1 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 1: This is a Jesse Kelly show. 2 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 2: It is the Jesse Kelly Show. Final hour of the 3 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 2: Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, fantastic Monday. 4 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: And so let me tell you what you're in store 5 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: for this hour. If this is your first. 6 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 2: Time ever tuning into the Jesse Kelly Show, I'm sorry. 7 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 1: So every now and then, Look, I love history. I'm 8 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: a history nerd. I do it in my spare time. 9 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 1: I read, I watch whatever I can get my hands on. 10 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: I'm a history nerd. And on occasion on this show, 11 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: I will just completely blow up the show. No more 12 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: political talk or anything else, and we are going to 13 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: tell a history story of some kind. This one I 14 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: left up to you. This one I left up to you. 15 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: Everybody emailed in this is the one you wanted. It 16 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 1: was a couple of months ago, and so I've been 17 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,319 Speaker 1: digging into it, reading and watching and reading and watching it. 18 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:15,840 Speaker 1: I spent like eight hours yesterday kind of putting the 19 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 1: finishing touches on some things, making sure I was where I. 20 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 2: Needed to be to kind of lay out the story. 21 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 2: And now we're about to lay out the story. I'm 22 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 2: not promising you I'm going to finish. 23 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: This hour If I don't, we will do it again 24 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:34,119 Speaker 1: tomorrow in this hour. Okay, we've had them go three 25 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: days before. I don't know that. I don't think this 26 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 1: one will, but I don't know. I don't know till 27 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: I start. Okay. So we are about to tell the 28 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: story of the Kama Kazis, the Japanese Coma Kazis from 29 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: World War Two. Now, before we get going, and I'm 30 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 1: gonna go do all kinds of background on it and 31 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: history stuff and things like that. Before we get going, 32 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: let me ask you something really, asking what is suicide? Okay? 33 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 1: Jewish producer Chris already jumped in and said, what do 34 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: you mean? Okay, So if you take a plane, a 35 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 1: fighter plane, and you intentionally fly it into a ship, 36 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: I think you would agree that that is suicide. Right, Okay, 37 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: it's very fair. Let me ask you. You're in a 38 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: fighting hole. You're a marine on Ewo Jima. You're in 39 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: a fighting hole with your buddy, and one of the 40 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: Japanese troops throws a grenade inside of the fighting hole. 41 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: You look at the grenade and you throw yourself on 42 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: top of it. Is that suicide? Not quite as simple, now, 43 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 1: is it, Chris? Is that suicide. Okay, all right, let's 44 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 1: do it. Let's do one more, just one more. Let's 45 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: say your wife or husband, if you're a woman, your wife, 46 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: your mom, your dad, your family, every person in your 47 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:14,959 Speaker 1: family who you love, they're all in a house that's 48 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 1: right behind you. You're on the sidewalk. They're all in 49 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: the house. Right behind you. Standing in front of you 50 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: is a seven foot muscle bound man with an axe 51 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: in each hand, and he is walking towards that house 52 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: to kill, name, rape, and torture everyone in the house. 53 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: You are standing there unarmed. Are you going to attack him? 54 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: Chris says yes. I would say yes as well. I 55 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: think everyone would say yes, that's your family. Okay, you're 56 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: gonna die the seven foot guy with an ass couple 57 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: of them? Is that suicide? All right? Now, just keep 58 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: those questions in the back of your mind and we'll 59 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: do some background here and then we'll discuss the actual 60 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: Kama cozies, what they did, why they did it. We're 61 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: going to do this very honestly as usual. Some history 62 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: when we do it may offend if it does, just 63 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: like the regular show, I don't care. If you're offended. 64 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:30,919 Speaker 1: You can email me all you want. But it's not 65 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 1: going to bother me at all. Your offense is your choice. 66 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:37,919 Speaker 1: I don't care about that. We don't do We do 67 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: honest history here from every side. We do honest history. 68 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: So let's background this quite a bit first. In this 69 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: part is going to be very very important for our purposes. 