WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:05.160 It is The Jesse Kelly Show, Final hour of The 2 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:10.359 Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, fantastic Monday. And so 3 00:00:12.119 --> 00:00:14.320 let me tell you what you're in store for this hour. 4 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:17.120 If this is your first time ever tuning into The 5 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:24.480 Jesse Kelly Show, I'm sorry. So every now and then, Look, 6 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:29.079 I love history. I'm a history nerd. I do it 7 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:33.359 in my spare time. I read, I watch it whatever 8 00:00:33.399 --> 00:00:35.520 I can get my hands on. I'm a history nerd. 9 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:40.039 And on occasion on this show, I will just completely 10 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:43.320 blow up the show. No more political talk or anything else. 11 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:47.119 And we are going to tell a history story of 12 00:00:47.159 --> 00:00:49.799 some kind. This one I left up to you. This 13 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:52.679 one I left up to you. Everybody emailed in. This 14 00:00:52.759 --> 00:00:54.439 is the one you wanted. It was a couple of 15 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:57.159 months ago, and so I've been digging into it, reading 16 00:00:57.200 --> 00:00:59.159 and watching and reading and watching it. I spent like 17 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:02.000 eight hours, yeah, yesterday, kind of putting the finishing touches 18 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:05.439 on some things, making sure I was where I needed 19 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:08.519 to be to kind of lay out the story. And 20 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:10.480 now we're about to lay out the story. I'm not 21 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:14.400 promising you I'm going to finish this hour. If I don't, 22 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:18.280 we will do it again tomorrow in this hour. Okay, 23 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:20.799 we've had them go three days before. I don't know that. 24 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:22.480 I don't think this one will, but I don't know. 25 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:26.519 I don't know till I start. Okay. So we are 26 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:31.040 about to tell the story of the kama Kazis, the 27 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:38.719 Japanese Kamakzis from World War Two. Now, before we get going, 28 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:42.040 and I'm gonna go do all kinds of background on 29 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:45.159 it and history stuff and things like that. Before we 30 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:53.040 get going, let me ask you something really, asking what 31 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:59.280 is suicide? Okay? Jewish producer Chris already jumped in and said, 32 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:03.120 what do you mean? Uh So, if you take a plane, 33 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:07.040 a fighter plane, and you intentionally fly it into a ship, 34 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:11.000 I think you would agree that is suicide. Right, Okay, 35 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:15.800 that's very fair. Let me ask you. You're in a 36 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:18.879 fighting hole, You're a marine on Ewo Jima. You're in 37 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:23.199 a fighting hole with your buddy, and one of the 38 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:26.680 Japanese troops throws a grenade inside of the fighting hole. 39 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:30.680 You look at the grenade and you throw yourself on 40 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:37.680 top of it? Is that suicide? Not quite as simple, now, 41 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:40.280 is it, Chris? Is that suicide? Okay? All right? Let's 42 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:43.840 do it. Let's do one more, just one more. Let's 43 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:50.639 say your wife or husband. If you're a woman, your wife, 44 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:54.919 your mom, your dad, your family, every person in your 45 00:02:55.039 --> 00:03:00.199 family who you love, they're all in a house. It's 46 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:04.080 right behind you. You're on the sidewalk, they're all in 47 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:07.639 the house. Right behind you, standing in front of you 48 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:15.599 is a seven foot muscle bound man with an axe 49 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:20.840 in each hand, and he is walking towards that house 50 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:27.319 to kill, maime, rape and torture everyone in the house. 51 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:34.439 You are standing there unarmed. Are you going to attack him? 52 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:38.360 Chris says yes. I would say yes as well. I 53 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:42.280 think everyone would say yes, that's your family. Okay, you're 54 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:45.360 gonna die the seven foot guy with an axe, a 55 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:52.520 couple of them. Is that suicide? All right? Now, just 56 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:54.719 keep those questions in the back of your mind and 57 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:59.360 we'll do some background here and then we'll discuss the 58 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:03.240 actual comcasis, what they did, why they did it. We're 59 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:08.240 going to do this very honestly, as as usual some history. 