Welcome to soft chore history. Hello, and welcome back to softcore history.
Wait, Dan's not here. Dan's not here. Wait, wait until he
gets around. He's rounding, he's rounding the TV. He's getting past some
chairs, taking a sweet time, taking a sweet looking at the TV somewhere.
Oh, he's here, he's here, guys, Dan is here.
I of course some Jake Goldman as always with Dan, Rojester who just got
to the table. How are you doing, Dan? Just taking my sweet
time? I don't really have much to say, you don't, that's fine?
Oh and now Robs got Rob hockey shift right now. That's like I
have to just sit here in the penalty box. You guys get to go
out on the ice. That's your topic. It is my topic to so
I feel every time I have to lead like I'm just on an island by
myself. I have something to read before we get into this topic. Well,
okay, Rob Fox is the other voice you just heard. If you
aren't familiar with the podcast, what do you have to read? Rob?
A listener a friend of mine, sent this in about Dan's argument last week
about bat boons. Yeah, okay, so for context, anyone that didn't
listen to last week. You need to go do that now. It's about
the mystical island or land of punt out An Island. It could have been
Sri Lanka. We don't know. But um yeah, Dan said he could
fight a baboon to death. Okay, so here's what. It's a life
or death situation. I'm not gonna let a baboon kill me. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, that's what you think. But you're wrong, baboon.
This is what Thomas sent in. Baboon would almost certainly annihilate an average human
male. Like chimps, A baboon can rip your limbs off with ease.
Uh. Baboon versus Chuck Ladell would be a close fight, only because of
Ladell's MMA training. A baboon would actually have more of a drive to rape
than Chuck Ladell. Uh. The way you're talking in the microphone is also
very bizarre. Uh, did not set it up like that. It's right
here, It's fine. I like to I like it to make it look
like a man's thrusting up at me. Well, I can see Coop's already
messing with the levels. You are definitely for sure fucking with us. But
the mic is right here in my fucking face. What else, right,
So it's probably well the fuck out back to the baboons. Yeah, so
anyway, he was just saying a babboon would fuck you up. I'm probably
really a chance, like if I'm sure I'm gonna I'm gonna take some scars,
right, I'm not coming out this fight without my own battle wounds.
And also we talked about you being dropped into a pit of baboons. No,
it was actually I will defend Dan here. I said he couldn't kill
if he was putting too a tank with two baboons. I said he wouldn't
even get one. I'm taking I'm sinking both out. No, you'd be
dead. I'm not. I'm not dying. We don't need to litigate this.
But they would rip your throat out, and I'll use your intestines as
toys, and they'd probably do stuff with the stump. Dude, they off
and play with it. One of these baboons is catching a sweetch him music.
I'm going full heartbreak kid. I'm then taking that corpse and swinging that
baboon at the other baboon. And he was because I'm just using as a
weapon. Do you think one punch would kill a baby? Like when Mary
say I was saying Mario and Bowser when he has to swing him around.
Yeah, yeah, I'm using them as like turtle shells. No, yeah,
you're dead. I'm there dead. You're fucking soft. You've never really
been in a fight in your life. Probably you've never fought a bad boon.
Rob, I've never fought a single baboon. That's true. Yeah,
I neither of. And I don't think you have any historical proof that I
couldn't take on a baboon. I have the historical proof of knowing what a
baboon can do. You don't know what I can do. I know I
don't need to Jake. Jake kind of knows I don't do. Do I
get to take any supplements before this fight? Like? Am I am?
I? You hear the best? Yeah, you have the best supplement,
which is human adrenaline. Can I get like h h what am I doing?
You can dope at just get like hghot a couple of machine guns?
And I don't need weapons all right anyway, So I'm ripping this baboon in
half. I'm breaking them over my fucking knee, like sane. God damn,
it's gonna buy baboons now, like Baboon's on his biggest I will buy
so much cocaine the size advantage I'm gonna buy. I'm gonna buy so much
cocaine until I become friends with a level cocaine dealer who owns baboons. I
like that. That's my first go to on how to acquire a bad boos.
You think a baboon's gonna fight makes sense. Baboon thinks he's gonna bit
me. I'm gonna bite the baboon. I'm taking a chunk out of that
bad boon that you have gay little toddler teeth compared to any bad doesn't matter.
I'm I have the strength advantage over baboon or in the arms, what
are you talking? Definitely in the arms. I'm ripping his arms off,
dude. Then he's gonna beat the bad That bad boon can bench. Its
entire life is lifting weights. No, It's entire life is survival. It's
just it's tired from surviving and I'm rested. You trained, you can venmo
me Jake desh Goldman on Venmo and we can start a buy bad boon yeah,
actually, Venmo Me and Rob Dash Fox and enough money to just buy
the cocaine. I need to have a friend eye level cocaine dealer, and
just like a real real ski you can just Venmo Me, Dan Dash Regester
R E G E S T E R. Just so I can have a
little extra spending cash. Yeah that's fair. Yeah, fair. Let him
get some walk around money before he gets his life taken from him. Buy
a baboon. Anyway, thanks for joining in. Today we will no longer
we are going to put a moratorium on baboon fight discussion of Bob bab boon.
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's that's it for that. Today,
guys, it's National Women's Day. Do you know that International Women's Day?
Whoa, yeah, the women you're talking about, that's right, International Women's
Day, you're correct. And because of that, we're actually gonna be talking
about some special ladies that killed some Nazis in World War Two. Oh yeah,
no, My favorite kind of women are the ones that kill Nazis.
Everyone knows this about me, big fan of anyone that killed Nazi. So,
so you love av Broun, I mean, in theory, I guess
I would love Hitler you're a big he would lovebron Le bron what killed herself?
Yeah, and so did Hitler. Yeah, you're pro Soviet. Well
in this story, I will be. So we're gonna be talking about the
five hundred and eighty eighth Night Bomber Regiment, known later as the forty sixth
Hammond Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, or as the Nazis called them, the
Night Witches. We've already talked about witches on this podcast before. It's worth
noting by the way that we were talking about when we were like, um,
talk about which top about this week? We were like, yeah,
Jake, it's International Women's Day this week, you should find like a topic
about women. And Jake was like came back like a couple years later,
and he was like, dude, I can't find anything about American women.
What a worthless group of people. He like texted the whole thing. He
was like, American women from the founding of our country even before that,
to present just worthless. He's like, I gotta go to another country because
these women have never done anything Jake's words, He's like, American women need
to stay in the kitchen. Yeah, And just like Burger King. Yeah,
Jacob was like, I gotta, I gotta get agree with Burger King.
Here gotta And then they came out with that disclaimer after that tweet that
was like and by that we mean there was a whole planned thing of tweets.
Oh yeah, I know, yeah for sure. It was. You
have to stew the pot first. Stew pot. Yeah, stew it.
It works, by the way, anyone who's mad about stuff like Burger King
tweeting women should stay in the kitchen and then following up with like very valid
facts about the restaurant industry or a show being called Dear White People or anything
like that, Like all of those things are done to get you to engage
with them, or like Stephen Crowder, if you want to pick, like
the worst possible example did be for International Women's Day. He like dressed up
like a woman on Twitter and like did like a dogshit video. He's a
comedian, so yeah, exactly. It was the dumbest, least funny thing
I've ever seen. But he doesn't care if it's funny because he's getting engagement.
