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We have somebody diving 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:51.480 to a sunken ship. I'm going to explain why it's awesome. 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:57.440 Andrew Cuomo, is he going down? Is he not going down? 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.280 I'm gonna tell you what I think. I think it's 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.600 actually going to happen from all this, and it's probably 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:07.320 not what anyone else is saying. Right now, we have 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:11.920 a teacher's union video. You know how I'm always saying, 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:17.280 get your kids out of government schools. If you haven't 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.119 already pulled them out, or at least have a desire 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:24.280 to pull them out, this one may solidify it for you. 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:28.079 There is a reason I say that all the time. 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:36.080 But first, let's go back about fifteen hundred years or 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.560 so a little more than that to a little place 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:46.280 called the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine Empire is simply this 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.240 the Eastern Roman Empire. I want to be clear about this. 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:56.079 It's always taught as being the Byzantine Empire. It's one 0:02:56.080 --> 0:03:00.880 of the ancient great empires. Byzantines it's the Byzantine. It's 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:05.800 the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire, which I find 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:10.240 to be the oddest thing in the world because if 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:15.399 you asked anybody, anybody who existed in that empire at 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.480 the time, and asked them what they were, not a 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.919 single person in the empire would have said, oh, we're 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.120 the Byzantine Empire. Every single one of them would have 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:30.520 said we're Roman. Oh were the Romans. It's just this 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.800 weird part about history where historians looked at it and 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:37.800 studied it, and there was this ancient city called Byzantium, 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.320 it was an ancient Greek city, and they just decided 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.600 to rename the empire something nobody in the empire would 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:49.920 have called themselves brief brief, you know, recap Rome. Because 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.400 we're in the year three ninety five a d. Three 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.600 hundred ninety five years after the birth of Christ, who 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.760 crisis people killed. We're not going to go into that, 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:58.320 right what, Chris, We're not going to go into that 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:03.480 right now. But three ninety five Rome is way way 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:09.560 way past the Julius Caesar time. Rome had made every 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.040 mistake an empire can make, you know, look around you. 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.679 We're making all of them right now too. Eventually Rome 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:21.719 split up. It became the Eastern and Western Roman Empire. 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.240 When you when you find out about the Eastern and 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.120 Western Roman Empire, he's all you need to know about. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.000 I shouldn't say all you need to know, but you know, 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.200 we always focus on the high points because that's all 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:37.200 people remember. Just know this. The western part was the 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.800 part in very serious trouble. They didn't have near the 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.760 financial resources. Will go into why here in a minute. 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.600 They had many more enemies right on their border. They 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.480 it just was bad. The Eastern part had all the 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.040 people and all the money and all the resources and 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.240 was much better off. But let's do away with that 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:58.360 for now, because by the time, by the time we're 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.320 in our story here, you just don't e We need 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.840 to think about the Western Roman Empire. Let's go to 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.560 the east, which is called the Byzantine Empire, which I 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.000 guess we'll stick with. But again, just no, they considered 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:16.920 themselves to be Roman. This is a Christian empire, and 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.160 there is no Yeah, in your face, Chris, there is 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:24.680 no separation of church and state here and there's not 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.040 in America either. I should I should mention. Just just 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.560 know that that whole separation of church and state thing, 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.880 it exists nowhere in the Constitution or Bill of Rights 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.960 at all. In fact, the Founders encouraged states all the 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.440 time to get churches built. They thought that was a 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:44.119 critically important part of a nation. Weird anyway, but there's 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:49.000 definitely no church and state in the Byzantine Empire. The 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:53.480 emperor is not considered a god, obviously, it's a Christian empire. Boy. 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:56.880 He's also you know, he's not a god, but he 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.920 knows him really, really well, one of those one of 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:05.120 those gods, you know, God's representative here on earth type thing. 