WEBVTT - The Long Game 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.760 Your holster is way more important than you think it is. 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:06.640 It's just way more important than you think it is. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:09.880 What look, and I get that. The holsters not the 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:13.560 sexy part of carrying firearms. All right, You want to 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:15.920 talk about your weapon and your ammunition. You want to 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:17.919 talk about your safety training. You want to talk about 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:20.080 how you did at the range. Oh, look at my groups. 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:21.959 I was doing these failure drills today, and all that 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.120 stuff is really important. I mean, really really important. I'm 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:27.560 not discounting that, but I've known so many people who 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:30.000 do all those things. They take all the necessary steps 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:34.199 and then they carry with a holster they bought from 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:36.879 a big box hunting store that was made a thousand 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:40.040 at a time. Please don't put your life in one 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:44.360 of those holsters. You need to trust Northwest Retention Systems 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:48.840 because it's all custom made gear. It's the only thing 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:54.520 I carry around NW Retention dot Com. That's NW Retention 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:57.520 dot Com used to promo co Jesse gets you ten 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:19.480 percent off. This is a Jesse Kelly show. Have you 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:24.759 ever been in an attack room? Attack room for you 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:30.520 city slickers, it's a room where you keep all the 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:36.559 horse stuff. I'm no horse expert, but it wrote him plenty. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.880 I'm talking about, you know, the saddles, the reins, so 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:44.080 on and so forth. I've been in quite a few. 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.440 My folks actually have a couple of horses, so they 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:54.160 have one. I remember going to my grandpa's farm. He 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:55.600 used to have a farm when I was a kid, 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.640 and he had a few. It wasn't wasn't a you know, 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:03.400 huge horse operations, just a few. And I would go 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:05.480 check out his tack room because they've never seen anything 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:09.160 like that before. And even as a small child, I 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:16.200 was stunned at the amount of crap a horse needs. 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:22.079 It really is amazing the amount of stuff a horse needs. 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.440 One horse, you get two or three. You've got the 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:30.720 room full different bridles and then in stirrups, and I 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:38.679 mean there's it's endless. On top of what a horse eats. 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.480 A horse a thousand pound horse, and horses can get 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.280 you know, two thousand pounds, depending on the type of horse, 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:51.320 a little more than two thousand pounds. A thousand pound 0:02:51.360 --> 0:03:01.480 horse needs twenty five pounds of hay a day. Tell 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:07.240 you what, We'll come back to that. It's an interesting 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:12.160 thing how Europe has progressed over the years. But I 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:18.519 really find the Napoleonic era to be fascinating, really fascinating. 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:22.919 We're talking the end of the seventeen hundreds, getting into 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.800 the early part of the eighteen hundreds, and understand what 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:31.680 we're going through here. Remember all that bubonic plague, black 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:37.920 plague stuff. From the thirteen hundreds to the sixteen hundreds. 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.640 They were always fighting that dagon thing off. There was 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.760 even another breakout in Marseille in the seventeen hundreds, but 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:50.520 it was carving out huge percentages of the population. And 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:57.800 then we had kind of an industrial revolution, flat out, 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:02.880 that's what they called it. And tech knowledge he advanced massively, 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.640 and they figured out medicine and they've figured out other things. 