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Ep.235 The Unkillable Soldier: The Insane Life of Lt. Gen. Adrian Carton de Wiart

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In this jaw-dropping episode of The Days Grimm Podcast, hosts Brian Michael Day and Thomas Grimm explore the unbelievable true story of Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart — a man who fought in four wars, survived 11 wounds, three plane crashes, and even ripped off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them.

Nicknamed “The Unkillable Soldier,” de Wiart’s life sounds like a Hollywood movie — except it’s all true. From charging through the Boer War and World War I with one eye and one hand, to escaping Italian POW camps in World War II at age 60, his story redefines bravery, madness, and sheer willpower.

 In this episode, you’ll hear about:

  • His insane record of injuries (and why he kept going back to battle)
  • The quote that defined his life: “Frankly, I enjoyed the war.”
  • His legendary escape from an Italian prison camp during WWII
  • The time he survived three plane crashes and still kept fighting
  • His unlikely friendship with Winston Churchill and role in diplomacy after the war

Sir Adrian’s story is part history lesson, part action movie, and 100% proof that truth is stranger than fiction.

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SPEAKER_03:

Hey, hey, hey, hey, before you guys scroll on and uh ignore this video, you're probably asking yourself who Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiyard is. Um, but he's ultimately the uh soldier known as the unkillable soldier. Um the story of Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton De Wyart is perhaps the most improbable tale of the 20th century warfare, a life densely packed with trauma and survival that it defies reasonable belief. Um and consider the scene in March 1943.

SPEAKER_01:

Six high-ranking British officers crawl out of a tunnel in Italy, and the com wow, in the culmination of seven months of grueling subterranean excavation, they attempt to blend into the Italian countryside disguised as humble peasants.

SPEAKER_03:

Among them is Adrian, a man whose physical presence guaranteed instant detection. He was 62 years old, six foot two inches, supporting a mandatory black patch like over his eye, a missing left hand, and crucially uh, you know, unable to speak a word of Italian.

SPEAKER_01:

It was an essence, an exercise in heroic yet absurd absurdness. I mean, that shit's crazy. This is a figure later described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as looking like an elegant pirate who became a genuine figure of legend.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh Cartenay Wii Art is uh his physical characteristics were not merely the result of his experience, they were central to his identity and later diplomatic stature. The eye patch, the empty sleeve, these visible scars functioned as a powerful nonverbal biography of British determination and sacrifice. When he later served as a diplomat for Winston Churchill, his appearance was immediate uh it was an immediate visceral statement to foreign leaders about the unwavering resolve of the Allies. The sheer impossibility of his survival compounded by his eccentricity, elevated from a historical soldier to a cultural archetype, notably serving as the model for the fiery brigadier Ben Richie hook in the Evelyn Way's Sword of Honor trilogy, which is I don't know what that is.

SPEAKER_01:

A trilogy on just some dude's honor, you know what I mean? And they spell honor so funny in Europe.

SPEAKER_03:

In summarization, the man is one must simply list. I can't read right now. Uh in summarizing the man, one must simply list the impossible. He fought in several wars. The Second Boer War, the World War I, uh the Polish-Soviet War, and World War II. He was uh wounded a staggering eleven times, sustaining shots in the face, head, stomach, groin, ankle, leg, hip, and ears. Just like my last girlfriend. He lost his left eye, left hand survived three separate plane crashes, tunneled out of the prisoner of war camp that we spoke about earlier with a bunch of old dudes, and when a doctor refused to uh surgically amputate his fingers, he tore them off himself.

SPEAKER_01:

The ultimate frame for this extraordinary life and the central question of his biography in his own philosophy captured basically, he quoted, Frankly, I had enjoyed the war. The narrative of his life serves as the comprehensive explanation for how such a terrifying Odyssey can be considered a happy Odyssey.

SPEAKER_03:

My name is Brian Michael Day.

SPEAKER_01:

Turn me down in the headphones, Thomas Grimm.

SPEAKER_03:

What's up, dude? How are you?

SPEAKER_01:

Dude, I'm doing alright.

SPEAKER_03:

What are we gonna uh what are we what are we doing today?

SPEAKER_01:

Alright, so we're doing another God bless you topic-based episode. Okay. And we found this guy like, what do you think, a year ago?

SPEAKER_03:

Well, correction. I fucking found this guy. Uh excuse you. Uh I did find this guy, and I forget who it was, how it was. I think it was the death of the week. No, no, no, no, no. I think it was a Jocko Willink podcast, honest to God. That's how I heard his name. Um, but yeah, and then he's just a super, super dope soldier. So if you listen to the intro, you're tracking um what we're gonna talk about today.

SPEAKER_01:

We're not that smart, you know. And we normally have somebody in the room that's smarter than us, but we find on these topic-based episodes just somebody that we're interested in, and like we're gonna try to do our due diligence on like bringing this story to justice. And we did we did our homework, you know.

SPEAKER_03:

We did. Sorry. Uh, I was checking uh do it setting a timer, dude. I don't want to blast over because I can literally talk about this dude for like four hours. So we're gonna do our best to keep this to 45 minutes, one hour tops. Uh, and uh we're just gonna we're gonna talk a little bit about um uh what was it, Lieutenant General. Hold on, go to the top. What was his final? I don't remember. Yeah, Lieutenant General, sir, Adrian Carton de We Art and I'm just gonna call him Adrian.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh that's a mouthful. You know what I mean? God damn.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, you do love a good mouthful. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Do you want to go ahead and pronounce his full name? Yeah, here we go.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh so it seems as though his full name would be Adrian Paul Grislane Carton de Weart. God damn. He was born on 5 May 1880. This was an old bitch because he fought in World War II, mind you. So just keep that in mind as well. And he was born to a rich family. Yes, absolutely. Uh in Brussels. And his father, uh, Leon Constant Grislane Carton de Weart was respected, uh he was a respected lawyer and magistrate. I'm assuming that means he reports to the royal family.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. And though he was a legitimate son of this guy, Leo, and his wife. Leo. Leon. Leon, dude. But uh widespread rumors of the time suggested a more like dramatic parentage that he was the illegitimate son of King Leopold II of the Belgans. But like he low-key was like, Yeah, I'm the son of a king. You know what I mean? Like, he low-key didn't deny it, even though he knew Leon was his actual father.

