1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Your holster is way more important than you think it is. 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 1: It's just way more important than you think it is. 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:09,880 Speaker 1: What look, and I get that. The holsters not the 4 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: sexy part of carrying firearms. All right, You want to 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: talk about your weapon and your ammunition. You want to 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 1: talk about your safety training. You want to talk about 7 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,080 Speaker 1: how you did at the range. Oh, look at my groups. 8 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:21,959 Speaker 1: I was doing these failure drills today, and all that 9 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 1: stuff is really important. I mean, really really important. I'm 10 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: not discounting that, but I've known so many people who 11 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: do all those things. They take all the necessary steps 12 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 1: and then they carry with a holster they bought from 13 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 1: a big box hunting store that was made a thousand 14 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: at a time. Please don't put your life in one 15 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: of those holsters. You need to trust Northwest Retention Systems 16 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:48,840 Speaker 1: because it's all custom made gear. It's the only thing 17 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: I carry around NW Retention dot Com. That's NW Retention 18 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: dot Com used to promo co Jesse gets you ten 19 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: percent off. This is a Jesse Kelly show. What would 20 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: it be like to have somebody drive nails into her head? 21 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 1: Talk about that in our history story today. We have 22 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: somebody coming on today to give us the skinny on 23 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: the stock market. We're gonna talk about the death of 24 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: standards in America. It's everywhere in our society and it's 25 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: gonna kill us if we don't turn it around. The 26 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: public health what that means, what they'll do with it. 27 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: We have all kind to stuff today, but first let 28 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: us begin with one of my favorite history subjects of 29 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:14,679 Speaker 1: all time, maybe my favorite. I think I've even done 30 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,920 Speaker 1: a show on him before, if not to discuss what 31 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:20,119 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do another one at some point on top 32 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: of today's His name was Vlad also known as Vladdan Paler, 33 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:35,239 Speaker 1: also known as Vlad Dracula. Yes, that's right, bram Stoker's Dracula, 34 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: the one you've seen a thousand movies about, maybe even 35 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: read a book if you're a nerd. He was created 36 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 1: after this man. Now, let's just get something out of 37 00:02:50,400 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: the way right away. This is not the kindest human being. 38 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 1: I was about to say, not the best human being. 39 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:08,639 Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what. I like the story because 40 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:13,799 Speaker 1: it's awesome, But there's a ton of cruelty, a ton 41 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 1: of death, and you're going to have to make your 42 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,959 Speaker 1: own decision as we weave through his story today, whether 43 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: you think he was good or bad. Now you're not 44 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: going to think he's nice. That that's that's that's not 45 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 1: gonna happen. I promise you that. But well, let us 46 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: begin and you make your own judgment on Vlad the Impaler. First, 47 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 1: Why is he called Dracula Vlad Dracula because Dracula means 48 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: and Romanian son of the dragon. Yes, his father was 49 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: Vlad Drakul. They are from a place called Vallachia or 50 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: while Achia, depending on where you went to college. But 51 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 1: most people call it Volachia. I'd be lying to you 52 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: if I said I know how to pronounce it. It 53 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: starts with a W. We're gonna call it Volachia today. 54 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: Don't worry about trying to find it on a map. 55 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: It won't be there. It's somewhere in Romania. But you 56 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:22,919 Speaker 1: need to know. This is in the fourteen hundreds. And 57 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: here is a situation. You know that peanut butter and 58 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 1: jelly sandwich you have, Well, you got those two big 59 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 1: pieces of bread, right, got a big old slice of 60 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: bread on top and a big old slice of bread 61 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 1: on the bottom, and then you get your delicious peanut 62 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 1: butter and jelly in the middle. Volachia was the peanut, 63 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:45,720 Speaker 1: butter and jelly. Hungary was a very very powerful Christian 64 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: that's gonna come into play. European Empire on one side 65 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 1: of Volachia, and the Ottoman Empire, probably the most powerful 66 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 1: empire on earth at this time, they were on the 67 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: other side of Volachia. Volachia was sandwiched between them, and 68 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:08,239 Speaker 1: as such, the Hungarians and the Ottomans were always trying 