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Thought of as one of most famous historical figures in Rome, Julius Caesar was known as a great leader and man. We will discuss some of his great quotes and share our thoughts. #juliuscaesar #caesar #romanhistory #quotes
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Universe has taken over the classroom
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and we are going to chat about a famous
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historical figure and some of his
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favorite things he said so literal
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hey guys welcome to the episode of ultra
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Universe Live and they are taking over
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everyday Heroes today because they
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wanted to be in the classroom and they
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are gonna have some fun with it so this
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morning we talked some nutrition 101 now
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we're going to talk about some history
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now keeping in mind the character or the
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historical figure is also the main
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character of the Shakespeare play of the
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same name we are of course talking about
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Julius Caesar
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um some of the stuff we have out for you
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that were for Amazon is also the movies
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as well so one thing I was going to
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point out which I just pointed out to
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you a second ago a lot of the quotes
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that people know him by actually are
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from the Shakespeare play or the films
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however
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those stories and films do take some
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Liberty to recreate the uh what do you
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call it the life of what is probably one
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of the biggest Roman in general so you
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know this guy right you know anybody who
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hears his name yeah
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um and being a Roman leader we're going
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to find out that many of the things that
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he said is typical of that culture at
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the time so he was a leader between 100
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BC to 44 BC unfortunately on a timely
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death
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um and then from that point forward
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let's just say the Roman thing went
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downhill and that's for another day
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um all right so you saw the title of our
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show guys so I will start with that one
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obviously what he is most known for is
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the I came I saw I conquered now
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obviously I tried to look for the uh
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behind the whatever it was there's not a
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lot of description of when and where
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other than you know some documentaries
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so we're going to go at it from what we
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feel probably was is the basis of the
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things and that one I believe
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and unfortunately I think became way too
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overpopular to kind of lose meaning to
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what it was supposed to be it is a very
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popular quote a lot of people have it on
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their posters nowadays but really I feel
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the basis of it and I will get your
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input in a second it's more or less the
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Roman War General's Mantra I did the
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thing I saw the thing I succeeded that's
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that yeah I agree as we know Roman Rome
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in general not the nicest place to be
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they weren't very friendly to most of
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their neighbors history so conquering
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was their Forte now not to say they were
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the only culture that did that of course
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you have people like Attila the Hun and
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you have people uh from the Chinese and
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Japanese empire but Rome really went far
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beyond and they are known for being a
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let's say not so pleasantly type of
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people but what does differentiate that
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from Caesar is that if you know him and
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you can watch you can see documentaries
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from History Channel stuff like that he
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himself was one of the better leaders as
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far as caring more for the people than
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for himself which generally speaking
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again I'll kind of get your idea because
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obviously the presidency is different
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nowadays but at that point in time
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people did appreciate when the leader of
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them
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put his life at risk to make sure they
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weren't suffering too bad now today the
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president it's a little bit different
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I'm just talking for us I'm not sure how
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other countries work
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but it's a little bit different right
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we're yeah I think back in the day
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though back in the day those that day
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it's Julius Caesar's day they were all
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Warriors I mean and that's that was what
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they did they went to war they were on
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their horses and they were doing
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whatever they were doing they were not
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just sitting and and on on their throne
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with their crown on and everyone else
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went to war right it was literally they
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were engaged so when I think that's
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right to the point people wanted to know
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that their leaders were willing to put
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their lives on the line right and they
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were going to go out and fight not so
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much right now right no and again I'm
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not speaking for other countries I know
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different places have different sorts of
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accuracies as I call them but you know
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for America it is kind of yeah the
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president is meant to do what's best
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however
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Common Sense might work both ways bad or
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good because a lot of times they're just
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using their own knowledge which is good
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depending on who you ask the next one
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that I really like to off of here is
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experience is the teacher of all things
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now this kind of cuts all corners of
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everything whether it's from the Bible
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and it's a you know a Christ quote or an
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Abraham quote whether it's the Buddha
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whether it's the Dalai Lama experience
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of the teacher of all things is really I
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think you might agree something that