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:10.560 They've figured out so many things. In Europe's population during 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:14.400 this time went from about one hundred and ten million 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:20.719 to one hundred and ninety million. It just exploded. We 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:28.880 figured out how to make sure all the babies don't die, medicine, roads, food, 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.599 figured out trade a lot better than we ever did, 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:39.400 and things blew up and Europe began to remake itself 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:47.440 in various ways. And that many more people creates more problems. 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.840 That's going to be a steady theme today. It's a 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:54.640 good thing. I'm leather or more people get married, crank 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:59.080 out those kids. People, but also more problems with it. 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:04.240 More people mean or food means. It's complicated, and it 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:08.600 really meant more problems for the monarchs of the era. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:13.840 We have a hard time connecting with that. You and 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.800 I both do. What do we know about kings? What 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.680 kings do you know? Well? You know the queen in 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:25.919 England not really any power, or has power but doesn't 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.760 use it. It's a weird dynamic. You know. A couple 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.760 of those places in the Middle East, I'm sure have 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.120 assault and there's something I don't know, none of my business. 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.520 That's that's what you know, That's what I know, all right? 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:43.240 Really king, But this was an era where everyone had kings, everyone, 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:51.240 and that was starting to go away, starting to go away. 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.960 This was an era where people were waking up and realizing, 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:02.080 I mean, we should we should have rights. How many 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.040 centuries have we gone through these kings? And yeah, a 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.080 good one works out really well, but then his son 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.200 turns out to be an idiot or a crazy person 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:16.400 and it sucks. That's maybe we can move on past that, 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:25.520 and you get this revolution in France and elsewhere where 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:29.000 the revolutionists were called and you don't need to confuse 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:34.680 this with our American politics, they were called republicans. People 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.600 should have a voice, people should have representation, and they 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:44.240 were fighting against the royalists, people who wanted a king. 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:50.920 Which brings us to a young man born in Corsica. 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.920 Corsica is not in France. It is an island south 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:59.040 of France. It was a French colony at the time 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:06.800 Napoleon was born. Now, Napoleon was short. Everybody knows that 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:12.960 Napoleon's French initially was terrible, meaning his French language actually 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:20.520 spoke Italian a lot better. Eventually, though, Napoleon finds his 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:24.640 way into France's war college. Now keep in mind, when 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:29.520 Napoleon got to France proper, Napoleon had a really, really, 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:35.120 really tough time of it in life. Life can be 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:41.320 tough when you're short. School, especially your early years surrounded 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.760 by other men, can be really cruel when you're short. 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.400 Was tough on Napoleon. And when you're short and don't 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.800 don't oblah, when you don't speak of the language very well, 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:59.000 and get a lot tougher. And so Napoleon finds his 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.640 way into the mility terry college, and he doesn't really 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:08.560 care about socializing with other people. He cares about learning everything. 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:15.000 And it turns out this guy, this guy is a 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:19.320 freaking genius, and a genius in an era where it's 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.560 hard to be a genius. And here's what I mean 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:28.960 by that, Army sizes are growing exponentially at this time 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:33.560 because population sizes are growing exponentially at this time. That 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:35.760 has not been the case throughout it. So you've heard me. 