WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:05.160 It is the Jesse Kelly Show. Another hour of The 2 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:12.000 Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, fantastic Tuesday. And like 3 00:00:12.039 --> 00:00:14.279 we do from time to time, not all the time, 4 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:17.480 not often, we're driving the show off the rails tonight. 5 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:20.480 No more politics, at least for this hour. I'm going 6 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:22.640 to try to get it all done tonight. I don't 7 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:25.559 know how long it will take me, but we are 8 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:28.480 going to do the history of the comic Colze in 9 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:32.280 World War Two, per your request. It was overwhelming how 10 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:35.960 many people wanted to talk about this and learn about this. 11 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:41.920 So if you missed last night's third hour, that is 12 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:44.320 a good primer to get where we are now. 13 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:48.880 You don't need it, but it would help. And it's free. 14 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:53.200 iHeart Spotify iTunes, go download that, listen to it. I'm 15 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:56.679 not going to cover all the background again of the 16 00:00:56.759 --> 00:01:00.439 Mongol invasion and the culture and the different things, so 17 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:03.200 tonight we are going to begin essentially where we left 18 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:06.400 off last night. Allow me to recap in about thirty 19 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:10.599 seconds to a minute. Though Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, they 20 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:13.640 are not under the impression, contrary to popular belief, that 21 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:15.239 they were going to knock us out of the war. 22 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:17.599 They knew that we were going to get in the war. 23 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:19.599 They knew that was going to get us into the war. 24 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:23.079 The intention was to slow us down enough so they 25 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:28.120 could dig in and take all the territory they wanted, Philippines, 26 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:31.200 places like that, and then they would make it too 27 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:34.200 bloody for us to take it back. We would do 28 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:38.599 what countries had really always done, sue for peace. Even 29 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:41.799 if they lose, they win because at the end they 30 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:45.200 have more territory than they originally did. It works out 31 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:49.799 great for them. Now here's what some people may not know. 32 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:53.239 Most people have heard of the Battle of Midway, But 33 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:56.719 the Japanese were It's hard not to admire this about them. 34 00:01:56.840 --> 00:01:59.319 When you look at World War Two. There's all kinds 35 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:02.040 of things to hate about the Japanese and all kinds 36 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:05.719 of things to love and admire. They were majorly aggressive. 37 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:09.319 Pearl Harbor was awful, right, it was terrible. I hate it, 38 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:13.400 you hate it. That's quite an aggressive move. That's a 39 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:18.919 bold move. Load up your fleet, sneak it across the Pacific, 40 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:22.240 which they did. They took off in the fog, sneak 41 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:27.240 it across the Pacific and attack. So I had mentioned 42 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:31.960 that early in World War Two, it was going poorly 43 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:35.319 for us, really for all the Allies. Nineteen forty one 44 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:39.960 nineteen forty two, these were bad years, and Japan was 45 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:45.400 running into something. They were beating us, or at least 46 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:51.759 getting us to withdraw on many occasions, certainly in naval battles, 47 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:55.039 we would square off with the Japanese navy, you know, 48 00:02:55.159 --> 00:02:59.319 our navy squaring off against their navy. We lost a 49 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:02.639 lot of those engagements. We lost a lot of them. 50 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:07.080 We were losing men. They were really good. Are planes 51 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:10.919 in the sky. Mitsubishi Everyone knows who Mitsubishi is, the 52 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:16.080 car manufacturer of Mitsubishi well as Japanese, and they created 53 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:19.240 a World War two fighter plane for the Japanese known 54 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:21.400 as the Zero. You would known as a zero if 55 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:25.800 you know anything about it. It's a Mitsubishi Zero. It 56 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:29.759 was really good. These guys were good. We were running 57 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:33.360 into good good ships, good navy, good air. 58 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:36.960 These people are good at what they're doing. 