Podcasts by Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
The Lions Led By Donkeys podcast is a military history podcast for laughing at the worst military failures, inept commanders, and crazy stories from throughout the history of human conflict.
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Episode 195 - The Battle of Kursk Part 2: And Firebombs! from 2022-02-14T05:11:53
Hitler edges the idea of starting one of the most disastrous battles of all time while the Soviets build Fortress Kursk.
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Panzer V - Panther
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Episode 194 - The Battle of Kursk Part 1: Hitler is Bad at His Job from 2022-02-07T07:47:54
The USSR baits Nazis Germany into bleeding their army to death on 200 miles of death traps.
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Episode 193 - The USS Iowa Turret Explosion from 2022-01-31T09:35:03
Joe is joined by Alice Caldwell-Kelly to discuss the time the US Navy murdered 47 of its sailors via incompetence and then decided to try to pin the blame on gay people.
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Episode 192 - The Bounty Mutiny and the Cursed History of the Pitcairn Islands from 2022-01-23T18:12:13
Once upon a time a Royal Navy mutiny created an island of sex crimes and incest.
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The Bounty: The True...
Episode 191 - 2008 Russo-Georgian War Part 2: Grand Theft Navy from 2022-01-17T05:59:39
The war begins and ends. Russia steals an entire navy.
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Episode 190 - 2008 Russo-Georgian War Part 1: Civil War and Amphibious Mafia Landings from 2022-01-10T08:07:19
It turns out a 2 week long war has 100 years of history
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Episode 189 - The Battle of Tarawa from 2022-01-03T18:37:06
Fun times with the USMC on the beach! *
*your experience may vary
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Episode 188 - The Bophuthatswana Coup from 2021-12-27T07:53:58
What happens when white nationalists, neo nazis, and Black despots team up to try to prolong apartheid in South Africa? One of the dumbest coup attempts of all time.
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Episode 187 - Colonel Tye and the Black Loyalists of the American Revolution from 2021-12-20T07:26:05
The American Revolution left a lot of people behind.
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Episode 186 - The Greco-Italian War Part 2: The Battle of Crete from 2021-12-13T18:26:48
Germany gets involved and throws its entire airborne corps into a woodchipper.
*correction, England has won a World Cup. In 1966.
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Episode 185 - The Greco-Italian War Part 1: Tooth and Nail from 2021-12-06T04:44:47
Mussolini attempts to recreate the Roman Empire, killing thousands of his own soldiers in the mountains.
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Episode 184 - Lyudmila Pavlichenko from 2021-11-29T06:53:27
The story of the deadliest woman in military history
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Episode 183 - Digby Tatham-Warter from 2021-11-22T07:40:46
The most British man ever went into battle against tanks armed with an umbrella and wearing a bowler hat.
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Episode 182 - The War of the Stray Dog from 2021-11-15T05:07:02
Bulgaria (possibly) starts a war with Greece over a dog that strays over the border (maybe) and a bad dictator seizes on it as an opportunity to shore up a crumbling government.
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Episode 181 - The Charge of the Light Brigade from 2021-11-08T05:31:16
2/3rds of the WTYP cast join Joe to talk about the dumbest game of telephone in military history.
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Episode 180 - Jesse James and the Old Man in the Cave from 2021-11-01T18:56:18
Francis Horton, one of the hosts of the What a Hell of a way to die podcasts takes the wheel to tell the story of his home state of Missouri and the weird Jesse James grifting cave.
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UNLOCKED: The Japanese Holdouts of WWII from 2021-10-31T17:41:16
WWII officially ended on September 2, 1945.
It went on a lot longer for some people.
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Episode 179 - The Battle of Bamber Bridge from 2021-10-25T17:43:48
Joe is joined by Robert Evans, the host of Behind the Bastards to talk about that time the US sparked a race war within its own army during WWII.
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Episode 178 - The Bloody White Baron Part 2: The God of Opium and Mass Murder from 2021-10-18T04:57:29
Roman invades Mongolia, becomes a legally reincarnated god, murders thousands.
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Episode 177 - The Bloody White Baron Part 1: Wolf Rehab from 2021-10-11T06:47:57
Baron Roman Von Ungern-Sternberg is one of the most insane men to ever live.
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Episode 176 - The Spanish American War Part 3: The Stolen Valor of Teddy Roosevelt from 2021-10-04T05:30:07
The famed Rough Riders were a liability
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Episode 175 - The Spanish American War Part 2: The One With All of the Diseases from 2021-09-27T07:52:34
Typhus! Yellow Fever! Malaria! And more!
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Episode 174 - The Spanish American War Part 1: Maybe Don't Remember the Maine from 2021-09-20T07:47:03
Part 1 of 3 as we explore the birth of American Empire.
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Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century
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Episode 173 - The 4th Crusade from 2021-09-13T08:36:17
A bunch of christian knights get hijacked to knee cap some people over boat debt.
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Episode 172 - The Battle of Sarikamish from 2021-09-06T05:36:09
The Ottoman Empire trips over its own dick into WWI, orders an army to attack up a mountain in the middle of winter without shoes, and commits a genocide.