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.199 How many ancient battles have you heard me talk about 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:42.480 on this show? Twenty thousand here versus thirty thousand there. 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:46.840 On the huge side, it's sixty or seventy thousand here 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.080 versus fifty thousand there. That is, I mean ancient times. 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:54.360 That is a huge pitched battle. And now we're getting 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.920 to the era where there are so many people in France, 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.760 there are so many people in Prussia, and in Britain 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:04.920 and Austria, there are so many people there. Well, army 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:13.000 sizes grow. As their army sizes grow, they're always warring 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.760 for power. It's part of the reason George Washington, in 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:21.439 his farewell address, was so so adamant about staying out 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.480 of Europe's wars because George Washington had seen all this 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.640 his whole life, and he learned the history of it. 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:33.600 Europe because of their religion, because of their proximity to 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.480 each other for a million and one different regions, the 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:43.400 Europeans are always at each other's throats. Always. Oh, we 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:45.720 like to think that World War one and two were 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:49.480 the first time there was all all people. They never 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.120 stopped fighting. I mean, right now is about the only 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.679 peaceful time we've ever known of there. They're always fighting, 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:59.520 and they're always fighting to be superior. That was a 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:03.000 big part of it too. Well, wait a minute, Austria 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.120 just took this colony over there. Hey, hey, Bill, does 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.320 that mean they have more colonies than us? It does? 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.640 It does, mister King, it does? They actually now have 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.600 two more colonies with us. Well, back on it. That's 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.400 not gonna work for me. I'll tell you what. Get 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.600 some troops on the border. We're gonna fight Austria over 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:21.760 this last colony, and you'd fight over Austria over our 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.120 colony and you'd gain one. Mack. Oh good, we've even 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.440 things out. But now Spain's looking and they're like, whoa, 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.199 Now they have two more than us. I guess we're 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.600 gonna fight them. And if it sounds insane, believe me, 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.520 read through the history. That's that's what it's like. It's insane, 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:42.800 insane obsession with power. Hang on, we got a lot 0:10:42.840 --> 0:11:13.800 to talk about today now, because this is a time 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:18.280 of advancing technology when it comes to muskets and cannons, 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:27.320 because this is a time of increased army sizes, and 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:31.200 it's a time of animosity. As I said, there are 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:41.160 constantly battles everywhere everywhere, not these gigantic, all encompassing wars 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.400 of domination. Either. It really wasn't that way. It just 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:51.960 wasn't that way. It was I certainly don't want to 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:56.520 call it gentlemanly because wars not gentlemanly. It was horrible 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:58.719 and there was death, and there was destruction, and there 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:05.079 was famine and it was awful. But Austria squares off 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:11.760 against Spain. They have a pitched battle. Austria wins. Oh man, 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.920 that sucks, all right. Then they have another pitched battle 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:18.720 in Austria wins. It was expected and happened that. Okay, Well, 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:24.040 clearly Spain lost this round. Spain can come to terms. 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.679 Give Austria little territory, little money. Okay, you won that one, 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:35.280 but we're good. Everything wasn't like the ancient Roman times, 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.560 or really the times before this. You know, the Mongols 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.720 chopping off the heads of everyone in a city of 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.680 a half million people. Just wasn't that way in general. 