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the jurogan experience it's kind of stunning being spoken well you see how little england is yeah you know that i mean it makes sense what you're talking about with pirates that like they had to be the most horrific monsters to try to control the empire well it's also insane by the way so i did this special in um spain so i i i and i love history so do you know what year they finally unified spain where they got rid of the moors and they finally the castilians kind of pieced together what we consider modern day spain do you know what year they did that 1492. the year that columbus so they literally finally kicked the moors out by the way were really they were really not nice the moors are evil people well no no they were not nice to the moors or the jews like they got the the moors though they were conquerors themselves they were conquerors but like everybody was back but like the the i mean i performed in morocco it's like amazing to think that like you know we we think of the colonizers as these europeans but the arabs were colonizers too they colonized morocco so like there's the berbers and i'm sure i'm pronouncing that wrong that so the moroccans that were in spain were part of you know when muhammad and all these guys rose up the great arab power was they took over and they got all all the way into spain and stuff like that but it's insane to think that i mean this was a joke that i had when i went to spain like spain took all the gold all the gold from central and south america all of it so like there wasn't really that much gold in north america there was gold in central and south america and the spain took it all and they spent it
and so one of my jokes when i was in spain i'm like where's the gold where is it you guys like they literally like one of the things they did is they built a navy and they got their ass kicked by the british you know so it's it's really fascinating to see what how quick these empires come and how quick they disappear yeah and that's the strange thing about where we are today is that we want to think that the united states is going to be around forever and that you know the power and influence we enjoy over the rest of the world will continue this way and there's no way would ever live under the thumb of a ruthless dictator like they did you know back in the day in this part of the world or that part of the world like that's been the standard way that human beings have governed forever yeah the romans were like we're good no one's going to take over yeah come on we got it yeah the greeks the same way i mean they started with democracy yeah right and it all [ __ ] fell apart i mean the romans were like so confident they're like you know constantine's like you know what i don't even want to do rome anymore let's go over to what's present-day istanbul like he switched the capital of rome that's insane it's it's kind of like if a president was like you know what i think our capital should now be in uh let's now put it in vancouver yeah like in a different country right this roman empire it was named after a city rome and he moved it to an you know essentially asia it's like insane why did he go there i think that objects i think that i think that was that was modern maybe i don't know oh interesting i don't know i dan carlin would know yeah he'd be the guy how does that guy know so much he's just consuming yeah well he works so hard on his show to call his show a podcast and to call this a podcast is really kind of hilarious because this is like we did zero preparation i haven't seen you in two years yeah yeah we talked like through text messages only and then also we're sitting there talking we have no idea what we're going to talk about and
we've been talking for hours dan carlin when he does a two-hour podcast he will research that for months months and months like well he'll do a thing like the wrath of the con which is a spectacular five piece series on genghis khan when he did that it took like six months to prepare wow yeah and then he puts them out and you can get them for a dollar they cost a dollar each and it is like literally some of the most spectacular historical entertainment you'll ever get in your life it's educational there's an enthusiasm to how he does it he's amazing he's an ama and he's so humble too he always says he's not a historian like picture yeah he always says that stop saying that he's have you met him i haven't met him he's a great guy too he's been on the podcast a couple times and so what is so the length of his podcast are astronomical yeah they're like four hours poor part one yeah of caesar conquers the world and you're like what he's like let me quote from this book that i read i'm like dude i haven't like reading this dense information he goes sophocles wrote this thing and you're like how do you know that yeah he and he covers so many different topics he had a great piece on martin luther and the invention of lutheranism and the time in history where making a version of the bible that was phonetically readable that people could understand like a phonetic interpretation of the bible where you could say the word like that didn't exist like they they all read the bible in latin and if you didn't understand latin you most people didn't read right you were at the whim of the priests and martin luther came along and said actually what god said like she could probably interpret it yourself and not leave it to these people and like they came real close to killing him a few times for that it is amazing how consistently uh the messages and the teachings of jesus are like like humans can't grasp it like they're like way off like oh we're supposed to take care of the poor we're supposed to help the
needy we're supposed to do all this and people were like does that mean i should get another car like we don't we don't even come close i'm gonna get a jesus tattoo i mean like we don't and i'm talking about people that uh you know embrace the christian faith yes like get it wrong i'm not talking about people like i don't believe in that stuff right people who proclaim to be christian again humans are pretty dumb