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I talk about politics and power and an anti communism because I feel obligated to because I feel an obligation a duty to try to do what I can to save my country. But I would tell you if tomorrow America was saved and fixed, then we got everything worked out. I would love to just do a history show every day. I would, I would, I feel obligated to talk about the fights that do matter. And they do matter. So I'm gonna keep doing that a lot. But history is what I love. If you're a new listener, I will do this from time to time. You may love it. You may turn off the radio. Doesn't matter. I'm still gonna keep doing it. I would just decide that I want to talk about history for a while. And that's what I'm about to do. All I know about inflation numbers and everything else. And we'll get to a bunch of that stuff next hour. But for now, we're gonna talk about Sala Lucius Cornelius Sala. He finished his life with one of the great, great quotes of all time. A quote I'm not going to give you right now. You're gonna have to wait until the end for that one. But first of all, who was Sala? What are we talking about here? Well, we have to set this up and we have to go to Rome. This is pre Jesus Rome. So there you go, Chris, you'll like that. This is pre Jesus. No, seriously, we're talking just, I don't give out dates and specific things like that because it ruins a story. Just take a hundred years before Christ. It's right around that time. This is before Christ. Now, what's going on in Rome at the time? Well, remember, Rome, the Rome, most people know, not you, but the norms, if you're the norms, mostly know the Rome that was ruled by emperors. You ask people about Rome, Romans, they'll think about a dictator like Julius Caesar, or one of the real monster types, Coligula Nero. That's what most people think Rome is. But Rome was really one of the only ones in the ancient world. It began as a republic. In fact, they were dead set against any kings or any dictators. They wanted their country to be ruled by a group of men. Now, when I say republic, you need to not picture America's system. It wasn't quite that representative at all. There were classes, strict classes in the society, the Senate class, the night class. Okay, so it's not as if this was just Rome was just free land, land of the free freedom is not free. No, no, no, no. But it was a republic where they did not have a king. Now, the Romans, they understood that every form of government doesn't suit every scenario. So they understood on occasion, you kind of need a king. You can't have a legislature debating this, that you got to have one guy pick the right guy, put him in charge temporarily. Hey, you're a dictator, you run the war as soon as the war is over, you give up your power. So they had that system in place, but it was a republic. And because of that, and the fact that their fighting was excellent, their fighting style was excellent for that in a laundry list of reasons, Rome began to grow Rome began small, obviously, like all nations do was just nothing tiny village. And then they began to grow and kick people's butts and grow and kick people's butts and grow and kick people's butts. And it's the butt kicking part we need to talk about specifically, because here's what was happening in Rome. Rome was getting very, very, very wealthy as a nation. They were getting wealthy because militarily, they were just dominating people. And in the ancient world, very much at this time, when you won a war against another civilization, you would pillage that civilization. Maybe you would just take it completely. Hey, we won the war. This is Rome now. But if you didn't take it completely, forget about just stripping the treasury of everything, they'd be taking the gold leafing off the wallpaper. You would take all the men, women and children, and you would use them as slaves. Slavery is insanely lucrative financially and always has been. And it makes sense why it would be, right? Slavery is horrific. Yeah, you don't whatever want to be one. And frankly, you should stand against the practice, but you understand, set aside the morality of it. Of course, it would be profitable. Ever talk to a business owner? Maybe you are a business owner or a manager. Have you ever looked at a profit loss sheet? We call them P and L's profit loss sheets? You can go look one up online. I'm sure there's a million examples of them. You'll look at, you know, well, you can look and see how they're broken down. You want to know what virtually every business owner, business manager on the planet, the cost they're always trying to reduce labor costs. You can yell and scream about that. They don't want to pay me. No, no, I get all that. I'm not the one that takes the employer's side all the time. But that is the big thing that's always dragging you down. Always. What if what if you can reduce those costs down to zero? Well, that's what slaves do for you. I don't have to pay you enough to worry about your complaints. No, you will go work in my farmer's field. And if