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Speaker 1: go ahead and take these islands once and for all

425
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 1: is their own. Yeah, they needed this for nationalism. They

426
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: couldn't count on Diego Maradonna to come in and save

427
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 1: the day for another four or five years. You have

428
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 1: no idea what I'm talking about. He was a a

429
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,360
Speaker 1: soccer player, Yeah, he must have been a contemporary place.

430
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: Then the Hand of God, that was very famous soccer

431
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:49,639
Speaker 1: goal that he scored. I think in the hand of

432
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: you can't use your hands in soccer exactly, huh, look

433
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: it up. So I think that's kind of sets the

434
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 1: table for what's what's about to happen here. Um, It's

435
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,919
Speaker 1: not like England or I'm sorry, che's always do that.

436
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,680
Speaker 1: Let's just say Britain to be safe, that's what I've

437
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,640
Speaker 1: been doing. Britain wasn't really planning for this UM. Even

438
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: though there had been a lot of back and forth

439
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: about the Falklands. I don't think they expected uh, ultimately

440
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:22,879
Speaker 1: a surprise attack. They weren't really prepared UM. Like you mentioned,

441
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 1: the Argentines thought it would kind of go pretty easily

442
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: because they didn't seem like they cared about it. The Britain,

443
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: the Brits, and they're like, we're gonna go get all

444
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,960
Speaker 1: these islands. But then this weird sort of start to

445
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 1: the war, to the start of a very weird war happened,

446
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 1: which is it was an incident at South Georgia Island

447
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 1: with a with a scrap metal dealer of all things.

448
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,160
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so I mean at this at that time,

449
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,400
Speaker 1: remember the Argentinian dictatorship was like just looking for any

450
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 1: opportunity to take these islands. And that scrap metal dealer

451
00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 1: got a UM contract to dismantle the whaling station in

452
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: South Georgia Island, and so we chartered a an Argentinian

453
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 1: naval navy vessel to carry him and his salvage crew

454
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: over there, and Argentina actually thought this would be a

455
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: good opportunity for us to secretly invade South Georgia Island

456
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 1: of just sort of parking their car there and saying, hey,

457
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 1: this is exactly exactly And they didn't. Even as they

458
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:33,160
Speaker 1: were backing in, somebody else was coming in front ways Seinfeld, Yes,

459
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: and they just had to stand there and argue for

460
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: a while. But finally the Argentinians won. And when they

461
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 1: got this is the weird thing. When they got to

462
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: South Georgia Island, the first thing they did the salvage

463
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: crew was raised the Argentinian flag. They replaced the Union

464
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 1: jack with the Argentinian flag. As dude, you could be

465
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: a second grade cub scout and recognize that you are

466
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:58,919
Speaker 1: not supposed to do something like that, not even as

467
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 1: a joke, which is what Argentina ultimately claimed that was

468
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: just getting around, just joking, was their international diplomatic response. Yeah,

469
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: and Britain does not take kindly to that, no, because

470
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: they knew that Argentina wanted these islands. But here's the

471
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,439
Speaker 1: thing that it was a really stupid thing to do,

472
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: because right when British diplomats pointed out that they had

473
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 1: done this and demanded that it be removed in the

474
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: Union Jack be put up. The Argentina's were like, just kidding,

475
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,199
Speaker 1: just kidding, and put the flag back up. But it

476
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:33,199
Speaker 1: immediately put the British on high alert. Like the diplomatic

477
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 1: tensions were raised. Um, it was it was a dumb

478
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 1: thing to do and if they were planning on really

479
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 1: um tactically invading and holding the Falklands, because it got

480
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: the British, the British the British's attention. Yeah, it didn't

481
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: seem like any of this is very well thought out. Um,

482
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: they work closer, so like they both start sending ships. Um,

483
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: Argentina is going to get there quicker. Obviously. Um, they

484
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 1: sent clear indication that they were gonna invade the Falklands. Uh.

485
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: The Endurance was a British ship, and Captain Barker of

486
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 1: the Endurance brought this news to London. There were only

487
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 1: sixty eight marines on the islands. Royal marines, British marines

488
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 1: didn't have great weapons were really under they were under weapons,

489
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 1: under artillery, under staff. They they were just it was

490
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: sort of those deals where they're like, what are we

491
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 1: doing down here? Guys for a long time, I think

492
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 1: until this happened. UM. So I mean imagine being that

493
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 1: there was like sixty eight of them, I guess, just

494
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: hanging out like sixty knowing that the Argentineans were coming

495
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: right or thinking that they probably were. They knew it

496
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: was on the way. Well, here's the thing. So back

497
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: in London, UM, Margaret Thatcher and her Tory government were

498
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: um not convinced like they she said later on UM,

499
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: I think she her diaries got published about this or whatever.

