1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: On the Jordan Harbinger Show, You'll hear amazing stories from 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: people that have lived them, from spies to CEOs, even 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:10,119 Speaker 1: an undercover agent who infiltrated the Gambino crime family. You're 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: about to hear a preview of The Jordan Harbinger Show 5 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: with Jack Garcia, who did just that. My career was 6 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: twenty four out of twenty six years was solely dedicated 7 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 1: working on the cover. I walk in, I'm in the bar. 8 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 1: How there's a bar made? Dare good looking young lady 9 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: see serving me? Joey, Hey, what would you like? I 10 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: usually my frank was give me a kettle, one martini, 11 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 1: three olives, class of water on the side. I finished 12 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: the drink. The guys come in. I'm gonna go go 13 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 1: in my pocket, take out the big wad of money. Hey, am, 14 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,200 Speaker 1: I give her one hundred hours. If you're with the mob, 15 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: I say, hey, Jordan, you're on record with us. That 16 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: means we protect you. Nobody could shake you down. We 17 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 1: could shake you down. Oh, you're on record with us. 18 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: For more on how Jack became so trusted in the 19 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: highest levels of the Gambino organization, check out episode three 20 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: ninety two of the Jordan Harbinger show. This is a 21 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly show. Nobody panic. It is my voice for real. 22 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:29,199 Speaker 1: It is me sombrero Jesse in the house for what's 23 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: going to be an awesome show on a Wednesday. There 24 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: was not a show yesterday. There was a health issue 25 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: at the house. It was not my health issue. Don't 26 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: panic now, everything everything's fine, But there was a there 27 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: was an issue. So you can stop screaming at Jewish 28 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: producer Chris to get the podcast up. There was no podcast. 29 00:01:55,360 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: Eight seven seven three seven seven four three seventy three 30 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: Jesse at Jesse Kelly show dot com. We have Brandon 31 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: Darby next hour, our resident border expert. Do you think 32 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 1: he might have a thing or two to say? And 33 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 1: for you Tuesday b K Loving Freaks. B K is 34 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: still going to be here third hour. We just postponed 35 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: him a day. We have four dollars at Gallon Gas, 36 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: a Senate filibuster. Everything's at disaster except for Florida. But first, 37 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: as we are known to do from time to time 38 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: on the show, we need to go backwards a little bit. 39 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: It occurred to me, I would guess three years. I 40 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: think I've been doing radio almost three years. That I've 41 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: done twenty World War Two stories. I bet probably that 42 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: many World War One stories too. This is so vast. 43 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:01,839 Speaker 1: They what show I watched? I forget where I saw. 44 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,239 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's called The Price of Empire. If you're 45 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 1: looking for a good World War Two documentary that kind 46 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: of gives different perspectives than the other ones. A lot 47 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 1: of the other ones can get perspective, or it could 48 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: get repetitive. But Price of Empire they called it World 49 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 1: War Two, the greatest of all historical events period, not 50 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: wars or anything else. Has never been anything like it. 51 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: It's so vast. But of all the ones I've ever done, 52 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: I've never done Pellalu, which is amazing to me because 53 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: it may have been the most terrible of all the 54 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: battles in the Pacific. I can't say that it was, 55 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: but it might have been. It just simply sounds like hell. 56 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: It sounds like hell. Let's go into it. It is 57 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: the year nineteen forty four. I do not expect you 58 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: to be some gigantic history nerd with a brain that's 59 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: a steel trap for facts and know what order. The 60 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: island hopping campaign came in and let's pause for a 61 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: moment on the island hopping campaign a little rewind because 62 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: I realized we have a bunch of new listeners and 63 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 1: a bunch of new affiliates, and these numbers are ridiculous. 64 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:22,160 Speaker 1: Not that I blame any of you for tuning into 65 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: the sultry sounds of my voice, Chris. But anyway, World 66 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 1: War two, there's a lead up to World War two. 67 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: It did not begin in Pearl Harbor. Japan was a 68 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 1: backwards country. I'm not going to recap all that because 69 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: they are an extremely impressive people, although you may end 70 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 1: up with a negative view of them at the end 71 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: of the story. Today they're an extremely impressive people who 72 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: I love, you know, I love their culture. Woke up 73 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,359 Speaker 1: one day and decided we're not going to be backwards anymore. 