Episode 263 - The Madness of Francisco Macías Nguema

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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*CONTENT WARNING* Joe and Tom discuss The Madness of Francisco Macías Nguema, a dictator nicknamed The Pol Pot of Africa. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Tufts Mass Atrocity Endings for Equatorial Guinea Paul Kenyon. Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa. https://web.archive.org/web/20230306160338/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3610187/If-you-think-this-ones-bad-you-should-have-seen-his-uncle.html https://web.archive.org/web/20230517050409/https://www.icj.org/the-trial-of-macias-in-equatorial-guinea-the-story-of-a-dictatorship/

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0:35.6	Crow today, and now back to the show. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to The Lines Led by Donkey's
0:41.7	Podcast. I am Joe, and with me, again, is Tom. What's up, buddy? Joe, why must I suffer so? Why am I
0:50.0	subjected to this misery on the regular? Look, I feel like, and the fans feel like you have not
0:56.0	been properly broken in as a co-host, The Lines Led by Donkey's, because I have yet to make
1:01.1	you question your humanity. If I have any left. Yeah. That's when the fun benefits of working
1:08.8	here on the show is, I sand away your humanity until you're eventually a ruined nub,
1:14.5	such as myself. I'm just like hollow level 99 and Dark Souls. I need some human effigy to,
1:21.1	I need some humanity to use from my item wheel to restore my humanity. Now, before we get started
1:27.6	today, because this episode is going to be dark, I'm going to say probably the darkest episode,
1:33.2	the two of us have ever done outside of the Bloody Sunday episode of The Trouble Series. I think
1:39.6	that one is going to be hard to top. I'll let you be the judge of that when we get to the end.
1:46.5	Let's start this with what is a bright spot right now in your life that you feel comfortable
1:53.4	talking about? I'm moving soon, so I'm looking forward to that. That's going to be really fun.
2:00.8	Also, I just want to take a quick second to show out some wonderful people from the Discord
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