Burger King doesn't care if you gonna you can't cancel Burger King. No
one who eats a burger King is woke. There's no a single woke person
ordering Burger King too. Well, you were just talking about eating Burger King
yourself. I'm not woke, though I would eat Burger King. Very underrated
fast food. I haven't Burger King since college. They used to have They
had a deal though, for about a summer at UCF. It was fifty
nugs for seven ninety nine. That's this is This is the second time in
a row, like two episodes of a row, you've mentioned the nuggets.
They might not think it was all fair, but I ate one hundred nugs.
They have good nugs. Chicken Friser good. They also have a really
good zesty dipping sauce for their awning rings. Burgking's really underrated, I'll be
quite honest. I'm actually like some more. Another I will say, as
a child, I enjoyed their original chicken sandwich, the long one, the
long boil. It's sliced in two. It's absolutely trash. It was bad.
Anyone who's ever eaten the chicken marinera sandwich at Burger King should be executed.
Yeah, it's not cute, but there's a chicken parm I'm sorry.
Yeah, if you've eaten that, Like I advocate for Soviet style. To
get back on topic, you'd be dragged into the street and shot. Yeah,
that's right. And you know, although they did do that, they
were also facing kind of a lot of pressure in nineteen forty one, specifically
in June of nineteen forty one, the Access Powers were pushing into the Soviet
Union. You just the Germans, Well yeah, using the largest invading force
in the history of warfare. Though, yes, yeah, so as Rob
probably knows what's up. Oh so Rob is actually not used to these microphones.
But you don't have to talk right into these mics. These are these
are different mics. Oh yeah, do I have to talk right into mind?
You're fine? Yeah, okay, So, as Rob probably knows,
this was Operation Barbosa. It saw about four million troops weighed into Russia from
the west, establishing a line that threatened to overtake Moscow itself. The offensive
was one of the most violent and terrible military actions in World War Two,
with countless atrocities committed against the Russian people. Many I am assuming we're against
those who ate burger king. I mean it was a war crime festival.
Yeah, no, it was definitely bad. There's actually forget the name of
it, but there's you might be able to google it. I don't like
to have a computer firm you want. It's not by topic, so I
can freeball it. Yeah, but there was a German World War two mini
series that came out a couple of years ago. I watched on Netflix and
it's not not dubbed or anything. You have to watch subtitles. And it's
about like four friends. It's from Germany. It's made by the Germans,
and it's four friends who fought in World War Two on the side of the
Germans. Two are brothers who who are in the army. One I'm sorry,
it's five. It's a generation war. Yeah, generation war. It's
a really good mini series. Two are brothers who fight in the wear Mark
during Operation Barboza. One is a Jewish German who obviously has to like it,
gets rounded up and has to escape. One is a woman who becomes
like famous and Nazi Germany and like it just becomes like a star or whatever,
and Nazi Germany. And the other one because she's just like a nurse
with the wear Mark with the German Army. Anyway, they follow the invasion
of Russia because like the only people like you couldn't make them fight against the
Americans in British because the only people you can maybe not have sympathy for in
World War Two or the Soviets on the side of the Allies. Yeah,
because let me tell you, the Soviets repay those war crimes on the way
back. Oh yeah, not that. Not that you shouldn't be rooting for
the Soviets in World War Two, because you should be, um, but
it's a good it's a good thing. And as they're invading at first in
that show, which is again made by Germans, the guy, the one
of the main characters who's an officer in the German army, says to one
of the superiors like they're doing all kinds of fucked up shit, and he
just says to one of his superiors at one point, he's like, what
if we lose? Yeah? Should should we be doing this? Like?
What if we lose? And then guy just like looks back at him,
like dead in the eyes, and he's like, well, then I guess
we can't lose. And then what happened He just did the speech from Major
League. It was just like, yeah, I guess we gotta win the
whole thing. That's a great motivating tool commit heinous war crimes, just the
fear of losing. Yeah no, And it goes to show if you do
lose after doing that stuff, bad things happen to you. Yeah yeah,
typically nuclear bombs and giant trials in your country. Yeah. So, anyway,
by the fall the Germans were this is fall of nineteen forty one,
the Germans were pressing on Moscow. Leningrad was undersiege and the Red Army was
struggling. The Soviets were very desperate and they started to get a little creative.
So just to kind of interject from the storyline from the start of the
war, there was a colonel named Marina Raskova. She was a Soviet pilot
who was known as the Russian Amelia Earhart. She was famous not only as
the first female navigator in the Soviet Air Force, but also she did like
she held a lot of the world records for like long distance flights before I
guess the ones that exist now. Also, guess what, she didn't just
disappear like an asshole. She did actually on one of her flights, she
did get lost in clouds. Yeah, well, she didn't. She came
back. They found her. Yeah, they found her. Still looking for
Amelia are heart? No, you know we found her? Did we find
her? I don't think. Yeah we did. We never found a body.
Yeah we did. We found a body. Yeah, on a fucking
island. Yeah, Like it wasn't an island with like giant crabs. They
found her. I thought it was like a dB Cooper situation. They found
her, Okay, it was pretty anti climactic. Just fucking crashed on an
island and died dead girl. Yeah, so like survived the crash but then
died like a month later. Yeah, because like broken legs. Yeah,
literally she had like a brokelay just dragging her on the island. There's not
a lot going on in those islands anyway. But she actually did one of
the planes she did, like the long distance flight in there was no entrance
from like the cockpit to the rest of the plane. So I was reading
about it, I forget like a lot of the details. But she ended
up having to like jump out of the plane before she could land, and
like she went back to find the wreckage and they were like, oh,
we found the plane, like they were waiting there for but it's like they
spent more time looking for the plane than her. Yeah, because they were
recovering them. So the Soviets it might be more valuable, you know.
Yeah, for sure, was very on brand for the Soviets, right.
But anyway, so she was famous in Russia for you know, being the
first female navigator in the Soviet Air Force, but also you know the long
distance flight records, and she began receiving letters from women across Russia wanting to
join the war effort in any way they could. This is mainly because so
many lost brothers, their fathers, significant others, things like that, and
tough tough bitches. Yeah in Russia. Yeah, tough fucking bitches. And
it's pretty awesome to hear that. Like they saw all the ship happening to
their their home, and they were just like, yeah, we want in,
We want to like go fight. But you know, many women served
support roles at the time. It was difficult at all for them to make
it to the front lines period, let alone fight. So Rascilla Lobby defined
ways for women to take a more active role in the war and was highly
successful in her efforts. She actually led to women being eligible for the draft
and even convincing the military to establish all female units. However, they were
famous for a lot of Russian female snipers in World War Two. I believe
that, just like you know what, I could see that solely because,
like I want to say, I don't know if it's true or not,
but I believe there was something about Russia that's like women are actually I think,
maybe better shots than men because for whatever reason, women are just like
slightly steadier handed. Oh that's interesting. I would think that, like if
you're sending someone out for like a long crawl, you know, to get
to a location, like women need less food. She's smaller, Yeah,
like maybe less than sexist, is it? Let her eat a piece of
shit? You think that's me, don't. Yeah, obviously one hundred and
ten pound person needs to eat the same thing as one hundred and eighty pound
pars. Actually, also, you gotta keep mind like nineteen forty one,
so like the average male in the world, or like even in Russia is
probably like five six, one hundred and fifty pounds, so the average woman
probably like maybe a hundred yeah, like five one yeah, something like that.
