1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: Who what a week we are having. It's exciting. We're 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: getting ready for to go on a trip. Yes, this 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: is very much needed and we're excited, and we're a 4 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: little nervous about leaving our old man dog at home. 5 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: But he's going to be in good hands. I swear, 6 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:17,319 Speaker 1: if we, uh, if we hadn't paid for most of 7 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: this trip already, might bump it a little bit just 8 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: to make sure. But he's good. He's good. He's had 9 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: he's an old man. His back legs, he's got his 10 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: arthritis and stuff like that. But I'm gonna go ahead. 11 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now. Our vet talked us into acupuncture, 12 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 1: which if you a year ago, if you'd said acupuncture 13 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 1: for dogs, I would have laughed in your face. But 14 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,560 Speaker 1: I cannot believe the difference we've been seeing in him. 15 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: I mean, he's also getting injections for his arthritis. Arthritis 16 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: is helping his knees, but he's got that neurodegenerative thing 17 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: where he's not getting a signal to his feet as well, 18 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: so he would like walk on his knuckle and stuff 19 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: like that, and that's like knock on wood, you know, 20 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 1: largely gone away. Yeah, he's really not doing it. I'm suppressed. 21 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 1: That was very skeptical about puncture. But I was like, 22 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: it's undeniable, you can. I hope it lasts. Yeah, especially 23 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 1: through our trip. We're going out west in a see Sonny, 24 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, Las Vegas. Yes. Eli has been practicing his 25 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 1: dice rolling absolutely, so I was like, how do you 26 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 1: practice dice rollings? You know, you don't practice the dice 27 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 1: you know, some people think you can control the dice 28 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: roll but that's absurd. But you practice lay your bets down, right, 29 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: which makes more sense. I was like, oh, you're gonna 30 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: shake them in your hand differently. You know, you don't 31 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: don't gamble to win money. You can't gamble to win money. 32 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: You're not gonna it's dumb. Don't do that. Gamble because 33 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: you like playing the game and you're willing to pay 34 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: for it. That's my thing. And I'm like, I can 35 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: make me willing to pay for it. We pay for 36 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: entertainment all the time. If I could make a hundred 37 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: bucks last two hours of playing a board game, you know, 38 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: I feel like I had a good time doing it. 39 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 1: And sure, maybe I'll win fifty million dollars and pay 40 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: for the whole trip. But you can thank me after 41 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 1: that happens. Okay, I will trust me. You won't see 42 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,919 Speaker 1: a dime of my money. Excuse me, but I will. 43 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: You at least want to flip it into my face. 44 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:24,079 Speaker 1: That's true, that's true, or spend it, but you definitely 45 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: will show my No, it's all gonna go to you. Thanks, baby, 46 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 1: I mean transitively, you know, like in some way it 47 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: will be I'll buy something for myself that makes me 48 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: very happy, y exactly. Um. I can't think of something 49 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: that I would want to buy that you wouldn't also enjoy, 50 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 1: you know. I don't have those like I'm not gonna 51 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: buy sports tickets or you know, a car you can't drive, 52 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: or something like that. I don't know. I guess we 53 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: don't have unique personalities and needs. Wow, we're just one person, 54 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: two globs, gross blobs. Wait? Why are we globs? I 55 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: don't know. You're not wrong. I guess that's thinking about 56 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,959 Speaker 1: Ami Baz. That's separate, you know. But there's one thing 57 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 1: I don't know. Why we're amba like reverse Amiba's We 58 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: used to be two people. Is it amibas or is 59 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 1: it just a Meba? You're Miami Bay my single cells 60 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: Bay well, that one's for you microbiologists. You can use 61 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: that one with your spouse later. We have to make Valentine. 62 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: We gotta make branded Valentine Day. You're Miami Bay. Well, 63 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: welcome back to the show, everybody. I'm Eli, I'm Diana, 64 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: so happy to have you. A very exciting episode today 65 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: in one part, a single, single episode. But there is 66 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: a lot to say. This is a really cool one. 67 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: It's so true. This is like another history of like 68 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: a badass woman who changed the fate of a nation, 69 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: and her ridiculous romance is kind of the result of 70 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: her daring and dashing and dangerous life that she was 71 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: leading before she ever got married. So Remedios Gomez was 72 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: a normal young girl in the Philippines in n two. 73 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: She liked dancing and dresses and makeup and beauty pageants 74 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: and perfume, just girly stuff, okay. But everything changed after 75 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: the Japanese invaded and her father was brutally tortured and killed. 76 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: She swore vengeance and that she would look fabulous while 77 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: doing it. She became an accomplished military commander named Leiwawi 78 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: who always made sure to apply a fresh coat of 79 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: red lipstick before every battle, and when she would finally 80 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: be caught and imprisoned, it was her status as a 81 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 1: wife and mother that would get her out of it. 82 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: Let's hear out, Commander Lee y Way, famed Filipino beauty 83 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 1: queen and harrowin Yes, let's go Hey their French come 84 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: listen Well, Elia and Diana got stories to tell. There's 85 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: no matchmaking a romantic tips. It's just about ridiculous relationships. 86 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: A lover might be any type of person at all, 87 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,919 Speaker 1: and abstract concept a concrete wall. But if there's a 88 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 1: story where the Second Glance show Ridiculous Romans, a production 89 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio. Remedios was born in nineteen nineteen 90 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 1: in the city of Mexico in the Pampanga Province of 91 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: the Philippines. Did not know there was a Mexico city 92 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: in the Philippines, Like just a city named mctine, mcnamed, 93 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 1: not even a Mexico city. Her father, Basilio Gomez, served 94 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: as the mayor of their small town and now in 95 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: the nineteen thirties, and Romedios worked as a dressmaker, specializing 96 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:57,679 Speaker 1: in embroidery. She's a graceful, beautiful young woman. She loved 97 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 1: fashion and makeup and perfume and a polish was just 98 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 1: out here glamoring it up at all at all occasions. 99 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 1: You have like a crisp pine poster on your wall, 100 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 1: love ponies like that. My dream is to go to 101 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:13,919 Speaker 1: New York Fashion. Me just got all the Disney barbies 102 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: lined up on her shelf. About one of the first 103 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 1: expensive gifts I ever bought a girlfriend was in high school. 104 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: I got her one of those fancy Disney barbies. Oh 105 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,040 Speaker 1: my god, I should remember what it was. Was it Cinderella? 