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:10.600 And that's the room ended three ninety five. We're in 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.279 the year five thirty two, so we're about one hundred 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.440 you know, a little over one hundred years removed from 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.240 when Rome's gone, even though, like I said, these people 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:24.920 consider themselves Rome. Let's go to Constantinople modern day is Stanbul, 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:30.000 and as I often do, now's the time I'm asking you, 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:33.600 if you're not driving, and you have a way you 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.920 could do this safely. Go to your phone, go to 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:41.440 your computer and pull up a map of Istanbul. What 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:45.920 do you see? Zoom in zoom out. What do you 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.920 see focus? Look right there to the right of it. 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:55.240 You see that little strip of blue that is a critically, 0:06:55.920 --> 0:07:02.000 critically important body of water in the world. Why, well, 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:06.200 here's why. You see. Down to the southwest of it, 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.680 if you're diving, I'll just lay this out for you. 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.240 To the southwestern part of that little blue strip is 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:16.960 the Mediterranean, which obviously gives you access to all of 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:22.360 northern Africa, all of southern Europe, the Middle East, Turkey, 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:26.200 Saudi Arabia. I mean, the Mediterranean is such a gigantically 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:30.040 important body of water for trade and everything else. And 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:36.520 the Mediterranean leads you right out to the Atlantic by water. Well, 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.679 what's to the northeast of that little strait of water, 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:44.040 the Black Sea? The Black Sea gives you an absurd 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:49.120 amount of access to the Balkans. You're getting into Russia, Georgia. 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.560 That was a long way of me saying is Stanbul 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:59.720 now Constantinople back in the day is a critically maybe 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:03.280 the most important geographical location you would want to seize 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.920 in the world. And I realized that's a strong way 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.640 to put it. But man, it's one of those things. 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:13.400 It's it's you're selling water in the desert. If you 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.600 could just make sure you grab that with nothing else, 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.800 just grab that and hold that, you're going to be rich. 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:27.320 It's a stock that can't miss. Grab it, hold onto 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.520 it for long enough, you're going to retire very wealthy. 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:35.280 And that's where Constantinople was at this time. It is 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:40.679 obviously for reasons. I just laid out a booming megacity 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:45.400 at the time a million people, gigantic thought to be 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.800 in pregnable walls around it. Although they will found out 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.959 they will find out later on when the Ottomans come 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.199 that's not necessarily the case. But for the weaponry, I 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.320 should too in their credit for the weaponry that existed 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:02.520 at this time. It pretty much was impregnable. It was 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.079 the trade route of the world. Like for reasons I 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:10.199 just laid out it had If you look, it's just 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:14.000 a huge water all around it. And so they built 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:18.800 themselves a robust navy to help protect all the merchant vessels, 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:23.360 which jets kept more and more money pouring in. They 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.480 had obviously a barbarian border to the north, but it 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.480 wasn't a big one, and they had so much money 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:34.640 it gave them the resources to fund an outstanding army 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:38.520 and an outstanding military academy to train people to lead 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:43.080 set army. And let's pause there for just a moment. 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.160 As we have talked about a million times on the show, 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.120 and this very much applies to today because we're gonna 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.920 have a tough story to talk about today. I'll bring 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:58.440 it up a little later on military guy wearing nail 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.640 polish and such. Yeah, it's I doubt Chris, it's that bad. 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:10.479 But realize this. We love stories of American military prowess. Understandably, 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:14.400 every nation and the history of mankind has loved to 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.719 hear about their military victories and their veterans and how 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.160 tough they are. And we're tougher than you, and that's 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:25.080 human nature. But there's something about that you have to understand. 