November 23, 2020 • 54 mins
Why focus on the trivial, look at what really matters
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You don't have to dip forever. You know that, Ryan,
you don't have to smoke forever. And the reason I
say it like that is I have been that guy.
I've been that guy. I dipped for so long, and
what would happen is I would decide I'm gonna quit.
It's bad for me. I'm gonna quit. I'm a man,
I don't need any help. I'm just gonna quit cold turkey.
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Jesse Kelly Show. What if all the things you want
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to matter don't actually matter when it comes to achieving success?
What if everything you think is wrong, everything you've been
told is wrong, or everything you focus on is wrong.
We have an awesome, awesome Monday Show for you today.
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We got obviously Michael Malice on next hour, as he
always is. Following hour, we have an author whose book
was banned from target. The cancel culture came for her.
How are we going to approach things like that? We'll
talk about that today. We're going to talk about the
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nuclear news cycle today, one of these theories I have.
We're going to talk about this fraud stuff and Sydney Powell,
an election interference and what's real and what's not real.
We're gonna lay all that out, and we're going to
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talk about my established political philosophy some more. But first
of all, addressing what matters is very, very very difficult
sometimes and oftentimes it's the only thing that matters is
figuring out what matters. Ironic, how that works. My mentor
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in this business, Michael Berry, as he was teaching me things,
we would go, I've only been doing media a couple
of years. I know that's unbelievable because I'm so good
at it. But I've only been doing this a couple
of years. And this didn't begin with me having a
naturally syndicated radio show or TV show. This began with
me sitting with obviously humongous radio star Michael Berry on
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his back porch several nights, sipping bourbon, smoking cigars and talking.
And one of the things he always drove home to
me was this. And it's something I tell as I
try to help younger people in this business come along
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to this day. I tell them, because people don't want
to hear this at all, I tell them, you are
not an activist, not anymore. Virtually everybody who listens to you,
watches you, read to you, whatever you do, they are activists.
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You can pursue some forms of activism. Your show is
one of the great forms of activism if it can
get people to rally towards something or change people's thinking.
I'm not telling you you're not in it to believe
it anymore. What I'm saying is, you're not an activist anymore.
You now have an obligation to whoever you write columns for,
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whoever you do a radio show, whoever you do a
TV show for and your job above everything else in
the world when it comes to work, is be interesting.
And the problem is, and I've found this time and
time again, Michael Berry warned me, I would, he said,
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of them, won't get it, won't believe you, won't want
to believe you, and so they'll go off and do
stupid things all the time. The reason job number one
has to be interesting isn't because activism doesn't matter. Believe me,
we're going to go into that a lot today. You
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and I have got to be activists as much as possible.
It's because unless you're interesting, unless they want to read
what you're writing, watch what you're doing on TV, listen
to you on the radio. Unless you're interesting, you're talking
to the wall. Interesting has to be items one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
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and ten, because eleven doesn't matter if you're not. It
doesn't matter that I tell history stories you enjoy. If
nobody's listening, it doesn't matter that I have different views
on politics and you like them or this person likes them.
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If nobody's listening, people change the channel. The Jesse Kelly
Show goes away, And that's not up to you. It's
one of the weird things about this relationship. You can't
do anything about that. That's all on me. Either I'm
interesting or I'm gone. Period. It's that simple. Thankfully, I
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don't worry. That was not a cry for health. The
show's doing very, very well. We'll have another announcement coming
up very soon. But we're fine. Which leads me to
our history story, our battle today. It's so hard to
figure out what the big deal is, what actually matters
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amongst all the noise, and one of the guys historically,
one of the most underrated people ever in the history
of war and the history of the world was Philip
the Second of Macedonia. Here's the thing. You probably haven't
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even heard his name. Maybe you've heard his son's name.
His name was how do you say this? Alexander the Great.
Alexander the Great was great. Let's clarify something. And he's
gonna play a part, an important part in our story today.
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But understand this, Alexander the Great was great, never lost
a battle, carved through the Persians like a blow towards
through butter, took over everything he touched. Who we love
in Alexander Alexander, Alexander inherited the greatest army in the world.
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He inherited that army from his father. You know what
army his father inherited crap. Not only did Alexander inherit
this army from his father, he inherited one his father
built from scratch because his father surveyed the Persian landscape,
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surveyed the Greek landscape, and simply thought, they're all focusing
on the wrong things, all of them. Oh, they have
their benefits, but they're all worried about the wrong things.
I'm going to worry about what actually matters. You see,
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Macedonia then and now you can look it up to
this day is really not an appealing country geographically, and
I can't stress that enough. That is no offense to Macedonians,
although you don't worry, you know, I don't worry about
offending people. But I met this Macedonian chick one time
when I was in the Marine Corps. She was absolutely
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smoking hot. So I don't want to offend her. If
she's listening, Chris, what what? There's no offense to Macedonian's
But it's rocky, it's cold, really cold in the wintertime.
It is not ancient times or now a wealthy nation,
they just don't have the geography resources for it. Not
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only did Philip build this juggernaut, he built it from
a place that had no business being a juggernaut. Part
of this was keeping the big deal the big deal,
and part of this was Philip also saw an opportunity.
Let's focus on Grease for a moment, because that's where
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our story is going to take place today. As you
know because you listen to this show, Grease wasn't Grease really.
They all considered the themselves Greek, yes, but they were
very much individual city states, a city state, the big
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ones like Sparta and Athens and Thebes, who will all
have a role to play in our story today. They
consider themselves really their own nation. Now, yes, they did
also consider themselves Greek, and on occasion they would join
together to fight off an outside force, but they slaughtered
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When I say Greece was divided, I don't want you
to think they had an occasional spat. I would want
you to imagine this, they just got done fighting wars
for about a hundred years with each other. And when
I get to things like Athens and Sparta, and you're
gonna think about Athens as great navy and good military,
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and you're gonna think about, obviously the Spartans. Everyone knows
the Spartans and how great they were. You should know
a hundred years of war. They were each a shell,
a shell of themselves shell. They're not them anymore. Philip,
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he has a plan, and his plan is this, I'm
gonna take over the whole place. He looked at Greece
and wanted to take over the whole place. Now, Philip
was famously a rough dude. The Macedonians themselves had reputation
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for being uncultured barbarians. They were looked down upon before
this time. So Philip is a rough dude. But funny
thing about Philip, tell me if this sounds familiar at
all anything you see out there today Philip, Yeah, you
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wanted to kill a bunch of people, take control of everything,
But he really saw himself as a uniter. Just look,
it's better for everybody if these city states. I'll just
do what I say. That's really the greater good. I
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understand there's going to be some resistance to it. That's five.
Will just kill them and get rid of anyone who disagrees,
and then it will be fine. Once we do that,
we'll kill or enslave everyone who disagrees with me, and
then look at all the peace by sound familiar at all?
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The Macedonians also, it's time to do a little nerd
out breakdown on their army, because this is going to
matter a lot for our story. Greek Greece, hop Lights,
with the exception of Sparta. We're gonna set Sparta aside
because Sparta had a professional military. Their entire city state
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was geared towards their military. The rest of Greece. When
I say hop lights, that's what they called the Greek soul,
the Greek soldier. You know, this had a shield, had
a spear, fought in what is called a phalanx, a
big box that was nothing but spears for coming out
the front of it. Seven to twelve foot spears. Pay
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attention because that's going to matter a lot for our story.
