1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Your holster is way more important than you think it is. 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 1: It's just way more important than you think it is. 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:09,880 Speaker 1: What look, and I get that the holsters not the 4 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: sexy part of carrying firearms. All right, You want to 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: talk about your weapon and your ammunition. You want to 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 1: talk about your safety training. You want to talk about 7 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,080 Speaker 1: how you did at the range. Oh look at my groups. 8 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:21,959 Speaker 1: I was doing these failure drills today, and all that 9 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 1: stuff is really important. I mean, really really important. I'm 10 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: not discounting that, but I've known so many people who 11 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: do all those things. They take all the necessary steps 12 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 1: and then they carry with a holster they bought from 13 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 1: a big box hunting store that was made a thousand 14 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: at a time. Please don't put your life in one 15 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: of those holsters. You need to trust Northwest Retention Systems 16 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:48,840 Speaker 1: because it's all custom made gear. It's the only thing 17 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: I carry around NW Retention dot Com. That's NW Retention 18 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: dot Com used to promo co Jesse gets you ten 19 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: percent off. This is a Jesse Kelly show. It is 20 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: an ask doctor Jesse Friday. And you know we start 21 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 1: out with history. I'll keep it brief today, but I 22 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: did think it was funny it's an ask doctor Jesse Friday. 23 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: You emailed in your questions, you can call in with 24 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 1: them as well. Eight seven seven three seven seven four 25 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: three seven three. The first one on the top of 26 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: my questions y'all have sent in is which ancient medieval 27 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: torture method was the most creative? And it's funny you 28 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: should bring that up because we were about to talk 29 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: about one today. It was part of our story. Totally 30 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: a coincidence, Chris about that. So we will get to 31 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: that in a moment. Creative certainly one way to put it. Now, 32 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,399 Speaker 1: let us talk very briefly, because you have so many 33 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:22,799 Speaker 1: questions about vikings. We haven't done much with vikings, and 34 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: specifically we want we want to talk about the Varrangian 35 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,160 Speaker 1: Vikings or Varangian Vikings, depending on who you talk to. 36 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: I have no earthly idea which one is proper. I'm 37 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 1: gonna call Varangian for today's purposes. Now here's who the 38 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: Vikings were. We think there's gonna be a lot of 39 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 1: we think today. Don't get me wrong. We know the 40 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: Vikings were there. We know they were a war like people, 41 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: for sure. We know certain things about their religion, certain 42 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: things about their society set up. We know how they 43 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: made war. We all know about their boats. They're famous 44 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: for their boats. However, turns out some things we thought 45 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: we knew or actually a bunch of crap, And I 46 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 1: am so disappointed. Did you know they don't have horn helmets, Chris? 47 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 1: How disappointing is that that's the whole, that's half the 48 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 1: cool thing, the big horns coming out of the helmet. 49 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: Apparently not true at all. No horn helmets mainly in 50 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: axe wielding people. Not surprising, however, they would have preferred swords. 51 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 1: But like many cases back in the day, see you 52 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,839 Speaker 1: and I watch movies Braveheart or something, and we think, ah, man, 53 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: that battle axe is sweet. I think I'd rather have 54 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: the axe than the sword. Right, you've had that thought. 55 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 1: You'd never pick an axe over a sword. You make 56 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: axes and spears instead of swords because they take a 57 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: lot less metal to do so, and it costs a 58 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: lot less. In Viking society, where I thought everybody had 59 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 1: a sword, you go to hell if you don't die 60 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:19,920 Speaker 1: with your sword in your hand and all that. Yeah, 61 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: they mostly had axes. They're only the rich guys had 62 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 1: the swords. That's kind of a bummer. We don't know. 63 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: Nobody knows how they got up to where they got to. 64 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: You know, when I'm talking Swede and all that stuff, 65 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 1: they're an Indian tribe. It occurred to me as I 66 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 1: was doing all this reading on it last night and 67 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 1: listening to some things. They're simply an Indian tribe. And 68 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: I've never heard anybody discussed them that way, describe them 69 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 1: that way. But it's only because they're white. And no, 70 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:00,280 Speaker 1: I'm