WEBVTT - Rhodesian Bush War Part 2 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:12.720 This is a Jesse Kelly Show. 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:19.360 It is the Jesse Kelly Show. Another hour of the 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:24.239 Jesse Kelly Show on a magnificent Wednesday. So you know 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:26.279 what's about to come up this hour. I'll get to 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:28.280 that here in a few I should let you know 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:33.920 in hour three there's some hopeful signs on the horizon 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:38.440 about all this advancement in technology AI. I'll tell you 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:42.640 about something hopeful something terrible about the GOP. We'll again 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.839 talk at least briefly about influencer campaigns. It looks like 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:50.600 we've got some impeachments coming down the pike. Emails, all that, 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.680 so much more coming up in the third hour of 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:59.040 The Jesse Kelly Show. But it's our two and as promised, 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:01.680 we are now going to pick up where we left 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.840 off last night and continue our history, a history not 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:11.399 many people know about the Rhodesian Bush War. If you 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.160 missed a lot of the background, and so much of 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:17.680 it was background, It was tribal stuff. And if you 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.640 miss that, I don't have time to recap it for you. 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:26.399 Now we must move on in the story. iHeart Spotify iTunes. 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.880 You can go download the podcast. It's all free. There's 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:33.199 no charge for any of this. Our two of last night, 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:37.280 we gave a lot of the background, your thirty second 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:38.720 to one minute background. 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:39.119 Is this. 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.080 A man named Cecil Rhodes grabbed a bunch of miners, 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:47.720 other people, yes, women and children, walked into a tribal land, 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:52.800 a tribal land that had stuff he wanted. They started 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.720 to mine there. There were two historically there were more, 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:00.800 but two main rival tribes there who hated each other 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.120 and slaid each other, slaughtered each other, raped each other, 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.559 and burned each other alive for a very long time. 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:09.120 At some point they did it in front of the Europeans. 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.919 There was a big uprising. The Europeans were mortified by 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.800 such savagery, and they stepped up and they said, okay, 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.360 this place is kind of ours. Now this is done. 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:24.920 You all, you people, you tribes, you tribesmen, you go 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:29.120 over there. You other tribesmen, you go over there. Now. 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:34.560 This is what colonization looked like a lot of the time. 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.680 We're about to lay it out for the British Empire. 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:43.120 Remember when your history professor in college was whining and 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:47.880 crying about colonialism. That's actually kind of a ridiculous term 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:52.680 because there are so many different ways to quote colonize 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:58.280 a country. And let's be honest, right now. Colonization is 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:03.520 simply a more peaceful form of conquest. That's what it is. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:08.160 So let's just call it all conquest, shall we. There 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:12.200 is a spectrum, isn't there? We could go with the old. Well, 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:16.880 the easiest one would be Genghis Khan form of conquest. Hey, 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.720 I really like your lands. I think I shall take 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:25.040 my gigantic army in there and i will slaughter every man, 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.560 woman and child. I'll even send a rearguard back to 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.720 your city to ensure I killed all the pets, and 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.760 then I'll move in. That is obviously an extreme end 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:39.040 of that spectrum, but that's how conquest has been done. 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:45.800 Then there are other types. The French. The French would 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.920 be more likely to kind of not really move in, 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:52.680 but trade with you, right, They'll provide security, they'll trade 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:56.880 with you. The Spanish. The Spanish were about as hands 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.640 off with so much of their conquest as you can be. 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.440 And I know about the Spanish conquest of Mexico and whatnot, 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.080 but the Spanish and all their colonization or conquests, they 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.240 really just kind of wanted the gold. Hey, just give 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.600 me some gold. You have any gold, I'll take some gold. 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:17.000 The British, in my opinion, did it smarter than anyone else, 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:21.640 because here's what the British always believed about conquering colonizing 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.080 any place. The British believed that you should move in. 