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most countries even today would agree on
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that being said the experience is what
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differentiates what it was as we just
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pointed out Roman culture you know
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Chinese culture all that stuff Warrior
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was the go-to so their experience was
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specifically War now now today you know
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it hasn't stopped obviously you have you
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know the Middle Eastern stuff you have
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you know South America you still have
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war going on but it was a differentiate
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between what they believed was not just
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destruction but they were actually
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gaining life skills
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so to speak well I mean we can look at
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what's going on in Ukraine right now
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right Russia and Ukraine and you've got
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uh zielinski who is the president of the
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country and he's not technically
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fighting in the war but we see picture
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after picture after picture with him
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literally going down the streets you
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know leading his his
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following his people and being the face
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so that people can say oh he's there
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with us even though he's not technically
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right and in that case he is the
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experience which is the teacher right to
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the thing so Caesar is spot on as many
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of these rulers were you don't know
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things until you do things right again
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we're going to keep going back their
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idea of doing things was much different
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than what we do but it worked I guess
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now the next one kind of goes along with
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this he said it is better to create than
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to learn creating is the essence of life
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now this kind of goes against what he
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literally just said a second ago that's
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weird however this is Caesar in the role
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of leader not role of warrior Caesar did
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believe at least from what I've watched
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and seen that doing something good or
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doing something at all is better than
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having something be taught to you now
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this is interesting to me a lot because
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I've talked about people like Plato and
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Aristotle from Greek philosophy they
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were big on teaching and a lot of people
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follow their footsteps when it comes to
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philosophy so here we have somebody from
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the opposite end because obviously Greek
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and Roman are different cultures saying
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learning's cool
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but if you're not the maker or the doer
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or the Creator
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you're kind of missing the point of
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living now
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it's hard to see what he was thinking
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here considering for my idea of creation
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is more what we're doing here of making
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something right and again I don't know I
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don't know that's kind of a and actually
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never heard that quote before and so
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hearing it now you're right it seems to
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conflict with what he said in one of the
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other quotes and
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I don't know learning and being taught
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is PR it's Paramount to what what we
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what we do right and so if he's saying
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creating is that different than
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so you're when you learn you learn
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somebody else's stuff when you create
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you create your own is that kind of what
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he's saying great that's how I took it
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as and again just like you I had not
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heard this until we you know until I
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looked it up on on a rainy quote but
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yeah it does kind of go against but
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again and again this is not a put down
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of people running the world but again it
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kind of also follows how leaders change
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their minds maybe what I think of it is
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exactly what you just said I think of it
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as okay learn what you learn but that's
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from somebody else creating is strictly
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from you the fact that he's saying both
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are important
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I don't know but it also makes you think
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of times in you know like a presidency
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when they'll say something and then two
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weeks later the bill comes out and it's
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very different right and again we're
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obviously we're not doing the politics
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but just generally speaking if you can
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tell the difference then obviously
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you're going to speak up and go
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well you know I'm wondering Rob the
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creating maybe it's that we all come to
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this world to to leave something
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in this world and maybe what he said
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maybe and I'm not sure because it seems
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a little counter-intuitive to me but
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maybe what he's saying is is that in
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order to be a productive individual and
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person in the world while you're here is
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you need to make your mark and you make
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your mark by creating something maybe
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that's what he's saying I don't know
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I will go with that because to be honest
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yeah and again like I was trying to find
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the back story for a lot of this stuff
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but again because they're just general
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quotes there's not a lot of historical
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reference right context now the next one
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I think we can agree on is a fairly good
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quote even if it sounds a little odd I
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love the name of Honor more than I fear
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death now this goes back to his Warrior
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stints this I think is a great money or
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uh affirmation to live by it's better to
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do good and to be honorable than to
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worry about what is going to happen now
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this is not to say go out and put
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yourself in a position that's going to