not telling you that, Oh, you're all a bunch 71 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: of racists. It's just we don't think about them that way. 72 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: That's what they are. They're no different than the tribes 73 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: in North America, the Mayans and Aztecs in Mexico, the 74 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: various African tribes, the ones throughout the Asian Stepe. They 75 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: are a warlike barbarian or Native American Indian tribe, definitely 76 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: a warlike when not one of the peaceful ones. But 77 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:30,719 Speaker 1: that's what they are. We don't know how people got 78 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: up to where they got to, but we know around 79 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: seven hundred. That's way over simplifying it, but around seven 80 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: hundred they really came on the scene. And how did 81 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: they come on the scene. Well, here's what happened. Vikings 82 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 1: had kings, they had kings, they had nobles. Then they 83 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: had a whole bunch of freemen. You were free as 84 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: a Viking, and some slaves, lots slaves they were. They 85 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,359 Speaker 1: were big on the slavery thing, like everybody else was 86 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 1: back in the day. And Vikings were always fighting each other, 87 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,919 Speaker 1: always fighting somebody, and got really really good at it 88 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 1: somewhere along the way. And there is a way of 89 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: thinking out there that is this. They say it's because 90 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:26,719 Speaker 1: of the weather. I was most interested, I'll be honest, 91 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: when I dug into the Vikings, I was most interested 92 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: in why they had the reputation they had and why 93 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: they were such good fighters. And they were and we'll 94 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 1: get to the Vrangian Guard here in a minute. They 95 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:45,039 Speaker 1: were such good fighters. I always want to know why. 96 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:49,159 Speaker 1: There was always a reason, right, there's there's money, or 97 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: it's training, this experience. There's a reason. Spartans were better 98 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 1: fighters than anyone else. They were all professional soldiers. That's 99 00:06:57,920 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: all they did all day long. You trained, so you're 100 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: end up as a better fighter. Period. They were all 101 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: about exercise. Even the women, the Spartan women were all 102 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: supposed to be hot because they believed that women had 103 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: to be in shape had strong boys, so even the 104 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: women were physical fitness freaks. Okay, that's that's understandable. Mongols. 105 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: How could the Mongols be so good? They had them 106 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 1: on horseback at the age of three. You're gonna end 107 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: up being pretty good on a horse. I couldn't get 108 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 1: a solid answer on why the Vikings routinely beat the 109 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 1: crap out of other people relatively equal, appeared to be 110 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: equal socioeconomically. Vikings roll into an area, They've got fifty dudes. 111 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: You've got fifty dudes your toast. The world starts to recognize, 112 00:07:55,360 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, these guys are really really good. And 113 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: I think it was because of the weather. I heard 114 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 1: somebody talking about it. They lived in an extremely inhospitable 115 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: climate that is just tough up there. There's a reason 116 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: most of the tribal societies, the Indian tribes, if you 117 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: want to put it really really simply are in warmer place. 118 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: And where do Indians settle for the most part. I 119 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: know there are exceptions Eskimos and some Northern American Indians 120 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: up towards the border and such, But where do Indians 121 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: settle for the most part, where do they settle in 122 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 1: Africa for the most part, somewhere warm, somewhere warm. Who 123 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 1: chooses to settle below zero somebody different? And why they 124 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 1: did it. I have no idea. But cold weather makes 125 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: you harder as an individual. It is not debatable. It 126 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 1: makes you harder. Why do you think during that Navy 127 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:12,680 Speaker 1: Seals Buds training, that horrible selection that sometimes nobody makes 128 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 1: it through. Why do you think the main thing they 129 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: do well. One of the main things they do is 130 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: stuff you in the freezing cold ocean and then have 131 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 1: you stand up there soaking, wet and freezing where they 132 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: have to constantly come by and check and see if 133 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:31,319 Speaker 1: you have hypothermia. Yet you know why they do that, 134 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. Because cold breaks men and cold 135 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:45,439 Speaker 1: makes men. I have been in several situations where it 136 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: was so cold it takes away your will. You just 137 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:55,200 Speaker 1: want to die. I have seen guys. I saw guys 138 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: in the School of Infantry when we were there. We 