1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: On the Jordan Harbinger Show, You'll hear amazing stories from 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: people that have lived them, from spies to CEOs, even 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:10,119 Speaker 1: an undercover agent who infiltrated the Gambino crime family. You're 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: about to hear a preview of The Jordan Harbinger Show 5 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: with Jack Garcia, who did just that. My career was 6 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: twenty four out of twenty six years was solely dedicated 7 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 1: working on the cover. I walk in, I'm in the bar. 8 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 1: How there's a bar made? Dare good looking young lady 9 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: see serving me? Joey, Hey, what would you like? I 10 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: usually my frank was give me a kettle, one martini, 11 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 1: three olives, class of water on the side. I finished 12 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: the drink. The guys come in. I'm gonna go go 13 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 1: in my pocket, take out the big wad of money. Hey, am, 14 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,200 Speaker 1: I give her one hundred hours. If you're with the mob, 15 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: I say, hey, Jordan, you're on record with us. That 16 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: means we protect you. Nobody could shake you down. We 17 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 1: could shake you down. Oh, you're on record with us. 18 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: For more on how Jack became so trusted in the 19 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: highest levels of the Gambino organization, check out episode three 20 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: ninety two of the Jordan Harbinger Show. This is the 21 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly Show. I want you to imagine something. There 22 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: are five we'll call them tribes, call them Indium tribes. 23 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: It'll be easy for you to picture that five tribes. 24 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: They've been around a long time. They sometimes they're at peace, 25 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: sometimes they're at war with each other, various alliances, so 26 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: on and so forth. But here's the catch, and it's 27 00:01:55,320 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: a big catch. There are no weapons. They're none of 28 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 1: any kind, not even a rock, not a stick, not 29 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 1: a spear, absolutely nothing. So the wars, as you can imagine, 30 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 1: are not that bad, right, what would it be like. 31 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 1: It's just a big brawl. You've either been in one 32 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: or you've seen one. You know what one looks like. 33 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: When one tribe goes to war with another tribe. No weapons. 34 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 1: Guys come back from their war and yeah, there are 35 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: some bloody noses, black eyes, maybe an occasional broken bone 36 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: or two. Undoubtedly some concussions, you know, the injuries like that. 37 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:57,919 Speaker 1: But that's what it is because there are no weapons, right, 38 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 1: and it's gone on like this for hundreds of years. 39 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 1: This is how they do it. Now, I want you 40 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: to imagine war is brewing again. They're gonna have another 41 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 1: big war, another one of these big street brawls, and 42 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: all they've ever known are these things and no weapons. 43 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: Only somebody drops off a bunch of crates of swords 44 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 1: in each tribe. How does that next war go? It's 45 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: absolute carnage, right, Probably everybody dies. Right Why because nobody 46 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: in the history of mankind, according to these tribes, had 47 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: ever developed any kind of tactics, any kind of strategy 48 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: for this. Nobody that weird little scenario I just painted 49 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: for you. It's happened, and it was World War One. 50 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:24,720 Speaker 1: You have heard me say several times, but I'm gonna 51 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: say it again here as someone who completely nerds out 52 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: on history stuff, especially battles and wars, and what happened 53 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: here from all Eras, I mean, you know how all 54 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: over the place am I? I'm all over the place. 55 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: We'll go right from Sparta to the Revolutionary War, to 56 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 1: World War two and back to Alexander. We're all over 57 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: the place. And I'm going to make a statement. And 58 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 1: because I can't actually put myself there, I don't know 59 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: if it's accurate, but I know it's how I feel. 60 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: If I could pick one war that would be on 61 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 1: the top of my list of places I would not 62 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: have wanted to fight in, it would be World War One. 63 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 1: In the history of mankind. I'm not joking. I realize 64 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:25,600 Speaker 1: how scary the swords and spears era is totally, totally legit. 65 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: World War One is a living hell. The battle we're 66 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: going to talk about today. Actually it's sometimes famous because 67 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 1: one of the guys who fought there wrote a poem 68 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:45,280 Speaker 1: about it and actually said I died in hell. They 69 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: called it Passiondale. You will know the battle as either 70 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 1: Passiondale or the Third Battle of Ipra. I know it 71 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: as the worst place in the history of mankind in 72 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: this given time, an absolute living hell. I would encourage you, 73 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 1: as I often do, as long as you're not driving, 74 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 1: go ahead and look up the Third Battle of Epra 75 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: on an image search, and Epra is not I it's 76 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: y p r e S y p r e s 77 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: Third Battle of Epra. And you don't have to do 78 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: any extensive stuff. We're gonna talk about it today. Just 79 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:41,040 Speaker 1: look at it. Look at it. It looks like something 80 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,840 Speaker 1: out of a science fiction novel. It looks like something 81 