The Horniest Soldiers In American History
As American soldiers liberated France, they had one thing on their mind: Boning. It turns out that the GIs who were landing in Normandy and fighting in the hedgerows were at least partly motivated by the fact that they were convinced Francewas going to be their own personal Panama City Beach circa Spring Break 2003. Between the famous brothels in Paris, the French having a reputation for... being French, and American propaganda that all but assured our soldiers that they'd be getting laid constantly once they got to Paris, our grandfathers marched through France with pretty much full erections. What followed was a two-year sex party that altered Franco-American relations forever.
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Speaker 1: I do they get left on the cutting room floor
gi ho mm hmm. Probably gonna pass on that.
Speaker 2: And your grandpa was a dirty slut.
Speaker 1: I like that better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we need to incorporate World War two into
it somehow. Also, most people's grandpas weren't in World War
Two at this point. You have to be like middle
millennial or up.
Speaker 1: Might also be able to catch some of that seo. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Also, you your grandpa wasn't even in World War two Korea? Yeah,
my mother's dad maybe, No, I think he was also
in Korea.
Speaker 1: He was a deep sea diver. Could have been World
War Two, but still he was in those giant fucking
yeah suits, the BioShock suits. Yeah.
Speaker 2: You basically had to be born like nineteen twenty eight,
twenty seven to be in World War Two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: So if you're born in the thirties, I mean, that's
not true. In America, you had to be born in
Russia or Germany or Japan. You could be born in
like nineteen thirty six and they'll slap a uniform on
you by.
Speaker 1: So it's not true. In World War Two, we had
plenty of like teens that were out there lying about
their age.
Speaker 2: And there were a few, but not as they slipped
through the cracks, not as many as World War One.
Speaker 1: It was so easy to lie about your age back
in the day.
Speaker 2: It was harder in the forties than it was in
World War One or certainly the Civil War, where you
just showed up my town's Bobble says, I'm eighteen.
Speaker 1: Meat grinder.
Speaker 2: We're going to go back in time to late August
nineteen forty four, and it's hot, it's the summer. American
troops are marching into Paris, they've liberated the city.
Speaker 1: It smells really bad hot French people everywhere.
Speaker 2: They don't mean, they don't mind, because it's about to
get a whole lot hotter. You see the brothels in Paris,
and there were regulated brothels in Paris had no idea
Boys and Blue were coming in when the Americans got
to Paris. This is all A lot of this is
based on the research of historian Mary Louise Roberts. I
think she is a professor of European history at the
University Wisconsin. From her book What Soldiers Do Sex and
the American gi in World War Two France. I think
she also wrote an article on this, which is a
title so smut, so magnificent that I cannot go. I'll
just tell you what it is. The article she wrote
on it was called the Silver Foxhole Gis and Prostitution
in Paris nineteen forty four to nineteen forty five.
Speaker 1: This is just fifty shids with a military twist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think she enjoyed researching this, enjoyed writing it. Paris,
as she notes, once the Americans got there, became the
quote brothel of Europe, not only for the Americans, as
they liberated it. But after we liberated Paris, I'll give
you one guess where everyone in the European theater took
their fucking leave. It was Paris. Any time you had
a forty eight hour leave from your unit, you go
to Paris with a handful of money, some chocolate bars,
a cart and of cigarettes, and you're getting laid NonStop.
What made matters worse for the brothels is that these
already horny dudes with all this pent up anxiety and
like just you know, trauma from having been in combat,
horrible combat. Their friend's dying, so they need a way
they need to release, like a happy release and endorphin
rush or whatever anyway, but at this point.
Speaker 1: They just want the sweet embrace of a woman next
to them. By the time they got to Paris, they're
just cuddling so hard.
Speaker 2: No, it's it gets so filthy. By the time they
got to Paris, they had been convinced by their own
country's propaganda arm that France and Paris in particular was
just filled with sluts, not hores, Yes, horrores, but not hoores.
Obviously you could pay for it, but all the French
chicks were just down to fuck.
Speaker 1: Is that propaganda or is that truth or does it
lie somewhere in between?
Speaker 2: I think it leans well, well I'll get into it,
but I mean obviously a reputation. I mean, look, are
they more sexually liberated than nineteen forties America? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. My.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite memes going around lately. It's of
like just Sabrina Carpenter on stage in her in the lingerie,
like she's always in and like the caption is just
like in World War Two, your grandfather saw maybe one
woman in his entire life that looked like this, and
he drew her on his plane to go bomb Nazi
that or.
Speaker 1: He would keep a little photo of her in his helmet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like it's just now it's just everywhere. So
these Americans like they're not.
Speaker 1: So why nobody wants to die for their country anymore? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Because if what are you gonna know? It's you know,
I would still I'd liberate Paris.
Speaker 1: We have an opportunity for you. Yeah, let's do it.
Let's go liberate Paris.
Speaker 2: I don't, I just I'm not really into liberating Tehran.
Speaker 1: Paris all day, all day, the Paris of the Middle East.
Speaker 2: Many many call it that. Yeah, that's why I feel
That's another reason I feel so bad for dudes in
the Pacific. Like you're on some island rock that's heated
to like one hundred and twenty degrees. Your friends are
going to eaten your dead friends are going to be
eaten by crabs. And then like these dudes in Europe
are just like whoa.
Speaker 1: Forty eight hours in Whoror Island, a dude you came
across like the Japanese wares little class here abroads proper.
Speaker 2: They never got to them now. And actually I don't
even think the Americans ever liberated Thailand either. I don't
think we did that, so none of that. And Vietnam
was occupied until the end of the war, so none
of the sex spots in Asia the Americans got to
go to. They're just going to like shitty islands. And
then the Philippines, I guess, although they might have been
a little too traumatized to have any fun. She's just like,
I'm sorry, I can't, really, I can't, I'm not really
DTF right now. I watched my baby get caught on
a bayonet in a game of catch.