139 00:09:57,280 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: had freezing rain one night and they left us out 140 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 1: in the field. I saw trained marines who had been 141 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: through boot camp give up. They just tried to walk 142 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: off the base. There was no place to go because 143 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 1: we're out in the middle of the wilderness. They just 144 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: walked down to the bottom of the hill and found 145 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: a Porter John and piled inside and just lost the 146 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: will to go on. That's what cold can do to you, 147 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 1: and I think it's what did it to the Vikings 148 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:52,680 Speaker 1: hang Feeling a little stocky, follow like a subscribe on 149 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 1: social at Jesse Kelly DC. I love the American flag. 150 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 1: I am not trying to be corny. It matters a lot, 151 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 1: and I will be honest with you. I think it 152 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:09,679 Speaker 1: matters a lot for the future of a country. A 153 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: country must be proud of itself in order for it 154 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 1: to continue. 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That's Atlantic Flagpole dot Com. 162 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 1: Use the discount code Jesse get ten percent off your flagpole. 163 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: Vikings are a tough people, and then they emerged like 164 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 1: a medieval horde on Europe. Europe. Let's talk specifically about 165 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: England at the time, but this is this is pretty 166 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: common throughout Europe. It's important we understand that the church 167 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 1: was a big deal, such a big deal. Oftentimes, churches 168 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:51,559 Speaker 1: were the lone power base of any region. It's where 169 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 1: you went to learn how to read, if you were 170 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 1: lucky enough to have someone teach you how to read. 171 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:00,719 Speaker 1: It's where you had to go for food. Sometimes if 172 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 1: it was set up, the money was kept there. The 173 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: church was the center oftentimes of any given area. And 174 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:20,439 Speaker 1: as the Vikings discovered, not protected that well and the 175 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 1: church it mattered to people more than you and I 176 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 1: can wrap our heads around. This was more of an era, 177 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:38,319 Speaker 1: especially around these monasteries, where they took things extremely seriously, 178 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 1: and the priests who worked there, the bishops, all these 179 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 1: guys were the representatives of God. These were sacred people, 180 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: not to the Vikings. The year seven ninety three, Vikings 181 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 1: launcherarade on a monastery in England. That horrifies the English. 182 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 1: It's raiding a monastery is not something done by people 183 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: they're used to fighting at this time. If you're fighting 184 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 1: somebody else. They're probably Catholic too. Vikings not Catholic. Vikings 185 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: kick in the doors, murder priests, carry some off to slavery, 186 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 1: steal all the money, and it's hard for us to 187 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 1: wrap our minds around it. But for the people living 188 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 1: in that era, they thought the devil himself had come 189 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: out of hell. They had no idea who these people were. 190 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: And the Vikings looked scary. I know, you've seen the 191 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: pictures of every Viking is blonde haired and blue eyed. 192 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 1: Not necessarily true, but very common. And also it is 193 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 1: what they viewed as how you should look. So they 194 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 1: would dye their hair and their beer blonde, and their 195 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 1: beard blonde. Okay, now it's even freakier when the barbarians, 196 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: the axe wielding barbarians who murder priests, come onto your 197 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 1: shores and they're all blonde, they all look different. It's scary. 198 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: That stuff is really scary. But it really made them 199 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 1: phenomenal and a force. As they began these raids and 200 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 1: they begin rating everywhere you see. It starts small, like 201 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 1: all things starts small. The Vikings venture out, do a 202 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: little explore. Then you venture out, because that's what you 203 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 1: do and you do some rating. Oh it took a monastery. Nice, 204 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: you know that actually wasn't that difficult. We didn't even 205 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: lose many dudes. You guys want to do that again, Yeah, 206 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: let's do it again. And that's how it begins. All 207 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: of a sudden, the Vikings are realizing we're tougher than 208 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: everybody else around us. There's nothing stopping us from just 209 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 1: sailing on down to this village and taking whatever we want. 210 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: Let's go take all their food and their money. Let's 211 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: take some slaves, men and women. There's a lot made 212 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 1: of Viking raping. I don't have a more delicate way 213 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: to put that. That part true, but not in any 214 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 1: way different for this time and place, not in any way. 215 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 1: That's what happened when you sacked the city. How many 216 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 1: cities have you heard me talk about sacking? That's what happens. 