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CLASSIC: The Korean Soldier Who Fought for 3 Armies During WWII · Ridiculous History

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  Speaker 1: Ridiculous Historians. We are returning to you from far far
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  Speaker 1: away with a classic episode that we think you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: really dig. We've got a lot of veterans in the crowd,
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  Speaker 1: and usually if you're a veteran, you fight for just
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  Speaker 1: one army. And then there's this other guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're talking about Yang kyung Chong, who didn't really
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  Speaker 2: set out to become a soldier, but the wheel of
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  Speaker 2: fate had other plans.
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  Speaker 1: And we hope you join us in this episode from
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, where wherein we follow the travels of one
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  Speaker 1: remarkable man through prisons, battlefields, and a gripping, harrowing experience
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  Speaker 1: that ultimately leads to him fighting for not just one army,
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  Speaker 1: but three armies during World War Two.
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  Speaker 2: Let's roll It.
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  Speaker 1: a very down note, but we promise we will get
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  Speaker 1: to a good note by the end of today's episode.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the downside. World War Two was the most dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: deadliest military conflict in human history in absolute terms of
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  Speaker 1: people that died. Over sixty million people were killed, and
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  Speaker 1: that was about three percent of the world population at
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  Speaker 1: the time.
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  Speaker 1: That's terrible. That's terrible, But that is the context in
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  Speaker 1: which we find today's very strange story.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe chok full and Nazis is already a
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  Speaker 2: thing so good?
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  Speaker 1: Is it just the assonance or what is it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, now, there's a coffee brand called chock full of Nuts.
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  Speaker 1: M h.
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  Speaker 2: So when you said chock full and Nazis, that's just
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  Speaker 2: that's what I picture, is like a can of coffee
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  Speaker 2: with like swastikas on him.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I see, I see.
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  Speaker 2: Levels we're not entirely bsing here. The Nazis do come
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  Speaker 2: into play in today's story, but that's not where it begins. No,
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  Speaker 2: it begins in Manchuria.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, Noel, it begins in Manchuria. In nineteen thirty eight.
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  Speaker 1: There's a young man whose name we were probably not
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  Speaker 1: going to pronounce correctly spoiler alert, because we are not Korean.
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  Speaker 1: His name is Yang kyong Jong.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so solid man, We'll see, we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: He was eighteen years old in Manchuria and he was
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  Speaker 1: conscripted by the Perial Japanese Army to fight against the
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  Speaker 1: Soviet Union.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. In this little known at least to me, and
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  Speaker 2: I think you were maybe tangentially aware of it. But
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  Speaker 2: a conflict called a couple of different things. The Russians
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  Speaker 2: referred to it as the Battle of Kulkan Gaul, and
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  Speaker 2: then the Japanese side referred to it as something else.
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  Speaker 1: The Nomenhan incident.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, Yeah, what was the incident? What was
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  Speaker 2: the beef?
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  Speaker 1: Well, first, I want to point out that the Battle
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  Speaker 1: of Kulkan Goal sounds like a spin off of a
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  Speaker 1: Tolkien book, you know what.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Yeah, like something from Doune.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why for the title alone, I'm going with
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  Speaker 1: the Russian side on this one. But it was a
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  Speaker 1: series of conflicts, as you said, that were undeclared between
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  Speaker 1: the Soviet and Japanese forces do entirely disagreements about borders,
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  Speaker 1: and they were fought along the Soviet Union, Mongolia, Japan
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  Speaker 1: and Manchuko from lake across the year in nineteen thirty nine.
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  Speaker 1: And this this mainly happened because these two forces were
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  Speaker 1: attempting to expand their territory and their reach. The Japanese
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  Speaker 1: forces maintained that the border between Manchuko and Mongolia was
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  Speaker 1: this river, the Kalkan Gol or in English, the Calca River,
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  Speaker 1: which flows into Lake Ur. But the Mongolians, who were
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  Speaker 1: allied with the Soviet forces, said that the border was
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  Speaker 1: actually sixteen kilometers or almost ten miles east of the river,
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  Speaker 1: just east of the No Monhan village.
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  Speaker 2: And this wasn't just a little scrap, my friend. Upwards
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  Speaker 2: of fifty thousand men, or as Cotton Flynn would say,
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  Speaker 2: fifty thousand men were killed. No small potatoes, man. But
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  Speaker 2: you know who wasn't killed is are the hero. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna call him the hero because I think he's a
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  Speaker 2: total hero.
