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Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Episode 228 - Witold Pilecki, The Auschwitz Volunteer Part 2

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Pilecki plots his escape when it becomes clear that the allies will do nothing about the crimes being committed within Auschwitz. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Witold Pilecki. Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery Adam Koch. A Captain's Portrait: Witold Pilecki - Martyr for Truth Jack Fairweather. The Volunteer

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to The Lines of Bidonky's Podcast. I'm Joe and with me is Liam. Hello, Liam. Hello, Joe.

0:24.0

Liam, today we get to talk about something really uplifting, so we don't do very well. Do we, do we, do we, Joe? Is that, is that how you're softball bed here?

0:38.0

No, we're talking about Auschwitz, man. I'm sorry. It's all fucking good, man. Listen, you know, I just raised Jewish and Jewish come from a long and kind of sort of Jewish people.

0:52.0

My, my, my mother's family is at least half Jewish, my mother's Jewish, my dad's Jewish, so I'm Jewish, so I got it. But I will say, and I've made the show before.

1:03.0

So I, as a teenager, went to the Holocaust, you know, I had been to the Holocaust Museum before, but I went for one day school, a Hebrew school, and then I went to birthright, sorry.

1:15.0

And I went to Yad Vashem, of course, and I would really like to go there. You've seen one Holocaust Museum, you've seen them all. I knew a girl who, so I've been to Auschwitz, actually, but I knew a girl, my exe, oh boy, my exes, moms, boyfriends, daughter, there we go.

1:36.0

Went on like, we're always scheduled to go in like a grand tour of concentration camps. She was Jewish, and she was like, yeah, we're going to go to like about Auschwitz and like book involved, and then like birth now, and we're going to see like while we are and all that, and I'm just like, you know, one is, one is sufficient.

1:54.0

Like, you don't need to see to link it. And yeah, it's going to be fine.

1:58.0

Yeah, that's like a fucking absolutely terrible vacation. Like, I would like to go because like, I don't like how pure free we're like, and I listen to that is, we're just like, all right, I'll board the concentration camp, but let's do this.

2:11.0

Yeah, so like, oh, how is your vacation? Like, I don't know if vacation is the word I would use for that.

2:16.0

Yeah, what's the vacation, but for being sad?

2:22.0

And it's like, oh, you know, I was going to go to like the beach, but instead I'm just going to tour animal shelters, but I'm not going to adopt.

2:31.0

No, I'm going to look at the sad dog with three paws, right?

2:36.0

We're on part two of our V told Pileki, so it's out of three. And there's a lot going on in the world right now.

2:44.0

We're recording this is September 14th in Armenia. So it's 13th in the US. There's a lot going on. This episode is not very uplifting.

2:53.0

Joe is, Joe is currently recording this with a Colt 45 by a side. I don't just in case, baby.

3:01.0

I haven't slept like two days. It's been a lot, but you know, I, the show is one of the few things that bring me, like doing the show is one of the few things that bring me enjoyment in the world at the moment.

3:14.0

So going to try to keep the show's tenor as normal as possible, which means depressing.

3:23.0

Sorry. Really, really wish we were in the middle of a series that was like, you know, like one of the crazy funny guys, you know.

3:32.0

Yeah, we kind of blew our load on dudes rock.

3:35.0

Yeah, we hit a dude's dude's rock overload and we ended up in fucking Auschwitz somehow.

3:40.0

Like it's great. This is the exact opposite of where I want to be.

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