70 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:57,359 Speaker 1: We need to understand two things, two huge, huge things 71 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: about Japan that will matter a lot, and I mean 72 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: a lot. The first one of those things is a 73 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:11,159 Speaker 1: I'm going to use the word celebration. That's probably not 74 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: the right word, but everything I read on it sure 75 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 1: looks like that a celebration of death, A celebration of death, 76 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: a different view of death than Westerners have than I have, 77 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 1: probably than you have. One of their emperors, one of 78 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: their emperors actually has a quote, maybe you've heard this 79 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:36,919 Speaker 1: quote before, that duty is as heavy as a mountain, 80 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: but death is as light as a feather. Now, that 81 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: may just sound like one statement that was preached to 82 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: the Japanese people, and most definitely the Japanese military. You know, 83 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: some of the first training you got in the Japanese 84 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: military back then. I've read several different sources. Some said 85 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:01,039 Speaker 1: it was one of the many said it was The 86 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 1: first was not how to kill, not how to march, 87 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: not how to run, not how to do pushups, how 88 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: to die? How do you die? What's the best way 89 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 1: to die? Dying in service to your country, in service 90 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: to your emperor was not frowned upon. In fact, whatever 91 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,840 Speaker 1: the opposite is are frowned upon. That's what it was. 92 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 1: It was lionized to the point of worship. The Kama 93 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: Kazi pilots were going to discuss, and Kama Kazi submarine 94 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: guys in Kamakazi boats and Kamakazi torpedoes. There were all 95 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: kinds of different kinds, and we'll get into that a 96 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:46,159 Speaker 1: little bit. But the Kami Kazi guys we're going to 97 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: discuss here. Their names weren't carried around back home of Hey, 98 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: did you hear what? Gosh? Do you hear what Bob did? 99 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 1: Flu was playing into a boat, so sad? Why do that? 100 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: No Bob's name? There was a special shrine area set up, 101 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: and not only would Bob's name be part of this 102 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: special shrine area, people would show up and say, look 103 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 1: at that guy. He gave his life for the emperor, 104 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: he gave his life for Japan. Wow, I want to 105 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: be like Bob understand there is a different relationship with 106 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 1: death the way they view it there. And I said 107 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: there were two things, here's the second thing, and they 108 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: kind of tie it together. You remember we went to 109 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: Israel as a show. We did that big promotion thing 110 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: and I don't remember how many of us, to two 111 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: hundred of us, something like that, to three hundred of 112 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: us The Jesse Kelly Show family made Jewish producer Chris 113 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: Corey wasn't with us then, but me, Chris, my parents, 114 00:07:56,120 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: my wife, my sister, kids, and you when your kids. 115 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: We all went over to Israel. Now, I'd never been 116 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: to Israel, but it was it is a holy land tour. 117 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: And I'm not one who gets sentimental about places that much. 118 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: A little bit, a little bit, but not much. But 119 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 1: I will tell you. 120 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 2: For me, in my belief system, being on a boat 121 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 2: on the Sea of Galilee was powerful. 122 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:35,679 Speaker 1: It was powerful. It meant something to me to this day. 123 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,439 Speaker 1: If you told me, hey, Israeli governments there, they're making 124 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 1: some moves and they're draining the Sea of Galilee. Did 125 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 1: that hurt? 126 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 2: Walking walking into Hey, this is the place where we're 127 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 2: reasonably sure Jesus carried the cross when he was bleeding 128 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 2: and tortured. It hit me that that place hit me. 129 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I had to take a knee, say 130 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:04,439 Speaker 2: a prayer with my dad. 131 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 1: Hit me. 132 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 2: Now, there is something about having a religious connection to 133 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:16,839 Speaker 2: a certain spot of land. And the reason I brought 134 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 2: up Israel was I've lived all over and I've liked 135 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 2: a lot of places and liked this house or like 136 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 2: that condo, but never there's not another spot on earth 137 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 2: where I would where I would feel like I have 138 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 2: a religious connection to the ground. We're talking about Japan, 139 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 2: back in this time and still to this day, but 140 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 2: back in this time they very much do Japan. For 141 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 2: the Japanese people at this time and for most of 142 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 2: their history, it's not just a string of islands where 143 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 2: they ended up. 144 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 1: It's so much more than that. It is their home. 145 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: There is a spiritual connection to them. And this was 146 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: obvious from all the writings, all the things I've read 147 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:04,679 Speaker 1: on it. Spiritual connection there. That is the best comparison 148 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:06,559 Speaker 1: I can make, is the one I just did. Wow, 149 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 1: that's where Jesus was carrying the cross like that is 150 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,560 Speaker 1: the best connection I can make. This is the Sea 151 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: of Galilee. The disciples are, That's the best connection I 152 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: can make ate an actual religious connection to the land 153 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: that is beyond physical. It gets to a spiritual realm. 