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Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Episode 351 - The 410AD Sack of Rome

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Support the show on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys check out our merch store: https://llbdmerch.com/ Joe is joined by the Zoo Crew to talk about the time Rome hosted the world's largest Goth convention. Sources: Zosimus. New History Michael Kulikowski. Rome's Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric. Ludwig Heinrich Dyck. The Goth Sack of Rome: Barbarians at the Gate in 410 AD. Military Heritage. Volume 7, no 2. 2005. Herwig Wolfram. The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples. The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 13

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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 and I'm

0:38.3

A lot of

0:40.3

Yeah Hello and welcome to the Lions at Buy Donkeys podcast. I'm Joe and with me is Francis in

1:10.4

shocks. We're dressed head to toe in black, having

1:13.0

descended upon our local hot topic like a plague of cloves cigarette smelling locusts and have

1:17.8

purchased all of the invaders in merchandise. That is because while Shox takes the ox cord and

1:22.7

switches the song from mindless self-indulgence to cradle of filth, we pile into Francis' beaten-up Buick Skylark,

1:29.8

because we're heading to the local goth convention. As we pull into the parking lot of

1:34.2

grunk mc shithole convention center, so named for a Confederate Civil War hero, located mysteriously

1:40.9

somewhere between Missouri and Michigan, we see no other cars parked outside.

1:46.0

Rather, they're only horses.

1:48.0

Soon men wearing armor and carrying spears and swords emerge from the convention center,

1:53.0

speaking a strange Germanic language.

1:55.0

Francis and Shocks pushed me towards them to parley.

1:58.0

As is tradition, I offer them a three-liter bottle of Fago Rock and Ride.

2:03.1

One of the men approaches me, takes the bottle and sniffs it. He says, in broken English,

2:08.0

he'd rather have red pop and quickly cuts me down where I stand. Should have brought a white

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