WEBVTT - Corona Tyrants 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. 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We have an awesome, 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:57.880 awesome Monday show for you today. We got obviously Michael 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:03.080 Malice on next hour, as he always is. Following hour, 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:08.400 we have an author whose book was banned from target. 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:14.120 The cancel culture came for her. How are we going 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.359 to approach things like that? We'll talk about that today. 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:22.359 We're going to talk about the nuclear news cycle today, 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:26.560 one of these theories I have. We're going to talk 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:33.200 about this fraud stuff and Sydney Powell, an election interference 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.000 and what's real and what's not real. We're gonna lay 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:42.000 all that out, and we're going to talk about my 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:51.040 established political philosophy some more. But first of all, addressing 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:57.399 what matters is very, very very difficult sometimes and oftentimes 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:02.880 it's the only thing that matters is figuring out what matters. Ironic, 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:07.920 how that works. My mentor in this business, Michael Berry, 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:12.320 as he was teaching me things, we would go, I've 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.280 only been doing media a couple of years. I know 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:16.639 that's unbelievable because I'm so good at it, But I've 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.519 only been doing this a couple of years. And this 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:23.200 didn't begin with me having a naturally syndicated radio show 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:27.160 or TV show. This began with me sitting with obviously 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:33.200 humongous radio star Michael Berry on his back porch several nights, 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:41.440 sipping bourbon, smoking cigars and talking. And one of the 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:45.160 things he always drove home to me was this. And 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.600 it's something I tell as I try to help younger 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:52.560 people in this business come along to this day. I 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.240 tell them, because people don't want to hear this at all, 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:02.760 I tell them, you are not an activist, not anymore. 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:08.280 Virtually everybody who listens to you, watches you, read to you, 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:15.960 whatever you do, they are activists. You can pursue some 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.440 forms of activism. Your show is one of the great 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.960 forms of activism if it can get people to rally 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.799 towards something or change people's thinking. I'm not telling you 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.039 you're not in it to believe it anymore. What I'm 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:33.400 saying is you're not an activist anymore. You now have 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:38.760 an obligation to whoever you write columns for, whoever you 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.440 do a radio show, whoever you do a TV show for, 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:48.040 and your job, above everything else in the world when 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:55.480 it comes to work, is be interesting. And the problem is, 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.599 and I've found this time and time again, and Michael 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:04.680 Berry warned me, I would said of them, won't get it, 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:11.000 won't believe you, won't want to believe you, and so 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.280 they'll go off and do stupid things all the time. 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:20.239 The reason job number one has to be interesting isn't 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.200 because activism doesn't matter. Believe me, We're going to go 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.320 into that a lot today. You and I have got 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.920 to be activists as much as possible. It's because unless 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:32.800 you're interesting, unless they want to read what you're writing, 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.760 watch what you're doing on TV, listen to you on 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:40.320 the radio. Unless you're interesting, you're talking to the wall. 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:46.359 Interesting has to be items one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:53.240 and ten, because eleven doesn't matter if you're not. It 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:58.840 doesn't matter that I tell history stories you enjoy. If 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:04.040 nobody's listening, It doesn't matter that I have different views 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.240 on politics and you like them or this person likes them. 