Ben Wilson

🚨🚨 NEW EPISODE: THE RISE OF HITLER (Part 1) 🚨🚨 How did Hitler rise from being a shiftless, borderline-homeless bohemian, to creating one of the largest mass movements of the 20th century? 00:00 Hitler Finds His Voice 03:15 Why Study Hitler 06:20 Birth and Family Roots 12:00 School and Artist Dreams 17:00 Vienna Bound 26:00 Homelessness and Hustle 33:00 Steve Jobs Comparison 34:30 Conversion to Antisemitism 48:30 Habsburg Multicultural Backlash 52:55 Munich Move and Draft Dodge 01:00:00 World War 1 01:08:50 Gas Attack and Defeat 01:16:15 Spying on German Workers Party 01:24:15 Hitler Becomes Party Star 01:33:45 Rhetoric Tools and Practice 01:39:00 Controversy Marketing Tactics 01:42:00 NSDAP Growth and Branding 01:46:40 SA Formation and Power Grab 01:53:15 Crisis and Coup Planning 02:00:38 Beer Hall Putsch 02:02:30 Closing Quotes and Next Steps ----- Sources: Hitler: A Biography by Ian Kershaw Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny by RHS Stolfi Hitler: A Global Biography by Brendan Simms In His Own Words: The Essential Speeches of Adolf Hitler by CJ Miller Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (New Ford Translation) ----- Sponsors: The Classical Society - theclassicalsociety.com David Senra Podcast - davidsenra.com Zodl (The new Zashi wallet) - zodl.com Speechify - theclassicalsociety.com

“That crown is lying in the gutter, waiting for someone to pick it up. Maybe that’s you” @BenWilsonTweets cooking here

Just re listened to this pod by @BenWilsonTweets - this may be the podcast that has most spoken to me ever. I re listened to the three part series on Hamilton and just hearing his accomplishments and how he navigated the world truly inspire me.

Ben Wilson (@BenWilsonTweets) & I are speaking at UVU on March 26th about how Utah got here, & what we can do to restore it Sign up here: luma.com/c8acrka1

@bronzeagemantis He speak ancient Ainu dialect.

Would you feed him mountain yam yamaimo snaq ?

@bumbadum14 Human capital issue.

El Salvador will be a total disaster if it becomes Dubai 2.0 It needs to be Latin America Singapore.

@xbtsnow I don't know I'm done asking my wife questions about this stupid show.

@BenWilsonTweets But they all live in Utah at least right?

@Hotchkiz This is basically right. They do get a sort of P Day on Monday, though.

I was talking to my Stake President about the Seventy that just came to our stake conference. He said he works in the Church office building Mon-Friday. Then on Friday afternoon, three weekends a month, he flies to another stake conference. He spends Friday evening in the temple with the stake, 14 hours on Saturday meeting with the stake, 5 hours on Sunday meeting with more of the stake, then he flies back home to start it all over again on Monday. Truly the laziest and greediest clergy imaginable.

Set aside remote or fantastical plans. Solve the problem that is in front of you, and do it well.

@bronzeagemantis I went to a Federer match once. Similar physique to this. He looks absolutely huge in person. Here he is with his father. What people don't realize is the Federer/Alcaraz physique is that of a massive endomorph who spends all of his time cutting.

Correct but somewhat misleading tweet. In video or even photo, Alcaraz will look smaller, less impressive than he is in person. People who've met Pietro Boselli irl say he's much bigger than you expect. But yes this kind of physiq is powerful...but also aesthetic...

@americanime Bro this is so good.

The ENTIRE history of Somalis in Minnesota, but it's an Anime.

George Washington: “Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence—true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo & withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”

No other Americans went so hard in the paint on managerial Civic Virtue as Utahns Now, as the managerial system implodes, no one is coping harder They are still trying to be More American than Americans - but America is a communist country

@GrecoPhilistine I'm a second son but I just checked and it's oldest sons all the way back until one of my ancestors apparently pops out of the dirt in Virginia. (He was probably a thief back in England) I'm I1, so not eligible for this prize, but I am claiming the I1 throne for my brother.

Let's take the main Indo-European clade of R1b: R-M269. Father of all the big ones you know: S1194, U106, P312, Z2103. The crazy thing is that, alive today, by definition, is a living eldest "heir" to the MRCA of this lineage. We have no idea who he is, but by definition he exists. He's probably in Ireland drinking a Guinness as we speak, or maybe he's Charles III. Incredible. Incredible. Another interesting thing is that massive amounts of people can be discounted: Are you M269, but a second son or later? Was your father a second son or later? Was your grandfather? If you know that about yourself or your sires, then you know you're not the heir. I'm not the heir. I'm a first son, yes, but of a third son of a third son. It can't be me! But maybe it's 🫵 YOU

@mikeydoubled @Raymond35099295 ... you think my grandma was a child in SF 30 years ago?

My grandma grew up in San Francisco. Walked to school every day. Her dad was a longshoreman. Two generations to go from a place where working class kids can roam freely to a place where even the mayor isn't safe.

@NewNordlinger Great point. Now I understand that we should allow drug-addled schizophrenics to wander the streets and assault random passers by.

@BenWilsonTweets You know the mayor was assassinated in the 70s, right?

@amrgeddon There are some safer parts of the city but it's not just the tenderloin where disorder is a big problem.

@BenWilsonTweets My kids walk to school every day in the city. Are you talking tenderloin specifically or Sf generally?

The first step to remake yourself, according to John Wooden: "Take a moment and draw a circle around the following personal characteristics that you possess: confidence, poise, imagination, initiative, tolerance, humility, love, cheerfulness, faith, enthusiasm, courage, honesty, serenity. I hope you circled them all because all are within each of us. It is simply up to us to bring them out." I love this because I feel like most of us are actually scared of progress. Or at least we’re scared of acknowledging progress. Do you have confidence? Do you have love? Do you have humility? Do you have courage? It feels weird in today’s democratic age to raise our hands and say “yes.” But Benjamin Franklin and John Wooden both believed well why shouldn’t I be able to master the attributes that I most admire? I think what can help in that pursuit is just to lay it out there. What would it take for you to consider yourself brave? Humble? Confident? Diligent? And once you have defined it, then accomplish it.

Execution beats strategy. Here is what John Wooden, had to say about it: “There is no area of basketball in which I am a genius. None. Tactically and strategically, I'm just average, and this is not offering false modesty. We won national championships while I was coaching at UCLA because I was above average in analyzing players, getting them to fill roles as part of a team, paying attention to fundamentals and details, and working well with others, both those under my supervision and those whose supervision I was under. Additionally, I enjoyed very hard work.”

@zinjanthopus It's actually better now than it was a couple years ago. Lurie is actually an improvement. It's just that even he is only doing about 1% of what needs to be done to clean up the city.

@BenWilsonTweets As I've said elsewhere, the Mayor’s mistake was in not securing the area before he went in. I think it’s possibly that he literally didn’t understand what the TL is like now. Sad, because only 10 years ago it was sketchy, but now it’s out of control. The people deserve better.

@rosebud8769 Completely unacceptable. We need to take back all American cities.

@BenWilsonTweets My 24 yo was attached by a homeless person a couple weeks ago in SF.