S6E9 - The Hangman of Nuremberg

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We're coming at you with season 6 episode 9 the hangman of Nuremberg. I
Already know what AJ has planned, but you don't so strap in get ready and find us on Instagram at points
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Well turn the fucking thing off you dumbass I only gave you a teaser I know I'm
So, how you been how's everything oh good, yeah, yeah, yeah a little sleepy today
Yeah, I guess
Going to sleep at 7 a.m. And playing five hours of D&D in one day is pretty rough. Yeah, it's all good though
I'll be fine. Yeah, you'll make it at least through this episode. You know it always
Yeah, it's been a pretty pretty productive week I think yeah you get up to any fun shenanigans I
Don't know did I I don't know did you I don't think so it was a pretty pretty bland week overall, but
We watched uh, oh, yeah the whaling the whaling on
Amazon Prime
it's a
Korean horror film
that
Surprised the fuck out of all of us. Yeah, it was really good
Yeah, probably one of the best if not the best horror movie I've seen
Yeah, I can I can if I say one of the best definitely in my in my top bit. Oh, it's up there
It's it's really good. Yeah, check it out. It's it's a good one. Yeah
Trying to think what else happened this week
It's always hard. I know like at the end of the week
Yeah, I think about the last week. Yeah
It's all good. But yeah, it's not that bad. How'd your clinical go? Didn't have one
I thought you did. I'm this last week. Was that last? Oh wait, that was last week. Yeah, you talked a little oh, yeah
Yeah, yeah, totally for no, it was it was better than I thought
Yeah, it would be considering just where I went and the type of patients they were
Better than I thought. Yeah, I also forgot that I have all of the homework for those dudes
Hey bada bing good good thing. It's a short one. I guess yeah
Yeah, and it will be a short one. We were both we got sleepy D. We got sleepy AJ. We're both kind of it's a tired episode
Yeah, so sorry if we don't have the the energy there for you today
But you know, maybe this topic an episode doesn't need a lot of energy
Just just worries we got it dude. Okay when when I was researching this episode
There's so many dumb people leaving comments and shit on websites
Yeah, I saw one that was like hey the Nuremberg trials were actually totally flawed and
God and skewed and it wasn't a fair trial at all. They were just trying to punish people. I'm like, I don't care. They were
mass murderers like
I like there was enough evidence to say these guys were involved
With in high-ranking positions of the Reich. Mm-hmm
That I don't even think there should have been a trial. There was only a trial for the newsreel
Oh, there was plenty of evidence like oh my god. Yeah, just like
The things that these people were doing were well known like
They were you know, high-ranking members of the of the Nazis their positions were not unknown
So it really the a lot of what the Nuremberg trials ended up being
is just
How they gathered the evidence because through
Gathering evidence of these war criminals, even though it was already very apparent that they were war criminals
They were able to uncover like the anses groupa in eastern europe and how many millions of people they killed and
they were able to get a much more accurate like
estimation
of the death toll
during the holocaust
Because of this trial so i'm not saying it was useless. Yeah, they would have been executed anyway, though
It's fair because it was pretty obvious what they were doing
So the information that needed to get out of these guys that was vital that helped a lot. Okay
Yeah, and led to a lot more investigations a lot more criminal trials and things like that
but yeah, there are a lot of idiots out there who
Are like holocaust deniers still just blow my mind
Are like holocaust deniers still just blow my mind. I just do not I cannot fathom
How dumb you have to be?
to
To be a holocaust denier like obviously anybody who's listened to the show
Isn't a holocaust denier because why would you keep listening?
