Willie Robertson

You know what I mean?

I like to burn stuff too, though, but I live in town now, so it's harder for me to make big burn piles.

But man, there's something therapeutic about just...

burning it.

I think it's, too, if you're in a business where you don't get closure in your life a lot, long cycles, you know, it's nice to do that kind of work where you cut up a tree, you burn it, it's gone.

You know, there is something about that where you get closure.

So I get where he's at.

Well, we are in that part.

You can tell who the smart one's in our table is.

So, yeah, we're in the ancient Christianity course.

And Lecture 6, boys, Lecture 6, The Rise of the Roman Persecution.

There's like a big thing going around, or was a couple years ago, about people being obsessed with the fall of the Roman Empire.

Did you guys tap into that little cultural moment?

Well, Al and I went, I mean, and we did a film there and, um, we'll spend part of the time in Rome and, um,

And a lot of what was in this lecture, like we got to kind of see some of the ruins, some of the places.

And it really is.

I mean, it's incredible to think about how powerful Rome was in the heyday.

I mean, in their heyday, they were, I mean, I don't know if this study's been done, but I would think it, you know, by comparison, may have been the most powerful city.

you know, world power maybe in history at their peak?

I mean, would you say that?