Ep. 43: What America Can Learn from the Roman Republic

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

Nebulous Media

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.6 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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In this special episode, the host of Hardcore History Dan Carlin talks with Eli about the similarities and differences between the American and Roman republics. Can we learn from the Roman Republic's decline and avoid the mistakes the great republic of antiquity made as it became a decadent empire? Click here for Carlin's great series on the death throes of the Roman Republic. Time Stamps: 00:38 Monologue 15:08 Interview with Dan Carlin Questions? Comments? Ideas? Contact us at [email protected]

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the re-education. Today's show is a special one. My guest is the great Dan Carlin, the host of Hardcore History, Hardcore History Addendum, and Common Sense, and also the author of The End is Always Near.
0:15.0	His program brings history to life for millions of listeners because he approaches the subject not as a professional
0:21.7	historian, but as an intellectual journalist.
0:24.8	He grapples with the drama of history and its complexities and mysteries.
0:29.9	Today we discussed what America owes to the Roman Republic and what lesson she can learn
0:35.4	from the Republic's demise.
0:44.9	They bled us white, the bastards.
0:46.2	They've taken everything we had.
0:49.7	And not just from us, from our fathers, fathers, fathers.
0:51.5	And from our father's, fathers, fathers.
0:52.0	Yeah.
0:56.0	And from our father's, fathers, fathers, fathers. You're all right, Stan, don't labor the point. And what have they ever given us in return?
0:59.0	The aqueduct?
1:02.0	What? The aqueduct?
1:05.0	Oh, yeah, yeah, they did give us a...
1:07.0	That's true, yeah.
1:08.0	And the sanitation.
1:10.0	Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg.
1:11.6	Remember what the city used to be like?
1:13.6	Yeah, all right.
1:14.6	I'll grant you, the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things the Romans have done.
1:17.6	And the roads.
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