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Episode 171 - The Soviet Axe Berserkers of World War II from 2021-08-30T13:22:01
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Episode 170 - The Aleutian Islands Campaign from 2021-08-23T20:38:39
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Episode 169 - The Nazi Rocket Plane That Melted its Pilots from 2021-08-16T17:47:58
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Episode 168 - The Napoleon Nerd Who Took Over a Country and Crowned Himself Emperor Part 2 from 2021-08-09T06:38:51
The conclusion of the reign of Bokassa I
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Episode 167: The Napoleon Nerd Who Took Over a Country and Crowned Himself Emperor Part 1 from 2021-08-02T18:08:16
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Episode 166 - The Namibian Genocide Part 2: Shark Island from 2021-07-26T17:57:58
The 2nd and last part of our series on the Namibian Genocide
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Episode 165 - The Namibian Genocide Part 1: The Scramble For Atrocities from 2021-07-19T08:43:22
Germany unifies and colonizes Namibia, is shocked to find out this is unpopular to the people who live there.
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Episode 164 - The Pancho Villa Expedition Part 2: No Nicknames Given from 2021-07-12T05:20:06
The conclusion to our *duology*
The US invades Mexico, gets lost, commits crimes against humanity, goes home.
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Episode 163 - The Pancho Villa Expedition Part 1: Dueling Race Wars from 2021-07-06T17:32:22
The US fucks around in Mexican politics and eventually finds out.
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Episode 162 - The First Chechen War Part 4: The One Where Everyone Invades Hospitals from 2021-06-28T19:17:01
the conclusion to our First Chechen War series
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Episode 161 - The First Chechen War Part 3: Welcome to Hell from 2021-06-21T06:13:04
Russians invade the Chechen capital of Grozny, sparking one of the most devastating urban battles in modern military history.
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History Of Armenia Preview from 2021-06-18T03:46:26
A preview of our upcoming Premium podcast series The History of Armenia. If you like what you hear donate to the show at the $3 level or above to unlock it:
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Episode 160 - The First Chechen War Part 2: So You've Accidentally Killed Your Own Conscripts from 2021-06-14T05:24:56
Part 2 of our 4 part series. Russia invades the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and promptly bombs and shells themselves without mercy.
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Episode 159 - The First Chechen War Part 1: Train Robbing Rebellion from 2021-06-07T17:17:55
Part 1 of our 4 part series on the first Chechen War. Throughout history Russia continues to try to subjugate Chechnya, leading to generations of war.
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Episode 158 - Mathew Charles Lamb: The Spree Shooter Turned Racist War Hero from 2021-05-31T06:53:22
Mathew Charles Lamb was Canada's first spree shooter. He was found insane and locked up in a psych ward. He was then dosed with acid, deemed sane, and went off to fight and die in Rhodesia.
Episode 157 - The Mk 14 Torpedo and How the US Hated Their Own Submariners from 2021-05-24T18:12:43
During WWII the US developed a revolutionary new torpedo that excelled at attempting to murder the people who launched it. This didn't seem to bother the US Navy.
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Episode 156 - Battle of Hurtgen Forest Part 2: Task Force Dick Ripple from 2021-05-17T17:59:20
The US keeps feeding soldiers into the death forest for no reason. Eventually win.
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Episode 155 - Battle of Hurtgen Forest Part 1: Courtney Hodges Hates His Own Soldiers from 2021-05-10T18:44:04
The US plans the battle of the Hurtgen Forest. The first step is actively hating your own soldiers.
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Episode 153 - Conrad Von Hotzendorf Part 2: Mt Doom from 2021-05-03T17:59:53
The conclusion of the Conrad Von Hotzendorf story
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Episode 152 - Conrad Von Hotzendorf Part 1: Load Bearing Franz from 2021-04-26T17:15:01
A new challenger for the worst commander of all time has entered the arena.
** corrections**
Gavrilo Princeps is mistakenly called a "Bosnian" during the episode. What we went to...
Episode 151 - Mad Jack Churchill from 2021-04-19T18:19:30
Jack Churchill was a lunatic and one of the most interesting people to ever run screaming onto an enemy beach while wielding a sword.
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Episode 150 - This Genocide is Brought to You by Fanta from 2021-04-12T17:33
The non exhaustive story of how the corporate world supported the Nazis as they committed the worst crimes in human history.
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Episode 149 - War Duck from 2021-04-05T18:35:07
A return of the animal episode!
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Episode 148 - The Time a Pyramid Scheme Caused a Civil War from 2021-03-29T07:07:34
Bunkers! Fraud! A guy robbing a bank with a rocket launcher!
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Episode 147 - The Terrible History of the Nauvoo Legion from 2021-03-22T06:29:04
Joe is Joined by the crew of the Brigham Young Money Podcast as they regale him with the story of militant mormonism.
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Episode 146 - The Jewish Avengers from 2021-03-15T18:12:54
"A nation for a nation"
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Episode 145 - Monte Melkonian Part 3: Commander Avo from 2021-03-08T06:38:59
Monte becomes one of the greatest military commanders in Armenian history.
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Episode 143 - Monte Melkonian Part 2: Most Wanted from 2021-03-01T19:34:25
Monte joins the Armenian Secret Army and sets off on an international mission of "armed propaganda"
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Episode 144 - Monte Melkonian Part 2: Most Wanted from 2021-03-01T18:34:25
Monte joins the Armenian Secret Army and sets off on an international mission of "armed propaganda"
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Episode 143 - Monte Melkonian Part 1: The Boy Scout Revolutionary from 2021-02-22T18:01:07
The story of how a regular kid from a California suburb ended up as a military hero of Armenia.
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Episode 142 - Castle Itter from 2021-02-15T17:40:38
At the end of WWII a group of French POWs went looking for help and ended up taking part in one of the weirdest battles in military history.