154 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: All right, Now that we got those two things out 155 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:31,559 Speaker 1: of the way, let's talk about the origins of Kamakazie next. 156 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:34,479 Speaker 1: Fighting for your Freedom every. 157 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 2: Day the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse Kelly 158 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 2: Show on a wonderful Monday. If you just joined us, 159 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 2: you just joined us at the beginning, after the beginning 160 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 2: of a history story on the Japanese Kama Kazi and 161 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 2: this will probably undoubtedly last us the rest of this show, possibly. 162 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 1: Into hour three as well tomorrow. I gave you a 163 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 1: little bit of a background of the Japanese people their 164 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: religious connection to their homeland. And there I'm not gonna 165 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 1: say in affinity for dying, because that is not true 166 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: at all, and we'll find that as we get deeper 167 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: into this, but dying for your country, your emperor, your 168 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 1: whatever is honored extremely so over there. And we will 169 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: go into some of the propaganda that that they went into. 170 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 1: But for now, that was kind of the Japanese people 171 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: in their connection. We have to go over the long, long, 172 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: long background hundreds of years ago. Not because I think 173 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:44,320 Speaker 1: it is important to the Kamakazi story. And actually not 174 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,199 Speaker 1: because this is where they got the term Kamakazi from, 175 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: but because the Japanese people and most definitely the young men, 176 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:58,079 Speaker 1: the Japanese military men, they thought this event was hugely important. 177 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: So here's the event you know about. Genghis Khan and 178 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: the Mongols. Just always think that the twelve hundreds, that 179 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 1: was when the Mongols were they were wiping out everybody, everybody. 180 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: In my opinion, this is an opinion part. I think 181 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 1: the Mongol army is unquestionably the greatest army of all time. 182 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 1: I don't think there's a close second. And I say 183 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 1: that because they just blew through the other great armies 184 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: like they weren't anything. I realized there was some heavy fighting, 185 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:32,199 Speaker 1: but they just stormed through everybody. Oh European knights, hah, Oh, 186 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 1: the Muslim Empire of the Middle East. That's hilarious. They 187 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: just destroyed everybody. Now, Genghis Khan is dead by this time, 188 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 1: but his grandson, I believe grandson, Kublai Khan is not dead. 189 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: He is still the Khan. He's the Mongol king. Essentially, 190 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: he is the Mongol king, and by now it's the 191 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:57,719 Speaker 1: twelve seventies. Don't worry about the dates. Remember, history is 192 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:01,199 Speaker 1: not about dates. By now, the whole world knows about 193 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 1: the Mongols. It's not a mystery the Mongols show up 194 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: outside of your city. You were in some trouble. Kublai Khan, 195 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:12,319 Speaker 1: he's in China at this time. So if you'd like 196 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 1: to look at a map, which I love to do, 197 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 1: you're welcome to. If not, don't worry about it. China 198 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 1: and Japan are very close according to the map. It's 199 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: across the water, but they're very close. Japan was doing 200 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:30,319 Speaker 1: some trading with the last surviving Chinese dynasty that Kublai 201 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: hadn't conquered yet, and plus Kublai was a Mongol. Kublai 202 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:36,959 Speaker 1: looked across the water at Japan and thought to himself, 203 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: I want it. I think I should have that now Japan. 204 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 1: At this time, Japan was a feudal society run by 205 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: different lords in this place, and their elites really were warriors, 206 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: the samurai, as you already know, they were all about warfare. 207 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 1: They believed wholeheartedly in warfare and making your body strong 208 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 1: and training things like that. These were not some chumps 209 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 1: the Mongols had run into tough guys, and they'd run 210 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:14,079 Speaker 1: into chumps. These were not going to be chumps. Kublai 211 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 1: Khan he arranges a forty thousand person military force, eight 212 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 1: hundred ships, and he crosses that ocean to take over Japan. 