Bunkers! Fraud! A guy robbing a bank with a rocket launcher! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2000/03/jarvis.htm https://unherd.com/2022/01/how-albania-became-a-pyramid-scheme/ https://theculturetrip.com/europe/albania/articles/the-pyramid-crisis-in-albania/ https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/albania.htm
Mar 29, 2021•2 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joe is Joined by the crew of the Brigham Young Money Podcast as they regale him with the story of militant mormonism. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Mar 22, 2021•2 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast "A nation for a nation" Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://apnews.com/article/tel-aviv-international-news-israel-ap-top-news-69cb4cdfab7d416a968b95aef87d18c1 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-an-eye-for-an-eye-jews-who-sought-to-kill-germans-in-revenge-for-the-holocaust-1.8094962 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/26/second.world.war Lang, Berel (1996). "Holocaust Memory and Revenge: The Presence of the Past". Jewish Social St...
Mar 15, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Monte becomes one of the greatest military commanders in Armenian history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Mar 08, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Monte joins the Armenian Secret Army and sets off on an international mission of "armed propaganda" Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Mar 01, 2021•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast The story of how a regular kid from a California suburb ended up as a military hero of Armenia. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Melkonian, Markar. My Brother's Road: An American's Fateful Journey to Armenia
Feb 22, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32622651 https://www.historynet.com/the-battle-for-castle-itter.htm https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/itter-castle-strangest-battle-world-war-ii-152721
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast When 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. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/employees-danzig-post-office-fought-germans-15-hours-invasion-poland-captured htmlhttps://libcom.org/history/defence-polish-post-office-danzig https://web.archive.org/web/20060502021616/http:...
Feb 08, 2021•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Rwanda invades Congo using a fleet of hijacked planes to spark the Second Congo War. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://warisboring.com/bomb-the-other-side-of-the-runway/ https://www.economist.com/international/1998/09/03/heading-for-an-african-war https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/08/25/angola-sends-thousands-of-troops-to-back-kabila/c5da7c99-0f4a-469a-8a32-a74d46b79a0d/ https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/10/world/pilot-s-account-seems-t...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast A group of nazis, KKK, and gangsters Voltron together to come up with the dumbest attempted invasion in American history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Bell, Stewart. The Bayou of Pigs http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/ron-paul-was-implicated-in-attempted-white-supremacist-island-invasion/
Jan 25, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eugene Debs organizes the working class and fights back against American entry into WWI. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fiery-socialist-challenged-nations-role-wwi-180969386/ https://debsfoundation.org/index.php/landing/debs-biography/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/wilson-eugene-debs/
Jan 18, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast South Korea starts an assassination squad made out of petty criminals and dudes who look kind of in shape. Hilarity does not ensue. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/18/asia/south-korea-failed-assassination-squad-unit-684-intl/index.html http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20050824000044 https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/world/south-korean-movie-unlocks-door-on-a-once-secret-past.html
Jan 11, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the conclusion of our series Vietnam liberates Cambodia and slaps around another world power. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Jan 04, 2021•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Dec 28, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode 134 - The Khmer Rouge Part 2: Year Zero by
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Part 1 of 4 on the rise and fall of the Khmer Rouge sources for all 4 episodes: Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison A Cambodian odyssey The Pol Pot Regime When The War Was Over: Cambodia And The Khmer Rouge Revolution Cambodia: Year Zero Vickery, Micheal. Cambodia, 1975-1982 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Dec 14, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 5,000$ for displaced and at need victims of the recent war in Armenia. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Dec 07, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast naval incompetence, sharks, and suicide oh my! Support the show :https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/ships/modern-ships/indianapolis.html https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/surviving-sinking-uss-indianapolis https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/sinking-ussindianapolis/narrative-of-the-circumstances.html https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23455951 https://www.smithsonian...
Nov 30, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast During WWII partisans came in all shapes, sizes, and ages. And sometimes death was 15 years old and riding a bicycle. Listen to It Came From the Sea @fromtheseapod Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/nazi-germany-dutch-resistance-freddie-truus-oversteegen-hannie-schaft-a9188306.html https://www.history.com/news/dutch-resistance-teenager-killed-nazis-freddie-oversteegen Poldermans, Sophie. Seducing and Killing...
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast The conclusion of the Third Servile War Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys follow us on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lionsledbydonkeyspod
Nov 16, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rome really loves enslaving people. Spartacus disagrees. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources for all related episodes: Appian. Civil Wars. Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. "The Life of Crassus." "The Life of Pompey" Bradley, Keith. Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989
Nov 09, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast One day in in 1946 a group of WWII Veterans grabbed their weapons and went to war against police brutality and electoral fraud. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.americanheritage.com/battle-athens https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/battle-athens-group.html http://csws.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/2000-White-Bill-Transcript.pdf
Nov 02, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joe and Nick talk about all the times the militaries of the world attempted to weaponize the powers of woo woo bullshit. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.history.com/news/cia-esp-espionage-soviet-union-cold-war https://taskandpurpose.com/history/5-true-stories-militarys-paranormal-activity-research https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/soldiers-vampires-ghosts Blum, William. Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII https://scien...
Oct 26, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Folks, it's bad. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/dirty-painful-death-president-james-garfield https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/09/19/garfield-assassination-white-house-doctors-lied/ https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/health/25garf.html https://medium.com/@simoncarryer/damn-near-killed-him-30042c796e29 https://nypost.com/2016/09/22/the-inept-doctor-who-killed-president-garfield/
Oct 19, 2020•2 hr 32 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Check out our store: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Sources: https://www.msf.org/kunduz-hospital-attack-depth https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/afghanistan-marking-six-years-us-attack-msf-hospital-kunduz https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Oct 12, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Life aboard a U-boat during WWII was horrible but thankfully short from all the dying. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Correction: During the show Joe says he couldn't find reports of U-Boat crews killing themselves. Someone pointed out it happened at least once in this incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zschech Sources: Iron Coffins by Herbert Warner https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/horrors-of-serving-a-u-boat.html https://warisboring.com/...
Oct 05, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tom Cruise is the worst pirate ever. Support the show to get more bonus episodes like this: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Follow our Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/lionsledbydonkeyspod
Oct 04, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 incompetence. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://interestingengineering.com/broken-arrows-the-worlds-lost-nuclear-weapons https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/17483/8-nuclear-weapons-us-has-lost https://www.introtoglobalstudies.com/2012/10/broken-arrow-lost-nuclear-we...
Sep 28, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast The war ends and the world sets itself on course for nuclear hellfire. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources regarding propaganda discussed at the end of the show: WARNING: This is explicit porn. In case you want to just read what a historian Tim Clark wrote about this piece when it appeared in 2013 exhibition, Shunga: Sex and pleasure in Japanese art, 1600-1900. "Popular print culture in Japan was extensively mobilised to support the country’s war effort in the Rus...
Sep 21, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Russian Navy sets off on a one way journey into naval history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Sep 14, 2020•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast