Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History 63 - Supernova in the East 2

The Asia-Pacific War of 1937-1945 has deep roots. It also involves a Japanese society that's been called one of the most distinctive on Earth. If there were a Japanese version of Captain America, this would be his origin story.
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[@kaiserschnitzel89]

What cracks me up about Dan is how he delivers exposition in a pleasing, reasonable and sonorous tone; but reads from documents - ANY documents on ANY subject from ANY source - like a boxing ring announcer from the 1930s.

[@finished6267]

Ya love that. It used to bug me but that's because I was wrong back then😅

[@Zombielokii]

Makes me smile every time now, lmao

[@OleHickory69]

Boy is that whimsical

[@Mukawakadoodoo]

@@OleHickory69 I love it. Brings the subject to life.

[@bvyup2112]

annoying at work where all of a sudden he starts screaming but im used to it by now hahhaa

[@TwentyNineJP]

In case anyone's wondering, the Japanese in the art says "Give me liberty or give me death" (large text on right and left) and "Supernova in the East" (small text in bottom right)

[@nomdeguerre7265]

Thank you! Interesting...

[@scottyelliott5709]

That is cool, thank you

[@aomukai]

Actually it says "Freedom please. Otherwise death". Slightly lol.

[@finished6267]

Brilliant. Liberty or death.

[@drastik_M.C.]

He received death.

[@jeffwalker6815]

Every episode of this show is a chilling reminder that most of us live like kings in a cushy little lives...

[@nicksmith3431]

"Silk slippers"

[@kennycampbell1256]

True that

[@animaetmateria3578]

*covid-19 slowly creeps into the room* "Surprise!!!! =)"

[@markb8468]

I like covid much more than I'd like having my village raped and tortured to death.

[@brittneystreeter493]

@@animaetmateria3578 not even a comparison…

[@thegreatbakchod32]

I got the hardcore history compilation (the first 50 episodes) as a holiday present from my wife, best gift ever!

[@iladelproductions8820]

Nice!! I torrented the first 40 or 50 episodes a while back when i was unemployed. i actually felt guilty about it so i donated the money through pay pal when i got back to work lol.

[@alliearscott3978]

thegreatbakchod what a awesome wife man ! Give her a nice smack on the ass for me, for being so great !

[@Fatttkot]

Interestingly enough, one of the first lessons you’re taught in the Australian army is what happened during the My Lai massacre, the objective of the lesson is to teach soldiers about the accountability that they bear to disobey orders if you consider them wrong/unethical

[@DorkKnight99]

Fantastic episode. God, I'm sorry but there is nothing - NOTHING - more badass than the Pacific Fleet in ruins, Japan celebrating an unprecedented victory, the admirals slapping themselves on the back... and Yamamoto silently standing in dread knowing that they didn't get the Carriers and that somewhere out there the Enterprise, Lexington, & Saratoga were fully armed, fueled, and pissed as all hell.

[@franktothemax]

This scene paints so many intense emotions from the entire spectrum of feels. Dan did a brilliant job giving us the scope from both sides of the story, and Yamamoto done fucked up something fierce.

[@Healermain15]

@@franktothemax It was a long shot to begin with though, and they had pretty bad luck that the carriers just happened to leave.

[@DorkKnight99]

And they were on their own for over a year during the fleet build up. The best part of the story is the nearly entire year where it was simply "Enterprise vs Japan."

[@Dave-mk9bw]

What would have happened if the carriers were there? Could the US recover?

[@fenderOCG]

@@Dave-mk9bw they built another 27 carriers by wars end so would have been fine. Port Moresby would have fallen, and therefore Australia threatened, but even Japan knew they couldn't invade Australia with their limited manpower and supplies

[@NotDave_x]

"We could have the uigher version of the final solution happen over the next year and have the world sit around like what do we do" Actually prophetic.

[@Guitarisforgrins]

Indeed

[@glorioustigereye]

We could have finally started a conversation during the olympics if Russia didn't try to invade Ukraine and all our media being simps for China

[@firingallcylinders2949]

@@glorioustigereye The Olympics were utterly bizarre. Everyone attending China acting like nothing was happening

[@iainhittel]

organ harvesting…..

