Crazy History Stories ft. Jack Mandaville & The Fat Electrician - Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 150

[@charliewendt8410]

CODY ACTUALLY TALKED MORE THAN ONCE!!!! They grow up so fast

[@frankensteinracing3520]

Want a real laugh go and watch his stuff from like 6 7 years ago. His voice sou da so different

[@KatieIsCurious]

Right! I legit paused it to run outside to the Garage Marine and tell him what a *perfect* idea those field trips are....Jack can drive 😅

[@sukaenacornelius9285]

Idk why, its nostalgic to me. This is best podcast for me. Remember my husbands crazy military friends drunk and may or not may have been under the influence of a substance that I can neither confirm nor deny goes through the nostrils. I’d always keep my bed room door open because my husband would be so open and his friends incredibly funny like this. Its like 2016-2020 again for me. My husband and I are going to his best friends officer commissioning ceremony in july, can’t wait. Little beefy asian man we called kim jung un😂 his wife angie and I always worked out together and ran the 5k our bar hosted weekly.

[@TotallyNotTimothyMcVeigh]

"The more you tip me the stiffer their drinks are" Eli:"This is 93 octane..."

[@Volvith]

"Today we're drinking medical grade ethanol."

[@theadmiralchallenger6265]

110LL

[@eastsidebebop]

Brandon: "Hmmm... spicy..."

[@maniv100]

E85@@Volvith

[@gillygill89]

Its not military but my family walked next yo the train from texas to California thats how our family came to stockton ca

[@hexmare]

I have said this before, but I will say it again. I want an episode of Jack and Nick just going back and forth for an hour or two on history. That could even be its own series.

[@jonw7760]

word dude that sounds epic!!!

[@jacobbaxter5901]

It should be a semi weekly or weekly like hour long history back and forth just between the two kinda like a sister pod or side project

[@KeggerMisadventure]

Id pay to see that...Not alot mind you but yeah that would be worth it.

[@Fade_Bloodlace]

YAAASSSSSS🎉 PLZ!!

[@MsBritanie73]

Right!? History B.A. '95 Geeking right out with you.

[@DaveyJake]

So last Friday, I had the painful task of being a pallbearer for my niece/goddaughter who died suddenly. It's the most painful experience I've ever endured--worse than losing my dad back in 2010! Even with all the tears I've shed, this podcast coupled with a few fellow Drinkin' Bros are why I've been able to smile & laugh. While eventually, with time, I'll learn how to live with this pain, this podcast and the bros I've made through the community are making this painful time far more bearable! Thank you for bringing the laughs out of me! 🍻

[@corryburton9834]

God give you strength...your neice, is in a better place than us....God rest

[@Redrickson1]

We will see her at the feast.

[@KnawedOne]

💔 the worse pain imaginable. 💔 May the support of those around you, help. ♥️

[@WhiteIkiryo-yt2it]

I'm sorry for your loss, dude.

[@jazflanagan8693]

You said "community"; drink! 😆 Take care of yourself, my guy.

[@austenpursell7690]

My great grandfather is a WW2 vet turning 99 this year. As a child growing up he always had the most amazing stories. Still love getting to sit with him and gain wisdom from his mass knowledge of the world. Im very fortunate to have him around to tell my daughter these stories as well. Don't know how much longer ill have him around but very much enjoyed the 31 years I've been blessed with him.. Appreciate guys like yourselves bringing attention to real American history!

[@jamespotter3546]

I'm an Army vet,and have lost alot of people in the last few years, including my wife last year. I wanted to personally thank y'all and y'alls hard work. This show cracks me up. If it wasn't for you guys and weed,I'm still here. Thank you for the laughs. And thank y'all for all y'all do and hard work. And God bless y'all 🙏✝️

[@unsubscribepodcast]

We are glad you are here brother. Keep crushing life and pushing forward. You and everyone else will always have our support

[@nubbyfresh5623]

Glad you're still with us man❤

[@DocGamerGirl]

Keep pushing brother you got this we belive in you

[@cbulldog22]

stay strong man, youre a good human♥

[@stillsaltydeadguylul7318]

o7

[@hessex1899]

My dad, a LEO for 37 years, had to take a foreign language class at a community college to fill some requirement to get promoted. His German language teacher was from Argentina. That dude was, in his words, no way born in Argentina.

[@shamanosarcasm9800]

We had a guy in our hospital last year, wife swore he was from S. America but he had distinct Germanic facial features and in his dileirium, spoke fluent and flawless German... 🧐🧐🧐🧐

[@aurorauplinks]

@@shamanosarcasm9800 could just be genetics... and how he was raised in his childhood... in nazi germany... i mean... south america.

[@JSp4wN]

Yt just asked me to rate your comment.. just a heads up. Cheers.

[@hessex1899]

@@JSp4wN Huh. That's weird. Thanks for whatever rating you gave me. :)

[@JSp4wN]

@@hessex1899 I thought it was weird too, that's why I commented. Gave you 5/5, I assume most of us unsub fans get fucked with by yt moderators (I know i do atleast). Don't need to give them anymore reason to delete our comments and shadow ban us. Cheers Hessex.

[@zachcooper9721]

"I just got a water bed, this is awesome" definitely sounds like an Amazon review 😂

[@SchwarzeskabelGWP]

I laughed so hard at that comment

[@JBCPuppydaddy]

Literally crying laughing😂

[@sukaenacornelius9285]

“Not that I had anyone to spend money on before” 😢

[@ManBearPig3]

Jack is that one unhinged friend that you all love to have around.