SPEAKER_03:

Also, there's two things that I really love about uh Arian. Um I love that he's British because that's where my family hails from, uh, even though they're trash. And he was also Roman Catholic, uh, grew up in an affluent household following the expected path of European elite. Uh, he was sent to England for boarding school, which I do remember that from um my read in the Happy Odyssey, which we will touch on a little bit today. Um, but he did uh go to England for boarding school and subsequently pursued law studies at Oxford University. So trying to follow in his dad's footsteps. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um and I actually I take that back. Earlier I said he's British, he's not British, but you will find as we go through this, he spends a shitload of time in England, and we'll find out why as we go.

SPEAKER_01:

But basically, he like goes to school and in 1899 he's like finding a hard time like in this like college world, and like and he quotes that he was itching for something more adventurous than law books. He abandoned his legal education, and this decision it says it enraged his father. But from like my research here is that like his dad really didn't like so basically, furthermore, he disregarded official constraints as he was under military age and still a Belgian citizen. Um, because he was only 19 at the time. He lied about his age, claiming to be 25 when he enlisted into the British Army under a fake name, Trooper Carton, bound southward, bound to go to Africa, South Africa.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, yeah. But that was the Boer War, just so everyone So there a lot of people don't, and honestly, we probably should have done like a side note to what the Boer Wars were, even because a lot of people don't even know about the Boer Wars. But the Boer Wars, uh, they were down in the country of South Africa, right? Uh the second Boer War. Yeah, and this was England um kind of, if I'm not mistaken, in a gist, this was England like proclaiming the land as theirs, because it was a uh I mean Britain basically had like colonial empires all over, you know what I mean? Yeah, it was a colony. So, anyways, just so you know, uh the first boar war was in 1880, uh, and that lasted till 1882. It came in basically at the end of the first Boer World. Hold on, go back, was that what it was? Uh no, it was the second. So now go back to the other one. And then the second Boer War was 1899 to 1902, so he got in right at the beginning. Um so we'll go back to the the Carton.

SPEAKER_01:

But basically, from what like I guess some people say that like his dad was mad and knew about it beforehand, and other people say his dad didn't find out about it till later, which is what we're about to get into.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh shit. I didn't know, I don't know anything about that.

SPEAKER_01:

Really? I don't, I don't so uh Adrian's initial baptism by fire was in the second boar war, which we just kind of touched on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was swift and nearly fatal. Serving with the British forces, he quickly was struck by several bullets, wounds to the stomach and groin, two different bullets, forcing him to be basically sent back home to England. And this is where the what that alternative, you know, mixed opinion was like his dad knew before he went, his dad knew after. Okay. So though his father was furious about the basically his dad thought he was away at college and he went to fight in the second Boer War, got injured, and then his dad was like, Yo, I thought you were at Oxford, my guy. You know, like I thought you were hitting the books, not getting hit by bullets. Yeah, I was stacking bodies in South Africa. Ever heard of it? But his dad relented and allowed his son to remain in the army after his recovery. That's sick, dude.

SPEAKER_03:

Um, yeah. So, and I will say, I know a lot of what I know about Adrian Carton Day Wii Art from the book Happy Odyssey. Everything that I'm reading today is not in that book, but a lot of it is. So just preface that um for if you folks are gonna read this book later. Um It was the initial experience that galvanized his dedication to military life uh being down in the bo uh in South Africa serving in the Second Boer War. Reflecting on his return, Carton Day We art famously wrote, quote, at the moment, I knew once and for all that war was in my blood. If the British didn't fancy me, I would have offered myself to the Boers. End quote. Honestly, fuck him. He's just ready to kill.

SPEAKER_02:

Right. He doesn't give a fuck.

SPEAKER_00:

He's like, yo, if you don't put me in, I'm gonna switch sides. You know what I'm saying? Like, go fuck.

SPEAKER_01:

Let me stay or I'm joining the away team, dude. Right. So once he healed up, he was granted a regular commission as a secondary lieutenant. Um, some people say he paid for this rank, actually, of the four fourth dragon guards in 1901, where he was transferred to India in 1902. Yeah. During the following peacetime years, his competitive nature and fawn outlets in sports, including shooting and dangerous colony sport of pig sticking.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, and uh we talked a little bit about this. So pig sticking sounds exactly what you would think almost.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean, some people I mean, I don't know. Yeah, some people think I mean if you're grew up on a pig farm and there were no women around, pig sticking might mean something a little different.

SPEAKER_03:

Especially in West Virginia.

SPEAKER_01:

Isn't that where it's legal? I I mean, I don't know. You know, I know it's not kosher. Uh but yeah, nope.

SPEAKER_03:

It's fucking nothing.

SPEAKER_01:

Pig sticking refers to basically both a historical bloodbath sport of hunting wild boar with spears on horseback. I actually pulled up a link of this.

SPEAKER_03:

This is big in or was big in England. I don't know that they're still doing it now. Can can we pull up that link? Yeah, I don't I'm confused on what happened here. I'm just uh command. Or yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go. But um, and then also the folks at home who are hearing pig sticking, you're probably just thinking stabbing a pig, which is essentially what they're doing, but right. Yeah, this guy's got two spears on a horse. Fancier than that. Um, so on free range feral hogs in South Florida. So he's down in South Florida. Dude, this shit made it to America. Oh yeah, dude. And this guy's just out here crushing. Oh, it's through the pig and it's still going.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, hell yeah, dude.

SPEAKER_03:

He'll drop. He'll drop. He'll drop. Hold on. Oh, oh, you know, that headed little buddy.

SPEAKER_01:

Yep. There he goes. Oh another. But yeah, that's basically the gist, which is crazy. Like, to just basically hunt pig on back of horses. What are you fucking Genghis Collins, right? Shout out to PETA. Uh here we go.

SPEAKER_02:

Price of conflict.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh losing an eye in Somaliland. Now, Somaliland is uh essentially the uh shoehorn of Africa, it's like the north uh eastern portion of Africa, and there was a uh some scuffling there in the uh first world war. Um but yeah, so when we are found himself in something?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, we did. Remember the story I told you about on the way over here? No. So while he was in India, I just found this out earlier today when I was doing more research on it. Yeah, you called me on the way over, and I was like, bro, just fucking get here. Dude, I guess while he was in India, he got in an argument with somebody's servant and just started throwing. Did we fact check that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So like he started throwing rocks at this dude's servant because they got in an altercation, right? Don't use the word you used earlier. Right. And so when that guy gets out of range, like he can't throw a rock at him anymore. Yeah, he pulls out a rifle and shoots the servant in the ass. Yeah, you'll live. Right. I just thought that was funny. Fuck him. Forgot to include that.

