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They will help 19 00:00:59,600 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: you out. 20 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 2: This is a Jesse Kelly show. 21 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:26,400 Speaker 1: What if I told you there was a dude who 22 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:33,559 Speaker 1: had seen some horrible things in his life had done 23 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 1: some horrible things. I'm talking violence, death, torture, plague, a 24 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: life that was ugly, and this dude was hard as 25 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: nails by now, had seen it all, had done it, all, 26 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: had lived through it, all, hard as nails. And this 27 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: dude came across the site. He came across something that 28 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: terrified him so much that he turned around and went 29 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: back home. Would you want to know what that something is? 30 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: I'll tell you in a few fourteen thirty one or 31 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: fourteen twenty eight or fourteen twenty nine. Look, that's my 32 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: way of saying, we don't know. Nobody knows. But a 33 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:41,639 Speaker 1: young man was born and his name was Vlad. Now 34 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 1: Vlad's father his name was also Vlad, and they lived 35 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: in Wallachia or Wallachia, depending on how you pronounce it. 36 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: I say Wallachia because I think it sounds cooler. They 37 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: lived in Wallachia, You need to think Romania. That's what 38 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: we're talking about here, Romania. And Vlad the elder, well, 39 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 1: he was a Christian, Velachia was a Christian kingdom. This 40 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: is the fourteen hundreds. Keep in mind we're talking Pope's 41 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:19,079 Speaker 1: Holy Roman Empire, Crusades, all these things. She had all 42 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: these Christian nations of Europe, well, Romania. If you look 43 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: at a little map, sits just northwest of Turkey. What 44 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 1: was Turkey back in the day the Ottoman Empire. The 45 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 1: Ottoman Empire at this time was easily, and I mean easily, 46 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: the most powerful nation on earth. It was also Muslim. 47 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 1: And these are the days. These are long before the 48 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: days of religious tolerance. These are the days of oh, 49 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: you're a Muslim, let me cut your face off. And 50 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: when you're in the Ottoman Empire, oh, this guy's a Christian, 51 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: let us saw him in half. That's the kind of 52 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: times we're talking about now. Europe. For the reasons I 53 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: just stated, they hate the Ottoman Empire. They view it 54 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: as their mission from God to take the Ottoman Empire. 55 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: The Ottoman Empire. The Muslims view it as their mission 56 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: from God to take Europe. And look, let's be honest, 57 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: let's just boil this down. That's easy to say. Now. 58 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: A lot of this, yes, I'm sure religion came into play. 59 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: A lot of this was powerful men doing the same 60 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: thing powerful men have done throughout the history of mankind, 61 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: which is what gain even more power. That's what powerful 62 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 1: men want. So when you're in Europe and you're like, 63 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: we should take the Ottomans from those Muslims, what you're 64 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 1: really saying is I could use some more territory, and 65 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 1: they've got some sweet spices over there. And equally, when 66 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 1: you're the Muslim sultan and you're talking about we should 67 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: we should do what you had against those dirty Christians 68 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 1: who don't believe in Muhammad. I'm sure you believe that, 69 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: but part of you is like, I mean, they have 70 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: some really sweet mountains up there too, wouldn't mind a 71 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: little castle in there. Let's just be honest about it. Nevertheless, 72 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: you have Wallachia. So Europe is a piece of bread. 73 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:37,839 Speaker 1: The Ottoman Empire is a piece of bread, and you 74 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,160 Speaker 1: need to think of Alachi as a big old piece 75 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 1: of ham right in between. It is the gateway into Europe. 76 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 1: It's the gateway into the Ottoman Empire, which is not 77 00:05:48,839 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: a lovely place to be. Vlad the Senior was nominated, entered, 78 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: however you want to put it. He was put into 79 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: the Order of the Dragon, which was a Christian group 80 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: made to fight Muslims. And that's what Dracool meant. Vlad Drakoul. 81 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:21,159 Speaker 1: Drakoul meant dragon, and his son, little Vlad, was called 82 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:26,279 Speaker 1: Vlad Dracula, meaning son of the Dragon. Yes, in case 83 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,279 Speaker 1: you're wondering, all those Dracula movies you've seen, all the 84 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: vampire movies, they all came from mister Vlad Dracula. And 85 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: once I get done telling his little tale, you'll have 86 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 1: a pretty good idea why he was actually a real person. 