EARLY EPISODE: The Battle of Crecy
A blind man tries to charge a line of English longbowmen.
It ends exactly like you think it does.
2023-05-09 13:18:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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BONUS EPISODE: The Sharpe Show 4: Sharpe's Enemy
The Zoo Crew is back together and things quickly go off the rails.
2023-05-09 03:42:28 +0000 UTC View PostHooligans of Kandahar Ebook
the file is attached below! Thanks for supporting the show!
2023-05-03 09:22:49 +0000 UTC View PostHistory of Armenia 24: Reporting During the 2020 War ft. Neil Hauer. Neil
Follow Neil on twitter @NeilPHauer
2023-05-01 11:28:43 +0000 UTC View Post
EARLY EPISODE: The Taiping Rebellion Part 4: The Heavenly King Has a Tummy Ache
The conclusion to the saga of the Taiping Rebellion!
2023-04-25 15:46:06 +0000 UTC View PostHooligans of Kandahar Chapter 4
Joe continues reading HoK. Hope you enjoy.
2023-04-24 06:54:53 +0000 UTC View PostBONUS EPISODE: The Entebbe Raid
Joe and Nate talk about the time Israeli Commandos invaded Uganda in a airborne combat limo.
Sources:
https://www.historynet.com/rescue-at-entebbe/?f
2023-04-22 08:34:59 +0000 UTC View PostEARLY EPISODE: The Taiping Rebellion Part 3: The Chicken King
Trouble in the heavenly kingdom!
part 3/4
2023-04-21 05:47:46 +0000 UTC View PostHistory of Armenia 23: The Ghosts of Karabakh Ft. Jake Hanrahan
Joe is joined by Jake Hanrahan of Popular Front to talk about his documentary Ghosts of Karabakh and reporting in Armenia and Artsakh in the aftermath of the 2020 war.
Watch the documentary here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G0Etjsi6oc
Sub to Popular Front
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2023-04-18 07:17:49 +0000 UTC View PostEARLY EPISODE: The Taiping Rebellion Part 2: Working in the Dog Blood Factory
Part 2/4
The rebellion begins and soon they are inventing the strangest gunpowder known to mankind.
2023-04-17 05:58:50 +0000 UTC View PostBONUS EPISODE: Taken by the T-Rex
Tom, Joe, and Nate read the T-rex fuck book. This is the worst episode we've ever made, we're so sorry. We said we would do it, now we did. It's over. it's done.
2023-04-11 16:16:21 +0000 UTC View PostEARLY EPISODE: The Taiping Rebellion Part 1: Jesus Christ's Little Brother
Part 1/4
A man fails a civil service exam, loses his goddamn mind, and leads China into the deadliest civil war in human history.
Sources:
Johnathan Spence. God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan.
Stephen Platt. Autumn in the heavenly kingdom
Jian Youwen. The Taiping Revolutionary Movement
2023-04-10 15:02:37 +0000 UTC View PostEARLY EPISODE: The Battle of Carrhae
Crassus attempts to go to war to build his own resume. He ignores everyone's advice and marches his legions into the most predictable defeat on earth.
Plutarch. Crassus.
Mary T. Boatwright. The Romans: From Village to Empire
Roman-Persian Wars: The Battle of Carrhae
2023-04-05 05:58:05 +0000 UTC View PostMonthly Hooligans of Kandahar Post
The ebook file is attached below. Thank you for supporting the show!
BONUS EPISODE: In The Army Now
While Joe is away, Francis, Shocks, and Tom watch cinematic classic, Pauly Shore's In The Army Now
2023-03-29 06:10:24 +0000 UTC View PostEARLY EPISODE: Zheng Yi Sao, The Pirate Queen of China
A sex worker turned pirate queen becomes more powerful than the entire navy of China.
Sources:
Murray, Dian H. Pirates of the South China Coast, 1790-1810
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ching-shih-chinese-female-pirate 2023-03-26 13:18:20 +0000 UTC View Post
The Hooligans of Kandahar Chapter 1
Joe reads Hooligans of Kandahar
2023-03-21 10:47:29 +0000 UTC View PostEARLY EPISODE: The Battle of Hattin
Joe, Nate, and Tom talk about the time the Crusaders forgot they need water to survive.
Sources:
Nicholson, R. L. Joscelyn III and the Fall of the Crusader States
Phillips, Jonathan (2002), The Crusades 1095–1187
Lacey, James. Crushed at the Horns of Hattin
2023-03-21 00:21:12 +0000 UTC View PostBONUS EPISODE: The Cod Wars
Joe, Tom, and Nate talk about the time Iceland and the UK kind of went to war over fish. Iceland doesn't even have a military.
Iceland wins.
Sources:
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/themes/cod-wars.htm
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2023-03-06 14:46:40 +0000 UTC View PostYour Monthly Hooligans of Kandahar Post
Thank you for supporting the show. The ebook file is attached below
2023-03-03 07:45:39 +0000 UTC View PostBONUS EPISODE: The History of Armenia 22: The Sumgait Pogrom
*content warning*
On feb 27, 1988 the seaside town of Sumgait was torn apart by a calculated, organized, and planned explosion of racist violence targeting its Armenian population.
How could such a thing happen in the brotherly world of soviet socialism? Why didn't the government do anything to stop it?
This is the story of the Sumgait Pogrom....
2023-03-02 07:47:24 +0000 UTC View PostEARLY EPISODE: The Battle of Tannenberg Part 3: The Not Battle of Tannenberg
Part 3/3
2023-03-01 06:52:41 +0000 UTC View PostEARLY EPISODE: The Battle of Tannenberg Part 2: A Wild T-Rex Appears
part 2/3
2023-03-01 06:38:46 +0000 UTC View PostEARLY EPISODE: The Battle of Tannenberg Part 1: Deadly German Swamp Ass
Joe and Nate begin the story of one of the most legendary battles from the beginning of WWI. It is much dumber than you think.
Part 1/3
2023-02-27 06:27:10 +0000 UTC View PostEARLY EPISODE: How the US Almost Annexed the Dominican Republic
Joe is joined by Nate to talk about the time the US came shockingly close to annexing the Dominican Republic.
Sources:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2717114
https://journals.openedition....
2023-02-20 05:41:29 +0000 UTC View PostBONUS EPISODE: The Sharpe Show: Sharpe's Company
Sharpe's Company. Joe, @ArmyStrang and @shocks move onto the 3rd Sharpe film where everything gets incredibly dark very quickly.
2023-02-19 12:45:30 +0000 UTC View Post