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Speaker 2: It is the Jesse Kelly Show on Ay Wednesday, another

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Speaker 2: hour of the Jesse Kelly Show. And here's what you

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Speaker 2: can expect for this hour. I will tell you normally

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Speaker 2: this is more of a political talk show. Of course.

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Speaker 2: Now clearly we drive the show off the rails and

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Speaker 2: top food and life and the fact that I'm wearing

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Speaker 2: a back brace today and other embarrassing things. And obviously

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Speaker 2: we do talk quite a bit of history on the

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Speaker 2: show because I am a history freak. I love it.

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Speaker 2: I talk about politics and power and anti communism because

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Speaker 2: I feel obligated too, because I feel an obligation, a

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Speaker 2: duty to try to do what I can to save

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Speaker 2: my country. But I will tell you if tomorrow America

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Speaker 2: was saved and fixed and we got everything worked out,

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Speaker 2: I would love to just do a history show every day.

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Speaker 2: I would. I feel obligated to talk about the fights

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Speaker 2: that do matter, and they do matter, So I'm going

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Speaker 2: to keep doing that a lot. But history is what

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Speaker 2: I love. If you're a new listener, I will do

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Speaker 2: this from time to time. You may love it, you

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Speaker 2: to keep doing it. I would just decide that I

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Speaker 2: want to talk about history for a while, and that's

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Speaker 2: what I'm about to do. All I know about inflation

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Speaker 2: numbers and everything else, and we'll get to a bunch

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Speaker 2: of that stuff next hour. But for now, we're going

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Speaker 2: to talk about Sola. Lucius Cornelius Sola. He finished his

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Speaker 2: life with one of the great great quotes of all time,

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Speaker 2: a quote I'm not going to give you right now.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna have to wait until the end for that one.

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Speaker 2: But first of all, who was Sola? What are we're

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Speaker 2: talking about here? Well, we have to set this up

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Speaker 2: and we have to go to Rome. This is pre

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Speaker 2: is pre Jesus. No, seriously, we're talking just I don't

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Speaker 2: give out dates and specific things like that because it

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Speaker 2: It's right around that time. This is before Christ. Now

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Speaker 2: what's going on in Rome at the time? Well, remember Rome?

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Speaker 2: The Rome most people know, not you, but the norms.

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Speaker 2: If you were the norms mostly know the Rome that

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Speaker 2: Don't think about a dictator like Julius Caesar or one

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Speaker 2: of the real monster types Colleguila Nero. That's what most

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Speaker 2: people think Rome is. But Rome was really one of

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Speaker 2: the only ones in the ancient world. It began as

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Speaker 2: a republic. In fact, they were dead set against any

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Speaker 2: ruled by a group of men. Now, when I say republic,

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Speaker 2: you need to not picture America's system. It wasn't quite

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Speaker 2: that representative at all. There were classes, strict classes in

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Speaker 2: it's not as if this was just rom was just

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Speaker 1: No, freedom is not free.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no no. But it was a republic where

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Speaker 2: they did not have a king. Now, the Romans they

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Speaker 2: You can't have a legislature debating this, so that you

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Speaker 2: him in charge temporarily. Hey, you're a dictator, you run

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Speaker 2: the fact that they're fighting was excellent, their fighting style

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Speaker 2: was excellent. But for that, in a laundry list of reasons,

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Speaker 2: Rome began to grow. Rome began small, obviously, like all

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Speaker 2: it's the butt kicking part we need to talk about specifically,

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Speaker 2: because here's what was happening in Rome. Rome was getting very,

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Speaker 2: very very wealthy as a nation. They were getting wealthy

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Speaker 2: because militarily they were just dominating people. And in the

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Speaker 2: Of course, it would be profitable. Ever talked to a

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Speaker 2: Have you ever looked at a profit loss sheet? We

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Speaker 2: and see how they're broken down. You want to know

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Speaker 2: what virtually every business owner business manager on the planet,

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Speaker 2: the costs. They're always trying to reduce labor costs. Now

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Speaker 2: not the one that takes the employer's side all the time.

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Speaker 2: But that is the big thing that's always dragging you down. Always.

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Speaker 2: What if? What if you could reduce those costs down

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Speaker 2: to zero. Well, that's what slaves do for you. I

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Speaker 2: of everybody. So that's how it worked. Slaves are big, big,

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Speaker 2: One of those rising tide raises all boats thing, think

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Speaker 2: nineteen hundred in America, right, everybody. Now, we're not all

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Speaker 2: the same, and we never will be all the same.

