July 28, 2025 • 37 mins
Kamikaze Pilots Part 1. The Japanese belief that Japan is land that is protected by god.
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So every now and then, Look, I love history. I'm
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I spent like eight hours yesterday kind of putting the
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Needed to be to kind of lay out the story.
And now we're about to lay out the story. I'm
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This hour If I don't, we will do it again
tomorrow in this hour. Okay, we've had them go three
days before. I don't know that. I don't think this
one will, but I don't know. I don't know till
I start. Okay. So we are about to tell the
story of the Kama Kazis, the Japanese Coma Kazis from
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World War Two. Now, before we get going, and I'm
gonna go do all kinds of background on it and
history stuff and things like that. Before we get going,
let me ask you something really, asking what is suicide? Okay?
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Jewish producer Chris already jumped in and said, what do
you mean? Okay, So if you take a plane, a
fighter plane, and you intentionally fly it into a ship,
I think you would agree that that is suicide. Right, Okay,
it's very fair. Let me ask you. You're in a
fighting hole. You're a marine on Ewo Jima. You're in
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a fighting hole with your buddy, and one of the
Japanese troops throws a grenade inside of the fighting hole.
You look at the grenade and you throw yourself on
top of it. Is that suicide? Not quite as simple, now,
is it, Chris? Is that suicide. Okay, all right, let's
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do it. Let's do one more, just one more. Let's
say your wife or husband, if you're a woman, your wife,
your mom, your dad, your family, every person in your
family who you love, they're all in a house that's
right behind you. You're on the sidewalk. They're all in
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the house. Right behind you. Standing in front of you
is a seven foot muscle bound man with an axe
in each hand, and he is walking towards that house
to kill, name, rape, and torture everyone in the house.
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You are standing there unarmed. Are you going to attack him?
Chris says yes. I would say yes as well. I
think everyone would say yes, that's your family. Okay, you're
gonna die the seven foot guy with an ass couple
of them? Is that suicide? All right? Now, just keep
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those questions in the back of your mind and we'll
do some background here and then we'll discuss the actual
Kama cozies, what they did, why they did it. We're
going to do this very honestly as usual. Some history
when we do it may offend if it does, just
like the regular show, I don't care. If you're offended.
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You can email me all you want. But it's not
going to bother me at all. Your offense is your choice.
I don't care about that. We don't do We do
honest history here from every side. We do honest history.
So let's background this quite a bit first. In this
part is going to be very very important for our purposes.
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We need to understand two things, two huge, huge things
about Japan that will matter a lot, and I mean
a lot. The first one of those things is a
I'm going to use the word celebration. That's probably not
the right word, but everything I read on it sure
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looks like that a celebration of death, A celebration of death,
a different view of death than Westerners have than I have,
probably than you have. One of their emperors, one of
their emperors actually has a quote, maybe you've heard this
quote before, that duty is as heavy as a mountain,
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but death is as light as a feather. Now, that
may just sound like one statement that was preached to
the Japanese people, and most definitely the Japanese military. You know,
some of the first training you got in the Japanese
military back then. I've read several different sources. Some said
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it was one of the many said it was The
first was not how to kill, not how to march,
not how to run, not how to do pushups, how
to die? How do you die? What's the best way
to die? Dying in service to your country, in service
to your emperor was not frowned upon. In fact, whatever
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the opposite is are frowned upon. That's what it was.
It was lionized to the point of worship. The Kama
Kazi pilots were going to discuss, and Kama Kazi submarine
guys in Kamakazi boats and Kamakazi torpedoes. There were all
kinds of different kinds, and we'll get into that a
little bit. But the Kami Kazi guys we're going to
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discuss here. Their names weren't carried around back home of Hey,
did you hear what? Gosh? Do you hear what Bob did?
Flu was playing into a boat, so sad? Why do that?
No Bob's name? There was a special shrine area set up,
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and not only would Bob's name be part of this
special shrine area, people would show up and say, look
at that guy. He gave his life for the emperor,
he gave his life for Japan. Wow, I want to
be like Bob understand there is a different relationship with
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death the way they view it there. And I said
there were two things, here's the second thing, and they
kind of tie it together. You remember we went to
Israel as a show. We did that big promotion thing
and I don't remember how many of us, to two
hundred of us, something like that, to three hundred of
us The Jesse Kelly Show family made Jewish producer Chris
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Corey wasn't with us then, but me, Chris, my parents,
my wife, my sister, kids, and you when your kids.
We all went over to Israel. Now, I'd never been
to Israel, but it was it is a holy land tour.
And I'm not one who gets sentimental about places that much.
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A little bit, a little bit, but not much. But
I will tell you.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
For me, in my belief system, being on a boat
on the Sea of Galilee was powerful.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
It was powerful. It meant something to me to this day.
If you told me, hey, Israeli governments there, they're making
some moves and they're draining the Sea of Galilee. Did
that hurt?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Walking walking into Hey, this is the place where we're
reasonably sure Jesus carried the cross when he was bleeding
and tortured. It hit me that that place hit me.
Oh my gosh, I had to take a knee, say
a prayer with my dad.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Hit me.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Now, there is something about having a religious connection to
a certain spot of land. And the reason I brought
up Israel was I've lived all over and I've liked
a lot of places and liked this house or like
that condo, but never there's not another spot on earth
where I would where I would feel like I have
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a religious connection to the ground. We're talking about Japan,
back in this time and still to this day, but
back in this time they very much do Japan. For
the Japanese people at this time and for most of
their history, it's not just a string of islands where
they ended up.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It's so much more than that. It is their home.
