The Korean War (Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Give It Away" Parody)

Shout out to Frank Murphy.
He met God in Korea

idk why you sound like evan peter's jefferey dahmer (from netflix) like it's so identical 😭😭

Is it really forgotten? I mean its the worst kept secret ever. Especially in the 2000s when we use it for so many movies and character backgrounds. I mean lately the number of korean war films globally and in the US increases. And its always brought up as a forgotten war. In reality i think the public just aint ready to take it off the endangered species list of wars we know about. Its pretty well known, just isnt popular conversation generally. Not being popular doesnt relate to being forgotten, it just means people dont prefer it over the other wars to talk about. We dont like our rent, but the typical person still pays it every month. But yeah, wed rather talk about literally anything else most of the time (outside political societal discussions). Gossiping about your coworker getting caught cheating doesnt mean you forgot about rent, it just means why talk about it over this juicy gossip?

The United States wiped out one quarter of the population of the Korean Peninsula. Thank goodness for the Chinese People's Volunteer Army or else the American imperialists would have massacred even more.

I wouldn’t think of Korea as a proxy war since the United States did the brunt of the fighting on its side. So it’s not two larger powers using two smaller powers to fight against each other.

I spent 3 years over two separate tours there as a korean linguist. Around 15' and 19'. While the culture is generally great, its not a good situation. Imagine living in Texas, and then at 1 AM for a week (during exercise) straight canadian air force f-16s with full afterburners launch 10x, from the nearby canadian air force base where you live in texas. Like, a foreign military base that has been there for generations.... Its not ideal. Could be better.... And of course, worse.

MacArthur ran against Eisenhower in the 1952 Republican primary and MacArthur was so pissed that his ex clerk got nominated over him

Can we get the Afghan Soviet war next?

Fun fact: in the Korean War, a single horse was so instrumental in the battle of outpost Vegas, that she earned the official rank of staff sergeant.

You forgot to mention the Borinqueneers.

Thank you for your service, Grandpa Beat❤

Is Mr beat a purple skinned individual?

You might have a Korean cousin Mr. Beat

I fought in the Korean War. I'm 92

dang that intro bummed me out imagine if the after life is like coco.. so many people that didn't want any part of it who are now unfortunately forgotten to time and occasionally remember for being a statistic to answer a question in a high school jeopardy game.

Now I know why today's kids are so illiterate. My goodness, such a horrible presentation.

Thank you Grandpa Beat for your service!

My grandfather fought in Korea but he never liked to talk about it he passed away in 2019

Some of that Korean currency may be worth something as military in Korea there is quite a big market for old currency

How is the forgotten war forgotten as it’s remembered as the forgotten war?

Mr Beat is hot

My grandpa fought in this one too! And the other fought in WWII-- but. . . the only difference is that I'm 22! My family have kids late I guess ^^'

We love you mr.beat.

You're wrong south Koreans didn't hate socialism/communism. Only the US-backed South Korean government didn't like socialism/communism. Most Koreans wanted to unitevtge two Koreas along socialist principles. Obviously the US backed dictator if South Korea opposed this as the right-wing South Korean government still does to this day

My teachers dad was a Korean War veteran. She told us that her father never ate rice following the war

Yo!!! I had been learning about this war on my own not long ago! I’m happy to see you do a video about it cause it really is forgotten

I think Mr. Beat might have some long lost cousins in Korea 😅

I was impressed by that

She removed yourself from the case

I was impressed with Amy coney Barrett she accused herself from the one case involving the religious school. I was impressed by that she did her job properly.

Syngman Rhee (Lee Seung-man) was South Korea’s first president and played a major role in founding the Republic of Korea in 1948. He was a strong anti-communist leader during a time of intense Cold War tension and helped rally international support—especially from the U.S. and UN—to defend South Korea during the Korean War.

The situation back then was incredibly dangerous and complex. The Korean Peninsula was under real threat from communist forces backed by the Soviet Union and China. Syngman Rhee had to make very difficult decisions to protect the South and secure its survival as a free nation.

His strong stance against communism helped rally support from the U.S. and UN, which was critical in saving South Korea during the war. While some of his actions might seem harsh today, many of them were shaped by the urgent need to defend the country’s freedom and sovereignty in the face of invasion and internal threats.

It’s important to look at history with context—he wasn’t perfect, but he played a major role in securing the foundation of South Korea.

My grandfather, who is still alive, was in the Navy during the Korean War. He worked on a battleship. He told me the other day, he saw a nuke test in the South Pacific while serving. He said the blast of water looked like a mountain.