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Episode 141 - The Last Stand of the Danzig Mailmen from 2021-02-08T19:02:58
One the nazis stormed into Poland at the opening stages of World War II it was not soldiers, trench lines, or pill boxes that they had to conquer first. Instead, it was the Danzig Post Office.
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Episode 140 - Operation Kitona from 2021-02-01T18:02:07
Rwanda invades Congo using a fleet of hijacked planes to spark the Second Congo War.
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Episode 109 - Shogun 2, The Last Samurai, and Western Misconceptions Ft. Dr. Nyri Bakkalian from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dr. Nyri Bakkalian joins Joe to talk about video games, anime, and all of the things the west misunderstands about Japanese history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys P...
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Episode 99.5 - French Invasion of Russia Part 6: March or Die from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow, the Grand Army dies a slow death, and the Cossacks get blinged out as hell. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Follow us on twitt...
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Episode 139 - Operation Red Dog from 2021-01-25T19:34:34
A group of nazis, KKK, and gangsters Voltron together to come up with the dumbest attempted invasion in American history.
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Episode 138 - Eugene Debs from 2021-01-18T19:16:41
Eugene Debs organizes the working class and fights back against American entry into WWI.
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Episode 137 - The Silmido Mutiny from 2021-01-11T16:45:56
South Korea starts an assassination squad made out of petty criminals and dudes who look kind of in shape. Hilarity does not ensue.
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Episode 136 - The Khmer Rouge Part 4: The Fall from 2021-01-04T17:26:53
In the conclusion of our series Vietnam liberates Cambodia and slaps around another world power.
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Episode 135 - The Khmer Rouge Part 3: S21 and the Killing Fields. from 2020-12-28T18:36:38
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Episode 134 - The Khmer Rouge Part 2: Year Zero from 2020-12-21T18:36:53
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Episode 133 - The Khmer Rouge Part 1: Revolutionary Snitching from 2020-12-14T18:18:45
Part 1 of 4 on the rise and fall of the Khmer Rouge
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Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison
A Cambodian odyssey
The Pol Pot Regime
When The...
Episode 132 - Luigi Cadorna: Redux from 2020-12-07T17:36:04
Our first episode ever was about Luigi Cadorna. A lot has changed in the last nearly 3 years so we decided to redo the whole thing during a charity live stream. During the stream we raised over 5,0...
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Episode 131 - USS Indianapolis from 2020-11-30T17:02:53
naval incompetence, sharks, and suicide oh my!
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Episode 130 - The Teenage Communist Hit Squad of The Netherlands from 2020-11-23T17:30:16
During WWII partisans came in all shapes, sizes, and ages. And sometimes death was 15 years old and riding a bicycle.
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Episode 129 - Spartacus Part 2: Return of the Corpse Road from 2020-11-16T16:21:08
The conclusion of the Third Servile War
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Episode 128 - Spartacus Part 1: Jupiter's Cock! from 2020-11-09T09:09:46
Rome really loves enslaving people. Spartacus disagrees.
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Episode 127 - The Battle of Athens from 2020-11-02T07:51:07
One day in in 1946 a group of WWII Veterans grabbed their weapons and went to war against police brutality and electoral fraud.
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Episode 126 - How World Militaries Attempted to Weaponize the Paranormal from 2020-10-26T16:30:03
Joe and Nick talk about all the times the militaries of the world attempted to weaponize the powers of woo woo bullshit.
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Episode 126 - The Horrible Death of President James Garfield from 2020-10-19T09:45:36
Folks, it's bad.
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Episode 125 - The Kunduz Airstrike from 2020-10-12T15:11:10
During the Battle of Kunduz, the US bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital, one of the worst war crimes of the Afghan War. Nobody has ever been punished for it.
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Episode 124 - Life on a U-Boat was terrible from 2020-10-05T18:01:11
Life aboard a U-boat during WWII was horrible but thankfully short from all the dying.
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*Unlocked* Valkyrie from 2020-10-04T00:40:30
Tom Cruise is the worst pirate ever.
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Episode 123 - Broken Arrow from 2020-09-28T07:11:09
Francis from the Hell of a way to die Podcast and Shocks, everyone's favorite podcast lawyer join the show to talk about all of the times the US and USSR lost nuclear weapons due to horrible incomp...
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Episode 122 - Russo - Japanese War Part 4: So long and thanks for all the imperialism from 2020-09-21T07:37:16
The war ends and the world sets itself on course for nuclear hellfire.
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Episode 121 - Russo -Japanese War Part 3: The Voyage of the Damned from 2020-09-14T07:12:19
The Russian Navy sets off on a one way journey into naval history.
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Episode 120 - Russo-Japanese War Part 2: The Siege of Port Arthur from 2020-09-07T17:03:23
Russia and Japan are introduced to the weapons of modern war. Hilarity does not ensue.
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Episode 119 - Russo-Japanese War Part 1: Willy, Nicky, and Racism from 2020-08-31T06:00:27
Imperialism and Racism lead Imperial Russia down a path of one of the biggest self owns in military history.
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Episode 118 - Silvercorp USA and the Dumbest Coup Ever from 2020-08-24T07:37:52
Once upon a time a group of idiots with an airsoft rifle attempted to invade a country. Hilarity (and prison sentences) ensued.
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Episode 117 - Gerald Bull and the Space Cannon from 2020-08-17T07:00:45
Once upon a time there was a man who loved cannons.
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Episode 116 - The Niihau Incident from 2020-08-10T08:57:09
The one time a downed Japanese pilot started a small civil war on a remote Hawaiian island.