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:11.880 If nobody's listening, people change the channel. The Jesse Kelly 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:17.240 Show goes away, and that's not up to you. It's 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.760 one of the weird things about this relationship. You can't 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.920 do anything about that. That's all on me. Either I'm 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:27.600 interesting or I'm gone. Period. It's that simple. Thankfully. I 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.480 don't worry. That was not a cry for health. The 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.480 show is doing very, very well. We'll have another announcement 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:37.599 coming up very soon. But we're fine. Which leads me 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:44.080 to our history story, our battle today. It's so hard 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.960 to figure out what the big deal is, what actually 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:54.279 matters amongst all the noise, and one of the guys historically, 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:59.040 one of the most underrated people ever in the history 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:03.839 of war and the history of the world, was Philip 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:13.480 the Second of Macedonia. Here's the thing. You probably haven't 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:17.640 even heard his name. Maybe you've heard his son's name. 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.760 His name was how do you say this? Alexander the Great. 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:29.400 Alexander the Great was great. Let's clarify something, and he's 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:33.360 gonna play a part, an important part in our story today. 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:38.600 But understand this, Alexander the greats was great, never lost 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.560 a battle, carved through the Persians like a blow towards 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.920 through butter, took over everything he touched. Woo who we 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:52.280 love in Alexander Alexander. Alexander inherited the greatest army in 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:58.800 the world. He inherited that army from his father. You 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:04.040 know what army, his fa They're inherited crap Not only 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:09.160 did Alexander inherit this army from his father, he inherited 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:16.600 one his father built from scratch because his father surveyed 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:23.320 the Persian landscape, surveyed the Greek landscape, and simply thought, 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:30.400 they're all focusing on the wrong things, all of them. Oh, 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:34.800 they have their benefits, but they're all worried about the 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:39.840 wrong things. I'm going to worry about what actually matters. 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:44.440 You see, Macedonia then and now you can look it 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:49.520 up to this day is really not an appealing country geographically, 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:54.160 and I can't stress that enough. That is no offense 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.839 to Macedonians. Although you don't worry, you know, I don't 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.920 worry about offending people. But I met this Macedonian jim 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.000 one time when I was in the Marine Corps. She 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.680 was absolutely smoking hot. So I don't want to offend 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.640 her if she's listening, Chris, what what? There's no offense 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:14.520 to Macedonians. But it's rocky, it's cold, really cold in 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:20.520 the wintertime. It is not ancient times or now a 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:24.640 wealthy nation. They just don't have the geography resources for it. 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:29.040 Not only did Philip build this juggernaut, he built it 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.080 from a place that had no business being a juggernaut. 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.200 Part of this was keeping the big deal the big deal, 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:43.160 and part of this was Philip also saw an opportunity. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.160 Let's focus on Grease for a moment, because that's where 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:49.200 our story is going to take place today. As you 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:56.640 know because you listen to this show, Grease wasn't Grease. Really. 