Like but it still just blows my mind because you always come across it when you're researching world war two and you're researching the holocaust
You will always stumble across
It's like people in the comments saying um, that's not right and therefore we should cast doubt on the entire thing
Yeah, oh my god
Jesus crazy
for me, it feels like
You're even dumber than a flat earther
Yeah
seriously, you have to be really fucking jaded and out of touch
and just like
In your own really weird echo chamber to think that the holocaust didn't happen
Yeah, like with with
Everything that's out there. There's video footage of your face
And you're still gonna turn it away. I'm sorry like oh, yeah
I saw one once it was your stupid a rebuttal of the the
video footage that showed like the corpses being bulldozed into the burial site after
the the allies had shown up and
People were like well, that's those deaths are actually from a typhus epidemic
Like okay, so the typhus starved them to death. Yeah, like
They probably did have typhus too, but
They were yeah, it's just ridiculous, but
We're gonna talk about the hangman of nurrenberg and his story
We're gonna you know go back in time
To june 5th 1911 a good year. Yeah solid year. John Clarence woods is born in kansas
Uh his parents end up divorcing by the time he's two and he lives with his grandparents for the most part
He was why they got a divorce. He was definitely when he yeah, he was definitely why they got a divorce
Uh, he ended up, you know school off and on
Barely made it through one year of high school before dropping out which you know during the time period
That was great depression. So the fact that he got there at all. All right, there's something
But at december 3rd 1929, we're jumping ahead. He's 18 years old
And he does what anybody in 1929 does
I went the second day turned 18 signs up for the navy the fucking navy. Yep
Uh within three months. He was awol
What yeah, he was awol within three months of signing up for the navy. He ends up getting court-martialed
And somebody during the court-martial is like that boy ain't right. Did they say why he went awol?
He didn't want to work. I'm out. He said he did not want to work. Yeah, same. Yeah, I feel that feel that bro
But they the somebody at the court-martial was like that boy ain't right. So let's send him for a psychiatric evaluation
Okay, april 23rd in 1930. He was he underwent a psychiatric
Uh, he was examined by a psychiatric board which you know
Psychiatric medicine during this time period is like peak. Oh, yeah top top tier. Awesome. Shit
They knew everything they had the dsm. They were all set. They knew everything about
Mental health in the 1930s. We've really lost a lot. Yeah. Yeah, we we happen to just lose it in history
Yeah, so I have a quote from the report
This is the peak peak mental health awareness because this is back when they were still doing lobotomies. Hell, yeah
So, you know, they knew what they were doing if people's brains are at stake
Yeah, now we don't do lobotomies and they're like look at the world now. Yeah. Yeah, and look how many people have have depression. Yeah
We need to more bring back lobotomies
So the direct quote here is this patient though not
Intellectually inferior gives a history of repeated running counter to authority both before and since enlistment
Stigmata of degeneration are present and the patient frequently bites his fingernails
He has a benign tumor of the soft palate for which he refuses operation
His commanding officer and division officers state that he shows ineptitude
And oh in aptitude and does not respond to instruction
He is obviously poor service material
This man has had less than five months of service
His disability is considered to be an ineptitude
He has not considered a menace to himself or others
That's good. So he said he's not really dumb
He just doesn't like taking orders from people and he doesn't like working and he bites his fingernails and he bites his fingernails
Bastard and he's got a little tumor on his soft palate
That was his brother that he absorbed in utero, yeah, so he was given the official diagnosis of
constitutional psychopathic
Inferiority without psychosis when really it was just he didn't want to work. Yeah, that's pretty much it
It was like you're gonna tell me what to do. Fuck you doesn't want to work
Yeah, gross. Oh god. I think we have what he has. I think so
The without psychosis up for debate but yeah fair
At this also on his medical record. He was five foot four
130 pounds brown hair and blue eyes. That's a little guy. He's us
Yeah, but like but a hundred pounds. Yeah too low
He's tiny dude. Yeah, you're a little dude. Oh boy
He's like Captain America before they filled him up with steroids before they filled him up with serum
And so, you know he
Gets out of the discharge from the navy starts working some manual labor jobs back in Kansas back in Wichita where he was born
1933 comes around
So three years he joins the civilian conservation corps, which I don't know if you know about them, but they did like
part of the new deal part of getting the getting america out of the depression was
Set up the ccc and then they'll go through and establish a new
They'll make trails they'll make um, they do a lot of conservation like ecological shit, which was awesome
Like the coast guard but for forests kind of
In fact the majority of trails that you can hike on like established trails in the united states were set up by these guys
The trails were likely there before that but they would go through
And chop down trees to line the paths or find rocks
And like grate the paths and how big was that organization? I feel like it had to have been massive
Oh, yeah, it was huge because it was basically an excuse to create a shitload of government jobs
So that people could feed their family
And I mean it worked really well because it stimulated the economy. It cost a lot of debt, but
It's like if the war hadn't started this was the best bet for getting out of the country
Great depression damn that would be a hell of a job dude. I would kill for it
