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Ro-Man Empire · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for our American mama's. Dear mamas, how often do
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  the men in your life think about the Roman Empire? Well, let's ask
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  are American mamas. Mama, mama, she said, and joining us now
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  our American mama's Terry Netherville and Kimberly Burleson. There is a trend going around
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  on TikTok and reels and all the other social medias of women asking the men
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  in their lives how often do you think about the Roman Empire? And the
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  ones that get posted at least they're shocked by the answer. Shocked, I
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  tell you, shocked by the ans. So how often do the men in
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  your lives think about the Roman Empire? Okay, Terry, did you ask?
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  I? Did Kimberly ask me? She said, ask Kevin and I
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  have shocked, I say, he said, yes, he said, I
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  think I've thought about it more and more he gives because he said, this
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  is so comparable to what's happening back in the Roman Empire days. And he
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  feels like that if we don't get someone in there to help save us in
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  the White House, that we're going to have the demise. But he feels
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  remember that show Tien, the tool guy that home improvement. Yes, and
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  he would do that. You know. Yeah, it's kind of like our
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  alpha men are getting that, you know, Roman Empire vibe of okay,
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  you're about to push us and it's about to be on. Well, what
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  about you? Well, I asked my husband. I asked my son's Stone,
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  and Stone surprised me because Stone was like, oh, yeah all the
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  time. And I'm like all the time. He's like, oh yeah,
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  he goes, I think about gladiators. It's about fighting, he says.
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  He thinks about fighting and if we're going to be fighting. So I asked
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  my husband and he said, not very often, maybe once a week.
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  I was like, what once a week? Not very often? Once a
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  week. So then after I saw this trend, I saw some reels I
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  saw where these women were saying, what is the female version of the Roman
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  Empire? What is that? Do you think about all the time that men?
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  Yeah, what this girl said was murder, that we as women think
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  about murder and about we do oh we do? We watch the DTV.
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  Wendy loves those those That is so true. I want to know about you,
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  do you think about it? Do you think about the Roman empire daily
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  really right, like a variety of reasons. Why one because of biblical reasons.
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  So when I think about Jesus and I think about you know, some
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  some scripture and stuff like that, the Roman Empire comes up within all of
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  that because of course Jesus was crucified by the Romans, and I think of
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  the early Church and spreading that out. Of course, their main obstacle to
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  doing that, other than the religious hierarchy within the Jewish faith, was also
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  the political hierarchy within the Roman legion. But I will think think about empire
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  building. I will think about Hadrian's Wall in Scotland, I would think about
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  the different cultures. I will think about Romance languages, I will think about
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  road building, about infrastructure, and then also the story of the demise.
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  So one of my favorite pieces of fiction of all time was Isaac Asimov's The
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  Foundation series, which is about a galactic empire that falls apart. Okay,
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  so the galactic empire falls apart, and the whole point of the Foundation was
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  to try and limit the dark ages that would follow. All of that is
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  based on the concept of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire fell, and
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  when it fell, it created the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages, as
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  it was known. So when the big empire falls, how do you limit
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  the chaos that comes in the time after that? Do you have thought about
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  this? I think about it all the time, all the time. I
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  didn't even know until this trend until Kimberly sent it to me and she said,
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  this is a trend. Our gods are thinking about this, so you
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  know, maybe not all of them, But what is it? What do
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  you suppose, like, do they are y'all getting this feeling that it's about
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  to happen to where y'all need to step into that role? What is it?
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  If you don't learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it.
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  And there are things that we are doing in the society that certainly lead to
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  especially the later ends of the Roman Empire. Like when you one of the
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  things Ross Perot used to say was that democracies would end when the people realize
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  they could simply vote themselves money. Now maybe that's more the Greek republics than
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  it is the Roman Empire, but still that is a problem of empire collapse.
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  And this is where we are thirty three trillion dollars in debt. Where
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  do you see this going, what do you see happening? And this is
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  where I actually probably hearken back more to the Old Testament than to the New
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  Testament. And I step away from the Roman Empire and I go back and
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  I look at some of the kingdoms of Judah, Kingdom of Israel when they
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  had periods of time time where they were able to restore themselves. And one
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  of the things that Roman Empire didn't fully do was get back to what God
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  was askingly asking them to do. They had more decadence, they had more
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  opulence and things like that, and so the empire fell out of that hubris.
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  But when you look at the Old Testament, the kingdoms that were able
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  to restore themselves from time to time, they all went back to God.
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  They all focus back God first. And that's what I hope happens. That
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  is what I feel is happening right now, so their lessons we can learn.
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  I think about the Roman Empire all the time. It's so interesting to
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  be fascinating, but it's not the only thing I think about. I think
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  about lots of stuff all the time. Yeah, he is on this wheels.
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  I wish sometimes I wish we had like collars, you know, people
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  who could call in in this moment. I would love to know the ratio
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  of how many men are thinking about this right now. Well, you can
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  let us know good our webpage American Ground Radio dot com, slash mamas and
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  click on the ass the Mama's button. Let us know how you think about
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  the Roman Empire and if you have any other questions you'd like to ask.
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  Terry Nutterville, Kimberly Burlis and thank yall so much. Thank you,