They're all pretty hot, so all of her efforts though it kind of
come to a culmination. In October of nineteen forty one. Rascova was actually
kind of in with Stalin, like she they don't really disclose much about the
relationship there. I try to look for, like how she knew him.
I'm guessing it's some sort of party bullshit or whatever. She was a celebrity.
Oh yeah, I guess she was a celebrity. Yeah, that would
make sense, and not just celebrity, but like a patriotic celebrity. Right,
Yeah, she is a hero in the eyes of the Soviets. No,
no, that makes total sense. Yeah, it's not like she's just
got some childhood friend Joseph Stalin in there. That makes more sense. You're
right, So the order came there or something there. Yeah, was a
looker, not gonna in the day. She was pretty attractive, actually,
Joe, I say a picture I didn't. Yeah, so was Joe.
I'm saying Joe was a handsome fellow. He was very attracted Joe. Joe
Stalin was good fucking looking back in the day. Monster but monster cock monstrously
hot. Yeah, decent look lady, Oh yeah, definitely, yeah,
for sure. Yeah she's good looking. Yeah not And it's completely irrelevant.
Yeah, all fighter pilots are good looking. It's true. They should do
a Soviet top gun like hot Russian bids top gunness. See when you when
you think about it though, like it kind of makes sense that Hitler did
all these atrocities. The way he looked, the way, the way like
all the things he had to deal with in his life, he kind of
he kind of kind of makes sense sense. It added up. I will
say this in defense of Hitler, in defense of Hitler, in defense of
Hitler, to be fair with him. Um as a creative who hasn't achieved
what he's wanted to yet. I understand why Hitler would maybe kill millions of
people when his paintings didn't take off like he wanted and he got his like
swagger jacked by Charlie Chaplin rage. I feel not being as famous as I
should be for the things I've done. Hitler had some gross knees too.
I don't know if you've ever seen that. Hitler was an ugly guy,
dude in his shorts, like he's got like that Foupa thing going on.
It's not good, not good looking, even young Hitler. Yeah, like
you look up young Stalin, young Stalin looks like a fucking model. Yeah,
young Stalin, no version of Hitler, that's hot. So like Stalin
having to commit massive atrocities on his own country excusable. Yeah, makes no
sense, but Hitler, you can't get it right. So anyway, Stalin
uh gives the order to Riskova to establish a tree of all female air squads.
Um. There was only one, though, that was reported to have
remained exclusively female, and that was the team of night Bombers, the five
Night Bomber Regiment, where everyone from pilots to commanders to the mechanics were women.
So why were they called the night Witches. I'm gonna get to that.
Okay, you'll get to that. It's I think it's deeply suffic.
It's pretty like on the No the night Bombers. But yeah, yeah,
there's actually a more specific answer. Did they thrower in water and they float?
Yeah? They actually dropped bombs from broomsticks. It was really high tech.
That was sick. Yeah. No, it's almost as cool as killing
baboons from magic carpets. And then they created television show wand Division. So
yeah, you keep dropping one division. You haven't seen it? No,
I haven't. It's great, isn't it okay? Finales? Whatever? And
then I so I note, do I need prior to MCU, yes,
knowledge to enjoy that helps fair amount. Eventually, Essentially, at this point,
the MCU is just like a fucking ten year long show. Yeah.
Look, Jake, Look it starts out slow, right, like two to
three episodes it takes to get really moving. You're talking about the MCU or
Wandvision talking about wand Division. Yeah. Also, but also you gotta watch
thirty movies before that. That's why I'm never gonna watch wand Division. I
don't have like I've do. You have fifty hours to commit before committed into
a show. I mean I do. Yeah, it's not it's for debate.
I definitely have that, but I don't want to, Like, I
still have to show my wife like all the Star Wars movies before I get
into there. You know, I really have to. You can start in
hand with Phantom Menace. That's where that's where it peaked. Really start,
let's not under sill attack of the Clones. I will revenge my favorite there,
the chosen one. All right. Anyway, I'm not even touching that
comment from Rob. But so this was actually pretty interesting that they were completely
in all women unit because the women would not only fly missions and drop bombs,
they would return fire, making the Soviet Union the first nation to officially
allow women to engage in combat. Previously, women could help transfer planes and
ammunition, but after which the men took over. So this was like a
big deal. So they were in bombers, which means you weren't just pilots,
like you had gunners and stuff on it. They had I don't know
what their planes look like specifically, but on an American bomber you had a
turret gunner on the bottom. There was no time, a tail gunner,
several gunners on the like, a couple gunners on the sides of the plane.
Oh, we were not We're not talking about planes like that. Okay,
they are terrible planes. I will like the word. Show me,
show me a picture of it. I will. I'll get to when I
get to. This is why so many Gairman planes shot down Russian planes.
Oh no, these guys are these I'm sorry. These gals actually did pretty
well. Um anyway, from more than two thousand applications, she selected around
four hundred women for each of the three units. Most are students ranging in
the age of seventeen to twenty six, so they were young, and those
selected moved to Angles, a small town of Stallingrad, to begin training at
the Angle School of Aviation. They underwent a highly compressed education and they were
expected to learn in a few months when it took most soldiers several years to
grasp. Each recruit had to train and performance pilots, navigators, maintenance,
and ground crew, so they had to learn all these responsibilities in the matter
of months. That it took years of these guys to learn because to the
Soviets, their life's not as important. So it's like, yeah, I
think they just wanted more people to quickly get into Like the from my understanding
of this, it is the longer it took them to get ready, the
more likely it was gonna get shit canned. So they needed to be moving
fast training people. Yeah, like because if it took any longer, one,
they wanted more people in the force, and then two. Even then
the women had to be overly qualified also and also as far as training and
quickly goes, like, the Soviets didn't have a lot of time, No,
because so the United States when we deployed into World War two, Like
we entered World War two at the very end of nineteen forty one, right
Pearl Harbors bombed. December seventh, declare war in Japan. A few days
later Germany Declaire's War. A few days after that, we declare war back.
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. We really don't get like
our full force in until like mid to late forty two. Like there's Operation
Torch in South or not South Africa and North Africa and stuff like that,
but like we're not really like fully erect, like fully ready to fuck until
like mid to late nineteen forty two. Nice, yeah, I mean that's
that's a good point. Also, like I said earlier, they are getting
their door knocked in by the Germans at this point, so they're trying to
pretty much make use of any body they can to keep the Germans at bay.
Oh yeah, yeah. So obviously the women faced significant obstacles even before
they began engaging in combat, namely with the equipment. And this is where
we're going to start getting into what they were given. So the military,
unprepared for women pilots, of course, offered them meager What does that even
mean they had nothing that they had nothing, jumpsuits when't fit over their boobs.
So like, you can't fly these those planes with with titties. Oh
god, damn it. We designed these planes for no titties only. It's
light upside down. Titties are like testicles. Maybe if you turn yourself one
hundred percent upside down, invert the bird and yeah, just so put your
titties where the balls should be. Yeah, sit in a squat formation.