87 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,599 Speaker 1: He did not have fangs. He also killed more people 88 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: in his lifetime than any fictional Dracula ever drepped of, 89 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: and frankly killed them in worse ways. So you're Vlad 90 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: Dracoul again. You're Lad the Senior. You get word that 91 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: actually some people in hungry, some people in Europe are 92 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: going to try to overthrow your throne, and they're kicking 93 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 1: you out and you don't get to be king anymore, 94 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: and you get super mad about it. So where do 95 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: you turn? Well, remember you're the ham in between these 96 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: two pieces of bread, and if one of those pieces 97 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: of bread is coming at you Christian or not, you 98 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 1: turned to the other one. And he went on down 99 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: to the Ottoman Empire and talked to the Sultan, and 100 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 1: he brought his two little sons along. His seven year 101 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: old son Radu and his eleven year old son Vlad. Hey, Sultan, 102 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: I would really really love it if you could give 103 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: me some army and some dudes and give me my 104 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: throne back. And if you do that, obviously I'll be 105 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 1: paying tribute to you. And the Sultan said, you know 106 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: that actually works for me. I'd love to have a 107 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: little vassal kingdom up there. Here's the thing, though, if 108 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 1: you want your thrownback, you're gonna have to leave me 109 00:07:53,600 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: your sons. Now that probably sounds crazy to you, but 110 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: understand this. That was common practice back in the day 111 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 1: to leave hostages, hostages that were close to you, with 112 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: people you entered into some kind of an agreement or 113 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: a treaty with. Now, when I say hostages, understand something. 114 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: They weren't thrown in a dungeon. They weren't held at 115 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 1: knife point. When you would leave these hostages mutually agreed 116 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 1: upon hostages, they were oftentimes treated extremely well, and I 117 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: mean extremely well. Nevertheless, you did leave them, and not 118 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: only did you leave them, you left them with somebody 119 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: your sons have grown up hating because your entire life. 120 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 1: If you're Vlaed Dracoul, you're Vlaed the Dragon you're the 121 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 1: Christian guy who fights these Muslims, and now you take 122 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:54,560 Speaker 1: them down to the Muslim Saltan and you say, hey, boys, yeah, 123 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 1: I mean I like hanging out with you, but I 124 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: don't like it as much as being a king. So 125 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 1: you're going to have to stay with this guy that 126 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,079 Speaker 1: I've told you was a scumbag for your entire existence. 127 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:11,679 Speaker 1: Seven year old Radu, because he's seven and boys are 128 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 1: a bit more pliable at seven, was like, oh cool, okay. 129 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: Eleven year old Lad not so much. Radu was personable 130 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 1: and kind, and again they were treated very, very well, 131 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:30,199 Speaker 1: and we'll get to that in a moment. Radu was 132 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 1: personable and kind. Lad not so much. Used to actually 133 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 1: take beatings, not tortured, but beatings, because he would rebel 134 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: every possible way. However, the boys were treated well fed, 135 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: well educated, well educated on languages, educated on mathematics, educated 136 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 1: on philosophy. The Muslim world back then especially was extremely educated, 137 00:09:55,800 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: educated on warfare, all different kinds of warfare, educated on pain, 138 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: and Vlad, being a bitter eleven year old boy, took 139 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: a liking to that education, all of it. And don't 140 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: get me wrong, he's soaked up all the warfare stuff. 141 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:26,599 Speaker 1: The language is the philosophy. But little Vlad he enjoyed 142 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 1: those dungeons in the Ottoman Empire, watching the various ways 143 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 1: they would hurt people while also hating the Ottomans. And 144 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: Vlad isn't going to be stuck in the ottom An 145 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: Empire forever. He's going to take a throne himself one. 146 00:10:44,520 --> 00:11:40,599 Speaker 3: Day, Jesse Kelly. 