EARLY EPISODE: The Battle of Iwo Jima: Part 2

Tom’s warhammer pilled and I love it

Bro was like "yeah I raised the flag, you can keep me in the US for war bond tours now"

I had to look up the N slur and I still have no idea what it was

Oh boy, looking forward to the four parter on Okinawa lol

I'm gonna start a garage band just so I can call it "Banzai-Related Shenanigans."

I want a tramp stamp now that says 'comprehsively spelunked' lmaoo

When it comes to who was in the photo; that whole battle was probably a bit of a blur for everyone

Deeply disappointed no one started singing leonard cohen hallelujah when Joe said “the fourth and the fifth”

Oh you'd hate to be the IJA guy who has to run up and reclaim the destroyed American tank husks to keep your Mass economy going in Supreme Commander FA.

Call him spelunkin' Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more

Joe drinks the milk monster and his asshole opens like the space ship from Independence Day just before it blasts the white house

17 aircraft carriers? SEVENTEEN?

Two alcoholic amphibious warfare experts on the podcast history? Must be an occupational perk at this point.

Catastrophic Spelunking would be a great name for Tom's studio

I got a kidney stone in the second grade, let me tell you it wasn't fun

Look I’m a Seabee dozer operator!

I can't wait to work "catastrophically spelunked to a permanent end" into a conversation.

About war photography: Check out Tony Vaccaro's photographs from his time as a scout in an infantry unit. Later in life he becomes a fashion photographer but during WW2 he smuggled a camera from the Normandy campaign, through France, into Hurtgen and the Bulge all the way into Germany and takes some of the craziest stills that he then forgot in a trunk for 70 years. There's an excellent HBO documentary about him.

Ya'll should cover the land battle of Leyte. It has a moment where Japanese paratroopers end up landing in the HQs of American paratroopers and hijinx ensues. As well as dudes getting schwacked by supply drops on a regular basis. Frankly the 11th Airborne in WW2 is a good topic for a video unto itself.

When Ine Jima going to happen

Ladies love being properly splulunked with care

There was an old timer in my home town who was a flamethrower on Iwo Jima. Dude was….different. The 92% casualty rate and all the shit he went through as a 19 year old on that island definitely explains it.

So glad you mentioned "The Pacific," I love that show. It makes "Band of Brothers" look like that Disney Boy Scout movie Kurt Russell made when he was like 13.

I think a spelunking badge would be a fun merch idea

This was the wrong episode for me to try and passage my tumor cells with cause I was dying laughing in my tissue culture hood

Got to share some knowledge from the Battle of Iwo Jima part one episode with my sister. We had a center fundraiser at an American legion for her and after it was done. We were cleaning up and looking at the “honor roll” of names on the wall. She goes do you pronounce this guys name as Albert Fuchs I said nope that is Albert Fucks and he wins the name alert for yesterday.

I fear tom might never leave if he goes anywhere near a Bia hơi spot in Hanoi.

The thing about the flag raising photo is that it's so perfect that there is no way it was intentional. Only random chance could produce an image that well composed.

Yall laugh about the mephitic steam bunkers but they are amazing for one's rheumatism & they leave one's skin looking fantastic!

Jebus the "we can't be sure because everyone involved died later in the battle" rate for this episode is insane.

A liter of alcohol a week is a lot? My destroyed liver laughs at those numbers. I'd easily go through a fifth and a half every night for years. Alcoholism!

"Call him Drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer anymore. Not the whisky drinking Indian or the marine that went to war."

I dont know if its maybe on your later-down-the-line pipeline but have you thought to do a episode (maybe series) on the hussite (wars) from 1419 ? It has multiple failed crusades, possible one of the first drive-by with guns, even the word pistol comes from there and a One-eyed General as thought of a Center Point.

The Pete hegseth riff involving joes dad is insane levels of savage.

Comprehensively spelunked is more of a sticker than a shirt

I stopped for breakfast on the Navajo reservation at the code talker museum/burger king once. So they could use a proper episode.

My paternal grandfather and my maternal great uncle were on Iwo at the same time. My uncle was a flame thrower who was on the south end of the island. He was shot in the neck and died on a hospital ship. My grandfather was on the north end of the island as an officer. I believe that was when he was awarded his first Bronze Star. My uncle was awarded the Silver Star posthumously. It gives me chills to listen to this episode

“The Ballad of Ira Hayes” is one of Johnny Cash’s best songs.

Ngl, every time you guys bring up Amtraks, I'm just imagining a fleet of GE Genesis trains crashing into the beach like it's the sandworm battle in Dune part 2

I loaded photographic proof of appropriate attire to the Discord server.

Shout out to everyone like me whose to lazy to skip the intro and can now recite it from memory.

Just a reminder, the trump goverment tried to remove this picture from there websites and other places because they thought it was DEI nonsense attack. Yes one of the most iconic and american fuck yeah pictures was loook down by the the trump goverment because it could have been DEI to them. One if the many example of trump and maga being stupid fasicst racist pieces of shit who the one who hate USA the most.

Hell yeah first *raises flag on it*