WEBVTT - The True Believers 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:04.960 You know your house smells, don't get mad. Don't get mad. 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:06.840 My house smells too. I'm not I'm not indicting you. 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.520 I'm sure you keep a clean home, but just time 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:13.840 means you're going to acquire smells. Whether those are cooking 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:17.000 smells that get in your paint, your carpet, maybe their 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:20.600 animals smells. Maybe you're a smoker, or someone else was 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:25.640 just living create smells. I didn't realize that my home 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.840 had a smell to it until I got my first 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.800 Eden Pure Thunderstorm, the greatest air purifier I've ever owned 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:35.640 in my life. This thing. I had it plugged in 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:37.559 for two hours. I came back in the room and 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:42.200 my air smells so clean. I now owned three of them. 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:45.560 I'm not making that up. This thing has absolutely changed 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:47.800 me on top of what it's done from my allergies. 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.520 Go get one, get two, you like me, and get three. 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.000 Go to Eden Pure deals dot com. Make sure you 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.400 use the promo code Jesse that gets you ten bucks 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.440 off and free shipping. Eden here deals dot com promo 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:25.000 code Jesse. This is a Jesse Kelly show. Imagine paying 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:32.280 somebody not to kill you. It is an ask doctor 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:40.080 Jesse Friday I'm Jesse Kelly, the Oracle, the Showgun, Sombrero Jesse, 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:46.440 what Chris, Jesse Steele Kelly. You can call in now 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.600 and get in line eight seven seven three seven seven 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.360 four three seven three. We will try to keep the 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:57.360 history segment pretty short today because you filled up the 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:05.000 inbox with some outstanding, outstanding questions Jesse at Jesse Kellys 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.920 show dot com. Chris will be checking the email inboxes 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.920 about the show. We have Cam Edwards coming up next hour. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.320 I don't even know that we're gonna talk about current news. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.240 We're gonna talk about Stonewall Jackson in the Civil Wars, 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:20.800 this huge Civil War buff guy we have. I have 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:28.520 to answer things today about dying or being a vegetarian, Bigfoot, 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:36.160 Florida's governor Ron DeSantis, and comb overs. I have this list. 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:41.440 What's wrong with you? Is it us? Did Jewish producer? Chris? 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.639 That's us, isn't it? We have voicemails, Chris, let me 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.239 ask you something. Can we play any of the voicemails 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:52.000 on the air. I get into the office today and 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.960 we're sorting through some of the asked Doctor Jesse questions 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.280 to try to get these things sorted out and Chris 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:00.239 is telling me, we have a bunch of questions. We 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:01.680 have this to that, and he said, we have two 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:08.320 voicemails about cocaine. I don't know that. There are too 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.560 many shows in the country that walk in and have that. Nevertheless, 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:19.000 here we are. But first and foremost, let us go 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:26.280 back to the thirteen hundreds, the fourteenth century. Here's what's 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:35.560 happening in Europe. Remember this, always remember this. It's easy, 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:41.680 really really easy to look back in history or do 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:46.880 it currently, to point a finger at the superpower, at 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:51.280 the one in charge, and point out all the things 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:58.280 they do wrong. It's easy to easy. Ah, they got 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.920 involved in this, they did that. This is how they're 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:04.960 screwing everything up. Look, this is where they're oppressing these people. Oh, 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.200 I can't believe they passed this policy. Look how disastrous 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:12.400 it was. It's really really easy throughout history. We do 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:16.080 it on this show. Look back on the Persian Empire. 