69 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: to get Volachia on their side. Now they weren't trying 70 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: to win them over friendly. They were trying to stick 71 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 1: their nose in Volachia's politics to make sure their man 72 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: was on the throne. Hungary wanted a guy loyal to 73 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,159 Speaker 1: Hungary on the throne. The Ottomans wanted a guy loyal 74 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: to the Ottomans on the throne. And it actually got 75 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: worse inside because when you have powerful forces, tell me 76 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: if this sounds familiar, When you have powerful, wealthy outside 77 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: forces deeply invested in your politics, it can rip a 78 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: country apart from the inside. They're wealthy nobles. You see, 79 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: when you were head of Volachia, you weren't even really king. 80 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,279 Speaker 1: I'm gonna call him king today, but believe it, that's 81 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 1: not fair. You were the man in charge. But there 82 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 1: were wealthy nobles, There was foreign intrigue, there were all 83 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 1: kinds of things. The nobles would, depending on who was 84 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: paying the most at the time, decide they're to kind 85 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: of done with this king, and then they're kind of 86 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: done with that king. Let me just tell you the 87 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 1: average span of rain for a king at this point 88 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: in time was two years. They come and they go, 89 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 1: they're assassinated, or they run out of town. Vlad's father, 90 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: Vlad Drakul the older, Remember that's the father. He is 91 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: constantly having to play this game as well. I'm not 92 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:41,559 Speaker 1: going to talk about his life. I actually probably could, 93 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: but long story short, he has a few sons. He 94 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: takes two of his sons, including Vlad our boy Vlad 95 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: and his brother rad Duel. Don't worry about rememorizing Rad Duel. 96 00:06:55,720 --> 00:07:00,839 Speaker 1: Don't worry about that. They are beckoned to the Ottoman Empire. 97 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire says, come on down 98 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 1: and see me. Now. Remember we always talk about there 99 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: are different degrees of kings and monarchs. There's the all 100 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: powerful god king and then the guy who's there. He's powerful, 101 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 1: but I mean they can oust him. And then there's 102 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: the guy who's scared of the people. In the Ottoman Empire, 103 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: the Sultan is god king. He's the head of the military, 104 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: he's the head of their religion. He is the king king. 105 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: What the Sultan says goes Saltan very powerful man tells 106 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: Vlad the older, come on down, bring a couple sons 107 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: with you. When you come on down, We're just gonna 108 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: have a chat, that's all. We're just gonna chat. Brings 109 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: him in, says yeah about that chat thing. You're gonna 110 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: be loyal to me now, and your sons are staying 111 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: here a hostage situation. Hostage situation can bring up some 112 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: really negative images in your mind. You should set that aside. Historically, 113 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 1: this was very, very very common. You see the Sultan, yes, 114 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 1: he wanted the sons to stay there, and it was known. 115 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: It was just an open thing because I'm going to 116 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: murder and maybe torture first your sons if you're disloyal 117 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: to me. Lad, However, I don't want you to think 118 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: these sons were kept in a dungeon in chains with 119 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: a knife to their throat. You see, the sultan he 120 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 1: had a plan, and this is very common in the 121 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: hostage situations in the day. He was going to raise 122 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 1: these boys right, raise them well. And one day he 123 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 1: was going to place one of these boys on the 124 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 1: throne of Volachia so he could have a loyal subject 125 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 1: who he had raised on the throne. Now, let's paw 126 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: was there for a brief moment. There's always religious tension 127 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: in the world. We don't live in the only period 128 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,959 Speaker 1: of time where Christians are fighting, Muslims are fighting, Jews 129 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 1: are fighting. This is the history of the world, religions 130 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: competing with each other. So I don't want to pretend 131 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: as if the fourteen hundreds were unique. However, they were 132 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: a little different than what you and I are used to. 133 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: Whole nations were considered Christian, Ottoman Empire considered Muslim, and 134 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: they would clash a lot, huge armies going at each 135 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 1: other in the name of God. It was not a 136 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: small thing. And Christian Europe was horrified of this Ottoman 137 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: storm that had risen so fast. The Ottomans had come 138 