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The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from S13 E16: Oliver: Writer, Producer, and Novelist Spotlight
"Hello, welcome to The Loney Show. I'm your host, John Mayolone. In this episode, don't have regulars, because raisins, as always, unfortunately. As for our guest, he's from Portland, Oregon, currently living in Los Angeles, California, and he is a film producer. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Oliver Tutill Jr. Well, thank you, Peter. It's actually Ted Hill Jr. But thanks for having me on your show. I'm excited to be here. Anytime. So, how's life? It's good. It's really exciting. I love the film business. I've been in the business for quite a while. And it's very exciting meeting different people, talking to different producers, actors, filmmakers, editors, composers, business financing. It's all very exciting. You meet a lot of very interesting people that are very involved in their work and are very creative. Ah, very good. And have you been up to much recently? Yeah, we've been pretty busy. My company's name is Cinema Development and Writing Services. And my business partner is Tara Walker. And what we do is, when we started out, we've had our business about a year now. And anybody that's curious, they can just go to cinema wds .com. That's our website. And what we do is, we work with novelists, and we adapt their novels into screenplays. And then once we've adapted them into screenplays, we've been asked by our clients to, well, can you place this with Hollywood companies? And we said, well, yeah, we probably can, you know, we weren't doing that. We're primarily focused on writing, but we started packaging, which means that we started putting together like a deck of electronic brochure that shows the actors we thought might be good for the role, and what the director is. And then we present it to different production companies, different producers and finance companies in Los Angeles, and sometimes in New York as well. Okay, very nice. And what inspired you to start all that? Well, I think I started out in the business, and so did Tara, we were both actors. And we enjoyed that. But it's, it's very, very tough. Getting regular work as an actor, you go through good times, and then there's these long stretches where you don't have much work. And so we said, Well, how can we get more involved in business? And so we both decided, well, why don't we become producers? So Tara started her own production company years ago called Alpenfest films. And then I started, I started out making a production company called Autumn Tree Productions, where I, at that time, this was in the late 1980s, I pretty much focused on making educational films, and actually was pretty much on emotional child abuse. And I did that for 10 years, I had a lot of success. A lot of my films, educational films are used in universities and colleges and many institutions. And after doing that for 10 years, I wanted to segue over into doing commercial motion pictures and, and documentaries. So I started a company called Bluewood films. And under that name under that company, I produced quite a few films and documentaries and pleased to say that some of them are on streaming platforms now where people can can see them. I just have my newest release was just last month. It's called Crazy Horse of Life, featuring Russell Means, the late Nakoda actor who did very well. Right, then. Very good. And have you ever considered like, releasing any of your work on an international level? Yes, I mean, Crazy Horse of Life is available internationally. They can definitely time to be TV so anybody can go to to be TV and anywheres in the world basically and watch it for free. It's ad supported. And then we've got another film called the right to bear arms, which is a dramatic crime feature starring john savage. And that's available on Amazon Prime and Amazon freebie and also on to be TV. And we've got another film that's distributed internationally. It's also on to be TV. It's called the Loch Ness Monster of Seattle and it features Graham Green, the Academy Award nominated actor from Dances with Wolves. It's been doing very well. My distributor is very pleased. He just sent me a letter the other day and he said how happy is that how well it's doing. So those those three films are available now. We've got new ones that are going to be coming out later this year. We're excited about. Wow, fantastic. So where would you see yourself 20 years from now? Well, that's a good question. And 20 years is a long time. But I would say in 20 years, I'd probably see myself and Tara, my business partner, our own company now, but probably producing eight to 12 motion pictures a year. Also, I'm a composer too. So I probably, I haven't been doing my composing recently, but I've, I've scored a lot of motion pictures and documentaries. And it's a matter of fact, Crazy Horse of Life. The score I did that score and I did actually I wrote the score years ago, but it's used in this big feature now and I scored the movie right to bear arms as well. So but 20 years, I want to still be producing movies and helping actors and helping create jobs for people that work in the industry. You badly because they can't get work. Yes, of course. So I want to provide jobs for people. And also, I'm a novelist as well. And I hope to have a few more novels released. I just had my first novel released by awesome Achilles publishers, which is their home offices in London. So it's definitely an international release. And it's called when the sunlight goes down, goes dark, excuse me, when the sunlight goes dark. And it's about a young, young boxer living in Los Angeles, who has to deal with unscrupulous promoters. And one of the one of the supporting characters in the book is a man from England who who wins one of the heavyweight titles. It's also a book that it also covers worker exploitation, family dysfunction, spousal Okay, fantastic. Yeah, let me just mention, Peter, that people can look at it to go to the website for the book. It's when the sunlight goes dark .com. That's the website for the book. And it's also available on amazon .com and Barnes and Noble, Goodreads, any bookstore, you go into any reputable bookstore, and they can order it for you. All right, then very good. So in terms of your written work, besides what, besides the novels you've just written, are there any more novels you're yet to write or have released? I do have one novel. It's called primordial division. I'm searching for the right agent to rep it. It's kind of a crime horror novel. It's also set in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s. And it's about a woman who has the ability to see the future. She's kind of one of these mind readers and the kid, the male protagonist is able to, he's got the power of telepathy. Very good. And it's set in the context of the entertainment industry. Oh, nice, nice. What could you give a 40 minute presentation on without any preparation? I'm sorry, say that again, Peter, a 14. What could you give a 40 minute presentation on without any preparation? Oh, a 40 minute presentation? I could give it on, definitely, I could probably give it on, I made educational films for 10 years. So I could do on an education, I could do one on the film business. They cover all the aspects of the film business from development to pre production to production to post production, exhibition and distribution. I could do that for you. I've been in the music business since I was a kid. So probably give you a one on that as well. So, okay, very good. What which recent news story have you found most interesting? That's a really great question. The recent most recent news story that I found the most interesting probably would be what's going on with our climate and what's happening to the earth in regards to the climate crisis that's happening in the world today. That's that's one of them, I guess I know it's a big topic, but it definitely stands out. I'm also fascinated by what's going on in American politics today, who's running for president and what's going on in Congress in the Senate. And I'm also very concerned with the state of our country, you know, and how divided people are and how unhappy so many people are. Yeah, absolutely. I was gonna also say to my friends who are very struggling because they have kids, and it's hard for them to get daycare for the kids. So I have one friend, she had to give up work because she, she couldn't afford to hire a babysitter or a nanny or daycare. So yeah, she had to give up her job. Oh, no, that's just sad. Very sad, very sad, the income inequality in this, in the United States. I'm not an expert in your country, but in the United States, it's very sad to see so many people that are divided by class. Wow, I thought the UK was bad. I didn't know that the US has got bigger problems given its size. Yeah, there's a lot of problems. Definitely. We've seen the erosion of the middle class here. You know, it's been kind of disappearing for years. And the income inequality that exists in this country, it's pretty bad. And as well as you know, there was a, I was watching, I was watching News Nation the other night and the big story presented by Chris Cuomo, who's an interesting newscaster, whose brother to his brother to the former governor. And he his top story was these kids that these babies, basically, the toddlers and daycare that died from fentanyl overdoses. And he's all over that. And I'm thinking, yeah, that's, that's tragic. But a lot of people don't want to address what's happening kids into this country, they have many kids suffer from abuse, and how they it's very difficult for them to thrive and survive become and constructive citizens. That that puts something into the country that helps it grow more. Yeah, absolutely. You know, I can share one thing with you, I used to be a teacher. And I taught drama at a film school and a college, as well as film production. And I had a class, this is in Seattle, Washington. And I had a class where I had a quite quite a number of kids that were African American. And I'll never forget this, Peter, because like, they would come to class, sometimes the girls would be crying and go, what's wrong? She go, Well, Joey got killed last night. He said, What are you talking about? She goes, Yeah, Joey, you know, he got on the top of he got on the roof of Dan's car and Dan shot him to death. I said, Oh, you don't read about that in the paper. And then then another day, a girl came into class, she was weeping. I said, What's the matter? And she's when my sister was killed last night. I said, Well, what happened? She said somebody shot to her living room window, and she was killed. You don't read about it in newspaper. Just people don't know about that. Exactly. Yes, indeed. It's the media these days, they only want to show what they really want to show. They don't show the important stuff that goes on like poverty, financial crisis or things that impact a lot of people in this world. Absolutely correct. Yes, you're right, Peter. They don't know it's funny, funny because Chris, it's not funny, but I found it interesting. Chris Como mentioned one night on his show on news nation, he, he mentioned that people don't want to talk about class warfare in this country, you know, what's going on between the classes between the wealthy and the poor, or the struggling lower middle class, you get an idea of it. And now with all the strikes that are going on, you get the writers Guild of America on strike. You've got the screen actors Guild that's going on strike. Now you've got the United Auto Workers going on strike, and it's getting bigger, that strikes growing. And if that strike goes all out, it's going to, it's going to play havoc on the economy here. Yeah, absolutely. What do you disagree with most frequently? What do I disagree with most frequently? Probably people that say everything's going to be great. You know, you just have to hang in there. And also, I find myself disagreeing a lot with financial advisors who say, just, you know, keep it where it is, you know, don't sell, just stay steady, keep your bonds, 40 % bonds or 60 % bonds, 40 % stock or 40 % bonds, 60 % stock. I disagree a lot with financial advisors. Not that I'm an expert in finance, but I'm fascinated by it. I read about it. Absolutely. How much time do you spend on the internet? How much time do I spend on the internet? A fair amount, because I do a lot of research on the internet. And while I'm something to do research on something particular, then then you find, wait a minute, I've got to have to research this more. Then you find yourself going to another page, finding more things to read about. And then you realize you're going to be searching even more on the internet. So and to be honest with you, I spend so much time on the internet as it is on zoom calls. I'm tired of looking at the internet. I prefer reading books. So I read a lot of books. But I've got to use the internet a lot to do research. You know, especially I work with a lot of people that I've got to find out what their background is, you know, in the film business, and the financial business. So I do spend an enormous amount of time on the internet. I imagine you, you do yourself, I'm sure. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Hours upon hours. Yeah, it's a it's a necessity. It's a necessity today without a without a cell phone or computer. It'd be very difficult to survive. I do know some folks in their 70s and 80s. They don't use computers, they don't use cell phones. I do know one young guy who doesn't use a cell phone, but that's very unusual. But it's very hard to survive. I couldn't stay in business if I couldn't use a computer and cell phone. Oh, yes. Sure. It's the same for you. Yeah, of course. The internet is such a necessity. It's part of our lives, in a way. Absolutely. Yes. It is. It's built in. And you read about these kids, you know, they get addicted to their cell phones and computers. And there's so many psychologists that predict they're gonna have trouble with their personal relationships in looking at a screen. They don't spend time in person a lot. I don't know how that'll play out, but it makes sense in a lot of ways. What a world filled with clones of you, what would a world populated by clones of you be like, a world populated by I'm sorry, what what would a world populated by clones of you be like? You mean point of view? And a world populated by clones of you? What would it be like? Oh, clones of me? Yes. Okay, what would I think it would probably be a pretty peaceful world. To be honest, I don't think there'd be any wars, I think war would end. I think children would, we'd set up some type of educational system and change some values in the government in the country so that kids don't get abused, that parents are afforded the education and the training, starting in high school. Probably actually, I take that back, starting in grammar school. How to parent, how to treat other human beings, learning about themselves, becoming self intelligent, learning emotional intelligence, understanding their emotions. And growing up to be citizens that are productive and have empathy for other people. And if this happened, we could, I believe we could end this may sound naive, but I do think we could end poverty in this country. But there's no will to do that. There's no will to help kids because children can't vote. And they're not members of political action committee. So I would, I would make sure that their political action committee is available for children. I would allow children at a certain age if they can show that they have some knowledge about the political system, to have a say in voting, to see who represents them. And I believe with education, and with treating people well, with respect and compassion, having people trained for the type of work that they want to do, that poverty could could be eliminated. And so there are a lot of clones to me, there would be no more wars. And there would be a lot less suffering in the world. Yeah, that sounds that sounds like a very good reason. Thank you. Welcome. What's Education is the key. Education is the key and law. The merging of law and education. And again, unfortunately, the people in power, the bureaucrats and politicians don't have the will or the desire to bring about the needed changes. Yeah, it's so sad. What is your favorite quote? Yes. And probably, I guess it's a quote that is on my mind a lot now, because it's a quote I used to open my novel when the sunlight goes dark about the boxing family in Los Angeles, and the quote is, Oh, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, that I am so meek and gentle with these butchers. And it originally that quote is taken from William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar when Mark Anthony is standing over the dead body of Julius Caesar and Caesar has been assassinated. by members of the Senate. And he's bemoaning the fact that he's so meek and gentle with these butchers because he's kind of going along with them at the time. And it's just a quote that just stands out to me because I've used it in my book because I my books about worker exploitation in one way because a lot of these boxers are exploited. And a lot of them end up in not very good shape. Because people aren't looking out for him. So I guess for today, that's my favorite quote. I mean, I have others too. But I guess for today, that's the one that would be my favorite. All right. Very good. And I could you could use that metaphorically, too. I mean, the sense that, you know, Oh, pardon me, you know, why aren't the people that are running the government trying to help the people? Yes, that's a very good question. I'm sure you've run into very similar situations in England. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. All the time. What's improved your wife quality so much? You wish you did it sooner? I'm sorry, Peter, you have to say that one more time. All right. What improved your life quality so much? You wish you did it sooner? well, Oh, I would I would say I spent a lot of time in therapy. I came from a very dysfunctional family. I suffered a lot of abuse, I was put into a private boarding school where kids got regularly beaten very badly. One of the lucky ones, really, I never suffered any permanent physical injury. But I think if I hadn't gone into therapy, and I was in therapy for decades, I'd say that probably the key to my being a functioning productive adult today, that in a book I read, called compassion and self hate, written by Theodore Isaac Rubin, that book changed my life. I never thought a book could change my life, but that one did. Yeah, of course. That and of course, if you're going to be successful, you have to you have to work hard, you have to know where to put your effort, you have to work hard and you have to think smart. I mean, that old saying about if you work hard, everything will fall into place is not necessarily true. I've known, I've had guy friends that have worked hard all their lives, and they've got nothing. Yeah, absolutely. So you got to work smart, as well as hard. Yes. But the more success you realize, it just adds to your happiness and your fulfillment. Yeah, of course. But people need the basic necessities have to be taken care of. You got to have clothes, you got to have proper shelter, you got to have decent physical health. I don't think I've ever met anyone that's happy if they haven't had good physical health. Yeah, of course. How did you spend your last birthday? Well, my last birthday, I had dinner with my business partner and my best friend, Tara Walker. We went to a really nice restaurant down on the beach, had a great dinner. And then went home and watched a really great movie. And it was a great day. And you know, I talked to a lot of friends and family too. I got a lot of calls. Okay. That's cool. It was fun. Oh, yes. It was quite a time. Yeah. You like birthdays? Yeah, I like birthdays. It's pretty cool, I guess. It's funny. I was just reading about Jimmy Carter, you know, the former President of the United States who is a president. And he's going to be turning 99 here in a couple days. And someone called him up, one of his family members said, I wanted to wish you a happy birthday. And he said, that's, that's not real good. I'm not really excited about this birthday. I didn't know you even make this far in his life. Yeah, he's going to be 99 years old. And you know, he's been in hospice for seven months. Everyone thought he was going to pass in about two or three weeks and he's still going. Madness. Amazing man. Absolutely. We could use a young Jimmy Carter today. That's for sure. Uh huh. Yeah. That'll be something. It would be. Yeah. Yeah. What's the best way to start the morning? The best way to start the morning is to eat a good breakfast. I know so many people that don't eat breakfast. They have health problems, they're overweight. And I don't mean starting breakfast, you know, eating junk food. You gotta eat something healthy for you. Eat something healthy. Write down the things you need to do today if you have to make a list. Yeah, it helps me a lot before I go to bed to write it to do this. So when I wake up in the morning, I know exactly what I got to do. And I got to feel the body first. You got to take care of the body. I have a friend of mine who's, he had a stroke and he's in the hospital now. He can't barely move. And, you know, he, he didn't have the right diet and he's still a fairly young man. It's very tragic. So feel the body and feed it well. Yeah, absolutely. I'm sure you know, because I could tell you put a lot of hours on your show. Oh yeah. It's, it's quite a process, but it's definitely worth it. Yeah, it's enjoyable. Yeah, sure is. If you could travel back in time, what would decade you want to live in? There's so many decades I would love to live in. There's so many centuries I'd love to live in. It's really hard to pick one, but if I had to pick one, I'd probably say the early 1960s. Sixties? That's pretty cool. Yeah, that's when Muhammad Ali came on the scene and that's when the Beatles came on the scene. To me, that's, I think we'll never see the likes of the Beatles or Muhammad Ali again. Yeah. So one of a kind, they always say. Yeah, but I, believe me, Peter, I'd love to live, I could go back to ancient Rome and be fascinated. Of course, your life expectancy wasn't very long. Oh yeah. Cause Sanitary wasn't up there and the advancement technologies got in the way. Yeah. Everything's like, ugh. I would love to live the life of a Plains Indian in 1840. I think that would be fascinating. It's freedom that people can barely conceive of today. And what a great, got the kids, Indian children back in those days, man, talk about having a great childhood. Yeah, absolutely. And that is all we have for this episode. It was great having you on Oliver talking about your works. You're welcome. And until next time, stay tuned for more.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Frank Turek (Encore)