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:20.320 I can't believe the decadence they did it to themselves, 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.279 the Mongolian Empire. Why couldn't they just stop drinking? They 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.600 had all these all these great cons and they were 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:31.280 all drinking themselves to death. How stupid are they barbaric 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:37.440 murdering people over and over and over again. We look 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.920 back at the big empires and point out where they 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:43.880 screwed everything up. Now, granted, in America today we have 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.320 half our own country pointing at us, telling us how 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.560 horrible we are. That's gonna be our death. But that's 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.719 another story. Maybe we'll go over that later in the show. 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:59.680 But Rome is the biggest example of this because in 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:05.080 this horrible revisionist history, white guilt society we live in 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.400 now in the West, not just America, in the West, 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.919 every major power has to be dumped on all the time. 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:15.839 And there's never been a power like Rome, greatest empire 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:20.679 of all time. And we love everybody now especially loves 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.240 to point out the slavery and the oppression and the 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.719 murder of these people in the sacking of this city. 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.760 And they did this wrong and that wrong. And look, 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:30.680 a lot of that stuff's fair, you know, I I 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:36.960 give a history right between the eyes. However, remember something, 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.960 and remember it well. A lot of these territories where 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.920 Rome committed honestly, well you could probably call it genocide. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.760 A lot of these places were really, really, really ugly 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:54.760 places before Rome got there. And then they became really civilized, 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:59.080 modern places while Rome was there, and as soon as 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:05.440 Rome was gone, they went back to sucking. It's happened 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.320 a lot throughout history. I'm just pointing out Rome because 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:12.520 they're going to apply for today. It's happened a lot. 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:16.680 I can't believe. I can't believe France is France is 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.080 a call. They're colonizing this country. These people don't deserve it. 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.240 They deserve freedom. I mean, you know that Life of 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.520 Brian Bitt We've been playing all week. We're gonna play 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:29.440 it again. Yeah, they yeah, we have modern medicine now 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:34.119 in roads, but France, and then the second France gets 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.559 kicked out, the country goes back to being a dump. 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:45.080 Europe went through a long, long, hard period of time 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:51.040 once Rome went down, and still in the thirteen hundreds, 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.400 they're still feeling it now at this point. It's not 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.039 as if they're backwards barbarians at this point in the 0:06:56.080 --> 0:07:02.520 thirteen hundreds, but the country are so divided up they 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:06.240 just could never unify on anything and settle down, and 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.960 so it was constantly war. It was a constant state 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.440 of affairs. You had England, England fighting with France. I mean, 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:17.120 we're actually gonna be the hundred years war is going 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.560 on during our story today, and it actually been on 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.360 more than one hundred years. You had the pope vying 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.080 for power. You had Italy where most of our story 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:29.360 will take place today. Italy. Remember this. People act like 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:33.520 Italy's ancient because of Rome, but Italy as a unified 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.200 country is not that old. At this point in the 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.840 thirteen hundreds, Italy was like ancient Greece. It was just 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:47.240 a bunch of city states. Now extremely extremely wealthy, sophisticated 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:51.760 city states, and I mean very wealthy, and not always 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.480 just the city. You would have a Genoa, that's just 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.960 that's just one random one. You could have Genoa as 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.560 a city state, very wealthy, very powerful, and they could 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:05.560 own colonies across the ocean. But they didn't all consider 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:09.880 themselves to be Italian. No. They were constantly murdering each other, 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.040 which is gonna bring us to our story today. Constantly. 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.280 I heard one guy describe it who wasn't shoot. I 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.000 want to give him credit, but I forget who it was. 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:22.040 I heard one guy describe Italy. He said, you know 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.040 where they got the mafia from. They got it from 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.920 how they were doing business back in the thirteen hundreds. 