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: almost out of nowhere, and they have this modern army 139 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 1: and they are really, really, really and really powerful and 140 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 1: frankly more powerful than any individual nation in Europe. The 141 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 1: European nations have to band together, and people at this 142 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 1: time it was very common to think they're going to 143 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:18,679 Speaker 1: try to wipe out my God, my religion. These The 144 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: way they thought at the time were these Muslim pagans 145 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 1: were coming to take everything from me, and they were 146 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: looking for a hero. Oh, they were going to find 147 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 1: an interesting one. The death of standards. And we'll finish 148 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:50,079 Speaker 1: our history story coming up. 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They wanted to see, 168 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 1: as all empires do, just how fast and far can 169 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 1: we go here? Remember, we're gonna talk about the death 170 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 1: of standards today. It's gonna be cool. Oh, and the 171 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: death of cable news. There's a lot of death today, Chris, 172 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 1: It's very dark, all right. Back to Laddan Payler, Vlad 173 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: is now a hostage at the age of thirteen. He 174 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: and his brother Radu are a hostage of the Ottoman Empire. Remember, 175 00:12:56,360 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 1: Vlad has been raised Christian. His father was called Vlad 176 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 1: Drakul Vlad the Dragon because he was a member of 177 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: the Order of the Dragon. The Order of the Dragon 178 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: was a Christian group to fight off Muslims. Vlad has 179 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 1: been raised to be a Christian and a sword in 180 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 1: your hand against the threat of Islam Christian. That's the 181 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:27,079 Speaker 1: kind of world we're talking about here, probably different than 182 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: the one you've grown up in, but that's what Vlad 183 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: grew up in. Now he finds himself in the Sultan's court. Remember, 184 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: though hostage is a strong way to put it. He 185 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:44,439 Speaker 1: is given all kinds of schooling. He's taught military tactics, 186 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 1: he is he's taught by philosophers. He and his brother 187 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 1: they eat well, they they're dressed well. These guys are 188 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 1: not suffering. But Vlad is suffering a bit more than 189 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 1: his brother. You see, his brother Raduel is a famously 190 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:03,560 Speaker 1: handsome human being, although we don't know what he looks like. 191 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 1: They I'll talk about how handsome he was and his 192 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: brother Radul very early on. Personalities are just different. Who 193 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 1: knows the reasons. His brother Radul decided he was going 194 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,440 Speaker 1: to be a good boy and get along well with everybody, 195 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: the sultan, the Sultan's son, who's going to take over. 196 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 1: We'll get to him in a minute. It's just there. 197 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: He's going along. Hey, I like this Islam thing. I 198 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 1: think I'll convert. He is going all in. Vlad Ah 199 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: not so much. Vlad does not want to convert. Is 200 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: not going to convert. He does not want to be there. 201 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 1: He despises the Ottomans. He wants to be back there 202 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 1: helping his father and brother. He hates everything, and he's 203 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 1: always rebelling and he's getting whipped all the time for rebelling. 204 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: On top of getting whipped for rebelling, he's witnessing how 205 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: the Ottomans administer justice back in the day. This is 206 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: a brutal time period. This wasn't unique to the Ottoman Empire. 207 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: But let's just say, I need to call my lawyer. 208 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: Was not something you heard often when you got arrested 209 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 1: back then. It's more like, please don't pull out all 210 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: my fingernails and burn me alive. And Vlad, as a 211 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: young man, is witnessing this. Then they get a phone call. 212 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: It's not a phone call, it's the fourteen hundreds, but 213 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 1: for effect, they get a phone call one day, ring ring, 214 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 1: ring ring. Vlad, you remember that father you had and 215 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 1: the brother you love that we're back in Volachia. They're dead. Now. 216 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 1: Those boyars, the nobles we've talked about before. You see 217 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 1: the country at very powerful nobles who were always tossing 218 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 1: out the king. Yeah, they took your father and they 219 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 1: killed him, and they took your older brother you loved, 220 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: and they buried him alive, face down, and they did 221 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: so with the help of the Ottomans, who you're currently 222 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 1: a hostage of. This apparently, from what we know, broke 223 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 1: Vlad I broke maybe a strong way to put it. 224 