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.760 They believe that possession was nine tenths of the law. 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:32.560 And you can't ever really grab control of a place 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.080 just by sending emissaries from Afar and picking up a 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:40.240 shipment of gold along the coast. No, you needed your 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:45.280 people physically building homes and schools and roads. You need 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:49.920 your people moving in and setting up shop. But wait, 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.360 there's more. I don't want to make it sound all 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:59.360 bad if you're against conquest. They also believed in integrating 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:04.920 the local population as you moved in. The Brits did 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:09.400 not want to slaughter everybody. They actually didn't want to 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:13.200 send everyone away as refugees. And we're talking about this 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.800 spot in Africa Africa here, but Britain did this in 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:20.360 many other places. They wanted to find a way where, Yes, 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.560 they took over. I'm not making them sound completely magnanimous here. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:27.400 They wanted to take over, but they also wanted to Hey, 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.960 all these tribes and things like that. Look will help 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.760 you out too. How About how about some clothes, how 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.159 about a job? How about access to medicine, how about 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:41.240 how let's let's help let us help you too. You 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.760 are gonna work for us, like you're gonna work under us. 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.839 Let's be honest, but we're gonna help each other. 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:48.120 Here. 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.359 Your life will be better. And I don't want to 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.120 act as if they did this just out of the 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.760 kindness of their hearts. Of course there'd be some of that, 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.400 but really, for the Brits, and this is why I 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:03.040 think it was so brilliant, it just made more sense. 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:05.360 We want to take the place, we want to take 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:09.960 it over. Slaughtering everybody generally doesn't work. It's hard to do, 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.200 it's hard to maintain. As we've talked about before in 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.320 the show, you can't really kill your way out of 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:19.120 a problem. Usually that's difficult. But if you can somehow 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:23.760 make the people you're conquering make their day to day 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.839 lives better, then you have to deal with a lot 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:31.000 less rebellion, a lot fewer problems. They might even go 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:35.200 along with it, and in fact, Rhodesia eventually, we're not 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.440 quite there yet, Rhodesia kind of gets to that place 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:42.320 for a while. But right now we are post this 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:47.560 little tribal war. The English are mortified. The Europeans in 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.680 Zimbabwe are mortified, and they say, Okay, enough is enough. 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:54.479 Now it's ours. But what does it's ours mean? Well, 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.800 let's talk about what it was before the Europeans got there. 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:01.640 As you know, tribal lands. But what does that mean lands? Well, 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.480 a tribe, at least these tribes, the way they worked, 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.840 they would find some remote area, well it's all remote, 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:13.520 there's no civilization. They'd find an area that had things 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.040 they needed. And what does every tribe need? Every tribe 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.920 needs some way to eat. Maybe you're a hunting tribe, 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.680 maybe you do agriculture. Every tribe needs water. Let's find 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:26.280 a river, let's find something. Tribes are going to find 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.960 locations that work for them and that's where they're going 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.360 to build their village, their huts. That's how it's going 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:40.560 to work. And in many ways, the tribes were extremely isolated. 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:44.560 The villages were isolated from each other. These were people 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:49.040 who didn't build roads, they didn't have the wheel. You 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.760 as a young boy, I mentioned the two tribes yesterday. 