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: out of the Lord of the Rings it legitimately does, 82 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: or one of those space movies. Where they land avengers, 83 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: where they land in some horrible alien planet. That's what 84 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 1: it looks like. All right. Before we get to that, though, 85 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: let's do a little brief background and build up here. 86 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 1: First of all, we know how it started. The assassination 87 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. He was Austria Hungry's guy. They're 88 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: now matt at Serbia because it was a Serb who 89 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: did it. Austria Hungry issues in them an insane ultimatum 90 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: to Serbia, saying, essentially, you're gonna give me your your firstborn, 91 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: your wife, your mother, and both your kidneys. It's a 92 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:39,559 Speaker 1: diplomatic version of that. Serbia turns to their good buddy 93 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: Russia and says, these guys are starting stuff. If they 94 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 1: start stuff, you're gonna jump in. Russia says, oh yeah, 95 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: we got your back. Austria Hungry seas Russia doing that, 96 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: they turned to their good buddy German and say, hey, 97 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: these Russians are starting stuff. If they start stuff, and 98 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: now you see where we're going. Now we're in a war. 99 00:07:55,680 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 1: Stuff got started. War started in nineteen fourteen. Nineteen fifteen 100 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: was again even though that's not where our battle is 101 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 1: going to take place. Today, you ask, one war would 102 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: be World War One. The one I never would want 103 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 1: to fight in the years specifically of World War One 104 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: would be nineteen fifteen on the Western Front. It just yea. 105 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: And here's where we are, fast forwarding to nineteen seventeen. 106 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: Germany is starving. The country itself, quite literally is starving 107 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: because the Brits and their wonderful British Navy have been 108 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 1: blockading Germany. You know Germany's you know, it's big, it's nice, 109 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: it's fertile, but you cannot possibly supply armies like this 110 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 1: and a society like this and survive. So they're hurting 111 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:02,080 Speaker 1: for supplies, they're hurting for food. They are still, by 112 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: this point in time, probably the finest army in the world. 113 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 1: There are many people out there who think the World 114 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 1: War One German army is maybe the greatest army that 115 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: ever exists. Wonderfully trained, excellent tactics, some really great generals. 116 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 1: They're amazing. And remember, just because I say Germany, this 117 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 1: is World War One, this is pre Nazi Hitler era, 118 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: well kind of pre Hitler. He actually fights in this 119 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: war and is a decorated war hero. I should I 120 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 1: should point out isn't that so funny? The good and 121 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: bad of people, Hitler turns out to be the worst 122 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: person who ever lived, probably, whereas if you just rewind 123 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: back to World War One, Hitler's saving people's lives in 124 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: No Man's Land. Amazing, isn't it? Anyway? I want to 125 00:09:53,880 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: get sidetracked by nineteen seventeen, Germany's hurting Russia. Well, Russia's 126 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: not hurting. Russia's pretty much finished. Because what's happening in Russia, you, 127 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly show fans at nineteen seventeen, what's happening communist revolution? 128 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 1: Russia is collapsing on itself. Russia is about completely out 129 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 1: of the war. Written in France, well they're not doing 130 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: great either, but France has a major, major, major problem. 131 00:10:32,280 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 1: All right, Hang on. The new cybercrime out there sweeping 132 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: this nation is home title theft. And I have to 133 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 1: be totally honest with you. 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There was some 152 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 1: ferocious fighting in the mountains in Italy. There was fighting 153 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 1: in Turkey, there was fighting in Africa. Now there was 154 00:12:53,720 --> 00:13:00,079 Speaker 1: fighting in different places. Fighting in the Eastern Front, but 155 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 1: the Western Front, the trenches, the bulk of World War One, 156 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:07,240 Speaker 1: as you see it when you picture World War One, 157 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 1: did not take place in Germany. It took place in France. 158 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 1: These trenches are in France. France is the one having 159 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:24,239 Speaker 1: to endure things like Verdon. Verdon was that massive artillery 160 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: battle that just destroyed an entire area. You see Frances 161 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:40,959 Speaker 1: feeling this war personally. Their young men are being slaughtered. 162 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: Remember more Brits, Frenchmen, and Italians died in World War 163 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 1: One than died in World War Two. The scale of 164 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: this conflict and carnage is horrible. On top of all this, 165 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 1: France has all this loss of life, all this loss 166 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 1: of her precious national property that she's very proud of. 167 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: France is a proud nation. Much as we like to 168 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 1: make fun of them, they're a very proud nation with 169 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: a lot of history, great history. And now it wasn't 170 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 1: only Russia dealing with the commies. You see, France had 171 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: a gigantic, gigantic socialist uprising in their army. It was 172 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 1: an ideology that was spreading across the world at this time. 173 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 1: It wasn't only Russia and France was dealing was sometimes 174 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 1: entire units essentially pulling a mutiny and deciding we're done fighting, 175 