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:02.720 They all considered themselves Greek, but they were very much 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:08.160 individual city states. A city state, the big ones like 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:11.920 Sparta and Athens and Thebes, who will all have a 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:16.160 role to play in our story today. They consider themselves 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:20.200 really their own nation. Now, yes, they did also consider 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:24.520 this themselves Greek, and on occasion they would join together 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:28.400 to fight off an outside force, but they slaughtered each other. 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:57.360 I am the Jesse Kelly Show. Natural medicines and holistic 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:03.400 healing approaches. They're known to help alleviate issues like anxiety, headaches, 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.200 joint pain. You have any more of that, I've got some. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:12.120 I choose CBD. But the problem with choosing CBD is 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.920 so many people were trying to get in that CBD game. 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.480 You can't work out what's good and what's not. 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I would want you 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:30.080 to imagine this, they just got done fighting wars for 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:34.560 about a hundred years with each other. And when I 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.400 get to things like Athens and Sparta, and you're gonna 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:41.240 think about Athens as great navy and good military, and 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.080 you're gonna think about, obviously the Spartans. Everyone knows the 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.920 Spartans and how great they were. You should know, a 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:53.160 hundred years of war they were each a shell, a 0:12:53.520 --> 0:13:03.920 shell of themselves shell. They're not them anymore. Philip, he 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:10.280 has a plan, and his plan is this, I'm gonna 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:14.920 take over the whole place. He looked at Greece and 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.280 wanted to take over the whole place. Now, Philip was 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:24.240 famously a rough dude. The Macedonians themselves had reputation for 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:28.800 being uncultured barbarians. They were looked down upon before this time. 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:35.720 So Philip is a rough dude. But funny thing about Philip, 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.960 tell me if this sounds familiar at all anything you 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:45.080 see out there today Philip, Yeah, you wanted to kill 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:51.480 a bunch of people, take control of everything. But he 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:57.360 really saw himself as a uniter. Just look, it's better 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:01.640 for everybody if these cities stay. I'll just do what 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:06.679 I say. That's really the greater good. I understand there's 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:10.760 going to be some resistance to it. That's five. Will 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.160 just kill them and get rid of anyone who disagrees, 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.320 and then it it will be fine. Once we do that. 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.960 We'll kill or enslave everyone who disagrees with me, and 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:23.920 then look at all the peace. Why sound familiar at all? 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:30.480 The Macedonians. Also, it's time to do a little nerd 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:34.000 out breakdown on their army, because this is going to 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:42.200 matter a lot for our story. Greek Greece hoplights with 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.600 the exception of Sparta. We're gonna set Sparta aside because 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:51.280 Sparta had a professional military. Their entire city state was 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:54.040 geared towards their military. The rest of Greece. When I 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:59.720 say hoplights, that's what they called the Greek soldier. The 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.680 Greek soldier. You know, this had a shield, had a spear, 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:07.320 fought in what is called a phalanx, a big box 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.200 that was nothing but spears for coming out the front 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:15.960 of it. Seven to twelve foot spears. Pay attention because 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.920 that's going to matter a lot for our story. Seven 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:25.680 to twelve foot spears. The phalanx very very very inflexible, deadly. 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.120 From the front. If you could get around the sides 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:33.240 of it, create gaps in it, it was virtually useless. 