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Speaker 2: It is the Jesse Kelly Show. Another hour of the

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Speaker 2: Jesse Kelly Show on an amazing, a fantastic Thursday.

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Speaker 1: And here's what's in store for this hour. History time, Baby,

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Speaker 1: No more politics. I don't want to talk about raids

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Speaker 1: and the EPA and the idiots in Congress and other

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Speaker 1: We've done that all week long. And I have owed

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Speaker 1: you this story for quite some time. So we you

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Speaker 1: and me, we're about to take some time. Maybe this

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Speaker 1: is part one, maybe I'll do the whole thing. I

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Speaker 1: have no earthly idea, but we are about to take

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Speaker 1: a long time, and we're about to discuss Alexander the

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Speaker 1: Great and one of the most amazing sieges you've ever

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Speaker 1: heard of in your life, Alexander the Great in the

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Speaker 1: siege of a place called tire t y R. And actually,

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Speaker 1: maybe depending on your upbringing, or your church attendants now,

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Speaker 1: or just reading the Bible, maybe that name sounds familiar

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Speaker 1: to you. You see, there's this prophetic verse or two.

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Speaker 1: There's a couple of those in the Bible. I think

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Speaker 1: you could call this a little foreshadowing, if you will,

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Speaker 1: Ezekiel twenty six, verse three. Therefore, thus says the Lord God. Behold,

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Speaker 1: I am against you, oh Tire, and I will bring

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Speaker 1: Now let us discuss how things worked out for Tire first. Well,

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Speaker 1: before we get to Alexander the Great, let's discuss briefly Tire.

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Speaker 1: Where it is what we're actually talking about here. As always,

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Speaker 1: maps help if you are not driving. May I invite

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Speaker 1: you to open up your phone or a computer if

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Speaker 1: you're in front of it, and I want you to

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Speaker 1: look up Lebanon. Lebanon. You know where it is, Lebanon,

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Speaker 1: This is the Mediterranean Lebanon. Okay, it doesn't. We don't

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Speaker 1: we're three hundred years before Christ. Okay, this is the

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Speaker 1: time of Alexander the Great. That's not exact. But remember

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Speaker 1: history is not names, dates and locations. That stuff is boring.

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Speaker 1: History is storytelling. Roughly three hundred years before Christ, that's

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Speaker 1: the time we're in, Okay, And at this time, the wealthiest,

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Speaker 1: is the Achimited Persian Empire. It's often known as just

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Speaker 1: at this particular time. Now pause on that for a moment.

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Speaker 1: Let me explain something else. This city, Tire, it isn't

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Speaker 1: That's why I'm boring you with a little bit of

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Speaker 1: Chris said, isn't that Persia? Well, it's under control of

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Speaker 1: They were a seafaring people. They really ruled the Mediterranean

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Speaker 1: And not that there's any kind of wonderful child sacrifice,

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Speaker 1: Even the Phoenicians, it was what they did. It was

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Speaker 1: time was set that aside. That's tire at the time.

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Speaker 1: three hundred. Definitely not for the kids. People know the

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Speaker 1: The Persians invaded Greece, okay, and that was a complicated affair.

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Speaker 1: The Persians felt they were completely justified invading Greece. But

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Speaker 1: the Persians invaded Greece. This was a long time, over

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Speaker 1: that's amazing. What are you teleporting me there? Greece had

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Speaker 2: It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Thursday, driving

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Speaker 2: to time because it's history time on the Jesse Kelly Show,

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Speaker 2: delivering on my Alexander the Great Siege.

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Speaker 1: Of Tires story that I had promised you. I left

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Speaker 1: it up to you, and that's the one you wanted,

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Speaker 1: The Phoenicians will come back there, well, more specifically, Alexander

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Speaker 1: It is one of the most amazing stories ever. And

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Speaker 1: Surely there is something to his background, right well, there

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Speaker 1: is a lot to his background, not all of which

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Speaker 1: His father is Philip the Second. His father is one

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Speaker 1: before I got here. Philip the Second, Philip of Macedon.

