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Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

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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. Our podcast will always be free, but if you think what we do is worth a buck you can throw us one here: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
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Episodes

Episode 369 - The Order: Part 4

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys The conclusion to our series on The Order

Jun 30, 2025•1 hr 29 min

Episode 368 - The Order: Part 3

Support the show on Patreon and get the next episode in The Order series immediately www.patreon.com/posts/131566993

Jun 23, 2025•1 hr 28 min

*PREVIEW* The Raid on IJmuden

This is a preview. For the entire episode support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/131734686?pr=true

Jun 18, 2025•11 min

Episode 367 - The Order: Part 2

Support the show on Patreon and get the next episode in The Order series immediately https://www.patreon.com/posts/131566993?pr=true Come see us in London June 22nd! https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/

Jun 16, 2025•1 hr 29 min

*PREVIEW* The Blue House Raid

COME SEE US LIVE IN LONDON! https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ For this week's bonus, we're discussing the late-'60s insurgency in South Korea, back at a time when the DMZ was more of a concept than an actual barrier, and the North Korean military trained an elite commando unit to sneak across the border in 1968 with a mission to kill South Korean president Park Chung-Hee. They got... closer than you might think. Get the whole episode ...

Jun 11, 2025•11 min

Episode 366 - The Order: Part 1

SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Come see us in London June 22nd: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ Tom takes us on a journey exploring the origins and crimes of The Order, an American Neo Nazi terror group led by a dork ass loser and adult convert to Mormonism. Sources: The Order: Inside America’s Racist Underground by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt The Long History of White Nationalism in America by George ...

Jun 09, 2025•1 hr 28 min

*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 16: Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket

GET THE FULL EPISODE ON PATREON HERE: patreon.com/posts/130683478 COME SEE US IN LONDON JUNE 22ND: bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led…ival-southbank/ Freed from the oppressive yoke of G Gundam, we venture into a different OVA series where Gundam is actually... good? We watched Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, a show about the horrors of war seen through the eyes of a child who, while not exactly bright or good at school, is somehow able to outsmart every single adult in this show. To...

Jun 04, 2025•11 min

Episode 365 - The War of the Oaken Bucket

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys COME SEE US IN LONDON JUNE 22ND: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ In which the casus belli of two 14th-century Italian city states going to war was, in popular consciousness at least, the theft of a town's wooden bucket. Some Germans get involved as well. Sources used: https://allthatsinteresting.com/war-of-the-bucket https://www.historynet.com/what-we-learned-fro...

Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 9 min

Episode 364 - The Pastry War

Come see us live in London June 22nd: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ A conflict breaks out between a newly independent Mexico and a newly back-to-having-kings France. It culminates in a small series of armed incursions and blockades in 1838-39. Did it start because of an aggrieved French baker? Did Napoleon’s armies advance the science of military optics because their commander wanted to look at feet? In this episode (the first one...

May 25, 2025•1 hr 16 min

*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 15: The G Gundam Finale

We finally did it! Thank you for joining us on this very stupid journey. GET THE REST OF THE EPISODE HERE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/128927315 COME SEE US LIVE IN LONDON JUNE 22ND bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led…ival-southbank/

May 19, 2025•10 min

Episode 363 - The 1977 Dutch Train Hijacking

COME SEE US IN LONDON: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ A Moluccan terror group took over a train in the Netherlands, leading to the longest train hijacking in history. It only ends when Dutch Commandos launch one of the worst rescue operations in European history. Sources: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9789048555796-004/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOopTs6kSVyzglNe9ZE0NzwO_2weL5McjhDU6iWQ3mOsH7_gDPyjF https://ww...

May 19, 2025•1 hr 33 min

Episode 362 - Task Force Baum

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys GET YOUR TICKETS TO SEE US IN LONDON JUNE 22ND: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ George Patton launches a very badly thought-out mission to rescue his son-in-law from a POW camp. Sources: http://oflag64.us/ewExternalFiles/whitaker-richard-tfb-article.pdf https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/costly-failure-pattons-raid-liberate-hammelburg https://www.warh...

May 12, 2025•1 hr 12 min

Episode 361 - The K Class Submarine and the Battle of May Island

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Come see us live in London June 22nd: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ Once upon a time, the British Navy built one of the worst submarines ever put to sea and then promptly smashed them into one another repeatedly. Sources: N.S Nash. K Boat Catastrophe: Eight Ships and Five Collisions. Edwyn Gray. Disasters of the Deep: A Comprehensive Survey of Submarine Acciden...