106 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: I think it was a classic. I think it might 107 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: have been Cinderella, like in your fancy gown. It was 108 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: either that or Bell. I don't remember. Just remember. It 109 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: was like a hundred and twenty bucks. And I was like, 110 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 1: is this what you do you buy? I'm I'm a 111 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: high school boyfriend. That means I spend money. I spend 112 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: my paycheck on a girlfriend, right, That's what I'm supposed 113 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: to do. She liked it. She liked it a lot. 114 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: That was a little subdude. I remember I earned a 115 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:58,839 Speaker 1: hundred dollars from I helped my parents renovate a house 116 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: for summer, and I earned a hundred dollars. I don't 117 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 1: even want to think about the amount of money that 118 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: is for our terrible but I was so excited to 119 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: go and spend it on a command I have Barbie 120 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 1: collection that's still there, so I was like, I want 121 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 1: to fancy Barbie. And I got a gun with the 122 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 1: wind Barbie dolls, Scarlett O'Hara, Barbie doll. They'll have it, 123 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: and they're like so sure. They're like, girl, there's gonna 124 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: be worse some ship one day. Never opened the box. 125 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: It's got to be pristine condition, so never did. And 126 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: I looked it up recently how much it was worth 127 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: and do you want to guess how much it's worth 128 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 1: forty two? No, I'm not gonna go to high thirty 129 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: eight thousand dollars eight bucks. What a prophet that the 130 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: many hours have lost good times. I could have have 131 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: this doll for eight dollars of appreciation. Look, if any 132 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: of y'all out there are Barbie collectors and you're missing something, 133 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: we'll sell you Diana's whole childhood collection. No questions asked 134 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 1: for I mean maybe some questions, what do you do know? 135 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 1: They're not allowed to ask us questions like how many Barbies? 136 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 1: Which ones are in there? Conditions? I'm just saying, you 137 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: set us grand and we'll just mail you a box 138 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: of Barbies. You'll love them. I did, Yeah, you love 139 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 1: him sitting. I love this idea of like this, what 140 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: fifteen sixteen year old girl sitting in her bedroom like 141 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: looking up at a shelf full of Barbies in their 142 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: box and going, ah, what a childhood. I'm just playing 143 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: with my toys. Are looking at it even younger. I 144 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: think I was like ten when I bought that doll, 145 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: and I would just look at her. I don't know 146 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 1: why I didn't just take her out of the damp box. 147 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: But anyway, back to Commander Lee by Way, I don't 148 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 1: know how we got to Barbies. Did not have a 149 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:49,679 Speaker 1: shelf full of Barbie dolls. She was not, but she 150 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 1: was kind of a Barbie girl. I guess maybe that's 151 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,680 Speaker 1: where we got right. So anyway, she's just really into 152 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,680 Speaker 1: looking her best, feeling her best, and projects, they say, 153 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 1: a nonprofit which is dicated to sharing and preserving. Filipino 154 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: History says that newspapers at the time called Remedios quote 155 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: many times a queen in town festivities, and she also 156 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 1: won some local beauty pageants and she was like the 157 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 1: homecoming queen the town, or just like who's the prettiest 158 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 1: She's like Bell, She's the most beautiful girl in town. 159 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:24,079 Speaker 1: But things got real tense in a now in one. 160 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: Right after bombing Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invaded the Philippines 161 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 1: and the country's military was no match for them. So 162 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: the Japanese were here to occupy. But the peasants of 163 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 1: the Philippines had different ideas. They decided to resist the occupation, 164 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:45,439 Speaker 1: and fortunately they had the organization they needed to do it. 165 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: When are people going to learn, you know, fun with 166 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: the peasants. Come on, they ain't got nothing to lose. 167 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: They're strong, work in the land. Its just it way 168 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:57,319 Speaker 1: more of them than there are of you. I'm not 169 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: going to say it never works, because clearly we're a 170 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,719 Speaker 1: lot of the time, but when it doesn't, I'll really 171 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:06,959 Speaker 1: get your asses kicked by some peasants. Well, let's learn 172 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: a little bit more about this, and that means we're 173 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 1: gonna set commendar, lead away aside and go take a 174 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 1: quick thing with history, leave me alone. For over two 175 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:22,959 Speaker 1: hundred years, the Philippines were ruled by Spain and they 176 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: had this pretty feudal economic setup called encomienda, and this 177 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: is where landowners owned all the land and houses, and 178 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: the peasant farmers worked that land and they paid rent 179 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: to stay in these homes. Pretty standard stuff. Sounds like 180 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: basically what everyone was doing England America right here today, 181 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: it's basically what I'm doing still in the land for 182 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 1: our landlord, still in the land, by being up on 183 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: this podcast. It's the same. But at least in this situation, 184 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:57,560 Speaker 1: the landlords lived there in the estates near them. They 185 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: would frequently attend to the tenant's weddings or they would 186 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 1: even provide food for festivities and celebrations, and they could 187 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: help them out with legal issues as well, stuff like that. 188 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 1: So they were very involved in the peasants lives. Very paternalistic, right, 189 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:16,559 Speaker 1: you know, take care of the people. You're yeah, real, 190 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 1: I mean I think that's the ideal set up. Obviously, 191 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: I don't know always work. Sure, that's the ideal set up. 192 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 1: The goal they were looking for here was like doubt, nabby, 193 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 1: like I'm Lord Grands, I'm very caring of my tenantstata, yes, um. 194 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 1: But when the Americans won first the Spanish American War 195 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: in and then the Philippine American War of nineteen o two, 196 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: everything out there changed. The islands were opened up to 197 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 1: international trade for the first time with a port opening 198 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 1: in Manila. Now landlord stopped caring about growing food like 199 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 1: rice and cereals, and instead they wanted to grow cash 200 00:11:55,280 --> 00:12:00,559 Speaker 1: crops for export, like tobacco and sugarcane. So out there 201 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 1: was less food to go around right there. At home, 202 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: landlords started handing over their estates to caretakers and they 203 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: lived in Manila or even overseas, sometimes just totally removing 204 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: themselves from their tenants altogether. As a result of this, 205 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: the peasants were exploited, neglected, and often abused. So the 206 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: peasants decided they were going to do what peasants do, 207 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: and they were going to take matters into their own hands. 