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Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Episode 174 - The Spanish American War Part 1: Maybe Don't Remember the Maine

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Part 1 of 3 as we explore the birth of American Empire. Sources for all 3 episodes: Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1998/spring/roosevelt-and-medal-of-honor-3.html https://www.houstonpress.com/arts/how-buffalo-soldiers-helped-win-the-spanish-american-warand-saved-teddy-roosevelt-7716090 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to yet another lovely episode of The Line's Up by Donkey's podcast.

0:21.5

I fucked up the intro.

0:22.9

I'm Joe and with me is Lee is the slowest man of high I've only been doing this for he

0:29.0

almost four years in my defense.

0:31.9

This is like the longest we've gone without recording and because we had a vacation or

0:36.1

like the first time ever, we don't do vacations on this show.

0:39.8

No, we just sort of endlessly toil away and suffer serious like for the first time in

0:44.8

three and a half years on a vacation, you and on vacation, we recorded a whole bunch

0:48.8

before it left, so like nobody noticed, which is like, what do you want to the homeland?

0:55.5

Yeah.

0:56.5

It was lovely.

0:57.5

I got my paperwork started to get my passport, my Armenian passport, obviously I haven't

1:03.8

passport.

1:04.8

Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to get there.

1:06.6

I had to get baptized in the church.

1:07.8

It was not baptized in the church to prove my Armenian-ness, which is actually that's

1:13.6

a flood lack of a wall there.

1:15.5

Yeah, that's like it's state religion, it's interesting because like most Armenians are

1:22.6

not hyper religious.

1:23.6

It's like a cultural thing or doesn't shock me.

1:26.5

Yeah, I don't know any like older people, when I went into the church to get the talk

1:33.3

to the priest and get baptized, there's only incredibly old people who are actually paying

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