EARLY EPISODE: Operation Paul Bunyan
Joe, Nate, and Tom talk about the time the US and North Korea almost went to war over a poplar tree.
Sources:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/06/axe-murder-north-korea-1976/562028/
https://ns.clementspapers.org/briefing-books/korea-tree-incident
https://medium.com/@qz_li/korean-axe-murder-incident-48f3e16e47b6
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/14/north-korea-1976-axe-murder-incident-215605/
Comments (31)
Listen I believe that North Korea has the right to defend itself from American lumberjacks.
Living near Houston, and yeah, everything said about the city is correct.
I live smack in the middle of it, and yeah. They're not wrong. I love this city, but yeah.
That brings back memories
... was in a KAUSA meeting...
Look Paul Bunyan would fit seamlessly into Arthurian legend. There's a real D-tier of knights
51 minutes in and we've gotten to the actual subject, is this a WTYP episode?? Keep up the hard work of side tracking!
When you cult of personality do hard that you have minions are willing to start a war bc they think you fart trees.
Your slander of the Minnesota Jucy Lucy burger will not go unanswered, this is an insult to Midwest Juche Idea
I immediately looked up that album cover. I'm dying 🤣...
Tom’s incessant bringing up of “Don’t Mess With the Zohan” seems like a cry for help
The GI Joe stuff is on YouTube. Was on EBaumsWorld for me way back. “Alright give him the stick. DON’T GIVE HIM THE STICK.” “Ah ya know it’s weird sometimes people go to sleep and wake up and they’re on fire.” Don’t forget the Power Thirst commercials! Man I miss late 90s/early 2000s internet.
Hey Kid! I'm a computa!
Immaculate banter at the top of the ep
Devo are Kent's proudest sons. Also, when it comes to MCR - the story goes that Gerard was in Manhattan, on his way to pitch a show to Cartoon Network, when he witnessed 9/11, then he went back to Jersey and wrote Skylines and Turnstiles
Detectiv, dis is smell goin you tell me do things, I done, runnin'...
Fancy lad Nate at the gathering? That is something I must see.
The fucked up part is that during the Iraq War, Korean and American researchers found in the U.S. National Archives several references to the U.S. policy of war crimes during the Korean War and it was buried in the news by the events in Iraq. The scanned documents are online and contains U.S. state department, Navy and Army documents stating that Uncle Sam had a formal policy of attacking refugees approaching U.S. lines with artillery or air strikes out of fear of communist infiltrators. Literally there was a Navy destroyer captain questioning an Army artillery spotter in an aircraft on their request to shell a beach full of Korean refugees and he responded that they were “moving suspiciously”. And the research that led to uncovering this was all started by the No Gon Ri massacre and the subsequent attacks of U.S. troops and anti American hysteria that you guys referenced. Along with the school girls that got runned over. I think you guys need to do an episode on the No Gun Ri massacre and the uproar in South Korea and the wildly unknown U.S. policy of killing civilians that was uncovered later in the U.S. national archives.
As a Houstonian, I whole heartedly approve of this episode. Swangin' an' bangin'.
Ironically timely. Sure it was recorded weeks ago
So the Paul Bunyan Burger was created in Minnesota and is a jucy lucy with bacon and cheese on the inside. For those unaware, a Jucy Lucy is a burger with a pocket of cheese in the middle and they are fucking awesome.
Fuck me, that album cover is *incredible.*
And to think that E-2 that jumped the DMZ will never be able to listen to this 🥺
Houston will gladly accept you Nate as a native. You're more knowledgeable about Houston then most Houstonians 😂
*furious masturbation*
Hmmmmmmmm. I wonder why this one suddenly came up.
I now want to go to an Irish Wedding
Oh shit! Thank you Tom!! Sorry Lad!
Thank you Joe! Thank you Nate! This was one on my dream sheet… just like USS Thresher and Urgent Fury!! F—k yes!!!!
He ain't joking about Houston zoning laws my middle school was a block and a half away from a gas refinery, if your curious Galena Park middle school
haha so true!
