Episode 248 - The Night Witches of WWII

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Joe, Nate, and Tom talk about the Soviet all woman night bomber unit of WWII that terrorized the Nazis and pissed off Soviet men. support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.history.com/news/meet-the-night-witches-the-daring-female-pilots-who-bombed-nazis-by-night https://www.wrightmuseum.org/2020/10/01/the-soviet-night-witches/ https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/who-were-the-soviet-night-witches https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/06/night-witches-wwii-female-pilots

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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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0:35.6	Crow today, and now back to the show. Hello, and welcome to The Lines Led by Donkey's Podcast.
0:42.0	I'm Joe, and with me in studio, and by studio, I mean a thousand miles away from me in London,
0:47.4	I have my long-suffering producers, Tom, and me. We don't have a nickname for us. We have the
0:52.5	zoo crew. We don't have a nickname for us yet. On my other show, Trash Future, we sometimes talk
0:57.8	about the chaos configuration and the ultra chaos configuration. So I suppose we have to leave it
1:01.6	to the fans to come up for a name for what configuration this is. The Legion of Chaos. Yeah, exactly.
1:07.8	I have to say the zoo crew is probably more chaotic, if only because they set out with that goal in mind
1:14.2	to infuriate me by showing up drunk and high, and we try to corral them like cats.
1:19.5	Of course, they do it in good spirit because the point is to break me.
1:25.4	We're together, I believe, where we are mid-level chaos. If we were a superhero group,
1:32.8	we would be like HR chaos. Yeah, I would say it's an interesting configuration because
1:40.1	Kerry shows up with the intention of doing sort of like Boston Guy fuck with you the whole time,
1:45.5	and Francis has just suffered a head injury. So you never know where it's going to go.
1:49.6	I mean, Shox has also suffered many head injuries. But Shox has suffered head injuries because like,
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