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Making the Argument with Nick Freitas

Why Are Men Obsessed With Rome?

Making the Argument with Nick Freitas

Nick Freitas

News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

4.4743 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

There's a social media trend online about how often men think about the Roman Empire. Today, we dive into why that is.

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Links from today's ep:

The Roman Empire: 18 centuries in 19 maps: https://howardwiseman.me/Roman/19Maps.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeNpEQ0hfMg&ab_channel=BalkanHistory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracchi_brothers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_reforms

Plutarch’s Account of Caesar’s Crossing of the Rubicon: https://www.livius.org/sources/content/plutarch/plutarchs-caesar/plutarch-on-caesars-rubico-crossing/ 

Map of Caesar’s Civil War: https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/15773.png?v=1693351326 

https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/15518.png?v=1692790083

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, welcome to all of our audience right now.

0:03.0

But before we get started, we're going to do a special welcome to Caleb and Katie,

0:07.0

part of our community chat here at Making the Argument,

0:10.0

celebrating their eighth wedding anniversary.

0:12.0

That is absolutely outstanding.

0:14.0

Congratulations.

0:15.0

We're going to go ahead and give you a pass for not watching today on the live stream.

0:19.0

But when you watch this later, you'll know that we were thinking of you.

0:22.4

And we think it's great that you're celebrating your eighth wedding anniversary.

0:25.4

Congratulations to Caleb and Katie.

0:27.6

All right.

0:27.9

Today, we did an audible.

0:29.8

We had a completely different episode plan for you.

0:32.9

I mean completely different.

0:34.6

We actually talked about in our chat, like, hey, here's a sneak peek of what we're going to do tomorrow.

0:38.2

And no, five minutes before we're like supposed to go online.

0:42.3

Christian looks at me, goes, hey, we got, we got an idea for an episode.

0:46.1

I'm like, oh, cool, when are we going to do this episode?

0:48.0

He goes, how about now?

0:50.7

So, and this is all based off of the worst possible thing you could, you could base a sudden

0:56.1

audible on a social media trend.

0:58.5

So Hamilton, why don't you play us the clip of the social media trend that causes us to

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