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Oh, good morning, good morning
out there in Twitterland, ftjmedia dot Com

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and Rumble for as long as they
keep me. There is lots of strange,

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strange stuff going on on the old
Rumble these days, which I have

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been calling Crumble for the past that
I'll know year and a half maybe longer.

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When the first wave of the Canadian
nonsense about things having to be more

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Canadian in order to be on Canadian
programming or things that come out of Canada,

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I guess, I guess Trudeau wants
people to talk about hockey and Mabel

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Syrup in their content to bring back
the Canadian communist pride mother Canada, Chinada.

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But anyhow, uh yeah, so
purgings of videos has been happening.

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As I mentioned. Also people have
been knocked off. I've had many people

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subscribing over the last three days,
and my account there's going the opposite direction

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as sort as subscribers, and now
it's like plus two but it don't it

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doesn't match up. So there's that
as well. Plus people are noticing the

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same thing I am is that they're
sometimes they can't get into the chat and

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they have to leave the comments in
the actual comment thing, and then sometimes

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those comments get deleted. My own
comments get deleted too, so and sometimes

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I'm in the middle of a discussion
back and forth and then it just says

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unable to send, So I guess
that's the end of the conversation. According

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to Rumble, I don't think all
of that. I don't think all of

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that is just shitty software, even
though Crumble is notorious for that as well.

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That's why I FTJ media is where
everyone should be going. And I'll

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show you my channel on the screen
here. Shortly we're going to discuss today.

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As the description to the video details
continuing on with the asher Logos series.

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His only playlist on his channel,
it's called out Subverted History. This

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is gonna be four point one,
and I think there's a four point two

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and a four point three in this
series. But Germanic people, the Goths

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in the End of the Goths,
the End of the Goths probably won't be

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able to get to the third one
today because of first two. I think

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o't like an hour long plus or
minus. I'm surprised I'm sitting in this

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chair right now. I as I've
been telling people and reminding people because I'm

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you know, it's a way to
motivate myself and so keep accountability to myself.

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So I'm letting people know what I
do as far as exercise daily,

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and I'm in the best I guess
I would say leanist. I've ever been,

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not the most muscular, because I
was freaking I couldn't even put my

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hand in my back pocket. I
was so bra when I was in my

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twenties, but I'm getting I'm getting
back to that. But I'm also getting

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more lean than I've ever been,
which is cool. Never in my life

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have I done this much audio.
I've never liked to run, but I

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did always like the elliptical, so
I've been using mine and I've been like

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yesterday, I did about five I
broke it up in four and then one

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point one in the evening. But
prior to the day before that, I

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did four, and then I well
three point eight and then three point eight

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miles, So I did two thousand
calories that day according to the meter,

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which I don't think is accurate.
But anyway, last night and right now,

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as I sit here trying to take
a deep breath, my what I

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don't even know how to explain it. If it's my kidney or something in

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what I would have imagine my kidney
years area excruciating pain. And about the

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last week I've had the sensation that
I have to pee all the time,

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even though I don't, it just
feels like I have to, which is

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annoying as shit, especially when you're
trying to sleep. But then also last

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night, after screaming in agony a
little bit in the bedroom and trying not

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to keep irritated women, uh you
know, keep on waking her up.

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I don't think I was, but
I just didn't want to wake her up.

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Went into the living room, in
the in the incline, in the

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recliner, kicked it back and twice
and still that was like the first time

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I actually felt somewhat not in excruciating
pain in my what I believe is my

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kidney area, but I don't know. And because I had rapped omiosis before.

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After doing like this, I don't
know, I walked for like ridiculous

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amount of time, like miles upon
miles upon miles without stopping. So I

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think that's one of those things it
could be going on. But anyway,

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sitting in that chair, and what
woke me up that time was my beat

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current like that, and just all
the muscles in my legs cramping up like

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viciously, so I minion recliners,
have to kick it up, jump up.

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And then as I'm doing that,
different muscles are working in different directions,

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so those start cramping up, and
I had to step on my feet

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because they were all curled up like
a dishri fee r whenever. So that

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was fun. And then trying to
stretch one up muscle would make the other

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one cramp up. Then with inner
thigh muscles were all freaking ridiculously cramping.

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That was a lot of pain.
And then it happened again maybe an hour

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later, went through the whole shit
all over again. So I'm here.

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I don't know what the hell's going
on. I could just be over overuse,

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but I don't know what the pain
is in my side. That's why

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I think about it, because I'm
not stopping. But anyway, here we

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go. If anybody has any ideas
what the fuck is wrong with me besides

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the regular stuff, let me know. H fuck life. Anyway, let's

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do it. And uh yeah,
oh one last thing, sorry, hold

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on, so as you know,
oh we have we have new internet now

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yes? Ah okay, so as
you know in about uh eleven days,

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I'll be risking my life and my
daughter is in a fucking airplane because everybody

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else is pushing us to do this, even though I didn't want to do

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it this way. And I have
myself to blame if anything happens, and

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them, and I will blame them
from the grave pieces of shit. Yeah,

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I'm talking about the people that birth
of me. Don't fucking I mean,

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I mean, it's like, don't
listen to what I have to say.

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But anyway, I'll be doing that. So get any orders in that

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you want to or the hot sauce, the creating, and I'll get it.

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I'll get them all out as much
as I can before I leave.

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Also, the gifts and go much
appreciated, or the or the GoFundMe that's

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actually specifically created for the trip to
New York so that I, Rebecca Faraday,

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can have a decent time, uh, and not to worry about the

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bills when we get back and all
that stuff. All any help, will

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you must appreciated the All the links
are in the description. Now let's start.

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Oh I didn't switch to the channel. There you go. Enjoy.

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This is actually really good. I
watched the most of it last night for

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them. This time I didn't cut
out the intro because I realized what I

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was looking at. That's the God
mits uns. God with us says,

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life like a bow, the mind
like the arrow, the target to pierce

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the supreme spirit, to join mind
to spirit as the shot, as a

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shot arrow hits its target, to
join mind to spirit as the shot arrow

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hits its target. We're talking about
Germanic warriors in the Goths today, and

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origins ancestry are roots. The year
was nine a d. And Rome was

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at her peak. Crimes were to
be exposed and punished. Infamy was to

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whoa, whoa, whoa, What
the fuck was that just jumped away?

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Ahead? Hold on, this is
just say He's going to be a trying

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day. So I'm not in the
fucking movie. No sleep, Try this

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again. The year was nine a
d. And Rome was at her peak.

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The Roman commander Nero Claudius Drusus had
been tasked with handling the German peoples

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to the north, and as he
picked off the disunited tribes one by one,

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he made the choice to treat them
roughly and unjustly. The country was

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widely devastated and immense multitudes were carried
away from their homes and transplanted to the

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Gallic bank of the Rhine. The
whole mixed multitudes thing was interesting choice of

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words being's starvation, children stolen and
sold into bondage, and all manner of

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Roman states anstered. Atrocities were reportedly
carried out. Jusis knew that the Germanic

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warriors could be daunting opponents, but
he also knew that they were divided into

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a great many factions, and that
these factions were constantly butting heads with one

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another, especially with Rome's true hidden
hand at play behind the scenes, fighting

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a people, by all accounts devoid
of such shrewdness and cunning themselves. Drusus,

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sitting at the helm of a military
force belonging to the mightiest empire in

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the world, likely felt all but
fearless, and perhaps figured his mistreatment would

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strike fear in the hearts of this
simple people. This would prove to be

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a costly miscalculation. Resentment had long
been building among the German nobles, resentment

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which had recently come to a fever
pitch. He recorded this with a bit

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of an echo like, seemingly without
a good microphone. So if you're hearing

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something that looks seems a little off. That's the original recording. Regardless,

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the Romans had a potent weapon on
their side, a German of the Cheruski

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tribe named Armenius, who, like
so many Germans from noble families, had

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been taken as a hostage in the
loosest sense of that term, to grow

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up in Rome, to learn Roman
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to respect and love the Empire,
and take this attitude back to his own

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people. Was employed in the Roman
army to help put down revolts and better

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navigate the terrain. He'd risen to
prominence quickly in Rome and was well liked

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and respected by all for his merit
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They knew he was a skilled warrior
and saw flashes of brilliance as he rose

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through the ranks, But little did
they know what caliber of man their efficient

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Roman military structure was serving to cultivate. Here who find out in a master's

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stroke of subterfuge, something the Romans
wouldn't have expected from the Germans, and

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perhaps a learned trait that Armenius had
picked up in Rome and now saw fit

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to employ out of necessity, Armenius
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and Virus and feign alliance and devotion
while secretly inventing pretexts to meet with the

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most powerful German chieftains in the surrounding
region. The tribes had been pushed well

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past their red line with the brutal, insulting, ignoble treatment they'd endured,

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and now had decided to go all
in, relishing the moment they'd be able

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to teach their Roman foe a lasting
lesson. At an agreed upon time,

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the ten Roman cohorts spread across the
Germanic territory, which Armenius had previously requested

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as a means of keeping the peace. Each cohort, containing approximately five hundred

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Roman soldiers, were simultaneously pounced upon
and slaughtered to the last man. Armenius

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then rode to Varis and claimed a
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the Roman force. Having no reason
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a submissive vassal, Barris set off
immediately with three legions in toe, exactly

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as Arminius predicted, taking the precise
route he'd expected. The Germans were ready

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The Roman soldiers had always been uncomfortable
fighting in wholly foreign, often cold or

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swampy or foggy German forests, but
time tested leadership, tactics, organization,

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and strength in numbers had always proved
enough. Stretched out in a long marching

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column, It's likely that at this
point they still felt confident, if a

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bit uneasy, but this confidence was
about to be shattered to an extent none

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of them could have predicted at the
time. Without warning and believing themselves to

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be in safe territory, Germanic warriors
streamed out of the forests to simultaneously assailed

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both sides of the all too thinly
stretched column and massacred many, while throwing

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the procession into confused chaos. Worse
yet, the cavalry auxiliary units protecting Roman

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flanks as they marched were Germans as
well, and very much in on the

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rebellion. The legions were now spread
out, stretched thin, and surrounded.

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Beating a hasty fighting retreat, the
Romans finally set up a fortified camp for

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the night, and after an attempt
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next day, they were set upon
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Their wet bows became useless, their
shields and weapons water logged, and the

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morale of the men must have begun
plummeting to critical levels rarely experienced by a

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professional Roman army trezo. I think
maybe she just refreshed. I don't I'm

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not catching enough of anybody else saying
that there's anything wrong with the audio picture.

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For a moment, anybody else is
having issues, let me know.

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The Roman soldier in a hastily constructed
night camp, having lost their German guides,

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entirely surrounded by German forests filled with
German warriors, and as the unrelenting

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downpour turns the foreign terrain to muck
beneath his feet, he realizes just how

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far he is from home, fighting
men who are for the most part,

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bigger, stronger, and unlike his
peers, aren't mercenaries who fight for pay,

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but rather fight for the love of
it. They fight as sport,

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as a test of courage, as
ritual as release. If they live,

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they go home a hero. If
they die nobly and bravely, they ascend

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into the afterlife as a hero,
making them essentially fearless. Not only are

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a multitude of various tribes now united
as one in opposition. But after years

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of the grossest disrespect and violence and
every form of debasing intrusion, they're now

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enraged and led by Arminius, a
man who knew Roman armies and tactics like

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few others, and was both highly
motivated and competent. Picture these Romans attempting

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to sleep at night, as they
can't help but hear the infamous German war

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chance echoing through the darkness of the
pitch black forests in a low, powerful

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hum. Quote, putting their shields
to their mounds, as Tacitus states,

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so that it may swell to a
fuller and deeper sound end quote. Having

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watched so many of their legionary peers
slaughter, and likely having glimpsed traces of

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panic in the face of their leaders
despite best efforts as they struggle to find

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a viable path forward, this was
the ultimate test of their medal. In

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a desperate attempt at escape, the
Romans engaged in a night march in exactly

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the territory armenies had expected, no
doubt, wondering with each successive step if

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it might be their last, Suddenly
showing a strategic mastery of tactics once again,

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a mass of Germans appeared as if
from nowhere. The second in command

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of Varus threw off the famed Roman
discipline and flat out turned tail to escape

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with his entire cavalry attachment, an
attempt that would prove in vain, as

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he was soon overtaken by German cavalry, who then acted as the Karmic force,

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set to punish their cowardice by slaughtering
them to the last man. As

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Verus tried desperately to keep some semblance
of order, the Germans finally swarmed onto

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the frightened chaos of men, this
time en mass. It was a slaughter,

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and amidst it all, Verus took
his own life. Everything had gone

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precisely according to plan for Arminius.
The defeat was so total, with estimates

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of twenty thousand men dead, three
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said to have walked around in a
daze for several weeks afterwards, back in

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Rome, pounding his head and his
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his palace. Who does that sound
like? Remember when Germany was advancing on

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Russia and Stalin had his little nervous
breakdown, where he curl up in a

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ball and pete himself. An Avril
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Yeah down sounds a little similar,
shouting Quintilius, verus, give me

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back my legions. The Germans,
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in this instance, and reports were
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later, Roman legions found grisly trophies
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Roman eyes, perhaps as a lesson, a reminder, including men nailed to

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trees and the remnants of many others, burnt earned and the sacred groves.

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Never again would Rome attempt to conquer
all of the German lands. So who

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were these men? It's important to
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for Roman sources, we have known
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The Germanic peoples, very broadly speaking, disprized writing and instead preferred bards and

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the human voice and recounting their great
tales. How many other heroes and exceptional

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stories of great courage, competence,
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We may never know the answer to
this, but the following will be

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a clumsy attempt to bring together some
of what we do know. Discussing the

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Goths and Germanic peoples is a daunting
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of such immense historical importance, but
because there are few historical topics so rife

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with misinformation. This says on the
screen. Modern modern academics have recently,

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I don't know if it's a proper
tense for began but begun claiming. Yeah,

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recently begun claiming that the sbastika was
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in India, Persia, et cetera. Misdirection, confusion, and muddied

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waters. This aggressively pushed new theory
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by Germany in the nineteen thirties.
Now it's their ancient symbol of their of

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their ancestry. I believe one of
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the post World War two paralysis.
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state of self flagellation and the most
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From the conclusion of this war forward, not only Germany, but across the

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Western world. Our conception of history
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changing face of academia. Any data
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positive light was viewed with extreme skepticism
and almost always dismissed out of hand or

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buried or ignored, whereas historical accounts
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out, embraced, championed. And
that's exactly how they carry pick studies that

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are paid to have a specific result. So when people talk about peer review,

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when they talk about this or that
allopathic claim of health or wellness,

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it's all should be. It should
be considered with discernment. This happens naturally

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and unconsciously in an environment in which
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one direction. The expression of the
victors writing the history books is more deeply

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true than most could even fathom.
And though we sometimes think of this type

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of bias as a determinant of which
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it goes far deeper than this.
The underlying premise we set out with

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the fundamental narratives and storylines, the
frame of reference determines how we create our

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fact picture of history. It acts
as the root from which all brand you

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see this, Do you see this
propaganda on the screen. Preserving my children's

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innocence is an act of preserving weight
supremacy. Abolish the white race. The

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goal of abolishing the white races on
its face so desirable that so many find

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it hard to believe that it could
incur any opposition other than from committed weight

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supremacists. That's Harvard Magazine. That's
what you pay through the nose or for

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your children to go and get an
education. The uncomfortable truth is BBC this

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week. That's the name of it. Not this week. Obviously, this

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was made in twenty fifteen. I
think the uncomfortable truth is that the white

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race. White race is the most
violent and oppressive force of nature on earth.

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I guess they've not been in place
else. That's his spring. When

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the root is infected by serious bias, everything which springs from it will inevitably

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be a result of this built in
bias. In such a natural appa.

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You catch that one on the top
left, it says Jesus the first transgender

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man. Anything to agitate the senses
and completely make your mind. I don't

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know, not even schism explode an
organic fashion that it often goes when recognized

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for what it is. When we
approach history dishonestly, when we paint an

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inaccurate picture for future generations, we're
committing one of the greatest sins it's possible

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to commit. It's a profound disservice
to the dead, especially those who lived

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lives of self sacrifice and service to
something higher than themselves. But it's an

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equally powerful disservice to those young minds
being molded in shaped We need truth and

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an accurate picture of reality in order
to learn the lessons from the past that

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better help them develop in a healthy
manner. I've long considered this to be

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one of the greatest tragedies of our
age, and it's one of the many

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reasons I launched this series. I
won't go too far down these paths for

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the moment, as I value my
YouTube channel and reach and fully recognize this

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isn't a platform on which one can
expect to be honest on such topics and

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hope to go unpunished. But I
do hope to bring to light the story

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of the ancient Gothic and Germanic peoples. In what I believe is a more

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objective manner than most. As with
the other videos, this is so far

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from prehensive that a more honest title
might have been the tip of the Iceberg,

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A prelude to an introduction to a
prelude of an introduction to the Germanic

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Peoples. But also as with the
other videos, I expect these two videos

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will just be the first on the
topic, with more to follow, So

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here we go. Origins is a
tricky word, and of course it's rarely

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used with technical accuracy with regards to
human history. Definitively, tracing the origins

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of a people to a specific area
is virtually impossible short of hard and fast

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knowledge that they sprung from the soil
or were created by a higher power on

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a certain patch of ground at a
given time. The word is largely a

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misnomer, and what we usually mean
by it is that a people were highly

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concentrated in a given area at a
given time before spreading outwards. Tracing the

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origins of the Germanic peoples is especially
difficult, perhaps more so than any other

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group, and the reason for this
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One of the biggest misconceptions is that
these were largely settled tribes who rarely

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moved were migrated, but rather milled
around in European forests for millennia. The

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ancestors of Gota, Beethoven, Heisenberg, and von Braun were supposedly exclusively contained

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on this small patch of land,
contributing little to nothing to the larger storyline

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of empires, cultures, and peoples. I was taught this growing up,

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and in part due to the gravitas
of modern academic consensus, I believed it

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myself to some degree for much of
my life, until I became completely engrossed

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in the subject of history and began
to seek out the oldest, first hand

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historical accounts and the broader picture,
at which point my perspective changed entirely.

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One of these accounts was written by
a man of Gothic lineage himself around five

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hundred, a summarization of a still
more ancient source written by Cassiodorus, which

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unfortunately has been lost to us.
This man was called Jordanis, and I

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highly recommend reading his story in full. I may even narrate it at some

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point if the interest is there,
and I've linked it below in the video

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description. His account, which seems
to agree with the others of his era

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and beyond, speaks to a people
that were anything but domesticated and locked in

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place, very much the opposite,
and after all of my research, I

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can't help but believe the long migration
of the Goths that he highlights was hardly

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unique in the history of the Indo
Aryan peoples, but rather a hallmark and

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defining element of their character. This
urge to strike out to explore, especially

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when success in any given region caused
a population density that restricted their desire for

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individual plots of land to call their
own. And another prominent reason for movements

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and migrations, one made especially difficult
to discuss in today's atmosphere, seems to

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be something almost akin to what we
today call white flight, a fleeing from

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environments that no longer felt comfortable,
safe, or healthy for any reason,

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or that prevented them in any way
from living the types of lives they sought

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to lead, or more importantly,
restricted their freedoms in any way. The

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history of the Germanic peoples seems to
be one of volkswanduro, and the debate

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still rages as to what region they
inhabited in ancient times prior to major splits

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and migrations, with some certain it
was in or near Scandinavia, others just

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as certain it started near the Caucasus, or Iran, or India, or

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even the Middle East. This is
a profoundly intriguing topic and one I'll be

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devoting future videos to, But in
an effort to prevent this video from being

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excessively long, I believe the best
summary to be this. I think most

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of the confusion here is precisely due
to that characteristic of the Arians previously mentioned,

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namely that this larger genetic and cultural
family spread exceedingly far and wide over

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the period from approximately three to four
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Keep in mind that individuals of fair
eyes and hair and skin tall in

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stature of the I and R one
A and R one B happler groups have

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been found in large numbers as far
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all throughout the Black Sea region,
extending into North Africa, even the Americas

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and of course Europe, and were
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ancient DNA testing has confirmed the presence
of haplogroup marker R one A in four

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seventeen in samples from the accorded Ware
culture in Germany dating to twenty six hundred

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BC, from Takarian mummies dating to
about two thousand BC in Northwest China,

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from Kurgan burials circa sixteen hundred BC, from the Enternovo culture in southern Russia

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and southern Siberia, as well as
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from Russia, Siberia, Mongolia,
and Central Asia. And these weren't simply

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into visual travels and settlements. Aside
from the royal element, those rulers and

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leaders and chieftains who so often kept
detailed records of genealogy for dynastic purposes,

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the broader populations could easily lose track
of their relation to one another over time.

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His process is best thought of in
the manner of a family tree,

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visual with a single route branching out
into exponential complexity. And even though the

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branches might remain relatively free of racial
and cultural admixture from the outside, they

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would over time develop their own unique
manifestation of that larger culture, with their

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own heroes and tales and other unifying
and distinctive elopments. There's a real beauty

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in this these manifest stations of independent
storylines, all dancing around and reflecting the

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same core elements, each in their
own unique way. But it also of

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course makes the history a bit trickier
to properly sort and sift. So to

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simplify, we're going to pick up
their tale around the point which Jordanis himself

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first speaks of a definitive large migration, a movement which may have been a

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retracing of a previous migration path,
as the Danube and Rhine might well be

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thought of as something of a frequently
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Sea region. Agreeing with Cassiodorus,
the history from whom most of his work

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is derived, he dates this movement
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BC, arriving into the land of
Scythia, indicating just how easily Germanic peoples

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would expand and fragment into tribes,
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He mentions one group delayed to their
slower ships, being called the Gepidi,

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a lighthearted Gothic insult of sorts meaning
slow or stolid, and mentions later

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a large separation of the two major
groups due to a bridge failing before the

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entire migration party acrossed. Intriguingly,
he pins these mysterious words with regards to

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yet another separation of people's in this
long migration. Quote Philmer king of the

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Goths, found among his people certain
witches, whom he called in his native

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tongue helliarne. Suspecting these women,
he expected helli yarne. Okay, put

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a pin in that. And then
what do they do with these quote unquote

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witches? People who practice witchcraft,
people who are into this sorcery, this

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bakan stuff. But perhaps his bakan
stuff is quite old, and this will

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be the defining difference between those who
were going to be discussing and who we

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talked to. The oral in the
book and the people that Amen talk about

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without any distinction. Made that there's
even different people who didn't follow this type

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of sorcery, because in Amin's mind
or the way he's presenting history, it

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was all jacked up and there were
no noble people. And that's what he's

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painting the picture for. It's not
it's it's a little lopsided. Spelled them

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from the midst of his race and
compelled them to wander in solitary exile afar

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from his army. There the unclean
spirits who beheld them as they wandered through

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the wilderness, bestowed their embraces upon
them, and begat this savage race which

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dwelt at first in the swamps,
a stunted, foul and pune tribe,

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scarcely human and having no language save
one which bore but slight resemblance to human

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speech. Now who's he talking about
here? And is this a nod?