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Speaker 2: But everyone is benefiting from living in this free country

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Speaker 2: where money is pouring it and pouring it and pouring it

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Speaker 2: And as they drifted further and further away from their founding,

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Speaker 2: even more money, we can gather even more power for ourselves.

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Speaker 2: And because we're pieces of crap who don't care about

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Speaker 2: their concerns. None of this sounds familiar, does it? And

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Speaker 2: so when they won these wars, they would hoover up

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Speaker 2: at Walmart picking out toilet paper. If you're a rich guy,

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Speaker 2: you'd go down and start buying slaves. Well, what would

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Speaker 2: it happen? What would happen in a society if they

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Speaker 2: started importing people from foreign lands in math, Yes, because

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Speaker 2: they could pay them less money. Not that you, an

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Speaker 2: Do I need to mention that over the last three

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Speaker 2: for American citizens. They were going through this exact same

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Speaker 2: And so if you're a Roman rich guy, you own

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Speaker 2: that's two hundred men with families, wives, kids, They support them,

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Speaker 2: an old saying, a great saying. I believe it was

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Speaker 2: so many things in life. And the saying goes like this,

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Speaker 2: things that cannot go on will not go on. You

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Speaker 2: cannot have a nation full of citizens who are being

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Speaker 2: have to use your imagination. The popular as were the populace?

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Speaker 2: depressing before we get to that. You know what's wild

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Speaker 2: about this time? One hundred years before Christ? Think about this,

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Speaker 2: Think how crazy this is. It's the year twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: You need. Lodging, no problem, we take gold here. Food,

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Speaker 2: The lasting power of precious medals tells you all you

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Speaker 2: and you'll still have solid ground long after America is

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Speaker 2: dead and gone. That's what buying precious metals is about.

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Speaker 2: That kind of reliability. Call Oxford Gold Group and let

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Speaker 2: them send you some. They'll get it in your retirement,

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Speaker 2: they'll get some in your physical Possessiony'll mail it right

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Speaker 2: It is The Jesse Kelly Show on a Wednesday. Reminding

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Speaker 2: it's a history show for this hour, just because I'm

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Speaker 2: done talking about politics for an hour and we're talking

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Speaker 2: about Salah. Just gave a little background on the populist

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Speaker 2: So a populist movement in Rome began to rise in

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Speaker 2: the Italian boot as you would know it today. Well,

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Speaker 2: these were separate society. It was sam Knights, and there

427
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Speaker 2: was whatever, all kinds of different Italian societies, not Roman

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Speaker 2: but Italian, and Rome began to conquer all of them.

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Speaker 2: And Rome had conquered all them by this time, and

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Speaker 2: these societies were living under Roman rule, and these societies

431
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Speaker 2: were forced to provide Rome with troops whenever Rome wanted them. Hey,

432
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Speaker 2: ten thousand of your young men tomorrow, bring them here.

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Speaker 2: But they weren't given citizenship, and they were starting to

434
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Speaker 2: chafe under it, and a war broke out. They wanted citizenship.

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Speaker 2: Now let's talk about the two separate parties right now,

436
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Speaker 2: as it comes to that. The populaces in Rome, the popularees,

437
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Speaker 2: they wanted these other cities to get their Roman citizenship.

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Speaker 2: The elites, the optimates, for lack of better way to

439
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Speaker 2: put it, they did not. They were dead set against it.

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Speaker 2: This war breaks out, cities rebelled all over the place.

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Speaker 2: It was a law brutally bloody affair. And unlike most

442
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Speaker 2: Roman affairs, it wasn't Roman armies going out and curb

443
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Speaker 2: stomping these things and winning every time. Because remember these

444
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Speaker 2: societies were trained by Romans, equipped by Romans. They were

445
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Speaker 2: by all accounts Romans themselves. So it was Romans squaring

446
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Speaker 2: off against Romans. Salah gets involved in this thing. He's

447
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Speaker 2: fighting tooth and nail in this thing, and in the

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Speaker 2: end Rome has to give citizenship to all of these citizens.

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Speaker 2: It's called the social war. It was anything but social. Okay,

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Speaker 2: Now let's talk about Mithridates, another guy throughout history who's

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Speaker 2: so fascinating. This is amazing. Mithridates is a king, He's

452
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Speaker 2: running a kingdom called Pontus, and Pontus they're not bending

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Speaker 2: the need to Rome like everyone else is at this time.

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Speaker 2: In fact, Mithridates he's more than just throwing shade at Rome.