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  Speaker 1: He's the protagonist for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was not killed, thankfully. He was in fact
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  Speaker 2: captured by the Russians and sent to a labor camp,
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  Speaker 2: and then he was drafted into the Russian Army.
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  Speaker 1: And there are two reasons for this. So when he
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  Speaker 1: was originally conscripted by the Imperial Japanese Army, he became
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  Speaker 1: part of a pretty hardcore fighting force called the Kwantung Army.
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  Speaker 1: This was the largest and most prestigious command in the
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  Speaker 1: Japanese Army, so he already had some experience right as
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  Speaker 1: an unwilling soldier. And the second factor that led to
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  Speaker 1: his conscription again, his second conscription was that the Soviet
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  Speaker 1: Union had a terrible, terrible, terrible problem with manpower.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah they were short staffed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that barely even begins to cover it. They were
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  Speaker 1: so desperate, in fact, that they were taking anyone, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so they can scripted this guy, do you want to
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  Speaker 1: stay in a gulag? Or do you want to fight
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  Speaker 1: for the glory of Mother Russia? Yeah? Sure, easy, easy,
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  Speaker 1: easy call. Have you ever been in a gulag?
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't sound nice?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you get it. So they were forcing anyone they
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  Speaker 1: could find to join up with the Soviet military. And
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  Speaker 1: young does this for what about a year?
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  Speaker 2: Noel, right, because you see, this was right on the
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  Speaker 2: cusp of a little little scrap we like to call
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  Speaker 2: World War Two. The previous episode, we talked about the
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  Speaker 2: Nazis use of soccer, American soccer football as a propaganda tool.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about this idea of appeasement and how the
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  Speaker 2: Allies kind of kept Latin Hitler do his thing, Latin
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  Speaker 2: to do his thing is he's gonna be fine, he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna chill out. Finally he invades Poland and that's just
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  Speaker 2: a bridge too far. And then here.
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  Speaker 1: We are, right, because you're in the Pacific and Eurasian theater,
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  Speaker 1: or even before the wars breaking out, we see these tensions,
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  Speaker 1: these undeclared conflicts ratcheting up, and Yang is caught in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of it. So, just to keep track, he
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  Speaker 1: was not Japanese, but he got drafted to the Japanese Army,
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  Speaker 1: he got captured, and then he got drafted to the
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  Speaker 1: Russian Army, and he in nineteen forty two, who was
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  Speaker 1: fighting in what they called the Red Army, he was
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  Speaker 1: sent to the Eastern Front of Europe, was there for
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  Speaker 1: a year, but then in nineteen forty three, during the
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  Speaker 1: Third Battle of Karkhov, he gets captured by Wehrmont soldiers,
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  Speaker 1: by German soldiers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. They were called the Ost Battalion, which
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  Speaker 2: means East Battalion. Great article on not the most creative
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  Speaker 2: website name but rare historical photos dot com has more
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  Speaker 2: than a photo. It's got a real nice photo of
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  Speaker 2: who we think this young man was. And it's very
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  Speaker 2: intense because he just has a real, real hangdog look
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  Speaker 2: on his face, and he's so young, he's so young,
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  Speaker 2: and the kid, the kid next to him, it looks
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  Speaker 2: even younger. He looks like he's like fifteen. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: So but yeah, there's some good information on the site.
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  Speaker 2: I recommend checking it out. It's's called Young Kyung jong,
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  Speaker 2: the only known soldier to have fought on three sides
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  Speaker 2: of a war in nineteen forty four. Spoilers, right, what
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  Speaker 2: side he was next? What was the what side came next? Then?
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  Speaker 1: So after he is captured by the Germans side, they
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  Speaker 1: first off, they apparently don't bother with asking him how
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  Speaker 1: he came to end up fighting in Ukraine for the Soviets. Right,
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  Speaker 1: It's very likely that had circumstances been different, he would
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  Speaker 1: have been executed, right, because the Nazis at this time
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  Speaker 1: were not in the habit of allowing prisoners to volunteer
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  Speaker 1: to serve in the army.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and she weren't they down with that whole white
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  Speaker 2: supremacist master race thing. Hmmm, and they want to keep
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  Speaker 2: it pure.
