1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio, Hello and Happy Friday. I'm Holly Frye and 3 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:19,440 Speaker 1: I'm Tracy V. Wilson. So we talked about the Meiji 4 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: restoration and the Meiji Jingoo Shrine today this week. That's 5 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. It's a lot of stuff, and 6 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: I really wanted to talk about it, in part because 7 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:35,159 Speaker 1: I had such a very moving experience there, which is 8 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: kind of indicative to a lot of stuff you and 9 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 1: I have been talking about on the show lately and 10 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,239 Speaker 1: the times that we're living in. But it hit me 11 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: so hard while I was there that I just like 12 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: kind of broke down because we mentioned at the end 13 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: of the show that one of the things you can 14 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: do is like write a letter essentially with your hopes 15 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: and your wishes in it, and you tuck a little 16 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: money in and you put it in their offering box. 17 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: And like in my letter, I was trying to convey 18 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: in a succinct way the troubles of the world were 19 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: living in and how much I wanted all of us 20 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: to pass through them and be in a better place. 21 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: And it broke me, like it was just like I 22 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,400 Speaker 1: can't to try to parse it in a simple way 23 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: made it so oddly painful and moving. I'm getting very 24 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: choked up just talking about it that I literally my 25 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: best friend was like, are you okay? Brian, who was 26 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: not doing his letter. He was kind of standing around 27 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 1: and enjoying the space. They were both a little like, 28 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 1: this is not what we expected. No, no, but it's 29 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 1: what happened. It was really really beautiful. But as a 30 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: remedy to that, I will tell you about the spectacular 31 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: car ride we had back to our hotel afterwards because 32 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: we had a driver. I love this man with my 33 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: whole soul. He does not speak English, but he ran 34 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: all of his stuff through a translator, and he told 35 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: great jokes, and he was really funny and really lovely. 36 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: And one of the things that was really interesting that 37 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,920 Speaker 1: he talked about was the fact that a lot of 38 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: Westerners will come to visit as tourists and they'll go 39 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:20,519 Speaker 1: to some place like the Meiji Jingu Shrine, and their 40 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 1: takeaway is that it's really a shame that Christianity got 41 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 1: pushed into this country and you know, somehow adulterated these 42 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 1: beautiful religions that were already here and have existed for 43 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 1: centuries and he was like, listen, we have gods of 44 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: everything in this country, so adding Jesus was not a problem. 45 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:49,639 Speaker 1: And I was just like, I don't know if this 46 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,399 Speaker 1: is the perspective of everyone, but it was so hilarious 47 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: and sweet and funny. He was like, you know, we 48 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: literally will worship the spirits of like pencils and leave. 49 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: So like, it's fine, it's not in conflict for us. 50 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:05,920 Speaker 1: We can incorporate all of it together. And I was like, Yeah, 51 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: that is a cool way to consider it, because I 52 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: have often been that person that's like, why do you 53 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 1: have to go shift everybody's culture yas to match your own? 54 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: But his being like, it's fine, it really doesn't change 55 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: ours in any way. We've also talked about much earlier 56 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: periods of Japanese history when like all of the Christian 57 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: missionaries were either expelled or killed right way earlier on 58 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: from what we were talking about today. My experience in 59 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: Japan recently has been playing the video game Assassin's Creen Shadows, 60 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: which is set in Japan at the end of the 61 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: sixteenth century. There are shrines all over that game, uh, 62 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: and there are you do the thing in the game 63 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: where you clap and you bow. Yeah, you get a 64 00:03:55,480 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: little shrine blessing. Sometimes, so you go to a shrine 65 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: and it's it's full of enemies and you might end 66 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 1: up having to kill all of them, and that's it 67 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: feels disrespectful to me. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not saying that 68 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:16,919 Speaker 1: as a criticism of the game designers. I don't know 69 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 1: what they're thinking was. I don't know what people in 70 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,279 Speaker 1: Japan's thinking was. But anytime I get into a fight 71 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 1: in a shrine, I'm like, I don't like that. This 72 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 1: is why am I supposed to be doing this? I 73 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 1: feel this feels a little bit bad to me. Yeah, 74 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 1: I have been thinking about doing something related to Japanese 75 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,359 Speaker 1: history because I've been spending so much time playing this game. 76 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 1: But number one, I'm not to the end of the 77 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: game yet, and I just I sort of I don't 78 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:48,599 Speaker 1: want to pick something that then is going to be 79 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 1: influential to the end of the game, and there are 80 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: it Also, the game does overlap with some things that 81 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: we have talked about on the show before, and so 82 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 1: I would not want to repeat those things. So I 83 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: was glad that you picked something out of a completely 84 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:08,359 Speaker 1: different era of Japanese history to talk about Yeah. I 85 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 1: mean it was you know, informed by my own curiosity 86 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: and desire to know more about it. But it really 87 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:19,840 Speaker 1: is quite fascinating. There are shrines all over Japan, and 88 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 1: I really do find the Shinto belief system very beautiful. 