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: This altered the rest of his life. Vlad is now 225 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 1: a man on a mission. So while there dies brother's dead, 226 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 1: the sultan he gets a knock on the door. It's Vlad. 227 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 1: Vlad walks in and says, I know you want your 228 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 1: man on the throne over there in Vallachia. I can 229 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: do that. Give me some backing and I'll go take 230 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 1: the throne. The Sultan knows Vlad hates him, but also 231 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 1: thinks it's better to have our guy on our side. 232 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 1: And he knows Vlad is very capable. Let's be clear 233 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 1: about something. He's proven himself with all of his training 234 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 1: to be the capable brother. This dude is a beast, 235 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 1: very capable militarily personally with a sore Vlad killed several 236 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:06,199 Speaker 1: people himself in battle. He was apparently short and built 237 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:10,439 Speaker 1: like a brick house and frightening to look at. You 238 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: can see paintings of him. Well, he was imprisoned later on. 239 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:16,120 Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a minute. He was imprisoned 240 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,720 Speaker 1: later on where they went and painted him ugly as 241 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: sin and really terrifying. Everybody talked about how scary the 242 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: guy was. Vlad takes off, goes back, gets the throne. 243 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 1: I'm skipping over quite a few things here for effect. 244 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 1: He actually loses the throne because of the boyers again, 245 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:41,119 Speaker 1: has to escape rallies, turns around and comes back and 246 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:43,639 Speaker 1: takes it again. And I just jumped over like a 247 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:47,160 Speaker 1: two year period of time for the interest of time, 248 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 1: because let's get to Vlad's second rule for a moment. 249 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: You see, Vlad steps into power. He has seen his 250 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 1: father killed, he's seen the brother who he loved buried alive, 251 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:03,399 Speaker 1: he's seeing his own power take it away. And he's 252 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: seen all of these things done at the hands of 253 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:11,160 Speaker 1: the Ottomans and the hands of the boyers, the nobles 254 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,160 Speaker 1: in his own country. And Vlad looks around and says 255 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:20,640 Speaker 1: to himself, you know, let's go ahead and take care 256 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: of this problem. Lad sends out invitations to a banquet. 257 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 1: Who doesn't love a banquet? Vlad invites the two hundred 258 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 1: boyers and their wives, who he blames for killing his 259 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 1: father and killing his brother. And to get himself motivated 260 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: for said banquet, Vlad locates where they buried his brother 261 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: and digs him up and sees the body buried face 262 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 1: down where he was buried alive. Now he's uniquely motivated 263 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 1: to have this banquet. And at this banquet, this is 264 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:13,879 Speaker 1: a a cunning individual. He is handing out the food, 265 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 1: he's handing out the drinks. These are nobles. They're used 266 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,480 Speaker 1: to the best, and Flad gives them the best, and 267 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: with a smile on his face, completely cheery, he starts 268 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 1: making conversation with them. He starts asking them things like 269 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:31,200 Speaker 1: how many rulers have you had here? And the boyers 270 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 1: go all get a good laugh about it, Oh we've 271 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 1: had so many. They come and they go, and Flad's all, oh, 272 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 1: oh yeah, they do. They come and they go, don't 273 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:48,200 Speaker 1: we Yeah, okay. Lad gives the signal. His troops storm 274 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 1: into the room. He gathers up all the boyers and 275 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: their wives. These are the most powerful people in Vallachia. 276 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:02,880 Speaker 1: He takes the older ones outside, makes everybody watch as 277 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 1: he impales them. He wasn't called Vlad the impale or 278 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:11,160 Speaker 1: for nothing. Would you like to know how people were 279 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: impaled back in the day. There's one of two ways. 280 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:18,959 Speaker 1: Vlad's preferred method was, of course, the worst one. You 281 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: could either stab someone in the stomach and it would 282 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: come out there back. I need to stress the steak, 283 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 1: the long wooden steak they impale people. One was not sharp. 284 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 1: It was intentionally dull. They didn't want you to die 285 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 1: right away. They wanted you to wiggle around on that 286 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 1: steak like a worm on a hook, for sometimes days suffering. 