60 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:11.960 When we do it may offend if it does, just 61 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:14.599 like the regular show. I don't care if you're offended. 62 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:16.079 You can email me all you want, but it's not 63 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:17.920 going to bother me at all. Your offense is your 64 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:22.759 your choice. I don't care about that. We don't do 65 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:25.519 We do wantest history here from every side. We do 66 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:31.040 honest history. So let's background this quite a bit first. 67 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:34.519 In this part is going to be very very important 68 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:40.959 for our purposes. We need to understand two things, two huge, 69 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:46.480 huge things about Japan that will matter a lot, and 70 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:50.439 I mean a lot. The first one of those things 71 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:55.680 is a I'm going to use the word celebration. That's 72 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:58.360 probably not the right word, but everything I read on 73 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:03.360 it sure looks like that a celebration of death, a 74 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:09.439 celebration of death, a different view of death than Westerners 75 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:12.839 have than I have, probably than you have. One of 76 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:16.600 their emperors, one of their emperors actually has a quote, 77 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:20.759 maybe you've heard this quote before, that duty is as 78 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:24.480 heavy as a mountain, but death is as light as 79 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:27.959 a feather. Now that may just sound like one statement 80 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:33.560 that was preached to the Japanese people, and most definitely 81 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:38.600 the Japanese military. You know, some of the first training 82 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:42.399 you got in the Japanese military back then. I've read 83 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:45.319 several different sources. Some said it was one of the first, 84 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:48.120 many said it was the first was not how to kill, 85 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:49.720 not how to march, not how to run, not how 86 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:52.839 to do pushups, how to die? How do you die? 87 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:58.560 What's the best way to die? Dying in service to 88 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:05.959 your country, in service to your emperor was not frowned upon. 89 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:11.160 In fact, whatever the opposite is a frowned upon. That's 90 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:17.639 what it was. It was lionized to the point of worship. 91 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:21.040 The Kama Kazi pilots were going to discuss, and Kama 92 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:24.519 Kazi submarine guys in Kamakazi boats and Kama Kazi torpedoes. 93 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:27.360 There were all kinds of different kinds, and we'll get 94 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:30.560 into that a little bit. But the Kama Kaze guys 95 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:35.639 we're going to discuss here. Their names weren't carried around 96 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:39.199 back home of Hey, did you hear what? Gosh, you 97 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:43.439 hear what Bob did? It was playing into a boat, 98 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:47.560 so sad, Why would he do that? No, Bob's name. 99 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:53.560 There was a special shrine area set up, and not 100 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:58.199 only would Bob's name be part of this special shrine area, 101 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:02.800 people would show up and say, look at that guy. 102 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:06.240 He gave his life for the emperor, he gave his 103 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:10.600 life for Japan. Wow, I want to be like Bob 104 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:16.040 understand there is a different relationship with death the way 105 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:18.360 they view it there. And I said there were two things, 106 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:21.800 here's the second thing, and they kind of tie it together. 