Hail Caesar!
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The spectre of totalitarianism ancient & modern. In this episode we travel with Neil to Italy, crossing the Rubicon with Caesar and ushering in a new age!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello fellow time travelers, great to have you with me again as we travel around the world |
| 0:04.7 | through time and space. It's a lonely business. We prefer to have as many of you with me as possible. |
| 0:10.5 | So hopefully there's quite a gang by now. |
| 0:13.0 | Before I get started, thanks again to everyone who's signed up to my Patreon site. |
| 0:17.0 | It's the financial support drawn from the Patreon.com presence that makes everything else possible. If you're not a member of |
| 0:25.5 | patron and you want to become a member go to patreon.com look for me by name |
| 0:29.8 | Neil Oliver part with some cash do it monthly or do it annually. It is a bit cheaper if you go for the, if you go for a year all at once. |
| 0:38.0 | You get two exclusive podcasts every week, quizzes, prizes, chats, Paul and I come up with various, you know, |
| 0:46.7 | developments and extensions that we can add to the site all the time. Maybe best of all, though you become part of a community, a family I would prefer to think of it, free thinking, time travellers, people with questions they want answered. |
| 0:59.0 | And it's an opportunity to get in amongst like minds and share ideas. |
| 1:05.0 | Okay, it's time to strap ourselves, yourselves into the time machine as we set off on another |
| 1:09.8 | episode of my love letter to the world. Recorder, microphone, action. When they can sense the exhaustion, they can smell it like blood in the water and they capitalize on it. The king is toppled and the republic rises. People power propels the |
| 1:41.7 | empire forward ever more muscular as it expands in all directions. |
| 1:47.0 | After centuries of growth, Rome rules great swaths of Asia, Africa and the European continent. |
| 1:55.0 | On to the stage steps a military commander of genius who has already grown rich and powerful |
| 2:01.0 | in the province of Gaul. Crossing the Rubicon, he takes on the Republican elite. |
| 2:07.0 | He claims Cleopatra as a lover and sweeps to victory, bringing totalitarianism to Rome. |
| 2:15.0 | Endeveering to understand history in hopes of eliminating the future. |
| 2:21.0 | I'm Neil Oliver, and this is my love letter to the future. I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the world. |
| 2:26.0 | Hi Neil. In the last episode in 210 BC we walked with a mighty army of incredible terracotta soldiers |
| 2:38.0 | as the first Emperor of China was laid to rest. |
| 2:42.0 | Where are we this week? Aftering Paul, we're stepping forward in time, |
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