Episode 388 - The Siege of Kars

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Lions Led By Donkeys

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4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Towards the end of the Crimean War the Russians invade the Ottoman Empire, coming up against the Fortress City of Kars. Command of the Ottoman forces fall to an old drunk, British man who may or may not be the bastard child of Prince Edward, all of the Turkish officers under him are actually Hungarian, and one American catholic. Sources: Winifred Baumgart. The Crimean War: 1853-1856 Raugh Harold. The Victorians at War: 1815-1914 Humphrey Sandwith. The Siege of Kars 1856 William Edward David Allen, Paul Muratoff. Caucasian Battlefields: The History of the Wars of the Turco-Caucasian Border 1828-1921

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1:13.7	We are the legal representation for the proposed TV pilot Midwest One Piece. We're responding to multiple lawsuits on behalf of Disney, Shona Jump, Goku, and Purdue pharmaceuticals. We made claims that
1:21.2	Goku, as his day job, operates as an assassin. We understand this now to not be true, and he has
1:27.4	never once been fined by the Dutch police for illegally parking his nimbus assassin. We understand this now to not be true, and he has never once been fined by the Dutch
1:28.8	police for illegally parking his nimbus cloud. We also understand that one piece is the property
1:34.0	of Shona Jump, and Ijuroota. And as far as we know, Disney has never once cut off anybody's
1:40.0	hands for IP theft. Furthermore, we would like to apologize to Purdue pharmaceuticals for the
1:45.0	assumption that even in a post-apocalyptic version of Michigan, that there would only be
1:49.8	one loose oxy pill on the market. How you doing, buddy? I'm doing good. I like that even in the
1:56.6	post-apocalypse, the Sackler family have a steel have robust supply chain economics for
2:03.6	the oxy cotton supply specifically for Detroit. It's kind of like that thing and you know,
2:08.7	I'm, oh, children of men where the joke is like, what if the rest of the world is normal?
2:13.4	Britain just chose to be like that. It's like in the post-apocalypse, like the Detroit is like the bullet farm for oxies.
2:22.0	That was the most realistic lawsuit I could think of is Purdue pharmaceuticals being really mad
2:26.9	that we would claim that even when the world ended, they wouldn't be able to crank out oxy pills.
2:32.2	Yeah, Immorten Joe is just like, do not become addicted to pain relief.
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