Yeah, what is that? So what if they weren't ready to be in
it? No, they didn't have a lot of the resources. So what
it means is that the female received hand me down uniforms from the male soldiers
and they got all male boots. So they had to like tear up their
betting and ship like that and stuff the boots their tiny feet, putting some
putting some betting in your boots. That's like fixed in twenty minutes. I
don't that's not a huge obstacle to be well, that's just the clothing.
So they had to fly the forgive me for this pronunciation, the Polar Carpoff
PO two aircraft. That sounded perfect, okay, Well nice, Um,
it's basically to describe this plane what it was used for primarily. So the
PO two basically means it's a post it's outfitted post war, okay, I
believe. So this is like the smallest plane they could have possibly employed for
forces. It was mostly used as a crop duster. It's a biplane with
room for two. So this is like, this is interwar. This is
not do not do not picture be twit nothing but what twenty one or whatever
was called. Let alone like a P fifty one Mustang. Imagine your grandpa's
taking flying lessons in Assessna. Sprinkle them with Pesta sad. Yeah, like
Assessna with a prop, like or obviously all Sessas have props. But yeah,
you know what I mean, Like, it's the smallest kind of plane
you can imagine. It's the fucking Dad from a independence day. Yeah,
yes, yeah, it's just like that. So it's a two seated,
open cockpit biplane. It was obsolutely even by the standards of the day they
were flying them, and it was made of plywood frames with canvas that stretch
over them. Um. They were light and slow and provided absolute no armor
and so what a combo. Yeah, light and slow, no no protection.
There, like you want to trade one at least if you if you're
gonna be slow and be protected, if you're gonna be protected, be fast.
Yeah, no, you got either. So there's actually a nickname for
this plane by the other Russian pilots. They called it the Kerosene coffin,
okay basically or yeah cars. It also goes up in flames whenever. Yeah,
even the slightest damage happened. Yeah. So basically if a if a
trace around would have hit the plane, it would have exploded right immediately.
It's made of plywood and canvas, that's it. So, uh, there
was like nothing protecting these ladies. There was a benefit though, of the
planes, and that was that they had a slower stall speed. Oh I'm
sorry, do you know what I would have called it? Real quick?
Yeah? Sure, the flying pussy funeral Jesus Christ? Why not? So
women are braver than I'll ever be. They have a spider crawled on worse
than they did to like enemy fighters descending on them. So here's here's a
funny one in your station wagon of a plane. Sorry. They so that
the top speed of this plane was so slow it was slower than the stall
speed of the jets. The Germans were fighting jets the planes. The Germans
had jets by the end of the war, but there were no jet fires.
Great to transport drugs from Colombia, I don't think so, because if
you got to go real slow, real low and under the radar, Yeah,
yeah, for sure. But so if you think about it, the
top speed of this plane and being slower than the stall speed of the German
planes means that at their slowest Germans were just zooming past them. They couldn't
keep them in sights long enough to shoot them down, right, which is
hilarious to me. So actually Germans ended up having to recommission decommissioned planes to
start fighting them better. So that doesn't make sense to me, because wouldn't
you just take a longer pass, right, So you're like, oh,
I'm turning around too quickly and coming at them and only have three seconds to
shoot, Like, why don't I just take a wider turn? No,
these women were playing the Virginia basketball warfare warfare. Yeah, So yeah,
I mean that's a great question. One of the reasons that was really tough
was they only deployed in like groups of three, and so they would have
like planes that actually were bait planes for the bomber, so they would fly
and like make themselves known, and they'd fly around and like distract the planes,
while the other one no lights, no engine, just swooping. So
one of the things too, that was terrible about the planes. So this
one of the things here is that the freezing wind whipped around like they were
in Russia, and there's only canvas cover, so the cockpits are exposed,
and a lot of the pilots got frostbite while flying. Dude. It was
so like in the at the time high tech like American and British bombers,
which were the best in the world at the time, Like they would fly
up at an altitude even in the summer where you would be freezing cold,
frostbite level, and those who just had to sit there and like in gloves
and like thick coats and take it. Yeah, Like there's no heating in
any of these planes in the best places, right, so think about now
you're wearing like a bunch of hand me down bullshit, right, tattered up
uniforms. It like that. I mean, maybe the extra room might provide
more insulation. I don't know how that works. On that a survivor person.
But uh yeah, it's not a good condition at all. You're sitting
in a tinder box with no roof on it. Pretty on brand the Soviets,
to be quite honest. Honestly, you kind of hope you're catching a
little fire on that, just a little warm yourself up. Uh due to
Oh here's another fun. I wonder how many of these chicks, by the
way, we're like fuck it and we're still smoking in the plane. All
of them cigarettes caused no problems in the nineteen forties. They can't ignite anything.
They can't give you can It's actually weirder if he didn't smoke Siggs.
Yeah, No one's trust smoke Siggs in the forties. So here's the fun
fact to the planes can be become so cold on the outside that if they
touched the plane without cover on their skin, it could actually tear their skin
just chip to get stuck. It would get stuck. Yeah. So you're
talking about like licking the yeah by the flag pole. Yeah yeah, yeah,
So like but that was a problem because you know, it's an exposed
like if they rested an arm or some chick's not wearing gloves. I don't
know, man, Like, there's a lot of issues here. Apparently they
didn't have a lot of clothes, like enough clothes. They were like exchanging,
like they're actually the Soviet male soldiers were like, no clothes left for
you. You must fly naked. He has been led all the time.
So these chicks were so badass, they're like, fuck it. They got
in naked. They did killed Nazis. So due to both the planes limited
weight capacity and the military's limited funds, the pilots also blacked other luxury items
their their male counterpoints. That fuck like other luxury items their male counterpoints enjoyed
instead of parachutes, which were too heavy to carry, they got no parachutes.
So it doesn't sound like a parachute would be necessary in this plane.
No, you're dying and then you die. Well, they were flying so
low. Parachutes wouldn't have made a difference either, so they didn't eat them.
So yeah, like really they rob Yeah, radar and guns and videos
they also weren't given. Instead, they were given rulers, stope washes.
Hold on on, this is a plane made out of sticks and paper.
Where are they shoving the radar? They were never gonna so instead of having
that stuff, they had a compass, like, yeah, they had to
use maps and compasses, pencils, flash light stopwatch. First off, again,
I got a note they got protractors in in the American In the American
like high tech planes, they were using maps and pencils and shit like that.
There's no computers in any of these plays. There's no place to put
a radar in these shitty planes. Yeah, I don't learnt it. And
and also but even in the b in the flying forties and stuff. Maybe
some of the later later ones had like a radar system in them, but
for the most part, like these these dudes are just fucking flying. Yeah,
that's true. I mean you also got to consider they were trained in
like three months to use all of those super rutom trying to undersell how bad
they had it. Yeah, I'm just saying there's no place to put a
computer, a nineteen forty sized piece of electronic equipment in a crop duster,
right, Yeah. No, I mean it's it's more of a condition of
the plane they're in. They are given these things because they're ladies. Absolutely,
like we could put it in, but we won't. Yeah, fuck
you. Yeah, skirt. No, they weren't doing that, of course,
but they were in basically the worst conditions of airplane you could be for
dropping bombs. Remember they're dropping bombs, they're not just like Yeah, the
term flapper girls actually didn't hit Russia until the forties because they were jumping out
of their planes flapping their their arms. But that the bailing got no parish
not hosting it is it's way harder to deal with quait what. So they
started their initials. Imagine a girl just like abandoning her plane, jumping out
and just going maybe she is a witch, Like she's like maybe, all
right, it's if the plane starts going down, just jumping flat real hard.