500
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: But in the days leading up to it, she was

501
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:12,239
Speaker 1: like she could not believe that Argentina would actually go

502
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: through with an invasion because it was such a stupid

503
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 1: thing to do that she just couldn't believe it. UM.

504
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: And so that was combined with um eventually with some

505
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: of her um like military advisers saying, if they take

506
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: these islands, there's no guarantee we're going to get them back.

507
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: And she realized that if she lost the Falkland Islands

508
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 1: to Argentina, that was it. She was never going to

509
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 1: be re elected and her government would basically just limp

510
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: along until the next election. It would be a really

511
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: bad look for her. UM. So she had to win

512
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: these back. But at the same time, she couldn't just

513
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:52,719
Speaker 1: send the Royal Navy down there for nothing. So she

514
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 1: had to make this decision about what to do, whether

515
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 1: to be proactive or reactive, and she ultimately waited and

516
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: was reactive, and by the time she reacted, she was

517
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 1: she was kind of um. She was working with the

518
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: knowledge that it wasn't guaranteed that that now that they

519
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: have invaded, that Great Britain would be able to take

520
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 1: it back. That's right, And you say take it back,

521
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 1: we haven't even mentioned the fact that Argentina took it

522
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: to begin with. Yeah, I think that was implied. April two,

523
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 1: about three o'clock in the morning, their tactical dive team

524
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: came aboard the island. They approached the capitol. They under

525
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 1: cover of darkness fired on the barracks, which they because

526
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: the Royal Marines knew this was coming, so they had

527
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: abandoned the barracks and we're sort of falling back, essentially

528
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: toward the Government House, which is where they were going

529
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: to hold up on their final stand. Argentineans had a

530
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: lot more people, they had amphibious assault vehicles, and eventually

531
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: the Brits retired to the Government House and said we

532
00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: give up, We surrender uh ten a m. The Union

533
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 1: jack was replaced by the Argentinean flag and Argentina broke

534
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: their arms, patting themselves on the back. They lost five people,

535
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: they killed one I'm sorry, zero British soldiers and we're like,

536
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 1: all right, we did it. That was super easy, just

537
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: like we thought. And so the Argentineans were thinking, well,

538
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: you know, that was very easy. The British are clearly

539
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: disinterested in the Falklands. They're probably just gonna say, well,

540
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: you guys captured at fair and Square, we'll get our

541
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: people out of there. There your islands now. But this

542
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: is not at all what happened. In fact um, the

543
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: British did not take very kindly to this, and I

544
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: propose we'd take a break and talk about the actual

545
00:32:39,360 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: Falkland War after this. Let's do it, okay. So where

546
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 1: we left off was Argentina had taken the Falklands with

547
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: very little effort, and then Margaret Thatcher realized what was

548
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: going on in a big way and she went not old,

549
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 1: my watch, that was dead on. So once Britain said,

550
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: you know what, we're gonna fight back here and we're

551
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: gonna take these islands back. It became the real deal thing. Uh,

552
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about in the end there. You know,

553
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: casualties numbered at about a thousand on both sides, so

554
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: it still wasn't the biggest conflict, but it was a

555
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 1: real conflict. No, it really was. And Britain was in

556
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: this weird position. Argentina was in a weird position, and

557
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: that they were fighting a pretty substantial military but Britain

558
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 1: was in a weird position, and that they knew that

559
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: if they overshowed force, if they just pounded the Argentineans

560
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 1: into dust, other countries might actually enter the war on

561
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: the on the side of Argentina. So they had to

562
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:08,399
Speaker 1: get these islands back with with without just using all

563
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:12,240
Speaker 1: of their might against Argentina. Yeah, and with also saying

564
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: we're not going to come after you Argentina. In Argentina

565
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: supposedly they explicitly said that, huh, yeah, I mean, it's

566
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: such a weird war in a weird time. It really was.

567
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: It was a weird war. But yeah, a lot of

568
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 1: people just kind of joke like, oh, you know, the

569
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: British invaded the Falklands, what a what a over overblown move.

