363 – Til You Find Your… Ancient & Military Historian?

The Prancing Pony Podcast

Alan Sisto

Film Reviews, Books, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2025

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

The Man of the West bids farewell to The Nerd of the Rings, as they welcome everyone’s favorite ancient and military historian back to the PPP: Dr. Bret Devereaux, author of A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry returns to answer an absurd number of questions that Alan and Matt have come up with from their last ten episodes. We get our 40k references out of the way early, discover Bret doesn’t read Old Norse, get an expert explanation of weregild, and have our eyes opened to Helm Hammerhand’s missteps. We also discuss peace through Black Death, wonder what the Quenya would be for “It’s all yours, buddy”, and lament the fact that the tales, they are so unfinished. Also, the emperor’s name is spelled Pupienus, just to be clear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:20.4	Which kind of seems to indicate that we had nothing to do with it.
1:24.1	Just about, yes.
1:25.9	Folks, pull up a bench in the common room and join us. I'm Matt the Nerd of the Rings,
1:30.1	and I'm here with The Man of the West, whose understanding of battlefield tactics is limited to
1:35.4	the Total War video games, Alan Sisto. That's about right, but don't forget Warhammer 40K, Matt.
1:40.7	I didn't play Black Templars for a decade for nothing. Oh, I would never.
1:45.5	I mean, come on.
1:50.5	Folks, join us as we step away from unfinished tales tonight to bring back a friend of the podcast who's been our go-to expert for all the battlefield moves since Sean and I first discovered
1:55.5	his blog shortly after we started the PPP. I'm kind of a space wolves guy myself for the record.
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