#380 - Dan Jones - Is Genghis Khan Harder Than Jocko Willink?

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Dan Jones is a historian, TV presenter and an author.

Dan took a break from walking about great British castles to write a book about the 1000 years of the Middle Ages. Knights and Templars and Monks and Mongols and Barbarians.

Expect to learn why Genghis Khan was harder than Jocko Willink, Dan's best ever finish in Peloton, why I won't be allowed to go as a wizard to his imaginary medieval fancy dress party, just how bad a pandemic in the Middle Ages was, why Rome got rekt by climate change and much more...

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to the show.
0:03.2	My guest today is Dan Jones, historian, TV presenter, and an author.
0:07.6	Dan took a break from walking around Great British Castles to write a book about the
0:12.0	thousand years of the Middle Ages, knights and Templars and monks and Mongols and barbarians
0:17.3	and stuff.
0:18.3	And I thought this was going to be an in-depth historical treatise thing about the Middle
0:27.3	Ages and medieval times and peasants and that.
0:30.6	Turns out that Dan is actually really funny and we got distracted talking almost exclusively
0:37.0	not about history.
0:38.7	So today, expect to learn why Genghis Khan was harder than Jocka Willink, Dan's best-ever
0:43.0	finish in Peloton, why I won't be allowed to go as a wizard to his imaginary fancy dress
0:49.2	party, just how bad the pandemic in the Middle Ages was, why Rome got wrecked by climate
0:54.6	change and much more.
0:57.4	There isn't really any higher praise that I could give Dan than allowing him to take
1:01.9	up one of the coveted less than a hundred following spots on my Twitter.
1:06.7	So that's the highest accolade I can bestow on him.
1:10.8	So you get to hear today our burgeoning bromance develop and we're now going to be on
1:15.4	each other's whoop teams and maybe cook each other dinner at some point.
1:20.4	I don't know.
1:21.4	His wife might not agree with that.
1:22.7	Whatever.
1:23.7	So the news this episode is brought to you by my protein.
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