The content recounts audacious and unconventional World War II naval operations, highlighting American ingenuity and daring in capturing and repurposing enemy submarines, alongside a broader reflection on the perceived terrifying and adaptable nature of American military tactics.
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Ethan, you 505. Uh, basically,
>> it's so much more degra. [laughter] >> Basically,
>> Basically, you
you
>> the rest of the internet already knows
this cuz I've told them.
So, America
came, one captain, I forget his name, he
basically concocts a plan of like, all
right, every time we sink a German
yubot, they raise the yubot up, the crew
evacuates, and then it sinks. I'm gonna
steal that next time. So, he assembles a
crew and he picks like his best
mechanic, his best electrician, his best
bomb guy, and he gets this crew of like
six or seven guys, and then he also
picks out a camera guy. So, as soon as
the Germans evacuate, all these guys run
in and they get inside the sub and they
start trying to repair the submarine.
That's everything's in German. And the
Americans are like, the Germans gave up
on repairing their own [ __ ] They know
what the inside has look like. They've
been trained on it. We're so good. We're
going to go in there and fix it anyways.
So, they go in there, they start
repairing this ship. They undo all the
scuttling charges. And then eventually,
they have to they have to end up
shutting the hatch. And at this point,
like the seven dudes are like the boat's
going to go down with them in it. They
can't get out. So, thinking fast, they
tie the yubot to the biggest ship they
have. I think it was a destroyer. And
start towing it. just to try to keep it
from sinking too far. The men on the
inside go in and they uh they detached
the turbine from the drive shaft but
left it hooked up to the generator so
that as the turbine was spinning it was
creating enough electrical current to
get electricity back inside the sub. And
they managed to keep this up and then
they tow it all the way to Bermuda. And
then while it's in Bermuda, they paint
it like an American ship and call it the
USS Nemo,
which is literally means no one or
nobody is what it means. And then uh the
funny story is they have the the captain
of the vessel and he's like he like got
up in the evacuation and it's been like
eight hours. Like as far as he's
concerned, the submarine blew up. It's
at the bottom of the ocean. He wakes up
in the hospital bed
>> and the [clears throat] captain of the
destroyer comes in is like, "Yeah,
you're going to talk to us, blah, blah,
blah blah blah." And he's like, "No, I'm
not." And all this [ __ ] He's like, "No,
we still have your sub." And he's like,
"No, you don't." "Yeah, we do." And he
goes back and shows him. He's like,
"Yeah, we're towing it right now." And
the dude just starts crying like,
"They're going to kill me. They're going
to murder my whole family for this." And
he's like, "Bro, by the time they find
out the chain of command's not going to
exist, you're fine. It's no big deal. [laughter]
[laughter]
>> Yeah. And then uh Yeah, they took it
over to the East Coast and then they
took it over to New York and they let
everybody tour it to sell war bonds.
Then they took it down to Philadelphia,
tooured it to sell war bonds. And then
uh they were just going to scrap it.
They were going to hit it with a nuclear
bomb like America did after World War II
with all the ships they didn't want
anymore. And
>> they a lot of [ __ ]
>> The commander of the ship is like, "Uh,
I I stole that. I'd like it back." and
his brother was on the Chicago city
council. So they raised money in the
city of Chicago paid to have the
submarine transported all the way to
Chicago and it's still there. It's the
last German yubot of that type in existence.
existence.
>> Holy [ __ ]
>> Yeah, I must have missed that video. My
bad. That's all me.
>> Also, God was so like the guy the
Germans jumped out left like a we're and
then they snuck in after or did they
shoot? going to be able to race this
ship. It's already sinking. And if we
put electrical bombs on it,
>> that's exact. It's like exactly. [laughter]
[laughter]
>> Wait a second. Why is there a good
BEHIND THIS? OH MY GOD.
>> The Americans are wave surfing with our
>> They're all up top having a good time
and throwing beers back and forth. I
can't believe they let the black ones
inside [laughter]
>> cuz they were at least it's no juice.
>> I know that they sent the camera guy in
to like take pictures of the sub in case
they didn't get anything else or
whatever. But also, it's just funny that
they sent the camera guy in. Like, we're
going to record it cuz we're about to do
some gangster [ __ ]
>> Wait, Eli, there had to have been a Jew.
There was a camera guy. Hollywood. [laughter]
[laughter]
It's Asian. Oh, never mind. Yeah, you're right.
right.
Plug all the holes in the boats.
>> Oh my. Why is
>> also terrifying with imagine you're a
private or a sergeant. It doesn't
matter. You're just in the military and
then you have random dude come up and
he's like, "Hey, we're stealing a yubot
while it's sinking." I'd be like,
>> "Okay." Well, I will say from firsthand
experience, depending
>> to pay,
>> depending on how much soju I've
consumed, I would be very willing to do
that. Um, I learned this in Korea. Like,
>> that's definitely not the sketchiest
[ __ ] submariners did during World War II.
II.
>> No, dude. Submariners are on a whole
other level. >> Uh,
>> Uh,
>> I mean, the entire time since it's been
invented, it's terrifying.
>> The USS Barb is the only Americans to
set foot on mainland Japan during World
War II.
>> Oh, yeah. They stole a what? They steal.
>> They didn't steal anything. They blew up
a train with an IED. >> Yes.
>> Yes.
>> This the submarine.
>> Yes. Showed how where the
>> the USS Barb I
I
>> I just love that it's called the Barb. [laughter]
[laughter]
>> Hey Barb, why don't you go over to Japan
real quick and blow up a train?