SPEAKER_03:

And honestly, dude, if you're if your job is the help, be the help. Don't be an asshole, you know. Or get shot in your asshole. Or especially to a guy with a firearm. Okay, so anyways, back to the shoe horn of Africa, uh, the northeastern part of this Somaliland where there were some folks they were fighting. In 1914, we art found himself uh in what he considered a minor but still necessary conflict. Um he was seconded to the I I don't know why they use that term seconded, but he was seconded to the Somaliland Camel Corps, uh, engaging in the colonial campaign against the Dervish leader, Dervish leader Mohammed bin Abdullah, who the British referred to as the quote Mad Moula.

SPEAKER_01:

And he was actually like a s some of the Sunni Muslims at the time believed he was like a messiah.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, he wasn't. Um so upon hearing them just shut it down immediately. Yeah, he was, they were wrong. Uh but upon hearing that uh Britain had declared war on Germany, he famously described his current assignment as merely, quote, playing in a village cricket match instead of playing in a village cricket match instead of in an in the test, end quote.

SPEAKER_01:

His chance to get to the test came at a terrible cost during an assault on an enemy fort at Schimber Barris. Here he was shot twice in the face. Yeah. An injury so severe that he lost his left ear, Trump, and a portion of uh wait, wait, wait, yeah, lost the entire left eye, and then he lost a portion of his ear.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, yeah. Left ear.

SPEAKER_01:

Um, for this action, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.

SPEAKER_03:

Keep in mind this is a Belgian fucking civilian. This is not even an Englishman. This is not a Brit British Right.

SPEAKER_01:

He's just fighting. He just re-enlisted, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03:

I don't know the rules on British military, but he is essentially illegally serving in like he's a mercenary at that point for hire, basically, dude. Um, okay. So 15 May 1915, the professional satisfaction uh he derived from conflict was so high that his colleague, Lord Ismay, what a cunt. Take Lord out of your name.

SPEAKER_01:

Um or is that his actual first name? No, I think it may be his title. I don't know. Anyway, we observed that Adrian actually viewed the loss of his eye as an a fortunate event. The injury provided him the necessary medical grounds for him to be invalidated out of Somaliad and sent to Europe, quote, where he thought the real action was. Hell yeah, brother.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh, this perspective where grievous injury is interpreted as a professional opportunity profoundly explains his resilience. He was sent back to England for recovery, beginning a routine of treatment at a specific park lane, which there's a very big chapter in the book, uh Happy Odyssey about Park Lane uh nursing home that would become so frequent. Uh they reportedly kept a set of his personal pajamas ready for his next visit. AKA this dude can't stop getting fucking cards.

SPEAKER_00:

He's got that frequent flyer card, dog. Fucking punch card at Park Lane. Frequent Gurney, man.

SPEAKER_01:

You know what I mean? Anytime he's stationed somewhere, they're like, hey, this is Adrian's gurney, alright? He's bled on it so many times.

SPEAKER_03:

He has like the weekly fucking kitchen, uh, like the days of the week and what they're serving down memorized, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01:

Right. It's also noteworthy that despite his family connections and status, his famous memoir, Happy Odyssey, which you've mentioned several times, deliberately constructs his image as a man of divine, purely defined purely by action, containing no reference to his wife or daughters. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh they want you. Oh, and fun fact about the book, and he says at the end of the book, and I don't know if it's in your research or not, um, Adrian wasn't gonna write this book. He was gonna live his entire fucking life. And when you guys hear this story, and we get to the end of his life, you're gonna be like, What the fuck? How do you not write a fucking book? Right. This dude was gonna fucking he was ready to die and not write a book. His wife and daughters are the only reason he writes this book. He only mentions them on the last. And he refused to let anyone else help him write the it's essentially a novel, a shorter novel, but he refused any help and he did it strictly from memory. Fascinating human being.

SPEAKER_01:

Um this is like the second act. So basically, like that was like the Boer War and like his first injury in the world. Yeah, yeah. He's only been shot four times.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, he's just barely a fucking soldier at this point. Right. You know what I mean? He's uh real run-of-the-mill guy. So this is the Great War, the commander on the Western Front, the hand and the will. Uh, the Great War, again, folks, for at home, if you're not a history buff, the Great War, also formerly known as World War One. Oh no. Uh you know, Germany's first attempt at taking back the Rhineland. So Carton de Willard quickly found his way to the encipher of uh oh epicenter, sorry, I can't read, of the Great War, embarking for France in February 1950. Again, a different country than what he was just injured with. I swear. Um, his presence on the Western Front confirmed his commitment to leadership through direct personal danger. He served successive commands over three infantry battalions and a brigade. Do you remember this story? Yes. His next major Oh, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01:

Before you go you go into that, like this story right here is like crucial. So like he was in charge of one infantry battalion.

SPEAKER_03:

Also, let's before you get there. Okay. Because I am a history buff. I don't know. I don't do you call yourself a history buff? No, but I I jerk off to it. Okay, yeah. So World War I for all the non-history buffs, very brutal fucking war. It was the trench warfare. Yes. And it it like in the film 1917, it is it is common happening that like people would be assigned to jump out of their trenches and run 200 yards towards the enemy's trench and try to overtake that trench. And this is literally how battlefields were shaped. This is how borders were won and lost.

SPEAKER_01:

And like there are plenty of DMZs in between those.

SPEAKER_03:

Brother gruesome. Right. Read some World War I shit. This book only gives you a taste of what Adrian saw. But World War I is fucking savage.

SPEAKER_01:

This line here where it says he served successive commands over three infantry battalions, right? Yeah. So he's in charge of one infantry battalion. And then two other commanders die. Straight get clapped. So he's like, yo, there's no radio at this point in time, no pigeons on the battlefield, like follow down, no communications, you know what I mean? So in much like 1917, how that guy runs across, you know, however far. So Adrian is the messenger, and he's basically running and giving commands to three different infantry groups to take this fort, and they are successful.

SPEAKER_03:

There is a scene too where he talks about there was like mortar fire on a trench, and he was like running back and forth, giving messages to the different battalions, and gets to a battalion, and they're like hunkered down in the trench, like in the with the door shut, and he's like, Hey, let me in. Hey, mortar rounds are landing all around him, and they're like, Yeah, but they're shooting mortars. And he was like, Uh, listen, I gotta tell you guys what to do, so come out here. He's like getting hit with mortars, and you know, he's just such a fucking stud. His next major injury occurred during the second battle of I'm gonna do my best. You breeze, you breeze, like I'm fucking Mario. Ya boy, you breeze. Uh Ger uh German shrapnel shattered his uh left hand, leaving two of his fingers hanging by threads of skin. This one's pretty bad.