107 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:27.839 You remember we went to Israel as a show. We did 108 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:30.519 that big promotion thing and I don't remember how many 109 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:32.759 of us, to two hundred of us, something like that, 110 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:35.480 to three hundred of us The Jesse Kelly Show family 111 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:39.759 made Jewish producer Chris Corey wasn't with us then, but me, Chris, 112 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:45.319 my parents, my wife, my sister, kids, and you and 113 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:49.000 your kids. We all went over to Israel. Now, I'd 114 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:53.000 never been to Israel, but it was it is a 115 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:57.879 holy land tour. And I'm not one who gets sentimental 116 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:01.560 about places that much. A little bit, a little bit, 117 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:05.199 but not much. But I will tell you for me, 118 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:11.759 in my belief system, being on a boat on the 119 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:19.319 Sea of Galilee was powerful. It was powerful. It meant 120 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:22.079 something to me to this day. If you told me, hey, 121 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:26.279 Israeli governments they're making some moves and they're draining the 122 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:32.559 Sea of Galilee. Did that hurt walking walking and saying hey, 123 00:08:32.600 --> 00:08:37.519 this is the place where we're reasonably sure Jesus carried 124 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:42.480 the cross when he was bleeding and tortured. It hit 125 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:46.879 me that that place hit me, Oh my gosh, I 126 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:49.240 had to take a knee, say a prayer with my dad. 127 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:56.240 Hit me. Now, there is something about having a religious 128 00:08:56.600 --> 00:09:01.639 connection to a certain spot of land. And the reason 129 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:04.440 I brought up Israel was I've lived all over and 130 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:06.679 I've liked a lot of places and like this house 131 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:10.600 or like that condo, but never there's not another spot 132 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:12.799 on earth where I would where I would feel like 133 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:17.240 I have a religious connection to the ground. We're talking 134 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:19.840 about Japan, back in this time and still to this day, 135 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:23.960 but back in this time they very much do Japan. 136 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:29.000 For the Japanese people at this time and for most 137 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:31.480 of their history, it's not just a string of islands 138 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:35.720 where they ended up. It's so much more than that. 139 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:40.639 It is their home. There is a spiritual connection to them. 140 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.639 And this was obvious from all the writings, all the 141 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:47.600 things I've read on it. A spiritual connection there. That 142 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:50.639 is the best comparison I can make is to one 143 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:53.399 I just did. Wow, that's where Jesus was carrying the 144 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:55.840 cross like that is the best connection I can make. 145 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:59.039 This is the sea a galilee. The disciples are, That's 146 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:03.039 the best connection I can make, an actual religious connection 147 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:06.759 to the land that is beyond physical It gets to 148 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:10.240 a spiritual realm. All right, Now that we got those 149 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:13.440 two things out of the way, let's talk about the 150 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:19.399 origins of Kamakazi. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on 151 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:22.519 a Wonderful Monday. If you just joined us, you just 152 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:25.240 joined us at the beginning, after the beginning of a 153 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:30.159 history story on the Japanese Kamakazi. And this will probably 154 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:33.639 undoubtedly last us the rest of this show, possibly into 155 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:36.519 hour three as well tomorrow. So I just gave you 156 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:39.840 a little bit of a background of the Japanese people, 157 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:44.840 their religious connection to their homeland. And there I'm not 158 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:47.559 gonna say in affinity for dying, because that is not 159 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:50.200 true at all, and we'll find that as we get 160 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:56.879 deeper into this. But dying for your country, your emperor, 161 00:10:57.039 --> 00:11:02.879 your your whatever is honor extremely so over there, and 162 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:05.519 we will go into some of the propaganda that they 163 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:07.559 went into. But for now, that was kind of the 164 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:11.039 Japanese people in their connection. We have to go over 165 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:16.320 the long, long, long background hundreds of years ago, not 166 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:19.759 because I think it is important to the Kamakazi story, 167 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:21.759 and actually not because this is where they got the 168 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:26.159 term Kamakazi from. But because the Japanese people and most 169 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:30.679 definitely the young men, the Japanese military men, they thought 170 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:37.039 this event was hugely important. So here's the event you 171 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:39.840 know about. Genghis Khan and the Mongols. Just always think 172 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:42.759 that the twelve hundreds, that was when the Mongols were 173 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:48.440 they were wiping out everybody, everybody. In my opinion, this 174 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:51.519 is an opinion part I think the Mongol army is 175 00:11:51.639 --> 00:11:55.080 unquestionably the greatest army of all time. I don't think 176 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:58.519 there's a close second. And I say that because they 177 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:01.840 just blew through the other great armies like they weren't anything. 