59 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:42.719 And the Japanese thought, well, I mean, we're winning a 60 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:47.319 lot of these engagements. Why don't we keep going? But 61 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:50.840 here was always the problem lurking underneath the surface for 62 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:55.599 the Japanese. They did not have the industry They did 63 00:03:55.639 --> 00:04:00.879 not have the economy that could rebuild the things they 64 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:03.800 would lose. Even good things will get broken in combat. 65 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:06.960 They didn't have the economy they could rebuild it, and 66 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:10.560 they didn't have the economy that could improve it. When 67 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:13.919 I say improve it, you've heard of a Panzer tank. 68 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:16.839 I'm sure that's a German tank, one of the German 69 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:19.199 tanks that tigers and panzers and all kinds of things. 70 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:25.040 There were several different versions of a panzer. A panzer 71 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:28.120 didn't exist. There was version one, and version two, and 72 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:30.920 version three and version They were always improving it. As 73 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:33.439 combat goes along, your enemy learns what you can do, 74 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:36.639 learns what you can't do, learns your weaknesses, and so 75 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:39.199 they're improving their counter weapons. So you have to improve 76 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:43.319 your weapons. Japan couldn't do that. Their first punch was brutal, 77 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:46.360 of course brutal. They didn't really have a second one. 78 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:53.160 I say that because Midway Comes. Midway is a tremendous 79 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:59.279 victory for America. We cannot really fully understand what a 80 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:03.560 catastrope loss it was for Japan. You already know the 81 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:07.480 story of Midway. Midway Island. It's an island about midway 82 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:09.839 between Japan and US. It's out in the middle of 83 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:13.879 the ocean, so it got its name. We had broken 84 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:19.240 their codes. We were reading their transmissions. We found out 85 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:21.839 they were going to attack Midway and they were going 86 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:24.920 to keep going. Remember the Japanese were coming for Hawaii. 87 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:27.519 Did you know that, not just Pearl Harbor, they were 88 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:30.720 coming back to take it. Midway was part of the 89 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:34.160 step to do that. We found out they had this 90 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:38.319 big fleet coming to Midway. We brought our big fleet 91 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:43.360 out to Midway, and essentially, on a large scale, we 92 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:49.319 ambushed them, and we slapped them around good, and we 93 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:53.000 sunk their carriers, and we took not only their planes 94 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:54.519 out of the sky. This is going to matter for 95 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:58.959 our kamikaze purposes, not just their planes, their pilots. The 96 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:04.399 Japanese had excellent pilots and excellent planes. We had more. 97 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:07.279 Ours were getting better by this point in time, and 98 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:09.279 we won that engagement. Don't get me wrong, we lost 99 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:11.399 a lot of great men. The Japanese knew what they 100 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:13.800 were doing. But at the end of Midway, yes, we 101 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:17.360 had some damage, plenty of damage. They had plenty of damage. 102 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:21.000 But we are in were America. We'll go back and 103 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:21.759 make more planes. 104 00:06:22.199 --> 00:06:22.800 We have an. 105 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:27.439 Amazing training system. Because of our financial situation in the country, 106 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:31.639 our train you know, finances helped training too. Our pilots 107 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:35.759 would get six hundred hours of training time before they 108 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:39.600 went to combat. By the end of the Japanese involvement 109 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:41.879 in World War Two, their pilots were going out with 110 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:44.920 two hundred hours. All right, we just had better training, 111 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:48.079 We had better more planes, more ships. We quickly replaced 112 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:52.120 everything they couldn't After midway, they have to surrender all 113 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:55.480 their plans. No more trying to take Hawaii, no more nothing. 