order? If the darkness has set in? And 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:30.480 he said his name is Chris, Well, no, I'm not 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.040 going to ask Don Junior what his dad was thinking. 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.920 And because he's a friend, even if I did, I 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.680 couldn't ask him that and then bring it to you 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.280 without permission. I'd have to ask him, Hey, can I 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.560 tell people that? That would be a violation of trust. 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.199 That wouldn't be right. We're not going to know exactly 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:49.199 what he was thinking. 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:50.880 Uh. 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:54.920 I have my theory and I stand by my theory. 0:08:55.640 --> 0:09:00.600 My theory is this, human beings like to use power. 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.120 We all do you do and I do. We're just 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.160 born that way. When you have power, you like to 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.760 use it. If I put you in behind the wheel 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:12.160 of a Lamborghini, you would be tempted if that road 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.720 opened up and there weren't any cops around to see 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.840 what it can do. Power is at your hands. You 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:22.280 have a desire to use it. I have never and 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.200 will never have this power, and you won't have it either. 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:31.319 Imagine being made master and commander of the most powerful 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:37.360 military on the planet. Do you think you'd be tempted 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:41.520 to use it? Do you think you would look at 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:46.559 it and say to yourself, I wonder what they can do? 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:51.640 You know what I have things I want to do. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:57.000 They work for me. Maybe we should go do those things. 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:02.040 Do you know the story of Crassus? How Crassis met 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.560 his end? Want to pause for a second, do just 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.760 a little brief, just a couple of minutes history story 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:12.000 with me. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Friday. 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.400 Reminding you you can email the show Jesse at Jesse 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:19.199 kellyshow dot com. So I tease the little story of Crassus, 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.360 the story of many of you may already know. But 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:27.400 who was Crassus? Well, Crassus was an incredibly wealthy man 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.160 in ancient Rome. Some say the wealthiest man who ever lived, 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:32.800 one of the wealthiest men who ever lived. I mean, 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.000 I don't know how you could possibly calculate all that, 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:39.680 but you can say he was super super wealthy. But 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:46.880 the Romans, the Romans were extremely ambitious, absurdly ambitious, and 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:50.360 they drove that point home to the next generation. You 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:55.000 will succeed, you will do great things. You will go 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:59.800 find glory and battlefield glory. If you wanted to be 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:05.200 a quote great man in Rome, battlefield glory was necessary. 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.160 They felt pressure. If there wasn't a war and you 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.880 were on the rise in high society, you felt pressure 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.760 to find a war. Hey is there somebody I can fight? 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.520 That's how they were and this help there, this help there. 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:26.280 Empire gained unbelievable heights, of course, this ambition. But to 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:30.160 a guy like Crassus, well, Crassus is this major businessman, 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.280 crooked as all get out, But this major businessman has 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.719 all the money in the world, and in Rome at 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.600 that time, that would mean he would have multiple homes, 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:44.000 legions of slaves. He would want for nothing. His entire 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.640 life could be just eating grapes and having slaves fan 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:49.679 him in his bed, you know. I mean, it's everything 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:54.319 you would picture from a decadent Roman. But crasses because 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:59.040 he was a Roman, wanted to be something more. He 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:04.560 needed battle field glory. Rome had this long which I 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:10.280 won't get into the background of it, long dispute with Parthia. 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.000 Desert people. Just think that way. Desert people, although it's 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.000 not all desert that's not totally fair, but just think 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:22.000 a barren desert people and tough at nails, and the 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.760 Romans had not just rolled over them. Now, the Roman 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.720 Empire was bigger and stronger, but the Romans had not 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:32.800 just rolled over them. Crassus, when you have as much 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.280 money as he did, could afford to raise an army, 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:40.319 his own army. I want some troops. I'm going to 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.160 buy them, train them, and I'm going to march them 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:48.600 off to war. Crassus decided to make war on Parthia. 