[@sukaenacornelius9285]

😂 imagine being a military wife. Its a podcast every weekend except I’m trying to sleep but crack up in laughter from listening so then I make them turkish coffee after not being able to sleep from their loud butts, and I purposely always blamed my husbands best friend. Kin jung un, aka kevin orr, short asian man that laughs louder than the nukes that US dropped on Japan and is half Japanese and half American marine I say you😂 angriest asian I have ever met in my life. We going to see him fly f35s in November now. Went from enlisted to officer. His poor wife Angie is one of my best friends. My husband is out now but god do we miss those drunken times. We are going to see his other friend’s chief ceremony too, hopefully. Seeing another one of my friends put on my husband’s friends chiefs cap in the Navy. It feels lonely for my husband alot, but I put this on so he can hear the laughter I always heard when trying to sleep😂

[@davecrupel2817]

Unhinged, and super educated & intelligent!

[@sukaenacornelius9285]

That is a guy of my type to a T. Fetish type. Wacky hair, bald head, hairy everywhere else. Crazy and knowledgeable.

[@esk8er900]

“You guys don’t attack at night cuz u don’t have nods, we don’t attack at night cuz it’s bad lighting… we are not the same!!!! Perfection!!!😂

[@MsBritanie73]

Jack's baaaaaaack!! I'm already cracking up. First statement: "I'm sorry I smell like cigarettes." 😂. Second : "I'm an alcoholic." Jack is the best!!

[@lordpumpkinhead265]

He does look like the uncle that reeks of cigarette smoke and beer.

[@grady1134]

I love this knife and I just got a new water bed. 😂

[@MsBritanie73]

@@grady1134 it's that seeming randomness that throws off the non ADHD thinker. It flows perfectly in our minds.

[@MsBritanie73]

@@lordpumpkinhead265 I'm that Aunt. -beer +ganja

[@ChronicBronchitis-mz2vn]

@@grady1134 I lost it at this point. Then I saw the shirt he was wearing. Priceless!

[@sirthoakinshield2073]

My great great uncle (great grandmother's brother) was the person to import the Danish Windmill that currently stands in Elk horn, Iowa. After a trip to Denmark in 1975 he decided that he wanted to bring one of the windmills back to the U.S. and through the help of the town he was able to raise enough funding to purchase a windmill from Denmark that was first built in 1848. It was then dismantled, numbered and shipped across the ocean; it was then painstakingly rebuilt piece by piece. It remains to this day the only authentic working danish windmill in the States. Shortly after its purchase and export to the U.S., Denmark passed a law that stated that windmills were no longer allowed to leave the country.

[@benjaminpaull247]

During ww2, my grandfather was a ship's doctor. During the invasion of Sicily, he removed a live rifle grenade from the stomach of a captured Italian soldier. They cleared the whole sick bay and lined the walls with mattresses. He successfully extracted the grenade from the POWs stomach, placed it in a cooking pot, and dumped it over the side of the ship. My other grandfather flashed Winston Churchill. An event my grandmother has a painting commissioned of.

[@aurorauplinks]

a glorious day for buttocks everywhere, they so rarely get to greet great political figures.

[@headwound04]

You're grandfather was badass and is why grunts get mad when any danger is pointed at doc 🫡

[@joelb8920]

Ok I just posted a comment about my Gpa in WW2 and yours completely takes the cake 😂

[@jacoblansman8147]

@@headwound04 both of them sound badass. Not everyone got to flash Sir Winston Churchill and get the event painted!

[@Ron-d2s]

@@jacoblansman8147 The real question is did Winnie flash back?

[@mikschultzyevo]

My son and I regularly watch Nick's videos. We binge them all of the time. They make us laugh, and often create more conversations for us.

[@chrislepera6541]

My dad was in the navy for about 20 years. He didn't see any combat, but instead managed to get involved in alot of secret projects. I only found out about them when the projects became declassified. One instance was watching a documentary on the railgun project and my dad walked in the room, said "anchoring that thing was a bitch" then walking out.

[@bakearound7404]

My favorite part of my husband's grandpa's korean war paraphernalia is a photo he has. It's completely blurry, but you can make out that theyre on a road, and there's a road sign. You cant read it, because its so blurry, but the road sign says "Dont stop, enemy in the bushes". He had to get a photo of the sign, but of course, they couldnt stop. So now he has this blurry photo that he pulls out, every holiday, to talk about.

[@jonathanglock390]

Have a grandpa with a similar story, just his takes place a bit after the korean war. He was stationed on the DMZ during Nam. Country still looked like a war zone even after close to a decade. From the stories he told, it was still dangerous even after the ceasefire. They would cross the DMZ and set landmines on patrol paths at night. He almost got grabbed by a group of NK soldiers who snuck across the DMZ. One of them pretended to be hurt and lied in the road while the rest of them hid in a ditch. It's the middle of the night and way too close to the DMZ for it to be locals since there was a curfew. He was driving so he floored it and wouldn't you know it, the guy magically was fine and he move at the last second. All his buddies came running out of the bush. When they sent out a patrol they never found the group.