Speaker 1: The baby on the bayonet turned into a shish kebab.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I don't know any dating for a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it sounds like you no longer have responsibility,
no child, come on, eight time, you no longer have
a breast because the Japanese.
Speaker 2: Also cut that off. Yeah, not a great people at
that time. So the US troops arrived in France with
legitimately high expectations, fueled by American wartime propaganda and training
materials that portrayed France and especially Paris, as a land
of sexually available, hedonistic women.
Speaker 1: And this is before we lost all our testosterone. It's
when good Americans had the ability to be rock hard.
Speaker 2: Well, there might have been a tea gap here, and
we'll get to that.
Speaker 1: They just walked into Paris and they just had full
yeah yeah, oh excuse me, sorry, I didn't see either.
All these high TA dudes just bumping into each other,
all these high te tip, all these high T dudes whose.
Speaker 2: Average height was five to six and average weight was
one hundred and forty pounds. Guess some the highest te possible.
Speaker 1: Who cares, Dude, they're small, but that means it's easier
to lift weights because your arms are shorter.
Speaker 2: It's true, like I'm not saying they weren't tough bastards.
They were. Uh So, the historian Roberts gained access to
I guess some previously previously secret archive material, which she
says kind of portrays that D Day was widely viewed
in the US Army, just like Step one and getting
to getting to like fuck land.
Speaker 1: Listen, that's our version of the seventy virgins?
Speaker 2: What this but you have to lift? Yeah, it's the difference.
Speaker 1: We do it right though. We want the dirty, dirty
sluts that know what they're doing. You have to have it,
and then there are seventy virgins waiting for you. That's
a bad time.
Speaker 2: That's a horrible time.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of education that has to go on.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're not having fun for years. No, at
that point.
Speaker 1: Eventually maybe they'll get it down, but you're responsible for
teaching them everything.
Speaker 2: They know everything.
Speaker 1: I don't want that kind of kind of stress in
my life.
Speaker 2: Then you don't get anything new that you didn't know.
Speaker 1: Nothing's gonna blow my mind, everything's expected. Everything is just
something I've already learned from somebody else. Yeah. Meanwhile, I'm
just passing down information.
Speaker 2: You get all these fucking you know Protestant farm boys
from Iowa and Minnesota and shit that are about to
get their world rocked.
Speaker 1: You have them Appellation bullas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they never no teeth. There's like they've like seen
one breast and it was their cousins. So yeah, I mean,
there's just no knowing this. There's no way that that
that the Germans were going to repulse Operation over Lord.
Speaker 1: They're drolling on the beaches of Normandy.
Speaker 2: It's just like a guy shot. He's like a kaboo
of scared. Look at the possi thick over there.
Speaker 1: Go, that's a motivating factor.
Speaker 2: How was that not in saving private ride?
Speaker 1: They're hiding the truth from us?
Speaker 2: Yep, well that Robert said in her research, she was like,
this is all sanitized from his like the Army wiped
this from history, but it was prevalent in army materials
at the time. So she said, this is a quote
from her I went and looked at Stars and Stripes,
which is the army newspaper at the time. Actually might
still be, but it is an Army newspaper. And what
I saw there was an extension of the pin up culture.
Photojournalism in particular was used to portray the French women
as ready to be rescued, ready to greet the American soldier,
and ready to congratulate him and thank him through a
kiss or even more, Here's another thing Stars and Stripes
did so Stars and Stripes would have helpful tips for
American soldiers in it. For example, they taught soldiers German
phrase is like waffen need a langan. Waffen need a langan,
which means throw down your arms, put down your gun.
But they also taught the American soldiers French phrases, and
the French phrases show us your tits were they? And
I am not joking. This was in Stars and Stripes.
The French phrases they taught the American soldiers in Stars
and Stripes. I don't it's not I only have the
American the English versions, but where you have charming eyes?
I am not married. Are your parents home?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: I don't think they taught them a phrase to say
to a man.
Speaker 1: Just step aside, get out. I'm not gonna need this room.
Speaker 2: Joe Weston, who was a journalist for Life during World
War Two.
Speaker 1: Sit in the corner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, get and we're going to get into how coucked
French men felt during this because it gets bad.
Speaker 1: Dude, they're still angry to this day about World War Two.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll get we'll get into that too.
Speaker 1: The reason French society currently is so hostile towards Americans
is because we straight up just put them in a cuckchair.
Speaker 2: I'll just spoiler it. That is legitimately a conclusion that
this historian comes to, like, we got to solve before
you guys. God damn it again. So Joe Weston, who's
a journalist for Life magazine at the time in World
War Two, he wrote, France with a tremendous The American
soldiers believe France with a tremendous brothel inhabited by forty
million hedonists who spent all their time eating, drinking, and
making love. And it also didn't help. I guess the
situation that the American side was also telling their own
guys like, you're the toughest, biggest, baddest motherfuckers in the world.
You're men's men, nice dick, bro got a great dick.
Speaker 1: You fuck hard.
Speaker 2: Everyone's quite hard. Everyone's going to just be so impressed
by you.
Speaker 1: Depends on your accent. I suppose I don't thing it
does American boa.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they all think either New York or Texas pretty much. Yeah,
how bumm do you get like a California got Like huh.
Speaker 1: I think there are with that. It's a little bit
more exotic than just a guy from Des Moines.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is just Hi, how are you hello? That's
every American voice now though the accents are fading. We're homogenized.
Speaker 1: Remember who you are? Yeah, farm boy, warm, warm, keep
it forever.
Speaker 2: So, according to Roberts, sexual fantasies about France absolutely motivated
American soldiers to fight harder. However, these same stories essentially
made them treat their time in Paris and other places
in France like it was fucking spring break.