178 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:04.519 I realized there was some heavy fighting, but they just 179 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:08.840 stormed through everybody. Oh European knights, ha Oh, the Muslim 180 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:13.399 Empire of the Middle East. That's hilarious. They just destroyed everybody. Now, 181 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:17.679 Genghis Khan is dead by this time, but his grandson, 182 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:22.440 I believe grandson, Kublai Khan, is not dead. He is 183 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:26.320 still the Khan. He's the Mongol king. Essentially, he is 184 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:31.080 the Mongol king. And by now this is it's the 185 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:33.799 twelve seventies. Don't worry about the dates. Remember, history is 186 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:37.240 not about dates. By now, the whole world knows about 187 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:40.480 the Mongols. It's not a mystery. The Mongols show up 188 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:44.840 outside of your city, you in some trouble. Kublai Khan, 189 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:48.360 he's in China at this time. So if you'd like 190 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:49.879 to look at a map, which I love to do, 191 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:52.440 you're welcome to. If not, don't worry about it. China 192 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:55.159 and Japan are very close. According to the map. It's 193 00:12:55.200 --> 00:13:01.320 across the water, but they're very close. Japan was doing 194 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:06.360 some trading with the last surviving Chinese dynasty that Kublai 195 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:10.080 hadn't conquered yet, and plus Kublai was a Mongol. Kublai 196 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:13.000 looked across the water at Japan and thought to himself, 197 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:19.200 I want it. I think I should have that now Japan. 198 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:25.200 At this time, Japan was a feudal society run by 199 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:30.600 different lords in this place, and their elites really were warriors, 200 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:35.039 the samurai, as you already know, they were all about warfare. 201 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:39.559 They believed wholeheartedly in warfare and making your body strong 202 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:43.360 and training and things like that. These were not some chumps. 203 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:46.080 The Mongols had run into tough guys and they'd run 204 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:50.039 into chumps. These were not going to be chumps. Kublai 205 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:58.679 Khan he arranges a forty thousand person military force, eight 206 00:13:58.759 --> 00:14:04.799 hundred ships, and he crosses that ocean to take over Japan. 207 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:10.240 The Mongols are not chumps either, obviously. The fighting is 208 00:14:10.679 --> 00:14:15.320 inhumanly fierce. This is an an amphibious force. The Mongols 209 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:19.840 actually gain a foothold, but people are dying in droves 210 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:24.440 on every side. Japan is outnumbered here right, the Mongols 211 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:31.120 brought forty thousand troops. Japan's outnumbered the Mongols. They get 212 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:35.840 a foothold, like I said, and then they returned to 213 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:38.960 their ships at night. Mostly there were some Mongos still 214 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:41.440 on the land, but most of the force returned to 215 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:46.840 their ships at night. Now, I spent six months in 216 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:50.279 Japan when I was in the Marine Corps. We had 217 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:54.679 several typhoons when I was there, and I remember, like 218 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:58.000 it was yesterday, looking down at a big conex box 219 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.360 in the parking lot, and I watch this typhoon pick 220 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:04.480 up that conex box and throw it across the base 221 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:07.799 like it was a soda can. A typhoon is a hurricane. 