147 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: Blad Drakoul, Glad the senior eventually goes back, takes command 148 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 1: of Alachia, and look, this story is endlessly complicated. I'm 149 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: not gonna bore you with all the details, but he 150 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: dies as we all will. Glad the Younger takes off 151 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:46,359 Speaker 1: back assumes the throne. Now, I didn't go into everything, 152 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:50,079 Speaker 1: but let's just say there's been a lot of aristocrats 153 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,559 Speaker 1: in Wallachia during this period who screwed over Vlad's father 154 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 1: screwed over Vlad, did a lot of things you could 155 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 1: probably say they should not do. When Vlad the younger 156 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: of Lad drakulav Lad the Impaler, who I'm gonna That's 157 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 1: what I'm gonna call him from now on. When he 158 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: goes back home, his younger brother Radu stays in the 159 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 1: Ottoman Empire and Vlad hates him for this, because Radu 160 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: loves the Ottoman Empire. Well, Glad the Impaler goes back home, 161 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 1: assumes the throne, begins to win various battles he fights. 162 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:31,959 Speaker 1: Glad the Impaler is a lot of things, and we're 163 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: about to talk about those things, but a military genius 164 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 1: is one of them. The dude was a stud in combat, 165 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: a stud and not only commanding. The guy had extensive 166 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 1: hand to hand combat training in the Ottoman Empire. And 167 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 1: word is that at least one of the people who 168 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 1: tried to overthrow him got his head cut off by 169 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 1: Vlad himself in combat. Lad was a beast, and, as 170 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: I will explain to you as we move along here, brave, 171 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: extremely brave, kind of deranged though too. He takes the throne. 172 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: Remember all those aristocrats, they were called boyers. But remember 173 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 1: all those aristocrats who would screwed him over, screwed his 174 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 1: father over. We're gonna let bygones be bygones. Let us 175 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:26,679 Speaker 1: have a banquet, a gigantic Easter banquet. We will celebrate 176 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 1: the fact that Christ has risen. 177 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 3: Kind of. 178 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: Instead, he brings two hundred of these aristocrats and their 179 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:40,680 Speaker 1: wives and their children into a massive banquet haul. They 180 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: feast and they drink, and then Vlad calls in all 181 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: of his men where he seizes them. He takes the 182 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 1: old and infirm, and he marches them outside and impales 183 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:56,599 Speaker 1: them on the spot. Now, before I continue going, and 184 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: I need to explain to you what impalement is, and 185 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 1: I apologize. I will keep this as PG as I 186 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: possibly can, because I always want this to be a 187 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 1: show you can listen to with your children. That's why 188 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: I don't cuss, That's why I don't use any vulgar stuff. However, 189 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: I need to explain to you what it is, because 190 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 1: it's probably much much worse than you think. Impalement that 191 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 1: it was done in several different ways, but the wave 192 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: Lad did it was by far the most brutal, which 193 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: is not very surprising. You See, you can impale somebody 194 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 1: by sharpening a long wooden stick to a really sharp 195 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 1: point and jamming that stick into their chest, out their back, 196 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 1: and then propping them up on it so they kind 197 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: of hang there and kind of slide down it. If 198 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 1: you can believe it, that is actually the very very 199 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 1: humane way to impale somebody, because you can also do 200 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 1: it the wave Lad chose to do it. Now, this 201 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 1: is going to be a little rough, so kids, cover 202 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 1: your ears, parents, hold down on your breakfast. Blad took 203 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 1: a long wooden stick, and he didn't want the pointy 204 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: end of it very sharp. In fact, he made sure 205 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 1: the pointy end of it was pretty stinking blunt. He 206 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 1: would lay you down. He would, depending on the circumstances, 207 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 1: either place the blunt end of that stick where you 208 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: go number two, or would make an incision in between 209 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 1: where you go number two and number one. Place the 210 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: end of that stick in there. The blunts blunt end 211 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 1: of that stick oftentimes greased, and would take a hammer 212 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 1: on the other end and hammer it in to make 213 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 1: sure it was really good. Now I know what you're saying, Jesse. 