BONUS: Operation Flipper
Added 2024-03-10 08:03:09 +0000 UTCJoe, Nate, and Tom talk about the time British commandos attempted to kill Erwin Rommel. It did not go well.
Note: This was recorded in Jan. Before Toby Keith died.
Sources:
Michael Asher. Get Rommel: The Secret British Mission to Kill Hitler's Greatest General.
Comments
The halal sec is so fucking good
cry -laughing at the end of all things
2025-03-20 03:42:13 +0000 UTCHe doesn't deserve respect, but it's weird to me that Americans don't seem to ever see Rommel's first name correctly.
Markus D
2024-05-10 02:41:33 +0000 UTCNot so Fun fact about Lit: the guitarist called the cops on Kelly Thomas that led to his beating and death.
david reid
2024-04-30 10:48:57 +0000 UTC6:00 there is no historical evidence that the hashashins used drugs. That's what their opponents said, under the assumption that no sane man would sacrifice his life for a cause, unless it is for a good cause like ours of course /s. The Nizaris assassins (called "fidai'n", "self-sacrificers", like "fedayeen") had to infiltrate their target's inner circle. A leader getting killed by a monk or a sufi scholar he knew for years had a big psychological impact. Therefore, a lot of the fidai'n had to study language, geopolitics and theology (and, shockingly, drugs don't make you better at studying). According to professors and scholars of Islamic studies like Azim Nanji and Farhad Daftary, the idea they got stoned to believe this was the paradise they would reach after completing the mission is legend. And good luck killing your target (or the good target) if you're high as a kite.
Oscar
2024-04-02 11:00:46 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/awvqIi427_A?si=fJEvWwJoHQcdt2Pp. I dare you to say Xzibit can’t rap after this
Johnny Vv.
2024-03-24 16:21:11 +0000 UTCThe hallmark of a bad operation during ww2 , doesn't matter if it's France or Burma he's there always there being a pedophile .
bossbear the rock
2024-03-24 15:50:27 +0000 UTCToe-brook?
David
2024-03-22 07:31:08 +0000 UTCAround about 58:00 - I'm in a classes right now about WWI and the Soviet Union with a professor who has also devoted most of his life to studying both, and he says that Nazis also had a weird affinity for the English and Anglo-Saxon Americans because of their supposed shared cultural-ethnic heritage and language history. Something about eugenics "science" of the time got people into thinking that if they shared language roots then they were also ethnically related (despite the fact that I'm pale as hell and descended from western Europeans but learning Spanish). Could be that Rommel, being a Nazi close to Hitler, had similar feelings toward the English.
LensWipe
2024-03-20 23:11:01 +0000 UTCThis might be my new favorite episode. The dream team coming together knocks it out of the park
Adam Wurstmann
2024-03-19 20:04:52 +0000 UTCAnd I argue for Col. Burton not because he launched a petty war on the Bradley, that's just DoD politics, nor because he got laughed out of the F-15 design committee... but because he was never on the F-15 design committee in the first place. He stormed their conference, threw some shitty hand-drawn blueprints of his V-22 on the table, and it was so bad he wasn't immediately removed by security, he was just laughed at, and THEN removed by security. And because of THAT, he waged his war on the Bradley.
Ariane Signalis is the Elster Signalis Fan Club and challenges you to play SIGNALIS without pointing at any of the characters an
2024-03-18 14:10:52 +0000 UTCAmerican Weird Guys go into the political and civilian sectors normally. Our current House Speaker, MTG, Mike Lindell, and the Dilbert Guy. THAT SAID, we DO have Mike Sparks and Col. Burton.
Ariane Signalis is the Elster Signalis Fan Club and challenges you to play SIGNALIS without pointing at any of the characters an
2024-03-18 14:02:09 +0000 UTCThis is the second time this week that I have to defend 3 Doors Down. Kryptonite is a good song
Jeffrey Epstein's Assassin
2024-03-17 23:32:10 +0000 UTClmao another Mountbatten cameo
Allen
2024-03-14 18:41:23 +0000 UTCRommel eulogising the brits like "forgive them lord, they must have amnesia for they forgot that im him"
Uncooked Rat
2024-03-14 13:34:03 +0000 UTCToby Keith died in February.
Snooder87
2024-03-13 23:26:39 +0000 UTCAt least Allied fighter bombers almost killed Rommel
Jamie Evenstar
2024-03-13 16:55:47 +0000 UTCY'all finally got the sammich question! Thank you, love a coney, but chicago dogs will always be my fav.
Jsuman
2024-03-13 00:06:31 +0000 UTCDo you get to take groupies with you on the carrier or do you have to find the groupies on the carrier?
