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Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly Show on a magnificent Wednesday. So you know

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Speaker 1: The Jesse Kelly Show. But it's our two, and as promised,

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Speaker 1: we are now going to pick up where we left

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Speaker 1: off last night and continue our history, a history not

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Speaker 1: many people know about the Rhodesian Bush War. If you

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Speaker 1: was background, It was tribal stuff. And if you miss that,

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Speaker 1: we gave a lot of the background. Your thirty second

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Speaker 1: to one minute background. Is this. A man named Cecil

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Speaker 1: Rhodes grabbed a bunch of miners, other people, yes, women

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Speaker 1: There were two historically there were more, but two main

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Speaker 1: kind of ours. Now this is done. You all, you people,

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Speaker 1: you tribes, you tribesmen, you go over there. You other tribesmen,

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Speaker 1: you go over there. Now. This is what colonization looked

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Speaker 1: professor in college was whining and crying about colonialism. That's

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Speaker 1: be honest, right now. Colonization is simply a more peaceful

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Speaker 1: call it all conquest, shall we. There is a spectrum,

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Speaker 1: Then there are other types. The French. The French would

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Speaker 1: And I know about the Spanish conquest of Mexico and whatnot,

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Speaker 1: to say in the government of any society? I think

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Speaker 1: you would probably agree with me. That shouldn't be everybody, right,

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Speaker 1: you don't want twelve year olds to vote. Of course,

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Speaker 1: if there's some serial killer getting ready to be executed tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: do you want his vote cancel out? He's canceling out

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Speaker 1: your vote for president tomorrow? No, okay? So will at

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Speaker 1: least agree on that it shouldn't be everybody? Okay? So

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Speaker 1: that means there should be limits? What limits? How do

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Speaker 1: you form a nation, a good if that's what you

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Speaker 1: want to be, A good, prosperous country, a country considered

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Speaker 1: to be free, while also putting limits on who has

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Speaker 1: a say in the government. In Rhodesia, the Africans did

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Speaker 1: not have a say in the government. No say, none,

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Speaker 1: and that's about to be a problem. We'll have to

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Speaker 1: continue that tomorrow. Before we do that, let's do some

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Speaker 1: more politics, shall we. Let's talk about some AI impeachments,

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Speaker 1: influence operations, emails more Next