Seven to twelve foot spears. The phalanx very very, very inflexible, deadly.
From the front. If you could get around the sides
of it, create gaps in it, it was virtually useless.
But from the front it was virtually impregnable. You can't
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charge it with horses, you can't charge it with infantry.
It's just a wall of shields and spears. That was
the Greek phalanx. However, you need to set aside the
movie three hundred for a moment because that was Sparta.
This is different. Understand what a phalanx would look like
for every other Greek city state. It was not not
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a fashional army. They didn't have huge standing professional armies.
Almost nobody did back at this time. It was very,
very rare. It was a volunteer army for the most point,
although a source of pride. The armor you wore, the shield,
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the chest, armor, the helmet, you paid for it. It
was whatever you bought. It was also oftentimes the difference
between you know, you'll see the light guys in the
movies where they don't have it. He doesn't even have
any armor. They just gave that guy a sling or
a bow. What's wrong with that guy? Let me clarify,
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what you're seeing lots of the time is a poor guy.
Because the poor guy would volunteer for War two, but
he didn't have the money for armor and fancy things.
So he gets a sling, he gets a bow. The
guy up there with the fancy shiny armor and shining
helmet and big old bronze shield, that's the dude with
a lot of money because that stuff is expensive. Now.
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Because they were an army of citizens, it left you
with certain limitations. If you're a Greek city state one,
they just wouldn't show up during certain seasons because most
of these guys were farmers. Oh you're going to war
e you know. I hate to bring this up, but
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the corn is coming in that time of year. You're
gonna have to postpone for a month or I'm not coming.
That's not a small thing. It was a huge problem.
It's not a professional army, it's not your armies. A volunteer,
it's not coming. But the people who did show up
extremely patriotic morale through the roof. You showed up, and
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you were dang proud to put on the armor, in
the shield and the spear. I'm gonna fight for Athens.
They probably would not have called it fight for Greece,
but you were gonna fight for Thieves or Athens or
any one of these other places. Athens had been worn
down to the nubs in their war with Sparta. Thebes
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was on the rise. We did a show recently about
the Battle of Leuctra where Thieves had actually defeated Sparta.
It had really never happened before in a straight up
head to head fight. Thieves is on the rise, and
let's focus on those two. Phillips looks at Athens. He
sees that Athens is down week Philip, he thinks he
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can take these Athens guys. All he needs to do
is convinced Thebes to either join his side against Athens
or stay out of it. Now, why does Philip think
he can beat Athens? Because Philip did a couple different things. One,
Philip looked around and thought, well, I'm just gonna get
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a professional army that's here all the time. I realize
that will cost money. I'll go to feed Athens and
take all the money I need. And Philip gets himself
a professional army, and he goes down to Thebes and says, hey, Thebes,
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I would like you to join with me. And he
offers them virtually everything. You can do, this, you can
do that, keep your government. I know you have an
oligarchy over there. And Thees, oh, you want to keep
your oligarchy, keep your oligarchy, do whatever you want. Look,
you just come along, just don't fight against you when
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I fight Athens, and it'll be fine. And Thieves is
considering it. Athens shows up. The envoy from Athens shows
up about this exact time, because Athens is panicking about
this Macedonian army coming down. And Athens tells Thebes, whatever
they offered you, we will for more. The people of
Athens were scared to death because they had just lost
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so many in wars. They knew they were weak. They'd
look down upon these barbarian Macedonians for a long time,
and they look up and find a professional army of
them marching through. And the Macedonians were powerful. They were
powerful for a couple different reasons, not only the leadership
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of Philip. They were powerful because they had something called
the companion cavalry. That's what Alexander the Great lad You
see up where Macedonia was, it was so rough, so rocky,
so mountainous, you had to have horses to get by.
Therefore you have a bunch of air fingers quote, uncultured
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barbarians who just so happened to be outstanding on horseback,
and they create an army of cavalry from this. Now
Athens shows up, offers Thebes the world. Thebes looks at
Phillips guys, look at Athens guys, and they think, you know,
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screw Macedonia, We're joining with Athens, and they ride off
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on the Thebes Sweepstakes and now he has to take
on Athens and thieves. Remember, we have Michael Malice coming up.
He's gonna have some controversial takes, as he always does.
We have a censored author. We have some of the
best audio I've ever heard in my entire life from
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New Jersey. Because if there's anything good about New Jersey one,
it's the sandwiches and pizza they really can't eat back East. Two,
it's the audio clips. Gosh, Jersey people were the best,
the best. Back to Philip, he loses out on Thebes.
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Thebes goes back joins with Athens. The Greeks post up
in a mountain pass, so Philip in his army cannot
march through and go to where they want to go to.
I should point out briefly because I skipped over it earlier.
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I didn't want to bog down the story, but it
probably does matter. Philip kicked off this war with Athens
basically by doing this. He wanted a place called Pittna
from Athens. Pittna was wealthy, Philip wanted it. He offered
Athens a city of his own if Athens would give
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him Pittna. Athens thinks about it and says, I like
that deal. Here's Pittna. Philip says, oh, thanks, I just
took Pittna. Athens says, well, wait a minute, where's our city?
And Philip says, I was kidding. You know, you can't
have that city at all. Athens is mad. Okay, fast
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forward back to the war the Mountain Pass. Philip doesn't
want to take on a Greek hop light phalanx in
a mountain pass. That's where a Greek hop light phalanx
would do perfectly when you can't circle around behind him.
So what he does He distributes a letter. Widely distributes
a letter, maybe a little too widely, distributes a letter saying,
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all right, I don't want this war. I'm packing up
my stuff and I am going back home. Never mind Greeks,
We're going back home. And he actually starts moving his
army back home. Surprise, surprise, the letter manages to find
its way into Greek hands and they say, whoo nice
lighting up no worries. Philip promptly spends or sends his
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version of special forces back behind the Greek lines, destroys
the people at the Mountain Pass, and now the Athens
slash Thebes group have to line up opposite of Philip,
and they do. They line up for battle, and the
Athenians have the high ground. Philip does not have the
high ground. Philip has a bunch of great generals underneath him,
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but he chooses to put a young man by the
name of Alexander in charge of his companion cavalry, even
though he had other people who were more experienced. Yeah,
other people who were more experienced. But Philip not exactly
the coddling father type. Philip was a man though, who
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appreciated talents, and I would like to imagine that there
was a moment as big of a barbarian conqueror as
he was. I'd like to imagine there was a moment
where Philip looked at his son Alexander and thought, oh
my gosh, this kid is really, really, really good. That
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had to be a cool fatherly moment. Right. Then again,
from the stories we hear, Philip may have been trying
to kill him, and Philip has assassinated later on, but
that's another story entirely. Like I said, he wasn't a
softy teddy bear. They line up against Athens and Thebes.
They square off. They square off, there's a feigned retreat
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from Philip Athens moves off the high ground, and then
the Athenians they start to get slaughtered. They start to
go down a lot faster than the Macedonians are going down.
