Your earbuds will storm the beaches at Normandy when Big Luck's, Ol' Blue Eyes, Schwartz, and Chumahan reveal the true origins of black history month and tell the greatest American WW2 hero story you never heard of about the masterful amazing patriot, LA's finest warrior who single-handedly wiped the floor with Nazi scum: BONUS understand finally why it's called battle of the bulge. 

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Uh, you already know what it is. All you on the visuals go, you know what I'll eat. That's the first time I saw you trying to do shit. He was, he was doing stick this time now, you know, it's funny. And somehow that made it not asking, right? Yeah. I just had a warmup. Yeah. Good. All right, good. You're doing cut on it.

You're doing look at his face. Ali. Do you like those? Just spin on it with the women's spin on a Dick. Fuck. No comment. exactly what not to go. What road to go down. I ain't even go in there. He didn't deny it. He said

that's the worst. I was like that, bro. You really lost it on that one. Nice. Okay. Let's do it. Sean's looking at me like where do we go from here? Motherfucker. Do something, motherfucker. What the fuck? I love awkward silence. I do too. It's so it's so. It's something people try to avoid. Like they try to move away from it.

All right. Uh, shorts what's on tap. What are we doing? You're in charge of, you know, we can roll it out with the, uh, world war two. And the Eddie Carter that you were telling me about was that the gentleman's name? That Carter Eddie Carter. Yeah. That isn't related to Jimmy. No, but this guy is, his story is amazing too.

Mom gave me a little, a little, a preview of it and uh, fucking blew my mind. Hey, um, so, so the really start this out really is to talk about black history month. That's what February is, right? Yup. Ollie, why don't you get on his mic, man? I do consider yourself African-American yeah, he does. He does. All right.

So Ali, uh, is black history month. What do you understand about black? Sit down my brother. What do you understand about black history man? A month? It's time to celebrate a culture that has been suppressed from the get go. So it's a time for people who are in color to embrace who they are and be happy in their skin and not try to be any other race.

Just like, be happy that you're you. But like, it would be cool if like everyone had their own month to celebrate. Like, I don't want to be like, oh, like just take all the shine. Like everyone should have that opportunity. Hey Ali, do you know how black history month got started? Can you just let me know?

Okay. Uh, does anybody actually have any idea how black history month even got stuff? Schwartz and shaking his head, Sean. I mean, do you so black history month? Cause I, I didn't know. I looked it up because I wanted to know. Cause it seems like it feels like you just have these sort of politically quote unquote correct holidays that it seemed like the government put out to try to keep everybody cool and like not pissed off.

Right. So I looked it up and it's not that in fact, what it is is black history month started out as black history week and black history week started because a guy who was black African-American went to Harvard. Wooden is his last. Wouldn't and he discovered in all the history books at Harvard that know nothing about black Americans contribution to this country history, anything was in any of the textbooks at Harvard.

What year is this? We're talking like 19, early 1900. Right? So he's sitting there and he's thinking, and he starts the first, like African-American academic journal from Harvard. Right. And it's like, he reads through the history books and we're talking college level zero, mention about African-Americans contribution to history.

And so he says, fuck it. And he said, we're going to start black history week. Now there had already been before the 19 hundreds, a tradition in the African-American community to celebrate, to celebrate the first week in February already. Does anybody know why? No, because. Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln both had birthdays in that first week.

I think a Frederick, I think Frederick Douglas is Valentine's day 14th and what? No, no. I thought Lincoln's was like the 13th or something. It's like the eighth, I believe. Right. So African-Americans were like, that was a major change in our situation. It wasn't fixed. Right. But it was. So that week eventually right.

Turned into an entire month as, as more and more folks started to push the idea and the whole cause of it was because, um, only one history was shining at the time of that white history. Well, two things about what you said is one, how many African-Americans were at Harvard or at any of the big universities at that time?

That could even point out, oh shit. There's nothing in here. Black contribution to this country. Um, and so I think it's amazing that he did that, but also too, I think it's important for people to know it. Wasn't given black history month. Wasn't given out, you hear all these, maybe it's urban legend, like, okay, it's black history month because it's the shortest month in the year, right?

That's a, that's a common joke in the comedy circles. Right. And the truth of the matter is, is it, and this is what really gets fucked up in these situations. Is that the common culture, common sense people, right. They think like, oh, this was dispensed from the government. Right. And it was dispensed out of some feeling of obligation to keep black and it's bullshit.

Right, right. It was picked because Abraham Lincoln who fucking defeated the entire south and Emmy murdered motherfuckers, that's really what I wind up when grant did that March to the. Right. He burned crops, salted the earth and it was, it was to break the back of the Southern fuck faces. And I love the south, but I'm also saying a lot of those motherfuckers wanted to keep slavery and place.

He's the reason why, uh, blacks, at least slavery ended right now. Frederick Douglas. I mean, dude, none of us talked about Frederick Douglas, that dude was born a slave and he tricked white people into teaching them English. He tricked him into teaching them how to read and write when it was illegal for black people, illegal for black people to read or write.

And the whole reason is they didn't want black people reading because if they read, then they would read the Bible. Then they read about the Jews who fucking broke out of slavery. And that might lead to us losing a fucking dope ass system. This is American history. And that's the pur and that's the next, that's the next phase though, is that there's a movement like Morgan Freeman and other folks have said, well, I don't want to call it black history because it's really American history.

It is American history. Yeah. It's not black history. The problem is is that if you do. Privilege that piece. It won't be acknowledged. It won't be acknowledged. That's the part that, that a lot of these conservative whites gloss over, that's the hidden power structure behind this dialogue. First, as soon as you say black, it goes into a certain column.

Right. But the problem is, is if you don't say black, then the P goes into no column and it goes into zero column. Right. Uh, you would hear people, so that's kind of, you would hear people like, oh, well, black history month and why, why isn't there a white history month? Why isn't there, whatever. And you know, the argument and it's true that if you didn't have that, it wouldn't be at all.

