Hey, everybody, how's it going? Thanks for joining me this afternoon. I am Orrin McIntyre. Before we get

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All right, guys. So today we're going to be continuing our series on Machiavelli's The Prince.

I'm reading my way through this book. It's relatively short, usually under 100 pages, depending on what format you get,

but most people still haven't read it. They've heard about it. They've heard it discuss. They've

heard some of the ideas vaguely behind it, but they haven't really delved in. And that's a shame

because, again, it's such a short read. Complex to be sure, something worth rereading multiple

times, but still something that pretty much

everyone can get under their belt so that's why i'm going through it together with you guys so we can

read understand pull apart what's happening here and get a better grasp of what makiavelli was thinking

if you want to go back and watch previous episodes then of course there is a playlist on the YouTube channel that enables you to do that.

They're all in order.

So you can just read the prints along with me.

But of course, each one of these episodes is good in and of itself, has self-contained lessons we can learn.

So you don't have to watch them all if you don't want to.

That said, we are picking up with Machiavelli discussing

different forms of armies. He just got done talking about mercenaries and the danger of

mercenaries. This is a key part in Machiavelli, talking about the need to win under your own

sword. And that won't be going away in this section. We're going to see multiple times how critical

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