SPEAKER_01:

And then like this part too is like this gross you out there. It hits his watch. Yeah. And so parts of his watch go into his hand too, but he only has two fingers left at this point.

SPEAKER_03:

And they're dangling. Yeah. Um faced with regimental uh faced with a regimental doctor who was hesitant or delayed in dealing with the injury, Carton D. Weart, uh demonstrating radical self-reliance and an extreme impatience for medical inefficiency, simply ripped the damaged fingers off himself, claiming he felt, quote, no pain doing so, and quote, the entire hand subsequently required amputation. Jesus. Dude, wild bro.

SPEAKER_01:

The doctor's like, I'm not sure what to do here. And he's like, yo, I got this. People at home, this is a real fucking guy. This is a real fucking story. This really fucking happened. And this is his fifth injury, just so we're keeping count.

SPEAKER_03:

Golly.

SPEAKER_01:

So remember. So he's lost an eye. Yeah. Got a got a like ear piercing, half an ear missing. Right. Got shot in the groin and the stomach, and then now lost a hand.

SPEAKER_03:

Lost a hand, lost a hand. Uh inevitably lost a hand. At the time, he's just got a fist with no fingers on it. Uh the this famous brutal act reveals the central feature of his character, a zero tolerance policy for obstacles, whether bureaucratic or physical, which would later manifest in his uncompromising actions during the war and in his legacy oh, legendary escape attempts. And there's a legacy of that too. So I'm not getting into it. Honestly, there is a legacy. Uh I dude, I wonder if we can find who his children were. I remind me when this is over. Yeah. Because I want to see if they've if they have any like cool shit out. Like, did they write a book about their dad or something? You know, I don't know. I'm just don't yeah, leave this link open so I know where to find their kit his kids at.

SPEAKER_01:

Dude, despite having lost an eye and a hand within a few months, same year, he returned to the battlefront refusing to escape his disability. Now, before we go on to this, I want to say when he lost his eye, like in this time before he goes. Oh, this story's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Before he goes on this tour back to the and stuff, and then they were like, Okay, you can go since you can pass these tests, but like you have to wear a glass eye. And then he did. Right, he had the glass eye in, and then like after they were like, Alright, you're good. He walked out and took it out. Yeah, and then slapped an eye out.

SPEAKER_00:

He threw the eye out the window and then put an eye patch on it.

SPEAKER_03:

What a fucking stud. They were like, dude, you look fucking atrocious. People don't want to look at you. Put this glass eye in. And he was like, okay. And then he walked out and I believe the hand he lost was like his dominant hand. I don't know if he was left. Google, was he left or right-handed? That's important. That's actually really important that that you mentioned that. Just go to Google and ask, is he left or right-handed? Is control paste. What are we doing here? There you go. Left left-handed? Was he left-handed? Yeah, let's find out. Yes. It was his dominant hand. And he lost his left hand in World War I. Alright, let's go back to the journal that we have written in before. Uh his decorated action occurred on um the second and third of July 1916 at La Boswell Bos Boys Boiswell. I don't do good with French words, honestly, and f the French. Uh during the massive engagement known as the Battle of Somme. Uh at the time he was a temporary lieutenant colonel commanding the 8th Battalion of the Good God. Gloucestershire Gloucestershire Regiment. Uh his bravery during this assault was considered instrumental in saving the offensive. The citation for the Victorian Cross VC noted that his quote dauntless courage and inspiration averted what could have been a serious reverse.

SPEAKER_01:

Do you know the story on that? Because I don't. Oh, actually, this is what we just talked about. This situation became critical when three other battalion commanders were wounded, leaving their units without leadership. One-eyed, one-handed immediately took control of their commands, organizing positions and supplies, and ensuring that the newly won ground was maintained at all costs. Yeah. His willingness consistently exposed him to intense enemy fire. As we were saying, he was running back and forth between those.

SPEAKER_03:

And you gotta keep in mind, man, these these uh battalions are separated by like lengths plural of football fields. I mean, the he is running 200 plus meters to the next battalion to relay a message or give guidance, and then running 200 meters back or on horseback, whatever.

SPEAKER_01:

And in the rest of this war, he provided endless like was basically provided seamlessly endless list of injuries here. So he was shot through the skull. This is these are our we already had the five, right? The five injuries. We're at five, yes. Right. Yeah. So he was shot through the skull. They said clean in and out. So he was shot in the head again, that's six. He was shot in the ankle at Saumir later, so that's seven. He was shot through the hip at the battle of Passion Dela. Right?

SPEAKER_03:

Dale.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, that's that's eight. And then he was shot through the leg at Cambria Cambrai, so that's nine, and then again through the ear at Arras. I wonder if it was the same ear. He just got no left ear left. Right. No left ear left. The wound to his hip was the final one, for example, that terminated his command at the 12th Brigade.

SPEAKER_03:

Okay, now scroll on a little further down, please, sir. Uh he was wounded a total of eight times during the first world war. Um this persistent front yeah, this persistent frontline service, which contrasted sharply with the remote command style of many senior officers, sometimes derided as uh chateau generals, French bullshit again, um, validated his leadership among the troops and ensured his reputation for inspiring gallantry uh remained intact. Now, one thing I will say, just from my perspective, as having served as just like a boots on the ground, bottom of the barrel soldier taking orders, giving no orders, if you have a fucking lieutenant general, or if in this case, I think he's a lieutenant at this point, but if if you're if you have this leader, this officer in the trenches with you, and has been fucking hit 12 times, has one hand, one eye, half a third of an ear, and he's like, listen up, you pussies, we're going out there. We're gonna go give him our all, and he's all fired up and hot to try. Bro, this dude literally go back just to the last uh stanza, where they said his leadership among the troops and like uh it validated his leadership among the troops and ensured his reputation for inspiring gallantry. That is such that is that is who this gentleman is. That sentence right there is so very well constructed because that is who he is, dude. He he's just all balls, all gas all the time. This dude's a fucking one. Dude, surprised he didn't take a shot to the dick. I'm pissed he's not American, bro. Right. Could you imagine him fighting it for the Allies for America in World War II, bro? We four would have been over in 1943.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. On D-Day, we just drop him. You know what I mean with a parachute. Fuck Chuck Norris. Dude, and then so like on screen right now, we have basically This is where the lore of Chuck Norris started.

SPEAKER_02:

It's based on Sir Adrian Carton, dude.