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: screw you, and the generals would have to go basically 176 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: bow down. People don't know this history, but the generals 177 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: would have to go bowed down and sometimes oftentimes didn't 178 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: even charge them in, would give them more time off. 179 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 1: That's how you know it was a big problem because 180 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: this was the era during this war. This was the 181 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 1: era and every time before this, you don't fight fine, 182 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: you get lined up against the wall and shot. And 183 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 1: they did that too during to some of the mutineers, 184 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 1: but lots of them, they just let them off. On 185 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 1: top of that, France had just done one of the 186 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 1: things we're about to see Britain do one of the 187 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: things Germany did. Several times they all tried to do this. 188 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: You see, this is the situation in World War One. 189 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: Everybody knows it as trench warfare, trench warfare, trench warfare, 190 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: and that's true, but it's more than that. It's not 191 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: just trenches. It's not just a trench or we've got 192 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: our trench here and then there's no man's land in 193 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: between us, and then your trench there. How it works 194 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: is if you're the Germans and everyone was doing this, 195 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: but as an example, if you're the Germans, you have 196 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: a trench, your trench gets more and more fortified every 197 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: single day. They would dig rooms into the side of 198 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:21,400 Speaker 1: these trenches. The Germans, because they're freaking Germans, and they're 199 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 1: just like this. The Germans would wallpaper the things. I mean, 200 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: you would build a complex inside your trench. So you've 201 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 1: got your trench, your trenches decked out, and then you 202 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 1: go out of your trench and go backwards towards your 203 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: headquarters for a ways, and then there's another trench and 204 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 1: then backwards in other ways, and then there's another trench. 205 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 1: And they would start doing things. They call it defense 206 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 1: in depth, where once you break through the first trench, 207 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 1: things actually get more difficult as you go along. The 208 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: defenses stiffen even more as you go along the boast sides. 209 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 1: We're doing this, and so what does that mean? Well, 210 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 1: it means this. If you have your battle line and 211 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 1: their battle line, it's not different than swords and spears, 212 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: you want to break through it in some way so 213 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: you can then flank them and attack them from behind, 214 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 1: or charge clear through it and go seize some critical 215 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 1: objective that'll screw them all up. You always, you've seen 216 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:29,639 Speaker 1: it in the movies A thousand times. Hold the line, 217 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: Hold the line. It is really really important nobody gets 218 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 1: through your lines, because once they're through, you are not 219 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:39,640 Speaker 1: set up to defend from the other direction, they can 220 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: attack you from the rear. You have to defend both sides. 221 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 1: It's a nightmare. So whether it's swords and spears or 222 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 1: World War One, you're trying to break through the other 223 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:53,679 Speaker 1: guy's line. And both sides would try this repeatedly in 224 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:59,399 Speaker 1: World War One, and for the most part it never 225 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:04,880 Speaker 1: worked because they didn't understand how to properly use all 226 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 1: these new toys, all these new war toys, so they 227 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 1: couldn't ever maximize it and instead, remember those swords from 228 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 1: the beginning. Instead, they would just throw men against the line, 229 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 1: which is of course what you would do throughout the 230 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 1: history of the world up to this point. Only now 231 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,159 Speaker 1: there is that thing called a machine gun there in 232 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 1: a concrete pill box, and your valiant cavalry charge is 233 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:39,640 Speaker 1: only going to get you all your men and all 234 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,959 Speaker 1: their horses killed in about five seconds. There's nothing valiant 235 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:47,400 Speaker 1: about it. It's idiotic. However, it's again the only way 236 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 1: they've ever known. What's charged them, and all the men die, 237 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:59,000 Speaker 1: Let's do another charge in another men die, and they're 238 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: trying to break through these lines that really cannot be 239 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 1: broken through. And at this time nineteen seventeen, France had 240 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 1: recently done one under a guy named Novelle, is called 241 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 1: the Navelle Offensive, and just like pretty much all of them, 242 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: as they tried to break through this gigantic offensive, We're 243 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna hit the Germans here with all this 244 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 1: artillery and all this and that, and we're gonna break 245 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 1: through and finally get them, and it grinds to a halt, 246 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:39,200 Speaker 1: like all of them do. Even if you seize some objective, 247 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 1: you've lost so much you're virtually wiped out. And that's 248 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 1: where France is at this moment. You see Britain when 249 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,719 Speaker 1: they want a battle, when they want to fight this 250 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: third Battle of ePRO, they go to France thinking they're 251 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 1: gonna get some help because their allies and Frances all 252 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: uph yeah, yeah, no, no, we're you're fighting this one 253 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: on your own. We are in bad trouble. So France 254 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 1: is out Germany. Their situation is this, on top of 255 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 1: the starving and everything else, they now have pretty much 256 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: brought the United States of America into the war, even 257 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,640 Speaker 1: though we're not really there yet. And how do they 258 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 1: do that? Well, it's an interesting question because we get 259 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:38,640 Speaker 1: into rules. What rules should be? What rules should you follow? 