Speaker 1: Don't you You could die at any moment.
Speaker 2: I don't blame them. I don't blame them, and she
doesn't blame them either, by the way, She's kind of like, look,
there's more of the story than you know. But obviously
these guys went through a lot and needed a release.
Speaker 1: But what was the ratio of like time in battle
and free time to fuck whores? In World War two?
Speaker 2: So there was oh man, I remember reading in Band
of Brothers, there was if they could manage it. Typically
a set amount of time you would be on a
front line before you got rotated for a little bit,
and then you'd be rotated back. So I think, like
in Band of Brothers, Easy Company, spent man maybe fifty
sixty days in constant contact with the enemy and that
was a lot.
Speaker 1: Then you got like a month off.
Speaker 2: Well, they were supposed to, actually I think they did
because Market Garden ended. I think they got out of
Market Garden in late October early in November, and then
I think they were supposed to be chilling for a while,
but the Battle of the Bulge happened and they had
to be like emergency deployed to bass Stone so they
could get anyone to hold it. So they didn't get
their full full leave. In fact, a lot of trips
to Paris got got canceled.
Speaker 1: What a bummer. Yeah. The biggest sausage veest imaginable the
Battle of the Bulge.
Speaker 2: When the Americans got into France, obviously from landing, but
certainly through Paris. Immediately them and the French ladies hit
it off, much to the dismay of the french Men,
who were unable to compete with their well fed, muscular,
And here's the worst part, right, Okay, they're well fed
and muscular, but also because their economy has been shited
for the last four years because they've been under Nazi occupation,
the Americans have more stuff and money, madame, Can I
interest you in a bag yet? No, a fucking cart
And a cigarette that isn't made out of straw too.
That was a big thing. Bar cigarettes and chocolate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to smoke after you have sex, but.
Speaker 2: Like real cigarettes. They weren't getting that.
Speaker 1: Lucky strikes, yeah, a lot of lucky strikes.
Speaker 2: That was the go to. Many of the French assumed
that their liberation would allow them to, you know, regain
their pre war status as I guess, first class citizens, human.
Speaker 1: Beings, back of the line boys.
Speaker 2: They but immediately just coucked, literally just kicked out of
their own bedrooms. And the lesson they learned from all
the Americans coming in and immediately taking all of their
women was just like, well, we're no longer a superpower.
Like there's a new sheriff in town and he's banging
my daughter.
Speaker 1: You don't get to be invaded by Nazi Germany and
be occupied for the many years and then immediately just
kind of step back to the thing.
Speaker 2: I know, think you good thinking? What do you you think?
Nothing changed?
Speaker 1: Everything change?
Speaker 2: You think you could well? Bad?
Speaker 1: Women? First off, are not gonna look at you the same,
No one is. They do not have any respect for
you anymore. No, he lost the country and they were
the fact that you're still alive and you didn't die
defending that land. Yeah, they're gonna think less of you.
Speaker 2: Look credit to them. They're great in World War One,
fought hard as hell in World War One.
Speaker 1: But Dix maybe cause World War two. Oh, with the
implementation of all of their sanctions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Treaty of Versailles, your little revenge fucking.
Speaker 1: You know what's bad? When even Woodrow Wilson's like, yo,
let's pump the brakes here, guys, this is a little harsh. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The guy who uh resegregated the federal government was like,
I think you're being a little unfair to this race
over here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, woody boy, do you see that? Make sure of
his teeth never seen Wichrow Wilson seeth.
Speaker 2: Google it, guys, google it.
Speaker 1: It's it's actually the same as George Washington seeth. He
looks like nos faratu ah, very pointy.
Speaker 2: It's it's the grimest thing I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1: I was in dentistry wasn't huge until probably the fifties.
Speaker 2: No even for the day they said, that's why he
never smiled in pictures and stuff.
Speaker 1: When wyd become an a dentist really become an honorable profession?
When did people start putting respect on dentistry.
Speaker 2: Got a thing inter war, between World War One and
World War Two. Maybe then the twenties, row and twenties.
Speaker 1: I've met Dennis popped off either twenties or fifties.
Speaker 2: I think here's my theory. Dennis in the twenties, Orthodonis
in the fifties.
Speaker 1: M M correct that smile Yeah, yeah, I will clean
your teeth. In the twenties, make sure that breath doesn't stink.
Fifties they better be straight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we get let's that's let's fix part two.
Speaker 1: Fix that housewife smile Yeah, and you're ratt each children's
horrible teeth.
Speaker 2: According to the French, the Americans.
Speaker 1: Were just.
Speaker 2: Absolute assholes. They made they were loud, they were shit
faced all the time. They were just like there was
no such thing as a speed limit, Like they were
just whipping their jeeps around.
Speaker 1: Never take your foot off the gas.
Speaker 2: Yeah. They fought in the streets with each other or
with French dudes constantly. They stole shit in one part
of France.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 2: When bars would run out of Kognac, the soal like
or booze in general, I guess the soldiers would just
be like, fuck this place and just rip it apart. Yeah, like,
just just destroy all the furniture, rip the bar out,
break all the empty bottles.
Speaker 1: In an American tradition, a bunch of college age kids
getting hammered and just breaking stuff. Yep, yep, just sounds
like fraternity.
Speaker 2: A cafe owner in La Havre, which was kind of
the main port that Americans went in and out of
once we secured the coast of France, he expressed the
deep French disillusionment over American behavior when he said, we
expected friends who would not make us ashamed of our defeat. Instead,
there came incomprehension, arrogance, incredibly bad manners, and the swagger
of conquerors.
Speaker 1: I bet they just went to the wineries and started
rolling out the barrels. Oh my god, pop this open. Boys,
we're going fucking banana's. I mean in one of the
episodes of Bandon Brothers, the ninth or tenth episode, they
are the ones that got Hitler's eagles nest and the
little resort town that that was in, And I forget
which really high up Nazi it was.