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be bad this is to say if you are
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able to speak up for something or to
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help someone and again this kind of goes
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to the superhero thing right you have
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characters like Spider-Man you have
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characters like Captain America who
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weren't really put in the position by
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choice but since they have the ability
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that became their moniker is to do what
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they can to help now
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the fearing death is is interesting part
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because again if you are not a warrior
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stance you don't want to die for any
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particular reason
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however if you are of warrior or War
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stance your first goal is okay my job
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here is to make sure that my people my
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country they don't collapse they don't
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fall victim so if I have to put myself
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out there that's what I'm gonna do what
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do you think I mean it's a very strong
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right you know and I think I think
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you're right that's absolutely correct I
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agree with that with what you're saying
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all right so next up
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um so this one's interesting it's a
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little bit long so he said what we wish
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we readily believe and what we ourselves
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think we imagine others think also so
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this morning when I did my history
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lesson on on the lunch meat on bologna
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baloney became a poverty food because
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people saw immigrants eating it okay and
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they automatically put two and two
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together right because they said oh well
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those guys don't have a lot of money
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baloney must be a poor man therefore two
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plus two equals five right exactly right
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so what he's saying here again and I
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love it when you kind of kick somebody
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without knowing you've been kicked but
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he's basically saying you know what we
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want we believe but we also think
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everybody else agrees as well
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and that is not what you want to do and
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this is back to his leader stance this
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is back to him as a not a general that's
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the way I move over General general and
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this is back to him leading a country
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but I love the fact that yes many a time
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and this is why when we're on our show
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we go we're telling you our point of
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view if you don't like it cool beans
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that's not it doesn't matter we're not
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saying well I believe it so you have to
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and that's what he's trying to get
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across just because you think something
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yeah somebody might agree with you cool
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but don't make the assumption that your
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neighbor your friend your family member
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whatever is going to be on board and
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that's what kind of makes this healthy
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debate because you do disagree right
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agreed agree to disagree I create a
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disagree there you go
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um what else do we have here okay so no
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one is so brave that he is not disturbed
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by something unexpected
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if anybody's gonna sell you something
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like this it's going to be a guy who
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goes to war regularly and he will call
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you out if you say that you are the
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bravest person in the world that nothing
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worries you you are a liar in his eyes
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right because even the strongest even
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the fiercest even the best weapons
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Handler is not is going to be disturbed
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or worried about what they don't see
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coming
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so this kind of goes against what he
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said but it's it is yeah I think yeah
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and I actually think this is a great
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quote because I think it's really has
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everything to do with life and it has to
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do with everyday people we don't have
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control over what's coming and you know
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so I love this quote I don't think it's
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just for War I think it's like everyday
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life no exactly and that's what we're
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bringing it back to is that this is
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something that like he is somebody will
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call you out on it and if you go up to
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him and you say nothing's going to
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bother me I am perfectly fine he's like
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I don't want you on my team that's like
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you know that's not gonna work and it's
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like a business you have somebody in
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your business that goes oh I'm perfect
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I'm never going to make a mistake this
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is all going to go well you're out the
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door before you can even put your stuff
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down on the desk so you know and again
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and it's and it's better to admit to the
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defeat of not knowing than to go in to
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go oh I'm good we're fine no you know
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nothing's problematic and this actually
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goes another one he said cowards die
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many times before their actual depth and
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again it and it's true this is something
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where and again it kind of goes with the
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Ukraine thing too the president there
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could have easily backed off and not
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shown his face and just kind of took the
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coward way out and Caesar would have
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said dude what are you doing that's not
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how you run your people so this is you
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know and again these quotes and I
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laughed because they sound so insulting
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and people are like well that's rude you
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know but really this is like business
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101 people this is what the guys like
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you know vaynerchuk all those guys this
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is what they teach this is like it's
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life 101 it's not just business it's
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life it's like okay there you go it is
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life 101.