260 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:43,680 Speaker 1: How long do you follow them? There were and are 261 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 1: obviously rules, international rules Geneva Convention stuff against a submarine 262 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: or any other naval vessel firing a torpedo into the 263 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:02,879 Speaker 1: side of a normal non military transport ship or passenger ship. 264 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 1: Those are the rules, and I think from a surface 265 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,200 Speaker 1: level we would all agree that's a good rule. Right. 266 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 1: We don't need a China fire a torpedo into a 267 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:24,399 Speaker 1: carnival cruise ship. Would seem a little inhuman. There's a 268 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:50,200 Speaker 1: flip side of that. Hang on, got another great night's 269 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:54,959 Speaker 1: sleep last night with EBB sleep. You need an EBB sleep. 270 00:21:55,560 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 1: It is not drugs. Stop putting sleeping pills, chemical goals 271 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 1: into your body. Stop doing that to yourself, even though 272 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 1: you're gonna get to sleep eventually. It's not natural sleep. 273 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:10,400 Speaker 1: It's not good sleep. Your body needs natural sleep. And look, 274 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 1: I know what you go through when you lay down 275 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: at night. I know why you can't go to sleep, 276 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 1: because I've been there. You lay down and what's going 277 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 1: on your mind won't turn off, right. It's not that 278 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,399 Speaker 1: you don't have enough covers. It's not that this so 279 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 1: that your mind doesn't stop. You think about the day 280 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:29,399 Speaker 1: you had, You think about the day you're gonna have 281 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:33,399 Speaker 1: EBB sleep goes after that problem. It actually targets the 282 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 1: root cause of why you can't get to sleep. It's 283 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 1: why I love it. Go to triebb dot com slash jesse. 284 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:45,640 Speaker 1: That's try ebb dot com. Slash Jesse used to promo 285 00:22:45,720 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: code Jesse at checkout for twenty five bucks. Off the 286 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 1: other side, the flip side of that coin, unrestricted U 287 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:17,200 Speaker 1: boat warfare. The flip side. Who it is? Your Germany, 288 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:25,919 Speaker 1: they're blockading your ports. You have to do something to 289 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:30,439 Speaker 1: starve the British, don't you. They're allowed to starve you 290 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:35,159 Speaker 1: and your civilians because rest assured. It's not just the 291 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 1: army starving. The citizens are starving. So again, we like 292 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 1: to make it all black and white, good versus evil. 293 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: But are they wrong? It's easy for us to side 294 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:55,400 Speaker 1: with the British because we have more of an affinity 295 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 1: for the Brits than we do the Germans. For the 296 00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:01,919 Speaker 1: most part, it's because of our history. Are they wrong? 297 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 1: Germany is looking around all they're starving us to death. 298 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:13,959 Speaker 1: Screw them, let's starve them. There were arguments about this. 299 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,159 Speaker 1: It's not as if we always we always like to 300 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 1: act like and I do this too. We act like 301 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 1: the whole country agrees on one thing whenever we're talking 302 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 1: about things countries did in the past. There was massive 303 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,120 Speaker 1: argument in the Germans, you know, and the German government 304 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 1: about whether or not to do unrestricted warfare because they 305 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 1: knew it would probably bring us into the war because 306 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 1: inevitably you're gonna end up killing some American citizens, which 307 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:44,119 Speaker 1: of course they did. But that's the way it is now. 308 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:54,880 Speaker 1: Onto Passion Deal, the Third Battle of Epra. Understand that 309 00:24:55,080 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: war is starting to get a little more political when 310 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: it comes to divisions of power. Now, when I say 311 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 1: starting to get war is always political to some extent. 312 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:13,360 Speaker 1: What's that great von Klauschowitz line. War is a continuation 313 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 1: of politics by other means. But now here's the situation 314 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:28,119 Speaker 1: in Germany or in Britain. You have a man Douglas Hague. 315 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 1: He is the big general in charge. You have Lloyd George, 316 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 1: he's the Prime Minister of Britain, so technically he's running 317 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 1: the show in the country. They are starting to have major, 318 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: major disagreements and Douglas Hague, well, I'll put it to 319 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 1: you this way. There are several books written after World 320 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 1: War one by Brits who fought under Douglas Haig, who 321 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 1: consider him to be a monster, in a cold, unfeeling monster. 