213 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: The Mongols are not chumps either, obviously. The fighting is 214 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: inhumanly fierce. This is an an amphibious force. The Mongols 215 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 1: actually gain a foothold, but people are dying in droves 216 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 1: on every side. Japan is outnumbered here right, the Mongols 217 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: brought forty thousand troops. Japan's outnumbered the Mongols. They get 218 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 1: a foothold, like I said, and then they returned to 219 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 1: their s at night. Mostly there were some Mongos still 220 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: on the land, but most of the force returned to 221 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: their ships at night. Now, I spent six months in 222 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: Japan when I was in the Marine Corps. We had 223 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 1: several typhoons when I was there, and I remember, like 224 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: it was yesterday, looking down at a big conex box 225 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: in the parking lot, and I watched this typhoon pick 226 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 1: up that conex box and throw it across the base 227 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 1: like it was a soda can. A typhoon is a hurricane. 228 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 1: Remember it's a hurricane. Imagine you're on an old We're 229 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: talking the year. This is the twelve hundreds, right, this 230 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 1: is two hundred years before Christopher Columbus sailed the Ocean blue. 231 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 1: That's the kind of ships we're dealing with. The mongo 232 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 1: army was sitting on ships in the ocean and a 233 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 1: typhoon came and wipe them out. Now let's just say 234 00:15:56,560 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 1: you're in Japan. You're a Japanese person. This frightening Mongolian 235 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: horde crosses the ocean, tries to take you out. They 236 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: get wiped out by the weather. You already remember you 237 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 1: have a religious connection to your land. They just got 238 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 1: wiped out by the weather. Wait, we had a storm. 239 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: Wait last night. Really, the Mongols are gone. Do you 240 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 1: think you would think God's looking out for me? Japan 241 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: itself is looking out for me. And this is where 242 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: the name, what the name Kamikazi actually means is divine wind, 243 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: and that's what they chose to name the Saving of Japan. 244 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 1: In Japan's mind, the Mongols were coming to rape and murder, 245 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 1: and of course, because it's the Mongols, they were most 246 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 1: definitely coming to rape and murder. This gigantic, unstoppable army 247 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: showed up and the divine wind stepped in to save Japan. 248 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: But wait, there's more, and we have to understand this 249 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 1: part before we get to the World War two part. 250 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:10,920 Speaker 1: But first I need you to understand that you need 251 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 1: to switch from Verizon AT and T and T Mobile. 252 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 1: You do. You need to switch from those companies because 253 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:22,640 Speaker 1: they take our money and they use it against our country. 254 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 1: Corporate America is now a battlefield, and we must choose 255 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: to engage on that battlefield. We do that with our money. 256 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: We have to put our money where our morals are. 257 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,880 Speaker 1: If you support Black Lives Matter and Planned Parenthood, then 258 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 1: please keep Verizon AT and T in T Mobile. Please, 259 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 1: by all means, give them all the money you want. 260 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 1: I think organizations like that are disgusting. That's why I 261 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:52,920 Speaker 1: switch to pure Talk because pure Talk is the veteran 262 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 1: led company where I pay less. They hire Americans. Whenever 263 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 1: I've had to deal with pure Talk, it's in American 264 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:04,640 Speaker 1: who speaks English. I haven't sacrificed service. I have international 265 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: roaming my thirty countries or something like that. 266 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:10,159 Speaker 2: I didn't give up a thing. I saved money and 267 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:12,360 Speaker 2: put my money where my morals are and you can 268 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 2: switch during the break. We're talking ten minutes on the phone. 269 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:21,119 Speaker 2: Dial pound two five zero and say Jesse Kelly Pound 270 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:24,359 Speaker 2: two five zero, Say Jesse Kelly. 271 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: We'll be back. Miss does catch up. Jesse kellyshow dot com. 272 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 2: It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, wonderful Monday. 273 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:40,679 Speaker 2: Remember you can email this show love, hey, death threats, 274 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:44,679 Speaker 2: whatever you would like. Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. 275 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 2: Currently currently is telling the history of the Japanese Kamikazi 276 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 2: and WW two, don't worry if you just got here, 277 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 2: we haven't even gotten to that yet. We talked about 278 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 2: the Japanese affection for their homeland, a religious connection to 279 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 2: their home, a willingness to die, dying in service of 280 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:07,400 Speaker 2: that is honored. And we just talked about the Mongolian invasion. 