Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

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#53

all-time peak

days in the top 100 since Nov 2024

Latest episodes

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Episode 430 - The Imjin War: Part 5

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Sep 6
1 h 26 min

*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 31: Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood: Part 5

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Sep 2
10 min

Episode 429 - The Imjin War: Part 4

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Aug 30
1 h 25 min

*PREVIEW* The History of Armenia: The Life and Death of the First Republic: Part 7

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Aug 26
10 min

Episode 428 - The Imjin War: Part 3

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Aug 23
1 h 31 min

*PREVIEW* The French Wars of Religion: Part 4

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Aug 19
10 min

Episode 427 - The Imjin War: Part 2

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Aug 16
1 h 23 min

*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 30: Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood: Part 4

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Aug 12
10 min

Episode 426 - The Imjin War: Part 1

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Aug 9
1 h 21 min

*PREVIEW* Lionel Crabb, The Alcoholic, Chain-Smoking, Rubber Suit Fetishist, MI6 Diver

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Aug 5
10 min

Episode 425 - Peter Ortiz, The Marine Murder Cryptid

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Aug 2
1 h 16 min

Episode 424 - The Cuxhaven Raid

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Jul 26
1 h 00 min

*PREVIEW* The History of Armenia: The Life and Death of the First Republic: Part 6

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Jul 22
9 min

Episode 423 - The Battle of Pork Chop Hill

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Jul 19
1 h 14 min

Episode 422 - The Battle of Galveston

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Jul 12
1 h 02 min

*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots: Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Part 3

Joe and Tom sit down to talk about the next 4 episodes of FMAB. It includes a heartbreaking funeral scene, a hypothetical Slovenian basketball player, getting abandoned o

Jul 8
10 min

Episode 421 - The Battle of Dorylaeum Ft. Failure to Launch

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Jul 6
1 h 09 min

*PREVIEW* Maurice Wilson, The Man Who Wanted To Crash His Plane Into Mount Everest

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Jul 1
10 min

Episode 420 - The Sicilian Expedition

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Jun 29
1 h 20 min

*PREVIEW* The French Wars of Religion: Part 2

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Jun 24
9 min

Chart positions

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#121 ▲ 51 Comedy US

What listeners say

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I’ve been listening since episode 2. Always interesting, sometimes funny, sometimes achingly sad, just like life. Joe is an excellent researcher and presenter. The cast around him has changed through the years, but always complimenting the episode. And buy his books! Great reads!

oldsargecole · May 2025

Joe and his rotating crew manage to stay hilarious while covering the boneheaded leadership of soldiers as their podcast name implies, but also do an excellent job covering the darker side of war and history that we absolutely should not lose sight of. Their respectful coverage of atrocities and genocide while mocking the perpetrators is pure art. If I have any advice it’s to listen to some of the more recent stand alone episodes and then dive into a couple recent series. The earlier episodes are fully worth going back for, but you can definitely tell the production value bump when Nate and Tom were brought on board. I wouldn’t want anyone to decide to bail early because a guy tried his best with what he had in the early days - again the early content is 100% worth going back for, it’s where I got hooked. Also join the patreon, they deserve it, but also the bonus content is worth it!

ChiefSparty · Jan 2025

I’ve spent years looking for great podcasts and this is the best I’ve found so far and think I will ever find. The men who put their lives into this podcast found a great way to deliver knowledge to the listener; the mix of comedy and incredible research leads to the listener being able to go to family dinner with entertaining knowledge of their own cultures. I love this show and absolutely recommend this show to all. Question for the show: have you ever heard of the giants of Kandahar?

TheMountainMan111 · Jan 2025

Started with the Stalingrad series, very interesting and captivating series with well cited sources. Good balance of seriousness and humor, glad I checked it out!

fluffhead2025 · Dec 2024

I was so looking forward to this episode because my dad was in the Aleutians. I was horrified by the accounting, the side kick kept talking through the facts, making most of it inaudible. Most of the show was raucous laughter and stupid remarks. What a shame. Please redo this with tangible explanations and facts without the blathering.

poppiseed11 · Apr 2025

Started listening about a year ago and started from episode 1. Content started great. Different guests would come on and the banter was good. It slowly started moving to no guests hosts anymore and just Nate and Tom talking and interrupting Joe all the time. I get how easy it is to get off topic but the Boar war series was it for me. Maybe an hour of actual content and the rest is Tom and Nate interrupting talking about random stuff and how their day was last week.

pscottmann · Nov 2024

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