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.800 You really have to understand it. I will explain exactly 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.559 what that is in a little bit and diving for 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:56.439 sunken treasure hang on the Jesse Kelly Show. I'm going 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:00.319 to do the best I can not to sound like 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:04.000 your father here, but you need to take care of 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.960 your health. And you know, as usual, when I'm talking 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:12.280 to you, I'm talking to myself. I am now thirty 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:16.200 nine years old. I'm not nineteen. I cannot sadly eat 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:21.280 double cheeseburgers all day long, and I can't ignore my 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.559 heart and my blood pressure. My family history says I 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.520 can't ignore my heart my blood pressure. But you know, 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:32.199 I still have to live. I'm still me. Part of 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:37.200 my routine, part of your routine should be eating two 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:41.840 super Beats heart choose every single day. It doesn't sound difficult, 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:45.720 because it's not difficult. They taste delicious. Go to get 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:51.280 Superbeats dot com slash Jesse. That's get Superbeats dot com 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.719 slash Jesse. When you buy two bags, you get the 0:11:54.800 --> 0:12:22.320 third for free. Jesse. Kelly is Andrew Cuomo going down 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:25.680 for all this stuff. Oh, I have what I think. 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.040 I'll lay it out for you. It's not what everyone 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.200 else is saying. And I have a different reasoning. St 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.719 just look at things differently. And yes, we all know 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.040 I'm the oracle, so I'm probably what Chris, So I'm 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:44.599 probably right. Let's get back to our story here. I 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:48.320 was Look, we're in the year five thirty two. We're 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:52.599 talking about the Byzantine Empire. But I got briefly sidetracked 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.439 because I was talking about how great the Byzantine military 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:59.960 was their Navy Army. They're great. We love to tell 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:09.080 talk about our military too. Funding is everything to a military. 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:14.199 You like to imagine, and I like to imagine safely. 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:18.640 Our guys are tougher than their guys. They're tougher than 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.240 their guys. Remember that line I stole from the movie 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.960 Man on Fire. There's no such thing as tough. There's 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:32.600 trained and there's untrained. Our military guys are tougher air 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:37.079 fingers quote than their guys because our military guys have 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:44.160 the money, have the money to fund training facilities, bombs, bullets, 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:49.240 live training at all times. Our guys have the money 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:53.040 to do studies figuring out what makes you physically and 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:58.480 mentally stronger. If you trained for a year with an 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.360 unlimited supply of money, and you're training to kill me, 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:04.439 at the end of that year, they're going to give 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:07.079 you a gun of some kind and you're training to 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.920 kill me. And during the course of that year, you 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:14.199 spend all of your time shooting, moving, communicating. You have 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:18.240 the best instructors money can buy. And I spend that 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.880 year and I'm giving fifty rounds a day in an 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.000 empty spot of ground to train with. By the end 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:29.040 of that year, I'm gonna die. Is that because I'm 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:35.240 not as tough. No money funds your military. The only 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:39.520 reason I bring that up is this when I talk 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.160 about the debt, and I talk about how I'm not 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.440 going to talk about the debt because nobody cares about it. 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:50.240 There is a cost for running out of money, for 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:54.280 destroying your dollar, for printing endless amounts of it. And 0:14:54.480 --> 0:15:00.560 part of that cost is that military toughness. Bye bye, 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.680 when that money's gone, all right, setting out aside, I'm 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:07.920 not going to get distracted anymore. In the Byzantine Empire, 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:12.120 and obviously in the Roman Empire, this was big. There 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:17.880 was this thing called chariot racing. Lots of you, especially 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.400 older people, will have seen the movie, ben Her. I've 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.840 seen the movie nine million times because my parents watch it. 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.000 You never watched, ben Her, Chris, you know what? Never mind, Chris, 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.040 never mind, just forget it, forget it. You haven't seen 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:30.760 the Golfrither. I don't want to talk about it right now. 