114 00:06:56.399 --> 00:07:02.879 Now Here is the situation for pan And we look 115 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:08.160 at this understandably as Americans as we begin our long, brave, 116 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:14.600 hard slog across the Pacific Island, hopping on our way 117 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:19.240 to Japan to finally defeat the evil Japanese who sucker 118 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:21.519 punched us. And that is the correct way for an 119 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:23.720 American to look at that. You and me, that's correct. 120 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:25.800 I'm not saying you're wrong or I'm wrong. How I 121 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:29.079 look at it too. Flip this, because you have to 122 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:32.279 flip this to understand the concept of kamikaze and how 123 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:35.680 it came to be for the Japanese. As we discussed 124 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:39.040 last night. These islands are sacred to them. They're not 125 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:43.279 just land. It's not just an island. The Emperor is sacred. 126 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:50.879 The islands themselves are sacred. And now after Midway, you 127 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:57.079 have this huge American navy that's getting bigger by the day. Remember, 128 00:07:57.120 --> 00:07:59.519 by the end of World War Two, America's navy was 129 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:00.439 over built. 130 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:03.519 We had too many. We just we covered the oceans. 131 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:04.920 You have this. 132 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:08.480 Huge American Navy with the Marines obviously in the army 133 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:13.199 as well. Think about it like Godzilla, because that's how 134 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:17.000 the Japanese thought about it. That concept came from us 135 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:24.560 slowly swimming across the Pacific, this gigantic monster of destruction 136 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:30.399 swimming its way across the Pacific towards your sacred island 137 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:35.759 and your sacred Emperor, and they're coming to wipe all 138 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:41.799 of you out. They're coming to wipe your existence off 139 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:47.639 the map. You have to understand that's how Japan saw 140 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:53.039 this before we understand how they conducted themselves. Next, with 141 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:58.320 the next few things that are coming, the next big one. 142 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:01.679 There there are many land backs. I'm skipping over huge 143 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:04.200 parts of this because it's more Comma cause he focused. 144 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:06.679 But the next big one is the Battle of the 145 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:09.960 Philippine Sea. But before we get to the Battle of 146 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:14.679 the Philippine Sea, since we're talking about suicides and kamakazis 147 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:17.879 and suicide planes and suicide subs and suicide boats and 148 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:24.000 suicide torpedoes and all these other things, we keep countering 149 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:30.000 things with the Japanese during this that we can't wrap 150 00:09:30.039 --> 00:09:32.679 our minds around. In fact, there's video of this. You 151 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:35.600 can actually go look it up on YouTube and look. 152 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:38.639 It's ugly and it's dark, but it is safe for kids. 153 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:41.039 I'm not gonna I'll warn you if something's not safe 154 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:45.159 for kids. There's video in color. You can go look 155 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:48.559 at a Japanese pilot who had been shot down. He's alive, 156 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:52.519 he's intact, he's fine. A US Navy ship pulls up 157 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:54.679 beside him to pull him out of the water. He 158 00:09:54.759 --> 00:09:56.720 pulls out a grenade and holds it to himself and 159 00:09:56.759 --> 00:10:00.360 blows himself up right beside the ship. It is the 160 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:05.120 Jesse Kelly Show on a Fantastic Tuesday. Remember you can 161 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:09.000 email the show Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. Not 162 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:11.679 really a political show. Right now, we're talking history. We're 163 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:14.320 talking the history of the Japanese comic coze in World 164 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:15.039 War Two. 165 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:17.159 And not the least bit sorry about it. 166 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:19.840 We'll get back to politics maybe next hour, maybe tomorrow, 167 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:23.320 I don't know. All right, So we just had Midway 168 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:28.480 Japanese loss. But it was a more catastrophic loss than 