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:52.200 And you have this young hot shot commander in France, Napoleon. 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:58.240 And when I say hot shot, this dude too many 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.000 battles that I can name for you, but he starts 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:04.360 out as obviously you know, a captain, lieutenant. He's a 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:08.440 slowly officer, and everything they tell him to do he dominates. 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.400 He's kicking the crap out of people. They finally make 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.800 this guy a brigadier general and then in his twenties, 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.040 and understand this, it's kind of funny when you think 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:24.000 about it, because everybody knows how the story ends. He's 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:28.640 not one of the royalists. He's a republican. He wants 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:30.599 rid of the monarchies, and they can't get rid of 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:37.800 them all. And eventually Napoleon works his way up and 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:44.840 he's made console. Now they had three consoles that everybody 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:49.680 kind of knew. We have one console. There's only one 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.800 dude calling. The shots are out here. We're gonna let 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:54.959 you have it on your business card. But you go 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.200 ahead and go home. Okay, we don't need you today. 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:01.920 We have the guy we need, and Napoleon is running things. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:09.240 And Napoleon begins to expand, begins to expand his sphere 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.679 of influence, and he is Remember how I said they 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:16.679 were always that, you know, lobster in the bucket mentality. 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.520 Austria can't have more than Prussia, can't have more than Spain, 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.840 can't have more than Britain, can't have more than France. 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:26.440 Everything was always seeking a balance through battle. This guy's 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.800 getting too big. We gotta do something about that. Well, 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:37.120 every now and then, every once in a while throughout history, 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:46.640 somebody emerges and he's just superior to everybody else, far 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:53.040 superior to everybody else. It's actually funny. I was watching, 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.200 as a quick side note last night on this theme, 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.560 I was watching that great show right now on ESPN 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:03.200 called Last Dance about the Bulls final season. Everybody remembers 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.720 the Bulls in the NBA and when Jordan was at 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.920 his height, And if you're too young for that, just 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:12.040 know that Michael Jordan, at the height of his popularity, 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.280 was bigger than all the ten sports stars you can 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:20.920 name combined. Jordan was everything. He was in every commercial. 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.600 He was easily the most famous person on the planet. 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.400 Jordan was bigger than any athlete you'll ever know, and 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.120 probably we'll ever know again, it's just too diversified now. 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.840 Jordan was huge. But there's this scene where they put 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.400 together the Dream Team, and you remember the Dream Team. 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.160 I think it was from the ninety two Olympics. It 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.160 had never been done before. They took all the greatest 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.200 players in the NBA and put them on one team. 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.920 And we're talking Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and all 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.120 the best players, not the All Stars, the All Stars 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.640 of the All Stars. And they put them legends, the 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.360 greatest players ever to play on one team because they're 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:59.640 all still playing during this era. And they have this 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:03.960 practice and they're scrimmaging against each other and Magic Johnson 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:07.480 just talking trash, normal basketball trash, says something to make 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:12.680 Michael Jordan mad, and playing against all the other greatest 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:17.440 players frankly of all time, Jordan goes off and destroys 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:22.560 everybody and wins it. And they talked about it after, 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:30.640 how oh my gosh, this is okay. He's it was 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:33.840 against the alpha male, alpha males. They were all like, okay, well, 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:36.560 this guy's the one that's gonna go ahead and lead everything. 