BONUS EPISODE: Audie Murphy

This still might be the best non-series episode, including non-bonus episodes.

This is the epitome of how the US treats their vets. Incredibly brave and competent soldier wants only to go into Westpoint and keep being in the army, and they just say, "Thank you for your service, go starve in the fucking street."

Audie Murphy bringing home dead Germans to lay near where his platoon leader sleeps like a feral cat that likes someone

Audie’s gamer profile would have displayed KD ratio 55:0. Anyone enemy saw this profile should just lay down their arms and surrender.

19 y/o with 241 confirmed kills...that's bloody impressive.

Also, "oowooga phone" is a banger. Also also, can confirm benzos are a gateway drug to Built to Spill. And Modest Mouse, for that matter. Also also also, I really appreciate the longer "reflection" section at the end, where they all give their thoughts on Murphy. And I feel like Audie Murphy would've been very good friends with Errol Flynn's kid, the war photographer. I think both died in the same year, too.

Is the world ready to admit that manlets make superior soldiers? Audie Murphey, Simo Haiya, Vasily Zeitsev (also a short king, I believe). Could just be indicative of the levels of malnutrition across the world at the time but I think there's something to presenting a smaller target. Also, all the Nate haters are insane - dude had "Yardie Murphy" in the chamber and did not hesitate.

From the discussion at the end of- please do an episode on Sir Sam Hughes, aka the reason Canada ended up with the Ross Rifle and the McLaren shovel/shield. A good source is Tim Cook’s “The Madman and the Butcher.”

Appreciate y’all and onions a lot more

Are we sure this sad eyed woman was not Thetis daughter of Oceanus, gone to weary distant Texas to avoid the fate Necessity bound her to

Lying about your age was extraordinarily common back then. My grandfather (who also grew up a dirt poor farmer in Texas like Audie) joined the army at 15. As the oldest sibling he was compelled to join when there literally wasn't enough food to go around for his siblings. Later in life, well into the 90's he still shot squirrels to "make sure he still could" in case Depression-style economics ever came back.

I know the combat stuff is more your bread and butter, and you do it really well, but I found Audie talking about PTSD in an era where that was unknown to be the most unheard of and most interesting part of the episode.

Can’t believe they didn’t mention the bird glue grenades at the end

QFTL: BAD WEAPONS EPISODE LEADING WITH ROSS RIFLE DESIGNER PLS

At 57:24 Joe channels the crew and cast of the movie Rust.

“I won the DSC but alls I got was this lousy T-shi(r)t and a wicked case of CPTSD.” -the ww2 version of Captain Danté from WH40k

TIL both Joe and Nate Napoleon the Third’ed themselves by standing out in front trying to get atomized out of this purgatory realm and not having their wish granted. I for one am glad.

Apropos of nothing, I just saw a trailer for what I thought was an Asylum/Syfy Channel-type shlock, but no, it's an actual big studio film with a wide release. Title: Primitive War. It's a Vietnam War movie... with dinosaurs. It looks so goddamn stupid, but like it would be a fun stream/make fun of it on the podcast. I'm now imagining there's already an AO3 tag with dinosaur erotica fanfic for it, but I'm too afraid to check.

holy shit he really was a “fugitive from the law of averages” in many respects. trans antifa super-soldier vibes. oh shit apparently that makes him a terrorist-by-category according to the US govt now, almost like that government fought the 3rd Reich to become the 4th one and maybe now 5th one?

≈70% casualty rate for one company in one battle is like Warhammer 40k Imperial Guard stats goddamn. has there been an episode about Anzio?

Joe, while he did only hold one woman at gunpoint, one is definitely a lot.

Man started his combat experience in wwii playing as oddjob in goldeneye and ended it with helldivers 2 gameplay

My biggest laugh of the episode had to be "Onion based Princess Mononoke" and imagining Audie Murphy with a mournful of blood.

Tom killed it this episode.

Ach nein, der Zwiebelteufel ist da!

James Cagney, a short king himself, probably thought since judo had really helped him out that it might work for Murphy. He was an actual black belt in judo and really loved it as an exercise. Though teaching a Terminator with crippling PTSD the secrets of choking a man unconscious with one's own collar does seem a bit short sighted.

My grandfather also fought in the European theater of WWII. He was part of the force that relieved bastogne, he helped liberate a concentration camp, he described it to me when I was a kid as "the world's worst camping trip". He also became a violently abusive alcoholic who beat his kids frequently. He basically refused to go outside unless he had to because of it. I'm glad Audie Murphy helped bring PTSD into the public eye to help try to get help to the people who need it.

Dude get Ian from Forgotten Weapons on for the SA 80, the Toss Rifle and the Cheauchat

Shrek maxxing.

Chesty Puller? Never heard of her

God, picking onions sucks, too. Endless fields of little stinky balls that permeate your skin and clothes for days. Worse, if you have a cut under your fingernails - and everything on the farm can cut you up - the juice will sting for a long time. Sucks. But...I still love onions.

Didn't expect lions led by donkey's to have a resident onion expert here but I guess Nate's full of surprises.

My favorite part is when Audie said to those Germans “it’s Murphin time” and Murphed all over them. And gosh 38:00 is like when you get wasted in GTA only to get hit by an ambulance as your character steps out of the hospital.

Id love for you guys to do a dudes rock type episode on a woman sometime. I know theres WAY less due to. History. But itd be neat... Even something like that civil war surgeon whose the only woman to ever get the medal of honor.

When you get around to doing Iwo Jima, you'd better give a special section to the life of Ira Hayes and his depressing post-war life as well.

Onions are a pain. They take forever to grow, have to weeded by hand, you can only water them during certain parts of the day and usually with siphon irrigation (which sucks). Real pain in the ass crop.

His early specials are truly fantastic.

Good choice to make the episode about gunning down Nazis a bonus right now 😅

LET'S FUCKING GO! The anti-Alvin York time.

woo