74 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: We're gonna get advanced fast. And they just did it, 75 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 1: just put their minds to it and advanced fast. It's amazing. 76 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 1: Became a modern nation, modern military, modern economy, and started 77 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: looking around, decided they wanted to spread their wings a 78 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 1: little bit limited by Japan's natural resources, and oh did 79 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,679 Speaker 1: they spread their wings, mainly in China, beating the crap 80 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 1: out of the Chinese, being very aggressive, trying to take 81 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: Chinese natural resources. America steps in and says, stop doing that. 82 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: We like China, we like the Chinese. Quit doing that. 83 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,479 Speaker 1: Japan says, go screw yourself. You can't tell us what 84 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: to do. America says, fine, all that oil and steel 85 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:40,039 Speaker 1: we send you to support your economy, we're taking it away. 86 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: Japan says, oh, it's on then. And Japan's plan was this, 87 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: We only focus on the Pearl Harbor part of it 88 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: because that's obviously the part that applies to us as Americans. 89 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 1: But Pearl Harbor was one of many, and the span 90 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: of about twenty four forty eight hours, gigantic nick Japanese 91 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: highly coordinated attacks on various areas around the Pacific Ocean. 92 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: And all you need to do, don't worry about the 93 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 1: thousands of little islands and such. All you need to 94 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: do is know this picture Japan. I know you have 95 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: an image of it in your mind. Draw a gigantic 96 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: and I mean thousands of miles gigantic circle around it, 97 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 1: China and really the islands in the Pacific. The plan 98 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: for Japan was punch America and the nose then immediately 99 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: sees and fortify all kinds of islands, not all the islands. 100 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 1: Remember there are thousands of them, but sees all kinds 101 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: of islands turn the Pacific into a fortress. Our Japanese 102 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: warrior spirit, none of our guys give up will make 103 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: taking back these islands too much for the soft, feminine 104 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: Americans that was there thinking at the time, they were 105 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 1: very sure we were soft and feminine. We were very 106 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: sure they were tiny little barbarians. Again, racism is the 107 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 1: history of the world and it's just the way it goes. 108 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: That was what happened after Pearl Harbor. And so as 109 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: you know, we start the famous Pacific island hopping campaign. 110 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: There's the Battle of Midway and whatnot. We are now 111 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: in nineteen forty four. We are after the Battle of Saipan. 112 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: But this is before the huge battles of Ewo Jima 113 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: in Okinawa. And you don't again, I'm not trying to 114 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: drown you in details. Just know this isn't the very 115 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: beginning of the Pacific battles. It's not the very end 116 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 1: of the Pacific battles. It was, sadly though, America's first 117 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: introduction to a new Japanese strategy a somehow more horrible 118 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: than all the others. Japanese strategy in this is what 119 00:07:55,680 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: armies do in nations do as war progresses. You are 120 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: the United States Marine Corps in elements of the United 121 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: States Army, and you are learning how to do amphibious 122 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 1: landings and what obviously you know what that is. You're 123 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: coming in off the ocean. You're landing on the land, 124 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: and that is extremely dangerous and difficult, much more difficult 125 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 1: than going from land to land because there's nowhere to 126 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: turn around and run back to. Your boats are vulnerable 127 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: and the water oceans have vastly different depths. You can 128 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: get ships stuck, you can get exist very dangerous, very difficult. 129 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 1: But as you go you're learning how to do it better. 130 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: You're learning how the Japanese defend themselves in these islands. 131 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: So you're advancing and you always like to just focus 132 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 1: on you. But here's the thing. America wasn't soft and feminine, 133 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:58,839 Speaker 1: but the Japanese weren't stupid little barbarians either. They're learning too. 134 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: As your tactics change, as you learn what they do, 135 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: they're learning what you do, and they're making adjustments. And 136 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: America was about to be introduced to the new Japanese 137 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: national strategy and new Japanese adjustment. What was the Japanese 138 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:20,719 Speaker 1: strategy early, Let's meet them on the beach, let's mow 139 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 1: them down. This is for God in country. These weeks, 140 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: sissified Americans won't be able to stand up to our 141 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 1: buns eye charge where we pull out bayonets and samurai swords, 142 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 1: And boy was that a humongous, nationally embarrassing failure. The 143 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 1: Americans were anything but soft and feminine. And your idiotic 144 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: bonds eye charge with a Samurai sword may look really, 145 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: really cool. They were the most ineffective waste of human 146 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 1: life ever Americans in general, let alone United States Marines 147 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: can shoot Marines simply mowed these guys down. And such 148 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: big piles during these bonds eye charges. One of the 149 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,839 Speaker 1: biggest complaints was pushing over the pile of bodies so 150 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: you could have some kind of field of view. The 151 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: bonds eye charge was idiotic. Yes, I'm a man of traditions. 