214 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: Why is it blunt? Well, it's blunt because he wanted 215 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: you to suffer. He did not want your internal organs 216 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: to be pierced and have you die. If you have 217 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: a blunt stick where you well, when you get penetrated, 218 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: that blunt stick will not stab the organs. It will 219 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: simply move the organs around because the end of it 220 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: is blunt and rounded and it won't pierce anything. And 221 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: that is a level of agony that you cannot possibly imagine, 222 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 1: and he would hammer that stick far enough into you, 223 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: and then he would lift you up and plant that 224 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 1: stick into the ground where you would take hours, sometimes days, 225 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 1: to die as the stick slowly made its way up 226 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 1: through your body and exited your body at various points. 227 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 1: Pictures will show you it came out their mouth or 228 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 1: something that didn't happen. That's a myth. But it would 229 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: come out by your collar bone somewhere, ut your chest somewhere, 230 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 1: depending on where you're moving when it finally punctures. But 231 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 1: keep in mind you were still alive at this time. 232 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: And let me finish off in payment. I will not 233 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: describe it to you again because I know that was rough. 234 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 1: Let me just say, as you can imagine, there are 235 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:07,680 Speaker 1: multiple stories throughout history of people begging anyone passing them 236 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:10,439 Speaker 1: by to kill them as they sit there on a 237 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: stick like that. Impalement is not pleasant. Glad the Impaler 238 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: loved it, so he took those old and infirm aristocrats 239 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: outside and impaled them. He took the others down by 240 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 1: a river where he had a bunch of you know, 241 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: cauldrons and fires going, and he was making bricks and 242 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 1: he had the other aristocrats make bricks, carry those bricks 243 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 1: and build him a castle, and I mean a castle, 244 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:46,720 Speaker 1: an absolute fortress. This castle was in Teguvi Shtay, which 245 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:49,919 Speaker 1: was the capital of Wallachia. Remember that, we're going to 246 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 1: come back to it. Vlad had an awesome castle built 247 00:17:54,320 --> 00:18:00,160 Speaker 1: in Teguvi. Stay well, those aristocrats got killed. Now, it 248 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:06,879 Speaker 1: wasn't only bad. Understand this, and this can be hard 249 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 1: to explain, but Vlad is still hailed as a hero 250 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 1: in Romania today, an absolute legend. They practically worship the guy. 251 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:19,679 Speaker 1: We'll get to why in a moment, but part of 252 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:25,879 Speaker 1: why is Vlad was actually fairly progressive when it comes 253 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 1: to treating peasants. Well, this was a very feudal age 254 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 1: where everything was ruled by kings and lords and you know, 255 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 1: you're in charge of this and you're in charge. And 256 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 1: Lad did not like that at all. He thought that 257 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:43,439 Speaker 1: peasants had rights too, lots of them, and treated peasants well, 258 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 1: some of them. Well, when I say some of them. 259 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,919 Speaker 1: Vlad also had a very strict way about how he 260 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:53,440 Speaker 1: viewed how society should be ordered. He viewed the old 261 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: and infirm as a burden on society. He also viewed 262 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: the homeless as a burden on society. So remember that 263 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: banquet we just had. Vlad had another one, and he 264 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: took all the beggers and fed them a massive banquet, 265 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 1: and then he locked all the doors and burnt the 266 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:17,160 Speaker 1: building down with them inside, thus taking care of Wallachia's 267 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:22,120 Speaker 1: homeless problem in a bit of a rough way. Now, 268 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 1: emissaries were sacred. You remember I've told you how sacred 269 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 1: emissaries are. Well. Mahmed the second, the sultan of the 270 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: Ottoman Empire. He sends some emissaries to Vlad, and these 271 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:41,879 Speaker 1: emissaries approach Vlad and they say, hey, you need to 272 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 1: pay your yearly tribute to the Ottoman Empire. And Flad says, 273 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 1: you know, I think you should remove your hat when 274 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:54,440 Speaker 1: you talk to me, because I'm a king. And emissaries said, 275 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 1: I understand that. They said it very respectfully. I understand 276 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:00,119 Speaker 1: that that's what you would like. However, that is it's 277 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,399 Speaker 1: not our custom. We were emissaries. We don't remove our 278 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 1: hat for you. And Lad said, I understand, I get that. 279 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:10,160 Speaker 1: I get that. And so he turned to his left 280 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:13,440 Speaker 1: where he had two large nails, because there were two 281 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 1: emissaries and two large hammers to go with these nails. 