[@chago4202000]

Even worse, people KNOW and don't care. Literally just don't care.

[@bob13373]

Damn, that last quote from Churchill was incredible.

[@DaveSCameron]

Check out the others he made against us, the working people of his own country and it will surely temper any ideas on him, he was simply the right man at the time..

[@rickwrites2612]

​​​@@DaveSCameron He did have a way with speaking and words though, just really good at speeches. Some people just have that gift, and to have it and be in such a position as he, AND during the height of radio... Doesn't have to mean he was a good person tho.

[@DaveSCameron]

@@rickwrites2612 Cheers for the reply and I agree 👍

[@EmperorTigerstar]

I already heard this on my phone but man this was a good episode to listen to.

[@amishshark3549]

Glad to see people of intellectual mindedness present at my purists of interest

[@Voo504Doo]

I remember reddit was nothing but a shadow of what 4chan once was lol seems the tables have turned now

[@oflionsquarrel2277]

Whooooo. New Hardcore History. Your the man Dan Carlin. Thank you for your hard work on these. You basically write an audiobook every 6 months. That is amazing

[@johnb.8687]

I didn't like this one so much. Didn't learn anything I didn't already know

[@Dave-mk9bw]

This was so good I'm going back to listen to Ghosts of the Ostfront series to see what is happening on the Eastern Front while we wait on Supernova 3.

[@_Mordion_]

Dude you rock! Keep these coming man! I love the way you explain history. If only schools had history teachers like you... on second thought.. if only schools still taught history.

[@Trollificusv2]

What do they need Dan for? They can make up history on their own, just fine.

[@bolby0280]

@@Trollificusv2 you were here 5 hours ago? Damn weird timing

[@Elmarby]

For those interested in the Pearl Harbor attack, a guy with the channel name Montemayor has an excellent video giving a detailed and informative play by play of the attack. Best account of Pearl Harbor that I have seen and a good companion piece to Dan Carlin's.

[@stanstanislav1471]

Thank you "Elmarby". You are CORRECT! Montemayor is awesome and he goes very well with Dan Carlin!!!!

[@spencerpace8313]

Elmarby His Midway video is really good as well

[@billmamer4863]

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[@j.d.5626]

Indeed, excellent channel

[@noahswanigan9350]

Check out World War Two channels 10 episode compilation (I believe it's 10?) Pearl Harbor Hour by Hour, with digital recreations from I believe War Thunder of how the attack took place, it covers the attack, on both sides, the news, it's effect on the public, everything .. Probably the most in depth look at Pearl Harbor I've ever seen, and they've got their D Day episode coming up next year, that covers the 24 hours around the ENTIRE WORLD has to how the D Day invasion was having effects. Hosted by a guy named Indy Neidell, dudes a savant. Every Saturday morning they post a video, covering the war week by week, in real time, as it happened 75 years ago. It's truly amazing.

[@DeborahRosen99]

When I was stationed in Pearl Harbor fifteen years ago, I noticed that the majority of the tourists who came to visit the Arizona Memorial were Japanese. It always puzzled me, until I learned how little information about Japan's actions in World War 2 is available even now to the general Japanese public. Now, it's my thought that they know very and painfully well how it ended - they come to Pearl Harbor and walk the Memorial, watch the oil floating on the serene harbor waters above the rusted-out hull and read the names on the marble wall of the men whose bodies are just a few feet below them... because they are trying to understand how it began. Without that, it's hard to fully make sense of it all. Pearl Harbor was a national tragedy for the United States, but WWII in its entirety was a national tragedy for Japan, from its bloody beginning to its horrifying end. I thought about that one evening, a December 5th evening at sunset on the Memorial when I had volunteered to help the Park Service get the place ready for the December 7th observations, the Missouri a few yards away standing guard over her fallen sister ship and the cool breeze rustling the water against the Memorial and the wreck beneath just enough to sound like the indistinct whispers of ghosts, and I wondered... did all that really have to happen? The deaths of the men below, who are about half of the recognized death tally from that day, and the long bloody trail of foxholes and shipwrecks from Bataan to Iwo Jima, the deaths of two cities in nuclear flame, the generation of Japanese men lost and American men twisted by hatred... could it have been avoided? And that is they key question to all of this, if one chooses not to take the declensionist view of "inevitability" and accept human choice, however self-limited and limiting, as an active factor. Where were the inflection points that could have changed this? What might have happened instead if the tragedy of Pearl Harbor had been averted? And, in the way that history has of eventually singing the same refrain in a higher octave, would we recognize similar inflection points if and when they come again?

