June 12, 2025 • 36 mins
Alexander the Great besieging Tyre at the ripe old age of 32. A unified Greece with eyes for Persia. The stakes of the game in an ancient siege.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is a Jesse Kelly Show.
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It is the Jesse Kelly Show. Another hour of the
Jesse Kelly Show on an amazing, a fantastic Thursday.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
And here's what's in store for this hour. History time, Baby,
No more politics. I don't want to talk about raids
and the EPA and the idiots in Congress and other
We've done that all week long. And I have owed
you this story for quite some time. So we you
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and me, we're about to take some time. Maybe this
is part one, maybe I'll do the whole thing. I
have no earthly idea, but we are about to take
a long time, and we're about to discuss Alexander the
Great and one of the most amazing sieges you've ever
heard of in your life, Alexander the Great in the
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siege of a place called tire t y R. And actually,
maybe depending on your upbringing, or your church attendants now,
or just reading the Bible, maybe that name sounds familiar
to you. You see, there's this prophetic verse or two.
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There's a couple of those in the Bible. I think
that'd probably be a good place to start out. Maybe
you could call this a little foreshadowing, if you will,
Ezekiel twenty six, verse three. Therefore, thus says the Lord God. Behold,
I am against you, oh Tire, and I will bring
up many nations against you. As the sea brings up
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its waves. They shall destroy the walls of Tire and
break down her towers. I will grape her soil from
her and make her a bare rock. She shall be
in the middle of the sea, a place for the
spreading of nets. For I have spoken, declares the Lord God.
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Now let us discuss how things worked out for Tire first. Well,
before we get to Alexander the Great, let's discuss briefly Tire.
Where it is what we're actually talking about here. As always,
maps help if you are not driving. May I invite
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you to open up your phone or a computer if
you're in front of it, and I want you to
look up Lebanon. Lebanon. You know where it is, Lebanon,
just north of Israel. Over there, you know where it is.
This is the Mediterranean Lebanon. Okay, it doesn't. We don't
have to get more specific than that, but you can
leave the map open if you'd like. This is our
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area for our story here. Now we are back and
we're three hundred years before Christ. Okay, this is the
time of Alexander the Great. That's not exact. But remember
history is not names, dates and locations. That stuff is boring.
History is storytelling. Roughly three hundred years before Christ, that's
the time we're in, Okay, And at this time, the wealthiest,
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you would probably argue, most powerful empire on the planet
is the Achimited Persian Empire. It's often known as just
the Persian Empire or the Achimenid Empire, but the achiemuend
Persian Empire, and they are in control of this area
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at this particular time. Now pause on that for a moment.
Let me explain something else. This city, Tire, it isn't
necessarily Persian. It's under Persian control. This this is going
to matter for our story at some point in time.
That's why I'm boring you with a little bit of
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this background in this detail. Yes, the Persians wanted the
Persians own it, the Persians are in control of it,
but it's not really a Persian city. It is a
Phoenician city. The Phoenicians. I'm not going to go into
all this stuff, but you've heard of a Phoenician city
before Carthage Carthage is a Phoenician city, what Chris, what
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Chris said, isn't that Persia? Well, it's under control of
Persia at the time. You see, the Persian Empire at
this time was massive. They had fought wars, they had
done all this conquest. They were not only massive, they
were infamously wealthy. And I know they're kind of the
bad guys in this story, at least for dudes, because
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dudes all cheer for Alexander the Great. I'm no different.
They were, for the time not a bad empire to
be conquered by. We're not talking about the Assyrians here
where they're gonna stuff a hook through the bottom of
your mouth, put it out underneath your tongue. Chain you
and your wife and kids up on a long chain
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and drag you off to slavery, and they might flay
you alive when you get there. The Persians didn't really
operate in that way. The Persians, you could probably call
them the Donald Trump at the time, the Persons wanted
to do business. Hey, you want to do business. Yeah,
we're gonna conquer you. And don't get me wrong, we
will send our armies and we'll smash you. But why
don't we just do business. We'll take over. You're gonna
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have you're gonna have to pay tribute when we call
for troops. That's fine, but we're not gonna abuse you.
You can have your religious practices and you can keep
your tradition. I don't care. We're here for business. That's
how the Persians handled conquest, and that's why Tire was
under control of the Persians. But was it really Persian?
They were Phoenician. The Phoenician people. We're not gonna go
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into all that here. One minute explained around the Persian people.
They were a seafaring people. They really ruled the Mediterranean
by owning the waves. They were a merchant slash slash
navy people, and that's gonna matter for our story. A
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merchant slash navy people. They figured out how to go
to and fro on the water, which was a big
deal back then. And then you know, there weren't speedboats.
They figured out how to go to and fro on
the water because they were on the ocean, because they
figured out how to trade across the water water. They
were stupid wealthy. Carthage was wealthy, Tire was wealthy. These
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Phoenician cities were crazy wealthy. Now, maybe you're focusing on
the biblical aspect of this because I opened up with
the Biblical verse and because you're wondering what was God's
axe to grind with these people. Ah, they were big
on child sacrifice, like really really really big on child sacrifice.
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And not that there's any kind of wonderful child sacrifice,
planned parenthood, not that there's any kind of wonderful way
to kill children. But they burnt them alive. It's horrible,
really really terrible. And it's not that this would be okay,
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we're not even just talking babies, children who are older.
They would just cook them alive. A real, real demonic.
Even the Phoenicians, it was what they did. It was
part of their religious practice, and they wouldn't repent, and
they got cross ways with God. And that genuinely ends
with the right way of the same way every single
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time was set that aside. That's tire at the time.
Phoenician society, Lebanon, that's where you need to think of
under control of the Persians with me so far, Now
let's go the other way. Everyone has seen the movie
three hundred or everyone at least has heard of this
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I take that back. Kids, Please don't watch the movie
three hundred. Definitely not for the kids. People know the
story of the three hundred Spartans at Thermopylae if you don't.
The Persians invaded Greece, okay, and that was a complicated affair.
The Persians felt they were completely justified invading Greece. But
the Persians invaded Greece. This was a long time, over
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a century before where we are now. But time is
a funny thing, meaning how we think about time now
isn't how they always thought about it, because the pace
of our life is so much faster now. If I
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was to take you right now, and I was to
tell you, hey, you you need to get hold of
your mother, but you need to wait five hours. It's
really important that you talk to your mother, but you
have to wait five hours to do it. That would
be stressful, wouldn't it five hours? Why Why can't I
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call her? I need to get a hold of mom.