570
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: But at the same time it was like you know

571
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 1: Thatcher's Prime ministry was on the line. And also, um,

572
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: the the idea that these were British subjects who were

573
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: being occupied. Like like, make no mistake about it, if

574
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: you were if you were living on the Falklands and

575
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 1: you left your house, you were living under Argentinian occupation.

576
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,360
Speaker 1: They changed what side of the roads you're supposed to

577
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: drive on, which is crazy a little bit you had

578
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: to um, oh, either way, one of these days we're

579
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: gonna have to do with short stuff on dogg and h.

580
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: It was in either Sweden or I think Sweden. It

581
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 1: was the day that they changed from one side of

582
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 1: the road to the other for driving around the country. Yes,

583
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 1: it was just a big mess, so we'll talk about

584
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: this sometimes. But um you also had to carry like

585
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: a white flag around with you to basically let them

586
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 1: know you were noncombatant. And even still even under those conditions, um,

587
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 1: I think at least three Falkland Islanders were killed during

588
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 1: this war. So like this was you know, it was

589
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:33,839
Speaker 1: it was a big deal and there was there were

590
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: reasons for the British to invade. Um. And again you

591
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: can really make the case of the Argentineans where the

592
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: aggressors in this situation. Yeah, So April six, the Great

593
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 1: Britain finally um puts together a war cabinet. They name

594
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: their operation Operation Corporate, and they send down a couple

595
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: of aircraft carriers, about a hundred and twenty seven ships.

596
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: They send down fighter jets. There's helicopters um while they're

597
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: doing this, because like you mentioned it, it takes a

598
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: long time to get down there on an aircraft carrier.

599
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:12,240
Speaker 1: They were still hoping to work this out. Like France

600
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: got involved and they said, you know what, we're not

601
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: gonna sell arms to Argentina anymore. Uh, they're flying our

602
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 1: fighter jets, by the way, So here's some help in

603
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,839
Speaker 1: defeating them. If you want a little inside scoop, there's

604
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: a little button on the back as long as you

605
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: push it, and they won't be able to drop bombings

606
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: will fold in. Reagan got involved. He called up Galtieri specifically,

607
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: said let's try and work it out peacefully. I'm gonna

608
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: send al Haig down there, and they said, nope, we

609
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: don't want your help, Reagan. So British Britain said, oh,

610
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: you don't want Ronald Reagan's help, then screw you, it's on. Yeah,

611
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: and so it was on. From that point on. The

612
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 1: British were like, all right, well then it's just war

613
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. So there UM two

614
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,839
Speaker 1: aircraft carriers showed up and since they only had two,

615
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: had a limited number of UM jets. But it turns

616
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: out that their jets were mostly useful in keeping the

617
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 1: Argentinean fighter jets away from bombing and missile attacks on

618
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 1: the ships, but weren't successful in every case. Like as

619
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: funny as it seems, you know, like the British were

620
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: fighting the Argentineans are did the Argentina had some some

621
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: successes definitely in this war too. It wasn't just totally lopsided. Yeah,

622
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 1: I mean Britain. Uh. It all really really started on

623
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: April and kind of one of the first things that

624
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: Britain did was go after one of their submarines, the

625
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: Santa Fe. Damaged that one pretty heavily. That that submarine

626
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 1: made it to the South Georgia Island, but the crew

627
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,800
Speaker 1: jumped off and basically retired that submarine on the spot.

628
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 1: UM Royal Marines were getting reinforced the whole time, and

629
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: this was really what made the biggest difference is Britain

630
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: had complete control of the the naval side of things, right, yeah,

631
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: just immediately the Argentinians figured out like, oh, we're we

632
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: we aren't going to be able to do much with

633
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,879
Speaker 1: our navy. But again, we've got some fighter jets and

634
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 1: you know, their French, and they worked pretty good as

635
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: long as you don't press that one button. Um. And

636
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 1: they used them to good effect in that they would

637
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Speaker 1: fly decoy flights to get the British jets to come

638
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Speaker 1: chase them, and then the real um attack jets would

639
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Speaker 1: come in and actually attack like a ship or maybe

640
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: the mainland or something like that. Yeah, that worked. They

641
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 1: also had some They also had surface to air missiles

642
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Speaker 1: that they used fairly well, although they apparently accidentally shot

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Speaker 1: down one of their planes at least once. Um. The

644
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 1: point of all this, the upshot, is that despite you know,

645
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: the British superiority and just about every single way um,

646
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: Argentina did did have some success and they managed to

647
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Speaker 1: stave off the British retaking the Falklands, which spoiler alert,

648
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: the British retook the Falklands. Um. For you know, this

649
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:08,839
Speaker 1: whole conflict lasted seventy four days. Yeah, they sunk a destroyer.