217 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: It's awful. They were big on slaves, but again that's 218 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:54,720 Speaker 1: the norm. You took slaves, that is the historical norm. 219 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 1: And this movement builds and movement builds of Vikings. What 220 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 1: really made them amazing were those stinking boats. They were 221 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 1: outstanding seamen. They knew where they were going, they knew 222 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:17,880 Speaker 1: how to navigate, and their boats were strong but flexible 223 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: and had shallow halls. And this is really what screwed 224 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:26,359 Speaker 1: people up because they hadn't seen boats like this, And 225 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,120 Speaker 1: should be noted the Vikings knew their boats were special. 226 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:34,119 Speaker 1: They were extremely protective of their boats, how they were designed, 227 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: how they made them, extremely protective. But when I say 228 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: shallow hall, here's what that does. This is the best 229 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: way I could explain it. You're a village. Your village 230 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 1: is called Houston. You're right there on the water or 231 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 1: a little way inland. Let's say let's say you're five 232 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 1: miles in Then there's an ocean, and then there's a 233 00:17:55,880 --> 00:18:00,919 Speaker 1: river leading up to your village. You look out, you 234 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: have people constantly going to check it. Eventually you see 235 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: a warship of somebody's oh crap. Well, now that runner 236 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:11,200 Speaker 1: who sees the warship has to run back to your 237 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 1: village and warn everybody. Well, this is going to give 238 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:22,680 Speaker 1: people a day, two three days before that ship can 239 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: unload its men and materials onto a smaller ship that 240 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:29,879 Speaker 1: can actually make its way up the river or land. 241 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 1: Those men on the shore who can now march over 242 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 1: the land, Well, what difference does a day or two 243 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 1: make or a week make When you're preparing to defend 244 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: something like that, a big difference, right, we're talking time 245 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:46,440 Speaker 1: to get your armor, dig in spears if you can't, 246 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 1: if you can't do that, time to grab your people 247 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 1: and leave. You have time to evacuate. A Viking ship 248 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 1: doesn't give you that time. That is one thing you 249 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 1: see specifically from them, time and time again. A Viking 250 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 1: ship with a haul that shallow can practically sail right 251 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 1: up to the beach and land it, and they can 252 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 1: jump off and come get you. Or and this is 253 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 1: what really screwed people up back then, or a Viking 254 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 1: ship can sail right up the river, right up the river. 255 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 1: What if you or forget five miles off the ocean. 256 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 1: What if you're twenty five miles off the ocean, thirty 257 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 1: miles off the ocean. You never really see the ocean much. 258 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 1: You can't really see anything coming. And your little village 259 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,160 Speaker 1: is having a nice little farming day with the goats 260 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 1: and everything else, and you look up and there's a 261 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: Viking warship three hundred feet away rounding the corner. You're dead, 262 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 1: and everything you love is dead. It was the speed 263 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: that got people as the old saying goes, speed kills. 264 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 1: And you remember how we talked for a long time, 265 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 1: and we've talked before. We'll talk about it again during 266 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 1: the episodes I've done on the war in the Pacific. 267 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 1: How we really kind of we didn't invent it, as 268 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 1: you're about to hear, but we really kind of perfected 269 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 1: combined arms. The naval guns would bomb a beach, and 270 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: then the airplanes would fly in and bomb a beach, 271 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 1: and finally you bring in the Marines to land on 272 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: the beach to mop up anybody who didn't get killed 273 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 1: by the other stuff. It's called combined arms. It's just 274 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 1: a way of working all units together. Vikings were fantastic 275 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 1: at this. Only they used bows and arrows. They had 276 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 1: these incredible bows. They could shoot two hundred yards and 277 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,199 Speaker 1: while you're watching the ship come in, maybe you have 278 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 1: some slings, maybe you have some bows out. We're gonna 279 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:53,399 Speaker 1: get these guys. Let's stop these guys. Nope, they have 280 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 1: your head down the whole time until the ship hits 281 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 1: the shore, and then they're coming and burying an act 282 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 1: senior head. They were really really good at it. To 283 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,680 Speaker 1: their credit, especially in the beginning. For the most I 284 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,920 Speaker 1: don't know about. To their credit, they didn't stay. They 285 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 1: weren't there to conquer. 