Mutual Aid Miniatures
2024-03-12 22:15:23 +0000 UTCSee I was going to say Choking Victim
Michael Retford
2024-03-12 19:38:47 +0000 UTCThe Attention Deficit Duo strikes again and I LOVE IT. My brain fully works well with all the tangents. Thanks Joe for keeping it moving 😁
Kannibal Kory
2024-03-12 16:56:08 +0000 UTCThis is truly one of the LLBD episodes of all time
Cathal Nolan
2024-03-12 14:27:59 +0000 UTCthis is perfect. as someone who tours a lot, i really enjoyed the whole USO bit. i once toured with Bowling For Soup and their tour manager told me about a time they played on an aircraft carrier, and about how miserable the entire experience was
Trey Karnes
2024-03-12 09:39:42 +0000 UTCStill mad about this. I had been listening to them for decades.
Kaylee
2024-03-12 05:29:21 +0000 UTCUnfortunate fyi to this day there's still a Rommel Base of the german army. I actually live about 10km away lol. There's an insane attitude in the german army about Rommel where he's apparently an acceptable nazi(???). (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_Marshal_Rommel_Barracks,_Augustdorf)
miss march
2024-03-12 01:24:33 +0000 UTCTerry is my new favorite character
dogman
2024-03-11 23:11:52 +0000 UTCThe episode where we learn Nate can do a decent Ian Paisley
IronNosy
2024-03-11 22:57:18 +0000 UTCLeftover Crack would also be a good suggestion because they also had an album cover of the twin towers being covered in gasoline called "Fuck World Trade".
Saint Muerte
2024-03-11 12:28:52 +0000 UTCKilling Rommel was one of my favorite books in high school!! 👏
Mitch Guerrerio
2024-03-11 11:41:32 +0000 UTCEhhhh... I feel like if he had more integrity, he would have realized what a bad idea doing a symphonic metal song with Within Temptation was (it's called "And We Run" and it's real!)
vikingwolfhimbo
2024-03-11 03:17:07 +0000 UTCThis is Xzibit slander. Paparazzi is definitely spittin'. His verse on Dre's "What's the Difference" too.
Robert Hill
2024-03-11 00:55:24 +0000 UTCIf you ask the Dubliners, Lord Nelson's statue was Ireland's first astronaut
Shamus Hewitt
2024-03-10 20:06:09 +0000 UTCStarted for Rommel, stayed for Tim Westwood
jackson karwoski
2024-03-10 18:18:07 +0000 UTCSkoal will put cancer in your gut, it's the American way.
Grumpy Bowlart
2024-03-10 17:01:53 +0000 UTCToby Keithmetheus — worst Greek myth ever
S.O. Khan
2024-03-10 16:28:50 +0000 UTCI snort laughed at the Ulsterman takes.
Doug King
2024-03-10 15:41:46 +0000 UTCToby Keith is actually dead now.
Scott Jackson
2024-03-10 15:06:38 +0000 UTCCommando operations during WW2 were hilarious. A couple brilliant successes(like the heavy water sabotage) in a vast sea of miserable failures.
Alex
2024-03-10 14:28:54 +0000 UTCThe more I hear about British military actions the more that one colonel going grenade kamikaze into a pillbox on the Falklands makes perfect sense
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-03-10 14:14:33 +0000 UTCI half expected that NASA funded experiment where they had a research assistant live in a flooded house with a dolphin to try to teach it to talk. The dolphin kept trying to bang her and then someone had the brilliant idea to make them take acid. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolphin-who-loved-me Or the Navy project I conflate with the above NASA story about using dolphins to detect hazards: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/22/us-navy-dolphin-fleet-black-sea
Page Chase
2024-03-10 13:15:02 +0000 UTCI loved anti flag and goddamn justin sane ruined it all
Justin
2024-03-10 13:13:40 +0000 UTCTo give you an idea of Tim Westwood, Sacha Baron Cohen based Ali G off him
Austin Arminio
2024-03-10 11:35:22 +0000 UTC“Operation Eagle Boner” We should have a listener competition to outline this war
Michael Davies
2024-03-10 10:34:20 +0000 UTCFor Fox's sake
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-03-10 10:24:12 +0000 UTCY’all done killed Toby Keith with this one
Foam
2024-03-10 10:19:51 +0000 UTCI have family in Belfast and Tom's Ulsterman accent had me in tears. Felt like I'd been flashbanged and now I want an Ulster Fry
sqwade
2024-03-10 09:32:02 +0000 UTCI was more thinking penguins of Madagascar
Star maker 75
2024-03-10 08:26:13 +0000 UTCWith a name like this i was expecting bomb dolphins
Stiltpuppy
2024-03-10 08:14:40 +0000 UTC