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Speaker 1: I think they sunk some other ships. The big one

651
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: of the big turning points was when on May two,

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Speaker 1: uh the General Bell Grano, which was an Argentinian cruiser,

653
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 1: was destroyed by the HMS Conqueror. And that was like

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00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 1: three and twenty three men were killed basically in that attack.

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Speaker 1: And that was you know, not half but the losses

656
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: of the whole war, right, and most of most of

657
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: Argentina's losses came from the sinking of that one ship.

658
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Speaker 1: And that was viewed as fairly grotesque by a lot

659
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Speaker 1: of people, by the international community really because remember England

660
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:52,800
Speaker 1: needed to sorry, Great Britain needed to um to basically

661
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: show themselves as showing restraint. This was not necessarily a

662
00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: show of restraint. The UM the Argentinians said that this

663
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:04,399
Speaker 1: was not inside of the no go zone where their

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Speaker 1: their ship wasn't supposed to be um, that it had

665
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 1: been tracked down by the British and sunk. That they

666
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 1: could have just disabled it, but they purposefully sunk it.

667
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Speaker 1: And that you know, it killed three d and twenty

668
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Speaker 1: three Argentineans in one shot, which is just bad press

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Speaker 1: for anybody. It makes England look like an over overblown bully. Um.

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Speaker 1: And you know, they died in pretty terrible ways, like

671
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,359
Speaker 1: a lot of them drowned, but a lot of them

672
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:32,880
Speaker 1: frozen lifeboats because again we're not that far away from Antarctica,

673
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Speaker 1: and it took twenty four hours I think for them

674
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Speaker 1: to be rescued, So a lot of people froze to

675
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 1: death in lifeboats waiting to be rescued because they were

676
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 1: sunk by this British ship rather than just having their

677
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: ship disabled. Yeah. Ed made a nice little Jaws reference

678
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Speaker 1: in this, Dude, did you catch that? I didn't? Uh

679
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: made a second thousand nine five men went into the

680
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Speaker 1: water seven seventy two come out the sea took the rest.

681
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: I got it now. Uh? Then the other big yeah yeah, um,

682
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: the other big turning point came. Of course, you know

683
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: this is all like sinking of ships and naval battles. Uh.

684
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: What they needed to do was take the main town

685
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 1: and on MA one. The British gained a very good

686
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: foothold when they made a landing on East Falkland and

687
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: started advancing towards Stanley, which was not Stanley the guy

688
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: that was just they're cleaning up. But Stanley, the town Stanley,

689
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: the measuring tape, that's right. Uh. And they basically, you know,

690
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 1: Argentinea would would fight untill they ran out of AMMO,

691
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: then they would get captured and the Brits would just

692
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 1: move slowly, I think from one to June eleven. They

693
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Speaker 1: finally assaulted Stanley and on June fourteen, Port Stay on

694
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Speaker 1: June fourteenth, so just three days after they finally got

695
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 1: to Stanley they surrendered. Argentina did yeah, but but no

696
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 1: here that It was May twenty one that the British

697
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 1: finally landed on East Falkland and June thirteen that they

698
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 1: managed to take control of um Stanley weeks. It was

699
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: three weeks and the Argentinians managed to um hold them

700
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 1: off for that long. But this is almost like you know,

701
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: um those movies, like the huge, sweeping epic comedies like

702
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: It's a Mad, Mad Mad Mad World, where there's like

703
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:26,280
Speaker 1: ten different things going on at once in the scene

704
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:29,800
Speaker 1: just kind of visits, you know, each person. In one scene,

705
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: there was a Brigadier general named Tony Wilson who was

706
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:36,959
Speaker 1: I guess on hiatus from running factory records at the time.

707
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 1: He was trying to get to fitz Roy, which was

708
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: a smaller town, not as big as Stanley, but it

709
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:46,720
Speaker 1: was a town, and he decided to get some intel

710
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 1: where the Argentinians would He just he just looked up

711
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 1: the number from one of the fitz Roy residents, put

712
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:57,399
Speaker 1: went to a phone booth and called and said, Hey,

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00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 1: are the Argentinians around today? And residents said, no, they're not.