I cantext her right now. I could pick up a phone.
If I was to teleport you back to just the
year nineteen hundred and say you need to talk to
your mom now, and you'll talk to her in five hours.
You'll be blown away by the speed of it. WHOA, really,
that's amazing. What are you teleporting me there? Greece had
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not let go of the Persian invasion when we hear
it was one hundred and fifty years earlier. Time to
get over it. Everybody's dead by then. They were not
over it at all. For the very pre Greeks. That
was an affront to them. That was an offence that
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was ingrained in Greek society, and they were mortified that
these uppity Persians and all their money took a big
army and they came and invaded Greece. Now that's the
Greek the Tire situation, or that's the Tire situation, the
Phoenician situation. That's the Greek acts the grind. Now let's
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introduce Alexander the Great next the Jesse Chilly.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Thursday, driving
the show off the rails, as we do from time
to time because it's history time on the Jesse Kelly Show,
delivering on my Alexander the Great Siege.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Of Tires story that I had promised you. I left
it up to you, and that's the one you wanted,
so that's the one you're getting. So that that was tire.
The Phoenicians will come back there, well, more specifically, Alexander
the Great's about to come back there. Alexander the Great.
It is one of the most amazing stories ever. And
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believe it or not, I'm actually not talking about his
military conquests. I'm talking about the creation of this man.
How do you what does it take to create somebody
who's capable of conquering the world at the age of
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twenty five. What does it take to create somebody who,
at the age of twenty is commanding armies, who never loses.
Surely there is something to his background, right well, there
is a lot to his background, not all of which
I'm going to go into right now, but we have
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to discuss it because one, it's fascinating. In two, you
can't understand the man until you understand first his father.
His father is Philip the Second. His father is one
of the most amazing and bravest conquerors of my lifetime,
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of my lifetime that I've ever heard about. He died
before I got here. Philip the Second, Philip of Macedon.
Macedonia is considered Greek by us, but at the time
when Philip was coming up, they were considered ruffians, barbarians,
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those northern wilderness people. Okay, picture Athens as New York
City and people from New York City who loved New
York City. How do they look at people from rural Alabama?
That is very similar to how the people of Athens
looked at Macedonia. Those stupid hicks, that the uncivilized, That's
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how they looked at it. But Philip of Macedon, he
had this upbringing where he had a bunch of military training,
and hicks or rural or whatever they may have been,
the Macedonians were tough as nails. They were just a
tough people. They lived in a tough environment. They were
always at war. They were at war with Greece, they
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were at war with other Ruffian tribes to their north.
They were a warlike people from a warlike area, and
they were tough as nails. And along comes this very
sharp man named Philip, Philip the second, and he has
a plan. And his plan is this, No more separate
Greek city states, no more Sparta fighting Athens, who's fighting Thebes,
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who's fighting us? No more of this. I Am going
to raise an amazing army. I'm going to reform it
and I am going to go conquer Greece and unify
it under my command. That's what Philip wanted to do,
and over years and years and years I did. Look,
that could be ten shows what I just breezed through
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in three sentences. Over years and years and years, he
did it. He did it through bribery, he did it
through conquest. He reformed the army. His army was experienced,
and to his credit, Philip the Second, unlike these loser
politicians today, was at the front at all times. Philip
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almost died in combat more times than I can count.
At one point he got shot in the eye with
an arrow. At one point he broke both of his
legs at the same time. Philip the Second had more
wounds than you can possibly imagine. But he finally did it.
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Now along the way, Philip the Second picked up a
bunch of wives. That was a Macedonian thing. They believed in.
A bunch of wives. Not our place to judge, I
guess at this point in time, but it was there.
It was really the thing. They had a bunch of wives,
and one of those wives was Alexander the Great's mother.
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We're not going to go into her in depth, but
she is a vicious woman, no question. You don't know
what propaganda to believe, but we know she was a
vicious woman, capable of killing people and did so quite often.
You know how I just said Philip had a bunch
of wives. Well, Philip is a king who takes the
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throne when the king dies. One of the king's sons,
Philip had another son. The other son got brain damage,
and everyone kind of acknowledges it was Alexander the Great's
mother who pretty she did something to him, probably poisoned.
She poisoned him and just wrecked his mind. So now
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look at that, no more succession crisis. Looks like the
other boys got some metal issues. Oh is he drooling
on him? I guess we'll have to go with Alexander.
This is the kind of woman we're talking about here.
She marries Philip, She sleeps with snakes as part of
her religious custom. That's not just propaganda, Yeah, Chris, she
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was a worshiper of Dionysis. It's this weird Greek god
that believed in snakes like they. When I say sleeps
with I mean there are snakes in her bed, I
get it. That's the kind of exotic person we're talking
about here, the kind of girl you run off with
for a couple weeks in college and then regret your
decisions and never tell mom about it. You got me.
That's Philip, that's his wife. So already, what kind of
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a child are these people going to have? They have Alexander,
Alexander the Great has all the physical tools. Apparently he
was short, but not ridiculously short. He was fairly average
for the time, five six they think five to seven.
No one knows for sure. He was reportedly strong, very strong,
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and very fast. People talk all the time about his speed,
that he could run, that he moved very quickly, and
he had quite the education. Hang on, Jesse Kelly returns next.
It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, wonderful Thursday.
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We are doing a little bit of history here this hour,
a little bit of Alexander the Great Siege of Tire history.
And remember we'll be back to politics at some point,
maybe today, maybe tomorrow, But Tomorrow's asked doctor Jesse Friday.
So you need to get your questions emailed in whatever
they may be to Jesse at jessekellyshow dot com. Back
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to Alexander the Great. He's got this warrior conquer father
who just unified Greece. He has this raging psychopath mother
who may just be a lovely well, I don't think
there's any chance she was a lovely woman. But she
loved her son. She would kill for her son and did.
And that wasn't the only upbringing he had Phillip's father.
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Look think about this. What kind of a king who
can send people to do what he wants. What kind
of a king is in the front of his army
at all times getting wounded. Not just a brave one,
but a brave one who will demand that of his son.
