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Lions Led By Robots 21: Angel Slop

Looking into the watershed of Anno's creative process we're going clanker-light and implicit trauma heavy as we discuss editorial strategy, AI prescience, and how all those NERV console graphics ar...

EARLY EPISODE: The Istanbul Snowball fight

In the early days of English ambassadorships to the Ottoman Empire, an increasingly petty collection of grievances among European envoys and Ottoman dignitaries set the conditions for a single erra...

BONUS: The English Pirates of the Mediterranean

It's the late 16th century and the Ottoman Empire is continuing to advance across the eastern Mediterranean. In Istanbul, the Ottomans have begun ratifying ambassadorships and trade deals with the ...

EARLY EPISODE: The Siege of Kars

Towards the end of the Crimean War the Russians invade the Ottoman Empire, coming up against the Fortress City of Kars. Command of the Ottoman forces fall to an old drunk, British man who may or ma...

BONUS: The Insane Story of Jonathan Idema

Jonathan Idema, a former Green Beret (kind of) turned conman, grifter, and media personality created a freelance, private torture prison in Afghanistan all while managing to convince several people...

EARLY EPISODE: The Battle of Ap Bac

Early during the US War in Vietnam, incompetent American advisors to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), who is also incompetent, get incredibly mad as they attempt to get them to fight the...

EARLY EPISODE: The Siege of Przemyśl

In the opening stages of WWI, an Army of 40 year old reservists from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, armed with decades-old weapons and no food, and largely unable to even speak to one another, attem...

BONUS: 2025 Q&A

We answer your questions! Thank you for your continued support and for making everything we do possible!

Come say Hi at the Crisis 2025 War gaming Convention!

Joe will be hanging out with the Trench Crusade folks on November 1st at the Crisis 2025 War gaming convention in Sint Niklaas, Belgium. Come play Trench Crusade, shoot the shit, bring books to sig...

EARLY EPISODE: The Texas Revolution: Part 4

The conclusion to our series on the Texas Revolution

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The History of Georgia and the Anarchist Republic of Guria: Part 2

Our favorite Georgian journalist, Omar Tsotsoria, continues the story of the Gurian Anarchist Republic.

EARLY EPISODE: The Texas Revolution: Part 3

It's the one with the Alamo.

Part 3/4

BONUS: Soochow, The Drunk, Racist, Marine Corps Dog *LIVE IN GLASGOW*

Soochow was a small, racist dog adopted by US Marines stationed in China. They taught it to drink rum and coke from a bowl, eat cigarettes, and, most importantly, survive years in a Japanese POW ca...

EARLY EPISODE: The Texas Revolution: Part 2

Part 2!

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Lions Led By Robots 20: Multiple Dilemmas

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EARLY EPISODE: The Texas Revolution: Part 1

The first in our four-part series about the Texas Revolution, a story in which some of the drunkest and worst-smelling guys of the 19th century decided to break away from Mexico for... reasons.

The History of Georgia and the Anarchist Republic of Guria: Part 1 (feat. Omar Tsotsoria)

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EARLY EPISODE: The Gordon Relief Expedition

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BONUS EPISODE: Audie Murphy

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EARLY: Operation Vengeance

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Lions Led By Robots 19: Get In My German Entry Plug

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EARLY: The Siege of Alesia

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BONUS EPISODE: The Battle of Eniwetok

In 1942 the US Pacific campaign wound up creating the circumstances for a tank engagement on a tiny atoll in the middle of the ocean. It was the origin of the expression 'the two-thousand yard star...

EARLY EPISODE: The Great Siege of Gibraltar (feat. Josh Boerman)

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History of Armenia 44: Victor Maghakian

For this month's History of Armenia, Joe and Ani discuss the history of the most decorated Armenian-American military veteran in US history: a midwest Armenian-American named Victor Maghakian who w...

EARLY EPISODE: The Battle of Lepanto

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Lions Led By Robots 18: Beasting It

For this month's LLBR, Joe and Tom reconvene to discuss episode 2 of Neon Genesis Evangelion ("The Beast"). It's an episode that speaks to our respective early-teen years of listening to terrible m...