[@RichardMcnichols-h1s]

My historical Family story: My great great grandfather was not a Civil War vet, he enlisted into the fight as a southern soldier and promptly took his gun and supplies and left to go explore South America because he felt it was a better use of his time. While exploring he acquired a bunch of gold and artifacts of native origin despite having just terrible luck the entire time and basiclly staying sick and hungry most of his adventure. When he received word the war was over from a cousin he had kept in mail contact with and heard the north had won he set off for Springfield where he still had family. On his way he was robbed in Panama by thugs and again in Mexico by the government sustaining "minor wounds from gunshots" making it back to Springfield with only a handful of his treasure and notes. The rifle he carried is in my safe along with a notebook. Lord Baltimore is also apparently one of my ancestors on that side of the family. The other side is one of the first families of Texas proceeding even the old 300 by a significant amount

[@deep5811]

The world needs "Jack and Nick do history" 100001%

[@x2Dubz]

Nic*

[@matthewbender5724]

Should be Nic doesn’t know Jake about history

[@matthewbender5724]

*Jack. Fat finger typo

[@charliecurfman8859]

Oh FUCK YES!!

[@charliecurfman8859]

@@x2Dubzalright we get it. Fucking name police.

[@tambrekay]

I am a direct descendent of one of the last witches to be burned alive in Massachusetts. My great grandma hunted down her whole family tree by hand, this was no ancestry bs. Our lineage in America started from two sisters who were stowaways on a cargo ship from communist Russian. When they got here they just imbedded themselves with another family to get into the country and then they just went off on their own. They were 6 and 4 years old. Love you guys ❤

[@TunaFish1701]

Background info: I am Mormon. I am the 5th great grandson of a paligimist named Archibald Gardner. He had 11 wives and 22 kids. 2 were adopted. A different 5th great grandfather crossed the plains with the Mormons, and Indians attacked their company. He got an arrow through his neck. There are 2 stories, one says that someone helped him out and pulled it out and the other one says that they pulled it out using a pair of blacksmith pliers. My 5th great grandmother towed a cannon across the plains in her wagon, which she was worried about it falling apart on their way there. That cannon was used as the first pulpit when they arrived in the salt lake valley. The cannon is currently in the church history museum in Salt Lake City. I also have a great grandfather that sunk a ship in a bay in Oregon (I forgot which one) I got a lot more. These are just ones off the top of my head.

[@steventaylor6881]

Wow, no kidding. Another LDS member that watches these demented people lol. Ive been LDS all 32 years of my life

[@TunaFish1701]

@@steventaylor6881 LOL

[@rustyshackleford9017]

your clan was pretty rude to jim bridger

[@TunaFish1701]

​​@@rustyshackleford9017 can you explain? I don't know him off the top of my mind, but a quick Google search tells me that he was an American mountain man. He did a lot of exploring and trail blazing. He was actually one of the first men to explore Yellowstone. The only thing that said anything about Mormons, is that he served as a tour guide during the Raynolds Expedition headed to Yellowstone.

[@rustyshackleford9017]

@@TunaFish1701 ole joe /brigham young and the gang showed up to jims fort and forcibly removed him under threat of harming him and his family. bridgers fort was standing long before the mormons invaded the area. the morons protested his sale of liquor and relationship with the natives. they used the fort to raid native villages and wagon trains during their violent "war hysteria" days

[@eastsidebebop]

Why does Eli just bring out the absolute best in everyone? He is the most wholesome, foul-mouthed and ornery man on KZbin!

[@Flash_Flood44]

I have met Eli and got to hang out with him for a little bit and he has exactly how he is on this podcast. Such a good guy.

[@nubbyfresh5623]

I feel like a parent trying not to pick a favorite child but out of the whole unsub crew Eli is just hands down my favorite. I absolutely adore the rest of the unsub crew but like you said he has this magical ability to bring out the best in people.

[@calnonyobeeeswax9349]

He can’t shut his mouth

[@bigfudgegaming9359]

Love me some Jack! He reminds me of a crazy uncle that passed away some years back. Love this podcast. I look forward to it every week. Keep doing your thing boys

[@spondal1]

For folks not from Minnesota(or are and don’t care about the history), his ancestor is ridiculously important and impactful. It blows my mind Jack is related, and glad him and his family preserve that history.

[@WHEELZCUSTOMKYDEX]

This podcast is really the only time Minnesota gets mentioned, and im ok with that. Born and raised central MN. Im only 3 minutes into the episode

[@destructiondude181]

isnt Pratt a township in southern MN? is that also a relation?

[@kevinnulph]

My grandpa on my mom's side was Patton's radio operator, I didn't find this out until after he passed away a couple of years ago, he never spoke of his time over there during the war, just said he didn't want to talk about it, any time he was asked.

[@TheShields420]

I’ve always said that Jack belongs in a Rob Zombie film. He’s always reminded me of a Captain Spaulding type character. The man is a legit great actor. Glad to see ya @ the table Brutha!

[@zerocool4835]

You know I didn't know how to word that in my mind....but that's 100% spot on... that's a bucket list thing to see him play a role in a rob zombie film

[@ryandoyle825]

On my dad’s side. My great grandmother was a captain in the British military, my great grandfather was a sergeant in the US Marines during WWII. They met on a base and had to get permission from the British Parliament to get married because she outranked him. ALSO, she was like 4’9” and he was 6’5”, any time they’d argue, he’d pick her up and put her on a stool to “be at his level” 😂😂 My mom has trophies that my great grandfather brought home and has a lot of documentation from her side. From what I’ve heard, I had family on both sides of the civil war

[@Ron-d2s]

I'd want to even it out too, do you know where a 4'9" woman hits a 6'5" man...😭

[@Sptn051]

My family has been here since 1737 when Phillip Fenstermacher II migrated from southwestern Germany. Dude had 8 sons and they fought for American Independence. From there the family spread to NJ, OH, GA, PA, and CA after the Civil War in which the family fought against each other. Fast forward to WWI and WWII you have Fenstermakers fighting Fenstermachers during both conflicts. There's a Fenstermaker on every war memorial wall in D.C. and I'm proud to have carried on our military tradition.

