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🗓️ 14 April 2025
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0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
0:25.8 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
0:28.7 | Sun Express, nonstop sunshine. |
0:32.2 | This is the Friends of History Debating Society. |
0:33.0 | I'm Gaius. |
0:34.2 | Germanicus is here. |
0:35.9 | We've attended to Europe. |
0:36.8 | We're headed to the Pacific. |
0:43.3 | In the Pacific right now, there's a trade war underway between the United States and China. |
0:48.4 | There are other details here, but I'm not going to overwhelm with numbers. I'm just going to say, |
0:53.2 | it's two big dogs going to fight time from Dr. Strangelove. And the two big dogs right now are fighting |
0:56.8 | with rhetoric. The question is, have we seen this before? Now, being Romans, we were educated |
1:03.4 | into the successes of the Roman Republic before it became a really good idea of the Roman Empire, |
1:11.8 | which we live in. |
1:18.3 | But we get sentimental about our educations growing up here in Lunditian, far away from Rome. |
1:25.9 | Remember, we're not vulnerable to the Roman intrigues because we're, oh, several weeks away by even the good roads we've built. |
1:29.9 | And therefore, we'd have time to prepare our defenses if somebody denounce us. |
1:33.4 | But they won't because all the Greeks we employ, they do all the work, we pay well, |
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