714
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: Maybe today would be a good day for you guys

715
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 1: to come. And that's how they overtook fitz Roy, and

716
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:09,240
Speaker 1: so little by little they started taking like the East Falklands,

717
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 1: until like you said, they finally took Stanley. And one

718
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:16,879
Speaker 1: other thing. One of the over overlooked, unsung groups of

719
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 1: soldiers who helped really retake Stanley are um the Gurkhas.

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00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:25,439
Speaker 1: Have you heard about them? Holy cow, dude, there's They're

721
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:29,840
Speaker 1: widely considered to be the toughest um soldiers in the world.

722
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:34,760
Speaker 1: Mother is on the plan exactly. Um. They are from Nepal.

723
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: They're the Nepalese like basically Nepalese special forces and they're

724
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Speaker 1: known for carrying these uh cou cree knives k u

725
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 1: k r I knives. I'm sure I said that incorrectly.

726
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: And by the way, apparently everyone else in the world

727
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 1: except for you and I knows how to pronounce the

728
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: national language of the Philippines correctly. Yeah, we did a

729
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 1: listener mail about that, but they're just still pouring in. Yeah.

730
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 1: So the these knives are just really fierce looking and

731
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: they're like, these guys are basically just going from like

732
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: outlooks or observation stationed observation station, I guess, just taking

733
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: out Argentinean guys with their knives and and helping re

734
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 1: established this British foothold on the East Falklands. Check them

735
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: out the because you're you'll you'll like him, I think,

736
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 1: like the sou In the end, they like we said,

737
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 1: they surrendered on June four. Um, we should point out

738
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:33,280
Speaker 1: that there was a neutral c zone that had hospital

739
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,399
Speaker 1: ships on both sides and throughout this whole thing, which

740
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 1: got really acrimonious. You know, it sounds silly to say

741
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 1: about a war, but it was one of the more

742
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 1: acrimonious wars because it was it was small, and they

743
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: were really mad at each other, you know, but these

744
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: hospital ships helped each other out. They cooperated, they transferred patients, um,

745
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,359
Speaker 1: which says a lot about how things were you know, yeah,

746
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: it was still civil even though acrimonious. Right, that's right.

747
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 1: Argentina in the end suffered sixty nine deaths, which was,

748
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: like we said, about half of those actually almost exactly

749
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 1: half came from that ship sinking. Yeah, Britain lost to

750
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: fifty five and those three three poor kelpers. And I'm

751
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: sorry if that's offensive, I think I think, yeah, I don't.

752
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,399
Speaker 1: I don't know if it is. Let's just call them

753
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: Falkland civilians. They were killed Stanley, It's yes, Stanley and

754
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:35,320
Speaker 1: the Antonians. So it did not work out well for Argentina.

755
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:39,840
Speaker 1: It really backfired. That was pretty humiliating defeat. Uh, the

756
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:43,399
Speaker 1: n RP was defeated in nineteen eighty three and free

757
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:45,840
Speaker 1: election started, So that's a good thing. Yeah, that is

758
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 1: that was this was actually huge impetus for them. Losing

759
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 1: control of power was the you know, the Argentina was

760
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: was defeated and kind of humiliated. Actually, um and this

761
00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:59,800
Speaker 1: military government since this was like ed put it like

762
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 1: Hail Mary, elastic effort to kind of retain power. They

763
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: lost the Falklands, so they lost their power in Argentina.

764
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: It's always good anytime a military dictatorship loses control of

765
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 1: a nation. Yeah. So Um. One of the things Chuck

766
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,720
Speaker 1: is still to this day, the Falklands are in dispute

767
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:23,359
Speaker 1: by Argentina. And I was asking you if if you, um,

768
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: you came up with this idea because the stuff that's

769
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 1: been going on lately, but ever since I think two

770
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: thousand nine, Argentina made a claim at the u N

771
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 1: to extend its territorial waters from two hundred nautical miles

772
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: off shore to three fifty well three nautical miles off of.

