Episode 269 - Chuckie Taylor. The Nerd Turned War Criminal

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Everyone has heard of Charles Taylor, the brutal dictator of Liberia. This is the story of his son, Chuckie Taylor, an American born nerd turned head of Liberian national security, international diamond smuggler, and one of the worst war criminals in Liberian history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys *UPDATE* WE FOUND HIS RAP MUSIC https://www.youtube.com/@BentmanOfficial/about Sources: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/chucky-taylor-liberias-other-monster/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jan/09/charles-taylor-jr-torture-liberia https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2009/January/09-crm-021.html Johnny Dwer. American Warlord: A True Story. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/23/liberia-war-crimes-chucky-taylor

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0:35.6	Crow today, and now back to the show. Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of The Lines,
0:41.9	led by Donkey's Podcast. I am Joe, and with me several thousand miles to the left
0:47.9	is Tom and Nate. How you guys doing? I'm okay. Tom, how are you doing?
0:53.2	I fucking hate crossfitters. They are the bane of my existence. I was talking to Joey. I
0:58.8	said, I'm sorry to open this with a rant. This has been boiling for two days now.
1:03.1	Like two different gyms, opposite sides of the city, went to the gym in the afternoon yesterday,
1:09.3	because I have a weird job I can go to the gym in the middle of the day. Got my bench over the way,
1:14.5	hit a bench PR, woohoo, had other stuff to do, and then this crew of maybe four or five
1:21.2	crossfitters came in, took every single barbell and took up the entire floor of the freeweight section,
1:27.8	doing like shit, doing like circuits, and I was like, you people are such fucking dickheads,
1:32.7	like there is literally a crossfit gym in this sports center, but they refuse to pay for the crossfit
1:38.5	gym, so instead they use like the actual gym floor, and like they had over like two thirds of
1:46.2	the dumbbells, they had all the bars, and I was like, I am so lucky that I did my bench beforehand,
1:52.0	because I would be so fucking pissed if I came in, and there's people like coming up and asking,
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