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:53.800 Crassus marches his troops off to war in one of 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.480 the cooler slash creepier scenes in the world. By the way, 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:01.480 Crassus's son is in his army at this time. In 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.960 one of the cooler creepier scenes, Crassus in his troops 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.640 they spot the Parthians coming at them from a distance. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.240 The Parthians are all on horseback. That's to be expected 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:16.360 the Parthians. The horses look a little weird, but they're 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.040 not making too much of it. At the time, the 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:22.880 Romans get themselves into battle formation. The Parthians at whatever 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:26.040 the right moment was, and the historical sources are obviously 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:30.240 very vague. Rip what was the covering off of their 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:34.920 horses to display that their horses were armored? They had 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:39.760 armored horses on top of the fact they had armored horses. 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:44.400 These were horseback archer people, very similar to the Mongols 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.400 and the Huns and things like that. It's what they did. 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:51.800 Have you ever read stories about a Mongolian warrior running 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.440 away from someone on his horse, but then turning around 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:59.280 and firing his bow backwards. Do you know what that's called. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.079 That's the Parthian shot. That tells you the kind of 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:09.840 people you're dealing with here. And their bows were absurdly powerful, 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:15.000 absurdly powerful, way more powerful than the bows the Romans 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:18.640 had dealt with. Now, a Roman shield, maybe you've thought 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.160 that a Roman shield is wood or maybe even metal. 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.080 All those things would have been too heavy. A Roman 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.840 shield was just layers and layers of what amounts to rawhide, 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:33.200 rawhide mashed together. The only metal usually on a Roman 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.280 Roman shield would be that circle you see in the 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.080 movies in the center of it. That usually would be 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.240 some form of metal. The rest of it is just 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.880 super pressed raw hide. And that, of course works when 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:48.280 you're facing some Gallic tribe and he's got a little 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.720 axe in his hand or a sword or a spear, 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:57.560 that shield will work just fine. But we weren't in Gall. 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:01.840 We they weren't in Gall. They we're in Parthia. The 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:05.640 Roman troops form up. They're obviously only worried about cavalry, 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:09.160 so they do do a you know, a boxy cavalry formation, 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.160 just form a little box because the cavalry, when it 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:16.880 comes to cavalry versus infantry, they can't charge right at it. 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.840 That's something stupid that really happens in the movies. They're 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.960 not gonna charge right at a shield wall because then 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:27.040 your horse justs get stabbed and or the rider gets stabbed. 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.520 Then your horse is done. That's not what cavalry is 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:33.440 used for. Usually, cavalry is used for flanking. You slam 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:37.120 it into the side of a formation or behind a formation. 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.280 You don't just do some full frontal charge. So if 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.040 you're the Romans and you want to get yourself prepared 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.200 to take on an army of all mounted horse or 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.720 horse archers, what do you do? You just kind of 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.440 form a square, so every side has the shields facing outward. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.640 And if that's what you form, what are they gonna 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.600 do to you? They're not gonna slam into your spears 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:03.800 and shields, right, yeah, Well that's not how the Parthians fought. 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:10.680 The Parthians simply started to ride circles around the Roman formation, 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:15.840 firing arrow after arrow after arrow. With the formation and 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:22.480 those shields, they weren't stopping the arrows. The arrows were 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:27.560 coming through the shield into men's arms, into men's feet, 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:33.200 into men's legs, into men's faces. This Roman army found 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:40.480 itself in a desolate area, in bad, bad trouble, being 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:44.960 sworn by a large Parthian army that was tearing it 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:50.520 to bits. Crassus's son must have been a brave young man, 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:54.520 says dad, I'm gonna charge with some of my troops 0:16:54.520 --> 0:17:01.000 and chase them off. He takes off the Parthians. They 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:06.520 run away, but not very far hang on, it is 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:11.320 the Jesse Kelly Show on a magnificent, wonderful Friday, and 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:14.760 asked doctor Jesse Friday for some reason shows to sidetrack 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:16.879 the show with a little brief history story that I 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.560 told you was two minutes. It's going on ten minutes, 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.119 but I'm gonna wrap it up here in probably two minutes. 