Episode 344 - The Battle of Hamburger Hill

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Support the show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Check out our Merch! https://llbdmerch.com/ Francis joins Joe to talk about one of the most memorable battles of the Vietnam War, which was completely and utterly pointless. Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20190515114632/https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/star/images/1683/168300010494.pdf https://www.history.com/news/hamburger-hill-controversy Frank Boccia. The Crouching Beast: A United States Army Lieutenant's Account of the Battle for Hamburger Hill Robert L. Durham. 101st Airborne fight for Hamburger Hill. Military Heritage. Vol. 21, No. 4

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Our merch store is restocked. So if you missed any of the live show, specific
0:06.2	merch, and wherever date that we went to and you couldn't make it to, it's all on our merch store.
0:11.9	LLBDmerch.com. So get your orders in while they last. We only have certain sizes and certain
0:18.7	numbers and whichever one it happens to be. So if you want
0:22.0	something, get your order in. Once again, that is LLBDmerch.com and the link will also be in the show
0:29.2	notes. Thank you. My friends by God I'm A lot of
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0:46.3	Yeah Hello and welcome to the Lions at Buy Donkeys podcast.
1:08.7	I'm Joe and with me is Francis.
1:14.2	We're standing in front of the draft board in the U.S. circa the 1960s. Neither of us want to be in the army, especially not during the Vietnam War.
1:20.6	We tried everything to get out of it, but yet here we are. Francis comes to me with a brilliant plan.
1:26.8	We will simply pretend that we're crazy. First,
1:29.3	we smoke an absolutely god-awful amount of meth. Then, as our teeth begin to melt,
1:35.4	he tells me that we have to start shitting our pants. To prepare, we go to our local Taco Bell
1:42.2	and just load up before absolutely unloading on ourselves.
1:46.7	Now rip to the gills on meth and covered in her own shit, the draft board inspects us.
1:52.0	Slowly, they begin to laugh and plop a stamp down on top of our paperwork.
1:56.7	One of the officer says our plans would have worked if a man named Ted Nugent didn't already do this exact thing and were promptly sent to boot camp.
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