282 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 1: He then gave his signal to the men, where the 283 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,119 Speaker 1: men carried the nails, over placed them on top of 284 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 1: the heads of the emissaries, and nailed their hats into 285 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:37,400 Speaker 1: their skulls. Oh did I mention that Vlad hated thieves. Yeah, 286 00:20:37,480 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 1: I have a story about that too. Glad the Impaler 287 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: also hated thief. Not only did he round all of 288 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:16,640 Speaker 1: them up, everyone you could find, and impale them. Sometimes 289 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 1: well sometimes he did more than just impale them. One 290 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: thief who got caught claimed that being impaled was way 291 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 1: too harsh for the crime he'd committed. Vlad said, you 292 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:38,640 Speaker 1: know what, I agree, So he had the man boiled 293 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:44,320 Speaker 1: alive and fed him to the village. Now you can 294 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 1: say these measures were a little harsh to put to 295 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: put it mildly, but they were effective. Thievery in Wallachia 296 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: almost completely disappeared under vlat. In fact, there's a famous 297 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 1: story about a merchant. You see again, remember this is 298 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,840 Speaker 1: in Wallachia. This is right on that gateway from the 299 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 1: east to the west, so merchants had to pass through 300 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: all the time. A merchant rolls into the Wallachia with 301 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 1: a cart full of goods and gold. Goes up to 302 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,159 Speaker 1: Lad in the castle and says, hey, man, I'm just 303 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 1: passing through. Would you mind give me a couple of 304 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,399 Speaker 1: your dudes to watch my wagon overnight. Vlad says, you 305 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,400 Speaker 1: know what, I wouldn't worry about that. This is Wallachia. 306 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 1: You just just go ahead and park your cart right 307 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 1: in the middle of the town square. Nobody you'll touch it. Well, 308 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 1: nobody did touch it except one dude. Merchant goes back 309 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 1: the next day and finds, I forget the exact number. 310 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,679 Speaker 1: I think it was two hundred gold bars. Basically we're missing, 311 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:59,200 Speaker 1: goes and tells Vlad. Glad says, oh, don't worry about it. 312 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: I already found, and Glad put Vlad has his men 313 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: put back in the merchant's cart two hundred and one 314 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:10,480 Speaker 1: gold bars. Merchant goes back, sees he has two hundred 315 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,880 Speaker 1: and one, goes back to the castle and says, hey, Vlad, 316 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: I appreciate you giving me all the money back, but 317 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 1: you gave me an extra one. And he approached Vlad 318 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:25,719 Speaker 1: at the same time the thief had been found, and 319 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:31,159 Speaker 1: Vlad says, I appreciate your honesty. Had you not brought 320 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: back the extra one i'd given you. You'd be impaled 321 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 1: on a stick right beside this thief. I'm about to impale. Yeah, 322 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 1: the dude hated thieves. Now again, remember this Vlad was cruel, yes, 323 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 1: no question. However, he was a brilliant military mind. He 324 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 1: did a lot of great things for them, and most importantly, 325 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:01,640 Speaker 1: especially according to them, we'll at you and nowadays Romania. 326 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 1: He fought the Turks, he fought the Ottomans. You see, 327 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 1: we have an issue here. Vlad refused to pay his tribute. 328 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 1: Remember when he nailed the nail into the head of 329 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 1: the emissaries from the Ottoman Empire. Well, they didn't take 330 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 1: too kindly to that. So they keep sending nasty messages. 331 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 1: They're sending things back and forth, and finally the Sultan 332 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,879 Speaker 1: of the Ottoman Empire says, okay, we're gonna send one 333 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,199 Speaker 1: of our most important chiefs just to meet with you 334 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 1: and talk things out in Vlad says sure. Only this 335 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 1: chief starts riding towards Vlad and he has a thousand 336 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 1: men with him. And it turns out this chief was 337 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,680 Speaker 1: actually on a mission to kidnap Vlad and take him 338 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 1: back to the Sultan. And I don't think I have 339 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,439 Speaker 1: to elaborate for you how that would have gone. Remember 340 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: how I said Vlad was very good. Yeah, he had 341 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: spies everywhere and he found out about this. So he 342 00:24:55,880 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 1: ambushes the chief with his thousand men. He impales all 343 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,919 Speaker 1: one thousand of them and puts the chief on the 344 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:09,919 Speaker 1: highest stake there was. Well, now it's war and Vlad 345 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 1: knows it's war. Remember I said Vlad was brave though. 