Episode 301 - The Boxer Rebellion Part 1: Unbeatable Army of Ultra Nerds

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Lions Led By Donkeys

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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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The Imperial powers of Europe and Japan humiliate China until they create an uprising of magical martial artists who are terrified of period blood. SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: David Silby. The Boxer Rebellion and The Great Game in China Diana Preston. The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic History of China’s War Against Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900 Henry Keown-Boyd. The Fists of Righteous Harmony Joseph Esherick. The Origins of the Boxer Uprising

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Joe here from the Lines Ed by Dunkeys podcast, but I guess you probably already knew that.
0:06.0	What if there was a war raging for a million years, but it was kept a secret?
0:10.3	It's a question that Sarkis never considered.
0:13.0	He's born as an upper middle class man living in prime city during the so-called millennia of peace.
0:20.0	As far as he knew, or as far as anybody knew, humanity has no army, no weapons, and no wars.
0:27.8	The people of Earth had been expanding into the stars as long as anyone remembered, free of conflict while the techno king and his royal
0:35.6	Cabal enriched themselves in the backs of their labor. It was as it always had been.
0:41.8	Then Sarkis died. Unbeknownst to him, an app he used every single day of his life
0:47.6	hijacks his consciousness and uploads it into a synthetic engine of war known as a sleeve. Along with countless others he's been
0:55.2	conscripted into the undying legion charged with fighting a secret unending war in the name of
1:01.3	humanity.
1:02.6	Their mind stolen, uploaded into war machines.
1:06.1	They fight a secret war to preserve humanity.
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