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.840 I'll mention them again, the Shona and the Indobelly. And 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:58.800 by the way, the Indebelly go buy several names. I'm 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.400 just calling them into Belly, the Shona in the end 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.640 of Beelly. If you were a young boy, you were 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:08.520 born in this village, this indobelly village, there is a 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:13.560 reasonable chance you never left. Yeah, you would go out 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.440 and you would go hunt, or maybe you would go 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.000 to war or something like that. But you certainly didn't 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:22.600 bounce around the country. We modern day people, certainly modern 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.800 day Americans. Anyone, anyone living in a first world country 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.840 listening to me right now, you've been on a road trip, 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.040 How haven't you? Maybe you still live in your hometown, 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:37.320 but you know what a place one hundred miles from 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.640 you looks like, don't you? Of course you're almost probably 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.480 scoffing and laughing. Of course everyone does. Maybe you've even 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:48.760 been on a plane. That way of thinking is totally 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:53.800 foreign to these people who live in this area. What's 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.079 one of the very first things the Europeans start to do. Roads, 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:02.600 They start to build roads, they start to build train tracks. 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.640 Why well, they're moving goods and services and people to 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:13.200 and fro and now they're connecting villages that had previously 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:19.400 never been connected before. The African people in some time, 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.480 in some ways they're moving to and fro in ways 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:27.360 they've never moved before. And in some ways they're getting 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.640 run out of an area. If the English, if the 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.160 europe let's stop calling them English, because there were people 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:37.480 from all over the European world. If the Europeans wanted 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.839 that area, remember they decided they were in charge now 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:46.400 they said you need to leave. Well, they were also 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.160 integrating the local population, as I mentioned, they tried to 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.120 do that. They really believed in doing that. Let's find 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:57.000 a way to weave these people into our society. And 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.440 remember there weren't very many Europeans at the time, not 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.840 very many at all. They were way out numbered by 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:09.920 the tribesmen. So crime, for instance, you don't have this 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:15.040 large European police force. What do you do for cops? 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:20.480 Every area needs cops. Well, that can create problems if 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.120 you don't understand the area you're taking over. We'll get 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.440 to those problems in a moment. There's about to be 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.240 a rebellion, a first one. I should say before we 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:32.199 get to rebellion time, I want you to rebel against pain. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.280 I want you to find. I want you to think 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.400 right now, you probably already think of it, thinking of it. 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.400 What is the thing on your body that hurts every day? 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.880 Maybe it's a head, Maybe your head hurts. Maybe it's 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.679 your neck, stiff neck, you turn and talk to someone, 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:53.240 you look like Batman. Your elbow old football injury, and 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:59.360 your finger. It hurts because it's inflamed. It's inflamed and 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:03.520 it needs help. Your body's already trying to fight the inflammation. 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.760 But it still hurts because your body doesn't have what 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:11.320 it needs, relief factors. What it needs. No more masking 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.920 it for a couple hours. Stop reaching for a pill 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.880 bottle and get yourself the supplement, the one hundred percent 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:22.440 drug free supplement that helps your body's natural response to 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:27.440 inflammation Relief Factor. Over a million people have tried it 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:32.280 one eight hundred the number four relief or relief factor 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:34.200 dot com. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:40.200 More. Next Jesse Kelly Vaccian. 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:47.600 It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a fantastic, Fantastic Wednesday, 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.240 a hump Day, doing part two of our history of 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:53.600 the Rhodesian bush War. Remember you can email us your love, 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:57.600 your hate, your death threats. Jesse at Jesse Kellyshow dot Com. 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.400 The Europeans are starting to take over. They're starting to 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.280 build roads, they're starting to build trains, They're starting to 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.800 connect African villages that have never been connected before. They're 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:10.560 starting to run Africans out of certain places. Now, this 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.000 is where, this is why I keep bringing up the 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:17.120 two tribes, because these two tribes, the fact that there 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:21.400 are two tribes who hate each other, is always going 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.960 to come into play in this entire story, right up 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.640 to the horrible brutal ending of it. Not to give 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:33.160 the whole thing away. Remember before these guys even got here, 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.000 the Shona had been conquered by the end of Belly. 