152 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:15,079 Speaker 1: I think culture and traditions matter. Let's be honest, some 153 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,559 Speaker 1: of theirs, some of ours, some of yours are dumb. 154 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:24,679 Speaker 1: A bonds eye charge is stupid. It just is. So. 155 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: The Japanese decided here at Pellalu, let's set that aside 156 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: and create hell. Do you want to know what hell 157 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: sounds like? I'm about to tell you. Brandon Darby on 158 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: the Border next Hour. Jesse Kelly on air and online 159 00:10:54,280 --> 00:11:00,320 Speaker 1: at Jesse Kelly Show dot Com. I hate you need 160 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:02,680 Speaker 1: to be healthier. I hate when people say that to me. 161 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: I despise it because I don't like giving people problems 162 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 1: without giving people solutions. Do better. That's not a solution. 163 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: So when I tell you take care of your heart, 164 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: take care of your blood pressure, I'm also bringing a 165 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: solution with it. That solution is super Beats Heart Choose. 166 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: I mean, you know the other basic stuff. Sadly, we 167 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 1: cannot eat double cheeseburgers every meal. We have to move 168 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 1: and exercise now and then. But look beyond the normal stuff, 169 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 1: super Beats Heart Choose are outstanding for you. You want 170 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 1: to try to avoid that pill bottle later on in life, 171 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: as I do well, I have to be proactive. So 172 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 1: I take super Beats. Gonna get superbeats dot com slash Jesse. 173 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:57,439 Speaker 1: That's get superbeats dot com slash Jesse. Buy two bags, 174 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 1: get the third free. Jesse Kelly becks in, but Ron No, 175 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: he's not scared of those people. He's scared of this 176 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: fictitious idea of Antifa, a thing that doesn't even exist. 177 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 1: He needs to go, he needs to go and soon 178 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: a thing that doesn't even exist. The Communists are one 179 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: of the kind, aren't they? What have we talked about 180 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: a thousand times? They will tell you a lie, and 181 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:48,560 Speaker 1: then lie about the lie, and then lie about lying 182 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: about the lie, and then they'll insist that you not 183 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 1: only shut up pointing out the lie, they will demand 184 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 1: demand approval of the lie. They will demand you back 185 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 1: up the lie, that you repeat the lie. That's what 186 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 1: communists do. We'll get to that here in a little bit, 187 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:15,079 Speaker 1: all right, Chris, you know southern border crossings are at 188 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:20,680 Speaker 1: a twenty year high. Twenty year high. Yeah, I know, 189 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 1: what a shock. What a shock? But a ride? All right? 190 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: All right, back to back to pella'lu. We'll get to 191 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:28,319 Speaker 1: that in Nephew eight seven seven three seven seven four 192 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 1: three seven three Jesse at Jesse Kelly show dot com. 193 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 1: If you look at pictures of Pelaalu, which you can 194 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: do right now, pe L e l I, you do. 195 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 1: Don't do it if you're driving, but if you're in 196 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 1: a place where you can look it up. Right now. 197 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 1: I love to look at maps and pictures what I'm 198 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:52,960 Speaker 1: talking about places. It gives you a better feel for 199 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 1: the story. However, I realize a lot of you can't. 200 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 1: Here's what Pellalu is. It's only six miles by two miles. 201 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:05,440 Speaker 1: It's just a dumpy little island. And when I say dumpy, 202 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 1: it sucks. It's volcanic rock. They said it looked like 203 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 1: a volcano sprouted out of the middle of the ocean, 204 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 1: and it's all one gigantic piece of coral. So it's 205 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: hard rock. And the hard rock somehow has all kinds 206 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 1: of jungle still growing out of it. So you get 207 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 1: the worst of every world. You have hard volcanic rock 208 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: with the thick jungle that prevents you from being able 209 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 1: to see. But wait, there's more. The new Japanese strategy was, well, 210 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 1: we can shoot at them a little on the beaches, 211 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: but we're not doing bonsai charges anymore. We're not in 212 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 1: a place where we think we're going to be able 213 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: to win the war anymore. Clearly the tide had turned 214 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: by now. However, we can make this war so horrible 215 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 1: and bloody and terrible for the Americans that they will 216 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: negotiate a better piece that looks like a win for 217 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: us in the end, Japanese honor in all that. So 218 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: they took that gigantic slab of rock, which is perfect 219 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 1: for this anyway, and they used natural caves, extended the 220 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: caves extended the tunnels the best way I heard it described. 