Speaker 2: It wasn't Hitler but Captain Nixon, who was played by
Ron Livingston from Office Space, the main character in Office Space. Okay, anyway,
he was a raging alcoholic and his best friend was
the main character Major Winners, and uh, he just like
invites him in. He's like, come in, come in here
real quick, and he just like opens this like Nazi
high commands like liquor seller, and it is just wall
to wall like priceless wine, like incredible bourbon, whiskey, whatever.
And he's just like, yeah, I'm holding off all the
rest of the guys for twenty minutes so you could
take your pick.
Speaker 1: Take the good stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Imagine you know, Operation Iraqi Freedom, just storming Suddam's palace,
just getting DIBs of whatever you want. I don't think
he had like hit a lot of things, I know,
but like you had a lot of money. He had
like millions of dollars in cash there.
Speaker 2: I know, but I think you get in trouble if
you take that.
Speaker 1: Keep it on the hush huh.
Speaker 2: You got you have to like, hey, guys, this one
duffel bag is gonna gonna go missing.
Speaker 1: You find a bunch of like gold bladed guns. He
had artwork. There's some whole things there. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen the painting he had, like a
horrible painting of maybe his son did it.
Speaker 1: I love that Jack only took like a pillow. I know,
he just has Saddam's pillow.
Speaker 2: That's so fucking rad. I forget what I man, I saw,
I saw it shared, but it was like this horrible
painting in Saddam's palace that I think like either his
son did or like a friend did or something, and
he just hung it up to be polite.
Speaker 1: He actually also had a painting of Bill Clinton, yeah
in an address. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Rural France, which was a lot more conservative, was perhaps
even more shocked by this because Americans as just thought
the whole country was just dirty horse everywhere that they
could bank onside dating time on site, you just whip
it out. So they would just go up to like
the hottest chicks who are a lot of times the
richest chicks in the region.
Speaker 1: Dick out immediately, he's like, oh you want to thank me,
here we go.
Speaker 2: So they would just hit on these like rich, respectable
women a lot of times in front of their husbands,
be like, hey baby, what did he do to save you? Nothing?
Speaker 1: Nothing, I don't respect him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, come on, girl, I'll be going in
a week.
Speaker 1: Could be gone in sixty seconds. Yeah. I don't think
they had a ton of stanemo back then. They weren't
trying to please the women.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think any of these guys had had
a lot of sex.
Speaker 1: They were nothing in still quick.
Speaker 2: I think that's why so many of them were able
to go through the brothels of a quick process.
Speaker 1: Quick transactional thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So Gabrielle Frett, she was a farmer's daughter and
she sees an American soldier who was literally I think
she saw him in combat, like shooting at the Nazis
as they were running away. Sees this guy and is.
Speaker 1: Like, goddamn, think of all that semen retention, forget sixty
two pump Yeah, talking an insta, they're coming in their
pants before to even yep, get inside just a rub,
just a rub of the hand Yep, you see a
breast instant mess.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're like, uh, just give you a bit, I'll
go down on you and wait for it to come back. Uh.
Speaker 1: It never happens like this, I swear.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but at least they're twenty though, they can get
another direction instantly.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. So she sees this guy like, although you
know they're all meted out, maybe not that is true.
Speaker 2: So she sees the soldier Bill Benson fighting off the Nazis,
and she's immediately like love struck. She's like, this guy's hot.
I want him. They spend the next two weeks banging,
and then the Benson's unit, the thirty six US Infantry Division,
moves forward, keeps going, and he leaves her with nothing
but sweet memories of romance and a baby growing inside
of her job.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Michel Frett, who is now retired, he was born. He
is the child. He is that child, and they tracked
him down and talked to him and he goes is
ahead to beautiful romance. Apparently his mother never said anything
bad about him.
Speaker 1: He was like she was just like, yeah, he was great,
but you know, he didn't live here. So I just
decided to keep you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Fret. Michelle Frett, sixty five years later, tracked down
Bill Benson to Houston, Texas, met him when he was
ninety one, less than a year.
Speaker 1: Before he died up. Yeah, he was waiting the entire time.
I gotta see my son.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said that his father said France was a
land of good living and happiness.
Speaker 1: Did it rock the boat for the ninety one year
old or had his like wife passed as well?
Speaker 2: That's a great question. But he was even married when it.
Speaker 1: Happened, right, I get that, But you would still probably
have some problems if some strange frenchmen approached you and
you know, you're in your nineties. Yeah, you've lived this
entire life with a man you thought you knew. He
never told you about this kid.
Speaker 2: But that's so easy to explain away, especially if you
didn't know. It's like I was nineteen, I thought I
was gonna.
Speaker 1: Die, But just as you're on death's door, the love
of your life suddenly just it's a total stranger to you. Now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you never told me about having sex with the French.
Why would I tell you?
Speaker 1: I kept that close to them. Those were memories for
me at what point? Yes, like that was in the
spank bank.
Speaker 2: It's like Tom Hanks, the same private hyd No, No,
that whant I keep just for myself?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, why would you?
Speaker 2: Why would what point? No relationship? Do you think that
was a good thing to bring up?
Speaker 1: Probably first d eight? Yeah, just see, you know, I
might have a love child with a French woman.
Speaker 2: She's just like actually every American woman at the time
if they started dating a man after World War Two
who served in Europe and he was awesome at sex,
just assume that he did. Yeah, especially if he knew
what he was doing.
Speaker 1: Because that's what he learned from his time overseas.
Speaker 2: Yep. Great around a gun, great round of vagina. But
Fret's mom, Gabrielle, like she never had any ol. She
was like, he saved our country and he was very handsome.
Speaker 1: Europeans in general, I feel like, are way more low
maintenance and chill.