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Speaker 1: We are doing a little bit of history here this hour,

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Speaker 1: It's time to get yourself feeling good, full of pep ladies.

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Speaker 1: That's what Chuck does. They are hardcore anti communists and

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Speaker 1: summer savings discount. You can call or text five zero

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Speaker 1: Just give it ninety days. If it doesn't work, canceled,

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Speaker 1: give it ninety days. Tell me how you feel. We'll

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Speaker 1: I haven't decided if I'm even going to go back

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Speaker 1: and he has to do things. Remember I told you

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Speaker 1: to look at Lebanon, because that's the area we're in.

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Speaker 1: He's looking at all that coastline and along that coastline

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Speaker 1: back then there are cities. Remember we're about three hundred

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Speaker 1: years before Christ. There are cities there, and Alexander the

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Speaker 1: Great he's up north. Okay, so he's going north to south.

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Speaker 1: He starts conquering these cities he wants. He needs control

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Speaker 1: of these port cities. He has to have He can't

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Speaker 1: have port cities legal to the Persian Empire. In his

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Speaker 1: rear they'll attack him in the rear. They won't have

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Speaker 1: I realized that made me sound like Lindsey Graham. They'll

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Speaker 1: they'll attack his supply lines. They'll they'll he can't have it, Okay,

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Speaker 1: So he starts attacking, and he starts taking city after

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Speaker 1: city after city until he gets to the city that

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Speaker 1: is our subject today. And this city is known as Tire.

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Speaker 1: This is the important thing you need to understand. Don't worry.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to understand. He gets to the city on

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Speaker 1: the coast. That city is known as Old Tire. Remember

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Speaker 1: that Bible verse we read at the beginning book of Ezekiel.

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Speaker 1: That's Old Tire they were talking about. Old Tire is

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Speaker 1: the one right there on the coast, not exactly heavily defended,

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Speaker 1: but very very old. Why wouldn't it be very heavily defended.

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Speaker 1: Because the people of Tire, the Tyrenees, they found themselves

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Speaker 1: a new gig about. Look, I've read half a mile,

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Speaker 1: I've read three quarters of a mile. One dirty European

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Speaker 1: said one kilometer, like anybody knows what that means. But

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Speaker 1: right off the coast of Old Tire out into the

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Speaker 1: Mediterranean is an island. This island is known as New Tire.

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Speaker 1: It is a large, very very large island town slash

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Speaker 1: fortress in every sense of the word. In fact, we

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Speaker 1: get the question a lot on ask doctor Jesse Friday,

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Speaker 1: if you could go witness an old battle or witness

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Speaker 1: something from history, what would be your one thing. This

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Speaker 1: is on my short list, just to see the city

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Speaker 1: and see another aspect of this battle, which I'll get

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Speaker 1: to in a moment. But this is an eye fortress.

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Speaker 1: It has a couple of fortified harbors on it, which

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Speaker 1: is everything. Remember, these are a naval people that will

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Speaker 1: come into play. They have ships. This island has walls

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Speaker 1: that are allegedly there's a lot of dispute on whether

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Speaker 1: people believe this, that are allegedly one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: feet high. Whether or not they were actually one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty feet high, that doesn't matter. What matters is

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Speaker 1: they were high surrounded by high walls. And again it's

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Speaker 1: an island. Alexander doesn't have an army. Alexander cannot allow

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Speaker 1: this Persian loyal city in his rear. He has to

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Speaker 1: take it somehow, someway, So he first tries the clever route.

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Speaker 1: Alexander was a Greek, obviously considered himself to be Greek,

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Speaker 1: and you know they had all these different gods Zeus

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Speaker 1: and all that Tire it had a temple. Old Tire

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Speaker 1: had a temple, and New Tire had a temple. Both

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Speaker 1: of these temples were to Hercules, you know who. Hercules was,

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Speaker 1: ancient Greek hero. New Tire had a bigger, nicer temple

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Speaker 1: obviously than Old Tire. Remember old Tires, the one on

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Speaker 1: the coast, just kind of ancient collecting dust. Alexander, trying

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Speaker 1: to be clever, gets with the Tire people and says, hey,

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Speaker 1: you have a beautiful island. I've heard there's a beautiful

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Speaker 1: temple to Hercules, and I, Alexander the Great, would really

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Speaker 1: love to go out there and make some sacrifices to

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Speaker 1: Hercules in that temple. Do you mind of me and

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Speaker 1: some friends come out to your island and pay homage

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Speaker 1: to Hercules. The people of Tyre were not fools. This

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Speaker 1: guy had been rampaging through Persia for a while. They said,

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Speaker 1: oh hey, hey, that's that's gonna be a no. But

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Speaker 1: guess what, good news. We have another temple in Old Tire.

