This is Jocco Podcast number one 61 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink.

Good evening, Echo.

Good evening.

I do the wrong and first begin to brawl.

The secret mischiefs that I set approach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.

Parents whom I indeed have cast in darkness, I do beweep to many simple goals, namely,

to Derby Hastings, Buckingham, and tell them, Tis the queen and her allies that stir the king against the duke, my brother.

Now they believe it, and with all wet me to be revengeed on rivers, dorset, gray.

But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture, tell them that God bids us do good for evil.

And thus I clothe my naked villainy with odd old ends stolen out of holy writ and seem a saint.

When most I play the devil.

And that right there is a few lines from the play, Richard III written by Good old William Shakespeare, the bard.

And clearly Richard III is made out in this play to be an evil, like a hundred percent evil political maneuverer.

That's what he's made out to be.

Sort of the ultimate archetype of the Macavellian, Macavellian leader.

And there's people that say, and it's actually, it certainly seems that Shakespeare intentionally wrote him that way.

And there's a bunch of things.

I guess at some point we'll go over the whole play of Richard III.

But let's take a look at the lines that, you know, because Macavellian, what we think of it when we hear it now is,

we think that it means someone that is just completely devious and completely dishonest and completely deceitful in their quest for power.

Yeah.

That's what people think of when they think of Macavellian.

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