208 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 1: They started organizing unions amongst themselves, and there were several, 209 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 1: but two of the largest had sixty thou and seventy 210 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: thousand numbers respectively when they decided to merge in nineteen 211 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,199 Speaker 1: thirty nine, way more than the number of landlords. They're 212 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 1: exactly exactly, and it's not like they were asking for 213 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: the moon here. I mean, mostly they just wanted to 214 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:46,080 Speaker 1: get back to their old system. Their traditional tendency that 215 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 1: they used to have, which is crazy because it's like 216 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 1: that's that ship already sucked. But I liked it better. Yeah, 217 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 1: you go back to the shitty thing that we had before. 218 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: At least we were growing our own food and not 219 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 1: just growing shipped for you to sell off to other country. Yeah. 220 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:02,559 Speaker 1: I think they grew the and so they got to 221 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: keep some of it. Sheet and now there's nothing to eat, right, 222 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 1: So these unions organized strikes and petitions and court cases 223 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: against the landlords, and they even had members run for 224 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:15,239 Speaker 1: local office. And one of these organizers was Basilio Gomez. 225 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: He was Remedios father. He owned a little bit of 226 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,959 Speaker 1: land himself, but he was down with the cause, and 227 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: he got elected mayor of a Now in the nineteen 228 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 1: thirties and was serving as vice mayor in nineteen forty 229 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 1: two when the Japanese invaded. So thanks to all of 230 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: that organizing in the thirties, the Filipino peasants were already 231 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: set up to organize a resistance against the Japanese. Again, 232 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 1: I know, right, well, fortunately already have everybody's name and address. 233 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:43,959 Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and get this going. Call a meeting 234 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 1: and on March two, three hundred peasant leaders, including Basilio, 235 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: decided to form the hook Bahap Rebellion and turned their 236 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 1: labor union into a guerrilla army. Their first task was 237 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 1: to gather up all available arms and ammunition from all 238 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: the peasants, as well as any retreating American forces might 239 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: have dropped some ship on their way up. So Basilio 240 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 1: got to work organizing people and weapons in and Now, 241 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: But only two months later he was betrayed by a 242 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 1: local collaborator and captured by the occupying Japanese. Most of 243 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: the town, including Remedios, witnessed Basilio being dragged by Japanese soldiers, 244 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: battered and tortured through the streets before he was executed 245 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: in front of everyone. They wanted to make an example 246 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 1: of him. Project Say Say says this was the first 247 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 1: World War two fatality in the city of Mexico and 248 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: the province of Pamponga, and that the Japanese refused to 249 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: give Basilio's body to his family. They were like, as 250 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 1: a matter of fact, we should arrest all y'all too. 251 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: So Remedios and the rest of her family had to 252 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: skidaddle out of town and they moved to Tarlac, and 253 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 1: that's when Remedio swore vengeance on that Happanese and especially 254 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: on the soldier who had delivered the killing blow. So 255 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 1: when a friend of her father's usaid Bio Bio Aquino, 256 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: suggested that she joined the Hook Ba Llaha, she was 257 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 1: in yeah, and we'll find out what happened next. Right 258 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: after this welcome back everyone. So Romedios joined the Hook 259 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 1: Ba Laha Rebellion, and her brother Oscar joined too, and 260 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: this is mostly because their mother asked him to go 261 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 1: keep an eye on her and keep her safe. But 262 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 1: they were far from the only ones who joined. By 263 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 1: September there were three thousand armed Hooks, and Romedios was 264 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 1: not the only woman either. In fact, one of the 265 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 1: most unique things about the Hook Rebellion was that so 266 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: many women joined when it formed, that they were integral 267 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 1: to its success and participated in pretty much every level 268 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: of the organization, which was very different from most guerrilla armies. 269 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 1: In this book Amazons of the Hook Rebellion, Gender, Sex, 270 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 1: and Revolution in the Philippines by Vina Lonzona, she writes 271 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: quote outraged by stories and in many cases direct experience 272 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 1: of Japanese brutality and sometimes fearful for their personal safety. 273 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: Many young women responded to the call for mobilization. Most 274 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: were between the ages of fifteen and thirty five, single 275 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: and lived in peasant households. Yeah, they heard a lot 276 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 1: of rumors about women being raped and old and stuff, 277 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 1: and they were like, well, sure, I better come out 278 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: here and do something exactly exactly now. Many of these 279 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: women stayed in their villages and served the rebellion by 280 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 1: gathering supplies or money or information for the fighters. Since 281 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: they were women, they didn't really attract much attention from 282 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: the Japanese, making them the perfect spies. You know. They're 283 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: they're around asking who, so when are you guys invading tonight? 284 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 1: And the Japanese soldiers are like, oh, I can tell 285 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 1: a woman, what's she gonna do? Alright, seven pm at 286 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 1: the sport. That's where we're going. Yeah, what are you 287 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: going to be doing? Cooking dinner? I hope so are. 288 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: They're probably like seeing ladies talking to people, are like 289 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 1: bitches be gossiping about you and your secret plans. But 290 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:13,120 Speaker 1: some women, like Remedios, chose to take a more direct 291 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: path of action. At first, Remedios was given nursing duties 292 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: rather than fighting duties like many of the women who 293 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 1: joined the Gorilla Army, but as positively Filipino dot com 294 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:28,400 Speaker 1: rites quote, all new recruits underwent training and guerrilla warfare, 295 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: how to fight, handle weapons, stage and ambush, how to 296 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: retreat and so on. It is smart. I feel like, right, 297 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 1: even if you're like, you're probably not going to fight, 298 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:39,720 Speaker 1: but at least you know how in case. It's like 299 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 1: that Google thing where it's like we train, you know, 300 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: we get everyone from different departments to circulate and work 301 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 1: in different areas. So I know that you're going to 302 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: be out here cooking for the army, but I don't 303 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:53,199 Speaker 1: want you not to be able to fight should the 304 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: situation arise. Yeah, what if they show up, you know 305 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: during the dinner hours, the only person with a knife 306 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 1: in her hand, it's the I wondered how to use that. 307 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 1: They're like, I'll go hold the cook hostage, and the 308 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: cook is like, oh no, don't hurt me. You damn damn. 309 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 1: This cooked me. I just got smoked by the cook. 310 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: She fried my ass up and served me on a platter. 