346 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 1: He takes one of the senior officers of this thousand 347 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:23,160 Speaker 1: man group. He puts on the guy's uniform. Remember where 348 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: Vlad grew up, everybody, Ottoman Empire. What language do you 349 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: think Vlad speaks fluently? 350 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:31,640 Speaker 3: Mm hmm. 351 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: Vlad puts on this guy's uniform, rides up to this 352 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: massive Ottoman fortress and orders the men at the gates 353 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 1: to open the city gates as if he's in charge. 354 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 1: Says it in perfect Turkish, and they do it, and 355 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,679 Speaker 1: Vlad's army storms in and takes over the fortress. Like 356 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 1: I said, the guy had balls of steel, absolute balls 357 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 1: of steel. Now I need to explain. Remember the Ottoman 358 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,440 Speaker 1: Empires the most powerful empire on earth at the time. 359 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 1: Wallachia was very much not very much not, Yes, they 360 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 1: had a leader, very capable, they were had a good 361 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:17,160 Speaker 1: fighting spirit. But this is not a winnable battle. Nevertheless, 362 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,399 Speaker 1: the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, who's had just about 363 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 1: enough of Lad, decides, Okay, it's time to handle this 364 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: whole Ottoman problem. I've had enough of this, and he 365 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,440 Speaker 1: gathers Look, the numbers are all over the place. I've 366 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,879 Speaker 1: read a dozen different things on this. Some people say 367 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 1: one hundred thousand, some say three hundred thousand. He gathers 368 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 1: up a lot of people and heads towards Wallachia. The 369 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 1: most people of Lad can gather up is thirty thousand men. 370 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: So clearly he's about to lose. Well, remember this is 371 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: Flad the Impaler. He's not going to lay down. And 372 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: so he begins poisoning the wells. He begins killing his 373 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 1: own live stock, doing that real scorched earth thing. He 374 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:09,879 Speaker 1: locates people dying of the bubonic plague and sends them 375 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 1: into the Turkish army, spreading the plague everywhere, fighting that 376 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 1: kind of guerrilla warfare, these attacks at night. Well, the 377 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 1: Turks are dying and the Turks are angry, but the 378 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: Turks are still coming. Finally, Vlad finds out where the 379 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 1: Sultan is laying one night, finds out which camp he's in, 380 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 1: because again he had spies everywhere. Vlad invades the camp 381 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 1: trying to kill the Sultan, and actually would have, but 382 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,679 Speaker 1: he got lost and attacked the wrong tent, and his 383 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 1: men attack at night and kill fifteen thousand of them. 384 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 1: Now vladd is still way, way, way outnumbered. The Sultan 385 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 1: is still coming, so he backs off. He goes away, 386 00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 1: at least that's what the Sultan thinks. And now the 387 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:09,399 Speaker 1: Sultan approaches the capital city of tegu Vichte, only there's 388 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:14,120 Speaker 1: nobody around. He's approaching the city and there's nobody here. 389 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,439 Speaker 1: It's the capital city. Where did everybody go? And the 390 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:24,680 Speaker 1: city gates were swinging back and forth open. Well, they're 391 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,479 Speaker 1: a little weirded out, but okay, it's not the end 392 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 1: of the world. And so they enter the city, the 393 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 1: Sultan in his army, and they start making their way 394 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 1: towards Vlad's castle, which is three miles into the center 395 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 1: of the city. And as they approach the castle, they 396 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 1: start to see something in the distance. It looks weird. 397 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 1: Did he plant a bunch of trees in perfect concentric 398 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 1: circles around his castle? What is this, and as they 399 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 1: get closer, and as they get closer, they begin to 400 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 1: see what they think where trees are actually the bodies 401 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 1: of twenty three thousand Turks impaled on sticks in perfect 402 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 1: concentric circles around the castle. Vlad had a forest of 403 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 1: impaled Turks waiting for the Turkish army when they walk in. 404 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 1: Some reports say men actually lost control of their bowels 405 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 1: when they saw it. It was that kind of a 406 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:36,160 Speaker 1: horrifying site. Imagine a forest of impaled countrymen of yours. 