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:40.040 He's he's better than everyone else. And you have this 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:44.040 with Napoleon in this era in Europe, there is no 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.200 more balanced Jack and Napoleon knows it, and they know it. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:52.640 This guy keeps fighting battles against people, battles he should lose, 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.960 battles that should be even, and he is kicking the 0:16:56.080 --> 0:17:00.760 crap out of everyone. He even at one pod in time, 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:07.000 goes down to Egypt and takes Alexandria. If that sounds weird, 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:11.560 it is weird. It was a British colony. He managed 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:15.520 to sneak his fleet by the British fleet because then 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.879 you know, you know that British fleet, You really didn't 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.520 want to see them on the high seas. He slips 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:26.160 them by, lands twenty five thousand dudes in Alexandria. Of course, dominates, 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:32.320 takes Alexandria, and then British Britain promptly finds the fleet 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.480 that slipped by and destroys it. So now he's got 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.560 twenty five thousand men stuck in Alexandria, which wasn't ideal, 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.520 but it's kind of funny. As another little side note, 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.520 he just chose to chill out in Egypt for a while. 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:50.280 And the reason I say it's kind of funny, how 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:57.800 consistent that theme is with the conquerors in history. There's 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:04.439 something in Egypt. There's something about Egypt. I don't know 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.520 whether it's a Pharaoh thing, because there's so much amazing 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:12.639 history there. There's something about that place that draws these 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:22.000 people in Julius Caesar spent some quality time with Cleopatra there, 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:29.119 Mark Anthony went there. Alexander the Great went there, spend 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.240 some time. Do you remember that really cool story. It's 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.480 one of my favorite stories in history. They buried Alexander 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.600 the Great there and then Caesar Augustus, who was I 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:42.800 mean sent decades after Alexander the Great, but remember the 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.119 Romans thought Alexander the Great, everybody did in ancient history, 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:49.280 thought he was the bomb dignity. He shows up and 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.679 Caesar Augustus shows up there and says, I want to 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.800 see the tomb of Alexander the Great. And they said, okay, well, 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:58.840 well we'll take it. We'll take you there and then 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:01.120 we'll show you all the other kings we've had here. 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:05.240 And Caesar Augustus says, I came to see a king, 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:12.000 not a bunch of corpses. But there's something about Egypt, 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.360 and it's sucked Napoleon into He just liked to chill 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:16.720 out for a while. Maybe it's because of the rumors 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.360 that the old ancient Egyptian women shaved all their body here. 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:21.400 I don't know. I don't want to make any suggestions, 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:28.120 but that's whatever they apparently enjoyed themselves in Egypt. Napoleon 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:33.080 eventually gets word that there's a rebellion against him, because 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:39.320 by this point in time he is emperor Emperor of France. 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:44.520 By the time he gets back, his army has already 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.400 kicked the crap out of the rebellion. He's still emperor. 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:54.720 Now this part gets a little complicated because history is complicated. 0:19:56.280 --> 0:20:03.520 Couple things about Napoleon being emperor. He's still kind of 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:08.360 considered himself to be a republican while he made himself 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:12.359 a monarch and in fact even had it put in 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:14.640 a law that he got to pick the next monarch. 