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:42.079 They were slaves under the end of Belly. Those kinds 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:46.200 of hard feelings don't go away easily. And the Europeans 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:50.600 just got there, they just arrived five minutes ago. It's 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:55.880 hard to understand everything about the culture you're conquering. It's 0:12:55.920 --> 0:13:01.160 hard to understand old tribal rivalries and bad blood. It's 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:06.600 hard to understand the religious significance, different significance of different things, 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.000 for instance, And this is going to come into play 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.920 for virtually all these tribes. You know, what was really 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.880 a currency for them, almost a sacred level of currency, 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:20.560 a status symbol cattle. How many cattle do how many 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.480 cows do you have? You have a lot of cattle. 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.520 Oh you've only got three. Oh that sucks, Chris, I've 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.560 got five. Must suck to be so low class. I 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.880 mean you're laughing, But that's how that's how it worked. 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.280 If you were a king, part of that status would 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.840 be look at all of our cattle. Well, what are 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.360 cattle to the Europeans at this point in time? Just 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:42.720 what they're beef? It's beef or its milk. It's no 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.640 big deal. You raise them, you kill them, whatever. It's 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.559 just one of those things they didn't quite get. They 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.280 also needed a police force, and they're trying to integrate 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:56.599 the local tribes. But let me ask you something. Do 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:00.600 you ever have any bad blood in your family? Every 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:05.760 family hasn't, maybe even in your town a rival town arrival, 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:10.479 family arrival, this arrival that. I want you to imagine 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.559 this when it comes to Zimbabwe that we're talking about 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:19.560 right now. Let's say your people, your people had historically 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:24.680 kept the Shona as slaves and slavery. Remember was not 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:31.000 touchy feely, not at all ugly things for women children. 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:36.600 Let's just say, maybe your mother had been a slave 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:42.680 of the endobelly. You're now twenty five years old. Your 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.680 mother raised you with those stories of what the Indibelly 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:50.600 did to them. The Europeans knock on the door of 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:57.920 your hut and they're handing you a policeman's uniform because 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:02.960 now you you are going to help police some of 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:07.560 the indobelly areas and you have the power of law 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:12.600 enforcement behind your badge. You don't have some oath you 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:17.320 take or even believe in. You're a tribesman who's historically 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:21.840 been at war, and that tribe has historically abused your family, 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.560 and now you're about to get a weapon and two 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.360 or three of your cop buddies and you're about to 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:32.200 walk into their area. Do you think there would be 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:41.240 any temptation to abuse that kind of power. This happened often. 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:46.680 The Europeans were having and will always have such a 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:52.800 difficult time keeping the tribes separate from each other, understanding 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.960 the depth of hatred they have for each other. There 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:02.760 was African police au African on African police abuse all 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:07.600 over the place. Combine that with this. I already talked 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.320 about historically how these tribes work. They lived in their 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:15.160 little villages. Now they're being moved onto what are essentially reservations. 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:19.760 They're getting moved away from their historic homelands. They're not 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:24.080 thrilled about it. Now, let's add one more element to it. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.400 And this is a long complicated affair. For the sake 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:29.840 of not having this be a ten episode thing, I'm 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.920 fast forwarding through some things. There gets to be a 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:38.840 plague with the cows. What do the Europeans do when 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:43.160 there's a cow plague? They do what any civilized society 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:47.320 would do, and they start to kill the cows. I 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:52.760 just got done explaining cows are sacred to these people, 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:57.480 a status symbol to these people. As a European, you 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.880 may have everyone's best interests at heart. When you send 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:04.960 a few guys onto somebody's land and shoot twenty of 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:09.879 his cows in the head, he is almost undoubtedly going 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:16.840 to interpret that act differently than you do. It's bad. 