And how can this happen? I don't understand. These are
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the Greek hoplights. They never go down like this. What
how did this happen? Well, you see, Philip didn't see
things like everyone else saw him saw things. He didn't
see warfare like everyone else saw warfare. Philip looked at
the Greek phalanx system, you know, the shield, the armor,
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the spear, and he could have looked at it like
everyone else, including every other general, and thought, wow, I
mean that works fine. Maybe we can make an adjustment here.
I'll tell you what we'll put up. We'll put more
guys over here. That'll make this thicker. We'll put we'll
thicking up this line, and we'll move this here a
little bit. But overall, I mean, obviously, this is how
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warfare has done. Right. Philip looked at it and thought
to himself, Well, if the whole object is to stab
the other guy in the face before he can stab
you in the face, why don't we just make longer spears?
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Do you remember I told you the Greek spear seven
to twelve feet. Philip looks and thinks, well, what if
we made him thirteen feet fifteen feet seventeen feet twenty
one feet long, into which people would say, well, wait
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a minute, Well that's true. It's too heavy. He's gonna
have to have two hands to hold it. He's gonna
wear out. And Philip says, oh no, he'll be fine
because he doesn't have armor either. What he has to
have armor? Philip said, why they're never gonna get within
twenty one feet of me? Why do I need armor?
Not only that picture of phalanx, of phalanx with the
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spears coming out the front of it and the shields
all locked right, you can see it. Maybe you have
the front row their spears can reach the enemy, and
maybe maybe the second row their spears can reach the enemy. Okay,
so let's we're lined up fe lanxes or even I
have Let's see here, let's just do a rough number.
I have thirty thirty spears stabbing at my guys at
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any one point in time. Philip has twenty one foot spears.
He has five rows deep. So I have thirty spears
coming at me. I'm sending ninety back the other direction.
What do I need armor for? You're the one with
things to worry about, Philip. Drop the body armor, drop
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the huge heavy shield, and simply realized, what is with
all this tradition? What's with all this the way things
have always been? What really actually matters? If we have
to put if you'll pardon the spear pun here, if
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we have to put to find a point on it,
ha ha ha, Chris did it. What really matters is
stabbing the other guy before he stabs me. These Athenians
begin to fall, and they begin to fall for another reason.
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And I want to focus on just the historical aspect
of this for a moment, because it's something we all
mess up in our minds. I do it too. It's
easy to mess us up in our minds. You don't.
You don't see it in the movies, really, because it
wouldn't be They wouldn't be sexy, it wouldn't be cinematic,
it wouldn't be something you would enjoy. You don't even
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oftentimes except for a vague reference to it here or
a vague reference to it there. You don't even read
about it that much in books. But I want you
to focus for a moment on the concept of fatigue exhaustion.
You think about like a Greek army like we're talking
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about today, and what do you picture playing on hogs
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excited for this new Jersey audio. I almost interrupted the
history story to play it. No, I swear it's so good.
It's not so bad, Chris, it's so good. I don't
buck up, Buttercup. It's gonna be fine. You did. I
wanted to ask you something, Chris, because we're gonna play
this thing in about ten minutes. How confident are you
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on a scale of one to ten that you beeped
out everything that has to be beeped out? Okay, the
shoulder shrug is not inspiring confidence. All right, this is
a nationally syndicated show. Now, See things were Things were
so much easier when we were Remember this is true.
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This is only like a year and a half ago.
We were on KPRC, the Great KPRC, where we still
are in Houston. They gave me my shot. I'll love
him forever. And because they didn't know if I could
do a radio show. I'd never done a radio show
ever ever, I'd never done one. I'd never sat down
behind a microphone and gave radio show. And Michael Barry
was talking with Eddie Martini who's just an awesome dude,
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great friend of mine here, and he's the one who
decided to give me a shot. They give me a
seven o'clock at night show, though, for an hour, and
they think, even if he's awful, it's seven at night.
It's an hour. Even if it's a bad hour, maybe
it'll be fine. And we used to just do reckless
things on the show. One during one gosh, we can't
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do this stuff anymore. We don't have a copyright. But
they did at the time. During one segment we played
it was a nine minute segment. We played Freebird. I
don't mean we played it in the background. I mean
the entire segment was Freebird, but the song start to finish.
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Oh gosh, we can't do that stuff anymore. Make sure
the words are peeped out all right. Back to fatigue.
We don't picture that. We don't picture things like hunger
and thirst and exhaustion when it comes to these ancient battles.
And in fact, we picture all these guys and all
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these Greek hoplights there. What do you picture? You picture
the movie three hundred. Everyone has nine pack abs and
huge biceps and shoulders, and he can hold that spear
up for days and that shield. They looked just like you,
and they looked just like me. In fact, they were
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probably smaller historically because most people were smaller back then.
We're talking eighty ninety pounds of gear on. Let's be generous,
let's say one hundred and sixty hundred, seventy hundred and
eighty pound. Man. Forgetting about the actual weights, I want
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you to think about your body weight for a moment. Sorry,
I know these coronavirus lockdowns haven't been kind on us.
Think about your body weight for a moment and think
about carrying half of that around, because it's really all
about the ratios on it. One of the very few
I was the world's most average marine. But one of
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the very few advantages I did have was I was
so long and I weighed enough. I was so long,
so when you're out on these grueling humps my legs,
you're taking two steps for every one of mine. And
I have big shoulders, and I was two hundred pounds
two hundred plus pounds. A lot of marines are five seven, five, eight,
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one sixty one seventy maybe a lot of them are
smaller than that. Therefore I throw on eighty pounds and
you throw on eighty pounds. Those are different things. But
we picture the ancient guys fighting there all day. It's brave, hard,
and swords and axes and things like that. Don't pick
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up a baseball bat right now, not even an axe.
Don't pick up a baseball bat. Go out back in
your yard. Go swing that bat twenty times in a row,
just a baseball, but just a light, little aluminum baseball bat.
Twenty times in a row. You will be breathing hard.
That's a baseball bat. That's virtually no weight at all.
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There's no armor on you holding you down. There's no
shield you're holding up with your other arm. How long
can you hold a curl of something? Now? How long
can you pick a hole? Go pick up a waiter
if you have it, maybe just a gallon of milk,
and hold your arm in the curl position. Hold that
gallon of milk to your chest with one arm. How
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long can you do it? I'm that serious. Do it
time yourself. Now, make that a thirty forty pound bronze shield.
These guys were not all the incredible hulk. They were
just like you and I, and exhaustion killed many many
many men in the ancient world. You can't do that
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for very long. You can't stab and hold up a shield.
And I'm not even taking into account what would probably
be the biggest factor adreadaline. Ever been in a fight,
Ever had to give a big speech at work or
at school, that adrenaline feeling in the pit of your
stomach had some kind of big competition. Ever had anything
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happen to you that got your adrenaline pumping? What happens
when you run out of it? Exhaustion? Extreme exhaustion because
your body just amped up to the max and you
expended all the energy you had. When the adrenaline's gone,
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you are done, absolutely done. You stappen to me when
I would do the show, I'd get home and I'd
just go sleep. I wake up and text, Text and eat,
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said Athens had moved moved down off the hill. They
moved down off the hill and movement is exhausting. By
the time they moved down to try to catch up
to Philip and his feigned retreat, Philip turns around starts
stabbing them in the face again. Athens can't keep the
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shields up. They're exhausted, and well, the deadliest thing happened.