311 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: I got butchered. They also got cool new code names, 312 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:29,719 Speaker 1: of course, and Romedios was leeway Way meaning dawn. They 313 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,159 Speaker 1: were like, it's really gonna dawn on the Japanese that 314 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 1: they have bucked, Like I am a sucking sunrise. What's 315 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 1: it's a brand new David positively. Filipino dot com goes 316 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:48,679 Speaker 1: on quote. As the resistance forces grew and additional units 317 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 1: were formed, lewy Way, who impressed her commander and comrades 318 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 1: with her dedication, discipline and seriousness of purpose. I eat 319 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:01,440 Speaker 1: to avenge her father's death, was give a squadron to lead. 320 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:04,919 Speaker 1: So she became Commander lee way Way, the name by 321 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:07,199 Speaker 1: which she's best known, and she had a bunch of 322 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:10,920 Speaker 1: guys to order around, which she promptly did. Her squad 323 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: was supposed to be going around getting civilians to support 324 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 1: the guerrillas, okay whatever. The Philippines Veterans Office website says 325 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:23,640 Speaker 1: that leeway Way basically was like boring, and she started 326 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:28,200 Speaker 1: organizing missions to raid Japanese camps and ambush their supply track. 327 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: It's like, I know what the assignment is, but I 328 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: understand the real assignment. Oh sure, let me go ask 329 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: people to sign up. Hang on, let me just take 330 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 1: down this whole fort on my way there. And just 331 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 1: to add to her boss, bitchness. Leeway Way didn't just 332 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 1: prep for missions and battles by training with weapons or 333 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: working on tactics with her men. No, right before every skirmish, 334 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 1: she would comb out her hair, pink her nail sprits 335 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 1: of perfumes, and put on right red lipstone. So every 336 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 1: time the enemy faced them, they were looking at a 337 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: fashion queen with her nails dead hair did everything did 338 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:12,160 Speaker 1: vanquishing the ship out of them with a forty five. 339 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 1: But if i'm if I'm a Japanese soldier and somebody's 340 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 1: gonna kill me, might as well be a beautiful age. 341 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,680 Speaker 1: She's doing them a favor. I will make sure the 342 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:27,399 Speaker 1: last thing you see is gorgeous, lovely she's And this 343 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 1: just un additional service I provide on the battlefield. Now. 344 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 1: Of course, at the time, in the place, in the moment, 345 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 1: you might think that her soldiers found this kind of 346 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:41,120 Speaker 1: silly and contemptible, right, and some of them surely did. 347 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,919 Speaker 1: But positively, Filipino says that it actually helped morale because 348 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: she just she looks so damn calm and fearless sitting 349 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 1: there painting her nails right before a crazy battle. I 350 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 1: got time. It was probably like dudes like cowering in 351 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: the corner. Like as well. I would be being like, 352 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:56,720 Speaker 1: oh my god, we're all about to die. We're all 353 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: about to die, and she's just they're painting her nails. 354 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: I'd be like, damn. If she ain't worried, I guess 355 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: I shouldn't be Give me some of that perfume. Apparently 356 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,359 Speaker 1: she did, actually would hand out little bottles of perfume, 357 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 1: and oftentimes they said no thanks, but she was like, 358 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: y'all stank, okay, thanks, they're gonna smell us. Come and 359 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: they're gonna smell, you know, a lavender rose water over 360 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 1: the ridge and be like, oh no, it's put fear 361 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 1: into their hearts. They have potpourri PTSD for the rest 362 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: of their lives. I can never handle vanilla orange blossom again. 363 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 1: I'll lose my mind. Any veteran walks into bathroom body works. 364 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 1: Back on the battlefield, I would love to see like 365 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: a g I Jane, where instead of shaving her head 366 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 1: trying to look real masculine, she's just like, ash, I'm 367 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:45,879 Speaker 1: a lean in, just like a perfect French break. You 368 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 1: have full lean in. She's like, I got my hair 369 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: looks good and on my full makeup and I'll still 370 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: get over this wall now positively. Filipino says that she 371 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:58,919 Speaker 1: also sometimes suggested that she wanted to look nice in 372 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 1: case she died or was captured. Right, if I can 373 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 1: pull into speculation station, I think that maybe she believed 374 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:10,160 Speaker 1: in ghosts and she was like real worried about her 375 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 1: ghost looking bad, and it's like, just in case I 376 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: die in battle, I want to like be looking good. 377 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,959 Speaker 1: Oh my god, So if I live for eternity, I 378 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:26,440 Speaker 1: still like my outfit. Do you remember the Frighten Nurse. Yeah. 379 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: She McBride's character like died in the seventies and he 380 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 1: was in this whole disco outfit and he was always 381 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 1: so mad about it. He's like, I still look like 382 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: link from the Mod Squad, or like we just started 383 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 1: Ghosts the British version and there's one guy who's no 384 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 1: pants because he died in a sex scandal or something, 385 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,880 Speaker 1: so he's just walk around with a full like suit 386 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 1: coat but no pants. On the rest of eternity, you 387 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 1: got to think about these things. So true. So le 388 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,679 Speaker 1: always was like, no, I will look I will be 389 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 1: the best looking ghosts in this entire place. So she 390 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: thought maybe she wanted to look nice in case she 391 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 1: got captured or killed. But when she was asked about 392 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: why she looks so nice by the hook head honcho 393 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 1: Luis Taruk, she simply replied, quote, why shouldn't I. One 394 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 1: of the things I am fighting for in this movement 395 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: is the right to be myself. Love that love that. 396 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 1: She's like, I'm not gonna masculine myself up just for 397 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,919 Speaker 1: this fite. I am who I am. Yeah, and if 398 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,359 Speaker 1: anybody had a problem with that, she was ready to 399 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: deal with this right once she showed up, sweating and 400 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 1: breathless from an encounter with the enemy, and her comrade, 401 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: Commander Capitan sneered her, quote, you're pretty If the Japanese 402 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 1: catch up with you, just lie down, which is dark, 403 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,639 Speaker 1: because they're saying they're talking about right, and we know 404 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: that they were doing that the rather the Japanese occupiers 405 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,160 Speaker 1: were doing that. That's why a lot of the women 406 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,679 Speaker 1: were joining, because either they had already been raped, or 407 00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:59,880 Speaker 1: they knew somebody who had, or they had heard enough 408 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 1: stories to be worried about it. That's a really fucked 409 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,640 Speaker 1: up thing to say. Just slide down and take it. Yeah, 410 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 1: So she was pissed. She was furious, and she challenged 411 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 1: him to a duel right there, and she had to 412 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: be physically restrained by her squad because they're probably like, girl, 413 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 1: he's not worth it. You would just stepped back. Don't 414 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,400 Speaker 1: worry about him, forget him. He's trash, so much better 415 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,200 Speaker 1: than him. Look how good you look? Exactly? Don't waste 416 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 1: your time on Let's go wipe that sweat off's bush 417 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,119 Speaker 1: his face bottel. I'm gonna give him bright red lips. 418 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 1: I almost wish she they had not restrainers flying all right, 419 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 1: you know what you deserve to get. But I guess 420 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: they needed every commander. Get hit, talk shit, get hit. 421 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 1: But lewis biggest moment of glory came in the Battle 422 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,959 Speaker 1: of Kamanci, when she led Squadron three V in battle. 