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Speaker 2: On today's softcore History, we're talking about King.
Speaker 1: Mithridates, the king who apparently could not be poisoned no
matter how hard anyone tried.
Speaker 2: The poison King. He became totally immune to all forms
of toxic substances that entered his body. He was a
descendant from both Cyrus and Alexander the Great, and he
was in his mind destined for big things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but a little empire called Rome had other plans apparently.
Welcome to softcore History.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to softcore History. I'm your host for a week,
Damn Regester joined has always been Rob Fox.
Speaker 1: What up? Got my favorite new hat on? I'm having
a good night.
Speaker 2: What is that hat?
Speaker 1: While back, we did an episode on the Patreon of
the main I can't remember about the Wyoming State Penitentiary
All Stars. It's a baseball team full of murderers and
killers and rapists and probably a black guy who got
arrested for driving black.
Speaker 2: They played a lot of high schools.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they would play high schools anyway. It's a baseball
team in a Wyoming State prison and the warden so
Shashank Redemption, I feel like not a totally inaccurate movie
in terms of like prison wardens being corrupt bastards trying
to make a dime off their guys.
Speaker 2: Hasn't changed, I'll probably not. Slave labor is a thing
in private prisons to this day.
Speaker 1: This team, and you can watch our YouTube to see
the hat if you want to guess, this team was
really good and beat the shit out of a couple
high schools, and their best player was on death row.
He was a literal murder.
Speaker 2: They were teaching him life lessons though.
Speaker 1: The kids. Yeah, I guess, like if you get to
work out a lot in prison or.
Speaker 2: No, just older people are gonna just like shove your
shit in.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, A sixteen year old doesn't stand a chance
against the grown ass man. No, but yeah, they beat
the shit out of full of Disappointment and their star,
whose name I forget was they were trying to get
him off of the off at death row so he
could keep playing.
Speaker 2: Now he was ultimately made into shoes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was executed and then they skinned him, not alive,
they skinned him, skinned his corpse and made shoes out
of it, which was a tradition in Wyoming at the time.
All true. Go back and look for that episode. This
is unresentary. Ay. I was online one day on this
web one.
Speaker 2: Of my favorite episodes.
Speaker 1: Actually really, I was on this website that makes old
timing baseball and other sports shit called Ebbittt's Flannels no
pre plugs, no whatever.
Speaker 2: Well that's where I got it. Anyway, I want to
invoice them.
Speaker 1: I was like looking through their different states that they
had and I just saw Wyoming. I was like, what
could possibly be from Wyoming? And it was this. It
was the fucking prison Team And I was like it
was like one in the morning. I was like, bought it.
I was drunk. I was like, no questions asked. I
did an episode on these guys. Fucking done.
Speaker 2: We're to talk about a man. Eastern prophecies foretold of
a god sent savior king whose arrival would be announced
by a star and his rise to power would crumble
an evil empire.
Speaker 1: Feels like it's not Jesus.
Speaker 2: We of course were talking about Mithridates.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know anything about this person.
Speaker 2: In this second century BC, a commet lit the world
up and made it appear, as Roman historian Justin put
it as.
Speaker 1: It Justinian, No, just Justin Justin Okay, historian Justin sick.
I mean that was her name.
Speaker 2: But yeah, uh, he put it as if the sky
was on fire. It passed in one thirty five BC,
coinciding with the birth of the Pontus Prince, and again
in one nineteen BC during his eventual coronation.
Speaker 1: Oh, Pontus. They're a very annoying faction in Rome. Total war. Uh.
They're in modern day Turkey, so they're kind of a
Greek like Eastern Greek situation.
Speaker 2: They're all up in the Black Sea, yep.
Speaker 1: And man, they're annoying. It's like they just won't ever
go away.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about how annoying they were today.
Speaker 1: Fuck yeah, let's go. It's like because they And then
one time I tried to play them, I was like,
I wonder if they're fun because there an't no other units.
Suck ass. I don't understand that terrible, terrible units, Like
I don't understand why how they kept being such a bother,
but they were got it every time I would just
Troy Pontus, that was a good moment.
Speaker 2: Well, he was a mixed Iranian and Greek descent born,
and he could trace his royal bloodlines to both Cyrus
and Alexander the Great Sick.
Speaker 1: So this is Pontus's post Alexander, probably a kingdom that
comes up after the breakup of Alexander's and.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the one thirties to like sixty BC.
Speaker 1: Right right, right, But so his empire's already broken up
and got the Ptolemy's In Egypt, the Seleucids, obviously, Macedon
is still there, there's the Greek city states and blah
blah blah, blah blah.
Speaker 2: Pontus was at the time a relatively small kingdom on
the Black Sea in the Antolian Peninsula in what is
now modern day Turkey. Mithridatees father Mithridates the Fifth had
an incredibly long reign, last in over three decades and
wasn't an ally of Rome, helping defeat Carthage in the
Third Punic War.
Speaker 1: That was an easy one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he got in there late, getting some stolen valor.
Speaker 1: That's like Italy saying they helped defeat the Germans in
World War Two. Technically true, they switched sides a little
late in the game though.
Speaker 2: Now our boy Mity six, his childhood was wrapped with
mythological lore, and we'll start with him supposedly being struck
by lightning, only leaving a small scar on his head
in the shape of a crown.
Speaker 1: Oh so he's like Harry Potter for them a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mithridates the Fifth rain comes to a screeching halt
after three decades when he's poisoned at a lavish party
in one twenty BC. Many suspected his own wife Lao
d C, who then took power as regent, was perhaps
behind the poisoning.
Speaker 1: So what she wanted her kid to take over?
Speaker 2: She didn't like this kid.
Speaker 1: She didn't like m six.
Speaker 2: She didn't like m six. Oh shit, okay, because there
was another child that she preferred mm also named Mithridates.
Speaker 1: Well, got George foreman it back? Then we do.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of Mithridates, I get it.
Speaker 1: That's fine.
Speaker 2: So she preferred his brother. They were supposedly plot into
poison our guy M six, but apparently he had a
pretty strong stomach and survived several attempts on his life
in his teen years.