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Episode 115- The Myth of the Clean Wehrmacht from 2020-08-03T07:23:25
Folks, it turns out Nazis are in fact, bad.
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Episode 114 - The Battle of the Golden Spurs from 2020-07-26T21:45:53
Stupid sexy Flanders.
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Episode 113 - The 47 Ronin from 2020-07-20T09:26:12
Grab your butt ladles and get ready for the most epic tale of revenge in history.
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Episode 112 - Wagner Group from 2020-07-13T18:48:37
The Wagner Group is what happens when money, strange neo nazi cults, and proxy wars have a baby.
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Episode 111 - Mount Rushmore is a Racist Tourist Trap from 2020-07-06T09:05:16
Blow up Mount Rushmore.
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Episode 110 - Joseph Medicine Crow from 2020-06-29T15:50:34
Joseph Medicine Crow became the last War Chief of the Crow Tribe. He did this by counting coup, stealing an enemy's weapon, and stealing their horses....in World War II.
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Episode 108 - The T-55: A History from 2020-06-15T17:20:37
On this episode Joe and Travis dive into the history of the podcast's favorite cold war tank: the T-55.
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Episode 107- Joseph Beyrle from 2020-06-08T06:57:40
Joseph Beyrle is the only known American Soldier to fight within the ranks of the Red Army during WWII.
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Episode 106 - Leo Major from 2020-06-01T07:14:50
Once upon a time there was a one eyed Canadian beserker who liberated an entire town on his own.
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Episode 105 - Robert E Lee Was a Monster from 2020-05-25T07:54:05
Robert E Lee was a traitor, a slave owner, and a war criminal.
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Episode 104 - The Edgewood Experiments from 2020-05-18T14:35:45
During the Cold War the US dosed thousands of its soldiers with acid. Hilarity did not ensue.
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*UNLOCKED* Windtalkers from 2020-05-15T21:54:09
Nic Cage and John Woo flamethrower karate fight their way across the pacific theater of WWII.
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Episode 103- Popular Front Ft. Jake Hanrahan from 2020-05-11T15:40:13
Creator of Popular Front Jake Hanrahan joins Joe to talk about how he got his start in Conflict Journalism, why westerners need to stop projecting their beliefs onto the revolutions of other people...
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Episode 102 - The Crippled Eagles of Rhodesia from 2020-05-04T11:43:28
The Crippled Eagles were a collection of American Neo nazis, white nationalists, and fascists who flooded the colony of Rhodesia to defend white nationalism. They failed hilariously. This is the st...
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*Unlocked* Rambo (2008) from 2020-04-30T15:41:01
We take a walk down white savior lane as Rambo kills more people than an atomic weapon.
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Episode 101 - Soghomon Tehlirian: The Luger of Justice from 2020-04-27T15:52:25
The Ottoman Empire, fueled by Turkish Nationalism, launched a genocidal campaign of violence against their own Armenian subjects.
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*UNLOCKED* There is No Life or Nourishment in the Meat from 2020-04-24T02:02:02
On this episode the gang eats a bunch of military rations from around the world and discusses some horrific missteps from the history of military food.
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Episode 100 - The 100th Episode Special from 2020-04-20T13:44:36
For our 100th episode we answered questions from fans. Everything from the great tortilla debate to Jane Fonda tune in and listen to our probably terrible answers.
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Episode 99 - French Invasion of Russia Part 5: Moscow is Decadent and Depraved. from 2020-04-06T14:49:06
Moscow burns, Napoleon begins to lose his mind.
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Episode 98 - French Invasion of Russia Part 4: Barefoot Borodino from 2020-03-30T15:35:42
Napoleon finally gets the battle he wants, leading to one of the bloodiest days in European history.
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*UNLOCKED* Iron Sky ft. Francis Horton from 2020-03-25T15:35:12
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Episode 97 - French Invasion of Russia Part 3: The Not So Grand Army from 2020-03-23T13:55:01
Napoleon's famed Grande Armee finally begins its march towards war. Almost immediately his soldiers begin starving to death and shooting themselves before they even make it to Russia.
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*UNLOCKED* Red Dawn (2012) from 2020-03-18T14:53:28
Imaging being a North Korean conscript, thousands of miles away from home and watching your friends get gunned down by the guy from Drake and Josh.
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Episode 96 - French Invasion of Russia Part 2: Worst Enlistment Ever from 2020-03-16T13:53:29
On part 2 we talk about the terrible life and times of a soldier in the 1800s. 25 year conscription, disease, banditry, and good old government ran child abduction. Now shut up and die for your Emp...
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Episode 95 - French Invasion of Russia Part 1: Imperial Bromance from 2020-03-09T14:06:28
Napoleon attempts to make friends, ends up making war instead.
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Episode 94 - Fighting Like Cats and Dogs from 2020-03-02T16:17:56
On this episode Joe and Rich talk about some more war animals like Sarbi, the Australian wonder dog and Unsinkable Sam, the unkillable navy cat.
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Episode 93 - Kevin Patrick Dawes from 2020-02-24T14:48:18
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Episode 92 - The British Free Corps from 2020-02-17T14:57:37
The British Free Corps was an armed formation made of up brits and dominion soldiers who volunteered to fight for the Nazis during WWII. But rather than a legion of King loving nazis, they ended up...
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Episode 91 - Paul Mahar from 2020-02-10T15:05:46
Imaging doing a favor for a friend that ended up with you spending over a year in a combat zone without a single day of training. Paul Mahar didn't have to imagine.