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  Speaker 1: Well in this At this point in the conflict, they
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  Speaker 1: were willing to take almost anyone who would throw in
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  Speaker 1: for the cause, just another body to put in front
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  Speaker 1: of the bullets, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But they weren't like lou They weren't getting their asses
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  Speaker 2: handed to them at this point. Yeah, this is just
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the war, they were still quite strong.
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  Speaker 1: Right, but an experienced soldier is still an asset, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: And so because they had fallen into the habit of
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  Speaker 1: allowing again air quotes, allowing people to air quotes volunteer
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  Speaker 1: for this, Yang was conscripted to fight and that East
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  Speaker 1: Battalion or how.
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  Speaker 2: Do you say it, no ost Battalion.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect, thank you, man in the seven hundred and nine
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  Speaker 1: Infantry Division of the Vermont. And these battalions were small
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  Speaker 1: groups of men that were all volunteers quote unquote, volunteers
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  Speaker 1: from the different regions of Europe that the Nazi regime controlled.
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  Speaker 1: They were folded into larger units of German soldiers to
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  Speaker 1: serve as shock troops and back up to more experienced battalions.
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  Speaker 1: You can find this right up to on todayifound out
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  Speaker 1: dot com by Carl Smallwood site. Yeah, I've been digging
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  Speaker 1: it as well, highly recommended. We don't know who they are,
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  Speaker 1: we just think they do fun stuff. So there he is.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's in this other army. What happens next?
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  Speaker 2: So now he's gonna fight for his Reich to party, huh,
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  Speaker 2: I'll allow it. Thank you, Ben, You're very kind in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen forty four. He gets sent to France where he's
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  Speaker 2: going to join the wire marks Host battalion, and there
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  Speaker 2: are tons of Soviet prisoners, much the same way that
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  Speaker 2: he was conscripted by the Japanese. Very similar deal. Right,
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  Speaker 2: it becomes kind of like slave labor, right, or like
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  Speaker 2: slave soldiers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not forced. He's saying join or die, maybe
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  Speaker 1: as explicitly but seems implied. But yeah, to quote Dennis
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  Speaker 1: Reynolds from It's Always sunny in Philadelphia, there's the implication.
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  Speaker 1: So we have to admit it's not as if this
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  Speaker 1: kid was just rare and to go for war. He
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  Speaker 1: was trying to stay alive and had done it successfully.
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  Speaker 1: So he goes to this cotinin peninsula in France, shortly
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  Speaker 1: before the Allies attempt to storm the beaches in an
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  Speaker 1: historical event known today as today Today. That's right d Day,
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  Speaker 1: where the Allied troops are storming the beaches at France.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen it depicted in so many war films here
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  Speaker 1: in the West. Well, it turns out this kid is
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  Speaker 1: on the other side, the Axis side, and he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to prevent the Allies from storming the beaches.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's defending it on behalf of the Nazis, and
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  Speaker 2: he he gets captured again.
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  Speaker 1: He gets captured again. I can tell you quick aside.
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  Speaker 2: Just something I learned from today I found out dot
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  Speaker 2: com was that the actor who played Scottie on Star Trek,
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  Speaker 2: his name's James Douhan. He was among the Canadian soldiers
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  Speaker 2: who stormed the beach at Normandy and he got shot
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  Speaker 2: six times. Believe he lost a finger, got shot through
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  Speaker 2: the hand, several shots in the leg, and one in
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  Speaker 2: the chest. That would have ended his life if it
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  Speaker 2: hadn't a been for this age old movie trope. What
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  Speaker 2: do you think it was, ben age old movie trope?
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  Speaker 2: What saved his life?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Was it a Bible? Was it a flask?
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  Speaker 2: Cigarette case?
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  Speaker 1: It was a cigarette cass?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So I just I love that because it's such
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  Speaker 2: a trope, and it's a trope because gosh darn it
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  Speaker 2: that it happens.
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  Speaker 1: So the Germans eventually get overrun. This is not all
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  Speaker 1: entirely US propaganda. It really does happen. The German are
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  Speaker 1: eventually getting overrun by the Allies, and this time Yang
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  Speaker 1: is captured again, but this time by the Americans and
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  Speaker 1: Kid can't catch a break, his kid, Can I catch
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  Speaker 1: a break? Or maybe he's catching all the breaks. It's
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's an interesting question. It's kind of a
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  Speaker 1: half full, half empty glass thing.