There is a spiritual connection to them. And this was
obvious from all the writings, all the things I've read
on it. Spiritual connection there. That is the best comparison
I can make, is the one I just did. Wow,
that's where Jesus was carrying the cross like that is
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the best connection I can make. This is the Sea
of Galilee. The disciples are, That's the best connection I
can make ate an actual religious connection to the land
that is beyond physical. It gets to a spiritual realm.
All right, Now that we got those two things out
of the way, let's talk about the origins of Kamakazie next.
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Day the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse Kelly
Show on a wonderful Monday. If you just joined us,
you just joined us at the beginning, after the beginning
of a history story on the Japanese Kama Kazi and
this will probably undoubtedly last us the rest of this show, possibly.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Into hour three as well tomorrow. I gave you a
little bit of a background of the Japanese people their
religious connection to their homeland. And there I'm not gonna
say in affinity for dying, because that is not true
at all, and we'll find that as we get deeper
into this, but dying for your country, your emperor, your
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whatever is honored extremely so over there. And we will
go into some of the propaganda that that they went into.
But for now, that was kind of the Japanese people
in their connection. We have to go over the long, long,
long background hundreds of years ago. Not because I think
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it is important to the Kamakazi story. And actually not
because this is where they got the term Kamakazi from,
but because the Japanese people and most definitely the young men,
the Japanese military men, they thought this event was hugely important.
So here's the event you know about. Genghis Khan and
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the Mongols. Just always think that the twelve hundreds, that
was when the Mongols were they were wiping out everybody, everybody.
In my opinion, this is an opinion part. I think
the Mongol army is unquestionably the greatest army of all time.
I don't think there's a close second. And I say
that because they just blew through the other great armies
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like they weren't anything. I realized there was some heavy fighting,
but they just stormed through everybody. Oh European knights, hah, Oh,
the Muslim Empire of the Middle East. That's hilarious. They
just destroyed everybody. Now, Genghis Khan is dead by this time,
but his grandson, I believe grandson, Kublai Khan is not dead.
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He is still the Khan. He's the Mongol king. Essentially,
he is the Mongol king, and by now it's the
twelve seventies. Don't worry about the dates. Remember, history is
not about dates. By now, the whole world knows about
the Mongols. It's not a mystery the Mongols show up
outside of your city. You were in some trouble. Kublai Khan,
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he's in China at this time. So if you'd like
to look at a map, which I love to do,
you're welcome to. If not, don't worry about it. China
and Japan are very close according to the map. It's
across the water, but they're very close. Japan was doing
some trading with the last surviving Chinese dynasty that Kublai
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hadn't conquered yet, and plus Kublai was a Mongol. Kublai
looked across the water at Japan and thought to himself,
I want it. I think I should have that now Japan.
At this time, Japan was a feudal society run by
different lords in this place, and their elites really were warriors,
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the samurai, as you already know, they were all about warfare.
They believed wholeheartedly in warfare and making your body strong
and training things like that. These were not some chumps
the Mongols had run into tough guys, and they'd run
into chumps. These were not going to be chumps. Kublai
Khan he arranges a forty thousand person military force, eight
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hundred ships, and he crosses that ocean to take over Japan.
The Mongols are not chumps either, obviously. The fighting is
inhumanly fierce. This is an an amphibious force. The Mongols
actually gain a foothold, but people are dying in droves
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on every side. Japan is outnumbered here right, the Mongols
brought forty thousand troops. Japan's outnumbered the Mongols. They get
a foothold, like I said, and then they returned to
their s at night. Mostly there were some Mongos still
on the land, but most of the force returned to
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their ships at night. Now, I spent six months in
Japan when I was in the Marine Corps. We had
several typhoons when I was there, and I remember, like
it was yesterday, looking down at a big conex box
in the parking lot, and I watched this typhoon pick
up that conex box and throw it across the base
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like it was a soda can. A typhoon is a hurricane.
Remember it's a hurricane. Imagine you're on an old We're
talking the year. This is the twelve hundreds, right, this
is two hundred years before Christopher Columbus sailed the Ocean blue.
That's the kind of ships we're dealing with. The mongo
army was sitting on ships in the ocean and a
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typhoon came and wipe them out. Now let's just say
you're in Japan. You're a Japanese person. This frightening Mongolian
horde crosses the ocean, tries to take you out. They
get wiped out by the weather. You already remember you
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have a religious connection to your land. They just got
wiped out by the weather. Wait, we had a storm.
Wait last night. Really, the Mongols are gone. Do you
think you would think God's looking out for me? Japan
itself is looking out for me. And this is where
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the name, what the name Kamikazi actually means is divine wind,
and that's what they chose to name the Saving of Japan.
In Japan's mind, the Mongols were coming to rape and murder,
and of course, because it's the Mongols, they were most
definitely coming to rape and murder. This gigantic, unstoppable army
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showed up and the divine wind stepped in to save Japan.
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Currently currently is telling the history of the Japanese Kamikazi
and WW two, don't worry if you just got here,
we haven't even gotten to that yet. We talked about
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the Japanese affection for their homeland, a religious connection to
their home, a willingness to die, dying in service of
that is honored. And we just talked about the Mongolian invasion.