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Do those who would later claim a
very long heritage and create a Bible in

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the Hellenistic period after getting an education
by the Greek, learning Greek, thinking

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in Greek, You get my drift? Such was the descent of the Huns

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who came to the country of the
Goths end quote. This expulsion, if

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true, was to set the stage
for later events that would completely change the

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scope of the world history. Jordanis
mentions the Goths eventually settling in the region

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around the Black Sea, which we
spoke of in the part two of this

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series, as the central hub of
the Scythian peoples, and this shouldn't be

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surprising. The blanket racial designation of
Scythian was virtually synonymous with the Gothic people

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for many ancient historians, and one
might include Thracian, even Dacian and the

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later term Dramatic among these blanket terms
so often used by older sources to refer

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to a large racial and cultural value
peoples. I very much agree with the

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Anglo Saxon historian Sharon Turner when he
says, quote the Anglo Saxons, Lowland,

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Scotch, Normans, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Germans, Dutch,

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Belgians, Lombards and Franks have all
sprung from that great fountain of the human

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race, which we have distinguished by
the term Scythian, German or Gothic end

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quote. And I believe this broader
perspective provides a much more clear and helpful

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understanding of history. Jordana speaks of
his people's ancient battle with the Egyptians,

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recounting the legendary Scythian Gothic king Tanaosis
and his routing of Cissostres and approximately thirteen

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hundred BC, chasing him all the
way back to Egypt and on the return

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journey, subjugating much of Asia,
making the lands subject to Soreness, king

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of the Medes, who was quote
his dear friend. Another illustration of the

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close connection in kinship between peoples presented
in most modern historical accounts as wholly disconnected

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and unrelated to one another. It's
interesting to note either more than one source

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speaks of how a band of Trojans, twelve thousand strong in most accounts,

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led by Priam and Antenor, sailed
from Troy to the River Dawn in Russia

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and onto Pannonia on the River Danube, settling near the Sea of Azov,

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which of course is where we find
our Goths and Scythians later mentioned founding a

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city called Secambria. Jordana speaks of
one king of the Ghetai, a Gothic

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people, as being Telephus, a
son of Hercules and the husband of the

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sister of Cream of Trojan fame.
Telephus quote was of towering stature and terrible

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strength. He matched his father's valor
by virtues of his own, and also

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recalled the traits of Hercules by his
likeness and appearance. Our ancestors called his

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kingdom Moisia. This province has on
the east the mouths of the Danube,

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on the South Macedonia, on the
west Histria, and on the north the

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Danube. End quote, Jordanis goes
on to recount the personal battles of Telefus

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with Ajax, Ulysses and Achilles,
and eventually being mortally wounded in the fight.

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He also mentions Cyrus attacking the Ghetai, whose queen was Tomyris, the

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same Tomrius mentioned as queen of the
Scythians in Part two of our series,

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who went on to route Cyrus and
his Persians to avenge the death of her

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son. Darius too was to try
his luck against them. So that's Cyrus

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getting his head dipped in blood there, Scythian and God by the pissed off

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mom. I love that people only
to meet the same fate despite an army

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reputed to contain seven hundred thousand men, likely due to those high the mobile

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guerrilla warfare and scorched earth tactics highlighted
in the Scythian video following Darius's failure quote.

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After his death, his son Xerxes
planned to avenge his father's wrongs and

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so proceeded to undertake a war against
the Goths with seven hundred thousand of his

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own men. And three hundred thousand
armed auxiliaries, twelve hundred ships of war,

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and three thousand transports. But he
did not venture to try them in

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battle, being overawed by their unyielding
courage. So he returned with his force

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just as he had come, and
without fighting a single battle. End quote.

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And those of you that are members
of Patreon at disguised limits, I

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just dropped the free pdf of Getica
by Jordanis into the feed for you,

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so you'll have that for your study, for your research into you or an

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ancestry. This illustrates and important.
Sorry I'm not even speaking correct today,

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00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:04.280
I'm so messed up. And unique
element of this people and their history.

436
00:39:05.239 --> 00:39:09.639
Almost universally across any historical account,
you're likely to find they were spoken of

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with respect, even by their enemies, As Edred Thorson states in his Mysteries

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of the Goths quote, this prestige
certainly had a metaphysical dimension as well.

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Gothic identity was not merely a random
or arbitrary thing. It implied a degree

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of greatness and bore a whole series
of ideological traits as well. Freedom,

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independence, heroism, individualism, within
group, solidarity. End quote. This

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was a people that cared deeply about
upholding the honor of their name, seemingly

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both as tribute to their ancestors and
a gift to their descendants, and would

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sooner die than be seen as cowardly, scheming, weak, ignoble, or

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00:39:55.639 --> 00:40:04.960
otherwise unjust not scheming. So definitely
not like the merchants and road bandits right,

446
00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:12.719
certainly not like the habrew sagaz that
we were talking about in the New

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00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:17.360
History of the Jews with Eustace Mullins
a little while back, and what came

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00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:22.480
up with the stef unver stop and
talk just this Saturday or Sunday. This

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innate characteristic would follow them, And
Tacitus speaks of their own internal governing and

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decision making being dictated in a similar
manner, stating the very prestige of a

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chief may settle a war, and
mentioning how leadership was by example, not

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authority, gravitas, and prestige and
respect as opposed to an arbitrary, superimposed

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social or political structure. I believe
this allowed for the formation of a much

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more natural and healthy hierarchy, one
which was capable of adjusting in real time

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and required leaders to conduct themselves in
manner befitting their position. Onom this note,

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it's stunning to see how closely the
accounts of Herodus and Pompeius Tragus and

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others of the ancient Scythians near those
of Tacitus's later accounts of the Germans.

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Another testament to this prestige is the
story of Philip, father of Alexander the

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00:41:17.800 --> 00:41:22.000
Great, who had made alliance with
the Goths by taking to wife a daughter

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of a Gothic king. However,
needing money, made the mistake of attacking

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Odessus, a city of Mosia,
which was subject to the Goths. It's

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00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:36.800
said that at the approach of the
Macedonians quote, those priests of the Goths

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that are called the holy Men suddenly
opened the gates of Odesss and came forth

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00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:45.079
to meet them. They bore harps
and were clad in snowy rogues, enchanted

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in sepplate strains to the gods of
their fathers, that they might be propitious

466
00:41:50.519 --> 00:41:55.039
and repel the Isn't that a liar? Not a harp? Isn't a harp

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like something that stands on the ground
is a big, huge thing. That's

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00:41:58.639 --> 00:42:05.840
a liar that their hold Correctdonians,
when the Macedonians saw them coming with such

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00:42:05.880 --> 00:42:09.239
confidence to meet them, they were
astonished, and so to speak, the

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00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:15.320
armed were terrified by the unarmed.
Straightway, they broke the line they had

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00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:19.679
formed for battle, and not only
refrained from destroying the city, even gave

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00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:23.440
back those whom they had captured outside
by right of war. Then they made

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00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:31.159
a truce and returned to their own
country. Such accounts seem almost unbelievable until

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viewed in totality with the rest of
the accounts of the reputation that followed these

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00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:40.760
people, whom I believe may be
those mysterious royal Scythians, Herodotus and others

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00:42:40.800 --> 00:42:46.920
mentioned as the foremost among the related
scattered tribes. On this note, before

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we follow the trail back into Europe, i'd be remiss not to mention a

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00:42:51.519 --> 00:42:57.760
theory posited by Thor Heyerdahl and others
which suggests that the fame Assir, the

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00:42:57.880 --> 00:43:01.639
deified tribe of gods or leaders at
the heart of Norse and Germanic ancestor worship,

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00:43:01.960 --> 00:43:07.320
as well as Odin himself, were
very real people. They get deified

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00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:14.199
over time, and usually that's a
corruption, and the Frisians discussed this in

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00:43:14.679 --> 00:43:17.519
the Orlando book that we read a
lot of, but not all of yet.

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The term is etymologically connected to ancees
meaning half gods, which further stretches

484
00:43:24.239 --> 00:43:30.880
back to a proto Indo European word
essentially meaning life force and Avestin and Sanskrit

485
00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:37.719
terms meaning lord and godhood. It's
widely believed this word stems from a still

486
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:43.679
more ancient term meaning to create produce. He makes the argument for an etymological

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00:43:43.679 --> 00:43:50.000
connection of Asir to the Aziri of
Azerbaijan, which Heyerdhal and others posit as

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00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:57.440
being their ancient pre migration homeland.
The word azir and Persian means fire and

489
00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:00.519
in Turkic means high. Could that
have something to do with the color of

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00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:07.320
their hair being read? The Icelandic
Sagas speak in a matter of fact manner

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00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:12.159
about the Assir people and their principal
settlement being in a city wedged along the

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00:44:12.199 --> 00:44:17.960
Caucasus mountains. European royalty routinely traced
their lineage back through Troy, the Scythians,

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00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:22.559
and even Odin himself until fairly recent
times, in which these figures began

494
00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:28.360
to be framed as fictitious gods,
and to their credit, these genealogies seemed

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00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:32.599
to make sense in the broader scope
of written accounts. Thor Heyerdahl had been

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00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:37.840
working on a deeply intriguing book he
called The Hunt for Odin, which no

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00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:42.239
doubt would have provided a great deal
of more helpful context here, but sadly

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00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:46.039
died before its completion. He not
only claimed Odin was a flesh and blood

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00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:50.679
figure, but also broke from others
in that he didn't place him in the

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00:44:50.760 --> 00:44:54.159
most remote antiquity, but rather as
a respected chieftain who helped lead one of

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00:44:54.159 --> 00:45:00.280
the mass migrations back to the west. To quote Snorri Sturlison of author the

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00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:04.840
Norse EDAs, at that time when
Odin lived, the Romans were conquering far

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00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:07.480
and wide in the region. When
Odin learned that they were coming towards the

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00:45:07.559 --> 00:45:10.719
land of Theesers, he decided that
it was best for him to take his

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00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:15.239
priests, chiefs, and some of
his people and moved to the northern part

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00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:22.119
of Europe. End on the website
Osterholme Net, which I've linked below and

507
00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:27.519
seems to contain a trove of useful
information, albeit much of it not yet

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00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:31.480
embraced by academia. Mentions that The
most prominent clan to travel with the Asir

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00:45:31.960 --> 00:45:38.360
were the Ral warriors or the Erlar, meaning wild warriors. The Aesir sent

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00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:45.079
the Erlar or Arillar north as seafaring
warriors to secure land and establish trade.

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00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:52.519
These warriors were called the Earls and
Yarls and later Scandinavian society, and known

512
00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:58.320
as the Herules and Heralai by the
Romans. The clans enabled the Asir clans

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00:45:58.639 --> 00:46:04.800
later called the SphI, Spayar,
Svie, Severe or Spiona by the Romans,

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00:46:05.119 --> 00:46:08.239
to establish settlements throughout the region,
but not without continuous battles with the

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00:46:08.280 --> 00:46:14.719
Goths and other migrating Germanic tribes.
The Arals or Heroes eventually made peace with

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00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:19.079
the Goths, who ruled the region. The tribes of the Sphere, Vanyr,

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00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:23.639
and Heruli soon formed their own clans
and dominated the Baltic and Scandinavian region

518
00:46:24.480 --> 00:46:29.119
the Gothic history in Giordanis, who
was a notary of the Gothic kings,

519
00:46:29.719 --> 00:46:32.400
told about five hundred and fifty one
a d. That the Danier were from

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00:46:32.440 --> 00:46:37.360
the same stock as the Sphere,
both taller and fairer than any other people

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00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:43.440
in the north. The Sphere population
flourished, and with the Herols and Goths

522
00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:49.039
formed a powerful military alliance of well
known seafarers. The Sphere and Heralds then

523
00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:53.639
gradually returned to their ancestral land beginning
in the second century AD, sometimes sailing

524
00:46:53.639 --> 00:46:58.199
with the Goths. They terrorized all
the lands and peoples of the Black Sea

525
00:46:58.320 --> 00:47:02.079
and parts of the Mediterranean, even
the Romans. They were the pre vikings

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00:47:02.559 --> 00:47:07.880
end, and indeed we find several
mentions of the Heralds in the works of

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00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:14.519
Tacitus, Jordanis and others, spoken
of as especially famed and respected warriors.

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00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:19.239
These topics are still hotly debated,
as they should be, and some of

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00:47:19.280 --> 00:47:24.079
this is subjective speculation, albeit educated
speculation. But my advice would be to

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00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:30.159
beware those who dismiss such accounts out
of hand without hard evidence. The modern

531
00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:35.400
approach seems to be to start with
the premise that nearly all historical accounts are

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00:47:35.519 --> 00:47:38.920
false or flawed, Whereas I tend
to think that most of the histories were

533
00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:44.719
penned with genuine intent, i e. For the purpose of retaining an account

534
00:47:44.719 --> 00:47:47.880
of actual happenings, and I believe
there should be a burden of proof,

535
00:47:49.559 --> 00:47:53.280
but there should also be a burden
to disprove if this makes sense, especially

536
00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:57.280
in the cases in which we only
have a single document or two to make

537
00:47:57.400 --> 00:48:02.199
use of, and when the information
contained within fits cleanly into and fills in

538
00:48:02.280 --> 00:48:08.719
the blanks of a larger fact picture, the word debunk in our age seems

539
00:48:08.719 --> 00:48:14.079
to have somehow become all powerful,
and skeptics have a way of destroying and

540
00:48:14.159 --> 00:48:17.159
dragging with a good mud and a
theory that strays from their chosen storyline.

541
00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:23.000
This strikes me as dangerous. So
as we slowly move west into Europe,

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00:48:23.239 --> 00:48:29.039
pushed at times by Rome, at
times by population growth, at times by

543
00:48:29.119 --> 00:48:34.239
incursions of both foreign and brother peoples
from the east, in a domino effect,

544
00:48:34.559 --> 00:48:38.719
the Scythians, using the broadest definition
here, seem to almost seamlessly morph

545
00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:45.480
into the Goths, again using the
broader definition. Interestingly, Strabo and Pliny

546
00:48:45.559 --> 00:48:52.840
the Elder separated the Scythians into two
elements, the Sarmati and the Germani,

547
00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:58.440
the latter term derived from the Latin
german Us, meaning genuine of the same

548
00:48:58.519 --> 00:49:02.920
parents. Recall in Part two where
we spoke of the royal Scythians often being

549
00:49:02.920 --> 00:49:08.079
referred to as the genuine Scythians.
It may be that the Sarmati were a

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00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:15.920
Scythian element with some foreign admixture,
whether racial or cultural or both. Interestingly,

551
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the Anglo Saxons were also known as
the Germani. Strabo further refers to

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00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:27.239
a people known as the Celto Scythia
or the Celtic Scythians. As one writer

553
00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:30.320
puts it, if we go back
five hundred years from the point of when

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00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:35.320
the Teutonic languages began to differentiate,
we discover that great swaths of northern,

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00:49:35.400 --> 00:49:40.199
Western, and Eastern Europeans spoke similar
dialects of a common Indo European language.

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When scholars try to pin a label
on a particular European barbarian tribe as being

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00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:52.960
Germanic or Celtic or Scythian, they
often find themselves in a quandary. Distinctions

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are often unclear and can easily become
arbitrary. End quote. It's vital to

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00:49:59.320 --> 00:50:02.159
keep in mind prior to the bulk
of the Goths arriving back into Europe,

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their German brothers were already present on
the land, with the Symbrian War kicking

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00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:12.679
off the conflict between Roman and Germanic
peoples in earnest and approximately one hundred and

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00:50:12.719 --> 00:50:16.599
ten BC, and others too,
giving Julius Caesar a taste of what was

563
00:50:16.639 --> 00:50:22.159
to come, as he mentions firsthand
in his work the Commentaries on the Gallic

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War. Almost from the start there
was a relationship of mutual respect, at

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least with regards to martial capabilities,
and the Romans too, held to one

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of the longest traditions across all Indo
European societies, and employing almost exclusively Scythian

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and Germanic peoples in the personal bodyguard
of the leadership, in this case the

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00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:49.440
Roman emperor, a hand picked elite
cadre of men chosen for both fighting merit

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and an unshakable sense of loyalty and
honor. The Praetorian or Varangian or Swiss

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00:50:54.760 --> 00:51:05.800
guard unit loyalty and honor virtues that
we are so dearly in need of and

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00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:10.000
so much deprived of, And this
is why we need to reconnect. We

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00:51:10.039 --> 00:51:15.880
need to reconnect with our past and
understand who we are and rediscover our nobility.

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00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:21.760
We're going to need it. Units
are just a few examples of this

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00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:27.639
long standing custom, a custom which
I personally believe originated with the Royal Scythians

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as a means to protect royal lineages. Tacitus gives us the best account of

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the ancient Germans in their natural state, and I highly recommend his works,

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especially Germania, for those seeking additional
context. He's not merely a brilliant man,

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00:51:42.679 --> 00:51:46.440
but seems to possess an especially healthy
and well oriented mind, coupled with

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00:51:46.559 --> 00:51:51.840
judgment and foresight to see many things
that those around him seem to miss.

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I've linked his audiobook below for those
interested, but to cover a few interesting

581
00:51:57.400 --> 00:52:01.559
excerpts. He speaks of the German
aim being a fairly recent invention and a

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00:52:01.599 --> 00:52:07.239
misnomer, a Roman interpretation of the
name of a single tribe, which they

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00:52:07.400 --> 00:52:12.280
then lazily applied to all of the
scattered tribes. He speaks of ancient songs

584
00:52:12.280 --> 00:52:16.320
and bards being the mechanism for passing
down history and stories, and mirroring the

585
00:52:16.360 --> 00:52:22.679
Scythian legends quote they say that Hercules
too once visited them, and when going

586
00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:28.159
into battle, they sing of him
first of all heroes, and speaks of

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00:52:28.199 --> 00:52:34.000
the infamous war chants they employed.
Ulysses, too was spoken of as having

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00:52:34.079 --> 00:52:39.079
visited and founded an ancient town.
Antacitis speaks of a shrine of him containing

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00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:45.719
Greek inscriptions still existing on the borders
of Germany. Their kings were chosen by

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00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:51.199
birth, their generals by merit.
Neither had unlimited power, and they led

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00:52:51.239 --> 00:52:57.119
by personal example quote the very prestige
of a chief may settle a war end

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00:52:57.199 --> 00:53:00.519
quote. And it was considered a
disgrace for a chief to be surpassed in

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valor and infamy to have survived a
battle in which one's chief had died,

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which I believe hints at one of
the many reasons why the Germans were so

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00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:16.679
highly sought in the Praetorian and Baharankian
and all similar royal bodyguard units. Their

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00:53:16.679 --> 00:53:21.639
squadrons of fighting men weren't formed by
chance, he says, no doubt,

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00:53:21.639 --> 00:53:29.400
contrasting Rome's mercenary structure, but composed
of families and clans, meaning they'd always

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fight alongside brothers and kim and be
encouraged to have their wounds tended to by

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women who were wives or relatives who
quote tradition says that armies already wavering and

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giving way, have been rallied by
women who, with earnest entreaties and bosoms

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laid bare, have vividly represented the
whores of captivity, which the Germans fear

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00:53:51.719 --> 00:53:57.400
with such extreme dread on behalf of
their women, and quote, they even

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believed that the sex has a certain
sanctity and pressing, and they do not

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despise their councils or make light of
their answers end quote, much like the

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Frisians that we land about in the
Orlanded Book. I just want to keep

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on driving these commonalities home, because
we're going to re enter into the Orlanded

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Book here soon. Like so many
other Indo European peoples, they seem to

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place the highest value on maidens of
noble birth. After all, a man

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is technically capable of passing his genetic
lineage down to hundreds, even thousands of

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descendants in the manner of a ginghis
khan or perhaps even heracles. So it's

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the woman who is the key component
in this regard. He speaks of the

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style of dress as cloaks fastened with
a clasp or with skin fitting clothing made

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from wild beasts, and speaks of
the inner tribes as dressing better. Their

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diet was largely composed of wild fruit
and fresh game and kerdle milk. Similar

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to all other writers, he speaks
very highly of their sense of and customs

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with regards to justice. Crimes were
to be exposed and punished, Infamy was

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to be buried out of sight.
Good habits, he says, were more

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effectual than good laws. Elsewhere,
he speaks of them as a race with

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no natural cunning, and regarding their
trade and barter, the vitally important line

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of interest, they know nothing,
and says no nation is more hospitable,

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and it was their custom to give
and receive freely, feeling no obligation from

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either action. Like the Spartans and
Scythians and so many other related peoples,

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each individual, in a right of
passage must earn their arms, and abandoning

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one's shield was considered the basest action, resulting in shunning. They considered it

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quote tame and stupid to acquire by
immense toil what they might win by courage,

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valor, or blood, and didn't
well tolerate close quarters with regards to

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living spaces, but spread out freely
to whatever areas attracted them. They often

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indulged in what he calls games of
hazard, sparring, and warlike contests,

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sometimes wagering their own freedom, and
in exceptional cases even their lives in the

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competitions, and with regards to slavery, the type practiced by those Tacitus observed

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was very different from that we are
accustomed to. Each quote slave was given

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a house of their own and acted
as indentured servants, required to give a

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certain amount of produce periodically. Each
tribe seems to have created its own niche

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culture within the larger framework. One
of the more intriguing descriptions of a wilder

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tribe on the border lands is as
follows. Quote. The Hari, besides

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being superior in strength to the tribes
just enumerated savage as they are, make

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the most of their natural ferocity by
the help of art and opportunity. Their

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shields are black, their bodies dyed. They choose dark knights for battle,

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and by the dread and gloomy aspect
of their deathlike host, strike terror into

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the foe, who can never confront
their strange and almost infernal appearance. For

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in all battles it is the eye
which is first vanquished. End. In

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00:57:24.639 --> 00:57:30.239
another description, he speaks of the
Kimbri, likely descendants of the Camerians.