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Speaker 2: He's killing Romans. He's attacking Romans. Rome's not going to

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Speaker 2: stand for this. Sala This is about eighty eight BC.

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Speaker 2: Sala Is made console, he's made president, and sala Is

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Speaker 2: so well regarded militarily at this time that eventually, with

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Speaker 2: this Mithridates thing, they decide they're going to put Salah

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Speaker 2: in charge of the army that will go and defeat Mithridates.

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Speaker 2: Now pause. We have a tendency when we hear things

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Speaker 2: like this to think about this, like we put our

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Speaker 2: modern shoes on when we think about this. So if

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Speaker 2: it was me getting called up into the Marines to

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Speaker 2: go fight in Afghanistan, you would probably think and I

466
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Speaker 2: would think, oh, well, that that sucks. I mean, that's horrible.

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Speaker 2: The only thing worse than the food is to pay

468
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Speaker 2: and the fact you might get shot in the face.

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Speaker 2: I don't I don't want to go. I don't want

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Speaker 2: to fight anymore. My fighting days are done. I'm forty

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Speaker 2: two now, I got a back brace on. I don't

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Speaker 2: want to do that. But that's how we looked at it.

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Speaker 2: For generals and their troops back then, warfare was not

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Speaker 2: something they shied away from in Rome because of the

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Speaker 2: insane money that would come into your coffers when you

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Speaker 2: fought a war. If you were a Roman, just a

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Speaker 2: Roman regular troop or a Roman general, you wanted to

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Speaker 2: go fight a war, and you wanted to go fight

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Speaker 2: a big one. Yeah, you might die, but if you didn't,

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Speaker 2: at the end of it, you were crazy rich because

481
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Speaker 2: you were allowed to loot, and the Roman generals would

482
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Speaker 2: pay off their troops with slaves and money. You wanted it,

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Speaker 2: and the Romans decided Slah gets to go fight this Ah.

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Speaker 2: But then guyas Marius steps in and I'll tell you

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Speaker 2: that story. I'll try to finish this up next, no promises,

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Speaker 2: I might not. I ain't worried about it. Now. What

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Speaker 2: the Romans did was they had to send men to

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Speaker 2: go tell Slah the news that must be frustrating. I

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Speaker 2: It is the Jesse Kelly Show doing an hour of history.

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Speaker 2: Maybe more than an hour of history. I'm not totally

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Speaker 2: sure I'm gonna get this whole thing wrapped up in

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Speaker 2: hour three and that's just too bad. If you're listening

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Speaker 2: Jesse at jesse kellyshow dot com. All right, all right, now,

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to cover everything I've already covered. Just

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Speaker 2: know that we're doing a history story about Lucius Cornelia

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Speaker 2: Sulla and sala Is about to get command of a fighting,

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Speaker 2: a fighting force, a Roman fighting force. Who's going to

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Speaker 2: go fight this guy Mithridates, Mithridates of Pontus. But Gius

521
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Speaker 2: Marius is still around, and remember him and Solah they're

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Speaker 2: mortal enemies, and Gius Marius is a populist, Mithridates is

523
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Speaker 2: one of the elites. They are against each other in

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Speaker 2: every possible way. Sullah he wants this military command. He

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Speaker 2: wants it badly. Of course, he would want it really,

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Speaker 2: really badly. It would be lucrative for his reputation, for

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Speaker 2: his bank account. His men want it really badly. Salah

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Speaker 2: has already found out he's going to get it. He's

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Speaker 2: already told his men. They are all excited about it.

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Speaker 2: This is a good thing. But gius Marius is back

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Speaker 2: in Rome and he's politicking. And gius Marius twists enough arms,

532
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Speaker 2: pours enough honey into enough ears that he gets the

533
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Speaker 2: command of the Salah expedition and the Mithridates expedition. I

534
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Speaker 2: should say, he gets it taken away from Salah. This

535
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Speaker 2: is Salah's hour of glory, where he gets to command

536
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Speaker 2: and army and go conquer somebody. They send men to

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Speaker 2: Sala's camp to inform him that he has his command

538
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Speaker 2: now revoked. Hey, Salah, too bad, so sad you're no

539
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Speaker 2: longer allowed to lead the Mithridates campaign. Well, you want

540
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Speaker 2: to know how well that was received. Salah's men took

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Speaker 2: the messengers and stoned them to death. And then Salah

542
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Speaker 2: rallies his men and says, well, men, they want to

543
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Speaker 2: take this away from us. We can either let them,

544
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Speaker 2: or we can march on Rome and make them make

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Speaker 2: them do what we want. Now. I need to pause

546
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Speaker 2: right now because there are a couple of things I

547
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Speaker 2: need to say that we've kind of glossed over. You know,

548
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Speaker 2: I told you the populace were rising and there was

549
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Speaker 2: this populist movement rising, and how people, when there's enough

550
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Speaker 2: people angry about something, that will eventually start to get reforms.