169 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:33.639 we understand. Because if the Japanese send fifty planes after 170 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:38.080 our fifty planes, and let's say each side loses twenty 171 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:40.840 five planes, that sounds even, right. It was an even battle, 172 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:44.919 not even close to an even battle, because we can 173 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:48.799 replace twenty five planes like it was nothing. Jewish producer 174 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:51.279 Chris looked up the specific number. Here's a number for you. 175 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:56.440 Out of one plant, one American plant, the United States 176 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:59.279 of America could put out twenty to twenty five Hellcats 177 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:03.799 in one day. The Japanese couldn't come close to matching 178 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:06.679 anything like that. If we're losing the same number of 179 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:12.279 things we're winning, they can't replace them. Midway happens, and 180 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:17.519 now the Japanese know the gigantic monster Godzilla. He is 181 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:21.240 crossing the Pacific, he's working his way across the islands, 182 00:11:21.639 --> 00:11:26.159 and he's coming for their homeland. Now along the way, 183 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:31.039 as we're talking about suicide and throwing your life away, 184 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:38.320 for Japan, for the Emperor. Americans encounter a shocking amount 185 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:42.399 of this during their fighting. This is not something the 186 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:46.399 Allies in Europe encountered in mass In any way. Yes, 187 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:48.679 there was lots of bravery over there on both sides 188 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:52.879 and self sacrifice on both sides. This is nothing like 189 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:56.200 they encountered in Europe. This is a This is completely 190 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:01.320 unique to the Pacific. The Japanese would be wounded or 191 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:04.000 not wounded and pretending to be wounded, and they would 192 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:05.879 just lay there until you would come up to them, 193 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:11.080 and they'd pull a grenade. I watched eb Sledge didn't. 194 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:13.480 Eugene Sledge didn't write about this in his book, which 195 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:16.759 is Wonderful with the Old Breed, but he didn't. I 196 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:18.519 didn't read it in his book, but I watched an 197 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:21.519 interview with him where he talked about how the Japanese 198 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:25.440 would surrender and they would tuck a grenade with a 199 00:12:25.559 --> 00:12:29.120 pin pulled in each armpit, and they would have their 200 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:32.639 hand up, their hands up, but their elbows would still 201 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:35.600 be kind of pressed to their side, and as soon 202 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:38.600 as they got close, woo, pop the elbows out, grenades 203 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:45.840 come down, kill themselves. These the Japanese would strap explosives 204 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:49.320 to themselves. When they couldn't slow down our tanks and 205 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:54.600 throw themselves onto our tanks, they used to have to 206 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:57.759 go out on what were known by some of the. 207 00:12:57.679 --> 00:12:58.519 Troops as. 208 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:05.080 Possum patrols. You know what a possum patrol is. You 209 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:07.919 know what playing possum means. Playing possu means you pretend 210 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:14.799 to be dead. The American troops, especially when unsupervised, they 211 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:18.960 were so tired of Japanese soldiers coming back to life 212 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:23.320 and killing themselves to kill an American. They would go 213 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:27.120 out after a battle when they had a moment when 214 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:31.000 you saw a Japanese soldier quote dead, you shot him 215 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:34.159 in the head. You didn't walk up, You didn't try 216 00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:36.960 to render aid, you didn't none of those things. You 217 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:39.879 learned very early on that guy can kill you and 218 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:43.279 will kill you. He'll kill himself to kill you. So 219 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:45.600 they's just stopped even trying. Boom you put one in 220 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:52.240 his head right away. Japanese troops, in every form, killing 221 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:58.679 themselves to kill you was part of their culture. It 222 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:04.519 was ingrained in their military culture. The Kamikazi. As we 223 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:09.360 work our way towards them, it's treated as some radical 224 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:12.200 new concept. They came up with and you may consider 225 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:15.519 it radical. I may consider it radical. It was radical. 