Mark Gagnon
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The guy who actually built this massive gate of all nations and had these massive festivals and prayed to, you know, Ahura Mazda, the...
Zoroastrian deity.
And a lot of that was almost lost.
And maybe that's kind of the lesson that history, as we know, doesn't belong to the people who live it.
It belongs to the people who tell it.
And that is typically the people who win.
So maybe it's time we try to, you know.
Listen to the actual people.
But that, my friends, is an abridged history of the life of the Persian king Xerxes.
I mean, pretty interesting.
Croesus, do you have a different appreciation for this guy that, you know, tried to destroy you and all your people?
Yeah.
All right.
Sort of.
You lost at Thermopylae.
I like that.
You got bodied by a traitor, one of your own, that sold you guys out.
It really does be your own sometimes.
You know what I mean?
That's crazy.