And like every other month is white history month or American history month without the inclusion of the African-American contribution. So then how does that, how do you think that plays into American when they are talking about just American history? They have the slaughter of the. And that's just American history.

It, that is American history and it should be American history. And then you also have to go in. And so this is what I think personally, I think that it should be approached from, uh, from the angle of a disciplinary angle. For instance, if you were to say the history of automobiles, right. Or the history of gambling or the history of song or the history of America, right.

All of that would fit under America, but it's still a category, but it doesn't mean that just because you put it into the category, it's separate and apart from America. Right. So if you said, I want to study heavy. Right. You wouldn't necessarily approach it and say, well, don't call it heavy metal. Cause now you're separating it from music.

You would already understand that that's a subcategory of the general category of music. So in this case, the general category is American history. Sub category would be African-American history because you need that kind of detailed study in that little branch of the history in order to bring all those details to life.

So that the general category of American history is actually more accurate, not better, not worse, accurate the true story. And so I think when you get bogged down into like the fighting about what, what should we call it and should it be the same and blah, blah, blah. I think there's a place for people to say it's American history, but then I think it makes sense from a, from a intellectual standpoint that you have to label certain things in order to feel.

Uh, all of the details in order, but that's kind of what the fight is going on now. You know, a lot of Republicans and people on the right are saying, oh, we shouldn't burden our kids with the fact that there was slavery. Fuck. Or there was prejudice, all these things that, oh, you know, they're going to feel guilty or hate their country.

No, they're going to have an appreciation and an understanding from where we were, where we're at now and the road that we can take to go. And you know, those same. I gotta say this. Like when I look at old pictures of slavery and read about it, and I look at the problems that I have today, it just like completely wipes out any little negative thing in my life.

Like just comparing like my life to what used to be like, knowing about all that messed up stuff. It's like, it's pretty necessary to know. So you can realize like how far we came and like, damn like life ain't that bad. Like it could be a lot worse. I know about that stuff. You gotta know about it because you got to know it could be worse.

You got to know about it, that what people consider golden ages of history, where actually rife with complete violence and injustice so that you don't get some fake ass idea that like, oh, it was all good before, you know, part of the power. People don't understand this, but in our Western thinking, we have a tendency to look back in a direction that everything was perfect.

At some past point, there was a garden of Eden. There was no trouble. Adam was walking around naked, his vision was naked and they could do anything and they didn't have to work. And there was no menstruation. There was none of that. It was cool. It was. Now we live in this corrupted society and it's all fucked up.

It's actually always been fucked up. That's the first point it's always been fucked up. It's always been corrupted. So in looking at that, I wanted to get that out to make sure that our audience and myself and us are aware that black history month started out because black history was not being taught.

And it was only a week. And it was already a tradition of celebrating the fact that Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas, right, were people who really advanced. I mean, you can talk all the bullshit you want. You can fucking say all this other stuff. Those are two guys that put their asses on the line.

To advance a cause or a people in this country. And, and, and so I think that piece of it is super important and to really the politics of it should be taken out. There should be no question on, in anyone's plate that, uh, the true history of America should be taught to the citizens who are gonna inherit this country.

Frederick Douglas, you said he tricked the wipey. Wouldn't teaching him how to read and white. So what did he do with that to help both by being, oh, so he didn't make black history month, but he did was he eventually got himself out of slavery at a time when slavery was still there and traveled through Europe and became emblematic of a guy that showed that African-Americans even see, this is the part that really hurts motherfuckers that are weak.

Frederick Douglas showed. You can say, I'm not a man. And you can say that I'm not human and you can put me in jail. But through my own intellect, owls, outsmart you, and I'll make all pain. I'll get myself paid out of this thing. And I'll go on speaking tours throughout Europe and America as a free man.

Yeah, he was the, I, I would say during that time, probably the most prominent and respected African-American, um, men, he came out of slavery. Think about, think about being you talk in this country. We all make a big hoopla about being a self-made man. People fucking waxed, you know, Elon Musk's car, because he was like, ah, I, I slept on beanbags and coded all night.

Think about Frederick Douglas, what he had to overcome in terms of what he was labeled. The rules were all against him to eventually get to a place where he was free and was able to come and go and places. So Frederick D we could do an entire show. Frederick. Oh, that guy was a real hero. An American hero.

I think we should for black history month, I think during this month let's let's do one. I'll do it. I'll do it. You could imagine how crazy it would be if he was living in this time period, like how he would be able to finesse. Cause like that knowledge he has, like, you can't take that away from him. Like when you said like, when you put chains on me, you calling whatever, like you can't change.

Like my mom's. Yeah. But, but, but, but hold on a second. All right, but hold on. You're right. But I think a Frederick Douglas came here today. He'd be very disappointed. Oh yeah. Because nobody's working as hard as he did. That's exactly right. That's exactly fucking right. And like you're right. He. W figured out where the freedom is, it's in the mind, but our generations of folks have been so brainwashed by companies like apple, Microsoft fucking Coca-Cola, all these jerk-off companies, Nike, right?

That they no longer are free in their mind. You're free in your body. You ain't free in your mind. Oh, like they are brainwashed to consume brainwashed, to consume meaningless jobs, create a meaningless life, which creates people a desire to buy meaningless junk. Meaningless junk to fill a hole in themselves because they haven't developed their mind.

And that's where our society is today. And that's why you got all these fucking idiots that they're not genuinely idiots. Like they have the capacity to think, but they're just under so much layers of bullshit that they're so confused that they would try to overthrow their own country and smear feces in their own Congress and then act like it didn't happen.

Right. Oh, you talking about like this government? Fuck. That's right. So now that we've hit that point, I want to turn now to write the project here where my, my, my desire here and talking about, um, the African-American contribution to the American project, the American dream, the American home, the American goal, the American success, and one of the things that, um, I want it to do is also connected to Los Angeles.