Speaker 1: Good lord. So he just keeps getting like diarrhea or something,
and he's.
Speaker 2: Like, fuck, it's like, what has happened against food again?
Did the cook not prepare this properly?
Speaker 1: Kill this cook too? Good lord? It just to just
keep being awful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how many chefs died?
Speaker 1: Right? I swear the slaves in this palace.
Speaker 2: After a couple of times, he figured out it wasn't
food poisoning.
Speaker 1: Fool me three times, shame on, And.
Speaker 2: It was best to get out of dodge before his
mother finally found the right chemicals to kill him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't. Really. It's like, uh, there's only so
many times when your basketball team's on defense that you
can let the team get an offensive board before that
ball's going in. Yeah, from no matter where. It is,
like if they just keep getting offensive boards and tossing
it back out to the three point line. One's going
to hit.
Speaker 2: Our guy kind of had an iron stomach.
Speaker 1: There's the lightning it really had. He had a stomach
that was just like calcified by the electricity that ran
through him.
Speaker 2: It was a superpower.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So our boy goes into hiding in the wilderness with
a few of his father's loyal men. Not much is
known or documented during this time, but much like his ancestor,
Alexander m six mounts and broke a wild, untamed stallion
during this time, almost killing him in the process, and
that becomes his horse for a good bit. Becomes a
pretty good horse rider.
Speaker 1: Okay, so he's a rodeo star.
Speaker 2: After the heat cooled down around one sixteen BC, mithird
eighty and his men returned to claim what was rightfully his.
He took his throne, imprisoned his mom and brother, who
both lived happily ever after life. And by that I
mean they got thrown into a cell and died in
that cell, in that cell together with it the same cell. Hmmm, No,
they died separately.
Speaker 1: Oh, I would have liked to. I think I think
he I mean, that's actually honestly, like not very cruel
for the time, it seems like he went easy on him.
All things considered, They.
Speaker 2: Don't really tell us how they died, that just that
they did die, okay in the jail cell.
Speaker 1: Didn't really write it down, no, so it could have been.
Speaker 2: He didn't write down a lot of stuff, even though
he wrote several books he was an author, but anything important,
it's not for other people.
Speaker 1: I mean, he could have written it down if you
just haven't found.
Speaker 2: It, that's true. He then took his sixteen year old
sister as his first wife to ensure the air to
have pure blood.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, pimp, p imp.
Speaker 2: He was only like eighteen or nineteen, so he's pretty.
Speaker 1: Young at the time.
Speaker 2: Not a big deal.
Speaker 1: Also, well, I'm more just like, hell yeah, your sister
and your sister.
Speaker 2: Get that pure air.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: The poison his mother used didn't kill him, but it
left a last in effect where he was paranoid and
spazed out over meeting his demise that very way. So
he obsessed over toxicology.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that makes sense. Like if you just
got poisoned to eight times by the woman who you
trust most in the world, person you trust most in
the world, maybe, yeah, I would be paranoid too. I'm
not gonna hold that against him.
Speaker 2: Does Freud have something for when your mother wants to
kill you?
Speaker 1: Ummmmm no, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Now. He supposedly developed an alixir using over fifty ingredients
that was a cure all for all known toxins called mithrodate.
Speaker 1: Oh all right.
Speaker 2: He would ingest this daily and tested out by ingesting
arsenics and venoms, and by all accounts, became totally immune
to all poisonous substances.
Speaker 1: So he was afraid of getting poisons, so he kept
poisoning himself.
Speaker 2: Because he thought he found the elixir and I guess
he did.
Speaker 1: I guess he did. Or it's like a princess bride
situation and he, just like you said, kind of built
up an immunity too arsenic. Yeah, that definitely won't make
you insane.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, the knowledge of what exactly was in the formula
died with him because he never wrote down the recipe.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, seems useful.
Speaker 2: Many believe though, the main ingredient was the blood of
ponic ducks who would feast on poisonous substances like hemlock. Okay,
so they had the poison in their bloods.
Speaker 1: Already, or they could anybody they had the poisons, antibodies,
had anybodies that could fight the poisonings. A lot of
dead ducks in there, just killing ducks left and right,
which feels like it wouldn't be I don't know, maybe
the easiest pre gun, but I don't know, Like they're
in the water like a turtle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably easier, but yeah, they're it's easy pickings for
the most part. He was pretty power hungry from the
jump and kind of thought his father was just another
dude who lacked ambition.
Speaker 1: So he thought his dad was just sitting there not
doing enough. Yeah, we need to take this compretty global dad.
It's like it's on a running a tire shop. Just
not like you don't fucking understand. He's just he's just
a good, honest businessman's coke head son.
Speaker 2: Right, but you know how he's kind of Vince McMahon.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: So at the point when Vince's dad was in charge
of the organization, it was regional. Yeah, so you like,
you didn't step on anyone's toes, you didn't enter anyone's territory.
You just kind of accepted your lot in life and
you were cool with what you had.
Speaker 1: This was your night's little business, and he just.
Speaker 2: Fucking kicked the door down like events, yeah, and created
WWF with Pawnus. Now, M six wanted to be the
dominant force on the Black Sea and overtake all these
tiny kingdoms and glorified warlords that surrounded him. So he
wanted to be the big fish in the small ponds.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of backwater bullshit around there, especially
if you went up through what would be I don't know,
modern day Georgia or something like that, things start to
get pretty there's like Armenians and whatever other bullshit.
Speaker 2: Now, opportunity came knocking when the peninsula came under threat
by the Scythians. Okay, were they in your game?
Speaker 1: Yes, they were less annoying, but.
Speaker 2: They seemed very annoying.
Speaker 1: They weren't super annoying in the game. I mean, they're annoying,
but it's like, I don't know, the Paonnus always pissed
me off.
Speaker 2: Pawnus were like proper people, though the Scythians were a
little bit more barbaric.
Speaker 1: Yes, they were barbarians for sure.