281 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 2: They showed up on the shore, they fight this huge battle, 282 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 2: they get a foothold. Oh we're about to be conquered 283 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 2: and murdered and raped and everything's going to end, and 284 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 2: then a typhoon comes in and wipes out the army. 285 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:26,440 Speaker 1: Wow. If you are already primed to believe that there 286 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: is a religious sacredness to your homeland, that your homeland 287 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:35,159 Speaker 1: provides protection to you and your family, and then a 288 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 1: typhoon wipes out the invading Mongols. What do you think 289 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 1: that does for that belief system? It pretty much confirms 290 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: it to you. Now, wait, there's more a lot of 291 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:53,919 Speaker 1: people have heard of the failed Mongolian invasion because a 292 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: typhoon came in and wiped out the army. But what 293 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 1: most people people don't know it happened twice. 294 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:10,880 Speaker 2: You see, after the Mongols got wiped out by a typhoon. Again, 295 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:12,840 Speaker 2: I want you to put yourself in the mind of 296 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:16,359 Speaker 2: the Japanese. The Mongols got wiped out by a typhoon. 297 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:21,120 Speaker 2: Kublai Khan then decides, Okay, the army got wiped out 298 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 2: by a typhoon. That's some bad luck. Clearly, maybe I 299 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,959 Speaker 2: bit off more than I can chew here. Anyway, Let's 300 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 2: just make a deal instead. So Kublai Khan the Mongol 301 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:39,119 Speaker 2: he sends emissaries over to Japan instead of sending an army. 302 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:43,159 Speaker 2: He sends over some diplomats. Essentially, he sends over US 303 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:46,920 Speaker 2: Scott Descent and Howard Lutnik. He just sends over some diplomats. 304 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 2: Diplomats show up hat in hand. Hey, all that fighting stuff. 305 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 2: Let's let bygones be bygones, shall we Let's make a deal. 306 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 1: Only the Japanese cut their heads off. 307 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 2: The Japanese were not the most forgiving people, especially when 308 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 2: you just tried to conquer their homeland. Enemies tend to 309 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 2: be enemies for life. Plus they were a very very 310 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 2: very closed off society by now. They really wanted to 311 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 2: keep them themselves. You can say that's good or bad. 312 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,199 Speaker 2: They just wanted to do their own thing. You just 313 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 2: tried to conquer them. 314 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 1: The Japanese took the emissaries and they cut off their heads. 315 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 1: That you did not do to a Mongolian emissary. You 316 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:39,479 Speaker 1: remember the stories of Genghis Khan melting down silver and 317 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 1: pouring it down the throat of a governor. He did 318 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:45,679 Speaker 1: that because the governor killed his emissaries. You remember the 319 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:50,480 Speaker 1: story of Genghis Khan and his Mongols. Some Russian princes 320 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: killed his emissaries. He took over the town and built 321 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: a wooden platform on top of those princes, and they 322 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:05,400 Speaker 1: had a victory, suffocating suffocating the princes underneath the platform, 323 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 1: sitting there, eating, drinking and being merry while everyone was dying. 324 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,639 Speaker 1: You really really really didn't want to touch a hair 325 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 1: on a Mongol emissaries head. So when Japan cuts offset head, 326 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: you know, Kublai Khan is not going to receive the 327 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 1: news all that well. He gets the news, does not 328 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 1: receive the news that well, and he promptly remember I 329 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 1: said it was forty thousand Mongolians before, promptly raises an 330 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:34,880 Speaker 1: army of one hundred thousand Mongolians, over twice the size, 331 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: over twice the size of the fleet, and he goes 332 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,879 Speaker 1: a sailing again. This is about six seven years later, 333 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:46,239 Speaker 1: After about six seven years after the first one, the 334 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 1: Mongolian army returns. The Japanese wake up, the fighting begins again, 335 00:22:53,840 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 1: and I kid you not, another typhoon comes in and 336 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 1: wipes the Mongolian army off the sea. Remember that Japanese person, 337 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 1: the Japanese religious belief, the Japanese connection to their land. 338 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: How strong do you think that connection is now? When 339 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 1: the divine wind the kamikazi just swept the Mongols off 340 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 1: the sea twice in less than a decade. If you 341 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 1: are a Japanese person, you think, h we have like 342 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:33,440 Speaker 1: a force field around us here, a divine wind Now 343 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 1: I brought up that story because the Japanese brought up 344 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 1: that story, and still due to this day, I should note, 345 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:45,880 Speaker 1: but since that time, that was the twelve hundreds, children 346 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 1: were taught this. It had a religious reference there. It 347 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:56,440 Speaker 1: was a powerful story. The divine wind came and saved us. 348 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 1: The Japanese people saved our homeland, saved our island. When 349 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 1: our island is under threat, the divine wind will show 350 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 1: up and save us. Now pause on that. It's important 351 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:14,880 Speaker 1: to understand that history. Let's talk about World War II 352 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,239 Speaker 1: a kind of from a Japanese perspective, because that's going 353 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:22,960 Speaker 1: to be important for our purposes here. Pearl Harbor, you 354 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: know about obviously Japan prior to Pearl Harbor, before Hitler 355 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 1: started invading Poland and things like that, Japan was expanding. 