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.760 Crassus's army is surrounded by the Parthians. The Parthians are 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:31.040 firing these super powerful arrows into his army. The army 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.280 is in dire, dire straits because the arrows can penetrate 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:40.840 the Roman shields. Crassus's son says, Dad, I'm going grabs 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.840 a bunch of troops and takes off after these Parthians, 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:47.760 and the Parthians do what they were famous for, acted 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:51.680 really scared, turned around and ran away. But all they 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:55.679 were doing was luring him away from the main army. 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:59.159 They lured him away from the main army. When he 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:03.680 got far and out away, they turned around. Other Parthians 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:07.159 showed up, and they butchered his son and all of 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.959 his men to the last man. The next time Crassis 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.399 got to lay eyes on his son. You want to 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.880 talk about one of the most devastating moments from history 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.119 if you're into this kind of thing. The Parthians rode 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.520 back in front of Crassus and his troops with the 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.679 head of his son on the end of a spike. 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:33.520 Pretty heavy, right. It doesn't go any better from here, 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:39.240 As you can imagine, Crassus finally say, hey, that's peace, right, Hey, 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:44.399 can we talk this out the circumstances of what happens next? 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:48.040 Nobody will ever know that the story is two thousand 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:53.000 years old. Who knows, right, But Crassus and some of 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:58.360 his guys go meet with the leadership and Grasis never 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:08.280 comes home. Grasis was arguably the wealthiest, most powerful man 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:13.280 on the planet who was living a wonderful, comfortable life. 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:20.600 Grassus was the head of a powerful army. Grassis wanted 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:25.600 to use it. He marched it over the horizon and 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.680 there you go. Hey, Jesse, I took my seventeen year 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:31.280 old son on a two day men's retreat to prepare 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:34.800 him for his junior year of high school. Just two 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:36.760 of us, Just the two of us. That's really cool. 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:39.919 We we got to wake up early and pray together 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.680 for our family and school year. We got to eat 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.400 really good food. You can use your imagination what that 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.800 means and read the Bible together. What types of trips 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.240 do you do to get your sons on track? I'm 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:55.000 thinking about next time inviting his friends and their dads 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.359 to do something. But I'm trying to figure out what 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:01.840 would be impactful for them, leaning towards camping and cooking 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.600 over a campfire. But I'm sure there are other creative 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.880 ideas out there. Okay, so for one, maybe go ahead 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:10.480 and get this out of the way. Anything you do 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:13.879 like that with your sons, any time you spend whatever 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.920 that time is, is precious, wonderful time that benefits them. 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:19.880 I don't care if your sons want you to play 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:23.120 video games with them. I bought a video game Xbox 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:25.600 and a head set because my son said, Dad, will 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.160 you play? This is years ago, Dad, will you play 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:32.040 the heck? Was it Call of Duty or Halo or 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.040 something like that. I hadn't played video games since I 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:37.840 was a kid. I said, yep, Xbox was in the house. 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:39.880 The next day, that's what you want to do, Let's 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:42.399 hang out. I don't care if you go shooting with them, 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:46.000 camping with them. Obviously a men's retreat at Christian Men's retreats. 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:49.359 I mean, that's top tier. I'll tell you this though 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:54.280 more specifically, if you're looking for a specific idea, I 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:57.480 don't go on this anymore. It's a little too far 0:20:57.520 --> 0:20:59.840 of a drive. But I'm sure there are men listening 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:02.520 now who do go on this. A group of friends. 