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  Speaker 2: Right, It's a very Forest Gumpian kind of situation. He's
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  Speaker 2: still alive, right, He's alive.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, So that's that is I think the
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  Speaker 1: probably his number one priority at that point. But there's
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  Speaker 1: a wrinkle. There's a problem here. When he's captured. He
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  Speaker 1: can't speak German, he can't speak English. The officers who
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  Speaker 1: originally found him and captured him, among them, there was
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  Speaker 1: Lieutenant Robert Brewer of the five h sixth Parachute Infantry Regiment,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred first Airborne and he thought that this guy
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  Speaker 1: was a Japanese soldier in a German uniform. And he reported,
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  Speaker 1: somewhat puzzled that regiment had captured four Asian people in
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  Speaker 1: German uniform and that no one could talk to them,
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  Speaker 1: and so they just sent them to a pow camp
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  Speaker 1: in England.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, and I believe they were ethnic Georgians, isn't that right?
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  Speaker 1: Right? Yeah, that's that's the current. That's the current debate,
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  Speaker 1: because you could see how someone from the West without
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  Speaker 1: experience in this part of the world or these cultures
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  Speaker 1: might just quickly categorize them, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: totally and and it's like there are there's only one
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  Speaker 1: type of person that I could think of who would
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  Speaker 1: be here and looks like this, they must be Japanese.
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  Speaker 1: Take them away, book them, dan oh oh.
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  Speaker 2: I actually have it here as that they were from Turkestan.
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  Speaker 1: Turkestan, okay, so still in Eurasia because I found I
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  Speaker 1: found that they were from Georgian descent.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting, Yeah, there's there's not This is kind of a
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  Speaker 2: murky story. It's a it's a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 2: of hearsay, and not much as known about this young
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  Speaker 2: man's life prior to, you know, being conscripted into the
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  Speaker 2: Japanese army. Little but what is known is that he
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  Speaker 2: didn't stick around after the war ended, he alorady didn't
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  Speaker 2: go back home either. He went to America.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was transferred to a prison camp in the US,
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  Speaker 1: and then he was released from captivity in nineteen forty
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  Speaker 1: seven and he said, you know what, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: stay here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, land of opportunity and all that.
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  Speaker 1: He moved to Illinois and lived there. Cool yeah, and.
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  Speaker 2: That's where out the county, right, Yeah, which is is
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  Speaker 2: that Chicago area?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, Chicago area. And again I don't I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you've found anything on this, but I found
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  Speaker 1: that his life gets murky again. He sort of falls
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  Speaker 1: from the historical record.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where the story ends, at least as far
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  Speaker 2: as rare historical photos is concerned. They say that they
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  Speaker 2: found that he quietly passed away in nineteen ninety two,
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  Speaker 2: but there's really not much information about what he did
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  Speaker 2: with the rest of his life. But man, you look
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  Speaker 2: at the picture of what who was supposedly this young dude.
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  Speaker 2: He has seen some.
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  Speaker 1: He's got that thousand league stare so common with people
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  Speaker 1: who have experienced PTSD or traumatic events. But there's a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a fictional side to this that he
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  Speaker 1: would have enjoyed had he gotten the chance to experience it.
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  Speaker 1: There was a film made about his journey called My
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  Speaker 1: Way in two thousand and eleven, and it's entirely based
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  Speaker 1: on Yang Kyong Jong's I don't want to say adventures, nol.
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  Speaker 1: His experience is hopping from one army to another all
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  Speaker 1: the way to Illinois. Can you imagine the stories this
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  Speaker 1: guy must have Nope? Can you also? Also? Additionally, could
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  Speaker 1: you imagine going to see a movie that was inspired
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  Speaker 1: by true events in your life? Would you do it
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  Speaker 1: or would you want to skip it?
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  Speaker 2: Like go see my movie? Yeah, I think it'd be cool.
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  Speaker 1: I think it depends on who plays like I would
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  Speaker 1: want to know who played me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I would obviously have final say on that.
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  Speaker 1: I think we have to.