Right. Okay. And I wanted to talk about somebody called Eddie Carter. Nope. Eddie Carter. And in relation to Jimmy Carter, none. What was his, um, ranking by the time that he was done? Was he like a Sergeant? What do you know? Yeah. But by the time that he was, well, this is a good question to ask. Cause I can tell you this, he made it to Sergeant, but he had to give up those stripes.

Oh yeah. That's right. So Eddie Carter, his dad, um, was from LA and he was like, um, like, uh, like a, a preacher, right. One of these preachers and he went to, and we're talking like, you know, 1908 or 1910, like around that time, his dad, a black man. Think about that. Right. Went to India to convert Hindus into Christianity.

Christian man, they're going everywhere, fucking way team. They're trying to increase their numbers big and uh, I'll sign anybody up. Border will kill you. Right. And so he was up there and he married an Indian woman, I think, here in LA. And that's why they went to India together. And Eddie Carter's mother was from India and his dad was, um, a black dude from LA and they went there.

And, uh, and, and when you went to India back then, right, you had to like take a fucking boat. It was no like massive thing. Right? So they stopped at Hong Kong and all this other stuff now really think about an African-American dude, an adult from LA at that time, seeing like Hong Kong and Singapore and Ryan goon and all this shit, it was pretty way out there.

They got to India, they set up shop. And the thing of it was, was that for whatever reason, this young Eddie Carter had, was always drawn to the middle of. Um, and in India he said he was visited by a spirit that told them if you, you will become a great warrior. And for whatever reason, when he was like 14, that stuck with him and in India, right.

Eddie's his mom ran off with another dude and they took the church money. Oh. So imagine that God damn. Fraud's not, but not the dad. Wasn't okay. Okay. The dad was, it was a die. I mean, this dude would pray and praying all this other shit. Right. And then one day, one of his buddies and his wife just disappeared with the church.

Kitty, Tammy Faye ran off with the bag. And I mean, imagine what, how that would make you feel. You're Eddie Carter. You're in India, right? You don't know anybody, your mom's gone now. It's just you and your dad and your kids. It's a fun. Think about that. So, so, so start. So they, they lose all their thing. They try their luck and China, the dad goes to China with Eddie, everybody that goes to China with Eddie and they start up the holy roller shit over there.

Cause you know, just like you said, Christians are trying to sign up mothers, right? When they're trying to sign up the Chinese, there was already a lot of white Christian dudes over there. Right. But get a load of this, the Chinese hated white people. You imagine that Steve, why would the Chinese around that time hate white motherfuckers?

Cause they were. Pretty much making them go railroads. Yeah. I love you, Steve. I can see right then and there dude, you're like a master of like, I'm gonna throw out an answer. That's correct. Probably in some way, I'm just going to be general enough. Cause they were listen. Why people enslaved a lot of different kinds of people.

So if I just say enslaved them, that's probably right. That's a good reason. I can just imagine you in high school brother, I could just see you being like, because they were bad. Well, yes and yeah, no, because of the British and the opium trade got their fucking old country strung out on fucking heroin and then started fucking buying it and doing that, you can make them buy it from all that shit.

Do this horrible. What was that called though? The heroin, the Hong Kong or something heroin thing or it was the opium wars. Yeah. So think about that. So, so, so you're hating them at a deep level. Yeah, it's just strung out their whole country. Do they do the pusher? The pusher man was the British kingdom and the queen and she rugged went over there and said, you know what, try this little powder and then got them all hooked up on it.

And it's, it's it's England bull that story. When I read that, I was like, God damn. Why is it that that level of evilness comes out of England? Like that, man, what the fuck is that, man? My blink of a shit about nobody up some themselves. They still bro. They still don't. I was just having dinner with that client.

He's a, he's a pro he was, he's a retired university president with a lot of connections and shit. He was laying some stories out to me about the British Royals. Oh man, bro. No, no blame. No Blaine. So, so, so, so, but, so, so at that time, right there was like white Christians doing missionary work over there.

Right. But the Chinese were like cock block and I'm like, nah, motherfucker, no, we dealt with you before. And we got all fucked up. We ain't going to deal with you now, but Eddie's dad was a black man and the Chinese embraced him. It didn't matter that he was married. I mean, it was his, he was as far from white as possible.

So embraced it. Anybody was also American. Right. And this is right around the time that like chairman Mao in and, um, check hi shack where we're clashing about who's going to control, China's going to be communism or is it going to be now American back? Uh Sheck is he going to be right? And the Americans were actually putting a lot of money and energy and in part of the American push, when they saw that Eddie Carter's day.

Hat's it was getting some fucking purchase with these fucking, uh, the, with the, the American back Chinese folks, all of a sudden Eddie Eddie's father's dad was able to get his hold of a publishing and the printing press. Next thing you know, they're floating out all that fucking propaganda through Eddie's that now that his dad became close with check, I check and the women is so close.

In fact that when that dude's daughter got deathly ill with the fucking typhoid Eddie's dad was praying over the daughter and she miraculously healed. And as a result shack and his crew became converted to Christianity. Schwartz's shorts. Tell us you shaking your hand. You got the cynical scowl. What was that about?

No, it's like they, they had, uh, they had some little bit of proof and they fucking ran with it. It was like, man, you performed a mirror. Yeah. So do they Buddhist, do you know what they were to switch over? What type of religion they worked this before? They weren't Buddhist. They were something akin to, I think Confucianism.

Okay. All right. And there was a lot of like veneration and it was not Buddhist. And I think the maturation, yeah. Like respect to the ancestors, all that shit you see in those Disney fucking Chinese ones where it's like borderline racist, but are they supporting it or is it racist? And they're like black and incense and then goes to the ancestors, come out and sing some fucked up song.