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So the little raids of a monastery here, 306 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:11,200 Speaker 1: a fishing village there starts to get a little more 307 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:17,439 Speaker 1: large scale. You see. Human nature is what it is, 308 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:24,120 Speaker 1: and people will take what they can. When you wake 309 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:28,879 Speaker 1: up one day and you find you're surrounded by people 310 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 1: weaker than you are, it would take a strong human 311 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 1: being not to take advantage of that. Vikings find themselves 312 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 1: knocking on the doors of Paris. France freaks out. France 313 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 1: essentially gives them a big northern part of France. Why 314 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: do you think Normandy's called Normandy because that's where the 315 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 1: Vikings were. France said, please, you know what, fight on 316 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:10,239 Speaker 1: our side, don't kill us anymore here, just take a 317 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 1: big chunk of France. And this is a proud country. 318 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 1: How scared do you have to be if you're France 319 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:20,640 Speaker 1: and you just give away portions of France. That's not good. 320 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: That's not good. They also did intentional things to inspire terror, 321 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:34,119 Speaker 1: and they had offshoot groups the Vikings did, which gave 322 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,159 Speaker 1: all the Vikings. I don't know if you want to 323 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: call it a bad name a cool name. You see 324 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: a lot of the Viking reputation for insanity and blood 325 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: lust and such came from berserkers they're called. These guys 326 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:57,639 Speaker 1: were sometimes so violent as human beings they were kicked 327 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:02,639 Speaker 1: out of Viking society. Try to imagine how violent you 328 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,160 Speaker 1: have to be for a Viking to be all bro. 329 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:09,960 Speaker 1: You know, that's too far, too far, all right, way 330 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:16,679 Speaker 1: too far now. I kept reading on this and they 331 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,680 Speaker 1: kept saying these guys were just insane. They said they 332 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,119 Speaker 1: were drinking too much. They said they were doing a 333 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,120 Speaker 1: lot of things. These sound like people who were on drugs. 334 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 1: To me, I think they found some kind of drug. 335 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,160 Speaker 1: I'm not making that up. This is what they would do, 336 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: and they used them in battle a lot. They would 337 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: show up to battles battles with axes and swords and 338 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 1: spears and such, completely naked. That alone is insane. As 339 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:51,400 Speaker 1: a dude, imagine just having it out there with swords 340 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: and spears and everything everywhere. That sounds so inhumanly dangerous. 341 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: I'm not comfortable when I'm not in an axe battle. 342 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: I will just walk it around worried I'm gonna catch 343 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: it on something. That alone is nuts. They would cover 344 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 1: themselves in blood. They would drink blood. If they did 345 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 1: happen to wear anything to the battle, it would only 346 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:16,439 Speaker 1: be a wolf skin pelt or a bear skin pelt, 347 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 1: which is kind of cool, right, It's kind of cool, Chris. 348 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:25,879 Speaker 1: They were insane to the level of very difficult for 349 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 1: their own commanders to control. They would sit there and 350 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:35,680 Speaker 1: go nuts. They would eat their wooden shields. I'm not 351 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:39,880 Speaker 1: making this up. Eat their wooden shields, and they're so 352 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 1: mad with blood lust. They would attack and kill each other. 353 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,479 Speaker 1: There's a story about one guy killing six of his 354 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: own dudes before he finally got turned loose on the enemy. 355 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 1: And as a commander, yeah, it's I mean, it's nice 356 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 1: to have some tough guys here. But they would just 357 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,399 Speaker 1: take off running at the enemy long before the battle 358 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: was ready to start, and you're all, wow, wow, somebody 359 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:12,720 Speaker 1: go after him, please please. They were famous for biting 360 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:17,880 Speaker 1: the throats of the enemy to kill them. People were 361 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:23,880 Speaker 1: terrified of these things, and because in general, you only 362 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,919 Speaker 1: hit the high points of any historical subject in the 363 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 1: propaganda you get even currently is just the high points 364 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 1: stuff that kind of hurt the Viking reputation as far 365 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 1: as being as civilized people. Nevertheless, back to the Vikings, 366 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:44,399 Speaker 1: briefly the Varangian Guard. This is how they came to be. 367 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 1: Remember how I said the Vikings were starting to raid villages, 368 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:55,199 Speaker 1: starting to pillage. I should also note Viking society was 369 00:27:55,359 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 1: not necessarily that uncivilized. They had big council meetings where 370 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 1: people would get drunk. They would hand out fines to people. 