287 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 1: They even greased the pole first. And what I just 288 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:52,639 Speaker 1: described to you is actually the more pleasant of the 289 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: two ways people were impaled. The second way was again dull, 290 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:08,440 Speaker 1: wooden stick greased wooden stick. A incision was made right 291 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 1: in between where you go number one and number two. 292 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 1: Steak placed steak, pounded in with the hammer, and then 293 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: steak lifted up high so you can slowly work your 294 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 1: way down. And if you thought that was the worst 295 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 1: thing Vlad did, we haven't even begun yet. All right, 296 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,880 Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about Trump doing something too little too late. 297 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:50,400 Speaker 1: Hang on, you're never completely ready to adopt a team 298 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 1: for late nights. Writing English papers are your teen's music 299 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,879 Speaker 1: taste for dinners where they talk more on their phone 300 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:03,400 Speaker 1: than with you. For the first time they call your mom. 301 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 1: You're never completely ready to adopt a teen, and you 302 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: can't imagine the reward. 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Vlad took the older the infirm 322 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,359 Speaker 1: out and impaled them. He took all the younger ones 323 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 1: out to the country and worked them to death. What 324 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,640 Speaker 1: were they doing as he worked them to death? They 325 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: were building castles and fortresses. Vlad was not allowed by 326 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 1: the Ottomans to build castles and fortresses. The Ottomans wanted 327 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: to make sure Volachia was just a nice super highway 328 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 1: for them when they came through. Vlad had no intention 329 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:12,359 Speaker 1: of doing as he was told, especially by the Ottomans. 330 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:20,120 Speaker 1: And let me be clear, Vlad had maybe maybe twenty 331 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: to thirty thousand troops at his disposal. The Ottomans had 332 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of troops at their disposal. Vlad, Volachia 333 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 1: was a second rate, third rate country with no business 334 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 1: poking the Ottoman Empire in the ribs. However, when you're 335 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:41,879 Speaker 1: Vlad the freaking impaler, you poke anybody in the ribs 336 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 1: you want to. Vlad was, well, let's get to the 337 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 1: interesting parts and get to the really cruel parts. You see, 338 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 1: Vlad he ran perhaps the most aggressive clean up the 339 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:03,480 Speaker 1: homelessness from the streets campaign in the history of mankind. 340 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:10,160 Speaker 1: Vlad was an obsessively I don't know if you want 341 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 1: to call him moral, but he's one of these dudes 342 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 1: that had a strict moral code and if you didn't 343 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:21,679 Speaker 1: adhere to it, you died. And he thought homeless people 344 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:28,119 Speaker 1: were lazy, and he hated laziness. So remember the banquet 345 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:32,199 Speaker 1: we just had. Pearly, you don't want to accept those invitations. 346 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 1: Vlad invites all the beggars in Vallachia because he hated 347 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 1: seeing them on the streets. Thought they were lazy, thought 348 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 1: they brought everyone down. He thought they were thieves. He 349 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: called them thieves. He's like, they slowly drain your money 350 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 1: over time. He thought that a street robber with a 351 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,680 Speaker 1: knife to your throat was less evil than these people. 352 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:57,120 Speaker 1: Gathers them all for a banquet, feeds them, gets them 353 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:02,400 Speaker 1: hammer housed drunk, Then as all his men leave, seals 354 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,360 Speaker 1: the door and burns the building to the ground with 355 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:13,639 Speaker 1: all the homeless people in Vallachia inside. Not exactly a 356 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: high point morally, for his rule. Did clean up the streets, though, 357 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: and he would do things like this. Often, he would 358 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:26,679 Speaker 1: dress in disguise and go walk amongst the peasants to 359 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,920 Speaker 1: see if they were being moral. If they weren't, you're 360 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 1: gonna die. He had a Venetian merchant come through from 361 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,360 Speaker 1: out of town one time. Venetian merchant has a wagon 362 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:43,160 Speaker 1: full of valuables in gold. Merchant comes up to Lad, 363 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: goes and gets a visit with him. Says, Lad, I 364 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:51,360 Speaker 1: have this wagon, all these goods, all this gold. Somebody's 365 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 1: gonna steal something. What should I do with this thing? 366 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 1: Vlad says, Oh, just leave it right in the town square. 367 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:00,239 Speaker 1: It'll be fine. Merchant goes home, crashes out for the night, 368 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,679 Speaker 1: wakes up the next morning, goes down to his cart 369 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,679 Speaker 1: and finds there are gold pieces missing. We'll call them 370 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: a hundred because I don't have the exact number one 371 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: hundred gold pieces missing. Goes to Vlad and says, hey, buddy, 372 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 1: somebody stole my gold pieces. There were a hundred of him. 373 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 1: Lad says, Oh, don't worry, We're gonna find the guy 374 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:25,639 Speaker 1: who did that. In the meantime, Vlad has one hundred 375 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 1: and one gold pieces returned to the Venetian merchant's wagon. 