I wouldn't be alive without this war. My grandpa remarried my grandma to avoid going to Korea. My dad was born a few years later.

You forgot to mention that north korea had to fight or starve nort korea has barely any food production

The Korean War by Indy Neidell is a phenomenal look at the war on a week by week basis!

My grandpa was an Air Force mechanic during the Korean war. I was told that he fixed the radios after dog fights

This is random, and I'm not a patreon member, but HEAR ME OUT.

You should consider doing a video on Surveying because it's still extremely relevant and touches many other aspects of American History. For example, surveying highlights the difference between American settlers and the natives. We moved in and imidiately divided the land into measured, labeled chunks to sell. The phrase "back 40 acres" comes from survey sections.

Most people don't know it exists. The surveying of the US was the largest infrastructure project since the pyramids. Many of the founding fathers were surveyors, the survey of the America's that divided them into townships and ranges was a massive undertaking using chains, setting corners by scorching tree's or piling rocks across dense old growth forests.
The east coast is a chaotic mess, and the west coast is neat grids.
Texas is a disturbing mess of surveying because they were too broke to participate. They told train companies they'd give them lands to survey Texas for them, sometimes they'd give the railroads a mile for every mile surveyed. So the train companies scalped surveyors, told them to not bother with field notes, or have any oversight, paid them a lot of money per mile, and sent them off to go map. It was chaotic and corrupt.

Surveying is how we can tell ownership, it's a crime to move corners. Surveyors even today are obsessed with their own history because our job is to re-trace what was originally done. Egyptians did it, land corners are in the Jewish bible, and it was a sin to move them. The Romans refined it, and surveying is how we labeled and broke up the lands to sell them.

Surveying was for a while just how rich people could show off their lands.

William "strata" Smith was a surveyor, the first person to map all of England, he had a curious life, and thanks to him the industrial revolution was able to take off in England because (as his nickname indicates) He figured out the stratum layers, able to tell where coal deposits would be thanks to surface fossils they'd find.

The system used to survey America was genius and well designed, they even accounted for the curve of the earth, the country was divided into 6 by 6 mile townships, divided into 36 square mile sections that were 640 acres, each one divided further into quarter sections.

There's several meridian stones these townships were based on, EG the one nearest me is set in Portland. A lot of little wars and squabbling were tied into this too. Our last conference went over the war of the 1859 pig war which was just a bunch of political arguing over who owned the San Juan Islands in Washington.

My former boss and the company I worked for actually set the corners for all the san Juan islands, he spent a couple of years setting the sections in Orcas island before it was a tourist island and just some farms.

Surveyors as a whole have fascinating lives I've found. My boss worked in Bhutan for a while, surveying the area, he also worked in the Himalayas where he almost lost a hand falling through an ice crevice. He re-established the height of Mt Ranier, and once (although I forgot the country) almost got murdered by a band of rebels as him and a crew put together by the UN tried to establish the boundary between two nations in north Africa. They were taken by helicopter at the last moment to safety, but for several hours expected to be captured and killed. My boss gave his stationary to the kids in the village while he waited.


His co worker did a lot of work along the amazon as a surveyor, living in raised huts with the locals, and did work for the UN surveying refugee camps.

Everything starts with surveying, getting land grades, and areas to set down roads, buildings, cities, towns, dig sites for archaeology, maps.

Even now surveyors are trekking through backwoods, up mountains, snake infested deserts, and risky old growth woods even on simple jobs to re establish properties just in the US. It's such a cool subject that is a silent, vital aspect of modern society.

My father was part of the Inchon Invasion, also fought in WW2 in North Africa then Italy. He ended up a career man putting in nearly 27 years and retired a Sergeant Major. He passed Memorial Day 2008 and now resides at Arlington

It’s always so crazy to me that so many forget this war with how relevant it still is to our political relationships with a lot of the asian countries today. A lot of people don’t even know why there is still so much hate for us over there and this war is why

The war took 3 years; the show was on for 9 years.

My grandfather on my dad’s side is a combat veteran of the Korean War. He served in the Marine Corps, and under the 1st Marine division. He was 18 years old when he went, and was wounded a few times there. He turned 94 years old this year. I’m thankful everyday to have him with us still.

He’s also known as “an atomic Marine” when the Marine Corps sent him to Nevada to witness an atom bomb test. I have the newspaper clipping about it.

This was a good ass video. I literally was supposed to wash the dishes but I just sat down and watched it all