Episode 323 -Doug Hegdahl, The Incredibly Stupid One

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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GET LIVE SHOW TICKETS: https://www.universe.com/events/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-belfast-tickets-belfast-83V5QD Check out Failure to Launch: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/failure-to-launch/id1585592962 Once upon a time a POW pretended to be so stupid that his captors assumed he wasn't a threat. It turned into one of the largest North Vietnamese intelligence failures of the Vietnam War. Sources: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.usni.org/sites/default/files/users/rsmith/Poor%20Peasant.pdf https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/holy-cow-history-17880270.php https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/70-02000/70-2654.html https://www.lowellmilkencenter.org/programs/projects/view/douglas-hegdahl-the-incredibly-stupid-one/hero https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13062045/vietnam-war-hero-doug-hegdahl-stupid-one-memorize-names.html https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/amazing-pow-douglas-hegdahl/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070930093201/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901396,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20070930060007/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901221,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080918094431/http://www.geocities.com/talesofseasia/rossperotandparis.html https://web.archive.org/web/20091024130127/http://geocities.com/talesofseasia/doug.html Cutler, Thomas. A Sailor's History of the U.S. Navy

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0:00.0	Hey everybody if you ever wanted to see us live but you miss the other shows well you have another chance me and the boys are hitting the road once again
0:09.4	The lines led by Dunkey's podcast is coming live to Belfast at the O-Yam Music Center,
0:16.0	Saturday, October 26th.
0:18.8	So get your tickets while they last.
0:21.3	You can find the link in our show notes. So get them now. Do it. I'm going to sleep by done. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
0:43.0	Yeah. Yeah. Hey everyone and welcome to the Lions of By Donkeys podcast. I'm Joe and with me is Tom and Nate.
1:06.5	We're deep in the bowels of a POW camp, each of us is decided in order to survive
1:11.0	we would have to pretend to be one man.
1:13.0	I sew together a uniform large enough for all of us to fit inside, and we Voltron together to create
1:18.3	POW, man.
1:20.0	Tom being the thickest is at the bottom.
1:22.2	Me being the longest is in the middle and because we want to be treated better
1:25.4	than everybody else we have to pretend to be an officer so Nate's on top the
1:28.8	door to our cell opens it's our first time trying to pass as the Tri-Man in front of our captors.
1:35.0	As we step out, we hear a faint whiff of the mighty mighty boss tones playing over the camp's
1:40.2	loudspeaker.
1:41.2	Nate and Tom immediately break down into an argument over the values of
1:45.1	SCA and how cowpunk is a much better representation of 80's era Kentucky vibes. No matter how many times
1:50.8	I try to tell him to shut the fuck up, they won't stop.
1:53.6	Tom is now talking about something called Postbeard Corps.
1:56.7	I tear myself out of the giant uniform, tackle a guard, steal their sidearm, and shoot myself
2:01.9	in the face.
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