322 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 1: Everybody's heard of the Battle of the Psalm. It took 323 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: place before this, where one day, one day, fifty seven 324 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:26,119 Speaker 1: thousand Brits dead. That was Douglas Haig's doing. He was 325 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 1: one of the guys. He was the guy if you're 326 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 1: in a battle in a war like this, you hate 327 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 1: his guts because he at least seemed who knows what's 328 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,399 Speaker 1: in a man's heart, He at least seemed like he 329 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 1: didn't care at all about people dying, about his men 330 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 1: being slaughtered. He didn't care. Douglas Haig wants to push through, 331 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 1: wants to have a big battle at Passiondale Lloyd George, 332 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 1: the I'm Minister of Britain, wants to attack somewhere else. 333 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 1: Let's attack down in Italy or something like that. And 334 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 1: so again it's weird. It's hard to put yourself in 335 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 1: those shoes because this was the era where they were 336 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,359 Speaker 1: trying to figure out who should be calling the shots. 337 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 1: I mean, part of the reason why you want civilian 338 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,880 Speaker 1: leadership is so you don't end up with this. There's 339 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:23,879 Speaker 1: no question who the commander in chief is. It's the 340 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: president period in this era in Britain at this time, 341 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,879 Speaker 1: they didn't have that quite worked out yet. And so 342 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 1: it turns into tell me, this wouldn't be awkward. You've 343 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,679 Speaker 1: been at war for two three years now, the worst 344 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,439 Speaker 1: war by a mile in Britain's history. It's a total 345 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: carnage disaster. They begin to having a war in the 346 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:57,120 Speaker 1: press about where they should attack next. Imagine that here, 347 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:02,440 Speaker 1: imagine at the war with China and Maddie is still 348 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:07,360 Speaker 1: in the government, and Donald Trump wants to attack up 349 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 1: through Mongolia, and Maddie wants to attack down around the 350 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: Korean Peninsula. And they begin lobbying various press outlets in 351 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: America to talk about how great one strategy is or 352 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,399 Speaker 1: the other. And I don't mean subtly, I mean openly 353 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 1: and blaming it on the other guy. Douglas Hag wants 354 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 1: to do this. What an idiot? Can you believe? Lloyd 355 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 1: George wants to do this? What a moron? Isn't that 356 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 1: about as awkward as it comes? Hag wins. And because 357 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 1: of how this whole thing turns out, that's gonna be 358 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:53,040 Speaker 1: about the last time Hag Wins, hag Wins and Passiondale. 359 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 1: It is. Now here's what you need to know about Passiondale. 360 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: And this part is critical those of you who looked 361 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 1: it up when I told you to do a little 362 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 1: image search, this will make a lot more sense to 363 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,160 Speaker 1: If you haven't done that yet, it's a great time 364 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 1: to do that now. It was originally, if you can 365 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: believe this, looking at that absolute hellscape, it was originally 366 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 1: some of the most fertile ground out there. The top 367 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:33,480 Speaker 1: soil was just dark and rich and had been supplying. 368 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 1: It had been amazing farmland for centuries, for as long 369 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 1: as anyone could remember. It was incredible farmland that was 370 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 1: before you see, there was something else about passion Dale 371 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 1: that made it uniquely terrible in the history of warfare. 372 00:29:55,520 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 1: The water table was only eighteen inches is under the 373 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 1: ground eighteen inches? Now, what's taking place? During World War One? 374 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: Artillery artillery like the world had never seen gigantic artillery 375 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 1: shells blasting out huge holes in the ground. And I 376 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,640 Speaker 1: don't mean one here and there, I mean everywhere, and 377 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 1: landing in the same place over and over and over 378 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 1: and over again. And remember this is the Third Battle 379 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 1: of Epra. Third Battle They have taken this once fertile farmland, 380 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 1: as you can see from the pictures, and it has 381 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 1: turned into one gigantic mud bog mud like you can't 382 00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:02,720 Speaker 1: see the ground wasn't round. If you're looking at the 383 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:04,400 Speaker 1: images of it, or even if you're not, I can 384 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,040 Speaker 1: tell it. I can describe it to you. They had 385 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:12,320 Speaker 1: to set up wooden walkways and planks everywhere so you 386 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 1: can get to and fro, so you can get in 387 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:24,360 Speaker 1: and out of a place. There's one horrible, absolutely horrible story. 388 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 1: The story goes like this. They men would drown in it. 389 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 1: You understand, men would drown in the mud, and not 390 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: only that, you would watch them drown slowly in passion. Deal. 391 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 1: There's a terrible story. Dan Carlin told it in his 392 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:51,720 Speaker 1: Hardcore History podcast. This unit is walking out. They're walking 393 00:31:51,840 --> 00:32:00,200 Speaker 1: towards the front, and when you're marching towards the front, 394 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:05,120 Speaker 1: you oftentimes have people marching back towards you or back 395 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:10,880 Speaker 1: your way. During World War One, and sometimes lots of 396 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:15,760 Speaker 1: times it's not whole units. One guy would be sent 397 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,240 Speaker 1: back because the whole unit's either dead or they could 398 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:24,680 Speaker 1: only send him back. And as this unit's market marching 399 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 1: towards the front, they come across this guy. Hang on. 400 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 1: This unit was walking out towards the front. They come 401 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 1: across the young man by himself. Again, this is not 402 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 1: abnormal to come across somebody by themselves during this time. 403 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,040 Speaker 1: And this young man is stuck in the mud up 404 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:23,040 Speaker 1: to his knees and he's sinking very, very very slowly. 