[@mrques2x115]

The fact that your comment hasn't been recognised, by the supposed history lovers of KZbin, should provide a solemn answer to your question.

[@joehubbard4405]

I don't think we will see them. Refer to Ukraine. How do you drop a nuclear bomb on a population? You have to work up to it. 🤦😳

[@jason.larsenthedanishgreek1226]

Beautiful

[@tommeliusbthaprofit6157]

I imagine it's a popular way to investigate their history because it's an example of real military fighting/'honorable' fighting. A smaller wart to go see than a place where they bayoneted babies/experimented on humans/spread plagues to cities. I'm guessing they wouldn't be taken very kindly to taking pictures of some site in Korea or the Philippines. Probably wouldn't be given a visa to go to China lol

[@professorchong2762]

Highest replay-value series on the planet.

[@franktothemax]

Dan Carlin is a national treasure. I can’t properly express just how excited I get when I see that you’ve posted a new segment, and this second part was glorious to listen to. Can’t wait for the third!

[@newschoolerbrent]

Mr. Carlin, Your podcastst are some if dopest decibel dope ive ever smoke. They are drugs for your ears. Im addicted to your audio coke. More is good. Signed, Everyone

[@MightyMerlin1]

Amen.

[@damagejackal10]

'decibel dope' lol

[@gatosyratones]

😸 meow?! .... prrrrr😼

[@ryanstephens9145]

I like turtles

[@lasthairbender1667]

*Clicks on the video faster than the 1941 offensives*

[@Deridus]

You must be insane, and why are your messages in code?

[@stormbreak13]

if Churchill could so clearly, and instantly recognize that Pearl Harbor meant "the war was decided" and that it guaranteed America siding with them, against the Japanese, why did the Japanese think - even for a moment - that small "victory" or no, Pearl Harbor would do anything other than make things much worse for them? Especially if it was considered acceptable to judge Japan as 1/20th the military potential of America?

[@nicholascecil6733]

@@stormbreak13 they were foolish enough to think they could scare us away from entering the war by destroying the majority of our Pacific naval capability. Shortsighted Japanese underestimated the American fighting spirit!

[@Dave-mk9bw]

That insane ending from Dan Carlin after reading Churchill's speech. End Quote. *Ominous boom*

[@MartinRodriguez-cu6vl]

@@nicholascecil6733 unfortunately for them, our aircraft carriers weren't at dock during the attack

[@mattdavis7876]

Dan never whitewashes brutality, but neither does he deny the humanity of the offenders either. And that's a tough thing to do.

[@jbfrodsham]

Love Dan. His take on history is wonderful. His voice and delivery is perfection.

[@rixd8226]

Just found out today that Dan Carlin’s Hardcore history may have been BANNED FROM iPhones that are used by Chinese users. My wife who is Chinese can no longer access this podcast on her iPhone but I can. We don’t even live in China. If you have Chinese friends, be sure they do not use QQ email for Apple App Store just Incase

[@Hadrexus]

Sometimes I think I can't be more disgusted by the CCP but they always manage to find a way

[@TheQuallsing]

#fuckchina

[@LAK_770]

Kind of ironic, considering he's critical of the IJA (realistic) about Nanking on this podcast, and almost universally sympathetic about China. Entirely different government though. But no doubt multiple points here depart from CCP orthodoxy, and any fact-loaded Western source is sure to be unpopular with those fuckwits.

[@lbfourtwenty4163]

@@LAK_770 They would dislike people hearing how completely dominated they were by japan maybe?