not, I'll crucify you in front of everybody. So that's how it worked. Slaves are big, big, big money. And so Rome, as it began to conquer and conquer and conquer, everyone in Roman society was prospering. One of those rising tide raises all boats thing. Think 1900 in America, right? Everybody. Now, we're not all the same and we never will be all the same. But everyone is benefiting from living in this free country where money is pouring and pouring and pouring and pouring in. But slavery, especially was beginning to kill Rome from the inside out. The Roman leaders, they stopped falling in love with Rome and wanting what's best for Rome. And as they drifted further and further away from their founding, they started to fall in love more and more with just each other in their bank account. And they started to figure out if we work together, we can make even more money. We can gather even more power for ourselves. And because we're pieces of crap who don't care about the people anymore, we don't have to be burdened by their concerns. None of this sounds familiar, does it? And so when they won these wars, they would Hoover up gobs of slaves, gobs thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of slaves. And the slaves would all be purchased by the rich guys by the richest guys, the senators, to everyone else. As soon as you won a war, you would know it's slave auction time, baby. And you would go down, I want that man, that woman, that kid, that this and then you go down just like you're at Walmart picking out toilet paper. If you're a rich guy, you go down and start buying slaves. Well, what would it happen? What would happen in a society? If they started importing people from foreign lands in mass, because they could pay them less money, not that you an American citizen would have any relation to that at all. Do I need to mention that over the last three and a half years, we have a net positive by the million for jobs for immigrants and a net negative for American citizens. They were going through this exact same thing in Rome at the time, mass slaves coming in. And so if you're a Roman rich guy, you own a big plantation, you've had 200 employees forever. Well, that's 200 men with with families, wives, kids, they support them, they feed them to everything else. And you've had to pay these guys to work on your plantation, grow my graves, feed my cattle, do my this and that. And then you show up one day and say, Hey, all 200 of you step on up. Yeah, you're all fired. You see, we just want to war with Carthage. And I have 200 guys who will never complain about their wages. They are slaves. Bye bye. You're all unemployed now. And this was happening all over the place in Rome, where middle class Romans were being smashed by the corruption of the elites and society by their mass import of slaves. And here's the thing. And you can pay attention to this in America today. When you have significant numbers of people upset about something, there will be a response. There's an old saying, a great saying, I believe it was somebody who worked for Nixon, if I remember right, but there's an old great saying. And it's so true about so many things in life. And the saying goes like this, things that cannot go on will not go on. You cannot have a nation full of citizens who are being smashed by the elites in their society and think there will never be a response. There began a political movement in Rome. You would know it. I would know it. We would call it a populist movement. They weren't called that. They were called popular arrays though. So you don't have to use your imagination. The popular arrays were the populace. Who were they? What did they want? And this is going to come back to Salah story about Roman history. So I'm done talking politics for a little while. It's too depressing before we get to that. You know what's wild about this time? A hundred years before Christ. Think about think about this. Think how crazy this is. It's the year 2024. And if I were to hand you right now, a sack of gold coins from Oxford gold, and I put you in a time machine and I sent you back a hundred years before Christ and you walked into Rome itself. It's just you to close on your back and a sack of gold coins that you could get anything you wanted. You need lodging? No problem. We take gold here. Food. No problem. Services. No problem. You plug the toilet. We can get you a plumber. Give us some gold coins. The lasting power of precious metals tells you all you need to know. I could give you that same sack of coins and send you 2000 years in the future. 