89 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: And I just love the idea of, you know, there 90 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 1: being many things we can appreciate and pay respects to. 91 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 1: And I really love that driver who also sang with us. Oh. 92 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 1: He told us, Oh, you're gonna laugh, it's much. I mean, 93 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: they're charming songs, but you're it's not gonna be what 94 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: you think. He was telling us that, you know, for 95 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: a long time, a lot of kids in Japan, because 96 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: everything they got from the West in terms of television 97 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: was dubbed okay, that there were many kids that he 98 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: knew growing up that thought that Americans were all bilingual 99 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 1: and could speak Japanese. And when American movie stars first 100 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:10,280 Speaker 1: started really doing stuff in Japan, you know, like promoting 101 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 1: films and like going and doing interviews, they realized they 102 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 1: had been so wrong that those people did not speak Japanese. 103 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 1: But his point was that what English he knows he 104 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: learned from nineteen eighties television. And then we sang the 105 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 1: theme Tonight Writer Together and the A Team theme together. Okay, 106 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: I love that man. That was the best forty five 107 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: minutes of my life. That's fun. He was so charming 108 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,039 Speaker 1: and so delightful and really really lovely. I mean, we 109 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: met a lot of wonderful, wonderful people in Japan, but 110 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: that was the best ride we had for sure. He 111 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,840 Speaker 1: was great and really really interested in like sharing their 112 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: culture with us and talking about our perceptions of it, 113 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:56,040 Speaker 1: and praise technology for translator apps because right you know, 114 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: he and Brian were making jokes to each other through 115 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 1: a translator app, which was the funny thing on the 116 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: planet to watch because they were both just belly laughing. 117 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,919 Speaker 1: It was the best. It was the absolute best. And 118 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 1: it was nice because I had had my little breakdown 119 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 1: at the shrine, so I liked having a big eagle moment. 120 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: That's fun. And I will always think about him talking 121 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: about the spirits of pencils and how well we'll worship 122 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 1: that just like anything else. And I was like, I 123 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 1: love you man. One of the things that we talked 124 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 1: about on the show this week was the Triple Nickels 125 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: parachute Battalion. I do not know the answer to why 126 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: they went with the spelling n C K L E S, 127 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: which is not how we would normally spell the nickel coin, 128 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: and I did not find a conclusive explanation for why 129 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: that spelling was the one that they wound up with. 130 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: I did again want to thank Josiah for submitting this 131 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: topic because number one great topic, very much appreciated number two. 132 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: Just as the email arrived, I was thinking about wanting 133 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: to find a similar topic to cover on the show, 134 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: because while we do have topics that are about combat 135 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: units or battles or aspects that like that related to 136 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: the military and warfare, I also really like the ones 137 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: about units that are doing things that aren't necessarily what 138 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 1: a person might initially think of in terms of the military, 139 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:42,839 Speaker 1: So things like smoke jumpers and the people sorting the mail, 140 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 1: and the people going on test long distance bike ride. Yeah, 141 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: the women Air Force Service pilots that we've talked about 142 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 1: a number of times a long time ago, all of that. 143 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: So yes, thank you so much for sending It's a 144 00:08:57,360 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 1: super engaging story. I'm really glad you did this one. 145 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 1: Thank you me too. I did have to do way 146 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 1: more research than usual at the WaybackMachine at archive dot org. 147 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 1: If anyone is not familiar with the WaybackMachine, archive dot 148 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 1: org maintains an archive of websites. It does not have 149 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 1: every single website in the world. It is possible for 150 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 1: people to opt their website out of it, but it 151 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:33,320 Speaker 1: contained sort of snapshots of prior versions of websites. This 152 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: is how a very long time ago, when we we 153 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 1: had been part of a company called How Stuff Works, 154 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: and we had a website for the podcast, and eventually 155 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:56,719 Speaker 1: after we were acquired by iHeartRadio. Like iHeartRadio did not 156 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 1: control that previous website. It did not belong to iHeart 157 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: it belongs to How Stuff Works, and so we lost 158 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: access to it. And so for a long time, the 159 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: wayback machine is how I would find old stuff related 160 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: to old episodes of the show that had had some 161 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 1: kind of something that was on the website that I 162 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: did not have saved on my machine anymore or whatever. 163 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: It got used a lot in the research for this, 164 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 1: because there were a couple of things that seemed to 165 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: have been reorganized or removed from government websites some years 166 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 1: in the past, but then there were also quite a 167 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: number of things that they disappeared in January or early February, 168 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 1: presumably because they fell afoul of the executive orders relating 169 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: to DEI, and I did not enjoy that. It made 170 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:56,079 Speaker 1: me angry every single time I followed a link from 171 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 1: somewhere and it took me to a four h four page, 172 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 1: And then I put that same link into archive dot 173 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 1: org and I would find the exact same correct thing, 174 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: but you know, on a page that's no longer actually 175 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: there via the military, via a government website. It may 176 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: be mad didn't like it. Yeah, that's some justified anger. 177 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: I also went down kind of a rabbit hole with 178 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 1: this episode. I did read the memoir by Lieutenant Colonel 179 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: Bradley Biggs for this episode about called the Triple Nickels, 180 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: America's first all black paratroope unit, and he described the 181 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 1: accident that we talked about briefly that happened at Eggln Field. 