Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: Ancient Rome and the False Histories Inspiring Musk & the MAGA World
Citations Needed
Citations Needed
4.8 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this Beg-a-Thon live show, "Ancient Rome and the False Histories Inspiring Musk & the MAGA World," with guest Dr. Sarah E. Bond, we discuss Sarah's new book, Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire, and how Elon Musk and everyone in his MAGA orbit appropriate the aesthetics of Rome while understanding almost nothing about the history they're seemingly so infatuated with.
Originally livestreamed on YouTube on Wednesday, February 19.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Citation's Needed with Nemeshirazi and Adam Johnson. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to the Citations Needed live show Begathon. Citation's Needed is of course a podcast on the media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. |
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| 1:23.4 | citations needed, we will be talking about how Elon Musk and his MAGA-Incel army have appropriated |
| 1:29.5 | the cultural imagery and aesthetics of ancient Rome, while obviously neither knowing or understanding |
| 1:35.5 | anything about the ancient world beyond what maybe they've seen in Gladiator or 300. |
| 1:41.7 | We're just to sort of orient the audience. |
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