James McCormick tricked the Iraqi government into buying tens of millions of dollars worth of dowsing rods to find bombs. Hilarity did not ensue. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy a shirt: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store follow us on twitter: @lions_by sources: https://slate.com/technology/2013/04/dowsing-for-bombs-maker-of-useless-bomb-detectors-convicted-of-fraud.html https://borderlandsciences.org/journal/vol/ie/Janks_Empirical_Evidence_fo...
May 13, 2019•55 min
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. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow us on Twitter @lions_by sources: https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/kent-state-shooting https://time.com/5583301/kent-state-photos/ https://www.kent.edu/may-4-historical-accuracy http://movies2.nytimes...
May 04, 2019•58 min
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. Support Dogs For the Disabled: https://dogsfordisabled.ie Buy your very own Irish Republic shirt: https://teespring.com/shop/easter-rising-1916?tsmac=recently_viewed&tsmic=recently_viewed#pid=2&cid=566&sid=front Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Follow us on twitt...
Apr 29, 2019•56 min
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. Support the Dogs For the Disabled charity: https://dogsfordisabled.ie Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Sources: Tim Pat Coogan. 1916: The Easter Rising
Apr 22, 2019•55 min
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 during the war. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/home buy a shirt! https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow us on Twitter @lions_by Sources: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/andersonville-prison https://allthatsinteresting.com/andersonville-prison http://www.civ...
Apr 15, 2019•46 min
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. Follow us @lions_by Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Get some merchandise: https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store sources: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/my-letters-john-walker-lindh-american-jidahist/590071/ https://www.npr.org/2019/05/...
Apr 08, 2019•1 hr 43 min
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. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow the show @lions_by sources: https://www.npr.org/2018/01/23/580076540/looking-at-the-saga-of-the-uss-pueblo-50-years-later https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/01/...
Apr 01, 2019•59 min
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, and never learn how to read a map but if your best friend is the President you can do whatever you want. Follow Matt: @civilwarhumor Support the show and get more content: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys buy some merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow th...
Mar 25, 2019•58 min
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 axe murder. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow us on Twitter: @lions_by Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20090327120658/http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/research/kargil/war_in_kargil.pdf Amarinde...
Mar 18, 2019•1 hr 9 min
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. A little warning: We had some recording issues during this episode. Our producer did what he could to save it. Support the show https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys buy some merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow us on twitter: @Lions_by Sources: https://whiteroseinter...
Mar 11, 2019•47 min
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 they could have worked for the East India Trading Company ends up having an impact in American Foreign Policy. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store follow us on twitter: @lions_by @jkass99 @haycraft_travis...
Mar 04, 2019•1 hr 25 min
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. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow us: @lions_by @jkass99 @nickcasm1 Sources: Deborah Lipstadt. Denying the Holocaust. https://www.ushmm.org/antisemitism/holocaust-denial-and-distortion https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideo...
Feb 25, 2019•57 min
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 Prince. All while a Mossad agent teams up with the former head of Palestinian Security to put together a death squad made up of former and current US Navy SEALs to assassinate the UAE's political opponents in Aden. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys buy a shirt: https://teespring.c...
Feb 18, 2019•53 min
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 massive war crimes against the Yemeni people. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some merch: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store follow the show on twitter: @lions_by Follow Joe: @jkass99 follow Travis: @haycraft_travis
Feb 11, 2019•54 min
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 against the Houthi uprising and how the US and other western powers support rampant war crimes. Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Or TeeSpring: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow the show on twitter: @lions_by Joe: @jkass99 Travis: @Haycraft_tr...
Feb 04, 2019•58 min
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. He tells us the story about the truth of volunteering to fight in Ukraine, the inefficiency of the Ukrainian Army, and the impact of propaganda in a regional conflict. Follow him at @russiawithoutthebs Donate to his patreon so he can create more content: https://www.patreon.com/russiawithoutbs Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/li...
Jan 28, 2019•1 hr 17 min
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, water, weapons, or military training. Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow us on twitter: @lions_by Sources: Extra History, the First Crusade. The First Crusade. A New History
Jan 21, 2019•58 min
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. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some merch: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20121016165452/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87/usw/issue_32/hunley.html https://books.google.com/books?id=txP7dIf1fEkC&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false https://web.archive.org/web/2003...
Jan 14, 2019•56 min
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 militia based around working out in thongs and fucking. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys buy some merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow the show @lions_by Follow Joe: @jkass99 sources: https://www.stonebridge.com/sbp-blog/death-in-mid-autumn...
Jan 07, 2019•1 hr 39 min
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 during World War Two from a guy who ended up becoming a US Army Green Beret, the son of the founding dictator of Taiwan, and a poor Korean conscript who ended up fighting for everybody on accident. Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some merchandise: https://teespring.com/store...
Dec 31, 2018•1 hr 25 min
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Dec 25, 2018•1 hr 20 min
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 religious conservatives accidentally joined a communist militia to fight ISIS. Follow the show @lions_by follow Travis @haycraft_travis donate to the show and get bonus content! http://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Dec 24, 2018•1 hr 18 min
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 bastardization of facts in the name of politics. PragerU manages to do all of these things in Youtube videos that last less than 5 minutes. Follow the show @Lions_by Follow Joe @jkass99 Follow Justin @Armyguyjustin want to support the show? Donate to our Patreon and get access to all of our bonus content http:...
Dec 17, 2018•1 hr 49 min
