Step back to 1330 and meet the richest person who ever lived - Mansa Musa, with a net worth of $700 billion in today's money! Can Ryan convince this golden emperor to fund humanity's first space mission?
In this wild historical adventure, Ryan transports himself to the heart of the Mali Empire during its golden age. Armed with pocket watches and eyeglasses, he must impress the notoriously wealthy Mansa Musa without getting executed as a witch. But when introducing simple technology succeeds, Ryan gets ambitious: could medieval trebuchet technology launch humans into space? Join us for a hilarious journey through medieval Africa to discover the best way of spending a billionaire's money.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_Empire">The Mali Empire</a> reached unprecedented wealth under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa">Mansa Musa</a> (1312-1337), controlling West Africa's gold production. His famous hajj pilgrimage to Mecca with 60,000 people caused economic inflation in Egypt that lasted a decade. Timbuktu, the empire's intellectual center, housed the world's largest medieval library with over 700,000 manuscripts. This episode humorously explores what might have happened if modern technological ideas met medieval Mali's vast resources.

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