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.800 It was run like a mafia, only a big one. 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.640 You had this family who controls this city state and 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.440 that family who controls that city state. And this guy 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.400 tries to assassinate that guy tries to marry this daughter, 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.840 or they form an alliance, and it was a constant 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.600 state of blood and trade. And then you throw in 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:52.080 the religious aspect of it, and that wasn't small. It 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:56.360 was not small. Remember how corrupt that has been through 0:08:56.440 --> 0:09:00.839 certain periods of time with the papacy, the pope so 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.120 often back then. I mean, I'm not Catholics, so I 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.160 can't be judging this pope. Now. I'm not a big fan, 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:12.160 but back then, oftentimes these popes were just they was 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:17.199 just a king who wore white, oftentimes a corrupt, corrupt, 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:21.120 corrupt king, a king who had the power to tell 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.800 anybody in the world they weren't going to heaven anymore. 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.440 Kind of a big deal. So it's an ugly state 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:36.280 of affairs. But let's go to England first. Have you 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:42.200 ever wondered about being a mercenary? Now you know what 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:45.559 a mercenary is. It's somebody who gets gets paid for combat. 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:51.520 I've wondered about it a lot, and I wondered about 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.640 it because I considered doing it at one point in time, 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.840 and I just couldn't ever completely wrap my mind around it. 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.080 Just quick little thing here. When we were in the 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.640 Marine Corps, we were Marine Corps infantry guys that we 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.640 were trained pretty well, and we got with someone made 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:11.600 sure we got word that for thirty thousand dollars a 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:17.760 month you could go hunt poachers in Africa. Now, I 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:22.800 don't exactly like poachers. I didn't think I hated them 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:29.320 enough to go murder them, and my mom would kill me. However, 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.720 it brought some questions up, and it's going to apply 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:37.080 to our story today being a mercenary. Also today, comb 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:56.520 overs hang on feeling a little stocky. Follow like a 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:02.280 subscribe on social at Jesse Kelly Show. Natural medicines and 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:09.280 holistic healing approaches. 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It's a good question. 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:04.760 We'll save it and might get to it next week. 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.160 We don't toss him. We do not toss him ever, 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:14.880 all right. England thirteen hundreds. The most famous mercenary probably 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:18.520 ever to exist is born thirteen twenty three, and his 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:24.280 name is John Hawkwood. He's born relatively middle class family. 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:29.440 Some of his childhood details are fuzzy, so I'm not 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.360 going to give you any of them in case it's 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.120 a bunch of crap. Some people said he was a tanner, 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:37.640 some people said he was wealthy. Whatever the story is. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:42.080 King Edward the third of England at the time, he 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.920 I know you're going to find. The shocking was fighting 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:48.280 with France. England and France are always head each other's 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.000 throats and they're in the middle of the Hundred Years War. 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:57.960 When you're in a long war like that, it does many, many, many, 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.240 many many things to your country, and not many of 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:07.400 them good. Protracted war is really never good, and it 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.040 was doing something to England at the time as well. 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:18.679 It was running through their young men. They were all 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:23.480 getting run through combat and that can sound healthy, but man, 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:28.600 it's really unhealthy. They die, they're maimed. You adjust the 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:32.320 mentality of a nation. Remember they say France lost World 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:36.600 War two in World War One because such a huge 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:40.560 percentage of the French male population had been through that 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.440 living hell in World War One. By the time you 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:48.240 got to World War Two, they're just you're so warped, 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:53.120 you're you're so different than you were before that it 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:57.240 changes your whole country. England was going through this as well, 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:01.240 and they were going through something else. You have all 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.760 these men. John Hawkwood joins the army becomes a long bowman, 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.240 which is a big deal at the time. Well, then 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:12.720 the war eventually stopped. So now you have men without 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:17.520 great opportunity in front of them, highly trained in combat, 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:24.880 stuck with only really one special life skill, and nowhere 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:29.360 to officially ply their trade. And this is the point 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.280 in time. Remember we have the Black plague everything else. 