Speaker 2: Some of them, I get. I get served a lot
of like reels of like dudes who are married to
Eastern European chicks and about how the mean they are
to them.
Speaker 1: They're mean, but they don't really expect much.
Speaker 2: No, the mean part is the expect much like I
see a bunch of like Eastern European chicks, like, why
are we so poor? You don't make enough of money.
We'll get you a new job. And like they're like,
why are you being so mean? Like not to wing mean,
I'm motivating you. You don't make any money. We're not
successful nobody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but those bitches are loyal as hell.
Speaker 2: True, they're not running around, they're not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: The French women are. Wow. The Eastern Europeans.
Speaker 2: Aren't French men too for that matter. Yeah, And again,
like you alluded to earlier, all of this happening created
like genuine animosity between the French and the Americans that
stuck around because we cocked them. We legitimately came in
and for a little while, we didn't keep them, but
for a little while, just stole all their women. And
the had to Yeah they're booth and they just had
to sit there and kind of take it because they
were helpless.
Speaker 1: They had to smoke SIGs and just go I don't care.
Speaker 2: And you know that's I think that's how Albert Camu
lost his like love of life. He's just like watching
like some chicky like get banged by the eighth g
I that day, and he's just like nosing Metos.
Speaker 1: That's actually why the stranger he killed somebody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is so stupid.
Speaker 1: None of these he's important, none of these mets.
Speaker 2: And some GI is like, yeah, you keep telling yourself that,
buddy lout, Americans don't know any sing.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: We had to win a war for you, douche bag.
All right, I'm doing it didn't take that long.
Speaker 1: We always have this nice trade off with the French
where they're like, you're not independent from the English without us,
and we kind of come back with the whole we
saved your ass in both World Wars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, completely in the second one, and.
Speaker 1: Then we just cover up their entire mess in Vietnam.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was their fault. I don't even know why
they went back. It's not yours anymore. It got taken.
You just get to get it back.
Speaker 1: And we have a pretty loveless relationship with the French.
Speaker 2: I think that's why, especially after Vietnam, they were like
anti every American war because they were like, we know
what you died, we know what you did.
Speaker 1: They don't want us to be heroes again.
Speaker 2: No, they're because they know what we're like when we
win wars, like they're the worst fucking winners on earth.
Speaker 1: To just spike the football and plow our women.
Speaker 2: Paris for years had a fully legal, regulated brothel system,
like state inspected, completely legal, and a lot of it
was aimed to just keep prostitution safe and limit you know,
STDs and stuff like that. During the German occupation, the
brothels stayed open and they are about twenty upscale brothels and.
Speaker 1: Paris safest women have sex with the safest, safest, they're inspected,
they get tested.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you're not getting pregnant probably, and.
Speaker 1: If they do get pregnant, they're flushing that down the door. Yeah, yeah,
they're taking a te.
Speaker 2: That would be maybe. I wonder if it's happened like
the funniest WNBA in season storyline, like Caitlin Clark gets
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Speaker 1: Her baby because she didn't she kept playing.
Speaker 2: That might have been a cheerleader. I don't fucking know,
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the high scale ones were reserved for German officers and
other like actual French cuks. They're collaborators who were like, yes,
we will help you. You know, run out country. That's you, Conko,
no problem, I love Germany. Yeah. So they were allowed
to use the nice brothels, and the brothels did really
well under Nazi occupation. They were now getting medical checks
from the German army.
Speaker 1: That's efficient. Yeah, that's very detail oriented.
Speaker 2: Never been cleaner, No, never been cleaner.
Speaker 1: Listen, the Nazis into everything wrong.
Speaker 2: They were an efficient people. It's really where they pointed
their efficiency that was the issue.
Speaker 1: When it to just sheer production. Yeah, they who did
it better. They did what they set out to do.
Speaker 2: So the brothels are still working well under German occupation,
but when the Americans get there, the entire brothel system
is shattered, just complete overload because the American Army many loads. Yeah, overload.
The American Army doesn't work that way, you know. I
think even the British Army of some extent works that way.
But the American Army it's not like. I mean, there
are officers clubs and the officers have nicer dining areas
and stuff like that, but there's no like there's no
like class system to it. Really, like it's just like, hey, hey,
I ain't on duty.
Speaker 1: You get a nicer piece of ass if you're higher up.
Speaker 2: If you're German, not if you're American. You do if
you have more money. So if there's like an officer
who was in college and had a degree in some
you know, Wall Street job or something, yeah, yeah, he
can put down the money to get a nice but
it's all pay it's not a status thing. Well yeah,
So Roberts noted that the entry of the Americans in
Paris transformed sexual commerce. The brothels were overwhelmed, which, ironically,
and we'll get to it a little bit later, collapsed
to the entire legal prostitution framework in France. Essentially, prostitution
became illegal after World War Two in France because they
say it was because of the Germans, like, oh, the
brothels were collaborators, we just need to make it illegal.
But really a huge part of it was what the
Americans did once they got there. For the next year
and a.
Speaker 1: Half, they were saying there were like the little sparrows
that were given intel to the Nazis.
Speaker 2: No, they were just giving comfort to the enemy, not
aid but comfort.
Speaker 1: Okay, they weren't collecting intel though.
Speaker 2: If anything, they're collecting intel for the fucking resistance.
Speaker 1: You would think, yeah, yeah, it seems like beneficial to
have against the Germans. You get to have a little
Pilo talk. Yeah, they get a little loose with their
words because they're feeling such bliss.
Speaker 2: Give him some extra wine. Oh you're so brave, you're
so strong, gentleman, man, tell me what I upened plans
next to be so strong. And then he's like, yeah,
I'll tell this this fucking hooker. I don't care.
Speaker 1: The Germans aren't like that.
Speaker 2: No they're not.