221 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: And I wish I could remember where I saw this 222 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 1: one time, and I'm sorry I forgot. They did a picture, 223 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 1: like a computer three D picture of one of these 224 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 1: gigantic pieces of rock where these like rock mountains in there, 225 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 1: and they showed you read throughout all of it, which 226 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 1: we're supposed to represent all the tunnels in caves, and 227 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: they said it's essentially a fortress, beehive of hell. Oh 228 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 1: but wait, there's more. Ten thousand Japanese troops were put 229 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: on Pellualu, Pelalu. What it was for the overall strategy 230 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 1: was it was MacArthur talking FDR into going after the 231 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 1: Philippines and then convincing everyone else we had to take 232 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 1: Pelalu before we could move on to other things, because 233 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: Pelalu was, you know, walking your way towards the Philippines. 234 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 1: Turns out in the end, as heartbreaking as this is, 235 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: by the way, it didn't even turn out to be necessary. 236 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: The stuff we're about to talk about didn't even turn 237 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 1: out to be necessary. Back to the troops. Ten thousand 238 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 1: Japanese troops were there. Oh, they were also the best 239 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 1: Japanese troops in the entire Japanese Army, their saltiest, most 240 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: experienced unit who'd been killing Chinese people for a decade. 241 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 1: Japan was so desperate to stall the Americans right there, 242 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 1: to make Pelalu a living hell. They took ten thousand 243 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 1: of their crack troops, fortified this island with concrete bunkers, 244 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:05,120 Speaker 1: like I said, tunnels, caves, everything else, put their elite 245 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 1: of the elite in it, and stocked them full of supplies. 246 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 1: And they did it months and months and months and 247 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: months before the Americans showed up. Do you have any 248 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 1: idea how difficult it is to root out a highly trained, 249 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:28,440 Speaker 1: well prepared enemy that has months to figure out how 250 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,919 Speaker 1: to get you. As a brief example, let me just 251 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: say this and I'll go I'm jumping ahead just a 252 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: little bit. But at one point, one of the marine 253 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: platoons found an anti tank ditch they could dive into 254 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 1: for cover from the fire they were receiving from the Japanese. 255 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 1: But it was all a trap. You know how a 256 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 1: ditch runs one line. The Japanese had set up a 257 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 1: secret machine gun bunker running the length of the ditch 258 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 1: that they saved. They didn't shot it until all the 259 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: Marines jumped into the ditch and killed the entire platoon. 260 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:19,880 Speaker 1: That's the stuff you get with preparation, with time. That's 261 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:25,120 Speaker 1: how you create a living hell. The Marines land, they 262 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 1: do the famous combined arms thing. And whenever you hear 263 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 1: somebody talk about combined arms, just know this. It's a 264 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 1: bunch of different kinds of attack the marine. Combined arms 265 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:40,959 Speaker 1: in general, when it comes to amphibious landings, goes something 266 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: like this. The naval guns, the gigantic naval guns will 267 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: pound someplace into smitherines. Then the planes will start strafing. 268 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:58,920 Speaker 1: Then the troops are landing, generally coordinated with the planes. 269 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 1: It's to keep everyone's head down, soften up the enemy, 270 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:08,639 Speaker 1: maybe destroy the enemy while your guys land on the beach. 271 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 1: And landing on a beach, as I talked about briefly before, 272 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:18,400 Speaker 1: is a very very very dangerous thing to do because 273 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: you can picture a beach. There's very rarely something good 274 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 1: to hide behind. You can't go backwards because that's the ocean. 275 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:31,120 Speaker 1: You have to go forward. But a prepared enemy, as 276 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:34,679 Speaker 1: we already to discussed we have, knows you have to 277 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 1: go forward, and they have surprises waiting for you right 278 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:42,719 Speaker 1: off the beach. However, you don't have the option of 279 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 1: stopping either, because there's only so much room on a beach. 