222 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:12.639 Remember it's a hurricane. Imagine you're on an old. We're 223 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:14.919 talking the year. This is the twelve hundreds, right, this 224 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:18.559 is two hundred years before Christopher Columbus sailed the Ocean blue. 225 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:21.960 That's the kind of ships we're dealing with. The Mongol 226 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:26.440 army was sitting on ships in the ocean and a 227 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:32.600 typhoon came and wipe them out. Now let's just say 228 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:38.399 you're in Japan. You're a Japanese person, This frightening Mongolian 229 00:15:38.440 --> 00:15:44.240 horde crosses the ocean, tries to take you out. They 230 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:48.399 get wiped out by the weather. You already remember you 231 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:51.840 have a religious connection to your land. They just got 232 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:54.679 wiped out by the weather. Wait, we had a storm. 233 00:15:54.799 --> 00:16:00.879 Wait last night. Really, the Mongols are gone. Do you 234 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:06.440 think you would think God's looking out for me? Japan 235 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:10.679 itself is looking out for me. And this is where 236 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:15.559 the name, what the name Kamakazi actually means is divine wind, 237 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:21.159 and that's what they chose to name the Saving of Japan. 238 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:25.720 In Japan's mind, the Mongols were coming to rape and murder, 239 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:27.759 and of course, because it's the Mongols, they were most 240 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:31.879 definitely coming to rape and murder. This gigantic, unstoppable army 241 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:35.840 showed up and the divine wind stepped in to save Japan. 242 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:41.279 But wait, there's more, and we have to understand this 243 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:43.480 part before we get to the World War II part. 244 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:49.120 It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, wonderful Monday. 245 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:51.759 Remember you can email this show love, hey, death threats, 246 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:56.480 whatever you would like. Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. 247 00:16:56.480 --> 00:17:01.720 Currently telling the history of the Japanese Kama Kazi WW two. 248 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:04.200 Don't worry if you just got here, we haven't even 249 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:08.200 gotten to that yet. We talked about the Japanese affection 250 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:11.480 for their homeland, a religious connection to their homeland, a 251 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:15.839 willingness to die, dying in service of that is honored. 252 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:18.880 And we just talked about the Mongolian invasion. They showed 253 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:22.839 up on the shore, they fight this huge battle, they 254 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:25.640 get a foothold. Oh, we're about to be conquered and 255 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:27.839 murdered and raped and everything's going to end. And then 256 00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:32.920 a typhoon comes in and wipes out the army. Wow, 257 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:37.680 if you are already primed to believe that there is 258 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:43.480 a religious sacredness to your homeland, that your homeland provides 259 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:46.759 protection to you and your family, and then a typhoon 260 00:17:46.839 --> 00:17:50.680 wipes out the invading Mongols. What do you think that 261 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:55.400 does for that belief system? It pretty much confirms it 262 00:17:55.440 --> 00:17:59.799 to you. Now, wait, there's more a lot of people 263 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:05.559 I've heard of the failed Mongolian invasion because a typhoon 264 00:18:05.720 --> 00:18:10.880 came in and wiped out the army. But what most 265 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:18.960 people don't know it happened twice. You see, after the 266 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:22.319 Mongols got wiped out by a typhoon. Again, I want 267 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:24.920 you to put yourself in the mind of the Japanese. 268 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:28.839 The Mongols got wiped out by a typhoon. Kublai Khan 269 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:33.079 then decides, Okay, the army got wiped out by a typhoon. 270 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:37.119 That's some bad luck. Clearly, maybe I've bit off more 271 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:40.920 than I can chew here. Anyway, let's just make a 272 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:47.240 deal instead. So Kublai Khan the Mongol he sends emissaries 273 00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:51.200 over to Japan instead of sending an army. He sends 274 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:54.920 over some diplomats. Essentially, he sends over US Scott Descent 275 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:59.200 and Howard Lutnik. He just sends over some diplomats. Diplomats 276 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:03.640 show up hat in hand. Hey, all that fighting stuff. 