"Folks, welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit legacypminvestments .com. That's legacypminvestments .com. Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. Would you consider yourself smart, insightful, precocious, astute, clever, wise beyond your years, and good at checking a thesaurus for synonyms? Well, then you've come to the right place. Here now is the handsome, attractive, striking, gorgeous, and quite frankly, breathtaking, Eric Metaxas! Hey there folks, welcome to the show. I am excited because I have a friend on today who is a Christian apologist. Have you heard that term? An apologist? No, no, no, he's not apologizing. As a Greek, I know the word apology, the original meaning is apologia, of words, of understanding. So to be an apologist is to make a defense, like a lawyer would, for the faith. And Frank Turek is the author of many, many books. He's the president of CrossExamined. You can go to crossexamined .org. And Dr. Frank Turek has a new book out. Excited to have him to discuss the new book. It's called Correct, Not Politically Correct About Same -Sex Marriage and Transgenderism. Dr. Frank Turek, welcome to the program. The great Eric Metaxas. How are you my friend? Unbelievable that you have a stadium -sized crowd in your little office there. That's very impressive. Thank you. I got to tell you seriously, we're friends and I just enjoy whenever I get to bump into you and talk to you. But you are really prolific. You keep coming out with these extraordinary books. And the new one, unfortunately, is very important about same -sex marriage and transgenderism. So as believers, those of us who say, I'm a Christian, how do I understand this? You have written a book to help with that. Because unfortunately, you know that there seems to be some confusion about how we're supposed to deal with this. So what is the principal thesis of the book before we get into the details? Well actually, this goes all the way back to 2008, Eric, when I saw that same -sex marriage was being more and more accepted. And a lot of people didn't know why they shouldn't accept same -sex marriage. And so I wrote the first edition of this book back in 2008. And it's not a book filled with Bible verses. This is the natural law medical case against same -sex marriage and now transgenderism. Because as you know, that has come out even more in recent years. And so the third edition of this book just was released about a month ago. And it's got a brand new section on this transgender issue. Because as you've spoken about, Eric, when you're talking about Letter to the American Church, is that pastors don't even seem to want to touch this issue. And if pastors aren't going to touch this issue, who is? Well, ironically, Eric, there have been atheists that are talking more about this issue. People like Bill Maher, people like Richard Dawkins, people like Douglas Murray, are who actually not Christians, but they're saying there's a big problem here. And we need to speak out against it. And it's really a stain on the American Church that the Church hasn't spoken out about it, Eric. So anyway, this book, Correct, Not Politically Correct, is the third edition. And it's not quoting Bible verses. It's there to show you from a natural law medical perspective why both same -sex marriage and transgenderism are not good for individuals or societies. It's so interesting to me what you just mentioned, how we have non -believers, people who are not Christians, who seem to see clearly the problems with transgenderism and are talking about that. And of course, most extraordinarily, you have gay, people who identify as gay, who are conservative, speaking out against the transgender madness. So they don't identify as Christians. They identify as gays. But they say, wait a minute, we were not advocating for this. This is lunacy. I was literally with Douglas Murray last night at a dinner here in New York City. I was with Brandon Strzok here in New York recently. Both of them identify as gay. Both of them are conservatives. And both of them are totally outspoken about the transgender lunacy. So obviously, we disagree on some pretty basic stuff. But on this, many people who are not Christians see the madness, are speaking out about it. And as you just said, many in the church are silent. And this is the scandal. And that's why I wrote my book, Letter to the American Church. But I don't go deep into this issue. You, my friend, Mr. Apologist, Dr. Frank Turek, you get into this. So I do want to get into it with you from a biblical perspective. And I want to be clear, too, when you say natural law perspective, ladies and gentlemen, that's a biblical perspective. We're just not talking about quoting scripture verses. We're talking about logically talking from a biblical viewpoint. But how are we supposed to approach this? Well, first of all, let's talk about whether or not love requires approval. I always ask parents, because our culture somehow thinks, Eric, that love requires approval, that if you want to love me, you have to approve of what I do. And I always ask parents, if you approve of everything your kid wants to do when he or she is 13, are you a loving parent? Of course not. You need to stand in the way of evil to love people. And we, even in the church, have bought into the lie that to love people, we have to approve of what they do. No, we don't approve of what they do if we love them, if they're doing evil. This is why Paul says, by the way, in the passage, Eric, that everybody reads at their wedding, but nobody obeys, that love always protects, that love does not rejoice in wrongdoing, love rejoices in the truth, that love always perseveres. How do you protect people when other people want to do evil, or when they themselves want to do evil? You call them out on it. And that, of course, is what I'm trying to do in Correct Not Politically Correct. That's what you're trying to do in Letter to the American Church. We're trying to tell people that if you love people, you will speak out against this evil. In fact, Jesus himself said it would be better to have a millstone hung around your neck than to lead one of these little ones astray. And, Eric, that's what we're doing. That's what I document in Correct Not Politically Correct. We are actually trying to transition minors. We're mutilating their genitals. We are giving them puberty blockers and cross -sex hormones that are making them old men and old ladies way before their time, sterilizing them, and we're calling this love? This is not love. This is evil, and we need to stand against it. And if Douglas Murray can stand against it, if Richard Dawkins can stand against it, if my friend Dave Rubin, I just did a show with him down in Miami just a couple of weeks ago, you know, he identifies as gay too, if he can stand against it, where are the pastors? Where are the Christians? Where are the common sense people, Eric? What are we doing? We're allowing this on our watch, and we're silent. We can't be silent anymore. Well, I, you know, in my book, Letter to the American Church, I'm trying to reach those pastors and Christians who are kind of on the fence, who are confused, who don't know what to do, so they're being quiet. And it's why I love you, because you help us understand why we need to speak out. I mean, I talk about it a little bit, but you go into depth to explain the biblical worldview, God's idea of sexuality, transgenderism. Now, what's interesting to me, Frank, is, of course, Scripture isn't silent on transgenderism, right? I mean, right in the beginning of Genesis, we are created in God's image male and female. Very, very clear, there are only two genders. So when somebody puts out this idea, which they came up with 10 minutes ago, oh, yeah, there are all these many, many genders, you want to say, where did you get that from? Everyone, you don't need to be a Christian to know that's preposterous. You don't need to know that, you don't need to be a Christian to know that a rooster cannot lay an egg. Everybody from the beginning of time has understood that there are two genders, so that's number one. But number two, you know the passage where Paul talks about who will inherit the kingdom of God. And the Scripture, you know, when you look at the Greek, you get different translations. It says homosexual, sodomite, sometimes it says effeminate, whatever. What it's referring to there in that first word has to do with those men who blur the line, who feminize themselves. And it makes it very clear that that is wrong. And so it's interesting, the Scripture is not silent on these things. There's plenty in Scripture about this, whether you're looking at the Old Testament or the New Testament. So that's why it's all the more shocking in a sense that Christian pastors and leaders have been silent on this. I understand why, but folks, that needs to change. When we come back, we're going to get into the details. Frank Turek is my guest. The book is titled Correct, Not Politically Correct. We'll be right back. Tell me why Relief Factor is so successful at lowering or eliminating pain. I'm often asked that question just the other night I was asked that question. Well, the owners of Relief Factor tell me they believe our bodies were designed to heal. That's right. Designed to heal. And I agree with them. And the doctors who formulated Relief Factor for them selected the four best ingredients. 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The show podcast is called I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist. So, Frank, let's keep talking about this. How do we know there are only two genders? How do you know? How do I know? How do we know this? Let's just leave the Bible out of it for just a minute. Let's just look at the natural design of the body. The natural design of the body proves there are only two genders, Eric. Because, look, if you're a human being, and this is true in all mammals, you can only produce either a sperm or an egg. There's no third category. And anybody that can't produce a sperm or an egg, that's an incapacity. That's not a third capacity. So we know by the design of the body that there's only two genders. Secondly, transgender advocates, and this is all in the book, correct? Not politically correct. Transgender advocates, on one hand, deny there are only two genders. They say everything is fluid. But on the other hand, they unwittingly have to presuppose two genders. Why? Because if I'm a man and I think I'm a woman, I have to have some idea what a man is and some idea what a woman is to know that I have this psychological mismatch between my psychology and my biology. And secondly, if I'm going to try and make the so -called transition, which is impossible, and we'll get into it by the way, but if I'm going to try and do that, if I'm going to try and become a woman, I have to have some idea of what a man is and some idea of what a woman is to try and make the so -called transition. If there were no fixed genders, Eric, there would be no way I would know I had gender dysphoria, and there would be no way I could try and make the so -called transition. So it presupposes it, on one hand, while denying there are fixed genders on the other. Can I tell you how I know there are only two genders? Here's how I know. Amazon was selling a shirt that said, like, these are the 20 different categories of gender, and it was on the front of the t -shirt. And the shirt came in sizes for men and for women only. That, to me, is hilarious. When it says male, female, like you want to buy a shirt, like you got to click on male or female. At some point, this becomes funny, because we all understand this is troubled people. These are people that are deeply, deeply troubled. I can't begin to imagine what it would be like to be so confused or so angry or so whatever. So we do have to have compassion, and I think that's where the silence comes from on the part of many Christian leaders. They think that to say nothing is to be compassionate, and in some cases that's true. In some cases, there's a time to speak and a time to be quiet, but we have a responsibility to disciple our flocks. We have a responsibility to our own children to tell them the truth about these kinds of things. And, you know, the famous statement, silence in the face of evil is itself evil. When you're quiet, it can often mean consent. It means, I'm not saying anything, which means I'm going along with this. I just don't want to, I'm just not going to say so, but you get the message, because I'm saying nothing. Well, Eric, let's draw a parallel between gender dysphoria and, say, anorexia, which is what Dr. Paul McHugh at John Hopkins University, a psychiatrist, draws. He that says if someone is anorexic, but they think that they are overweight, you would not help them by saying, you know, honey, I'm going to get you some liposuction. You're right. You know, you are really overweight. No, you would say, honey, your mind is playing tricks on you. You're suffering from a mental delusion. Let me get you some psychiatry. Let me get you some cognitive therapy. Let me get you some counseling. Let me help you fix your mind, because you can change your mind. You can't change your biology, by the way. You can change your mind. Also, Eric, if your daughter came to you and said she was a mermaid, would you take her off the coast and drop her in the ocean? No, of course you would say... If I loved her, of course I would. Whatever you want to be, honey, whoever you are today, you want to be a kite? That's right. Follow your heart. No, I tell you, Frank, again, this is the logic of it. If somebody says to you, I'm Napoleon Bonaparte, I'm Julius Caesar, I'm Winston Churchill, how do you respond to that? Well, you might just nod politely because you realize, wow, this person is deeply messed up. But imagine affirming them in that lie. I have to say that, you know, if there's a way to help them see the truth, you would do it. Now, some people are beyond that. There's some people you can't do anything. But what is amongst ourselves, we wouldn't start calling that person Jesus of Nazareth because he just said, I'm Jesus. We, you and I, would say, you know, that guy there thinks he's Jesus of Nazareth. We obviously know that he's not. He's so messed up. I don't know how we can get to him. Maybe we can't. But let's not pretend amongst ourselves. Let's not tell everybody, call him Jesus because that's the loving thing to do. You would never do that. No, and the well -meaning people who try and say, well, we need to accommodate these people. We have to use their pronouns. You have to have your own pronouns and all this. If you think about that, if someone is suffering from a delusion, you don't help them by trying to keep them in the delusion. If deaf people were to come to you and say, Eric, you know, I can't hear and I'm upset every time you listen to music, stop listening to music, stop speaking. You must use sign language. You would go, OK, I'm going to do everything I can to accommodate you because you have a defect that you can't get over. But I'm not going to change my life completely. So you're not offended because I listen to music or I or I speak. And yet that's what seems to be happening with the entire trans movement. They want to pull the entire world into the delusion in order to make some people who really need mental health care feel better when the best way to help them feel better is to get them mental health care, not to affirm them in that particular delusion. And by the way, the data show, which is what we cover and correct, not politically correct, Eric, that nearly all of the people, not maybe not all, but most of the people that suffer from so -called gender dysphoria have some kind of traumatic childhood event that has triggered them into this. Now, say that again, because I have not really heard that. I was wondering about this. Yes. You're a data guy. I'm not really. So talk about that. And again, this is in the book. Correct. Not politically correct. Talk about that. Yeah. Walt Iyer, who for eight years tried as try to live as a woman, but then became a Christian and then started the Web site and ministry called Sex Change Regret, Sex Change Regret Dotcom. And he has counseled thousands, according to him, thousands of people. And in his research, he says there's nearly always an event. There's always some sort of traumatic event that causes the person to think I'm in the wrong body. And for example, the people that truly have gender dysphoria, not the social contagion that's spreading on the Internet right now that, you know, a lot of young girls are just there. It's the hip thing to do it. They don't really have gender dysphoria, but they're trying to get approval of the crowd and they're trying to stick it to their parents sometimes when they do this. But the people that truly have gender dysphoria say, Eric, that they had an event. In fact, Walt Iyer puts it this way. Sometimes when a man thinks he's a woman, he has been sexually abused and he wants to get rid of the genitalia that was abused. So you can understand the psychology behind it. They want to rid themselves of the organ that was abused in that event. Okay, folks, we got to be clear. We're talking about evil. Evil, when someone is sexually abused as a child, there's almost nothing that you can think of that's more evil than that. It is pronounced evil. It's not just wrong. It's pronounced evil. And when you quoted Jesus earlier, you know, better that we would find the largest millstone and have it hung around his neck and he be cast into the sea than that he should lead one of these little ones to go straight. We're talking about some very, very dark stuff. And we have to have compassion to understand if someone has been through that, it is hard for us to imagine how that would mess you up, how your brain, your psyche would try to accommodate that trauma. And as you're saying, as this guy says, who you can find at sexchangeregret .com, sexchangeregret .com, he is saying that is often the case, that someone has had a profound trauma. So first, we want to weep for these people. We want to weep what they have been through, but we don't want to affirm them in the way they're dealing with this any more than you deferment. Somebody who's like, you know, who's on heroin because of some stuff that happened to him, you know, in Vietnam or during his childhood. And you wouldn't want to say, like, hey, if heroin is your way to deal with this, good for you. I'm all in. Let me buy you, you know, some horse. No, you would you would try to actually help him, like really help him. And, you know, Eric, you can change your mind. You can't change your biology. Look, if I'm a man and I think I'm a woman, why not think that instead of my body being wrong, that I'm actually, instead of saying I'm a woman trapped in a man's body, why shouldn't I say that I'm a man enveloping a woman's mind? Then if I can just change my mind and fix the problem, I can't change my biology. I can't change all hundred trillion of my cells. I can't change my DNA, but I can change my mind. And every single one of ourselves, folks, can tell any doctor whether you're a man or a woman. This is not like an up in the air thing. We'll be right back talking to Frank Turek, T -U -R -E -K. Frank Turek, the book, correct, not politically correct.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Is This the Wrong Time for Ron DeSantis to Run for President?