Speaker 2: The surrounding kings were willing to give up independence and
power for the protection of m six and the Pontas
armies led by his number one general Diaphantis. Now Diaphantus
takes his armies to Crimea. Crimea has always been an issue.
Speaker 1: Crimea has been fought over. It's not as bad as Israel, Palestine, whatever,
but it's bad, always fought over, fucking always die.
Speaker 2: Fantas takes the army to Crimea to take on the Scythians.
But you know, you might as well grab some land
on the way and subjugated Colchis or what is modern
day Georgia. And then the Bospering kingdom also bent the knee.
All right, These smaller kingdoms realize they didn't have the
resources or men to battle the barbarians and would rather
squad up.
Speaker 1: Like, who do you want to be ruled by the Scythians?
Speaker 2: Or you're the fucking do you want to be ruled
by a civilized power?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Exactly as soon as Diaphantus and the Ponic forces reached Crimea,
they were greeted with the surprise attack by Palacus, the
king of Scythia, but managed to ultimately crush the opposition
and claim victory, become the first foreign invader to take
down these chodes.
Speaker 1: Seems a lot. I mean, they both have shit units
in Rome Total War, so either one could good win.
I guess hard for me to say.
Speaker 2: It's man, you're you're just gonna really under sell this
guy's kingdom because you hate them in the game.
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh, upon Us is fucking so annoying in that game.
Speaker 2: Now that the Scythians were no longer a threat, the
boss Burns wanted independence and na Throku killing their king
who bent the knee not really taking kindly to them
taking back their word. Dia Fanis goes in and squashes
that revolt really quick.
Speaker 1: I'm happy for him.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know. I do you have a problem
with Mithridates not leading his own army?
Speaker 1: Ah? No, I think Kings probably did it too much.
I mean you should probably travel with it. Maybe, but
maybe he's got, you know, shit to do at home.
I think you know how much how many plays do
you want your head coach calling?
Speaker 2: Well, as a man who just had his head coach
give up play calling and then leave the school to
go play call for another school, I don't want my
head coach to have anything to do with play calling.
Speaker 1: Right right? You want your head coach administrating.
Speaker 2: So you want CEO.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you want a CEO head coach, so let you know, yeah,
let somebody else call the place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially if you know he's a better general. Yeah,
don't get in the.
Speaker 1: Way, don't. I mean, that was one thing that I
want to say. Typically FDR and Truman and certainly George HW. Bush,
we're all good about in the in their wars as
they more or less let their generals do the work,
like they weren't poking in there or whatever. Lincoln, on
the other hand, he let Grant. He sat back and
let Rant and Sherman do their thing. But earlier on
he like had to intervene because his generals weren't doing enough,
and he had to be like, fucking attack, fucking attack,
And McClellan was like, I need twenty thousand more man.
He's like, I've given you one hundred and forty thousand men.
You outnumber the rebels by a lot. Just fucking attack.
And then Mead was like the same thing. Beats the
rebels at Gettysburg. And Lincoln's like, why didn't you follow them?
Follow them?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: But yeah, a good leader, let's his pros do the thing.
You know what, I mean a good coach. Let's his coaches,
let's his subordinate coaches. Fucking coach.
Speaker 2: Most of the Black Sea coastline was now under the
Pawnus Kingdom. But that was just the start for M six,
who could speak the languages of all twenty two nations
he now governed. Good lord, how how just a little
book where.
Speaker 1: It's just like the difference where all these languages, like
the difference between like Portuguese and Spanish.
Speaker 2: Basically probably Yeah, it was just like just a little
regional dialect.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: He had several wives, mistresses, and two dozen legitimate and
bastard children. Oh yeah, mithter Dates was big time chariot racer.
Oh of course, wrote several scientific and historical books. Well,
he wrote books and was a bit of an art snob.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm into that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a cultured man.
Speaker 1: Bringing art to upon us, trying to make this backwater
little kingdom.
Speaker 2: It wasn't backwater. It's backwater. They're Greek, yeah, but they're
like an Iranian outer Greek.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Alabama's America. It ain't the same as New York.
Speaker 2: He's Greek and Persian. Those are like two of the
most cultured.
Speaker 1: Sweet I'm just saying America. Greece is one big you know,
the Greek culture. Yeah, there's different, there's it encompasses a lot,
but there's different types, different you know, levels of class whatever. Say,
way in the United States, right, Like we're all in America.
But there's a fucking difference between eating at a restaurant
in Chicago or San Francisco and Mobile or fucking Jackson.
Speaker 2: Right, he would be more in the Chicago. Yes he's
not in New York, he's not La, but he could be Chicago.
Speaker 1: You're he's maybe Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: Dude, you're just a big time hater because you hated
these people, and maybe Tulsa.
Speaker 1: This is like eat of the nicest restaurant in Tulsa.
It's Pontus.
Speaker 2: Give it at least Oklahoma City, God damn man, Bricktown.
You ever been to Okay?
Speaker 1: See? Yeah, uh yeah sort of.
Speaker 2: Now there's really only one other power in the region
of Asia Minor at this point Bethenia.
Speaker 1: I don't know one.
Speaker 2: M six didn't see a reason to beef with them
and decided to make a war pack to invade the
land between them Paphlagonia and split it between the two kingdoms.
Speaker 1: Oh so like uh Germany and the Soviets with Poland,
like Hitler and Stalin being like, hey good, hey Bud,
hey bud.
Speaker 2: We'll split up Poland to land it between us. What
if we just take it. Let's do it. You go
from your we go from our side. We meet in
the middle.
Speaker 1: Who do they think they are having a country?
Speaker 2: They do this easily, and it finally attracts the attention.
Speaker 1: Of Daddy Rome. Rome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Rome believed Asia Minor was under their umb of
influence and a regional power stack in land, power and resources.
Speaker 1: It's bad for business, ye call, anyone start to feel themselves.
Speaker 2: You gotta kind of squash that immediately. But Rome was
busy fucking around in Africa and didn't have the bandwidth
to do anything but give Mithridates a stern talking.
