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Another hour of the Jesse Kelly show on a magnificent Wednesday as we set aside politics for this hour.

And we go ahead and step back into history.

We get ready to do the Siege of Malta.

Part two. I'm hoping I'll make it the final part of the Siege of Malta. And then final hour, we're going to have Selena Zeta.

We'll do emails and we'll talk about commies infiltrating your business and all kinds of other things.

And I wanted to remind you, tomorrow is Ask Dr. Jesse Thursday because I am out on Friday.

So you got to email your questions into jesse at jesseckeley's show.com. Now, the 32nd recap you're

going to get from last night is the Knights of St. John. They're given a horrible

windswept rock known as Malta right underneath Sicily. They begin fortifying it. There are four

locations on it. They're fortifying the Ottoman Empire. The Muslim Empire is growing. They are taking over things. They've taken

Constantinople, Christian slash Catholic. Europe is petrified of the coming Muslim storm.

And the Ottomans having let the Knights of St. John go once before have had enough of their raiding and pillaging in the Mediterranean,

and they land a 30,000 man force on Malta,

and they began to assault Fort number one.

It's called Fort St. Elmo.

Now, in this Fort St. Elmo, there's roughly a thousand men.

They are not all knights, trained, born-and-bred warriors at all.

There are some knights.

There are some other soldiers, so they're not all

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