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.520 But from the front it was virtually impregnable. You can't 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.000 charge it with horses, you can't charge it with infantry. 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:41.280 It's just a wall of shields and spears. That was 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.080 the Greek phalanx. However, you need to set aside the 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.920 movie three hundred for a moment, because that was Sparta. 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:52.080 This is different. Understand what a phalanx would look like 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:57.520 for every other Greek city state. It was not not 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:04.000 a professional army. They didn't have huge standing professional armies. 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:07.960 Almost nobody did back at this time. It was very, 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:14.080 very rare. It was a volunteer army for the most point, 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:18.560 although a source of pride. The armor you wore, the shield, 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:23.360 the chest armor, the helmet, you paid for it. It 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:29.080 was whatever you bought. It was also oftentimes the difference 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.520 between you know, you'll see the light guys in the 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:33.680 movies where they don't have it. He doesn't even have 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.640 any armor. They just gave that guy a sling or 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.920 a bow. What's wrong with that guy? Let me clarify, 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:43.120 what you're seeing lots of the time is a poor guy. 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:47.040 Because the poor guy would volunteer for War two, but 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.840 he didn't have the money for armor and fancy things. 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.360 So he gets a sling, he gets a bow. The 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.400 guy up there with the fancy, shiny armor and shining 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:59.840 helmet and big old bronze shield, that's the dude with 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:04.520 a lot of money, because that stuff is expensive now. 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:09.600 Because they were an army of citizens, it left you 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:13.640 with certain limitations. If you're a Greek city state won 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:17.960 They just wouldn't show up during certain seasons. Because most 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:22.160 of these guys were farmers. Oh you're going to war 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:26.919 e You know. I hate to bring this up, but 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.639 the corn is coming in that time of year. You're 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.840 gonna have to postpone for a month or I'm not coming. 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:35.439 That's not a small thing. It was a huge problem. 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.240 It's not a professional army, it's not your armies. A volunteer, 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:44.600 it's not coming. But the people who did show up, 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:49.520 extremely patriotic morale through the roof. You showed up, and 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.159 you were dang proud to put on the armor, in 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.080 the shield and the spear. I'm gonna fight for Athens. 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.040 They probably would not have called it fight for Greece, 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.280 but you were gonna fight for Thieves or Athens or 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:04.919 any one of these other places. Athens had been worn 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:09.760 down to the nubs in their war with Sparta. Thebes 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:14.160 was on the rise. We did a show recently about 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.480 the Battle of Luctra where Thieves had actually defeated Sparta. 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:19.919 It had really never happened before in a straight up 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:22.480 head to head fight. Thebes is on the rise, and 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:26.960 let's focus on those two. Phillips looks at Athens. He 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:35.080 sees that Athens is down week Philip he thinks he 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:39.879 can take these Athens guys. All he needs to do 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:44.639 is convinced Thebes to either join his side against Athens 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:47.520 or stay out of it. Now, why does Philip think 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:52.240 he can beat Athens? Because Philip did a couple different things. One, 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:59.240 Philip looked around and thought, well, I'm just gonna get 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:03.720 a professional army that's here all the time. I realize 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:06.719 that will cost money. I'll go to feed Athens and 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:12.119 take all the