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The Martial Brain

Jeff Westfall

50 episodes

1 month ago

The Martial Brain Podcast explores the intersection between the martial arts, scientific skepticism, critical thinking, and that wacky organ that floats between our ears. It is part of Jeff Westfall's effort to help lift the martial arts out of the quagmire of hundreds of years of magical thinking and misconception.

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The Martial Brain Podcast explores the intersection between the martial arts, scientific skepticism, critical thinking, and that wacky organ that floats between our ears. It is part of Jeff Westfall's effort to help lift the martial arts out of the quagmire of hundreds of years of magical thinking and misconception.

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Episodes (20/50)

The Martial Brain

235 The Forgotten War Part 24

Remember the words of Voltaire who said "anyone who can convince you of absurdities can get you to commit atrocities."

2 years ago

12 minutes 5 seconds

The Martial Brain

234 The Forgotten War Part 23

The Pulahans arose from a specific cauldron of local grievances, traditional values, and foreign interference that so often gives rise to millennial movements.

2 years ago

9 minutes 46 seconds

The Martial Brain

The Forgotten War Part 22

The story of the Pulahan War is a sad tale of exploitation visited on the poorest of the poor Filipinos, leading them down the rabbit hole of fanaticism .

2 years ago

10 minutes 37 seconds

The Martial Brain

The Forgotten War Part 21

The stories of these six regiments extend beyond the war in the Philippines.

2 years ago

15 minutes 22 seconds

The Martial Brain

The Forgotten War Part 20

"I want to tell you that we are not bandits as the Americans have accused. but members of the revolutionary force that defended our mother country, the Philippines!"

2 years ago

11 minutes 17 seconds

The Martial Brain

The Forgotten War Part 19

On May 6,1903, Makario Sakay proclaimed himself El Presidente Supremo of the "Tagolog Republic of the Philippines."

2 years ago

11 minutes 15 seconds

The Martial Brain

The Forgotten War Part 18

The very idea of arming Filipinos and turning them loose in the countryside was utterly abhorrent to the American military brass.

4 years ago

16 minutes 56 seconds

The Martial Brain

228 The Forgotten War Part 17

"These people are right and we are wrong...terribly wrong!"

4 years ago

18 minutes 5 seconds

The Martial Brain

227 The Forgotten War Part 16

I hold Waller's actions in Samar as reprehensible, as egregious abuses of his constitutional privileges as a a military commander.

4 years ago

13 minutes 17 seconds

The Martial Brain

226 The Forgotten War Part 15

In the meantime, General Smith's combined Brigade was following his orders to turn Samar into a "howling wilderness."

4 years ago

17 minutes 58 seconds

The Martial Brain

225 The Forgotten War Part 14

As the now infamous town of Balangiga burned behind him, Capt. Bookmiller famously quoted the book of Hosea: "They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind!"

5 years ago

17 minutes 17 seconds

The Martial Brain

224 The Forgotten War Part 13

No matter what you call it, the event at Balangiga was the worst defeat of American troops since the Battle of the Little Big Horn!

5 years ago

17 minutes 25 seconds

The Martial Brain

223 The Forgotten War Part 12

Funston, four other Americans, and a renegade Spaniard would pose as POWs in the "custody" of a group of Macabebe Scouts in captured Insurrecto uniforms.

5 years ago

15 minutes 15 seconds

The Martial Brain

222 The Forgotten War Part 11

"To see nine men, the officers in their drawers and the privates naked, cross such a stream by such means, and drive off an entrenched force not less than ten times their number, in broad daylight, where their number must soon become known, is something not soon to be forgotten!"

5 years ago

15 minutes 24 seconds

The Martial Brain

221 The Forgotten War Part 10

I find the story of David Fagen fascinating. We seldom rationally depict such figures in history.

5 years ago

17 minutes 6 seconds

The Martial Brain

220 The Forgotten War Part 9

The leaders of the Philippine independence movement had tremendous admiration for the American founding fathers and the government they wrought!

5 years ago

17 minutes 28 seconds

The Martial Brain

219 The Forgotten War Part 8

The depth and breadth, the sheer comprehensiveness of Filipino martial technology stands as a shining example, a tribute to defiance in the face of tyranny and oppression!

5 years ago

17 minutes 2 seconds

The Martial Brain

218 The Forgotten War Part 7

But it turns out that the Filipino people didn't WANT themselves and their property to be the property of the United States!

5 years ago

17 minutes 34 seconds

The Martial Brain

217 The Forgotten War Part 6

On June 12, 1898, the Filipino rebels officially declared independence from Spain, in a document that, ironically, in light of what was to come, drew elements from the American Declaration of Independence.

5 years ago

16 minutes 17 seconds

The Martial Brain

216 The Forgotten War Part 5

Pershing was an instructor at West Point when the war broke out, and quickly sought to rejoin his old unit, the Buffalo Soldiers of the 10th Cavalry.

5 years ago

15 minutes 41 seconds