Speaker 1: If will be no talking location time, yeah, what they're doing, yes, Uh,
this will be it's just bullet point after bullet point. Yeah,
you don't have to really weave through all the uh
the fatty meat.
Speaker 2: No, if we'd be concert talking and Kyle contry in
the three days, I'm tired of talking to you.
Speaker 1: Let's us move on very straight to the point. People,
they really are.
Speaker 2: One army report from World War two, like during that
time period, estimated that eighty percent of single soldiers and
fifty percent of married soldiers fucked while they were in Europe.
Speaker 1: Kind of feel bad if you're not getting your dicks
sucked back, then I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: But if you're in an apocalypse level war, what a nerd?
If you just held out, you gotta do it. You
gotta do it.
Speaker 1: It doesn't even matter if you got a sweetie back home.
You know you could die at any moment. You need
that comfort, you're allowed to have the spoils war.
Speaker 2: This means, by the way, there's a one and two
chance my grandpa cheated on my grandma.
Speaker 1: Oh, he certainly did with many women. It wasn't just one,
it wasn't two, it wasn't three. Your grandpa was getting
after it. But you can't blame him, and neither can
your grandma.
Speaker 2: He already had a child at that point too.
Speaker 1: My uncle Rob, he dies in action. They're taken care of, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all the soldiers had a life insurance.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Yeah, if he wants to dip
a toe into French prostitute, so be it.
Speaker 2: That'd be a funny thing to use a time machine for.
Let's go track down my grandpa on leaving Paris in
nineteen forty four.
Speaker 1: And by toe I mean his nose into her ass.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, all kinds of stuff they could imagine.
Speaker 1: And he was doing things that he would never disrespect
your grandma.
Speaker 2: With no, no, things you can't do with a nice
Irish American lady.
Speaker 1: It's very vanilla. It's down the line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he just thinks about that seventeen year old
French girl. Just say nineteen Okay, the nineteen year old.
It doesn't matter. I'm just trying to make it as
depraved as possible because these dudes were all over the place.
Speaker 1: He was a hero, Yeah, he was. Sorry. My grandparents
sent it.
Speaker 2: Serving World War two in Korea, the Forgotten War, the
forgotten war, so they get no credit. Was he even
in Korea? Yeah, like the one who fixed planes, he
was fixing them in South Korea. Yeah, okay, I don't
know if he like served during the Korean War, but
it was like fixing.
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't just chilling in Germany.
Speaker 2: I thought, like Japan is what I meant now, because
those guys were they're like our bases in Japan and
stuff were supporting the war. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I didn't really talk to him about it, so maybe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's probably he was.
Speaker 1: He was in Korea. I'm just fark with you. The
best time of his life, just playing basketball, fixing planes.
Speaker 2: Another thing that happened because of this is that hooker
Price's sword. The demand was insane. The market will do
what the market will do.
Speaker 1: Yesterday's price is not today's price.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fucking an hour AGO's price is not now is price.
Also so again, prostitution in Paris at this point it
was legal, but it was in brothels, right, it was
in regulated brothels. But all the Americans, all the horny Americans,
getting there made street prostitution explode overnight. They had red
light districts where the brothels were and stuff. But now
they were just hookers on the corner like I'm good
to go, let's go. A lot of French women, including
a lot who had not previously worked as prostitutes, started
working as prostitutes because the economy, I mean the country
was destroyed. There were food shortages, and the American soldiers,
the gis they had money, like I said, they had cigarettes,
and they had food, and they could use the first
two to buy things on the black market. The French
women could.
Speaker 1: And also be fed, but and also be fed.
Speaker 2: Exactly the soldiers there, and a bunch of impromptu brothels
got set up as well. So there were the normal brothels.
Then a bunch of people were just like, yeah, my
house is a whorehouse now, and then they were just
women on the street who were like, you can come
back from my apartment.
Speaker 1: They actually started doing a delivery service of kunt.
Speaker 2: Fucking probably at some of these places. This is this
sounds like a nightmare to me, Like, this is not
a line I would wait in. There were lines around
the block.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be the guy around the block. Like, Okay,
I counted like there's like fifty guys in front of me. Yeah,
I kind of like three hundred guys in line. How
many women are in there?
Speaker 2: Nine hmmm.
Speaker 1: The shower, in the bathing they do it. I don't
think so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna I'll come back tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1: She still got a little something on her mouth.
Speaker 2: It's not even yeah, there's no cleanup.
Speaker 1: Next in line yep.
Speaker 2: On September second, nineteen forty four, the US Provost Marshall
toured the Paris brothels to get a look at it
after word had gotten out, and military police later posted
many of the Brothels off limits to Allied troops because,
believe it or not, once they got into Paris, especially
the US Army became somewhat crippled with STDs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe it, Bud, like they didn't.
Speaker 2: I don't know if this is true, but it feels
like they were running out of penicillin to treat like
infected wounds because everyone's dick was falling off.
Speaker 1: It's like, son, sorry, that's gonna be a casualty war.
Speaker 2: Like can you imagine you're like, I'm sorry, sir. My
unit's only sixty percent combat effective, forty percent of the
unit has syphilis.
Speaker 1: The units have lost their units zero percent effective.
Speaker 2: And by the way, can you imagine that being your.
Speaker 1: Job in the war giving out penicilin shots, no closing
down Brothels. Everyone's gonna hate you, As you said, what
did you do the war? You're the most hated man
in probably the armed forces.
Speaker 2: Like well, fun fact, a lot of people think American
soldiers hated Hitler the most. It turns out they hated
your old grandpa even more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know there's some like self righteous religious
dude that was just beating up shops. Oh there definitely
were like just closing everything down.
Speaker 2: This is alright, right, y'all, this is unholy, Like, why
you just try it, Jimbo.
Speaker 1: They're getting some on the side, but you know, I'm low.
You can't be doing it flatting it in the open, yeah,
not in front of God's eyes.