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Speaker 2: There were a bunch of populous reforms that had already

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Speaker 2: been put into place, that were being put into place

553
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Speaker 2: to try to calm down the anger of the people,

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Speaker 2: to soothe their anger, tell them they're going to have

555
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Speaker 2: more reputation, the elites aren't going to be quite as evil.

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Speaker 2: So these reforms had already gone into place, all right,

557
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Speaker 2: So there's that. There's also this little thing Rome. Rome

558
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Speaker 2: didn't have a barracks with an army in it. That's

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Speaker 2: how I would picture it. Maybe you're different, but whenever

560
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Speaker 2: I picture a powerful ancient city, I always pictured well,

561
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Speaker 2: surely they've got an army laying around, right. That was

562
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Speaker 2: way against the law in Rome. You were not allowed

563
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Speaker 2: to have an army within the Rome when borders at all,

564
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Speaker 2: that is not allowed. Well, Salah gets his men rallied

565
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Speaker 2: up and he says to them, fellas, let's go to Rome.

566
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Speaker 2: And his men say absolutely, let's go to Rome. And

567
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Speaker 2: Sala marches on Rome. Now you know how I said,

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Speaker 2: Marius was there. He was the one who got Sala's

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Speaker 2: command taken away. When they all found out Sala was

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Speaker 2: marching on Rome, they freaked out. That had never been

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Speaker 2: done before. Wait a minute, he's what he is?

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Speaker 1: That mad?

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Speaker 2: He's coming here. What do we have? Do we have

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Speaker 2: anything that can fight him? Wait, we don't even have

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Speaker 2: an army. So Marius fled. Salah marches into Rome. He

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Speaker 2: marches into Rome with his army and he begins to

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Speaker 2: do some reforms. What kind of reforms. Well, he's cleaning

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Speaker 2: up a lot of this populos. Scrap a little thing here,

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Speaker 2: then he tells him, Okay, I'm glad I got you

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Speaker 2: go on my military campaign now, and I'm gonna go

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Speaker 2: fight anyone else. How many complaints about that, and as

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Speaker 2: you can imagine, all the Romans were all sounds good,

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Speaker 2: Now back to Salah. Sla marches off to war, and

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Speaker 2: Sala is fighting his war and he's doing well. But

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Speaker 2: something happens when SLA's gone. Remember Sla marched in with

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Speaker 2: he was off to war. And remember this is the

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Speaker 2: There aren't trains, there aren't automobiles. When you're marching off,

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Speaker 2: you're gone for a long time. As soon as Sala leaves,

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Speaker 2: Gius Marius comes right back into Rome and essentially takes

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Speaker 2: Rome over for the populace. Sala had put a bunch

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Speaker 2: He starts to kill Sala's men that were in place,

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Speaker 2: and starts to put in his populous government where he's

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Speaker 2: in charge. Now, that brings me to something that's uncomfortable

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Speaker 2: to talk about it, but we talk about it all

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Speaker 2: the time, especially because Joe Biden's the president. Age at

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Speaker 2: this time, Saala, he's still a man very much in

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Speaker 2: look it up and tell you exactly, but he's very

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Speaker 2: much in his fighting prime. Marius is an old man

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Speaker 2: by now, and we don't know exactly what his condition was,

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Speaker 2: but we know from a lot of the things that

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Speaker 2: he might have had dementia, right, We don't know. He's

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Speaker 2: on the back end, all right. So when I say

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Speaker 2: picture the Guius Marius that went up and took on

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Speaker 2: he's Gias Marius, and he's the man. This is look

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Speaker 2: life happens. We get old, this is old broken down

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Speaker 2: Gius Marius, but he's not too broken down to kill

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Speaker 2: Sala's men. Sala, off fighting a war, of course, gets

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Speaker 2: worried about what's happening in Rome, and Sala says, oh no.

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Speaker 2: So Sala quickly gets with Mithridates and he makes peace

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Speaker 2: because Salah has a different war to fight. We will

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Speaker 2: wrap up our history story and go back to politics

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Speaker 2: next