280 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:50,040 Speaker 1: Other guys are already on the move and landing on 281 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 1: the beach. You must get there and you must go. 282 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,119 Speaker 1: What kind of casualties were they taking early on, Oh, 283 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: I don't know. A fifty man unit ended up with 284 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:07,679 Speaker 1: nine at the end of day one. It's horrible. The Japanese, again, 285 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: with time to prepare, had sighted in their artillery on 286 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 1: the beaches, and all that naval gunfire that fancies shooting 287 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 1: from the planes and everything else, it doesn't do any 288 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:25,920 Speaker 1: good against a concrete coral beehive of a fortress. They 289 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,679 Speaker 1: simply just stayed inside until they were done shooting, and 290 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,919 Speaker 1: then popped out and started killing the Americans. And again, 291 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:37,239 Speaker 1: remember there are trees everywhere too. Not only are you 292 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 1: the Japanese in a mountain fortress, beehive cave, you have 293 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:44,919 Speaker 1: trees in front of you. And they can't see you, 294 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: they don't know where you are, and you know this 295 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:53,879 Speaker 1: island like the back of your hand. It is. The 296 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: casualty numbers are they're beyond belief. They're absolutely beyond belief. 297 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 1: One to four hundred men they land, they're fighting, they're fighting, 298 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,360 Speaker 1: They're getting slaughtered. They're getting slaughtered, They're getting slaughtered. By 299 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 1: the end of the day, this four hundred man unit 300 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 1: had thirty marines left standing. Thirty marines left standing. And 301 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,159 Speaker 1: this is how combat goes. These thirty Marines who are 302 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:24,880 Speaker 1: left standing, they're left standing on top of this hill 303 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,159 Speaker 1: they had to take from the Japanese. That's part of 304 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: the reason the casualty numbers were so I But the 305 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:35,480 Speaker 1: Japanese aren't idiots, and the Japanese are very, very, very good. 306 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: And what's their plan. Oh, they're going to counterattack and 307 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: take it back from thirty dudes. And how are things 308 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 1: on that mountain? What's going on? Went in combat like this? 309 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: I'll tell you no word in the English language is 310 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: less convincing than probably. Are you sure we should get 311 00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: matching tattoos? On our first nature? I will probably stay together. Probably. 312 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: It's been twenty three minutes since I ate, I can 313 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 1: probably swim. You should wait thirty minutes, okay, don't tell 314 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 1: me what to do, Candid bramp Oh, I have a cramp. 315 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:27,720 Speaker 1: I can probably hit the green from here. Probably can 316 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:31,639 Speaker 1: I get a Mulligan ready to go? Hey, are you 317 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 1: sure you're okay to drive? Yeah? I'm pretty sober. Yeah, 318 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 1: I'm probably okay. Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it 319 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 1: comes to drinking and driving. 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Back 329 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: to Pellalu before we get to the border, being overrunning 330 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:51,159 Speaker 1: four dollars a gallon gas four dollars, Chris, I have 331 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:57,919 Speaker 1: a thirty two gallon tank on my truck. I I 332 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 1: don't know, I'm gonna start biking to work or something 333 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:06,119 Speaker 1: like that. Four dollars a gallon? How many miles to 334 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 1: the gallon do I get? Chris? I don't track each 335 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,280 Speaker 1: and everything in my life for maximum savings, unlike you. Okay, 336 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm guessing sixteen seventeen miles a gallon. 337 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,919 Speaker 1: It's a pickup truck, Chris, It's not an Kia. What 338 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 1: do you want me to do? All right? I don't 339 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna yell at Chris anymore right now. So 340 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 1: the situation is so bad on the island that marine units, 341 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,880 Speaker 1: as you just heard, four hundred to thirty, they get 342 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 1: to a point like this marine unit four hundred men 343 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 1: now down to thirty men and you've taken a hilltop. 344 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 1: But understand what that's like when you're taking casualties like 345 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:51,680 Speaker 1: this and this. This really hit me. When they used 346 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 1: to train us in the Marine Corps about attacking things 347 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: and and going or doing these war game simulations. It 348 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: is a amazing how much you are slowed down and 349 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 1: sometimes stopped by wounded and dead people, and how they 350 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 1: would prepare you for this as they would have take 351 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,399 Speaker 1: a platoon movement. Dirty guys, you're moved from here to 352 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 1: there and attack these people. Only they'll have people over 353 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,679 Speaker 1: watching the exercise and they'll randomly they'll say, everyone stop, 354 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 1: and I wanted to stop real quick. And they'll come 355 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:25,679 Speaker 1: over and they'll say, all right, you you, you, and 356 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:31,159 Speaker 1: you lay down. You're all wounded. You see, it's not 357 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,919 Speaker 1: like in the movies. I have to advance. I have 358 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,399 Speaker 1: to take this objective. My buddy just got shot in 359 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 1: the stomach right beside me. He's calling out, Jesse help. 360 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,119 Speaker 1: I have to stop and try to patch him up, 361 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 1: try to get the doc over here to help. But 362 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 