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Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Episode 224 - The Battle of Wake Island

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor the Japanese military set their eyes on a tiny speck of a rock staffed with a handful of Marines and civilian contractors. Trapped and with no hope of relief, the strange adhoc garrison made the invaders bleed. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/battle-of-wake-island-1941 https://www.historynet.com/battle-of-wake-island/ https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/npswapa/extcontent/usmc/pcn-190-003119-00/sec1.htm https://www.historynet.com/hard-luck-island-battle-of-wake-island/

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Joe here from The Lines Led by Donkey's Podcast. If you enjoy what we do here

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on the show and you think it's worth your hard-earned money, you can support the show via Patreon.

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Just a $1 donation gets you access to bonus episodes, or discord, and regular episodes before

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everybody else. If you don't need an elevated level, you get even more bonus content.

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Our show will always be at free and is totally supported driven. We use that money to pay our bills,

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by research materials that make the show possible and support charities like the

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Kurdish Red Crescent, the Flint Water Fund, and the Halo Trust. Consider joining the

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Legion of the Old Crow today, and now back to the show.

0:38.1

Hello and welcome to The Lines Led by Donkey's Podcast. I'm Joe, and with me, as always,

1:00.1

is Liam Galeam. Good morning to you. I don't remind me. I'm sorry, buddy. If it makes you feel

1:09.6

better, I... So, obviously, we record on Tuesday as we know this, and I wouldn't be

1:15.6

late. I'll have you know. Shut the fuck up, Joe. At 9.22 p.m., I looked at my phone, I looked at

1:24.2

the curtain, we were like, in bed, I was watching the Phillies game, and I was like, I have to

1:28.5

fuck your record tonight. She's like, no, you don't. I was like, yeah, I do. It's Tuesday.

1:33.2

She's just like, what the fuck? Tell him you're dead, and I was like, can't do that. I have to

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record. That's how I feel every night, and I'm like, on Tuesday night when I'm laying down,

1:44.8

I'm setting my alarm for 5.30 p.m., God damn it. I don't want to fucking pee here.

1:50.5

Thankfully, one of those people that like, when I wake up, if I get out of bed, I wake up pretty quickly.

1:59.0

I'm at a snoozer. I don't hit the snooze button. I'm not a snoozer either. I, you know, it's funny.

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I wake up most days, I would say around 7. I don't start work till 8, but I've given myself,

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like, I try to give myself like 20, 30 minutes because I was younger. I would wait until

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