423 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 1: The Hooks were losing and bio Aquino ordered all of 424 00:24:56,080 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: them to retreat, but leeway Way, looking fabulous the fresh 425 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: coat of red lipstick on, was like what they can't 426 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 1: can't hear you? I don't know, and kept her men 427 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,640 Speaker 1: fighting even though they were heavily outnumbered. By the time 428 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 1: Hook reinforcements arrived to back them up, Lee always squad 429 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: had already won, already retreating. It was like the movie 430 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:24,400 Speaker 1: three hundred, but only one hundred guys and a lipstick Leonidas. 431 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: I'll want to be fair. They lost in three all right, 432 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 1: it's kind of like the movie. Maybe Leonidas just should 433 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 1: have thrown some lipstick on, okay, and he just spread 434 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 1: to perfume. Would have changed the whole game. All those boys, 435 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 1: this half naked men, all wrestling each other. But they 436 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:54,200 Speaker 1: got gorgeous makeup on amazing path that movie. That movie 437 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,879 Speaker 1: was homo erotic enough. I think they did have a 438 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,440 Speaker 1: little eyes shadow and didn't they like they had probably yeah, 439 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:07,120 Speaker 1: I remember they had. They had dressed up. Rodrigo Santaro 440 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,679 Speaker 1: played Zerxes and he had a ton of makeup on. 441 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: And some people said that was actually kind of racist 442 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 1: because they made the Persians very effeminate in that movie, 443 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: like a saying that, like bad people are effeminate, which 444 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 1: is a Disney problem that they've always had with their villains. 445 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 1: I don't think as much recently. And then of course 446 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,119 Speaker 1: he was like, while you're stereotyping Persians and you're also 447 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 1: making effeminate people evil. Again, I don't know nobody from 448 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: nowhere Persia any of that. I just wanted to say 449 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: lipstick Leonidas. Of course, of course you can't just leave 450 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,359 Speaker 1: that one down. You have to say it now. After 451 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 1: the Battle of coman See, she became a legend. Positively, 452 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: Filipino writes. Quote the name Commander leeway Wi struck fear 453 00:26:55,000 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 1: among the Japanese army. Her squad swelled to two hundred guy. 454 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 1: She would ride into an occupied town on her horse 455 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 1: with her forty five pistol or sometimes a fifty caliber 456 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:11,199 Speaker 1: machine y and be like, occupiers, y'all need to be 457 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,639 Speaker 1: gone tomorrow or I will make you gone for good. 458 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,480 Speaker 1: And they probably skid at all. Last the hiding, she 459 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 1: also got her revenge. She eventually found the guy who 460 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,880 Speaker 1: had wielded the sword and beheaded her father in front 461 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,200 Speaker 1: of everybody, including herself, and she told her squad, this 462 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 1: one's mine, and she kind of took him off somewhere 463 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,679 Speaker 1: and came back without him, and the soldiers asked what 464 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,400 Speaker 1: she'd done with him, and she just said, quote, what 465 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: he did to my father, what he did to us. 466 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 1: So I'm just picturing her like walking back across the field, 467 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 1: wiping blood on a white towel, getting slowly more and 468 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 1: more red, and someone's like, what you do to that guy, 469 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:59,679 Speaker 1: She's like justice, Yes, well, we're gonna go get some 470 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 1: austics from these sponsors, so we'll be right back after 471 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:12,160 Speaker 1: this commercial break. Welcome back, everybody to the hook Balahap Rebellion. 472 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: So over the next three years, the Hooks grew to 473 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:18,399 Speaker 1: a force of fifteen thousand armed fighters, and ten percent 474 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,200 Speaker 1: of that were women. The peasants were holding their own, 475 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 1: but they couldn't grot the Japanese army completely until the 476 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:31,080 Speaker 1: Americans showed up. Hooray, the American forces are here. Americans 477 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 1: are great at showing up at the last minute, kicking 478 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 1: some mass knocking some occupiers out of town, and Leewaway's 479 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 1: squad not only fought many battles, but they also rescued 480 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: several down American pilots and nursed them back to health. Finally, 481 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 1: the war was over in nineteen and the Philippines were 482 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 1: free from Japanese occupiers. Victory was there's thanks for stopping 483 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 1: buy Americans and helping out. Now y'all can go on home, 484 00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 1: I said, y'all can, Americans? You can go home now. 485 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: We're we're good. We've you're not leaving. No, No, the 486 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 1: Americans stayed Filipinos basically traded one occupier for another, and 487 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 1: the Hooks were ordered by the Americans to disarm. Now, 488 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: of course, many of them decided not to, so the 489 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 1: US and the landowning elite in the Philippines hunted them 490 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,960 Speaker 1: down and arrested them. Villagers homes were looted and burned 491 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: looking for Hooks in hiding. In February of nineteen forty five, 492 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 1: a squadron of a hundred and nine Hooks were ambushed 493 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 1: by American and Filipino soldiers and every one of them 494 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 1: were shot and buried in a mass grave, including Leewaway's brother, 495 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 1: Oscar Oscar. The US also decided to arrest all the 496 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 1: peasant leaders, including Louise Taruk. When they were released in 497 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: September of that year, Louise tried to negotiate with the government. 498 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: He said their resistance was over, and he provided a 499 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 1: list of hook members, hoping that they would be recognized 500 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 1: by the government for their efforts to suppress the Japanese 501 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:09,280 Speaker 1: occupation and they would be given veterans benefits. But the 502 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 1: government chose to leave out two thousand members, which the 503 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,720 Speaker 1: Hooks thought was just a shady way to cause strife. 504 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 1: Amongst them, like, well, some of you are better than others. 505 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 1: You can just fight amongst yourselves about that, right, instead 506 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 1: of fighting us. And on top of that, the landlords 507 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,680 Speaker 1: had promised the peasants a higher share in the profits 508 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 1: of their farm labor. But when the harvest time came, 509 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: guess what, those promises were not kept. What that sounds 510 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:40,840 Speaker 1: unusual in history. So the hooks decided, if you can't 511 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 1: beat the government, join them, and they ran a bunch 512 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 1: of dudes for office. They formed the p k M 513 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 1: or National Peasants Union, allied themselves with the p KP, 514 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,959 Speaker 1: which was the Communist Party of the Philippines, and they 515 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:58,040 Speaker 1: ran several candidates, six of whom won, including Luis Tuk 516 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 1: and the p KP eater's brother, Jus Lava. I'm sorry. 