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:23.200 But it wasn't all bad, but kind of bad. I'll 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:47.400 explain in a second. You need sleep. I'm staring right 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:51.600 now at producer Chris, and he looks like a freaking zombie. 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.920 Why I couldn't sleep. I know what it's like. I'm 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:57.680 not I'm not judging you. I've been there so many times. 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:01.440 And what is amazing is the different person I am 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:05.760 when I sleep versus when I don't sleep. I'm angry, 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:09.960 I'm stupid. My mind doesn't work right. I can even 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:12.480 tell it's not working right. Look, I don't have to 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:14.800 explain it to you. If you're a bad person when 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:16.760 you don't sleep, you're a good person when you do 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.760 get in EBB sleep, because it actually goes after the 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:23.920 reason you can't sleep, those thoughts racing through your head. 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:26.560 I know what it's like. You lay down, you can't 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:28.520 turn them off. If you get an EBB sleep. It's 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:33.560 a wearable solution, a wearable solution that targets that forehead. 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:38.439 Go to tryebb dot com slash Jesse. That's try ebb 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:42.240 dot com. Slash Jesse used to code Jesse at checkout 0:21:42.280 --> 0:22:05.480 for twenty five bucks off. So the Napoleon's an emperor, 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:10.400 and in fairness to him, it wasn't a bad one. 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:16.440 He actually put in reforms as far as individual rights, 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:19.280 which sounds funny. As an emperor, he put in reforms 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:21.160 that are still kind of in place to this day. 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:32.680 Religious freedom really wasn't bad. But Napoleon still had battles 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:35.719 to win, got got a bit bogged down in Spain, 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:39.320 still fighting with Austria, still fighting with Prussia, still fighting 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:43.840 with Russia. It's he's fighting with everybody. But who he 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:49.600 really really hated was Britain. You know, they may have 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:52.520 been England at this time. I can't tell. Nobody ever 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:54.800 knows what's what's going on over there. It's the UK, 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:58.000 it's Britain, it's England, it's it's I have no idea. 0:22:58.320 --> 0:23:00.560 You know where I'm talking about, the big island, cold 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:08.960 and rainy, crappy food, and Napoleon can't get there because 0:23:08.960 --> 0:23:15.199 of their fleet. The British fleet is phenomenal. Everybody knows that. 0:23:15.240 --> 0:23:18.560 It's how they conquered the world. He can't get there. 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:22.000 If he could get his army there, he would dominate. 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:25.399 But the easiest way to take out ten thousand troops 0:23:25.480 --> 0:23:27.560 is sink him in the English Channel before they can 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:31.760 even get there. In England, would Hitler ran into this 0:23:31.880 --> 0:23:35.399 same thing? This is a consistent theme throughout history. The 0:23:35.520 --> 0:23:39.160 Germans ran into Itto World War One. We can't get there. 0:23:39.200 --> 0:23:45.120 If we could just get there, And Britain very intelligently 0:23:45.240 --> 0:23:49.920 always played to their strengths. No, we don't have vast armies, 0:23:50.840 --> 0:23:53.960 but we are in island. And if we just kind 0:23:53.960 --> 0:23:58.520 of specialize in this ocean thing, I think we can 0:23:58.560 --> 0:24:05.600 do seriously well for ourselves. And they did, and now 0:24:05.720 --> 0:24:07.920 Napoleon's trying to figure out what to do about it. 0:24:09.520 --> 0:24:11.919 So what they did was then they each did it 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:17.200 to themselves. They blockaded each other. You see England blockaded, 0:24:17.760 --> 0:24:21.960 you know Napoleon. But Napoleon owned all this ground, It 0:24:22.080 --> 0:24:24.280 had all these people who had who had been forced 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:27.480 to sign treaties with him, So he bans the sale 0:24:27.520 --> 0:24:32.359 of British goods. Britain made its living on trade. No, 0:24:33.680 --> 0:24:39.280 and now tell me if this sounds familiar. Both of 0:24:39.320 --> 0:24:43.240 their economies are in a race to the bottom, to 0:24:43.440 --> 0:24:47.280 the bottom, and Napoleon thinks he's gonna win that race. 0:24:48.480 --> 0:24:56.920 He does, and he probably would except for Russia. And 0:24:57.000 --> 0:25:02.240 let me just quickly say, I am giving you the 0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:09.240 ultimate thirty thousand foot view of