What are some of the other more surprisingly hardcore animals from history that have been used? >> Uh you got Wojtek, the Polish artillery bear. You've got >> What? >> The Polish uh the Polish were held POWs for a period of time, I think by the Russians, and then they got released to go fight back at the Battle of Monte Cassino. And like while they were on their way there, they picked up a I believe it was a Siberian brown bear. Named They named it Wojtek. And
uh >> Pretty sick name for a >> That was like their pet bear. And uh >> Are you [ __ ] kidding me? That's a man in a bear suit. That's not >> that's not a real picture, but like it's There's a lot of mock-ups of it, but like it really happened. They had a They had a pet bear that they were using to help just like carry ammunition and [ __ ] like loading it on its back. Well, the bear was smart, it liked them,
and it kind of like figured out like, "Oh, during the battle when it's really loud and the guns are going off, all the guys are picking up these big artillery shells and carrying them to the guns." So, it it learned it, and >> to help. >> it started doing that, too, walking artillery to the gun, yeah. And then uh there was another story where they like used it during an interrogation to scare the [ __ ] out of some guy. Like, "I'm going to feed you
to the pet bear." Yeah, like [laughter] Uh so, you got that. Sergeant Reckless is probably my favorite. Um >> Sergeant Reckless? >> Yeah. Horse. >> Okay. >> America's war horse, man. >> Okay. >> Um during the Korean War, again, um >> Hang on, they were still using horses during the Korean War? >> No. No, the Marines acquired one. >> What's that mean? What acquired doing what? >> They acquired it, okay? Um Basically, at the ass end of the Korean War, at the you know, the 32nd
parallel, basically where the border is today, it's very mountainous, hilly terrain. So, what was happening at this point in time is like diplomatic relations are going on, and Americans are basically up on on high points on hills all across the peninsula, and they're just trying to hold this line long enough to get this peace treaty signed. Whereas, the Chinese and the North Koreans want to punch through because they only have like 15-16 miles to get to Seoul. And if they can take over Seoul, negotiations are
going to go go much better in their favor. So, America's just trying to hold the line. And up top, these hills are like you know, it's not a terrain you can drive a truck up. And the only way they're going to be able to hold these hills from these massive meat walls that communists are willing to throw is artillery, but they can't get artillery up there. So, the best thing they have is this thing called a a recoilless rifle. It's basically a big bazooka on a
tripod, a 75-mm recoilless rifle. >> Mhm. >> They can walk these up there and then walk the ammunition up, and that's what they're having to do. They're just running ammunition up these hills to fire this big bazooka. And uh eventually that gets tiring. So, they're like they go down to Seoul, they go to the racetrack, and they're like, "We're buying a [ __ ] horse." So, they buy this horse. It's a Mongolian mare. And um they bring the horse back. The Marines put it through hoof
camp. Boot camp, hoof camp. See what they did there? That's clever. >> Pretty good. >> Yeah. So, they they train the horse. They get it acclimated to like hearing gunshots and stuff, and like get it get it so it's immune to that. And they basically train this horse to just walk ammunition up and down these hills um during firefights and stuff. And she's awesome. Like, the Marines love her. And during the Battle of Outpost Vegas, um there's basically three hills that form a triangle called the
Iron Triangle. And it's like right there. It's like the spot they would really want to punch through to get to Seoul. >> Mhm. >> And it's called um the three hills are Reno, Nevada, and Carson. The three Las Vegas gambling cities cuz it's a gamble whether or not we could hold them. >> Mhm. >> And the Battle of Outpost Vegas is what it's called. And they throw everything they have at these Marines. And this horse, Sergeant Reckless, is carries I forget in the video. It's it's
hundreds of tons of ammunition. This horse carries up and down the battlefield getting new ammo to the guns during this fight and she's like arguably the reason they were able to get through was this horse delivered so much ammunition. She covered like it was like a ridiculous amount of mileage just going up and down these hills. She was carrying wounded soldiers back down like this one horse was this humongous game changer. They wind up holding the hill and then the story gets even like the the
cool part of the story is when the Marines go to go home, they're like all right, well we're bringing Sergeant Reckless with us. And the army or the military is like, "No, you're not. She's got to stay here. Though we're going to sell her to make glue or give her away." >> Mhm. >> And they're like, "No, you're not." So, the Marines in her unit actually coordinate with other lower enlisted guys in the military and get this horse on a plane to Japan and then coordinate
a civilian ship to pick up the horse and get her sent over to San Diego. And then the Marines pick her up. They smuggle this horse into the United States of America from South Korea. And then they get held up at the dock because you can't just bring livestock into the country cuz it could have diseases or whatever whatever. So, they want to kill her. And the Marines are down there with this guy from I forget the government agency they sent in there, but they're like,
"No, you're not." And they basically like these Marines are ready to kill this guy over it. And uh he's like, "Well, maybe we can just take a blood sample." He goes, "Huh, it's a good [ __ ] idea." So, they take a blood sample of the horse and then as soon as that guy leaves, they take her out and they smuggle her uh sorry, not San San Diego, San Francisco. They then smuggle her into the building they're having the Marine Corps ball and they bring the
horse in for the Marine Corps ball. She's like eating the flowers and like they've already taught this horse how to drink beer and [ __ ] And like the horse, you know how a horse's jaw like go off to the side when they chew? >> Uh-huh. Uh-huh. >> She'll actually offset her jaw and let the Marines pour straight whiskey and soda and stuff into her mouth. or mix and drinks for the horse so they they get [ __ ] up with this horse. And then >>
[laughter] >> uh they don't know what to do with this so they've got like they've like got her hiding on this farm and then the PR comes out that oh this war horse is a blah blah blah and they're like oh oh this is good PR for the military. So now the military's back on board. >> Mhm. >> So they bring her onto the actual Marine base and she you know gets a home there. She spends the rest of her life there. She's actually given the
rank of sergeant. Like not not ceremonial. She's legitimately a sergeant in the Marine Corps and private and anybody lower enlisted has to address her as such. They have to treat her as such. Nobody was allowed to ride her and they would always pick some farm kid that knew how to take care of animals to be her liaison that had to exercise her every morning. Well, how do you how do you do PT with a horse? You can't ride it cuz it's a higher rank than you.