517 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:08,240 Speaker 1: This guy's name iss Lava. It's a great name, which 518 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,000 Speaker 1: of course written here. I just see Jesus Lava and 519 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 1: I'm very interested in Jesus Lava. Is that lava you 520 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 1: can walk on top of? Probably, right, that would make sense. Oh, 521 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 1: this is that Jesus Lava. Go for a stroll. Pretty 522 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,200 Speaker 1: nasty prank to play on somebody. Don't worry. This is 523 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: Jesus Lava. You can walk right on. If you're a 524 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,600 Speaker 1: true believer, your shoes will not melt. A lot of 525 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,440 Speaker 1: melted shoes, that shoes. I always think a volcano. Whenever 526 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 1: that guy struggles through lava to help somebody off the stubway, 527 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,719 Speaker 1: does he like walk through lave like an idiot? I mean, 528 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,520 Speaker 1: I guess he was brave. I guess it was see 529 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 1: I was teamed Dante's peak, oh myself. I didn't see 530 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 1: volcano until later. I don't know which one is better. 531 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,040 Speaker 1: I don't think either one of them is better. I 532 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 1: was about to say, I don't know. I don't. I 533 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,560 Speaker 1: don't really remember Dante's Peak very well. Um, but I 534 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,360 Speaker 1: do remember Volcano because we liked that line about having 535 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,240 Speaker 1: to get in a doorway and kiss you asked goodbye? 536 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 1: All right, Jesus Lava, Judicus Lava one and Louis Tarrock one. 537 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:19,080 Speaker 1: But they were never allowed to take their seats. They 538 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:23,880 Speaker 1: faced charges of terrorism and election fraud. Mainly the Americans 539 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,800 Speaker 1: didn't like that they were communists at all, allied with communists. 540 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,120 Speaker 1: Of course, the Cold War started like right after World 541 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,920 Speaker 1: War Two. Everyone was very nervous about the Bolsheviks and 542 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 1: stuff like that. So they were like, not these communists, 543 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:40,760 Speaker 1: and they were effectively like unelected by an active Filipino Congress, 544 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 1: and the campaign of intimidation against the peasants continued. One 545 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,120 Speaker 1: of their leaders was surrounded by military guys and murdered, 546 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 1: and the peasants just had had enough by that point, 547 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 1: and Louis Tarrock was like, I'll fucked up now and 548 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:58,880 Speaker 1: restarted the hook resistant, this time against their own government 549 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 1: in six and this new force was called the People's 550 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:06,800 Speaker 1: Liberation Army or h m B. And after Oscar was killed, 551 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,320 Speaker 1: we know how Luwawei feels about her family members being murdered. 552 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 1: She was, of course like, let me in. I'm back 553 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:19,720 Speaker 1: on the train exactly, and she started training new recruits. 554 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,800 Speaker 1: Now only a year later she was arrested for the 555 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 1: first time. She got captured because she got malaria. She 556 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:28,640 Speaker 1: sat down to rest and they're like, oh, now we 557 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,600 Speaker 1: can get her, because otherwise she's too scary. We can 558 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 1: get her while she's sick. But she caused a media sensation. 559 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,560 Speaker 1: She's this well dressed, made up, lovely ladies, prime time 560 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:44,320 Speaker 1: newspaper bo and she was also very well spoken. When 561 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:49,040 Speaker 1: President Manuel Rojas accused her of terrorizing peasants and trying 562 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 1: to overthrow the government. She coolly responded, quote, no, Mr President, 563 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,840 Speaker 1: you are wrong. We are only fighting for a decent 564 00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 1: livelihood and democratic treatment in our plight. We the Hooks, 565 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:05,800 Speaker 1: champion the rights of the peasants. Right for that sassy answer, 566 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:10,560 Speaker 1: she was thrown into solitary confinance. She was released after 567 00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:14,440 Speaker 1: a year for lack of evidence, and immediately she rejoined 568 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:16,839 Speaker 1: the h MP, only to find that they had an 569 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,640 Speaker 1: interesting plan for her. Tensions had started to develop between 570 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,239 Speaker 1: Louise Taruk's Hooks and the Lava leadership in the p 571 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,120 Speaker 1: k P, the Communist Party, so they needed something to 572 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:32,040 Speaker 1: unify the two factions. And like many many many politicians 573 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,239 Speaker 1: before them that we've heard about on this show that 574 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:38,720 Speaker 1: you all have heard about all through history, they thought, well, 575 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,880 Speaker 1: it sounds like somebody from each party's got to get married. 576 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,480 Speaker 1: There we go, let's unify these fac shows with a 577 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:49,200 Speaker 1: lovely party. And so Leeaway was this, you know, beautiful, daring, 578 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: famous hook commander under Louise Tarok, and she was still single, 579 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,640 Speaker 1: so she was clearly the right choice to be the bride. Now, 580 00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,000 Speaker 1: as for the groom, their eyes were on the second 581 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:04,120 Speaker 1: cousin of the p KP leader Jose Lava banag Paraiso, 582 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,200 Speaker 1: also known as Bonnie. The two had met once or 583 00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 1: twice before, and he was handsome, young, and related to 584 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:13,600 Speaker 1: the communist leadership, and according to Positively Filipino, he was 585 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,960 Speaker 1: one of the best warriors the Lava's had. I want 586 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 1: to meet the best warrior of the Lava. It just 587 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:25,160 Speaker 1: sounds so cool, super cool. Sorry, I've just decided that, Like, 588 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:29,680 Speaker 1: if I could change my last name to anything, it's Lava. Well, 589 00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,120 Speaker 1: I love too. They were like, well, we gotta give 590 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,640 Speaker 1: her a groom. She can respect. I mean, if you guys, 591 00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:40,000 Speaker 1: she can beat up. Let's be real. Sola and Bonnie 592 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,840 Speaker 1: had a political marriage, not a romantic one, but Leeway 593 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,920 Speaker 1: later said that even though she hadn't chosen him, she 594 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:52,279 Speaker 1: quote found the perfect husband and comrade in Bonnie. They 595 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,680 Speaker 1: only had one son, who they named for Leeway's fallen brother, Oscar, 596 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,839 Speaker 1: and at this point Lewai stepped away from active fighting 597 00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,319 Speaker 1: to be a wife and mother, but she still wanted 598 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,320 Speaker 1: to contribute, so she helped set up and manage a 599 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,319 Speaker 1: political and military school for new recruits. It's kind of 600 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:08,880 Speaker 1: her thing. She was good at getting new people and 601 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,880 Speaker 1: showing them how to be badasses. She's like, first we 602 00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:16,000 Speaker 1: start with the undercoat. How you want to wait for 603 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,839 Speaker 1: that to drag a nice tachi before you put on 604 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:23,359 Speaker 1: the top polish and an overcoat. Cannot be overstated how 605 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:29,160 Speaker 1: important that is. She's like, to begin, you each have 606 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:33,200 Speaker 1: a pistol and a small bottle of perfume. We will 607 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,520 Speaker 1: start with a perfume because you'll all sell