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.800 You should see the movie, ben Her. It's a great movie, 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.200 but it's one of those ones that's so old. Now 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:40.440 we're all so spoiled how movies look today. It probably 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.360 looked like garbage. They probably remade it at some point 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:47.360 and it was garbage. But the chariot races are a 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:51.600 lot of what you'd think you had a hippodrome' that's 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:56.000 the chariot racetrack and you it's just like any sporting 0:15:56.040 --> 0:16:00.280 event today. Societies have sports, all of them do. Small 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:04.520 little tribes have sports, nations have sports. Like I've told 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:08.520 you a thousand times, our sports leagues turning into these 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:13.320 cultural Marxist community disasters is actually it has a real 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:16.320 effect on America as a whole. Sports is critical for 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:19.840 any nation. Every nation has ever, every single nation has 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:23.840 known this. It brings society together. It gives people a distraction, 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:27.640 It gives people entertainment. When yours becomes rotted out and wrong, 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:33.840 it matters. Chariot Races was the NFL, Major League Baseball, 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.120 and the NBA and soccer all rolled into one. It 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.760 was that big back in the day. And the Roman 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.240 Empire there were over one hundred cities that out of 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:45.400 hippodrome in it. This was what people did. You went 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:49.480 to the chariot races, that was what you did. And 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:56.200 oftentimes there were two, three, four different teams. Now we're 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:58.280 gonna focus on the task at hand. Here in the 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.600 Byzantine Empire, by this point in time, there were two teams. 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.200 This is how the chariot races worked. There were the 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.879 greens and there were the blues. Yes, they labeled them 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:11.359 by color. And for a chariot race, you would line up. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.359 There'd be twenty twenty two, twenty three, twenty four races 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:17.600 in a given day. You would line up against the 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.800 other team. You know what a chariot looks like. I'm 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:22.960 not going to insult your intelligence, and you would take 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.720 off and they would get up to forty miles an 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:31.240 hour on the long straightaways. But they were horrifically, horrifically 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:34.880 dangerous because you would have to come to a virtual 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.760 stop to make it around the corners sometimes and then 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.280 you get the acceleration going again and back up to 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:43.800 forty and come to a virtual stop and you're turning 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:49.600 and you're against somebody else. People dying, bodies being mangled, 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:54.720 unrecognized of I mean, horrific injuries. Was not something that 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:59.880 happened now and then it was. It was the norm. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:01.679 And when I say it was the norm, I'll tell 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.080 you this. I got obsessed with chariot racing last night. 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.720 I kept digging into it. By the time I was done, 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:11.520 I came to this conclusion. You remember how horrific the 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.520 ancient Roman gladiatorial games were, right, We've talked about it 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.840 a thousand times on the show, and they were sword 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:21.400 spears nets go kill a guy. They didn't always fight 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:25.040 to the death, but bloody, brutal, brutal. If you were 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.880 to give me the option, Jesse, you can either pick 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:32.800 up this Gladius, the Roman sword in a shield and 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:36.119 go fight somebody in the arena to the death, or 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.720 get in this chariot and have a chariot race. I'm 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:43.600 not saying I would pick the gladiator fight, but I'm 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.520 saying I'd have to sit and think about it. I'm serious. 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.520 This chariot racing is violent, and that's part of why 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:51.680 people loved it. When the chariots went over, they loved it. 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.919 They cheered, and you can rip out of the Oh, 0:18:55.040 --> 0:19:01.320 that's inhumane. Human nature hasn't changed, Jack all right anyway, 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:04.119 So most of the chariot's ears were slaves. All of 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.400 them started out as slaves. It was not a high 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.960 society thing. You could eventually get to the point of 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.560 so much success. You could win your freedom or buy 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:17.360 your freedom. But they started out as slaves, slaveries. Slaveries 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:21.199 a tough way to put it, though. The gladiators started 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:25.240 out as slaves too. Almost all of them were slaves, 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:26.960 although they were freedmen who went back and did it. 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:32.560 But just like the chariot guys, slavery has different levels 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:36.359 to it. There's slavery in the salt mines of Rome, 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.200 where you'll be worked to the death, and then there's 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:44.720 being a gladiator or a chariot's ear. Let's see. You know, 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:50.040 it's a family show. You're not sleeping alone. You have 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:54.280 tons of money, you have all the food you can eat. 