And you're like, I don't know if this might be racist. So all of that. But Eddie Carter, the young man was in military schools in China during that time. And because of the connections, uh, he got into the military to fight against Mao in the early days. And his dad flipped out because the tensions were growing.

It was clear that something was going to happen and they were struggling over. Who's going to control China. And so his dad with his connections got his son out early and they moved back to LA. That's crazy. I didn't. So he was like a part of the Chinese military, basically. That's even crazier. Yes. Think about that.

That's fucking nuts right now. This is him wanting to fucking, I don't know, what's up with dudes that lost their moms from some shit, but you, you like, you want to get discipline and military, you want join shit and fight shit. And, and young Eddie was already and he could already speak Chinese. He could already speak Hindu.

Right? He's like 15, 16. And he's like out there carrying rifles in the Chinese army, fucking throwing down in a fight. That's not even his battle. Cause that's how bad he wanted to fucking fight. He was a soldier through and through. Go back to LA. Right. And all of this is a precursor and leading up to Japan, coming down and starting to take over China, which it did.

Right. All right. But Nan king, look it up. Then you go there, all that shit up. Look it up. So all that's kind of bubbling now at this time, this is pre-World war two, right? When now we're getting into pre-World war II and for the first four years of shit that the Nazis were doing, right. Or maybe even five, the United States was like, man, we ain't getting involved.

I mean, you know, you're killing Jews over there. All right. Just as long as you pay us and you window down or nah, we're not gonna, you know, and who was it? Which was, um, God, I wanna think it was for. Pushing around that children as ion or the Zionist stuff. Remember Ford was like passing around that anti-Semitic fucking propaganda book called the elders of Zion, which was a total fraud.

Right. All right. So, so pre w YouTube America, right? Pre W2. I love watching Steve shakers. So pre WWT bullying me the fucking Connecticut white people did not give a shit about the Jews at all. And at this time though, there was a guy named Franco, which country was Franco in? I don't know Spain. Oh dude. I just guessed it was Franco.

Franco was addicted. In Spain. And he was taking over Spain. There was something called the Spanish civil war. Now just like the time that's happening right now, there was something called there was fascist breaking out all over Europe. You had Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, right. And some people have said, it's part of an echo that comes out of the depression, the depression, economic situation set up the perfect circumstances for these dictators to come in and use fascia a dream that's right, right.

And blame blame. Right. Right. Okay. That's the biggest thing they need to have. Now. This is, what's so special. Now this is, what's so special about Eddie Carter Jr. When Franco in the Spanish civil war was going on, now you might know, right. There's a lot of, um, Books, you know, uh, you know, um, Hemingway, you know, all of that, there was a rider tradition in America that got involved in the Spanish civil war on the side of the antifascists right.

Antifa and motherfucking Tiefer that's Antifa antifascist against the spread of it. And it's not even in America it's way over there, but the danger was so real and they knew it was such an evil thing. This fucking fascism that Americans fat ass Americans, red blooded Americans who had no dog in that fight.

We're like, I'm going to sign up and volunteer and go fight in that war. And one of those folks was Eddie Carter Jr. Right. Eddie Carter. And there was something called the Abraham Lincoln brigade in the Spanish civil war. Which is a group of Americans of all stripes, Jewish, black, white, gay, straight BI curious, right.

Allied questioning all of those types, going to Spain to fight against the fascists. And Eddie Carter was one of them. And I mean, that dude, when he showed up, have most of the people that showed up over there with were nut Knicks, like idiots that had never had any military training. Eddie Carter had already been in military schools and already fought in the Chinese war.

So when they sent him, he was training guys over there. Okay. So this was official, like what branch of the military did he sign up for here in this country? This is unofficial. The government was so hands off. Well, when the government gave you a passport for Europe, the stamp said, this is not valid to go to Spain because they didn't want anyone interfering with Franco's takeover of Spain.

And so these people were. Um, the Abraham Lincoln brigade would, um, smuggled themselves through the pier and ease into Spain through a back route. And like Eddie Carter was one of those dudes and Eddie Carter fought. He killed, he got captured. There you go. Hood hood every quarter

for duty, sir, reporting for duty. So he's there. Right? And in fact, I'm going to play you something. This is back when racism, when fascism was something that people of all different creeds believed in. Even Woody Guthrie wrote a song about the Abraham Lincoln brigade. Oh, wow. And let's see if I can find it right here.

It's called, it's called valley. And it's about the valley in Spain where the Abraham Lincoln brigade fought against the fascists. Just, just, just, just to give you an idea.

there's a valley and Spain called her on, uh, it's a place that we all know so well, it was there that we fought against the flashes. We saw peaceful valley turned to him. That's an issue we'll put you on to that song myself. Oh, really? Well, cause I know you played that song that your dad had, uh, by his son by our low.

And so I didn't know if he was just a fan of the Guthrie's my dad was, but he never played that one. Right. But it came up when I was looking into the Abraham Lincoln brigade, I didn't realize that Woody Guthrie had like, written about. And Eddie Carter had actually fought in it. Whatever you're funny, peacock's got it.

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Eddie Carter. Now this guy's not even in a war yet, right? He's he's gotten himself all the way over there. He can speak German. He can speak Chinese. He can speak English and he can speak Hindu. And he's over there in Spain with a rifle, with a w as a volunteer, not getting paid. Anything. How old is he at this time?

Approximately? He's like 18. 19. So he's fresh. Yeah, but he's already got a lot of experience fighting in the valleys. Sean, what do you, what, in terms of thinking about what Woody Guthrie represents as part of like an audience, what do you think about that at a time that, that Woody Guthrie was singing about fighting fascists in back then?

And in that 20 way, what do I think about him singing in that way? Yeah. And like, what are you, I mean, to me, it blew my mind that there were these songs that were against fascists circulating around in the music industry back then, that's the first I've ever heard of it. Right. Victim music was so much more culturally relevant and impactful.