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:24.359 Rebellion breaks out. Rebellion breaks out. In fact, you should know, 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.600 I won't tell you the name of it, because it's 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:31.200 another detail. I'm already drowning you in details. But they 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:34.719 consider the Rhodesian Bush War to be the second version 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.439 of this rebellion. That's what they call it. This is 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:42.199 the first of these rebellions. The tribes rise up, they rebel. 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.800 They are not as technologically advanced they do, however, have 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:52.959 the numbers. It's slaughter, it's destruction. They're doing things like 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.119 one miner. He had worked with ten Africans on a 0:17:56.200 --> 0:18:00.199 mind for a long time. He then found himself with 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.280 them crawling into the mind trying to beat him to 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:07.719 death one night. There are some stories I'll tell you 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:09.880 in a moment. Before we get to some of these stories, 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.880 let me get to this. Let me talk to you 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:18.120 about changing your cell phone service. And you know why 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:20.480 I'm gonna read you this. This is a direct quote 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:25.000 from Pure Talk. 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Has At and 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:03.480 T ever told you that T Mobile save some money, 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:05.760 keep your phone, keep your number, or get a new 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.520 When they have those two switch to the company that 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:13.679 does stuff like that. Dial pound two five zero and 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:20.040 say Jesse Kelly Pound two five zero, Say Jesse Kelly, We'll. 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.639 Be back the Jesse Kelly Show. 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:28.359 It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful Wednesday, 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:32.080 talking about the land down under Africa tonight as we go. 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:35.680 Quit what, Chris, I'm not a geologist, all right, I 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.520 don't know everything. All right. Back to our history of 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:42.639 the Rhodesian Bush War. The Europeans had set up the trains, 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:46.240 they'd set up the villages. The tribes were hating each other. 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.400 The tribes were not liking this European rule, and they 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:53.040 broke out in rebellion. Now, this is nothing like the 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:56.480 rebellion that will happen during the Rhodesian Bush War. This 0:19:56.640 --> 0:20:01.840 is completely disorganized. There aren't a the central leaders. And 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:05.240 remember the two tribes hate each other as much as 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:09.159 they hate the Europeans. So what does this rebellion look like? 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:15.200 It sounds horrifying, but it's essentially small areas where panic 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:21.840 gets inflamed, anger gets inflamed, and it's oftentimes led by 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:28.879 local religious leaders, local tribal religious leaders, you know, all 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:33.320 these weird tribal false religions. Local religious leaders would get 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:38.119 their local area to rise up against the white invaders, 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:42.080 the European invaders. I told you briefly about that story 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.600 of the miner. Well you know how most of that 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:47.919 story went. He walked out of his house to find 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:51.240 ten Africans who he had worked with on the mine, 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:53.399 not slaves or something like that, you know, working with 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:56.280 them every day lunch wages. That there were co workers 0:20:56.800 --> 0:21:01.919 with war clubs. This animal manages to wrestle one of 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:05.280 the war clubs from him. They start beating him. He 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:09.080 starts swinging back and beating them. He makes his way 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:12.439 all the way into the mind shaft where he rolls 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:15.760 down into the mind shaft. And then he has more 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:18.840 miners in the mind shaft who he's worked with, who 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:21.600 he thinks will come to his aid, and they start 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:25.520 beating him too. He starts fighting them off. He's fighting 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:29.600 his way through the mines. These things happen. In another incident, 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:34.920 two guys are sitting there, there are women and children 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:39.800 hidden behind them, and the tribesmen have surrounded the mine 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:43.639 and they are essentially getting ready to kill everyone in it. 