this entire escapade. That's 0:25:09.280 --> 0:25:12.919 easy for me to say that this contains this period 0:25:12.960 --> 0:25:17.280 of time. I'm talking about more awesome battles and treaties 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:20.119 and betrayals and broken treaties and things than I could 0:25:20.200 --> 0:25:23.360 ever put into one show that I'm going to cover 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:26.040 one individual part of it that I haven't even gotten 0:25:26.080 --> 0:25:29.520 to yet. We're gonna have other parts, will do at 0:25:29.520 --> 0:25:32.920 other times. But just know, if this is a subject 0:25:33.000 --> 0:25:35.439 in any way that fascinates you, which it always did me, 0:25:37.160 --> 0:25:39.840 dig into it. There's a lot there I am. I 0:25:39.880 --> 0:25:46.440 am really giving you the high points. So Russia decides, well, 0:25:46.520 --> 0:25:51.840 screw Napoleon, We're gonna deal with the British, thus making 0:25:52.280 --> 0:25:57.040 Napoleon the loser, and that losing race to the bottom. 0:25:58.960 --> 0:26:02.480 Napoleon's not going to just stand for that. And so 0:26:02.680 --> 0:26:07.120 Napoleon begins to plan for war with Russia, an invasion 0:26:07.320 --> 0:26:09.879 of Russia. And now I need to bring up a 0:26:09.920 --> 0:26:17.320 couple critical things. One Napoleon was, to his benefit and 0:26:17.520 --> 0:26:25.160 to his detriment, famous famous for this, not necessarily needing 0:26:26.520 --> 0:26:29.520 a ton of supply, he needed tons of supply. But 0:26:29.680 --> 0:26:37.360 Napoleon's armies ravaged the lands they invaded, thus making them incredibly, 0:26:37.560 --> 0:26:41.520 incredibly unpopular in the lands they invaded. It's one thing 0:26:41.560 --> 0:26:44.560 to have you, you know, picture that street that runs 0:26:44.560 --> 0:26:48.080 outside of your house. If there was an army marching 0:26:48.119 --> 0:26:51.800 through it, a foreign army, that would be a little disconcerting, 0:26:52.960 --> 0:26:56.080 but not the end of the world. Right. However, if 0:26:56.080 --> 0:26:59.640 that army kicked in your front door and took everything 0:26:59.680 --> 0:27:02.159 you own and left you stranded on the street with 0:27:02.240 --> 0:27:06.560 your house burning down, now we've got a problem, right. 0:27:07.760 --> 0:27:11.879 And that's how they conducted business. They supplied themselves off 0:27:12.119 --> 0:27:19.840 the land, not exclusively, but mostly. Now Poleon gets an 0:27:19.920 --> 0:27:26.600 army together, called the Grand Army. Five hundred thousand, six 0:27:26.680 --> 0:27:28.920 hundred thousand. Put whatever number you want on it. I'm 0:27:28.920 --> 0:27:31.240 gonna say five hundred thousand. They think it was probably six, 0:27:31.280 --> 0:27:34.040 but I'm just saying five, because then again, nobody ever knows. 0:27:34.240 --> 0:27:36.399 No one can never give you an exact count. I 0:27:36.440 --> 0:27:38.800 don't know how you lose one hundred thousand people somewhere, 0:27:38.840 --> 0:27:41.240 but nobody ever knows. We're calling it half a mill 0:27:41.520 --> 0:27:48.000 all right. His plan was not His plan was not 0:27:49.320 --> 0:27:54.920 to invade and take over every square inch of Russia. 0:27:55.280 --> 0:27:58.800 Contrary to anything you've ever read historically, that was not 0:27:58.880 --> 0:28:02.000 his plan. Remember when I told you this was a 0:28:02.040 --> 0:28:06.959 different era where you fight one pitch battle, two pitch battle, 0:28:07.240 --> 0:28:12.280 maybe three pitch battles, possibly four, and then looked, if 0:28:12.320 --> 0:28:15.760 you want all those, hey, let's just do a treaty. 0:28:15.760 --> 0:28:18.240 We're done here, you won okay, fine, here, have a 0:28:18.240 --> 0:28:20.280 little territory, have a little money. We're all good, right. 0:28:22.440 --> 0:28:27.879 His plan was to go forty miles, well forty days, 0:28:27.920 --> 0:28:32.600 I should say forty days into Russia. He even set 0:28:32.680 --> 0:28:38.560 up a city a supply depot for his army, giving 0:28:38.600 --> 0:28:42.680 them forty days worth of provisions. That keep in mind, 0:28:43.400 --> 0:28:45.200 I read this that I don't remember where I read it. 0:28:46.240 --> 0:28:51.480 He has half a million, right, an army of two 0:28:51.720 --> 0:28:54.280 hundred and fifty thousand troops. Trying to put this in 0:28:54.320 --> 0:28:56.600 your mind. An army of two hundred fifty thousand, that's 0:28:56.640 --> 0:29:06.840 half his army needs four thousand wagons a day of supplies. 0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:11.920 Remember in the beginning when I talked about that horse, 0:29:12.360 --> 0:29:18.440 A few horses, Yeah, now make that one hundred thousand horses, 0:29:20.360 --> 0:29:23.720 five hundred thousand troops. And to his credit, Napoleon was 0:29:23.760 --> 0:29:26.960 always good at this logistics. What's that old saying I 0:29:27.200 --> 0:29:29.480 blatantly stole from somebody because I looked up the quote 0:29:29.480 --> 0:29:31.080 a million times. I have no idea where it came 0:29:31.160 --> 0:29:37.520 from amateurs, study tactics, professional study logistics. Napoleon understood this. 0:29:37.840 --> 0:29:40.240 He moved with speed. He knew he had to supply 0:29:40.400 --> 0:29:49.120 his army. He was ready for this. He enters Russia 0:29:49.280 --> 0:29:55.040 with this grand army, and the Russians began to engage. 0:29:56.800 --> 0:29:59.240 It is not winter yet, Get that out of your mind. 0:29:59.280 --> 0:30:03.120 We are not there yet. But he starts to fight 0:30:03.440 --> 0:30:09.720 these huge battles with the Russians, and the Russians fight well, 0:30:10.640 --> 0:30:20.480 but the Russians lose. However, when the Russians lose, they lose. Well, 0:30:20.720 --> 0:30:23.800 what do I mean by that? You've heard me talk 0:30:23.840 --> 0:30:26.960 about it a million times. You'll hear me talk about 0:30:26.960 --> 0:30:34.560 it a a million more times in battles, individual battles. The massive, 0:30:35.360 --> 0:30:39.920 massive loss of life you see comes from one of 0:30:39.960 --> 0:30:44.480