The Hello and welcome to our first bonus episode of the Lions led by Donkeys

podcast I am Joe and with me today is Staff Sergeant Flynn Richardson of the United States Army.

She has been the Army about 12 years.

It'll be 10 this month.

Not even close. We've known each other now for almost 10 years.

Met during our deployment to Afghanistan, which you can actually read in my book, The

Holigans of Kandahar, she's mentioned briefly.

And today we are going to talk about something in history, I feel like, is massively overlooked, and that is the Battle of Hogwarts.

I felt like it'd be kind of cool.

We use our normal episodes to talk about things that are awful and dark and violent in

human history and we can kind of use this one to have a good time and I don't

think I've ever let onto it before in a normal episode, but I'm kind of a huge Harry Potter nerd.

I know how many times have you read the book?

The books.

It honestly depends on which book you're talking about. I know for a fact that the first five I've probably read about three times each, the last two probably five or six times each, the last two, probably five or six times each.

I think I've read the books all at...

Probably only one time, because I normally don't read books more than once, but I've watched the movies

probably a dozen times a piece.

Between reading and listening, I've also listened to all of the audio books.

Okay.

Yeah, I know, I thought, so I know the books originally came out and I think I was in middle school.

That's why I joke on Twitter a lot and I know I've made a joke to you that I'm a

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