SPEAKER_01:

Dude, I would take Adrian, you know, in a fight versus Bruce Lee or somebody like that. I would take him over a lot of fucking basically. Oh, yeah, let's go through these real quick. So I want to go with uh let's go. Bullet wounds, stomach and groin, and the second boar war. This is his first taste of combat. Then he lost his left eye and part of an ear in the Somali. Campaign in 1914. Shot twice in the face, basically.

SPEAKER_03:

Lost the left hand in the first world war, 1950, shrapnel uh injury near Yippree. Uh self-amputation of fingers due to doctor's delay. Right. Shot through the skull and ankle, Battle of Sommei in 1916. Actions while commanding 8th Gloucester's VC awarded nearby.

SPEAKER_01:

Shot through the hip in the Battle of whatever that is.

SPEAKER_03:

Pashindali, 1917.

SPEAKER_01:

Right, which the injury terminated his command of the 12th Brigade. Then he was shot in the leg the same year. Uh one of multiple World War I injuries. And then yeah, through the remnant of his other. It was the same year.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh no. He's got no fucking ear, dude.

SPEAKER_01:

So that was the end of that, right? And then so then he survives a plane crash. So like after the after that, so what's the right okay? So the next year, like Polish and Soviets start having some like. Do you have a segment on this?

SPEAKER_03:

Because okay, so so essentially in like the early uh 20th century, right here, right here. Poland got into a lot of shit.

SPEAKER_01:

So we're before we get into that, like this is where he wraps up about the first war.

SPEAKER_03:

Okay, so the infamous declaration of the and it's in the book, it's all over online. If you search this gentleman's name, this is gonna be the first thing you see on Wikipedia, etc. etc. etc. Right. When thinking about the Great War. He said, quote, frankly, I enjoyed the war, end quote. Uh found it's just so fun to read. Right. Uh, found in his memoirs is not a reflection of psychosis, but a statement of deep personal fulfillment found in extreme conditions. Carton de Wyart saw war as the ultimate, quote, great leveler, end quote, arguing that it shows, quote, the man as he really is, not as he would like to be, nor as he would like you to think he is, and quote, he prized this stripped down honesty and the purity of action.

SPEAKER_01:

That's like when, like, when shit hits the fan, who are you really? You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03:

When instinct kicks over, what kind of man are you? Dude, I'm telling you, again, from personal experience, there there is there is not a better statement. You never know who you are until it's like, oh, this is the end.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, and like this uh point that he makes is like a poor part of his core philosophy regarding power, which directly contradicted common proverbs. He stated, and I quote, governments may think and say as they like, but force cannot be eliminated. It is the only real and unanswerable power. We are all told that the pen is mightier than the sword, but I know which of these weapons I would choose. Hashtag Nepal. Hell yeah, brother. I mean Nepal's the proof of that right now. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03:

A hundred percent. Uh this preference for decisive tangible force over diplomatic negotiation is the key to understanding his life. He valued action over contemplation, confirming his belief that the quote right time for negotiations is after a victory when backed by force, words seem to attain a meaning not so well understood before. The dude is just a walking fucking gangster. Well, and it's everything he fucking says is just that's what I was about to say.

SPEAKER_01:

Like the best part about this is like he wrote he wrote, you know, happy odyssey as an old man. So like at this point, yeah, in his 80s, he's reflecting back with all that wisdom from like all these instances. Like, I'm sure at the time he didn't think this, you know what I mean? But now looking back on it, he's like philosophical about it.

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Can you can you scroll up a little bit to the one that you read just a moment ago? Oh no, no, no down, down, down, sorry. Where did you go? Um, you went, oh, that's my favorite quote so far right now. Governments may think and say as they like, but force cannot be eliminated.

SPEAKER_00:

Just that right there is like you can say what you like, but when I punch you in the fucking mouth, we are all told that the pen is mightier than the sword, but I know which one of these weapons I would choose.

SPEAKER_02:

Fucking bangers, dude. Just fucking bangers, dude.

SPEAKER_03:

This dude does not fuck around.

SPEAKER_01:

So we're gonna go into Poland in the early 20th century. This is like World War One's kind of still going on at the point, and it was labeled like the interwar period, so like World War I kind of ended. Yeah, World War I is over, right? But there was still so like Soviet and so the Soviet Union at the time was a part of the Allies. Yes, and then Poland kind of separates, like annexes itself. I forget the like actual term. Like Ukraine is one of these, like they're uh annexations, yeah. Right, so that Poland breaks off and becomes its own country, and there's like this interwar period where Poland and Soviet uh Russia not even that either. There's more.

SPEAKER_03:

There's Balkans, there's all kinds of people that they're fighting. Ukraine's rebelling at this time. There's people that are Polish that live in Poland that are fighting the Polish because they support the communists, right, right Soviet Russia.

SPEAKER_01:

Like Poland you gotta think all these countries because like Ukraine and Lithuania are and like are they're all doing this at the same time. The Balkan nation, Jimmy Well, yeah, but those are the borders of what was the Soviet Union, and those areas probably saw the war of World War I the most. That's the front line. Those areas, so like a reason that they're you know what I mean? They just saw some shit.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh honestly, I'll tell you who ate it the most in World War I. It was definitely the French. Uh they fucking bit it.

SPEAKER_01:

Bid it the whole time, dog. They were like, wait, they're coming in, let's bend over and just take it. It's like me going to prison and going up to the biggest guy and just like, give me your pocket.

SPEAKER_00:

You know what I mean? Like, bro, hey, I know we're gonna get fucked, so like just give me your pocket, you'll protect me, and I'll take it.

SPEAKER_03:

You know, anytime there's like a war in Europe, you can almost like if I was a betting man, you could almost guarantee France is just like, yeah, you know what, we're not picking sides. Hey, give me a pocket. Somebody who's got a pocket. Right.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh but anyway, so at the war's conclusion, he was sent to the newly formed Second Polish Republic initiated, second in command, later as chief of the British military mission.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, so Br uh Brita basically England had sent soldiers to Poland to help kind of civilize the situation, help eliminate threats at the borders.

SPEAKER_01:

And just like we were talking about, Poland was fighting multiple conflicts simultaneously, including the Polish Soviet War and the Polish-Ukrainian War and the skirmishes with Lithuania, where the conflict, Adrian, was determined to be present.

SPEAKER_03:

Yep. Uh his service during this period was marked by his usual brand of action and narrow escapes. He survived not one but two separate plane crashes in 1919. The second crash led to his brief capture by Lithuanian forces before his release, also his first capture. There are multiple crashes.

