Everything you were taught about the Middle Ages is wrong. The kings were tyrants. The peasants were starving. The feudal system was oppressive. Democracy is the greatest system ever devised. You learned it in school, you saw it in movies, and you never questioned it. Jeb Smith did...and what he found will make you rethink everything.

James sits down with author and historian Jeb Smith to break open his book Missing Monarchy: Correcting Misconceptions about the Middle Ages, Medieval Kingship, Democracy, and Liberty.

Jeb walks through what a true medieval king actually was, why medieval warfare was less deadly than any modern conflict, why peasants worked fewer hours and paid less in taxes than the average American today, what Robin Hood actually stood for, and why compulsory public education was designed from the start to produce compliant workers.

💬 Powerful Quotes:

"The last person you want in power are those who seek it. We push people to become politically active, to go out there and force their ways on everyone else — which is what democracy is. It's one big war of everyone denying each other self-government." — Jeb Smith

"In America, we pass over 10,000 laws a year. That is more than the entire Middle Ages produced over hundreds of years. The government is just minuscule by comparison." — Jeb Smith

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