That was, it's more connected to like a folk music. It does sound like, it felt like country foci. Right. Right. But that's kind of interesting to me, I guess what I'm saying is, is like, where's our correlate for that today. None, there really isn't a record, like some sort of record taking musical output, right?

Like where does Cardi B represent or she, can she pull back and talk about, you know, the great, uh, you know, recession? Cause she talked about, you know, things that have politically happened, right. Or even like a, yeah. Some sort of like, I dunno conflict. Yeah. No, she doesn't talk about that, but she will talk about some wet ass.

Sure sure. There's no coffee. There is no conflict conflict with that. You know what I'm saying? Even the weekend, I liked the weekends beats and everything, but where is, where is the correlate to Woody? Guthrie's singing about the Abraham Lincoln brigade about volunteers in another country from America fighting for fascism.

The, the, well, the only the surprisingly enough in, um, some underground hip hop, some conscious hip hop, you will get people really intelligent MCs covering historical and speaking about, um, those, those issues or the history of things. So I really do the only correlation that I can see. I think that that does exist.

And I think. Um, to our detriment, they're not the gatekeepers and when they still act like there's no gatekeepers now because of the internet, but they're still gatekeepers. Those gatekeepers are keeping those voices down. Sure. That's not it. That will never be popular music that's given to the masses.

All that shit is the same thing. Y you know, talking about dumbing down or keeping people uninformed and uneducated. I mean, the find the rules hiding the fucking right, right. Think about like Trump, you going, I mean, our president of the United States able to have a platform dig, say Antifa is full of fucking villains and criminals, but then, you know, 80 years ago, there's a guy with a guitar and a record.

And he's talking about fighting fascism color, color, style era, regardless. It doesn't matter. Irrelevant. How far have we fallen? And drifted, right? It goes back to when we're talking to Ali about how the history is not really being taught. So Eddie Carter's over there. Eventually he gets captured by Franco's forces and he escapes from military prison.

Excuse nuts. Unbelievable. Gets back to the United States. And when

America enters world war II, he's ready to rock. He's ready to rock. So he signs up. Where's my fucking drums.

Yup. Edward Carter reporting for duty and the, what did the army do? They said, yes, black man come under the army, but we have segregation in the army. Alright, no different than it is out here. Don't take, you're joining the army and you don't get no fucking, uh, you don't get no metals around here. You got here.

Listen to you guys. All right. You're telling out right now, listen, this is what we're going to do. We're going to create a black army and the black army. You're going to be allowed to carry stuff, cook stuff, take stuff off the ships and that's it. You can do the service work. How's that? How's that sound is that good?

This is good. A uniform you liked that you liked it, right? And the wagon. Right. They're all going to carry the guns because we don't want any black people carrying guns because we know what we did. And we're afraid that when we're sleeping, you might fucking turn around and shoot us. We don't think you're going to be loyal because we weren't loyal to you.

So for a lot, for the most of the world war, uh, and a lot of African-Americans did join the army and, and whatever else, but they were relegated to service roles and, and that pissed, uh, Eddie Carter off. But, but that was the reality of the day. So he was in it and he was a cook and he rose to the level of a Sergeant to, as a Sergeant of a black outfit in the army.

Now, at this point, I need to pivot in world war II. I got a fucking pivot. All right, Mr. Mrs. Turn to the side, right? Because I'm going to switch and give you some background to get explained what? Cause we haven't even got to the amazing part of yet everything we just talked about was just kind of like leading up.

Yeah. Okay. So in world war two, what was in, I don't know who I should throw this to. Maybe I'll throw this to oh, blue eyes. Oh, blue eyes. What was the major first entry of the Americans into world war II, Eastern theater of operations. It was not the big band swing dance phase. What was it? What was there?

What was the big entry? What was the big Tudou the hoopla as it were my good man of American entry into Eastern theater of operations. And it looks like a I

P dog right. D day. And what's do they short it's when we stormed the beaches of Normandy and, um, went fucking straight up in the, in the belly of the beast coming right into the, the Nazis Lux. Why did they call it D day? I don't know, because they couldn't think of anything else. So they called it day day, and they shortened it to D day.

That's the true story of why it's called D day fucking, they couldn't think of anything else at the time. And I was like, fuck it. We'll just call it D for day D day. And that's it. Nothing special. And what happened is that the American and the British storm to beat. The first group of, in everyone saw saving private Ryan, right?

Everybody got cut down, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But it was such a massive amount of numbers that eventually overwhelmed the Nazis who had fucking build all these pill boxes and shit up into the fucking cliffs and all this other shit. Right. But eventually they got overrun. Not only did they get over run.

Right. And remember, soon Zhu said, when you're climbing up the mountain with your allies, hold hands. So the British and the Americans were holding hands French. Wasn't doing Jack shakes up smoking cigarettes and fucking wearing braids. They were coming up to fucking from that coast going towards Germany, which you know, and you look at a map you're like, okay.

And Hitler looked at him and he's like, okay, they're coming from this angle. And that's the only place that they can come from. So blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So for six months, we kit fucking German fucking ass all over the place and all this masteries talk and fat Americans and mongrel Americans with mixed racial blood.

They allow Jews and blacks in their armies. They don't know how to fight. They're weak and soft. All that shit got put to rest and Hitler was tripping. Hell. I was like, look, man, I talked to big one and we're getting our asses handed to us. And in fact, even his own generals around him were starting to be whatever.

And they had actually tried to kill him in his Ravens dead. Oh no, no. His Wolf's den. They tried to kill him with a bomb that actually, because the windows were open. If the windows hadn't been open, when this, when this bomb went off from one of us, he would have killed him. Instead, the windows were open, so the compression went out and he just walked and Hitler walks out like in a days with that fucked up mustache and black face.

