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Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Episode 352 - The Attack on Mers El Kebir

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Joe and Nate explore the time the French surrendered during WWII, leaving the British worried if their fleet was going to change sides and fight for the Nazis. Rather than waiting to find out, they conducted the naval equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel. Sources: Philippe Lasterle. Could Admiral Gensoul Have Averted the Tragedy of Mers el-Kebir? The Journal of Military History. Society for Military History. Volume 67, Number 3, July 2003 https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/operation-catapult-the-attack-on-mers-el-kebir/ https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2022/august/force-h-mers-el-kebir https://bmmhs.org/mers-el-kebir-sinking-the-french-fleet/

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. Our merch store is restocked. So if you missed any of the live show, specific

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merch, and wherever date that we went to and you couldn't make it to, it's all on our merch store.

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numbers and whichever one it happens to be. So if you want

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something, get your order in. Once again, that is LLBDmerch.com and the link will also be in the show

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notes. Thank you. My friends but by God I'm Myrhaar

0:38.3

Yeah

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Yeah Hello and welcome to the Lions Head by Donkeys podcast. I'm Joe and with me is Nate. We're French sailors in the 1940s. We have just left

1:12.4

the local bakery for our regular six-hour lunch break and mounted our unicycles to pedal back to

1:17.6

our naval base where we work out of. Our ship is the pride of the French Navy, the flagship of the

1:22.7

baguette class of destroyers, the SS I'm having an affair, but it's fine in our culture. But my God, would you

1:28.3

believe it, the luf waffa is bombing us. We run to our ship and man our guns, but we're confused

1:33.2

because we pull the trigger and nothing but a stream of warm, melted Bree oozes out of the

1:37.5

end of the anti-aircraft cannon. Nate looks at me and calls me stupid because it's Tuesday. Of course the guns would be packed full of Brie.

1:45.9

Unsure of what to do next, we surrender and spend the rest of the war being seduced

1:47.7

by a series of increasingly older teachers.

1:53.8

I tried to stuff it as many things as I could in a paragraph.

1:59.9

There's a French film called Preparave vos mochoir.

2:03.2

So, like, get your handkerchiefs ready, basically.

2:05.4

Like, like, you're going to cry.

2:06.7

And it's basically about the best way I can describe it is two guys who are friends and this

2:13.2

woman.

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