The Great Mongol Wedgie Tour | Genghis Khan (Part 2)

Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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0:32.5	Music Welcome back to Finn versus History.
0:44.8	As ever, I'm joined by Horatio Gould.
0:49.9	Today we're talking about the Lord of the Mongols, Genghis Khan.
0:55.2	Don't call him that.
0:56.0	It's very rude.
0:56.5	Sorry.
0:57.9	I went to school with someone who you called Lord of the Mongols.
1:02.3	There was a whole class of them at my school.
1:05.5	Genghis Khan, 800 years ago, the last time Mongolia was culturally relevant at all.
1:11.6	Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's almost Greek levels how much they've rested on their laurels,
1:15.4	these guys.
1:16.3	They've done literally nothing since killing 10% of the world's population.
1:20.1	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:21.1	The second part is going to be quite a vague run-through because otherwise it's so easy to get...
1:25.7	The last one was far too detailed.
1:27.4	It's so easy to get bogged down in cultures and tribes that don't exist anymore. And again, it's all very similar. I repeat, this is essentially West Ross. Mongolia is not really a real place in the way that we understand it. In your imagination, of course it's not. In the way that we'd understand it, it's not really real place. There's no, there's no cities or, I mean...
1:46.0	I mean, Borat's the only thing you're holding on to. It's basically, it's between Borat and China is this country that's essentially the Asian Wales.
1:55.5	Sure. Yeah. So it's, it's, if you're wondering how Mongolian, I mean, you just did an example of Mongolian throat singing.
2:03.8	Whereas I would say, are you right? Are you choking? A Mongolian person would cry at how beautiful that was.
2:09.9	Right. And then I would also, if I had someone say that, I would say that's definitely Lord of the Mongols right there.
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