Philip starts to transform Alexander. Starts to train Alexander as
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a boy into a military machine. Alexander the Great is
receiving not just classes, not just alongside his father on
military campaigns, not just sitting around the table with the
other general's sipping wine figuring out how to move this
and that. He is sending Alexander the Great on forced marches.
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He hires somebody to harden him, essentially turn him into
a beast, put him through a one on one boot camp,
but it's more than that they are training him to
be a king. They bring up Aristotle. Ever heard of Aristotle?
Alexander the Great and his other friends, all of his
friends would be General's kids and things like that. They
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receive personal schooling from Aristotle himself. Again, it's like he
was created to be a conqueror in a lab. In
every sense of the word, he is competitive. Every account,
accounts that hate him, accounts that love him. Every account
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from the time cites the fact that Alexander the Great
is obsessively competitive, and that is one of those qualities.
I'm not saying you have to have that quality, because
everybody is not built the same way, but that is
one of those qualities that Uber's successful people possess almost
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every time. Michael Jordan is famously so competitive that it
gets kind of unpleasant to be around. He'll play ping pong.
When he was on the Dream Team, they would play
ping pong, and eventually ping pong became not fun because
Michael Jordan couldn't take losing. Just obsessive, just awful. Tom
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Brady business leader types Bezos is this way. Elon Musk
is the Uber Uber competitive guys that hate to lose,
he's one of those types of guys. All right, Let's
fast forward to the celebration which ienced referenced the other day.
There's a huge celebration for Philip the Second. Philip the
Second is murdered in front of everybody at this celebration.
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One of his bodyguards, former lover, I don't know, kind
of weird former lover. One of his bodyguards takes a
dagger and jams it into Philip the Second's ribs. He
bleeds out and dies in front of everyone. Lo and behold,
the assassin, instead of being captured, is killed immediately. Little
bit suspicious. You would normally want to grab that guy
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alive and his fingernails out to figure out who hired him.
So now we'll never know. Was it Philip the Second's wife,
But who knows? We'll never know. It doesn't matter, We're
never going to solve that mystery. Now. Now, Alexander the Great,
as a young man I believe he's twenty at the time,
is in command of the finest army in the world.
Philip the Second, having unified Greece, was already getting ready
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to invade the acheumened Persian Empire. The one we had
talked about before he already had What do I mean
by getting many getting ready? He already had ten thousand
men in Persia attacking Persia, basically building up supply depots
in Persia. Philip the Second was coming, the boats were ready,
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he was going, the army was prepped. Boom, he's dead.
Alexander the Great steps up immediately with the backing of
Philip the Seconds generals, and Alexander the Great says, I'm
the guy. Alexander's mom, everybody, everyone who may have contended
for the throne, that's the kind of woman she was.
Look Alexander the Great, I'm sure helped a bit. And
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now Alexander the Great is pretty much free. He first
has to put down some rebellions at home. Those tribes
up north were bad. He goes up, beats the crap
out of them, does a bunch of really cool things.
That's a story for another time. We already talked about Thebes.
The other day, the major Greek city decided they were
going to rebel. Hmm, bad idea. Greece didn't understand Thebes
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didn't understand what they were dealing with. Also, remember, Alexander
the Great is famously short tempered, prideful, competitive and short tempered.
At one point during the peace negotiations, Thebes makes fun
of him, almost always a bad idea, and Thebes also
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brags to Alexander the Great that they're being paid by
the Persians to rebel. Now he's really mad. Alexander the
Great wipes out the city of Theba. Whoever doesn't get
killed and raped gets sold into slavery. He tears down
virtually every building, eliminating one of the oldest, greatest cities
in Greece. Wipes it out gone. Now it's Persia time. Baby.
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He gathers this army, he crosses the sea. The Persian
emperor he's a man by the name of Darius. He
is aware of Alexander. He is I will not say afraid,
but he's not taking him lightly at all. He dealt
with his father enough to know this is a serious family,
and he just sat back and watched Alexander the Great
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beat the living crap out of all the rebellious people
at home. He is aware that this young man is
a capable young man. He's young, but he's capable, and
he's coming over to Persia with a very capable army.
Darius himself as we mentioned earlier in the show, is
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in command of really the You would think before this,
look before the war starts. If you're handicapping things, you're
looking at it and you're saying, well, the Persian Empire
is the most powerful empire on the planet. So Darius
gathers up a very large army as Alexander the Great invades,
and he squares off with him. This is not the
Siege of Tire, It's the Battle of Issus. It's a
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very famous battle. I'm not going to go into it
now because that's not what we're discussing. Darius gets his
teeth kicked in badly. He shows up. I don't want
to say he underestimated him. He brought a very sizable force.
But he's not Alexander the Mediocre, is he. Alexander the
Great is really, really good at what he does, and
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he beats the living crap out of Darius's army. He
beats him so soundly that Darius has to flee the
field or be killed himself, probably not going to win
any shivalry points. He left behind his wife is mother
and his children, and Alexander the Great took possession of
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Darius's wife mother, and children. Now, Darius, remember you need
to think about this geographically, because we're about to get
to tire itself. Darius has taken off. He still has
a bunch of troops, but physically, geographically, that's what I
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don't want to say. Physically, geographically, the acumutive Persian empire
is huge. It's massive. He has disappeared back into the
interior of it as he leaves and goes to gather
another army so he can go back and fight Alexander
the Great again. When we picture these these old wars,
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Alexander's battles, for instance, we picture that Alexander, Oh, well,
he fought him at this one place, and then they
moved over to this other place and they fought again,
and they That's not how it works. If you're Alexander
the Great, you can't leave Persian troops Persian cities behind you.
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You have to supply thousands of men with food and
weapons and medical supplies and new troops. You have to
secure everything as you go. It's a slow process. It's
not show up one day, win one battle and you won.
Doesn't work that way. Now Alexander has to secure the ports,
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secure the port cities along the Mediterranean. It's time to
go to tire. But first it's time for some chalk.
It's time to get yourself feeling good, full of pep ladies.
I talk all the time to the men about the
male vitality stack. But you know you don't need to
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be out of gas at two in the afternoon either
reaching for another couple. You know, a female vitality stack
can turn that around for you. It's natural herbal supplements.