Just believes are on hype. They actually have broomsticks. If you believe
hard enough, that's that's all magic really is. Yeah, it's believing hard
enough. So they start their initial bombing run on June eighth, nineteen forty
two, and the all female squadron would fight Nazi forces with overnight bombing runs
all the way until the end of the war. What were they bombing.
They were bombing camps, cities, stuff like that, like strategic areas,
you know where this would be in at some point, like I guess in
the Soviet theater, like this would actually be like outside of because I know,
as far as the Soviets and Russians now, because it's they're kind of
the stolen valor from the from the Soviets, not stolen, it was Russia,
but the Soviets, like the current Russian propaganda machine, really likes to
lean into the fact that like the Russians could have won the war by themselves,
the Soviets could have won the war by themselves. They did all the
heavy lifting on the ground, and they neglect to mention the fact that the
only reason that not the only reason, but a hum fucking humongous reason that
the Germans stopped being able to deal with the Soviets, aside from the fact
that they were fighting what we call it two front, it was really a
three front. Whar if you include like Italy and the it's kind of like
a weird front. Yeah, was the fact that the Germans, the Americans
and British were bombing the living fuck out of German industry literally day and night.
Yeah, I want to say, and it was I think it was
like very Someone could correct me on this, but I think it was very
deliberately split where the British took the night and the Americans took the day for
bombing, and it was just twenty four seven, like it was literally every
day bombing runs on different factories and cities and shit like that. British took
the night, Americans took the day, and so one of the reasons that
the Soviets were able to perhaps the main reason that the Soviets were able to
make their miraculous come back on their front, is because we made it so
the Germans could stop making fucking tanks and guns and shit. Yeah. No,
that definitely helps. And also one of the things too, it's like,
well, okay, yeah, the Germans were also so deep into Russia
that like Russians had to fight, they were constantly fighting. Like I mean,
they kind of gotten themselves back into a corner. We talked about this
before Russia, like this is just their history. They fight for to survive
any they're a second half team. Oh for sure. I mean you are
always going to take along. Their whole life is just a fight. Oh
yeah, there's only one I think that I can think of only one group
of people that have been been in a war with Russia and like just outright
one it what the Mongols, Japanese, Oh the rust of Japanese. That
doesn't count. Count, that doesn't count because it was the Japanese didn't have
to invade Russia. It was a kind of localized war. They were really
just fight. It was like yeah, like it was. It was at
c mostly and I mean there were land battles too, but like it wasn't
the Japanese weren't invading Russia. You were if you're talking about invading Russia,
Oh, yeah, the only people who've ever really done it were the Mongols.
Well that makes sense, and you could say the Huns, but that
was pretty much pretty muscovie or or Ruth's or anything like that. If you
want to talk about actual Muscovian Ruge Ruth like that, the Mongols are the
only ones to really do it. And that was before that whole what we
would consider Russian culture. That was like there were nothing compared to what they
are now. I mean, it was it was a prince principality, small
kingdoms compared I mean it was large, large compared to a lot of tracks
of European land, but compared to what Russia is now, or even at
the time of Napoleon or a one hundred years before Napoleon. No, not
even close to the same fucking thing. Goodness, what if I told you
a group of high school students took on the Russian army, but not in
Russia. Yeah, that was in Michigan. In Michigan is a home game.
You're right? It wasn't in Michigan. Yeah, it was, wasn't
it. No, they called themselves the Wolverines. Wasn't a Michigan Who's in
Colorado? Whatever? Man? Yeah, do you know if that's true or
not? They I appreciate that, but I'm pretty sure it was in the
mountains, all right. So again, they start in nineteen forty two,
June eighth, nineteen forty two, and they do bombing runs the rest of
the war. At the peak of the regiment strength, it had as many
as forty two person crews going at any given time. Are they still on
the shitty planes? They're always in these ship planes. They never get better
planes. So they are flying multiple bombing runs as soon as the sky darkened,
and they would take part in as many as eighteen runs in a single
night, and that would be between two and three planes depending on the source.
So what this tells me, by the way, with two three runs
in a night, blah blah blah. They're bombing local ish targets. They're
not doing the big They're not saying bombing dre They're not They're not bombing Berlin,
they're not bombing German factories. They're bombing strategic targets, tactical targets on
the Eastern Front. They're keeping the Germans at bay. Yes, these are
combat support bombings, right, Yeah, for sure. So, um,
that's an important thing to to make a distinction of because I feel like a
lot of our audience when they hear World War two bombers, they're thinking people
flying over Berlin. Yes, they're thinking, they're they're thinking flying fortresses,
all that type of shit. Now this is combat support, tactical bombings.
This is almost like guerrilla air forces. Yeah, yeah, barbecue, because
the Russian Air Force wasn't like the Russian Air Force wasn't like dogshit, or
actually it was dog shit early on, but like by the end of the
war, the Russians had like good fighters and stuff like that, but it
was always the Western forces that were doing like we are the ones that ablished
air superiority. We are the ones that knocked out the entire Luftwaffa. Again,
one of the reasons that the Soviets turned the tide is because the Americans
in British killed the whole fucking Nazi air force. And I would include the
Italians, but they never had one really, so I never account the Italians
at all for either World War do you no, No, no, They're
like they flipped in World War War. Really That's always a funny thing about
current Russian propagandas they're like, we won the war totally, it's like,
yeah, we didn't flipped the end of World War two two? Yeah,
yeah, I mean, yeah, what do you What were you doing before
the Luftwaffa got knocked out? Because you didn't You didn't knock him out?
Who knocked him out? Who knock got those fat guys? You may not
have been doing the wealth they were face all right. Italians were trying to
those more like Africa, right, That's where they felt there. They kept
the Italians have the funniest ISSI in World War two. The Italians, like
a thirty second history of the Italians in World War two is they kept invading
shit and failing, and the German would have to bail them out, So
they like invaded Greece failed, had to get bailed out, create failed,
how to get bailed out Ethiopia failed? Too far away? Germans didn't even
bother bailing them out on that one. Um just the worst alone. They
were like, like, what was the game plan for Italy taking all that
shit to you in Africa? What was the game plan for Africa? Was
just gonna be like workforce? And I don't know what they wanted out of
Ethiopia, Like I don't remember what they wanted. I don't know. I
know it's from like Man in a High Castle where they eventually just like turn
Africa into a giant slave camp, but yes, for labor, but yeah,
I don't know if that's just like uh, what's his name? Philip
K. Dicks? Like if Indiana Jones just had to go against the Italians,
it would have been a fifteen minute movie. Yes, yeah, it
would have been a fucking TikTok. He would have been like, hey,
give me that arc. So it would actually just make Indiana Jones and stealing
the like, and they'd be like like the Lost Arc from the Italians.