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:47.040 The two dudes make a break for it. What are 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:50.320 they making a break for. They're going for the telegraph 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:53.480 line so they can telegraph for help so the women 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:57.640 and children won't die. They book it, one of them, 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:00.359 actually both of them end up making it the entire 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:04.560 way to the telegraph hut. One holds the door closed 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:08.160 from the angry tribesmen behind him, while the other gets 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:12.919 on the telegraph machine and telegraphs the message out. Eventually, 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:16.560 the door is kicked down and both men die with 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:22.119 African spears sticking out from all over their bodies. This 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:27.240 is taking place all across Zimbabwe at this time, but 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:31.320 as I said, it is not unified. It is poorly led. 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:36.240 And eventually the Europeans raise for themselves, or that they 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:38.640 should say, they get back their army. It's a long 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:41.280 story I won't go into. Most of their fighting men 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:44.200 had gone to fight somewhere else and they'd been captured. 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:47.920 They get their fighting men, and their fighting men are 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:51.560 organized and they are well led, and they start to 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:55.760 put this rebellion down. They put it down to such effect. 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:59.520 The rebels are now starving. The rebels are hiding in 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:04.600 k and the Europeans are dynamiting rebels out of caves, 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:09.800 dynamiting the entrance, starving them. And there's an or horrible, horrible, 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:14.560 ugly affair. Cecil Rhodes, the guy who started all this, 0:23:16.520 --> 0:23:19.560 he brings all the tribal leaders together finally after a 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:24.679 very vicious little war, and he negotiates a peace because 0:23:24.720 --> 0:23:30.919 the tribes are starving. They're starving, they're done. Only now, 0:23:31.040 --> 0:23:35.480 this is the problem with rebellion. When you lose one. 0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:41.800 If you lose one, you are always going to end 0:23:41.880 --> 0:23:45.680 up worse off than you were before. If you're going 0:23:45.720 --> 0:23:49.480 to rebel, you better win. The whole history of the 0:23:49.480 --> 0:23:51.800 world proves this to be the case. It's almost weird 0:23:51.800 --> 0:23:54.960 when you look back and you wonder why so many 0:23:55.000 --> 0:23:58.480 people rebelled. We're going to rebel against Babylon. Oh no, 0:23:58.560 --> 0:24:01.520 we're all skinned alive. It just doesn't it doesn't work. 0:24:02.400 --> 0:24:06.439 Now they have no more control. And now after the 0:24:06.480 --> 0:24:11.919 negotiated peace, now Britain is no longer doing that. Well, 0:24:12.000 --> 0:24:14.600 it's not really our thing, it's kind of a private 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:20.280 enterprise thing. Nope, Now this is the nineteen twenties. Now 0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:25.680 Britain says no, no, no, no, no, it's our country now. Now. 0:24:25.880 --> 0:24:31.280 They even gave it a name, South Rhodesia. By the way, 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:34.000 in case you're wondering, Yes, that name comes from the 0:24:34.080 --> 0:24:38.280 name Cecil Roads. And no he didn't name it. In fact, 0:24:38.440 --> 0:24:40.600 he didn't even like the name, which is weird. I've 0:24:40.600 --> 0:24:43.199 always wanted a country named after me. That is not 0:24:43.280 --> 0:24:46.359 what he preferred at all, but Rhodesia. Only at this 0:24:46.440 --> 0:24:50.600 point in time it's named South Rhodesia. Let's fast forward 0:24:50.680 --> 0:24:55.120 just a little bit. They are locking in their control 0:24:55.320 --> 0:24:58.960 of the area. They're building whole cities now, they're trying 0:24:59.000 --> 0:25:02.639 to modernize this country as possible in a long comes 0:25:02.680 --> 0:25:06.560 World War two. This part is going to be important 0:25:06.640 --> 0:25:10.399 for our story as we move along. I already told 0:25:10.440 --> 0:25:12.560 you the kind of people last night, the kind of 0:25:12.600 --> 0:25:16.320 Europeans who came here. These were not convicts who just 0:25:16.400 --> 0:25:22.399 got out. These were not idiot's welfare recipients. In many ways, 0:25:22.440 --> 0:25:24.960 it was the cream of the crop for Europeans and 0:25:25.000 --> 0:25:28.879 their children. They were tough as nails as well, not 0:25:29.040 --> 0:25:32.120 these effeminate, you know, pinky out people. Tough as nails 0:25:32.920 --> 0:25:35.720 and they also had, because there were so few of 0:25:35.760 --> 0:25:37.560 them and a country that was so big, with so 0:25:37.680 --> 0:25:43.960 many bigger tribes, mandatory military service for all the males 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:46.720 if you were a male in Rhodesia, by the way, 0:25:46.760 --> 0:25:49.960 and females females were the females didn't have man mandatory 0:25:50.000 --> 0:25:52.840 military service. Let me clarify, but the females were tough. 0:25:53.080 --> 0:25:56.080 The males were tough. We're not talking about sipping tea. 0:25:56.440 --> 0:25:59.680 These were farmers and miners and people who worked hard. 0:25:59.680 --> 0:26:02.520 And even the ones who were more wealthy, you hunted 0:26:02.680 --> 0:26:05.840 all the time, the elements, sleeping out under the elements. 0:26:06.000 --> 0:26:09.840 They were already a people familiar with the outdoors, familiar 0:26:09.880 --> 0:26:14.680 with firearms. And then when you add in mandatory military service, 0:26:15.080 --> 0:26:17.920 there may not have been many of them. At about 0:26:17.920 --> 0:26:20.760 the height of Rhodesia's army's power, there was only about 0:26:20.800 --> 0:26:23.720 twenty thousand. That's a tiny army. They were all tough 0:26:23.760 --> 0:26:28.240 as nails, tough as freaking nails, because look, you grew 0:26:28.280 --> 0:26:32.640 up in Africa shooting lions, that's what you did. They 0:26:32.640 --> 0:26:36.199 were a tough people. World War two comes along and 0:26:36.359 --> 0:26:43.080 Britain calls, hey, Rhodesia, we need some guys now I 0:26:43.119 --> 0:26:45.600