Episode 353 - The Death of Carthage

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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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.
0:12.0	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. Hello and welcome to the Lions and By Donkeys podcast.
0:53.3	Where Roman Legionaries serving the glorious republic is Hannibal and his soldiers come over the Alps.
1:00.1	Their armies are right out in front of us and in the front rake is a beast that we've never seen before.
1:05.8	Taller than any building with a weird long wiggly nose that several legionaires make designs on what they would
1:11.4	do after a long night of drinking. Another legionaire says it looks like my mom. Before I could say a
1:16.1	cutting retort, the animals charge at us. Their strange dick noses trumpeting a war cry. Our centurion,
1:22.5	nadius gingericus, steps forward, sorn drawn, and bellows in order we were waiting for.
1:28.5	Present!
1:29.6	Tom and I in the front rank reach into the pockets at her hip and draw out the weapon
1:33.4	issued to us to combat the trumpeting dick noses.
1:36.4	A crisp can of white monster.
1:38.3	Nadius gives us the next order.
1:40.2	Open!
1:41.0	We crack the cans.
1:42.6	Pour!
1:43.5	We dump the monster into the dirt. The smell of the nectar of the gods crack the cans. Pour. We dump the monster into the dirt.
1:45.6	The smell of the nectar of the gods floods the senses of the trumpeting dick noses and drives them mad.
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