Speaker 1: To, which is stupid, by the way, because there's way
more money in Asia Minor. And that's true in the
game Rome Total War, but it's also just true in
real life. The East was Rome's moneymaker. Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt,
for sure, all those places that shit was printing money.
North Africa like Carthage is worth a fair amount, but
like the rest of it, like the rest of North Africa,
kind of whatever.
Speaker 2: Mithridates then falls out of favor with the king of Bithynia,
Nicomedes Normides Nicomedes over control of Cappadocia.
Speaker 1: Boy, just a lot out of places. I don't remember
the second after you say them.
Speaker 2: It's a land Mithridatees' sister was now in charge of
when her husband got assassinated, probably by her brother's orders.
So she sides with Nicomedes and agrees to Marian. Okay,
so she has she's technically in charge of Cappadocia or Cappadocia, sure, Cappadocia.
Speaker 1: This fucking city, cap town.
Speaker 2: It's just a it's a piece of land, city, city.
Speaker 1: Whatever, cap country.
Speaker 2: But it's it's very important to this story because they
just keep kind of beefing over the same piece of land.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So it's like it's like an alsace Lorraine,
like fucking everyone's just no, it's mine, No, it's fucking mine.
Speaker 2: Ponic forces go in and break that ship up and
they drive both his sister and nico Medes back to Pithynia.
Mithridates installs his brother in law's assassin Gordys as regent.
So the guy that killed his brother in law, that's
assassinated him, it's now in charge of that area. It
was really to stick it to his sister.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just be like, fuck you bitch.
Speaker 2: And then he then installed his bastard son to eventually
take the throne. Her son, though still a child, not
wanted to be ruled by his father's assassin, started to
get the wheels in motion for his own rebellion. How
old he was in his teens?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, that's okay, not like an eight year old, no,
like what fuckuld goal thirteen or fourteen, you know how?
Speaker 2: But Mithridates quickly squashes that and assassinates his nephew.
Speaker 1: The kid. Yeah, so he was probably old enough at
that point to be like killed killed. But it was like, uh,
I guess at least for the Romans, but I think
it was like a thing just in general at the
time in that area. The proper way to murder children,
like if you're killing like Cleopatra's kids or or how
Cleopatra's brother younger brother was killed or whatever, you strangle them.
You have to strangle them. That's the nice way to
do it. That's the humane way to kill a child
to strangle them.
Speaker 2: Or if you want to have an assisted suicide in
the machine breaks, you have to strangle them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if they're out and they're starting to wake up,
just finish the job.
Speaker 2: All the madness in Cappadocia was the final straw for
Roum to interfere.
Speaker 1: Hey, look, they never needed a reason, like a real reason.
They always needed a reason. They were very good about
finding like whatever little reason they they but it was
never a real not never, but it was often like
not a real reason, you know what I mean. They
were just like gathering their resources and then like somebody
sneezes and like all right, that's it. The Acadameter tests.
Speaker 2: Both pon Us and Bethynia representatives were forced to be
sent to the Roman Senate to make a claim for
the now available Cappadocia crown, and ultimately the Roman Senate
was like, neither of you should have power.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we think just gonna sound crazy, but I think
we're gonna do it.
Speaker 2: No, they said it's gonna be an independent nation. Oh really, Yeah,
I don't think they wanted to put their own resources
into it. And they're like, you need of you get this, Yeah,
mithir Day's, knowing he was severely outgunned by Daddy, pretended
to play nice and installed a puppet king for the
Cappadocia crown who was still loyal to him on low. Okay,
so he's still playing a little chess in the background.
He then devised the plan to build up his alliances
and forces, knowing the ultimate endgame was war with Rome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're coming, They're coming. They already have a foothold
in Asia Minor, like they're they're they have They've taken
care of Greece at this point, so they have like
they have the Aegean, they have the A, G, and C,
both sides of it, which is just a money maker
in Rome Total War. But uh yeah, once you so,
they're they're coming. They're coming for the rest of Asion Minor.
Speaker 2: First up, he makes nice with Armenia and locks down
a marriage packed with uh tiger Anus the second.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tiger Anus is how I would say it, tiger
I'm going tiger Anus.
Speaker 2: Is fineig is funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The Armenians also a very annoying faction in Rome
Total War. A lot of horse archers. You really like
your infantry just gets butt. Fuck you gotta get calve
in there, and even the calves not fast enough yet
it's so annoying. Fucking ain't fighting the Armenians, damn it.
Speaker 2: Tiger Reine's the second and his daughter Cleopatra U M
six's daughter Cleopatra. They get married. He has a nice
little kind of alliance with Armenia. They then again reinstall
Mythy's bastard on the throne of Cappadocia, and it would
be a game of musical chair giving up and retaking
the seat whenever Rome would come down to yell at them, okay,
so he would always back down, though he would always
just beIN oh my my bad, by bad, I thought.
Speaker 1: I do this. Yeah, oh I didn't. I didn't know.
I couldn't do that. Uh shit, okay, yeah, totally free
independent country, my bad room. And then they leave in
these but he's like now.
Speaker 2: In ninety b C Rome had enough and a force
left by Manius Achilius was sent down to provoke M
six into doing something stupid, as they needed a justification
for all out war, right, so they sent down a
general just to be like, hey poke the.
Speaker 1: Bear, Yeah, hey hey, buddy, just rat walks right after
the border, like, hey, fuck you what not then fuck you?
Speaker 2: Achilius convinced the new king, Nico Medes the fourth of Beathenia,
to invade and capture land belonging to pon Us as
he was in great debt to Rome and they believed
it would get Mithridates to finally respond violently.
Speaker 1: So, oh, man, let's the Italians have just always been
a mafia, Like, hey, you owe us money cashing it in,
you go and fuck them up now.
Speaker 2: Matthew six did no such thing. Instead, he let them
burn parts of his kingdom down and launched official complaints
to the Roman Senate, saying that Bithynia was the aggressor.
Speaker 1: Oh I did it by the books.
Speaker 2: Because I mean this guy was kind of going rogue.