"There's every indication that Ron DeSantis having produced a successful record in Florida is very seriously considering running for president. Now there have been some recent reports coming more from the left, but also some from the maga. Trumpsters that desantis is having some setbacks. He's running into some roadblocks. This is not a good idea. It's not going very well for him. I don't put a whole lot of stock in all that. I want to actually ask a different question. From desantis own point of view, is this the best time for him to run? And I'm going to ask this as someone who is well disposed toward desantis has nothing against him, has only admiration as I described in the last segment for what he's done and for his record. So I'm not looking at whether a desantis is a nuisance for Trump or whether desantis is I'm looking really at whether desantis is doing himself a favor by running now as opposed to waiting it out for the next time around. Now, the case for dissent is running now. And I think this is what a lot of the desantis people are seeing on social media is basically the idea you get it in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. There is a tide in the affairs of men and the ideas you gotta take the wave when it comes and go for it. But let's remember that this is stated by who. I believe it was stated by Brutus, maybe cassius, one of the two of them right before a battle that they lost.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Democrats Cross the Rubicon As Trump Gets Indicted
"Country that I grew up in has been dying for quite some time. Many people say, well, Charlie, don't we get our country back easily? Yesterday? The Rubicon was crossed. The river Rubicon, of course, goes to the story of Julius Caesar, deciding to start a Roman Civil War. The Democrats did this. Front page of The New York Times. Trump indicted. There is no going back. There is no reversing it. We are now in a new set of circumstances. The republic that we once enjoyed that we celebrated that we were appreciative of it that we were thankful for, it's over. They decided they killed it. It's not to say that the country is over, but we are in a completely new set of circumstances. A completely new scenario. And yes, I am wearing the hat for a reason because you better believe right now. That this is a direct assault, a direct attack on every single one of you. Those of you that pay your taxes. Those of you that go to church. Those of you that believe that America is the greatest nation ever to exist the history of the world. They hate you. This was a revenge indictment. These people are pathological. They're petty. They're personal. And of course, they're political. They hate the fact that the character that they were laughing about on SNL ever became president. They hate the fact that Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch are on the Supreme Court. They hate the fact that he showed that the border could be secure. The economy started to grow. He brokered Middle East peace, kept China in check, Putin never invaded. Hey, the fact that middle class wages were going up, hated the fact that Donald Trump was creating a beautiful diverse movement of people of all different backgrounds and ages, religions, to believe in the revitalization of America. Hey, the fact that he was able to get violent crime and check, he was going after the cartels. No, all of this is centered on revenge, but more than that, they want to do a Soviet style show trial, a public humiliation. You can not see what happened yesterday with the indictment of Trump and be naive any longer. And I am not an alarmist. I'm not someone who says, oh, you know, this is time to engage in hyperbole. The Democrats have not believed in elections for quite some time.
Simply Bitcoin
"julius caesar" Discussed on Simply Bitcoin
"Message in music form. Elevated not segregated right there. Let's go. Let's go. And yeah, and the quote was it's the idea. I think it was like on Instagram, I saw it. It was like a YouTube short or whatever, and it was like, it isn't supposed to feel comfortable. Like if it was comfortable, then everyone would be doing it. And it's like, when you're going through things, it's not supposed to be comfortable. Like, growth through the uncomfortable, get through that and find the skills and eliminate the weakness in your own life so that you can get to that point that you want to get to. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. And I think this is kind of where we are at bitcoiners. It's like, I really do believe that we're still early adopters and that we're still, we're still so early to this, bro and if it was easy, then why would we be called? Why would we be forge at this moment to hear the ringing and the bow and be like, yo, this is the true north and now I've been called Paul Revere to tell everyone that that's my main baby in the world. Like bro it is so on point, you know? There's no gain. There's no going back to Fiat. I'm just convinced that I've said it before. I think as someone told me it was Julius Caesar who said burn the ships and move forward. And I really do feel like that. That's how you go to war. Once hey, when I get to land and we make sure on this PR war, we're burning the boats 'cause there ain't going back. We ain't no going back. That's it. I don't think there is at all. Like I'm 100% convinced like what are we going back to Fiat dollars? Like, we're going back to paper money. Look, it makes no sense to me. It really makes no sense to me. But like on this on this topic, what do you think it's gonna take for us to continue to spread this message to quote unquote mass adoption? Is it just living the is it just living the philosophy or do people need more pain? That's the thing. I think that everybody has their own tolerance for pain. And so not everybody's going to experience the same amount at one time. And so that's why if an individual can live the way that we're talking about and embody what it is that we're speaking of, it'll be easier for people when they do start to experience the pain to recognize the individuals who are doing what we're doing and they will, it's like a signal. You know, it's like a Beacon. It's literally like, that guy over there somehow is still surviving and he somehow was happy every day. How the hell is that a thing? Well, if you maintain that, every day in can be consistent towards your goals, you'll live life in a consistent manner and people will see that signal and they'll gravitate towards that. It's a very strong thing consistency is something that creates and breach structure and it allows you to maintain excellence and people see that and they gravitate towards it because it's something they also want and yearn for in their own lives even if they don't realize it. Subconsciously, structure is something that humans really they crave. I mean, when it comes to a person, if they don't have a goal, they are struggling if you noticed. So that's like the thing about us. If we're willing to every day step up to the plate and be disciplined enough to embody our own philosophies and show people that this is a way that you can be happy and how you can do things and it's going to be easier for them when they do reach that pain point to find the right way. Because, like you said, when what happened, it's not going to happen all at one time. Because not everybody has a different tolerance for pain. So it's going to be important for people like us who are willing to do the hard things first. And get that stuff out of the way and show that, you know, this is the way. For the people to be able to find it. When they're ready. Otherwise, it's otherwise it would be a lot of wondering around aimlessly. They aren't anybody out there willing to be disappointed in the show the way, you know? The thing is that we all have faults. I have my own imperfections. But our imperfections are what make us perfect as humans and individuals. Like I said, I recently, I've been battling sugar. Forever, you know? I can admit that. I don't drink alcohol and do all this shit like that, but like sweets, I got a sweet tooth that's crazy. But I've learned how to discipline myself and do things differently. I literally, I'll have fruit or something instead of anything else. And I have no added sugars in my diet now for a while and it's amazing. But it's just like it's a little stupid things that you don't think about that seem insignificant that when you win these small battles, it creates a confidence inside that gives you the ability to persevere through the war. Did preach, bro man. That's all we're in. Yeah, no, I 100% agree. And honestly, I consider you one of my friends in real life, not just on the Internet, and it's very refreshing. I haven't seen you since what Pacific Bitcoin. And it's very refreshing. That was a good time. We got a good time. Exactly. But at very refreshing having these conversations because I've been thinking about this same stuff consistently and at times I just think I'm so naive about where it's like, I just tell people I'm like, bro, just live a good life. This is the best signal you can possibly give for Bitcoin. It's like, like I say it all the time, like be a shining example of being a good human, and then show people that like, yo, like Bitcoin is part of the reason why I'm here. And this is one of the main reasons why I'm here. And you said it best. It's like, people will want to know why you are continuously happy. Glad you're optimistic. Are able to look out into the world and conquer it. While everyone else is like, you know, reading on the doom porn that scrolls through their television, they're sitting there, you know, sad and mad about the new current thing. It's like, bro this mentally. Even I gotta be honest, even in Bitcoin, we get into kind of a boomer type mindset sometimes. And I've been talking to some people about that. And some of them even tell me they're like, I can't sometimes with Twitter because it seems like it's just always negative. I'm like, you know what? The thing is, though, is that Bitcoin is the positive and it's the signals that is like a laser beam just right through all that negativity because that's the fix. And so I get that, but at the same time, it's like, you got to acknowledge that it's not going to go away either. So let's just look at it for what it is, but at the same time, be aware enough to know that we don't think this is the other story thing that is most profound. You have to understand that you don't control anything outside of here. When it comes to life in general, everything outside your thoughts and your mind, you don't control. And some people don't even control that, and that's very difficult. And so with Bitcoin
The Aloönæ Show
"julius caesar" Discussed on The Aloönæ Show
"So yeah, so I find those to be some interesting tidbits surrounding Mother's Day. Okay. And what other discoveries have you found out about American holidays? Oh, other interesting things? Discovery, yeah. Things that I find interesting, like one of the things I find interesting about a lot of these holidays, they all require a champion to kind of carry the torch to get it recognized as a holiday. And like Memorial Day, it was groups of women after the Civil War would have gatherings to kind of heal the mom's wives, daughters, of fallen soldiers. And they would just get together in the park and they were all across the United States at the time, which was basically the eastern United States. But they didn't have the communication that we have now. But they were all doing very similar things. And eventually that grew into Memorial Day. So I find that interesting Thanksgiving was a woman who wanted to recognize the day of gratitude in the United States. So a lot of the what you call the traditional stories around Thanksgiving are that began with the pilgrims and the Indians. And while that may be true, the holiday itself was a woman in the 1800s who wanted a national day of thanks to be recognized and she championed for Thanksgiving to be a national holiday for like 20 or 30 years until president Lincoln signed it into a holiday. Why? Amazing. Yeah, it's just the history of its amazing. I think each holiday has a little tidbit. Like, for instance, January 1st, New Year's Eve, but do you know why the month is called well, you know why it's called January, for instance? Yeah. I guess so. You want to guess? Why is it called January? Oh, no, no, I don't have to set that. It's just a yeah. I think it was Julius Caesar, one of the Roman emperors, and he set the Julian calendar and made January the first month. Named after the Greek God, Janice, who's a two headed God that can look forward and backwards at the same time. So he wanted the first month of the year to be a time where you look back on the previous year and in sort of a state of direct collection and remembrance. And then also look forward to the year ahead. And that's why it's named January. And to this day, we still do that. We always make
Ultraflex Football
"julius caesar" Discussed on Ultraflex Football
"Fire away. Fire away. All right, so we are looking at the did you know for this week and this one is interesting and it's going to take me a minute to run these through, but it's where the names of the month come from, like every month of the year. I didn't know any of these. Literally not a single one. But January is named for the Roman God janus, protector of Gates, and protector of Gates and doorways. February is Latin the Latin word came where it came from was February for cleanse named after the festival of purification and atonement that lasted one month in Rome. March was the Roman goddess of war, Mars, the time of year, this was the time of year to resume military campaigns that stopped for the winter, so at least they stopped during the winter. April is from the Latin word apparel. It looks like Latin for to open or bud. So this is when the plant started growing. May the goddess of Maya, who oversees plant growth. So. She was the one that looked over the plants, also from the word mayor race. It looks like, which means elders who are celebrated for this month. And then we have June, Roman goddess Juno, she was patroness of marriage and well-being of women. July, honors Julius Caesar with help, he developed the Julian calendar, the precursor for the Gregorian calendar that we currently use. So I definitely didn't know that July was named after Julius Caesar. I thought that was pretty interesting. Did you know that either? August is named to honor the first Roman Empire emperor Augustus Caesar. Didn't know that. And then the next four kind of lame September, October,
Time for an Awakening
"julius caesar" Discussed on Time for an Awakening
"Before I get to my guests, brother Franklin Jones, the black people matrix. It was not the day of death until Julius Caesar ignored the soothsayers warning, because march really is the beginning of the year. In the eyes of March was celebration, that was a celebration of the 15th of March. And it's logical that in this hemisphere the northern hemisphere that particularly in the areas where there is the four seasons that spring would be the beginning of the year because things begin to be brought forth, life begins to spring open so forth. After the winter time or hibernation time or whatever, but it became the day of death because of Julius Caesar's ignoring the warning of the soothsayer of the cater of the psychic, saying to him, don't go up in the Senate, dude, 'cause they ain't feeling you. Okay? But of course he ignored it and cassius and Brutus was laying in the cut, and they jump out and stab him, I don't know, 20 some times whatever. I don't know. Just started digging on. And of course, at that time, Cleopatra the 7th, who was trying to deal with Julius Caesar and of course she had a baby by him. And which is the Syrian where we get the words to Syrian section, you know, because she wanted to save kemet. That's one thing I must add, even though she was not African, she was part of the ptolemies, the Greeks that came in, but because of the mixing, I'd say she looked like a high yellow sister. You know? Because of the. Amount of Africa that we're still in chemist and always will be in kemet. You know, regardless, I ain't just talking about them. You know, the nubians and the Africans that are presently encompass in Egypt today, you know, that's because I just saw another piece about where the Africans were ancient Egyptians black. Hell yeah, they was. Yeah. That's why I love that great pyramid K 2019. And that's why all of you should watch it. Again and again, because. It's substantiates what we're talking about in terms of who built a pyramids us Africans, toxic and people. And how they were built. They went, we went dragonstone. That's literally impossible to drag. Ten, 20 tons of stone. How much is a ton? 2000 pounds. Exactly, that's a lot. So anyway, let's get on with this conversation with brother Franklin Jones, the black people's matrix, and of course my good brother Franklin Jones always brings us great information. Good morning, dear brother. How are you? Good morning, my brother. I'm fantastic. I'm always fantastic to build your program. Thanks for having me. Oh man, you bet. You bet. So how have you been? You've been doing okay? Fantastic. Good. Fantastic. You know, matter of fact, I did a total lifestyle change two months ago. I became a vegan. Right on. I know. I was talking with you about that, and I'm very happy for you. I'm proud of you, man. You know, once again, it says these life changes at the age that we are coming to get older and so forth are necessary if we want to live longer. And if we're in four to fight for our liberation, we want to be here as long as we can. That's right. Because see, this is not a sprint. This is the marathon. You know? And so we got to be here, you know, I look at it this way, brother, a brother, Franklin. I want to be here, at least to see that our people have waken up and more and more are waking up. And we're moving in that particular direction. You know, that's why I'm dedicated to doing what I'm doing. You know, because not all of us are lost. Not all of us have fallen victim to Uruguay. You know, there's a lot of us. There's definitely a lot of us, unfortunately, but not all of us. You know what, it's really tricky. There are millions of us that are awake, but the ideology of the awakened is that being given an actual platform. Right. So it creates this illusion that we're all asleep and then what they do is they take the most ignorant amongst us and they propagate that to the media to create a source of the people we are. I think a good example of that is in America the millions of African Americans who hate the N word and never use it. Right, that's me. That's me. Among the African American culture, that group, they're being ignored by the white media controllers who control our media images. And so they keep making out these movies where we're calling off niggas in our music and everything. Right. And it's some of the norm of who we are. You know, the white society has distorted our image of ourselves as well. You know? Well, Francis Chris, you said, we're the only people that celebrate our demented Ness. We call ourselves bitches and hoes and niggers and this and that. You know, exactly. You know? I was thinking, excuse me. I was thinking if there was a European who only spoke an African language. A European who was everything.