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Episode 90 - Millennium Challenge 2002 Ft. Francis Horton from 2020-02-03T14:35:50
Joe is joined by Francis Horton from the Hell of a Way to Die Podcast to talk about the greatest self own in American Military history: MC02
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Episode 89 - Winter War Part 5: The Booty Call Armistice from 2020-01-27T15:36:05
On the finale of the Winter War the Mannerheim Line begins to crumble and Finland is only saved due the connections of a Government Minister's booty call.
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Episode 88 - Winter War Part 4: The White Death from 2020-01-20T15:45:41
One of the deadliest men who has ever walked the earth probably was too short to ride a rollercoaster.
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Episode 87 - Winter War Part 3: Comrade Zap Brannigan and the Molotov Cocktail from 2020-01-13T15:48:08
Soviets launch unending frontal assaults against the Finnish Defenders. Little did the Soviets know that the Finns had a secret weapon: tens of thousands of empty booze bottles and balls of steel. ...
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Episode 86 - Winter War Part 2: Molotov Bread Basket from 2020-01-06T08:05:14
Stalin launches a war from his Apartment without any planning whatsoever. Hilarity ensues.
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Episode 85 - Winter War Part 1: Russian Problems from 2019-12-30T10:01:36
On part one of our Winter War series we dive into the history of Finland and its long struggle for independence from a string of different oppressors.
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Episode 84 - Lax Bros Strike Back: The Michilimackinac Massacre from 2019-12-23T10:48:39
A game of Lacrosse leads to the dumbest massacre in Michigan state history .
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Episode 83 - St Clair's Defeat from 2019-12-16T08:56:59
The US dispatches some soldiers to fight Native Americans resulting in the biggest defeat in US Military history and the creation of American government as we know it today.
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Episode 82 - Clint Lorance is a Murderer from 2019-12-09T09:27:30
Clint Lorance killed two unarmed Afghan civilians in 2012.
Clint Lorance is a free man. He walked out of the United States Army Disciplinary Barracks at Leavenworth at the order the Pres...
Episode 81 - Philippines American War Part 3: War Crimes and Misdemeanors from 2019-12-02T09:02:20
At the conclusion of our series on the Philippines American War we dive into the Moro Rebellion and American war crimes so prolific they are turned into things of legend in the modern day.
Episode 80 - Philippine American War Part 2: The Machete of Freedom from 2019-11-25T12:22:46
The American Philippines War begins in earnest. America sets up a series of concentration camps and attempts to brutalize the Philippine people into submission.
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Episode 79 - Philippine American War Part 1: Thanks a lot Nebraska from 2019-11-18T09:49:11
On this episode we dive into America's first overseas war of Empire and how two racists from Nebraska started a war.
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Episode 78 - The Battle of Teutoburg Forest from 2019-11-11T10:17:59
Join Joe and Nick as they dive into one of the worst military defeats in history.
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Episode 77 - Unit 731 from 2019-11-04T08:50:33
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Everything. Seriously everything. It is terrible.
On this episode Joe and Rich discuss one of the greatest crimes in human history: Japan's answer to Na...
Episode 74 - Exercise Tiger Ft. Francis Horton from 2019-10-28T08:13:15
Joe is joined by the co host of the What a Hell of a Way to Die Podcast Francis Horton to discuss the worst training exercise in military history.
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Episode 73- The Battle of the Crater from 2019-10-21T09:16:08
A very hungover Joe and Nick dive into one of the Union Army's biggest blunders during the US Civil War: The Battle of the Crater during the siege of Petersburg. Two drunken commanders throw their ...
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Episode 72- Robert Bales from 2019-10-14T07:41:37
Robert Bales was a Staff Sergeant in the US Army. He is also one of the worst war criminals in recent American history.
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Episode 71 - Anglo Zulu War Part 2: The End of a Kingdom from 2019-10-07T13:51:10
The Anglo Zulu War Part 2. In the conclusion of our series the war goes from Rourke's Drift to Eshowe before killing an Imperial Prince and burning the Zulu Kingdom to the ground.
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Episode 70 - Anglo-Zulu War Part 1: Don't Forget to Wash Your Spears from 2019-09-30T08:47:08
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Episode 69 - Do a Little Meth, Make a Little War from 2019-09-23T19:21:01
On episode 69 (nice)Joe and Rich dive into the history of Meth in warfare.
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Episode 68 - The Kamikaze from 2019-09-16T19:23:44
On this episode Joe and Nick dive into the troubled and misunderstood history of the Kamikaze. Were they really so devoted to the Emperor they willingly blew themselves up or were they scared and a...
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Episode 67 - The M-16 Rifle: A Dumb History from 2019-09-09T13:52:36
On this episode we examine the birth of the M-16 Rifle and its deployment to the Vietnam War. How did the Pentagon take a rifle that passed every test with flying colors and turn it into a piece of...
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Sneak Peek: Citizen of Earth Chapter 1 from 2019-09-03T23:28:27
Joe Kassabian's Citizen of Earth is dropping as an audiobook soon, get this sneak peek here. It will be available through Audible or wherever else you get your audiobooks.
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Episode 66 - Donkey Reading Series: America Needs A Dead Hand Ft. Martin Pfeiffer from 2019-09-02T13:51:23
On this iteration of the Donkey Reading Series Joe is joined by our friendly neighborhood Nuclear Anthropologist Martin Pfeiffer (@NuclearAnthro) to discuss the War on the Rocks article "America Ne...