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um all right what else do we have here
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[Music]
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um
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okay
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um
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a lot of these kind of copied themselves
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over and over again
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um there's one you know men freely
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believe what that which they desire
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which is good this is kind of the altar
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of the dope you know everybody believes
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what I believe this is just strictly
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saying you know they believe with that
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which they desire which is a fancy way
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of saying you make you you make what you
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get you put forth
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right one of the quotes that I like from
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him is cowards died many times before
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their actual deaths
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I like that one a lot
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and I I think it has to do with the way
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we show up in the world and sometimes um
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uh we're not going to stand up for what
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we believe in
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right and when we don't stand up for
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what we believe in it's like a slow
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Little Death inside of us because a
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little bit at a time we feel like
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we're being chipped away at so I think
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that is I first I love the word courage
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um
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and when you're not courageous you're a
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coward right so the one I'm going to end
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us with is one of my favorites I've
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lived long enough both in years and in
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accomplishments one thing people always
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worry about and even on my calendar
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today is what is one thing you regret
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not doing
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so Caesar himself believed obviously you
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know he could have lived much longer but
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he believed that he had lived long
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enough not only in literal life but in
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what he did for him and his people and
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he's right because to this day and we'll
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show you what we actually found on
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Amazon in a minute but to this day
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not only did he have books written on
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him Shakespeare's play movies made out
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of him he has become one of the most
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iconic generals and Roman historical
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figures of all time so I'm passing it to
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you what career did we find well so uh
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to that point
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um that there was a movie that was made
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um that was starring Marlon Brando and
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it was called Julie Caesar right so big
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star Marlon Brando you might want to
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take your phone out right now and scan
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this OR click the link that's in the
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comments because this will take you over
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there but what I found fascinating Rob
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is Not only was the movie Julius Caesar
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done with the star Marlon Brando they
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actually did another one and that was
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the star Charleston Heston which also is
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fascinating to me so it's like pick your
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star right which one do you like which
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star do you like the most
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um very very cool and then finally if
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you if you don't want to watch a movie
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you don't want to you know them because
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as we know directors tend to put their
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own things into it so it's not always
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exactly historical so if you really want
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to get a much more historical this is
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it's it's historical but not Shakespeare
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and this is in writing and this is his
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whole dramatization of The Life and
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Times of Julius Caesar again scan the
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code it will give you an idea to go in
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there there's lots of Julius Caesar
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stuff in Amazon we just picked a few of
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our favorites that we thought might be
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interesting again two different movies
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two different times two huge Stars I
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mean which star would you say is the
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biggest Rob Marlon Brando or Charlton
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Heston I feel like I'd be insulting
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somebody if I said what are the other so
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I don't know wasn't Charlton Heston like
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Moses or something
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well I mean he thought he would no but
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yeah
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I don't mean was he really I mean no no
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no no no I think he was in The Ten
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Commandments yeah yeah so I mean I find
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it I find it interesting and I wonder
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because these are old movies obviously
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old old movies and I wonder if this was
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like the role that everybody wanted
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right everyone wanted to be Julius
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Caesar so and unfortunately I don't know
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which one came first which was it Marlon
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Brando's version one looked like it was
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in black and white one was in color
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um I think yeah this is the uh Marlon
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Brando one when they're actually okay so
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that one is from
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1953. and then the other one uh let me
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open that let me see that oh 1970 so
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much later than that yeah was much later
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um the earlier was Marlon Brando I kind
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of picture uh Charlton Heston as as that
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kind of star I don't really picture
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Marlon Brando in that I think that
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Marlon Brando is more of a gangster you
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know more of the Shoot Em Up robber
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thing kind of thing but check it out
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we'd love to hear which one you like
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better you know I I don't know which one
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you like better and I think we had some
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of the quote stuff but if not I know you
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can find some of the motivational uh
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posters as well with his quotes on it
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too so yeah I don't know it's a great
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topic I love this so we went back to
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school today love it
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and you hide your I got my got my feel
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of history but next week we're doing
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shows about food
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oh yes yummy so we're going to talk a
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little about staying healthy or eating
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healthy on a short skirt or a small
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schedule right and for those who want
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some junk food we got the history of the
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cookie too so bite size history though
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okay the bite size
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honestly it's funny because I looked all
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around it was like a
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Pokemon like there's more info on this
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than that but stay tuned to watch it so
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and we really want to know what your
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favorite cookie is okay I know what mine
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is Rob has a favorite I'm sure too we
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want to know what your favorite is so
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join us next week for the shows go out
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