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So a populist movement in Rome began to rise in case you're just now joining us because the elites of that society lost touch with their duty and honor. And they begin to wipe out the middle class with the mass import of slave labor from foreign lands. None of that sounds familiar. It could ever happen here, right? Anyway, so this popularity movement started to rise. Now, I'm going to pronounce the opposite party in a weird way because I've listened to five different ways to pronounce it. Optomate is how I have always pronounced it. But then I've heard Optomate. You have the populace and you have the optimates. I'm just going to call them optimates to make it easy. That's not how you say it. I'm sure. Who were the optimates? Well, they were the elite. They were these were the senators. These were the ones who wanted their corrupt system to remain in place. The populace, they wanted the system blown up. The system was not treating the people right now. I need to clarify something before we get to Salah. Because many of you will love Salah when I'm done telling this story. I'm going to have you will hate him. Remember, there weren't necessarily good guys and bad guys. The way I just set up the story, I made the optimates sound really, really bad and they were really bad. I'm not saying they weren't. But it's not as if the populace were just salt to the earth people who just wanted some bread and water out there. There were a lot of dirt balls. There were a lot of powerful people who thought they could gain more power for themselves by playing off the anger of the people that but it's it's an ugly situation. Very few times in history are all the good guys on this side and all the bad guys are on that side and this time is no different. All right, whatever, the populace are fighting the elites. That's it. Now that brings us to a man named Salah. Salah grew up poor and in Roman society, one of the best ways to rise was the military. In fact, whether you were poor or elite, you almost had to have military service as part of your resume. I shouldn't even say almost. I've never found any elite Roman. I'm sure they exist. I have all kinds of experts who listen to the show who will correct me, but I've never heard of any elite Roman that didn't have military service. That's just something that required at some point in time and I don't mean sitting in the rear with the gear. Yeah, I was I was in the I was in the I was scrambling eggs for 35 seconds in California. Thank me for my service. It was none of that. It was no, no, no, no. You go strap it on and you go stab people or get stabbed yourself. Remember the Romans lost a third of the Senate in one battle when Hannibal wiped them out. The senators themselves. Imagine a country like that where senators got up and strapped it on and went and died with everyone else. So military service was required and it was a way you could advance in society and it was a way you could make money, make a name for yourself. And Salah shows promise early on. It's very obvious to everyone around him early on that he's a capable human being. Now pause on Salah for a moment because we cannot tell the story of Salah without telling a bit of the story of a Roman that everyone should know. Everyone knows the name Julius Caesar and I'm a Julius Caesar fan, but everyone should also know the name Gaius Marius. Gaius Marius. He was never a dictator. So that's probably why he came. He was one of the earlier Roman lions, but he was one of these generals who was credited with saving Rome. At one point in time, these gigantic Germanic tribes were wiping out entire Roman armies and they looked like they were going to wipe out Rome itself and they probably would have until this dude named Gaius Marius raises an army and goes up there outnumbered and beats the crap out of them. Rome probably only existed at this time because of Gaius Marius. Every single Roman at this time, every Roman would have known the name Gaius Marius in the exact same way every single American knows the name George Washington, even the dumbest human being in the society. Even Kamala Harris knows who George Washington is. Everyone would have known Gaius Marius. He's Gaius Marius. Hey, look, you want to know how big this guy was? I'll just, at the end of his life, Roman troops were sent to kill him. And they said, are you going to strike down Gaius Marius and assassin on orders was sent into the house where Marius was as an old man to kill him. And Gaius Marius sits up and says, are you really going to kill Gaius Marius? And the guy says, man, no, I freaking can't. He turned and he left. That's who that's how much of a legend Gaius Marius was at the time. All right. Now, there was something I'm not going to go into the details of this called the Jigurthian War. Don't worry about the names. Don't ever worry but stress about remembering the names when we go over these things. But it was against, I know you're going to find this shocking against a man named Jigurtha. Jigurtha was one of these warrior kings, kind of a horseback guy in a movie. He'd be he'd be an outlaw type and you would like him. Honestly, you would like him. He sounds like one of these rebels super tough, super smart, and he squares off against the Romans. The Romans send down Gaius Marius because Jigurtha keeps beating up Roman generals and avoiding Roman generals. He keeps escaping to the mountains. They can't find him. It's starting to get embarrassing for Rome. And so Rome, as they often did, they turned to Gaius Marius and then said, Hey, can you can you get an army and go down there and handle this situation? This is embarrassing. We need to stop this. And Gaius Marius does, and he brings along with him a young officer named Lucius Cornelius Sala. 