Episode 9 - German Armor Fails of WWII Ft. Tom

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2018

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Episode 9 brings us our first guest! Tom is an Officer in the United States Army Armor Corps, history graduate, and anonymous shitposter on twitter. On this episode Joe and Tom talk about the stupid history of German WW2 armor development and how it went from revolutionary to comically insane in a short amount of time. We also discuss the myths and legends surrounding German tanks and battlefield prowess that has managed to follow the soldiers of the 3rd Reich for nearly 100 years after their fall. We end the episode talking about the stupid things we manange to get ourselves into on #natsec twitter and how we have both managed to have a run in with General Abrams. Follow the podcast on twitter @lions_by Follow Joe on Twitter @jkass99 Follow Tom on twitter @tomlovestanks

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0:17.0	The House the Iden Bridge I Now, the Seine de the group I'm glad esruber.
0:18.0	What does high school
0:22.0	N'i-ga? Ice Hello and welcome to another episode of the Lions led by Donkeys
0:35.0	podcast I'm Joe there's no Nick today today today I have with me Tom who is a
0:41.2	commissioned officer in the United States Army,
0:43.4	Armor Corps, and random anonymous Twitter handle.
0:47.6	Yeah, just a random, random Twitter guy.
0:50.7	Twitter personality. And I know I actually today's Wednesday I think, right? Yeah. I originally
0:58.0	posted yesterday that we already did this and we did. We actually spent what an hour and ten minutes doing this and it turned
1:05.7	in complete trash because I have no idea what I'm doing. Minor technical
1:09.8	minor technical issues you had two tankers working on something we're going to bust it.
1:13.7	Yeah and I couldn't even hit with a hammer.
1:18.2	Which is the usual solution for us. Yeah, how's your how's your leave going so far?
1:22.4	That's been fantastic.
1:23.7	I mean, just the small joy of not being at work.
1:26.7	Just a little background on me, so as Joe said, I'm a active duty armor officer,
1:32.0	currently stationed at 4th Benning a little over six years in the
1:36.6	army now so I was a military history major in college so I remain a giant
1:41.1	weave when it comes to history, especially tank history.
1:44.0	So that's what I'm here to talk about today is a little piece of tank history.
1:49.1	And the piece of tank history that pretty much everybody seems to hold on to with like a death grasp for reasons
1:55.0	that I'm not entirely sure of.
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