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:37.240 And what happened was an odd phenomenon. We had all 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:41.160 these mercenary companies, they called them free companies, pop up 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:44.960 all over Europe because just because the official war was 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:49.480 over didn't mean there weren't a thousand other conflicts between 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.680 this lord and that lord, and this city state and 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:57.600 that city state, and everybody wanted experienced fighting men. So 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:01.440 you're somebody like John Hawkwood, who apparently acquitted himself very 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:05.640 well in that war. You finish, you have, as the 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.040 great movie was it taken says, a very particular set 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:14.520 of skills and not many other skills. It's a tough question, right, Look, 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.400 I would I told you I went through this when 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.480 I was getting out of the Marine Corps. I seriously 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:22.800 considered it. Thirty thousand dollars a month to go hunt 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:32.240 down poachers. That's huge money. That's huge money. These guys 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.080 were going through the same thing. Let's see, I can 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.840 go home, go back to the family farm, maybe work, 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.960 maybe work as a blacksmith's apprentice, or or hear me 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:46.600 out here, this city state really doesn't like that city state, 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.960 and they're offering us a small fortune. If we're willing 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.160 to just go kill some people for him, should we 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:57.360 do that? It became a big deal. He started working 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:01.560 for the largest of these mercenary companies, called the Great Company. 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:06.000 But here was the problem with mercenaries then and now. 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:08.920 Remember and remember now, all mercenaries are not the same. 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.800 We have b K, former Air Force PJ coming on 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.240 this show every single week, every Tuesday. He comes on 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:18.800 this show. B K was a mercenary for a decade. 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.840 He's openly talks about it. They call him pmc's Private 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:25.440 Military Contractors. But that's just a nicer way to say mercenary. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:30.119 Then and now, though mercenaries can run the gamut, b 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:33.760 K was obviously one of the ones who worked with 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:37.200 the federal government for a cause that was always pro American. 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.440 But there are plenty of mercenary groups out there, and 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:45.119 hear me out, plenty of mercenary groups out there who 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:49.720 are more than happy to go in and liquidate a 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:53.879 village for you if you'd like, oh, some natural resources 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:57.159 in there. Do I have any problem killing all the villagers? No? No, 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.359 I don't know. Neither do my men here pay me. 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.600 Mercenaries are a funny breed, and they've been around since 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:09.880 time began. But you run into this particular situation if 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:15.040 you have too many of them. Sometimes if you're a mercenary, 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:20.240 sometimes there's nobody for you to fight. What if you're 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:25.000 in between jobs, what if you're long in between jobs? 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:27.880 And do these sound like the type of men who 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:31.640 have a four oh one K? I gotta make sure. Look, 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.200 I have to put so many of these. I need 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.760 stock options here. I have to make sure I have 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.159 a monthly stipend, just i'd have to save for a 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:42.080 rainy day. Do those sound like the kind of men 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:43.960 we're dealing with. Believe me, it's not. And I'm not 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:48.480 saying they're idiots, but men like that, especially young military 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:52.720 aged males. I was that one. They don't save money. 