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And we are live, welcome to today's episode of the Survival Podcast.

I think it's 32.44 or 32.45.

32.44, the title is right in front of me.

And today is Wednesday and we are back to regular schedule programming, at least for today.

Professor CJ Kilmer, standing on a little by, right now we'll be bringing him on in just a moment.

We're going to be talking about the decline and fall of empires.

I'm excited about this one because there's a lot of talk about old empires and how they fell.

But people tend to like, I don't know, microwave society today.

Everything is not seen in time, context anymore.

And it's like, oh, there was an empire and then it fell.

But the decline is the part that gets left out by a lot of people.

I'm sure we'll dig deep into that today.

And I'm sure there's a lot of patterns for us to recognize that in the modern day.

So I'll bring CJ on in just a moment.

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