He just like cracks a whip and they also Okay, yes, that's how
he would have done it. I'm sure so. Uh yeah. So the
light planes could only carry six bombs at a time. So that's also a
reason why they had to do so many damn runs because yeah, they had
to basically tie them to cropduster. And also what the range of those planes
had to be? Nothing? Yeah, especially with bombs attached to it.
Yeah, it wasn't very long. Um. The weight was obviously tightly controlled
because they were very small planes, they had to fly low, and they
were often easily spotted. Um, this is what's fuck up about this.
These things are flying low, they're flying low, and they're easily spotted,
and and they're weighted down by bombs. You could shoot at this with like
a handgun. Oh yeah, yeah, someone some German could take his MP
forty or late in the war hit the assault rifle I forget the name of
that one, the first like assault rifle ever. They could just take or
even their fucking mouser. They're fucking bolt action rifle and just be like bet
yeah, like just fucking shoot at it. Yeah, so that's an MG
forty two. God, damn that would rip that plane right there. They're
they're plane count Yeah, it's that's why they didn't fly during the daytime.
I know a lot of German weapons, by the way, and it's not
because I'm secretly super into the Nazis or nothing. I've been your house,
but I've seen them. I just I played a lot of World War two
gives you guys, didn't play Close Combat A bridge too far? You didn't
play a close combat at Russian Front, You nen't played the Close Combat series.
No, I didn't play that. No, I didn't play it all
that. All those weapons aren't called duty shoot by the way, ohs being
Golden circle? Oh my god. All right, So, because of what
everything Rob just said, the planes had to fly at night. It was
pretty much crucial for them to have any successful emissions. The planes each with
a pilot upfront and a navigator in the back, traveling packs. The first
planes would go in his bait, attracting German spotlights, which provided much needed
illumination, and these planes, which rarely had immune ammunition, wouldn't. The
illumination also darkened the rest of the sky, so they made them more camouflaged.
Kind of. Yeah, well, I mean also like so these if
you're not looking at the light, it's extra dark, right. And also
these planes have their engines going. This plane is also nicknamed a couple other
things too. It's very loud because it's a terrible five cylinder engine. Yea,
so they called it the sewing machine. I believe is that why they
called it that? Yeah, but someone was called the sewing machine. I
think one was called a washer dryer. Is weird, like the pants presser,
which is very strange, the frying pan, ironing board. Actually,
the other one was the coffee grinder. Because it's all just so on the
nose, man, it really is so u These planes barely had ammunition to
defend themselves. They would release a flare to light up the intended target.
The bait planes would do this, so they're also drawing attention to themselves that
way. And then the last plane would cut its engines and glide in the
darkness to the bombing area. This was of course known as the tampon.
It's the point of insertion. Yeah, So as the silence bombers sailed over
the Nazi four, they would make a light sound. German soldiers began referring
to them as the knock Texan or better known as the night Witches. M
hm. They would they would fly in silent drop bombs and they laughed maniacally.
I guess the cat they must have. You should have if I was
one of those chicks, I would have definitely dropped a bomb. So I
don't know what a witch. That's a that's an American witch. Yeah,
I don't know what feui. Culturally it's yeah, they probably just are grumpy
and grunt. Russian wich would probably a fucking ludic that's like a Blair witch,
Like that's like no noise, just violently murders fully. It was like
Handsel and Gretel kind of which it's Germans Sairman. Yeah, yeah, it's
probably Samilar. Yes, they probably they're eating Nazi sandwich. Yeah yeah,
yeah for sure. Oh this was fun too. So obviously this was pretty
demoralizing for people that would get bombed by these ladies. They would be really
pissed off, and so they were trying to figure out like what the deal
was, like, how were they so good at bombing? What's your deal?
So? How good were they? Woman? Um, they were really
good. I will tell you in a minute. But the Germans began to
spread rumors that the Soviets were giving the women pills and treatments to make them
have cat night vision. There was like a firmly believed rumor. You know
why a German soldier would believe that because they were doing weird experiments on other
people while and they were all on meThe they were they were all generally on
meth. So I don't mean that, and I don't mean that to say
like, well, they believed it because they were on meth and then math
made them believe it. I mean that because they probably thought they also had
night vision. Well, they were just like, well, we're doing meth,
so they're probably doing insane shit too. Wasn't like every pilot doing some
sort of speed though during that time players doing greenies in the seven. Speed
was just like all the all the time, Like I mean, Hitler was
on a ton of drugs, I know most of the time. Yeah,
all the pilots had pet pills. There was also this is a side story,
but there was some guy I believe he was a Scandinavian pilot or sniper
or something like that, and he was surrounded behind them enemy lines and managed
to escape because he ate like all his go pills at once, just ran
and just fucking survived. He went rampage mouthed. I don't know if he
killed them. He might have killed like one or two people. But they
said his resting heart rate was like one hundred ninety beats per minute or something
like that. He had eaten like twenty one days worth of pet pills at
once. I think he was like one hundred pounds when they found him.
He just like scalp a bunch of people, but it was all throats.
I'm not sure. Maybe I'll have to do a dendem. Yeah, then
just kind of filling in on that. Maybe that's more interesting than these ladies.
These ladies are quite interesting. Okay, So altogether, these pilots flew
more than thirty thousand missions in total, or about eight hundred eight hundred per
pilot and navigator. Jesus, they lost a total of thirty pilots and twenty
four of the flyers, who rewarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union
I believe. Oh yeah, so they were the most highly decorated air unit
of the Soviet Air Force during World War Two. Lord, Yeah, they
were doing so how many day lose. That's on the Germans. Yeah,
how how thirty out of eight hundred or not eight hundred missions total or eight
hundred missions per those eight hundred people, eight hundred planes or whatever. I
thought you said eight hundred Oh, no, eight hundred missions per pilot.
Yet and they only lost thirty pilots. Yes, it's pretty good. That's
for these that's zero five. I mean they were gonna be trying not to
shoot at them at that point. They're probably just laughing at this. I
could take a handgun and shoot it pigeons every day for four years and hit
more pigeons than that with no training outside of that. Like, I just
see a pigeon and I shoot at it, and I could hit more pigeons,
like in the air, not waiting, not on the ground. I
like, IM gonna shoot a pigeon like I'm I see them flying with like
with like off shots with a handgun at pigeons. No, I don't think
so. How many did they shoot down? Thirty? Yes? Over five
years? Fucking yes, I don't know. Man. I would love to
see you shoot some claybirds before. Yeah, clay birds directions. It's with
bird shots. It's more of just like a I'm just coming out. You
can shoot on me for athleticism if you want, although I could be in
a lot of sports, but you cannot. You You definitely can't sho me
for shooting. Shot Dan, what's more likely you kill a bat boon in
the ring? Or Rob can shoot thirty pigeons over five years with a handgun?
Uh? He can shoot the pigeons for sure in the air. I
feel like that's a lot harder than you think. Like shooting a pigeon with
a handgun far away, I have based on how many missions they flew.
I have unlimited tries over the course of five years to shoot thirty. I
think you're a good shot, though, Um, I'll take the bat boon,
Okay, fair enough. I will say this with a hand I'm not
a good shot with a handgun with anyone, any anything. With a butt
I can shoot well. Yeah, No, you have a longer barrel.