Cheine On
"julius caesar" Discussed on Cheine On
"It created a in once he did it. He eliminated his political enemies. It was like a whole thing. So that's where like people like kato. Julius caesar pompey the great cicero. That's the period that they grew up in. Was you had a guy who seized control of the state. Because his soldiers their fate was tied to their commander no longer to the state itself so he tried sola when he stepped down. And then he died right after He tried fixing it so that no one could do what he did but fast forward a generation. i mean. it's exactly what julius caesar did. But kato comes into play. Because it it's kind of important to look past like the mythology of him and actually use a man. Because and i think what washington in some of the founders they look at the mythology of them and that's why such an inspiration sure but basically long story short on him was he was one of the first romans who really embrace like a stoic mindset. He's one of the most famous stokes. You didn't write anything down. But his whole thing was how i act so he would walk barefoot like you kinda weird guy but he would defendant issue and filibuster and all this stuff in the senate just to you know what he deemed as protecting the republic so like he didn't trust julius. Caesar for instance. When julie's ron's rise. So anything that julius caesar proposed even a really good idea he just shouted shut down because he knew that julius caesar had bigger ambitions so it was was in. That's the problem though. I have with with kato in a way because there was serious issues that they need to solve but he was so like unbending on his point yet it win solve it. Well you see that today. It's like. I mean that's it seems like that's where both sides are at in a lot of ways but it seems like everybody's really fucking pissed rigid but they don't know why they're kind of like piston rigid because somebody else told them to be and then if you really like get into their ideas and.
Skeptiko - Science at the Tipping Point
"julius caesar" Discussed on Skeptiko - Science at the Tipping Point
"Two thing is history. You know and. I just had a great interview with a guy named Doctor adrian goldsworthy who is primarily at this point he is like a writer he writes history books and people love him and he writes about augusta's in about caesar and pax romana and he's an expert on military history but he has a phd in history from oxford and we talked a lot about how history is done. You know and. I love his approach. I love his rigor. And i think it paints to me. I'm more siding with him. On some of these things than i am with you. I think this idea is that gets kind of bandied around a lot is that history is nonsense. We can't trust history. Don't trust anything they're telling you about history to me. It plays into some of these other things we here. It's like the whole flat. Earth thing which i think is really really important topic. We could spend the whole whole hour talking about flat. Earth and how i believe that that is definitely in engineered meam because if we can break people off and make people feel like it's okay to express ideas that any halfway scientific person would just dismiss out of hand but hey it's okay you got everything it's the i'm gonna go off on that i don't want to because that's so we can have a whole discussion on flat earth as well as a as mean as a social engineering project. I wanted to return to history. I wanted to return to dr adrian goldsworthy because what goldsworthy. I love the way that this guy does his stuff. Because i kept pushing because like one of the things i mentioned this at the very beginning of the show. I said you know adrian. Your stuff is kind of subtly subversive in some kind of important ways. One of the ways it subtly. Subversive is this great man theory and i was at the beginning. Saying i am amazed at what you one person were able to not only create in your head but the effect that that was able to have on our society will look at somebody like julius caesar and multiply that times ten. Look at somebody like augusta's who was really shouldn't have been risen to that level again. It's multiplied by ten. It's interesting to note that in history as an academic discipline. The way that it's done this idea has been under attack for the last twenty years and it's part of this postmodernism will like no people. Don't matter it's really a product of systems and environmental and other factors that are not the individual and of course that harmonizes so perfectly with the control idea is that you there's no you your biological robot and meaningless universe so caesar there's no julius caesar he wasn't important. What's important is the system the state now. So what's interesting is. We can't allow that to creep into history because it's bullshit and and adrian was able to kinda point that out. We were able to kind of bond on that but the other thing that we were he really did great job of and i think he does in his research is that.
Riot Podcast
"julius caesar" Discussed on Riot Podcast
"Yeah in and that's why when you study history and you you you can study history and find like people outside of the bible talking about jesus you can find like the jewish scholar josephus or Polycarp or other people they will talk about. Jesus right and so we can take to history everything that they're saying that he did exist. That just jesus really did live and so now what what's going on. Is these people in the bible. The postles and disciples there eyewitnesses of jesus. And what he did. I'm laughing because you know you're talking you're talking about you know whether jesus existed or not and our calendars. We acknowledge that jesus existed even on our calendar. So it's just there's so many people out there trying to prove that he did not exist in so we have so many are just different writings of the bible. We have so many things that have been transferred to us over the time to and they authenticity of it and just be able to see that he really did exist. And then if if it did not exist if five hundred people see saul jesus as it says in acts rise to rise rise up into heaven. They all witnessed this and saw that. Don't you think that people refute that if that was not true. Don't you think that people that didn't happen. You would have something that's written in history. Somebody would've that's too big of a vent not to have something away. I mean we have less stuff about julius caesar than we have. Jesus we have more stuff about jesus than we have about julius. Nobody has any problem believing that no. And that's my point. And so paul is basically saying that now. Jesus is god himself. He's the invisible god in man in in physical form. He's at he's everything he was from the very beginning. Insult ask always will be and so he saying this with a passion because it's true he saying this with authority because it's true and nobody can refute it and so we are trying to refute it in today's worlds because we're believing all of these other lies where believing things that are not true. We're we're listening to people that are you know trying to keep us away from jesus and paul's trying to tell the church no stand. Jesus stand. jesus they focused. Yeah so john. One eighteen is in his essence. God is invisible. But jesus has revealed him to us but that's basically says since no mere creature perv perfectly reveal. God jesus must be god..
Everything Everywhere Daily
"julius caesar" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"Let's start this discussion by clarifying. What the rhythm head of julius. Caesar was not. It was not a crown signifying authority. Today we associate wearing a crown with being a monarch when the queen opens parliament. She wears a crown signifying her position. As the monarch the crown often becomes a symbol of authority of the monarch even if it is an warn. That's why all the mailboxes in the uk have crown on them. Well crowns have a very ancient history. The rulers in the area around the mediterranean thousands of years ago usually wore something called a diadem. A diadem is crown-like. But it's actually more like a headband alphabet. More to say about diatoms in a bit. So what was the thing. And the head of julius caesar..
The Eric Metaxas Show
Mallory Millet Saw the Human Side of Marlon Brando
"Have so many stories you so you were friends. Good friends with marlon brando Who grew grew to be the size of a house at the end. I mean it's the kind of an amazing thing orson welles. Dan ackroyd There's people that they just blow up beyond reckoning. You keep you try to imagine. Excuse me what what's going on over there. You knew him when he was thin. He was glamorous beautiful beautiful human being. I mean beautiful physically physically and as an actor. Sometimes i always wonder. What's the big deal about certain people and then you see something. When he was in. I guess was julius caesar when he when he does the romans conference room. It's gonna when. I saw that. I thought to myself now i get it. You just thought to myself. I never really had seen whatever that was the sukhois about him. I mean everybody knows. He's a great actor but we were you finally see like oh my goodness there's he's a genius But you saw the human side of him so in the late sixties. He's calling you up. You said during the break that you talked him out of suicide. Marie would call me and she'd be she say i'm up in san francisco right now and It would be midnight or something. I'm up in san francisco right now and marlins home alone and he's going to kill himself and you've got to get over there right now and i'd go murray is midnight is marlin. He's you know please mallory. You've got to go there now. You've got to get in your car and get up there right this minute
Bedtime History: Inspirational Stories for Kids
The Life of Julius Caesar
"Guys julius caesar was born in july one hundred bc in suburbia a city of rome. His parents were nobles in the city. They were well known but not rich as a young boy julius. Caesar started his education at the young age of six and learned important skills from his tutor. He was taught to develop excellent speaking skills and exceptional leadership qualities. It was only because his parents wanted him to become a noble just like them and even become a king someday. By the time he turned six his father passed away and he became the head of the household. All of the responsibilities of the house. Were now his and he had to represent his house. In the court of nobles at the age of seventeen julius got married to cornelia the daughter of a powerful politician during that time there was a fight between his two uncles. Julius didn't want to fight with his family members and thought it was foolish so to escape the fight. He joined the army and left rome while in the army. Julius fought many wars and became a brave warrior who started getting recognition in the army quickly began to reach higher and higher ranks in the government. He made friends with many influential leaders namely crassus who has a wealthy businessman and general pompey. Who was the best military commander back then. Influential means having power and wealth. By the time. Caesar returned to rome. He was famous among the people and was loved widely due to his victories and his good speaking skills by the age of forty he was elected as the console. Console was the uppermost rink in the roman government similar to a president. He remained in this position for one year then. He was appointed the governor of a province named gall as a result he was granted four legions. Legions are large groups of soldiers in the military who protect the cities and during wars fight
Historically Thinking
"julius caesar" Discussed on Historically Thinking
"Which is still very much. A part of numismatics wasn't essential part of this revival of numismatics as as as disciplined as a field of inquiry and more and more than these antiquarians began to share knowledge that they gained from their own particular collections. Their own coast calmer and they begin to create catalogs and some would develop a particular interest. I want to collect coins of all the so-called twelve caesars. The first beginning with julius caesar and so forth through the giulio claudien and flavian dynasties or i wanna collect coins that show particular gods or goddesses from ancient greece and so this community of collectors became a community of true scholars who really began to investigate to inquire about these coins. What they could tell you they would answer arguments about no things like chronology or did this roman emperor really exist. Do we have any coins that validate what was written about him in in a particular source And as a result of i think numismatics as a discipline Though it has its origins in among the ancient greeks and survived through the middle ages really. Has this burst of energy. That comes along in the renaissance the italian in northern renaissance i. I was surprised at two two. When i read that you suggested that numismatists archaeologist or not always friends And that that sometimes it would seem that there are it's archaeologists versus numismatists. Why is this a zet something to do with. Perhaps the way that numismatists collect coins essentially archeology and numismatics had the same origins in renaissance antiquarian. Ism they had the same aims to same methods. They were the same people and many of the Famous early archaeologists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries actually got their start as coin collectors. And so it was a perfectly acceptable thing for numismatists and archaeologists to collect antiquities until the latter half of the twentieth century when archaeology Went through a very exciting period of self reflection out of which came the idea that More and more that. Archaeologists should abstain from any form of collecting antiquities because this imparted value to objects And therefore might encourage.