A humongous gap was created in the line. You see
if phae leanx can't allow gaps, because it can't allow
people in between it, the people get in between it,
that shield spear wall becomes exposed. You get the soft
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underbelly of it, which are the sides of it, which
are the back of it. Oh, huge gap creates in
the line. Because they're tired, they can't all move. I
mean they should be okay, right. It's not like there's
some superhuman beast of a war god commanding the other
side's cavalry. Except this time there was hang on the
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Jesse Kelly Show. This is the Jesse Kelly Show. There
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is a gap in the line. And now we have
to briefly, as I finished this thing up today before
we get to Michael Malice, before we get to waffle House,
the nuclear news cycle, the greatest audio maybe ever on
the show. Allow me to finish this up by saying,
on the Greek side, even though the Macedonians were technically Greek,
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but on the Greek side they did have something I've
spoken about before called the Sacred Band. They were a
hundred and fifty couples, but not men, women couples. I'm
talking dude undude couples. It's famous. It's called the Sacred Band.
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They did this intentionally. You could only serve from the
age of twenty five to thirty. They wanted you at
your physical strong strongest. They found men of this persuasion
and talk them into this because they believed they would
be loyal to each other to the death. And they
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also believed that you would not want to embarrass yourself
in front of your you know, significant other, and they
did have. They were famously really really good in combat
to I mean, not to put too fine a point
on it. They were just really good. The gap that
opens up in the line, though, Alexander the Great in
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command of the Companion cavalry, charges through the gap, as
he seemed to do every other battle the rest of
his career. He would wait for an opportunity and then
blow through it and stomp them. He blows through the gap.
Eventually they get to the Sacred Band, the Sacred Band,
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with all the other Greeks turning, running and dying. The
Sacred Band, to their credit, every one of them stayed
and fought and died that day at the hands of
the Macedonians. And here's something really cool. As I get ready,
as I wrapped this thing up here, Philip did unify
Greece after and all that, all that was done, Philip,
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you know, set the stage for Alexander. But you know
what's cool to this day, at that location of that battle,
to this day, there is a gigantic lion statue dedicated
to the Sacred Band with no inscription. There's no inscription
on it. I always thought that part was so cool.
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There's no inscription on it. They just in honor of
their sacrifice that day, built them a statue and just
let it sit. Either you know the story or don't
know the story, but there it is, and now you
know the story. This battle, if you'd like to look
it up, is called the Battle of Karonia or Cheronia,
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the Battle of Karenia. It is funny. You focus on
all the things that matter, that you think matter, You
focus on what's been traditionally done, on what the other
people know. All that really matters is getting them before
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they get you. In this philosophy, when we talk about elections,
I'm not going to spend long on this election thing
today because I have a bunch of other stuff I
want to get to. I mean, Stalin said it. Stalin
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was so great for quotes. Not so great for the
fifty million people he slaughtered, but so great for quotes
because Stalin Stalin was a guy who didn't care what
you thought of him. Stalin had these great quotes because
he was just willing to flat out say what all
the commies are always really thinking. Stalin would just tell
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you it doesn't matter who votes, that matters who counts
the votes. What angers me is this, I'm not mad
about Democrats and fraud or potentially massive fraud, which we
(48:25):
don't know yet. We're still sifting through all that, and
I'm gonna get to all that in a second. As
far as this Sydney Powell stuff, Trump's legal team stuff,
give me a second. What angers me is how can
Republicans not see that coming? Democrats cheating on elections is
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the history of the United States of America. Remember Tammany Hall.
They've been doing this for hundreds of years. How do
you look at this now and think? Whoa man? You mean?
They took all the mail in ballots and they cheated.
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I gotta tell you, if I had known, I would
have done How could you not know that's what they do?
What do you think Democrats were doing when they had
a special hearing on the post Office? What do you
think Democrats were doing when they tried to sneak federal
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all mail in voting in the coronavirus stimulus bill? Did
you actually think they were doing that for coronavirus? Are
you that dumb? And if you are that dumb, let
me ask you something. As a registered Republican, why am
I still a Republican. If that's the leadership I have,
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If everybody is still that freaking stupid, then why am
I still here. I will not be led by morons.
I will not. I'll go start my own anti communist part.
And don't think I'm kidding. I will. In fact, you
know what, Chris, we're coming out with a bunch of
anti communists gear. I just thought of this because my
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blood pressures through the roof this morning, and I'm mad.
I'm not even kidding. We're gonna start selling merch. We
haven't sold merch yet, We're gonna start selling anti communist merch.
I've had enough of being led by idiots, man, And
I'm look, what are we left to do now? What
are you and I left to do? Now? Whine about it?
That's pretty much all we can do. Why I can't
believe I'm stolen here or stolen that? Yeah it was.
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And guess what, they're not going to overturn it. I
bet you they're not. Stop telling yourself lies. I would
tell you if I thought they were. I don't think
they are. So that we're left to question it, Well,
that does us a heck of a lot of good.
Why do you not see that coming? They're the only
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side that thought to lengthen out the spears. Seriously, it
never occurred to us that there may be something more important. Look, look,
I know we want to be the party of jobs.
Obviously you want to be there without one or nothing.
I'm not putting down jobs. What good does it be?
What good does it do you to be the party
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of jobs when you're not counting the votes? It does
you no good at all. And let's address the election
fraud stuff briefly here. I'm not spending forever. I'm not
spending forever on this. A bunch of stuff I want
to get to. Sydney Pal has been all over the
(51:40):
news recently. I'm not playing any audio of it. Sydney Pal.
She is the one making the most extreme claims out there.
She's saying this election system, the computer system, has changed
millions of votes, that Trump did win by a landslide.
So on and so forth. You've seen a hundred percent
of the left and ninety percent of the right say
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these are outlandish claims. They're not true. No way there,
blah blah blah blah blah. Hear me out and hear
me good. I have no idea if they're true or not.
I have no idea if Sydney Powe has turned into
some huge nut job conspiracy theorist, or if Sydney Powe
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really does have things other people don't have. I do
know two things. One, my friends who are my friends
do not get tossed in the gutter when everybody tells
me I should toss them in the gutter. And I
know Sidney Pale, so that's one. Two. Maybe she has
gone off the deep end. I don't know. I haven't
talked to her recently. I do know this, in my
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time knowing Sidney Pow, that is one of, if not
the most intelligent human beings I've ever spoken to in
my entire life. That's all I have to say about that.
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You don't have to dip forever. You know that, Ryan,
you don't have to smoke forever. And the reason I
say it like that is I have been that guy.
I've been that guy. I dipped for so long, and
what would happen is I would decide I'm gonna quit.
It's bad for me. I'm gonna quit. I'm a man,
I don't need any help. I'm just gonna quit cold turkey.
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Jesse Kelly Show. What if all the things you want
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to matter don't actually matter when it comes to achieving success?
What if everything you think is wrong, everything you've been
told is wrong, or everything you focus on is wrong.
We have an awesome, awesome Monday Show for you today.
(01:58):
We got obviously Michael Malice on next hour, as he
always is. Following hour, we have an author whose book
was banned from target. The cancel culture came for her.
