I'm going to show you how great I am.

This would have a tiny tower.

I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd like to take this chance to How to Take Over the World.

This is Ben Wilson.

This is the Caesar Guide to Taking Over the World.

This is an episode about Julius Caesar.

I read a new book on him recently.

Not a new book, new to me.

It's actually a very old book written in the 1800s.

It's called Caesar A Sketch by James Anthony Froud. So this episode is me using a new source as an excuse

to revisit Caesar, unpack his playbook a little bit more, and talk about what made him so great

and what I have learned from his life. If you want the blow by blow of, you know, going into his campaigns and exactly what

happened more detail, you can go back and listen to the four episode series I did on

Caesar, the one in which I mispronounce Pompey as Pompeii the entire time.

I'm sure I'll mispronounce other names in this episode.

But Caesar is worth revisiting because his life is so extraordinary.

To me, he is probably the second greatest or at least most impactful figure in human history

right there behind Jesus. I think I'd put at number one.

Caesar, you know, one of the facts that I love about him is his name becomes synonymous with

emperor, essentially.

And so that gets translated as Kaiser in German and as Tsar in Slavic languages.

So you can see it.

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