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🗓️ 1 January 2025
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone, what you're about to listen to is a preview of a bonus episode that is available |
0:04.3 | on our Patreon. If you like this clip, you can grab the whole episode, as well as years of other |
0:09.1 | bonus content at www. patreon.com slash lions led by donkeys. The Campbelltown was sent to |
0:16.9 | Davenport to get worked on, and it gets a massive facelift so it could pass for a German |
0:21.7 | destroyer. The interior is completely gutted to save weight so the destroyer could pass over the |
0:27.1 | sandy estuary, but it also has armor bolted on to the front and the sides so that crew might be |
0:33.6 | able to survive the shooting gallery they'd be sailing through and possibly shoot back. |
0:39.2 | I like the fact that the proud Royal Navy tradition of doing drag shows extends to the boats |
0:44.2 | themselves. Hell yeah. I love those pictures of them of like a British gun crew and dresses firing |
0:50.4 | cannons. Yeah. Yeah. Their drag show got interrupted by an enemy attack. |
0:57.1 | So they're on like an anti-aircraft cannon, |
0:59.4 | fucking just like firing like like drum. |
0:59.7 | Yeah. |
1:04.0 | I'm just saying that that's a plot device in Blackadder goes forth. |
1:06.1 | That is absolutely very much true. |
1:07.3 | Happens to the best of us. |
1:09.3 | Oh, small sign out here, Nate. |
1:11.7 | Another member of the French resistance, |
1:18.7 | Charles Aznevar, famous French crooner. Uh, yeah, wow. In the French pantheon. Yeah. Also, Armenian. He was like 14 at the time. Yeah, yeah, it's, it's kind of wild. It's like, |
1:24.9 | you have, you know, like famous French Armenian author. |
1:27.8 | You have one of the most famous modernist poets in the English and French language, |
1:32.1 | and also playwrights. You also have, in the opposite of the French resistance, like so fascist |
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