[@CDSutherland]

Communists

[@nomdeguerre7265]

All-in-all another superb Dan Carlin Hardcore History production. Agree or disagree with any detail, I'm sending this guy a few Yen. His products are wonderful literature and very passable popular history with credible scholarship and editorial honesty. Bravo Mr. Carlin. Another outstanding program!

[@kauster]

"As for the japanese? They would be ground to powder" wow, what an ending.

[@morecoffee998]

Mind blown within 10 minutes of a 4 hour podcast, ah yes, this is the Dan Carlin I know and love.

[@stephen9869]

*Thank you Mr. Carlin!!* Looking forward to listening to this podcast in my new job as a trucker, please keep 'em coming!

[@dfiala9890]

This is probably not the best time to get into trucking.

[@yomomz3921]

Yeah, I just got off the road myself. I'd say, save for a rainy day. Whatever you think you'd need if your job ever went * poof *, double it. Also, Dan's a stellar road companion. Check out the back-catalogue at DanCarlin.com if you haven't already. 👍

[@arrinmixon5190]

Fantastic again Mr. Carlin, I really could visualise the stampede in Shanghai and was incredibly touched for the Chinese lose of life. It really does help ones understanding of the way there society is organised today, in regard to its strict drug laws and military parades. Thank you

[@dcred123]

What a Dan Carlin way to start the episode about Japan, a little bit of Babylonian sacking for context "I'd *like* to make a 3 hour episode..." -Dan Carlin on a 4 hour video

[@SivakAurak]

One of these days he's going to start a show without bringing up Babylon or the Mongols. One of these days...

[@Healermain15]

@@SivakAurak And then he promptly brings up the WW1 trench wars and the WW2 Russian front.

[@escott3829]

Yeah.. History STARTS The Day before the day of which you are Briefing.

[@alecro2112]

That beginning when he perfectly summarizes what’s happening in China with their Muslim minorities. He even name drops China, and boy was he right.

[@ranchero1707]

China's been doing this exact thing for millenias, even before the communists

[@Rickblaine1942]

Funny how you are concerned about muslim populations in China but like most Americans you don't give 2 shits about the Christians and Jews in North Africa and Middle East. Christianity and Judaism are Middle Eastern religions yet until 1948 there was not a Jewish country in Middle East and to this day there aren't any Christian majority countries. What about those 2 groups that have suffered so much at the hands of the muslims? What about the Indians that were slaughtered by tens of millions by the muslims?

[@alecro2112]

Rudens Sinjari I don’t like any form of human suffering, I don’t like that Jewish and Christian religious minorities have been persecuted in the Middle East, and I don’t like how millions of Indians have died to Islam either. I’m not defending Islam or any other religion, I just don’t like minorities being persecuted and people killed over religion, or human suffering in general. The difference is that what you’ve mentioned are past events, that suffering cannot be undone, unless you have time travel. But the suffering in China is happening now, something can be done about it. It would be very hard to get China to change their ways, but it’s not as impossible as changing the past.

[@Kunfucious577]

@@Rickblaine1942 yeah yeah. Same with feminists who ignore womans rights in the middle east or people who seem to ignore slavery today in libya. Kind of sick of the preachingbfrom people who dont do anything about it themselves.

[@danielbylund8937]

Well, trouble always seem to arise wherever individuals following that faith congregate in larger numbers.

[@ThaBukkakeCatapult]

This dude is such a treasure! All the love from Finland!

[@PhoenixT70]

3:58:11 is quite possibly the single best excerpt of this entire series.

[@nfsm07]

What a fucking quote. He could really string some words together that old codger....

[@brolaireofastora5293]

Great timing, got a 3.5 hr journey ahead of me tomorrow!

[@kingnothingx7890]

Have fun being traumatized

[@xczechr]

Did you sit in the car and finish listening for 30 minutes after arrival?

[@Dave-mk9bw]

@@xczechr Yeah did you?

[@joshuacarr6517]

@@xczechr Yeah did you?

[@AndyDSmithuk]

How can one man talking for 4 hours be so engaging!? Obviously he's got some great source materials but his delivery just sets him apart from the rest.

[@robgoose8126]

Woohoo! Ive listened to Blueprint twice since Armistice Day and finished Kings of Kings today. I love your content Dan, keep up the good work!