The the forest service does a lot of that stuff now actually ran into some
When we were when I was out hiking years ago
It was a multi-day kind of camping hike and we came across just like three forest rangers
Who were out there and they smelled like weed and they were just like yeah, we're just clearing trails where trees
Fell down and they just had chainsaws and backpacks damn they were just hiking their whole thing was just hike through as many trails as you can
If a tree fell down cut it. That's cool. Awesome job. That's a solid setup. Oh, yeah
If I was fit that would be an awesome job if I was fit
and
If I could stand to be in the sun for more than two and a half minutes
I would be like, okay
And if I could stand to be in the sun for more than two and a half minutes, yeah
He very quickly went awol
No
No, dude for six days and then he was discharged. God damn it. He then married a nurse named hazel chillcote
Whoa, yeah, which is crazy because he had like zero prospects. She sounds like a poisonous flower
That's an australian flower I would fuck
Uh
Let's see hazel chillcote. Yep hazel chillcote. You know, he probably
fucking went awol doing that for a stranger job because
I bet they were just they didn't have weed. That was the thing. That was that was the problem. Yeah
They ran have some smoked it off. He seems like uh
He's he's defiant with authority but not unlike the yo fuck that like fuck that
He's like he's angry defiant. He's like I won't fucking do that. That's that's my that's my take from this guy. Yeah
so 1940 he
For some reason enlist in the selective service
for the draft and
September 19th 1943 he reports for the army. Oh, no sent to basic training
The army has no idea about his his career with the navy and his discharge
Well, apparently they didn't share the files. He's got one more after this. Can you imagine he has a fourth chance after
Getting kicked out of the army. I'm so glad we have the internet like could you imagine?
Back in before internet and instantaneous communication. You could just get away with anything because you fuck up in one place
They're not gonna tell the other place. There's no communication. We've talked about it so many times, too
Yeah, how like astoundingly like when people talk about how it was a simpler time
It it was just an easier
It was easier to get away with shit. Oh, yeah, like definitely god damn
Yes kicked out of the navy kicked out of the forest service. I'm gonna I know what I'll do. I'll join the army perfect
So in 1944 early 1944 he's deployed onto a troop ship and assigned to company B of the 37th engineer
Combat battalion. He was a combat engineer. Oh my god
Oh my god, the guy who barely made it through one year of high school and has dropped out of everything so far is an engineer
This is like putting me in an engineer position. Yeah, like we don't have any education for that
Oh god, dude, he surprisingly did not go awol
Oh, okay
He was even involved in d-day his company company B
Uh on the first day had four killed in action 15 wounded and three missing in action just on the first day
Oh, so he saw and he wasn't any of them. He wasn't
And he saw some combat. It wasn't a ton
Um, obviously
It's hard to determine the records from that time period but he was involved but it wasn't heavy
It wasn't heavy fighting. It wasn't like front fucking line. Yeah, because he was an engineer
It was more important that he was on the front line behind the front line setting up radio communications. Yeah
shit like that
Let's see. So october 1944
so end of that first year he was deployed to the
2913th
Disciplinary training center. He kind of moved around a bit to a couple different
different uh deployed to a couple different areas, but
later on
A month or two later
The army put out a little call and said hey
We need volunteers for a hangman executioner
Uh has to have you know, six months experience or whatever. No, I don't know how much but they said had to be experienced
We need somebody because before this most of the hangings were done by a british dude a civilian british dude
Okay, but by this point, you know, this is after d-day they're pushing into france
so the u.s military was like, uh, let's set up our own guy and
Woods volunteered said reporting for a duty. I have he went in and said I have experience
Hanging people in texas and oklahoma because he did live in texas and oklahoma when he's doing kind of those manual jobs
In his early life, he kind of shifted around a lot. Yeah and worked with the kkk. So he did a bunch of yeah
Those are burnings. Yeah
What what was his ex? I don't understand what like as an executioner for like a prison or something
Yeah, you could just do that back in the day in the early 1900s
If you wanted to go murder somebody you could just go to the local prison and say hey
I volunteer to be an executioner and chances are they would take you
As long as there was another executioner who was experienced. In fact during the researching of this I found
the original military like table
of
weight
Compared to drop distance needed to snap the neck on the first try like they had it on on they did the math
Yeah, jesus the army interestingly enough did nothing to verify his claims of past history
Well, yeah, I mean they fucking took him in before so in fact the last hanging in texas was when he was 12 years old
Uh, the last hanging in oklahoma was three months before he was born
They both switched to electric chair since then and how oh my god, and they just did not verify
He's just like yeah, I have experience and they're like, yeah, don't look at the state history
No, no, they they said you got experience
Awesome, you got experience killing
Alrighty, perfect. That's crazy
He was given a promotion immediately to master sergeant. He was a private
He was given then promoted to master sergeant
And then transferred to paris where he got his first job hanged 34 u.s soldiers for various reasons
What the fuck you could like if you fucked up and you were pretty close to the front lines, you'd be just hanged
What yeah if you like denied an order?
