Tim Miller
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So you're around.
Okay.
The Persepolis Birthday Bash.
Was that the Greek Kunta or something?
I'm guessing now.
No.
This is the 2,500-year anniversary of the Persian Empire.
Oh, the Persian one, right.
Yeah, Osiris the Great.
It was a lavish star-shaped oasis of 50 luxury air-conditioned tents.
It was constructed on a 160-acre site.
There's an 18-hole golf course.
There's a beauty parlor flown in from Paris, a military parade during the time of the Shah.
And it was intended to showcase Iran's rich heritage and the Shah's power.
But the excess amidst local poverty created a backlash.
The divide deepened public dissent, and it's widely cited as one of the catalysts for the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
And so I was just, I don't know, I was looking at that last night, and I was like, hmm.
Eight years away from revolution?
I don't know.
We speed things up a little bit more in the modern era.