[@kaminsod4077]

My family's story is pretty similar. Ancestors moved from the province of Hesse to Pennsylvania in 1750. The first patriarch of the family had ten kids who all survived to adulthood, and his eldest son had ten kids, so now we're spread all through the Midwest, with me being an outlier in North Carolina.

[@YTM117]

My grandfather served in WW2 in the pacific theater and he had some seriously WILD stories that he would tell me when I was young. He received 2 purple hearts and had a couple Japanese medals that I have today.

[@dwaynecossey4867]

I’m 54 years old and have studied many aspects of history and love to watch Fat Electrician’s take on history. It’s fucking fantastic.

[@Real_Mick3y6]

Crazy family story time, as requested. My grandpa (born 1934, 89 years old) was born in a German village in Hungary. When the Soviets came through they were all forced from their homes in to East Germany, but his dad and older brother had already fled to America to escape the drafts during WWII. They luckily were neighbors with a border guard and were able to bribe him to cross into West Germany. They finally made it to America in 1955 where he joined the Army to get his citizenship. Ironically he was immediately stationed back into West Germany.

[@xxxthe_poop_banditxxx4374]

Cool

[@jacobjohns6047]

Family friend of mine was a soviet rail station gaurd manning the tracks in 46 when a train loaded with prisoners (ordinary citizens) was on its way to a siberian gulag so he flipped the tracks and sent them to Geneva where the Americans where controlling. He ended up denying that he flipped them and they had no evidence but still placed him in a gulag where they were building roads into northern arctic bases they were laying bodies from an undocumented genocide in 2 rows head to head with the feet sticking out and they were forced to tar and chip over them he was finally released after stalins death when the political prisoners were released

[@Real_Mick3y6]

@@jacobjohns6047 Soviets were absolutely horrendous. They make even some of the Nazis look like nice guys. Amazing he got out alive.

[@lawdmcnuggie189]

My family moved to the US in the 1680s, to escape persecution form the catholic church. they were apart of the early protestant movement, they became Mennonites. Once in America they settled in the Dutch Lebanon valley in PA, where I live now. Where they farmed...for nearly 350 years. No military service, nothing of even remote note. Just farming and being Mennonites.

[@kinocorner976]

My ancestors were kicked out of Ireland and their land for being a supporter and combatant of the King, a “Cavalier.” We were forced around 1655-1658 to come to American. Settled in Virginia, fought in the American Revolution. Moved to the Midwest, fought in the war of 1812, settled in the Midwest, fought for Union in the Civil War. Moved out West. Met up with the other side of my family. Since then, family member of mine has fought in WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, DS, and War of Terror.

[@aurorauplinks]

@@kinocorner976genetics and upbringing. some people are natural born to war or raised to become it, very impressive.

[@airborneofficer2640]

@@kinocorner976I think some of mine kicked out yours, I had some who were lieutenants with Cromwells army in Ireland, that then left and came to America after Cromwell died and the Monarchy was restored

[@airborneofficer2640]

@@aurorauplinksThat’s how mine was, from Cromwells army, to militias in the states, to one that had 5 sons in the continental army, all the way to my grandfather who was the last one to serve

[@chris76346]

Great apple pies

[@Ninjaassassin1989]

As a second generation Mexican in LA I got a tear in my eye seeing the 32 oz modelo

[@mightymikethebear]

The sight of that quart made me thirsty.

[@davidranlet5019]

My family got to America in or before 1667. We have proof, as there is a document stating "Charles Rundlett was found drowned in the (I can't remember) river today, obviously taken of drink. So the guy got drunk at the bar and tried to swim home. Great start. We owned a (at the time) rail car company in Laconia NH. And we have been in AND on the winning side of every war America has even had. We didn't participate in Vietnam. If America is like....idk...15-1, we are 15-0. So when we puck a side in the next one...pay attention. Thanks for the great show guys.

[@madeline5138]

I just actually got into ancestry and a lot of my family came to America pre-1776. One lineage came in 1638 from English Barony, so 18 years after the Mayflower, and he was a huge player in Concord who was very involved in the community with signing deeds, his signature was on a lot of things. The English Barony also had married a French princess, my 14th-great-grandmother. Then I had three naval captains as a part of my family who fought in the War of Independence. Lots of marines and navy in my family. My sixth great grandfather was Captain Silas Wheeler which who was captured four times by the British: twice by land, twice by sea. He got smallpox which left him bald for the rest of his life, but he survived that. An Irishman helped break him free when he was captured the last time by the British and he named his son, my fifth great grandfather Grattan after the Irishman and he became a Senator. It also breaks my heart knowing that on my mother's side there was a lot of Civil War involvement. I was worried because her family was largely from the south, but there were a lot of union boys in her family which is a relief. The sad thing is that there was one confederate, but his sons (at least the one that I'm descended from) were union. The sons fought for the right cause, but imagine potentially having to kill your father.