How are we going to approach things like that? We'll
talk about that today. We're going to talk about the
(02:21):
nuclear news cycle today, one of these theories I have.
We're going to talk about this fraud stuff and Sydney Powell,
an election interference and what's real and what's not real.
We're gonna lay all that out, and we're going to
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talk about my established political philosophy some more. But first
of all, addressing what matters is very, very very difficult
sometimes and oftentimes it's the only thing that matters is
figuring out what matters. Ironic, how that works. My mentor
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in this business, Michael Berry, as he was teaching me things,
we would go, I've only been doing media a couple
of years. I know that's unbelievable because I'm so good
at it. But I've only been doing this a couple
of years. And this didn't begin with me having a
naturally syndicated radio show or TV show. This began with
me sitting with obviously humongous radio star Michael Berry on
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his back porch several nights, sipping bourbon, smoking cigars and talking.
And one of the things he always drove home to
me was this. And it's something I tell as I
try to help younger people in this business come along
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to this day. I tell them, because people don't want
to hear this at all, I tell them, you are
not an activist, not anymore. Virtually everybody who listens to you,
watches you, read to you, whatever you do, they are activists.
(04:14):
You can pursue some forms of activism. Your show is
one of the great forms of activism if it can
get people to rally towards something or change people's thinking.
I'm not telling you you're not in it to believe
it anymore. What I'm saying is, you're not an activist anymore.
You now have an obligation to whoever you write columns for,
(04:39):
whoever you do a radio show, whoever you do a
TV show for and your job above everything else in
the world when it comes to work, is be interesting.
And the problem is, and I've found this time and
time again, Michael Berry warned me, I would, he said,
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of them, won't get it, won't believe you, won't want
to believe you, and so they'll go off and do
stupid things all the time. The reason job number one
has to be interesting isn't because activism doesn't matter. Believe me,
we're going to go into that a lot today. You
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and I have got to be activists as much as possible.
It's because unless you're interesting, unless they want to read
what you're writing, watch what you're doing on TV, listen
to you on the radio. Unless you're interesting, you're talking
to the wall. Interesting has to be items one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
(05:48):
and ten, because eleven doesn't matter if you're not. It
doesn't matter that I tell history stories you enjoy. If
nobody's listening, it doesn't matter that I have different views
on politics and you like them or this person likes them.
(06:08):
If nobody's listening, people change the channel. The Jesse Kelly
Show goes away, And that's not up to you. It's
one of the weird things about this relationship. You can't
do anything about that. That's all on me. Either I'm
interesting or I'm gone. Period. It's that simple. Thankfully, I
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don't worry. That was not a cry for health. The
show's doing very, very well. We'll have another announcement coming
up very soon. But we're fine. Which leads me to
our history story, our battle today. It's so hard to
figure out what the big deal is, what actually matters
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amongst all the noise, and one of the guys historically,
one of the most underrated people ever in the history
of war and the history of the world was Philip
the Second of Macedonia. Here's the thing. You probably haven't
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even heard his name. Maybe you've heard his son's name.
His name was how do you say this? Alexander the Great.
Alexander the Great was great. Let's clarify something. And he's
gonna play a part, an important part in our story today.
(07:35):
But understand this, Alexander the Great was great, never lost
a battle, carved through the Persians like a blow towards
through butter, took over everything he touched. Who we love
in Alexander Alexander, Alexander inherited the greatest army in the world.
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He inherited that army from his father. You know what
army his father inherited crap. Not only did Alexander inherit
this army from his father, he inherited one his father
built from scratch because his father surveyed the Persian landscape,
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surveyed the Greek landscape, and simply thought, they're all focusing
on the wrong things, all of them. Oh, they have
their benefits, but they're all worried about the wrong things.
I'm going to worry about what actually matters. You see,
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Macedonia then and now you can look it up to
this day is really not an appealing country geographically, and
I can't stress that enough. That is no offense to Macedonians,
although you don't worry, you know, I don't worry about
offending people. But I met this Macedonian chick one time
when I was in the Marine Corps. She was absolutely
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smoking hot. So I don't want to offend her. If
she's listening, Chris, what what? There's no offense to Macedonian's
But it's rocky, it's cold, really cold in the wintertime.
It is not ancient times or now a wealthy nation,
they just don't have the geography resources for it. Not
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only did Philip build this juggernaut, he built it from
a place that had no business being a juggernaut. Part
of this was keeping the big deal the big deal,
and part of this was Philip also saw an opportunity.
Let's focus on Grease for a moment, because that's where
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our story is going to take place today. As you
know because you listen to this show, Grease wasn't Grease really.
They all considered the themselves Greek, yes, but they were
very much individual city states, a city state, the big
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ones like Sparta and Athens and Thebes, who will all
have a role to play in our story today. They
consider themselves really their own nation. Now, yes, they did
also consider themselves Greek, and on occasion they would join
together to fight off an outside force, but they slaughtered
(10:29):
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When I say Greece was divided, I don't want you
to think they had an occasional spat. I would want
you to imagine this, they just got done fighting wars
for about a hundred years with each other. And when
I get to things like Athens and Sparta, and you're
gonna think about Athens as great navy and good military,
(12:42):
and you're gonna think about, obviously the Spartans. Everyone knows
the Spartans and how great they were. You should know
a hundred years of war. They were each a shell,
a shell of themselves shell. They're not them anymore. Philip,
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he has a plan, and his plan is this, I'm
gonna take over the whole place. He looked at Greece
and wanted to take over the whole place. Now, Philip
was famously a rough dude. The Macedonians themselves had reputation
(13:25):
for being uncultured barbarians. They were looked down upon before
this time. So Philip is a rough dude. But funny
thing about Philip, tell me if this sounds familiar at
all anything you see out there today Philip, Yeah, you
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wanted to kill a bunch of people, take control of everything,
But he really saw himself as a uniter. Just look,
it's better for everybody if these city states. I'll just
do what I say. That's really the greater good. I
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understand there's going to be some resistance to it. That's five.
Will just kill them and get rid of anyone who disagrees,
and then it will be fine. Once we do that,
we'll kill or enslave everyone who disagrees with me, and
then look at all the peace by sound familiar at all?
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The Macedonians also, it's time to do a little nerd
out breakdown on their army, because this is going to
matter a lot for our story. Greek Greece, hop Lights,
with the exception of Sparta. We're gonna set Sparta aside
because Sparta had a professional military. Their entire city state
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was geared towards their military. The rest of Greece. When
I say hop lights, that's what they called the Greek soul,
the Greek soldier. You know, this had a shield, had
a spear, fought in what is called a phalanx, a
big box that was nothing but spears for coming out
the front of it. Seven to twelve foot spears. Pay
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attention because that's going to matter a lot for our story.
Seven to twelve foot spears. The phalanx very very, very inflexible, deadly.
From the front. If you could get around the sides
of it, create gaps in it, it was virtually useless.
But from the front it was virtually impregnable. You can't
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charge it with horses, you can't charge it with infantry.
It's just a wall of shields and spears. That was
the Greek phalanx. However, you need to set aside the
movie three hundred for a moment because that was Sparta.
This is different. Understand what a phalanx would look like
for every other Greek city state. It was not not
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a fashional army. They didn't have huge standing professional armies.