And he's like, well, what happened? And at that point, everybody was in on the plot was like, are you all right? Oh man, what happened? How long did it take before you had them all killed? Uh, like, like a couple of weeks. I think that was, you know, the movie Valkyrie, Tom cruise. That, that was that, uh, attempt. So now you're Hitler, you sitting there on the couch, right?

You got these crazy bitches rubbing your shoulder. You've got a massive headache and you're sitting and thinking to yourself, the walls are closing in the Americans and the British are coming at me. I gotta do something. I gotta do something. And so what does he do? He's like, I'm going to do, what's worked in the past.

I'm going to do the offensive Nazi punch. All right into the allies, right into their line, and I'm going to punch him so hard. You're going to be knocked back all the way in a fucking Atlantic. That's what I'm going to do. And he called up right. His most trusted warlocks. And one of those was like, uh, what's like this super secret dude who had a whole plan where he dressed up as an American and his troops as Americans and infiltrated the American lines to get sabotage and fucking information.

Right. And this myth freaked Americans out. They thought that there was, they, they believed that there was Nazis running around dressed like Americans talking like Americans and believe it or not a good chunk of the Nazi soldiers had studied in America. There was no problem before this war. So a lot of them knew about these different towns that a lot of our service men came from.

So really shit. Yes. Ah, it think about it. So, I mean, Pennsylvania is a half of it's German. They call it Pennsylvania Dutch, but it means German. That's ridiculous. They almost break you. So, so, so, so he gets ready and he also gets all of his tanks, the Panzer divisions. Now you got to understand these Nazi tanks.

They're pretty fucking ass at that point in time. Right. They've got the dope tank, but what was that? The other, the tiger tanks. So one of the things that the Nazis had on their side, because in world war one, the Nazi, not the Nazis, the Germans at that time, right. They had restrictions put on their industry that they couldn't build any more fucking war weapons.

And then world war II. They got the Germans, whatever the Germans get heavily armed, it started getting nuts, right. They just lose control. And they're like, ah, y'all do things for getting high on their own fumes. Oh, they go crazy. So world war one, they're like, look, you can make stuff, but you can't make guns.

And one of the guns that the Germans were making, which eventually became, who tells a country, you can make stuff, but you can't make guns in the U S right. Well, when world war one, when Germany loses, when you, when they chop your Dick off and you've got all the country standing around you and it's Europe, right?

It's England, it's France. It's fucking Belgium. Right? Belgium is like right next to fucking Germany. It's like on the top of it, or maybe on the side of it, I'm going to pull up the map here and it's gone. So in that treaty, they tell you, you can't. And they got people watch sending. We were telling Saddam like no more, fuck you, no motherfucking chemical weapon.

You go to war and you, and there is a not complete annihilation. There's an actual, like lay down of arms and they sign a treaty to end the hostilities. They actually, you, you set the terms. Yeah. Right. And you also set some embargoes like, well, we're not going to give what we're not delivering led to Germany after world war one, because those fuckers went crazy, super chill with it.

But they had this gun that was an anti-aircraft gun called the 88 millimeter. And it's like a huge ass motherfucking gun. And we're talking like, yeah, it's twice. It's two double, a 44

caliber, 88 millimeter is that that's a caliber where it's different. Who are you telling short 88 instead of 44. But this thing is, is so big. This gun is so big. It's what they use against aircraft. And the Germans after world war one were able to use their Swiss connection to keep working on it and refining it.

Right? So fucking loophole. So they were like, yo y'all know, we're not making the gun. And they don't know. We're just making cuckoo clocks in Switzerland. We're just ordering cuckoo clocks. So they make this giant 88 millimeter gun. This gun is probably the most impressive gun in the war in world war two for any country, including the fucking Russians.

And this gun was able to punch huge ass motherfucking holes into Sherman tanks. No problem, pal done deal. And it had like, uh, a delayed fuse so that when they shot it up at the, that the flying fortresses that were coming in and Melton down. It would explode shrapnel and this huge like hundred foot arch that these planes would get hit and the people piloting them would get hit.

So they weren't trying to hit one individual plane out, although they would try, they were also fucking firing the giant frag grenades into clusters of planes and knocking them all out. And dude, a lot of fucking pilots died in world war two, bombing the shit out of Germany with these flat guns, they called them flat guns at them.

Now these flattens, the thing that you got to really understand about it is that they were highly mobile and whatever German fucking engineer figured it out. Instead of trying to build this massive base, they had these foldout legs. And when you see these guns, it's being pulled by, uh, And he pulled his giant gun behind it.

And you could put all kinds of brush on it and fucking, and, and the guy would sit in the little fucking cradle, right. And spin these guns on you, fire them the whole thing jumps. Yes. And they, and I think the, each shell was 37 pounds, which was, they had figured out, this is how crazy these Germans are.

They're like, what is the most that a man can carry by himself? And they could fire 20 of the 20 of these 37 shells in a minute. They had a whole system. They even had a special little fucking tool to list how many per minute, 20 Jesus Christ. And these were the most feared guns in the fucking war. And so eventually.

They not only would shoot at the planes, but they could lower it, so it could shoot at tanks and it would punch holes in the Sherman changes to the biliterate them. Then the Germans were like, yo, you know, I've, you know, you know that, I think maybe it would be a good idea to, uh, put this gun on it on a, on a tank.

And they made a tiger tank. And the millimeter armor of the tiger tank was so thick that German tanks couldn't punch through it. And these tanks would sit up and like, just face whatever the American or the burden, the British had some real fucked up tanks. Their tanks looked like their tanks look like some kind of like three-year-old with fucked up Legos made it.

Oh, so all of this gets set up. Right. And, and Hitler's like, I'm gonna punch through. And now the art ENS is a piece as a mountain range that only has one road. And nobody ever expects anybody to be able to go through this mountain pass. And so the Americans, after six months of kicking ass, their supply lines got stretched.