[@breadmanwalking]

"Somethings wrong with that boy...don't shoot 'im" HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@HarryBase63]

Eli punching himself in the face with a silicone fist was the ad read I didn't know I needed! 😂😂😂

[@andrewhall2235]

Like so many other families, I had ancestors fight on both sides in the American Civil War. One great-uncle was a Union Cavalrymen. Served in Ulysses S. Grant's cavalry unit before being promoted to head the Union Army. My family still has a 1st edition print memoir of Grant, gifted to my ancestor on his birthday in 1902, shortly before passing away. My other great-uncle fought for the confederates. At wars end he was a prisoner, and faced a long walk home to Florida from Point Lookout, MD. He made it as far as Savanna, GA before succumbing to disease. His nephew who was searching for him arrived a mere 3 days too late, and couldn't find his grave. Instead he gave a ride home to other veterans from his home town. Becoming a local hero, but still without the one he searched for. The family searched and lived in anguish over their missing loved one for 132 years before his grave was finally located, and DNA test proven. After 132 years, he was finally brought home. Laid to rest beside his father, a corporal from the war of 1812. His brother who survived the war, and with his wife, and his son. Whom he'd never met. Even though he was a confederate veteran, the funeral and procession saw thousands of people. Attended by of course the Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy, but also by representatives of the Buffalo Soldiers paying their respects. Which I'd say speaks volumes for how the country used to feel about the Civil War. From his funeral notice, "After 132 years, Pvt. Benjamin F. DeVane has, at last, come home to Florida".

[@TheFullmetal88m]

My family had been fighting due this country since the revolution... find out my 4xgreat grandpa fought for the south. Fought and was captured at Gettysburg, died as a pow. I fell pride/ weird that I feel as passionate as I do about our country.

[@immortallegacy100]

I think my craziest family story is the fact that my grandfather fought in Korea, and seeing him off was his great-grandmother born in 1850 and later died in 1950 (same year he shipped out). She saw her father and brothers fight in the Civil War, and later saw her great-grandson off to Korea. She lived to be 100 years old. Pretty crazy to think of all the history between 1850 and 1950.

[@MiaogisTeas]

From the 1730s to the 1930s was the best time period

[@willmorgan956]

Jack’s KZbin should be him reading those tweets and civil war journal quotes. Lol Nick should also write a history book!

[@trailblazer632]

I want a compendium of nicks conversations for his history degree where he just ROASTS the young commies 😂 even better if he narrates it for an audio book😂

[@KH-rt3ef]

History graphic novels, to drive home how absurd things get sometimes. Plus a lot of my friends are illiterate af.

[@SmokeyOwOs]

Probably the most perfect timing, I currently got hit with a $1,033.54 repair bill for my car after I just used all my taxes to pay my credit card, currently not trying to cry at my local les schwab. Thanks for giving me something to listen to.

[@sonofbelz]

Here's my crazy family story. My grandfather was born in the 30s and raised by a family of Nazi sympathizers, they hated Jews. So naturally he grew up hating Jews, knew every slur in the book and used them liberally. He even called me ugly once because I have a big nose and would say I look like a Jew. Well, with things like 23 and me existing and my Aunt doing a ton of investigation into our family history. The biggest ironic twist is it turns out that my grandfather was adopted and he had no idea, the kicker was that he was born to Jewish parents who had immigrated to America during WWII and chose to give him up for adoption due to being in poverty. He died 2 months later, i don't think it was related as he already had failing health, but if a doctor told me it was I would've believed them.

[@connormccullough2040]

The short version, my great uncle was in one of the first EOD units in working his way from Germany to England. And my Grandfather was one of the judges that disbarred Spiro Agnew.

[@TheGraffiti600rr]

"The more you tip, the stiffer their drinks" omg! That would be epic!

[@chrislepera6541]

Halfway through it's just a handle of jack Daniel's with a drop of cola syrup

[@zabburch2770]

You guys can always make a guy down on his luck smile, thanks y’all

[@manjisaipoe517]

My great grandfather and his brothers immigrated from Germany in the late 1860's through New Orleans, and then moved up the Mississippi. He ended up a bar owner in Milwaukee, and ended up owning an entire block long street front bar. My grandfather and his two brothers were tinners, during prohibition, they created alcohol plants, usually in dairy barns, that were 32' tall with the crossover between the 2 towers at 31'. They ran booze to Capone in both Debuke Iowa and Chicago, and my great uncle told my uncle all these stories in avideo interview for the family. At one point in LaCrosse, in the basement of what was the worlds largest cannery, they had 3 plants running at once behind a brck wall, all being fed by the workers above without their knowledge. To access them you had to enter the house next door and go through a tunnel to the basement. My great uncles were caught and did time, but my grandfather saw taillights in the ditch before turning into the barn they were operating in at the time, drove past and went home, and told grandma she had 15 minutes to pack before they headed to Western Iowa near Carol. Much more to tell, but I love history because of my uncles stories when I was young, and my father now owns a stamp gun 38 rimfire 5 shot revolver my great uncle says was one of Capones bodyguards, and was given to him by Al Capones own hand after someone had hit something coming to Capone on the south side of Chicago.

[@michaeldedering4345]

My great uncle was a tank commander in WW2 for the British and he had a artillery shell land in his tank but he was walking along side it because of the heat so he was the only one that survived. He ended up ranking so high in the military he worked in the palace

[@chrisherndon3143]

My grandpa on my mom’s side was a WW2 Marine. Fought through the majority of the war starting from the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He watched the Arizona sink, and saw the flag get raised on the top of Mt Suribachi.

[@Jdefran0331]

Got my black rifle coffee, briskets on the smoker, and the unsub boys on KZbin... it's a good Saturday

[@JoseGarcia-ii3ut]

Bro some brisket sounds so good right about now.

[@tankerboysabot]

Helping Evan recoup his donation money I see.

[@chrisdillon4576]

Most American comment

[@tankerboysabot]

@@chrisdillon4576 yeah if you support those who donate to democrats on a stupid ass bet.

[@evanlong5748]

@@tankerboysabot this is America. We can support who ever the fuck we want.