226 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:20.799 It is not a huge departure from how the Japanese 227 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:26.080 fought that war the entire time. And keep this in mind. 228 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:31.039 They just lost midway. Godzilla is swimming towards the islands, 229 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:35.639 and they are getting more and more desperate the closer 230 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:40.879 Godzilla gets there, as you would be as well, desperate, 231 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:42.080 desperate in. 232 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:43.440 A way you can't imagine. 233 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:48.519 And then comes the Battle of the Philippines Sea. 234 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:51.080 It all adds up. 235 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:53.720 Don't get me wrong. All this stuff adds up. But 236 00:14:53.799 --> 00:14:57.480 if I had to point to one battle, one significant 237 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:02.039 thing that led directly to the creation of the Kama Kaze, 238 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:05.320 the special attack units, we'll get to that, but the 239 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:09.159 Kama Kaze, it would be the Battle of the Philippine Sea. 240 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:12.080 I won't break down all the details. Will do that 241 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:14.720 another time. We've talked about it kind of before. But 242 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:18.720 our Navy, our forces are marching across the Pacific, sailing 243 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:21.679 across the Pacific. Obviously they're not Jesus, They're not walking 244 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:25.320 on water, sorry, Chris. They're marching across the Pacific, and 245 00:15:25.399 --> 00:15:28.279 the Japanese by now, as we discussed, they can't really 246 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:33.000 replace their ships. They can't replace their good pilots. They 247 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:35.840 don't have the money, the resources for a good pilot 248 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:41.440 training program, and so they're really down to kind of 249 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:45.679 the last of their good planes. And they've lost already 250 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:48.879 most of their good pilots, but not all of their 251 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:49.639 good pilots. 252 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:51.320 And they look at. 253 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:55.399 This fleet and they decide, we have to throw all 254 00:15:55.399 --> 00:15:59.840 of our ships, all of our planes at the American 255 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:03.799 Now we have to fight the Battle of the Philippines 256 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:08.799 Sea as if it is everything. And so they loaded 257 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:12.200 up everything they had and they sent it at the Americans. 258 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:13.600 Will continue in a moment. 259 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:19.320 It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, wonderful Tuesday. 260 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:23.559 Remember you can email us Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. 261 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:28.720 Back to our story about the Kamakazie Godzilla is getting 262 00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:35.440 closer to the islands of Japan soon, the Japanese decide 263 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:39.720 they need to throw everything at us in the Philippine Sea. Now, 264 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:42.320 the Philippines we will get to in a few minutes, 265 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:44.919 because that's really where this whole thing kind of kicks off, 266 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:49.120 the kamakazi stuff kicks off. But the Philippines are now 267 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:54.559 and were then a wild, wild place. I heard or 268 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:58.600 read a stat on the Philippines that they have something 269 00:16:58.840 --> 00:17:04.440 like seven thousand islands. Isn't Isn't that completely bonkers? You 270 00:17:04.440 --> 00:17:07.119 don't think about the Philippines in that way whatever you 271 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:09.079 know about at least I did, And obviously I knew 272 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:13.440 it's an island chain thousands. That seems crazy. But not 273 00:17:13.559 --> 00:17:18.799 only was it crazy, it's crazy rich in resources. The 274 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:24.240 Philippines they have all the resources Japan wanted. And it's 275 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:26.960 not an accident. You know, the Baton Death March, that 276 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:30.119 was the Philippines. Okay, that was the Philippines. Why would 277 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:33.839 the Japanese pounce on us in the Philippines right after 278 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:37.240 Pearl Harbor? Why were they so hot to take this place? 