Episode 261 - The USS Thresher

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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The story of the most deadly submarine disaster in American history. Support the show and get episodes like this a week before everyone else, plus bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/08/14/questions-about-infamous-lost-sub-thresher-resurface-navy-releases-new-documents-tied-decades-old-mystery.html https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2023/april/what-killed-thresher https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-submarine-sinks-in-atlantic https://www.naval-technology.com/features/featureperil-in-the-depths-the-worlds-worst-submarine-disasters-4191027/ https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/HotTopics/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2ffoia%2freadingroom%2fHotTopics%2fTHRESHER%20RELEASE https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/rip-how-mechanical-problem-led-uss-thresher-its-eternal-patrol-92421 Norman Polmar. The Death of the USS Thresher

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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. Hey, everybody. Welcome to The Lines Led by Donkey's Podcast.
0:42.6	I am Joe, and with me, again, is Tom. What's up, buddy? I'm good, Joe. I have suffered some
0:49.5	brain trauma last night. I'm very happy to be with podcasting's Rich Piana to talk more about
0:57.6	the homeless guys in military history. I feel like you will have to go and seek out brain trauma,
1:03.0	just so you could fit in with me and Nate here. I mean, look, me and Shocks have dedicated
1:10.9	most of our adult lives to getting kicked in the head by a big bald man at gigs. We don't
1:17.6	kink shame here on the show. But like, it was so funny because yesterday while we were,
1:24.4	I was recording my other show, there's a band that was in town. I didn't get
1:29.2	chance to buy tickets when they were released and it sold out and I was like,
1:31.8	shit, I'm gonna try and get one. So I like responded to the tweet that they put up and then
1:36.0	someone tried to scam me. I'm always really skeptical of when people respond to like your
1:42.2	tweets and like, oh, I've taken so I like went on their Twitter profile and looked at the replies
1:46.7	and they replied the exact same text to loads of people looking for tickets. So for like,
1:51.8	a wide array of gigs. So I like, I had already DMed them and they're like, oh, can you show me proof
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