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Episode 65 - Joseph Dresnok from 2019-08-26T20:04:53
Joseph Dresnok was a Private in the US Army stationed along the Korean DMZ. He quickly became depressed and developed one hell of an addiction to booze and sex workers. After getting in trouble one...
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Episode 64 - Tarrare and Charles Domery: The Men Who Stare At Cats from 2019-08-19T22:59:09
Tarrare and Charles Domery were soldiers who fought in the War of the First Coalition. They were also afflicted with a never ending, voracious hunger that cannot be explained. What if Eli Roth crea...
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Episode 63 - Project 100,000 from 2019-08-12T19:48:10
Project 100,000 was a Vietnam War Era experiment conducted by the United States to see how low they could lower the standards for enlistment or conscription.
Thousands of developmentally d...
Episode 62 - The Pepsi Navy from 2019-08-05T13:35:47
This is the story of how Pepsi, yes that Pepsi, ended up controlling the world's sixth largest submarine navy.
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Episode 61 - Soviet Afghan War 7: Fear and Loathing in Afghanistan from 2019-07-29T18:47:37
On the 7th (and final) installment in our Soviet Afghan series we take a look at what life was like as a Soviet conscript and just how miserable life had to be before you started drinking boot poli...
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Episode 60 - Soviet Afghan War 6: Taking Your Ball and Going Home from 2019-07-22T13:49:53
On part 6 the Soviet Union has to figure out how to pull their army out of Afghanistan while the entire country collapses around them while new journalistic freedoms show everyday Soviet citizens t...
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Episode 59 - Soviet Afghan War 5: The Rise of Najibullah from 2019-07-15T11:31:29
Babrak Karmal is a failure and the Soviets know he has to be replaced if they are ever going to get a functioning Afghan government. Enter Muhammed Najibullah, a mass murdering psychopath.
Episode 58 - Soviet Afghan War 4: Operation Cyclone from 2019-07-08T11:28:10
As the Soviets got bogged down in Afghanistan the United States and its allies are helping the Afghan rebels, but only with a little cash and small arms. This all changes when an alcoholic, drug ad...
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Episode 57 - Soviet Afghan War 3: The Lion of the Panjshir from 2019-07-01T07:28:12
The Soviet Army digs in for the long haul while a Tajik warlord named Ahmed Shah Massoud makes them pay for every inch of land they take.
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Episode 56 - Soviet Afghan War 2: Operation Storm 333 from 2019-06-24T11:37:17
Another Afghan head of state is assassinated and replaced with an even more insane despot. The Soviets decide if anyone is going to assassinate the President, it is going to be THEM.
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Episode 55 - Soviet Afghan War 1: A Revolution of Drunks from 2019-06-17T11:33:58
On part 1 of the Soviet Afghan War the Afghan King is overthrown leading to a series of coups, counter coups, and purges that would eventually set the stage for Soviet intervention.
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Episode 54 - One Year Anniversary Q & A from 2019-06-10T11:33:24
You sent us questions and we answered them. Things got weird.
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Episode 53 - The Donkey Reading Series: Max Boot from 2019-06-03T17:07:12
On this entry into the DRS Joe and Travis read Max Boot's "Why winning and losing are irrelevant in Syria and Afghanistan" from the Washington Post. It might just be the dumbest fucking thing ever ...
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Episode 52 - The Battle of Agincourt from 2019-05-27T11:29:06
On this episode more inbred people beef over turf, English longbowmen drowned French knights in shallow puddles, and Joe mispronounces everything to do with England.
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Episode 51 - The Dogs (and bear) of War from 2019-05-20T11:34:53
Joe, Nick, and Rich tell the stories of Sergeant Stubby, Chief Dog Sinbad, and Corporal Wojtek BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL SUCH GOOD BOYS.
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Episode 50 - Dowsing for Bombs from 2019-05-13T11:28:59
James McCormick tricked the Iraqi government into buying tens of millions of dollars worth of dowsing rods to find bombs. Hilarity did not ensue.
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Episode 49 - The Kent State Massacre from 2019-05-04T16:28:01
On May 4, 1970 Members of the Ohio Nation Guard gunned down four innocent people at Kent State University. Nobody has ever been held accountable.
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Episode 48 - Easter Rising Part 2: The Provisional Irish Republic from 2019-04-29T14:44:53
On Part 2 of the Easter Rising Home Rule is put on hold while Irish Republicans remember the words of Wolfe Tone: Launch an uprising while the British Empire is distracted fighting a foreign enemy....
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Episode 47 - The Easter Rising Part 1: The Wolfe Tone from 2019-04-22T15:35:42
On this episode we dive into some of the history that caused the 1916 Easter Rising like stealing Irish freedom with the Act of Union, extracting wealth, colonialism, and outright genocide.
Episode 46 - Andersonville Prison from 2019-04-15T14:56:07
On this episode Joe and Nick celebrate Confederate History Month by diving into crimes perpetrated by the Confederate States of America at Andersonville Prison. A POW camp that killed 25% of POWs d...
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Episode 45 - John Walker Lindh, The American Taliban from 2019-04-08T14:34:36
Joe and Nick talk about how a sickly kid who liked to pass his time trolling people on the internet ended up traveling across the world and joining the Taliban and his court case that followed.
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Episode 45 - The USS Pueblo Incident from 2019-04-01T15:24
Joe is joined by Justin Rose to talk about the USS Pueblo Incident. An American spy ship is Captured by North Korea and we do our best not to make any really easy Navy jokes.