If you were a wall like I mean
God damn they were brutal because yeah
They they took it was kind of left over from the first world war where if you refused an order you just get shot
Right then the officer would just shoot you
Yeah, if you refused to go up over the over the wall when they called it
The order for the officer was to shoot that's why in I don't know if you've seen many of the movies or artist portrayals
There's always the guy in the back pointing the pistol towards the front line
Uh-huh. Really he's pointing at the backs of his own troops. Jesus. Just making sure god damn
It's a threat. It's saying if you don't go up over the hill and die, I'll shoot you myself
Fucking hell. So it was kind of left over from that. Yeah, I had no clue. Yeah, it was fucking brutal
I didn't know that they like yeah, how else would you get a bunch of dudes over that? Oh, yeah
I thought they would just ship you back and toss you in prison or some shit
No, because people would do that just to avoid combat
That's fair. Yeah, I you know, I'd rather live in a prison back in America than see combat
So go to prison for that's a that's a good thing
So what's scarier than that is just getting hanged right there. That's fucked up. Yeah, so
It's suspected speaking of avoiding combat if you're not gonna fucking kill anyone. I'm gonna kill you
Yeah, that's exactly it. I didn't do it
It was suspected that he actually volunteered for this role because he had seen combat on d-day and he didn't want to go back
Totally understandable. Yeah, that's fair. There was a guy colonel mclean wrote later that
While he did not get wounded on Omaha Beach, but he saw a bunch of guys get killed
I'm sure he thought I don't want to go through that experience again
So he volunteers to get out of the combat engineers. He's accepted and promoted from private to private
From private to master sergeant and his pay goes from fifty dollars a month to 138 dollars a month
Big promotion right there
Also, fifty bucks a month to see combat in World War two. Holy shit
inflation
fuck
All right. So he his first execution, you know, he kills he
Executes a bunch of US soldiers. That's that's his main role
I I loved it like they're like to avoid seeing more death
On the front lines of D-day mind you D-day was oh, yeah, like fucking terrible
But he's like, you know, the best way to avoid seeing all this death is to kill him myself
In a controlled environment. Yeah, exactly
Goddamn his first execution in Germany
Was three Germans who lynched an American soldier on June 29th?
1945 so now he he actually start is starting to
lynch
The Germans as their terms can convicted of crimes by the Americans
then on November 10th 1945 he hanged five Germans who were
Involved with the what's what was called the Russell Shime massacre. Hey, I mean at least he found something that he loved
Yeah, he found his passion. Have you heard of the the Russell Shime massacre? I haven't so there was a usb-24
Liberator bomber that was named wham-bam. Thank you, ma'am
Of course, it was it was shot down over Hanover all nine crew members bailed out and pair shot down
one of them
Would caught flack in the stomach. Oh and he got caught, you know
Immediately and the Germans were like, okay send to a hospital and then they sent him to another hospital to get more surgery
He just started going through surgeries. Yeah, the other eight
Were, you know eventually rounded up?