Everything Everywhere Daily
"julius caesar" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"The books may have had a hand in the assassination of julius caesar. Supposedly the book said that only a king could conquer partha. The empire in what is today modern iraq and iran. Caesar was planning on going on campaign against party before he was killed and many people thought that the prophecy meant that caesar was going to declare himself king. While the romans did take the book seriously. It's pretty easy to interpret prophecy to whatever you want because nothing in the books was very specific. It was easy to use the prophecies for political purposes. Also while most people did give lip service to the books there clearly were limits as to win. The advice of the books would be taken in one forty three. The books were consulted on another matter when they found that. Something didn't bode well for the aqua. Marcus which was one of the largest. Aqueduct bringing water to rome after much debate the senate decided that they needed water more than the prophecy so they just ignored it likewise in the year fifteen the tiber river flooded and the emperor tiberius refused to let the books be consulted probably because he didn't want prophecy getting in the way of his efforts. I've done several episodes talking about ancient rome in many respects especially in terms of things like civil engineering and social complexity. The romans were far more advanced than we might think. But then you have to remember the other things in their society like the sibylline books and taking harass policies and how they actually made policy decisions based on these things and you realize just how different from us they really were the associate producer of everything everywhere. Daily is thompson. Today's review comes from listener matt in port fairy australia on apple podcasts. He writes pub quiz. Champion fantastic series which will make me the pub quiz champion. He was a great as a travel blogger and can do great podcast as well. I look forward to any long drive. So i can catch up on the everything everywhere back. Catalogue well thanks matt. I've done many long road trip in australia. From port fairy. I'd recommend driving up to port. Douglas than john over to darwin head down to perth and then go back home by my estimate and by i mean google maps. That should take you a good one hundred and thirty five hours of driving enough to listen to every episode about five times. Remember if you leave a review you too can have your if you read on the show..
Travel with Rick Steves
Why I Love Rome
"Let's start the hour with three guides from rome. Who tell us what they love. Most about their city rome. It's the eternal city to one of the most romantic and popular destinations in the whole world but many visitors met with a harsh reality when they wander rooms. Ancient streets overcrowded sites chaotic. Urban seems unpredictable transit strikes. If you're not prepared. Rome can be a challenge. But many will agree with me that it's all worth it. Bernardo francesca russo and susanna perugini specialize in guiding american tourists around italy and. They've all made rome their home because they love their city. They join us now on travel. With rick steves to share their love of rome and share with us some tips on how we might enjoy it too you know. Francesca susannah bondar. Generate one so rome. I love history. And there's history every where you look. Francesca you're born and raised in rome. What's it like just to go to work. Surrounded by all that history. Sometimes i think about it that i can wait for the bus right by where julius caesar was stabbed to death. So i'm thinking that rome is a place where history goes from printed words on the page of a book to something. That's alive every minute of every day so you can feel it. Something had happened. Two thousand years ago happened right now. And there's layer after layer after layer. I mean there's like an archaeological dig isn't it but it's right before your very eyes. He has over two thousand years of history. Front is every single moment. Wherever you turn all at once pub is living in rome shape your outlook. I would say that most romans take it for granted. I think they gain a sense of how special the city is when they go elsewhere and they always find everything else so new so you become you become aware of how what it means to live with two thousand years of history once you leave it i think if you grow in it and you see coliseum every day when you drive to work in the sense you don't even see it any more than you might make a case that if you live in a land with very little with the shallow history. You don't appreciate history quite as much. i mean. The oldest building in my town is one hundred years old building a new town twenty times that could maybe if you live with things that are two thousand years old and every day i think you forget it and it just becomes something many conversations with my roman friends who say they've never been inside the coliseum where he could for take it for granted. Yeah but once you open their eyes to one thing then they understand and appreciate as well
600 WREC
"julius caesar" Discussed on 600 WREC
"Began here like Davis was a night manager here at the Dixie News some years back, and the rest, as they say in the movies is history. There's a long line of them needed to show off that, like being celebrities Al Capone, John Gotti Noth Eva's. He had those same inclinations He wanted to be known. He wanted to be a public figure. He was not shy. Are you serious about movie making? Do you want to be a movie mogul? I'm very serious about the movie making. In fact, we've moved our facilities from MGM in Hollywood to Atlanta. It is the money. Obviously, that attract organized crime. Beavis has managed to insulate himself and others in his organization by setting up paper corporations. Sources tell me he has managed to set up more than 300 of those corporations. No doubt in my mind that they are nervous. That pest about having to do business with Mike Beavis. I don't have any knowledge as to what happened. Tomo Mr Hammond. He was a personal friend of mine, and I just think it's a terrible tragedy. Indictment spells out so many charges against you. You think you can beat him all? Oh, yeah, Like Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon. I'm ready to do battle. So Mike, leave us walked out this door to freedom. Summer speculating. He may be in Colombia. Costa Rica countries, which before Harvard, United States criminals, 25 years of the good life. Try to look at it and just that mountain. In other words, if this is all but the Lord wanted me to have. Then I accept what I've had because I had far more than most.
NewsRadio KFBK
"julius caesar" Discussed on NewsRadio KFBK
"It all began here like Davis was a night manager here at the Dixie News some years back, and the rest, as they say in the movies is history. There's a long line of them needed to show off that, like being celebrities Al Capone, John Gotti Noth Eva's. He had those same inclinations. He wanted to be known. He wanted to be a public figure. He was not shy. Are you serious about movie making? Do you want to be a movie mogul? I'm very serious about the movie making. In fact, we've moved our facilities from MGM and Hollywood to Atlanta. It is the money. Obviously, that attracts organized crime. Beavis has managed to insulate himself and others in his organization by setting up paper corporations. Sources tell me he has managed to set up more than 300 of those corporations. Is no doubt in my mind that they are nervous and pest about having to do business with Mike. Beavis. I don't have any knowledge of what happened to Mr Hammond. He was a personal friend of mine, and I just think it's a terrible tragedy. Indictment spells out so many charges against you. You think you can beat him off? Oh, yeah, Like Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon. I'm ready to do battle. So Mike, leave us walked out this door to freedom summer speculating. He may be in Colombia, Costa Rica countries, which before have harbored United States criminals. I had 25 years of the good life. Try to look at it and just that manner. In other words, if this is all but the Lord wanted me to have. Then I accept what I've had because I had far more than most people did Gangster House Listen and follow this podcast for free on the I. Heart Radio Act number one for music, radio and podcasts. All in one free I heart radio app is number one for music, radio and podcasts, All in one discover a new podcast from our library of over 350,000 titles. Here's an I Heart radio podcast preview. Growing up here and dealing with everything that's going on now. It's like I'm surprises, Towns even standing. I know everybody. So it's hard to also to think that somebody here in my town could would do such a thing. Bardstown, Kentucky is a small town in the heart of the bluegrass state, the kind of town you can wander around and for a few hours and feel like you're back in time. But Bardstown, Kentucky also has secrets. Five unsolved murders over four years were getting desperate. It's too silent Police car is sitting in the middle of the road with a live on believe somebody any way were innocents. Family. They got caught up in a nine there. I'm not forgiving nobody to kill my murder. My granddaughter and my son if I have to go to hell for that. Guess I'll go.
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
Virgil and the Funeral for a Bug
"Was a poet who lived in the first century. Bc e during the the augusta periods of early imperial room and You might know him best from his most famous work the epic poem the aeneid which is about sort of the founding lineage of rome and the adventures of the trojan hero aeneas who after the trojan war travels from troy and eventually becomes the ancestor of the roman people Virgil is often considered one of the greatest latin poets and he was wildly popular during his own lifetime You know he. He received commendations from from kings and the wealthy. And and you know everybody thought like this. This guy is just got the juice. And i had virgil on my mind A lot last year. Because rachel and i were re-reading dante's divine comedy. And if you'll recall of course virgil is the pilgrims guide through hell and purgatory and the divine comedy so the spirit of virgil. He's been living out the centuries in limbo because Though he was a very virtuous man he's one of the virtuous pagans. He was never baptized as a christian. So he can't go to heaven he's got a hang out in this sort of antechamber of hell where everybody sits around sighing. Because interesting has ever happening to them. I have to admit that. I tend to when anybody mentions virgil. That's the first place. My mind goes is dante's inferno which is probably not fair. It's like if you were to mention the name of socrates and there was someone were to go. Yeah yeah he's in bill and ted's excellent adventure that's exactly eighty nine. That's exactly where i knew you were going with the villain ted. Yeah yeah the that is pretty good because though it slightly different because it's not a it's not at all parodied in the divine comedy. In fact i would say it's exactly the opposite in the divine comedy. He is he is revered. Yeah yes he. He's reimagined as this like superhuman wizard. For for dante he Virgil is the embodiment of wisdom and reason so for the intended readers of the divine comedy. We're supposed to understand that. Virgil is like a ten out of ten platinum level. Cool be st is just like this ultimate wizard of knowledge and about half of the state you remember. How like basically every other time. Dante talks in the first two books of the divine comedy. It's just to say like virgil you are so right. I would never doubt your wisdom. Tell me more you know and it kind of stinks then. Because i remember when we got to the end of the purgatory and virgil does not get to move on to heaven with dante. He has to stay behind and be beatrice takes him on from there. We're really mad. That virgil didn't get to go to heaven. Yeah yeah no. I mean so much so much time is devoted to him. It also much stripped away at that point. You know. it's like if it's hard to follow dante in into paradise just because you know that there aren't going to be any demons playing trumpets with their bombs or anything there's gonna be Monsters so much and virgils not gonna be there. So it's it's part. Three in a series is always tough. Yeah i agree. Yeah the the trilogy is a hard sell to to complete with dignity. And but i think for modern readers that sense of injustice about virgil that is interpreted by the characters in the inferno as you know perfect divine justice. It's the one person version of the dynamic that plays out throughout the whole thing whereas they're going through hell it just seems like wow. This is really unfair. Yeah but anyway long. Before virgil was guiding dante up the mountain of purgatory in his post mortem shade form people were telling lots of legends about his life and one of those legends. Is that once at his home. In rome virgil built a tomb and held an extravagant funeral for a dead fly. Like a fly as in the insect with six legs and wings This story is very probably untrue. And we'll get to why. That is in a bit. But i i wanted to explore some of the details and for this. I was reading an article by george pendle in cabinet magazine. In two thousand seven called virgils fly and he describes the legend in the following way quote held in the grounds of virgils home on rome's esquel line hill. The funeral attracted the great and good of the city. Dirges were sung and tributes read virgils. Patron my sinus delivered. A lengthy and moving eulogy to the departed insect and virgil was himself said to have uttered a few of his exquisite versus over the tiny carcass tomb had been erected and the lifeless body of the fly was placed within it to the whales and moen's of the professional mourners so lavish where the commemorations that the cost was estimated at over eight. Hundred thousand sister. She's so that's the gist. According to the story virgil and his close friends spend huge amounts of money and effort to celebrate the life in memory of an insect concluding with the insects burial in a marble tomb. Why on earth would this be. Well the legend itself also contains an answer to this so to read from pendle again quote but the reason for the funeral was not due to extravagance interest or even emotion. Having defeated julius. Caesar's assassins at the battle of philip pie. The second triumvirate was at that very moment. Engaged in confiscating the states of the rich and dividing them among the war veterans returning from the battlefield only one exception was given if the estate held a burial plot. It was not to be touched by burying his housefly. Virgil saved his house.
Newsradio 600 KOGO
"julius caesar" Discussed on Newsradio 600 KOGO
"Mike Davis was a night manager here. The Dixie News some years back, and the rest, as they say in the movies is history. There's a long line of them needed to show off that light being celebrities Al Capone, John Gotti Noth Eva's. He had those same inclinations. He wanted to be known. He wanted to be a public figure. He was not shy. Are you serious about movie making? Do you want to be a movie mogul? I'm very serious about the movie making. In fact, we've moved our facilities from MGM and Hollywood to Atlanta. It is the money. Obviously, that attracts organized crime. Beavis has managed to insulate himself and others in his organization by setting up paper corporations. Sources tell me he has managed to set up more than 300 of those corporations. There's no doubt in my mind. They are nervous that pest about having to do business with Mike Beavis, I don't have any knowledge as to what happened. Tomo stir Hannah. He was a personal friend of mine, and I just think it's a terrible tragedy. Indictment spells out so many charges against you. You think you can beat him all? Oh, yeah, Like Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon. I'm ready to do battle. So Mike leave us walked out this door to freedom. Summer speculating He may be in Colombia, Costa Rica. Countries, which before Harvard United States criminals I had 25 years of the good life. I tried to look at it and just that manner in other words, if this is all but the Lord wanted me to have Then I accept what up because I had far more than most people did Gangster House Listen and follow this podcast for free on the I heart radio app number one for music, radio and podcasts. All in one free I heart radio app is number one for music, radio and podcasts, All in one discover a new podcast from our library of over 350,000 titles. Here's an I Heart radio podcast preview. 1995, a college student disappeared on a trip across the USA reported him missing right away, but they wouldn't take it so his mother started investigating got the case file. Started going through and some people that wasn't interviewed. I joined this mother search for justice. Are you recording us? I am now someone knows something. Season six. Available. Now listen and follow this podcast for free on the I Heart radio app.
AoS Coach
"julius caesar" Discussed on AoS Coach
"Again and again. She listened in a hospital combination. You can do with the spill portal at in really tapping into that but for me some of these days boss especially the movement off just allow you to Slowly advance your army forward While hindering your apartment. So you really kind of manipulating the board. And i get slowing the. You're it down so that you can get a better position and then once you kind of imposition really fought your way out of it. That's the again not a fast army. I mean other than you don. Rhonda's obviously the battle cuddle side. I felt that the slower ball. Yeah it. It's it's one of the things where it's like you. You can make an art. There is universal spell for double double movement. The army overall is slow. You have the ability to reach out. Basically anywhere on the table between your shooting and the ability like i'm gonna make this unit have movement Or you can make your opponents army as slow as you are by having movement here turning off stuff there and and so forth It is an army of scalpels but Julius caesar was killed by a bunch of scowls so debt by thousand cuts or in the case of lumina th death why thousand mortal wounds coming from the sky as you block out the sun but we have al i list you have taken the battalion. So the The arlen legion. Yes i was just pulling up the rules So that means you need to take the On the law is never playing limited. You wanna say catheter. And it's not it's not. I actually got a free box actually one tournament long ago. The actual book set some like literally the day before i picked. Sorry the day off by picked up doors of cancer. That was really old quick. But you take the catholic the catholic and then you need to take two to four units of the sentinels. All the warden's bambi yet or just looking so doesn't have john reid writers in his But yes it must be equal. You must have an equal amount of sentinels two wardens And then if you The shield of light rule that you can roll save roles in ones for a tax talk a friendly unit from the battalion while they all within three inches of any other friendly unit from the same battalion. So you pick this battalion to kind of wrap up. Rami inositol Taken as you've got the stern made as your general this is designed track list as we've spoken about already off..