Almost nobody did back at this time. It was very,
very rare. It was a volunteer army for the most point,
although a source of pride. The armor you wore, the shield,
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the chest, armor, the helmet, you paid for it. It
was whatever you bought. It was also oftentimes the difference
between you know, you'll see the light guys in the
movies where they don't have it. He doesn't even have
any armor. They just gave that guy a sling or
a bow. What's wrong with that guy? Let me clarify,
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what you're seeing lots of the time is a poor guy.
Because the poor guy would volunteer for War two, but
he didn't have the money for armor and fancy things.
So he gets a sling, he gets a bow. The
guy up there with the fancy shiny armor and shining
helmet and big old bronze shield, that's the dude with
a lot of money because that stuff is expensive. Now.
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Because they were an army of citizens, it left you
with certain limitations. If you're a Greek city state one,
they just wouldn't show up during certain seasons because most
of these guys were farmers. Oh you're going to war
e you know. I hate to bring this up, but
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the corn is coming in that time of year. You're
gonna have to postpone for a month or I'm not coming.
That's not a small thing. It was a huge problem.
It's not a professional army, it's not your armies. A volunteer,
it's not coming. But the people who did show up
extremely patriotic morale through the roof. You showed up, and
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you were dang proud to put on the armor, in
the shield and the spear. I'm gonna fight for Athens.
They probably would not have called it fight for Greece,
but you were gonna fight for Thieves or Athens or
any one of these other places. Athens had been worn
down to the nubs in their war with Sparta. Thebes
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was on the rise. We did a show recently about
the Battle of Leuctra where Thieves had actually defeated Sparta.
It had really never happened before in a straight up
head to head fight. Thieves is on the rise, and
let's focus on those two. Phillips looks at Athens. He
sees that Athens is down week Philip, he thinks he
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can take these Athens guys. All he needs to do
is convinced Thebes to either join his side against Athens
or stay out of it. Now, why does Philip think
he can beat Athens? Because Philip did a couple different things. One,
Philip looked around and thought, well, I'm just gonna get
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a professional army that's here all the time. I realize
that will cost money. I'll go to feed Athens and
take all the money I need. And Philip gets himself
a professional army, and he goes down to Thebes and says, hey, Thebes,
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I would like you to join with me. And he
offers them virtually everything. You can do, this, you can
do that, keep your government. I know you have an
oligarchy over there. And Thees, oh, you want to keep
your oligarchy, keep your oligarchy, do whatever you want. Look,
you just come along, just don't fight against you when
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I fight Athens, and it'll be fine. And Thieves is
considering it. Athens shows up. The envoy from Athens shows
up about this exact time, because Athens is panicking about
this Macedonian army coming down. And Athens tells Thebes, whatever
they offered you, we will for more. The people of
Athens were scared to death because they had just lost
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so many in wars. They knew they were weak. They'd
look down upon these barbarian Macedonians for a long time,
and they look up and find a professional army of
them marching through. And the Macedonians were powerful. They were
powerful for a couple different reasons, not only the leadership
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of Philip. They were powerful because they had something called
the companion cavalry. That's what Alexander the Great lad You
see up where Macedonia was, it was so rough, so rocky,
so mountainous, you had to have horses to get by.
Therefore you have a bunch of air fingers quote, uncultured
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barbarians who just so happened to be outstanding on horseback,
and they create an army of cavalry from this. Now
Athens shows up, offers Thebes the world. Thebes looks at
Phillips guys, look at Athens guys, and they think, you know,
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screw Macedonia, We're joining with Athens, and they ride off
to join with Athens and line up their army against
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on the Thebes Sweepstakes and now he has to take
on Athens and thieves. Remember, we have Michael Malice coming up.
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New Jersey. Because if there's anything good about New Jersey one,
it's the sandwiches and pizza they really can't eat back East. Two,
it's the audio clips. Gosh, Jersey people were the best,
the best. Back to Philip, he loses out on Thebes.
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Thebes goes back joins with Athens. The Greeks post up
in a mountain pass, so Philip in his army cannot
march through and go to where they want to go to.
I should point out briefly because I skipped over it earlier.
(24:20):
I didn't want to bog down the story, but it
probably does matter. Philip kicked off this war with Athens
basically by doing this. He wanted a place called Pittna
from Athens. Pittna was wealthy, Philip wanted it. He offered
Athens a city of his own if Athens would give
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him Pittna. Athens thinks about it and says, I like
that deal. Here's Pittna. Philip says, oh, thanks, I just
took Pittna. Athens says, well, wait a minute, where's our city?
And Philip says, I was kidding. You know, you can't
have that city at all. Athens is mad. Okay, fast
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forward back to the war the Mountain Pass. Philip doesn't
want to take on a Greek hop light phalanx in
a mountain pass. That's where a Greek hop light phalanx
would do perfectly when you can't circle around behind him.
So what he does He distributes a letter. Widely distributes
a letter, maybe a little too widely, distributes a letter saying,
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all right, I don't want this war. I'm packing up
my stuff and I am going back home. Never mind Greeks,
We're going back home. And he actually starts moving his
army back home. Surprise, surprise, the letter manages to find
its way into Greek hands and they say, whoo nice
lighting up no worries. Philip promptly spends or sends his
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version of special forces back behind the Greek lines, destroys
the people at the Mountain Pass, and now the Athens
slash Thebes group have to line up opposite of Philip,
and they do. They line up for battle, and the
Athenians have the high ground. Philip does not have the
high ground. Philip has a bunch of great generals underneath him,
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but he chooses to put a young man by the
name of Alexander in charge of his companion cavalry, even
though he had other people who were more experienced. Yeah,
other people who were more experienced. But Philip not exactly
the coddling father type. Philip was a man though, who
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appreciated talents, and I would like to imagine that there
was a moment as big of a barbarian conqueror as
he was. I'd like to imagine there was a moment
where Philip looked at his son Alexander and thought, oh
my gosh, this kid is really, really, really good. That
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had to be a cool fatherly moment. Right. Then again,
from the stories we hear, Philip may have been trying
to kill him, and Philip has assassinated later on, but
that's another story entirely. Like I said, he wasn't a
softy teddy bear. They line up against Athens and Thebes.
They square off. They square off, there's a feigned retreat
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from Philip Athens moves off the high ground, and then
the Athenians they start to get slaughtered. They start to
go down a lot faster than the Macedonians are going down.
And how can this happen? I don't understand. These are
(27:51):
the Greek hoplights. They never go down like this. What
how did this happen? Well, you see, Philip didn't see
things like everyone else saw him saw things. He didn't
see warfare like everyone else saw warfare. Philip looked at
the Greek phalanx system, you know, the shield, the armor,
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the spear, and he could have looked at it like
everyone else, including every other general, and thought, wow, I
mean that works fine. Maybe we can make an adjustment here.
I'll tell you what we'll put up. We'll put more
guys over here. That'll make this thicker. We'll put we'll
thicking up this line, and we'll move this here a
little bit. But overall, I mean, obviously, this is how
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warfare has done. Right. Philip looked at it and thought
to himself, Well, if the whole object is to stab
the other guy in the face before he can stab
you in the face, why don't we just make longer spears?