277 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:07.640 Let's let bygones be bygones. Shall we Let's make a deal, 278 00:19:08.359 --> 00:19:14.640 only the Japanese cut their heads off. The Japanese were 279 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:19.119 not the most forgiving people, especially when you just tried 280 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:23.519 to conquer their homeland. Enemies tend to be enemies for life. 281 00:19:24.119 --> 00:19:28.519 Plus they were a very very very closed off society 282 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:31.079 by now. They really wanted to keep them themselves. You 283 00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:33.200 can say that's good or bad. They just wanted to 284 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:36.359 do their own thing. You just tried to conquer them. 285 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:40.119 The Japanese took the emissaries and they cut off their heads. 286 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:45.400 Uh that you did not do to a Mongolian emissary. 287 00:19:46.279 --> 00:19:50.200 You remember the stories of Genghis Khan melting down silver 288 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:53.319 and pouring it down the throat of a governor. He 289 00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:56.640 did that because the governor killed his emissaries. You remember 290 00:19:56.680 --> 00:20:00.839 the story of Genghis Khan and his Mongols. Some Russian 291 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:05.759 princes killed his emissaries. He took over the town and 292 00:20:05.839 --> 00:20:09.960 built a wooden platform on top of those princes and 293 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:15.880 they had a victory dinner, suffocating suffocating the princes underneath 294 00:20:15.880 --> 00:20:19.279 the platform sitting there, eating, drinking and being merry while 295 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:22.839 everyone was dying. You really, really really didn't want to 296 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:26.160 touch a hair on a mongol emissaries head. So when 297 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:30.119 Japan cuts offset head, you know, Kublai Khan is not 298 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:33.039 going to receive the news all that well. He gets 299 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:35.920 the news, does not receive the news that well. And 300 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:39.400 he promptly remember I said it was forty thousand Mongolians before, 301 00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:44.839 promptly raises an army of one hundred thousand Mongolians, over 302 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:48.880 twice the size, over twice the size of the fleet, 303 00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:52.519 and he goes a sailing again. This is about six 304 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:56.359 seven years later, After about six seven years after the 305 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:01.519 first one, the Mongolian army returns. The Japanese wake up, 306 00:21:02.599 --> 00:21:08.680 the fighting begins again, and I kid you not, another 307 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:14.839 typhoon comes in and wipes the Mongolian army off the sea. 308 00:21:16.680 --> 00:21:20.720 Remember that Japanese person, the Japanese religious belief, the Japanese 309 00:21:20.759 --> 00:21:24.559 connection to their land. How strong do you think that 310 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:29.680 connection is? Now? When the divine wind the kamikaze just 311 00:21:29.799 --> 00:21:33.440 swept the Mongols off the sea twice in less than 312 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:38.200 a decade. If you are a Japanese person, you think, ah, 313 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:42.599 we have like a force field around us here, a 314 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:47.480 divine wind. Now. I brought up that story because the 315 00:21:47.559 --> 00:21:51.160 Japanese brought up that story, and still due to this day, 316 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:54.319 I should note, but since that time, that was the 317 00:21:54.359 --> 00:21:59.880 twelve hundreds, children were taught this. It had a religious 318 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:06.079 reference there. It was a powerful story. The divine wind 319 00:22:06.279 --> 00:22:10.400 came and saved us. The Japanese people saved our homeland, 320 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:15.519 saved our island. When our island is under threat, the 321 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:20.720 divine wind will show up and save us. Now pause 322 00:22:20.799 --> 00:22:24.880 on that. It's important to understand that history. Let's talk 323 00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:29.759 about World War II a kind of from a Japanese perspective, 324 00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:32.079 because that's going to be important for our purposes here. 325 00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:37.960 Pearl Harbor, you know about obviously, Japan. Prior to Pearl Harbor, 326 00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:43.039 before Hitler started invading Poland and things like that, Japan 327 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:47.920 was expanding. They had already invaded Manchuria, they'd invaded China. 328 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:50.640 Japan was fighting World War two before anyone else was 329 00:22:50.640 --> 00:22:55.000 fighting World War two. And Japan had a plan that 330 00:22:55.119 --> 00:22:59.880 rhyme Chris, Japan had a plan. The plan was, we're 331 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:03.400 stuck on this island. We have now modernized. We have 332 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:06.599 a modern military, a modern navy, we have a modern economy, 333 00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:10.079 we have modernized our society. We are no longer in 334 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:13.000 danger of being conquered. We don't want to be colonized. 