KCRW
"julius caesar" Discussed on KCRW
"When when we kind of talked talk about that subject. Well, I can't help having a kind of reaction that I imagine is instilled in me and everyone else at some level by evolution, right? I mean, I, You know, going back to Ernest Becker. I do find it terrifying. To imagine that everything that I cared about everything that I've worked on, and you know, family, friends, kids that all will be gone. And if I allow myself to fully to fully focus on just that. I can find myself slipping back into a dark place. But at the same time I have found a way to refine my reaction to that recognition merely by spending a lot of time thinking about it and thinking about in the ways that that we've been discussing in our conversation here. And when I think about human life and the human contribution to understanding of the world in the universe within the grand cosmological unfolding, and this really is what drove me to write the book, I have to tell you when I think about We fitting in in the progression from the big bang to the disintegration of stars and Galaxies. I see it in a different way. I see it human life as the product. Of mindless, purposeless laws of physics that have played out from the Big Bang with a huge array of quantum processes stretching from the beginning. Until now, each of those quantum processes could have turned out differently. It could have turned out that way, instead of this way, yielding a universe in which we wouldn't be here. And so I kind of think about it as set against astounding odds. We are here and that fills me with a deep sense of gratitude and a and a deep sense of reverence, and it's not on Lee. Gratitude and reverence for the mere fact of existence. It's gratitude and reverence for the fact that our particular collection of particles can do things right. We can contemplate the world. We can create beauty, right? It's our collections of particles and built the pyramids right that wrote Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was a collection of particles like us. It's a collection of particles that wrote Macbeth and Julius Caesar and Hamlet and the fact that Mere collections of.
550 KFYI
"julius caesar" Discussed on 550 KFYI
"300,000 ballots from New York to Pennsylvania was told to park somewhere and wakes up the next morning, and the truck is stolen with all the ballots. How is that not the biggest story in the country right now. The left is already determined that the truth regarding elections no longer matters. And Democrat politicians who in the past at least cared about the optics will not this go around. Democrats and their propaganda networks have taken the position that whatever it took to get president Trump out of office was justified. So many people are asking. What could be done about this? Many people are asking if the president doesn't concede. What comes next. You have conservative Republicans and many independents. They're playing unwinnable game, trying to convince Democrats trying to show that there's fraud when they don't want to see it. And you have so many freedom loving Americans that are absolutely distraught. And becoming disengaged because they believe that the election was stolen and those who really understand realized it is more than an election at stake. President Trump Should not concede he will not concede. I don't get it in him to do so. But there is something else that might be with them, and that's why we're starting to hear all of these references off the Rubicon in the news. Should President Trump crossed the Rubicon. Has he crossed the Rubicon. Well, there's a big decision. Many people believe that President Trump is mulling around And that is Whether or not he should go after the saboteurs. If China was involved in this election, should China be held to account If big tech colluded with the media and colluded with foreign entities to get Biden elected should Should the president go after that, you know of the there's talk out there that the president may be playing some three d chess. And 2018. September 12 2018. He had executive order. 13 8 48. And it imposed by 50 K f y I on FM 95.5 ht to what's going on with the elections, not just in a 2018, but also looking back in 2016. Looking back at the 2012. And notice the fraud back then. If you read that that executive order It's chronic raises some things that well, he was writing this, you know, because of Russia. Collusion? Uh, I don't know. It's kind of clear to me that President Trump and his advisers Absolutely anticipated the tradition we're seeing right now. The massive A voter and election fault that we're seeing right now. I think they anticipated it. And we've just witnessed. I mean this insurrection. We're still going through it. I encourage everyone to take some time and read that executive order very carefully. Those who have believed that President Trump has crossed the Rubicon. Here's one of the things that's flying around the Internet right now. Little history lesson Julius Caesar was enormously popular. And commanding an army of fiercely loyal soldiers. The Roman Swamp wanted nothing to do with him. And in January 49 BC the Roman Senate Senate order Julius Caesar to disband his army and return home. Or become an enemy of the state. Julius Caesar, with the popular support of the Roman populace and the loyalty of the military marched his army over the Rubicon River in the north of Italy and became a legend in history. Of course, this was the beginning of the Roman Empire. See the Roman used to be Rome. Rome used to be a republic. But you had Julius Caesar, who changed that history. Some would say for the worst. I would be one of them. But you know again again, he the room was corrupt beyond belief. They were afraid of Julius Caesar because they knew that if he if he did cross that Rubicon that means there's no turning back. That means that it is on Then things were going to change it never going to lose their fiefdoms. With the historic low interest rates. There has never been a better time to buy. But talking about buying a house with rates this low, it's allowing buyers to purchase 50. When you think about investing what comes to mind? Is it a portfolio that builds interest? Or is it doing things that hold.
Everything Everywhere Daily
"julius caesar" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"Every year. The earth orbits around the sun and we celebrate each revolution on new year's day. But what's so special about this particular spot in our orbit. Why do we use january first as the start of our year as opposed to some other day as we go back in history. Most human civilizations did not use a solar calendar they used. Lunar calendar's in fact if you look at the traditional calendars for countries such as china vietnam or for religion such as judaism and islam. They have lunar calendars and their new year's day changes it state every year. Our current calendar can be traced back to ancient rome. The very early romans way back at the founding of the city used to have ten months and that ten months system is still reflected in many of the names of our months today. Their first month was marcus named after the god mars which we call march after march came the months of april ass- maya's and junius the months after this. We're just named after their number until he has sex tellus september october november and december so yeah december are twelve months really means the ten months in latin likewise with november october and september however. Ten months didn't really fit nicely into a year. They had two full months worth of leftover dates. That didn't really fit into any month to rectify this around the year. Seven hundred pc. The roman king numa added two more months to the counter. I annual areas named after the roman god janus and february's which was now the last and shortest month of the year for romans. The beginning of each month was called the callan's so the start of the year was the callans of march or mark. I then at some point and no one is quite sure. When the year began being counted on the calendar of i warious january went from being the eleventh month to being the first month. This might have had something to do with the start of terms for consoles. Romans named their years after the two consuls and power instead of numbering them so for example the year fifty nine bc. Julius caesar wisconsin with kelp. Biblis it was known as the year of caesar bibi however was weak so there was a running joke that it was the year of julius. Caesar it might also had something to do with the fact that january i was the callans closest to the winter solstice. Caesar is actually really important to this story. While the names of the months were very similar to the months we have today. The keller itself was still a mess. Caesar instituted changes to fix this problem. Anti adopted the suggestions of a greek astronomer named side of alexandria suggested going to a tropical year more on that in a bit and created the three hundred sixty five day year with a leap year every fourth year. So that's pretty much. The story right. The roman set january is the first day of the year julius. Caesar sets the julian calender. And we get to where we are today. Nope because in the middle ages the system fell apart completely at the five sixty seven council of tours and there were a whole bunch of different councils of tours so you have to specify. The church declared that january. I was not to be celebrated as the new year as it was a pagan tradition. What replace january first. Well nothing there were. A whole bunch of different days celebrated oliver europe for centuries. Some places used christmas. Which was the winter solstice on. The julian calendar some use the floating date of easter someone back to the old roman march first. And some if you remember back to the episode on why. Christmas is on december twenty fifth us. The important date of march twenty-fifth start of the new year eventually. For a whole host of reasons pope gregory the thirteenth the problems with the julian calender and use the opportunity to standardize the new year back to being january first for good measure. They also made january first holiday which it still is. Today originally january. I was the feast of the circumcision of jesus. But now it's just called the solemnity of mary. Of course not. Everyone was on board with the new calendar. Catholic countries were quick to adopt it but protestant and orthodox countries were not in particular. One country was very late to adopt january first as the beginning of the new year. That country was england. England celebrated their new year on march twenty fifth. In fact their colonies in the americas. Did this as well up until seventeen. Fifty two in seventeen. Fifty england passed what was known as the calendar new style. Act also known as chesterfield's act which is when they adopted the gregorian calendar. The very first thing mentioned in the act was the problem with using march twenty fifth as the new year when everyone else in europe used january first including scotland so when england finally adopted january first as the start of the new year. So did the american colonies for the first time today. Most countries now use the gregorian calendar even if it's only for business purposes to stay instinct with the rest of the world new year celebration such as ted in vietnam chinese new year or rosh hashanah are still traditional festivities held on different days all over the world. The fact remains that there's nothing astronomically significant about january first even though it celebrating an astronomical event aka revolution around the sun so if we were starting new calendar from scratch. What would we pick before. I mentioned that sausage unease of alexandria suggested we celebrate a tropical year and pick that word carefully as opposed to a solar year because there are two types of solar years and they're very similar a tropical year is the time from one season to the next based on win the solstices occur. The current years based on the gregorian calendar are tropical years. However there's also a thing known as ideal year which is when we measure the position of earth based on the location of stars the difference between a ideal year and a tropical year is very small. He said you real year is only twenty minutes longer. This can add up. However the difference between the julian calendar and the gregorian calendar is only eleven minutes per year and that caused a lot of problems over the centuries this has to do with the procession of the orbit that is constantly changing their to logical places to define a new year based on astronomic principles. The i would be one of the solstices. This is something that humans have pictured for thousands of years and have recognized its importance. The winter solstice also is in too far away from january. First the solstice really has more to do with the tilt of the earth however and not the orbit of earth there is something significant about the orbited the earth. That is a point. We could use and oddly enough. It's really close to january. First even though the ancients had no clue the orbit of the earth around the sun is close to circular but it isn't perfectly circular it's a slight ellipse hence there is a point where the earth is closest to the sun. And it's called the para helium perihelion in the year. Twenty twenty one takes place on january second the date of para helium drifts. Over time in the year twelve forty-six para helium actually took place on the same date as the salsas in the year. Six thousand four hundred and thirty it will take place. On the spring equinox so january first is the start of our year which marks astronomical event even though the data itself has no astronomical significance set by the romans abandoned by the church only to be later adopted once again by the church so as the romans did celebrate the callans of january which honors janice the roman god with two faces one which looks into the past at the old year and one which looks into the future at the new
Everything Everywhere Daily
Why Does the Year Start on January 1?
"Every year. The earth orbits around the sun and we celebrate each revolution on new year's day. But what's so special about this particular spot in our orbit. Why do we use january first as the start of our year as opposed to some other day as we go back in history. Most human civilizations did not use a solar calendar they used. Lunar calendar's in fact if you look at the traditional calendars for countries such as china vietnam or for religion such as judaism and islam. They have lunar calendars and their new year's day changes it state every year. Our current calendar can be traced back to ancient rome. The very early romans way back at the founding of the city used to have ten months and that ten months system is still reflected in many of the names of our months today. Their first month was marcus named after the god mars which we call march after march came the months of april ass- maya's and junius the months after this. We're just named after their number until he has sex tellus september october november and december so yeah december are twelve months really means the ten months in latin likewise with november october and september however. Ten months didn't really fit nicely into a year. They had two full months worth of leftover dates. That didn't really fit into any month to rectify this around the year. Seven hundred pc. The roman king numa added two more months to the counter. I annual areas named after the roman god janus and february's which was now the last and shortest month of the year for romans. The beginning of each month was called the callan's so the start of the year was the callans of march or mark. I then at some point and no one is quite sure. When the year began being counted on the calendar of i warious january went from being the eleventh month to being the first month. This might have had something to do with the start of terms for consoles. Romans named their years after the two consuls and power instead of numbering them so for example the year fifty nine bc. Julius caesar wisconsin with kelp. Biblis it was known as the year of caesar bibi however was weak so there was a running joke that it was the year of julius. Caesar it might also had something to do with the fact that january i was the callans closest to the winter solstice. Caesar is actually really important to this story. While the names of the months were very similar to the months we have today. The keller itself was still a mess. Caesar instituted changes to fix this problem. Anti adopted the suggestions of a greek astronomer named side of alexandria suggested going to a tropical year more on that in a bit and created the three hundred sixty five day year with a leap year every fourth year. So that's pretty much. The story right. The roman set january is the first day of the year julius. Caesar sets the julian calender. And we get to where we are today. Nope because in the middle ages the system fell apart completely at the five sixty seven council of tours and there were a whole bunch of different councils of tours so you have to specify. The church declared that january. I was not to be celebrated as the new year as it was a pagan tradition. What replace january first. Well nothing there were. A whole bunch of different days celebrated oliver europe for centuries. Some places used christmas. Which was the winter solstice on. The julian calendar some use the floating date of easter someone back to the old roman march first. And some if you remember back to the episode on why. Christmas is on december twenty fifth us. The important date of march twenty-fifth start of the new year eventually. For a whole host of reasons pope gregory the thirteenth the problems with the julian calender and use the opportunity to standardize the new year back to being january first for good measure. They also made january first holiday which it still is. Today originally january. I was the feast of the circumcision of jesus. But now it's just called the solemnity of mary. Of course not. Everyone was on board with the new calendar. Catholic countries were quick to adopt it but protestant and orthodox countries were not in particular. One country was very late to adopt january first as the beginning of the new year. That country was england. England celebrated their new year on march twenty fifth. In fact their colonies in the americas. Did this as well up until seventeen. Fifty two in seventeen. Fifty england passed what was known as the calendar new style. Act also known as chesterfield's act which is when they adopted the gregorian calendar. The very first thing mentioned in the act was the problem with using march twenty fifth as the new year when everyone else in europe used january first including scotland so when england finally adopted january first as the start of the new year. So did the american colonies for the first time today. Most countries now use the gregorian calendar even if it's only for business purposes to stay instinct with the rest of the world new year celebration such as ted in vietnam chinese new year or rosh hashanah are still traditional festivities held on different days all over the world. The fact remains that there's nothing astronomically significant about january first even though it celebrating an astronomical event aka revolution around the sun so if we were starting new calendar from scratch. What would we pick before. I mentioned that sausage unease of alexandria suggested we celebrate a tropical year and pick that word carefully as opposed to a solar year because there are two types of solar years and they're very similar a tropical year is the time from one season to the next based on win the solstices occur. The current years based on the gregorian calendar are tropical years. However there's also a thing known as ideal year which is when we measure the position of earth based on the location of stars the difference between a ideal year and a tropical year is very small. He said you real year is only twenty minutes longer. This can add up. However the difference between the julian calendar and the gregorian calendar is only eleven minutes per year and that caused a lot of problems over the centuries this has to do with the procession of the orbit that is constantly changing their to logical places to define a new year based on astronomic principles. The i would be one of the solstices. This is something that humans have pictured for thousands of years and have recognized its importance. The winter solstice also is in too far away from january. First the solstice really has more to do with the tilt of the earth however and not the orbit of earth there is something significant about the orbited the earth. That is a point. We could use and oddly enough. It's really close to january. First even though the ancients had no clue the orbit of the earth around the sun is close to circular but it isn't perfectly circular it's a slight ellipse hence there is a point where the earth is closest to the sun. And it's called the para helium perihelion in the year. Twenty twenty one takes place on january second the date of para helium drifts. Over time in the year twelve forty-six para helium actually took place on the same date as the salsas in the year. Six thousand four hundred and thirty it will take place. On the spring equinox so january first is the start of our year which marks astronomical event even though the data itself has no astronomical significance set by the romans abandoned by the church only to be later adopted once again by the church so as the romans did celebrate the callans of january which honors janice the roman god with two faces one which looks into the past at the old year and one which looks into the future at the new
Unconfirmed: Insights and Analysis From the Top Minds in Crypto
What Will the World Look Like When Crytpo Is Fully Adopted?