[@TrevorKeenAnimation]

My father spent his childhood in Tiensin (now Tianjin) in the 1930s and was there when the Japanese occupied the city. He has many stories, probably the best of which was on the day after the Pearl Harbour attack. To make a long story short, two Japanese soldiers burst into my grandparents' house with machine guns but didn't shoot anyone. They just boasted about the Pearl Harbour attack, got drunk from my grandfather's liquor cabinet, stole a few things (including a set of brass finger bowls, my father remembers) and left. My grandparents reported them to the officers in charge and some time later, there came a knock at the door. It was.a Japanese officer who returned all the stolen stuff and invited my grandparents to come and watch the two soldiers being flogged. We have other stories, worse than that. My father eventually made it to Canada, and for his whole life has never bought a Japanese car or TV or stereo or anything else.

[@Anomaly-uz9pr]

Your father was extremely lucky

[@nomdeguerre7265]

@@Anomaly-uz9pr Very.

[@RaidsEpicly]

Was hyped to listen to this and then realized I remembered NOTHING from last episode...guess I have to listen to part 1 again first

[@dragatus]

There are worse fates in life.

[@northspack]

Dude me too 😭

[@BubblewrapHighway]

Just did! I has forgotten so much about the early modern history of Japan. The First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War are particularly crystallized in my mind now.

[@superposition3717]

happy to see an episode, sad to know another is not coming for like 6 months

[@RandomPlaceHolderName]

Yeah, the last 90mins of the episode really flew by and then this sound hit me 3:59:50 ... filled me with dread.

[@northspack]

Dude that's what makes them awesome, there work the the wait

[@method0123]

Here we sit... waiting... wanting....

[@JG-id5vi]

So you guys think theres a part 3?

[@method0123]

@@JG-id5vi yes, absolutely.

[@joshh8395]

Thank you Dan! I've been waiting for this and I'm just beginning a 12 hour shift. Perfect timing 👌

[@JohnSmith-mx8wp]

@Right-Wing Listen to it two more times!

[@truthbusteryeah5166]

The best in depth honest analysis that can be found, thank you Dan

[@jayf3675]

Wow Churchill at the end gave me goosebumps

[@somedangoutlaw8088]

Tears in my eyes

[@rickwrites2612]

This is so impressive. I am not someone who suffers audiobooks easily, and when I do read nonfiction, it tends more towards the natural or social sciences. If you had told me I'd listen, enrapt, to 6 episodes of 3 hrs each, specifically about the Pacific theater in WWII, I would never believe I'd have the attention span or continuing interest. Very commendable acievement.

[@rainbowspeqtrum6989]

Not gonna lie, as Dan was describing the destruction of Pearl Harbor with such conviction, I got legit goosebumps. Absolutely fantastic episode, and chilling reminder of something that happened not so long ago in the near distant past.

[@KnifeCursed]

You have by far the single best history show extant. Keep on doing what you do Dan.

[@SteveLaneGalway]

Decembuh 7th, nineteen fauty one, a date which will live. in infamy.

[@henkjanwolvega]

Steve Lane if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember we are not descended from fearful men.

[@lastword8783]

@@henkjanwolvega People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook.

[@wutang9641]

Last Word I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"

[@bobojangles22]

@@wutang9641 mr gorbetrov tear down that wall!!

[@SteveLaneGalway]

:-D :-)

[@leonleydershnayder6337]

Completely unplanned but I'm grateful to have finished this episode today, just two days prior to the date which will live in infamy. What a tremendous body of work!

[@kacijames6714]

Thank you! You're doing amazing work!

[@blahblahghost]

Holy shit, that Churchill quote at the end...

[@volusiasorange]

Shanghai resident, super interesting, know all the places you are talking about

[@rachelspanties5400]

I am jealous of the perspective you have by being there but hate this was an incident having happened. Stay Zen

[@Zwijger]

@@rachelspanties5400 Literally every place in the world has cool history in some way, whatever place you live in too, he has a better image of this story, you on another one, I don't think there's need for jealousy.

