Episode 392 - L'Escalade
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
Lions Led By Donkeys
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Lions Led by Donkeys podcast. It's a cold night in mid-December |
| 0:26.7 | 1602, cold enough for ice to form, and Joe, Tom, and I are enjoying the warmth of the fire |
| 0:32.8 | inside our guest house near the shores of Lake Geneva. We're a band of traveling entertainers |
| 0:37.2 | touring our |
| 0:37.7 | lighthearted comedy show, the valiant lion and the hated donkey who is his boss. The rough terrain |
| 0:43.2 | of the upper rhone and foothills of the Alps caused delays in our travel schedule as we were |
| 0:47.6 | passing from Leon towards Strasbourg, and we realized we'd be better off spending the night in the |
| 0:51.9 | Republic of Geneva. We categorically refused to snuggle under one big blanket ever again, and the years we've spent on the road have caused irreparable damage to our tent, the one that's shaped like a big shoe. We arrived at our guesthouse a little after one in the morning, far too late for dinner, and we had to lie about our occupations in order to not be deemed blasphemers. Instead of saying |
| 1:11.6 | that we make people laugh for a living, we've told our hosts that were pilgrims visiting the city of |
| 1:15.6 | Calvin, seeking enlightenment and the precise sequence of prayer that not only prevents you |
| 1:20.2 | ever being horny, but also irradiates everyone around you too. We want to pray so hard we cast |
| 1:25.8 | mute on our own dicks. This satisfies our hosts, |
| 1:29.3 | well, we think, and we're overjoyed to discover that they've made arrangements for us to receive |
| 1:33.3 | a cauldron of soup from a local merchant. Who doesn't enjoy a big bowl of night soup? However, |
| 1:39.1 | right around the time that we're expecting our delicious meal, we hear some noises that concern |
| 1:43.0 | us, a single gunshot, |
| 1:44.8 | frantic clanging, a number of ominous thumps, the distinct cry of an Italian guy yelling, |
| 1:49.7 | Mamma Mia, that soup's a hot. It becomes pretty clear to us that we're not getting our promised |
| 1:54.7 | cauldron of road broth. We're gathered up with our fellow travelers in the inn in a general |
| 1:59.7 | muster of all the defenders. |
| 2:01.4 | And then, as if adding insult to injury, we're detained as suspected enemy agents because it |
| 2:06.4 | turns out that there's been some sort of misunderstanding where the Duchy of Savoy, |
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