May 05, 2025•1 hr 18 min

Episode 360 - The Armenian Genocide: Part 4

Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys COME SEE US LIVE ON JUNE 22ND: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ The conclusion to the Armenian Genocide series.

Apr 28, 2025•1 hr 39 min

Episode 359 - The Armenian Genocide: Part 3

Support the show on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys GET TICKETS TO SEE US ON JUNE 22ND IN LONDON: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ Part 3/4 For full bibliography see episode 1 show notes.

Apr 21, 2025•1 hr 28 min

*PREVIEW* The Great Locomotive Chase LIVE IN LONDON

Come see us live in London June 22nd at the Big Fat Festival: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ Joe and Tom take the stage at Rich Mix to tell the story about the world's first military high speed train chase. Get the whole episoide on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/126771552

Apr 17, 2025•11 min

Episode 358 - The Armenian Genocide: Part 2

Come see us live in London June 22nd at the Big Fat Festival: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Part 2/4 Sources: Ronald Grigor Suny. They Can Live in the Desert and Nowhere Else. Peter Bakalian. Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response Taner Akçam. Killing Orders: Talat Pasha's Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide Taner Akçam. The Spirit of the ...

Apr 14, 2025•1 hr 28 min

*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 14: Horse Gundam (Real)

Episodes 38-42 of G Gundam involve a horse being made to pilot a gundam. Is this animal abuse? Which country does the horse represent? Get the full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/126238814 TICKETS FOR APRIL 11TH: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreator https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266999251869?aff=oddt...

Apr 08, 2025•11 min

*UNLOCKED* LIVE SHOW: The Voyage of the Damned (Live in London 2024)

Joe, Tom, and Nate live in London talk about the time the Russian Empire sent a fleet around the world to fight the Japanese Imperial Navy. COME SEE US LIVE IN LONDON! We're performing at Rich Mix in Shoreditch on Friday, 11th April. Tickets availbable here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreator THERE'S ALSO A LIVESTREAM: get tickets to view the April 11th show from anywhere in the world! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreator Get more bonus episodes ...

Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 42 min

Episode 357 - The Armenian Genocide: Part 1

Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Live show tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreator Live stream tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreator This is the story of the Metz Yegern, The Great Evil Crime, or, what it would later become known as, the Armenian Ge...

Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 26 min

*PREVIEW* The Upper/Lower Canada Rebellions feat. Quinn

All good rebellions start at a bar. Note that we did not say 'successful' there. Quinn from the Failure to Launch podcast joins us as a guest host to discuss a time when francophone and anglophone Canadians joined forces to fight the British in hopes of declaring independence. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/125794323 COME SEE US LIVE IN LONDON! We're performing at Rich Mix in Shoreditch on Friday, 11th April. Tickets availbable here: https://www.eventbrite.c...

Apr 02, 2025•11 min

Episode 356 - The American Suicide Fleet of WWI

GET YOUR LIVE SHOW TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreator LIVE STREAM TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreator SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys When America entered WWI they found their Navy seriously lacking. To fill the gap, FDR bought a bunch of ya...

Mar 31, 2025•1 hr 16 min

Episode 355 - The Turtle, The World's First Combat Submarine

Liveshow tickets are now available for April 11th in London: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreator Livestream tickets are also available for those who can't make it: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreator SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys The Turtle was the world's f...

Mar 24, 2025•1 hr 13 min

Episode 354 - The 1813 Battle of Medina

Liveshow tickets are now available for April 11th in London: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreator Livestream tickets are also available for those who can't make it: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreator PRE ORDER YOUR EMU JIMA SHIRT HERE: https://llbdmerch.com/products/llbd-emu-jima-shirt SUPPORT THE ...

Mar 17, 2025•1 hr 21 min

Episode 353 - The Death of Carthage

Liveshow tickets are now available for April 11th in London: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreator Livestream tickets are also available for those who can't make it: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreator PRE ORDER YOUR EMU JIMA SHIRT HERE: https://llbdmerch.com/products/llbd-emu-jima-shirt SUPPORT THE ...

Mar 10, 2025•1 hr 19 min
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