He's like, hey, poke the bear.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: The Senate wasn't necessarily approven everything he did, so he
made complaints to the Senate. And meanwhile, he now had
a nice little victim card to play with other empires
like Greece. Okay, now, as protector of Greek cities on
the Black Sea and in Asia against barbarianism, Mithradates the
six logically became protector of Greece and Greek culture, and
used his stance to gain allies against Rome. Along with Armenia,
he was able to gain the trust and support of Egypt, Parthia,
and Greece.
Speaker 1: Well, the Greeks are already under Roman rule.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well he's telling them to like rise up, dog.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean remember who you are?
Oh my god, not the Greek penicsl was gonna piss
me off.
Speaker 2: Oh it's fine. Total war with Rome began in eighty
nine BC with what else, the invasion of Cappadocia. Okay,
they then went and took down Bithynia and the rest
of Asia. Minor, Rome, at conflict with local Italian tribes,
could not send down assistance immediately.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine, like we couldn't fully fight the Mexican
American War because Hill people in West Virginia were like
fucking around too much. We're like, god, damn it, Western
doesn't even exist, by the way, Western Virginia.
Speaker 2: A lot of this too goes down around the same
time as the Gladiator slave Rebellion. Oh is Spartacus Spartacus?
Yeah hell yeah, yes. I don't know if it's like
the first or second one of these. So actually I
believe around that time, Julius Scars.
Speaker 1: Served in the army that fought Spartacus. Yeah, if I'm
not mistaken, but I might be, but I'm pretty sure
I'm not.
Speaker 2: This was peak power pawn Us control on almost all
of Antolia, and they kept stacking resources and men for
the next few years, getting them ready for Rome when
they would fully turn their attention onto them. Mithridates in
eighty eight BC also had himself a fun little genocide
in Asia Minor, killing over one hundred and fifty thousand
Roman in Latin speaking citizens known as the Asiatic Vespers.
So I had a genocide, just killed one hundred fifty
thousand people. That's like a high end estimate.
Speaker 1: Well, it happened in Turkey. You don't have to talk about.
Speaker 2: It, that's true. Well, only you don't have to talk
about it if it's in Armenia.
Speaker 1: Right right, right, right, Yeah, if a Turk is in
any way involved or someone from Asia Minor, and fine
didn't even.
Speaker 2: First Roman response was done by, of course, Manius Achillius,
who was still in the area. The Romans, severely outnumbered,
get their shit pushed in and Achilleus is forced to
flee to what he believed was the safety of the
Greek islands. But our boy M six already made a
deal with the Greeks, and uh, they immediately capture him
and turn him back into Mithridates.
Speaker 1: Oh look at see. I told you Pontus was annoying
as fuck. Man. These guys just get your fucking goat.
Speaker 2: So he's captured, and what does he do to this
Roman general that started up stirring the spot?
Speaker 1: Does he send him back and is like, oh, it's okay.
Speaker 2: Now he executes him with a pretty fun method. He
pours molten gold down his throat.
Speaker 1: Oh they like to do that at that time. They
did that to another dude later. That's actually one of
my main complaints about what do you call it? Game
of Thrones is how they just poured the gold on
that guy's head in season one. Should beat right down
the fucking pipe. Dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he gave him his crown.
Speaker 1: No, I know, but I still just wanted him to
drink molten gold.
Speaker 2: Now Rome responds with forces led by General Sula, who
himself just to Fowler sol Sola Sola. I mean, that's
if there's one thing you don't have to correct me
on in this it's like Solo or Solo, Like there's
twelve other things that got wrong.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Now.
Speaker 2: Soula's warpath through Greece was clinical, even taking Athens down,
He along with his fellow room in General Fimbria, push
Mithridates shit in getting incredibly close to ending the Panic
Empire right then and there, so like they probably could
have executed it in then fuck they squashes really quick,
but more trouble bruis in Rome, and Sola has to
go back and do some housekeeping so he doesn't get
to finish the job. More shit back home, sad.
Speaker 1: Solo was one of like I feel like Solo was
like a big deal in Caesar's life. He was like
a precursor to Caesar.
Speaker 2: Seems like a okay guy. Yeah, and by that I
mean he just seems like a good general.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just annomal, you know, just a Roman dude,
just a he's a Roman hero basically, you know what
I mean. Like he's like if I don't even know,
he's like someone like if Caesar is patent, then he's
like Grant or General Pershing. Sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2: He then offers Mithridates terms to surrender, giving up most
of his conquested land pan Rome a relatively reasonable tax,
and knowing he was close to being totally slaughtered, he
agreed and then the war ended in eighty five BC.
Okay Sola placed a man by the name of Marina
in charge of Asia Minor to keep tabs on the
pesky Ponics have to Marina was still hungry for action,
so he started just raids, just raided into the Pawnas region.
Speaker 1: They're all hungry for action. Like, you can't just sit
there and do a good job watching the wall, you
know what I mean, Like you don't get any headlines
for that. All of these dudes, everyone's chasing headlines. Everyone's
gotta make a name for themselves. Like there's no one
that's just going so like really and honestly, somebody who
sent him there probably do that, right, because you know
the guy that is just gonna watch the wall, right,
Like you know the guy who's going to be a
game manager, the guy who's gonna quietly do his job,
versus the guy the ambitious asshole who's gonna make trouble.
Speaker 2: And Marina was the ambitious ass Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like you make those assignments understanding the personality of the
person you're sending there.
Speaker 2: Mithradad's now had reason to fight back. He responds with
his own forces, and we had a smaller second war.
Rome's not fully invested. It's just kind of this dude
in his unit. Yeah, Mithriditis wins and Marina was then
summoned back to the Senate to face charges of going rogue. Now,
the third and final Mithridatic War was the Big Boy,
and that began in seventy three BC. Mithruddies signed with
resided with public Roman enemy number one notorious after Rome
planned to annex Pithynia again. Mithridadis was getting some early dubs,
most notably at the Battle of Chalcedon, where he basically
wiped out the entire Roman fleet in the Asia Minor region. Unfortunately,
reinforcements were sent and Rome was now ruled by Solo's
proteges Luculus and Pompey.
