Cenk Uygur

He's like, oh my God. And he's like, your ancestor was the admiral of the Ottoman Navy when they conquered Constantinople. Okay, so grandpa from five, 600 years ago came up with the idea. So you can't ever conquer Constantinople because there's a giant chain underneath the Bosphorus. All the ships get stuck on the chain. There's cannons on both sides.

Half the ancient navies in the world are at the bottom of the Bosphorus, right? So it hasn't been conquered in over a thousand years. Nobody thinks it can be conquered. Grandpa comes up with the idea of why don't we build giant wooden planks that over land and grease them and pass our fleet over land onto the other side.

Everybody goes, because whenever anybody proposes a new idea, no matter how logical it is, they go, oh, it's impossible. No way it's going to work. Oh, you're crazy. This is an unconquerable city. What are you guys even doing? Every day, Mehmet the Conqueror comes up to Grandpa and says, all right, how's your plan to do this project going? And Grandpa says, slowly.

And he names him Commander Slowly. Yeah. And one night, after the whole thing's done, they pass the entire Ottoman fleet over the land, wind up in the middle of the Bosporus, and the Holy Roman Empire concedes. They surrender. Because change happens really gradually, and then all of a sudden.