SPEAKER_02:

So during during the intensified Polish-Soviet war of 1920, God, this poor bastard.

SPEAKER_03:

His observation train was attacked by a charge of uh Cossack cavalry, uh, displaying immense personal courage. The one-armed gener he had a second arm, let's be clear. But okay, so displaying immense personal courage, uh the general-handed. Yeah, the one-handed general confronted the attacker single-handedly, clever. I like what you did there, uh, with his revolver, even falling off the train and leaping back aboard to continue the firefight until the train escaped the Cossacks.

SPEAKER_01:

And in this time, I just want to like point out that like in the 1920s, people were robbing trains here in America on horseback. Wow, while West, baby. Right. So, like, it's cool that you also had the same thing happening on the other side of the dude.

SPEAKER_03:

Shout out to Europe, man. They don't get enough uh credit. So while the British military mission's profession or official contribution was sometimes constrained by politics, Adrian's uh personal involvement was absolute, uh, even organizing gun smuggling operations via Hungary. This extended commitment demonstrated a personal loyalty, loyalty to conflict and the Polish state that transcended formal military duty.

SPEAKER_01:

What's funny too is like this guy was like, yo, they need guns down there, let's smuggle them in.

SPEAKER_03:

There's a fun fact that you get in Happy Odyssey that I don't think we're gonna cover here. He um what's the uh term? He he uh endears the Polish soldier at some point. I forget what he says. Can you Google what could just Google famous Adrian Carton Day D what we are quote about the Polish so soldier? Because he has a uh an ideation. I I hope it's a good one. He definitely has like he and this is this is a good time to bring it up about the Polish soldier. He had a famous quote, famous quote from Adrian Carton Day about Polish soldiers, but he did comment okay, they fought well. This is what he said, and I quote about the Polish soldier. They fought well and never broke off any engagement when they should have. The Germans have made no headway when they met the Poles man to man, but as soon as mechanized units come into play with backing from the air, they have rolled them up. It's very tragic, as the Poles have put up a very good fight, in fact, too good. So that was what I was remembering is that basically he like he kind of like in the book kind of explains like his he doesn't he's not infatuated with the Polar Soldier, but like he He's like, yo, they got heart. He's not just there to fight, like what you would think. He's not there for just the violence. He is initially, but when he gets there and he fights alongside the Poles, he's like, you know what? These dudes are fucking sick, dude.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, like what's cool is like you were saying, like he the Poles, like he stayed there for a while. Like when the Polish wars ended in victory. I think he got Adrian. He chose not to return immediately to England and have grown deeply fond of Poland and its people and its wildlife. He formally retired from the British Army in 1923, taking an honorable rank of major general. He spent the next 18 years living comparatively quiet, but still wealthy in the land of Polish in Poland, focusing on his passion for shooting and the pursuit of game. Big hunter.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's I that's what I was thinking was that he I don't even think he bought that property either. I think Poland gave it to him. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

So and the immediate survival of multiple near-death experiences, plank crashes, and train battles within the space of a couple months, and again, all those bullet wounds and stuff in World War One were within damn near the same year. Yeah. Confirms that his appetite for and the tolerance of extreme risk remained absolute, further cementing his reputation as unbreakable.

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Also, fun fact about the property that Poland gave him, I think it was um geographically, like there was importance to where it was located, because it was a huge piece of property with this beautiful house on it. I want to say it was like at a border that he helped secure or something like that, because he talks about it later in the book about another skirmish is starting to kick off, and his home being close to the border during World War II, which we'll learn more here later. Um, it played an important role. Right.

SPEAKER_01:

So the outbreak of World War II ended his stay in Polish Idol, forcing him to escape the country as it was overran by Jove uh German and Soviet forces in 1939.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh he was recalled to active service and quickly assigned to command the Central Norwegian Expeditionary Forces, participating in the ultimately hopeless attempt to hold Troudheim against the German invasion. In 1941, he was designated to lead the British military mission in Yugoslavia. While en route to the command, uh his aircraft was shot down over the Mediterranean, make marking his third plane crash survival.

SPEAKER_02:

He managed to swim ashore with only one hand, but at the at the same point and capture by Italian forces.

SPEAKER_01:

And when he did that, when he like he swam with one hand, he also had like his nub around another guy. Hell yeah. Like he rescues somebody else that was in the plane crash.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, and they go to the camp with him. So at the end of that, uh he was him and his buddies were uh captured by Italian forces, and this goes into the imprisonment.

SPEAKER_01:

So like when Adrian spent time in an Italian prisoner of war camp, despite his age of over 60 at the time, and physical handicaps and the impulsive action remained like his need for impulsive action remained dominant. He made five escape attempts during this captivity. And I want to note here that like most of the guys that were in this camp, it was for like officials, like it was for like higher-up people in the military, officers, yeah, officers. And they the average age there was 52, which is like wild.

SPEAKER_03:

I wouldn't think that like average like prisoners of war nowadays definitely are we gonna get into depth about his time in the camp because he does in the book and it's wild. His most notorious attempt uh involved seven months of labor helping to dig a tunnel alongside other high-ranking officers. And again, he only had one hand. In March of 43, he and five others successfully escaped. The escape plan was simple, but fundament fundamentally flawed for Adrian. The group intended to hide in plain sight, disguised as Italian peasants. The visual reality, however, was ludicrous. Here is why. Uh here was a sixty-three-year-old six foot two general missing an eye and a hand and a hand, covered in scars and speaking no Italian, attempting to blend in. He and Lieutenant General Sir Richard O'Connor walked for over a week before they were inevitably recaptured.

SPEAKER_01:

Crazy. This high-stakes absurdity where determination classes violently with reality is what made him the compelling inspiration for Evelyn Wall's satire characters in the Swords of Honor trilogy, ensuring his legacy status across from military history into literary comedy.

SPEAKER_03:

I'm gonna have to read that now. Sword of Honor trilogy. So this was a series a three-series books, uh three uh I can't even talk right now. A series of three books that was written in the forties or fifties.

SPEAKER_01:

But his captivity ended not by force but by diplomacy in August of 1943. The Italian government, secretly planning to leave the war, released him to serve as an intermediary. He accompanied the Italian negotiator, General what Jim Gemacomo Zaswini to Lesbon to meet Allied contracts and discuss the surrender.

SPEAKER_03:

I do want to say, anybody that's listening or watching uh today's episode, if you've read the Sword of Honor trilogy or one of the three, dude, leave me a comment on this. Because now I'm interested, because I didn't know that was based on him and the O'Connor gentleman.

