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Jan 2023

37m 14s

Hour 2: Building Monuments

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Elites make themselves feel important by building monuments to themselves. How Rome ended up with so many monuments to their Emperors. Jesse's apology to Media Matters. Eat the bugs. Will legal and local actually make a difference? Dealing with setbacks.

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