371 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,680 Speaker 1: I mean, like a big council meeting. They'd essentially put 372 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 1: people on trial. But everyone's around a big banquet table 373 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:14,159 Speaker 1: drinking all he's fined one goat all right, he's this 374 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:18,160 Speaker 1: and that. They were a society that treated women very well. 375 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:24,119 Speaker 1: Hang on, they treated their own women very well. Slave 376 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 1: women not so much. But their own women were allowed 377 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 1: to own property, they were allowed to lead, there were 378 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,160 Speaker 1: It was just like I said, remember when we talked 379 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 1: about I think it was yesterday. Don't ever believe this. Oh, 380 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 1: women have been a press throughout history. Nonsense. That's a 381 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: bunch of garbage. Just totally differs from society to society, 382 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 1: a bunch of garbage. You'd be just fine if you 383 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,360 Speaker 1: were a Viking woman back in the day, totally fine. 384 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 1: You wouldn't have all the curling iron stuff, you wouldn't 385 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 1: be able to get your nails done, you'd be totally fine. 386 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 1: They were a clean people. They bathed regularly. I thought 387 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 1: that was kind of disappointing, Chris, to be honest, I 388 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: thought they were going to be just a bunch of savages. 389 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 1: But they bathed the lot of us. Anyway, they go 390 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: and invade Kiev, they take over this area. Now let's 391 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:20,320 Speaker 1: go to the Byzantine Empire, the Mega Empire. I want 392 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 1: to call it post Roman Empire, but then I'm going 393 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 1: to have somebody email me and lose his mind because 394 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: in reality, remember, the Byzantine Empire is not the post 395 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 1: Roman Empire. It's the continuation of the Eastern Roman Empire 396 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 1: that kept marching after Western Rome fell. In fact, Byzantines 397 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 1: themselves called themselves Romans, but we're going to call it 398 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: Byzantine for the time being. And here's what happened. A 399 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:56,720 Speaker 1: man named Basil the Second. He was going to be 400 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: the king, to be more speci civic, he already was 401 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:05,479 Speaker 1: the king, only he was a child. Now, as often 402 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 1: happens throughout history, when you have a king, he's the heir. 403 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 1: Dad dies a little early, so the king's not ready yet. 404 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 1: You're going to have regents. You're going to have people 405 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 1: who rule in his place until he's of age. As 406 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 1: you can imagine, this gets a little dicey. Several times 407 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:32,120 Speaker 1: throughout history there are a million stories about great regions. 408 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 1: They rule as best they can while also educating the 409 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 1: king on how to rule, and then when the kings 410 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,320 Speaker 1: of age, they hand it over and right off into 411 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 1: the sunset. However, human nature is what it is. It's 412 00:30:49,240 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 1: not easy to relinquish power. Look at all these old politicians, 413 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 1: at Joe Biden, look at Nancy Pelosi politics aside, what 414 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 1: are you doing? You're eighty years old. People. I love 415 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 1: what I do. I can't believe they pay me to 416 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 1: talk on the radio for three hours a day and 417 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 1: then talk on TV for an hour a day. I 418 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 1: love what I do. I plan on doing it for 419 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 1: a long time. You have my word. When I'm eighty 420 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,480 Speaker 1: years old, you are never going to see me ever, 421 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 1: not ever, You're never gonna see me. You're not gonna 422 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,080 Speaker 1: hear from me. I'll be in a hunting cabin in Alaska. 423 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,720 Speaker 1: I'll be on a beach somewhere in Florida. I'll be 424 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 1: at Red Lobster. But one place I will not be 425 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:51,360 Speaker 1: is in the public eye. So back to Basil the second. 426 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 1: He has some generals, generals obviously in command of troops 427 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 1: who are guarding things for him. As he comes on 428 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:04,960 Speaker 1: up through the ranks. It's time for him to take over. 429 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:11,520 Speaker 1: The generals say nah, I don't think you will. And 430 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 1: if you're Basil, you say, I know I will. And 431 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,719 Speaker 1: if you're the general, you look behind you at all 432 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,960 Speaker 1: the troops and you say, no, I don't think you will. 433 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:38,239 Speaker 1: Basil had a solution. I'm hearing from many of you 434 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 1: that you're thrilled you got home title lock, that it 435 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,760 Speaker 1: gives you a more a better sense of security, and 436 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 1: you should be thrilled because this is one of those things. 