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Do you remember I told you the Greek spear seven
to twelve feet. Philip looks and thinks, well, what if
we made him thirteen feet fifteen feet seventeen feet twenty
one feet long, into which people would say, well, wait
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a minute, Well that's true. It's too heavy. He's gonna
have to have two hands to hold it. He's gonna
wear out. And Philip says, oh no, he'll be fine
because he doesn't have armor either. What he has to
have armor? Philip said, why they're never gonna get within
twenty one feet of me? Why do I need armor?
Not only that picture of phalanx, of phalanx with the
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spears coming out the front of it and the shields
all locked right, you can see it. Maybe you have
the front row their spears can reach the enemy, and
maybe maybe the second row their spears can reach the enemy. Okay,
so let's we're lined up fe lanxes or even I
have Let's see here, let's just do a rough number.
I have thirty thirty spears stabbing at my guys at
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any one point in time. Philip has twenty one foot spears.
He has five rows deep. So I have thirty spears
coming at me. I'm sending ninety back the other direction.
What do I need armor for? You're the one with
things to worry about, Philip. Drop the body armor, drop
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the huge heavy shield, and simply realized, what is with
all this tradition? What's with all this the way things
have always been? What really actually matters? If we have
to put if you'll pardon the spear pun here, if
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we have to put to find a point on it,
ha ha ha, Chris did it. What really matters is
stabbing the other guy before he stabs me. These Athenians
begin to fall, and they begin to fall for another reason.
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And I want to focus on just the historical aspect
of this for a moment, because it's something we all
mess up in our minds. I do it too. It's
easy to mess us up in our minds. You don't.
You don't see it in the movies, really, because it
wouldn't be They wouldn't be sexy, it wouldn't be cinematic,
it wouldn't be something you would enjoy. You don't even
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oftentimes except for a vague reference to it here or
a vague reference to it there. You don't even read
about it that much in books. But I want you
to focus for a moment on the concept of fatigue exhaustion.
You think about like a Greek army like we're talking
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excited for this new Jersey audio. I almost interrupted the
history story to play it. No, I swear it's so good.
It's not so bad, Chris, it's so good. I don't
buck up, Buttercup. It's gonna be fine. You did. I
wanted to ask you something, Chris, because we're gonna play
this thing in about ten minutes. How confident are you
(34:27):
on a scale of one to ten that you beeped
out everything that has to be beeped out? Okay, the
shoulder shrug is not inspiring confidence. All right, this is
a nationally syndicated show. Now, See things were Things were
so much easier when we were Remember this is true.
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This is only like a year and a half ago.
We were on KPRC, the Great KPRC, where we still
are in Houston. They gave me my shot. I'll love
him forever. And because they didn't know if I could
do a radio show. I'd never done a radio show
ever ever, I'd never done one. I'd never sat down
behind a microphone and gave radio show. And Michael Barry
was talking with Eddie Martini who's just an awesome dude,
(35:11):
great friend of mine here, and he's the one who
decided to give me a shot. They give me a
seven o'clock at night show, though, for an hour, and
they think, even if he's awful, it's seven at night.
It's an hour. Even if it's a bad hour, maybe
it'll be fine. And we used to just do reckless
things on the show. One during one gosh, we can't
(35:32):
do this stuff anymore. We don't have a copyright. But
they did at the time. During one segment we played
it was a nine minute segment. We played Freebird. I
don't mean we played it in the background. I mean
the entire segment was Freebird, but the song start to finish.
(35:55):
Oh gosh, we can't do that stuff anymore. Make sure
the words are peeped out all right. Back to fatigue.
We don't picture that. We don't picture things like hunger
and thirst and exhaustion when it comes to these ancient battles.
And in fact, we picture all these guys and all
(36:17):
these Greek hoplights there. What do you picture? You picture
the movie three hundred. Everyone has nine pack abs and
huge biceps and shoulders, and he can hold that spear
up for days and that shield. They looked just like you,
and they looked just like me. In fact, they were
(36:38):
probably smaller historically because most people were smaller back then.
We're talking eighty ninety pounds of gear on. Let's be generous,
let's say one hundred and sixty hundred, seventy hundred and
eighty pound. Man. Forgetting about the actual weights, I want
(37:04):
you to think about your body weight for a moment. Sorry,
I know these coronavirus lockdowns haven't been kind on us.
Think about your body weight for a moment and think
about carrying half of that around, because it's really all
about the ratios on it. One of the very few
I was the world's most average marine. But one of
(37:25):
the very few advantages I did have was I was
so long and I weighed enough. I was so long,
so when you're out on these grueling humps my legs,
you're taking two steps for every one of mine. And
I have big shoulders, and I was two hundred pounds
two hundred plus pounds. A lot of marines are five seven, five, eight,
(37:47):
one sixty one seventy maybe a lot of them are
smaller than that. Therefore I throw on eighty pounds and
you throw on eighty pounds. Those are different things. But
we picture the ancient guys fighting there all day. It's brave, hard,
and swords and axes and things like that. Don't pick
(38:09):
up a baseball bat right now, not even an axe.
Don't pick up a baseball bat. Go out back in
your yard. Go swing that bat twenty times in a row,
just a baseball, but just a light, little aluminum baseball bat.
Twenty times in a row. You will be breathing hard.
That's a baseball bat. That's virtually no weight at all.
(38:34):
There's no armor on you holding you down. There's no
shield you're holding up with your other arm. How long
can you hold a curl of something? Now? How long
can you pick a hole? Go pick up a waiter
if you have it, maybe just a gallon of milk,
and hold your arm in the curl position. Hold that
gallon of milk to your chest with one arm. How
(38:54):
long can you do it? I'm that serious. Do it
time yourself. Now, make that a thirty forty pound bronze shield.
These guys were not all the incredible hulk. They were
just like you and I, and exhaustion killed many many
many men in the ancient world. You can't do that
(39:15):
for very long. You can't stab and hold up a shield.
And I'm not even taking into account what would probably
be the biggest factor adreadaline. Ever been in a fight,
Ever had to give a big speech at work or
at school, that adrenaline feeling in the pit of your
stomach had some kind of big competition. Ever had anything
(39:37):
happen to you that got your adrenaline pumping? What happens
when you run out of it? Exhaustion? Extreme exhaustion because
your body just amped up to the max and you
expended all the energy you had. When the adrenaline's gone,
(39:58):
you are done, absolutely done. You stappen to me when
I would do the show, I'd get home and I'd
just go sleep. I wake up and text, Text and eat,
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Text and catch the bus, Text and miss your stop.
Wait wait wait, Text and be late to work sorry,
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a surprised when someone calls you out for not working.
Text and meet up with a friend you haven't seen
(41:02):
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said Athens had moved moved down off the hill. They
moved down off the hill and movement is exhausting. By
the time they moved down to try to catch up
to Philip and his feigned retreat, Philip turns around starts
stabbing them in the face again. Athens can't keep the
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shields up. They're exhausted, and well, the deadliest thing happened.