[@cowboyhank456]

Brilliant episode! I watched the first one on a windsurfing road trip through Europe last summer along with many others of yours, and it was such an experience to talk about these topics with good company while witnessing the changing landscapes from dawn till dusk.

[@prestonmoore2209]

I'm so excited, my commute is awesome now!! Thanks Dan.

[@notyourenemy7633]

What a great history of Japan's involvement leading up to and through WW2. Good to get the back story in how, why, when etc. Wow, must listen to part 1!

[@maharathahkarmasu6463]

Where exactly do I find part one? 🤔

[@mikevieira8583]

It's eerie how well some of the discussion here fits Gaza today. 2 million people have no water. Will the world powers intervene? Will Israel decide to end their atrocities? Will either happen before genocide occurs?

[@samuelr.6046]

Can we get one on the Arab and the Ottoman Empire?

[@kevanbrose1356]

@DebbyAbqNM not the same at all

[@kevanbrose1356]

@DebbyAbqNM it was definitely a masterpiece that's for sure

[@robdela3632]

kings of kings is about persian/greek wars. not arab but a bit closer

[@rangerdoc1029]

I was just thinking this today

[@nomdeguerre7265]

Which 'Arabs'? The Umayyads? The Abbasids? The Fatimids? The Mughals? I think Islamic Spain and the Cordoba Caliphate might be a candidate for 'Fall of Civilizations' though.... The Islamic conquest of the Levant, Asia Minor, West Asia, and all of northern Africa and as far as the border regions of France, would make an awesome Dan Carlin podcast.

[@jp-ty1vd]

My Lai vs Nanking; not even close. Comparing a rouge company to a rouge army is apples to oranges, imo. I am not excusing the US troops for a second, but 550 people isn't even in the same galaxy as 250,000 (+/-). The Us soldiers left after 4(?) hours, the Japanese soldiers didn't leave for 3 MONTHS! It would be like comparing one person in a fit of rage killing his neighbor and a serial killer murdering 500 people over a lifetime.

[@JD-xo2wz]

Thank you Dan! Never stop doing these programs, they are immeasurably valuable and truly enriching. I can't wait for part 3, whether it takes six months or ten years.

[@UltiEd]

I haven't listened to the episode yet, I'm waiting for that perfect time. Dan Carlin time is Christmas time

[@williama.3752]

Amazing podcast. Podcast as a word fails to describe what this was. If you could revisit the pacific theater after war broke out between the US and Japan in a part 3 of this serie, that would be amazing. I learned quite a lot of things about the European theater, but so little about the Pacific side of WW2, that would be beyond great.

[@BattleBoots]

Man I've been so excited waiting for part two. Thanks Dan!

[@AQuietNight]

John Rabe fell on very hard times after the war ended. When citizens of Nanking found out about it, they raised money and sent food to help him along. The movie John Rabe is worth viewing.

[@JoshuaKevinPerry]

Anyone know where the Nazis documents on US industrial capacity can be viewed? I understand the US produced HALF the war materials, but I'd love to compare estimates with results.

[@Healermain15]

Half the materials from both sides combined no less. No idea where those documents can be found though.

[@gatosyratones]

If you’re in the US maybe the library of Congress otherwise it’s in Europe stashed in a museum.

[@Peterhistoryman69]

It's keep on so absolutly intens like you can read a history book, but Dan you take history on a total new level and please don 't stop

[@terrygrossmann2295]

Really thought provoking. What the Nazis did was bad. However Japan was every bit as bad. However Germany gets whipped for decades and Japan gets off relatively light. Many Japanese military in charge of POW camps who flat out murdered POW’s never even faced war crime courts. Plus we’re taught the Emperor was a God. His rule was not up for debate. Yet then we’re taught the Japanese military ran off and did what they wanted. So Which is it? In another KZbin historian talkies how a Japanese medical officer performed “medical test” on POW’s especially in germ war-fair yet he was never brought forth for war crimes because the U.S. made a deal that the medical officer turned over all his notes and observations in exchange for basically a wrist slap. There are many accounts where U.S. veterans have said it was very hard not to kill villagers in Vietnam then again in Iraq and Afghanistan due to no one warning them of an ambush or a trail/road being heavily booby trapped.