They showed up on the shore, they fight this huge battle,
they get a foothold. Oh we're about to be conquered
and murdered and raped and everything's going to end, and
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then a typhoon comes in and wipes out the army.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Wow. If you are already primed to believe that there
is a religious sacredness to your homeland, that your homeland
provides protection to you and your family, and then a
typhoon wipes out the invading Mongols. What do you think
that does for that belief system? It pretty much confirms
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it to you. Now, wait, there's more a lot of
people have heard of the failed Mongolian invasion because a
typhoon came in and wiped out the army. But what
most people people don't know it happened twice.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
You see, after the Mongols got wiped out by a typhoon. Again,
I want you to put yourself in the mind of
the Japanese. The Mongols got wiped out by a typhoon.
Kublai Khan then decides, Okay, the army got wiped out
by a typhoon. That's some bad luck. Clearly, maybe I
bit off more than I can chew here. Anyway, Let's
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just make a deal instead. So Kublai Khan the Mongol
he sends emissaries over to Japan instead of sending an army.
He sends over some diplomats. Essentially, he sends over US
Scott Descent and Howard Lutnik. He just sends over some diplomats.
Diplomats show up hat in hand. Hey, all that fighting stuff.
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Let's let bygones be bygones, shall we Let's make a deal.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Only the Japanese cut their heads off.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
The Japanese were not the most forgiving people, especially when
you just tried to conquer their homeland. Enemies tend to
be enemies for life. Plus they were a very very
very closed off society by now. They really wanted to
keep them themselves. You can say that's good or bad.
They just wanted to do their own thing. You just
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tried to conquer them.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
The Japanese took the emissaries and they cut off their heads.
That you did not do to a Mongolian emissary. You
remember the stories of Genghis Khan melting down silver and
pouring it down the throat of a governor. He did
that because the governor killed his emissaries. You remember the
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story of Genghis Khan and his Mongols. Some Russian princes
killed his emissaries. He took over the town and built
a wooden platform on top of those princes, and they
had a victory, suffocating suffocating the princes underneath the platform,
sitting there, eating, drinking and being merry while everyone was dying.
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You really really really didn't want to touch a hair
on a Mongol emissaries head. So when Japan cuts offset head,
you know, Kublai Khan is not going to receive the
news all that well. He gets the news, does not
receive the news that well, and he promptly remember I
said it was forty thousand Mongolians before, promptly raises an
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army of one hundred thousand Mongolians, over twice the size,
over twice the size of the fleet, and he goes
a sailing again. This is about six seven years later,
After about six seven years after the first one, the
Mongolian army returns. The Japanese wake up, the fighting begins again,
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and I kid you not, another typhoon comes in and
wipes the Mongolian army off the sea. Remember that Japanese person,
the Japanese religious belief, the Japanese connection to their land.
How strong do you think that connection is now? When
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the divine wind the kamikazi just swept the Mongols off
the sea twice in less than a decade. If you
are a Japanese person, you think, h we have like
a force field around us here, a divine wind Now
I brought up that story because the Japanese brought up
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that story, and still due to this day, I should note,
but since that time, that was the twelve hundreds, children
were taught this. It had a religious reference there. It
was a powerful story. The divine wind came and saved us.
The Japanese people saved our homeland, saved our island. When
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our island is under threat, the divine wind will show
up and save us. Now pause on that. It's important
to understand that history. Let's talk about World War II
a kind of from a Japanese perspective, because that's going
to be important for our purposes here. Pearl Harbor, you
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know about obviously Japan prior to Pearl Harbor, before Hitler
started invading Poland and things like that, Japan was expanding.
They had already invaded Manchuria, they'd invaded China. Japan was
fighting World War two before anyone else was fighting World
War two. And Japan had a plan that rhyme Chris,
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Japan had a plan. The plan was, we are stuck
on this island. We have now modernized. We have a
modern military, a modern navy, we have a modern economy,
we have modernized our society. We are no longer in
danger of being co We don't want to be colonized.
But the problem is, it takes stuff to run a
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modern economy or a modern military. It just does. I
have said many times before, I'll say it to you
again now. One of the unbelievable blessings about America is
not just the size of our land mass, not just
that we have an ocean to our left and an
ocean to our right, east and west. We have so
much stuff here, so many resources here. Yes, we do
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want to do trade, there's no question about that. You
want to trade with other countries, but we really don't
have to. We could just seal off the border, keep
all our goods in here and be more than fine.
We have so much stuff. Japan doesn't have any stuff nothing.
It's not only an island country. They just don't have resources.
They don't have steel, they don't have oil, they don't
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have stuff. And to the Japanese government, they decided, well
we better go get someone else is stuff. If we
have a modern military now, if we have a modern
economy now, and we're gonna run out of stuff, we
better go grab what we want. We better go conquer,
and they began. They began to conquer China. Now America,
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this is good. This goes beyond America. It's all the Allies.
But I'm just gonna make it about America. America. They
didn't want Japan in China. We had vest, we had
interests in China, we had things, and we started leaning
on the Japanese. Hey back off, Hey, back off, Hey,
get out of China, Get out of China, Get out
of China. Well, Japan has a completely different national interest
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at this time. They don't want to get out of China.
In fact, they want more than just China. Their intention
is to take their modern military. They're very capable fighting
for US, very capable navy, and they want to conquer
so much over there in East Age. If you look
at Japan, just make a gigantic ring, a big circle
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around it, including the Philippines. Will come back to that.
They want to make a big ring around it and
conquer all of it. So they, just like us here
in America, have all the stuff they need. America throws
such a fit about this. We cut off their oil,
We're cutting off their steel. Japan makes the worst strategic
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decision in military history. I don't know that that can
even honestly be argued. They're going to attack Pearl Harbor.