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Quote. In the same remote corner
of Germany bordering on the Ocean, dwell

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the Chimbri, a now insignificant tribe, but of great renown of their ancient

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glory. Widespread traces yet remain on
both sides of the Rhine are encampments of

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vast extent, and by their circuit
he may even now measure the warlike strength

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of the tribe and find evidence of
that mighty immigration. Rome was in her

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six hundred and fortieth year when we
first heard of the Kimbrian invader, in

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the consulship of Kellis Mattelus and Papirius
Carbo, from which time to the second

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consulship of the Emperor Trajan we have
to reckon about two hundred and ten years.

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So long have we been in conquering
Germany. In the space of this

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00:58:13.320 --> 00:58:17.599
long epoch, many losses have been
sustained on both sides. Neither Samnite nor

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Carthaginian, nor Spain nor Gaul,
not even the Parthians have given us more

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frequent warnings. German independence truly is
fiercer than the despotism of an Osasis.

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Germans, by routing or making prisoners
of Carbo, Cassius, Scausrelius, Servilius,

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00:58:37.280 --> 00:58:44.480
Capio Marcus Manlius, deprived the Roman
people of five consular armies, and

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00:58:44.559 --> 00:58:49.119
they robbed even a caesar of Varus
and his three legions. They stormed the

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winter camp of our legions, and
even designed the conquest of Gaul. May

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the tribes, I pray, ever, retain, if not the love for

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us, at least the hatred for
each other end quote. One of the

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many reasons Tacitus has not been given
due credit in our times is due to

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a single statement that to this day
drives the politically correct mindset into a frenzy.

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00:59:13.480 --> 00:59:16.000
Quote. For my own part,
I agree with those who think that

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the tribes of Germany are free from
all taint of intermarriages with foreign nations,

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00:59:22.280 --> 00:59:25.920
and they appear as a distinct,
unmixed race, like none but themselves,

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hence too the same physical peculiarities through
so vast a population end quote. Now

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keep in mind he's referencing a large
group of people here, not a nation,

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as Germany itself didn't exist as a
nation until very recently. Also keep

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in mind, as he witness modern
academics trip over themselves to dismiss these words

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in any and every novel manner they
can dream up. Here was one of

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the best minds of his age,
sober and prudent, who had perhaps more

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00:59:55.239 --> 01:00:00.760
experience with the varied races of humanity
and every possible mixture among them, due

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01:00:00.800 --> 01:00:07.440
to us observing both Germania and the
increasingly multicultural Empire of Rome than any of

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01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:13.840
his peers, stating this opinion with
definitive confidence. So let's take a moment

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to speak to the Goths, specifically, as defined by those who saw them

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01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:22.599
in their most narrow and specific form. First, the name the grim brothers,

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01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:28.639
noted as great historical minds in addition
to being masterful. Authors believe the

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01:00:28.719 --> 01:00:32.920
term Goth to be closely connected to
the German God meaning God. Others have

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01:00:34.000 --> 01:00:37.599
suggested the term meant nobly born,
and there's an obvious connection to the root

680
01:00:37.840 --> 01:00:43.159
goot meaning good. I tend to
think that there's likely a grain of truth

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01:00:43.239 --> 01:00:47.519
to most of these connections, directly
or indirectly. Second, as to the

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01:00:47.559 --> 01:00:53.960
physical description, the historian Henry Bradley
sums up the almost universal description with quote,

683
01:00:54.400 --> 01:01:02.719
Goths are always discribed not as there's
a woman up run. They highly

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01:01:02.760 --> 01:01:10.320
regarded their council by their berg maidens, and the great mothers, not that

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01:01:10.360 --> 01:01:15.360
great mother, not the one,
not Medea, not referring to her decribed

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01:01:15.400 --> 01:01:21.199
as tall and athletic men with fair
complexions, blue eyes, and yellow hair,

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01:01:21.760 --> 01:01:24.119
such people as in fact, might
be seen more frequently in Sweden than

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01:01:24.159 --> 01:01:30.719
in any other land end quote,
and the Arab diplomat Ibin Fadlin would later

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describe the Viking rus likely the most
direct outgrowth of the Gothic peoples, as

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01:01:35.559 --> 01:01:37.960
they came to be known under different
name, there's the tide of Russians,

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01:01:39.400 --> 01:01:44.800
by saying quote, never before have
I seen people of more perfect physique.

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01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:47.480
They were tall like palm trees,
blonde, with a few of them red.

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01:01:49.079 --> 01:01:52.760
They do not wear any jackets or
kaftan eir robes. The men instead

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01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:58.079
wear dress which covers one side of
the body but leads one hand free.

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01:01:58.280 --> 01:02:00.400
Every one of them brings with him
an acts, a sword, and a

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01:02:00.480 --> 01:02:07.000
knife end quote. Third, as
to their general personality and manner of being,

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01:02:07.639 --> 01:02:12.760
the historian Bradley continues quote that the
Gothic people had many noble qualities was

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01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:17.079
frequently acknowledged even by their enemies,
and it is abundantly proved by many incidents

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01:02:17.119 --> 01:02:22.119
in their history. They were brave, generous, patient under hardship and privation,

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01:02:22.920 --> 01:02:29.639
and chaste and affectionate in their family
relations end quote. When they get

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01:02:29.639 --> 01:02:35.360
back into the Scythians, you're going
to find out that, apart from having

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01:02:35.400 --> 01:02:44.679
no regard for valuable's gold or the
marketplace, they ran their entire community through

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01:02:44.840 --> 01:02:50.239
entire land as one big family.
And then continues with an interesting aside that

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01:02:50.280 --> 01:02:53.639
despite their history of achievement and successes, I too have come to agree with

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01:02:54.119 --> 01:03:00.000
quote, there is nothing in their
history more remarkable than the humanity and justice

706
01:03:00.119 --> 01:03:04.599
which they exercised towards the nations whom
they conquered end quote. He goes on

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01:03:04.639 --> 01:03:07.119
to state that this was recognized by
their foes, who often went so far

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01:03:07.159 --> 01:03:12.960
as to welcome their appearance on the
scene as liberators. In a remarkably objective

709
01:03:13.039 --> 01:03:17.440
quit, a Roman named Salvian,
an ecclesiastic of Marseilles, stated, there

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01:03:17.519 --> 01:03:22.599
is one consenting prayer among the Roman
population that they might dwell under the Barbarian

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01:03:22.639 --> 01:03:28.159
government. Thus, our brethren not
only refuse to lead these nations for their

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01:03:28.199 --> 01:03:31.519
own, but they fly from us
to them. Can we then wonder that

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01:03:31.559 --> 01:03:36.559
the Goths are not conquered by us
when the people would rather become Goths with

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01:03:36.639 --> 01:03:44.079
them than Romans with us? End
quote fourth with regards to their belief structure,

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01:03:44.840 --> 01:03:47.760
I've always loved this snippet by Tacitus, which I believe to be fundamental

716
01:03:47.800 --> 01:03:52.360
in importance. Quote. The Germans, however, do not consider it consistent

717
01:03:52.440 --> 01:03:59.199
for the grandeur of celestial beings to
confine the gods within walls or to liken

718
01:03:59.239 --> 01:04:03.239
them to the form of any human
countenance. They consecrate woods and groves,

719
01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:08.360
and they apply the names of deities
to the abstraction, which they see only

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01:04:08.360 --> 01:04:14.599
in spiritual worship. End To me, this meaning is clear. The capital

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01:04:14.639 --> 01:04:18.679
g God, creator of all things, was something beyond direct human understanding or

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01:04:18.760 --> 01:04:26.199
quantification, and certainly beyond the ability
for fallible human minds or hands to create

723
01:04:26.480 --> 01:04:31.920
in the form of idols to then
be worshiped. Nature worldA in the form

724
01:04:32.039 --> 01:04:40.079
of sacred groves was the closest proxy. They certainly practiced a veneration of ancestors

725
01:04:40.239 --> 01:04:45.480
bordering on a form of worship,
and held in extremely high esteem both Hercules

726
01:04:45.920 --> 01:04:49.760
and the archetype of Tiwas or Tire
also known as Ares to the Greeks,

727
01:04:50.199 --> 01:04:55.880
Mars to the Romans, who they
saw as the personification of war, law

728
01:04:56.000 --> 01:05:02.000
and justice. Simultaneously, Odin Will
and Freya. There's a great deal more

729
01:05:02.000 --> 01:05:04.519
to be said on the subject,
but I couldn't hope to do it justice

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01:05:04.519 --> 01:05:06.880
here, so I'll leave it at
this for now. After a few more

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01:05:06.880 --> 01:05:14.760
words about the concept of ancestor veneration, Edward Thorson states that the Gothic families

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01:05:14.840 --> 01:05:19.400
maintained secret traditions stretching back to the
time of their origins. Quote. It

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01:05:19.440 --> 01:05:24.519
is these sources which account for their
success and the immortality of their name.

734
01:05:25.320 --> 01:05:30.960
These traditions hinged on the continuing secret
cult of divine ancestry, the hidden cult

735
01:05:30.039 --> 01:05:34.840
of the ancees. The formula of
divine ancestry must be understood in both its

736
01:05:34.880 --> 01:05:40.639
parts. First, the idea is
that there is a divine, immortal,

737
01:05:40.719 --> 01:05:45.280
perfect and wise component or element or
substance which is not bound by time or

738
01:05:45.320 --> 01:05:53.000
place. This transcends the mundane world
stands above it. Second is the idea

739
01:05:53.039 --> 01:05:58.880
that this substance can be transmitted or
transferred from person to person or from generation

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01:05:58.960 --> 01:06:04.519
to generation through historical time and over
natural space. We know that this ancestral

741
01:06:04.559 --> 01:06:12.320
portion could be transmitted genetically through the
blood or through symbolic initiations blood brotherhood,

742
01:06:12.320 --> 01:06:16.440
adoption, reception into warrior bands,
guilds, et cetera. Although these latter

743
01:06:16.480 --> 01:06:20.199
methods were well known to the Pagans
and well documented among them, it appears

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01:06:20.239 --> 01:06:25.559
that, under the influence of the
Christian tradition of apostolic succession, these later

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01:06:25.599 --> 01:06:30.760
methods grew to be more and more
prestigious over the centuries. This increasingly became

746
01:06:30.800 --> 01:06:35.320
the method whereby the threatened esoteric of
the Goths could be secretly transmitted and thus

747
01:06:35.360 --> 01:06:42.079
protected from an ever more hostile world. End quote, and with regards to

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01:06:42.159 --> 01:06:45.800
Christianity, the evidence seems to contradict
the popular notion. Many still hold that

749
01:06:45.880 --> 01:06:50.079
all Germanic peoples were dragged, kicking
and screaming into a new religious conception,

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01:06:50.559 --> 01:06:56.079
or forced at the point of the
sword. In fact, the very first

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01:06:56.159 --> 01:07:00.679
book written in the Gothic language was
a translation of the Bible pinned by a

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01:07:00.679 --> 01:07:06.639
man the Emperor dubbed our Second Moses, a Gothic Cappadocian named Vulphilap literally transcribed

753
01:07:06.679 --> 01:07:12.079
as little Wolf in the third century
AD. Now, of course, this

754
01:07:12.199 --> 01:07:15.519
wasn't modern Christianity, much of which
seems to have been subverted into something of

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01:07:15.639 --> 01:07:20.960
an extension of the very worldly social
justice movement, but rather a much more

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01:07:21.039 --> 01:07:26.960
strict and true to form conception.
The bigger leap didn't seem to be to

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01:07:27.079 --> 01:07:32.199
Christianity, whose central focus on a
self sacrificing figure bore some resemblance to Odin,

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01:07:32.679 --> 01:07:36.280
who was hung on a tree and
in some stories pierced by a spear.

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01:07:38.079 --> 01:07:42.519
The more difficult leap was rather to
Catholicism, as opposed to that aryan

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01:07:42.639 --> 01:07:45.960
form of Christianity, which was more
familiar and comfortable to them, and they

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01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:51.320
didn't require they bend the knee to
priests and churches of Rome. The Franks,

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01:07:51.519 --> 01:07:56.199
the Germanic people largely responsible for the
creation of France as we know it

763
01:07:56.239 --> 01:08:00.920
today, acting as Rome's first and
strongest allies, willing to adopt Catholicism,

764
01:08:01.280 --> 01:08:06.199
where in some sense task with its
spread across all German lands, a difficult

765
01:08:06.239 --> 01:08:12.920
and bloodied transition, in part planting
the seeds of the Protestant and Catholic conflicts

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01:08:12.960 --> 01:08:18.199
of later eras. It's also deeply
interesting that the Goths and Norse were referred

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01:08:18.239 --> 01:08:23.840
to as the Maju during the Visigothic
period in Spain, with the non Gothic

768
01:08:23.880 --> 01:08:30.520
elements making no distinction between them and
the magi of Zoroastrian Persian fame, a

769
01:08:30.640 --> 01:08:33.920
term he might recognize in part from
the Three Wise Men of the Biblical tradition.

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01:08:35.279 --> 01:08:40.720
Rome, especially the Eastern Roman Empire
under Justinian, would begin to exploit

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01:08:40.800 --> 01:08:45.239
this Catholic and Aryan rift as a
means of establishing greater control over the Goths,

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01:08:45.720 --> 01:08:50.039
or attempting to destroy those he couldn't
control. A hallmark trait of the

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01:08:50.039 --> 01:08:55.680
Germanic people seems to be an unwillingness
to bow to any form of centralized authority

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01:08:55.800 --> 01:09:00.079
that doesn't spring from their own roots. A lesson foreign rulers would be to

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01:09:00.359 --> 01:09:05.119
learn and relearn several times throughout history, often at the point of an extremely

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01:09:05.119 --> 01:09:11.359
proficient sword. We'll discuss this and
get to know the Gothic people through an

777
01:09:11.399 --> 01:09:15.199
examination of their dynamic with Rome,
the Huns, the Jews, and the

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01:09:15.239 --> 01:09:19.439
Saracens in the next installment in our
series, which I hope to release within

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01:09:19.479 --> 01:09:23.800
a week or two from now,
and which may be followed by a third

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01:09:23.880 --> 01:09:28.119
video shortly after. As it's simply
impossible to condense this story into a single

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01:09:28.119 --> 01:09:31.119
hour, Okay, we can jump
onto the next one. And I'm noticing

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01:09:31.159 --> 01:09:43.000
that my connection once again is shit. I have to slap sentry link around

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01:09:44.640 --> 01:09:54.880
way sily way. So I'm about
to jump into the next part of that,

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but let's first Okay, you can
see it, all right, guys.

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So Parah and I my daughter,
my daughter who just turned eight on

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the second, the true, the
real independence day was actually July second.

787
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It was just a formality on the
fourth that it was accepted, adopted,

788
01:10:23.000 --> 01:10:26.680
whatever you want to call it,
all right, So, and also they

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01:10:26.720 --> 01:10:30.439
had to have it on the solar
appealion, right, so they had to

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01:10:30.479 --> 01:10:36.119
adjust for that. Perihelion is when
you're the closest to this son, according

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01:10:36.119 --> 01:10:41.560
to people who say stuff. And
then the appealion is when you're the furthest

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01:10:41.560 --> 01:10:47.119
away from the sun as earthbound creatures
as we are, so we think.

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01:10:56.319 --> 01:11:00.760
you could help support the show and
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this trip to my parents knocked out, and also not have to dig too

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deeply into our vital savings in order
to support the bills as we're gone.

797
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Also there is the Patreon, which, by the way, while we were

798
01:11:16.039 --> 01:11:21.800
talking, while we were watching this, I dropped in the tacticus Jermania that

799
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he had referenced, So there's a
resource there. And just beneath that,

800
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Getika the History of the Germanic People
by Jordanas. I dropped a link to

801
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the Jordanas one. There's actually two
of them. There's an excerpt that I

802
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didn't realize was in the full and
then I after that I dropped in the

803
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link into the chat here on Rumble
for the full of that one. So

804
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if you see it you're on Rumble, go ahead and just you know,

805
01:11:46.600 --> 01:11:51.840
right click and copy that so you
can or click it and have another tab

806
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open and you can download that pdf. Okay, So those are there for

807
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you if you're interested in learning more
and seeing the resources that he himself is

808
01:12:01.720 --> 01:12:08.319
drawing from in this documentary series.
Is that what we would call this?

809
01:12:08.439 --> 01:12:12.720
I guess all right? And what
else we got so over here? So

810
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this is ballbusters over on ftjmedia dot
com. Okay, ftjmedia dot com backslash

811
01:12:17.760 --> 01:12:21.119
channel backslash ballbusters or just look for
it. You would look for it in

812
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this corner here where it says channels
browse channels. Right. If you put

813
01:12:26.600 --> 01:12:29.479
it in here, you're just searching
for keywords, not the same thing as

814
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if you go over here in brows
channels. All right, so I just

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put up there's total of sixteen.
There will be seventeen after this one.

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This is the live You go into
the videos here and then you see what

817
01:12:41.319 --> 01:12:45.119
I've put up there so far and
the ones that were deleted off of Rumble.

818
01:12:45.399 --> 01:12:47.960
These two right here. Also,
I'll be putting up the full year

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ROPA series here and then eventually we
have time. Unlike Rumble that doesn't even

820
01:12:55.079 --> 01:12:59.760
have this feature, I'll be making
playlists, so it'd be a lot easier

821
01:12:59.800 --> 01:13:03.239
to you don't have to dig through
a stack of and just scroll and keep

822
01:13:03.239 --> 01:13:06.640
on hitting page after page on Rumble, which is kind of a silly I

823
01:13:06.640 --> 01:13:11.399
don't understand why they don't have they
don't have playlists or the ability to create

824
01:13:11.439 --> 01:13:14.920
playlists. But they'll be more organized
out here. Once I get everything over

825
01:13:14.960 --> 01:13:21.039
here, then I'll start organizing it. Alrighty, So that's FTJ. I

826
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can you imagine what that might stand
for given the content of what's speak Free

827
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Radio used to be? Can you
can you take a while I guess as

828
01:13:30.720 --> 01:13:34.239
to what that might mean? All
right, we might go a little bit

829
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over today, because what rules are
we? What rules are we following.

830
01:13:40.079 --> 01:13:45.000
Anyway, let's get this whole last
second segment in. And also, you

831
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know the there's more links in the
description for how you can support the show,

832
01:13:47.880 --> 01:13:53.600
including there's also one the GoFundMe link
that I dropped in the rumble chat,

833
01:13:54.199 --> 01:14:00.720
which was specifically made for this trip. It's not just the Ballbusters general

834
01:14:00.800 --> 01:14:03.760
fund, but it's also in there. There's the PayPal link at all other

835
01:14:04.399 --> 01:14:09.800
things in the description. All right, and you don't need PayPal to use

836
01:14:09.840 --> 01:14:15.159
the PayPal dot em backslash Ballbusters either
to give you options. Okay, let's

837
01:14:15.159 --> 01:14:18.880
get into it. How to say
it needs to be said, Hey,

838
01:14:18.960 --> 01:14:21.760
Corpus Christi, how's it going.
Let's throw you up there? Oqui boop,

839
01:14:24.199 --> 01:14:30.359
Samuel Adam, love it, love
it, getings and salutations from Corpus

840
01:14:30.399 --> 01:14:34.279
Christi, Texas. I knew a
really attractive, very rich girl from Corpus

841
01:14:34.359 --> 01:14:45.439
Christi who used to ride horses.
Anyway, moving on, which means the

842
01:14:45.439 --> 01:14:49.239
body of Christ in case you didn't
figure that out. All right, let's

843
01:14:49.239 --> 01:14:57.279
go to the let me at it. This guy, it's this guy.

844
01:14:57.640 --> 01:15:01.800
So the Germanic people's the goths and
order. Wow, they put that in

845
01:15:01.880 --> 01:15:08.199
the title. Might mean that that
means something to them. Huh, defining

846
01:15:08.239 --> 01:15:16.960
markers of the people. What do
you know? There you go? So

847
01:15:17.039 --> 01:15:23.560
this is an hour and one minute
in eleven seconds, and we're at nine

848
01:15:23.720 --> 01:15:35.199
seventeen am right now, so we'll
be going till about ten eighteen today.

849
01:15:36.079 --> 01:15:41.479
I'm kind of also saying that in
case the people over at FTJ are running

850
01:15:41.479 --> 01:15:43.840
this as the radio thing, to
know one to cut me so they can

851
01:15:43.880 --> 01:15:46.720
put the next people on, because
I have a block that goes till ten,

852
01:15:46.920 --> 01:15:50.760
So if they're monitoring it, they'll
also know to cut it so that

853
01:15:50.800 --> 01:15:59.840
I'm not bleeding over onto the next
person. So I believe it'syi seppy.