It's easier to control. You're using too. I still think I could take
thirty pigeons over the course of five years with unlimited tries. You get thirty
thousand tries. I could do it. I'm not fucking kidding. You would
need to try that, like a hundred times a day for five years.
Sounds fun. Sounds fun. It's just gonna be fucking rooster cockburn shooting just
bullets into the air, trying to hit biscuits. Yeah, that as well,
I mean anyway, Raskova, who was the founder of the movement,
she died on January fourth, nineteen forty three, when she was finally sent
to the front line and her plane never made it back. So she's one
of the thirty she died in more Yeah, so uh yeah. She was
given the very first state funeral of World War Two for the Soviets, and
Rashes were buried in the Kremlin, so basically kind of wrapping it up.
Despite the most highly decorated unit in the Soviet Air Force during the war,
the Night Witches Regiment was disbanded six months after World War Two, and when
it came time for the big Victory Day parade in Moscow, they weren't included
because their planes were too slow. Well said, they were actually six hours
behind. Yeah they were. By the time they got there, the parade
was over, everyone was home. They were in the parade, they were
just really far back. Yeah yeah, yeah, for sure. They had
a flyover, but like people just got tired of waiting, so they kicked
off the soccer game. Yeah yeah, they just kind of like there was
a really bad fly by halfway through the game and wait a minute, guess
we'll break Yeah no, I mean it's so it's pretty much hit on them.
But um, I thought it was just an interesting story that you know,
it definitely like demoralized. Some other readings showed that, like it demoralized
a lot of the people that were getting palmed by women because they were like,
why can't we shoot them down? Like, yeah, no, it
is on them, on them, yeah, like well they have spells that
are protective. You know, you hear these stupid loud plays that go so
slow. And the Germans had like legitimately just in terms of the army,
had like the best small arms of the war, like the MP forty,
the assault rifle they made that I forget the name of the MG forty two
as a machine gun is better than most machine guns that countries have today.
Look, rob, here's the thing, right, when something catches you so
off guard, you don't know how to react to it. These women were
essentially the EPI pitch. I mean, maybe the first fuck up five thousand,
Well, somebody catches you with the pitch and you just you just stand
there. You don't know what to do. You're you're expecting like ninety seven
on the gun and they hit forty. I mean, yeah, these are
these are just dogshea. If you want to, if you want to see
what the planes looked like, look up the just Google night haul a carpof
PO two. It's similar to like a YouTube plane that is Google's night which
plane that isn't that is an RC plane. I mean it looks pretty small,
man like thirty over five years. I mean, you have just little
toy planes with these tiny women driving them. Do you think they just sent
people that sucked out to get bombed by these ladies, Like, I mean,
it could have been that, but like they must have been just in
dire straits if they were having trouble shooting these twns. I don't know if
they were flying like close air support per se, but like they were obviously
flying like close arrange missions because they couldn't fly along distance. So man like,
maybe they just even though they were slow, just bombed, like say,
here's the front line, you know, here's the front line. And
they just came like me and you know, like just hit the very front
line and came back. So they only didn't have long because like again it's
worth noting these women were not flying deep into enemy territory. Yeah, it
had to have been a problem on the Nazi side. We're gonna give no
credit to these women with their flying skills. Actually, you can have flying
skills. They did a little deep one time. The closest they got or
the furthest thing they got was actually they were sixty miles from Berlin. Yeah,
but how how far away was to fund the stats? I mean yeah,
towards the end, I mean they're running they're running out eight year old
children to take out. They were sixty miles from Berlin. I'm sure.
Yeah, yeah, Jojo Rabbit out there. Is not that I'm not giving
credit to these rob hates female pilots. That's what I'm hearing that sounds and
loves the Nazis and thinks it's more the Nazis bad than the good of the
Why do you think it would have been kind of funny if they, like
the Nazis just treated these women and these planes as like they just ran out
the Hitler youth, and they're like, all right, target practice, go
ahead, try to hit something. And that's why there was only thirty planes
that were shot down. That's an egregious number. That's a statistical anomaly.
I mean, okay, so what like, what is thirty thousand, thirty
out of thirty thousand, Yeah, thirty, No, thirty thousand missions the
percent What are you trying to do? Yeah, it's point zero zero one,
but it's thirty pilots, So like each pilot did. Yeah, I
feel like more American plane commercial planes go down every year than the amount that
get shot down commercial. No, I know it's a little high perabolee.
But maybe in the world. Well you can't count Malaysian airliners and shit like
that. Well you can't count the ones you can't find, Yeah, you
can't, but I mean, like anything flying over Turkey, really anything,
they're definitely Asian. Wait, hold on Google. How many plane crashes there
are a year in America, the Ukraine, in the United States? How
many plane crashes are there year? We are the easily the like lowest country
in the world for that, are close to it in terms of percentage.
At least we got back going for um US were sorry, look up fatal
plane crashes. So it was like about thirteen hundred roy holiday. Um,
that's all I can think of. He wasn't even in America though. I
think he golf Mexico, but I think he was international waters. The number
of civilian aviation deaths increased from three hundred and forty seven, like about four
hundred a year. Yeah, that has to be all small planes. All
but two of the three hundred ninety three deaths in two thousand and eighteen were
on board fatalities, so these were after complications. I'm guessing if it's on
board fatalities that means people dying on a plane. That doesn't mean plane crash.
Yes, like one plane is one hundred and sixty people planes crashed in
twenty twenty. Uh. The number of people killed in large commercial airplane crashes
rose in twenty twenty to two ninety nine worldwide rose because like half half the
world didn't fly this year. All what I'm saying is there are probably more
than thirty plane crashes a year in the United States of planes that size.
Yeah, oh yeah, for sure, there's at least there's at least a
thousand, like it says in twenty eighteen, there's almost fourteen hundred. So
there are more plane crashes on accident in the United States with shitty tiny planes
then there were with way more purpose, with way more purpose. These women
were straight gangsters, all right. They dropped, they drop bombs. I'm
impressed. I've impressed both at their skill and the Germans just total ineptitude.
This sounds like me after we watched that uf Missoi game in the swampers,
Like it wasn't so much that you guys were better than us, We just
were worse than you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, where it's like it's
no, no, no, it's are you are if you're saying I'm a
fan of Nazi Germany, guilty as Jiresh. You just like the articles or
yeah, it's like the articles, yeah, pictures. Uh, that's fucking
wild though that they I mean, I think it's pretty cool that, like
cool and kind of shitty. They were in such shitty planes that the person
dropping the bombs actually had to cut their engine and just kind of like coast.
Yeah, just because otherwise there's the sewing machine. I think bigger I
think bigger planes did that too, they must. I think that there I
do I vaguely recall that being a thing with even like a big at the
time high tech American planes, that being a thing where they would like cut
glide drop. Maybe not the best ones, but like a lot. I
don't know. But the Soviets they were actually like quite impressive for integrating women
into the year. Yeah I thought into combat services. Yeah, for sure,
I thought it was pretty I don't think I don't think they credit as
much as just like an all hands on deck and it was like legitimately all
hands on deck. It's like, it's not as bad as saying, like,
dude, the Germans don't get enough credit for putting children in their military.
