EST082 - Haman Got Rich the Old Fashioned Way, He Curried Favor With an Absolute Monarch and then Used His Political Office For Massive Personal Gain
The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast
Matt Whitman
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🗓️ 1 August 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You guys ever hear about Warren G. Harding? |
| 0:09.1 | He's the president of the United States of America right after World War I. |
| 0:13.2 | World War I everybody's very upset because we thought the world was getting better and |
| 0:16.6 | everybody had these fanciful notions of heroism and bravery and we are going to go off to |
| 0:22.0 | fight to the Hun and to defend what is right and probably and probably we did that in World |
| 0:27.1 | War I that's I mean it's great and all but the point is all of those noble feelings |
| 0:31.4 | they died in the trenches along with all of those boys it was a horrible war as bad as |
| 0:36.0 | anything ever was and kind of quietly after World War I everybody's like dang I thought |
| 0:40.2 | all of our technology would make us like each other more and we'd use it to maybe make |
| 0:44.9 | like jet packs and flying rose gardens and stuff but it seems like instead they just |
| 0:49.7 | were making like chemicals that can burn people's lungs from the inside out and guns that |
| 0:54.6 | fire bullets even more faster than the guns we used to have I'm not sure this is going |
| 0:58.7 | to work out well then enter Warren G. Harding who's like hey you know what a vote for me |
| 1:04.6 | is a vote for a return to normalcy and I think he meant normality but you know politicians |
| 1:08.8 | make gaps I make gaps whatever so kind of hung on him a little bit sort of a joke he's |
| 1:12.8 | the normalcy guy and normalcy turns out to mean let's just forget what happened in the |
| 1:19.0 | trenches in Europe and let's have the ladies cut their hair short and wear a little |
| 1:24.2 | dresses that by today's standards are unbelievably modest but back then we're super |
| 1:28.6 | racy and this happens shake their hips and do a little provocative Charleston dances |
| 1:34.0 | will all drink illegal beer and we'll just forget there was ever World War I and everything |
| 1:39.2 | will be great forever and that was the Harding administration that's what you ever saw |
| 1:44.8 | Harding was the same way so rather than hiring competent people he's like I'm a good old |
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