854
01:16:02.039 --> 01:16:05.520
As we turn our focus on the
dynamic between the Roman and Gothic people,

855
01:16:05.760 --> 01:16:08.880
it kind of sounds like in the
background, me me me me, me,

856
01:16:08.880 --> 01:16:12.119
me me me. It's kind of
funny for anyway. I'm not trying

857
01:16:12.119 --> 01:16:15.279
to make light of it. It's
just what I call people. The subversive

858
01:16:15.359 --> 01:16:19.560
nature of post World War II history
becomes most evident the picture of an all

859
01:16:19.640 --> 01:16:25.039
powerful civilized Rome annoyed by Goths,
and the manner that one might be bothered

860
01:16:25.039 --> 01:16:29.520
by a mosquito they might squat at
any moment is absurd. In fact,

861
01:16:29.680 --> 01:16:33.199
even Roman sources admit that were it
not for the tactful diplomacy that kept Germanic

862
01:16:33.199 --> 01:16:38.720
peoples expending energy in their traditional war
games with one another, Rome would have

863
01:16:38.760 --> 01:16:42.680
ceased to exist at any moment.
The United Barbarian elements chose to make it

864
01:16:42.760 --> 01:16:46.800
so. And the truth is even
more extreme. Even while warring among one

865
01:16:46.800 --> 01:16:53.359
another, the Goths were still able
on several occasions to militarily dominate Rome,

866
01:16:53.840 --> 01:16:59.720
both on offense and defense. This
isn't meant to diminish Roman achievements, skill

867
01:16:59.840 --> 01:17:03.760
or discipline, a nation with justly
admired armies, tactics, and leadership,

868
01:17:04.319 --> 01:17:09.319
but when viewed objectively, but hold
on a second, they also memory hold

869
01:17:09.319 --> 01:17:14.600
a whole lot of history, utilizing
Rome as as like the uh, the

870
01:17:14.680 --> 01:17:16.520
catch all for everything. If there's
a pillar, then it must be a

871
01:17:16.600 --> 01:17:21.439
Roman architecture. That stuff, in
my mind, has been sitting there long

872
01:17:21.479 --> 01:17:27.039
before Rome was Rome. It wasn't
built by them anymore than the Pyramids were

873
01:17:27.039 --> 01:17:33.399
built by the Egyptians that they claim
inhabited after. May have decorated the walls,

874
01:17:33.760 --> 01:17:36.840
may have added things to it,
may have kept it and preserved it,

875
01:17:36.880 --> 01:17:40.600
but they didn't I don't think they
did the Pyramids either. I think

876
01:17:40.600 --> 01:17:45.520
those were sitting around for a long
long time. Rome, and especially late

877
01:17:45.640 --> 01:17:49.279
Rome, seems a bit more like
a corporate construct running on peer ambition,

878
01:17:49.880 --> 01:17:55.880
seeking world domination by any means necessary, and gladly making use of any caliber

879
01:17:55.920 --> 01:18:00.680
of humanity in pursuit of the school. Over time, they were to learn

880
01:18:00.680 --> 01:18:05.560
many lessons, incorporate this knowledge into
their formations and equipment and tactics and strategy,

881
01:18:05.880 --> 01:18:11.800
and discounted for much. Coupled with
a seemingly unlimited pool of manpower to

882
01:18:11.880 --> 01:18:15.840
draw from, one might wonder why
they didn't conquer the entire world. After

883
01:18:15.880 --> 01:18:20.560
all. The answer to this question
is very simple and very clear the Dramatic

884
01:18:20.560 --> 01:18:26.920
peoples. The more one digs into
the true relationship between these two major powers,

885
01:18:27.600 --> 01:18:31.359
although two is hardly technically correct here
due to the permanently fractured nature of

886
01:18:31.359 --> 01:18:35.560
the Dramatic peoples, the more it
looks as if the Gothic mindset was something

887
01:18:35.560 --> 01:18:41.520
akin to that's a cute little human
domestication experiment you have going on there.

888
01:18:42.119 --> 01:18:45.319
You're welcome to do as you wish. In fact, we'll even extend an

889
01:18:45.319 --> 01:18:50.319
olive branch to make common cause just
don't cross us, but alas the Romans

890
01:18:50.359 --> 01:18:58.319
did cross them several times and in
egregious ways. A perfect example of this

891
01:18:58.439 --> 01:19:02.039
treachery and its consequence, and one
of the numerous stories of such important power

892
01:19:02.079 --> 01:19:05.720
that it's a wonder we haven't all
heard. It involves the Gothic leader named

893
01:19:05.720 --> 01:19:10.840
Fritigern, having broke her to deal
with the Emperor of Rome in three seventy

894
01:19:10.920 --> 01:19:15.039
six AD to essentially ally the two
peoples and move a large contingent of Goths

895
01:19:15.039 --> 01:19:20.000
into Roman borders. We are the
names of these leaders of the Goths because

896
01:19:20.079 --> 01:19:28.119
each one of them is a very
good example of how virtues, ethics,

897
01:19:28.159 --> 01:19:31.840
morals, character, integrity. You're
going to see this. You're going to

898
01:19:31.840 --> 01:19:35.479
see this and be like you're going
to be blown away by it. A

899
01:19:35.560 --> 01:19:41.640
mutually beneficial agreement which would give the
Germans additional living space and a closer relationship

900
01:19:41.680 --> 01:19:45.600
with Rome, and provide Rome with
a ready made source of the highest quality

901
01:19:45.640 --> 01:19:50.000
soldiers and military officers, and provide
both parties with an alliance against the encroachment

902
01:19:50.039 --> 01:19:55.880
of peoples from the east. He
began to move his Goths westward anywhere from

903
01:19:55.880 --> 01:20:00.239
one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand, depending on the source one choose to

904
01:20:00.279 --> 01:20:05.640
trust. The impressive terms the emperor
had offered soon proved to be largely empty

905
01:20:05.680 --> 01:20:12.079
promises, and serious famine began to
spread, becoming so bad that many Germans

906
01:20:12.119 --> 01:20:16.079
began dealing with the most shamelessly greedy
of Roman traders, with stories of desperate

907
01:20:16.119 --> 01:20:20.640
families going so far as to sell
one child into Roman servitude to provide just

908
01:20:20.760 --> 01:20:25.640
enough food for the other, or
simply in order to save their lives.

909
01:20:26.399 --> 01:20:31.680
Starvation was rampant. Noticing the increasing
anger, the emperor decided to relocate them

910
01:20:31.720 --> 01:20:36.600
in an area in which they could
more easily be monitored and controlled. There

911
01:20:36.640 --> 01:20:42.560
are two prominent accounts of what happened
next, both speaking highly of Fritigern's heroism,

912
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and in fact both may be true. The first mentions how he'd long

913
01:20:46.520 --> 01:20:50.399
sought to quell the tempers of his
own Goths and preserve the peace, yet

914
01:20:50.439 --> 01:20:57.079
simultaneously had made preparations for the worst, ensuring quote the Goths would be ready

915
01:20:57.079 --> 01:21:01.720
to rise as one man should the
occasion arise end quote, And when invited

916
01:21:01.720 --> 01:21:06.000
to a feast by Roman general,
some of his near starving Gothic troops became

917
01:21:06.199 --> 01:21:11.720
enraged at the sight of a fully
stopped market place in which they were prevented

918
01:21:11.720 --> 01:21:15.880
from buying goods, and got in
a fight with and killed some Romans.

919
01:21:16.159 --> 01:21:20.600
The Roman general, roused from a
drunken slumber, ordered the slaughter of all

920
01:21:20.640 --> 01:21:27.720
Fridigern's men. Fridigerne, the historian
Bradley states, quote, in a calm

921
01:21:27.760 --> 01:21:30.640
and collective stroke of genius, announced
it was needful for him to show himself

922
01:21:30.680 --> 01:21:35.520
to his countrymen to put a stop
to the tumult end quote, and simply

923
01:21:35.600 --> 01:21:41.079
walked out with his men, as
the Romans looked on and stunned, unsure

924
01:21:41.119 --> 01:21:45.479
of how to respond. In the
second account, Jordanas states and I quote,

925
01:21:45.640 --> 01:21:49.479
now it came to pass in that
troublous time that Lepigmus, the Roman

926
01:21:49.520 --> 01:21:54.159
general, invited Fritigern, a chieftain
of the Goths, to a feast,

927
01:21:54.680 --> 01:21:59.640
and, as the event revealed,
devised a plot against him. But Fridigerne,

928
01:21:59.760 --> 01:22:02.640
thinking no evil, came to the
feast with a few followers. While

929
01:22:02.640 --> 01:22:05.880
he was dining in the praetorium,
he heard the dying cries of his ill

930
01:22:05.920 --> 01:22:11.039
fated men, for by order of
the general, the soldiers were slaying his

931
01:22:11.119 --> 01:22:15.159
companions, who were shut up in
another part of the house. The loud

932
01:22:15.159 --> 01:22:19.680
cries of the dying fell upon ears. Already suspicious and fritigern at once perceived

933
01:22:19.720 --> 01:22:25.600
the treacherous trick. He drew his
sword and with great courage, dashed quickly

934
01:22:25.600 --> 01:22:30.399
from the banqueting hall, rescued his
men from their threatening doom, and incited

935
01:22:30.439 --> 01:22:33.840
them to slay the Romans. Thus
these valiant men gained the chance they had

936
01:22:33.880 --> 01:22:38.960
longed for to be free to die
in battle rather than perish of hunger,

937
01:22:39.479 --> 01:22:45.720
and immediately took arms to kill the
generals Lupiciness and Maximus. Thus that day

938
01:22:45.840 --> 01:22:48.800
put an end to the famine of
the Goths and the safety of the Romans.

939
01:22:48.840 --> 01:22:53.840
For the Goths, no longer as
strangers and pilgrims, but as citizens

940
01:22:53.880 --> 01:22:57.520
and lords, began to rule the
inhabitants, and to hold in their own

941
01:22:57.600 --> 01:23:01.600
right all of the northern colony as
far as the day. When the Emperor

942
01:23:01.720 --> 01:23:05.520
balance heard of this at Antioch,
he made ready an army at once and

943
01:23:05.600 --> 01:23:10.680
set out for the country of Race. Here agree, this battle took place,

944
01:23:10.760 --> 01:23:15.000
and the Goths prevailed. The Emperor
himself was wounded and fled to a

945
01:23:15.039 --> 01:23:18.399
farm near Hadrianople. The Goths,
not knowing that an emperor lay hidden in

946
01:23:18.439 --> 01:23:23.600
so poor a hut, set fire
to it as his customary in dealing with

947
01:23:23.600 --> 01:23:28.680
the cruel floe, and thus he
was cremated in royal splendor. From this

948
01:23:28.800 --> 01:23:32.520
time, the Visigoths, in consequence
of their glorious victory, possessed Thrace and

949
01:23:32.760 --> 01:23:40.560
Datia Repentses as if were their native
land. This type of famine, in

950
01:23:40.600 --> 01:23:45.000
this case, caused by either Roman
treachery or incompetence, was exceptional, and

951
01:23:45.079 --> 01:23:50.880
here we should quickly clear up another
major misconception about the Germanic peoples. In

952
01:23:51.000 --> 01:23:56.680
most video documentaries on the ancient Germans, you'll see a disorderly gaggle of men

953
01:23:56.720 --> 01:24:00.159
who looked like they've been cast to
portray over the top characters of white,

954
01:24:00.239 --> 01:24:06.640
trashy savages, often obese, disheveled
as if they've spent hours smearing their entire

955
01:24:06.640 --> 01:24:13.439
bodies in dirt, wearing equally dirty
tattered rags, waving weapons in the air

956
01:24:13.680 --> 01:24:17.199
like they've never held one in their
lifetimes, with faces usually twisted in their

957
01:24:17.199 --> 01:24:24.199
best attempt at expressions of fierceness or
rage, poor posture, looking generally unhealthy

958
01:24:24.600 --> 01:24:29.840
and mentally dull, and the impression
were given in videos and textbooks is that

959
01:24:29.880 --> 01:24:34.560
these men lived short, brutish,
miserable lives. This is very much the

960
01:24:34.560 --> 01:24:40.199
opposite of what the fact picture seems
to indicate. Keep in mind that,

961
01:24:40.439 --> 01:24:44.920
like the later Vikings, because these
were unparalleled warriors that could demand tribute from

962
01:24:45.000 --> 01:24:49.239
virtually any empire at any time and
often did so, they were likely the

963
01:24:49.279 --> 01:24:55.479
wealthiest people in the world in a
per capita context, with Rome itself paying

964
01:24:55.520 --> 01:25:00.159
them. Remember, as Rome prodresses, it has a greater and great or

965
01:25:00.159 --> 01:25:09.359
influence of that priestcraft that I wrote
about. And therefore what you see as

966
01:25:09.680 --> 01:25:17.600
Rome's deception and deceit and repainting the
history isn't just quote unquote Roman Rome,

967
01:25:18.119 --> 01:25:24.800
right, We're talking about the people
who, as always seem to always find

968
01:25:24.800 --> 01:25:31.760
the positions of power and manipulate,
either by being advisors to the kings or

969
01:25:31.800 --> 01:25:38.760
the Caesars or whatever. The priest
craft to which they go to for answers

970
01:25:39.439 --> 01:25:46.359
are always managing and manipulating the actions, deeds, and policies of the kingdom.

971
01:25:47.000 --> 01:25:50.640
So when you see this deception,
don't just think, oh, yeah,

972
01:25:50.680 --> 01:25:54.760
the Romans were doing they were embarrassed, yeah d D. That's probably

973
01:25:54.840 --> 01:25:59.800
part of it, but there's also
that element, that lying element, that

974
01:26:00.119 --> 01:26:08.720
merchant bandit, habrew Skagaz, the
foreigners influence, the priest craft influence,

975
01:26:08.760 --> 01:26:11.840
and as want you to keep that
in mind every time you hear these things.

976
01:26:12.039 --> 01:26:15.760
If it sounds familiar and you're like, will I can conflate Rome with

977
01:26:15.800 --> 01:26:20.039
that, yeah you can, But
just remember who's actually manipulating it. Isn't

978
01:26:20.039 --> 01:26:28.039
somebody different that we're talking about now
and vast sums of treasure regularly. Not

979
01:26:28.119 --> 01:26:32.199
only has an astonishingly high level of
Gothic medical technology recently been unearthed in places

980
01:26:32.239 --> 01:26:39.520
like Constantinople, but several accounts report
men living to ripe old ages her Menrick,

981
01:26:39.760 --> 01:26:44.239
described as the Gothic Alexander, who
at one point quote ruled all the

982
01:26:44.359 --> 01:26:48.279
nations of Scythia and Drewmania as they
were his own, lived to one hundred

983
01:26:48.279 --> 01:26:53.159
and ten, and there are stories
of leaders taking or holding their positions of

984
01:26:53.199 --> 01:26:58.359
power well into their eighties. But
it's far more than lifespan. Consider how

985
01:26:58.399 --> 01:27:02.039
these men lived. It's recently been
discovered that their teeth were far healthier than

986
01:27:02.079 --> 01:27:06.920
the picture that's always been painted with
the lack of processed foods and refined sugars

987
01:27:06.920 --> 01:27:11.880
not having a chance to take their
toll. Their water wasn't laden with the

988
01:27:12.000 --> 01:27:15.359
chemical stew we face today. Their
diet was as healthy and natural as it

989
01:27:15.399 --> 01:27:19.479
gets, and of course heavy on
protein. And they spent their entire day,

990
01:27:19.760 --> 01:27:24.760
if not lounging or drinking by the
fire, in the hunt, or

991
01:27:24.800 --> 01:27:29.439
in games of sport, or in
warfare or the training for warfare. Our

992
01:27:29.520 --> 01:27:33.800
modern epidemics of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, et cetera didn't exist.

993
01:27:34.840 --> 01:27:39.359
Yes, many met their deaths on
the battlefield and their prime, but I

994
01:27:39.399 --> 01:27:44.279
suspect the average man was far far
healthier than the average man today. They

995
01:27:44.279 --> 01:27:48.279
were also objectively larger and stronger than
those around them, a trait that seems

996
01:27:48.319 --> 01:27:51.760
to have been passed down through the
ages, as illustrated by a glance at

997
01:27:51.760 --> 01:27:59.199
the percentages of strong man competition winners
hailing from Germanic nations, especially Scandinavia.

998
01:28:00.239 --> 01:28:03.600
H Ah, the champion, the
man with a built in megaphone, John

999
01:28:03.680 --> 01:28:15.119
Fols Sigmos. Some very brave person
in the crowd has actually called him an

1000
01:28:15.199 --> 01:28:25.960
eskimo and he's had that remarkable right. Have you had any games in something

1001
01:28:25.960 --> 01:28:29.479
else you might have put the record
straight another way, but to the matter

1002
01:28:29.560 --> 01:28:36.560
and hat a small matter of four
hundred and ninety five kilos all the definitive

1003
01:28:36.600 --> 01:28:42.079
look of clime. And on this
topic, there's another fascinating story about Maximin,

1004
01:28:42.800 --> 01:28:46.079
a man of humble background who would
eventually become emperor through accomplishment and merit

1005
01:28:46.119 --> 01:28:53.520
alone. A Gothic Thracian Jordanis tells
us quote after his years spent in rustic

1006
01:28:53.600 --> 01:28:57.079
life, he had come from his
flocks to military service in the reign of

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01:28:57.159 --> 01:29:00.079
Emperor Severus. And at the time
when the latter was celebrated his son's birthday,

1008
01:29:01.000 --> 01:29:04.960
it happened that the emperor was giving
military games. When Maximin saw this,

1009
01:29:05.199 --> 01:29:10.159
although he was a semi Barbarian youth, he besought the emperor in his

1010
01:29:10.279 --> 01:29:14.760
native tongue to give him permission to
wrestle with the trained soldiers for the prizes

1011
01:29:14.840 --> 01:29:18.840
offered. Severus, marveling much at
his great size, for his stature,

1012
01:29:18.960 --> 01:29:24.119
it is said was more than eight
feet, bade him contend in wrestling with

1013
01:29:24.159 --> 01:29:28.520
the camp followers in order that no
injury might befall his soldiers at the hands

1014
01:29:28.520 --> 01:29:33.119
of this wild fellow. Thereupon,
Maximan threw sixteen attendants with so great ease

1015
01:29:33.239 --> 01:29:38.920
that he conquered them one by one
without taking any rest by pausing between the

1016
01:29:38.920 --> 01:29:43.720
bouts. So then, when he
had won the prizes, he was ordered

1017
01:29:43.720 --> 01:29:47.119
into the army and served his first
campaign with a cavalry. On the third

1018
01:29:47.199 --> 01:29:50.439
day after this, when the Emperor
went out to the field, he saw

1019
01:29:50.520 --> 01:29:56.479
him coursing about in Barbarian fashion,
and bade a tribune restrain him and teach

1020
01:29:56.520 --> 01:30:00.760
him Roman discipline. But when he
understood that the Emperor was thinking about him,

1021
01:30:00.960 --> 01:30:03.840
he came forward and began to run
ahead of him as he rode.

1022
01:30:03.960 --> 01:30:08.760
Then the Emperor spurred on his horse
to a slow trot, and wheeled in

1023
01:30:08.840 --> 01:30:12.960
many a circle, hither and thither, with various turns, until he was

1024
01:30:13.000 --> 01:30:15.880
weary. Then he said to him, are you willing to wrestle now after

1025
01:30:15.880 --> 01:30:20.239
your running, my little Thracian?
As much as you like, o Emperor,

1026
01:30:20.399 --> 01:30:26.239
he answered, so Zeverus leaped off
his horse and ordered the freshest soldiers

1027
01:30:26.239 --> 01:30:30.479
to wrestle with him. But he
threw to the ground seven very powerful youths,

1028
01:30:30.680 --> 01:30:34.479
even as before, taking no breathing
space between the bouts. So he

1029
01:30:34.520 --> 01:30:40.560
alone was given prizes of silver and
a golden necklace by Caesar. Then he

1030
01:30:40.640 --> 01:30:44.119
was bidden to serve in the bodyguard
of the emperor. After this he was

1031
01:30:44.119 --> 01:30:47.479
pronounced to officer, often increasing his
fame by his deeds, and rose to

1032
01:30:47.520 --> 01:30:53.640
many military grades and finally to the
centurionship as a reward for his active service.

1033
01:30:54.000 --> 01:30:59.520
End So many in positions of leadership
in Rome, especially military, were

1034
01:30:59.520 --> 01:31:03.800
of German extraction. So strong was
this trend that the last several centuries of

1035
01:31:03.880 --> 01:31:10.920
Rome's existence might be seen as a
gradual transformation into a Germanic empire, as

1036
01:31:10.920 --> 01:31:14.800
opposed to the sudden and stark shift
many have been led to believe came to

1037
01:31:14.840 --> 01:31:19.119
pass. The Goths, who and
their disunity were pushed ever further westward by

1038
01:31:19.119 --> 01:31:25.279
the Huns, began to blend into
Rome in a sense. Their attitude seemed

1039
01:31:25.279 --> 01:31:30.640
to be a mixture of respect and
weariness, though at times bordering on disgust.

1040
01:31:30.600 --> 01:31:35.680
They admired many of Rome's achievements,
the architecture, the aqueducts, the

1041
01:31:35.840 --> 01:31:42.439
orderliness and structure, But contrary to
the impression modern history paints, they weren't

1042
01:31:42.479 --> 01:31:47.560
eager to destroy, conquer, or
become Rome in any sense. Gothic leaders

1043
01:31:47.600 --> 01:31:53.000
were to make it clear time and
time again What they sought was to coexist

1044
01:31:53.560 --> 01:31:59.319
ideally in a friendly manner. Yet
the Germanic peoples were to essentially sack Rome

1045
01:31:59.479 --> 01:32:03.000
four times in a mere one hundred
and fifty years. At virtually any point

1046
01:32:03.039 --> 01:32:06.960
in this period, they might have
made the choice to become Romans, with

1047
01:32:08.079 --> 01:32:13.840
their heated floors, their multitude of
bread and circuses, their marketplace, but

1048
01:32:14.000 --> 01:32:18.479
they very consciously chose not to do
so, and they rejected the marketplace.