Speaker 1: Pompei.
Speaker 3: It's not Pompey, Pumpey, it's p What is it. It's Pompey,
Pompey whatever. That's Caesar's I thought it was Pompey, but
it's it's p That's Caesar's main enemy.
Speaker 2: Now, the Todds turn and Mithridates is forced to retreat
to Armenia. Rome then invades Armenia and sixty nine BC
mithrid Dedes punches back, launches some surprise attacks, and regains Pontus.
In sixty seven BC, luc Ulys's failures leads to Pompey
taking full control of the Roman forces. Pompey just res
m six to the point that his son in law
now no longer allows him back in Armenia. Dude, he's like,
where's tapping out Pompey?
Speaker 1: Fucking the guy. So Caesar, when Caesar took power as
dictator or whatever it was, really it was him, and
they were part of the same triumvirate, Pompey and Caesar
or something like that. Anyway, they were the main rivals.
And Pompey's older than Caesar, and but Pompey was like
a heroic fucking general had done like a ton of
rad shit, and I think he was. You said he
was Solo, his protege, right, mm hmm, yeah, so that, yeah,
that's how it. Solo is like Caesar's protegeic grandfather. I guess,
uh uh, but yeah, yeah, Poppy is like a fucking
g dude like he and I think he's like kind
of low born too, which the so his victories are
like especially important. He's not an aristocrat necessarily. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
so he's he's just picking him up, picking himself up
by his fucking bootstrap. This is where he's making his name,
in the same way Caesar makes his name in Gaul.
Kind of yeah, this is where's where fucking Pompy's doing it.
Speaker 2: Now, his son in lawsuits for peace and becomes a
client of Rome. Armenia is now a Roman state. Mithradates's son,
who rules over Bosphorus, also refuses to help out his
old man, knowing he was losing battle at this point. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you got your own family, your own kids,
you really can't just like Grandpa comes around asking for
weird shit and you're like, I, you know, I got
a fucking wife and kids like I can't.
Speaker 2: Also, when you have like twenty brothers and sisters here,
you don't really know who your dad is.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, son is a father is a strong word there,
I would say.
Speaker 2: Now, away from home and surrounded by his enemies, with
no allies to speak of, M six attempts to commit
suicide in the winner of sixty six BC.
Speaker 1: What do you mean attempts? Oh my god, how'd you fail? Well?
Speaker 2: Poetically, he tries to poison himself. Ah, it's not fails.
Speaker 1: It doesn't sound poetic to me, and it sounds fucking stupid.
Speaker 2: As his immunity to all poison actually seem to be real.
He tried like every type of poison. It would not
kill him.
Speaker 1: He's not immune to a knife. Just fucking do it
with the knife.
Speaker 2: Yes, So, after the poison did nothing, he got his
bodyguard in close friend to strike him down with the sword. Okay, great,
there you go. So he committed suicide via murdered friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like, yeah, the bro side, he's like, hey, man,
I need you to just fucking stab me in the
neck real quick now.
Speaker 2: Pompey, ever, the Honorable Man, gave this leader a proper
funeral and burial with his ancestors and his remaining children
and wives who were meant to join him in the
after life. So he killed all of his wives and kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Perfect. It's like, hey, guys, it's fine, We're gonna
be in heaven. See you have see in Greek heaven whatever?
That cool?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Pompy is just like, no, we're not gonna
have any revenge tale here.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you're all gone, Yeah, you're all dead,
fucking I mean, I told you the kids kids probably strangled.
Speaker 2: Possibly, And that is the story of the poison King Mid.
Speaker 1: The man who was immune to poison, knew he was
immune to poison, and then tried to kill himself with
fucking poison. It's really just funny to me, though.
Speaker 2: You got a heat check at the end. Yeah, right,
He's like, I gotta know he had something.
Speaker 1: It had to have been a while since he tried,
since he had drank some arsenake. It's like, I wonder
if I still got it, and he God damn it,
did he still have it.
Speaker 2: If there's ever a time to see if you're immune
to poison, it's probably when you wanted to kill yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean, what do you have to lose?
Speaker 2: Right, It's like, oh, worst case, yeah, I do what
I want to die.
Speaker 1: And it's and it's yeah, I do, what happens, I
fucking die. It is funny to me, just like I mean,
there was no one like it's such a ticking fucking
clock with with like the Romans, where it's like, no,
it's cool. I think they're done. They're not. They're literally
never done.
Speaker 2: They're putting you on the back burner. But they will
come for you.
Speaker 1: They they're going to come. It's kind of funny, like
it's like my favorite version of that is actually with Syria, Palestine, Israel,
Old Judah, whatever you want to call it, with like
when Jesus was born, you know, like the villain in
the Gospels is King Herod and he's king, right, but
he's like a client state, right, He's he's he's part
of the Roman Empire, not even the empire yet or
yeah it is, he's part of the Roman Empire without
being part of the Roman Empire. Like it's just a
client kingdom of the Roman. It's like, uh, I don't
even know it's it's it's not quite like Puerto Rico
is to the US, Like it's a little looser than
that Guam something like that, but I mean like it is.
But even then, it's just like yeah, like it's the
reason that you're a client kingdom and not completely owned
by them is they don't have time for you yet,
Like they're telling you they could and they will, but
they have to handle something somewhere else, but like they're coming,
Like you can name an air herod, but like it's
not gonna work. It's not gonna work out.
Speaker 2: Now, what'd you learn today?
Speaker 1: I learned that I still have no sympathy for Pontus.
They've traumatized me too many times in that game for
me to ever once who feel mad.
Speaker 2: For the Kingdom of Choice?
Speaker 1: I guess in Rome to a War, I actually liked
so the first time you play.
Speaker 2: Are Rome in the game or are you somebody else?
Speaker 1: The first time you play, you're one of the three
Roman factions, but then after that you can be whoever
you want. I really liked playing as the Greeks, the
Greek city states, and I had a good campaign as.
