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The Welcome back to the life of Vespasian.

Welcome back from your holiday from Caesar, Ray.

I had to do the last one

without you with Mark Hayden. That was a fun chat. Thank you. Well, good. Good. I'm glad you

did you have a good holiday? Um, yeah, because I mean, what do you want to hear? No, I missed you.

I missed you. I missed you.

I don't know what to say.

Go ahead.

Go ahead.

You got stuff to talk about.

I do.

And look, we've got a couple of shows to record that I'm going to have a lot of fun doing.

I don't know if anyone else is going to enjoy listening to them. But, yeah, you're kind of used to that if you've been listening to this show over the years. This is going to be a rabbit hole. Rabbit Hole. Rabbit hole episodes. Yeah. And I wish I'd,

I wish I'd done the prep for this before I interviewed Mark Hayden because this is about the Jews.

So the last time on episode, this is episode five, on episode three, the one before the Mark interview, we, you know, we had Mukianus arriving in Rome in advance of Vespasian to consolidate the power, set the table for the new Flavian dynasty, Antonius Primus once hailed as the savior of Rome gets kicked to the curb and exiled,

18-year-old Demetian, parties like a rock star.

And what?

Now we need to talk about the Jews.

Yeah.

And I love talking about the Jews.

You know, I don't know if I've ever mentioned this, but I made a little movie four or five years ago called Marketing the Messiah.

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