Episode 63 - Project 100,000

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Project 100,000 was a Vietnam War Era experiment conducted by the United States to see how low they could lower the standards for enlistment or conscription. Thousands of developmentally disabled Americans would be killed. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy a book: https://www.amazon.com/Citizen-Earth-Galaxy-Fire-Book-ebook/dp/B07NSMFSHN/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1 Buy a shirt: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store sources: https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/story-behind-mcnamaras-morons https://www.historynet.com/mcnamaras-boys.htm

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0:00.0	Your man in Vietnam, James Daly, specialist six, United States Army.
0:07.0	Jim is a flight engineer.
0:12.0	Nurse made to the Army's newest workhorse, the CH54.
0:17.0	He babies it on the ground and bullies it in the air, makes it carry everything from tractors and trucks to bulldozers and artillery.
0:27.0	It's an ugly angel that works like the devil.
0:29.0	Who trusts a 26 year old with the care and feeding of a million dollars worth of equipment, the United States Army.
0:40.0	Even at its best, Vietnam is no tourist attraction.
0:43.0	Jim and his buddies like all GIs make their own fun,
0:46.0	and that's the best kind.
0:48.0	Specialist 6, James Daly, your man in Vietnam. In today's Action Army, see your Army recruiter.
0:58.0	Hello, welcome to yet another episode of the Lions Led by Donkeys podcast. I'm Joe. With me today is Nick
1:06.8	per always and rich. Not always. Hey I'm sitting here being verbally abused by these two.
1:13.5	Yeah, well, that's how we get you in the right mindset.
1:17.6	We do this all the time to each other.
1:19.3	Yeah, we verbally abuse each other and then it's like it's like making wine where you stomp on
1:25.6	grapes to get the juice out except verbal abuse in comedy. This is what my dad
1:30.4	thought. Your dad was a winnow?
1:33.0	No, he just stomped on me a lot.
1:35.0	Oh, so he didn't like wine.
1:37.0	Now, he was more of a Bud Light guy.
1:41.0	Ah, Bud heavy on you.
1:43.0	So, it's been a while since we've had both you guys on the show, and I thought that we would
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