That's what Chuck does. They are hardcore anti communists and
they believe in natural solutions to things. If you are
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out of energy, mind doesn't work like it used to. Oh,
I guess I'm six, do I forget? Why don't you
try a stack from chalk? And now it's summer savings time,
summer savings discount. You can call or text five zero
chalk three thousand and just say Jesse sent you. Try it.
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Just give it ninety days. If it doesn't work, canceled,
give it ninety days. Tell me how you feel. We'll
be back. Get to care for rhinos eight days with
the Jesse Kelly Show.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a fantastic Thursday.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I haven't decided if I'm even going to go back
to politics. I really genuinely don't know, because I'm not
going to finish this story in the next ten minutes.
Do I finish at next hour? Maybe I'll ask Chris
and Corey Chris Corey, do I go back to politics
and make him wait till mondays it can't do it tomorrow?
And ask doctor Jesse Friday. But do I finish the
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siege of Tire today? Chris said, We'll see what's in
the news. Okay, fair enough, fair enough. Now, Alexander the
Great just defeated King Darius of the Achemenid Persian Empire,
and he has to do things. Remember I told you
to look at Lebanon, because that's the area we're in.
He's looking at all that coastline and along that coastline
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back then there are cities. Remember we're about three hundred
years before Christ. There are cities there, and Alexander the
Great he's up north. Okay, so he's going north to south.
He starts conquering these cities he wants. He needs control
of these port cities. He has to have He can't
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have port cities legal to the Persian Empire. In his
rear they'll attack him in the rear. They won't have
I realized that made me sound like Lindsey Graham. They'll
they'll attack his supply lines. They'll they'll he can't have it, Okay,
So he starts attacking, and he starts taking city after
city after city until he gets to the city that
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is our subject today. And this city is known as Tire.
This is the important thing you need to understand. Don't worry.
It's easy to understand. He gets to the city on
the coast. That city is known as Old Tire. Remember
that Bible verse we read at the beginning book of Ezekiel.
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That's Old Tire they were talking about. Old Tire is
the one right there on the coast, not exactly heavily defended,
but very very old. Why wouldn't it be very heavily defended.
Because the people of Tire, the Tyrenees, they found themselves
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a new gig about. Look, I've read half a mile,
I've read three quarters of a mile. One dirty European
said one kilometer, like anybody knows what that means. But
right off the coast of Old Tire out into the
Mediterranean is an island. This island is known as New Tire.
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It is a large, very very large island town slash
fortress in every sense of the word. In fact, we
get the question a lot on ask doctor Jesse Friday,
if you could go witness an old battle or witness
something from history, what would be your one thing. This
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is on my short list, just to see the city
and see another aspect of this battle, which I'll get
to in a moment. But this is an eye fortress.
It has a couple of fortified harbors on it, which
is everything. Remember, these are a naval people that will
come into play. They have ships. This island has walls
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that are allegedly there's a lot of dispute on whether
people believe this, that are allegedly one hundred and fifty
feet high. Whether or not they were actually one hundred
and fifty feet high, that doesn't matter. What matters is
they were high surrounded by high walls. And again it's
an island. Alexander doesn't have an army. Alexander cannot allow
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this Persian loyal city in his rear. He has to
take it somehow, someway, So he first tries the clever route.
Alexander was a Greek, obviously considered himself to be Greek,
and you know they had all these different gods Zeus
and all that Tire it had a temple. Old Tire
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had a temple, and New Tire had a temple. Both
of these temples were to Hercules, you know who. Hercules was,
ancient Greek hero. New Tire had a bigger, nicer temple
obviously than Old Tire. Remember old Tires, the one on
the coast, just kind of ancient collecting dust. Alexander, trying
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to be clever, gets with the Tire people and says, hey,
you have a beautiful island. I've heard there's a beautiful
temple to Hercules, and I, Alexander the Great, would really
love to go out there and make some sacrifices to
Hercules in that temple. Do you mind of me and
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some friends come out to your island and pay homage
to Hercules. The people of Tyre were not fools. This
guy had been rampaging through Persia for a while. They said,
oh hey, hey, that's that's gonna be a no. But
guess what, good news. We have another temple in Old Tire.
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Go make your sacrifices there. Okay, So everyone understands the game.
Alexander the Great receives that news about as well as
you would expect. He received that news, and so he
now decides to wipe out old Tire. Remember that biblical
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passage I read in the very beginning the prophecy that
this city is going to essentially be scraped down to soil. Yeah,
Alexander the Great did that. He wiped the entire place out.
But he wiped it out with a purpose. You see,
Tire made a horrible mistake, a horrible mistake, mistakes that
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they used to make with that people used to make
against Genghis Khan, and for some reason they made them
against Alexander the Great too. Envoys Alexander the Great had
sent envoys to Tire. Tire not only killed his diplomats,
his ambassadors. These are peaceful people just coming out to talk.
Tire not only killed them in front of Alexander. Remember
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he's half a mile off shore. He can watch all this.
They threw the bodies of his envoys in the Mediterranean. Hmm.
That was not a good move to make, So Alexander
the Great, Alexander the Great sets about destroying and building
at the same time, if you will, Why did he
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remove all the buildings. Why was essentially no stone there?
Apparently there weren't two stones still stacked on each other
by the time he was done with Old Tire. Was
this purely out of spite? Well, don't get me wrong,
that's something Alexander would do, But no, it wasn't purely
out of spite. Alexander the Great doesn't have a navy.
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He has an army. He needs to attack an island,
so he decides to build a bridge, a causeway. More specifically,
he is emptying Old Tire of all the stones that
had built it, and he's throwing them in the water
and building a causeway out to New Tire. And you
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know what, I'm not even leaving it up to Chris
and Corey. We're gonna tell this tale in its completion
next maybe we'll get to some politics in a little
bit before we do that. You know how bad your
back would hurt after carrying those stones around all day long,
probably hurt you for the rest of your life. And
you really have to feel for them, because these people
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didn't have relief factor to take that pain away. They
had to live with that inflammation. Their hands would be hurt,
and I can just see him. Can't you see him
rubbing their hands like you do all the time. Your
neck would hurt, probably strain and knee. You have something
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or go to relief Factor dot com. It's time to
build a causeway with some wrinkles. Next
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Jesse Kelly Show on an amazing, a fantastic Thursday.
