Episode 31- A lesson on recent Kurdish History

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Joe is joined by Travis Haycraft again to talk about the countless misconceptions people have about Kurdish history, the Peshmerga, the SDF, and we talk about the hilarious story where a group of religious conservatives accidentally joined a communist militia to fight ISIS. Follow the show @lions_by follow Travis @haycraft_travis donate to the show and get bonus content! http://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

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0:00.0	Hey of a subject matter expert our podcast has on the Middle East and Kurds in general because he lives and works in Iraqi Kurdistan.
0:18.0	But this podcast originally recorded as a bonus episode about Kurdish history and something of a
0:26.6	debunking of what is the mythos that surrounds theeshmerga, and the YPG, YPJ, that has been permitting
0:36.7	Western media since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War and the ISIS invasion of Iraq.
0:44.0	What it won't be talking about is the U.S.
0:47.7	patrol from Syria and the resignation of Secretary of Defense
0:51.3	Mattis because we recorded it before all this happened.
0:55.0	So we might talk about that at a later time,
0:58.9	but we record this as a bonus episode
1:01.5	and we decided to release it as a regular episode so maybe we can help
1:07.2	alleviate some of the misinformation and I hope you
1:15.0	I hope you enjoy it.
1:19.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Lines Led by Donkeys Podcast, a bonus episode, so thanks for giving me money and getting access to the show.
1:29.0	Today with me again is Travis Haycraft coming live from Kurdistan.
1:36.8	Hopefully this time we don't lose power.
1:38.6	How you doing over there?
1:40.7	Well, I'm doing pretty well.
1:42.2	It's finally starting to get cold again. Well, I'm doing pretty well. It's finally starting to get cold again. Well, I guess again, I don't really know if that's the right wording, but it's cold now, which is really a blessing because the summers here are brutal.
1:52.0	I can imagine. But, you know, it's nice.
1:58.0	The work's been pretty busy lately, but I've got a weekend off off so here I am going to talk about
2:06.2	Kurdistan Kurds
2:09.1	communism the opposite of communism I guess that's fascism yeah and idiots which I think is a good
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