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MERCH STORE RESTOCK!

We got our designs from our last London and Glasgow live shows up on the store! Go get yours!

Lions Led By Robots 21: Angel Slop

Looking into the watershed of Anno's creative process we're going clanker-light and implicit trauma heavy as we discuss editorial strategy, AI prescience, and how all those NERV console graphics are actually explaining how Joe is related to Madonna.

EARLY EPISODE: The Istanbul Snowball fight

In the early days of English ambassadorships to the Ottoman Empire, an increasingly petty collection of grievances among European envoys and Ottoman dignitaries set the conditions for a single errant snowball to incite an anti-English riot. Witness the story of the snowball that got a bunch of Engli...

BONUS: The English Pirates of the Mediterranean

It's the late 16th century and the Ottoman Empire is continuing to advance across the eastern Mediterranean. In Istanbul, the Ottomans have begun ratifying ambassadorships and trade deals with the English crown. And in the middle of this comes a crew of the most sunburned Barbary Pirates you&#39...

EARLY EPISODE: The Siege of Kars

Towards the end of the Crimean War the Russians invade the Ottoman Empire, coming up against the Fortress City of Kars. Command of the Ottoman forces fall to an old drunk, British man who may or may not be the bastard child of Prince Edward, all of the Turkish officers under him are actually Hungari...

BONUS: The Insane Story of Jonathan Idema

Jonathan Idema, a former Green Beret (kind of) turned conman, grifter, and media personality created a freelance, private torture prison in Afghanistan all while managing to convince several people in multiple governments that he was legit in one of the weirdest stories from America's Global War...

EARLY EPISODE: The Battle of Ap Bac

Early during the US War in Vietnam, incompetent American advisors to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), who is also incompetent, get incredibly mad as they attempt to get them to fight the Viet Cong, despite the fact the Americans never bothered to tell the ARVN about the battle plan, and e...

EARLY EPISODE: The Siege of Przemyśl

In the opening stages of WWI, an Army of 40 year old reservists from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, armed with decades-old weapons and no food, and largely unable to even speak to one another, attempt to hold off the Russian Imperial Army in what became known as "Austria-Hungary's Stalingrad&...

BONUS: 2025 Q&A

We answer your questions! Thank you for your continued support and for making everything we do possible!

Come say Hi at the Crisis 2025 War gaming Convention!

Joe will be hanging out with the Trench Crusade folks on November 1st at the Crisis 2025 War gaming convention in Sint Niklaas, Belgium. Come play Trench Crusade, shoot the shit, bring books to sign, or just say hi!https://www.crisis-event.be/

EARLY EPISODE: The Texas Revolution: Part 4

The conclusion to our series on the Texas Revolution YEEEEEHAAAAW

The History of Georgia and the Anarchist Republic of Guria: Part 2

Our favorite Georgian journalist, Omar Tsotsoria, continues the story of the Gurian Anarchist Republic.

EARLY EPISODE: The Texas Revolution: Part 3

It's the one with the Alamo. Part 3/4

BONUS: Soochow, The Drunk, Racist, Marine Corps Dog LIVE IN GLASGOW

Soochow was a small, racist dog adopted by US Marines stationed in China. They taught it to drink rum and coke from a bowl, eat cigarettes, and, most importantly, survive years in a Japanese POW camp.Sources:The History Detectives. China Marine Jacket. PBSEric Niderost. A Memorable Marine Mascot. WW...

EARLY EPISODE: The Texas Revolution: Part 2

Part 2!

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Lions Led By Robots 20: Multiple Dilemmas

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EARLY EPISODE: The Texas Revolution: Part 1

The first in our four-part series about the Texas Revolution, a story in which some of the drunkest and worst-smelling guys of the 19th century decided to break away from Mexico for... reasons.Sources:Edward Baptist. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American CapitalismRandolph...

The History of Georgia and the Anarchist Republic of Guria: Part 1 (feat. Omar Tsotsoria)

EARLY EPISODE: The Gordon Relief Expedition

BONUS EPISODE: Audie Murphy

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EARLY: Operation Vengeance

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Lions Led By Robots 19: Get In My German Entry Plug

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Q&A form!

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EARLY: The Siege of Alesia

LIVESTREAM TICKETS FOR OCT 4THwww.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-l…-1532091008449CHECK OUT THE MERCH STORE:www.llbdpodcast.com/Julius Caesar and the Gauls create a world's most murderous version of lasanga as regular siege becomes a double siege, turns into the final nail in the coffin of a reb...

BONUS EPISODE: The Battle of Eniwetok

In 1942 the US Pacific campaign wound up creating the circumstances for a tank engagement on a tiny atoll in the middle of the ocean. It was the origin of the expression 'the two-thousand yard stare,' a battle that probably didn't need to happen but still wound up happening, and it invol...

EARLY EPISODE: The Great Siege of Gibraltar (feat. Josh Boerman)

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History of Armenia 44: Victor Maghakian

For this month's History of Armenia, Joe and Ani discuss the history of the most decorated Armenian-American military veteran in US history: a midwest Armenian-American named Victor Maghakian who was, without exaggeration, an absolute beast during the Pacific campaign of World War II.Livestream ...

EARLY EPISODE: The Battle of Lepanto

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Lions Led By Robots 18: Beasting It

For this month's LLBR, Joe and Tom reconvene to discuss episode 2 of Neon Genesis Evangelion ("The Beast"). It's an episode that speaks to our respective early-teen years of listening to terrible music on headphones and being depressed. Some of us have not stopped doing this and that...