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And here's what's in store for this hour. History time, Baby,
No more politics. I don't want to talk about raids
and the EPA and the idiots in Congress and other
We've done that all week long. And I have owed
you this story for quite some time. So we you
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and me, we're about to take some time. Maybe this
is part one, maybe I'll do the whole thing. I
have no earthly idea, but we are about to take
a long time, and we're about to discuss Alexander the
Great and one of the most amazing sieges you've ever
heard of in your life, Alexander the Great in the
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siege of a place called tire t y R. And actually,
maybe depending on your upbringing, or your church attendants now,
or just reading the Bible, maybe that name sounds familiar
to you. You see, there's this prophetic verse or two.
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There's a couple of those in the Bible. I think
that'd probably be a good place to start out. Maybe
you could call this a little foreshadowing, if you will,
Ezekiel twenty six, verse three. Therefore, thus says the Lord God. Behold,
I am against you, oh Tire, and I will bring
up many nations against you. As the sea brings up
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its waves. They shall destroy the walls of Tire and
break down her towers. I will grape her soil from
her and make her a bare rock. She shall be
in the middle of the sea, a place for the
spreading of nets. For I have spoken, declares the Lord God.
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Now let us discuss how things worked out for Tire first. Well,
before we get to Alexander the Great, let's discuss briefly Tire.
Where it is what we're actually talking about here. As always,
maps help if you are not driving. May I invite
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you to open up your phone or a computer if
you're in front of it, and I want you to
look up Lebanon. Lebanon. You know where it is, Lebanon,
just north of Israel. Over there, you know where it is.
This is the Mediterranean Lebanon. Okay, it doesn't. We don't
have to get more specific than that, but you can
leave the map open if you'd like. This is our
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area for our story here. Now we are back and
we're three hundred years before Christ. Okay, this is the
time of Alexander the Great. That's not exact. But remember
history is not names, dates and locations. That stuff is boring.
History is storytelling. Roughly three hundred years before Christ, that's
the time we're in, Okay, And at this time, the wealthiest,
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you would probably argue, most powerful empire on the planet
is the Achimited Persian Empire. It's often known as just
the Persian Empire or the Achimenid Empire, but the achiemuend
Persian Empire, and they are in control of this area
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at this particular time. Now pause on that for a moment.
Let me explain something else. This city, Tire, it isn't
necessarily Persian. It's under Persian control. This this is going
to matter for our story at some point in time.
That's why I'm boring you with a little bit of
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this background in this detail. Yes, the Persians wanted the
Persians own it, the Persians are in control of it,
but it's not really a Persian city. It is a
Phoenician city. The Phoenicians. I'm not going to go into
all this stuff, but you've heard of a Phoenician city
before Carthage Carthage is a Phoenician city, what Chris, what
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Chris said, isn't that Persia? Well, it's under control of
Persia at the time. You see, the Persian Empire at
this time was massive. They had fought wars, they had
done all this conquest. They were not only massive, they
were infamously wealthy. And I know they're kind of the
bad guys in this story, at least for dudes, because
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dudes all cheer for Alexander the Great. I'm no different.
They were, for the time not a bad empire to
be conquered by. We're not talking about the Assyrians here
where they're gonna stuff a hook through the bottom of
your mouth, put it out underneath your tongue. Chain you
and your wife and kids up on a long chain
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and drag you off to slavery, and they might flay
you alive when you get there. The Persians didn't really
operate in that way. The Persians, you could probably call
them the Donald Trump at the time, the Persons wanted
to do business. Hey, you want to do business. Yeah,
we're gonna conquer you. And don't get me wrong, we
will send our armies and we'll smash you. But why
don't we just do business. We'll take over. You're gonna
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have you're gonna have to pay tribute when we call
for troops. That's fine, but we're not gonna abuse you.
You can have your religious practices and you can keep
your tradition. I don't care. We're here for business. That's
how the Persians handled conquest, and that's why Tire was
under control of the Persians. But was it really Persian?
They were Phoenician. The Phoenician people. We're not gonna go
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into all that here. One minute explained around the Persian people.
They were a seafaring people. They really ruled the Mediterranean
by owning the waves. They were a merchant slash slash
navy people, and that's gonna matter for our story. A
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merchant slash navy people. They figured out how to go
to and fro on the water, which was a big
deal back then. And then you know, there weren't speedboats.
They figured out how to go to and fro on
the water because they were on the ocean, because they
figured out how to trade across the water water. They
were stupid wealthy. Carthage was wealthy, Tire was wealthy. These
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Phoenician cities were crazy wealthy. Now, maybe you're focusing on
the biblical aspect of this because I opened up with
the Biblical verse and because you're wondering what was God's
axe to grind with these people. Ah, they were big
on child sacrifice, like really really really big on child sacrifice.
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And not that there's any kind of wonderful child sacrifice,
planned parenthood, not that there's any kind of wonderful way
to kill children. But they burnt them alive. It's horrible,
really really terrible. And it's not that this would be okay,
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we're not even just talking babies, children who are older.
They would just cook them alive. A real, real demonic.
Even the Phoenicians, it was what they did. It was
part of their religious practice, and they wouldn't repent, and
they got cross ways with God. And that genuinely ends
with the right way of the same way every single
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time was set that aside. That's tire at the time.
Phoenician society, Lebanon, that's where you need to think of
under control of the Persians with me so far, Now
let's go the other way. Everyone has seen the movie
three hundred or everyone at least has heard of this
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I take that back. Kids, Please don't watch the movie
three hundred. Definitely not for the kids. People know the
story of the three hundred Spartans at Thermopylae if you don't.
The Persians invaded Greece, okay, and that was a complicated affair.
The Persians felt they were completely justified invading Greece. But
the Persians invaded Greece. This was a long time, over
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a century before where we are now. But time is
a funny thing, meaning how we think about time now
isn't how they always thought about it, because the pace
of our life is so much faster now. If I
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was to take you right now, and I was to
tell you, hey, you you need to get hold of
your mother, but you need to wait five hours. It's
really important that you talk to your mother, but you
have to wait five hours to do it. That would
be stressful, wouldn't it five hours? Why Why can't I
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call her? I need to get a hold of mom.
I cantext her right now. I could pick up a phone.
If I was to teleport you back to just the
year nineteen hundred and say you need to talk to
your mom now, and you'll talk to her in five hours.
