Jack Weatherford
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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Lex Fridman Podcast · #476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire · 1 Aug 2025
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Brown.
Then they'd say, but you said this color was brown.
What color is this?
Yeah.
So, well, I mean, it's just amazing.
I mean, they have words based on sort of how smooth the coloring is and the variation in the texture and all the different.
Today in England, sometimes you can put them together.
We say like yellow-brown or brown-brown or, you know.
But the words for horses, of course, by sex, and then they have three, because they have geldings, and so they're very important too, and by age, and by whether or not they've reproduced in the case of the females, all these things are important parts of the horse.
And the horse, a few years ago, a presidential candidate ran under the slogan, raised in the dust of many fast horses.
It just resonates with the Mongolian spirit, and the dust itself is important.
The Mongolians, they will wipe the sweat and the dust off the horse and wipe it onto their own forehead, which is the most sacred part of the body, where the soul resides.
This is how intimate a relationship is with the horses.
They're hard on them in some ways.
They train them very well.
They ride them very hard.
But the horses are also trained for that.
They use a very small crop.
It's a little bit like a stick with a slight whip at the end.
They hit the rump of the horse.
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