182 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 1: He did not name specific like dates that that had 183 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: happened in the memoir, so it took me a little 184 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 1: bit to figure out exactly when this accident happened and 185 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: a little bit more detail about what involved. It was 186 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: clear from his memoir that he did not feel that 187 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: it had been appropriately investigated or handled by the military. 188 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 1: And so as I was looking into it, I was like, 189 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 1: do I need to put in some Floyer requests for this? Right, 190 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 1: So that's the Freedom of Information Act. Had I done that, 191 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: I definitely would not have gotten an answer by the 192 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: time we needed to record the episode. So I don't 193 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: really know if there is further information from the military 194 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 1: about that accident and what happened. It was reported in 195 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: the local newspapers immediately after it happened. I did not 196 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: find any follow ups in newspapers about the results of 197 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 1: any kind of investigation from later on though, right yeah, 198 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 1: Like I mentioned in an aside, I grew up not 199 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: far from England Air Force Base in Herlbert Field, which 200 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 1: is a little ways away, but they often work in conjunction, 201 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 1: and I certainly don't recall ever hearing anything about it. 202 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:02,679 Speaker 1: I was there, of course, decades later, but there are 203 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 1: a lot of you know, historical markers and whatnot about 204 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: many things that have happened in the area and specifically 205 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 1: related to the bases, and I never recall ever see 206 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,959 Speaker 1: anything about it. Now it's also possible that I a 207 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:17,199 Speaker 1: self involved in stupid kid maybe just never noticed it, 208 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: but right, yeah, yeah, My starting point had been lists 209 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:28,320 Speaker 1: of incidents associated with the with the airfield, and I 210 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: was not finding it on those lists. But also those 211 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: lists were primarily about things involving an aircraft crashing, right, 212 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: not what happened in this case, which was bombs being 213 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 1: deployed in the wrong place. Yeah, so, yeah, I wish 214 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 1: I had more detail about that. I don't know, if 215 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 1: maybe as some side project later on, I might be 216 00:13:54,360 --> 00:14:00,200 Speaker 1: FOIA time, I don't know, but yeah, it was. It 217 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:02,319 Speaker 1: was clear from his memoir that he did not feel 218 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:08,559 Speaker 1: that it had been handled appropriately. Do you need comedic 219 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 1: relief from the sort of sadness of that? And oh sure, 220 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: the general racism that's part of this episode. Yeah, listen, 221 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: this is a big confession because, as everybody knows, I'm 222 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: a military kid. Yeah, I do not understand military division names. 223 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 1: I either honestly never grasped them, like when we were 224 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 1: doing the third Battalion, five oh fifth Airborne Infantry, eighty 225 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 1: second Airborne what. And I know my dad has tried 226 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 1: to explain this stuff to me before, but I'm like, 227 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: this is so needlessly complicated and convoluted. Nobody needs this 228 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 1: many names. I'm sure they do in some way. I'm 229 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 1: sure there's justification in some I never understand them. And 230 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: like when I meet people or I have friends who 231 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: are really big fans of military history and they could 232 00:14:57,720 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: just rattle these things off and they look at me 233 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: like I am Princess ding Dong that I don't grasp 234 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 1: what all of these mean. I'm like, shrug, I don't 235 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 1: know what to tell you, dude, Yeah, do you want 236 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: me to tell you a lot of Star Wars details 237 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: that you probably don't understand? Like I don't. It's just 238 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 1: not something that has ever clicked for me. Yeah. I 239 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: got kind of in the weeds about exactly exactly what's 240 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 1: the platoon and how big is the platoon? But the 241 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 1: word test platoon was used so consistently in the description 242 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: of this that I was like, Okay, test platoon has 243 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: to be correct. There was also there were multiple different 244 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: dates that came up in the creation of it, like 245 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 1: there were We did not mention a lot of these 246 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: dates in the in the episode because I found them 247 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 1: a little bit confusing and they would not have added 248 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 1: to the overall understanding of this. But there was a 249 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 1: date for when the President ordered it, a date for 250 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 1: when it was created, a date for when it was activated, 251 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: which was another separate thing. There were just lots of 252 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: different dates, and I had some similar some similar confusion 253 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 1: about exactly what each of the different dates signified. Graduating 254 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 1: from training that I understood, It makes total sense. Departing 255 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 1: for Pendleton, that makes sense. Also, various dates associated with 256 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 1: the creation of the unit. I found a little bit 257 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 1: more confusing. Yeah uh so, yeah, yeah, confusing. I do 258 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 1: my best, but I finally very confusing. So whatever's coming 259 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 1: up on your weekend? Boy do? I hope it's as 260 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: good as it can possibly possibly be. I took a 261 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 1: little time off for myself recently and was able to 262 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 1: recharge a little bit do some things that I enjoy, 263 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: which is important to all of us in these times 264 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:04,120 Speaker 1: to be able to keep ourselves going. So whatever's coming 265 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:05,880 Speaker 1: up for you, I hope you have a little bit 266 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:09,400 Speaker 1: of that. Also, we will be back with a Saturday 267 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 1: Classic tomorrow and with something brand new on Monday. 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