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:59.760 They were the rock stars, the professional athletes of their time, 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:03.399 and there were guys even after they bought their freedom. 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:06.800 Life was so good, although very dangerous, life was so 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.200 good they stayed in it. One guy, maybe the most 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:13.359 famous fit charioteer of all time, raced over four thousand times, 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:16.080 which is amazing you could live that long. But I mean, 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:18.920 the greats stayed in it. It ain't a bad life. 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:22.200 Why do you think professional athletes stay until well pass 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:27.320 their prime? Private jets, pretty girls, champagne, steaked dinners every night. 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:30.280 Tough to walk away from that and just be an 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:35.600 average Joe, tough to walk away from that. Now let's 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:40.320 fast forward even more. We're now in the year six ADBC. 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:45.040 Remember Rome fell three ninety five, Constantinople founded five thirty two. 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:51.920 We're now six ADBC. The leader of the Byzantine Empire 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:55.400 is a man named Justinian. His wife is a man 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:59.320 named Theodora. We'll do some more on Justinian another time. 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:05.400 You should know he's got a really common background for royalty. 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:08.680 He said he was considered a commoner, really and that 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:16.240 wasn't as bad as his wife's background. And this this 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:20.359 is going to be a little bit delicate. I do 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:24.760 now and always will do a family show you can 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.840 listen to with your children. And I'm going to be 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:32.520 very delicate with how I explained Theodora here. But just 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:35.680 there's your only disclaimer you're going to get from me. 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:38.399 You know what the deal is with Theodora. I'm not 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:54.120 laid out for you. One in three adults has pre diabetes. 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:56.800 One in three. 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The confusion it brings out in people, 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:29.480 It's the best, all right. Justinian is the Emperor of 0:24:29.560 --> 0:24:35.840 the Byzantine Empire. His wife is Theodora. It was scandalous 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:39.520 that they were the emperor, and I guess emperoris although 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:45.960 that's not really what she was because Theodora didn't come 0:24:46.080 --> 0:24:51.400 from high society. To put it mildly, Theodora was an actress. 0:24:52.640 --> 0:24:56.600 We have discussed this before on the show. Actors in 0:24:56.800 --> 0:25:03.280 actresses in ancient Rome were on the lowest rung of 0:25:03.400 --> 0:25:07.639 the societal ladder. They were just above slaves. It was 0:25:07.800 --> 0:25:10.960 considered to be. And this is real, it's how people 0:25:11.040 --> 0:25:14.159 thought because of their mentality. The Romans looked down on them. 0:25:14.520 --> 0:25:16.520 Maybe that's healthier than how we look at them today, 0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:20.240 but still it was considered to be a scandal if 0:25:20.280 --> 0:25:24.280 anyone in high society was seen even talking to one. 0:25:25.160 --> 0:25:27.639 It wasn't that they didn't want to go to the theater, 0:25:28.040 --> 0:25:30.080 wasn't that they didn't want to go to a concert. 0:25:30.440 --> 0:25:34.440 But you go, You enjoy these commoners doing their music 0:25:34.520 --> 0:25:38.200 and their acting, and then you leave. Not only was 0:25:38.359 --> 0:25:43.840 Theodora an actress, Oh man, this is a tough one. 0:25:44.200 --> 0:25:46.399 But Chris Quinn laughing, I'm trying to figure out how 0:25:46.400 --> 0:25:48.919 to put this right on the show. She was an 0:25:48.960 --> 0:25:55.639 actress who would perform on the stage. She would, you 0:25:55.720 --> 0:25:58.600 know what, she was more of a It would not 0:25:58.760 --> 0:26:01.880 be a Pg. Thirteen and show if Theodora was doing 0:26:01.960 --> 0:26:04.640 her acting that day. And that's as far as I'm 0:26:04.720 --> 0:26:07.600 going to say it. Okay, if you can't read between 0:26:07.680 --> 0:26:10.720 the lines from there, then don't listen to might show anymore. 0:26:11.119 --> 0:26:13.399 That's as much as I'm going to say, but in 0:26:13.520 --> 0:26:17.080 all seriousness, think about this. Think what a scandal that 0:26:17.160 --> 0:26:20.679 would be today. If you're setting aside anything the president 0:26:20.680 --> 0:26:23.840 of the United States, Republican, Democrat, whatever, Think if the 0:26:23.920 --> 0:26:29.640 president of the United States married an adult film star. 0:26:30.600 --> 0:26:33.120 That would be a scandal today. It would be endless 0:26:33.240 --> 0:26:35.280 to the news stories they would write about if the 0:26:35.359 --> 0:26:38.040 things they would say about her. Think what that would 0:26:38.160 --> 0:26:42.000 mean in a society that looked down on an actress period, 0:26:43.000 --> 0:26:47.359 it was a big, big deal. High society did not 0:26:47.960 --> 0:26:52.959 like these people. The commoners did. In general. The commoners did. 0:26:53.040 --> 0:26:57.960 They related, they got it was fine. And what was 0:26:58.080 --> 0:27:02.320 funny was justin in Stinian in Theodora, they get elected 0:27:02.400 --> 0:27:07.200 and they actually become really, really, really strict religious people. 0:27:07.800 --> 0:27:11.240 I'm talking about persecutions of anyone who isn't a Christian. 0:27:11.520 --> 0:27:15.760 They'd force you into exile. They would kill you if 0:27:15.840 --> 0:27:19.560 you wanted to if you gay, oh absolutely not not 0:27:20.040 --> 0:27:23.560 in that empire. And just Stinnian has some other things. 0:27:23.640 --> 0:27:25.360 I'm trying to paint the guy in a bad light. 0:27:25.520 --> 0:27:29.760 He's very, very very ambitious. He wants remember they consider 0:27:29.840 --> 0:27:33.560 themselves Roman. He wants Rome returned to the glory days. 0:27:34.119 --> 0:27:38.640 But you see, they did things differently back then. They 0:27:38.840 --> 0:27:43.639 understood the value of dollars. They understood you can't borrow 0:27:43.960 --> 0:27:46.240 until the end of time. That's not the way the 0:27:46.320 --> 0:27:49.480