You'll be blown away by the speed of it. WHOA, really,
that's amazing. What are you teleporting me there? Greece had
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not let go of the Persian invasion when we hear
it was one hundred and fifty years earlier. Time to
get over it. Everybody's dead by then. They were not
over it at all. For the very pre Greeks. That
was an affront to them. That was an offence that
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was ingrained in Greek society, and they were mortified that
these uppity Persians and all their money took a big
army and they came and invaded Greece. Now that's the
Greek the Tire situation, or that's the Tire situation, the
Phoenician situation. That's the Greek acts the grind. Now let's
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introduce Alexander the Great next the Jesse Chilly.
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It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Thursday, driving
the show off the rails, as we do from time
to time because it's history time on the Jesse Kelly Show,
delivering on my Alexander the Great Siege.
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Of Tires story that I had promised you. I left
it up to you, and that's the one you wanted,
so that's the one you're getting. So that that was tire.
The Phoenicians will come back there, well, more specifically, Alexander
the Great's about to come back there. Alexander the Great.
It is one of the most amazing stories ever. And
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believe it or not, I'm actually not talking about his
military conquests. I'm talking about the creation of this man.
How do you what does it take to create somebody
who's capable of conquering the world at the age of
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twenty five. What does it take to create somebody who,
at the age of twenty is commanding armies, who never loses.
Surely there is something to his background, right well, there
is a lot to his background, not all of which
I'm going to go into right now, but we have
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to discuss it because one, it's fascinating. In two, you
can't understand the man until you understand first his father.
His father is Philip the Second. His father is one
of the most amazing and bravest conquerors of my lifetime,
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of my lifetime that I've ever heard about. He died
before I got here. Philip the Second, Philip of Macedon.
Macedonia is considered Greek by us, but at the time
when Philip was coming up, they were considered ruffians, barbarians,
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those northern wilderness people. Okay, picture Athens as New York
City and people from New York City who loved New
York City. How do they look at people from rural Alabama?
That is very similar to how the people of Athens
looked at Macedonia. Those stupid hicks, that the uncivilized, That's
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how they looked at it. But Philip of Macedon, he
had this upbringing where he had a bunch of military training,
and hicks or rural or whatever they may have been,
the Macedonians were tough as nails. They were just a
tough people. They lived in a tough environment. They were
always at war. They were at war with Greece, they
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were at war with other Ruffian tribes to their north.
They were a warlike people from a warlike area, and
they were tough as nails. And along comes this very
sharp man named Philip, Philip the second, and he has
a plan. And his plan is this, No more separate
Greek city states, no more Sparta fighting Athens, who's fighting Thebes,
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who's fighting us? No more of this. I Am going
to raise an amazing army. I'm going to reform it
and I am going to go conquer Greece and unify
it under my command. That's what Philip wanted to do,
and over years and years and years I did. Look,
that could be ten shows what I just breezed through
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in three sentences. Over years and years and years, he
did it. He did it through bribery, he did it
through conquest. He reformed the army. His army was experienced,
and to his credit, Philip the Second, unlike these loser
politicians today, was at the front at all times. Philip
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almost died in combat more times than I can count.
At one point he got shot in the eye with
an arrow. At one point he broke both of his
legs at the same time. Philip the Second had more
wounds than you can possibly imagine. But he finally did it.
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Now along the way, Philip the Second picked up a
bunch of wives. That was a Macedonian thing. They believed in.
A bunch of wives. Not our place to judge, I
guess at this point in time, but it was there.
It was really the thing. They had a bunch of wives,
and one of those wives was Alexander the Great's mother.
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We're not going to go into her in depth, but
she is a vicious woman, no question. You don't know
what propaganda to believe, but we know she was a
vicious woman, capable of killing people and did so quite often.
You know how I just said Philip had a bunch
of wives. Well, Philip is a king who takes the
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throne when the king dies. One of the king's sons,
Philip had another son. The other son got brain damage,
and everyone kind of acknowledges it was Alexander the Great's
mother who pretty she did something to him, probably poisoned.
She poisoned him and just wrecked his mind. So now
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look at that, no more succession crisis. Looks like the
other boys got some metal issues. Oh is he drooling
on him? I guess we'll have to go with Alexander.
This is the kind of woman we're talking about here.
She marries Philip, She sleeps with snakes as part of
her religious custom. That's not just propaganda, Yeah, Chris, she
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was a worshiper of Dionysis. It's this weird Greek god
that believed in snakes like they. When I say sleeps
with I mean there are snakes in her bed, I
get it. That's the kind of exotic person we're talking
about here, the kind of girl you run off with
for a couple weeks in college and then regret your
decisions and never tell mom about it. You got me.
That's Philip, that's his wife. So already, what kind of
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a child are these people going to have? They have Alexander,
Alexander the Great has all the physical tools. Apparently he
was short, but not ridiculously short. He was fairly average
for the time, five six they think five to seven.
No one knows for sure. He was reportedly strong, very strong,
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and very fast. People talk all the time about his speed,
that he could run, that he moved very quickly, and
he had quite the education. Hang on, Jesse Kelly returns next.
It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, wonderful Thursday.
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We are doing a little bit of history here this hour,
a little bit of Alexander the Great Siege of Tire history.
And remember we'll be back to politics at some point,
maybe today, maybe tomorrow, But Tomorrow's asked doctor Jesse Friday.
So you need to get your questions emailed in whatever
they may be to Jesse at jessekellyshow dot com. Back
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to Alexander the Great. He's got this warrior conquer father
who just unified Greece. He has this raging psychopath mother
who may just be a lovely well, I don't think
there's any chance she was a lovely woman. But she
loved her son. She would kill for her son and did.
And that wasn't the only upbringing he had Phillip's father.
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Look think about this. What kind of a king who
can send people to do what he wants. What kind
of a king is in the front of his army
at all times getting wounded. Not just a brave one,
but a brave one who will demand that of his son.
Philip starts to transform Alexander. Starts to train Alexander as
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a boy into a military machine. Alexander the Great is
receiving not just classes, not just alongside his father on
military campaigns, not just sitting around the table with the
other general's sipping wine figuring out how to move this
and that. He is sending Alexander the Great on forced marches.
