Just like if the musket ball Benedict Arnold caught at Saratoga was a little higher. Then we'd have high schools, bases and ships named after him. Too bad that exception only applies to Confederate traitors.

at this point the cast breaks down at the concept of dino erotica

the Empire of Japan built the largest battleship the world had ever seen and then decided to use it in the dumbest way possible. 

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Sources:
Russel Spurr. A Glorious Way to Die

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/supership/last-nf.html

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/yamato-was-hell-sink%E2%80%94and-it-went-out-bang-nuclear-blast-192257

Episode 237 - The Dumb Life and Dumber Death of the Battleship Yamato

Joe is joined by Nate to talk about the time the Nazis built a death trap out of wood and thought it would be perfect for the Hitler Youth.

Correction:

The Gloster Meteor was a jet that also saw limited action in WWll

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Sources:
http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/aircraft/Heinkel-Salamander.html
http://www.aviation-history.com/heinkel/he162.html
https://shop.historynet.com/blogs/new-the-latest-from-historynet-com/the-10-worst-fighters-of-world-war-ii
https://www.hotcars.com/the-me-262-the-fighter-that-could-have-changed-world-war-2/
Christopher, John (2013). The Race for Hitler's X-Planes.

Episode 247 - The Wooden Nazi Jet Made for Kids

Joe, Nate, and Tom talk about the Soviet all woman night bomber unit of WWII that terrorized the Nazis and pissed off Soviet men. 

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sources:
https://www.history.com/news/meet-the-night-witches-the-daring-female-pilots-who-bombed-nazis-by-night
https://www.wrightmuseum.org/2020/10/01/the-soviet-night-witches/
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/who-were-the-soviet-night-witches
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/06/night-witches-wwii-female-pilots

Episode 248 - The Night Witches of WWII

Joe and Nate begin the story of one of the most legendary battles from the beginning of WWI. It is much dumber than you think.

Part 1/3

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Episode 250 - The Battle of Tannenberg Part 1: Deadly German Swamp Ass

The story of the battle of tannenberg continues part 2/3

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Episode 251 - The Battle of Tannenberg Part 2: A Wild T Rex Appears

The conclusion to the Battle of Tannenberg series

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Episode 252 - The Battle of Tannenberg Part 3: The Not So Battle of Tannenberg

Joe, Tom, and Nate talk about the time that Crusaders forgot that humans need water to live. 

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Sources:
Nicholson, R. L.  Joscelyn III and the Fall of the Crusader States

Phillips, Jonathan (2002), The Crusades 1095–1187

Lacey, James. Crushed at the Horns of Hattin

Episode 253: The Battle of Hattin

A sex worker turned pirate queen builds a more powerful navy than the entire navy of China.

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Sources:
Murray, Dian H. Pirates of the South China Coast, 1790-1810

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ching-shih-chinese-female-pirate

Episode 254 - Zheng Yi Sao, The Pirate Queen of China

Crassus attempts to go to war to build his own resume. He ignores everyone's advice and marches his legions into the most predictable defeat on earth.

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Sources:

Plutarch. Crassus. 

Mary T. Boatwright. The Romans: From Village to Empire

Roman-Persian Wars: The Battle of Carrhae

Episode 255 - The Battle of Carrahae

The Taiping rebellion spreads and the rebels create the world's weirdest gunpowder

Part 2/4

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Episode 257 - The Taiping Rebellion Part 2: Working in the Dog Blood Factory

*CONTENT WARNING*
Joe and Tom discuss The Madness of Francisco Macías Nguema, a dictator nicknamed The Pol Pot of Africa.

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Sources:

Tufts Mass Atrocity Endings for Equatorial Guinea

Paul Kenyon. Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230306160338/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3610187/If-you-think-this-ones-bad-you-should-have-seen-his-uncle.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20230517050409/https://www.icj.org/the-trial-of-macias-in-equatorial-guinea-the-story-of-a-dictatorship/

Episode 263 - The Madness of Francisco Macías Nguema

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