356 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,679 Speaker 1: They had already invaded Manchuria, they'd invaded China. Japan was 357 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,120 Speaker 1: fighting World War two before anyone else was fighting World 358 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 1: War two. And Japan had a plan that rhyme Chris, 359 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 1: Japan had a plan. The plan was, we are stuck 360 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,399 Speaker 1: on this island. We have now modernized. We have a 361 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: modern military, a modern navy, we have a modern economy, 362 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 1: we have modernized our society. We are no longer in 363 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 1: danger of being co We don't want to be colonized. 364 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 1: But the problem is, it takes stuff to run a 365 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 1: modern economy or a modern military. It just does. I 366 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 1: have said many times before, I'll say it to you 367 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:18,479 Speaker 1: again now. One of the unbelievable blessings about America is 368 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,359 Speaker 1: not just the size of our land mass, not just 369 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,119 Speaker 1: that we have an ocean to our left and an 370 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,439 Speaker 1: ocean to our right, east and west. We have so 371 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:32,719 Speaker 1: much stuff here, so many resources here. Yes, we do 372 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 1: want to do trade, there's no question about that. You 373 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 1: want to trade with other countries, but we really don't 374 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 1: have to. We could just seal off the border, keep 375 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,919 Speaker 1: all our goods in here and be more than fine. 376 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 1: We have so much stuff. Japan doesn't have any stuff nothing. 377 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 1: It's not only an island country. They just don't have resources. 378 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: They don't have steel, they don't have oil, they don't 379 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:59,040 Speaker 1: have stuff. And to the Japanese government, they decided, well 380 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 1: we better go get someone else is stuff. If we 381 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 1: have a modern military now, if we have a modern 382 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: economy now, and we're gonna run out of stuff, we 383 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:12,400 Speaker 1: better go grab what we want. We better go conquer, 384 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:17,120 Speaker 1: and they began. They began to conquer China. Now America, 385 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,440 Speaker 1: this is good. This goes beyond America. It's all the Allies. 386 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 1: But I'm just gonna make it about America. America. They 387 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,120 Speaker 1: didn't want Japan in China. We had vest, we had 388 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,159 Speaker 1: interests in China, we had things, and we started leaning 389 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,440 Speaker 1: on the Japanese. Hey back off, Hey, back off, Hey, 390 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: get out of China, Get out of China, Get out 391 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:40,359 Speaker 1: of China. Well, Japan has a completely different national interest 392 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 1: at this time. They don't want to get out of China. 393 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: In fact, they want more than just China. Their intention 394 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 1: is to take their modern military. They're very capable fighting 395 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 1: for US, very capable navy, and they want to conquer 396 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,200 Speaker 1: so much over there in East Age. If you look 397 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 1: at Japan, just make a gigantic ring, a big circle 398 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: around it, including the Philippines. Will come back to that. 399 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 1: They want to make a big ring around it and 400 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 1: conquer all of it. So they, just like us here 401 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:16,879 Speaker 1: in America, have all the stuff they need. America throws 402 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 1: such a fit about this. We cut off their oil, 403 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 1: We're cutting off their steel. Japan makes the worst strategic 404 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,880 Speaker 1: decision in military history. I don't know that that can 405 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,359 Speaker 1: even honestly be argued. They're going to attack Pearl Harbor. 406 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,200 Speaker 1: We'll touch on that quickly when we get back. Before 407 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:40,359 Speaker 1: we do that, let's make sure we have our dogs 408 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 1: for as long as possible. Don't we want that? Isn't that? 409 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,200 Speaker 1: It doesn't it hurt so bad to pay your dog? 410 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,040 Speaker 1: When I bring this up every time, it freaking guts 411 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,399 Speaker 1: me because I remember all the dogs. You have to 412 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: go to the vet and put them down, You have 413 00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,200 Speaker 1: to kiss them goodbye, you have to bury them in 414 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,359 Speaker 1: the backyard. Our dogs are part of our family and 415 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,159 Speaker 1: our cats. If you're a cat person, That's why roughgreens 416 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: is here. No, it can't make you dog live forever. 417 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:10,880 Speaker 1: But do you think. 