1: I'm still getting shot out after run that way. Oh 363 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 1: but he had a critical piece of gear after to 364 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 1: take his gear off his body. Oh man, there's my 365 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 1: buddy Bill. Bill just got shot in the face. He's gone. 366 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:55,640 Speaker 1: Is he gone? We have to make sure he's gone. 367 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 1: We can't just see him there. All right, shoot, Bill's dead. 368 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 1: I have to go. You see what I mean advancing 369 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 1: and you're taking such losses that you're getting slowed down 370 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:06,680 Speaker 1: the more you advance. And then by the time your 371 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: thirty guys left on top of an objective that you 372 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: took your shot to pieces. None of those thirty guys 373 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: our whole by that point in time, mentally or physically, 374 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 1: and the Japanese our whole, and they're coming back. Should 375 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 1: we noted the Japanese did counterattack that night, and those 376 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:30,160 Speaker 1: thirty Marines did hold that hill, which is extremely impressive. 377 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: And the Japanese, they, as we've discussed before, we just 378 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 1: talk about them in World War Two, they just had 379 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:46,960 Speaker 1: a knack for horror. They were trying to break America mentally, 380 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: had tried to break everybody mentally. They believed in it. 381 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 1: And it's a very Asian way of very Eastern weight 382 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 1: of you warfare. And it's hard to argue with how 383 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 1: effective it is. I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm 384 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:03,199 Speaker 1: impressed by it. I'm horrified by it. I'm amazed our 385 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,160 Speaker 1: guys were strong enough to get through it. But it 386 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: is effective. They would at nighttime, they would sneak guys. 387 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 1: They were great at night, great in the jungle. They would, 388 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: knowing they were going to die, sneak a dude or 389 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 1: two up to the front mines of the Marines and 390 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 1: just drop in a fighting hole and start stabbing people 391 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: with bayonets and samurai swords, and there are multiple stories 392 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,119 Speaker 1: about somebody falling asleep. You know you're exhausted, sometimes you 393 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 1: can't keep your eyes open, and waking up with the 394 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,679 Speaker 1: Japanese bayonet in your stomach, and there's a story. It 395 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 1: was horrible. I saw so many very cool things in 396 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,880 Speaker 1: this I got some old footage of Pelalu and there 397 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,640 Speaker 1: was a guy talking about how in the fighting hole 398 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: next to him, we're talking, we're talking twenty yards away. 399 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,680 Speaker 1: Maybe I don't have the exact distance, but it depends 400 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 1: on how many men you have left fifteen twenty yards 401 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:01,160 Speaker 1: away fighting hole next to him to Marines had fallen asleep, 402 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 1: Japanese happened to drop him that hole instead of his hole, 403 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 1: and he woke up listening to his buddies dying in there. 404 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 1: The Japanese would let units patrol. They instead of getting 405 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 1: into getting Auntie, they would stay disciplined. They'd let the 406 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: entire unit pass by, and then one guy, because it 407 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 1: was one dude, would pop up and walk up behind 408 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 1: the last guy in the formation and cut his throat, 409 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 1: and then walk up to the next guy and cut 410 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 1: his throat and get as many as he could until 411 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,240 Speaker 1: the Americans could see what was happening and turn around 412 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 1: and shoot him down. These things destroy you psychologically. And 413 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 1: I haven't even gotten to the tunnels and caves. A 414 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 1: tunnel or cave, while I find them very cool, and 415 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 1: I'm sure you may too, is a naturally scary place. 416 00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 1: That's part of the reason I find them cool. You 417 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 1: don't know what's in there. I could take you up 418 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 1: to Montana and find a mountain cave and you would 419 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 1: have your heart rate going a little bit if we 420 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 1: were walking in that cave, and so would I. I 421 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 1: don't know what's in there, probably nothing. Who knows? Now 422 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 1: what if you knew what? If you knew for a 423 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 1: fact there was a bunch of highly trained, deadly people 424 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,160 Speaker 1: in this dark cave that might even be a tunnel, 425 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 1: forget about cave. It may go through and at best 426 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:43,840 Speaker 1: they're going to murder you. At worst, well, it was 427 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 1: not uncommon for Americans to find other Americans who'd been 428 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: tortured to death, routinely using them for bayonet practice and 429 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: doing worse things in that that. I do not think 430 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,480 Speaker 1: it are appropriate for me to say on a show 431 00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 1: that I told you you can always listen to with 432 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 1: your kids. I mean, ugly things and that person. Those 433 