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They can't get they can't get their hands on him. He's so elusive. It's one of these crafty devils. And they send the Romans, send Gaius Marius down there to get him. And Gaius Marius, whatever, I won't go into the details of it. But eventually some hotshot young officer under Gaius Marius named Salah comes up with what's basically a covert op to pretty much go undercover, recruit an asset. It's a cool little story and capture a jigurtha and Salah pulls it off. Salah actually manages to capture a jigurtha. Like I said, a very, very capable man. But Salah wasn't in charge. And let's pause on this for a moment. There's something about military things that we should always keep in mind, especially as we read history, both our history, American history, world history, whatever the history may be. So often, pretty much every single time, when you discuss a battle, we discuss the commander of each side. And we say something like MacArthur fought this other general. We act, we act as if it was their war. And I understand why we do that. It simplifies things. And he is the man in charge. Therefore, he's the most important one. I understand why we do that. But so many times throughout history, there have been generals, admirals, whoever they may be. They didn't come up with the genius battle plan that won them the battle on that day. They didn't come up with this, this, this strategy to hide this group and ambush so many times, there was some lieutenant, some sergeant, somebody underneath him who said, Hey, sir, you know what? There's some trees over there. We could hide a couple thousand dudes in there and ambush them from behind and win. And the general says, Yeah, that sounds good. And he stashes the troops there and they ambush them and they come from behind and they win. And what does everyone say after that? Look at this genius general. Man, he really outfoxed them. It's just how it goes. I'm not even complaining about it. That's how history goes. The guy who's in charge, they always talk about him like he was the one who won it. We do what I do with the same situation happened here to Salah. Gaius Marius gets back to Rome after Salah's craftiness got to Gertha, but Salah wasn't in charge. Marius was in charge and Marius took all the credit for it. And the Romans were more than happy to give Marius all the credit for it. Well, now for a guy like Salah, that's just, it's just too much for him. So now they're mortal enemies, mortal enemies. That brings this to something that is a horrible affair. And honestly, we could do a totally separate history on this sometime. I'm not going to do it today. Something broke out in Rome called the social war, the social war. And here's what it was. And actually, this is going to apply to us today too. To be a Roman citizen, it was something in these times that was sought after. You wanted to be a Roman citizen. If you were a Roman citizen, if you were officially a citizen, then you got to participate in elections. You got to say you had protections, including protections when you went abroad. That citizenship of Rome thing was almost a get out of jail free card because no other nation wanted to make Rome mad and Rome would make you pay for that. Remember that famous story in the Bible when Paul, he's sitting there getting whipped in their yelling at him and then he says to the guy, are you comfortable doing this to a Roman citizen? You know, I'm a Roman citizen, right? And the guy almost poops his pants. I didn't know. Can we get in my blanket? I'm sorry, Paul. Why? You could go anywhere in the world and hold up your Roman citizen card and they would know, don't tangle with this guy or you'll have a Roman army at your door. You wanted to be a Roman citizen. Well, Rome, they had been, remember, it started out as Rome. And then they began to conquer the Roman peninsula, the Italian boot, as you would know it today. Well, these were separate societies. It was Sam Knights and it was whatever, all kinds of different Italian societies, not Roman, but Italian. And Rome began to conquer all of them. And Rome had conquered all them by this time. And these societies were living under Roman rule. And these societies were forced to provide Rome with troops whenever Rome wanted them. Hey, 10,000 of your young men tomorrow, bring them here. But they weren't given citizenship. And they were starting to chafe under it in a war broke out. They wanted citizenship. Now, let's talk about the two separate parties right now as it comes to that. The populace in Rome, the Populares, they wanted these other cities to get their Roman citizenship. The the elites, the optimates, for lack of a better way to put it, they did not. They were dead set against it. This war breaks out. Cities rebelled all over the place. It was a long, brutally bloody