[@icecoldchilipreppers]

Its warfare...

[@tamalesftw]

I love how Dan reads quotes

[@cqduck667]

gosh darn American hero, Dan Carlin

[@elricofmelnibone425]

cqduck667 Fuck

[@CraftyChicken91]

Churchill's quote at the end gets my red white and blue, rock fucking hard.

[@TECHNOBOG]

Listening to the beginning bit of this podcast (minute 8ish) after the Russian invasion and you were completely right with the whole "ummm I don't know maybe sanctions or something" being the only response for the most part

[@TheFlameoftheWest]

I've been waiting along time for this but I'm certain it will be worth it. Thank you Carlin for the work you do

[@PiusOnes]

I clicked faster than *witty history reference about speed*

[@whoaitstiger]

_(Witty_ _reply)_

[@JB-op4ty]

Lulz

[@frasersnell6304]

I clicked faster than your mom

[@mebrlive]

Im cooking pork chops

[@bitgamer509]

Faster than Bill Clinton kicking Monica out of the Oval Office once he 'finished'?

[@ianv2733]

Carlin is the best of his breed, there is no question. Have enjoyed every single episode.

[@clintwhitney16]

I wish these podcast where louder.

[@elricofmelnibone425]

CLINT WHITNEY *were

[@codyrollins3894]

You gotta turn it up silly pants

[@brendanmcg8566]

Laughs in volume button.

[@dakotahmartin2584]

Dan Carlin is an absolute legend. Thank you so much for your epic and gripping tales. You are a fantastic orator and historian. I love your work and you deserve all the praise in the world. Your videos are a work of art! I've listened to every video on KZbin. Some of them 2 or 3 times. I bought Wrath of the Khans and plan of getting every video that you have to purchase that you have produced. You are a pro and an absolute legend. Thank you for the work you do!!

[@tarintino9911]

Listened to the podcast now for the KZbin!

[@renegaderats]

whenever dan uploads i make sure to hit like before i watch the vid so i dont forget after... he has never once made me regret that decision... thank you dan

[@kscnc5994]

Anyone else want Dan to do Vietnam from french indochina to their defeat of the khmer rouge?

[@nobody2021]

I have never felt much of an attachment to pearl harbor until listening to this. It puts it into such a relatable perspective, as an american. Dan carlin is a master story teller.

[@anurbanartist1428]

8:40 That aged well.

[@TheHistoryUnderground]

Elevating the podcast to an art form. Keep up the good work! Can't for episode 3.

[@victorivas4897]

excellent stuff, Dan. As always. Cheers from Romania!

[@MichaelLukash]

One of the issues Chamberlain that is largely forgotten: The British Military told him upfront: They couldn't fight Hitler in their current state. They needed time to prep troops around the world and upgrade their military. Hitler hated the Munich agreement, because it stopped his progress. Nevil Chamberlain knew that he was sacrificing his place in history and in politics. Churchilll damn well knew this: That's why Chamberlain remained in the government.

[@Dsmith551]

Hell yeah I'm pumped Dan!

[@stredent]

Thank you Dan. Your work never fails to impress me.

[@canamman111]

Listened to part 1 to the point of memorization.

[@Mixima101]

I really liked how he went in-depth about Japan's history and culture development to put WW2 into context.

[@SUPERsneeky33]

Dan, this is one of the best episodes you've put out! Wow. The way you wrapped the ending. It had me so pumped up I almost had tears in my eyes! Keep it up my man.

[@BringTheRain]

Episode 3 cannot come soon enough!

[@rangerdoc1029]

Had a 5 hour drive for work today & was delighted to see a HC History episode I hadn't listened to yet. Today was a good day.

[@anngo4140]

You know, I'm gonna stay up to 3 am to listen to this.

[@astroboy6515]

16 minutes in. Ive never heard of the My Lai massacre before, i think. Thank you for helping me be more aware.

[@unktheunk1428]

There hasn't been a hard core history scince LAST YEAR

[@elleneylers987]

I listen to your podcast, feeling like it's a page turner...so good....thank you.