279 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:41.480 It was maybe the place they prized the most as 280 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:45.359 far as resources go. They wanted to take it, They 281 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:49.279 wanted to hold it, and frankly, as the war fought on, 282 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:54.759 they had to hold it. Besides the Japanese home islands themselves, 283 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:58.799 they valued the Philippines probably more than anything else because 284 00:17:58.799 --> 00:18:01.480 they had to have those rears horses. They had to 285 00:18:01.559 --> 00:18:05.319 have them, which brings us to the Philippine Sea. They 286 00:18:05.480 --> 00:18:09.319 drag up whatever navy they have left, they drag up 287 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:12.200 the planes they have left, they drag up the pilots 288 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:15.000 they have left, and they throw them at us in 289 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:18.160 the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The Battle of the 290 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:21.599 Philippine Sea, maybe you haven't heard of before, because you 291 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:26.440 know what the Americans called it, the Great Marianna's Turkey Shoot. 292 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:30.319 That's what they called it. Why would they call it that? 293 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:36.440 We just completely annihilated them the Japan of early nineteen 294 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:41.799 forty two. They could take out our ships. They're pilots 295 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:45.640 who could take out our pilots. That Japan was gone. 296 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:50.240 The ships were rotted, the shoot, the gasoline was bad, 297 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:55.359 the pilots were bad. The planes. Remember that great Mitsubishi zero, 298 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:57.680 which was great in the beginning, Well they still had 299 00:18:57.720 --> 00:19:00.279 some Mitsubishi zeros. But you know what I mean, Erica 300 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:02.319 was doing with all of its money, with all of 301 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:05.759 its resources, advancing getting better planes. 302 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:06.039 Better. 303 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:09.480 This better that we're churning out course airs now in hellcats. 304 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:13.920 Don't worry about specifically what those are. Just know they're better, bigger, stronger, faster. 305 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:17.720 The Mitsubishi Zero as the same as it ever was. 306 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:20.759 They couldn't improve it didn't have the materials, didn't have 307 00:19:20.759 --> 00:19:24.519 the money, didn't have anything. They rolled out all their 308 00:19:24.839 --> 00:19:28.319 best stuff that they had in the Philippine Sea and 309 00:19:28.359 --> 00:19:33.480 got completely wiped out, swept off the ocean, in the air, 310 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:38.279 in the sea. Now, that is not a huge battle 311 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:42.400 for US historically. I mean, people know about it, who 312 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:46.359 know about World War Two. But I'm going to describe 313 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:49.599 that battle. This is the best way I'll describe that battle. 314 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:52.279 I want you to picture this as an American. You 315 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:57.279 an American. Let's say we have in our military is 316 00:19:57.319 --> 00:20:01.359 much bigger than this. Let's say we have five hundred 317 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:06.960 thousand troops, Army, Marines, all those things. Five hundred thousand troops. 318 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:12.759 Let's say the Chinese they land a couple million troops 319 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:15.920 on the shore of California and they start making their 320 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:18.559 way towards Washington, d C. To wipe out our government 321 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:23.960 and take over our country. We take all five hundred 322 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:28.279 thousand troops and we send them out to California. We're 323 00:20:28.359 --> 00:20:31.799 gonna stop the Chinese here. In fact, this is all 324 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:35.480 we have. We have to stop the Chinese here. If 325 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:38.759 they take out all these troops, what stands between them 326 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:42.359 in Washington, D C. We have to stop them here, 327 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:45.799 and then you wake up tomorrow morning. You roll over, 328 00:20:46.119 --> 00:20:48.400 wipe the sleep out of your eyes. You pick up 329 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:51.640 your phone and the headline, the first headline you read 330 00:20:51.880 --> 00:20:58.319 is all five hundred thousand troops lost in California. That's 331 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:03.400 what the Battle of the Philippine was for Japan. You 332 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:08.000 just threw all you had left at us and we 333 00:21:08.039 --> 00:21:12.079 wiped it out without even losing that much. That was 334 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:15.400 the last of your traditional I want to stress this, 335 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:19.680 that was the last of your traditional forces. Our destroyers 336 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:23.319 taking on your destroyers, our fighters taking on your fighters 337 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:29.000 are subs versus. You tried one last big