In this episode, Joe regales Nate and Tom with the story of the Schwerer Gustav, a novelty oversize rail cannon designed to be as big and stupid as possible. It required you to lay down double track anywhere it went, effectively creating the first Fortnite build mode. It looked like the Magitek Factory except real. It did not work very well and was used far less frequently than you'd expect.
2025-08-18 10:38:25 +0000 UTC View PostLIVESHOW TICKETS FOR OCT 4TH IN GLASGOW AVAILABLE HERE:
LIVESTREAM TICKETS FOR OCT 4TH HERE:
LIVESHOW TICKETS FOR OCT 4TH IN GLASGOW AVAILABLE HERE:
LIVESTREAM TICKETS FOR OCT 4TH HERE:
LIVESHOW TICKETS FOR OCT 4TH IN GLASGOW AVAILABLE HERE:
LIVESTREAM TICKETS FOR OCT 4TH HERE:
LIVESHOW TICKETS FOR OCT 4TH IN GLASGOW AVAILABLE HERE:
LIVESTREAM TICKETS FOR OCT 4TH HERE:
LIVESHOW TICKETS FOR OCT 4TH IN GLASGOW AVAILABLE HERE:
LIVESTREAM TICKETS FOR OCT 4TH HERE:
We got things straightened out with the venue and livestream tickets are now available
2025-07-26 09:04:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe last month or so has been a strange one for Armenia. An attempted coup, the Prime Minister threatened to show his dick to the head of the Armenian Church, and the possible nationalization of the electrical grid. We decided to take a minute to go over these stories and translate them in a way that might make sense to a non-Armenian audience.
2025-07-23 08:12:26 +0000 UTC View PostSEE US LIVE OCT 4TH IN GLASGOW, SCOTLAND:
It is never a good time to go hiking in the swamp with 100,000 of your friends and two Emperors.
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We are going to be live October 4th at the Flying Duck in Glasgow, Scotland! Get your tickets now!
(we are working on streaming options with the venue and when we have that link we will put it here)
2025-07-20 18:05:17 +0000 UTC View Post
It's officially Neon Genesis Evangelion season here at LLBR!
2025-07-16 11:09:53 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, Joe, Nate, and Tom discuss a lesser-known battle in the Crimean War in which the British attempt to capture a city on the Kamchatka Peninsula after getting massively lost at sea (in an era where this wasn't supposed to happen) and getting waylaid when the King of Hawai'i invited them to the barbecue. We are not making any of this up.
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JR Stone. RJ Crampton. 'A Disastrous Affair': The Franco-British Attack on Petropavlovsk. 2025-07-13 17:32:27 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, we revisit the 2000s warrior-scholar fixation of famously-unproblematic guys like David Petraeus with the advent of the Hum
In this episode, we revisit the 2000s warrior-scholar fixation of famously-unproblematic guys like David Petraeus with the advent of the Human Terrain System, or what you might politely call "military anthropology." Is it ethical? No. Did it work? No. Was it run by someone named Dr. Montgomery McFate? Yes.
Sources used:
Gezari, Vanessa....
2025-07-09 05:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostJoe, Nate, and Tom discuss the time that Alexander the Great altered the geography of the planet in order to build a huge land bridge and punish Tyre for not letting him visit the ancient world's most instagrammable temple.
2025-07-06 20:42:48 +0000 UTC View PostJoe, Tom, and Nate take the stage at the Big Fat Festival in London to talk about the time a man scammed the government, killed multiple peo
Joe, Tom, and Nate take the stage at the Big Fat Festival in London to talk about the time a man scammed the government, killed multiple people, and got away with it all while building quite possibly the worst plane that has ever attempted flight.
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Thomas Parramore. First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation. 2025-07-02 12:03:15 +0000 UTC View Post
The British military, faced with the seemingly insurmountable problem of a heavily defended port, decide that there is nothing that methed out kayak-borne commandos on a suicide mission cannot handle.
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CE Lucas Phillips. The Cockleshell Heroes: The Most Courageous and Imaginative Commando Raid of WWII
Quentin Rees. Cockleshell Heroes: The Final Witness.
Robert Lyman. Operation Suicide: The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raid
In Jerusalem, there is a small neighborhood that Armenians have called home since the 4th Century. Throughout wars and forced expulsions, as
In Jerusalem, there is a small neighborhood that Armenians have called home since the 4th Century. Throughout wars and forced expulsions, as well as the Crusader states, Caliphates, and empires— both Ottoman and British —they have survived. However, it seems increasingly likely that the final nail in the coffin will be expansionism by the State...
2025-06-26 08:30:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 31 - the final chapter!
2025-06-20 15:02:48 +0000 UTC View PostSee us live in London this Sunday!
See us live in London this Sunday!
https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/
The US forces pilots to use a plane they can barely fly to bomb a Dutch powerplant with bombs that don't explode, guarded by a German garrison that knows they are coming. It doe...
2025-06-18 09:49:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
COME SEE US LIVE IN LONDON JUNE 22ND
https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/
Part 2/4
2025-06-08 20:53:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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 include entire military organizations and spy agencies?
2025-06-04 12:07:28 +0000 UTC View PostCome 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...
2025-06-01 18:37:05 +0000 UTC View PostOnce upon a time The Republic of Armenia claimed they had cured HIV with a drug called Armenicum. It turns out it was a total lie and a gri
Once upon a time The Republic of Armenia claimed they had cured HIV with a drug called Armenicum. It turns out it was a total lie and a grift that continues to this very day.
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