376 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,919 Speaker 1: Venetian merchant goes back to his wagon, counts the gold, 377 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 1: sees there's an extra gold piece in there, and goes 378 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 1: back to Vlad. As he gets to Lad, Vlad has 379 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,639 Speaker 1: already found the thief and he's beginning the process of 380 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:51,880 Speaker 1: driving a wooden steak into his took us. The merchant says, 381 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 1: I hate to interrupt, Lad, but you did give me 382 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 1: an extra gold piece, and Lad said, yeah, I did 383 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,199 Speaker 1: that on purpose. If you hadn't brought me back that 384 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:06,440 Speaker 1: extra gold piece, you'd be impaled right beside him. Dude 385 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:12,920 Speaker 1: was a beast. Mamet the Second is now the Sultan 386 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,920 Speaker 1: of the Ottoman Empire. He wants to make sure Vlad 387 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,359 Speaker 1: is on his side, wants to make sure Vlad is 388 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:23,360 Speaker 1: paying homage. So Mamet the Second, I can't stress this enough. 389 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 1: The most powerful man on the planet, with the most 390 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,880 Speaker 1: powerful army on the planet that borders Vlad's empire, where 391 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,159 Speaker 1: he doesn't have an army like that. Mamet the Second 392 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 1: sends sends an email to Vlad, a fourteen hundredth version 393 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 1: of an email saying come see me now. You need 394 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 1: to pay tribute. Vlad writes back, I don't think I 395 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 1: will actually no, thank you, Mamet the second, not a 396 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 1: man used to being refused, then sends emissaries to Vlad. 397 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 1: Now these emissaries are Muslims. They're wearing turbans on their head. 398 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 1: They come in and see Lad in Lad's court. Lad says, 399 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,960 Speaker 1: take off your turbans. You're in my court. What are 400 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 1: you doing? Take off your turbans. The Ottoman emissaries say, 401 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: it's not our tradition. Are our customs? Say we leave 402 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 1: our turbans on. Lad says, okay, you know what, leave 403 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 1: your turbans on, tells his men go get some hammers 404 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 1: and nails. He surrounds the emissaries, holds them down, and 405 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:49,160 Speaker 1: nails their turbans into their skulls, so they stay there permanently. Well, 406 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: Mamet the second is not exactly a man. You want 407 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 1: to do that kind of thing too. So Mamet the 408 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 1: Second decides, oh, all right, We've I put up with 409 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,360 Speaker 1: this guy for long enough. Let's smack him down. But 410 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: remember this. Remember wars then and now are expensive. They 411 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 1: take time. You have to mobilize people here and mobilize 412 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,480 Speaker 1: people there. Supply is very difficult, especially back at this 413 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 1: point in time. Could Memet the Second get his whole 414 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 1: army up there and squash all of Vlachia like a bug, 415 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 1: no question about it. But Memet the second is wanting 416 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 1: to invade Hungary, a major empire in all of Europe. 417 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,200 Speaker 1: He doesn't want to take time out of his day 418 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 1: to go invade Velachia. It's just a smaller empire anyway, 419 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:49,160 Speaker 1: just a tiny little country. So instead he sends some 420 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 1: of his elite advanced cavalry, a big bunch of them, 421 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 1: and says, go get this freaking lad and kill him, 422 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 1: and we'll just put our guy in there so we 423 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 1: can walk through cavalry guys. Says, no problem, We've got 424 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,080 Speaker 1: it covered. Except there is a problem. Vlad the Impaler 425 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,800 Speaker 1: was much more than just cruel and a bit aggressively 426 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 1: anti homeless. Vlad the Impaler was an outstanding military tactician, 427 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:24,280 Speaker 1: personally himself absurdly brave. Vlad also knew Velachia like the 428 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 1: back of his hand, and the Ottomans didn't. Vlad gets 429 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 1: this fancy schmancy Ottoman cavalry into a tiny, tiny mountain 430 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:38,160 Speaker 1: pass where they got trapped, and he slaughters them all. 431 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,480 Speaker 1: And not only does he slaughter them all, he impales 432 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 1: them all and impales their commander on the highest stake 433 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,920 Speaker 1: there is as a message to the Ottomans, feel free 434 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,440 Speaker 1: to keep bringing it. I haven't run out of poles yet. 435 00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:03,000 Speaker 1: Now I'm at the second is upset. Upset is really 436 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: really putting it mildly. Moment, the second is going to 437 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 1: give his full attention to this upstart in Vlachia. 