We'll touch on that quickly when we get back. Before
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It is Jesse Kelly's Show. Final segment of The Jesse
Kelly Show on a Wild Wednesday, A blast of a Wednesday.
I know, I know what you're already saying. You probably
already said it.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
There's no way he's gonna finish this tonight as far
as the history program goes. You're right, I'm not. I'm
gonna do it again tomorrow. Okay, start of hour three tomorrow.
Wherever we leave off tonight, I am going to continue
on with the history of the Japanese Comikazi's The background
is really, really, really important. Okay, so we have to
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go through all this stuff. Pearl Harbor happens. Japan is expanding.
They seize control of all these places. Remember draw that
big ring around Japan. They seize control of Manchuria, they
have the Philippines, they have Wake Island that they Guam.
They just grab control of this big bunch of islands.
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And mainland stuff all around Japan. And the idea behind
Pearl Harbor, stupid and suicidal as it was, was not
to defeat America. That's false history. Whoever told you that
they were just trying to slow us down. The idea
was slow down their navy, essentially, take out their Pacific fleet,
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grab control of these areas.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Then dig in.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
As fast as you can dig in because you know
the Americans are coming. They weren't stupid, They knew we
were gonna come. Dig in.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
When the Americans show up, you make them bleed for
every island, every inch of ground. And this is where
they really screwed up. Americans, in their mind, were so soft.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Remember it was very much a war of racial superiority
for the Japanese. These soft Americans are too soft to
withstand the amount of death. We can take the death,
they can't take the death. Eventually, America will sue for peace,
even if we quote lose, will end up with more
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territory than we had before. Now this is important because
this is something that we have to understand about the
Kamakazi as we work our way to the Kamakazi. We
already talked about that the honoring of death, dying for
your country, death not being a bad thing, giving your life,
you know, death is as light as a feather. That
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way of thinking. The Japanese society at that time had nurtured,
really really nurtured. They had poured this mentality into their citizens,
and as a result, they had a country full of
citizens who were willing to die for Japan, were willing
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to die for the emperor. And that that in itself
is a weapon. And the Japanese, there's certainly their leadership
saw it as a weapon. Hey, we have all these
people who will die for us. We can use that.
That gives us a leg up. And wouldn't you agree
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militarily it does. If you have an army full of
people who are more than happy to die for you,
and they have an army full of people who are
dying to get back home by Christmas time to be
with the wife and muffy, well I think you would
agree that the army that's willing to die has some
advantage in some way over the army that wants to
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go home. The Japanese government knew it had a benefit,
it had something, It had a leg up that every
other country on earth did not have. Its entire army
for the most part, was willing to die now during
Pearl Harbor, because a lot of people think the Kamikazis
began later on, and officially the program did, but the
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Japanese were throwing themselves into death on purpose from the
very beginning Pearl Harper one pilot plane disabled, not sure,
has a chance to set it down somewhere. Instead of
setting it down somewhere, makes the conscious decision to aim
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for an airfield hangar and try to fly his plane
into it on purpose to blow up and kill as
many Americans as he could. Now he got shot down
before he could do it, but he was trying it.
That is one of ten thousand incidents I could list
of the Japanese throughout World War iiO throwing themselves committing suicide,
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doing essentially a Kamikazi attack with whatever they had, a plane,
a train, an automobile, but seriously, a rifle, a grenade,
a stick, throwing themselves into death on purpose.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
So it wasn't just that the Japanese government thought they
had a.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
People who would do this. They did.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
They had an army.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Full of people who were more than willing to die.
Pearl Harbor goes well for Japan, but America starts to
claw its way back nineteen forty one. Obviously, the end
of it was a bad year. Nineteen forty two, certainly
the first half of it a bad year. Really, most
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of nineteen forty two was a bad year, to be
honest with you. By the way, quick pause on this.
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All right, all right, Now back to the war Japan.
Pearl Harbor you got it. The war at first is
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going poorly. We got, yes, sucker punched, but they were
also prepped and mentally ready, and they had their economy
ready for war. We didn't.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
We were just sauntering along, minding our own business. Be
in America.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
We didn't want to get involved in the European War.
Remember we didn't like Hitler as a country, but it
wasn't our problem. America didn't have that kind of foreign
policy back then. All we wanted was to be left alone. Okay, Well,
now Pearl Harbor happens and you realize you're not going
to be left alone. It took us some time to
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get the equipment we needed, the training we needed to
get up to speed, and at first we were struggling.
But then Midway comes. You know about the Battle of Midway.
You've heard about the Battle of Midway, but this is
actually important for our story, for the Kamikazi story. The
Japanese only add so many aircraft carriers. We of course
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could print aircraft carriers like it was nothing. They only
had so many they only had so many planes, They
only had so many experienced pilots. We slam into them
at Midway, and we not only sink a bunch of
their carriers, We kill a bunch of their excellent pilots midway.
It did not break the Japanese sword, but it broke
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off the edge. They no longer were better than us,
and virtually every way from that point four word they
started to lose. The monster that was the American Navy
was swimming closer and closer to the home island again.
And that's where we will pick up our story again tomorrow.
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So every now and then, Look, I love history. I'm
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I read, I watch whatever I can get my hands on.
I'm a history nerd. And on occasion on this show,
I will just completely blow up the show. No more
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political talk or anything else, and we are going to
tell a history story of some kind. This one I
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Everybody emailed in this is the one you wanted. It
was a couple of months ago, and so I've been
digging into it, reading and watching and reading and watching it.