I was gonna say, like this is impressive, but we should start
talking about their baby units, right to the Germans have baby units. No,
the Russians, well, I think kind of, I think install grab.
The baby unit was more of a measurement of food. Yeah. God,
but well they actually used their toddlers. They would just strap them with
kind of any type of you know, any type of stabby item. They
didn't really have anything like like a broken glass bottle. They would just in
hand a child. In case you ever want to argue that we were inhumane
for nuking the Japanese. That is straight up, what the Japanese were going
to do was send fucking five year olds at you with a knife. There
was going to be a land invasion. Yes, oh my god, straight
up. People really don't think about what a land invasion in Japan would have
looked like. A fucking nightmare. Been really bad. Yeah. Um,
granted two atomic bombs doesn't create either, but it's also total war. I
don't know, like, what do you what do you what's what do you
think? The third option blockade until they starved out. It's an island,
so the toddlers just starved. Yeah, it's it's a tough one. Maybe
we'll debate that one. Yeah yeah, yeah, uh no. The Soviets
weren't really good about integrating and we're not really good. But really they did
integrate a lot of women into into combat role. I said, there is
I have to look at it. I haven't read in a while, but
there were a lot of female snipers and shit like that. I don't recall
like all female infantry units or anything. One thing that would have been interesting
though, So like, I don't necessarily know if you want women because not
to be an asshole, but women don't run as fast blah blah blah as
a man and stuff like that. But like, I don't know why you
wouldn't have an all women, like a tank regiment, anything where you're piloting
something. I don't see, Yeah, what the disadvantage would be there,
right, Yeah, anything where you're especially anything especially where you're piloting or operating
something. I really don't know what. Maybe one of our veteran like Dan
Holloway could tell us, like at our at the drink of Bro's job,
what the difference would be, but like, yeah, I'm not the person
ask right, right, right, Like I don't know, or even in
the US military now, like not sure what the advantage of or disadvantage of
having like a woman on a beat two bomber that has to fly twelve looks
man and football the low man always wins the battle. So like if you
get a lower will men, you're gonna win that battle every time, fair,
especially if they're strange warfare. Yeah, yeah, Plus I mean women
have better bass, better like lower center of gravity. Uh, mainly the
actually stronger legs for the most part. So what you're saying is something with
a lower center of gravity and stronger legs has an advantage over like your average
man. Yeah, so like maybe a baboon and I'm ripping that bat boon
in half um baboon. I mean, there's there's a bunch of chicks that
squat, right, there's a bunch of chicks that deadlift. It's it's kind
of been embraced by the culture. Now that bat boon is not squatting,
that bad boon's not hitting leg day, and that bad boon's gonna get worked.
Look up how much batoon in squad in the meantime in the means talk
about Well, you can ask quite what I said, what do we learn?
Oh yeah, what do we learn today? Guys? I've learned about
some badass chicks that Rob for some reason doesn't want to give credit to.
No, he would rather discre He would rather discredit the Nazis, which I
kind of get. But at the same time, like props these girls.
Yeah, these women definitely. I learned that if you have a plane that
can fly, regardless of how shitty it is, there's a military they'll send
you up in it. Yeah, and look, maybe that plane was so
shitty that it was great yeah, yeah, no one saw it coming.
You know, it's like a Boise State statue of liberty. Play so stupid.
They ran thirty thousand times and you get stopped, and they're just like
they're just still so perplexed, and he's putting the ball behind his back,
like get out of here, right a hook and ladder? What you wi?
Yeah? Anyway, what'd you learn her up? Um? I learned
mostly, I really did. Actually, the main thing I learned is like,
goddamn, how do they not shoot down more of those planes? That
doesn't make any fucking it doesn't Actually, it doesn't make sense to me that
more of those planes didn't just crash on accident. So what what I learned
I guess is this was O God. This was one of the many sort
of like, look, you can believe in fate or not believe in God,
or not believe in whatever you want to or not, but this is
one of those funny things that happened in World War two, one of those
fateful, interesting odd things that happened where you're just like, was something was
someone not rooting for someone kind of like a civil war, right, a
couple of kind Yeah, like, well you see all these things go right,
and look, you have to get lucky a bunch to win anything big
like that, whether it's a fucking sports championship or god forbid, a giant,
really consequential war. But sometimes in some of these wars, like in
World War One, definitely one was a meaningless war, right like two is
definitely a top two war of the century. It was of the it's the
biggest war of all time, the Great War. Yeah, World War one
was kind of a meaningless War two in so much that like there really weren't
any good guys or bad guys. We kind of frame it that way.
It was a shit show because a bunch of like terrible kids of better leaders
guys listened. It was a bunch of royals playing meat chess. Yeah,
there were it were everyone had good people on their side. They stopped on
Christmas Day and played a soccer game. Okay, but for the big war,
for the really the wars that have like mass consequence in a in like
in a bigger way than World One, which had consequences but whatever, just
forget it. In wars like World War two, the Civil War, where
they're like really like moral consequences on the line. Fuck dude, Like,
I don't know, like these weird things happen, and maybe it's confirmation bias
on, but I say what I would learn, but what I learned is
definitely it's just like weird. It's just interesting that that shit happens. What
are you showing me? By the way, Oh so this is a stat
that's a chimp. Yeah so a ninety pound chimp. So I'm saying that
chimp. Chimps are jack You gotta do baboon baboon. Okay, we much
weaker? Do you think I'm not? I'm not sucking up a chimp,
now, No, a chimp would a chimp has like Captain America strip.
Yeah, yeah, like a chip would fuck you up. But I'm making
friends with the chimp. Yeah until at once? What you don't which is
you? I just I know, I know a little signline watch. Won't
National Geographic tell me how much a fucking batmoon can dead live? Just look
up how much a baboon weighs? Look at point of National Geograph? Look
look up how strong is a baboon? Why? What's the point of National
Geographic if it can't tell you how much a fucking baboon there is? No
death point. I agree with that. Uh, greatly depends on the baboon
and the human of course, yes, which I went just a yellow baboon?
Um, yeah I can. I can DOUBLET four twenty five. What
can that baboon your dick off? Your body? That's what I can do.
You don't think I'm want to rip bits dick off? No? Oh,
here's actually here's another factor. By the way, if we're dropping you
into a pit, because the original thing was a faraoh or something dropping you
into a pit of his I guess two baboons, right, So you're being
punished. Okay, presumably you're being dropped into it naked. That's fine.
Do you think that's fine? Yeah? I think that puts you at a
massive disadvantage than what you are. You don't want to fight a desperate naked
man. Okay, what do you think of? Baboon? Is but a
farrel desperate? Is it hot or is it quote? If it's cold,
I have a better advantage because you're this guy on Cora. You're definitely is
considering it's breaking down. But also if it's hotter than my balls are kind
of hanging and they're more you know, vulnerable. That's what I'm saying.
You're in Egypt. Oh, I'm taking these bab It doesn't matter. It's
it's death or kill the baboon. Oh so what's the baboon facing. The
baboon doesn't know. I think it knows. Man. So that's the thing.
Like this guy says, it's anywhere from four thirds day eight thirds stronger
than the untrained two hundred. It's fucking you up. Thanks, thank you
for listening. Well, we'll continue this argument later. Thanks for joining us
today. And Dan, you just got self served.