437 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,400 Speaker 1: This this home title theft trend that's happening right now. 438 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 1: This is not something where there's a second solution to 439 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 1: this problem. The FBI doesn't know how to deal with 440 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:06,000 Speaker 1: this yet. These cyber criminals are very very good at 441 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,280 Speaker 1: getting information they're not supposed to get. It is I 442 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:13,200 Speaker 1: can't stress this enough. Easy for them to get a 443 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 1: hold of your home title. If they do, all it's 444 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 1: gonna take is them coming across your home title and 445 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,520 Speaker 1: unless you have home title lock, they're going to take it. 446 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,280 Speaker 1: They're gonna forge your signature on it, take a loan 447 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 1: out against it, and you have to pay it back. 448 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 1: Go to hometitle lock dot com. That's hometitle lock dot com. 449 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:35,160 Speaker 1: Register your address, use the code Jesse. While you're there, 450 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:40,600 Speaker 1: get thirty three days of protection. You're listening to the 451 00:33:40,720 --> 00:34:09,240 Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly show. You're welcome. Well, you're Basil the Second. 452 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:15,319 Speaker 1: You have an issue. You are the rightful king. The 453 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,640 Speaker 1: general's with the armies. Don't think you're the rightful king. 454 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:23,359 Speaker 1: What are you supposed to do? Well, you can either 455 00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:30,720 Speaker 1: give up and go away, or you can find an army. Well, 456 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,959 Speaker 1: who in the world is going to be tough enough 457 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:39,560 Speaker 1: to take on a Byzantine army? A Byzantine Byzantium's tough, Well, 458 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:43,120 Speaker 1: what are they supposed to do? And Basil the Second says, 459 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:50,319 Speaker 1: you know, I think I know some people. Basil the 460 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:57,040 Speaker 1: Second goes knocking on that Kiev area's door. These are 461 00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:01,800 Speaker 1: considered to be very much so at this time, I'm barbarians. 462 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,800 Speaker 1: It's not as if he was going to It's not 463 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,360 Speaker 1: as if he was going to the city next door, 464 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,960 Speaker 1: the settled society next door. It would have been looked 465 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 1: at like riding into prison. That's what it would have 466 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:19,800 Speaker 1: been looked at. And he goes and does something radical. 467 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,160 Speaker 1: He tells these Vikings in the Kiev area. He says, 468 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:29,360 Speaker 1: I want help. I think we should join together. Here's 469 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:35,320 Speaker 1: my sister in marriage. We've talked about this a million times. Marriage. 470 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:40,600 Speaker 1: Be glad it's not now what it always was, a 471 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:49,760 Speaker 1: political tool. Now the Vikings agree. The Viking king actually 472 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 1: agrees to convert to Christianity, so this can have some 473 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:58,080 Speaker 1: view of propriety. Vikings were often being converted. I should 474 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,479 Speaker 1: note you know about the Viking religion because you've seen 475 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,560 Speaker 1: enough comic book movies with Odin and Thor and such, 476 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,319 Speaker 1: and they were serious about that. But they seem to 477 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:12,560 Speaker 1: be extremely convertible. There's a lot of tales of Viking 478 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:18,520 Speaker 1: conversion and just them assimilating into a Christian europe society. Anyway, 479 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,040 Speaker 1: back to Basil the second before we wrap up the story, 480 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,960 Speaker 1: because Chris was making fun of me as I said 481 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:25,759 Speaker 1: it was going to be fast today, and it ended 482 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,520 Speaker 1: up taking it a little bit longer, a little bit 483 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:36,080 Speaker 1: longer than I had intended. He takes his six thousand 484 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:41,520 Speaker 1: man Viking army and beats the living crap out of 485 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:46,359 Speaker 1: these centerals who were a little bit rattled that, oh 486 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:51,000 Speaker 1: my gosh, who are these guys? And Basil the second 487 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:55,479 Speaker 1: then begins to incorporate these guys into the Byzantian army, 488 00:36:55,640 --> 00:37:01,919 Speaker 1: the Byzantine army, because yeah, why not. The Vikings want 489 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,000 Speaker 1: the money, the Byzantines want good fighters. But there's an 490 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:10,400 Speaker 1: issue with the Byzantine Empire, as there is any major empire, 491 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:14,880 Speaker 1: I mean, shoot, as with ours. The political backbiting and 492 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:20,799 Speaker 1: backstabbing and things made things real, real dangerous to be 493 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,680 Speaker 1: royalty back then, and there were so many divisions. This 494 00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,360 Speaker 1: family hated that family. These people thought they had a 495 00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:28,600 Speaker 1: claim to the throne and that person had and it 496 00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:32,319 Speaker 1: got dangerous. How many Roman emperors have I talked to 497 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:37,160 Speaker 1: you about didn't live through an old age dangerous profession. 