335 00:23:13.480 --> 00:23:18.400 But the problem is, it takes stuff to run a 336 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:21.960 modern economy or a modern military. It just does. I 337 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:24.079 have said many times before, I'll say it to you 338 00:23:24.119 --> 00:23:29.720 again now. One of the unbelievable blessings about America is 339 00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:32.559 not just the size of our land mass, not just 340 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:34.359 that we have an ocean to our left and an 341 00:23:34.359 --> 00:23:37.640 ocean to our right, east and west. We have so 342 00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:43.960 much stuff here, so many resources here. Yes, we do 343 00:23:44.039 --> 00:23:46.000 want to do trade, there's no question about that. You 344 00:23:46.039 --> 00:23:48.200 want to trade with other countries. But we really don't 345 00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:51.000 have to. We could just seal off the border, keep 346 00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:54.119 all our goods in here and be more than fine. 347 00:23:54.400 --> 00:23:59.000 We have so much stuff. Japan doesn't have any stuff nothing, 348 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:02.880 not only an island country. They just don't have resources. 349 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:05.759 They don't have steel, they don't have oil, they don't 350 00:24:05.799 --> 00:24:10.359 have stuff. Into the Japanese government, they decided, well, we 351 00:24:10.440 --> 00:24:13.799 better go get someone else's stuff. If we have a 352 00:24:13.839 --> 00:24:17.039 modern military now, if we have a modern economy now, 353 00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:19.960 and we're gonna run out of stuff, we better go 354 00:24:20.200 --> 00:24:24.880 grab what we want. We better go conquer. And they began, 355 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:29.440 they began to conquer China. Now America, this is good. 356 00:24:29.640 --> 00:24:31.960 This goes beyond America. It's all the Allies, but I'm 357 00:24:31.960 --> 00:24:35.839 just gonna make it about America. America. They didn't want 358 00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:39.400 Japan in China. We had best, we had interests in China, 359 00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:42.279 we had things, and we started leaning on the Japanese. 360 00:24:42.680 --> 00:24:46.640 Hey back off, Hey, back off, Hey, get out of China, 361 00:24:46.680 --> 00:24:49.640 Get out of China, Get out of China. Well, Japan 362 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:52.640 has a completely different national interest at this time. They 363 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:54.920 don't want to get out of China. In fact, they 364 00:24:54.960 --> 00:24:59.240 want more than just China. Their intention is to take 365 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:02.839 their modern mi military. They're very capable fighting for US, 366 00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:07.440 very capable navy, and they want to conquer so much 367 00:25:07.640 --> 00:25:09.960 over there in East Age. If you look at Japan, 368 00:25:10.519 --> 00:25:14.799 just make a gigantic ring, a big circle around it, 369 00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:17.680 including the Philippines. We'll come back to that. They want 370 00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:20.559 to make a big ring around it and conquer all 371 00:25:20.599 --> 00:25:23.799 of it. So they, just like us here in America, 372 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:28.400 have all the stuff they need. America throws such a 373 00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:31.440 fit about this. We cut off their oil, we're cutting 374 00:25:31.519 --> 00:25:37.000 off their steel. Japan makes the worst strategic decision in 375 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:39.759 military history. I don't know that that can even honestly 376 00:25:39.799 --> 00:25:43.480 be argued. They're going to attack Pearl Harbor. We'll touch 377 00:25:43.480 --> 00:25:47.200 on that quickly when we get back. Before we do that, 378 00:25:47.720 --> 00:25:52.000 let's make sure we have our dogs for as long 379 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:57.200 as possible. It is a Jesse Kelly's Show. Final segment 380 00:25:57.240 --> 00:26:00.880 of The Jesse Kelly Show on a while Wednesday, A 381 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:03.880 Blast of a Wednesday. I know, I know you're I 382 00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:05.920 know what you're already saying. You probably already said it. 383 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:10.000 There's no way he's gonna finish this tonight as far 384 00:26:10.079 --> 00:26:12.960 as the history program goes. You're right, I'm not. I'm 385 00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:17.359 gonna do it again tomorrow. Okay, start of hour three tomorrow. 386 00:26:17.680 --> 00:26:21.839 Wherever we leave off tonight, I am going to continue 387 00:26:21.880 --> 00:26:25.680 on with the history of the Japanese Kamakazis. The background 388 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:28.759 is really, really, really important. Okay, So we have to 389 00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:33.359 go through all this stuff. Pearl Harbor happens. Japan is expanding. 390 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:36.480 They seize control of all these places. Remember draw that 391 00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:41.200 big ring around Japan. They seize control of Manchuria, they 392 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:45.519 have the Philippines, they have Wake Island, they Guam. They 393 00:26:45.599 --> 00:26:49.880 just grab control of this big bunch of islands and 394 00:26:50.039 --> 00:26:54.839 mainland stuff all around Japan. And the idea behind Pearl 395 00:26:54.839 --> 00:26:58.039 Harbor stupid and suicidal as it was, was not to 396 00:26:58.079 --> 00:27:02.079 defeat America. That's that's false history. Whoever told you that 397 00:27:02.119 --> 00:27:05.559 they were just trying to slow us down. The idea 398 00:27:05.599 --> 00:27:10.440 was slow down their navy, essentially, take out their Pacific fleet, 399 00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:17.039 grab control of these areas. Then dig in as fast 400 00:27:17.079 --> 00:27:19.839 as you can dig in because you know the Americans 401 00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:21.960