That photo is a mood -- squat-leaning against a black Lada while wearing Soviet-era KGB digital frontier camp while wearing a brown jacket as his AK-74 sits in his crotch area.

"I am a dumb ape" -- Liam Anderson being deeply sarcastic.

The same sort of people (Sturmtruppen and Freikorps members) pretty much ran Latvia in 1918-1919. The Latvians hated them.

Paratroopers angry at the loss of Afghanistan and pissed that the money was starting to go away. That's why they went in for blood.

"Junta" is a Spanish word ("meeting"), so "J" has a "H" sound, like in "Juan": hoon-tah.

Joe is Joined by the crew of the Brigham Young Money Podcast as they regale him with the story of militant mormonism. 

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Episode 147 - The Terrible History of the Nauvoo Legion

A return of the animal episode! 

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Episode 149 - War Duck

Jack Churchill was a lunatic and one of the most interesting people to ever run screaming onto an enemy beach while wielding a sword.

sources:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/mad-jack-churchill
https://www.historynet.com/the-daring-exploits-of-mad-jack-churchill.htm
https://www.badassoftheweek.com/jackchurchill
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/jack-churchill-carry-a-sword.html
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2019/01/07/mad-jack-churchill-a-rare-breed-of-warrior/

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Episode 151 - Mad Jack Churchill

Mathew Charles Lamb was Canada's first spree shooter. He was found insane and locked up in a psych ward. He was then dosed with acid, deemed sane, and went off to fight and die in Rhodesia. 

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Sources:

Will Toffan. Watching the Devil Dance

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ogRFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5820%2C4561932

https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC3002_08/869?r=0&s=2

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yEM_AAAAIBAJ&dq=matthew-charles-lamb&pg=2021%2C3005270

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oARFAAAAIBAJ&dq=mathew%20lamb&pg=5652%2C3419165

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qj9VAAAAIBAJ&dq=lamb%20canada%20rhodesia&pg=4006%2C2766738

Episode 158 - Mathew Charles Lamb: The Spree Shooter Turned Racist War Hero

Germany gets involved and throws its entire airborne corps into a woodchipper. 

*correction, England has won a World Cup.  In 1966.

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Episode 186 - The Greco-Italian War Part 2: The Battle of Crete

What happens when white nationalists, neo nazis, and Black despots team up to try to prolong apartheid in South Africa?  One of the dumbest coup attempts of all time. 

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Sources: 

The Death of Apartheid: The Whites Last Stand

https://web.archive.org/web/20150924104002/http://www.southafrica.info/10years/tenyearsago2.htm
http://www.law.buffalo.edu/content/dam/law/restricted-assets/pdf/faculty/mutuaM/magazines/arJulyAug94.pdf
Allister Sparks. Tomorrow Is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa's Road to Change

Episode 188 - The Bophuthatswana Coup

It turns out a 2 week long war has 100 years of history

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The Guns of August 2008: Russia's War in Georgia

Episode 190 - 2008 Russo-Georgian War Part 1: Civil War and Amphibious Mafia Landings

The war begins and ends. Russia steals an entire navy. 

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Episode 191 - 2008 Russo-Georgian War Part 2: Grand Theft Navy

One of the deadliest men who has ever walked the earth probably was too short to ride a rollercoaster.

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Episode 88 - Winter War Part 4: The White Death

Tom Cruise is the worst pirate ever.

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*Unlocked* Valkyrie

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. 

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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

Episode 142 - Castle Itter

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.

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