And they were captured by the Luftwaffe oh
At this point they get put into a train. They're starting to be sent to a POW camp. They get to around Russell Shime
When the night before the Canadians bombed the absolute hell out of Russell Shime and the tracks were destroyed
Oh, you gotta talk more about how just
That shit crazy the Canadians
Holy shit, they went balls to the wall
It's nuts. So they so the Luftwaffe were like, alright, we just got to march them through this town
Kind of get them around get on another train send to the POW camp
So they get through and the locals start
yelling about how
They killed them. They bombed us. They bombed our city one of the one of the US troops actually said in German
That wasn't us. Yeah, that wasn't us. I swear to God it was it was the guys in the north
Yeah, did you see the maple leaf?
It wasn't us and they didn't give a shit
So locals start throwing bricks one lady threw a brick and it just started like the powder keg
People came out with hammers and sticks bricks metal rods
God start beating the shit out of these prisoners. Yeah, it's like they can't protect themselves
Well, the Luftwaffe were like, yeah, yeah, they're basically doing what the Luftwaffe wanted to do. Yeah
So didn't have the thumbs up. They they all get you know, they're beat
They all get lined up on the pavement and the air raid warden is the only guy who has a gun
Besides the Luftwaffe and he's got a pistol and he starts executing them. Yeah bullets to the brain
Just bam bam bam bam gets to six magazines empty doesn't have any other bullets meaning the other two people
Someone's looped what are no?
No, well, they he was an area one. He was a civilian which is even worse
God damn and then so they the two that survived who didn't get shot
Kind of waited for people to disperse and then crawled down a ditch and like just tried to get out of town
They were they were picked up by some local police in a town over on purpose and they were sent to the POW camp
I just imagine this guy's like two bullets. I just need two fucking more bullets. Somebody go find something like digging through the rubble anybody
Yeah, so very quickly after this like that is very obviously a war crime. Yeah, they're POWs like
German Germany has signed multiple agreements about the care and process and transfer of POWs
Which holds all of Germany liable to everything that these civilians did to these troops because they lynched them
Yeah, like these guys were surrendered. They were in custody
Like they didn't have weapons hands literally cuffed behind their backs behind their backs
Literally cuffed behind their backs. So they've been beaten and then they're killed pretty quickly afterwards the Allies
occupied this town
They found out about it. They found the bodies and they started rounding people up and they bomb them again
Yeah, let's do it again. No, they they find a lot of the people who were involved like there's one guy who stomped them so
Hard that it broke his boots. Holy shit. And so he was one of the people charged
I think he was hanged the air raid marshal was hanged. There were some ladies who
Ended up being acquitted because they were like, oh the ladies were just screaming
They weren't but
Well, but they were quick at the time
Yeah, exactly because the first person who threw the first brick was a woman
But yeah, they they ended up doing this and then there's a so the person who was kind of
the prosecutor kind of for this
Was lieutenant colonel Leon
Jaworski
Jaworski
I hope I spelled that right who in a couple decades. He was actually the prosecutor for the Watergate scandal
Oh, I just thought that was a cool thing. That's crazy
He pushed for the hanging of the civilians involved because he basically said these are men and women
These are adults if they're called on to murder and they act then they are liable for murder
Whereas their defense the civilians was defend defense was oh all the propaganda said we should kill them
I was like, that's not a good
Jesus yeah, oh the propaganda told me to do it if the propaganda told you to jump off a bridge
Would you maybe doesn't matter. It's still your choice to jump off the bridge
He also committed or committed. He also hanged 14 Germans who
Committed atrocities in Dachau across two days
He did a lot of executions on
Germans who lynched like American soldiers. Yeah, that was pretty common because at this point people weren't
going AWOL as much because
It's getting very much towards the end of the war. Yeah
So after the Nuremberg trials, which
God, I hope you know what the Nuremberg trials are at this point
Just anybody listening
Just anybody listening. There were high 11 high-ranking Nazi officials condemned to death by hanging
Herman Goring was the first to be hanged
He managed to take a cyanide pill in his cell prior to the hanging and died like a little bitch
Oh, baby, another guy kind of I don't know
If he escaped and then committed suicide either way he ended up killing himself
I'm a dumb to be honest if I were in a prison cell and I had a cyanide capsule and it was like hey
You're gonna get fucking hung tomorrow. I'll do this instead. Fuck it
Yeah, knowing what I know about this. Yeah
so the people who were
Condemned were Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
Colonel General Alfred Jodl former head of the SS Ernst Kaltenbrunner
former foreign minister
Joshim von Ribbentrop
Alfred Rosenberg Hans Frank Wilhelm Frick Julius Stryker Fritz Saukel and Arthur Arthur
Seis in quart
I said the first thing caught Seisen cart
So von Ribbentrop the foreign minister was now the first person in line fucking name really is so 1 11 a.m.