Speaker 2: You were a Spartan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well your spartan in Athens, all of them. I
did like playing as the Romans. I like playing as
the Greeks, and then because hop lights are dope, and
then I did plays the Macedonians as well. Those are
the three that I like the best. I hate a
playing as the Gulls or any Barbarian. There's fucking garbage, Carthaginians, garbage,
fucking so he says, we're all right.
Speaker 2: Did you get Hannibal with Carthage.
Speaker 1: No, you don't have like some hero, You're just like
the Carthaginians. This is also post Punic Wars.
Speaker 2: Okay, so they probably were ass.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like they haven't been taken down yet, I guess.
Speaker 2: But after the Punic Wars, it's like, what's what's left
of Carthas right?
Speaker 1: Right, right exactly? But yeah, the Panics are fucking Eastern Eastern.
It's like they just keep coming in a way. Those Asians,
they just don't fucking stop. Uh, this Asiatic they're like
Middle Eastern Greeks. Yeah, but it's Asia's technically no, not it.
It's Turkey is technically Asian. It's Turkey, I know, but
then they're Greek, but it's technically Asia whatever.
Speaker 2: Turkey part of Asia Asia minor it's isn't Turkey part
of NATO?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, it's technically an Asian country in NATO.
Speaker 2: I thought they're European, but that's like where the line.
Speaker 1: They are in boat there they do exist on both
continents and and their capital is in Europe, but most
of the countries in Asia Constantinople, what are they called now? Istanbul? Bullshit?
Speaker 2: It's constant and constantinople.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, yeah, but no, fuck Pontus, Fuck Pontus forever.
His guy's pretty sweet, though. I do like that, like
his ambition. I like that.
Speaker 2: Oh daddy did nothing.
Speaker 1: I don't. His ambition's trash. His dad knew what he
was doing. He's like, I just got to do my thing,
stay quiet, keep my kids.
Speaker 2: Alive, rule my tiny kingdom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got a nice little thing going here. Don't
upset the apple cart, don't don't don't make Rome notice you.
Speaker 2: You're essentially in a mall, kind of like running your
own electronics stand, like maybe you sell iPhone cases. Yeah,
you make a decent living, right, You're you're pestering people
here and there, but it's an honest day's work. And
all of a sudden you're like, you know what I
want the whole mall.
Speaker 1: I need more.
Speaker 2: City's going to come down, and someone's coming for you.
City's going to come down.
Speaker 1: And it is also very just like spoiled son bullshit
to be like you got could I could do so
much better than you, dad. You're growing up like a
really nice thing.
Speaker 2: He got poisoned. His dad died. Well, his dad died first,
and then I'm saying no, no, his dad died of poison. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
his mom wanted to kill him for some reason because
he wasn't as cool as his brother. I think he
had to go out into the wilderness for three years
kind to learn the ways in the the art of
a warrior.
Speaker 1: Boy. I'll say one thing that I thought early in
the episode, which is loyal struck by light. Loyalty ain't
what it used to be because the first thing I
thought when it was like, oh, some of the men
loyal to his father went and lived with him in
the woods three years. It's like, who's doing that?
Speaker 2: Because godfather?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Like, you gotta just be out there
and being.
Speaker 2: Like what, Also, when's the last time you, like, what's
the payoff for this hung out with your godfather? Your actual.
Speaker 1: Been a minute? Uncle Steve?
Speaker 2: Where you at?
Speaker 1: My uncle Bill?
Speaker 2: I don't think I've like, I don't, I don't remember
if he's done anything for me. I certainly don't know
my godmother.
Speaker 1: So my godmother was a friend of my mom's and
they fell out fucking in contact with her at all, No, like,
not even close. I don't know the last.
Speaker 2: Time so like, what's the most loyal you could be
to somebody at this point?
Speaker 1: Right? What even is a godfather in Greek culture pre Christ?
Speaker 2: I'm not saying it is the god. I'm saying like
in today's society, if you needed somebody like loyal to
your dad or something, you would think like somebody liked.
Speaker 1: Godfather, like you know, a best friend or something like that.
I guess, like, I don't imagine not losing touch. I don't.
I don't imagine losing touch with the child I'm the
godfather of who is a friend's son.
Speaker 2: But you will fall out, most likely have a fall.
Speaker 1: You out, We'll have a feud, but we'll or we'll
bring it back together.
Speaker 2: He'll try to take your crown. He'll probably want that
seat be my co host.
Speaker 1: I can tell you I'm not living in the woods
with them.
Speaker 2: No, that sounds like you wouldn't live in the woods
with anyone. No, why even if you're on the lamb. Well,
if I was on the lamb, I guess I would,
but you would you would probably turn yourself in like
it's not worth it. Yeah, be like I just want
that your soft hands, hard jail cell bed free button.
I think you would just fucking embrace the barrel of
a gun to your mouth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'm not immune to bullets, so we can see. Yeah, no,
I know, I'm certain of it.
Speaker 2: Do you think there's an a lakes their to bullets?
Speaker 1: Uh? You know what? Probably? How can I? Who am
I to tell science they don't have an answer for something.
Speaker 2: A drinkable bulletproof vest?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Why not?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Who's today's hitler?
Speaker 1: Rome? Really? Rome?
Speaker 2: It's always Rome, not even him.
Speaker 1: You think it's just it's just Rome. Dude. They're such
They were such dicks, like they not that I can
hate on them for it, but like they really were
just like we're coming, We're coming.
Speaker 2: We gotta get our shit together. But yeah, well we'll
take care of this.
Speaker 1: We're coming. And the funniest thing, I don't know if
they had their own manifest destiny and like we should
control the entire Mediterranean the same way that you asked.
Speaker 2: It seems like a headache, Like, man, are you kidding me?
Something pops off like halfway around the world, But it's
your territory, you gotta send men.
Speaker 1: Controlling the Mediterranean was great for them. They could travel
across their empire, really quickly because there's a big fucking
sea in the middle of it. That's way faster than
going over land.
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about water, I'm talking about shit. That's
like way out there. Yeah, Like, how far did the
the Romans got to fucking London?