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Episode 44 - Gideon Pillow Ft. Matt Palmquist from 2019-03-25T15:11:14
Joe is joined by the purveyor of @civilwarhumor Matt Palmquist to talk about Gideon Pillow. A General who spent his entire life proving the fact that you may be terrible at your job, steal a cannon...
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Episode 43 - The Kargil War from 2019-03-18T15:23:30
On this episode Joe and Travis talk about the Kargil War of 1999. You may have never heard of it but it involves nukes, ice fortresses, World War One style frontal assaults up a mountain, and ice a...
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Episode 42 - The White Rose from 2019-03-11T15:09:20
On this episode Joe and Rich talk about one of the most badass groups of people to ever walk the earth: The White Rose. A non violent anti-war activism group that operated in Nazi Germany.
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Episode 41 - Donkey Reading Series: Why Arabs Lose Wars By Norvell B. De Atkine from 2019-03-04T16:03:17
On this episode Joe and Travis read the famous history article "Why Arabs Lose Wars" by former US Naval Institute professor Norvell B. De Atkine and discover what happens when someone so racist the...
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Episode 40 - The Assholes of Holocaust Denial from 2019-02-25T15:47:57
On this episode Nick and Joe dive into the insane world of Holocaust Denial and why these people shouldn't be debated, they should be attacked.
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Episode 39 - Yemeni Civil War Part 3: Erik Prince's Mercenary Army and the SEAL Death Squad from 2019-02-18T16:24:59
On our final episode of the Yemeni Civil War series the UAE decides they need to buy an army to go with all of their mercenary commanders, and they look no further than Blackwater founder Erik Prin...
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Episode 38 - Yemeni Civil War Part 2: His Excellency General Steve from 2019-02-11T16:28:05
On this episode Joe and Travis talk about how a retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel who once ran a breast enhancement pyramid pill scheme out of his garage became an Officer for the UAE and commit m...
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Episode 37 - Yemeni Civil War Part 1: An Outsourced War from 2019-02-04T16:51:43
Travis takes Joe through the history of Yemen and the nearly constant foreign meddling in it's affairs that brought us to the Yemeni Civil War. He also takes us through the coalition arrayed agains...
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Episode 36 - Volunteering to Fight in the Donbass Ft. Russianwithoutbs from 2019-01-28T15:51:41
On this episode Joe talks to @russiawithoutbs a writer, army veteran, and the closest thing to an expert on the Donbas War that would come and hang out with us.
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Episode 35- The People's Crusade from 2019-01-21T17:44:06
On this episode Joe and Nick dive into the age of the Crusades...kind of.
The People's Crusade was an mob put together by a starving, homeless monk to retake the Holy Land without food, wa...
Episode 34- The Accidental Confederate Suicide Submarine from 2019-01-14T15:45:24
On this episode Joe and Nick talk about the CSS Hunley, the first submarine to ever sink an enemy ship in combat.
Via suicide bombing.
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Episode 33 - Yukio Mishima and the Suicidal Crossfit Cult from 2019-01-07T16:44:39
On this episode Joe and Rich talk about Yukio Mishima, one of the greatest writers Japan has ever produced, as well as a psychotic devotee to the Japanese Emperor who created his own right wing mil...
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Episode 32- Everyone is a Nazi! from 2018-12-31T10:14:02
On this episode Joe is joined by Army Veteran and one of the characters from The Hooligans of Kandahar, Mike Huang to talk about how a number of people ended up volunteering for the German Army dur...
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Unlocked Bonus Episode: The Battle of Hogwarts from 2018-12-25T14:52:43
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Episode 31- A lesson on recent Kurdish History from 2018-12-24T21:14:07
Joe is joined by Travis Haycraft again to talk about the countless misconceptions people have about Kurdish history, the Peshmerga, the SDF, and we talk about the hilarious story where a group of r...
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Episode 30 - PragerU is Bad for America Ft. Justin Rose from 2018-12-17T12:35:54
On this episode Joe is joined by Justin Rose. Justin is a Marine and US Army Veteran and host of the Everything is Awful Podcast to talk about the dangers of Historical Revisionism and the bastardi...
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Episode 30 - PragerU is Bad for America from 2018-12-17T11:35:54
On this episode Joe is joined by Justin Rose. Justin is a Marine and US Army Veteran and host of the Everything is Awful Podcast to talk about the dangers of Historical Revisionism and the bastardi...
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Episode 29- The Mahmudiyah Murders from 2018-12-10T12:03:57
On this episode Joe is joined by Riley Dosh, a recent graduate of West Point, to talk about one of the most heinous crimes of the Iraq War, the rape and murder of Abeer Al-Janabi by US Soldiers.
Episode 28 - Iran Iraq War Part 6: The Wild and Wacky World of Iraqi Weapons from 2018-12-03T10:52:56
We aren't done quite yet! Joe is joined by Travis Haycraft as Travis takes us on the wild, insane, and criminal world of Iraq's weapons procurement program during the war and it's effects.
Episode 27- Iran Iraq War Part 5: And then things got worse from 2018-11-26T21:29:59
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Episode 26 - Iran Iraq War Part 4: Marsh Madness! from 2018-11-19T10:43:34
On the 4th part of our Iran Iraq War series Joe is joined in the studio by Tom to talk about the insanity of the Battle of the Marshes and that one time Iraq built an entire road out of corpses.
Episode - 25 Iran Iraq War Part 3 - Who Needs a Blue Wave When You Have A Human Wave? from 2018-11-12T10:01:54
On part 3 Saddam's army quickly falls apart as the Iranians launch wave after wave of screaming volunteers at their trenches.
