Episode 349 - The Battle of the Kalka River ft. Milo Edwards

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Lions Led By Donkeys

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🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Joe and Tom are joined by Trashfuture's Milo Edwards to talk about the time a bunch of guys named Mstislav got destroyed by the Mongols. Sources: Leo De Hertog. Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World. Richard Gabriel. Subotai The Valiant: Genghis Khan's Greatest General. The Chronicle of Novgorod. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://faculty.washington.edu/dwaugh/rus/texts/MF1914.pdf Victor Kamenir. Russian Disaster at the Kalkha River. Military Heritage. Vol 20, no. 6 Robert Rossabi. All the Khan's Horses.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Our merch store is restocked. So if you missed any of the live show, specific
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0:29.2	notes. Thank you. My friends by God and I'm
0:38.3	A lot of
0:40.3	Yeah Hello and welcome to the Lions and Buy Donkeys podcast.
1:08.6	I'm Joe and with me is Tom and Milo Edwards, one of the hosts of Trash Future and the
1:13.1	glue factory.
1:14.4	Hadai, had I, had I.
1:15.5	We're simple Armenian villagers, circa the 1200s, on our land on the Georgia-Armenia border.
1:20.3	It's not much, just a few acres where we grow a small crop of catalytic converters and
1:24.6	copper wire to sell at our local market. We woke up at the break of our workday, 1 p.m., and put on our homespung Adidas clothing.
1:32.3	But once we've gone outside, we realize something is afoot, and it isn't just our sick-ass samba-o-Gs we purchased from the next village over.
1:39.3	Rather, it's strange men on horseback storming through the valley.
1:43.3	Our churches burn, our government officials are slaughtered, and we decide that's probably a good start. rather strange men on horseback storming through the valley. Our church is burned. Our government
1:44.9	officials are slaughtered and we decide that's probably a good start. We meet the men and decide
1:49.7	to trade with them. However, as we're cutting a deal, I noticed Tom has put one of their horses
1:53.9	up on blocks and is carrying away a sack full of horseshoes. The riders notice this at the same
1:58.8	time I do and they promptly put us to the sword.
2:01.3	How you doing, fellas?
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