He was hanged in a gymnasium
surrounded by the
Reporters the witnesses and the military people and John Woods. He was the gym. Yeah gymnasium
Yeah, pause. We're gonna go like does it say where nope
It's just an elementary school
In Nuremberg
There is just whatever the local elementary is like a little pretty playing basketball. Yeah in the back
Yeah, it's a Mormon church. Yeah, exactly. We have our weddings our hangings and our church ball in the same building efficiency. So
he
You know at this point he was an experienced executioner
Yeah, and they'd done the math but interestingly enough
Many most of the Nazis died by hanging by died by suffocation not a broken neck, huh?
Despite the like diagram they had yeah von Ribbentrop himself took 14 minutes to suffocate. Oh
Hanging by the neck
The guy who took the longest to die that Kaitel Field Marshal Wilhelm Kaitel took
24 minutes to die from hanging god damn
in fact
It was also reported that many of them on the way down smashed their head on
Like the platform which the nooses tied very specifically in that it drops straight down
So that doesn't happen. Yeah
So it also seems like maybe the nooses weren't tied correctly. What the fuck is he doing?
It took a hundred and three minutes total to hang all ten victims homeboy was intentionally making
So if you're if you're doing the math, let's just say we go average
It's about ten minutes of hanging before for each person. Obviously, that's cute
Some people did die instantly Mr. Executioner. It's just relishing in these hangings
Yeah, I found one report of a from a reporter who was there who said that
Basically how it worked was there there was the platform and then they would fall through but then under the platform
It was a black cloth. So you couldn't actually see them. Yeah, and
There was one he said where the guy fell
But it was kind of like the rope wasn't as taut
as the other hangings and John Woods just went under there and
pulled on the guy's legs and
Then left him and then he took another ten minutes
Passion in your place of work, I guess
Fucking hell. Yeah, I got a quote from John Woods about this event
I hanged those ten Nazis. Imagine this in a Kansas accent
I hang those hang those damn ten Nazis and I'm proud of it
I wasn't nervous a fellow can't afford to have nerves in this business. I want to put in a good word for those
GIs who helped me they all did swell. I'm trying to get them a promotion
The way I look at this hanging job. Somebody has to do it. I got into it kind of by accident years ago in the States
That wasn't by accident. So he's still just lying. It wasn't by accident at all. He didn't hang anybody in the States
and he he was very proud of it it very
Suspected
That he purposely botched them. I mean, oh
I thought you were gonna say like proud that he did them which he was like
This is like a world scale hanging like it's not like what's what's James Woods? Yeah, like it's not like wait was it
John would John. There we go
I'm tired as fuck, but like
John was probably
John was probably fairly used to like he's not getting
Recognized for like anything because he's usually quitting before he would get recognition
Well, I so now it's like a worldwide scale. Like this isn't just something that's like
Hey, the US by the way, we we hung these guys. It's done
This was on a very grand scale of oh, yeah
And I found like on the Wikipedia page forum. It said some of the early US soldier
Executions were botched, but there was literally no citation
So I don't know if that's entirely true, but I would also believe that maybe the first one or two were I mean and I could see
Intentionally botching the fuck out of these. Yeah, he's kind of fucked up. Yeah
so he
He I'm gonna say he botched these on purpose and got away with it a
Law professor named Donald E Wilkes jr. Later on he was actually born
I think a couple months before these hangings less than a year before
So later on he wrote that it was a grim pitiless scene
Actually, a lot of the details came from his investigation
But for those who had sat through the horrors and tortures of the trial who had learned of men dangled from butcher hooks of women
mutilated and children jammed into gas chambers of mankind subjected to degradation
degradation destruction and terror the scene conjured a vision of stark almost biblical justice
I mean to be fair
These aren't these aren't just like oh, hey 11 random Nazis. No, these are these are the guys that