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He hires somebody to harden him, essentially turn him into
a beast, put him through a one on one boot camp,
but it's more than that they are training him to
be a king. They bring up Aristotle. Ever heard of Aristotle?
Alexander the Great and his other friends, all of his
friends would be General's kids and things like that. They
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receive personal schooling from Aristotle himself. Again, it's like he
was created to be a conqueror in a lab. In
every sense of the word, he is competitive. Every account,
accounts that hate him, accounts that love him. Every account
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from the time cites the fact that Alexander the Great
is obsessively competitive, and that is one of those qualities.
I'm not saying you have to have that quality, because
everybody is not built the same way, but that is
one of those qualities that Uber's successful people possess almost
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every time. Michael Jordan is famously so competitive that it
gets kind of unpleasant to be around. He'll play ping pong.
When he was on the Dream Team, they would play
ping pong, and eventually ping pong became not fun because
Michael Jordan couldn't take losing. Just obsessive, just awful. Tom
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Brady business leader types Bezos is this way. Elon Musk
is the Uber Uber competitive guys that hate to lose,
he's one of those types of guys. All right, Let's
fast forward to the celebration which ienced referenced the other day.
There's a huge celebration for Philip the Second. Philip the
Second is murdered in front of everybody at this celebration.
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One of his bodyguards, former lover, I don't know, kind
of weird former lover. One of his bodyguards takes a
dagger and jams it into Philip the Second's ribs. He
bleeds out and dies in front of everyone. Lo and behold,
the assassin, instead of being captured, is killed immediately. Little
bit suspicious. You would normally want to grab that guy
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alive and his fingernails out to figure out who hired him.
So now we'll never know. Was it Philip the Second's wife,
But who knows? We'll never know. It doesn't matter, We're
never going to solve that mystery. Now. Now, Alexander the Great,
as a young man I believe he's twenty at the time,
is in command of the finest army in the world.
Philip the Second, having unified Greece, was already getting ready
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to invade the acheumened Persian Empire. The one we had
talked about before he already had What do I mean
by getting many getting ready? He already had ten thousand
men in Persia attacking Persia, basically building up supply depots
in Persia. Philip the Second was coming, the boats were ready,
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he was going, the army was prepped. Boom, he's dead.
Alexander the Great steps up immediately with the backing of
Philip the Seconds generals, and Alexander the Great says, I'm
the guy. Alexander's mom, everybody, everyone who may have contended
for the throne, that's the kind of woman she was.
Look Alexander the Great, I'm sure helped a bit. And
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now Alexander the Great is pretty much free. He first
has to put down some rebellions at home. Those tribes
up north were bad. He goes up, beats the crap
out of them, does a bunch of really cool things.
That's a story for another time. We already talked about Thebes.
The other day, the major Greek city decided they were
going to rebel. Hmm, bad idea. Greece didn't understand Thebes
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didn't understand what they were dealing with. Also, remember, Alexander
the Great is famously short tempered, prideful, competitive and short tempered.
At one point during the peace negotiations, Thebes makes fun
of him, almost always a bad idea, and Thebes also
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brags to Alexander the Great that they're being paid by
the Persians to rebel. Now he's really mad. Alexander the
Great wipes out the city of Theba. Whoever doesn't get
killed and raped gets sold into slavery. He tears down
virtually every building, eliminating one of the oldest, greatest cities
in Greece. Wipes it out gone. Now it's Persia time. Baby.
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He gathers this army, he crosses the sea. The Persian
emperor he's a man by the name of Darius. He
is aware of Alexander. He is I will not say afraid,
but he's not taking him lightly at all. He dealt
with his father enough to know this is a serious family,
and he just sat back and watched Alexander the Great
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beat the living crap out of all the rebellious people
at home. He is aware that this young man is
a capable young man. He's young, but he's capable, and
he's coming over to Persia with a very capable army.
Darius himself as we mentioned earlier in the show, is
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in command of really the You would think before this,
look before the war starts. If you're handicapping things, you're
looking at it and you're saying, well, the Persian Empire
is the most powerful empire on the planet. So Darius
gathers up a very large army as Alexander the Great invades,
and he squares off with him. This is not the
Siege of Tire, It's the Battle of Issus. It's a
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very famous battle. I'm not going to go into it
now because that's not what we're discussing. Darius gets his
teeth kicked in badly. He shows up. I don't want
to say he underestimated him. He brought a very sizable force.
But he's not Alexander the Mediocre, is he. Alexander the
Great is really, really good at what he does, and
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he beats the living crap out of Darius's army. He
beats him so soundly that Darius has to flee the
field or be killed himself, probably not going to win
any shivalry points. He left behind his wife is mother
and his children, and Alexander the Great took possession of
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Darius's wife mother, and children. Now, Darius, remember you need
to think about this geographically, because we're about to get
to tire itself. Darius has taken off. He still has
a bunch of troops, but physically, geographically, that's what I
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don't want to say. Physically, geographically, the acumutive Persian empire
is huge. It's massive. He has disappeared back into the
interior of it as he leaves and goes to gather
another army so he can go back and fight Alexander
the Great again. When we picture these these old wars,
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Alexander's battles, for instance, we picture that Alexander, Oh, well,
he fought him at this one place, and then they
moved over to this other place and they fought again,
and they That's not how it works. If you're Alexander
the Great, you can't leave Persian troops Persian cities behind you.
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You have to supply thousands of men with food and
weapons and medical supplies and new troops. You have to
secure everything as you go. It's a slow process. It's
not show up one day, win one battle and you won.
Doesn't work that way. Now Alexander has to secure the ports,
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secure the port cities along the Mediterranean. It's time to
go to tire. But first it's time for some chalk.
It's time to get yourself feeling good, full of pep ladies.
I talk all the time to the men about the
male vitality stack. But you know you don't need to
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be out of gas at two in the afternoon either
reaching for another couple. You know, a female vitality stack
can turn that around for you. It's natural herbal supplements.
That's what Chuck does. They are hardcore anti communists and
they believe in natural solutions to things. If you are
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out of energy, mind doesn't work like it used to. Oh,
I guess I'm six, do I forget? Why don't you
try a stack from chalk? And now it's summer savings time,
summer savings discount. You can call or text five zero
chalk three thousand and just say Jesse sent you. Try it.