418 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 2: Giving your dog actual nutrition over the dead food you 419 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 2: give him. 420 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 1: You think that would help your dog live longer? Of course, 421 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 1: it would live nutrients, vitamins and minerals and omega oils 422 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:27,679 Speaker 1: and probiotics. Sprinkle roughgreens on your dog's food. It's the 423 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,199 Speaker 1: number one dog supplement in America for a reason. Or 424 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 1: your cat's food they have miwgreens as well. Try it. 425 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,919 Speaker 1: You will see so many differences in your dog or 426 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 1: your Cat, You'll be mad you hadn't been given it 427 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 1: to them forever call them two one four Roughdog or 428 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: go to Roughgreens dot com. Promo code Jesse We'll be 429 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 1: back The Jesse Kelly Show on air and online at 430 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 1: Jesse Kellyshow dot Com. 431 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 2: It is Jesse Kelly's Show. Final segment of The Jesse 432 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 2: Kelly Show on a Wild Wednesday, A blast of a Wednesday. 433 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 2: I know, I know what you're already saying. You probably 434 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 2: already said it. 435 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 1: There's no way he's gonna finish this tonight as far 436 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 1: as the history program goes. You're right, I'm not. I'm 437 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 1: gonna do it again tomorrow. Okay, start of hour three tomorrow. 438 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: Wherever we leave off tonight, I am going to continue 439 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 1: on with the history of the Japanese Comikazi's The background 440 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 1: is really, really, really important. Okay, so we have to 441 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: go through all this stuff. Pearl Harbor happens. Japan is expanding. 442 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 1: They seize control of all these places. Remember draw that 443 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 1: big ring around Japan. They seize control of Manchuria, they 444 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 1: have the Philippines, they have Wake Island that they Guam. 445 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: They just grab control of this big bunch of islands. 446 00:29:55,600 --> 00:30:00,360 Speaker 1: And mainland stuff all around Japan. And the idea behind 447 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 1: Pearl Harbor, stupid and suicidal as it was, was not 448 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 1: to defeat America. That's false history. Whoever told you that 449 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 1: they were just trying to slow us down. The idea 450 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 1: was slow down their navy, essentially, take out their Pacific fleet, 451 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 1: grab control of these areas. 452 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 2: Then dig in. 453 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 1: As fast as you can dig in because you know 454 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: the Americans are coming. They weren't stupid, They knew we 455 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 1: were gonna come. Dig in. 456 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:35,840 Speaker 2: When the Americans show up, you make them bleed for 457 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 2: every island, every inch of ground. And this is where 458 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 2: they really screwed up. Americans, in their mind, were so soft. 459 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 1: Remember it was very much a war of racial superiority 460 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:51,440 Speaker 1: for the Japanese. These soft Americans are too soft to 461 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 1: withstand the amount of death. We can take the death, 462 00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:01,719 Speaker 1: they can't take the death. Eventually, America will sue for peace, 463 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: even if we quote lose, will end up with more 464 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,959 Speaker 1: territory than we had before. Now this is important because 465 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,240 Speaker 1: this is something that we have to understand about the 466 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:18,640 Speaker 1: Kamakazi as we work our way to the Kamakazi. We 467 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 1: already talked about that the honoring of death, dying for 468 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,480 Speaker 1: your country, death not being a bad thing, giving your life, 469 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,760 Speaker 1: you know, death is as light as a feather. That 470 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 1: way of thinking. The Japanese society at that time had nurtured, 471 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 1: really really nurtured. They had poured this mentality into their citizens, 472 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 1: and as a result, they had a country full of 473 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 1: citizens who were willing to die for Japan, were willing 474 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 1: to die for the emperor. And that that in itself 475 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 1: is a weapon. And the Japanese, there's certainly their leadership 476 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 1: saw it as a weapon. Hey, we have all these 477 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 1: people who will die for us. We can use that. 478 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 1: That gives us a leg up. And wouldn't you agree 479 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 1: militarily it does. If you have an army full of 480 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 1: people who are more than happy to die for you, 481 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 1: and they have an army full of people who are 482 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,240 Speaker 1: dying to get back home by Christmas time to be 483 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 1: with the wife and muffy, well I think you would 484 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,840 Speaker 1: agree that the army that's willing to die has some 485 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,719 Speaker 1: advantage in some way over the army that wants to 486 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 1: go home. The Japanese government knew it had a benefit, 487 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,120 Speaker 1: it had something, It had a leg up that every 488 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,600 Speaker 1: other country on earth did not have. Its entire army 489 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,400 Speaker 1: for the most part, was willing to die now during 490 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: Pearl Harbor, because a lot of people think the Kamikazis 491 00:32:56,080 --> 00:33:00,360 Speaker 1: began later on, and officially the program did, but the 492 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:07,000 Speaker 1: Japanese were throwing themselves into death on purpose from the 493 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:14,440 Speaker 1: very beginning Pearl Harper one pilot plane disabled, not sure, 