A humongous gap was created in the line. You see
if phae leanx can't allow gaps, because it can't allow
people in between it, the people get in between it,
that shield spear wall becomes exposed. You get the soft
(42:38):
underbelly of it, which are the sides of it, which
are the back of it. Oh, huge gap creates in
the line. Because they're tired, they can't all move. I
mean they should be okay, right. It's not like there's
some superhuman beast of a war god commanding the other
side's cavalry. Except this time there was hang on the
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Jesse Kelly Show. This is the Jesse Kelly Show. There
(44:01):
is a gap in the line. And now we have
to briefly, as I finished this thing up today before
we get to Michael Malice, before we get to waffle House,
the nuclear news cycle, the greatest audio maybe ever on
the show. Allow me to finish this up by saying,
on the Greek side, even though the Macedonians were technically Greek,
(44:22):
but on the Greek side they did have something I've
spoken about before called the Sacred Band. They were a
hundred and fifty couples, but not men, women couples. I'm
talking dude undude couples. It's famous. It's called the Sacred Band.
(44:43):
They did this intentionally. You could only serve from the
age of twenty five to thirty. They wanted you at
your physical strong strongest. They found men of this persuasion
and talk them into this because they believed they would
be loyal to each other to the death. And they
(45:03):
also believed that you would not want to embarrass yourself
in front of your you know, significant other, and they
did have. They were famously really really good in combat
to I mean, not to put too fine a point
on it. They were just really good. The gap that
opens up in the line, though, Alexander the Great in
(45:26):
command of the Companion cavalry, charges through the gap, as
he seemed to do every other battle the rest of
his career. He would wait for an opportunity and then
blow through it and stomp them. He blows through the gap.
Eventually they get to the Sacred Band, the Sacred Band,
(45:48):
with all the other Greeks turning, running and dying. The
Sacred Band, to their credit, every one of them stayed
and fought and died that day at the hands of
the Macedonians. And here's something really cool. As I get ready,
as I wrapped this thing up here, Philip did unify
Greece after and all that, all that was done, Philip,
(46:08):
you know, set the stage for Alexander. But you know
what's cool to this day, at that location of that battle,
to this day, there is a gigantic lion statue dedicated
to the Sacred Band with no inscription. There's no inscription
on it. I always thought that part was so cool.
(46:30):
There's no inscription on it. They just in honor of
their sacrifice that day, built them a statue and just
let it sit. Either you know the story or don't
know the story, but there it is, and now you
know the story. This battle, if you'd like to look
it up, is called the Battle of Karonia or Cheronia,
(46:51):
the Battle of Karenia. It is funny. You focus on
all the things that matter, that you think matter, You
focus on what's been traditionally done, on what the other
people know. All that really matters is getting them before
(47:20):
they get you. In this philosophy, when we talk about elections,
I'm not going to spend long on this election thing
today because I have a bunch of other stuff I
want to get to. I mean, Stalin said it. Stalin
(47:41):
was so great for quotes. Not so great for the
fifty million people he slaughtered, but so great for quotes
because Stalin Stalin was a guy who didn't care what
you thought of him. Stalin had these great quotes because
he was just willing to flat out say what all
the commies are always really thinking. Stalin would just tell
(48:03):
you it doesn't matter who votes, that matters who counts
the votes. What angers me is this, I'm not mad
about Democrats and fraud or potentially massive fraud, which we
(48:25):
don't know yet. We're still sifting through all that, and
I'm gonna get to all that in a second. As
far as this Sydney Powell stuff, Trump's legal team stuff,
give me a second. What angers me is how can
Republicans not see that coming? Democrats cheating on elections is
(48:47):
the history of the United States of America. Remember Tammany Hall.
They've been doing this for hundreds of years. How do
you look at this now and think? Whoa man? You mean?
They took all the mail in ballots and they cheated.
(49:07):
I gotta tell you, if I had known, I would
have done How could you not know that's what they do?
What do you think Democrats were doing when they had
a special hearing on the post Office? What do you
think Democrats were doing when they tried to sneak federal
(49:28):
all mail in voting in the coronavirus stimulus bill? Did
you actually think they were doing that for coronavirus? Are
you that dumb? And if you are that dumb, let
me ask you something. As a registered Republican, why am
I still a Republican. If that's the leadership I have,
(49:48):
If everybody is still that freaking stupid, then why am
I still here. I will not be led by morons.
I will not. I'll go start my own anti communist part.
And don't think I'm kidding. I will. In fact, you
know what, Chris, we're coming out with a bunch of
anti communists gear. I just thought of this because my
(50:08):
blood pressures through the roof this morning, and I'm mad.
I'm not even kidding. We're gonna start selling merch. We
haven't sold merch yet, We're gonna start selling anti communist merch.
I've had enough of being led by idiots, man, And
I'm look, what are we left to do now? What
are you and I left to do? Now? Whine about it?
That's pretty much all we can do. Why I can't
believe I'm stolen here or stolen that? Yeah it was.
(50:29):
And guess what, they're not going to overturn it. I
bet you they're not. Stop telling yourself lies. I would
tell you if I thought they were. I don't think
they are. So that we're left to question it, Well,
that does us a heck of a lot of good.
Why do you not see that coming? They're the only
(50:54):
side that thought to lengthen out the spears. Seriously, it
never occurred to us that there may be something more important. Look, look,
I know we want to be the party of jobs.
Obviously you want to be there without one or nothing.
I'm not putting down jobs. What good does it be?
What good does it do you to be the party
(51:16):
of jobs when you're not counting the votes? It does
you no good at all. And let's address the election
fraud stuff briefly here. I'm not spending forever. I'm not
spending forever on this. A bunch of stuff I want
to get to. Sydney Pal has been all over the
(51:40):
news recently. I'm not playing any audio of it. Sydney Pal.
She is the one making the most extreme claims out there.
She's saying this election system, the computer system, has changed
millions of votes, that Trump did win by a landslide.
So on and so forth. You've seen a hundred percent
of the left and ninety percent of the right say
(52:03):
these are outlandish claims. They're not true. No way there,
blah blah blah blah blah. Hear me out and hear
me good. I have no idea if they're true or not.
I have no idea if Sydney Powe has turned into
some huge nut job conspiracy theorist, or if Sydney Powe
(52:24):
really does have things other people don't have. I do
know two things. One, my friends who are my friends
do not get tossed in the gutter when everybody tells
me I should toss them in the gutter. And I
know Sidney Pale, so that's one. Two. Maybe she has
gone off the deep end. I don't know. I haven't
talked to her recently. I do know this, in my
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time knowing Sidney Pow, that is one of, if not
the most intelligent human beings I've ever spoken to in
my entire life. That's all I have to say about that.
(53:06):
On The Jordan Harbinger Show, you'll hear amazing stories from
people that have lived them, from spies to CEOs, even
an undercover agent who infiltrated the Gambino crime family. You're
about to hear a preview of The Jordan Harbinger Show
with Jack Garcia, who did just that. My career was
twenty four out of twenty six years was solely dedicated
working on the cover I walk in. I'm in the bar.
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How there's a bar made? Dare good looking young lady?
See serving me, Joey, Hey, what would you like? I
usually my frank was give me a kettle, one martini,
three dollars, class of water on the side. I finished
the drink. The guys come in. I'm gonna go go
in my pocket, take out the big wad of money. Hey, am,
I give her one hundred hours. If you're with the Mob,
I say, hey, Jordan, you're on record with us. That
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means we protect you. Nobody could shake you down. We
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