1049
01:32:19.479 --> 01:32:29.319
This is their distinction between them and
potentially other related groups, blood related,

1050
01:32:29.640 --> 01:32:35.039
perhaps long series of hostages taken from
German noble families raised nearly from birth and

1051
01:32:35.159 --> 01:32:39.880
Rome, yet time and time again, choosing to return to their homeland and

1052
01:32:39.920 --> 01:32:45.600
their people and fight for their causes
speaks to this. On several occasions,

1053
01:32:45.680 --> 01:32:50.079
Germanic leaders speak openly about the dangers
of excessive comforts. When the last emperor

1054
01:32:50.119 --> 01:32:55.760
to rule both East and Western Rome, Theodosius, died, whom jordanis called

1055
01:32:55.800 --> 01:33:00.680
a friend to and lover of the
Gothic race, Jordana speaks of his sons

1056
01:33:00.760 --> 01:33:05.439
beginning to quote ruin both empires by
their luxurious living and to deprive the Goths

1057
01:33:05.520 --> 01:33:11.359
of their customary tributes. The contempt
of the Goths, for the Romans soon

1058
01:33:11.399 --> 01:33:15.399
increased and quote, for fear their
valor would be destroyed by long peace,

1059
01:33:15.880 --> 01:33:21.720
they appointed Alaric king over them end
quote. And this is telling. It's

1060
01:33:21.800 --> 01:33:27.800
not ambitiousness or desire for plunder that
seems to drive the Germanic assaults on Rome,

1061
01:33:28.439 --> 01:33:33.239
but rather reactions to outright treachery or
obvious degeneracy, or lack of health

1062
01:33:33.439 --> 01:33:38.960
and order in the empire at large. Much like Tacitus, I believe they

1063
01:33:38.960 --> 01:33:44.319
saw a swift decline of this once
great empire and seemed earnestly to want to

1064
01:33:44.439 --> 01:33:49.600
salvage aspects of its greatness. Alaric
is an impressive figure in Germanic history.

1065
01:33:50.279 --> 01:33:55.359
In his early battles with Stilico,
a half German who for a time was

1066
01:33:55.399 --> 01:34:00.359
the most powerful man in the Western
Roman Empire, Alaric broke through Stilico's lineines,

1067
01:34:00.720 --> 01:34:04.760
marched thirty miles north and crossed a
gulf before Stilico could even put his

1068
01:34:04.840 --> 01:34:11.640
troops in order to surprise him completely, a master stroke that the historian Bradley

1069
01:34:11.800 --> 01:34:16.920
states travelers who are acquainted with the
ground say that this march of Alarics is

1070
01:34:16.960 --> 01:34:23.399
one of the most amazing feats in
the historical record. By the mid fourth

1071
01:34:23.399 --> 01:34:27.920
century, the Goths within Rome already
exercised vast control over the empire, bea

1072
01:34:28.000 --> 01:34:32.560
powerful figures like the kingmaker Rissmer,
a capable general loved and respected by the

1073
01:34:32.600 --> 01:34:38.800
troops. Goths outside Rome, meanwhile, had established a very real power base

1074
01:34:38.960 --> 01:34:44.000
in Toulouse. During the fighting between
these two forces, Rome paid a large

1075
01:34:44.000 --> 01:34:48.520
bribed Alaric to compel him to retreat. Amusingly, the Romans then celebrated a

1076
01:34:48.640 --> 01:34:54.600
triumph, treating this as a great
victory, and inscribed on an arch that

1077
01:34:54.640 --> 01:34:59.880
the Gothic nation has been subdued,
never to rise again. Words the God

1078
01:35:00.319 --> 01:35:03.359
no doubt read with amusement as they
rode through the streets of the conquered capital.

1079
01:35:03.520 --> 01:35:09.239
A few years later, a revolt
of sorts set this ball rolling.

1080
01:35:10.479 --> 01:35:15.239
In a brief fit of anti Gothic
sentiment, certain Roman citizens, likely spurred

1081
01:35:15.239 --> 01:35:19.720
on by nefarious actors in their midst
made the grievous air of turning on the

1082
01:35:19.760 --> 01:35:27.039
Gothic civilians while the Gothic soldiers were
stationed elsewhere and slaughtered their wives and children

1083
01:35:27.199 --> 01:35:32.079
and looted their property. Approximately thirty
thousand Gothic soldiers at once deserted the Roman

1084
01:35:32.199 --> 01:35:38.840
army and joined Alaric, who immediately
rode from city to city, effortlessly conquering

1085
01:35:38.960 --> 01:35:43.279
all in his path. Finally arriving
at Rome, he decided to engage in

1086
01:35:43.319 --> 01:35:47.239
a siege to starve the town out. The extremely stubborn Romans began to starve

1087
01:35:47.279 --> 01:35:51.680
to death in great numbers, and
yet had the audacity to send a threatening

1088
01:35:51.720 --> 01:35:57.439
message to Alaric demanding good terms or
else they rise up against him in large

1089
01:35:57.479 --> 01:36:02.399
numbers. It said that Alaric laughed
at this, saying quote, the thicker

1090
01:36:02.399 --> 01:36:08.039
the grass, the easier it is
to mow end quote, before presenting his

1091
01:36:08.239 --> 01:36:12.640
terms, namely, all of the
gold and silver within the walls, and

1092
01:36:12.720 --> 01:36:15.760
all of the slaves. What should
we have left then? Was said to

1093
01:36:15.800 --> 01:36:21.279
be the stunned reply, to which
Alaric simply stated, your lives. What

1094
01:36:21.399 --> 01:36:26.720
makes this additionally amusing is that Alrek
seems to have been merely humbling them.

1095
01:36:26.880 --> 01:36:30.239
Not only did he end up taking
far less after they finally capitulated, but

1096
01:36:30.319 --> 01:36:34.479
it's reported he immediately saw to the
end of the starvation, and although it

1097
01:36:34.520 --> 01:36:40.760
proved impossible to completely restrain the goths
long built up anger, he further surprised

1098
01:36:40.760 --> 01:36:45.840
the conquered population by punishing those that
acted most unjustly towards the conquered Romans.

1099
01:36:45.680 --> 01:36:50.239
Bradley states quote Alaric remembered that he
was a Christian and tried to use his

1100
01:36:50.319 --> 01:36:55.399
victory mercifully. He told his soldiers
that the plunder of the city was theirs,

1101
01:36:55.880 --> 01:36:58.960
but that no man was to be
killed that was not wearing arms,

1102
01:37:00.119 --> 01:37:02.239
and soldiers were to be spared if
they took refuge in the holy places.

1103
01:37:03.920 --> 01:37:08.640
He then departed to Tuscany, with
his army even stronger now due to a

1104
01:37:08.680 --> 01:37:14.119
massive number of soldiers within Rome joining
his ranks. Alaric could have conquered or

1105
01:37:14.159 --> 01:37:17.640
destroyed the entire Western Roman Empire with
eaves at this stage, but he seems

1106
01:37:17.680 --> 01:37:23.119
to have had no desire to.
He wanted a kingdom of his own alongside

1107
01:37:23.199 --> 01:37:28.520
and allied to Rome. This was
initially agreed to by all local officials,

1108
01:37:29.079 --> 01:37:34.439
but amazingly, and again audaciously,
a stubborn Roman emperor Honorius refused the idea,

1109
01:37:34.880 --> 01:37:39.600
believing himself to be safe and out
of harm's way, tucked away in

1110
01:37:39.680 --> 01:37:45.399
Ravenna. Alaric was furious and promptly
marched his army straightway to Ravenna, and

1111
01:37:45.520 --> 01:37:50.159
what follows is an almost comical series
of losses for the Romans under Honorius,

1112
01:37:50.279 --> 01:37:56.279
who seemed to grow more shamelessly,
arrogant and headstrong with each successive loss,

1113
01:37:56.960 --> 01:38:02.239
until finally destroyed completely. No history
of the Goths could be complete without a

1114
01:38:02.239 --> 01:38:06.880
discussion of just how and why they
became, out of necessity, so close

1115
01:38:06.960 --> 01:38:13.680
with Rome, literally and figuratively,
both as friend and foe, namely the

1116
01:38:13.800 --> 01:38:17.159
Huns. It's important to remember that
while we tend to see the Romans and

1117
01:38:17.239 --> 01:38:23.279
Goths as two completely distinct races of
peoples, both trace back to the same

1118
01:38:23.359 --> 01:38:27.920
pivotal figures of legend. For example, their strong connection to the ancient ruling

1119
01:38:28.000 --> 01:38:33.119
families of and refugees from Troy.
The senators and aristocracy in Rome likely had

1120
01:38:33.159 --> 01:38:39.159
significant overlap with the leading elements of
the Gothic world. The intruder culture to

1121
01:38:39.199 --> 01:38:44.640
their east, however, was something
much more foreign. The Huns, likely

1122
01:38:44.680 --> 01:38:48.439
born from a mixture of Scythian and
Asiatic peoples, had exploded in number and

1123
01:38:48.520 --> 01:38:55.840
had begun constantly harrying and harassing all
Germanic peoples on their borders. Jordanis tells

1124
01:38:55.840 --> 01:39:00.479
a tale which may be fact or
Myth or somewhere in between. Speaks of

1125
01:39:00.520 --> 01:39:04.279
a Scythian and Hun border near the
Meaotic Swamp, and a hunting party of

1126
01:39:04.279 --> 01:39:10.600
the Huns chasing a mysterious dough which
they had reason to believe was something exceptional,

1127
01:39:10.960 --> 01:39:15.560
who guided them into Scythian lands before
disappearing. It said that they were

1128
01:39:15.560 --> 01:39:19.520
filled with admiration, which quickly gave
way to ambition and greed. And after

1129
01:39:19.560 --> 01:39:25.760
an initial raid in which they looted
belongings, sacrificed many Scythians, and made

1130
01:39:25.800 --> 01:39:30.039
the rest subject to themselves, they
decided to make a habit of the behavior.

1131
01:39:30.199 --> 01:39:34.359
Giordanis says quote, like a whirlwind
of nations, they swept across the

1132
01:39:34.359 --> 01:39:40.079
great Swamp and at once swept upon
the tribes on the borders of Scythia,

1133
01:39:40.920 --> 01:39:44.680
the Alani, who were their equals
in battle, but unlike them in civilization,

1134
01:39:45.000 --> 01:39:50.000
manners and appearance. They exhausted by
their incessant attacks and subdued for by

1135
01:39:50.039 --> 01:39:54.880
the tear of their features. They
inspired great fear in those whom perhaps they

1136
01:39:54.920 --> 01:39:59.359
did not really surpass in war.
They made their foes flee in horror because

1137
01:39:59.399 --> 01:40:02.319
their Swarthi the aspect was fearful,
and they had, if I may call

1138
01:40:02.359 --> 01:40:09.079
it so, a sort of shapeless
lump not ahead with pinholes rather than eyes.

1139
01:40:10.159 --> 01:40:13.760
Their hardihood is evident in their wild
appearance, and they are beings who

1140
01:40:13.800 --> 01:40:16.960
are cruel to their children on the
very day they are born. Sounds a

1141
01:40:17.039 --> 01:40:21.720
lot like a certain group of people
to me, for they cut the cheeks

1142
01:40:21.800 --> 01:40:25.600
of the males with a sword,
except for the fact that there are a

1143
01:40:25.600 --> 01:40:30.239
bunch of weasels and cowards, and
maybe not quite warriors, but who knows,

1144
01:40:30.159 --> 01:40:33.439
so that before they received the nourishment
of milk, they must learn to

1145
01:40:33.520 --> 01:40:41.159
endure wounds. End quote. Some
of the Hunnish habits and tactics and customs

1146
01:40:41.159 --> 01:40:45.439
were similar to those of the wildest
border tribes of the Scythians, and in

1147
01:40:45.439 --> 01:40:49.000
some sense might even be thought of
as a racial or cultural midpoint between the

1148
01:40:49.119 --> 01:40:55.800
Scythians and the later Mongols of Ginghis
Khan's era. Evidence seems to indicate that

1149
01:40:55.840 --> 01:41:00.439
they were the descendants of the zhong
Yu, a hybrid Eurasian piece people who

1150
01:41:00.479 --> 01:41:04.199
show mixed European and Asiatic admixture.
At least as far back as two thousand

1151
01:41:04.239 --> 01:41:09.399
years ago, Germanic sources would often
speak of the Huns in a manner that

1152
01:41:09.520 --> 01:41:14.880
be deemed extremely racist today. Yet
they always respected courage and military prowess,

1153
01:41:15.399 --> 01:41:19.239
and still more so, effective leadership. Attila appears on the scene like a

1154
01:41:19.319 --> 01:41:25.399
rampaging lion and lives his entire life
in this manner, like a ball of

1155
01:41:25.520 --> 01:41:31.760
immense yet unchained and unchanneled energy.
The name actually has a German root meaning

1156
01:41:31.880 --> 01:41:38.680
little father, and Attila himself was
almost certainly of mixed Scythian and Asiatic lineage.

1157
01:41:40.399 --> 01:41:44.319
However, to the homogeneous Goths,
the Huns and their leader would have

1158
01:41:44.399 --> 01:41:50.439
been a shocking and exceptional site.
The historian J. Bagnellbery says his features,

1159
01:41:50.560 --> 01:41:55.439
according to a Gothic history quote,
bore the stamp of his origin,

1160
01:41:56.079 --> 01:42:00.239
and the portrait of Attila exhibited the
genuine deformity of a modern helmuk. A

1161
01:42:00.319 --> 01:42:05.800
large head, a swarthy complexion,
small deep seated eyes, a flat nose,

1162
01:42:06.520 --> 01:42:12.520
few hairs in the place of a
beard, now just put his hands

1163
01:42:12.520 --> 01:42:17.319
together and make them rub, broad
shoulders, and a short, square body

1164
01:42:17.399 --> 01:42:24.840
of nervous strength, though of disproportioned
form. The haughty step and demeanor of

1165
01:42:24.880 --> 01:42:29.159
the king of the Huns expressed the
consciousness of his superior station above the rest

1166
01:42:29.159 --> 01:42:32.920
of mankind looks like a goat,
and he had the custom of fiercely rolling

1167
01:42:32.960 --> 01:42:36.199
his eyes, as if he wished
to enjoy the tear which he inspired.

1168
01:42:38.560 --> 01:42:44.880
The historian Priscus recounts his experience visiting
Attila's court, recounting the semi formal rituals

1169
01:42:44.920 --> 01:42:48.439
engaged in during a banquet and the
multitude of foods offered, while Attila,

1170
01:42:48.720 --> 01:42:54.199
seated in the middle of his two
rows of guests ate only meat. The

1171
01:42:54.279 --> 01:42:59.000
anecdotes in his account provide an intriguing
picture of Attila and the huns and the

1172
01:42:59.039 --> 01:43:03.920
culture and ara quote. When evening
fell, tortures were lit, and two

1173
01:43:03.920 --> 01:43:11.000
barbarians coming forward in front of Attilla
sang songs they had composed celebrating his victories

1174
01:43:11.000 --> 01:43:15.479
and deeds of valor and war.
And of the guests, as they looked

1175
01:43:15.479 --> 01:43:18.760
at the singers, some were pleased
with the verses, others, reminded of

1176
01:43:18.800 --> 01:43:24.039
wars, were excited in their souls, while yet others, whose bodies were

1177
01:43:24.039 --> 01:43:29.880
feeble with age and their spirits compelled
to rest, shed tears. After the

1178
01:43:30.000 --> 01:43:34.920
songs, a Scythian whose mind was
deranged appeared and by uttering outlandish and senseless

1179
01:43:34.920 --> 01:43:42.399
words forced the company to laugh after
him. Zirkon, the Moorish dwarf entered

1180
01:43:42.920 --> 01:43:46.640
and threw all except Attila into fits
of unquenchable laughter. By his appearance,

1181
01:43:46.920 --> 01:43:51.520
his dress, his voice, and
his words, which were a confused jumble

1182
01:43:51.640 --> 01:43:58.319
of Latin, Punic and Gothic.
Attila, however, remained immovable and of

1183
01:43:58.439 --> 01:44:02.680
unchanging countenance. Nor by word or
act did he betray anything. Approaching a

1184
01:44:02.760 --> 01:44:09.000
smile or merriment, accepted the entry
of Ernest, his youngest son, whom

1185
01:44:09.039 --> 01:44:12.560
he pulled by the cheek and gazed
on with a calm look of satisfaction.

1186
01:44:14.760 --> 01:44:18.439
He was, by all accounts,
a capable leader, extremely courageous, relentlessly

1187
01:44:18.560 --> 01:44:24.800
energetic, and, although wild and
lawless by Gothic standards, not without some

1188
01:44:25.039 --> 01:44:30.920
virtues and personal code of conduct.
Most importantly, he represented the most significant

1189
01:44:30.039 --> 01:44:35.159
and powerful threat that the Romans and
Goths had ever faced, not counting one

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01:44:35.199 --> 01:44:41.319
another. There's a deeply intriguing back
and forth that gives us a behind the

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01:44:41.359 --> 01:44:45.239
scenes conception of just how deeply this
threat was felt, and also serves to

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illustrate the little known closeness and comaraderie
often felt between the Roman rulership and aristocracy,

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01:44:51.800 --> 01:44:57.680
and the Gothic element likely due at
least in part to the similar genetic

1194
01:44:57.720 --> 01:45:01.680
and cultural roots. A similarity probably
sensed all the more strongly in the face

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01:45:01.720 --> 01:45:09.479
of these new foreign invaders of Ollyrian
stock himself, Emperor Valentinian sent an embassy

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01:45:09.520 --> 01:45:15.079
to the Visigoths and their king Theodorid
with this message, quote, bravest of

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01:45:15.199 --> 01:45:17.840
nations, it is the part of
prudence for us to unite against the Lord

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01:45:17.840 --> 01:45:21.600
of the earth, who wishes to
enslave the whole world, who requires no

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01:45:21.840 --> 01:45:28.039
just cause for battle, but supposes
whatever he does is right. He measures

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01:45:28.039 --> 01:45:33.119
his ambition by his might, license
satisfies his pride. Despising law and right,

1201
01:45:33.399 --> 01:45:39.479
he shows himself an enemy to nature
herself. And thus he who clearly

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01:45:39.560 --> 01:45:44.000
is the common foe of each,
deserves the hatred of all. Pray.

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01:45:44.079 --> 01:45:47.960
Remember what you surely can't forget,
that the Huns do not overthrow nations by

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01:45:48.079 --> 01:45:53.079
means of war, where there is
an equal chance, but assail them by

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01:45:53.159 --> 01:45:58.039
treachery, which is a greater cause
for anxiety, to say nothing of ourselves.

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01:45:58.359 --> 01:46:01.359
Can you suffer such insolence to go
unpunished, Since you are mighty in

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01:46:01.520 --> 01:46:04.840
arms, give heed to your own
danger, and join hands with us in

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01:46:04.880 --> 01:46:11.520
common. Bear aid also to the
empire of which you hold apart. If

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01:46:11.520 --> 01:46:15.000
you would learn how such an alliance
should be sought and welcomed by us,

1210
01:46:15.199 --> 01:46:18.199
look into the plans of the foe. By these and like arguments, the

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01:46:18.239 --> 01:46:24.960
ambassadors of Valentinian prevailed upon King Theodord. He answered them, saying, Romans,

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01:46:25.000 --> 01:46:28.479
you have attained your desires. You
have made Attila r foe. Also

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01:46:29.159 --> 01:46:32.319
we will pursue him wherever he summons
us. And though he is puffed up

1214
01:46:32.359 --> 01:46:36.640
by his victories over diverse races,
yet the Goths know how to fight this

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01:46:36.760 --> 01:46:42.520
haughty foe. I call no war
dangerous, save one whose cause is weak,

1216
01:46:43.279 --> 01:46:46.640
for he fears no ill on whom
Majesty has smiled. The nobles shouted

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01:46:46.640 --> 01:46:51.840
assent to the reply, and the
multitude gladly followed. The Romans knew full

1218
01:46:51.840 --> 01:46:56.880
well how lucky they were to have
not only an ally as a buffer between

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01:46:56.920 --> 01:47:00.359
themselves and the Huns, but an
ally who seemed to glory in such conflict,

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01:47:00.760 --> 01:47:06.600
especially when united against an outside force. As the massive host of united

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01:47:06.640 --> 01:47:11.680
Goths under Theodorin took to the field, it said Attila saw his army thrown

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01:47:11.680 --> 01:47:15.920
into confusion and doubt. He sought
to encourage them to steal their nerves,

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01:47:16.359 --> 01:47:20.399
And we have a record of his
words that day. Quote, here you

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01:47:20.520 --> 01:47:26.119
stand, after conquering mighty nations and
subduing the world. I therefore think it

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01:47:26.159 --> 01:47:29.199
foolish of me to goad you with
words, as though you were men who

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01:47:29.199 --> 01:47:32.319
had not been proved in action.
Let a new leader or an untried army

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01:47:32.359 --> 01:47:35.840
resort to that. It is not
right for me to say anything common,

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01:47:36.199 --> 01:47:41.199
nor ought you to listen. For
what is war? What your usual custom?

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01:47:41.800 --> 01:47:44.800
Or what is sweeter for a brave
man than to seek revenge with his

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01:47:44.880 --> 01:47:48.000
own hand. It is the right
of nature to gird the soul with vengeance.

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Let us then attack the foe eagerly, for they are ever the buller

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01:47:53.479 --> 01:47:59.319
who make the attack despise. This
union of discordant races to defend oneself by

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01:47:59.319 --> 01:48:03.640
alliance is proof of cowardice. See
even before our attack they are spitten with

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01:48:03.760 --> 01:48:09.439
terror. They seek the heights,
they seek the hills, and repenting too

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01:48:09.520 --> 01:48:14.520
late clamor for protection against battle in
open fields. You know how slight a

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01:48:14.600 --> 01:48:18.239
matter the Roman attack is. While
they are still gathering in order and forming

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01:48:18.239 --> 01:48:21.800
in one line with locked shields.
They are checked. I will not say

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01:48:21.840 --> 01:48:26.840
by the first wound, but even
by the dust of battle. Then onto

1239
01:48:26.920 --> 01:48:30.479
the fray with stout hearts, as
is your wont despise their battle line.

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01:48:30.800 --> 01:48:36.119
Attack the Alani, smite the Visigoths. Seek swift victory on that spot where

1241
01:48:36.159 --> 01:48:41.479
the battle rages. For when the
sinews are cut, the limbs soon relax.