Okay. Like how are you getting fuel and all the shit to these tanks. And also their men had been depleted. So now they needed to rest. So what did they do? They arrested up in this area, in the Ardennes in the forest, did mountains of art, the gardens, and nobody expected any kind of attack. And in fact, it LER was setting up this whole situation where during the day would look like tanks are going to Russia at night, they would circle around and come back and they were building up these forces in the Arden mountains.

And so they were getting ready for this massive fucking Nazi fist, right into the fucking allies and allied intelligence. Had fallen down. They didn't know that this was happening and there was men on the ground with binoculars and they were like, Hey, uh, I'd seen 500 tanks come up. And the fucking military brass was like, you must be seeing things because we don't have any reports like that.

So these slim amount of fucking dudes, right? They were the ones that were going to stop the Nazi fist punch into the allies and they barely hung on, had it broken through the, the whole war would've gone differently. But the reason why it's called the battle of the bulge is because that Nazi fist made a bolt into the line of the Americans and the British once the Americans and the British were able to contain that Nazi fist then, and Hitler was almost like not going to give up.

I mean, his journey, his generals are screaming in his face. Like, dude, what the fuck are you doing? As soon as it started to cave in then Patton general Patton was tasked with driving right into the German country and annihilating them. Right. Patent was patent in Montgomery and patent had a tank battalion and had been, must've been licking.

His chops. Duke is waiting for Eisenhower, right when the first that Nazi first punch came through and they finally became aware of the severity of the situation. I, as in how I had all his generals and he's like massage his bald ass head. And he was like, man, huh? And he's like, what patent, how soon can you get your tanks up into the area?

And Patton was like two days and Eisenhower and everybody else stopped. Patting was just being as bragging and acting stupid. And he's like, stop, you know, enough with the manly shit parenting. How, how can you really do it? Pat said two days and Patton did get his fucking people up there in two days. A member of patents, fucking tank brigades, and one of them had their patches ripped off.

You borrowed a tank brigade or stole a tank brigade from another general, had the patches ripped off. And they were known as the mysterious battalion. Nobody knew who they were, but they have, they had, you know, different, weird fucks in it and shit like, and this is where you start this bastards. This is where you start getting all these myths about the fucking and they were promoting it like, oh, these were, these are guys that were in prison.

It's not true. There was no like criminals in fucking world war II, five minutes to scare the Germans to get them back for that fucking, we got Nazis running around in American clothes, freaking people out. So we were like, yeah, well, we got all our prisoners that we gave them guns and told them, you kill Nazis.

You win. So it's going, right. So this American fucking charge is going right to the heart of Nazi Germany in your country. You know, A couple of years before that you were talking about how the third Rock's going to last for a thousand years and given this mission, now, everyone in your country is seeing American flag tanks roll by their little fucking castle.

One of the people that was in that was Eddie Carter. And how did he get there? When the battle of the bulge happened, we lost like 80,000 men and Eisenhower was like, we need resupplies. And that's when they finally decided to let black people join the fighting part of the war. They were like, It could take us like another year to get a bunch of white dudes over here.

But we've got all of these brothers who are, it was born out of necessity. But when that happened, they, the generals, then the people that never wanted to integrate the army or let them have weapons were probably like, holy shit, no, you know, so, so Eddie Carter, Sergeant Eddie Carter, they said, you ready to fight?

He was like, Sergeant Carter reported for duty. They go, it's cool. But you can't be Sergeant anymore because we can't have you outranking any white people. So fucking sick dude, just sick. Think about that. And you're worthy, but we're not letting you have it. He's like fucking, I'm going to go kill it. You still got to listen to the dishwasher.

So Sergeant Carter was such a dedicated warrior. He was fighting fascism. He was fighting for freedom, right? He was fighting for equality, which is the principles that America claims the standard. That he was willing to demote himself so he could carry a rifle for uncle Sam and I did true American Patriot.

Right? So he's one of the rifle men on these tank brigades and they're, they're, they're heading right to the heart of the Nazis. And he's out in the open now he's really trained well. And one of these tank brigades is going and they go towards this town called Spire. Spire is a small little town in the Rhineland.

What's the Rhineland, that's the German, uh, wine country. That's the German like San Louis Obispo. Right. You know what I mean? Napa valley, Napa valley German, Napa valley, because the Rhine river goes by it. And so as a result, you've got a ton of warehouses in that area because they're storing wine and grapes and.

Submachine gunfire fires at, and one of these 88 millimeter gun things fires at one of the tanks misses from one of the warehouses and the Americans fucking take cover right there. It was like, oh shit, we got shot at fucking machine guns, man. And they sit there and they get cut. So now everyone's like, what do we do?

How we got it. We can't go any further on this road, but we got a timetable and that we don't know what's in those warehouses and Eddie, Eddie, Eddie Carter, volunteers to lead like five dudes to storm the warehouses and find out what the fuck is going on there. And these warehouses are on the other side.

So they're in the trees, right? The Americans got up into the trees, try to figure out what's going on. There's the road, then there's nothing but about one football field of open space. And then the warehouses that's got the Germans in it. Right. And they got burp guns, which are the, those little German, M forties.

Yeah. They got it. Mortar fire going off, hitting the lines. And they got somewhere around there and 88 millimeter. So Eddie, Eddie, Eddie, Carter's like, all right, give me a Tommy gun. And a bunch of grenades. I got this. I was born for this. And they go, you bet, take them in with you or right behind ya. So Eddie and his dudes run right into the field.

All of a sudden shots start firing out. Three of us, men are killed right off the bat and they realized the tanks. Didn't follow them into the field, near up at an observation. And we'll be right there. And they're like, well, we could just send them out and figure out where they're shooting from. Eddie Carter tells his other two guys.