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Just give it ninety days. If it doesn't work, canceled,
give it ninety days. Tell me how you feel. We'll
be back. Get to care for rhinos eight days with
the Jesse Kelly Show.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a fantastic Thursday.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I haven't decided if I'm even going to go back
to politics. I really genuinely don't know, because I'm not
going to finish this story in the next ten minutes.
Do I finish at next hour? Maybe I'll ask Chris
and Corey Chris Corey, do I go back to politics
and make him wait till mondays it can't do it tomorrow?
And ask doctor Jesse Friday. But do I finish the
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siege of Tire today? Chris said, We'll see what's in
the news. Okay, fair enough, fair enough. Now, Alexander the
Great just defeated King Darius of the Achemenid Persian Empire,
and he has to do things. Remember I told you
to look at Lebanon, because that's the area we're in.
He's looking at all that coastline and along that coastline
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back then there are cities. Remember we're about three hundred
years before Christ. There are cities there, and Alexander the
Great he's up north. Okay, so he's going north to south.
He starts conquering these cities he wants. He needs control
of these port cities. He has to have He can't
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have port cities legal to the Persian Empire. In his
rear they'll attack him in the rear. They won't have
I realized that made me sound like Lindsey Graham. They'll
they'll attack his supply lines. They'll they'll he can't have it, Okay,
So he starts attacking, and he starts taking city after
city after city until he gets to the city that
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is our subject today. And this city is known as Tire.
This is the important thing you need to understand. Don't worry.
It's easy to understand. He gets to the city on
the coast. That city is known as Old Tire. Remember
that Bible verse we read at the beginning book of Ezekiel.
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That's Old Tire they were talking about. Old Tire is
the one right there on the coast, not exactly heavily defended,
but very very old. Why wouldn't it be very heavily defended.
Because the people of Tire, the Tyrenees, they found themselves
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a new gig about. Look, I've read half a mile,
I've read three quarters of a mile. One dirty European
said one kilometer, like anybody knows what that means. But
right off the coast of Old Tire out into the
Mediterranean is an island. This island is known as New Tire.
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It is a large, very very large island town slash
fortress in every sense of the word. In fact, we
get the question a lot on ask doctor Jesse Friday,
if you could go witness an old battle or witness
something from history, what would be your one thing. This
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is on my short list, just to see the city
and see another aspect of this battle, which I'll get
to in a moment. But this is an eye fortress.
It has a couple of fortified harbors on it, which
is everything. Remember, these are a naval people that will
come into play. They have ships. This island has walls
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that are allegedly there's a lot of dispute on whether
people believe this, that are allegedly one hundred and fifty
feet high. Whether or not they were actually one hundred
and fifty feet high, that doesn't matter. What matters is
they were high surrounded by high walls. And again it's
an island. Alexander doesn't have an army. Alexander cannot allow
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this Persian loyal city in his rear. He has to
take it somehow, someway, So he first tries the clever route.
Alexander was a Greek, obviously considered himself to be Greek,
and you know they had all these different gods Zeus
and all that Tire it had a temple. Old Tire
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had a temple, and New Tire had a temple. Both
of these temples were to Hercules, you know who. Hercules was,
ancient Greek hero. New Tire had a bigger, nicer temple
obviously than Old Tire. Remember old Tires, the one on
the coast, just kind of ancient collecting dust. Alexander, trying
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to be clever, gets with the Tire people and says, hey,
you have a beautiful island. I've heard there's a beautiful
temple to Hercules, and I, Alexander the Great, would really
love to go out there and make some sacrifices to
Hercules in that temple. Do you mind of me and
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some friends come out to your island and pay homage
to Hercules. The people of Tyre were not fools. This
guy had been rampaging through Persia for a while. They said,
oh hey, hey, that's that's gonna be a no. But
guess what, good news. We have another temple in Old Tire.
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Go make your sacrifices there. Okay, So everyone understands the game.
Alexander the Great receives that news about as well as
you would expect. He received that news, and so he
now decides to wipe out old Tire. Remember that biblical
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passage I read in the very beginning the prophecy that
this city is going to essentially be scraped down to soil. Yeah,
Alexander the Great did that. He wiped the entire place out.
But he wiped it out with a purpose. You see,
Tire made a horrible mistake, a horrible mistake, mistakes that
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they used to make with that people used to make
against Genghis Khan, and for some reason they made them
against Alexander the Great too. Envoys Alexander the Great had
sent envoys to Tire. Tire not only killed his diplomats,
his ambassadors. These are peaceful people just coming out to talk.
Tire not only killed them in front of Alexander. Remember
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he's half a mile off shore. He can watch all this.
They threw the bodies of his envoys in the Mediterranean. Hmm.
That was not a good move to make, So Alexander
the Great, Alexander the Great sets about destroying and building
at the same time, if you will, Why did he
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remove all the buildings. Why was essentially no stone there?
Apparently there weren't two stones still stacked on each other
by the time he was done with Old Tire. Was
this purely out of spite? Well, don't get me wrong,
that's something Alexander would do, But no, it wasn't purely
out of spite. Alexander the Great doesn't have a navy.
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He has an army. He needs to attack an island,
so he decides to build a bridge, a causeway. More specifically,
he is emptying Old Tire of all the stones that
had built it, and he's throwing them in the water
and building a causeway out to New Tire. And you
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know what, I'm not even leaving it up to Chris
and Corey. We're gonna tell this tale in its completion
next maybe we'll get to some politics in a little
bit before we do that. You know how bad your
back would hurt after carrying those stones around all day long,
probably hurt you for the rest of your life. And
you really have to feel for them, because these people
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didn't have relief factor to take that pain away. They
had to live with that inflammation. Their hands would be hurt,
and I can just see him. Can't you see him
rubbing their hands like you do all the time. Your
neck would hurt, probably strain and knee. You have something
they don't. You have, relief Factor. Relief Factor is one
hundred percent drug free. It's a supplement. It's not there
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to mask your pain. It's there to remove it by
attacking the inflammation that's causing it. You don't have to
take my word for it. Try it. It's nineteen dollars
and ninety five cents to try it. That gives you
three weeks of it. Take it every day for three
weeks and tell me how your back feels, your foot,
your knee. Call one eight hundred the number four relief
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or go to relief Factor dot com. It's time to
build a causeway with some wrinkles. Next
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