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01:48:42.119 --> 01:48:45.119
Nor can a body stand when you
have taken away the bones. Let

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01:48:45.159 --> 01:48:50.239
your courage rise and your own fury
burst forth. Now show your cunning Huns,

1244
01:48:50.560 --> 01:48:55.840
now your deeds of arms. Let
the wounded exact in return of death

1245
01:48:55.880 --> 01:49:00.800
his foe. Let the unwounded revel
in the slaughter of the enemy. No

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01:49:00.960 --> 01:49:03.760
spear shall harm those who are sure
to live and those who are sure to

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01:49:03.840 --> 01:49:10.279
die. Fate overtakes even in peace. And finally, why should fortune have

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01:49:10.319 --> 01:49:14.840
made the Huns victorious over so many
nations, unless it were to prepare them

1249
01:49:14.880 --> 01:49:18.800
for the joy of this conflict?
Who was it revealed to our sires to

1250
01:49:18.880 --> 01:49:25.760
path through the Maotian swamp or so
many ages a closed secret? Who moreover

1251
01:49:25.920 --> 01:49:30.800
made men yield to you when you
were as yet unarmed, Even a mass

1252
01:49:30.800 --> 01:49:34.319
of federated nations could not endure the
sight of the Huns. I am not

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01:49:34.359 --> 01:49:38.960
deceived in the issue. Here is
the field, so many victories have promised

1254
01:49:39.000 --> 01:49:43.760
us. I shall hurl the first
spear at the foe. If any constand

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01:49:43.760 --> 01:49:47.359
and rest well, Attila fights,
he is a dead man. Inflamed by

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01:49:47.439 --> 01:49:53.560
these words, they all dashed into
battle. And although the situation was itself

1257
01:49:53.600 --> 01:49:58.800
fearful, yet the presence of their
king dispelled anxiety and hesitation. Hand to

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01:49:58.880 --> 01:50:03.159
hand they clashed in back, and
the fight grew fierce, confused, monstrous,

1259
01:50:03.880 --> 01:50:10.600
unrelenting, a fight who's like no
ancient time has ever recorded. There

1260
01:50:10.680 --> 01:50:14.560
such deeds were done that a brave
man who missed this marvelous spectacle could not

1261
01:50:14.680 --> 01:50:17.840
hope to see anything so wonderful all
his life long. For, if we

1262
01:50:17.880 --> 01:50:21.720
may believe our elders, a brook
flowing between the low banks through the plane

1263
01:50:23.159 --> 01:50:27.319
was greatly increased by the blood from
the wounds of the slain. It was

1264
01:50:27.359 --> 01:50:30.479
not flooded by showers, as brooks
usually rise, but was swollen by a

1265
01:50:30.560 --> 01:50:35.119
strange stream, and turned into this
torrent by the increase of blood. In

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01:50:35.159 --> 01:50:40.319
their wretched plight, those whose wounds
drove them to slake their parching thirst,

1267
01:50:40.720 --> 01:50:44.960
drank water, mingled with gore the
blood they'd poured from their own wounds.

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01:50:45.920 --> 01:50:49.880
All right, for those of you
out there in Rumble, they're playing games

1269
01:50:49.920 --> 01:50:55.680
again. I tried to say hello
to Voodoo, and the entire live stream

1270
01:50:55.760 --> 01:50:59.000
shut down, not the live stream, but the live chat shut down on

1271
01:50:59.079 --> 01:51:02.840
me. I've refreshed to three or
four times. What Voodoo was saying about

1272
01:51:02.880 --> 01:51:08.359
the true noble warriors wasn't It wasn't
intended for the hunts. It was for

1273
01:51:08.439 --> 01:51:12.199
the Visigoths, obviously, but it
kind of came up a little bit late

1274
01:51:12.239 --> 01:51:15.920
because I was messing around with that, so just wanted to clarify that.

1275
01:51:15.720 --> 01:51:19.640
But hello, Voodoo, good to
see you. I'm not sure what's up,

1276
01:51:19.680 --> 01:51:23.880
but I can't talk to you guys, and I can't put my life

1277
01:51:23.960 --> 01:51:29.039
chat's blank now after doing the refresh, and I don't see anything new popping

1278
01:51:29.159 --> 01:51:33.920
up in the stream yard because it's
connected to that rumble and the rumbles shutting

1279
01:51:33.960 --> 01:51:40.079
me. The person who's hosting the
video, who's conducting the live stream,

1280
01:51:40.199 --> 01:51:45.439
I'm not allowed to talk or see
what people are saying because Rumble is crumble,

1281
01:51:46.159 --> 01:51:50.319
Rumble is going down. Folks,
do yourself a favor and get on

1282
01:51:50.439 --> 01:51:57.399
to ftjmedia dot com because this type
of information and everything else that you enjoy

1283
01:51:57.800 --> 01:52:01.000
listening to watching, it's going to
be taken away from Rumble, just like

1284
01:52:01.000 --> 01:52:05.199
it was on YouTube. The plan, the action, it's all happening already.

1285
01:52:05.279 --> 01:52:09.479
You saw what happened just on my
channel. You saw what happened with

1286
01:52:09.520 --> 01:52:12.600
Europe. But you saw what happened
with last two videos July fourth and July

1287
01:52:12.680 --> 01:52:16.840
fifth, which are by the way, on my FTG media account. So

1288
01:52:17.520 --> 01:52:23.000
get over there, make a log
in. You can even create a fake

1289
01:52:23.000 --> 01:52:26.840
email account that you don't use for
anything else. There's really no personal data

1290
01:52:27.079 --> 01:52:30.920
like other accounts that Josh asked for. It's not something. It's just a

1291
01:52:30.000 --> 01:52:36.119
matter. So you can get you
know whatever notifications or whatnot. But then

1292
01:52:36.199 --> 01:52:41.439
get on there and then find find
your more people coming up every day.

1293
01:52:41.439 --> 01:52:45.840
We've got all kinds of plans to
usher in content creators to get them involved

1294
01:52:45.840 --> 01:52:49.840
here the stream. The streams work
marvelously. There's a live chat there.

1295
01:52:50.840 --> 01:52:54.520
When I disappear off of here,
which I feel like is going to happen,

1296
01:52:54.840 --> 01:52:59.960
all four thousand of my subscribers wasted, right, because that's what they'll

1297
01:53:00.039 --> 01:53:03.439
probably due to me. They did
it to YouTube restarted many times. So

1298
01:53:03.479 --> 01:53:08.359
I'm just saying, if you're interested
in this show, go at least subscribe

1299
01:53:08.359 --> 01:53:12.520
to the what will become the main
channel. Unfortunately, because I think Rumble

1300
01:53:12.680 --> 01:53:15.760
is about to acts a lot of
things. And then I even letting the

1301
01:53:15.800 --> 01:53:23.560
guy who is the livestream content creator
see or interact with the people in his

1302
01:53:23.600 --> 01:53:29.159
live chat. That's pretty jacked up. They just shut it right down on

1303
01:53:29.279 --> 01:53:33.079
me at dawn on the following day
when the Romans saw, maybe shut down

1304
01:53:33.119 --> 01:53:38.720
for you as well. But it's
because it's you know, screw the screw

1305
01:53:38.760 --> 01:53:43.920
the communication, and screw making a
community right A fields propiled high with bodies,

1306
01:53:44.000 --> 01:53:46.359
and that the Huns did not venture
forth. They thought the victory was

1307
01:53:46.399 --> 01:53:51.039
theirs, but they knew that Attila
would not flee from the battle unless overwhelmed

1308
01:53:51.079 --> 01:53:56.920
by a great disaster. Yet he
did nothing cowardly like one that has overcome.

1309
01:53:57.560 --> 01:54:00.000
But with a clash of arms sounded, the trumpets threatened an attack.

1310
01:54:00.920 --> 01:54:05.159
He was like a lion pierced by
hunting spears, who paces to and fro

1311
01:54:05.319 --> 01:54:10.399
before the mouth of his den and
dares not spring, but ceases not to

1312
01:54:10.520 --> 01:54:14.960
terrify the neighborhood by his roaring.
Even so, this warlike king at Bay

1313
01:54:15.159 --> 01:54:19.199
terrified his conquerors. Therefore, the
Goths and Romans assembled and considered what to

1314
01:54:19.239 --> 01:54:24.960
do with the vanquished Attila. They
determined to wear him out by a siege,

1315
01:54:25.239 --> 01:54:28.680
because he had no supply of provisions
and was hindered from approaching by a

1316
01:54:28.720 --> 01:54:31.680
shower of arrows from the bowmen placed
within the confines of the Roman camp.

1317
01:54:32.840 --> 01:54:36.560
But it was said that the king
remained supremely brave even in this extremity,

1318
01:54:38.239 --> 01:54:42.159
and had heaped up a funeral pyre
of horse saddles, so that if the

1319
01:54:42.239 --> 01:54:45.159
enemy should attack him, he was
determined to cast himself into the flames,

1320
01:54:45.920 --> 01:54:49.119
that none might have the joy of
wounding him, and that the lord of

1321
01:54:49.159 --> 01:54:58.000
so many races might not fall into
the hands of his foes. Jordanis follows

1322
01:54:58.039 --> 01:55:01.039
this up with the story of the
battlefield Bare and mourning of the dead Gothic

1323
01:55:01.119 --> 01:55:09.199
king Theodorid, in his unique writing
style I find so appealing. Theodorid's son

1324
01:55:09.520 --> 01:55:15.279
Thoris Mud now took control, and
despite the total Gothic victory, was eager

1325
01:55:15.319 --> 01:55:19.600
to avenge his father's death. Attila
was probably surprised when no follow up attack

1326
01:55:19.680 --> 01:55:25.399
occurred, but this wasn't to manifest
later, having gathered his wits and his

1327
01:55:25.479 --> 01:55:30.560
forces once more, Attila quote sought
to blot out the fame of his destroyer,

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01:55:30.000 --> 01:55:32.800
and in this way to annul what
he had suffered the hands of the

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01:55:32.840 --> 01:55:39.439
Visigoths. He met a second defeat
and retreated gloriously end quote. The United

1330
01:55:39.479 --> 01:55:43.920
Goths couldn't be stopped, and the
Huns would never again seriously threaten Europe.

1331
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Attila was to die true to form. After a night of drunken debauchery.

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01:55:49.760 --> 01:55:56.359
Thoris Mud was betrayed under mysterious circumstances. He'd fallen ill and was being tended

1333
01:55:56.399 --> 01:56:00.960
to when someone gave word to his
foes that he was both ill and disarmed.

1334
01:56:00.840 --> 01:56:04.720
He was killed, but this fascinating
line proves he didn't go down easily,

1335
01:56:05.319 --> 01:56:10.159
despite having one arm fastened to the
chair for treatment. Quote, grasping

1336
01:56:10.159 --> 01:56:14.199
a footstool in the one hand he
had free, He became the avenger of

1337
01:56:14.239 --> 01:56:16.760
his own blood by slaying several of
those that were lying in wait for him

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01:56:16.960 --> 01:56:23.079
end quote. This repulse of the
Huns was one of the most important events

1339
01:56:23.119 --> 01:56:28.279
in European history. Thomas Hodgkin,
author of the excellent work Theodoric, the

1340
01:56:28.319 --> 01:56:33.399
goth the Barbarian champion of civilization,
puts it perhaps too bluntly for the modern

1341
01:56:33.479 --> 01:56:39.479
year quote for the world, yes, even for us in the nineteenth century,

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01:56:39.720 --> 01:56:44.199
and for the great undiscovered continents beyond
the sea. The repulse of the

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01:56:44.319 --> 01:56:49.359
squalid and unprogressive Terranian from the seats
of the old historic civilization was essential to

1344
01:56:49.399 --> 01:56:55.479
the preservation of whatever makes human life
worth living. Had Attila conquered on the

1345
01:56:55.520 --> 01:57:00.039
Catalonian Plains, an endless succession of
Ginghis Khans and tamerl Lanes would probably have

1346
01:57:00.079 --> 01:57:05.159
swept over the desolated plains of Europe. Paris and Florence would have been even

1347
01:57:05.239 --> 01:57:10.319
as Kiva and Bokhara, and the
island of Britain would not yet have attained

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01:57:10.439 --> 01:57:15.720
the degree of civilization reached by the
Peninsula of Korea. End quote. Although

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01:57:15.720 --> 01:57:18.399
it's important to mention here a hallmark
feature of the Huns is that they weren't

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01:57:18.439 --> 01:57:24.640
any one thing, but rather a
hodgepodge of peoples, even picking up Gothic

1351
01:57:24.680 --> 01:57:30.000
elements along the way those earliest tribes
they conquered prior to Gothic unity and forcing

1352
01:57:30.079 --> 01:57:36.520
them into military you mean they were
a mixed multitude sirs. We also have

1353
01:57:36.640 --> 01:57:42.319
this from Procopius's History of the Wars, written in the mid sixth century.

1354
01:57:43.720 --> 01:57:47.880
The Heptolites quote are the stock of
the Huns in fact as well as in

1355
01:57:48.000 --> 01:57:51.319
name. However, they do not
mingle with any of the Huns known to

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01:57:51.399 --> 01:57:56.159
us. They are the only ones
among the Huns who have white bodies end

1357
01:57:56.239 --> 01:58:00.479
quote. So this was not merely
a hybrid people, but also so a

1358
01:58:00.520 --> 01:58:06.840
heterogeneous mixture of homogeneous peoples. After
Attila's death, several of his sons,

1359
01:58:08.199 --> 01:58:13.399
mere shadows of their father, had
best jockeyed for power, pretending to continue

1360
01:58:13.399 --> 01:58:17.039
their rule over the lands and peoples, including Goths, as if an inheritance

1361
01:58:17.079 --> 01:58:23.199
of fiefdoms. The Goths weren't having
this and made quick work of the Huns,

1362
01:58:24.000 --> 01:58:28.079
now ironically in the same fractured and
disunited position that the Goths had been

1363
01:58:28.079 --> 01:58:32.520
in when the Huns first burst on
the scene. As Jordanis so eloquently puts

1364
01:58:32.560 --> 01:58:38.640
it, they drove them so ingloriously
from their own land that those who remained

1365
01:58:38.760 --> 01:58:41.960
have been in dread of the arms
of the Goths from that time down to

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01:58:41.960 --> 01:58:46.960
the present day. Now that the
Huns were definitively dealt with, and the

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01:58:46.960 --> 01:58:51.039
Goths had been gifted some newfound unity
and the process of carrying out the task.

1368
01:58:51.960 --> 01:58:56.199
Slowly but surely, they would go
on to become the undisputed masters of

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01:58:56.239 --> 01:59:00.560
all of Europe, and not just
Europe, but significant regions of North Africa

1370
01:59:00.840 --> 01:59:04.520
and eventually Russia as well as the
Rus from which it derives its name.

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01:59:06.119 --> 01:59:11.520
This small family of peoples at one
point subjugated and provided the ruling caste,

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01:59:11.760 --> 01:59:15.279
if you will, for virtually all
of the Western world, France as the

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01:59:15.319 --> 01:59:20.720
Franks, Spain as the Visigoths,
Italy and North Africa as the Lombards and

1374
01:59:20.840 --> 01:59:27.640
Vandals, Britain as the Anglo Saxons, and of course Germany and Austria,

1375
01:59:27.880 --> 01:59:32.560
Scandinavia, Poland and Ukraine. It's
a well known but little talked about fact

1376
01:59:32.600 --> 01:59:36.960
that all of European royalty spread from
the seed line of these Germanic peoples.

1377
01:59:39.079 --> 01:59:42.479
And yet, as was always the
case with this group, there was no

1378
01:59:42.800 --> 01:59:47.000
singular, unified empire to speak of, but rather a variety of friendly yet

1379
01:59:47.119 --> 01:59:55.079
independent branches. Rome itself had become
a chaos with regards to its titular rulership

1380
01:59:56.000 --> 02:00:00.319
due to the restriction that Roman emperors
be citizens born within her born orders.

1381
02:00:00.079 --> 02:00:04.640
The Goths instead ruled as patricians,
and the title of emperor became that of

1382
02:00:04.640 --> 02:00:10.640
a figurehead. Hopkins tells us of
the nine emperors who wore the purple in

1383
02:00:10.680 --> 02:00:15.960
Italy after the death of Valentinian,
who wore the purple. That's interesting too,

1384
02:00:15.600 --> 02:00:21.359
it's a color of royalty. But
does that hearken back to those who

1385
02:00:21.960 --> 02:00:27.840
used the dye? I mean,
is there something to do with magic there

1386
02:00:28.640 --> 02:00:30.760
and the drug rituals. I don't
know. I don't know what these people.

1387
02:00:30.800 --> 02:00:33.960
I think that's just priplely became.
I don't know, I don't know.

1388
02:00:33.960 --> 02:00:35.960
I'll have to look into that.
We will have to look into that.

1389
02:00:38.760 --> 02:00:42.960
Only two ended their reigns in the
course of nature, four were deposed,

1390
02:00:43.319 --> 02:00:46.600
and three met their deaths by violence. Only one reign for more than

1391
02:00:46.640 --> 02:00:50.800
five years. Several could only measure
the duration of their royalty by months.

1392
02:00:51.920 --> 02:00:57.600
Even the short period from four fifty
five to four seventy six a d which

1393
02:00:57.640 --> 02:01:01.800
these nine reigns occupy is not entirely
filled by them, for there were frequent

1394
02:01:01.880 --> 02:01:06.720
into Regna, one lasting for a
year and eight months, and the men

1395
02:01:06.960 --> 02:01:12.159
were as feeble, as their kingly
life was short and precarious, with a

1396
02:01:12.159 --> 02:01:16.319
single exception of Majorium four fifty seven
to four sixty one, a brave and

1397
02:01:16.359 --> 02:01:20.000
strong man, and one who,
if fair play had been given him,

1398
02:01:20.199 --> 02:01:25.279
would have assuredly done something to stay
the ruin of the Empire. All of

1399
02:01:25.319 --> 02:01:29.159
these nine men, with whose names
there is no need to burden the reader's

1400
02:01:29.199 --> 02:01:34.760
memory, are fitly named by a
German historian, the Shadow Emperors. Four

1401
02:01:34.800 --> 02:01:40.520
seventy six is traditionally known as the
date Rome fell, although as I've just

1402
02:01:40.560 --> 02:01:44.479
described, this is quite the misnomer, and from this point forward the battles

1403
02:01:44.479 --> 02:01:49.119
were largely between Goths inside the Empire
verse Goths outside the Empire. It was

1404
02:01:49.159 --> 02:01:55.760
in this year that Gothic mercenaries,
which included the famed Herolai, formerly demanded

1405
02:01:55.920 --> 02:02:00.159
one third of the lands of Italy
for themselves. Being refused by the Roman

1406
02:02:00.279 --> 02:02:05.479
arrestes, a man named Udovacar said
to the mercenaries, make me king and

1407
02:02:05.520 --> 02:02:10.079
I will obtain for you your desire. They did so, and with a

1408
02:02:10.079 --> 02:02:15.279
Gothic portion of Roman military forces joining
his side. The campaign was, to

1409
02:02:15.359 --> 02:02:20.520
quote Hodgkins, of the shortest and
most perfunctory kind as Arrestes and his bands

1410
02:02:20.520 --> 02:02:27.279
of Romans were destroyed. It said
aptly that during this period, while men

1411
02:02:27.399 --> 02:02:32.000
like Odovacar weren't formally kings of Italy, they were certainly kings in Italy.

