A medieval dad, Dan Jones says, must have had a favorite obscure saint; he had a distinct and most ungrounded preference for one particular ale; and he definitely could've shot a longbow a half mile in his youth.

Dad Books rely on the idea of a lone man changing the world, Brandy Jensen says, and we unpack why exactly that's so appealing to the Dad set.

What can we learn about ourselves and our potential from the strongest people in history? Alyssa Ages joins me to talk about it!