I spent like eight hours yesterday kind of putting the
finishing touches on some things, making sure I was where I.
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Needed to be to kind of lay out the story.
And now we're about to lay out the story. I'm
not promising you I'm going to finish.
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This hour If I don't, we will do it again
tomorrow in this hour. Okay, we've had them go three
days before. I don't know that. I don't think this
one will, but I don't know. I don't know till
I start. Okay. So we are about to tell the
story of the Kama Kazis, the Japanese Coma Kazis from
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World War Two. Now, before we get going, and I'm
gonna go do all kinds of background on it and
history stuff and things like that. Before we get going,
let me ask you something really, asking what is suicide? Okay?
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Jewish producer Chris already jumped in and said, what do
you mean? Okay, So if you take a plane, a
fighter plane, and you intentionally fly it into a ship,
I think you would agree that that is suicide. Right, Okay,
it's very fair. Let me ask you. You're in a
fighting hole. You're a marine on Ewo Jima. You're in
(02:33):
a fighting hole with your buddy, and one of the
Japanese troops throws a grenade inside of the fighting hole.
You look at the grenade and you throw yourself on
top of it. Is that suicide? Not quite as simple, now,
is it, Chris? Is that suicide. Okay, all right, let's
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do it. Let's do one more, just one more. Let's
say your wife or husband, if you're a woman, your wife,
your mom, your dad, your family, every person in your
family who you love, they're all in a house that's
right behind you. You're on the sidewalk. They're all in
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the house. Right behind you. Standing in front of you
is a seven foot muscle bound man with an axe
in each hand, and he is walking towards that house
to kill, name, rape, and torture everyone in the house.
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You are standing there unarmed. Are you going to attack him?
Chris says yes. I would say yes as well. I
think everyone would say yes, that's your family. Okay, you're
gonna die the seven foot guy with an ass couple
of them? Is that suicide? All right? Now, just keep
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those questions in the back of your mind and we'll
do some background here and then we'll discuss the actual
Kama cozies, what they did, why they did it. We're
going to do this very honestly as usual. Some history
when we do it may offend if it does, just
like the regular show, I don't care. If you're offended.
(04:29):
You can email me all you want. But it's not
going to bother me at all. Your offense is your choice.
I don't care about that. We don't do We do
honest history here from every side. We do honest history.
So let's background this quite a bit first. In this
part is going to be very very important for our purposes.
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We need to understand two things, two huge, huge things
about Japan that will matter a lot, and I mean
a lot. The first one of those things is a
I'm going to use the word celebration. That's probably not
the right word, but everything I read on it sure
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looks like that a celebration of death, A celebration of death,
a different view of death than Westerners have than I have,
probably than you have. One of their emperors, one of
their emperors actually has a quote, maybe you've heard this
quote before, that duty is as heavy as a mountain,
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but death is as light as a feather. Now, that
may just sound like one statement that was preached to
the Japanese people, and most definitely the Japanese military. You know,
some of the first training you got in the Japanese
military back then. I've read several different sources. Some said
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it was one of the many said it was The
first was not how to kill, not how to march,
not how to run, not how to do pushups, how
to die? How do you die? What's the best way
to die? Dying in service to your country, in service
to your emperor was not frowned upon. In fact, whatever
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the opposite is are frowned upon. That's what it was.
It was lionized to the point of worship. The Kama
Kazi pilots were going to discuss, and Kama Kazi submarine
guys in Kamakazi boats and Kamakazi torpedoes. There were all
kinds of different kinds, and we'll get into that a
little bit. But the Kami Kazi guys we're going to
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discuss here. Their names weren't carried around back home of Hey,
did you hear what? Gosh? Do you hear what Bob did?
Flu was playing into a boat, so sad? Why do that?
No Bob's name? There was a special shrine area set up,
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and not only would Bob's name be part of this
special shrine area, people would show up and say, look
at that guy. He gave his life for the emperor,
he gave his life for Japan. Wow, I want to
be like Bob understand there is a different relationship with
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death the way they view it there. And I said
there were two things, here's the second thing, and they
kind of tie it together. You remember we went to
Israel as a show. We did that big promotion thing
and I don't remember how many of us, to two
hundred of us, something like that, to three hundred of
us The Jesse Kelly Show family made Jewish producer Chris
(07:52):
Corey wasn't with us then, but me, Chris, my parents,
my wife, my sister, kids, and you when your kids.
We all went over to Israel. Now, I'd never been
to Israel, but it was it is a holy land tour.
And I'm not one who gets sentimental about places that much.
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A little bit, a little bit, but not much. But
I will tell you.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
For me, in my belief system, being on a boat
on the Sea of Galilee was powerful.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
It was powerful. It meant something to me to this day.
If you told me, hey, Israeli governments there, they're making
some moves and they're draining the Sea of Galilee. Did
that hurt?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Walking walking into Hey, this is the place where we're
reasonably sure Jesus carried the cross when he was bleeding
and tortured. It hit me that that place hit me.
Oh my gosh, I had to take a knee, say
a prayer with my dad.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Hit me.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Now, there is something about having a religious connection to
a certain spot of land. And the reason I brought
up Israel was I've lived all over and I've liked
a lot of places and liked this house or like
that condo, but never there's not another spot on earth
where I would where I would feel like I have
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a religious connection to the ground. We're talking about Japan,
back in this time and still to this day, but
back in this time they very much do Japan. For
the Japanese people at this time and for most of
their history, it's not just a string of islands where
they ended up.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It's so much more than that. It is their home.
