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Do you want a movie bonus episode every month, or a second bonus history episode?

Currently our Bonus episodes look like this:

1 history episode

1 Lions Led By Robots (either series or movie)

1 History of Armenia (currently in a video series)

1 movie

Due to these being bonus episodes and therefore being on Patreon it is hard to see how many people are listening to what, though it seems more people are happy with the bonus history episodes than the movie based ones. After talking to the team we all had the idea that we could easily switch out ...

BONUS EPISODE: The Kuznetsov, Russia's Cursed Aircraft Carrier

Joe and Nate are joined by Quinn, one of the hosts of the Failure to Launch Podcast to talk about Russia's hilarious attempt to keep an aircraft carrier functioning into the 21st Century.

Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lionsledbydonkeyspodcast7424

Sources:

2024-05-21 07:09:10 +0000 UTC View Post

EARLY EPISODE: The Fall of Confederate New Orleans

Sinking forts, suicide gun boats, and one very dumb fake country.

Check us out on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/@lionsledbydonkeyspodcast7424

Sources:

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/new-orleans-civil-war

2024-05-20 07:07:39 +0000 UTC View Post

BONUS EPISODE: Lions Led By Robots Presents: Real Steel

The zoo crew sits down to watch Wolverine get involved in child robot fighting.

EARLY EPISODE: The Mogami, Japan's Most Unlucky Warship That Refused to Die

Check us out on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lionsledbydonkeyspodcast7424

Japan creates a death trap that becomes so unlucky it becomes known throughout the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII

Sources:

David Lippman. Mogami: Japan's Luckless Cruiser

http://combinedfleet.com/ships/mogami

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Did you know the show is on youtube?

Well, it is.

EARLY EPISODE: The Weather Underground: Part 2

The conclusion to the Weather Underground story

The Hooligans of Kandahar ebook

Thank you for supporting the show, you can find your epub file attached below!

Warriors of Armenia: Episode 4

Content warning: graphic description of war crimes

BONUS: The Sharpe Show 10: Sharpe's Siege

Sharpe returns for the Battle of Bordeaux and it sucks. There’s a lot of plot about what happens when a soldier skips doing an ambush to get laid, which is something Sharpe is allowed to do but no one else is for some reason.

FYI: we’re taking a Sharpe hiatus after this because these movies are so bad.

EARLY EPISODE: The Weather Underground: Part 1

Tom takes the wheel and tells Joe about the time a man created a terror organization in order to get laid.

BONUS EPISODE: Lions Led By Robots 7: Piss Gundam

G Gundam introduces a German Ninja for some reason.

EARLY EPISODE: The 1527 Sack of Rome

The King of Spain hires a bunch of mercenaries to go to war and refuses to pay them leading to them sacking Rome for a paycheck.

Sources:

https://www.historynet.com/rome-ravaged/

https://www.medievalists.net/2022/06/sack-rome-1527/

2024-04-22 06:07:38 +0000 UTC View Post

The conclusion to Joe's new sci fi series is now available!

EARLY EPISODE: The Battle of Flodden Field

Scotland invades England with one of the largest armies in Scottish History and nearly wipe out their own government in the process.

Sources:

 https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Marmion--A-Tale-of-Flodden-Field/

2024-04-15 05:55:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Merch is back up in the store!

We have live show and other merch left over. Go grab it while it's available!

Vote for the next Zoo Crew Film episode

UNLOCKED: The Death of Mussolini

The story of how a very stupid dictator ended up swinging upside down in front of a cheering crowd.

sources:

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/death-of-benito-mussolini

https://www.history.com/news/mussolinis-final-hours

2024-04-10 15:31:19 +0000 UTC View Post

EARLY EPISODE: Task Force Smith

In the opening stages of the Korean War the US sent a badly underarmed, undermanned Task Force to blunt the advance of the entire North Korean military. It did not go great.

Sources:

https://www.historynet.com/rush-disaster-task-force-smith/

https://www.thenmus...

EARLY EPISODE: The Battle of Brisbane

Joe and Nate talk about the time a bunch of drunken American soldiers caused a pitched battle between themselves and their allies while stationed in Australia during WWII

Correction: Indigenous Australians were given Australian citizenship at the same time other Australians (1949) however, the quality of that citizenship was not equal to that of non-indigenous Australians. This continued for decades and as many indigenous Australian activists have pointed out, continues ...

The Hooligans of Kandahar ebook

Is attached below! Thanks for supporting the show!

Warriors of Armenia: Episode 3

Grigor Boghosyan was a local volunteer in both the First and Second Karabakh Wars. This is his story.

*Just because our production team interviewed him does not mean we agree with all of his statements. Collecting oral histories can lead you to some people who have strange recollections that can be true, false, warped over time, or some version of all three at the same time.

BONUS: The Sharpe Show 9: Sharpe's Regiment

Sharpe rejoins the British Army to root out corruption and the boys talk about the worst pizza party ever

Book 2 of Joe's Ongoing Sci-Fi Series Is Out Now!

Go get it! Or don't! It's your money do with it what you want!

BONUS EPISODE: Lions Led By Robots 6: The Gundam Gimp

Our viewing of G Gundam continues and the show just keeps getting weirder

Himmler Was a Weird Little Freak. Live in London

Night 2 of our live shows in London! 

BONUS: Operation Flipper

Joe, Nate, and Tom talk about the time British commandos attempted to kill Erwin Rommel. It did not go well. 

Note: This was recorded in Jan. Before Toby Keith died.

Sources: 

 https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/operation-flipper-british-commandos-take-on-general-erwin-rommel/

2024-03-10 08:03:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Hooligans of Kandahar Ebook

Thank you for supporting the show

Warriors of Armenia: Episode 2

In September 2023, Azeri armed forces invaded the Republic of Artsakh. The war lasted one day and ended with the fall of the de facto independent state and the genocide of the Armenian population of the region.

Boris Alahverdyan was a soldier in the Artsakh Defence Army on the frontlines during the war. This is his story.

The Voyage of the Damned. Live in London

With video!