"What do you think the world will look like. Once crypto has been adopted. There's there's two sort of visions. I think i don't maybe we can just be honest ourselves. Sometimes i worry about the vision. We have for currency so aware. I started and i have a lot of respect for jeremy in the team at circle. Because back when i was in grad slow boston actually used circle to violate quinlan. So kudos huge you. Jeremy you saved me from my days for buying the clan on craigslist in using fan. So i could do how well yeah. So you obsolete neat stack my my sats. The early days of the coin The i think they're sort of two visions and they're two very different visions the vision. I've always had for bitcoin that i think. Really compelling one is the separation for the first time of money and state. Money has been object of the state since julius caesar stamped his face on a gold coin and i think really the experiment. We're attempting here like the world is no longer defined by physical orders. We live in a very digital world. Anyone could be anyone on. The internet has many different identities many different communities where part of sometimes as our default reality south. Sometimes where donnas you know there are a lot of eggs anonymous individuals citing. We live in this really interesting world that is truly becoming borderless antony. Bitcoin really represents the evolution of money transfer value in that world. But in the same time. I think governments are looking at bitcoin Right now we're living in a world where governments are trying to ban math. They're literally encryption. We done this time and time again. For the last twenty five years since incriptions existed but the advent of central bank digital currencies. In certainly what. We've seen in the asia pacific region in particular the advent of dc p. and Sort of national quote unquote digital currencies. You do have a lot of concerns around the ability for people to have financial privacy. Privacy transactions privacy communications so we have these two very different paths down which we're heading. I don't know if they're gonna coexist. Don't know if it's going to be an ethic collision and i know jeremy also you know than working a lot on uscc which which arguably has replay here. But i think the future of joe currencies in our society is sort of at this. Very interesting impasse. I want bitcoin to exist. Ideally people have the right to privacy that people have the right to sue committee in their transactions. But i think governments certainly do not like that and are advocating now for the antithesis of that which is central bank digital currencies and monetary systems that. Give them complete control the ability to exert financial censorship at every level of society. Driving up tacit. Tiv know early. There's so much there. I i guess i it just as a technologist The to the question of you know. When will this be mainstream or however you wanna call that my view is that you know. Things are mainstream in terms of technology when they disappear when they're invisible people and and when when essentially like people just take take them for granted right and said depending on your age and depending on where you are like. You might take for granted social media. But obviously that wasn't something that existed Wherever x. number of years ago you might take for granted that you have this amazing you know Supercomputer that just like that is reality. That is what the world was but obviously that had changed so at. What point is the use of crypto so ubiquitous and so embedded in so many things that we just take it for granted so were were. We have credited ago on that. But i think we're making really really strong progress. I think when. I also think about that question. I really think about Crypto and blockchain Is is. It's a pretty broad surface area right. You can be narrowly focused and sort of say there's non-sovereign stores value that use of blockchain infrastructure. You know bitcoin cash you know cetera et cetera which i completely agree with melting right. There's this this is this new form of borderless internet money and it will continue to grow and scale. And i'm i'm quite quite optimistic about that. But then there's the the fundamentals of the broader technology right so you know public chain infrastructure as effectively a new operating system layer on the internet. A new set of systems for storing data conducting transactions and executing code. That's what operates systems can help. Do these new operating system layers are very very general purpose in many respects there well suited to what i call fiduciary trust applications but can also be you know i. I was in a hackathon panel with melting the other day and we are looking at someone who built a decentralized messaging application on top of salona. The point being anti-centralized fantasy football fans in so digital games. You know messaging applications all these things on decentralized infrastructure web three cetera. Like that part of this is also a very very important part of this and so and you know something like stable coins like regulated stable coins like a us dc or potentially libra like these. These are also like apps that run on this new operating systems and could be quite popular. And so i think in terms of the question of when does that become mainstream. I think we're really close there. I think in the next twelve to twenty four months many of the most popular digital wallet products in the world that are used that we think of unused like as peer payments. And things like that. They're gonna turn on these protocols they're gonna turn these on and you're going to have you know all of a sudden hundreds of millions of people that can make interoperable payments at each other and that will kind of be in the background. That will be invisible. You'll you'll just you won't be trapped in making payments to people who then mo you'll be able to make payments between van mo and square cash and pay pal and swish in sweden and vips in norway. And you know go around the world to all these different apps. They're all going to speak. These common protocols in i think that's a a mainstream phase in digital currency. That's that's coming. I think ultimately that same number of people who might feel okay like i'm using euros or dollars or whatnot feeling comfortable using bitcoin that will grow to and eventually i would expect billions of people will will wanna use bitcoin to
Monocle 24: The Briefing
Russia moves to protect Putin from prosecution
"We start in russia. Where the duma has backed a bill which grants the country's rulers and their families immunity from criminal prosecution after they leave office and it has set tongues wagging about president putin's political future putin's allowed to stand for two more terms in office when his current stretch ends in twenty twenty four. But is there any need for him to do so if he can retire sooner without fear of prosecution or we're joined for more on this by the russia analyst and regular monocle twenty four contributor. Stephen deal welcome back to the briefing. Stephen always good to hear from you. Tell us it's funny if we if we look back. I don't know a quarter of a century almost now to the sort of an days a of yeltsin now was lots of talk about potential prosecutions and of course putin Gave him immunity as soon as he took over. Is that something Will be very much john on. Putin's mind as well right now. I'm sure his the yeltsin when he stepped down on the thirty first seven nine hundred ninety nine the one thing he'd been looking for in that second term since he's been president since the middle of ninety was someone who would guarantee him immunity from not only him in fact his his blood family and also his wider political family immunity from prosecution for the rest of their lives and the very first decree of then acting president vladimir putin on the last day of ninety thousand nine when he took over as acting president was to grant yeltsin and his coterie fact that immunity and on one thing. We're surprised that this hasn't been done before. But if you think back much closer to to where we are now this year of course we were talking about putin being being able to be president for the rest of his life because of course they changed the constitution earlier this year in russia and it means that the is white cane he can stand again for president in two thousand and twenty four and then if he wants to he can stand again in twenty thirty. They've overturned the previous idea. That president couldn't have more than two consecutive terms. But what this does. I think this is even more significant than and giving him that. Johnston president for life. It means that truly fall ill or something then. This means that he can. He can step down and not be prosecuted at the moment. The russian president compu- prosecuted while he's in office but until this is passed he can be prosecuted if he if he were down. Well it's really interesting statement. I guess it's sort of fun to speculate in a way. What appeals to vladimir putin most is it to just stay in office To sort of become superannuated president be there for decades as it will turn out or is he more concerned about protecting as you said his nearest and dearest and in the immediate coterie from from what we understand and we know about him. What do you think is most appealing to him. In the here and now is the consolidation. Is that endurance that longevity or do you think he'll be drawn to just melting away into the shadows. The shadows putin is someone who doesn't really have friends. He doesn't really trust anyone. That's his whole background as a street ladd in petersburg when he was growing up and even more so when he was kgb officer and so what he feels is that he he can never be sure he always reminded of sort of you know to broussais. And julius caesar and and that that to me is where putin stands that. He's always afraid that someone were to step down. Someone might change things and then drawing prosecute him and there's a number of things that they might want to prosecute for most not be now if we thinking well it's got to be after he's president. What does the state of the russian economy at rome. It's pretty awful. There are some very few at the top who are just unbelievably wealthy. Russia has nine thousand nine billionaires in the country at a time when thirty eight percents of the country at least according to official fingers are living below the poverty line. Russia is still very much dependent on oil and gas. And it's very interesting today. We have the news. That britain is saying no more petrol cars with diesel cars from twenty thirty. You know the world is going away from those fossil fuels and russia's not really doing anything about it and rushing. Business is is is not in a good position and so you know you could say one of his worst legs could be the state of the economy if you want to choose to step down but if this is passed in the duma has has given it its nods so far it has to go to the federation council. The house and then ironically putin himself would have to sign it off which. I have no doubt he would do. I mean i just wonder what do Russian pro democracy activists Putin's opponents have to say about the sorts of moves. Stephen because presumably there would be appetite in certain limited quarters to say look. We can't have a situation where people are protected in perpetuity from their alleged misdeeds. Particularly if it's a question of. I don't know following the money this sort of thing. Do you think that there will be a a counter. Lobby is ernie president to being able to sell it. We can review these These rulings down down the track or is that just a nonstarter. Right now is a non-starter. The doom is heavily stacked with putin supporters. Then indeed the federation council houses to. There's being talk over the is of of election. Rigging putin generally has a lot of popular support out in the country not so much in moscow some of the other big cities but those who are in power now would definitely know passes laura have no doubt it will become more and because what putin were he say to foil in five years time and so having been reelected in twenty four finally can't carry on steps down if this law is not in place then what frightens him is the idea. Is that in fact with. He's the hub of the wheel and he's taken out. Then we'll spokes collapse will then a real opposition which does exist. but it's very small and sat on very hard when it raises his voice. That actually stopped means something in which case could be a threat of prosecution. So he's he's trying to cover every base. I think it's very interesting that this is come on top of the idea that he could serve the rest of his life. This gives him the get out. I'm not well or on board. I want to step down. But i can still be secure. Won't be prosecuted prompts. The question stephen wh what does any eventual succession. Like i appreciate this. Very very speculative and it could be twenty four. It could be twenty thirty indeed but do we have any better sense of what putin's own Mission is you know he. He wouldn't want to melt into the shadows of you as you suggested but is there any hints of sort of you know a dynastic succession or do you think he's more interested in in the here and now i wonder if we can speculate even about what happens after he takes his hand from the tiller right now to be honest tom. I wouldn't want to name a name. Because i have no doubt that he will stand again. Twenty twenty four. So we're looking ten years since two twenty thirty two elections after that and because he can't stand again if he's still in good health and he's generally a fit man he's you know he's still does his judo and he's sixty eight years old now. But as we've seen in america being in your late seventies doesn't preclude you from standing for president so if he carries on fit. Well no reason why in twenty thirty he wouldn't stand again so you know. There's a whole generation of politicians would come up behind him. Then they may be the ones that maybe twenty thirty six fact we may be looking at three. Fold as a israel change. I'm if there is a change. Before that i can't really see it happening if health matters. Don't intervene before two thousand thirty so really as standing where we are now looking ahead. Ten years that famous phrase in brisbane week is a long time in politics. Ten years off it on.
Miss Information: A Trivia Podcast
The Roman Empire (with Hannah McIntyre)
"This is wonderful because we've actually had some requests Yes for this this topic and neither of us have been able to bring ourselves. Haven't been have mustered up enough courage. I can I can do the pronunciations justice. Oh, see now that's bullshit. Tell. You land. Will probably bad. So don't worry. Yeah that didn't Stop Hannah. As I have never done a Roman episode either I don't know why I'm up here on my high horse but anyway. Thank you for this I'm so excited. Please Hannah we get away. All right well, the Roman empire was the Post Republican period of ancient Rome the generally accepted dates of the Roman Empire from twenty seven BC to four, seventy, six, eighty although I'll talk about some of the differing opinions about the exact dates. Later, I WANNA start off by laying some of the groundwork of how room operated before we get into the Roman Empire itself. This city and Kingdom of Rome was mythological founded around seven hundred and fifty BC with seven fifty three BC being the most commonly accepted date. It was founded by Romulus the city's namesake and his brother Ramos who are nursed by she will after being abandoned on the banks of the river. Tiber. ROMULUS ended up killing his brother during a dispute over which the seven hills to build the new city on and became the first. King of Rome who? Start. Yeah, just you know as you do murder brother side, you want to build your city on late normal things normal Italian things I would say. Yeah. That's. That's true. So. The Roman Kingdom was the earliest period in Roman history when seven kings ruled before it became a republic. So in five Oh nine BC, the monarchy was overthrown and the Roman Republic was established the majority of the former king's functions were passed onto two men named consuls who are elected to term of one year and could be prosecuted after council ships ended if abuse those powers Ooh I like that. Yeah. That's a little. GonNa Balance. Right there. Yeah exactly and under the Republic Room also began the practice of assigning dictators basically, if things got. So Harry that they're like now we can't risk multiple dudes working to solve this problem. Just let one guy decide everything. So elegant stunned, they could choose a person to be a dictator for six months for six months. That's Max dictator I think you know yeah, I like. It was their choice and also if whatever the dictator was chosen to carry out, usually it was war like somebody or something I if that finished earlier than the six months period, the dictator was actually expected to them be like, okay, that's it. I'm done and dislike resigned their dictatorship. Okay, that's also something that the Italians are really good about is giving power. and. They were actually fairly common until the end of the second punic war, which is the one with Hannibal and the elephants and actually did work pretty well late the Roman republic was basically constantly at war during this time since it went from essentially being a city sitting on a bunch of hills to being invaded by gulls then they took over the entire Italian peninsula and they defeated Carthage over the course of the three punic worse than they conquered all of modern bakeries and finally they had three different slave revolts with the last one being the one with Spartacus said everyone who's about and. So obviously that much war and that much rapid expansion meant there is like unrest in the air and it opened the door to a lot of military leaders to make their mark in the world, which is where we're gonNA start our main story about the empire. Julius. Caesar was never an emperor of Rome and died under the Roman Republic and not the Roman Empire that you cannot start talking about the Roman Empire without first talking about my boy JC.