[@sproutpits]

In WWII, my grandfather was a tailgunner in a B-17 in the European theater. That's crazy enough if you know what that job was like, but I think the crazier part is what he did afterward. He dedicated his life after the Air Corps to education. He and his wife both taught elementary school. He eventually became a principal, superintendent, and for a while, he was the president of the National Association of Elementary School Principals (now the National Association of Secondary School Principals). Near the end of his career, he met President Ford in that capacity. He was humble to a fault. He never liked to talk about his own accomplishments, so everything we know, we basically had to drag out of him. But I have pictures of him with Ford, and people from all over the country came to his funeral to celebrate his impact in their educations.

[@Emerald_Wolf]

Great one guys! WWII, My Grandfather at 17 was a glider pilot. 5th one in on D-Day. Sometime after landing they took contact where he caught a bullet through his cheeks, blowing out his back teeth. Army replaced them all with gold teeth. He then went on to fight in the Korean War a short time later. The men of our past were built different.

[@apanickedseagull]

Listening to the stories the men of that era did and accomplished, I wouldn’t make it.

[@SuperKagin]

When my dad passed away, he was in the middle of tracing our family history. H was able to trace it back to around the 1400s. I have a great uncle that was the bomb loader for the Enola Gay and my dad was an aircraft mechanic during the 70s. I'm not exactly sure the time frame unfortunately.

[@JaylorKrend]

my great uncles were part of the iron brigade in the civil war. also my dad's destroyer was one of the the last to be torpedoed during the vietnam war, but he had his legs broken in honolulu a week earlier so all of his buddies in the boiler room died in the explosion... edit: note: FIREFLY IS THE BEST SHOW EVER CREATED EVER IN THE HISTORY OF EVER FOR EVER AFTER!

[@soggycracker5934]

My grandma was Japanese-American. Her family was put in the camps for several months. When they were released, her dad and brothers all volunteered for the military, and she assembled rifles for Remington-Rand.

[@DeanAndersonPost0568]

It’s always a treat when Uncle Jack comes back🫡🇺🇸

[@mithickwolf]

My wife’s grandparents moved into a home a couple of years ago and we found a signed copy of Mein Kampf and the grandmother wanted to display it on the book shelf in there German retirement home in South Africa. Long story short that book got lost in the move!

[@Clayne94]

I mean I respect your decision honestly, and totally understand the thought process. But my greedy ass would have tried to find a collector to sell it too. The books evil but money is still money lol

[@Seelenschmiede]

They were all signed by his secretary, not himself. So basically, the autograph is worthless.

[@Fade_Bloodlace]

What if, all this time, the secretary was the actual mastermind??? 🤣

[@thebfnoob9163]

My family has an awesome story in my opinion. Both my grandpa's fought in the pacific during ww2, and one of them actually fought at the battle of new guinea and the way the story was told to Me by my uncle, who was told by my grandpa, is in new guinea it was terrifying. The Japanese were starving, almost out of ammo and turning cannibalistic, and my grandpa and his buddies were told, if you die on the battlefield you may be eaten, so don't die. At some point my grandpa and his men got into a skirmish with a Japanese force and they fought long and until they had all exhausted they're ammo, and when they ran out of ammo they used they're knives and bayonets and helmet, and when they lost those they'd use rocks and even resorted to drowning they're opponents in nearby water areas, and my grandpa eventually fought and killed a Japanese solider who carried a samurai sword, it turns out he killed a samurai who had lineage far back into japans history. My grandpa killed him and kept his sword and a trophy and my uncle showed it to us. My grandpa went toe to toe with a Japanese samurai descendent and won at the battle of new guinea.

[@karlynbrinker440]

In my middle school history class we recited the preamble instead of the pledge of allegiance... I never questioned it until now.

[@petermuzzy5413]

A great ancestor of mine owned the bar on Lexington green where the battle of Lexington took place. I take pride in knowing my bloodline facilitated pre-gaming the American Revolutionary War. Context: Benjamin Muzzey, built and owned Buckman Tavern in 1710. His granddaughter married John Buckman, for which the Tavern was renamed at the time of the battle. A relative, Isaac Muzzey, was one of the 8 Americans killed in that battle. There is a pretty good chance that a great ancestor of mine was the one who fired "The Shot Heard Around the World". I like to imagine it was 'Old Man Muzzey' in the attic of the bar yelling, "Frometh Town Square!!" Quote from wikipedia, "Some witnesses among the regulars reported the first shot was fired by a colonial onlooker from behind a hedge or around the corner of a tavern."

[@mildly_miffed_man1414]

Holy shit, what a thing to have in your past.

[@So_Uncivilized]

I had a relative who was a 2nd Lt as a Merchant Marine during World War II. We found his foot locker with his uniform and discharge papers. The papers stated he, and two privates, were "Discharged under less than honorable conditions for stealing 420 cases of beer from the US Government." He was later the head long shoreman at the Port of Tacoma in his civilian life. Apparently he had the nickname of "The Godfather" which explains a lot.

[@spurdo4434]

Finnish dude here. One of my ancestors was ferrying soldiers to war during swedish rule. There was a mutiny on board and after he threw 14 men overboard the mutiny stopped. Also one of my ancestors was invited to the king of sweden's funeral. Apparently my lineage from my fathers side were pretty high ranking cavalry men. A lot of them were hakkapeliitta

[@aurorauplinks]

oooh hey, thats awesome, i am finnish also, though I do not know much of the history sadly, just a few tiny bits i come across in english.

[@spurdo4434]

@@aurorauplinks finnish yet you do not know finnish history... are you perhaps american?