SPEAKER_01:

So please enlighten me on what these and I we forgot to mention too, like during the World War II stuff, like when you were talking about how like how like he was enlisted and like all these other people were looking up to him. That I remember f seeing a piece of the information where like in the battle he was noted for pulling a grenade out, pulling the pin with his mouth because he only had a nub and then tossing it again with his non-dominant hand.

SPEAKER_03:

And that's a lot harder than it seems. Uh people don't understand how hard it is to pull a pin on a grenade, and for you to yank that with your teeth and fucking yeet it, you're a fucking stud. Right.

SPEAKER_01:

Um, so we're gonna get into Yeah, the World War II basically kind of yeah, I mean, is dead at that point.

SPEAKER_03:

It still continues on. He just makes his way back to to Britain at this point, which is an intriguing happening because this involves Churchill and his um his uh uh uh affiliation uh thereof. So, anyways, upon his return, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, a massive admirer, who once called Carton Day we are, quote, a model of chivalry and honor, end quote, immediately repurposed him for a critical diplomatic role. Within a month, Adrian was prompted, oh, promoted to acting lieutenant general on 9 October of 43, and appointed as Churchill's personal representative to the Chinese nationalist leader, Generalisimo Shang Kai-shek. Now, this part's really cool because he does spend a fair amount of time in China, and China China gets overlooked in World War II. What a lot of people don't know is China was really weak in the 40s. They weren't an industrial superpower, they hadn't had their industrial revolution yet. They were just taking it in the ass from the Russians, the Japans, everywhere. So China was low-key just getting pummeled at all their borders. Um, a lot of people don't know that. So, anyways, Apple moves to China.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, so basically, like you mentioned China going into the industrial area, and this is where my ADHD takes. Their industrial revolution happened, I think, in like the 50s or the 60s. Well, like in the early 2000s, Apple moves their production to China, and China didn't get the assembly line down pat until Apple moved in and started sending like big officials.

SPEAKER_03:

But bro, that's the 90s, dude. Right. That's the 2000s. Right. Like, and that's another reason why their pollution is so bad. Also, my ADHD kicking in, because the industrial revolution that happened in the 70s and the 80s in China, they had no EPA like America had. So they were just pumping out fucking smokestacks, bro. Right. Yeah, that's why they have such a bad thing.

SPEAKER_01:

But basically, Churchill sends Adrian over there because of his visible war record and as a strategic asset, a powerful living symbol of the British commitment and the tendency that could command respect. Ugh, excuse me. Wow, that was weak. From the Chinese military leadership, even as negotiations over issue like the return of Hong Kong remained difficult, which is fire that the Allies were able to keep Hong Kong. Hell yeah, dude. It just went back a few years ago. You're welcome, China.

SPEAKER_03:

Uh, en route to his assignment, he attended a pivotal Cairo conference meeting with Roosevelt, Trochill, and Shang Kai-shek. Um, his four years in China, 43 to 47, proved, quote, relatively calm, end quote, compared to his previous existence.

SPEAKER_01:

He got to see Japan sender surrender at Singapore before his final departure. Uh, the the main guy of China was highly impressed by the general, offered him a permanent position as a personal advisor, offer an offer which Adrian politely declined, opting instead for final retirement.

SPEAKER_03:

There was a uh there's a bunch of fun stories in Happy Odyssey about this Chinese uh chapter that he like spends time like teaching other like Chinese generals how to fight, how to maneuver, how to outmaneuver, how to countermaneuver, stuff like that. And I think one of them involved like a dog that was eventually blown up by a landmine. Really? He had there's so many cool stories about his time that he spent in China, and then like he would like he was kind of we were talking a little bit, he kind of goes in and out of China, but it spends a majority of those three years there. And it's really, really cool that like you know, China was down and out, they were down bad, bro. They were getting their ass beat from the Russians, from the Japanese, from every fucking angle. The Mongolians were attacking them, even and like then this dude comes in and he's like, Yo, y'all been doing it wrong. Check his shit out. You know what I mean? And he gets them fucking squared away. And then, like, we see in Singapore, uh, Japan fucking surrendered, and they were like, My bad dog, we don't want we don't want beef. It's wild. It's fucking wild.

SPEAKER_01:

So 1947, the battered old soldier finally retires from the military, and yet, even in retirement, destiny had one last characteristic blow awaiting him.

SPEAKER_03:

After surviving decades of bullets, shrapnel, torpedoes, and plane crashes, his most serious injury came from a mundane source. En route home from China via Rangoon, he slipped on coconut matting coming downstairs, fell, and fractured several vertebrae breaking his back. During the subsequent surgery, doctors took the opportunity to remove various pieces of accumulated shrapnel from his body. The irony of a career military man uh who faced down machine guns, scroll up a little bit, Daddy, um, who faced down the other way, uh, who faced down machine guns only to be nearly killed by domestic flooring provides provides a darkly comedic yet pungent or poignant uh capstone to his survival story, demonstrating the ultimate indifference of fate to human heroism.

SPEAKER_01:

And it's funny that like uh his first wife died in 49. Two years later, in 1951, at the age of 71, he remarried. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Shout out to Ruth Myrtle. Uh oh, she's got a long name too. Ruth Myrtle, Marielle Joan McKinney, or otherwise known as Joanne Sutherland. And I don't know what 23 years his junior. She was 23 years younger than him.

SPEAKER_01:

She was in her and she wasn't like a Filipino lady, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03:

Like she wasn't trying to get that guard. That's an English lady, I think.

SPEAKER_01:

Southern he moved his new he moved into his new wife's home country in Count Cork, Ireland. Oh, she was Irish, okay. Where he spent his remaining years enjoying the peaceful pursuit of fishing.

SPEAKER_03:

He did love fishing, and he talks about that a lot in the book when he lives in Poland, where he's doing the game chasing and stuff. Um, but we will go on to say that Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Cartenday, uh, we art with all his different badges. VC, KBE, CB, CMG, D S O died on 5 June 1963, aged 83 in Ireland. Notably, a man whose life was defined by action and public achievement left behind no personal papers when he died, reinforcing the narrative that he was a man focused purely on external events and conflict without in without an inclination for personal reflection or documentation. That's what I was talking about, though. He was a very humbled individual. He didn't want he doesn't care about the VCs, the DSOs, he doesn't care about the the honor, he doesn't care about the badges, he doesn't want to write this fucking book. Like we talked about. Right. His kids fucking made him write the book. Right.

