Bret Devereaux Talks Orc Battle Tactics

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🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Bret Devereaux is an ancient and military historian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is here to discuss military tactics of some of fiction's biggest battles from The Lord of the Rings to Game of Thrones. Can David contain his excitement? Does Sarah understand anything being said?

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0:00.0	You ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready.
0:04.0	Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast and this could be the greatest podcast in the history of the universe.
0:26.0	I'm not promising that fully. I'm just mostly promising that because of a guest that Sarah has brought to us.
0:35.0	She reached out and she brought us this guest and it might be my perfect guest.
0:41.0	So Sarah, do you want to introduce the pedant? Is that how you pronounce it?
0:46.0	Pedant.
0:47.0	Pedant. Okay. The pedant. So Sarah, do you want to introduce the pedant?
0:51.0	It's like not knowing how to pronounce crudite, Damon.
0:54.0	I'm so sorry.
0:56.0	David, I just want to state we've been doing this podcast for now about two and a half years and I just so appreciate your friendship, your mentorship.
1:07.0	I mean, it's just we have a wonderful relationship, but I have never gotten you a gift until today.
1:15.0	Yeah.
1:16.0	Today, I have brought you what you give the man who has everything, including a sword Lord of the Rings, whatever your sword thing is.
1:26.0	What is your sword again?
1:27.0	And you're all it's a Narsal reforged.
1:30.0	It's the it's a erygon sword in the rings.
1:34.0	Okay. I knew the term Lord of the Rings and all of what you just said.
1:38.0	Okay. Well, I have brought you Dr. Brett DeVero.
1:44.0	He is an ancient and military historian.
1:47.0	He teaches at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but David, that's of course not why I brought him as your present today.
1:57.0	No.
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