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Speaker 1: Go make your sacrifices there. Okay, So everyone understands the game.

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Speaker 1: Alexander the Great receives that news about as well as

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Speaker 1: you would expect. He received that news, and so he

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Speaker 1: now decides to wipe out old Tire. Remember that biblical

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Speaker 1: passage I read in the very beginning the prophecy that

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Speaker 1: this city is going to essentially be scraped down to soil. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Alexander the Great did that. He wiped the entire place out.

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Speaker 1: But he wiped it out with a purpose. You see,

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Speaker 1: Tire made a horrible mistake, a horrible mistake, mistakes that

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Speaker 1: they used to make with that people used to make

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Speaker 1: against Genghis Khan, and for some reason they made them

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Speaker 1: against Alexander the Great too. Envoys Alexander the Great had

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Speaker 1: sent envoys to Tire. Tire not only killed his diplomats,

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Speaker 1: his ambassadors. These are peaceful people just coming out to talk.

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Speaker 1: Tire not only killed them in front of Alexander. Remember

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Speaker 1: he's half a mile off shore. He can watch all this.

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Speaker 1: They threw the bodies of his envoys in the Mediterranean. Hmm.

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Speaker 1: That was not a good move to make, So Alexander

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Speaker 1: the Great, Alexander the Great sets about destroying and building

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Speaker 1: at the same time, if you will, Why did he

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Speaker 1: remove all the buildings. Why was essentially no stone there?

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Speaker 1: Apparently there weren't two stones still stacked on each other

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Speaker 1: by the time he was done with Old Tire. Was

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Speaker 1: this purely out of spite? Well, don't get me wrong,

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Speaker 1: that's something Alexander would do, But no, it wasn't purely

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Speaker 1: out of spite. Alexander the Great doesn't have a navy.

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Speaker 1: He has an army. He needs to attack an island,

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Speaker 1: so he decides to build a bridge, a causeway. More specifically,

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Speaker 1: he is emptying Old Tire of all the stones that

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Speaker 1: had built it, and he's throwing them in the water

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Speaker 1: and building a causeway out to New Tire. And you

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Speaker 1: know what, I'm not even leaving it up to Chris

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Speaker 1: and Corey. We're gonna tell this tale in its completion

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Speaker 1: next maybe we'll get to some politics in a little

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Speaker 1: bit before we do that. You know how bad your

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Speaker 1: back would hurt after carrying those stones around all day long,

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Speaker 1: probably hurt you for the rest of your life. And

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Speaker 1: you really have to feel for them, because these people

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Speaker 1: didn't have relief factor to take that pain away. They

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Speaker 1: had to live with that inflammation. Their hands would be hurt,

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Speaker 1: and I can just see him. Can't you see him

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Speaker 1: rubbing their hands like you do all the time. Your

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Speaker 1: neck would hurt, probably strain and knee. You have something

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Speaker 1: they don't. You have, relief Factor. Relief Factor is one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent drug free. It's a supplement. It's not there

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Speaker 1: to mask your pain. It's there to remove it by

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Speaker 1: attacking the inflammation that's causing it. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: take my word for it. Try it. It's nineteen dollars

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Speaker 1: and ninety five cents to try it. That gives you

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Speaker 1: three weeks of it. Take it every day for three

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Speaker 1: weeks and tell me how your back feels, your foot,

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Speaker 1: your knee. Call one eight hundred the number four relief

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Speaker 1: or go to relief Factor dot com. It's time to

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Speaker 1: build a causeway with some wrinkles. Next