Speaker 2: So they closed them down. They closed the brothels down
to quote unquote maintained moral standards. But really they were
just like, we can't keep losing dudes to STDs.
Speaker 1: What if we lost World War two because people were
just falling left and right to the clap, what would.
Speaker 2: Be Yeah, what would be the most crippling STD in combat?
I guess.
Speaker 1: I guessnital warts just exploding everywhere.
Speaker 2: You just have like a raw crotch.
Speaker 1: Crabs.
Speaker 2: I think you could deal with crabs.
Speaker 1: Herpes for life, herpes for life.
Speaker 2: And but oh and though the herpes is a is
a stress induced thing. So if you fuck a French
girl and get herpes, you're gonna have and then you
gotta get go to the front. You gotta go to
bas Stone, immediate breakout, immediate The crabs obviously don't know
spoo on the front lines, but I don't know, maybe
right before you ship out, you can just pour like
a bottle of vodka on your crouch, try to flush
them out, let it burn. The army did hand out
extra condoms because they were like, for the love of God,
I know we can't completely stop you from doing this,
but please put a fucking condom on. And I got
it there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's a fish bowl of condoms.
Speaker 2: The cheapest, worst condoms. Like they're not Trojans, be safe.
It's like like gas station brand condoms.
Speaker 1: I got them in bulk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, horrible condoms. I remember seeing the fish bowl. I
mean like, I'm not putting this on, like, oh, we're
a condom of a girl ass, but like not this one.
Good lord.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this doesn't even feel like it's offering us protection.
Speaker 2: No, it feels like an immediate snap. I actually one time,
me and my fraternity brother were go to the gas
station to get like cigarettes and stuff, and uh, he
had a girlfriend at the time, and uh, he comes
out with cigarettes and some condoms and I noticed. I
was like, man, you bought the cheapest fucking condoms they have.
Speaker 1: He's like, I got a strategy to it. He goes,
She's gonna see it. She'd be like no point. Well potentially,
but I'll throw them away.
Speaker 2: I was like, dude, go rale, these things are but
these things are useless. You're gonna get a pregnant man.
And he goes, nah, I bought it before. It's fine. Anyway,
he got a pregnant like a month later, so either
you're right or I'm right. But the end result was
that he now has like a twenty year old child.
Speaker 1: They probably gave her a rash and she told them
just take it off. Yeap.
Speaker 2: Just this is horrible. Yeah, this is worse for me
than it is for you, and I'm sure it's terrible
for you.
Speaker 1: Nobody's enjoying this at all. But condoms for soldiers, I'm
sure not a single one of them used it. No meat,
no way now. Also condoms in the forties.
Speaker 2: Oh I know, right, what those like? That's just a
latex glove.
Speaker 1: At least it's latex and not like an animal skin.
Speaker 2: Actually, hold on, let me look. They might have been
literal rubber. Actually, what were condoms in the forties.
Speaker 1: It would have been a good excuse for Muslims and
uh Jews back then. Yeah, sorry, I can't have the
pork touched by my pork.
Speaker 2: They yeah, it was latex. It was latex by then,
so they were using latex condoms, although they were still
referred to as rubbers, but they did have rubber condoms
as well.
Speaker 1: So imagine being in Leopold the Second's wake for all
those rubber plants and they just became condoms.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all it was all those poor Africans had
to die so that we could have horrible condoms, so
we could have the worst version of sex possible. Did
Leo was there? No one Leopold tortured?
Speaker 1: Thank you Belgium.
Speaker 2: Yeah, shitty ass country. So there was talk potentially of
like maybe we should set up us military run brothels
just to get this under control.
Speaker 1: Bring our own horse.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, you'd still contract the Frenchies, but
we got to import the horse, not finding them in
America and they're working the factory. Yeah, Rosie doesn't want
to rivet that.
Speaker 1: Did She's flexing so hard because she's just jerking off
so many soldiers. Yeah, building those muscles.
Speaker 2: Jenny the Jerker.
Speaker 1: Jenny the Jerker would have been more realistic.
Speaker 2: However, despite the fact that they didn't want to do this,
there was one general the US Army that set up
his own brothel to try and get things under control.
Pen No, I wish it was General Charles H. Gerhardt
of the twenty ninth Infantry Division, which by the way,
is famously portrayed in Saving Private Ryan. Most of the
guys on the beach are in the twenty ninth Infantry.
They have the ying yang with the blue.
Speaker 1: And gray and it was a grandfather of Stanford vernnon
back Gray Toby.
Speaker 2: Toby Gerharts know Toby Ghart's grandfather, so just won He
set it up in Brittany in nineteen forty four, not
in Paris, and in Brittany, France. It was called the
Blue and Gray Corral because their symbol was blue and gray.
Speaker 1: That's pretty to the point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, get a little creative with this general brothel. Apparently
General Bradley heard about it so fast that and ordered
it close. So like he heard about it and was like,
absolutely fucking not.
Speaker 1: The first guy got blue balls, that's how quick it was.
Speaker 2: It was open for five hours. It immediately got shut down.
Garrett the sign out front.
Speaker 1: She's like mid stroke, come on, can she like yeah,
it's like I'm finishing.
Speaker 2: I don't care fucking court martial. Me you I'm not
too uh, hang me?
Speaker 1: Shoot me.
Speaker 2: There was a sign out front of the Blue and
Gray Corral that General Gerhart personally approved himself that read
the Blue and Gray Corral Riding lessons one hundred francs that.
Speaker 1: Might fly in World War One, not in the Second World.
Speaker 2: No horses here.
Speaker 1: We're not doing cavalry charges in World War two. Why
are we learning to ride horses?