Ordered yeah, these guys made the decision going on. Yeah. Yeah, so I
Mean karma caught up to him in the end. I don't blame you John. Yeah, dude. There's a lot of
You know myths about this guy yeah brought forth by you know meme culture
she might stumble across a picture of him and
It might say oh he ended up getting killed by while repairing an electric chair that didn't happen
He also said he was responsible for like 300 killings
Max 100 he said a lot of them are like oh he was he had a 15 year execution career
He had a two year execution career, but still a hundred people in two years
That's not bad the timing for for his
quote unquote promotion was impeccable yes, you could say about half of those are
like convicted war criminals yeah
So it's just like dudes got a solid rap sheet for a very short
Yeah, so still I want to point out again
It is insane that you could be a combat engineer with no schooling like
How nowadays when I think of an engineer? I'm like okay those guys have like masters degrees those guys are
Geniuses with math and physics yeah nowadays
It's like those are the guys that they intentionally don't put on the front lines because it's so valuable. Yeah
It's crazy, and this dude's like I failed out of the Navy and the Forest Service like I think you've got yourself a career
Yeah in hanging
So he did end up sticking with the military
With the 7th Engineer Brigade he was working in the Marshall Islands up into about 1950
Where in July 21st?
1951 John Woods died by electrocution while repairing an engineering machine
While repairing an engineer lighting set he just didn't turn off the power
Fucking stuck some pliers in there and got shocked to death. He was an idiot. Yeah, what's it?
It wasn't even anything fancy. He just fucking didn't he didn't hit the off button. Yeah, he got he got into his position
Because the army was like I don't care
We just need somebody to hang these guys and it's gonna gotta be somebody who's not gonna like
Go crazy and kill everybody you know it's gotta be somebody's not gonna snap
He probably didn't even know that electricity could kill you because all he's done is hangings, so he's like oh, yeah
I've been shocked by batteries before yeah, this is fine. I can idiot. What is this a 9-volt God, but
John Woods an American hero
American hero, and he never had any kids oh God
Surprise surprise. Thank goodness. He did not have kids. He wouldn't have applied himself. Yeah, oh
God
Good short short up sometimes you find you know just
people who
Had a good I'd say he had a decent sized impact yeah, and
It's even funnier when they get there by lying Jesus. Yeah, it's it's like a
I just said a lie and now I'm here. Yeah, he's like oh well. Yeah, all right. I'll just stick with it
This is my life now. I'm making three times as much as I was before
Fuck so
Yeah, but she's a fun. I like the fun little yeah, just like one person figure it out
Yeah, especially when they're have a weird soft tumor in their mouth
Well if you guys would like an additional episode per month
and
You'd like additional content from
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AJ you got that list
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Of course we got the board they make all the decisions
Thankless job honestly mini D Nordic Thunder Toddle waddle and Weston
Thank you guys so much for being able to put forth a little little extra and really helping us out
Yeah, and now that there are four of you each of your votes only counts as a quarter of a person
Yeah, so sorry still don't outnumber us. Yeah somehow
Your share your your shares are going down in value
That's weird how that works. It's like a bad investment
And then of course we've got Abby AJ's third nut Thomas Dark Runner D's nuts and Lara Revo
Thank you guys so much like we really do appreciate it. You let us
Keep doing this and keep growing and you know you guys are responsible for these
Beautiful microphones microphones the stands that stands the the wood that we use to make the desk
I don't think we had done patreon. No, but you know rectory I've been stealing
I've been I've been embezzling money from it. I mean, that's fine. Yeah, do your thing. Oh
But yeah, we really do appreciate you guys
Fantastic seeing that we're actually getting support on there, so thank you so much and as always
You guys know the fucking drill if you ever have any
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