SPEAKER_01:

And which what's cool about this book is it features a foreword from Winston Churchill, which is fire. Yeah, super sick. Uh so the other thing.

SPEAKER_03:

And then we we've already gone through like I mean, he was uh he had a list of uh honors including Victoria Cross, the night uh night commander of the Order of the British Empire, the DSO, the Distinguished Service Order, and Polish decorations such as the Virtui Militari. Um he remains an inspiration to modern soldiers who have compared his relentless return to duty despite catastrophic injuries to that of quote the American Robocop.

SPEAKER_01:

Which is wild. And then these are all like the other injuries and stuff like that. But like, dude, in conclusion, dude was like the ultimate. He was like, I bet the dude's a fucking gangster. Dude, I bet the guy that came up with Captain America heard about this guy.

SPEAKER_03:

Um but anyway, so um Adrian embodied his own belief that force is the only ultimate power, actively seeking out the world's most dangerous conflicts for nearly five decades or fifty years for the layman, his willingness to embrace physical destruction, to remain in the fight, losing an eye and a hand, suffering nearly a dozen major wounds. This established him as the archetype of the indestructible warrior, a man whose desire for battle was so essential to his being that even catastrophic injury was viewed merely as a temporary setback on his quote, happy odyssey. It was insane when we first talked about uh when we when you spoke about him getting wounded. Where the fuck was he? He got wounded and he said this is a good opportunity for me to go to World War II.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, no, it was his first one when he got wounded in Africa, and he was like, Great, I get to be in the action that's going on in Europe. The test. Right. Me getting shots a good thing.

SPEAKER_03:

You know, you like that, dude.

SPEAKER_01:

That's hard to cover it in one of these plane crashes. The plane crashed, right? Yeah. And then it was being shot at by German planes, and he was bunkered down in there until they ran out of ammo, and then he was like, Alright, I can come out. Crazy. Excuse me. Uh, yeah, dude, he I don't even like I mean the dude was an animal.

SPEAKER_03:

To be able to my final thoughts on Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton today we are. Uh my final conclusion is that I completely agree with him in that say what you want actions mean more, and you can't you can't train that. Like you can't these people have to be found. Right. This has to be bread. This has to be in your blood, this has to be in your psyche. And this guy was just like the pinnacle of a warrior. This is the guy that they would put into the fucking Roman Coliseum and he would fucking walk the dog on the room.

SPEAKER_01:

And what's crazy is there's a non-movie made about this guy.

SPEAKER_03:

There might be. Actually, there might be. I don't don't quote me on that. I don't think there is. There should be. There fucking should be. There needs to be. There really fucking should be. Google, is there an Adrian Carton Day We Art film? I guarantee you, I think there is. Because I think I've searched this. The Unkillable Soldier. Is that really a film? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What year is this? 2022?

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SPEAKER_03:

Oh no, this is the podcast. This is a podcast. Nice, dude. Shout out to that, whoever that podcast was. Right. Um, but dude, honestly, like he he and you see a picture of him on the cover of his uh his uh I guess autobiography. Yeah, autobiography, uh Happy Odyssey. I mean, he's just he looks like a devonair. He looks like somebody who, you know, Mr. Steal Your Girl. You know, could you imagine if a guy with one eye and one hand stole your woman? Because he would. I mean, here's a photo of him with He's a fucking stud. Look at him. Right. He's terrifying, but also extremely attractive. You're like, I'm gonna have nightmares about you, but also I mean, look at this dude. Just a straight gangster. Dude's a baller. Just a straight fucking gangster.

SPEAKER_01:

There's a little photo of him with Churchill here.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There he is. Roosevelt. And then there's Kane Shang or Shang Kane Kai shek. Shang Kai shek was his name. The Chinese leader. Wild. Um, very influential figure, huge in the early 20th century. Again, you can't you can't train this folks. Uh, all you can do is just breed this, you know what I mean? And I that's why I'm gonna search who his children were. I gotta know what they do. Right. One of them's gotta be like an assassin or something. I don't fucking know. Crazy shit. Fucking wild, dude. What are your final conclusionary thoughts?

SPEAKER_01:

What do you think of it? Wild. I mean, we've we've we've mentioned him in several episodes before and just gave people like the gist and the one-liner. And I'm glad we like actually did the due diligence of like a 10-page document.

SPEAKER_03:

I tell people all the time about this book, right? Because I loved it. Front of back. I could read it over and over, like, over and over. It's such a great book. And it but I think mostly because it's in his words, which is what's so enjoyable about it. He's like, Yeah, these fucking p you know what I mean. Right. Um, he's just super sick, dude. But like I tell people about the book, I'm like, yeah, he got shot in the fucking head and then like just kept going.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, like, and people are like, What? Right, you're not even talking about the eye. Like, he got shot in the head later on, too. You know what I'm saying? Like, shit's wild.

SPEAKER_03:

He's just and and honestly, you can't beat that quote. Frankly, I enjoyed the war in reference to World War One. Right.

SPEAKER_01:

Such a disgusting tearing off your own fingers. Uh the only two fingers you have left. Disgusting. Like, you can't put them in a glass of milk and then reattach that shit. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_03:

So, Sir Adrian, Paul, Grislane, Carton, D We Art. We take our hats off to you. Um, you know, God bless you, sir. Hope you're resting easy. Shout out to your family. Um, it fucking will. This has been another thrilling episode of the day, Scrimm. My name is Brian Michael Day. My name is Thomas Grim. Thank you so much, brother. Likewise.

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Bye-bye.

SPEAKER_03:

Do you think you would have liked this song?

SPEAKER_05:

Try to fall like you were a shell.

SPEAKER_02:

Maybe you're like, what's a shit? Yeah, so you what does blades on the whip mean?

SPEAKER_00:

The dirty soda. What is cocaine? Dude, the Germans had a few.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, dude. Hell yeah. That's what we should do next. Drugs in Germany. Shoot a nigga like a phone. World War II drugs in Germany.

SPEAKER_00:

Shoot a man like he's Sir Adrian De Quart or De Wart. Hell yeah. In a world war.

SPEAKER_01:

Like, dude said, I didn't wanna fist the bitch, but my hand was gone, so I had to fist the bitch.

SPEAKER_03:

Had to give it a no. Call it the nubby.

SPEAKER_02:

Fucking ludicrous. I'm good with it. Fuck around, you don't be out of here.

SPEAKER_00:

Dude, he was not out of there. He came back in. Hey, we got that guy off the lines, and then they're like, nah, he's like, put me back in, coach.