like ship. 608 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,080 Speaker 1: And here's how to keep your hair looking nice and 609 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:43,600 Speaker 1: fancy while you rip a man's throat out. So in 610 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,600 Speaker 1: this power couple moved to another province together because they 611 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:52,720 Speaker 1: were in charge of the expansion force, so you know, recruiting, training, 612 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:57,759 Speaker 1: getting more folks involved. But after a raid, Bonnie Paraiso 613 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:03,080 Speaker 1: was killed and me Away arrested once again. That's sad 614 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:07,960 Speaker 1: that they kind of I guess had a year to 615 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,319 Speaker 1: be together and have a baby and fall in love 616 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,000 Speaker 1: right to an extent. That's it. It was such a 617 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:17,120 Speaker 1: short time in lewaiway never remarried. I think she did 618 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:21,120 Speaker 1: feel more strongly about Bonnie than maybe it seems. According 619 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:25,160 Speaker 1: to projects say Say, Leewaiwai was released after she told 620 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,120 Speaker 1: the court on her lawyer's advice that she had rejoined 621 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:33,200 Speaker 1: the hook army just to support her husband. She told 622 00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,240 Speaker 1: the judge quote, being a wife is not a crime. 623 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,960 Speaker 1: I should not be charged for the accusations against my husband. 624 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:44,840 Speaker 1: I mean, like we're talking about, Oh, don't look at me, 625 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,640 Speaker 1: just a girl. Just to look at my beautifully made 626 00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,279 Speaker 1: up face. Did this looks like somebody who goes and 627 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,640 Speaker 1: fights a war. I mean again, this is the feared 628 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,920 Speaker 1: warrior couman or le fear into the hearts of the 629 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,480 Speaker 1: entire Japanese army. And she's like, who me, little o me? 630 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,560 Speaker 1: I love it? How could I ever hurt someone with 631 00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:10,160 Speaker 1: all these fancy nails. I would never break my nail 632 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:15,680 Speaker 1: on a fifty caliber machine gun. But as rejected Princesses 633 00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:19,560 Speaker 1: writes quote, by recasting herself as a dutiful wife and mother, 634 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:24,560 Speaker 1: she actually managed to secure her freedom. They let they 635 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,680 Speaker 1: acquitted her of murder charges and let her go on 636 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,319 Speaker 1: back home. And I think it's so funny that the 637 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:35,000 Speaker 1: sexism of the Japanese and the Filipinos are what enabled 638 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,520 Speaker 1: the guerrilla army to have so many women helping them out, 639 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,759 Speaker 1: and then the sexism of the United States and the 640 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,480 Speaker 1: Filipino elite and constabula and everything allowed her to just 641 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,480 Speaker 1: wriggle the funk out of there out of their jail. 642 00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,600 Speaker 1: I think that's so funn They were like, let me 643 00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,680 Speaker 1: use this to my advantage. I guess, well, it's true. 644 00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,319 Speaker 1: I mean her husband clearly put her up to this. 645 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,440 Speaker 1: Ladies follow their husbands. Yes, what do we expected to 646 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:07,480 Speaker 1: have a mind of her own? Good one, thanks, Greg, 647 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,399 Speaker 1: I needed left to day now. That very same year, 648 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:17,200 Speaker 1: the Filipino Communist Party p k P was banned by 649 00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:20,640 Speaker 1: the government, and the Hooks tried negotiating with the government, 650 00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:26,160 Speaker 1: but negotiations stalled, so the rebellion continued until after her 651 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,160 Speaker 1: second imprisonment. Leewaway took a step back from the armed 652 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,279 Speaker 1: rebellion and settled into civilian life, but she did spend 653 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,880 Speaker 1: the rest of her life advocating for the rights of soldiers. 654 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,319 Speaker 1: According to Ezra del Rosario on the Odyssey Online, she 655 00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:42,360 Speaker 1: personally helped veterans fill out benefits, paperwork and lobby for 656 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:46,920 Speaker 1: a pension for over twenty years. Leewaway passed away at 657 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,959 Speaker 1: the right old age of n and she was made 658 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:54,000 Speaker 1: up and perfumed right up until the very end. Her 659 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,560 Speaker 1: obituary in the Inquirer dot Net quotes Leewaway reminiscing about 660 00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:01,239 Speaker 1: her time in arms, saying, quote, Filipino women played an 661 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,359 Speaker 1: important role during the war. Like their male counterparts, they 662 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:08,080 Speaker 1: held responsible positions in fighting the enemies. They dedicated their 663 00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,640 Speaker 1: lives to a noble cause, not only to drive away 664 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:14,320 Speaker 1: the Japanese invaders, but to pursue the struggle for genuine freedom, 665 00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:18,440 Speaker 1: true justice, and democracy. I hope that someday the role 666 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:23,040 Speaker 1: of these unsung heroines will find a place in history. Well, 667 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,200 Speaker 1: they're at least going to find a place on this podcast, 668 00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,680 Speaker 1: that's right, Commander Leewaway. You're trying to uphold the story. 669 00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:32,560 Speaker 1: But I just love her. I think it's so what 670 00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,040 Speaker 1: a cool I would love to watch a movie about 671 00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,960 Speaker 1: just a beautifully made up, like I don't know, beauty 672 00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:43,160 Speaker 1: queen run around and everybody's like, okay, right, this dainty 673 00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:46,200 Speaker 1: little lady, what's she gonna be able to do? And 674 00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:50,080 Speaker 1: she ends up like dominating the battle field, right, And 675 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:53,120 Speaker 1: then even when she's you know, steps back from the battlefield, 676 00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:54,920 Speaker 1: she's like, there's still lots of ways that I can 677 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:58,640 Speaker 1: be useful and and help the plight of my people. 678 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:02,200 Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Yeah, man, um no, she's 679 00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:05,319 Speaker 1: so cool and and like you said, I mean just 680 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:09,319 Speaker 1: this this image. I think that's part of why she 681 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,600 Speaker 1: did it too. It was just like it's such a 682 00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:15,759 Speaker 1: memorable historical thing to do, you know, like like you're 683 00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:17,640 Speaker 1: saying earlier, like she doesn't need a g I jane 684 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,160 Speaker 1: herself into that army. She was like, you want me, 685 00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,839 Speaker 1: you get me. You like what I can do, I'm 686 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,520 Speaker 1: gonna do it. That's what I look like. Yeah, Plus 687 00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:28,040 Speaker 1: I love it's sort of a war paint rbes like. 688 00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,440 Speaker 1: She's like, it's before war. I put on my fucking 689 00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:32,400 Speaker 1: war paint. It doesn't look like what you think it 690 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:37,760 Speaker 1: should look like, but it makes me feel ready to fight. 691 00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:40,720 Speaker 1: And once rumors start getting around, she's like, then people 692 00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:42,759 Speaker 1: know when they see me coming and that they're going 693 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,719 Speaker 1: to ship their pants, Like, oh ship, Yeah, that bitch 694 00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:49,200 Speaker 1: is where red lipstick. We're so fucked right now. You 695 00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:52,040 Speaker 1: don't even know She's gonna blow a kiss and then 696 00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:58,040 Speaker 1: blow our heads all wow. And what a history too. 697 00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:02,600 Speaker 1: I really new very little about the history of the Philippines. 