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Episode 24 - Iran Iraq War Part 2: An Army Full of Red Shirts from 2018-11-05T20:19:28
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Episode 23- Iran-Iraq War Part 1: Revolution! from 2018-10-29T09:24:50
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Episode 22 - Jade Helm from 2018-10-22T09:49:33
On this episode Joe and Nick fly off the deep end talking about the origins and stupidity of one of the internet's favorite military conspiracy theories.
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Episode 21 - Halloween Special from 2018-10-15T08:07:22
On our first halloween special Joe is joined by true crime and serial killer junkie Rich to discuss a Bela Kiss, otherwise known as the "Hungarian Vampire" who turned his victims into pickles, befo...
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Episode 20 - Meuse Argonne Offensive Ft. Angry Staff Officer from 2018-10-08T21:08:51
Joe is joined by Historian, writer, and host of the War Stories Cast Angry Staff Officer to talk about the 100th Anniversary of the Meuse Argonne Offensive and the development of the US Army from a...
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Episode 19 - Nukes LOL Ft. Marty Pfeiffer from 2018-10-01T13:54:23
On this episode Joe is joined by Nuclear Anthropology PhD student Marty Pfeiffer. Marty takes us through the terrifying history of man's relationship with nuclear weapons from insane chicken powere...
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Episode 18 - The War of 1812 Part 3: let's all pretend this didn't happen from 2018-09-24T13:51:10
On this episode we close out the war of 1812 with style! Joe is joined by Flynn while Nick is away and we discuss the ending to the most pointless war in American history (psych!)
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Episode 17 - War of 1812 Part II: Electric Boogaloo from 2018-09-17T14:06:30
On part II of the War of 1812, America bites off more than it can chew as it is kicked out of Canada and begins to burn down Canadian towns in anger. The American Militia is routed from the fields ...
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Episode 16 - War of 1812 Part 1: A Cannonball to the Face from 2018-09-10T14:12:53
It's our first ever series so buckle up as we talk about the beginnings of the War of 1812 between a newborn America and British Empire.
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Episode 15 - The Battle of Jadotville from 2018-09-03T13:46:11
On this episode we discuss the Battle of Jadotville, a little known battle during the Congolese Crisis that pit a company of badly armed Irish UN Peace Keepers against an Army of african tribesman,...
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Episode 14 - The Haditha Massacre from 2018-08-27T05:00:18
On this episode we discuss the Haditha Massacre carried out by members of the US Marine Corps during the Iraq War in 2005 and the cover up that followed.
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Episode 13 - The Great Emu War from 2018-08-20T13:47:47
On this episode we discuss the Great Emu War while simultaneously offending the entire nation of Australia probably.
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Episode 12 - General Butt Naked and the Liberian Civil War from 2018-08-14T01:54:40
On the most depressing episode yet Joe and Nick talk about the Liberian Civil War and a insane, blood drinking, heart eating warlord by the name of General Butt Naked. A man who ran screaming into ...
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Episode 11 - The Battles That Never Were from 2018-08-14T01:48:28
On this episode Joe and Nick talk about Battles that never actually happened! From the Great LA air raid to the Battle of Kransebes, where Joseph II Austrian Army supposedly routed itself. We apolo...
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Episode 10- Listener Q & A from 2018-08-14T01:42:26
On our 10th episode we go to our Emails to answer all the questions that have been sent to us over the last couple of week. Nick finally admits reenacting is cosplay, Joe loses his damn mind about ...
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Episode 9 - German Armor Fails of WWII Ft. Tom from 2018-08-14T01:34:03
Episode 9 brings us our first guest! Tom is an Officer in the United States Army Armor Corps, history graduate, and anonymous shitposter on twitter. On this episode Joe and Tom talk about the stupi...
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episode 8 - The Bonus Army from 2018-08-14T01:27:41
On this episode we talk about the Bonus Army! A rag tag Army of unarmed WW1 veterans to marched on DC to demand the money they were owed. If you think the government has a level headed reaction to ...
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Episode 7 - Retreat From Kabul from 2018-08-14T01:07:13
On our seventh episode we jump back in time to The Great Game. The British Empire invades Afghanistan and puts the most truthworthy idiot to ever be promoted general in charge. Nick has a hot take ...
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Episode 6 - The Second French Intervention in Mexico from 2018-08-14T01:04:01
On this episode we talk about the Second French Intervention in Mexico. France makes an attempt at regime change in Mexico. Hilarity ensues.
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Episode 5- Pavel Grachev from 2018-08-14T00:29:55
On this episode we talk about Pavel Grachev, the Russian Minister of Defense who ordered the storming of Grozny while piss drunk during the First Chechen War.
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Episode 4 - The House Built Out of Dead Nazis from 2018-08-14T00:21:58
On this episode of the Lions Led by Donkeys we talk about Sergeant Yakov Pavlov and his Soviet House of Death during the Battle of Stalingrad. Nick chugs Vodka to keep his horrible illness at bay l...
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Episode 3 - Bill Millin from 2018-08-14T00:17:29
On episode three we talk about Bill Millin, the Mad Piper of Sword Beach and how sometimes you just have to fight fascism without wearing underwear. We touch on Nick's time storming the beaches of ...
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Episode 2 - Sir Douglas Haig from 2018-08-14T00:14:26
On this episode Joe and Nick talk about Field Marshal Douglas Haig who led the majority of the UK's efforts during WW1, including the brutal battles of the Somme and Passchendaele.
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