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:55.919 You live for them now because you're always on the 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.240 end of death in your mind. These guys blow through 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.400 their money as as as they make it. And now 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.960 you're a mercenary company. You're very tough, you're very powerful. 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:05.840 You you and all your friends, you're together, and you 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.440 know you're really good, and there's nobody to pay you. 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:13.359 And let's say, let's say you don't have necessarily the 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:19.360 best moral compass in the world. Well, good old fashioned 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:22.960 extortion has paid a lot of bills. What they would 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.960 do is they would start, they would pick a powerful 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.560 city state or a powerful lord, powerful anything, and they 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:33.000 would simply start pillaging his land. Yes, they wanted the 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:35.320 goods and services, they wanted the food and gold they 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:38.280 were taking, but more than anything else, they wanted the 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.320 city state to go. Please stop. What will it take 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:45.879 to make you stop? Oh, just a very large payment 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:48.959 right now and then we'll go away. And this is 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:57.600 something that Hawkwood would do with his mercenaries throughout his lifetime, consistently, consistently, 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:02.359 and it is large stay, large scale extortionism. It's no 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:05.600 different than that Italian mafia. Seen you've seen in the 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:09.040 movies A Thousand Times where two big goons walk in 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.560 the mom and pop shop and grab the guy by 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:13.960 the collar and say, I'll be back for buy fifty 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:16.560 bucks again tomorrow and every day after that. Have my 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:22.400 money ready, same thing, only Hawkwood and his guys simply 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:25.360 made it official. We still have the records of it. 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:29.679 He would say, Oh, I'll back off sure for a 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:32.160 period of three years, for this amount of time. After 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:34.240 three years, I can come back and do whatever I want, 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:37.719 but you sign the contract. I'll stop murdering you for 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:41.639 three years. Sound good. And they were so wealthy, the 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:44.440 city states were, and they wanted these guys gone so 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:50.400 much they routinely paid it. These guys start pillaging the countryside. 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:56.520 The pope steps up and excommunicates Hawkwood and his entire company, 0:20:56.560 --> 0:21:00.520 the entire great, great company. They've killed, murdered, raped so 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:04.800 many times, get out And then what do you know, 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:08.520 as it happened so often, the very same pope who 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:12.800 had just excommunicated their great company, found himself in yet 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:18.840 another rivalry situation with a powerful wealthy family in city 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:22.080 state in Italy. So he goes to the company he 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:27.240 just excommunicated and says you guys looking for a job. 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:32.359 Hang on, I'm gonna try to wrap this up before 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:52.800 we get to talking about Bigfoot. Hang on, wake up 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:58.439 and text, Text and eat, Text and catch the bus, 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:04.960 techin miss your stop. Text and be late to work 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:12.520 sorrently text and work, Text and pretend to work, Text 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:15.000 and X surprised when someone calls you out for not working. 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:18.080 Maybe text and meet up with a friend you haven't 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:21.720 seen in forever. Oh God, Text and complain that they're 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:25.280 on their phone the whole time. Text and listen to them. 0:22:25.280 --> 0:22:30.240 Complain that you're on your phone the whole time. Text 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:33.520 and whatever. But when you get behind the wheel, give 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:36.200 your phone to a passenger, put it in the glove box. 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:41.240 Just don't text and drive. Visit stop texts, Stop rex 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:44.159 dot org a public service announcement brought to you by 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:47.560 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the AD Council 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:06.800 and Jesse just heard your cocaine questions. I found it curious. 0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:10.679 There is six hundred and forty nine kilos, not six fifty. 