affair. And unlike most Roman affairs, it wasn't Roman armies going out and curb stomping these things and winning every time. Because remember, these societies were trained by Romans, equipped by Romans. They were by all accounts, Romans themselves. So it was Romans squaring off against Romans. Sala gets involved in this thing. He's fighting tooth and nail in this thing. And in the end, Rome has to give citizenship to all of these citizens. It's called the social war. It was anything but social. Okay. Now, let's talk about Mithridates, another guy throughout history who's so fascinating. It's just amazing. Mithridates is a king. He's running a kingdom called Pontus. And Pontus, they're not bending the knee to Rome, like everyone else is at this time. In fact, Mithridates, he's more than just throwing shade at Rome. He's killing Romans. He's attacking Romans. Rome's not going to stand for this. Sala is about 88 BC. Sala is made console. He's made president. And Sala is so well regarded militarily at this time that eventually with this Mithridates thing, they decide they're going to put Sala in charge of the army that will go and defeat Mithridates. Now pause. We have a tendency when we hear things like just to think about this. We put our modern shoes on when we think about this. So if it was me getting called up into the Marines to go fight in Afghanistan, you would probably think, and I would think, oh, well, that that sucks. I mean, that's horrible. But the only thing worse in the food is the pay and the fact you might get shot in the face. I don't want to go. I don't want to fight anymore. My fighting days are done. I'm 42 now. I got a back brace on. I want to do that. But that's how we looked at it for generals and their troops back then. Warfare was not something they shied away from in Rome because of the insane money that would come into your coffers when you fought a war. If you were a Roman, just a Roman regular troop or a Roman general, you wanted to go fight a war and you wanted to go fight a big one. Yeah, you might die. But if you didn't at the end of it, you were crazy rich because you were allowed to loot and the Roman generals would pay off their troops with slaves and money. You wanted it. And the the Romans decided Salah gets to go fight this. But then Gaius Marius steps in and we'll tell you that story. I'll try to finish this up next. No promises. I might not. I ain't worried about it. Now, what the Romans did was they had to send men to go tell Salah the news. That must be frustrating. I bet those men the entire way were sitting there thinking to themselves. If only I had a pure talk phone. What Chris, pure talk is on this great 5G network. I don't want to have to ride all this way. It's hot and thirsty. I know the call won't get dropped. In fact, I can just text him because pure talks on the same 5G network as the big guys. 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Now I'm not going to cover everything I've already covered. Just know that we're doing a history story about Lucius Cornelius Sala. And he's Sala is about to get command of a fighting, a fighting force, a Roman fighting force who's going to go fight this guy, Mithrid eighties. Mithrid eighties of Pontus. But Gaius Marius is still around. And remember him and Sala, they're mortal enemies. And Gaius Marius is a populist. Mithrid eighties is one of the elites. They are against each other in every possible way. Sala. He wants this military command. He wants it badly. Of course, he would want it really, really badly. It would be lucrative for his reputation, for his bank account, his men want it really badly. Sala has already found out he's going to get it. He's already told his men. They are all excited about it. This is a good thing. But Gaius Marius is back in Rome and he's politicking. And Gaius Marius twists enough arms, pours enough honey into enough ears that he gets the command of the Sala expedition. The Mithrid eighties expedition, I should say, he gets it taken away from Sala. This is Sala's hour of glory, where he gets to command an army and go conquer somebody. They send men to Sala's camp to inform him that he has his command now revoked. Hey, Sala. Too bad. So sad. You're no longer allowed to lead the Mithrid eighties campaign. Well, you want to know how well that was received? Sala's men took the messengers and stone them to death. And then Sala rallies his men and says, well, men, they want to take this away from us. We can either let them or we can march on Rome and make them, make them do what we want. Now, I need to pause right now because there are a couple of things I need to say that we've kind of glossed over. You know, I told you the populace were rising and there was this populist movement rising and how people when there's enough people angry about something, they'll eventually start to get reforms. There were a bunch of populist reforms that had already been put into place that were being put into place to try to calm down the anger of the people to sue their anger, tell them they're going to have more reputation. The