There is a spiritual connection to them. And this was
obvious from all the writings, all the things I've read
on it. Spiritual connection there. That is the best comparison
I can make, is the one I just did. Wow,
that's where Jesus was carrying the cross like that is
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the best connection I can make. This is the Sea
of Galilee. The disciples are, That's the best connection I
can make ate an actual religious connection to the land
that is beyond physical. It gets to a spiritual realm.
All right, Now that we got those two things out
of the way, let's talk about the origins of Kamakazie next.
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Fighting for your Freedom every.
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Day the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse Kelly
Show on a wonderful Monday. If you just joined us,
you just joined us at the beginning, after the beginning
of a history story on the Japanese Kama Kazi and
this will probably undoubtedly last us the rest of this show, possibly.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Into hour three as well tomorrow. I gave you a
little bit of a background of the Japanese people their
religious connection to their homeland. And there I'm not gonna
say in affinity for dying, because that is not true
at all, and we'll find that as we get deeper
into this, but dying for your country, your emperor, your
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whatever is honored extremely so over there. And we will
go into some of the propaganda that that they went into.
But for now, that was kind of the Japanese people
in their connection. We have to go over the long, long,
long background hundreds of years ago. Not because I think
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it is important to the Kamakazi story. And actually not
because this is where they got the term Kamakazi from,
but because the Japanese people and most definitely the young men,
the Japanese military men, they thought this event was hugely important.
So here's the event you know about. Genghis Khan and
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the Mongols. Just always think that the twelve hundreds, that
was when the Mongols were they were wiping out everybody, everybody.
In my opinion, this is an opinion part. I think
the Mongol army is unquestionably the greatest army of all time.
I don't think there's a close second. And I say
that because they just blew through the other great armies
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like they weren't anything. I realized there was some heavy fighting,
but they just stormed through everybody. Oh European knights, hah, Oh,
the Muslim Empire of the Middle East. That's hilarious. They
just destroyed everybody. Now, Genghis Khan is dead by this time,
but his grandson, I believe grandson, Kublai Khan is not dead.
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He is still the Khan. He's the Mongol king. Essentially,
he is the Mongol king, and by now it's the
twelve seventies. Don't worry about the dates. Remember, history is
not about dates. By now, the whole world knows about
the Mongols. It's not a mystery the Mongols show up
outside of your city. You were in some trouble. Kublai Khan,
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he's in China at this time. So if you'd like
to look at a map, which I love to do,
you're welcome to. If not, don't worry about it. China
and Japan are very close according to the map. It's
across the water, but they're very close. Japan was doing
some trading with the last surviving Chinese dynasty that Kublai
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hadn't conquered yet, and plus Kublai was a Mongol. Kublai
looked across the water at Japan and thought to himself,
I want it. I think I should have that now Japan.
At this time, Japan was a feudal society run by
different lords in this place, and their elites really were warriors,
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the samurai, as you already know, they were all about warfare.
They believed wholeheartedly in warfare and making your body strong
and training things like that. These were not some chumps
the Mongols had run into tough guys, and they'd run
into chumps. These were not going to be chumps. Kublai
Khan he arranges a forty thousand person military force, eight
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hundred ships, and he crosses that ocean to take over Japan.
The Mongols are not chumps either, obviously. The fighting is
inhumanly fierce. This is an an amphibious force. The Mongols
actually gain a foothold, but people are dying in droves
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on every side. Japan is outnumbered here right, the Mongols
brought forty thousand troops. Japan's outnumbered the Mongols. They get
a foothold, like I said, and then they returned to
their s at night. Mostly there were some Mongos still
on the land, but most of the force returned to
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their ships at night. Now, I spent six months in
Japan when I was in the Marine Corps. We had
several typhoons when I was there, and I remember, like
it was yesterday, looking down at a big conex box
in the parking lot, and I watched this typhoon pick
up that conex box and throw it across the base
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like it was a soda can. A typhoon is a hurricane.
Remember it's a hurricane. Imagine you're on an old We're
talking the year. This is the twelve hundreds, right, this
is two hundred years before Christopher Columbus sailed the Ocean blue.
That's the kind of ships we're dealing with. The mongo
army was sitting on ships in the ocean and a
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typhoon came and wipe them out. Now let's just say
you're in Japan. You're a Japanese person. This frightening Mongolian
horde crosses the ocean, tries to take you out. They
get wiped out by the weather. You already remember you
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have a religious connection to your land. They just got
wiped out by the weather. Wait, we had a storm.
Wait last night. Really, the Mongols are gone. Do you
think you would think God's looking out for me? Japan
itself is looking out for me. And this is where
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the name, what the name Kamikazi actually means is divine wind,
and that's what they chose to name the Saving of Japan.
In Japan's mind, the Mongols were coming to rape and murder,
and of course, because it's the Mongols, they were most
definitely coming to rape and murder. This gigantic, unstoppable army
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showed up and the divine wind stepped in to save Japan.
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Currently currently is telling the history of the Japanese Kamikazi
and WW two, don't worry if you just got here,
we haven't even gotten to that yet. We talked about
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the Japanese affection for their homeland, a religious connection to
their home, a willingness to die, dying in service of
that is honored. And we just talked about the Mongolian invasion.