[@kermitthefrog2578]

What a family history! Really cool.

[@aurorauplinks]

@@spurdo4434bingo. i just have what i find on american wikipedia. can't read the finish one which i really do regret. i started to learn finish as a child but a great grandparent from a different branch of the family didnt want me able to speak anything but english and demanded my mother not actually speak to me in it. soooo yea :s

[@erniemiller1953]

I scored a perfect on the ASFAB. Initially, I signed up to be a 19D Recon Scout in an Air Cav unit. 8 years later, I scored perfect on the flight prelim test. I wanted to be a forward observer in a kiowa. I almost got sworn in to be a medic.

[@iamrrspike7132]

Like many here, my grandfathers were WWII vets. One was a German POW spending 8 months in a camps after being shot down. The other in the Pacific island hopping. My great uncle serving as an engineer under Pattons command. It’s really amazing the history of our forefathers and how tied together all our histories are and the small world we live in.

[@longtallzach9]

You can’t just tease a jack and nick history show.... this has to happen like the sun rises in the morning

[@GantaiGames]

By far best part of the week whether I’m working or not I gotta listen when the new episode drops

[@IrishTechnicalThinker]

Happy St.Patricks day from Ireland fellas, although it's tomorrow have a drink and wear something green for the emerald Isle. God bless.

[@dreweisenbeis2396]

F.E. from Lodi, CA found so many arrowheads. I cleaned trout with one. Found a fort in the middle of nowhere. Left everything. Except for a really great one.

[@tyballard8195]

My great grandpa was in the 3rd wave on Normandy. Got off the boat, fired the first mag out of his M1 carbine before realizing he only had 2 mags, so he dug a hole in the sand and hit behind his helmet. Got blown up a couple weeks later, shrapnel through his brain, survived and lived until like 85

[@SaylerT]

Nic, I'm a member of a Gold Rush society called E Clampus Vitus, out of the Oroville/Paradise area. My great grandpa was a WWI vet who restarted it as a historical society.

[@sol_invictus1988]

My great grandfather was in the IRA. I have all of the documentation of his trial in Scotland (which is a war crime, taking a soldier and putting him on trial in a foreign country). We also have all of his IRA pension documents. He’s the most distant relative we have any details on

[@LunarLocust]

It's only a war crime if you lost

[@sol_invictus1988]

@@LunarLocustThere’s more nuance to the specific rules than what I mentioned, but winning or losing doesn’t factor into it. Should also clarify this happened in 1916, about 34 years before the Geneva Convention was even a thing so a moot point anyway

[@LunarLocust]

@sol_invictus1988 it's also not a war crime the first time

[@immortallegacy100]

Can we just sit Jack and Nick down and have them talk history for two hours? Jack's a living GTA character and Nick's that guy you have come to your house to fix something but ends up giving you life advice and a brief history of your own family lol.

[@Titanphoenix666]

You gotta tie Jack's shoes together so he can only shuffle around😅

[@Coeford]

Unsub having a short bus called the tism machine would be the greatest thing to ever come out of the internet

[@Sir_Clam_Hammer]

Jack's reaction literally made me tear up!!!!!!!!

[@mariokx250]

I love that at the exact moment that my brain said “I can’t continue watching this episode if that Tetris lamp keeps flickering” Eli walked over to fix it, and I could tell by his walk that it was way too distracting to him too!

[@Ironmanalexander]

Not sure if my comment was auto removed, but at 1:06:40 the warship you are taking about is I think the USS Sachem. It's been called a ghost ship of Boone County in Kentucky right off the Ohio River.

[@CPDheadstomp]

I’m a disabled Chicago Police Officer. I am shocked at our requirements to join. Narcotics arrest and misdemeanors are accepted!

[@oliviavanbrink]

Just out of curiosity, how does policing and disability work with each other?

[@lordpumpkinhead265]

@@oliviavanbrink My guess is that he likely works in a different part of the police department than what people usually think of (if he's disabled In a way to where he's not able to be a traditional police officer). In rural areas, police units are usually a bit of everything while in somewhere like Chicago there's dedicated task forces to specific jobs. Note to OP (if they read this): I'm not judging you in the slightest, I was just trying to come up with a solution to what the person I was replying to had asked.

[@erniemiller1953]

My brother researched it. My great grandmother on mom's side was a lady-in-waiting for the Queen of England. She met my great grandfather, an Irish fisherman who was in port in London. He basically said, "How would you like to join me in America?" and she hopped on his boat and they made their way to Iowa. That was in 1895. My dad's grandfather was a German Baptist preacher in München...Munich, Germany...who in the 1930s dedicated sermons to the evils of Adolf Hitler. When the heat got too hot, he sent his son, my grandfather, to Iowa and my dad was born there. Also, reportedly, great grandfather was a spy for the Allies during WW2. Dad fought in the Korean War. He never said he did anything. He came back and bought a farm. My oldest brother served in Viet Nam. He came back and whatever he saw destroyed his mind. He self-medicated with whatever got him high. My next brother was a Navy man for almost 20 years. I was an Iowa Guardsman. Then, in 1995, I was a contractor at the Pentagon. In 2001, I saw the plane that hit the Pentagon.

[@nathanjohnsomerville4506]

My Grandad was a Para, Couldn't make selection for SAS due to eyesight but got brought in to teach marksmanship. Up till the year before he died he still had current recruiters cards for the 3 regiments.

[@johnpaquin366]

This has quickly become my favorite podcast.... you guys are phenomenal... stay gold gentleman

[@shanes8341]

Nick handing Eli a regular modelo but in Eli's hand it's a large bottle had me laughing.