>> Mhm. >> So he just had to run next to this horse every morning for like 10 miles and it was a running joke in the Marine Corps that he was the most in shape Marine. And uh the story keeps going and you know Sergeant Reckless becomes famous. She's an icon in the Marine Corps and she's getting old and they kind of come to the conclusion that like all right well we need Sergeant Reckless to have some kids. So the plan is to bring in some
high-end race horse that's famous to have kids with Sergeant Reckless and create the ultimate war horses. Nobody tells this to the kid that's in charge of looking after Sergeant Reckless. This kid just gets orders one day like hey take Sergeant Reckless to the normal the normal horse horse pens with the other normal Marine horses and uh let let her go in there. And he's like that's weird. She has her own pen. She's not a normal horse. We don't she doesn't associate with these horses. >> They're
not sergeants. >> Yeah. So he goes and puts her in the pen and he like goes and gets breakfast and he comes back. Well, she's getting mounted by one of these ordinary garden variety Marine horses. He freaks out, beats the horse off the off of her like get get it off of her. Yeah, for sure. So, he's freaking out. Little while later, truck pulls up, big fancy, you know, horse carriage or whatever, and they unload some big fancy race horse, and they they leave. Well again
nobody told him he was supposed to breed Sergeant Reckless, so he doesn't let he just [ __ ] blocks that horse from having sex with Sergeant Reckless. Exactly. So, then like a couple weeks later or whatever, he shows up to work and there's like all these news people and generals and they're like, "Sergeant Reckless is pregnant." He's like, "Oh, [ __ ] I'm in trouble." >> [laughter] >> And he's like, "Okay, that that's a good thing?" And they're like, "Yeah, no, that's a great thing." And
he's, "Okay. Okay, that's weird." And then one of the reporters asks the kid, "What's the name of the race horse that bred Sergeant Reckless? What's the name of the thoroughbred that's the dad?" And he's like, "I don't know. It's just one of the bucking horses from the pen." Gets yanked around the side of the pen by the general. "What the [ __ ] did you just say? What is going on?" And he explains what happened. And so like she didn't have a a mare with this,
you know, super stud race horse. So, that was like you killed the whole PR campaign. So, then the way they recovered for the PR was all they did was they had a big sign outside of the marine base and it said, "It's a dot dot dot." And then basically when they found out if it was a boy or a girl, they promoted it. And then like that was the big PR push for the Marine Corps, which is funny because the Marine Corps inadvertently created gender reveals.
>> [laughter] >> So, yeah, no, Sergeant Reckless, probably my favorite war animal. >> I watched I watched a video recently of I think the maybe bomb-sniffer dogs. There's some sort of a parade happening and there's a bunch of Alsatians there. And I'm currently in I I You know the Truman Show seen the Truman Show [clears throat] and like the entire world's kind of curated for that. I have a working theory that Big Golden, which is the company behind golden retrievers, the large industry body that is
behind golden retrievers, that they are seeding very cute golden retrievers into my life at a higher frequency than normal to try and psyop me into getting a golden retriever, and it's working. So, I'm currently sort of in the market looking and learning about golden retrievers and [ __ ] like that. And I saw this video. Can you try and find it, Mark? There's like a vid Oh, here it is. This is it. Look at this. And all of these dogs [laughter] are just so locked in.
And there's a couple of Watch >> [laughter] >> He's just having I want that. Like that's the level of dog that I think is important to I want one that is single digit IQ. >> Bro, ideally. My my wife made me get a golden doodle 8 years ago. >> Sick. >> Uh I don't think she grasped how big a purebred golden doodle was. And he's like 70 lb, 80 lb? >> Bro, he's like 110. He's a [ __ ] horse. >> [laughter] >> He is a
[ __ ] horse. And when I let his hair grow out, he looks like a giant chicken tender. It's [ __ ] hilarious. [laughter] I love this dog so much. It's so funny. She's like, "He's too big. I wanted a little cute dog." I was like, "No, he's [ __ ] awesome." >> perfect. He's perfect. I'm feeding him more. He's on protein shakes now. Yeah. >> A quick note, lots of people tell us that YouTube unsubscribes them from the channel even though they already pressed it.
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