They showed up on the shore, they fight this huge battle,
they get a foothold. Oh we're about to be conquered
and murdered and raped and everything's going to end, and
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then a typhoon comes in and wipes out the army.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Wow. If you are already primed to believe that there
is a religious sacredness to your homeland, that your homeland
provides protection to you and your family, and then a
typhoon wipes out the invading Mongols. What do you think
that does for that belief system? It pretty much confirms
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it to you. Now, wait, there's more a lot of
people have heard of the failed Mongolian invasion because a
typhoon came in and wiped out the army. But what
most people people don't know it happened twice.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
You see, after the Mongols got wiped out by a typhoon. Again,
I want you to put yourself in the mind of
the Japanese. The Mongols got wiped out by a typhoon.
Kublai Khan then decides, Okay, the army got wiped out
by a typhoon. That's some bad luck. Clearly, maybe I
bit off more than I can chew here. Anyway, Let's
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just make a deal instead. So Kublai Khan the Mongol
he sends emissaries over to Japan instead of sending an army.
He sends over some diplomats. Essentially, he sends over US
Scott Descent and Howard Lutnik. He just sends over some diplomats.
Diplomats show up hat in hand. Hey, all that fighting stuff.
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Let's let bygones be bygones, shall we Let's make a deal.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Only the Japanese cut their heads off.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
The Japanese were not the most forgiving people, especially when
you just tried to conquer their homeland. Enemies tend to
be enemies for life. Plus they were a very very
very closed off society by now. They really wanted to
keep them themselves. You can say that's good or bad.
They just wanted to do their own thing. You just
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tried to conquer them.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
The Japanese took the emissaries and they cut off their heads.
That you did not do to a Mongolian emissary. You
remember the stories of Genghis Khan melting down silver and
pouring it down the throat of a governor. He did
that because the governor killed his emissaries. You remember the
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story of Genghis Khan and his Mongols. Some Russian princes
killed his emissaries. He took over the town and built
a wooden platform on top of those princes, and they
had a victory, suffocating suffocating the princes underneath the platform,
sitting there, eating, drinking and being merry while everyone was dying.
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You really really really didn't want to touch a hair
on a Mongol emissaries head. So when Japan cuts offset head,
you know, Kublai Khan is not going to receive the
news all that well. He gets the news, does not
receive the news that well, and he promptly remember I
said it was forty thousand Mongolians before, promptly raises an
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army of one hundred thousand Mongolians, over twice the size,
over twice the size of the fleet, and he goes
a sailing again. This is about six seven years later,
After about six seven years after the first one, the
Mongolian army returns. The Japanese wake up, the fighting begins again,
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and I kid you not, another typhoon comes in and
wipes the Mongolian army off the sea. Remember that Japanese person,
the Japanese religious belief, the Japanese connection to their land.
How strong do you think that connection is now? When
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the divine wind the kamikazi just swept the Mongols off
the sea twice in less than a decade. If you
are a Japanese person, you think, h we have like
a force field around us here, a divine wind Now
I brought up that story because the Japanese brought up
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that story, and still due to this day, I should note,
but since that time, that was the twelve hundreds, children
were taught this. It had a religious reference there. It
was a powerful story. The divine wind came and saved us.
The Japanese people saved our homeland, saved our island. When
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our island is under threat, the divine wind will show
up and save us. Now pause on that. It's important
to understand that history. Let's talk about World War II
a kind of from a Japanese perspective, because that's going
to be important for our purposes here. Pearl Harbor, you
(24:23):
know about obviously Japan prior to Pearl Harbor, before Hitler
started invading Poland and things like that, Japan was expanding.
They had already invaded Manchuria, they'd invaded China. Japan was
fighting World War two before anyone else was fighting World
War two. And Japan had a plan that rhyme Chris,
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Japan had a plan. The plan was, we are stuck
on this island. We have now modernized. We have a
modern military, a modern navy, we have a modern economy,
we have modernized our society. We are no longer in
danger of being co We don't want to be colonized.
But the problem is, it takes stuff to run a
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modern economy or a modern military. It just does. I
have said many times before, I'll say it to you
again now. One of the unbelievable blessings about America is
not just the size of our land mass, not just
that we have an ocean to our left and an
ocean to our right, east and west. We have so
much stuff here, so many resources here. Yes, we do
(25:32):
want to do trade, there's no question about that. You
want to trade with other countries, but we really don't
have to. We could just seal off the border, keep
all our goods in here and be more than fine.
We have so much stuff. Japan doesn't have any stuff nothing.
It's not only an island country. They just don't have resources.
They don't have steel, they don't have oil, they don't
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have stuff. And to the Japanese government, they decided, well
we better go get someone else is stuff. If we
have a modern military now, if we have a modern
economy now, and we're gonna run out of stuff, we
better go grab what we want. We better go conquer,
and they began. They began to conquer China. Now America,
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this is good. This goes beyond America. It's all the Allies.
But I'm just gonna make it about America. America. They
didn't want Japan in China. We had vest, we had
interests in China, we had things, and we started leaning
on the Japanese. Hey back off, Hey, back off, Hey,
get out of China, Get out of China, Get out
of China. Well, Japan has a completely different national interest
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at this time. They don't want to get out of China.
In fact, they want more than just China. Their intention
is to take their modern military. They're very capable fighting
for US, very capable navy, and they want to conquer
so much over there in East Age. If you look
at Japan, just make a gigantic ring, a big circle
(27:03):
around it, including the Philippines. Will come back to that.
They want to make a big ring around it and
conquer all of it. So they, just like us here
in America, have all the stuff they need. America throws
such a fit about this. We cut off their oil,
We're cutting off their steel. Japan makes the worst strategic
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decision in military history. I don't know that that can
even honestly be argued. They're going to attack Pearl Harbor.
