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  • Rambo (1982)
    2025/12/13

    This week on Les Incompetent we go over the 1982 film Rambo starring Sylvester Stallone playing John Rambo, a Vietnam Veteran suffering from PTSD. We go over treatment of Veterans, how Vietnam vets were treated when they came home, and how we have failed veterans in trying to reenter society after war.

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    47 分
  • Episode 7: Thin Veneer of Civilization
    2025/12/06

    This week on Les Incompetent we cover episode 7 of Ken Burns' series The Vietnam War. We go over the 1968 election, the growing rise of dissent against the milatary, and the beginning of the Nixon administration. We go indepth to Nixon committing treason earlier than Watergate, and the new commanding force directing the war effort.

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    1 時間 1 分
  • The Sorrow of War
    2025/11/29

    This week on Les Incompetent, we cover Bao Ninh's novel The Sorrow of War. We go over perspective of a northern Vietnam soldier; one that is severely lacking in the conversation about the war in America, as well as what its like to go back to "normal" after a war has ended. We also go over the ideas of sorrow, regret, and acceptance in understanding what you were fighting for.

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    51 分
  • Episode 6: Things Fall Apart
    2025/11/22

    This week on Les Incompetent, we cover episode 6 of Ken Burns documentary The Vietnam War. In this episode we go over the Tet Offensive, and how it not only solidified American distrust of the war effort, but how it had devastating effects on the people managing the war, especially General Westmoreland. We also go over the rise, and assassination of Robert Kennedy, and how his loss cast a dark shadow at the tail end of the 60's.

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    54 分
  • Episode 5: This Is What We Do
    2025/11/15

    This week on Les Incompetent, we continue Ken Burns Documentary The Vietnam War. In this episode, we do a dive into the state of the military, the demons the veterans are still facing, and how difficult the choices they made were. We also talk about the rising anti war movement, and the presidential response to its rise.

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    1 時間 1 分
  • Episode 4: Resolve
    2025/11/08

    This week on Les Incompetent we are discussing episode 4 of Ken Burns The Vietnam War. In this episode, we go over the growing frustration of American Leaders, especially President Johnson during the war. We also go over the emerging anti war movement, and what that meant to the people in charge of the war effort.

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    1 時間 14 分
  • Halloween Special: Nuclear Fallout
    2025/11/01

    Happy Halloween to all our listeners! This week on Les Incompetent, we go over something that was present during the Vietnam war, and something that everyone was thinking about while our soldiers we over in Asia; Nuclear Fallout. We talk about the various times we have gotten close, the various test we completed around the world, and the impact of us dropping weapons on Japan at the end of WWII. We alos go over who should be allowed to dictate who can have a nuclear arsenal, and if we really should be proliferating weapons of mass destruction.

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    1 時間 12 分
  • Episode 3: The River Styx
    2025/10/25

    This week on Les Incompetent, we go over episode 3 of Ken Burns The Vietnam War. In this episode, we over the importance of historical recordings, especially from the president, the uneasiness of now knowing the war was unwinnable in 1963, and the strategy adjustment the Vietcong used to combat the invading US troops. We also discuss the human aspect of the war, with Ken Burns diving in Mogsie Crockes life.

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    1 時間 6 分