773
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 1: Argentina completely envelops the Falkland Islands, the South Georgia Island,

774
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 1: and the Sandwich Islands. Okay, this is not something that

775
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:52,839
Speaker 1: the British are okay with um, so much so that

776
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:56,439
Speaker 1: that one of the revelations from the Snowden Um whistleblower

777
00:46:56,480 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 1: files was that the British had engaged in disinformation campaigns

778
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: and propaganda campaign secret ones to change public opinion and

779
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: Argentina about the Falklands sovereignty and them being part of

780
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 1: a British you know, them being just thoroughly British and

781
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,919
Speaker 1: Argentina has no claim on it. And the reason why,

782
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 1: and I was looking into this, I'm like, is another

783
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 1: war there possible. Who knows. The reason why is because

784
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 1: in two thousand ten they found a massive oil deposit

785
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:30,359
Speaker 1: that is in the territorial waters of the Falklands. So

786
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 1: if Argentina's waters extend to envelope the Falklands, that's their

787
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:38,279
Speaker 1: oil deposit. In the UK said, no, now, that's our

788
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 1: oil deposit because that's in the Falkland waters. And I

789
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 1: think in two thousands sixteen the u N Commission ruled

790
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 1: in favor of Argentina um even though they said, well,

791
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,280
Speaker 1: we don't really have any teeth, it's just our opinion

792
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 1: that Argentina has a legitimate claim on us, and the

793
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 1: UK said, we're not going to be paying attention to that. Yeah,

794
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 1: So it's still continuing today and even more than just

795
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 1: being like a source of national pride, now it's a

796
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 1: source of national oil. So who knows what will happen

797
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: in the coming years over that. Jeez. Plus, when the

798
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 1: eldritch gods wake up, you know, yeah, well then we're

799
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 1: all doomed. So you got anything else about the Falklands,

800
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 1: got nothing else? And now I now I get it. Yep,

801
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,759
Speaker 1: me to chuck me too. So thanks for that. If

802
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 1: you want to know more about the Falklands. Well, you

803
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: can start reading up on it. There's plenty of stuff

804
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: to be read. And since I said that, it's time

805
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: for listener mail, I'm gonna call this from a teacher

806
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: who was grounded right now because of the coronavirus and

807
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 1: wants a little help from us. Hey guys, my name

808
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:48,520
Speaker 1: is Marissa Stratton. I'm a sixth grade teacher from Springfield, Illinois.

809
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: Like most of the country, our school is currently shut down.

810
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,280
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if you could help me with a suggestion

811
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Speaker 1: for my students. I'm fairly new to the podcast world.

812
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:58,839
Speaker 1: I listened to and love your podcast. I would love

813
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 1: to recommend it to my students, but I know some

814
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 1: topics would be inappropriate for eleven year olds. You got

815
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Speaker 1: that right, It's like pumping the island. I was about

816
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 1: to say any of our history shows. Uh. Here's where

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00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 1: your help would be greatly appreciated. You have any specific

818
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: episodes in mine it would be great for eleven and

819
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:16,920
Speaker 1: twelve year old er. Do you have suggestions of other

820
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 1: podcasts that middle schoolers might enjoy. Read a lot of articles,

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Speaker 1: but I'm just overwhelmed. Being out of the classroom is

822
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: very stressful and I want to make sure I'm recommending

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Speaker 1: popularity and quality to my students, not just popularity. That

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Speaker 1: is from Marissa Stratton. So I thought about this. I

825
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 1: didn't make a specific list, but um, I was just

826
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Speaker 1: about to say, most of our history shows are pretty

827
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 1: pretty appropriate, wouldn't you agree? Yeah, I would like to

828
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:48,840
Speaker 1: think that all of our stuff is in the wheelhouse

829
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: of eleven and twelve year olds, at least at the

830
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:54,279
Speaker 1: same level of humor I think. So, I mean, it's

831
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:57,320
Speaker 1: pretty easy when you look through the twelve hundred plus episodes.

832
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: There's a lot of science in his tree and uh

833
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:03,839
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Like it's I think it's pretty clear

834
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 1: the ones to avoid. Like if you see things on

835
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 1: like magic mushrooms or marijuana grow farms, uh, murder stories

836
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:14,919
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, you may want to avoid. But

837
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Speaker 1: you know, aside from that, it's pretty self explanatory. A

838
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 1: few dumb blue jokes aside from us, they're pretty pretty

839
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 1: clean for sure, and a lot of them probably fly

840
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:28,239
Speaker 1: over in eleven year old's head. Yeah, but you know

841
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 1: that's that's for her to decide. They may want to

842
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 1: learn about the Mendel brought set. So so no, no, no,

843
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 1: I mean our jokes are jokes, might play over the

844
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Speaker 1: even year old thing. Gotcha, it's true. So yeah, I

845
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 1: guess I would recommend maybe listening to them once before

846
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: sharing them. But yeah, like we pride ourselves and being

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