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  Speaker 2: This came up on movie Crush, the mini crushes that
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I do with our buddy Chuck from Stuff You Should Know.
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  Speaker 2: A listener asked who we would get to play ourselves
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  Speaker 2: in our movie. Chuck said he would get Jack Black
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  Speaker 2: to play him. Cool, I said, I want Bradley Cooper
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  Speaker 2: to play me, and I want him to really do
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  Speaker 2: some acting, man, you know, put on some pounds, you know,
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  Speaker 2: do the work. Put in the work. Bradley Cooper, I
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: want to see your chops.
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  Speaker 1: Nevermond say, hey, let me know who you would want
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  Speaker 1: to play you in a film adaptation of your life
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  Speaker 1: or a really interesting story in your life. I always
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  Speaker 1: think that's an interesting question. I've never I've never saw anyone.
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  Speaker 1: I would just play myself. There's the technology where I
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: could play the young.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have the time, man, Well, you got too
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: much going on.
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  Speaker 1: We'll make the time. We'll make the time. I'll do
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  Speaker 1: it animated.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Well, speaking of making time, why don't we make a
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  Speaker 2: little time for some listener mail?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, listen to mail. I'm not gonna do that voice
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  Speaker 1: the whole time. But we do want to say thank
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: you to Aaron who wrote to us on Facebook and said,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: wasn't there talk about you guys having some ridiculous history
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  Speaker 1: T shirts made? Is this actually in the works? And
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: then while we're in the thread, I asked you, if
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: you were on ridiculous Historians to suggest some cool T
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  Speaker 1: shirt ideas, and I'd like to No, I'd like to
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: just laundry list a few of these. Did you see this? No?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't surprise me.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So Aaron says, didn't you guys throw out
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the idea for a squatched T shirt using sasquatch as
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  Speaker 1: a verb. I think it's a home run. You got
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  Speaker 1: squatched son, Yeah, And then Oliver says a bear with
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  Speaker 1: super dilated pupils holding a honey jar with skull and
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  Speaker 1: crossbones for hallucinogenic honey, and then all caps for sure,
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  Speaker 1: Napoleon getting attacked by rabbits.
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  Speaker 2: I love all of these.
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  Speaker 1: These are great, these these folks are you guys are
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: knocking it out of the park. And then we've had
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: people go through and list things that they thought were
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  Speaker 1: T shirt worthies, such as the West Point eggnog Riot,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: the gold Rush egg War, Harvey Wiley's poison Squad. The
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  Speaker 1: list goes on. So thank you to everybody who wrote
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: in it, and please feel free to jump on that
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  Speaker 1: thread and give us more of your suggestions. Hashtag poison squad,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: poison squad.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I got one here. Subject is yeah, my ears
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: are happy.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I know this one.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. So our buddy Jacob w had written to
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: us previously to alert us to the fact that we
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: mispronounced a word that particularly triggered him and sent him
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: into a blind rage. But thankfully he seems to chilled out.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Portmanteau pronounced correctly. And I know it was me Man,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: It was me, I said port Man too. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know why I know how to pronounce it. I just
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: got caught up in the moment.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, you're beating yourself up, he says.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it was my pedantry in the
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: message it was I sent you all from your site,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: or if there were more of us bothered by that
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: little detail. Either way, it shows that you do listen,
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  Speaker 2: we do, and you're willing to change. We are sometimes
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: admirable traits my boys. That was my interjection to my boys,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: keep up the good work.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for writing in. This concludes
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: our listener mail, but not our show. Tune in for
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: our next episode, when we look at the vital role
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: potatoes played in World War Two. In the meantime, you
• 22:53
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• 22:56
  Speaker 1: you can find us on Twitter. You can summon us
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: at a crossroads at midnight say our names three times
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: into an unlip mirror.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: No, that's for the other show.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean that's how I get around. Okay, cool, Yeah.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: You do you my man. And hey, we totally forgot
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: to give our thankes on the last episode because we
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: were so taken by Robert Evans's glorious extra credit segment.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: So literally, nothing we can do about the past, but
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: we are now in the present, at which time I
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: would like to thank We would like to thank super
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: producer Casey Pegram Alex Williams, who composed our theme.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Our researchers eve's Jeff Coate and Christopher Hasiotis as well
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  Speaker 1: of course, as you. Thanks so much for tuning.
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