Hey everybody it's Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast you remember in

Gladiator which I hadn't watched forever and ever and ever but my kids are

old enough now that I was like,

alright, let's try it.

I'll just fast forward the part where that lady gets cut in half

by a chariot and we should be good.

And it mostly worked out, the kids aren't too terribly scarred.

We were watching Gladiator.

We got this scene where the guy who runs the Gladiator outfit,

I can't remember his name, sorry, the P, maybe. He's the old guy, the old veteran. He used to fight

Gladiatorial combat in and Rome and now he's got a hot

prospect on his hands. It's the general. Maximus meridius something to something

something, lots of Latin-sounding things. It's that guy and he's really good at war because he's a general and he's awesome and he's dominating in the minor leagues.

And then this guy he calls him up and he's like, all right, look, here's the thing.

We're going to go to Rome and I can tell you're mad.

You're going to go fight in the big leagues.

But you got to understand, it's not about the stabbing.

It's not about how awesome you are that it's about winning the crowd

you got to win the narrative that's effectively the speech and I remember watching that as a

kid and being like well well, it's kind of about the stabbing though, isn't it?

I mean, really, at the end of the day, if you're a gladiator and you want to keep gladiating, you just want to stab more than you get stabbed.

But then I watched it with the kids the other day and I was like, dang, that guy whose name I forget but it starts with a

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