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 1: people they're in that cave and you have to go 434 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 1: get them. I saw a video. It was It was 435 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 1: one of the toughest things I've seen. They still have 436 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 1: so much World War two footage, believe it or not, 437 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 1: that they haven't gone through yet or just got filed away. 438 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: But I saw someone had made a documentary off a 439 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 1: bunch of footage from Pelaalu. They had a bunch of 440 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: marine photographers there. They were taken video and they were 441 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: showing the photographers the video for the first time. They'd 442 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 1: never seen the own video they had taken. And there 443 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 1: was there was a video of a guy on a 444 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,959 Speaker 1: hospital ship right outside of Pelaalu, and he was a marine, 445 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,719 Speaker 1: had all his you know, fingers and toes and such, 446 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: but he was simply a mentally broken human being. He 447 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 1: was stumbling around as if he was drunk. Pointing to 448 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,880 Speaker 1: this guy waving around like a crazy person. They're trying 449 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,680 Speaker 1: to grab him and calm him down, and he's just 450 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 1: freaking out. He has lost his mind. This kind of 451 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:15,640 Speaker 1: environment broke people's minds. The famous marine Eb Sledge, who 452 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 1: who wrote that book with the Old Breed. It's what 453 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 1: that show. The Pacific on HBO, which I highly recommend. 454 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: They based a lot of it on eb Sledge. He 455 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 1: said his one goal getting off there, whether he died, whatever, 456 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 1: was to not go insane like so many of his 457 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,040 Speaker 1: friends were going insane. Men were simply breaking mentally. They 458 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: couldn't do it. There's there's horrible pictures and video of marines, 459 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:44,320 Speaker 1: I mean Pacific Island fighting marines just resting their head 460 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:48,560 Speaker 1: on a buddy's shoulder and sobbing, just sobbing. One of 461 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,040 Speaker 1: the most famous pictures from Pella luis a marine sitting 462 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 1: there with his head, his face in his hands, and 463 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:56,680 Speaker 1: you can I'm sure if you look up Pellaalu Marine, 464 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 1: it's probably the first thing that comes up. I haven't 465 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,720 Speaker 1: done it. But the story behind that was he had 466 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 1: just been in close combat with a Japanese guy. The 467 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:08,680 Speaker 1: Japanese guy tried to stab him with the bayonet. Marine 468 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:12,760 Speaker 1: pop pop kills. The Japanese guy sees something sticking out 469 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,240 Speaker 1: of his shirt, grabs some grabs whatever's in his shirt 470 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 1: and looks at it and it's a picture of that 471 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:26,040 Speaker 1: Japanese guy with his family. These men are incredible human beings. 472 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 1: We're gonna wrap up the story, and then we'll get 473 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 1: to the rest of Wow. Four dollar a gallon gas? 474 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:44,160 Speaker 1: Hang on, is he smarter than everyone who knows? Does 475 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:53,200 Speaker 1: he think so? Yeah? The Jesse Kelly Shaw. I never 476 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,720 Speaker 1: wanted to quit dipping tobacco. To be totally honest, I 477 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:01,560 Speaker 1: never wanted to quit. 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One day later, US Customs and Border 495 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:19,719 Speaker 1: Protection confirmed to Congress that since October, four people have 496 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,640 Speaker 1: been arrested at the southern border with names matching those 497 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,880 Speaker 1: on the FBI's terror watch list. Three were from Yemen 498 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:33,200 Speaker 1: and one from Serbia. Oh good, Oh good, don't worry. 499 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:38,560 Speaker 1: I'm sure they caught all the terrorists who were coming over. Wink, wink, 500 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,279 Speaker 1: na na. They definitely catch one hundred percent of them. 501 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:48,120 Speaker 1: Oh gosh, you know, I need to finish the history story. 502 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 1: I'm not going to go off on this yet. I'll 503 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,759 Speaker 1: just say this and I'm gonna I'm gonna talk about 504 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:57,040 Speaker 1: this in a little while. The real life consequences of 505 00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:01,080 Speaker 1: having an unsecured border. You don't really you feel them 506 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 1: until you really really feel them. Some guy walks into 507 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,759 Speaker 1: children's museum with a bomb strapped to his chest, and 508 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:16,520 Speaker 1: he came over with this border surge. You're gonna wish 509 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,360 Speaker 1: he had that border secure. Then, all right, back to 510 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,560 Speaker 1: Pelalu eight seven seven three seven seven four three seven 511 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:27,200 Speaker 1: three Jesse at Jesse Kelly show dot com. Remember we 512 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:31,279 Speaker 1: have b K, a former Air Force pj b K 513 00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,279 Speaker 1: coming up in the third hour today since I was 514 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:40,160 Speaker 1: gone yes yesterday. So the Americans they're having to fight 515 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:44,319 Speaker 1: their way through caves and tunnels, you know, about the 516 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:50,520 Speaker 1: terror of it. The Japanese are quickly figuring out there's 517 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:55,399 Speaker 1: no reinforcements coming. We're all going to die here, and 518 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,000 Speaker 1: we're going to take as many of these marines with 519 00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,960 Speaker 1: us as we possibly can. That's their way of thinking. 