traditional battle 338 00:21:29.359 --> 00:21:33.519 and you didn't even scratch us. You got crushed and 339 00:21:33.559 --> 00:21:37.400 now you have nothing left. What are you thinking now 340 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:42.240 in Japan. Well, here's the thing about warfare, and it 341 00:21:42.359 --> 00:21:44.720 is one thing I definitely have learned in all my 342 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:48.359 time reading about history and watching history, geeking out on 343 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:52.200 it the same way you geek out on it. You 344 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:57.119 know who wants to fight traditionally and insists on fighting 345 00:21:57.200 --> 00:22:02.279 traditionally the more powerful country every single time. 346 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:05.039 You know who. 347 00:22:04.839 --> 00:22:09.039 Resorts to tactics that are thought of as dirty gorilla, 348 00:22:09.839 --> 00:22:16.000 not fair, the weaker power. Everybody wants to fight. Traditionally, 349 00:22:16.759 --> 00:22:19.720 I don't want to become a gorilla fighter. You don't 350 00:22:19.799 --> 00:22:22.119 want to become a gorilla fighter. I want to raise 351 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:25.480 my army and raise my ships, and raise my air force, 352 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:27.839 and I want them to be more powerful than yours 353 00:22:27.880 --> 00:22:30.039 and wipe you off to sea, and wipe you off 354 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:32.440 the land, and wipe you out of the air. But 355 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:37.880 if those options become no longer available to me, then 356 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:43.359 I either lay down my arms and quit, or I 357 00:22:43.480 --> 00:22:48.839 throw out tradition and I have to go with other means. 358 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:53.720 So Japan had a choice to make. Now what are 359 00:22:53.799 --> 00:22:57.400 those other means? Well, as we discussed last night, you 360 00:22:57.400 --> 00:22:59.400 would kind of need the third hour of last night show, 361 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:01.279 or at least no what I'm talking about to really 362 00:23:01.319 --> 00:23:06.839 fully understand this. What is the thing that Japan still has. 363 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:08.319 They may not have the. 364 00:23:08.279 --> 00:23:11.319 Ships, they may not have the fuel, they may not have. 365 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:13.799 All the fight and all the modern fighter planes and 366 00:23:13.839 --> 00:23:17.359 the bombs and everything else. But what do they still have. 367 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:22.839 They still have an entire country of people who have 368 00:23:22.920 --> 00:23:27.480 been nurtured and trained, you'd call it indoctrinated, probably in 369 00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:33.319 a willingness to die for the emperor, in a willingness 370 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:36.559 to die for the country. And that may not be 371 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:40.079 as valuable as an American aircraft carrier, It may not 372 00:23:40.200 --> 00:23:43.920 be as valuable as fifty hellcats with well trained pilots. 373 00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:49.359 But it's all you've got. If it's all you've got, 374 00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:53.359 then you better lead with that. You better use it 375 00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:58.240 because it's all you've got. When I was in sales 376 00:23:58.279 --> 00:24:01.240 and selling RBS, I didn't know anything about our vs, 377 00:24:01.400 --> 00:24:04.359 no that nothing. I had never sold r v's before. 378 00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:06.960 I knew nothing. You know what I could do. I 379 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:07.720 could make you laugh. 380 00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:12.640 I could make you relax, make you laugh and talk. 381 00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:14.839 Guess what I didn't want to do. I didn't Well, 382 00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:16.640 the wall is actually three quarters of. 383 00:24:16.559 --> 00:24:18.359 An m stick. Nope, I can't do it. 384 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:21.240 I don't have that option available to me. I'll tell 385 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:24.160 you a stupid joke. I'll make you laugh. You lead 386 00:24:24.279 --> 00:24:27.680 with whatever you've got. After the Battle of the Philippine Sea, 387 00:24:28.119 --> 00:24:32.480 they had to lead with their people, but they also 388 00:24:32.559 --> 00:24:36.400 didn't have the pilots left. As we talked about America, really, 389 00:24:36.440 --> 00:24:39.240 I mean, we really did it so smart. Our pilots 390 00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:40.920 are experienced pilots. 391 00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:41.119 You know. 392 00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:44.039 We'd have these pilots and they'd go, they'd fight, they'd 393 00:24:44.039 --> 00:24:46.039 get these kills and fight and get kills, and fight 394 00:24:46.079 --> 00:24:48.799 and get kills, and then we would rotate them out. 395 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:52.079 We didn't want them staying in combat till they died. 396 00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:55.880 We'd rotate them back to America. And so these super 397 00:24:55.920 --> 00:25:00.880 experienced pilots were training the next generation of pilots, getting 398 00:25:00.920 --> 00:25:04.440 the ultimate education. Japan didn't and Japan couldn't. They didn't 399 00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:09.200 have the numbers. Their experienced pilots are gone. What do 400 00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:13.519 you do? What do you do as Godzilla swims towards 401 00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:19.559