elites aren't going to be quite as evil. So these reforms had already gone into place. All right. So there's that. There's also this little thing. Rome. Rome didn't have a barracks with an army in it. That's how I would I would picture it. Maybe you're different. But whenever I picture a powerful ancient city, I always pictured, Oh, well, surely they've got an army laying around, right? That was way against the law in Rome. You were not allowed to have an army within the Roman borders at all. That is not allowed. Well, Salah gets his men rallied up and he says to them fellas. Let's go to Rome. And his men say, absolutely. Let's go to Rome and Salah marches on Rome. Now, you know how I said Marius was there. He was the one who got Salah's command taken away. When they all found out Salah was marching on Rome, they freaked out that had never been done before. Wait a minute. He's what is that man? He's coming here. What do we have? Do we have anything that can fight him? Wait, we don't even have an army. So Marius fled. Salah marches into Rome. He marches into Rome with his army and he begins to do some reforms. What kind of reforms? Well, he's cleaning up a lot of this populist scrap. A little thing here, little thing there. He goes and tweaks some things. And then he tells him, okay, I'm glad I got you all straightened out. If it's okay with you, I'm going to go on my military campaign now and I'm going to go fight. Anyone else have any complaints about that? And as you can imagine, all the Romans were all up. No, sounds good. Say Salah. I just want to make sure you guys have everything you need. Do you have your, do you have your emergency three month food kit from my patriot supply yet? What, Chris? I didn't add that into the story. That's probably what they said. I mean, I'm not sure if my patriot supply was around a hundred years before Christ, but they're such a great company. I assume so. They have after all helped millions of Americans already get prepared with food, emergency food. How much non perishable food do you have in your home? Does everyone in your home have the ability to eat for three months if things go bad? And things do go bad. Gosh, I talked to Victor Davis Hanson today. He wrote this new book at it. I mean, it was, look, you need emergency food. Okay. Everyone does. My patriot supply has their three month emergency food kits, $200 off with free shipping right now. When you go to prepare with Jesse Kelly.com, prepare with Jesse Kelly.com. That's where you go. Get your emergency three month food kit. You don't have to go crazy. You don't have to get 30 years worth. Get three months. All right. Prepare with Jesse Kelly.com. Now back to Salah. Salah marches off to war. And Salah is fighting his war and he's doing well. But something happens when Salah's gone. Remember, Salah marched in with his army, got a few reforms done, and then he left out. He was off to war. And remember, this is the ancient world. He's not an eight hour plane right away. There aren't trains. There aren't automobiles. When you're marching off, you're gone for a long time. As soon as Salah leaves, Gaius Marius comes right back into Rome and essentially takes Rome over for the populace. Salah had put a bunch of his men in place. Gaius Marius starts to slaughter them. He starts to kill Salah's men that were in place and starts to put in his populace government where he's in charge. Now that brings me to something that's uncomfortable to talk about. But if we talk about it all the time, especially because Joe Biden's the president age, at this time, Salah, he's still a man very much in his thinking and fighting prime, probably 40s 50s. I could look it up and tell you exactly, but he's very much in his fighting prime. Marius is an old man by now. And we don't know exactly what his condition was, but we know from a lot of the things that they've written down, he was having things like seizures. Look, he might have had dementia, right? We don't know. He's on the back end. So when I say Gaius Marius from now on, I don't want you to picture the Gaius Marius that went up and took on a gigantic army of Germans and defeated them all because he's Gaius Marius and he's the man. This is, look, life happens. We get old. This is old, broken down Gaius Marius, but he's not too broken down to kill Salah's men. Salah off fighting the war, of course, gets worried about what's happening in Rome. And Salah says, Oh, no. So Salah quickly gets with Mithridates and he makes peace because Salah has a different war to fight. We will wrap up our history story and go back to politics next. This has been a podcast from W.O.R. I'm Victoria Cash. Thanks for calling the Lucky Land Hotline. If you feel like you do the same thing every day, press one. If you're ready to have some serious fun, for the chance to redeem some serious prizes, press two. We heard you loud and clear. So go to luckylandslots.com right now and play over a hundred social casino style games for free. Get lucky today. At luckylandslots.com. Available to players in the U.S. excluding Washington