>> So Eugene Lucky Flucky was a
skipper of this ship. like the captain
of the ship and they were
>> the aliens would never believe any of this.
this.
>> Like are you just hey this is Lucky
Bucky. He's flying the USS Barb
underwater. It go on sorry so fake.
>> He's sinking all kinds of [ __ ] And I
forget the exact amount, forgive me, but
it was traditionally speaking in World
War II you could only be a commander of
a submarine. It was like three war
patrols I think that you were allowed to
go on. And the theory was by the time
you've done it three times, you're
either going to become too reckless or
too conservative. So you basically need
a new guy in there before he gets jaded.
But Eugene, Lucky Flucky, was like,
"Give me a fourth one." And they're
like, "You have the Medal of Honor.
You're our best submarine commander.
Okay, we're going to give you a fourth
one." And then he's like,
"Can I put rocket launchers on my
submarine?" They're like, "Damn it.
[ __ ] [laughter]
WE TOLD YOU DON'T BE RECKLESS. HE'S
LIKE, I'M NOT BEING RECKLESS. I'M NOT
GETTING OUT OF THERE. It's just just
more bombs on a bomb. What are you doing
here? So, he's pulling up to Japan
surfacing and firing rocket launchers at
like factories and [ __ ] blowing up all
kinds of [ __ ] and then just sinking
back into the depths. He's outside of
this bay in Japan and he's just spawn
camping. Every transport that leaves
this, he's sinking it. And eventually
he's like,
"It's taking too long. The the [ __ ] I'm
getting bored. Find me six boy scout."
Like he literally specifically chose
dudes that were Eagle Scouts and then he
picked a different guy from each like
section of the crew so that everybody
was equally represented and basically
made his own special forces crew. And
then under the cover of night, they took
an inflatable raft, went on to mainland
Japan with an IED that they made out of
a scuttling charge, buried it underneath
a bunch of railroad ties with a pressure
detector, and then hight tailed it back,
and they're just sitting out there on
top of the submarine watching as the
train comes. Train hits it. Apparently,
it blew the locomotive 300 ft into the air.
air.
>> They're the only guys to set foot on
mainland Japan in World War II. Man, if
you look to your right, you will see a
nice beautiful Tokyo LAST [laughter]
[ __ ] [laughter]
We as high as mouth of food ever. [laughter]
[laughter]
You know this. Okay, so here's like the
more that I hear about like Americans in
all the wars we we've all been in, it's
>> it must be terrifying to fight against
us. Like just I mean in general because
we're very we we either like blindly run
in and get ourselves killed or we live
long enough that we become smart enough
that we can get away with more [ __ ] And
the longer we live, like
>> I love the notion that there's some
mid-tier manager in the enemy's military
that's going to go up to a general one
day in World War II and sir, we've taken
down the Americans comms. You did what? [laughter]
[laughter] You
You
command from the men on the ground. [laughter]
[laughter]
by
>> that's what's holding them back.
[laughter] You monster.
>> They It's coms are down for 6 hours by
the time they get them back up. All
right, so the Marines are down to loin
cloths and body paint. The army is
scalping people. The [laughter] like
we're just It's all made up as we go.
>> American comms disabled. Lockheed Martin
stock plummets. Like [laughter]
war's going to be over, boys. I don't know.
know.
I just I just feel like it's that scene
in um in Call of Duty where you know the
comms go down and then there's just like
the American soldiers just walk into the
airport and are like no Russian.
>> Oh, [laughter]
you know it's going to be one of those
moments where everybody's just like we
can do what we want. [snorts] [laughter]
[laughter]
>> But Ethan, to go off of what you said, I
watched a video uh not too long ago. It
was Vietnam veterans from Vietnam that
were like talking [ __ ] about like how
many Americans they killed.
>> They were like, "Yeah, oh yeah." They're
like, "The Americans, you know, they had
a lot of air superiority, but they
weren't disciplined and they were easy
to kill."
>> And I was like,
>> "Look at the scoreboard to the numbers
that we [laughter] put on you guys.
Like, what are you talking about? Are
you sure about that?" Cuz we got stories
about dudes that didn't give a just kept
running through you guys like water through
through water.
water.
>> Wasn't it like wasn't it like two
million like potential fighters against
and then the US lost like 65 or 58,000
or something like that? Like it it was
>> like 70,000.
>> Yeah, it was a significant KDR. Like
America has a has a great kill death
ratio. It's just the whole nation
building thing we're not good at. We
haven't figured that part out yet
>> cuz nobody was ever supposed to do that. [snorts]
[snorts] >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. Okay, once we have that, you just
have to give us like it has to be a game
of who's better than who. Like Germany
is a perfect example. You've got
communism on Eastern Germany and then
you've got uh >> capitalism.
>> capitalism.
>> Oh my god, I'm [ __ ] Capitalism. Jesus.
Jesus.
AOC's boobies got in my brain and tried
to [laughter] steal my thoughts. You got
capitalism on the west, you know, on the
western side. And so we were like, we
can't we can't lose to the Russians.
What are we going to do? We're going to
send a million planes every day and drop
off enough food for that specific part
of the country that is surrounded by
communism and watch it flourish. So like
if if there was somebody in like Iraq,
if Iran decided to take eastern Iraq and
we had western Iraq, I have no doubt in
my mind that Iraq would be a paradise
right now.
>> You know, [laughter]
that's well just half of it would be half.
half.
>> Yeah. Sharia law Iraq and then [snorts]
capitalism Iraq and then eventually you
know the wall would come down or or the
burkas would come down and then we would
have all of Iraq be a phenomenal
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