money I need. And Philip gets himself 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:19.440 a professional army, and he goes down to Thebes and says, hey, Thebes, 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.840 I would like you to join with me. And he 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:29.480 offers them virtually everything. You can do. This, you can 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.040 do that, keep your government. I know you have an 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:33.959 oligarchy over there. And Thees, oh, you want to keep 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:37.440 your oligarchy, keep your oligarchy, do whatever you want. Look, 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.560 you just come along, just don't fight against you when 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.399 I fight Athens, and it'll be fine. And Thebes is 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:48.639 considering it. Athens shows up. The envoy from Athens shows 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:52.119 up about this exact time, because Athens is panicking about 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:56.879 this Macedonian army coming down. And Athens tells Thebes, whatever 0:19:56.920 --> 0:19:59.720 they offered you, we will offer more. The people of 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:04.520 Athens were scared to death because they had just lost 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:07.720 so many in wars. They knew they were weak. They'd 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:11.359 looked down upon these barbarian Macedonians for a long time, 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.760 and they look up and find a professional army of 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:22.040 them marching through. And the Macedonians were powerful. They were 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:26.199 powerful for a couple different reasons, not only the leadership 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:30.720 of Philip. They were powerful because they had something called 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:36.280 the companion cavalry. That's what Alexander the Great lad You 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:40.600 see up where Macedonia was. It was so rough, so rocky, 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:43.960 so mountainous, you had to have horses to get by. 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:48.520 Therefore you have a bunch of air fingers quote, uncultured 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:54.360 barbarians who just so happened to be outstanding on horseback, 0:20:54.720 --> 0:21:01.280 and they create an army of cavalry from this. 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Philip he loses out 0:23:13.960 --> 0:23:17.960 on the Thebes Sweepstakes, and now he has to take 0:23:18.000 --> 0:23:21.479 on Athens and thieves. Remember we have Michael Malice coming up. 0:23:21.520 --> 0:23:24.960 He's gonna have some controversial takes as he always does. 0:23:26.160 --> 0:23:29.879 We have a censored author. We have some of the 0:23:29.920 --> 0:23:34.360 best audio I've ever heard in my entire life from 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:39.640 New Jersey. Because if there's anything good about New Jersey one, 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:43.200 it's the sandwiches and pizza they really can't eat back 0:23:43.240 --> 0:23:49.280 East two, it's the audio clips. Gosh, Jersey people were 0:23:49.280 --> 0:23:54.920 the best, the best. Back to Philip, he loses out 0:23:54.960 --> 0:24:03.160 on Thebes. Thebes goes back joins with Athens. The Greeks 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:08.480 post up in a mountain pass, so Philip in his 0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:12.600 army cannot march through and go to where they want 0:24:12.640 --> 0:24:17.280 to go to. I should point out briefly because I 0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:19.960 skipped over it earlier. I didn't want to bog down 0:24:20.040 --> 0:24:23.560 the story, but it probably does matter. Philip kicked off 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:28.480 this war with Athens basically by doing this. He wanted 0:24:28.520 --> 0:24:34.720 a place called Pittna from Athens. Pittna was wealthy, Philip 0:24:34.760 --> 0:24:39.840 wanted it. He offered Athens a city of his own 0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:43.600 if Athens would give him Pittna. Athens thinks about it 0:24:43.640 --> 0:24:47.719 and says, I like that deal. Here's Pittna. Philip says, oh, thanks, 0:24:47.800 --> 0:24:50.840 I just took Pittna. Athens says, well, wait a minute, 0:24:50.840 --> 0:24:54.560 where's our city, and Philip says, I was kidding. You know, 0:24:54.640 --> 0:25:01.439 you can't have that city at all. Athens matt okay. 0:25:01.520 --> 0:25:05.760 Fast forward back to the war the Mountain Pass. Philip 0:25:05.800 --> 0:25:09.600 doesn't want to take on a Greek hop light phalanx 0:25:09.680 --> 0:25:12.119 in a mountain pass. That's where a Greek hop light 0:25:12.200 --> 0:25:15.640 phalanx would do perfectly when you can't circle around behind him. 0:25:16.000 --> 0:25:21.760 So what he does he distributes a letter, widely distributes 0:25:21.760 --> 0:25:26.119 a letter, maybe a little too widely, distributes a letter saying, 0:25:26.200 --> 0:25:28.920 all right, I don't want this war. I'm packing up 0:25:28.960 --> 0:25:33.080 my stuff and I am going back home. Never mind Greeks, 0:25:33.080 --> 0:25:36.239 We're going back home. And he actually starts moving his 0:25:36.359 --> 0:25:40.159 army back home. Surprise, surprise, the letter manages to find 0:25:40.200 --> 0:25:44.159 its way into Greek hands and they say, whoo nice 0:25:44.760 --> 0:25:52.600 lighting up no worries. Philip promptly spends or sends his 0:25:52.920 --> 0:25:57.880 version of special forces back behind the Greek lines, destroys 0:25:57.960 --> 0:26:03.280 the people at the mountain Pass, and now the Athens slash. 