The World and Everything In It
Video shows three-year-old flying in air caught on kite
"Well, this is quite the site of A. Flying Kite will not exactly you look at the video and it shows the exact opposite. It's kite flying a tyke and it's a little scary. You can hear the whipping of the wind on the cell phone video and the crowd of people reacting literally a gust of wind wrap the tail of a kite around a three year old girl then lifted the child five stories into the air not even kidding. You've got to see this it's on world. Watched this morning this happened near Taipei, a kite flying festival. The Little Girl is upright. The whole way feet dangling she's flailing or anything. It's as though she's walking on air someone whipped out a cell phone and recorded five full seconds of the flight. Well, then she plunges and several adults catcher and break the fall. She walks away with just a few minor cuts and a story to tell the rest of her
Encyclopedia Womannica
Healthcare Spotlight: Marie Colinet
"Maria stood out to me as a great example of a woman who succeeded despite the fact that society posed so many obstacles and in the process she thought outside. The box broke the mold and save lives. She came up with Sir really creative solutions this episode originally aired in September but just like lots of modern healthcare workers. Marie often doesn't get the credit. She deserves so she's perfect. Figure to highlight again in honor of the many people putting their lives on the line for us today during the Cova. Nineteen pandemic now. Here's host Jenny Kaplan to tell you all about Morocco high from Wonder Media Network. I'm Jenny Kaplan and this is encyclopedia. Romantika case you're just in welcome. Here's the deal every weekday for a year. We're taking five minutes to tell the stories of women from throughout history and around the world who you may not know about but definitely should each month is themed and this month as kids around the world or at least in the northern hemisphere head back to school. We're talking about stem inist at that. I mean women who did incredible things in the fields of science technology engineering or math. Today we're heading back to sixteenth century. Europe are seminar improved childbirth methods and was an incredibly talented surgeon. Let's talk about Marie Colonna. Marie was born in Geneva. Switzerland in fifteen sixty. Her father was a printer growing up. Marie wanted to become a midwife. She was interested in the field of medicine from an early age and sixteenth century woman. That was her only option for practicing medicine on July. Twenty fifth fifteen eighty seven. Maria married Wilhelm fabry. A brilliant surgeon often called the father German surgery. We'll homeless the top German surgeon of his and he taught me how to perform in the operating room. He said the student quickly outpaced master. Marie showed natural talent and surgery at a time when it was unthinkable for a woman to take part in session important masculine endeavor. The couple traveled and worked in Switzerland Holland and the Rhineland before settling in Bern during this period Marine Wilhelm had eight children though only one outlived their mother. Marie treated many patients on her own. And by her husband's side she regularly assisted her husband and performing minor surgeries. She pioneered the modern caesarian section which employed a new more medically sound method. Prior to Murray's work c-section techniques hadn't changed since the time of Julius Caesar. Marie also invented the practice of using heat for dilating and stimulating. The uterus childbirth that not only increased the ease of childbirth also lowered the risk of certain complications. It's important to note that childbirth is very dangerous proposition at the time. In addition to being an obstetrician Marie was well known for a new form of Treatment. In one particularly notable case in sixteen twenty four a patient had a piece of metal in his. I wilhelm had attempted to remove it and failed. Marie succeeded using a magnet ingenious noninvasive technique. That still practiced today. The will gave Marie full credit for her actions. He's often cited as the techniques inventor that unfortunately it happened to Maria. Walk on another case. Marie treated a man with two shattered rips by opening his chest and resetting the bones with wire she closed dressed the wound with herbal plasters. That effectively deterred infection. We'll Detailed the case in his medical writings and said Maria was the inventor of the treatment. Method still will often gets the credit. Marie went onto write two books before we'll home passed away after his death. Her whereabouts are relatively unknown. She died in sixteen forty. At the age of eighty Marie colonies insights forever. Change the science of delivering babies and her. Ill invalidated the view. That women didn't belong in
Chompers
Your Favorite Historical Figures
"On one side and make little circles with your brush around each tooth three to Kennedy sent us our first historical figure. It's a Lisa Alonzo. alesia Alonzo is a ballerina from Cuba and her beautiful dancing made her famous around. The world. alesia is Kennedy's favorite. Because even after she became partially blind that she had trouble seeing continued to dance and perform as a Ballerina onstage in stage Switzer brushing to the other side of the top of your mouth but don't brush too hard. Our next storm figure comes from Halley. And it's the Queen of the Nile Cleopatra. Cleopatra Cleopatra was the leader of Ancient Egyptians and became queen when she was only eighteen years old Cleopatra spoke several languages led Egypt's armies. He's a man with leaders from land's like Julius Caesar back then. It wasn't so common for a woman to do all these things. That's why how he likes Cleopatra she was a fierce. The male leader switch. You're brushing to the bottom of your mouth in brushed the inside the the outside and the chewing side of each tooth our next Oracle figure is baseball player. Jackie Robinson Andrew Loves Jackie Robinson because he was the first african-american to play in. Baseball's major leagues. Jackie Robinson is such chin important person in baseball at the major league. Honored Him by saying no other baseball player can wear a uniform with the number forty two on. That's the number. The Jackie War swim rushing to the other side of the bottom of your mouth. Don't forget your front teeth. Are last historical. Figure comes from Lindsey. And it's the famous trumpet player. Louis Armstrong
This Is Why You're Single
What Dead Historical Women Can Teach Us About Dating and Sex
"For a long time i rode a sex dating column for the the new york post and i really appreciate that time in my life but since then i started writing about history and politics and every so often often someone comes to me and says would you ever consider writing a dating advice book and i always say the only way i would ever do that is if all of the advice is came from dead historical women and most of it was bad do you say as a joke yes always and then i said it to this one very nice editor on the phone who said well i'd love for you to do that can you can you get it in by june and i said yes and it was the easiest book sale i've ever made shots jets incredible i was gonna say did you sort of like say on to channel these women and because it's all of the advice sound so much in their voice it's just it's so good i'm i've always wished that somehow that would happen to me robert graves deflected criticism of his i claudius novels by telling a reporter that the entire manuscript had been dictated to him by emperor claudius himself in a dream so we don't want to start with that's a real humble brag it's a real humble brag of london emperor came to me and just story so no critiques please no none of none of these women came to munich dream cream i do read a lot of different books about them and took the cool historical tidbits that i found those books that i thought could be transcribed into good good advice for women right now what i really loved how in the insure you talk about how there's always some idiot on twitter that's like oh i wish women were women the way they used to be back in the day and like this book just kind of disproves that whole line of thought that is based on many real only no i'm i i have a twitter account i am yeah i'm familiar with dot com yeah and this totally disproves that way of thinking because women's since the beginning of time have kind and not been that ideal idea woman i think the more things change the more they stay the same and a lot of women in this book are doing things thanks i think we'd be considered very audacious by modern standards i'm kind of fascinated by grace kelly's end of a first date move where she would go into my i room of this and come up with no clothes and that's the way a lot of nudity so nudity in the book i'm also that's something that i really don't associate with grace as kelly in any of her alfred hitchcock movies now i love that and so you use that tibet to have her advice be make your feelings no yes she's real clear a lot of not scared to tell someone how they feel and then a yeah and then you write about how she'd be like go make some coffee and then go into the bathroom and come out naked i was like oh that is insane that that is actually what she did and i love that it's memorable also really feel like a man in the nineteen fifties and sixties when she was doing this probably just think they were making can coffee so let's talk about some more of the advice in the book patra that is the advice for making the first move what can we learn from her on making the first move cleopatra made i moves of really big and she really began her relationships with this very showy entrance entrance a lot of the mist and the stories about cleopatra hinge upon the idea that she was this ravishing beauty and she was us an attractive lady and they're all different ways of being beautiful but by any standards she wasn't especially good looking she was just really audacious basis and she really went for it and when she first met julius caesar she header self smuggled to him inside a federal that was dropped off at his feet feet and then lays blade before whose feet talking about how they could afford to an alliance which is not a thing that you might be able to recreate oh yeah like not necessarily you didn't like UPS to your lover a little desperate if we'd be really audacious lake uh-huh and then when she met mark anthony she had herself taken to him on a golden barge where she designed it to look like she was a goddess and she appeared to him if she was a golden goddess so cleopatra really thought about how she was going to plan her first move oof and i think it an age where a lot of us are very timid and wanna seem cool and have a call me maybe attitude approaching people cleopatra went for it like she went one hundred percent i honestly can kind of relate this particularly i'm on the part on the barge where she's the gold god it kinda can because so nicknamed gone on a first date and then i invited him to my holiday party and my holiday party i was like the star of the show like i i was going around with platters appetizers and like jello shots because this was like whatever like two thousand nine not the shots wherever cool but as i'm going around with platters never like laura oh my god like laura laura and i'm like the star of the show and i kinda take her advice to mean you know just be like the starve make yourself an unmistakable store yes staple star like have the attention be around you and it was like all my friends and it was like my house you know like i was the star of my holiday party and walked around like own my own the place grid right and i want to form an alliance that woman yeah i think that's actually a great way to translate that into modern day advice i feel like throwing party and inviting boys who have a crush on was also so big move i was single gal it usually worked really well unless the person didn't come in which case it felt like you were throwing that party for nine uh all these people are in my house i've got so many shots yeah i've been to your parties and you do throw a very good thank you i'm so you also have a section on slut shaming can you choose to feature josephine baker and that little micro in every possible way hero of the civil rights movement hero of the lost generation yet josephine baker is just the best and if you don't know her by name you definitely know her by image she's the one that has the banana skirt so oh you're right i'm writing in her voice say i'm writing as someone who danced topless and a banana skirt so why her for the slut shaming section i feel like josephine josephine baker is someone who had to go up against a lot of repressive rules of the time and i mean to head to leave america because she couldn't really prosper in america's a black woman and she was someone who i wouldn't say that she had no regard for those rules but she he was able to think about societal rules that served her and once it didn't and follow her own contents and her own desires and mm-hmm she strongly felt and i think many modern day women should strongly feel that her sexuality and her physical desires were nothing to be ashamed of she had a very large sexual appetite she loved having sex with people she had multiple marriages adopted a ton of children those desires did not impede her life in any way indeed the fact that she was comfortable in her body and comfortable with her sexuality is how she she became a great star and it was also because she chose to change her circumstances right by going to harris yeah we actually just did an episode on on if you should move if you you should mirror for data and just for a change of scenery if you're like in a funk also tried to come back to america and change everybody else's circumstances stances andrea four really hard for that i mean you can't obviously say that any one person was responsible for civil rights victories but she had a really huge detained in that
BrainStuff
How Can We Make Better Resolutions?
"In two thousand and four in a tiny town. A young woman named Rebecca Gould was brutally murdered nearly fifteen years later her killer is still on the loose. It's just really surreal walking around. Ideal. Mention so much ear to guys out there yell depressed, dude. I'm Katherine towns. And this is Helen gone binge all of season one now at apple podcasts or on the iheartradio app or wherever you listen to podcasts. Welcome to brain stuff from how stuff works. Hey, bring stuff I'm Lauren Boga bomb and the concept of creating New Year's resolutions is so ingrained in US culture that the government keeps a list of popular resolutions and resources for achieving them. It's a baker's dozen of good intentions including drink alcohol. Eat healthy food, get a better education. Get a better job get fit managed at manage stress and recycle digital research. Backs up this lists universality. According to a twenty eleven Marced university poll losing weight top the list for one in five resolution making Americans closely followed by exercising more with spending less than saving more quitting smoking. And being a better person all tied for third. But is it true that most people don't keep their resolutions? The answer as many of us around the house to forks office were relieved to discover appears to be a resounding. Yes. Richard Wiseman as I collagen and author with a penchant for mass participation experiments found that fifty two percent of people making New Year's resolutions or confident that they'd stick it out yet only a scant twelve percent really did. So why bother a New Year's resolutions are as one author wrote a triumph of hope over experience there a way to quantify what we wish for selves, their means of cataloging, our personal satisfactions, and perhaps most importantly their method of racing errors of the past year. Yes. New Year's resolutions are all about hopefulness. And it's always been that way. Of course ringing in the new year isn't a construct of modern Americans some four thousand years ago by balloons rang in their new year with an eleven day festival in March and ancient Egyptians celebrated the advent of their new calendar during the Nile rivers annual flood by forty six BC e Roman emperor Julius Caesar had moved the first day of the year to January first in honor of the Roman God of beginnings. Janice, an idea that took some time. To catch on however in fifteen eighty to see pope, Gregory, the eighth breath January first new year back in vogue with the Gregorian. Calendar. A concept the persists today. The origin of making New Year's resolutions rests with the Babylonians who reportedly made promises to the gods in hopes that earn good favor in the coming year. They often resolved to get out of debt. Sound familiar? Many of us are still making that resolution today. So what's the secret to actually keeping it just wanting something to change is not enough? You need a strategy to make it stick one way to do. This is to share your resolution with others. We spoke with Joe Ferrari, professor of psychology at depaul university in Chicago as he pointed out when you keep resolutions secret. No one is going to check up on you. You're only accountable to yourself. He says that a party to publicly share your resolutions an admirable way to ring in the new year. Social media offers another avenue to let others and on your goals. But once you've involved others in your resolutions. What steps can you? You take to ensure that when they do check up on you. You'll have something positive to report. Success of your New Year's resolutions starts in your head limiting yourself to a few resolutions, maybe even one and being specific are a few things to keep in mind. This prevents overload and frustration for example, I want to lose ten pounds by March first or I want to save fifty dollars each paycheck. The best goals are challenging but manageable, and that's a sensitive balance that only you can find for yourself overly ambitious goals can drain a person's confidence when they're not met instead build on small observable victories and possibly achieve bigger goals down the line and take things on one at a time. Whatever goals, you do tackle be sure to monitor your progress. Ferrari said if your resolution is to lose weight check your weight regularly if it's to save money right down where you spent your money monitoring those few challenging goals, you set will dramatically improve your success rate. Sometimes just the active recording everything you eat or spend can cause you to eat or spend less, even if you don't consciously change anything else. Whatever. Your New Year's goals. Give yourself some time to make them a reality more time than you may have planned on actually while most people cling to the widespread belief that new habits can be formed in twenty one days. New research is Justin that we need a longer timetable one. We study found that it took participants average of sixty six days to do something different and stick with it. Today's episode was written by loyal dove and produced by Tyler clang for more on this and lots of other fresh topics. Visit our home planet. How stuff works dot com. I'm Katie golden. I studied psychology and evolutionary biology at Harvard, and I pretend to be a bird on Twitter and my new podcast creature feature. We've you nature in man from a new perspective each episode asking comedian to get inside the minds of animals, so we can explore the startling connections to human psychology, you'll find blood bounds and treachery that make game of thrones seemed like a dumb show for babies. Join us every Wednesday and subscribe on apple podcasts or on the iheartradio app or wherever you listen to podcasts.