This episode we stay away from politics as usual, to offer a somewhat educational lecture on Martial Arts throughout History.

We begin naturally speaking about Asian martial arts, then bring up little known facts about European contributions to the Martial Arts.

Discussion of unarmed fighting skills and arts slide naturally into martial arts weaponry and their origins, after which we move onto well-known and then lesser-known facts about swordplay and skill sets of sword wielders in Asia and Europe, how they differ, how the swords themselves differ, and myths about Medieval European Knights that lead people in the modern day to underestimate, underrate, those Knights, whom Hollywood has led us to believe were slow and cumbersome, when in fact they were incredibly strong, athletic, and were able to both move and fight with much more quickness than film and TV have led us to believe.

We also bring up similarities and differences between Asian (mainly Japanese) Warriors, European Warriors, and American Indian Warriors (or Native American Warriors, if you prefer) ...not just in how they fought physically, but also how their motivations differed in some ways but in most ways were similar, spiritually and morally speaking.

(One correction: at one point I mention Milos of Greece; I should have said Milos of Crete. Mea Culpa, unintentional error.)

We had a lot of fun doing this episode, and we kept it CLEAN, so you can let your underaged children listen to it, and we hope you will have learned some things you never knew by the time the episode reaches its half-hour limit.

PLEASE let me know if you prefer:

1 - This type of content every episode, content that informs as well as entertains;

2- Our hitherto customary Rants on Current Events;

3 - Every episode from here on have a mix of both.

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