0:26:03.400 --> 0:26:07.480 Thebes group have to line up opposite of Philip, and 0:26:07.520 --> 0:26:10.440 they do. They line up for battle, and the Athenians 0:26:10.560 --> 0:26:13.520 have the high ground. Philip does not have the high ground. 0:26:15.760 --> 0:26:20.560 Philip has a bunch of great generals underneath him, but 0:26:20.720 --> 0:26:23.160 he chooses to put a young man by the name 0:26:23.160 --> 0:26:27.600 of Alexander in charge of his companion cavalry, even though 0:26:27.640 --> 0:26:33.800 he had other people who were more experienced. Yet other 0:26:33.800 --> 0:26:39.679 people who were more experienced. But Philip not exactly the 0:26:39.720 --> 0:26:44.600 coddling father type. Philip was a man though, who appreciated talents, 0:26:45.480 --> 0:26:48.439 and I would like to imagine that there was a 0:26:48.520 --> 0:26:52.520 moment as big of a barbarian conqueror as he was. 0:26:53.119 --> 0:26:55.840 I'd like to imagine there was a moment where Philip 0:26:55.920 --> 0:27:00.760 looked at his son Alexander and thought, oh my gosh, 0:27:00.800 --> 0:27:04.760 this kid is really, really, really good. That had to 0:27:04.760 --> 0:27:09.280 be a cool fatherly moment. Right. Then again, from the 0:27:09.320 --> 0:27:11.160 stories we hear, Philip may have been trying to kill 0:27:11.200 --> 0:27:13.399 him when Philip has assassinated letter On, but that's another 0:27:13.440 --> 0:27:16.840 story entirely. Like I said, he wasn't a softy teddy bear. 0:27:18.560 --> 0:27:25.560 They line up against Athens and Thebes. They square off, 0:27:25.600 --> 0:27:32.440 They square off, there's a feigned retreat from Philip. Athens 0:27:32.600 --> 0:27:39.040 moves off the high ground, and then the Athenians they 0:27:39.119 --> 0:27:43.919 start to get slaughtered. They start to go down a 0:27:43.960 --> 0:27:47.359 lot faster than the Macedonians are going down, and how 0:27:47.400 --> 0:27:51.280 can this happen? I don't understand. These are the Greek hoplights. 0:27:51.320 --> 0:27:56.320 They never go down like this. What how did this happen? Well, 0:27:58.320 --> 0:28:01.160 you see, Philip didn't see things like everyone else saw 0:28:01.240 --> 0:28:04.160 him saw things. He didn't see warfare like everyone else 0:28:04.160 --> 0:28:11.679 saw warfare. Philip looked at the Greek phalanx system, you know, 0:28:11.800 --> 0:28:18.399 the shield, the armor, the spear, and he could have 0:28:18.480 --> 0:28:21.200 looked at it like everyone else, including every other general, 0:28:21.359 --> 0:28:23.520 and thought, wow, I mean that works fine. Maybe we 0:28:23.560 --> 0:28:26.240 can make an adjustment here. I'll tell you what we'll 0:28:26.280 --> 0:28:29.199 put up. We'll put more guys over here. That'll make 0:28:29.200 --> 0:28:31.400 this thicker. We'll put we'll thicking up this line, and 0:28:31.680 --> 0:28:34.720 we'll move this here a little bit. But overall, I mean, obviously, 0:28:34.720 --> 0:28:38.719 this is how warfare has done. Right. Philip looked at 0:28:38.760 --> 0:28:44.560 it and thought to himself, Well, if the whole object 0:28:45.560 --> 0:28:48.960 is to stab the other guy in the face before 0:28:49.000 --> 0:28:55.400 he can stab you in the face, why don't we 0:28:55.440 --> 0:29:01.880 just make longer spears? Do you remember I told you 0:29:01.920 --> 0:29:09.120 the Greek spear seven to twelve feet. Philip looks and thinks, well, 0:29:12.000 --> 0:29:15.120 what if we made him thirteen feet fifteen feet seventeen 0:29:15.160 --> 0:29:22.600 feet twenty one feet long, into which people would say, well, 0:29:22.640 --> 0:29:25.440 wait a minute, Well that's true. It's too heavy. He's 0:29:25.440 --> 0:29:28.920 gonna have to have two hands to hold it. He's 0:29:28.960 --> 0:29:31.800 gonna wear out. And Philip says, oh no, he'll be 0:29:31.840 --> 0:29:34.960 fine because he doesn't have armor either. What he has 0:29:35.040 --> 0:29:37.800 to have armor? Philip said, why they're never gonna get 0:29:37.800 --> 0:29:40.560 within twenty one feet of me? Why do I need armor? 0:29:42.320 --> 0:29:47.160 Not only that picture of phalanx, of phalanx with the 0:29:47.200 --> 0:29:49.280 spears coming out the front of it and the shields 0:29:49.320 --> 0:29:51.160 all locked right, you can see it. Maybe you have 0:29:51.480 --> 0:29:54.280 the front row their spears can reach the enemy, and 0:29:54.360 --> 0:29:59.640 maybe maybe the second row their spears can reach the enemy. Okay, 0:29:59.680 --> 0:30:02.400 so let's we're lined up felanxes or even I have 0:30:02.680 --> 0:30:04.720 Let's see here, let's just do a rough number. I 0:30:04.840 --> 0:30:07.800 have thirty thirty spears stabbing at my guys at any 0:30:07.840 --> 0:30:11.160 one point in time. Philip has twenty one foot spears. 0:30:11.280 --> 0:30:14.760 He has five rows deep. So I have thirty spears 0:30:14.760 --> 0:30:19.200 coming at me. I'm sending ninety back the other direction. 0:30:19.640 --> 0:30:22.240 What do I need armor for? You're the one with 0:30:22.360 --> 0:30:29.360 things to worry about, Philip, drop the body armor drop 0:30:29.400 --> 0:30:36.000 the huge heavy shield and simply realized, what is with 0:30:36.120 --> 0:30:40.960 all this tradition? What's with all this the way things 0:30:41.000 --> 0:30:49.239 have always been? What really actually matters if we have 0:30:49.360 --> 0:30:52.920 to put if you'll pardon the spear pun here, if 0:30:52.920 --> 0:30:55.640 we have to put to find a point on it, 0:30:56.560 --> 0:31:03.840 ha ha ha, Chris, what really matters is stabbing the 0:31:03.920 --> 0:31:11.400 other guy before he stabs me. These Athenians begin to fall, 0:31:12.920 --> 0:31:15.200 and they begin to fall for another reason. And I 0:31:15.240 --> 0:31:18.120 want to focus on just the historical aspect of this 0:31:18.200 --> 0:31:21.480