1412
02:02:34.720 --> 02:02:41.399
One extremely intriguing figure, who by
all accounts was also a great, just

1413
02:02:41.600 --> 02:02:45.760
and magnanimous ruler, was to unite
Gothic realms under a single Roman banner,

1414
02:02:47.319 --> 02:02:53.720
the Otteroric born four fifty five a
d and attaining power first over the Ostrogoths

1415
02:02:53.720 --> 02:02:58.640
in four seventy one, then the
Ostrogothic kingdom of Italy in four ninety three,

1416
02:02:59.039 --> 02:03:03.199
and then the Visigoth in five eleven
as patrician of the Roman Empire of

1417
02:03:03.279 --> 02:03:09.000
direct Amali lineage, by many accounts, the most prestigious ancestral line of the

1418
02:03:09.039 --> 02:03:13.840
Goths. He fittingly seems to represent
the heart and soul of his people,

1419
02:03:14.119 --> 02:03:18.000
perhaps more than any other historical figure. Like so many Germanic children of noble

1420
02:03:18.039 --> 02:03:21.520
lineage, he was taken hostage.
Again. This term is used in the

1421
02:03:21.560 --> 02:03:28.039
most friendly sense to constantinople in the
Eastern Roman Empire to be educated by the

1422
02:03:28.079 --> 02:03:31.800
best teachers and generals. By all
accounts, he was much loved and respected

1423
02:03:31.840 --> 02:03:39.039
by all the Emperor Leo, the
first among them. As he reached adulthood,

1424
02:03:39.439 --> 02:03:43.159
he quote heard that his tribe dwelling, as we have said in a

1425
02:03:43.239 --> 02:03:47.560
lyricum, was not altogether satisfied or
content. So he chose rather to seek

1426
02:03:47.560 --> 02:03:51.239
a living by his own exertions,
after the manner customary to his race,

1427
02:03:51.800 --> 02:03:57.439
rather than enjoy the advantages of the
Roman empire and luxurious ease while his tribe

1428
02:03:57.479 --> 02:04:02.359
lived apart end quote. Essentially,
he sought to rejoin his kinsmen and conquer

1429
02:04:02.399 --> 02:04:09.039
Western Rome and its half goth and
at least half treacherous Odovocar, also called

1430
02:04:09.039 --> 02:04:13.800
Odoayser. Quote. After pondering these
matters, he said to the Emperor,

1431
02:04:14.199 --> 02:04:17.560
though I lack nothing in serving your
empire, Yet if your piety deem it

1432
02:04:17.600 --> 02:04:21.159
worthy, be pleased to hear the
desire of my heart. And when,

1433
02:04:21.239 --> 02:04:26.199
as usual he had been granted permission
to speak freely, he said, the

1434
02:04:26.239 --> 02:04:30.000
western country long ago governed by the
rule of your ancestors and predecessors, and

1435
02:04:30.079 --> 02:04:34.479
that city which was the head and
mistress of the world, wherefore is it

1436
02:04:34.520 --> 02:04:40.159
now shaken by the tyranny of the
Torsilingi and RUGI send me there with my

1437
02:04:40.319 --> 02:04:44.159
race. Thus, if you but
say the word, you may be freed

1438
02:04:44.319 --> 02:04:46.920
from the burden of expense here.
And if by the Lord's help I shall

1439
02:04:46.960 --> 02:04:51.560
conquer, the fame of your piety
shall be glorious there For it is better

1440
02:04:51.600 --> 02:04:56.880
that I, your servant, and
your son should rule that kingdom, receiving

1441
02:04:56.880 --> 02:04:59.880
it as a gift from you.
If I conquer, than that one whom

1442
02:05:00.079 --> 02:05:03.079
you do not recognize, should oppress
your Senate with his tyrannical yoke, and

1443
02:05:03.159 --> 02:05:08.039
a part of the republic with slavery. For if I prevail, I shall

1444
02:05:08.079 --> 02:05:12.159
retain it as your grant and gift. If I am conquered, your piety

1445
02:05:12.159 --> 02:05:15.640
will lose nothing, Nay, as
I have said, it will save the

1446
02:05:15.720 --> 02:05:19.680
expense I now entail. Although the
Emperor was grieved that he should go,

1447
02:05:20.239 --> 02:05:24.279
yet when he heard this, he
granted what Theodoric asked, for he was

1448
02:05:24.399 --> 02:05:29.039
unwilling to cause him sorrow. He
sent him forth, enriched by great gifts,

1449
02:05:29.119 --> 02:05:32.239
and commended to his charge the Senate
and the Roman people. Therefore,

1450
02:05:32.319 --> 02:05:38.000
Theodoric departed from the royal city and
returned to his own people. It looks

1451
02:05:38.039 --> 02:05:42.319
like the artist made the composite of
one head and just added it to every

1452
02:05:42.319 --> 02:05:45.880
single body, and gave one dude
belongare the same face company with the whole

1453
02:05:45.920 --> 02:05:49.520
tribe of the Goths, who gave
him their unanimous consent. He set out

1454
02:05:49.520 --> 02:05:56.399
for Hysperia end quote, and immediately
he set about restoring order across all Germanic

1455
02:05:56.479 --> 02:06:01.359
lands and peoples to masterful effect.
Moated and arranged marriages to those with the

1456
02:06:01.399 --> 02:06:05.880
greatest amount of a mauling royal lineage, and united them under a single banner,

1457
02:06:06.079 --> 02:06:10.840
as he made war with all in
his path. In four eighty eight,

1458
02:06:11.199 --> 02:06:14.720
in that oldest of the Indo European
traditions, he led a wagon train

1459
02:06:14.840 --> 02:06:19.239
mass migration of his Gothic people towards
a new future. It will have been

1460
02:06:19.279 --> 02:06:24.039
noticed that the Gothic army is not
an army, but a nation, and

1461
02:06:24.039 --> 02:06:29.039
that the campaign is also a migration. The mother and sister of Theodoric are

1462
02:06:29.039 --> 02:06:33.159
accompanying him. There is evidently a
long train of non combatants, old men,

1463
02:06:33.359 --> 02:06:39.199
women and children following the army in
those two thousand Gothic wagons. The

1464
02:06:39.319 --> 02:06:44.119
character attributed to them by Horace,
as he states the wagon holds the Scythian's

1465
02:06:44.159 --> 02:06:50.680
wandering home still survives. The goth
a terrible enemy to those outside the pale

1466
02:06:50.720 --> 02:06:55.520
of his kinship is a home lover
at heart, and even in war,

1467
02:06:55.600 --> 02:07:00.359
will not separate himself from his wife
and children. This makes his impact slow,

1468
02:07:00.960 --> 02:07:04.960
his campaigns unscientific. It prepares for
him frequent defeats, such as that

1469
02:07:05.039 --> 02:07:10.560
of the Candavian Mountains, which a
celibate army would have avoided, but it

1470
02:07:10.600 --> 02:07:14.960
makes his conquests when he does conquer, more enduring, while it explains those

1471
02:07:15.000 --> 02:07:19.000
perpetual demands for land for a settlement
within the empire, almost on any terms,

1472
02:07:19.600 --> 02:07:25.000
with which, as was before shown, the barbarian inroads so often close

1473
02:07:25.279 --> 02:07:30.359
end quote, end quote. The
difficulty for finding food for so great a

1474
02:07:30.399 --> 02:07:35.720
multitude and the often desolated plains of
Pannonia and Noricumbe must have been enormous,

1475
02:07:36.239 --> 02:07:41.600
and was no doubt the reason for
the slowness of the Oottoric's progress. Very

1476
02:07:41.640 --> 02:07:45.840
probably, he divided his army into
several portions, moving on parallel lines.

1477
02:07:45.600 --> 02:07:50.760
Foragers would scour the country far and
wide. Stores of provisions would be accumulated

1478
02:07:50.800 --> 02:07:55.960
in the great Gothic wagons, which
would be laboriously driven over the rough mountain

1479
02:07:56.039 --> 02:08:00.159
passes. Then all the divisions of
the army which had scattered in search of

1480
02:08:00.199 --> 02:08:03.840
food, would have to concentrate again
when they came into the neighborhood of an

1481
02:08:03.920 --> 02:08:07.239
enemy, whether a Dovocar or one
of the barbarian kings who sought to bar

1482
02:08:07.319 --> 02:08:13.359
their progress. All these operations consumed
much time, and hence it was that

1483
02:08:13.359 --> 02:08:16.640
though the Goths started their pilgrimage in
four eighty eight, probably in the autumn

1484
02:08:16.680 --> 02:08:20.199
of that year, they did not
descend into the plains of Italy, even

1485
02:08:20.279 --> 02:08:28.840
at its extreme northeastern corner, till
July for eighty nine. Amazingly along their

1486
02:08:28.840 --> 02:08:31.960
way, as they formally requested permission
to pass the territory of the Gepidi,

1487
02:08:33.640 --> 02:08:37.239
their leader Troutilla, sent back an
insulting reply, demanding that they fight if

1488
02:08:37.239 --> 02:08:43.000
they wished to pass. But the
Astrogoths could not now retreat. Famine and

1489
02:08:43.039 --> 02:08:46.319
pestilence lay behind them on their road. They must go forward, and with

1490
02:08:46.399 --> 02:08:52.079
a reluctant heart, the ottter It
gave the signal from battle. It seemed

1491
02:08:52.079 --> 02:08:54.159
at first as if the battle would
be lost, and if the name and

1492
02:08:54.279 --> 02:08:58.119
fame of the Ostrogothic people would be
swallowed up in the morasses of the ride

1493
02:08:58.199 --> 02:09:03.359
Ayoka. Already the van of the
army, floundering in the soft mud,

1494
02:09:03.439 --> 02:09:07.359
and with only their wicker shields to
oppose the deadly shower of Gepid arrows,

1495
02:09:07.680 --> 02:09:13.439
were like to fall back in confusion. Then Theodoric, having called for a

1496
02:09:13.479 --> 02:09:16.119
cup of wine and drunk to the
fortunes of his people, and a few

1497
02:09:16.159 --> 02:09:20.319
spirited words, called his soldiers to
follow his standard, the standard of a

1498
02:09:20.439 --> 02:09:24.399
king who would carved the weight to
victory. Perchance he may have discerned some

1499
02:09:24.439 --> 02:09:28.720
part of the plain where the road
went over solid ground, and if that

1500
02:09:28.760 --> 02:09:31.600
were beset by foes, at any
rate, the Gepid was less terrible than

1501
02:09:31.640 --> 02:09:37.279
the morass. So it was that
he charged triumphantly through the hostile ranks,

1502
02:09:37.640 --> 02:09:41.840
and, being followed by his eager
warriors, achieved a signal victory. The

1503
02:09:41.880 --> 02:09:46.159
Gepidie were soon wandering over the plane
a broken and dispirited force. Multitudes of

1504
02:09:46.159 --> 02:09:50.720
them were slain before the descent of
the night, save the remaining fugitives,

1505
02:09:50.439 --> 02:09:54.640
and so large a number of the
Gepid store wagons fell into the hands of

1506
02:09:54.640 --> 02:10:00.000
the Ostrogoths that throughout the host one
voice of rejoicing arose that Troustilla had been

1507
02:10:00.119 --> 02:10:05.439
willing to fight, so had a
little Gothic blood bought food more than they

1508
02:10:05.479 --> 02:10:09.960
could ever have afforded money to purchase. Thus, through foes and famine,

1509
02:10:11.159 --> 02:10:15.279
hardships of the winter and hardships of
the summer, the nation army held on

1510
02:10:15.359 --> 02:10:18.720
its way and at length. As
has been already said, in the month

1511
02:10:18.760 --> 02:10:22.880
of August forty nine, the last
of the wagons descended from the highlands,

1512
02:10:22.439 --> 02:10:26.960
which are an outpost of the Julian
Alps, and the Ostrogoscorn encamped on the

1513
02:10:26.960 --> 02:10:31.640
plains of Italy, Odovacar, who
apparently had allowed them to accomplish the passage

1514
02:10:31.640 --> 02:10:35.119
of the Alps unmolested, stood ready
to meet them on the banks of the

1515
02:10:35.119 --> 02:10:43.000
Isanzo, and so Theodoric's army met
the Western Roman army of Adovocar at Verona.

1516
02:10:43.680 --> 02:10:48.039
It said he displayed an easy confidence, and as female relatives helped fasten

1517
02:10:48.079 --> 02:10:52.479
his well built, yet overly ornate
armour, he equipped that while he'd hoped

1518
02:10:52.479 --> 02:10:56.239
his conduct on the battlefield would prove
to all who he was, but if

1519
02:10:56.239 --> 02:11:00.720
that failed, the armour would certainly
do the trick. Former would be the

1520
02:11:00.760 --> 02:11:05.159
case, as both sides recount his
heroism, rallying his men to handily win

1521
02:11:05.199 --> 02:11:09.680
the day after a serious struggle,
a Dovacar fled to Ravenna, and Theodoric

1522
02:11:09.720 --> 02:11:15.520
pitched his camp nearby. As a
Doovacar fell and Verona, groups of his

1523
02:11:15.600 --> 02:11:20.760
men deserted to Theodoric. Among these
was a certain individual named Tufa, whom

1524
02:11:20.800 --> 02:11:24.920
Theodoric, short on generals, appointed
to a leading rule. He would pay

1525
02:11:24.000 --> 02:11:28.560
dearly for this mistake, as Tufa
subsequently gave up his entire army to a

1526
02:11:28.600 --> 02:11:33.319
Dovacar and the next engagement. Some
of the men in his army were among

1527
02:11:33.359 --> 02:11:37.680
the elite, the battle tested,
chief members of Theodoric's inner circle who had

1528
02:11:37.680 --> 02:11:43.199
been with him through all the trials
from the start. Hodgkins tells us quote

1529
02:11:43.520 --> 02:11:48.399
these men were all basely murdered by
a Dovacar, a deed which Theodoric inwardly

1530
02:11:48.439 --> 02:11:52.680
determined should never be forgiven end quote, a promise there would certainly holde true.

1531
02:11:54.159 --> 02:11:58.479
A Dovacar began sending raiding parties out
to harass his men regularly, and

1532
02:11:58.560 --> 02:12:03.199
although the defeat looked inevitable, a
Dovacar chose to fight on for three long

1533
02:12:03.319 --> 02:12:09.079
years. Finally, with many of
his men fleeing to Theodoric and famine taking

1534
02:12:09.119 --> 02:12:13.359
its toll, a Dovacar could hold
out no longer. Terms were agreed to,

1535
02:12:13.680 --> 02:12:18.199
but Theodoric wasn't done yet. After
three years of constant raids and unnecessary

1536
02:12:18.279 --> 02:12:22.760
death, he had a score to
settle at a feast at which some say

1537
02:12:22.800 --> 02:12:26.960
Adovacar had plotted to have his men
kill Theodoric. After making a toast,

1538
02:12:28.079 --> 02:12:31.279
it said, Theodoric then drew his
sword and struck a Dovacard in the collarbone,

1539
02:12:31.439 --> 02:12:35.800
clefting him nearly in two. Astonished
at the power of his own blow,

1540
02:12:37.039 --> 02:12:39.600
it said, he remarked, the
poor wretch must have had no bones.

1541
02:12:41.840 --> 02:12:46.000
Hodgkins gives us an additional account quote, Theodoric raised his sword to strike.

1542
02:12:46.960 --> 02:12:52.199
Where is God? Cried the defenseless
but unterrified victim. Thus didst thou

1543
02:12:52.279 --> 02:12:56.359
to my friends? Answered Theodoric,
reminding him of the treacherous murder of his

1544
02:12:56.439 --> 02:13:01.239
close friends given up by Tufa.
With a tremendous stroke of his broadsword,

1545
02:13:01.640 --> 02:13:07.199
he clove his rival from the shoulder
to the loin. The Barbarian frenzy,

1546
02:13:07.399 --> 02:13:11.239
which the Scandinavian minstrels called the theory
of the Berserk, was in his heart,

1547
02:13:11.760 --> 02:13:16.720
and with a savage laugh at his
own too impetuous blow, He shouted,

1548
02:13:16.800 --> 02:13:20.039
as the corpse fell to the ground. I think the weakling never had

1549
02:13:20.039 --> 02:13:24.479
a bone in his body. End
quote. He then chose to bury him

1550
02:13:24.520 --> 02:13:26.960
outside the city, and a piece
of ground next to a Jewish synagogue,

1551
02:13:28.119 --> 02:13:31.920
according to the historian Bradley quote deemed
to be polluted by Infidel worship. End

1552
02:13:33.039 --> 02:13:39.800
quote. Now that a Dovacar had
been dealt with and Rome was essentially united

1553
02:13:39.880 --> 02:13:43.680
with Theodoric at its helm as the
most powerful figure of his day, his

1554
02:13:43.760 --> 02:13:48.399
subjects must have wondered what the next
chapter might bring, especially after witnessing his

1555
02:13:48.479 --> 02:13:52.920
harsh initial actions and cleaning house of
all those who had supported a Dovacar,

1556
02:13:54.119 --> 02:13:56.800
Any fears, whether Roman or Gothic, would soon be put to rest.

1557
02:13:58.159 --> 02:14:01.319
Quote. Once more, we have
to lament the truth of Milton's saying that

1558
02:14:01.520 --> 02:14:07.439
victories of peace are less renowned than
those of war. Far more interesting,

1559
02:14:07.600 --> 02:14:11.199
if only it could be told than
the records of all the battles which Theodoric

1560
02:14:11.199 --> 02:14:15.760
ever won, would be the story
of the peaceful achievements which followed, by

1561
02:14:15.800 --> 02:14:20.399
which means the Gothic usurper succeeded in
giving order and prosperity to the land so

1562
02:14:20.520 --> 02:14:24.199
long the prey of lawlessness and oppression. By what arts he so won the

1563
02:14:24.279 --> 02:14:28.279
hearts of his subjects, both Romans
and Goths, that when he died he

1564
02:14:28.359 --> 02:14:33.560
was mourned as no ruler had been
for centuries past. Are questions which history

1565
02:14:33.600 --> 02:14:39.960
gives us very imperfect answers. We
do know he immediately re established the grain

1566
02:14:39.039 --> 02:14:45.159
dol to the citizenry which the greed
of previous rulers had stripped, immediately alleviating

1567
02:14:45.199 --> 02:14:50.199
the threat of starvation for large swaths
of the population. He wasn't the type

1568
02:14:50.199 --> 02:14:52.680
of man eager to play despot or
tyrant, in fact, far from it,

1569
02:14:54.359 --> 02:14:58.399
and he remains one of the clearest
illustrations of just how much the Gothic

1570
02:14:58.479 --> 02:15:03.399
people and culture were, contrary to
their framing in our Age, very much

1571
02:15:03.439 --> 02:15:07.359
a net positive influence on Rome,
and in fact seemed to salvage her in

1572
02:15:07.439 --> 02:15:13.800
many senses, from descending into chaos. Henry Bradley summarizes it thusly. Quote

1573
02:15:15.119 --> 02:15:20.000
Theotoric's great anxiety, however, was
to restore to Italy its long lost material

1574
02:15:20.039 --> 02:15:24.720
prosperity and plenty. Of course,
when the country was firmly and justly ruled,

1575
02:15:24.000 --> 02:15:28.920
and the people had protection against violence
and fraud. There was very soon

1576
02:15:28.960 --> 02:15:33.840
a revival of agriculture and trade.
Theotoric was eager to help on this revival

1577
02:15:33.880 --> 02:15:37.560
by active means. He encouraged the
opening of iron mines and Dalmatia and gold

1578
02:15:37.600 --> 02:15:41.520
mines in the south of Italy.
He assisted in the development of shipbuilding and

1579
02:15:41.600 --> 02:15:46.560
fishing industries. He promoted the draining
of the marshes at Terracina and Spoletto.

1580
02:15:48.239 --> 02:15:52.720
He granted the reclaimed land free from
taxes to those who had borne the cost

1581
02:15:52.760 --> 02:15:56.439
of the undertaking. He spent large
sums yearly in the repair of the highways,

1582
02:15:56.520 --> 02:16:00.840
and in the restoration of the old
aqueducts and the building of new ones.

1583
02:16:01.720 --> 02:16:05.520
The extortions of the custom house officers, which in the days of the

1584
02:16:05.520 --> 02:16:09.880
Empire, as Cassiodorus says, foreign
merchants had dreaded more than shipwreck, were

1585
02:16:09.920 --> 02:16:15.479
now firmly put down, and the
import duties were assessed by a committee,

1586
02:16:15.760 --> 02:16:18.880
among whose members were the bishop and
several influential citizens of the seaport town.

1587
02:16:20.760 --> 02:16:24.920
A uniform standard of weights and measures
was introduced. The coinage, which had

1588
02:16:24.960 --> 02:16:28.960
been debased, was restored to its
proper value, and the issuing of false

1589
02:16:28.039 --> 02:16:35.000
money was severely punished end quote.
To root out the immense financial corruption he

1590
02:16:35.000 --> 02:16:39.600
found himself facing, he engaged in
the emergency measure of temporary price fixing,

1591
02:16:39.040 --> 02:16:43.760
and quote inflicted severe punishment on all
tradesmen who ventured to charge higher rates.

1592
02:16:45.440 --> 02:16:48.719
The exporting of corn from Italy was
forbidden under heavy penalties. And if a

1593
02:16:48.760 --> 02:16:52.760
corn merchant was found quote speculating for
a rise, as it is called,

1594
02:16:54.079 --> 02:16:56.719
that is to say, buying up
a large quantity of grain when it was

1595
02:16:56.840 --> 02:16:58.959
cheap in order to sell it at
a great profit when it became dearer,

1596
02:17:00.399 --> 02:17:05.079
the king compelled him to sell out
his stock immediately at cost price. Theodoric

1597
02:17:05.120 --> 02:17:09.200
strove to promote the welfare of his
subjects, especially the poorer part of them,

1598
02:17:09.399 --> 02:17:15.200
and on the whole his philanthropic policy
was wonderfully successful. In after times,

1599
02:17:15.280 --> 02:17:18.719
people looked back to the reign of
Theodoric as to a period of almost

1600
02:17:18.760 --> 02:17:24.479
fabulous plenty and prosperity. Thomas Hodgkins
states, quote, the miserable historians of

1601
02:17:24.520 --> 02:17:28.120
the time tell us far too little
about the thirty years of peace which Italy

1602
02:17:28.200 --> 02:17:33.399
enjoyed under the wise rule of Theodoric. Still we are told enough to enable

1603
02:17:33.479 --> 02:17:37.319
us, in some degree to understand
both what he accomplished and how he accomplished

1604
02:17:37.360 --> 02:17:41.239
it. And one thing that makes
us accept the statements of these historians with

1605
02:17:41.360 --> 02:17:45.840
unquestioning belief is that they have no
motive for the praises which they so freely

1606
02:17:45.879 --> 02:17:50.479
bestow on the Great Ostrakath. They
are not his countrymen, nor his fellow

1607
02:17:50.479 --> 02:17:56.879
religionists. Our chief authorities are Roman
and Orthodox, and bitterly condemn Theodoric for

1608
02:17:56.000 --> 02:18:01.280
his persecution of the Catholics, into
which, as we shall see, he

1609
02:18:01.440 --> 02:18:05.600
was provoked in the last two years
of his reign. Still over the grave

1610
02:18:05.639 --> 02:18:09.600
of this dead barbarian and heretic,
when they have nothing to gain by speaking

1611
02:18:09.639 --> 02:18:13.559
well of him, they cannot forbear
to praise the noble impartiality and anxious care

1612
02:18:13.760 --> 02:18:18.319
for the welfare of his people,
which, for the space of one whole

1613
02:18:18.360 --> 02:18:24.440
generation gave happiness to Italy. Theotoric
even crafted a succinct law code of his

1614
02:18:24.520 --> 02:18:28.040
own. No offenses, we can
well believe, were so hateful to the

1615
02:18:28.040 --> 02:18:33.879
Gothic King's justice loving soul as the
taking of bribes by judges and the bringing

1616
02:18:33.920 --> 02:18:37.239
of false accusations of crime. The
first of these under Roman law had been

1617
02:18:37.239 --> 02:18:43.959
punished by transportation to an island and
confiscation of property. The Ottoric, who

1618
02:18:43.000 --> 02:18:48.600
significantly makes it the subject of the
very first paragraph of his edict, decreed

1619
02:18:48.600 --> 02:18:52.879
that the penalty should be death.
Hodgkins goes on to list many of the

1620
02:18:52.879 --> 02:18:58.440
heartful we wouldn't have a single politician
or judge of left built accounts of the

1621
02:18:58.479 --> 02:19:03.559
chief authorities of the day thinking glowingly
about Theodoric's just rule in his excellent work

1622
02:19:03.719 --> 02:19:07.440
Theodoric the goth which I've again linked
in the video description below and highly recommend.