[@jonathanbrister9365]

donuts recruiter sending him to navy training was the equivalent of "I lied on my resume to get this job" lmao

[@GamingCeo420]

Very epic, Russian badger when?

[@3stacks_rt]

Bajor

[@goldwolfgaming7821]

Badge

[@Jared_7071]

Bedge

[@camffa-lk9mb]

We need the Russian Badger

[@dylanlevesque235]

Sadge

[@Sword_Boi]

The most exciting story I have from my ancestors is my great-grandfather was on the beach at Dunkirk. He got shrapnel in his leg from one of the Stuka dive bombs and was evacuated back home. He was pulled from the front lines and served the rest of the war in Britain in case of invasion. The rest of my family just kept to themselves. Irish-Scottish living working-class lives in Glasgow.

[@CheekyAccountant]

My mom's family is something else. My great grandpa was born in 1877. My great grandma was born in 1909 they had 5 kids. One of my favorite stories in the 30s My family delivered milk. That wasn't the only thing grandma delivered. She found out she was being cheated on and she would piss in the mistresses milk. Apparently, that went on for quite some time. My grandpa also like to get around but he was awesome. The night before my wedding my family and my husband to be were sitting around my grandpas table and he started to share stories from his time in the navy in the late 50s. My favorite story was the one where his ship made port then grandpa and 2 buddies pooled their money. They got 3 rooms 3 women and a fifth of whiskey for $5. My husband asked grandpa if the whiskey was for drinking or disinfection? Grandpa laughed and said both.

[@DeanAndersonPost0568]

With Ryden’s tism He would be great at brigade headquarters, drawing up battlefield plans

[@chrisbuttonshaw2088]

"Did he make a perfect scaled and detail table-top diorama of the battlefield out of these Intel pics???"

[@lowcorps78]

My grandfather is a WW2 veteran, still in good health at 97. He'll be 98 in June. I love this Podcast!

[@Mrsmith1082]

My grandfather raised his 2 younger brother after loosing theyre father at age 9. Dropped out of school to work and help support his mother and brother. Joined the national guard at 17 and deployed a year later. He ranked up to master Sargent in a artillery battalion that operated the m1 howitzer. Survived came home and became a firefighter and eventually became captain there at engine #1 in which he fought some fire 3 days straight with no sleep. Yes they're were built different and being a contractor for the v.a. I love hanging with some of my ww2 vets still around kicking strong, sharp and witty at 98 years old.

[@kylekiefer8345]

34:53 I'm a descendant of General Comfort Sage who fought alongside George Washington at Valley Forge. Washington was at his bedside when he passed away.

[@joshnaatjes6038]

Jacks that crazy uncle every family has that no one talks about

[@MerlinsBeard91]

My crazy family story: My 3x great-grandfather died young and my 3x great-grandmother remarried. She had two sons with her first husband and the boys did not like their new stepdad. So the boys ran off, hopped a train, and changed their last name. Meanwhile the town thought their stepdad offed the two boys and he got sent to the insane asylum. The local newspaper ran a story when the boys returned home after many years away. After my Nana passed, her brother stopped by to talk to us about her family. She was (unbeknownst to any of her children) raised by her Uncle, who (along with her father) were rum-runners during prohibition and had multiple close encounters with police and broke through multiple road blocks.

[@theweirdoofthegroup]

The lyrics for the new theme song: Say hi to Eli he's racially ambiguous And Brandon he'll take your guns and innocence And Nick he hates all fucking communists And Donut that's harder to rhyme but he's a really nice guy welcome to Unsubscribe

[@reggienotorious6824]

And Brandon he’s a Purple Heart recipient

[@davidcotton7927]

I am a direct descendant of a Knight of King James. For some time my family had a library and was shut down for having dirt on the Royal Family. I’m still trying to get more facts, but my family has a lot of history in England.

[@gregunplugged]

Don’t know old history but I have two great uncles that are military badasses, one is a retired CSM pathfinder green beret who fought in Vietnam desert storm and Iraq. The other was a naval officer who landed f4 corsairs on aircraft carriers

[@longshotfilms1]

My 2x Grandfather was in the 86th Indiana Infantry during the Civil War. On one of his first battles he was hit by a sharpshooter while marching. The round was either from a long range or under charged. Because a metal tin full of coins he kept in his coat stopped the round. Crazy story but we still have the tin on display at family reunions. We even have the cloth that was also in the tin along with the coins.

[@j0sh707]

Jack's the man!

[@TheBestVirginian]

4:45 Friends give friends knives, and kisses

[@twilightzone39]

On my mom’s side I’m related very closely to General Manuel Móndragon. He invented the mondragon 1908 rifle (featured in Battlefield 1), the first semi automatic rifle to be issued to a military, along with other rifles and a coastal defense cannon. He is also alleged to have been involved in the assassination of Mexican President Francisco Madero during the Revolution. My family has found letters and documents signed and addressed to/from him in their houses.

[@Homer890]

I’m from PA. My grandfather and his best friend both were drafted into the army during Korea. Both lived the Incheon Landings. My grandfather was infantry his friend was a tank gunner. Before the war his friend worked as demolition in PA coal mines, he then was a tank gunner and then went back to demolition. When my great grandmother wanted her basement made my grandfather and his friend detonated some TNT in the basement to break up the rock and shit down there. The kicker was she was inside the house. As the story is known she died never knowing how her basement was made.

[@TheBgBrd]

Any plans on having MRBALLEN on??

[@angelas.3645]

That would be cool actually