407 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:42,960 Speaker 1: The next day, the Sultan in his army, they turn 408 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:50,080 Speaker 1: around a windhole. Now the story doesn't actually have a 409 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 1: happy ending. They sent a rear guard back and Vlad 410 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,080 Speaker 1: didn't have any kind of an army left. They did 411 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 1: end up actually taking it. Both sides claimed victory. It's 412 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 1: one of those weird things. And then Vlad was finally 413 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 1: betrayed one day, and he was betrayed in an ugly 414 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 1: way by a Turkish assassin and had his head cut off. 415 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,240 Speaker 1: The assassin cut off his head in the middle of 416 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,719 Speaker 1: a battle, where Vlad was, of course leading the charge. 417 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 1: But then something interesting happened. The Sultans sent an assassin 418 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 1: to cut off Lad's head. The assassin cuts off Lad's head, 419 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 1: takes possession of Lad's head, and well, hang on. 420 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 3: I'll explain. 421 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 2: The Jesse Kelly Show on air and online at Jesse 422 00:30:44,200 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 2: kellyshow dot com. 423 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,000 Speaker 1: They cut off Glad the Impaler's head and wrote it 424 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: right back to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire who 425 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 1: finally got his guy, and the Sultan chose to honor him, 426 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 1: chose to put the head in honey, which is how 427 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: they preserved it back then and treasured it. You see, 428 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 1: even the Sultan of the Great Ottoman Empire respected a 429 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:31,720 Speaker 1: worthy adversary and all the horrible things he did, which look, 430 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 1: I mean I touched on them. I would highly recommend 431 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 1: you do as much reading as you feel like. I'm 432 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 1: Vlad the Impaler, fascinating character again, still honored to this day. 433 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:51,040 Speaker 1: And I've I've been thinking about this a lot lately 434 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:56,240 Speaker 1: because I've had so many messages from people who are 435 00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 1: very very very frustrated with President Donald Trump, especially people 436 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 1: who are having their businesses wiped out, people who are 437 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 1: out of work, so on and so forth. And I'm 438 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 1: hearing all these complaints about him shutting down the economy, 439 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 1: about him listening to doctor Fauci. I'm hearing complaints about 440 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:19,840 Speaker 1: his open up, open Up the Economy Council, which you know. 441 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,600 Speaker 1: I've complained about all these things as well. And here's 442 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 1: what you need to understand. And I don't work on 443 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,160 Speaker 1: his campaign. I'm not a palm palm waiver for any 444 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,160 Speaker 1: man and will never be. I voted for him, I'll 445 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:44,240 Speaker 1: vote for him again. We're all complicated. They still honor 446 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,840 Speaker 1: Vlad the Impaler to this day. Glad the Impaler locked 447 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 1: all the homeless people in a room and burnt the 448 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:58,600 Speaker 1: building down. But Glad the Impaler was fanatically brave and 449 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:04,920 Speaker 1: fought off what they viewed as horrific invaders. Aren't we 450 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: all good and bad? Isn't that our nature? Good and bad. 451 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,720 Speaker 1: We've already talked about Genghis Khan once on the show. 452 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,320 Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll talk about him again. Yeah, he killed 453 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 1: forty million people with the sword, was also extremely religiously tolerant, 454 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 1: made a very safe kingdom for everybody underneath him. Life 455 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 1: really wasn't bad if you weren't one of the people 456 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:39,880 Speaker 1: who got your heads chopped off. Donald Trump his best quality, well, 457 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:44,880 Speaker 1: I should say, his most delectable quality is his relatability. Now, 458 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,240 Speaker 1: don't laugh, because I understand he's a New York billionaire 459 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,280 Speaker 1: that lives in a gold plated apartment when he's not 460 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 1: in Washington, DC. But Trump, because his father made him 461 00:33:55,920 --> 00:34:01,080 Speaker 1: work construction jobs when he was younger, Trump understood the 462 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 1: working man, spoke and still speaks the language of the 463 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:11,000 Speaker 1: working man. Trump, for better or for worse, I say 464 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:14,960 Speaker 1: for better, is the first major Republican of my lifetime 465 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:19,280 Speaker 1: who has no shame whatsoever about his base. There's always 466 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,440 Speaker 1: a little of that with every major Republican of oh gosh, 467 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,960 Speaker 1: build the wall, here we go, got the crazy wing 468 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:31,560 Speaker 1: nut illegal immigration. Trump never did that. Even the birth 469 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,640 Speaker 1: certificate thing, Chris, do you remember the Obama birth certificate thing? 