405 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 1: They attempt briefly to get him out. Do not consider 406 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,120 Speaker 1: them to be inhumane. When you were told you have 407 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,280 Speaker 1: to get to the front, you have to get to 408 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 1: the front right now. There is a time schedule. They 409 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:40,280 Speaker 1: try as best they can on the way by, they 410 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,320 Speaker 1: have to leave him there. He's begging them to stay. 411 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 1: They came back from the front two weeks later to 412 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,800 Speaker 1: find him with only his head still sticking out of 413 00:33:54,800 --> 00:34:02,640 Speaker 1: the mud. He'd gone insane. As you can imagine, people 414 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:09,319 Speaker 1: died there that way. Can you imagine slowly sinking to 415 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:18,200 Speaker 1: your doom watching people walk by. Multiple multiple accounts of 416 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:24,880 Speaker 1: men asking begging to be shot, rather than slowly drowned 417 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,720 Speaker 1: in the mud. And you have to know, of course, 418 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,440 Speaker 1: I'm sure it happened. How'd you like to have to 419 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,960 Speaker 1: make that decision? How'd you like that on your conscience? 420 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:40,040 Speaker 1: The rest of your life walking by maybe somebody you know, 421 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:48,080 Speaker 1: maybe somebody you don't. Jesse, please shoot me. I'd like 422 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:52,879 Speaker 1: to have to make that call. Remember when I told 423 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 1: you it was a hell. On top of that, you 424 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,600 Speaker 1: deal with this. I already told you about the shell 425 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:07,400 Speaker 1: holes in the artillery. This area is a nightmare. Now, Well, 426 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:12,879 Speaker 1: the shell holes sometimes you can't see them if there's 427 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:16,959 Speaker 1: too much water on the ground and you step into them. 428 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,279 Speaker 1: And if you step into them and they're deep enough, 429 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,719 Speaker 1: you are dead because there's no way for people to 430 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:27,919 Speaker 1: get you out without falling in themselves. And I don't 431 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,120 Speaker 1: want you to picture some crystal clear shell hole either. 432 00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:35,160 Speaker 1: There are almost undoubtedly already dead men and or dead 433 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,759 Speaker 1: horses in it, rotting in the bottom of it. There 434 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,960 Speaker 1: is poop in it, there's pa in it, there's who 435 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,839 Speaker 1: knows what else in it, because men use them as latrines, 436 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,480 Speaker 1: and you get to sink to the bottom of it 437 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:54,560 Speaker 1: and drown because you couldn't see it. I don't mean 438 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:58,840 Speaker 1: it happened once or twice. And if you want what 439 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,680 Speaker 1: has to be one of the most miserable stories I've 440 00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:07,520 Speaker 1: ever heard in my life, get this one. During this battle, 441 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:12,560 Speaker 1: one portion of it. It had actually dried out a 442 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,040 Speaker 1: little bit. By the grace of God, the rain had 443 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:18,120 Speaker 1: dried out, and it was a day where lots of 444 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,480 Speaker 1: the shell holes the water table went down, and the 445 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:25,239 Speaker 1: shell holes were emptier in this particular area. During the 446 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:31,040 Speaker 1: day they do this attack. Of course, men die in droves, 447 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:35,960 Speaker 1: in are wounded in droves, And when you are wounded 448 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:40,279 Speaker 1: on that battlefield, oftentimes there's nobody there to get you, 449 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:43,399 Speaker 1: nobody to pick you up with a stretcher, you make 450 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:47,120 Speaker 1: your own way back, or sometimes you have to lay 451 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,000 Speaker 1: there until nighttime and pray for someone to get you. 452 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:54,080 Speaker 1: Or sometimes people don't get you at all. So if 453 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,960 Speaker 1: you're laying out there and no man's land with artillery 454 00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,960 Speaker 1: shells and machine gun fire, and you are severely wound, 455 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:04,120 Speaker 1: did where are you going to crawl? You are going 456 00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,200 Speaker 1: to crawl into a shell hole because it offers at 457 00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:11,640 Speaker 1: least some protection. And so men all over the battlefield 458 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:17,719 Speaker 1: crawled into the shell holes, extremely wounded. Nighttime fell, and 459 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:23,240 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the whimpering and yelling and wailing 460 00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,560 Speaker 1: and praying got a lot louder and a lot more desperate, 461 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:29,040 Speaker 1: and the guys back in the trench figured out what 462 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:33,200 Speaker 1: was going on. These horribly wounded men who had crawled 463 00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,400 Speaker 1: their way into shell holes were watching as the shell 464 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:44,040 Speaker 1: hole slowly fills up with water. All the men were 465 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:56,120 Speaker 1: dead by morning. Can you imagine such a nightmare? Forget 466 00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:00,200 Speaker 1: being forget how horrible it would be to be in 467 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:06,160 Speaker 1: that shell hole, wounded, scared, cold, feel the water coming in. 468 00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,480 Speaker 1: That's a whole different kind of hell. What's it like 469 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:16,600 Speaker 1: listening to that? The guys who write about it say 470 00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:21,320 Speaker 1: it just mentally broke people in the unit, absolutely mentally 471 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:27,359 Speaker 1: broke people in the unit listening to it. Now, the 472 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:32,600 Speaker 1: purpose of Passiondale, in case you're wondering, was again to 473 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:37,040 Speaker 1: break through, and we've told enough horrible stuff about it 474 