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The second is not going to 459 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,440 Speaker 1: sit by and watch his cavalry gets slaughtered and his 460 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:19,120 Speaker 1: men impaled, and he is now focusing on Vallachia, and 461 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,759 Speaker 1: he marches his army right up to the Danube River. 462 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:28,480 Speaker 1: Danube River is the border between Vallachia and the Ottoman Empire. 463 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:34,800 Speaker 1: Vlad is not the type to sit back and just wait. 464 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:39,000 Speaker 1: Vlad knows he in no way has a chance against 465 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:43,319 Speaker 1: an army this size, so he's gonna go ahead and 466 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:47,000 Speaker 1: kill as many Turks as he can possibly kill before 467 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:54,040 Speaker 1: they kill him. Vlad takes his small force and Vlad 468 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:58,640 Speaker 1: attacks across the Danube. He goes after them, and he 469 00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 1: doesn't go after them an idiot just riding headlong, screaming 470 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:06,520 Speaker 1: you see Vlad. Let's not forget where Vlad was raised. 471 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,480 Speaker 1: Lad spent much of his childhood in the presence of 472 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:17,400 Speaker 1: the Ottoman Turks. He spoke the language fluently. Vlad would 473 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:23,319 Speaker 1: routinely himself, not someone else, himself, dress up like a 474 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:28,480 Speaker 1: Turk and sneak into camps and then let his men 475 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:37,080 Speaker 1: get into camps, poisoning water supplies, murdering people, completely guerrilla tactics, 476 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:41,319 Speaker 1: flat out terrorism. He would kill camp helpers, he would 477 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,120 Speaker 1: kill soldiers, he would kill leaders, he would kill horses. 478 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:52,320 Speaker 1: He killed everything, absolutely, hit and run. Memet the second 479 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,680 Speaker 1: is losing his mind at this point in time. He 480 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,719 Speaker 1: cannot find him, He cannot figure out where this guy is. 481 00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:02,560 Speaker 1: And then Vlad because he's Lad, the freaking impaler. Besides, 482 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 1: he's gonna go do the same thing to his own people. 483 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:10,280 Speaker 1: Allow me to explain. He crosses back over the Danube 484 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,239 Speaker 1: and runs his own people out of their homes and 485 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:17,759 Speaker 1: their farms so he can do a scorched earth policy 486 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:21,360 Speaker 1: of burning the ground to make sure when the Ottomans 487 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:25,320 Speaker 1: due cross there's no supplies for them. So Vlad burns 488 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,879 Speaker 1: down and cuts down all the trees. He poisons all 489 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:35,960 Speaker 1: the water in his own country, and it works. Mamet 490 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:40,040 Speaker 1: the Second crosses the Danube and his guys are dying 491 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:43,799 Speaker 1: of thirst because they can't find water that Vlad hasn't poisoned. 492 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,040 Speaker 1: Oh but wait, are you ready for the coolest part 493 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 1: before we wrap this up? Mamet? The seconds men are hungry, 494 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:57,640 Speaker 1: They're thirsty. This has been miserable. It should have been easy, 495 00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,120 Speaker 1: but this human nightmare has made life a living hell 496 00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:06,680 Speaker 1: on the powerful Ottoman Turks. Nevertheless, they start riding towards 497 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:11,560 Speaker 1: the capital of Vallachia. And what do they see ahead? 498 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:15,600 Speaker 1: What is that? That's a weird looking forest. It looks 499 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,359 Speaker 1: it looks awfully organized. That doesn't look natural because they 500 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:25,359 Speaker 1: saw it from a distance. As they got closer and closer, 501 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:32,120 Speaker 1: the entire Ottoman army, including Memet, begin to be horrified. 502 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:37,440 Speaker 1: You see what they found as they got closer was 503 00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:44,840 Speaker 1: Vlad had earned that nickname the Impaler. He had taken 504 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:52,799 Speaker 1: twenty to thirty thousand Turks, he had captured, and he 505 00:37:53,040 --> 00:38:00,319 Speaker 1: had impaled them in a semi circle forest. He had 506 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:04,759 Speaker 1: everything else cut down. So the Ottoman army was now 507 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:10,560 Speaker 1: marching through a forest of impaled countrymen of their own. 508 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:17,200 Speaker 1: That's something worse than any horror movie could ever produce. Ever, 509 00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:21,759 Speaker 1: Oh don't get me wrong. The Ottoman Empire still went 510 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,560 Speaker 1: in and one right after Mement the second road through 511 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:30,399 Speaker 1: this forest of dead Ottoman Turks, he decided this whole 512 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,960 Speaker 1: conquest thing wasn't really for him this time, and he 513 00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:44,280 Speaker 1: turned around and went home. Lad ends up retreating, escaping, 514 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,440 Speaker 1: gets arrested and hungry for ten years. That's why we 515 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:51,160 Speaker 1: have the pictures, gets the throne back again, and then 516 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:55,439 Speaker 1: in the end, in the end does get beheaded by 517 00:38:55,560 --> 00:39:01,160 Speaker 1: the Ottomans, his head preserved in honey. He is still 518 00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:07,399 Speaker 1: famously well, he's a hero to this day and that 519 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:19,840 Speaker 1: part of the world. He is a hero sometimes all 520 00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:26,200 Speaker 1: the time, actually, but history it tells us the choices 521 00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:30,200 Speaker 1: people make. It's not just that Vlad is a hero 522 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,680 Speaker 1: in that part of the world. Today. All of Europe 523 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:40,080 Speaker 1: practically worshiped him because there was this big, scary Muslim 524 00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,279 Speaker 1: empire coming to kill them all, and all of a 525 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:48,040 Speaker 1: sudden you have this dude given it to him, making 526 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:54,520 Speaker 1: their life miserable. He was the hero of Christian Christian Europe. 