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:08.399 I know, guys who have sons and daughters. Once a 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:11.800 year they would take a trip down to McCallan, Texas. 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:13.600 It's on the southern border of Texas. You're not going 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:15.680 to know where McCallan is unless you're in Texas. That's fine. 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:19.399 It's way down south in Texas, super hot. It's good 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:24.800 dove country. There are doves there, and it's a two 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:28.680 or three day affair. You stay in a hotel. You 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:33.520 go out every morning, fathers and their sons and you 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:36.160 go out. And you don't just go out and kill doves. 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:39.879 The kids then collect all the doves. At the end 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:43.200 of the day, the kids then tear the heads off, 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:46.480 take the feathers off, prepare the doves. It's a requirement. 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:49.200 The children do it. The dads sit around and drink beer. 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:52.560 The kids are taking care of the doves. Everybody there 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:56.440 then goes back to this guy's house. Who's there. He's 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:58.480 got this sweet house. He's got a swimming pool in 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:00.359 the back, and we've all been sweating a day all 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:02.520 day long. He's got this sweet pool and a slide 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:06.000 and whatnot. Everyone goes back to the house. The men 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:09.680 start preparing all the doves, cooking everything. The kids all 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:12.919 put their swimsuits on, dive in the pool. When they 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:17.240 get done with that, the kids are and this is 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:21.840 gonna make every kid listening WinCE, absolutely WinCE, But I'm 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:27.000 telling you it's healthy. Okay, The kids are required to 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:30.760 stand up and speak in front of the group. Everyone 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:33.960 is gathered around. We'll call it ten dads, twenty kids. 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:38.040 Everyone's gathered around. We're all stuff in our faces. Everyone's 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:41.960 sitting there enjoying each other. Get up, tell people about yourself, 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:45.239 tell people about your favorite thing about people, whatnot. And 0:22:45.280 --> 0:22:47.320 then they watch as men get up and do that too. 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:52.040 You have any idea how beneficial that is with children. 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:57.399 It's so so good for them. So look, it doesn't 0:22:57.440 --> 0:22:59.480 have to be dove hunting. You might not even have 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:01.840 doves wherever you are. That can be a fishing trip. 0:23:02.119 --> 0:23:04.359 Be a fishing trip. One of the greatest things my 0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:07.560 father ever did for me in my life is when 0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:10.960 I was thirteen years old. I turned thirteen. We'd never 0:23:11.000 --> 0:23:14.440 done anything like this before. He got both of us 0:23:14.560 --> 0:23:18.080 a fishing trip up to Canada. Up to Canada. We 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:20.680 were going to hunt, going to hunt. We were going 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:23.359 to fish for northern pike and walleye up in Canada. 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:26.879 We got on one of those otter planes. After we 0:23:26.960 --> 0:23:29.600 drove into Canada, we couldn't fly. We drove clear up 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:32.119 into Canada way north, got on one of those otter 0:23:32.160 --> 0:23:34.680 planes that take off and land on the water. We 0:23:35.119 --> 0:23:38.439 then fly that deep deep We're on the border of 0:23:38.480 --> 0:23:41.560 the Yukon. That's how deep we are. And there's nobody around. 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:45.400 There was an Indian guide at the cabin, and there 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:48.959 were canoes and boats around, but no one was guiding you. 0:23:49.000 --> 0:23:52.600 There's no guides, there's no nothing that you your fishing 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:57.440 supplies in the endless Canadian wilderness for four or five days. 0:23:57.440 --> 0:23:59.560 You get up in the morning, you go, get in 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:03.640 a boat, and off to the wilderness you go. And 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:06.480 when I would get my line all screwed up, when 0:24:06.480 --> 0:24:09.719 something would go wrong fishing, my dad would, well, you 0:24:09.760 --> 0:24:14.040 better fix it. And so I'm sitting there untying knots, 0:24:14.240 --> 0:24:16.840 learning how to tie things up, learning how to do this, 0:24:17.040 --> 0:24:19.640 learning how to do that. I think in those four 0:24:19.720 --> 0:24:21.840 or five days, I grew up four or five years. 0:24:23.080 --> 0:24:25.120 Just get away whatever. I don't care if it's taking 0:24:25.160 --> 0:24:27.640 them to the movies. The twity Obbs just left town 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:31.040 for a few days. James is busy now, he's got 0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:35.320 cross country, he's got work, he's got school. He's unbelievably 0:24:35.359 --> 0:24:37.479 busy now for a seventeen year old. He's just bouncing 0:24:37.480 --> 0:24:39.800 around all over the place. But I told him, in 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:42.000 no uncertain terms, every day you and I are, we're 0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:45.360 gonna go to dinner. Obviously it's gonna be waffle House 0:24:45.400 --> 0:24:47.800 because OB's not there. But we're gonna get in the car. 0:24:47.920 --> 0:24:49.800 We're gonna go to Red Lobster. I took into Red 0:24:49.800 --> 0:24:52.919 Lobster one night, took into waffle House. Just get in 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:55.600