498 00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:43,760 Speaker 1: They decided they were going to have a Varangian guard 499 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:51,080 Speaker 1: of Vikings. Essentially, you need to think of them as 500 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:57,600 Speaker 1: secret service agents before there were. So he took not 501 00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:01,400 Speaker 1: just any Vikings, he took the best Viking fighters he 502 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:05,040 Speaker 1: can find and set them up around him as this 503 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:09,440 Speaker 1: personal bodyguard. And they existed in that role for a 504 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:17,560 Speaker 1: long long time. Pretty freaking cool, right, And I think 505 00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:25,480 Speaker 1: it's pretty freaking cool when people sit down and have 506 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:36,360 Speaker 1: honest negotiations. Not always pleasant negotiations, but honest negotiations. I 507 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:41,040 Speaker 1: love it. This is who I am, this is who 508 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:44,440 Speaker 1: you are, This is what I want, this is what 509 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:51,040 Speaker 1: you want. Let's work something out. I know it's a 510 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:54,960 Speaker 1: dorky thing. I would love to have been there for 511 00:38:55,040 --> 00:39:00,440 Speaker 1: that first meeting between Basil the Second and the Barbarian Vikings, 512 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,640 Speaker 1: when Basil was sitting there telling them, all right, I'm 513 00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:07,120 Speaker 1: the king, I'm the rightful king. I should rule. I 514 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,719 Speaker 1: need some people who are really good at stabbing and 515 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:14,399 Speaker 1: slashing other people to death. That would be you. Why 516 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,399 Speaker 1: don't you come and stab and slash people to death 517 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,520 Speaker 1: from me? I'll pay you money to do it. Let's 518 00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:24,080 Speaker 1: be honest. That's what you're good at at all rule 519 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,880 Speaker 1: and the Vikings looking around saying, you know, that is 520 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,400 Speaker 1: what we're good at. You know what I'm game. I 521 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:36,600 Speaker 1: like that. I like honesty. A lot of what we're 522 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:40,239 Speaker 1: seeing out there right now politically is making people very 523 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:45,120 Speaker 1: very uncomfortable. You're hearing it more and more. You're hearing 524 00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,160 Speaker 1: it a lot from shoe You're hearing it from the 525 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:53,160 Speaker 1: presidential candidate himself. This violence, this violence isn't gonna stop 526 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:57,640 Speaker 1: if Trump's reelected. Almost like this weird veiled threat. What 527 00:39:58,160 --> 00:39:59,920 Speaker 1: is that supposed to mean? The violence that you're telling me, 528 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:06,400 Speaker 1: You guys are gonna Are you threatening us? It doesn't 529 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:34,239 Speaker 1: make me uncomfortable at all. I'll tell you why. Wake 530 00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:40,200 Speaker 1: up and text, text and eat, Text and catch the bus, 531 00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:45,839 Speaker 1: Text and miss your stop wait wait wait, Text and 532 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:51,320 Speaker 1: be late to work sorry late, Text and work, Text 533 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:55,600 Speaker 1: and pretend to work, text and a surprised when someone 534 00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:59,120 Speaker 1: calls you out for not working. Text and meet up 535 00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,720 Speaker 1: with a friend you haven't scene and forever h Text 536 00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:04,560 Speaker 1: and complain that they're on their phone the whole time. 537 00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:08,080 Speaker 1: Text and listen to them complain that you're on your 538 00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:14,040 Speaker 1: phone the whole time. Text and whatever. But when you 539 00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,600 Speaker 1: get behind the wheel, give your phone to a passenger, 540 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:20,320 Speaker 1: put it in the glove box. Just don't text and drive. 541 00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:24,680 Speaker 1: They sit stop texts stop rex dot org a public 542 00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,240 Speaker 1: service announcement brought to you by the National Highway Traffic 543 00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:50,640 Speaker 1: Safety Administration and the AD Council. I'm not uncomfortable when 544 00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:55,640 Speaker 1: I get these threats from the leftists. The violence is 545 00:41:55,680 --> 00:42:00,360 Speaker 1: going to continue if Trump's reelected. Oh you're not sees. 546 00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:05,160 Speaker 1: But I'm not uncomfortable with that. I'm glad we're all 547 00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:08,840 Speaker 1: being honest here. I think it's getting us one step 548 00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:14,320 Speaker 1: closer to what I've always wanted. Let's have an honest negotiation. 549 00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:18,560 Speaker 1: Let's have an honest conversation about what we think about 550 00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:22,560 Speaker 1: each other. I'm not bothered by it at all. You 551 00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:27,280 Speaker 1: hate me, That's fine. I don't care for you. Why 552 00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:32,640 Speaker 1: don't we just agree to disagree? Why don't we just 553 00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:36,759 Speaker 1: agree this marriage isn't working. We're going our separate way, 554 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:39,879 Speaker 1: all right. I'm gonna get to your ask doctor Jesse 555 00:42:40,080 --> 00:43:34,680 Speaker 1: questions right now, the Jesse Kelly Show. You know your 556 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,440 Speaker 1: house smells, don't get mad, don't get mad in my 557 00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:39,359 Speaker 1: house smells too. 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