520 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:06,279 Speaker 1: It's a different way of thinking, and the Americans do 521 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:12,040 Speaker 1: have some big advantages. Though. Make sure you always guard 522 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:17,040 Speaker 1: your economy, because the American economy played a big part 523 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,839 Speaker 1: in US winning World War Two. What were our advantages, Well, 524 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,920 Speaker 1: one of them, the Japanese had tanks there. Oh no, 525 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:28,480 Speaker 1: we're all gonna die Japanese tanks, except the American tanks 526 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:32,680 Speaker 1: were there too. They were twice the size of the 527 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:37,440 Speaker 1: Japanese tanks. The Japanese gun, the gun on the Japanese 528 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,600 Speaker 1: tanks could not penetrate the armor on the American tanks. 529 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:46,160 Speaker 1: The American tanks one shot, one kill Japanese tanks. We 530 00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:49,640 Speaker 1: wiped out their Japanese tanks almost immediately, mode right through 531 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:55,680 Speaker 1: them two. Well, the Americans had figured out these Japanese 532 00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,160 Speaker 1: are going to dig in in caves and tunnels and such. 533 00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,719 Speaker 1: We need to get our search guys back home to 534 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:05,040 Speaker 1: start maybe finding a way to soup up the flamethrower 535 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:11,960 Speaker 1: even more. Pelalu was the debut of the American armored flamethrower. 536 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,680 Speaker 1: I'm sure you've seen video or pictures of it. Essentially 537 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:21,480 Speaker 1: a tank with a gigantic flamethrower on it that shoots 538 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:25,240 Speaker 1: over a hundred yards the length of the football field. 539 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,359 Speaker 1: How do you get people out of that cave? Well, 540 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,600 Speaker 1: you stop sending marines inside of it, You aim that 541 00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,640 Speaker 1: bad boy down it, and you start cooking them alive. 542 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:42,760 Speaker 1: And they did. And we're talking about an area of cliffs, ridges, 543 00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:47,799 Speaker 1: trees and had to be taken inch by inch by 544 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:52,279 Speaker 1: inch by inch. The Marine Division commander, a man by 545 00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:55,960 Speaker 1: the name of Rupertas shame on him, had famously told 546 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,120 Speaker 1: everybody that it would be tough, but his marines would 547 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:03,120 Speaker 1: take Pelalu in three days. Then, when the Marines were 548 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:07,120 Speaker 1: getting shot to pieces, Rupertis was constantly being told, you 549 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,560 Speaker 1: need to ask for reinforcements. Asked for reinforcements from the army, 550 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:15,480 Speaker 1: he wouldn't do it. Finally he was forced to accept reinforcements. 551 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:21,520 Speaker 1: Fifty days later, they were still on Pellow. Japanese were 552 00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,480 Speaker 1: finally down to a thousand men from their original ten thousand. 553 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,920 Speaker 1: Their commander asked permission to do a bond's eye charge, 554 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,560 Speaker 1: even though that wasn't allowed anymore. He said, hey, I'm 555 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,560 Speaker 1: out of ammunition. I can't shoot anymore. Let my men 556 00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,359 Speaker 1: charge and have the honor of dying that way. It 557 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:40,319 Speaker 1: was denied, So the Japanese were dying of starvation and 558 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:45,880 Speaker 1: dying of thirst in the tunnels and couldn't charge. Finally, 559 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:52,040 Speaker 1: they're down to about three hundred. Then the commander himself, 560 00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,960 Speaker 1: the Japanese commander, commits ritual suicide, as was their custom. 561 00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,279 Speaker 1: Ten thousand Japanese on that island when the Americans ended, 562 00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:06,160 Speaker 1: thirty four made it out alive. Twenty eight thousand. Americans 563 00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:18,200 Speaker 1: landed ten thousand casualties at Pelalu, ten thousand. Bad experiences 564 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:23,400 Speaker 1: early on in the war led the Americans to make advancements, 565 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:28,239 Speaker 1: to think, to be mobile, to be humble enough, to 566 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,239 Speaker 1: be pliable, Let's learn our lesson this field, in this field, 567 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:35,000 Speaker 1: in this field. But then bad experiences oftentime lead to learning. 568 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:39,399 Speaker 1: Learning leads to good experiences. I've learned lessons. I'm good 569 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:45,680 Speaker 1: at this, I'm good at that. Good experiences lead to pride. 570 00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:52,400 Speaker 1: Pride leads right back to the bad experiences. The Americans 571 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:57,279 Speaker 1: at Pelalu, they'd had enough success from their early struggles. 572 00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:01,040 Speaker 1: We don't need the army. We don't this, we don't 573 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:04,520 Speaker 1: need that, we don't need this. That's how you get 574 00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:10,400 Speaker 1: your men shot to bits. You and I have to 575 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:14,439 Speaker 1: be mobile and humble, or we're going to lose our 576 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:18,280 Speaker 1: own battle. Here. I'll explain what I mean in a second. 577 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,080 Speaker 1: We'll get to the border and the gas and the 578 00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:30,440 Speaker 1: Senate filibuster and some emails. Hang on. 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