STUDY ANCIENT HISTORY

“Any type of ankle accessory, jewelry, other than like a surveillance, it really, for me, it doesn't work. My ankle is way too bulky and it's a thick-ass ankle. It doesn't hold jewelry well. No male ankle holds jewelry well. I mean, I don't believe in it. Listen, I'm not telling you what to do. If you're a guy who likes beads on your ankle, feel free.”

“With her lovely white skin and long hair, Tomoe had enchanting looks. An archer of rare strength, a powerful warrior. And on foot or on horseback, a swordsman to face any demon or god. She was a fighter to stand alone against a thousand. She could ride the wildest horse down the steepest slope.”

“I used to have my own pool queue. Unscrewed it. I used to come to the fucking pool hall with unscrew the fucking thing and get nuts with it. Having a pool queue is, you're a different level of human being when you're walking around with that. You're not playing games. You're there to play games, you're not playing.”

“And so she charges this samurai captain, the guy who's famed for his strength. And we're told she caught him in an iron grip, forced his head down to her pommel, kept it pinned there, twisted it round, cut it off and tossed it away. And then she abandoned her arms and armor and fled toward the east.”

“He doesn't command armies himself and so he's always trying to kind of play the various samurai warlords against one another. All these various warlords who are marching into Kyoto, trying to seize control of it, they still need the legitimacy that the backing of Go Shirakawa, this cloistered emperor, can provide.”

“Mexico City is a dope spot, man. If you're working out up there, it's like, I think that's really high above sea level. What an advantage you would have if you lived up there. And then you go down to sea level, you could fuck everybody up. Your cardio would be off the charts.”

“The thing about these teeth, though, is they find so many of them that they don't think of them as precious. So you're allowed to do stuff with them. Like, you could buy a knife with a woolly mammoth handle. Like, this is a piece of woolly mammoth that they make for a gun. So you could put that on a 1911. It's a handle made out of woolly mammoth teeth.”

“The story of that area, that place is so insane. I went down this long rabbit hole because I had read something that the Aztecs didn't build that and that they found it there and they called it the place where gods were born. So, then I went into this deep dive on the Aztec people and whoever was there before them. It's a total unknown.”

“And Yoritomo, very cross that Kiso, his cousin, is threatening to upstage him, had sent his two younger half brothers to lead a two-pronged attack on Kyoto. And their mission was effectively to destroy Kiso and to bring Kyoto under the control of Yoritomo.”

“And the reason that he's doing that is that in the east, he has sent his beloved foster brother to hold back the advance of the Minamoto forces. Only last year he had left Shinano, his great stronghold, leading an army of 50,000. Now passing the brook at Shinomiya, he had only six riders with him.”