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:14.320 But you know, under the right circumstances, yeah, you know, 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:16.800 I'd tell one or two just to you know, make 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:19.440 some money. I mean people don't understand how many guys 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:21.760 are out there doing it anyway. You know, low risk, 0:23:22.240 --> 0:23:30.720 risk were words. I love you guys so much. The 0:23:30.840 --> 0:23:33.639 question yesterday, it wasn't a question. It was just a 0:23:33.720 --> 0:23:39.399 random story. Somebody found an abandoned boat with six hundred 0:23:39.520 --> 0:23:42.880 forty nine kilos of cocaine on it and called the cops, 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:47.600 and it was a morality question of what you would do. 0:23:48.600 --> 0:23:51.200 It's Jesse Kelly. You can find me on social media 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:55.280 at jesse Kelly DC on Twitter, at Jesse Kelly DC 0:23:55.440 --> 0:23:58.520 on Instagram. It's I'm on Facebook. I'm on parlor for sure, 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:00.160 because I'm sure I'm gonna get run out of all 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:03.520 the others here pretty soon. We have to talk about 0:24:03.560 --> 0:24:07.000 Florida Governor Ron De Santis today and why I want 0:24:07.040 --> 0:24:10.320 to give you a little bit of caution there, just 0:24:10.400 --> 0:24:12.639 a little caution. I'm not gonna be bagging on heavy 0:24:12.680 --> 0:24:15.119 d I like him a lot. Well, this a little 0:24:15.160 --> 0:24:23.040 caution vegetarianism, all right, But we're gonna try to wrap 0:24:23.080 --> 0:24:28.280 this up. The Pope first excommunicates the great company, this 0:24:28.520 --> 0:24:32.520 company of mercenaries in the thirteen hundreds with John Hawkwood 0:24:32.520 --> 0:24:35.520 in there, and then he hires them hires them to 0:24:35.560 --> 0:24:38.479 go take on one of these city states in Italy. 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:44.000 They marched down to Italy. They start wearing this highly, 0:24:44.200 --> 0:24:49.560 highly shiny, very pale armor, and they change their name 0:24:49.720 --> 0:24:52.159 to become the White Company, which will probably get you 0:24:52.160 --> 0:24:54.119 in quite a bit of trouble if you try that today. 0:24:56.119 --> 0:25:01.119 They become famous because John Hawkwood, for all of his 0:25:01.960 --> 0:25:05.439 lack of morals, if you want to say, John Hawkwood 0:25:05.520 --> 0:25:08.960 is a bad man when it comes to combat, some 0:25:09.080 --> 0:25:13.760 people are just simply naturally gifted at combat. These mercenary companies, 0:25:13.920 --> 0:25:17.879 the leaders were always voted on by the men. Hawkwood 0:25:17.880 --> 0:25:19.840 shoots up through the ranks and they're like, this is 0:25:19.840 --> 0:25:25.160 our guy. They had ambush tactics at a time where 0:25:25.359 --> 0:25:28.360 people weren't ambushing that much. They would attack at night. 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:32.080 Nobody used to attack at night. Let's let's clear something 0:25:32.280 --> 0:25:39.280 up right here. Night attacks look very, very very cool 0:25:39.600 --> 0:25:43.080 in the movies, and I will tell you full disclosure, 0:25:43.359 --> 0:25:45.760 they look really cool in real life too. Looks like 0:25:45.880 --> 0:25:50.360 Star Wars out there, tracers going back and forth. However, 0:25:51.320 --> 0:25:55.280 especially historically, before there were flares, you could shoot up 0:25:55.280 --> 0:25:57.119 in the air so you can see and so on 0:25:57.160 --> 0:26:02.760 and so forth. Historically, night attacks were very very very rare. 0:26:03.280 --> 0:26:08.560 Communication was difficult, visibility was difficult, so much of the 0:26:08.560 --> 0:26:11.320 time these armies would communicate with each other by different 0:26:11.400 --> 0:26:13.800 flags and flag seaton, which you couldn't do it at night. 0:26:13.840 --> 0:26:17.280 It was just a night attack in ancient times was 0:26:17.560 --> 0:26:21.000 very rare, very rare. These guys managed to perfect it, 0:26:22.160 --> 0:26:27.840 and they start slaughtering people. They start winning all their battles, 0:26:28.680 --> 0:26:31.399 and they would pull some of the dirtiest stuff you 0:26:31.440 --> 0:26:34.399 can imagine. You see, here's the situation. These city states 0:26:34.440 --> 0:26:36.159 didn't really have armies of their own. They had to 0:26:36.160 --> 0:26:38.600 rely on mercenaries. So there were all kinds of mercenary 0:26:38.640 --> 0:26:41.320 groups out there. Well, if you're a mercenary company and 0:26:41.440 --> 0:26:45.800 this city says one hundred thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars, 0:26:45.840 --> 0:26:49.240 we want you to go attack this city state, and 0:26:49.280 --> 0:26:53.240 you say, okay, well pay me all my money now, 0:26:54.680 --> 0:26:56.760 So they pay you all one hundred thousand dollars, you 0:26:56.880 --> 0:26:59.479 go attack the other city state, and that city state says, well, 0:26:59.480 --> 0:27:01.240 we'll pay you hundred and fifty to turn around and 0:27:01.280 --> 0:27:04.919 go attack them, And these guys would routinely say, oh, okay, 0:27:04.960 --> 0:27:07.160 we'll take that one hundred fifty two, and you don't 0:27:07.160 --> 0:27:11.359 exactly pay back the hundred. So then you have situations 0:27:11.359 --> 0:27:15.480 where Hawkwood would finally they started running into companies, would 0:27:15.480 --> 0:27:18.920 start city states would start telling the mercenary companies, well, 0:27:19.320 --> 0:27:22.080 we'll pay you one hundred thousand, but it's fifty thousand, 0:27:22.200 --> 0:27:25.360 now fifty thousand. When the job's done, we don't want 0:27:25.359 --> 0:27:29.119 you to switch inside. So Hawkwood would take to fifty 0:27:29.160 --> 0:27:31.679 grand and then just go sit out and say, well, 0:27:31.720 --> 0:27:33.439 I'm not moving till you give me my other fifty. 0:27:33.800 --> 0:27:37.159 And because you don't have their arms, and he's running 0:27:37.160 --> 0:27:40.800 the best show in town. He's got you by the gonads. 0:27:41.680 --> 0:27:47.359 You can't do anything about that. And he spends decades 0:27:47.680 --> 0:27:51.639 doing this. Florence and Pisa are at war. He signs 0:27:51.640 --> 0:27:56.720 with Pisa. They're laying siege to places. And Hawkwood was 0:27:56.840 --> 0:27:59.480 famous for doing things like if he had if he 0:27:59.480 --> 0:28:02.879 had a under siege, he would march up to the 0:28:02.920 --> 0:28:05.560 walls and play music at night so they couldn't go 0:28:05.600 --> 0:28:08.800 to sleep. It was just it was just an insane life. 0:28:09.480 --> 0:28:13.400 And again, in between jobs, because contracts would run out, 0:28:13.840 --> 0:28:17.960 in between jobs, they would go just start pillaging places 0:28:17.960 --> 0:28:20.959