[@sdbullion]

Thanks Dan for covering this often under taught subject matter. The few month long 1937 Imperial Japanese invasion of the then capital city Nanjing, China is to date still the largest documented GOLD ROBBERY in history (in that operation alone the Japanese took 6,600 tonnes or like 80% of the Official Gold Reserves the USA claims to have today). The Japanese did not have a central bank fiat currency financing mechanism like the German Nazi party did (Swiss mainly). Check out the 'Gold Warriors' book to see more sordid details. Was there a tacit agreement post 2 atomic bombs to not tell nor teach this Imperial Japanese story to westerners... save some face for this Japanese disgrace perhaps?

[@kensenkensen7297]

Not Robbery..... Spoils of war......

[@Healermain15]

@@kensenkensen7297 "Heavily armed robbery" then.

[@danielgyllenbreider]

The first 3 months of US occupation of Okinawa, 10 000 women were raped. Go to the entire japan and what american soldiers did there and number of course grow incredibly. War creates opportunities for the psychopaths among us on both sides. This is why we must always be against war and do anything in order to avoid them.

[@artsybugitch9261]

@@danielgyllenbreider *anything?*

[@RybecFromCanada]

There's something very comfy about playing Kaiserreich late night as the Japanese while listening Supernova part 1 and 2.

[@underpowerjet]

YES! FINALLY! Thank you Dan Carlin!

[@mIXsaz]

So just woke up, baked some eggs, sat down and casually, for the first time ever i guess, i hit Home button on youtube....and this pops up. My god what a great start of the day!!! ;)

[@Ivan-td7kb]

The people who wanted Japan to acknowledge its crimes is not just China, but most importantly South Korea, a democracy and an ally of the United States, as well as from secondhand accounts of Western missionaries and embassies. Make no mistake, the crimes committed by Japan during WW2 is as much a top down crime and not just caused by the troop's bloodlust. The attitude of the Imperial Army to treat enemy troops and civilians as subhumans has been drilled into the soldier's mindset as a way to fuel their aggression and fanaticism.

[@nomdeguerre7265]

Not to mention the Burmese, the people of Guam, New Guinea, the Philippines, and many other place 'liberated' by the Japanese military in WW2.

[@billyhighfill]

WOW!! Part one was ENTHRALLING!!! You have a gift my friend. I have high expectations for this episode!

[@andrewbleackley1832]

Arrrggghhh. To late at night. Well 30 minutes....

[@bvyup2112]

Exactly how I feel, I was going to go to bed... maybe not.

[@MrBeac0035]

3.5 hours later......ooooh only 30 min left

[@cannonfodder4376]

Well this will certainly be something to listen to over the week as time allows. I have been waiting quite patiently for it. Thank you Dan, I am sure this will be fantastic.

[@justmyopinion2333]

I love when dan reads ancient b.c. emperors propaganda in the voice dan feels an thinks they sound aloud.

[@RedsKinDK23]

This just made my whole next 6 months. How funny that I had just relistened to Ep. 1 a week ago, all the while anticipating when the next release would be. How epic that it would be a week later. Thanks Dan. Thanks Ben.

[@MrPanDacious]

Praise carlin

[@kurtkloster856]

I would disagree with comment "who would have seen an attack on us territory. 2:54" In "At Dawn We Slept" we repeatedly evaluated an air strike on Pearl Harbor. We also evaluated sabotage attack. At Hickam Air Base we moved the planes in tight to protect against sabotage, then moved them apart to protect against air attack, and back close to back apart. We tended to think that sabotage was the greater threat. Also in "At Dawn We Slept" American and Japanese strategists met on the same day (separately) and had the same analysis on an air attach. The Japanese fleet would have to sneek out of port, travel thousands of miles with out a boat or plane spotting them or having a major boat malfunction, and maintain absolute radio silence. The different came in the conclusion. It is risky, they will never do it. verses It is risky, lets do it.

[@SwizzleStickMcGee]

"If a powerful state started "Holocaust II" tomorrow - do you think we would do anything about it?" ::looks toward Uyghurs::

[@Shamman_komanch]

I'm glad Dan has finally acknowledged the possibility that we have seen previous parts in the intro.