you are correct, that is Maxor. and yes, all the videos are fucking hilarious

Mel Carhahan beat Ashcroft despite being dead. Because fuck Ashcroft, he sucks, but also, Carnahan did alright as governor, at least by Missouri standards.

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

During WWI the british navy thought of one of the most pointless battle plans of the entire war. They had to find someone equally worthless to command it. 

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Giles Foden. Mimi and Toutou Go Forth 

Edward Paice. Tip and Run. The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa

Episode 220 - The Battle of Lake Tanganyika Part 1: The Worst Officer in the British Navy

Once upon a time the US Navy went on a scientific expedition based upon the theory of a hollow earth. They murdered swaths of innocent people and the commander went insane, beating and kidnapping most of his own crew. 

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https://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/usexex/

https://archive.org/details/seaofgloryameric00phil

https://www.chimuadventures.com/blog/2016/08/charles-wilkes/

Episode 222 - The Wilkes Expedition

During WWII the Nazis attempted to recruit a team of spies to sabotage factories within the US. Instead what they did was hire a bunch of rejects who took their spy money, got drunk, and hired sex workers until they turned themselves in to the FBI.

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sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inside-story-how-nazi-plot-sabotage-us-war-effort-was-foiled-180959594/

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/nazi-saboteurs-and-george-dasch

https://web.archive.org/web/20151218132240/http://www.montauklife.com/history/history_night_of_the_nazis.html

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/erschiessen-oder-erhaengen-a-77234129-0002-0001-0000-000007859070?context=issue

https://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-german-saboteurs-invade-america-in-1942/

Episode 225 - Operation Pastorious

Joe is joined by producer Nate (@inthesedeserts)to talk about the time the CIA attempted to invade cuba with a handful of guys and some repurposed fishing trawlers. 

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http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2134
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB355/bop-vol3.pdf
https://www.historynet.com/cold-war-bay-of-pigs-invasion/
https://www.historyonthenet.com/the-bay-of-pigs-invasion
https://web.archive.org/web/20160621043713/https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2016-featured-story-archive/the-bay-of-pigs-invasion.html

Episode 241 - The Bay of Pigs Invasion

Once upon a time the United States came shockingly close to annexing the Dominican Republic. 

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/2717114

https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/61771?lang=en

https://news.yahoo.com/1871-us-almost-acquired-dominican-135435379.html

https://www.insider.com/annexation-of-santo-domingo-act-ulysses-grant-dominican-republic-2022-7

CORRECTION:
Samuel Doe was murdered by Prince Johnson, an ally of Charles Taylor, but not Charles Taylor himself.

Episode 249 - How the US Almost Annexed the Dominican Republic

A blind man tries to charge a line of English longbowmen. 
It ends exactly like you think it does.

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Sources:
https://www.historyextra.com/period/plantagenet/what-happened-battle-crecy-edward-iii-hundred-years-war-victory-why/
Andrew Ayton. The Battle of Crécy, 1346 
Andrew Ayton. The Battle of Crécy: Context and Significance
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/edward-iii-and-battle-cr%C3%A9cy
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/death-by-longbow/
https://www.wired.com/2009/08/0826crecy-cannon/

Episode 260 - The Battle of Crecy

The story of the most deadly submarine disaster in American history.

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https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/08/14/questions-about-infamous-lost-sub-thresher-resurface-navy-releases-new-documents-tied-decades-old-mystery.html

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2023/april/what-killed-thresher

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-submarine-sinks-in-atlantic

https://www.naval-technology.com/features/featureperil-in-the-depths-the-worlds-worst-submarine-disasters-4191027/

https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/HotTopics/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2ffoia%2freadingroom%2fHotTopics%2fTHRESHER%20RELEASE

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/rip-how-mechanical-problem-led-uss-thresher-its-eternal-patrol-92421

Norman Polmar. The Death of the USS Thresher

Episode 261 - The USS Thresher

Italy invades Ethiopia, gets churned into a chunky, sauce-like liquid. 

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Raymond Jonas. The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire

Greg Blake. The First Italo-Abyssinian War: The Battle of Adwa

Greg Peduto. Italy's Failed African Gambit

Episode 265 - The Battle Of Adwa

US Marines and Soldiers invade the fortress island of Saipan and end up hating each other almost as much as the Japanese. 

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http://www.battleofsaipan.com/seabee.htm

Philip Crowl, "Campaign in the Marianas", vol. 9

Richard Frank. Downfall: End of the Imperial Japanese Empire

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/saipan-a-crucial-foothold-in-the-marianas/

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/duel-to-the-death/

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-war-between-the-smiths-high-command-feud-at-saipan/

Episode 271 - The Battle Of Saipan

Striking factory workers hold off an attempted amphibious invasion launched by Pinkertons with guns, bombs, and fire ships.

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https://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/homestead-strike

https://battleofhomestead.org/the-battle-of-homestead/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carnegie-strike-homestead-mill/

https://www.americanheritage.com/battle-homestead

https://archive.org/details/jstor-25102447

Episode 278 - The Homestead Strike

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