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The Martial Brain

Jeff Westfall

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.

  • 12 minutes 5 seconds
    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."
    18 May 2023, 10:10 pm
  • 9 minutes 46 seconds
    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.
    10 May 2023, 6:50 pm
  • 10 minutes 37 seconds
    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 .
    28 April 2023, 8:17 pm
  • 15 minutes 22 seconds
    The Forgotten War Part 21
    The stories of these six regiments extend beyond the war in the Philippines.
    23 December 2022, 12:29 am
  • 11 minutes 17 seconds
    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!"
    13 December 2022, 10:33 pm
  • 11 minutes 15 seconds
    The Forgotten War Part 19
    On May 6,1903, Makario Sakay proclaimed himself El Presidente Supremo of the "Tagolog Republic of the Philippines."
    28 November 2022, 11:28 pm
  • 16 minutes 56 seconds
    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.
    25 September 2021, 2:22 pm
  • 18 minutes 5 seconds
    228 The Forgotten War Part 17
    "These people are right and we are wrong...terribly wrong!"
    27 April 2021, 9:35 pm
  • 13 minutes 17 seconds
    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.
    9 March 2021, 10:26 pm
  • 17 minutes 58 seconds
    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."
    24 February 2021, 9:25 pm
  • 17 minutes 17 seconds
    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!"
    29 October 2020, 3:25 pm
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