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,680 Speaker 1: for a minute, there is something really, really kind of 475 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:44,279 Speaker 1: cool battle wise that happened here. You see. One of 476 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,440 Speaker 1: the main goals of Passiondale was to take this ridge, 477 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,320 Speaker 1: a ridge where the Germans were dug in and dug 478 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:55,440 Speaker 1: in heavily. Now, what's a great way to take a 479 00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:58,960 Speaker 1: ridge If you can't seem to bomb them off the 480 00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,960 Speaker 1: top of it, You can't seem to charge up the 481 00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:06,640 Speaker 1: hill and get to them, you can't drop air power 482 00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:12,120 Speaker 1: on them. What's the other way. I'll tell you in 483 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:35,640 Speaker 1: a second. Birch Gold people, I don't know if you've 484 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,480 Speaker 1: seen the news. I'm sorry to be the one to 485 00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:44,000 Speaker 1: break it to you. States are locking down again due 486 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,799 Speaker 1: to coronavirus. I'm not making that up. I understand that's 487 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:51,600 Speaker 1: going to upset some of you. 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If you're trying to get some 498 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:50,160 Speaker 1: people off of a ridge and you have time on 499 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:58,040 Speaker 1: your hands, which they did, what about going underneath them? Now? 500 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,120 Speaker 1: Remember I said you needed time on your hands. And 501 00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:04,919 Speaker 1: this is the third Battle of Epra. They've been here 502 00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:11,120 Speaker 1: for some time now. The Brits in one of the coolest, 503 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:15,719 Speaker 1: most innovative things I've heard of in my life. Decided 504 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:22,239 Speaker 1: to mine and tunnel underneath the ridge. They mind underneath 505 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:26,080 Speaker 1: it and filled it up with I forget the exact number, 506 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:34,000 Speaker 1: a garga gargantuan amount of explosives, and then they set 507 00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,240 Speaker 1: it off, and it is to this day, I believe, 508 00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:41,839 Speaker 1: outside of the atom bomb, the largest man made explosion 509 00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:46,000 Speaker 1: in the history of mankind. Supposedly, whole German units were 510 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:50,319 Speaker 1: just vaporized off the top of the ridge. I mean, 511 00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:54,600 Speaker 1: it's not funny, but it's kind of awesome. Hang up, 512 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:43,919 Speaker 1: this is a Jesse Kelly show. This is a Jesse 513 00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:58,600 Speaker 1: Kelly show. They blew up the ridge, permanently, altering it. 514 00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:00,400 Speaker 1: You can still see it to this day, isn't it. 515 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:09,319 Speaker 1: While and Passiondale went the same way they all went. 516 00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:18,319 Speaker 1: They would attempt to break through, the Germans would beat 517 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:24,279 Speaker 1: a orderly retreat. They did this on purpose. Make you 518 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:28,600 Speaker 1: work for it. Retreat in good order. As soon as 519 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:32,640 Speaker 1: you've advanced five hundred yards a thousand yards into where 520 00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:40,040 Speaker 1: our first line used to be, we wait until you're 521 00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:45,760 Speaker 1: exhausted out, run your supply, and then we counter attack. 522 00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:51,960 Speaker 1: And it went back and forth like this for the 523 00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,839 Speaker 1: entire war, and it went back and forth like this 524 00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:58,440 Speaker 1: the entire time in passion Deal. It's funny, Passiondale is 525 00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:02,759 Speaker 1: actually a tiny town. And eventually the Brits actually did 526 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:04,480 Speaker 1: take it. I mean, I guess you can call it 527 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:14,440 Speaker 1: a win. That man. They estimate roughly two hundred and 528 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:20,799 Speaker 1: fifty thousand casualties on each side by the time the 529 00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:28,240 Speaker 1: Battle of Passion Deal was done, maybe the worst place 530 00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:36,279 Speaker 1: in the history of the world. Why did they fight it? 531 00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,920 Speaker 1: Why did they? I mean, this was one. This is 532 00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,520 Speaker 1: one of many breakout attempts, trying to push through, trying 533 00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:47,600 Speaker 1: to break through the line. This had been years, They've 534 00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:58,160 Speaker 1: been doing this already. Why do another one? Why attempt 535 00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:02,600 Speaker 1: another one? Even Douglas Hey, even if people don't like him, 536 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:06,759 Speaker 1: even if he's a cold, unfeeling monster, Why do another one? 537 00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:12,239 Speaker 1: And that's the question people ask so much when they 538 00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:17,520 Speaker 1: look at World War One and the unbelievable failures of 539 00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:24,080 Speaker 1: leadership of tactics. How can you constantly throw men against 540 00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:27,560 Speaker 1: the same machine gun pill box and watch them all 541 00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,879 Speaker 1: die and then turn around in order the next one. 542 00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:39,200 Speaker 1: And here's why that question bothers me. That question bothers 543 00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:44,319 Speaker 1: me because it shows human beings still do not have 544 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:56,320 Speaker 1: a fundamental understanding of leadership. People in positions of leadership general's, president, senators, congressman, governors, CEOs. 545 00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:06,040 Speaker 1: You tell yourself, and I do this too, You tell 546 00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:16,279 Speaker 1: yourself that guy in this position should be there is 547 00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:25,319 Speaker 1: They're based on merit in some way. The truth is 548 00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:29,680 Speaker 1: simply this. I have had the chance in my lifetime 549 00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:33,200 Speaker 1: to mix it up with the highest of the high 550 00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,759 Speaker 1: when it comes to powers. Not the president, mind you, 551 00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:41,239 Speaker 1: but everybody speak of the house, general, CEO's, billionaires, have 552 00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,920 Speaker 1: had a chance to hang with any of them from 553 