Forgotten War Heroes Who Changed The World - The Fat Electrician - #1165

Chris Williamson (0:00)

How do you describe what you do? Someone asks you at a dinner party.

Nic Palmer (0:02)

I tell stories. I make videos on the Internet, is usually my go-to.

It's a weird job. 32-year-old man, don't really enjoy calling myself an influencer, or I guess a YouTuber is the one I'll say. I used to say content creator, then all the OnlyFans girls took that title, so I don't want people assuming I do OnlyFans.

Chris Williamson (0:22)

It would be a very interesting kind of OnlyFans. Everybody getting blown up, limbs being lost, stories from history.

Nic Palmer (0:29)

Yeah.

Chris Williamson (0:31)

Yeah, I guess it is because historian, content creator. I mean, I came across your stuff when I was first researching Sir Adrian Paul Giselaan Cartondiouat. Yep. Obviously, you know, flag for British, although I think he was Belgian parents, maybe Belgian French parents.

And I was like, this stuff absolutely rules. Just finding hardcore people from history.

Nic Palmer (0:58)

Main characters.

Chris Williamson (0:59)

Yeah, main character energy.

Nic Palmer (1:00)

Yeah.

Chris Williamson (1:00)

Historical main character energy and then retelling their stories in a way. There's two things. It's the telling of the story in a compelling way with interesting elements and detail that feels immersive. But it's also the selection of who is the person. Because if it was just retelling stories that everybody's heard before, it wouldn't be quite so interesting. It's like the deep cuts from history. That's interesting. It's the B-side songs that you should have listened to that you don't know about that are awesome.

Nic Palmer (1:28)

Yeah.

The more time that goes on, the more selective the US government, at least I don't know about British, but the more selective the US government has gotten about who they promote as a war hero. We've gotten to the point after Vietnam where we almost never promote war heroes. I would speculate the average American can't name a single Medal of Honor recipient. Post-Vietnam, almost impossible. Gave out plenty of them during the global war on terror. I bet the average American can't name a single one. It's because we quit celebrating it. We quit making it famous.

Now, we're going to get into conspiracy theories. I would say the main reason is fractional reserve banking if I had to guess.

Chris Williamson (2:07)

For war heroes, war heroes and fractional reserve banking.

Nic Palmer (2:09)

Yeah, absolutely. That's why we could donate. Okay, go on. World War II, how did America pay for the war?

Cost a lot of money. How do we do it?

Chris Williamson (2:20)

I don't know.

Nic Palmer (2:20)

We collected taxes. What happens when we didn't have enough taxes?

In America, we sold these things called war bonds. It's basically a government bond that you would go to a war bond rally and they would have like a war hero speak or they'd have a presentation, get everybody amped up that America's number one, we're going to go beat the Nazis and get revenge for Pearl Harbor, rah rah rah, people get amped up and they go and they invest in war bonds, which is basically a promise from the US government of like, hey, give us 50 bucks and in five years, we're going to give you 60 bucks back. That's how we did it because that's how we had to do it. So in World War II, every time somebody got a Medal of Honor and you see this recurring in all my World War II videos, whenever somebody gets a Medal of Honor and accomplishes something incredible, almost nine times out of 10, they're immediately shipped back home to America and put on a war bonds tour.

Chris Williamson (3:09)

Right.

Nic Palmer (3:10)

They put them on a war bonds tour to go around the country to raise more money for the war because that is the most effective thing that they could be doing for the overall war effort at that point in time.

Chris Williamson (3:17)

From war hero to fundraiser.

Nic Palmer (3:19)

War hero to fundraiser. They parade them around, they show them off, they make them famous, they become celebrities so that they can raise more money to keep fighting this war. We got to buy more bullets, we got to buy more tanks, we got to buy everything, and this guy is going to get us a million dollars to do it.

That's what they do. Well, after World War II, we went away from the gold standard, we went away from all the other stuff, we have fraction reserve banking now, so the US government doesn't need to raise money from people, they can just print more money whenever they feel like it.