Speaker 1: Right? Yes, they founded London. Yes, I believe that.
Speaker 2: Just seems like a headache.
Speaker 1: They seem to have a good time with it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, it just seems like a lot. I mean
the Romans were in Portugal.
Speaker 1: M hm. They went there. At their height, they stretched
from London to Baghdadh.
Speaker 2: That's gross.
Speaker 1: I mean, what would be back. I don't think Big
Dad existed yet, but that area, Yeah, good little stretch
of land for him.
Speaker 2: The sun never sets.
Speaker 1: It definitely sat on the Roman Empire.
Speaker 2: But it's like a couple of time zones, I know. Yeah,
if only they kept going east.
Speaker 1: That'd be like Alexander Man, why not.
Speaker 2: Just he took over? If the Romans just like conquered China.
Speaker 1: That's really what they should have done. I feel like,
because they really could only fund their empire through conquest.
There wasn't like an industrial revolution, Capitalism hadn't really happened.
Speaker 2: Yet, so only so much money can wake on win, right, Like.
Speaker 1: The economics were a little different, So they should have
just built the wall at you know, the border with Germany,
keep those fucks out and just move east. Hit the
Huns before the Huns hit. You start taking all their
gold and wheat and what little mini ponies they ride on.
Be proactive, Yeah, you got it exactly. Or go down
into Arabia, see what treasures they have there. Actually, they
should have gone down to.
Speaker 2: Punt, really fucked around in Punt.
Speaker 1: So that actually would have been useful too, if they
had gone down to Somalia and kept They did make
it to the Persian golf, but they didn't keep it
like Basra and stuff like that and set up a
trade route with like a direct trade route with like
India and China. They could have done that, I guess,
but they didn't. Hold on. They didn't. They didn't have
the foresight. That's what happens when you schedule a civil
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Speaker 2: Also, every time I feel, especially in the Punic Wars
when we talked about it, just every time you send
out ships like a dozen or so would just get
wiped out by a storm.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I don't know how anyone got anything done.
Speaker 2: So many storms just killed so many people. Most of
the Punic like casualties were just men lost at sea.
Speaker 1: This is what I say about whenever anyone bitches about
modern times at all. I'm just like you are living
inside of a trillion miracles all at once. I do
not understand how people made civilization like to sheer will power.
It's fucking crazy, So enjoy your bitch ass, little lie.
I I am soft hands because I understand what I am.
Your problem is you don't understand that you're a soft hand.
Speaker 2: You're soft hands because you choose to be.
Speaker 1: No, we all are, and I understand it. You don't.
You're in denial of your soft handedness because.
Speaker 2: I have callouses.
Speaker 1: Your soul ain't callous.
Speaker 2: My soul's callous as hell for a little it's been
through the ringer.
Speaker 1: For a little twenty first century twink boy, it has.
Speaker 2: You're calling me a twink boy. Now you're you are
is because I'm starting to get speltz. I'm two hundred
and twenty five pounds.
Speaker 1: You're historically your soul is a twink. Your soul ain't
been through shit. You ain't seen shit. Dude.
Speaker 2: Physically, though, I would be a specimen six foot two
twenty five, that's fine me. On the battlefield, I'm taking
out so many people. You soft. Then these little fucking
five to two romans, well they know how to use
a sword, dude, I'm fucking just gonna rush them.
Speaker 1: You're your goliath, some little twink is taking you down
with the sling shot chain.
Speaker 2: I would just blast through these fuckers, these tiny little gremlins.
Speaker 1: We're all soft hands. We are the soft hands generation.
Speaker 2: Also, if I'm going back, then I would also probably
train every day. What else are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: Literally there, you got nothing else to do but push ups.
Speaker 2: I would become the Jake Paul of Roman War.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: I would just I would train every day and I
would get at least good enough to Yeah, yeah, why
not to entertain? Would you start riding? I think you
would get distracted by hookers and chariots.
Speaker 1: Probably not.
Speaker 2: Chariots aren't really my thing, not cherry guy. No, those
are probably my least favorite part of the First Gladiator
was the chariots.
Speaker 1: That was the best battle in the First Gladiator when
they actually had to fight as a unit. Yeah, that
was the best battle by far.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed the New Gladiator.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't wait to see it.
Speaker 2: I want to apologize.
Speaker 1: We need to see Wicked first, But I try to
convince my wife to do Glicked.
Speaker 2: We're not doing that. You can't do Barberenheimer. Ever again, Barb,
you can't force it.
Speaker 1: I will say though, that glickt is as close as
we've gotten so far because one movie is super gay
the other.
Speaker 2: Is a bro movie. Yeah, well, Oppenheimer Gladiator too is
the Return of Brothers.
Speaker 1: But the difference, though is that Gladiator is not dark.
I mean, I'm sure dark shit happens in it and
stuff like that, but like it's fun, it's fun. Oppenheimer's
not fun. It's a brilliant movie. I loved it. I
loved it. It's one of the best reserves. But it
is like heavy. It is heavy as the fucking water
they were using to make those bombs, Like, I mean,
god damn it. And that's the ironic like juxtaposition. Well,
Laator two's not heavy.
Speaker 2: He's Death in Destroyer of Worlds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I am become death Destroyer of world which he's
like saying, is he's blasting Florence Pew but whatever.
Speaker 2: And you said, apparently Cilia Murphy and Florence Peugh just
kept going at it.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no different movie. Andrew Garfield and Florence
Pugh kept banging after somebody they didn't hear cut and
they just kept going for like thirty minutes, which like
it was like no, they but they did say it
was like ten fifteen minutes, which is a long time.
Speaker 2: And they were actors. They were in the moment.
Speaker 1: Also, but like what are you what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Or they just want to blast.
Speaker 1: Pen and their pen or is it just like four
play makeout titty kiss It depends if their method. Yeah,
I want to know. I want to know.
Speaker 2: Because people definitely have real sex on camera. I think
in movies say for sure, do something. Charlotte Boof definitely does.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think it happens more than we think.
Speaker 2: Was that Niphomaniacs, I think I think they have full
penny in that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
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