698 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:10,000 Speaker 1: It's very complicated because they're extremely oppressed and constantly occupied area, 699 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,480 Speaker 1: so it's a very complicated history. I won't lie. I 700 00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,319 Speaker 1: we had to really streamline a lot of it, and 701 00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,799 Speaker 1: you didn't even get into what the Hooks did. There's 702 00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,359 Speaker 1: some badge that they did later on and stuff like that. 703 00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:22,560 Speaker 1: So there's you know, it's not like this is a 704 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:26,359 Speaker 1: glowing example of like being amazing you know all the time. 705 00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,000 Speaker 1: Definitely plenty of them that did funked up. I mean, 706 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,480 Speaker 1: anytime there's a people's liberation army, it's going to be 707 00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,759 Speaker 1: black and white. Yeah. The thing about revolution is it's 708 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:40,959 Speaker 1: incredibly incredibly um, messy and violence. It's very very hard 709 00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:44,440 Speaker 1: to have one without, you know, and be perfectly ethical, 710 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,000 Speaker 1: you know, the whole time, kind of I think, I don't. 711 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,120 Speaker 1: I don't know that there is an example in history 712 00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:54,080 Speaker 1: of an ethical resolution. I can't think of one, but 713 00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,799 Speaker 1: please let me know. The things the some of the 714 00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:02,520 Speaker 1: French dead after they okay, revolted, I mean absolutely horrific, 715 00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,520 Speaker 1: literally called it the Reign of terror. Yeah, I mean, 716 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,839 Speaker 1: fortunately after America's Revolution it was smooth sale and nothing 717 00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:14,560 Speaker 1: to complain about ever since seventeen seventies six Uh good, 718 00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:19,239 Speaker 1: here squeaky clean um. But but it is still it's 719 00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:22,160 Speaker 1: it's fascining to hear all this These specific island nations, 720 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,759 Speaker 1: you know, that are so strategic, especially when you're talking 721 00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:30,480 Speaker 1: about the conflicts between East and West. Um, it's a 722 00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:34,239 Speaker 1: lot of strategy that goes into like I need to 723 00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:37,880 Speaker 1: occupy this island. This tiny little place that's like barely 724 00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,160 Speaker 1: farmland becomes the most valuable land in the world that 725 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,520 Speaker 1: everybody's fighting over it and occupying it, and they don't 726 00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,200 Speaker 1: give two ships about the people who already lived there. Ever, 727 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:51,880 Speaker 1: A lot of Hawaii happens. Yeah, and it's interesting to like, 728 00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:56,759 Speaker 1: it's a world wars World War two, but I guess, 729 00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,600 Speaker 1: particularly in school, you focus so much on France and 730 00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:03,080 Speaker 1: German um and maybe a little bit of Russia. But 731 00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,160 Speaker 1: there was literally battles happening like all over there were 732 00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:10,759 Speaker 1: theaters of war in the Middle East where like that. 733 00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:13,600 Speaker 1: Basically the reason it's so funked up now is because 734 00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:16,040 Speaker 1: during World War Two there were soldiers and stuff. There 735 00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,440 Speaker 1: was happening over there, but it wasn't as important, so 736 00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:20,960 Speaker 1: it's just like, well, whatever, y'all will take care of yourself. 737 00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:23,800 Speaker 1: And they ended up looting, you know, the land for 738 00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,880 Speaker 1: oil and doing all these horrible things just causing a 739 00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:29,280 Speaker 1: lot of strife, and then over here in the islands, 740 00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,520 Speaker 1: that's a whole other theater. Did do we ever talk 741 00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:35,000 Speaker 1: about the islands? Well, I never heard a word one. 742 00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:39,160 Speaker 1: It was just like, yeah, Nazis, Nazis, Nazis, Pearl Harbor, right, 743 00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,960 Speaker 1: Like wait, what where did that come from? Well, and weirdly, 744 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:45,160 Speaker 1: it's like Pearl Harbor, Yes, Pearl Harbor gets bombed. We're 745 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,719 Speaker 1: all very mad about the Japanese. But then it's all 746 00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,440 Speaker 1: Nazis after that, and then we bomb Japan. It's like 747 00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,640 Speaker 1: we've we don't really talk about the part where the 748 00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,800 Speaker 1: Japanese felt like two Americans. It felt like the Japanese 749 00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:00,279 Speaker 1: there are real enemies. You know, we're here to bite 750 00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,280 Speaker 1: them because they came to us rather than the Germans. 751 00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,640 Speaker 1: They're funked up. But like that's y'all are dealing with that? 752 00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:09,120 Speaker 1: Where are we here dealing with them? You know, it's 753 00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:12,320 Speaker 1: just it's just such a complicated war, of course, and 754 00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:14,680 Speaker 1: you know, naturally in school you have to you know, 755 00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,560 Speaker 1: edit some ship out. It's really interesting to learn more 756 00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:20,040 Speaker 1: about the other theaters of war and what was going on. Right, Well, 757 00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:23,160 Speaker 1: like you said, all these you know, consequences that come 758 00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:24,759 Speaker 1: out of stuff that you never even heard about. So 759 00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:28,200 Speaker 1: I get the impression you would not, like you would 760 00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,799 Speaker 1: vote to not do that again, like a third World 761 00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,560 Speaker 1: war would be something you're against. Like I'd prefer not 762 00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,640 Speaker 1: to be a part of a world war. Bold stance. 763 00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:41,200 Speaker 1: Go ahead and go on the record here today. Yeah, 764 00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:44,480 Speaker 1: we're the first ones to eight point five magnitude. Take 765 00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:47,759 Speaker 1: quake coming your way. Quake. I saw that on a 766 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:49,760 Speaker 1: tweet the other day and I thought it was amazing. 767 00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,960 Speaker 1: I was just like, I need to take quick that's 768 00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:56,719 Speaker 1: exactly what's going on. Amazing. And I like this story too. Again, 769 00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,040 Speaker 1: like we said at the top, like you know, this 770 00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:02,080 Speaker 1: is the lead eat up to a romance that's sort 771 00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:04,560 Speaker 1: of you know what we sometimes call it ridiculous, it's 772 00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:07,080 Speaker 1: really just fascinating. Yeah, but I also do like that 773 00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:10,759 Speaker 1: it was a political marriage and then feelings grew, right, 774 00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,920 Speaker 1: that's so that's so love When that happens. Reminds me 775 00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:17,920 Speaker 1: of a little story we've mentioned before, Maximilian and Carlotta Mexico, 776 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,799 Speaker 1: a little story we never go back to that well, 777 00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:24,960 Speaker 1: I never stopped thinking about them. Um, well, thank you 778 00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:27,200 Speaker 1: all for tune in today. I do hope you love 779 00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:29,799 Speaker 1: this story. I help you learn something new to as 780 00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:33,600 Speaker 1: you make up your face. Yes, next time, you're getting 781 00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:36,440 Speaker 1: ready for the battle. Yeah, but let us know what 782 00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:39,320 Speaker 1: you thought. We love hearing from y'all. Our email address 783 00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,839 Speaker 1: is ridic Romance at gmail dot com, and of course 784 00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,440 Speaker 1: you can find us on social media on Twitter and Instagram. 785 00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:48,520 Speaker 1: I'm at Oh great, it's Eli, and I'm at Diana 786 00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:52,279 Speaker 1: my boom and the show is at ridict Romance. Yeah, 787 00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,160 Speaker 1: so tune in later this week. We got another exciting 788 00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:58,319 Speaker 1: episode and we'll catch you all in. Can't wait. Love 789 00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:02,680 Speaker 1: you bye. So on, friends, it's time to go. Thanks 790 00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:06,720 Speaker 1: all listening to our show. Tell your friends neighbor's uncles 791 00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:09,880 Speaker 1: in dance to listen to a show ridiculous Well Dance 792 00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:12,840 Speaker 1: m