1623
02:19:09.440 --> 02:19:13.479
The Gothic people had now gained a
settled homeland, yet had to sacrifice

1624
02:19:13.520 --> 02:19:16.520
some of their ancient freedoms in so
doing. As Theotoric attempted to strike the

1625
02:19:16.520 --> 02:19:22.840
best balance between Roman and Gothic laws
and customs, the Gothic people never sought

1626
02:19:22.840 --> 02:19:26.159
to blend in with the Romans,
and in fact laws were passed against intermarriage

1627
02:19:26.200 --> 02:19:31.120
to the extented. Some historians speak
of an apartheid like system aimed at quote,

1628
02:19:31.239 --> 02:19:35.840
preserving their integrity and cultural authenticity.
However, it was at this stage

1629
02:19:35.879 --> 02:19:41.520
that the Germans lost their ancient custom
of periodic assembly meetings to make laws or

1630
02:19:41.559 --> 02:19:48.120
decide on the policy of the state. Considering the military's enti Gothic, and

1631
02:19:48.239 --> 02:19:52.719
they maintained the custom of carrying arms. They could have rebelled easily at any

1632
02:19:52.760 --> 02:19:58.440
moment, but it seems both goth
and Roman respected Theotdoric far too much for

1633
02:19:58.479 --> 02:20:03.000
this to be a significant threat.
It said that the Roman clergy disliked the

1634
02:20:03.000 --> 02:20:05.680
Goths, yet even they couldn't help
but admit the Goths obeyed the precepts of

1635
02:20:05.680 --> 02:20:11.040
their religion better than their own countrymen, and overall relations between the two peoples

1636
02:20:11.079 --> 02:20:16.639
went smoothly. Theodoric did not,
as has sometimes been thought, endeavor to

1637
02:20:16.760 --> 02:20:20.879
unite the Goths and Romans into one
nation. Perhaps he may have hoped that

1638
02:20:20.920 --> 02:20:26.120
such a union would at sometimes be
realized under his successors, but in his

1639
02:20:26.200 --> 02:20:30.239
own day he was content that the
two peoples should live together in mutual friendship

1640
02:20:30.280 --> 02:20:33.479
and respect, each of them being
charged with its own special function in the

1641
02:20:33.479 --> 02:20:39.000
commonwealth. The Goths were to undertake
the defense of the country from attack,

1642
02:20:39.639 --> 02:20:43.680
the maintenance of order, and the
execution of the law. The Romans were

1643
02:20:43.719 --> 02:20:46.479
to labor for the development of art
and science, while in the cultivation of

1644
02:20:46.520 --> 02:20:50.799
the soil. Both nations were to
take part. So long as Theodoric lived,

1645
02:20:50.920 --> 02:20:56.440
this ideal seems to have been in
a great degree realized. It is

1646
02:20:56.479 --> 02:21:01.120
no wonder that Theodoric became the subject
of many fabulous stories, and the tradition

1647
02:21:01.239 --> 02:21:07.440
represented his reign as being almost a
kingdom of heaven upon earth. Even before

1648
02:21:07.479 --> 02:21:11.680
the sixth century closed, men told
in Italy nearly the same story that was

1649
02:21:11.719 --> 02:21:15.440
told in England, respecting the days
of Alfred, how the great King had

1650
02:21:15.440 --> 02:21:18.479
so made righteousness to prevail in his
realm that gold pieces could be left exposed

1651
02:21:18.479 --> 02:21:22.840
on the highway for a year and
a day without being stolen. They say

1652
02:21:22.959 --> 02:21:28.079
the same thing about Vladi Impala,
which is very interesting. A golden goblet

1653
02:21:28.159 --> 02:21:35.000
was by a fountain as a test, and no one touched it. Many

1654
02:21:35.040 --> 02:21:39.559
of his sayings were quoted as proverbs
in the land, and anecdotes were related

1655
02:21:39.600 --> 02:21:43.440
to show how, like Solomon in
the matter of the two mothers and their

1656
02:21:43.440 --> 02:21:48.520
infants, Theodoric had displayed in the
Judgment seat his wonderful insight into human nature.

1657
02:21:50.440 --> 02:21:52.840
But it was not in Italy or
amongst the Goths that his legendary fame

1658
02:21:52.920 --> 02:21:58.799
reached its highest point. The whole
Teutonic race regarded his glory as their own,

1659
02:21:58.319 --> 02:22:03.040
and his imagine deeds were the theme
of popular songs in all the German

1660
02:22:03.120 --> 02:22:07.520
lands. A lover of peace and
justice, he never takes the sword,

1661
02:22:07.639 --> 02:22:11.319
save unwillingly and at the call of
duty. But when he has once prevailed

1662
02:22:11.360 --> 02:22:15.959
upon to fight, there is none
more fearless and more terrible than he.

1663
02:22:16.680 --> 02:22:20.520
The reign of Theodoric is perhaps the
finest example in all of history of what

1664
02:22:20.600 --> 02:22:26.440
is called a beneficent despotism. No
freer system of government could, under the

1665
02:22:26.440 --> 02:22:31.639
circumstances, have produced such wonderful results. Perhaps with a freer system, Theodoric

1666
02:22:31.639 --> 02:22:35.879
could not have established or maintained his
kingdom at all. And that's the thing

1667
02:22:35.920 --> 02:22:41.360
that people have to understand. When
you have malignant forces, you have people

1668
02:22:41.360 --> 02:22:48.000
who are clamoring for power within the
system, they're not united as one cultural's

1669
02:22:48.079 --> 02:22:54.440
same minded force. Then you have
to sometimes take a little bit more of

1670
02:22:54.479 --> 02:23:00.319
an aggressive approach so that you can
maintain the justice for your people. Laura

1671
02:23:00.360 --> 02:23:05.440
in that that is in that territory, and you know, keep at bay

1672
02:23:05.520 --> 02:23:09.440
those who would try to take it. But the efficiency of the government.

1673
02:23:09.520 --> 02:23:13.000
Just wait until we get into the
next part with Theodoric tomorrow Theotoric is going

1674
02:23:13.079 --> 02:23:18.879
to blow your mind as far I'm
sorry, not theatic Totila totilla is gonna

1675
02:23:18.879 --> 02:23:22.280
employ your mind. It's gonna be
more of this noble this noble spirit,

1676
02:23:22.799 --> 02:23:28.120
and it's gonna be something to admire. For sure, government depended wholly on

1677
02:23:28.159 --> 02:23:33.479
the wisdom and energy of one man, and it might easily have been foreseen

1678
02:23:33.639 --> 02:23:37.479
that grave troubles would arise when the
scepter passed into weaker hands end quote.

1679
02:23:39.479 --> 02:23:43.399
As Bradley states, quote, the
more Italy prospered under Theodoric's wise and kindly

1680
02:23:43.479 --> 02:23:48.719
rule, the more she became a
tempting prize to the ambition of foreign kings

1681
02:23:48.280 --> 02:23:52.479
end quote. And it should be
recognized that then, just as well as

1682
02:23:52.520 --> 02:23:58.760
today, foreign powers often use money
and the treachery it can so often purchase.

1683
02:23:58.520 --> 02:24:01.360
And let me just u's an example
too. I mean, you schemers,

1684
02:24:01.760 --> 02:24:05.760
the people who weasel their way into
power, and I think you know

1685
02:24:05.799 --> 02:24:09.639
who I'm talking about, the ones
that gains control of the monetary system.

1686
02:24:09.040 --> 02:24:15.239
When you have or like when you're
talking about Berlin and the depravity, the

1687
02:24:15.280 --> 02:24:20.680
decadence, when when you see something
like that and when that's happening, and

1688
02:24:20.680 --> 02:24:24.319
when you know they have power,
and they have, you know, the

1689
02:24:24.360 --> 02:24:31.639
ability to manipulate and influence a great
deal of powerful people. What do you

1690
02:24:31.719 --> 02:24:35.680
do you give everybody? Because they're
going to They're going to abuse a system

1691
02:24:35.719 --> 02:24:41.799
of freedom and liberty. And that's
what happened to us, right It was

1692
02:24:41.840 --> 02:24:48.000
a perfect cultivated ground, perfect atmosphere
for them to manipulate and abuse a system

1693
02:24:48.079 --> 02:24:52.000
of freedom to get to where we
are right now, and we're about to

1694
02:24:52.000 --> 02:24:58.840
fall like Rome. It's their foremost
tool. And this concept fittingly sets this

1695
02:25:00.079 --> 02:25:03.920
age for the third and final part
of our three videos on the Goths and

1696
02:25:03.000 --> 02:25:09.639
Germans, in which we'll discuss the
Jews and the Saracens, court intrigue and

1697
02:25:09.719 --> 02:25:16.760
mysterious deaths, Justinian and Theodora,
and the treacherous end of Gothic supremacy.

1698
02:25:18.239 --> 02:25:28.159
Until then, and until then we'll
be tomorrow, all right. So,

1699
02:25:28.360 --> 02:25:31.040
but thank you so much for watching, Thank you for being here, Thank

1700
02:25:31.079 --> 02:25:35.920
you for dealing with whatever weirdness happens
here on the Let me show you this.

1701
02:25:37.159 --> 02:25:41.120
I gotta show you the channels that
I'm talking about here. So here

1702
02:25:41.280 --> 02:25:48.680
is Ftjmedia dot Com. This is
it right here in the blue, Okay,

1703
02:25:50.120 --> 02:25:54.239
And that's the live now, but
tab. But here's the videos I

1704
02:25:54.239 --> 02:25:58.079
have up here so far. I
know I've show the CD before, I'm

1705
02:25:58.120 --> 02:26:03.120
showing to you again, and more
be added. Which nice about this is

1706
02:26:03.159 --> 02:26:07.639
they have an import feature, and
so if you already have your videos,

1707
02:26:07.680 --> 02:26:11.159
if you're a content creator and you
already have your video somewhere else, it's

1708
02:26:11.200 --> 02:26:16.600
not a matter of you know,
uploading them from your computer and having to

1709
02:26:16.639 --> 02:26:18.959
sit there and kind of babysit it
and then add all the details and the

1710
02:26:18.959 --> 02:26:22.000
crap like that. No, it'll
pull everything, including the thumbnail most of

1711
02:26:22.079 --> 02:26:26.639
the time. Actually, I don't
think I've had to add another thumbnail back.

1712
02:26:26.680 --> 02:26:33.239
I think they've felt been taken and
it imports it. So if you

1713
02:26:33.280 --> 02:26:37.000
have somewhere else and you're worried about
it being there tomorrow, like I have

1714
02:26:37.079 --> 02:26:41.159
to consider, and you know,
have that concern with Rumble, you just

1715
02:26:41.399 --> 02:26:45.360
put the import, you put the
URL in for your video, and then

1716
02:26:45.360 --> 02:26:50.280
you hit share and then it starts
to do its work with the encoder.

1717
02:26:50.719 --> 02:26:54.559
Then you can delete that out of
the share thing. You keep on adding

1718
02:26:54.559 --> 02:26:56.799
that. It'll not too quickly.
You have to get Josh's permissions for these,

1719
02:26:56.799 --> 02:27:01.159
So once you get your site set
up like once you have your loggin.

1720
02:27:01.319 --> 02:27:03.120
If you just want to be here
as a viewer, that's awesome.

1721
02:27:03.319 --> 02:27:07.360
But if you want to add content, Josh, you just have to notify

1722
02:27:07.440 --> 02:27:09.719
him. You can contact me to
get into the telegram group where he is

1723
02:27:11.200 --> 02:27:16.360
as well as doctor Monso. Doctor
Monzo is in our telegram group. Go

1724
02:27:16.399 --> 02:27:22.280
ahead and send him a message and
he'll grant you the permissions and then you

1725
02:27:22.319 --> 02:27:28.280
can add content as well. All
right, all right, So over here

1726
02:27:28.319 --> 02:27:33.719
we have that little Greek intensive book
if anybody is interested, and it's there.

1727
02:27:33.000 --> 02:27:39.920
I found a first edition of this
book. Well, somebody's shared it

1728
02:27:39.920 --> 02:27:43.319
and I think one of the live
streams, so it's out there. But

1729
02:27:43.399 --> 02:27:46.079
the second edition is I have not
been able to find, so I might

1730
02:27:46.120 --> 02:27:50.559
actually grab that one. Oh let's
see. I'm not sure if there's a

1731
02:27:50.559 --> 02:27:54.680
big difference either Though'll be honest,
I wouldn't know until had them both the

1732
02:27:54.680 --> 02:27:58.559
side by side. So there's the
bullbusters. Give a seen, go let

1733
02:27:58.559 --> 02:28:01.159
me go ahead, throw up to
go fund me just to show you guys,

1734
02:28:01.479 --> 02:28:07.840
it's a good read. And it's
this one right here. All right.

1735
02:28:09.040 --> 02:28:16.399
This was set up initially after my
grandfather passed to get us to to

1736
02:28:16.440 --> 02:28:22.559
get us to you know where to
get and thank you, Corag, Thank

1737
02:28:22.559 --> 02:28:24.319
you. I appreciate that you just
did that today. Thank you so much

1738
02:28:26.239 --> 02:28:28.840
to get us to New York so
that we could visit family and pair respects

1739
02:28:28.879 --> 02:28:33.680
and stuff like that. So now
it's finally happening. And you know,

1740
02:28:33.840 --> 02:28:39.319
obviously I still have responsibilities here,
so any any bit helps, It's greatly

1741
02:28:39.319 --> 02:28:43.879
appreciated, and my daughter and I
will have less stress and anxiety on us

1742
02:28:43.959 --> 02:28:50.639
as we go see the family and
unfortunately have to do well. I'm gonna

1743
02:28:50.639 --> 02:28:54.760
want to see my grandfather's resting place. But if you read this, I

1744
02:28:54.799 --> 02:29:01.920
think you'll get something out of it. There it is right there. And

1745
02:29:01.959 --> 02:29:11.360
then there was a the dis update
right here. All right, all right,

1746
02:29:11.760 --> 02:29:13.680
I don't want to you want to
look at it because it bothers me.

1747
02:29:13.799 --> 02:29:16.040
It makes me, it makes me
go through it all over again,

1748
02:29:16.079 --> 02:29:22.239
and I don't wanna not right now. Got a long day. And then,

1749
02:29:22.280 --> 02:29:24.120
like I said, if you're in
the tell, if you're in the

1750
02:29:24.319 --> 02:29:30.159
Patreon group, I just dropped those
resources in here. So there's Tacticus Germania,

1751
02:29:30.719 --> 02:29:33.440
there's geteck of the History of the
Germanic People by Jordanis. There's other

1752
02:29:33.520 --> 02:29:35.479
books in here. I put already
put the Oor Linda book in here.

1753
02:29:35.559 --> 02:29:41.760
Let me see the let's see where
is it? Uh yeah, that one

1754
02:29:41.799 --> 02:29:46.239
doesn't matter. That one is the
same thing that's up here, so it

1755
02:29:46.479 --> 02:29:54.440
just for some reason lost contact with
it. But here is Bill Cooper is

1756
02:29:54.639 --> 02:30:00.399
a mystery Babylon series transcribed. There's
Behold a Pale Horse. There's Transumor the

1757
02:30:00.440 --> 02:30:01.760
history of Dangerous Idea that had read
from a bunch of times, and there's

1758
02:30:01.799 --> 02:30:05.040
the Overland the book all right,
and then I'll be adding more stuff for

1759
02:30:05.120 --> 02:30:09.639
this as we go. So there's
lots of different perks inside the patreo,

1760
02:30:09.719 --> 02:30:13.479
inside the Patreon for people who support
the show. We get that, you

1761
02:30:13.559 --> 02:30:20.559
get there's gonna be exclusive live stream
weekly. Hopefully we'll get more people into

1762
02:30:20.719 --> 02:30:24.680
the Patreon so that you know,
you know, the effort being put in

1763
02:30:24.760 --> 02:30:28.360
there will reach more people, you
know what I mean, because I think

1764
02:30:28.399 --> 02:30:31.799
a lot of times we go,
we cover a lot of information that's really

1765
02:30:31.840 --> 02:30:37.920
important. So the more the merrier, right that way, more people are

1766
02:30:37.000 --> 02:30:43.040
aware of it. So hopefully that'll
happen. There's fourteen pay thirty two total

1767
02:30:43.040 --> 02:30:48.239
people in there already, so come
on in enjoy it, you get the

1768
02:30:48.319 --> 02:30:52.799
Niche at the second tier. So
Niche and Dan Tomorrow is going to be

1769
02:30:52.840 --> 02:30:58.639
when we record, So it'll be
up tomorrow on the disguise the limits Patreon.

1770
02:30:58.920 --> 02:31:03.840
Okay, okay, keep saying okay, like a weirdo's it. I

1771
02:31:03.879 --> 02:31:09.760
think. I think sure likes subscribe
all that crap that people say. Try

1772
02:31:09.760 --> 02:31:13.280
to get into the FTJ media and
make yourself a log and it's really super

1773
02:31:13.319 --> 02:31:20.559
simple, and check out the links
for the goodies that you can acquire,

1774
02:31:20.239 --> 02:31:24.879
including books, createen hot So I
saw that good stuff in the description.

1775
02:31:24.959 --> 02:31:30.200
Now all that helps out, I
may stay and do this for you,

1776
02:31:31.079 --> 02:31:33.920
and I will be taking my laptop
with me. How many shows I'll be

1777
02:31:33.920 --> 02:31:39.840
able to crank out while I'm gone
while I'm visiting family will be to be

1778
02:31:39.920 --> 02:31:46.319
determined. I might actually end up
happening earlier in the daytime because there are

1779
02:31:46.360 --> 02:31:52.159
three hours, right, so if
I try to keep it at eight am

1780
02:31:52.440 --> 02:31:58.799
there it would be like, yeah, it's like five am Pacific, But

1781
02:32:00.920 --> 02:32:03.399
it's whatever if I can get.
If I can get it done, then

1782
02:32:03.479 --> 02:32:07.680
that way I'm not in the middle
of the day where where you know family

1783
02:32:07.719 --> 02:32:11.120
is doing stuff because they haven't seen
this in forever, so we can't spend

1784
02:32:11.120 --> 02:32:16.360
too much time doing things that are
family related, like I still here's a

1785
02:32:16.360 --> 02:32:22.799
funny here's a funny story bout my
mom. Right forever, she has had

1786
02:32:22.399 --> 02:32:30.200
tons and tons of not exactly cheap, not exactly the top line exercise equipment.

1787
02:32:30.680 --> 02:32:35.639
Right, it's like QBC style,
like impulse buying, like all the

1788
02:32:35.680 --> 02:32:39.120
time, there's always a box at
the door, right, all growing up,

1789
02:32:39.440 --> 02:32:41.959
So she has all these exercise comings. I'm thinking to myself, all

1790
02:32:41.000 --> 02:32:45.600
good, so I'll be able.
I won't have to break that, you

1791
02:32:45.600 --> 02:32:46.959
know, routine. And I get
there. So I was like, Mom,

1792
02:32:48.000 --> 02:32:54.399
you got something at the house and
she's like no. So when I

1793
02:32:54.440 --> 02:32:58.559
wasn't able to walk very well for
like a year before I had the hit

1794
02:32:58.639 --> 02:33:03.200
replacement, which I told I tried
to get the doctor Glynton stuff to her,

1795
02:33:03.280 --> 02:33:07.799
but she's anyway, I got rid
of it all, I'm like,

1796
02:33:07.840 --> 02:33:11.040
I think of myself, well,
you didn't use it before either, so

1797
02:33:11.319 --> 02:33:16.399
why did what was the what was
the what was the driving motivation to get

1798
02:33:16.440 --> 02:33:20.760
rid of it? It's like I
wasn't using it then, I'm not using

1799
02:33:20.799 --> 02:33:24.959
it now in the same same situation. Oh man. But yeah, so

1800
02:33:26.159 --> 02:33:28.760
that's the longer there, so I
don't know, I might have to rent

1801
02:33:28.799 --> 02:33:33.719
a vehicle so I can go in
a twenty four hour and do another off

1802
02:33:33.799 --> 02:33:39.360
hours when the family isn't you know, the family demands aren't there. When

1803
02:33:39.399 --> 02:33:43.520
farre is already sleep and grandma's watching, maybe I can go out and hit

1804
02:33:43.520 --> 02:33:48.680
the elliptical at some gym or something
like that. It gre's crossed, but

1805
02:33:48.719 --> 02:33:50.799
it's just such a small town.
Like I had a graduating I'm sure it's

1806
02:33:50.799 --> 02:33:54.000
bigger now, but I had a
graduating class. I think of sixty eight

1807
02:33:54.000 --> 02:33:58.639
people that are very smart, so
maybe there was like a eighty, but

1808
02:34:00.120 --> 02:34:03.360
everybody made it, you know what
type of thing. But uh yeah,

1809
02:34:03.399 --> 02:34:09.639
very small school. Yeah, in
the Hudson kind of soda and I lived

1810
02:34:09.680 --> 02:34:13.120
on in the Hudson when we had
a restaurant. So it's a it's like

1811
02:34:13.159 --> 02:34:18.799
a small rural area close to Saratoga
Lake, close to Saratoga Racetrack, which

1812
02:34:18.840 --> 02:34:22.600
is also the Saratoga Battlefield. Is
actually closer to us than the lake,

1813
02:34:22.680 --> 02:34:28.799
I think probably, But yeah,
that's that's kind of desolate. So there

1814
02:34:28.840 --> 02:34:35.040
isn't like a Walmart for unless you
drive twenty five to thirty minutes. That

1815
02:34:35.360 --> 02:34:37.479
means you're you're town small right.
If you don't trip and fall into a

1816
02:34:37.520 --> 02:34:41.559
Walmart and bang your head on the
Starbucks, then it's probably a small town,

1817
02:34:41.639 --> 02:34:46.600
right, all right, talk to
you see tomorrow.