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The whole family is depressed.", "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0025", "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0027" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0025", "segment_id": "seg-0025", "start": 1928.57, "end": 2007.5, "time_label": "32:08", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The problem is after Odysseus comes up with a Trojan horse, they sneak into the city and they open the gates. The Greeks come flooding in. Okay? And now it's total mayhem because the Greeks are killing everyone inside t..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0026", "segment_id": "seg-0026", "start": 2007.94, "end": 2097.6, "time_label": "33:27", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And so what happens is Odysseus is traumatized by what he sees. Okay? And this is what we call PTSD, right? Post Traumatic Stress Order. 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So this is going to be a very long class today, and I'm going to throw a lot of information at you, okay? The reason why is I want to summarize and review what we've learned about Rome so far, compar..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0002", "segment_id": "seg-0002", "start": 71.097, "end": 168.37, "time_label": "1:11", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Primarily Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Persia, okay? The three great civilizations that we will discuss starting next week. And so the Greeks have colonies all over these three civilizations. 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And y..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0024" ], "note": "The transcript renders Telemachus inconsistently as Tanarchus or Timarchus.", "suggested_speaker": "Jiang", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "segment_id": "seg-0023", "start": 1781.68, "end": 1842.34, "time_label": "29:41", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So, he pretends to be crazy, insane. And so, what he does is he takes salt and a plow. And he plows the field and salts it, which kills the field. Okay? So, clearly, this is a sign of insanity. But the Greek soldi..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "segment_id": "seg-0024", "start": 1842.54, "end": 1924.12, "time_label": "30:42", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? 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Everything that is..." } ] }, { "term": "Dido", "usages": [ "The Carthaginian queen whose love for Aeneas becomes Jiang's example of love as political disease and historical cause." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0037", "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0038" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0037", "segment_id": "seg-0037", "start": 2883.32, "end": 2940.037, "time_label": "48:03", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "He goes back and he's discovered that his wife has killed herself. Why? Because she knows that in this new world that they're going to she can only be a hindrance, okay? 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And y..." } ] }, { "term": "love as disease", "usages": [ "Jiang's name for the Aeneid's anti-Homeric model: love causes war, madness, and historical catastrophe." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0038" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0038", "segment_id": "seg-0038", "start": 2940.037, "end": 3017.603, "time_label": "49:00", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "The gods look at Aeneas and says, hey man, we told you this many times but you have a destiny to go to Rome. Your son will be the founder of a great empire, okay? 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Okay, looking ahead, right, I, like, this is not..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] } ], "uncertainty_notes": [ { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0004" ], "note": "The ASR is damaged around the list of crises after Rome becomes empire; downstream reads should avoid overquoting that passage.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0004", "segment_id": "seg-0004", "start": 254.65, "end": 349.33, "time_label": "4:14", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "you're a small and poor and nation always at war with larger nations but this isn't breaks down when you become rich big Empire and you're the main major hegemon in the area and this system will lead to three major prob..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0008" ], "note": "The transcript likely mishears Brutus as 'Buddhists' and republic as 'repulchre'; use contextual correction carefully.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0008", "segment_id": "seg-0008", "start": 583.698, "end": 666.57, "time_label": "9:43", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Because it will encourage other Buddhists to come kill you, the emperor. 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He invited this living Roman poet to write another epic in Latin to replace Homer as a cornerstone of the education system...." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0011", "segment_id": "seg-0011", "start": 825.89, "end": 918.28, "time_label": "13:45", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "It will establish a new Roman cultural identity focused on Rome. piety over liberty and it will show that Greek culture is one of corruption and hedonism and it must be repelled okay so you can make the argument that Vi..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0024" ], "note": "The transcript inconsistently renders Telemachus' name; public prose should use the standard name when summarizing.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0023", "segment_id": "seg-0023", "start": 1781.68, "end": 1842.34, "time_label": "29:41", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So, he pretends to be crazy, insane. And so, what he does is he takes salt and a plow. And he plows the field and salts it, which kills the field. Okay? So, clearly, this is a sign of insanity. But the Greek soldi..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0024", "segment_id": "seg-0024", "start": 1842.54, "end": 1924.12, "time_label": "30:42", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So, his trick has been revealed and he's forced to go to war. And he hates going to war. Okay? But he's determined to win the war for the Greeks. The first reason is he believes the Trojans are unjust. How dare yo..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0032" ], "note": "The transcript says Iliad when Jiang turns to the Aeneid and the Trojan Horse; use context to avoid confusing Homer and Virgil.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0032", "segment_id": "seg-0032", "start": 2471.495, "end": 2564.69, "time_label": "41:11", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So that's the Iliad and the Odyssey. Does that make sense? And again, the argument is love is the basis of civilization. It is the thing that makes us human. It is what gives us our strength, our courage, our powe..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0040" ], "note": "The focus segment ends mid-phrase after 'it took the'; packet 0006 carries the rest of the character-transformation argument.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0040", "segment_id": "seg-0040", "start": 3104.37, "end": 3186.74, "time_label": "51:44", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "He wants to show mercy. He's like, I've beaten you. You're no longer a threat. I can show some forgiveness, okay? I can be merciful. But then he sees the belt that he gave his friend. And he knows Churnus has killed his..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0035" ], "note": "The transcript says Helen's staying home means 'this war would have started'; context indicates 'would not have started'.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0035", "segment_id": "seg-0035", "start": 2749, "end": 2812.17, "time_label": "45:49", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "She's a whore. She's a slut. If she just did her duty, if she just stayed at home where she was supposed to be, this war would have started. So, he really wants to kill her. Okay? In fact, he is about to kill her. Then..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0041" ], "note": "Segment begins with unrepaired ASR/boundary damage; the divine-intervention claim is supported by context but should not be quoted verbatim from the opening words.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0041", "segment_id": "seg-0041", "start": 3186.74, "end": 3274.11, "time_label": "53:06", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "and he only stopped because the gods intervened, okay? Remember, Aeneas wanted to abandon his family and get killed in the streets of Troy. The gods had to send him a message, okay? So another divine intervention. Remem..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0045" ], "note": "A possible student prompt is implied but not captured clearly enough to include as a public source question.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0045", "segment_id": "seg-0045", "start": 3533.18, "end": 3641.85, "time_label": "58:53", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? Does that make sense? Any questions? One last point is this. Okay? The Romans were like the most non -creative people in the world. They were anti -creative. So, everything that they had they sold somewhere else...." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] } ] }