Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis Hanson Show. This is the Culturalist and

Pro Saturday show. So we have some special things today. Victor is the Martin and

Nile Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics of the Hoover

Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College.

He has a new website at VictorHanson.com. Like you all to come see the new

website and we've got a lot in store today for the show. We're gonna first have a

word for our sponsor.

Welcome back and this is a Saturday and we want to talk to Victor a little bit

about. He often references the satiricon and cultural decadence and I

thought today we would have a discussion a little bit more in depth on the

satiricon itself and then also look at our own culture to see if there is any

resonance there. I did want to ask you Victor though we recently had Millie

testified before Congress and if you had any comments on that first before we go

into our Saturday show. It was not impressive. It was not encouraging. He basically

was asked why did he speak to a number of Washington insiders in books and he

gave the ridiculous excuse that he was trying to communicate with the public that

General Millie had an obligation to talk but of course we were to believe those

were going to be press conferences. These are behind the scenes confidential

cover your rear end quotes if I don't give you my version you'll give another

version type of interviews with a whole series of sensationalist, muck-raking

journalist. That was embarrassing and then secondly when he was asked specifically

if there were groups of people in the January 6th riot that he had called

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