Hello and welcome to How to Take Over the World. This is Ben Wilson. I've got a Rome mega episode for you today.

I'm going to start off with my takeaways from the Augustus Caesar episode,

the seven things I learned about how to be great in the style of Augustus.

Then I had a few of you ask about this comment that I made that perhaps the United States can no longer be thought of as a republic, a raised

publica, because it is so partisan and pulled apart by factions that no one even agrees on who

the state is supposed to serve. So after my takeaways, Alex Petkis is coming on to discuss the

similarities between Rome and the United States of America, where we are in terms of the spectrum

from republic to Empire and what

we can expect in the future as the U.S. gets further from its Republican past. And then to close it out,

I'll talk about my end notes and some of the other notes and quotes from the episode that I liked.

And, and I will be offering my review of Gladiator 2,

which I won't say anything about right now.

Maybe I thought it was the greatest movie of all time.

Maybe I thought I would rather eat broken glass and watch it again.

I'm not telling because you have to subscribe to hear my Gladiator 2 review.

So again, for you free listeners, you are going to get about half of this episode. And if you would like to support the show and get the full episode, subscribe at takeoverpod.

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