Go away. I got this. Eddie gets shot in the arm five times. Oh shit. And it goes down. There's a submachine gun somewhere behind one of the warehouse walls or whatever it is. He takes his phone grenade. He throws it in there, takes it, the entire machine gun nest out with one grenade. He gets back up and he's got his Tommy gun and he starts charging again.

Again, he gets shot. He gets shot so hard. He gets knocked into the air. He falls down on the ground. He's been shot like six times now he's bleeding. He's shot. He's thirsty. He raises his canteen up to give himself a drink. Someone shoots it out of his hand, fucking pisses him off. He's fucking pissed. And he sits there and he's like, fuck it.

And he gets up with his Tommy gun and he runs and like eight Germans come out shooting. And he kills all of them except two right shot, six times fucked up hand. Six Nazis to surrender, surrender to him, surrender to him. That's the way he throws another grenade at the mortar crew, knocks them out. He kills the mortar crew, and now I've got these two Nazis and he's like, fuck, nah.

How do I any recognizes that one of the Nazis as an officer now, Carter bleeding says to himself, you know what? I speak German. If I can get these motherfuckers back to the American lines, I can find out where the rest of the German guns are up ahead and we can get there even faster. So while he's losing blood, he bugging grabs.

These two Nazis uses them as human shields to go back across that open field injured. And as he's going back, two other guys come out with like pistols and they try to shoot at him. He fucking peels their caps. He's got these two guys because a fucking bad ass, bro. Finally. The 88 mortar or the ADA gun, the 88 millimeter gun dudes are like, we gotta fuck this dude up, man.

So they fired a fucking 37 pound shell at him. It didn't hit him, but the fucking excuse made a, the explosion with the shrapnel shot up his legs. So he has to lean on his hostages, but because it was such a big explosion, there was a huge dusk. And Eddie Carter use that dust cloud and he would shoot. And he leaned on him and dragged their fucking punk ass.

His back to the American lines. Now he's got the German and the German officer back in the Maryland lines. And now he's like, CEO's are like, Hey man, we gotta get you to the hospital. You lost, you been you're fucked up. And he was like, nah, not right now. We've got to interrogate these motherfuckers who here speaks German.

None of you. I do. Okay. Hold on. And he interrogates them in German and he gets the information and he is quintessentially the linchpin to the American success in the fucking hit, Nazi, Germany and knocking out Hitler and all that other shit. Now, after all of that, they go now, will you go to the hospital?

And he's like, sure, take me to the hospital. It goes to the hospital within two weeks, he's better. And he breaks out of the hospital and rejoins his fucking army and continues to fight the rest of the war and then goes back to LA. Now he goes back to LA. 'cause he's like, Hey, I'm a fucking hero. Right. I fought in world war II.

We beat the fascists when he gets back to LA, he's nearly heartbroken because he's still not allowed to walk through the front door of a regular private business because he's black. It's disgusting. It's really, really discussing when you hear a story like this. That's what true American heroism patriotism.

That's what it's all about. And he couldn't even have basic fucking human rights in the country that he did. Was willing to give his life for defended and, and help them be victorious. It's and you know what? This is a great story. And I think that that's one of the reasons about black history month that should, these stories should come out because so many, I didn't know about Juma is going to bring out the stories every black history month.

Right. And I think it, I think it's great. I think it's a really, really great man. I, I, this is this guy, Eddie Carter, man, Eddie Carter, who wouldn't. I know this story until now. So this guy is a true American hero. Came back. Racism was not fixed back in America. He re-enlisted in the army. They made him a trainer.

And in fact, Eddie Carter, they asked him to build the first national guard here in California in LA, and he built it and he trained those dudes. He's responsible for that. He doesn't get any recognition. They gave him the distinguished service cross at the time. It's the second highest. Metal you could get, but they would not give him a medal of honor because he was black.

That was why they wouldn't because he was black. Right. Even though he was more deserving than probably most on it listed the color of his skin. And he was a career soldier. Okay. So he had planned on staying in the army forever. When he got back, he got a hero's welcome from the people around, but he was being surveilled by the FBI.

What, Hey, now listen, a person like that. With those skills, with that knowledge, I could totally see why people in the FBI would consider him dangerous.

It's disgusting, but they even put him, they took him out of the national guard. He didn't want him training anymore and black people on how to use soldier equipment. So they put them on. In Washington, where he was part of the military police and he was doing drug busts, he, and every place that he went, by the way, all of the white people that were leaders above him, loved him and respected his soldiery.

He would spend an hour and a half just cleaning his equipment every day do was fucking disciplined and Ty, and he had a family yet sons. Right? And this thing about him being suspicious, grew into them, worried about the fact that he had fought in China and that may be come, might have a communist sympathy.

And so when they, they, they kicked him out of being able to be in the military. And when he tried to re-enlist, he was denied. And when he tried to re-enlist and was denied, he went through every. White black, whatever to help them. And they all, everybody who knew him knew he was a solid dude and they all tried to help him and the government and the army would not give him a fair hearing and explain their reasons for not allowing him to re-enlist.

He eventually was broken and bitter. He wrote letters to, uh, the presidents, Eisenhower and all those other people and said, you know, I fought for all this stuff only to come back and have it all taken when you know what fascism isn't dead, it's alive and well here in this country. And eventually he came back to LA any work the rest of his days at a tire shop and died 48 from lung cancer, Jesus Christ.

And in 1996, finally right here. They contact his family and they say, we want to award him to metal on after he's gone posthumously. And it was kinda around the time that bill Clinton had gotten into some trouble. And I think he was trying to, you know, uh, I can't believe what happened. Well, that's, that's fucking sad, but think of everything he did, he died at 48 about the life span, man, 48.

Yeah. I mean, I don't believe, you know what man, Eddie Carter, that's somebody who, you know, that's an American American hero hero. Thank you for your service west side LA and LA. Wow. Thank you. Check-ins you're sharing this new welcome, like we do about this.

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