494 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,520 Speaker 1: has a chance to set it down somewhere. Instead of 495 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:21,760 Speaker 1: setting it down somewhere, makes the conscious decision to aim 496 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,080 Speaker 1: for an airfield hangar and try to fly his plane 497 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 1: into it on purpose to blow up and kill as 498 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,200 Speaker 1: many Americans as he could. Now he got shot down 499 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,400 Speaker 1: before he could do it, but he was trying it. 500 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:37,040 Speaker 1: That is one of ten thousand incidents I could list 501 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:42,600 Speaker 1: of the Japanese throughout World War iiO throwing themselves committing suicide, 502 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:47,040 Speaker 1: doing essentially a Kamikazi attack with whatever they had, a plane, 503 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 1: a train, an automobile, but seriously, a rifle, a grenade, 504 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 1: a stick, throwing themselves into death on purpose. 505 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,640 Speaker 2: So it wasn't just that the Japanese government thought they 506 00:33:58,720 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 2: had a. 507 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:00,920 Speaker 1: People who would do this. They did. 508 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 2: They had an army. 509 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 1: Full of people who were more than willing to die. 510 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:14,319 Speaker 1: Pearl Harbor goes well for Japan, but America starts to 511 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 1: claw its way back nineteen forty one. Obviously, the end 512 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 1: of it was a bad year. Nineteen forty two, certainly 513 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,799 Speaker 1: the first half of it a bad year. Really, most 514 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,520 Speaker 1: of nineteen forty two was a bad year, to be 515 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,319 Speaker 1: honest with you. By the way, quick pause on this. 516 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,640 Speaker 1: You like World War II history stuff, You enjoy this. 517 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:36,120 Speaker 1: You know that I brought up Hillsdale College a lot. 518 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,440 Speaker 1: They have more than forty free online courses. You know 519 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,800 Speaker 1: they have a seven lecture series on World War Two? 520 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,720 Speaker 1: Do you think you might learn something from Hillsdale College? 521 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,799 Speaker 1: If you get anything from me, you're definitely gonna get 522 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,839 Speaker 1: it from Hillsdale College at no cost. Why don't if 523 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,840 Speaker 1: you're nerding out on this, maybe, why you wait until tomorrow? 524 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,400 Speaker 1: Why don't you go learn from Hillsdale at no cost? 525 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,799 Speaker 1: When I wrap this show up tonight, go to Hillsdale 526 00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:09,480 Speaker 1: dot Edu slash Jesse and go learn about World War 527 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:14,520 Speaker 1: Two from the greatest university in the country, Hillsdale dot 528 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:21,520 Speaker 1: Edu slash jesse more than forty free online courses, no cost. 529 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:26,960 Speaker 1: All right, all right, Now back to the war Japan. 530 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:31,719 Speaker 1: Pearl Harbor you got it. The war at first is 531 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:35,839 Speaker 1: going poorly. We got, yes, sucker punched, but they were 532 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:39,879 Speaker 1: also prepped and mentally ready, and they had their economy 533 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:41,680 Speaker 1: ready for war. We didn't. 534 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,640 Speaker 2: We were just sauntering along, minding our own business. Be 535 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:46,440 Speaker 2: in America. 536 00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,040 Speaker 1: We didn't want to get involved in the European War. 537 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,680 Speaker 1: Remember we didn't like Hitler as a country, but it 538 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,320 Speaker 1: wasn't our problem. America didn't have that kind of foreign 539 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:59,680 Speaker 1: policy back then. All we wanted was to be left alone. Okay, Well, 540 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,279 Speaker 1: now Pearl Harbor happens and you realize you're not going 541 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:07,520 Speaker 1: to be left alone. It took us some time to 542 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:11,360 Speaker 1: get the equipment we needed, the training we needed to 543 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,520 Speaker 1: get up to speed, and at first we were struggling. 544 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,080 Speaker 1: But then Midway comes. You know about the Battle of Midway. 545 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,000 Speaker 1: You've heard about the Battle of Midway, but this is 546 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:24,920 Speaker 1: actually important for our story, for the Kamikazi story. The 547 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,879 Speaker 1: Japanese only add so many aircraft carriers. We of course 548 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,520 Speaker 1: could print aircraft carriers like it was nothing. They only 549 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,480 Speaker 1: had so many they only had so many planes, They 550 00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:37,239 Speaker 1: only had so many experienced pilots. We slam into them 551 00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,120 Speaker 1: at Midway, and we not only sink a bunch of 552 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:46,080 Speaker 1: their carriers, We kill a bunch of their excellent pilots midway. 553 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:51,359 Speaker 1: It did not break the Japanese sword, but it broke 554 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:55,799 Speaker 1: off the edge. They no longer were better than us, 555 00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:01,200 Speaker 1: and virtually every way from that point four word they 556 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:05,760 Speaker 1: started to lose. The monster that was the American Navy 557 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,760 Speaker 1: was swimming closer and closer to the home island again. 558 00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,840 Speaker 1: And that's where we will pick up our story again tomorrow. 559 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,239 Speaker 1: All right, that's all