470 00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,800 Speaker 1: Everybody remembers that. Let me tell you a little secret 471 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:44,920 Speaker 1: about the birth certificate thing. Remember my Gladiator theory about 472 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,439 Speaker 1: the shame society we live in and how people can't 473 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,359 Speaker 1: be honest about what they really believe and what they 474 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:54,759 Speaker 1: really want. I was running for Congress at the time 475 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,920 Speaker 1: when Obama was about to be president, and then I 476 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,520 Speaker 1: was running for Congress still after he was pres and 477 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,520 Speaker 1: so I was hot and heavy into politics during all this, 478 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,520 Speaker 1: and when I stayed running for Congress. I ran hard. 479 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,920 Speaker 1: It's how some no name idiot almost actually got elected. 480 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 1: I was at every event you name it, every Republican 481 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:17,719 Speaker 1: club meeting, at the VFW pancake breakfast, rotary club. I 482 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:19,960 Speaker 1: was at every one of them, running like a beast. 483 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,760 Speaker 1: Do you have any idea how many people really believed 484 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 1: that Barack Obama was born in Kenya? It Maybe you 485 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,319 Speaker 1: believe it, maybe you don't, that's not my business. My 486 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:38,920 Speaker 1: point of it is it was half of the Republican 487 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,240 Speaker 1: voting base at least, and every other major national republic 488 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,520 Speaker 1: I wouldn't touch it, and every other major national Republican 489 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,359 Speaker 1: got up as ah, that's ridiculous, that's stupid. Remember what 490 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,319 Speaker 1: Donald Trump did. He went national with it. I think 491 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,799 Speaker 1: his birth certificate's a fake. Now you can laugh at him, 492 00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,120 Speaker 1: you can say that's cartoonish, or you could worship him 493 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,040 Speaker 1: for it and say, man, that's really cool. But the 494 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,200 Speaker 1: truth is he's not afraid of his base. He's not 495 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:07,920 Speaker 1: afraid of the people who love him, his benefit, his relatability. 496 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:12,480 Speaker 1: He can do that. He gets it. But it's complicated 497 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:17,360 Speaker 1: because yes, he knows them, he understands his base. He 498 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:23,239 Speaker 1: gets it. He is a populist, but yes he's still 499 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:30,880 Speaker 1: a New York billionaire, and so his Economic Council is embarrassing. 500 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,840 Speaker 1: Let's just be honest about it. You look at that 501 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:40,239 Speaker 1: list of his reopened the Economy Council, which working man 502 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:45,040 Speaker 1: is represented on that freaking thing? It's a who's who 503 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:50,799 Speaker 1: of the banking industry. This swamp rat That swamp is 504 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,600 Speaker 1: what it is. There's no small business owner on there, 505 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,160 Speaker 1: there's no guy pounding nails for a living on there. 506 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,240 Speaker 1: It's a who's who of people who think they should 507 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:07,200 Speaker 1: be in charge of your life. And yes, I think 508 00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,640 Speaker 1: it stinks, but I'm also willing to grant a bit 509 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:17,439 Speaker 1: of mercy because again, we're all complicated. We're all good 510 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:22,760 Speaker 1: and bad. I consider myself one of the worst people 511 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,880 Speaker 1: on earth. I'm still capable of doing some really good things. 512 00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:29,960 Speaker 1: I've done a few in my life. Are you the same? 513 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:33,960 Speaker 1: Life is complicated? 514 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:39,560 Speaker 4: Hang on on the Jordan Harbinger Show. You'll hear amazing 515 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,839 Speaker 4: stories from people that have lived them, from spies to CEOs, 516 00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:46,720 Speaker 4: even an undercover agent who infiltrated the Gambino crime family. 517 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,320 Speaker 4: You're about to hear a preview of the Jordan Harbinger 518 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,440 Speaker 4: Show with Jack Garcia, who did just that. 519 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,800 Speaker 5: My career was twenty four out of twenty six years 520 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,560 Speaker 5: was solely dedicated working on the cover I walk in. 521 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,640 Speaker 5: I'm in the bar as a bar made dad, good looking, 522 00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:04,319 Speaker 5: young lady. She's serving me joy. What would you like? 523 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,040 Speaker 5: I usually my drink was give me a kettle, one martini, 524 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,640 Speaker 5: three olives, class of water on the side. I finished 525 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,560 Speaker 5: the drink, the guys come in. I'm gonna go go 526 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,840 Speaker 5: in my pocket, take out the big water money. Damn, 527 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:19,320 Speaker 5: give her one hundred dollars. If you're with the mob, 528 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,560 Speaker 5: I say, hey, Jordan, you're on record with us. That 529 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,480 Speaker 5: means we protect you. Nobody could shake you down. We 530 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,000 Speaker 5: could shake you down. Oh, you're on record with us. 531 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,759 Speaker 4: For more on how Jack became so trusted in the 532 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,560 Speaker 4: highest levels of the Gambino organization, check out episode three 533 00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:36,759 Speaker 4: ninety two of The Jordan Harbinger Show.