We'll touch on that quickly when we get back. Before
we do that, let's make sure we have our dogs
for as long as possible. Don't we want that? Isn't that?
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It doesn't it hurt so bad to pay your dog?
When I bring this up every time, it freaking guts
me because I remember all the dogs. You have to
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It is Jesse Kelly's Show. Final segment of The Jesse
Kelly Show on a Wild Wednesday, A blast of a Wednesday.
I know, I know what you're already saying. You probably
already said it.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
There's no way he's gonna finish this tonight as far
as the history program goes. You're right, I'm not. I'm
gonna do it again tomorrow. Okay, start of hour three tomorrow.
Wherever we leave off tonight, I am going to continue
on with the history of the Japanese Comikazi's The background
is really, really, really important. Okay, so we have to
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go through all this stuff. Pearl Harbor happens. Japan is expanding.
They seize control of all these places. Remember draw that
big ring around Japan. They seize control of Manchuria, they
have the Philippines, they have Wake Island that they Guam.
They just grab control of this big bunch of islands.
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And mainland stuff all around Japan. And the idea behind
Pearl Harbor, stupid and suicidal as it was, was not
to defeat America. That's false history. Whoever told you that
they were just trying to slow us down. The idea
was slow down their navy, essentially, take out their Pacific fleet,
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grab control of these areas.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Then dig in.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
As fast as you can dig in because you know
the Americans are coming. They weren't stupid, They knew we
were gonna come. Dig in.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
When the Americans show up, you make them bleed for
every island, every inch of ground. And this is where
they really screwed up. Americans, in their mind, were so soft.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Remember it was very much a war of racial superiority
for the Japanese. These soft Americans are too soft to
withstand the amount of death. We can take the death,
they can't take the death. Eventually, America will sue for peace,
even if we quote lose, will end up with more
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territory than we had before. Now this is important because
this is something that we have to understand about the
Kamakazi as we work our way to the Kamakazi. We
already talked about that the honoring of death, dying for
your country, death not being a bad thing, giving your life,
you know, death is as light as a feather. That
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way of thinking. The Japanese society at that time had nurtured,
really really nurtured. They had poured this mentality into their citizens,
and as a result, they had a country full of
citizens who were willing to die for Japan, were willing
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to die for the emperor. And that that in itself
is a weapon. And the Japanese, there's certainly their leadership
saw it as a weapon. Hey, we have all these
people who will die for us. We can use that.
That gives us a leg up. And wouldn't you agree
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militarily it does. If you have an army full of
people who are more than happy to die for you,
and they have an army full of people who are
dying to get back home by Christmas time to be
with the wife and muffy, well I think you would
agree that the army that's willing to die has some
advantage in some way over the army that wants to
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go home. The Japanese government knew it had a benefit,
it had something, It had a leg up that every
other country on earth did not have. Its entire army
for the most part, was willing to die now during
Pearl Harbor, because a lot of people think the Kamikazis
began later on, and officially the program did, but the
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Japanese were throwing themselves into death on purpose from the
very beginning Pearl Harper one pilot plane disabled, not sure,
has a chance to set it down somewhere. Instead of
setting it down somewhere, makes the conscious decision to aim
(33:21):
for an airfield hangar and try to fly his plane
into it on purpose to blow up and kill as
many Americans as he could. Now he got shot down
before he could do it, but he was trying it.
That is one of ten thousand incidents I could list
of the Japanese throughout World War iiO throwing themselves committing suicide,
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doing essentially a Kamikazi attack with whatever they had, a plane,
a train, an automobile, but seriously, a rifle, a grenade,
a stick, throwing themselves into death on purpose.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
So it wasn't just that the Japanese government thought they
had a.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
People who would do this. They did.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
They had an army.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Full of people who were more than willing to die.
Pearl Harbor goes well for Japan, but America starts to
claw its way back nineteen forty one. Obviously, the end
of it was a bad year. Nineteen forty two, certainly
the first half of it a bad year. Really, most
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of nineteen forty two was a bad year, to be
honest with you. By the way, quick pause on this.
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All right, all right, Now back to the war Japan.
Pearl Harbor you got it. The war at first is
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going poorly. We got, yes, sucker punched, but they were
also prepped and mentally ready, and they had their economy
ready for war. We didn't.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
We were just sauntering along, minding our own business. Be
in America.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
We didn't want to get involved in the European War.
Remember we didn't like Hitler as a country, but it
wasn't our problem. America didn't have that kind of foreign
policy back then. All we wanted was to be left alone. Okay, Well,
now Pearl Harbor happens and you realize you're not going
to be left alone. It took us some time to
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get the equipment we needed, the training we needed to
get up to speed, and at first we were struggling.
But then Midway comes. You know about the Battle of Midway.
You've heard about the Battle of Midway, but this is
actually important for our story, for the Kamikazi story. The
Japanese only add so many aircraft carriers. We of course
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could print aircraft carriers like it was nothing. They only
had so many they only had so many planes, They
only had so many experienced pilots. We slam into them
at Midway, and we not only sink a bunch of
their carriers, We kill a bunch of their excellent pilots midway.
It did not break the Japanese sword, but it broke
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off the edge. They no longer were better than us,
and virtually every way from that point four word they
started to lose. The monster that was the American Navy
was swimming closer and closer to the home island again.
And that's where we will pick up our story again tomorrow.
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All right, that's all
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