527 00:39:56,520 --> 00:40:02,480 Speaker 1: You see people talk about I don't want to be 528 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:06,040 Speaker 1: anti this. I want to stand for something, not against something. 529 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,960 Speaker 1: You'll hear that a lot. That's fine. I get that. 530 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:14,160 Speaker 1: But it's important that everybody understands something about the population 531 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:18,399 Speaker 1: of America right now, what they're facing, and what they're 532 00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:23,160 Speaker 1: going to choose. Hang on a sec, I'll tell you 533 00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:38,200 Speaker 1: what it is. Wake up and text, Text and eat, 534 00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:43,760 Speaker 1: Text and catch the bus, Text and miss your stop. 535 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:48,879 Speaker 1: Wait wait right, Text and be late to work, Sorry late, 536 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:55,200 Speaker 1: Text and work, Text and pretend to work. Text and 537 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:57,600 Speaker 1: x surprised when someone calls you out for not working. 538 00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:00,879 Speaker 1: Text and meet up with a friend you haven't seen 539 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:04,360 Speaker 1: in forever. Hi, ohy. Text and complain that they're on 540 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,839 Speaker 1: their phone the whole time. Text and listen to them, 541 00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:12,840 Speaker 1: complain that you're on your phone the whole time. Text 542 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:16,120 Speaker 1: and whatever. But when you get behind the wheel, give 543 00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:18,799 Speaker 1: your phone to a passenger, put it in the glovebox. 544 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:24,399 Speaker 1: Just don't text and drive. Visit stop texts, stoprex dot org. 545 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,240 Speaker 1: A public service announcement brought to you by the National 546 00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:52,759 Speaker 1: Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the AD Council. This is 547 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:57,280 Speaker 1: a memo not only to the left in today's America. 548 00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:02,120 Speaker 1: This is a memo to the JP in today's America, 549 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,760 Speaker 1: a memo to the pundits, a memo to everybody, Because 550 00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:09,760 Speaker 1: what I'm about to tell you is an absolute fact, 551 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:14,280 Speaker 1: and I just want to make sure I'm perfectly clear 552 00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:19,040 Speaker 1: about this. I'm not cheering for what I'm about to 553 00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:24,440 Speaker 1: tell you. There are several realities of life I acknowledge 554 00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:31,440 Speaker 1: that I don't love. However, what I'm telling you is true. 555 00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,680 Speaker 1: And you know how I know it's true because the 556 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:39,319 Speaker 1: history of the world tells me it's true. All of 557 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:44,560 Speaker 1: Christian Europe looking at Ladian Paler, burning homeless people alive 558 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:49,080 Speaker 1: and saying to themselves that dude is my guy. What 559 00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:55,840 Speaker 1: should that tell you about Americans in twenty twenty. I'll 560 00:42:55,840 --> 00:43:31,399 Speaker 1: tell you in just a second. This is a Jesse 561 00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:35,520 Speaker 1: Kelly show. On the Jordan Harbinger Show, You'll hear amazing 562 00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:39,040 Speaker 1: stories from people that have lived them, from spies to CEOs, 563 00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:42,640 Speaker 1: even an undercover agent who infiltrated the Gambino crime family. 564 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:45,240 Speaker 1: You're about to hear a preview of The Jordan Harbinger 565 00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:48,280 Speaker 1: Show with Jack Garcia, who did just that. My career 566 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,680 Speaker 1: was twenty four out of twenty six years was solely 567 00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,880 Speaker 1: dedicated working on the cover. I walk in. I'm in 568 00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,600 Speaker 1: the bar. How there's a bar made dad? Good looking 569 00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,239 Speaker 1: young lady she's starving me. Jokey, Hey, what would you like? 570 00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:03,000 Speaker 1: I usually my frank was give me a kettle, one martini, 571 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,560 Speaker 1: three olives, class of water on the side. I finished 572 00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,400 Speaker 1: the drink, the guys come in. I'm gonna go go 573 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:11,960 Speaker 1: in my pocket, take out the big water of money 574 00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,640 Speaker 1: I am. I give her one hundred dollars. If you're 575 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,560 Speaker 1: with the Mob, I say, hey, Jordan, you're on record 576 00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,479 Speaker 1: with us. That means we protect you. Nobody could shake 577 00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,200 Speaker 1: you down. We could shake you down. Oh, you're on 578 00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,920 Speaker 1: record with us. For more on how Jack became so 579 00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:29,480 Speaker 1: trusted in the highest levels of the Gambino organization, check 580 00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,720 Speaker 1: out episode three ninety two of The Jordan Harbinger Show.