00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:47,680 Speaker 1: time to time. And the one thing that is almost 554 00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:53,080 Speaker 1: universally true, as I walk away, not with the negative 555 00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:56,040 Speaker 1: impression of them. Some yes, some know, some really like 556 00:46:56,160 --> 00:47:02,080 Speaker 1: some I didn't like. I walk away thinking that guy 557 00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:10,680 Speaker 1: is average. He's just average. Maybe he worked harder, Maybe 558 00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:14,719 Speaker 1: he had an idea nobody else did. Maybe he caught 559 00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:16,920 Speaker 1: a great lucky break, somebody noticed him, maybe you got 560 00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:20,480 Speaker 1: an inheritance. Maybe maybe he took a big chance you 561 00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:25,160 Speaker 1: didn't take. But you always assume that people who rise 562 00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:31,080 Speaker 1: to these levels are somehow more capable super geniuses than 563 00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,840 Speaker 1: you are, and therefore they have to know what they're doing. 564 00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:39,880 Speaker 1: Douglas Haig maybe a soul less monster. He knows what 565 00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:43,560 Speaker 1: he's doing. These other generals attempting these stupid breakouts that well, 566 00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:45,920 Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it didn't work, but they know what 567 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:54,400 Speaker 1: they're doing. Most of those guys are average. Most of 568 00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:59,719 Speaker 1: those guys look at this new thing called the machine gun, artillery, 569 00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:06,000 Speaker 1: poison gas, and they don't know what to do with 570 00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:12,640 Speaker 1: it anymore than you do. And we tell ourselves, especially 571 00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:18,759 Speaker 1: when you're marching into battle literally or otherwise, you tell 572 00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:23,840 Speaker 1: yourself because it is a comfort. The people in charge 573 00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:29,000 Speaker 1: know what they're doing, even if you don't like them. 574 00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:32,040 Speaker 1: They have access to more information than I do. They're 575 00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:34,719 Speaker 1: using it, they have they have advisors. We'd love to 576 00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:36,600 Speaker 1: say that to ourselves. I know you do it because 577 00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:38,600 Speaker 1: I do it too. Well. Now he's got advisors, he 578 00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:42,120 Speaker 1: would never make that mistake. He's got he's got advisors. No, 579 00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:53,239 Speaker 1: his advisors. The advisors are idiots too. You like to 580 00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:56,720 Speaker 1: imagine the man is an expert, or if the man's 581 00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,040 Speaker 1: not an expert, then he has an expert right next 582 00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,560 Speaker 1: door to him who has it all figured out. And 583 00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:03,719 Speaker 1: the truth is they don't have it all figured out. 584 00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:11,640 Speaker 1: What we have right now, and the United States of 585 00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:21,560 Speaker 1: America with this insanity, with this somehow almost universally agreed 586 00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:30,160 Speaker 1: upon insanity, leftist commy front groups, black Lives Matter burning 587 00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:40,480 Speaker 1: down American cities right beside Antifa, politicians either actively cheering 588 00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:42,560 Speaker 1: it on in the case of the Democrats, or in 589 00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:46,200 Speaker 1: the case of the Republicans, too scared to speak out 590 00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:55,720 Speaker 1: strongly against it and stop it. We have corporations sending 591 00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:59,440 Speaker 1: out black Lives Matter things. NBA is talking about letting 592 00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:07,680 Speaker 1: players social justice messages on their jersey instead of their names, universities, 593 00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:13,520 Speaker 1: major universities setting out black Lives Matter hashtags when it's 594 00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,480 Speaker 1: a commie leftist front group that's a slush fund for Democrats. 595 00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:21,839 Speaker 1: Everyone knows it, and nobody seems to want to put 596 00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:26,040 Speaker 1: a stop to this insanity. And the frustration I hear 597 00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:30,839 Speaker 1: from people is why aren't they doing something? Why isn't 598 00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:36,360 Speaker 1: anyone doing something? How are they not doing something? And 599 00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:38,719 Speaker 1: here's something you're just gonna have to bone up to 600 00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:49,800 Speaker 1: me too. These people aren't that capable and aren't that smart. 601 00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:58,400 Speaker 1: The ones we follow, even the ones we cheer for, 602 00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:04,240 Speaker 1: the truth is they're just men. They're just flesh and blood, 603 00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:06,719 Speaker 1: they put their pants on the same way you do, 604 00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:11,759 Speaker 1: the same way I do. They're no different than that 605 00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:17,520 Speaker 1: idiot General Douglas hag of yesteryear. You think he's capable 606 00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,279 Speaker 1: by he's a general. Of course he's capable. You don't 607 00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:22,439 Speaker 1: know how much. But he had to kiss to get there. 608 00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:25,440 Speaker 1: You don't know if he was the chauffeur of the 609 00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:29,160 Speaker 1: right general. You don't know if his dad knew a 610 00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:33,960 Speaker 1: guy who knew a guy. You don't know. I don't know. 611 00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:40,839 Speaker 1: But just because somebody holds a position of power does 612 00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:45,920 Speaker 1: not mean they are capable to lead you. Oftentimes they 613 00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:51,960 Speaker 1: are not. We have a dad crisis in this country, 614 00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:56,320 Speaker 1: and we have a major, major leadership crisis in this country. 615 00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:03,279 Speaker 1: That's the bad news. A good news. Somebody's gonna step 616 00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:07,840 Speaker 1: up and feel that vacuum. I hope it's the right person, 617 00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:13,480 Speaker 1: because somebody's gonna step up and feel that vacuum. Hang on, 618 00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:40,759 Speaker 1: you know your house smells, don't get mad. Don't get 619 00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:42,360 Speaker 1: mad in my house smells too. I'm not I'm not 620 00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,480 Speaker 1: indicting you. 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