Speaker 2: It's outrageous. French civilians and officials again had mixed reactions
about the Americans. The initial excitement of being liberated, uh,
was great, and there were legitimate like romances that happened,
but the sheer scale and quickness of how much the
Americans were fucking pissed them off again in Lajavre, which
was the port city that Americans went in and out of.
So this is what the real problem was, is that
Lajavre was basically full of American soldiers that had either
just got into France and heard about all the French stuff,
or guys who were heading home for good who wanted
to get one last yeah before they got out. So
Lajavre was like the city of desperation fucks. Essentially like
everyone was like, I got to get one more or
I got to get my first. The citizens of Lejavre
were furious because there wasn't even time for brothels like that.
People would just be out on walks and see America
con soldiers fucking prostitutes in public parks, in cemeteries, just
straight up in the street, in bombed out buildings, like
kids were just like parents were walking with their kids
and they would just turn a corner and they'd be
a gi with his pants down, just railing some French prostitute.
Speaker 1: Just a French ghost shaking his head as here, boning
on top of his headstone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're fuckinging cemeteries.
Speaker 1: That seemed to be a big thing back in the day.
Speaker 2: It was for like superstitious red This was only out
of necessity.
Speaker 1: Straight up lane pipe in a cemetery.
Speaker 2: No one's there. The Germans actually under the reign of
Adolf Hitler, I think this happened in World War two,
but I think it happened a lot like early and
maybe right before World War Two, where German soldiers were
encouraged and Germans in general were encouraged to take their
girlfriends or wives and go fuck in like military cemeteries
or cemeteries where like brave German historical figures warriors, soldiers
were buried so that a little piece of their soul
would attach to their their unborn child that they conceived
that night and make them like brave and strong.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that sounds totally legit, legit, yeah.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. One American soldier described getting to Lajavre.
He goes, when we got to Lajavre, we saw girls
lining up near the camps like they were selling wares
at a market that was war. And we didn't know
whether to laugh or cry, so we did both. Yeah,
pretty much. It got so bad that the mayor of
Lajavre wrote to US commanders just he was begging them, like,
please set up your own brothels, for the love of God,
they are fucking in the streets, and my citizens cannot
handle it. Like we're French.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to work. They're not doing that. French don't
work now.
Speaker 2: They're like we're French, but we're not that fucking French.
Like come on, like, please please do your own. But
the Americans refused because they were like, dude, if we
if we set up whorehouses for our soldiers, like the
public is going to our public is going to shit
their pants, like the wives of soldiers politics, like everyone
is fucked if we open brothels.
Speaker 1: Yeah, keep it off the books.
Speaker 2: They did this stuff. They made sure that this stuff
did not get home, and if it did, they were like, oh,
that's all made up. But it was all absolutely happening.
One and two married men banged while they were in.
Speaker 1: Europe, and that's a low conservative number.
Speaker 2: It probably is. It's probably a low ball.
Speaker 1: The other half died before.
Speaker 2: One hundred one hundred percent of married men who did
not die in World War Two.
Speaker 1: At sex in Europe sounds accurate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, A lot of American military officials.
Speaker 1: Think about it's apocalyptic sex. It is, it's of the world.
Speaker 2: It's the comet is fucking coming.
Speaker 1: Get your rocks off.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So when the mayor of Lahavre complained and was like,
please please, this is horrible, Please make it stop, a
lot of American military officials they didn't. They just didn't
take them seriously because they were like, what come on
your French. No, not the opposite. They were like, what
are you talking about, you guys? Fucking public all the time.
You're French, right, That's why I heard it, dude, Yeah,
that's I heard.
Speaker 1: Come on, hey you drink right, Yeah, it's nine in
the morning. Here you go.
Speaker 2: They're like, I mean, it takes two to tango. Clearly
the French are doing it. They're not doing it with
American chicks. They're doing it with French chicks. Clearly, you
guys are down.
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, you gotta live up to your reputation. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And, like I said, all of this insane fucking over
the course of like literally just two years more or less,
torpedoed the French prostitution industry and it was made illegal.
As soon as the war was over, they completely outlawed it.
Speaker 1: It's never the same.
Speaker 2: They were like, never again, this is horrible.
Speaker 1: Sorry, they hate capitalism so much.
Speaker 2: Well, we rooted French prostitution.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they're making money hand over fist. My god,
we single handedly maybe brought their economy back.
Speaker 2: I want to know what the gender pay gap was
in nineteen forty five in France.
Speaker 1: Men, we're making significantly less money, way less.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's all I got today. On how I
guess my grandpa was a dirty slut?
Speaker 1: Yeah, shouts to this lady from Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did the report Roberts. I think was shut her
out again. I mean there were other sources too, but
she was kind of the main one.
Speaker 1: And you know, she's just digging deep because of those
harsh winners up there in Madison.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, gotta stay warm somehow.
Speaker 1: Why not stay warm from the fires ignited between the
American soldiers and the French prostitutes.
Speaker 2: Mary Louise Roberts. She touched on some other stuff too,
but that wasn't as fun to talk about us, so
I left it out.
Speaker 1: Ah. Yeah, I didn't want to get into but that
was probably to be expected. Yeah, yeah, not you know,
everyone is great in the army. No.
Speaker 2: No, I would still say, though, even though that was
covered up quite a bit, that uh.
Speaker 1: Quite a bit kind of touched that in the movie
Fury a little bit. That was implication was.
Speaker 2: There wasn't a huge implication. Dennis Reynolds could never.
Speaker 1: No. I think Pitt was just kind of looking and
their way, just like that's war, baby, what you want
to do, what you want to do?
Speaker 2: What'd you learn today?
Speaker 1: I don't know if I ever thought about this my
entire life, but it makes sense that this would be
of course, what actually happened.
Speaker 2: That I mean, but my favorite part is that the
like part of the American like, let's go liberate Frances. Like, bros,
you were gonna get laid so hard, God damn much
if you just fight hard and get to Paris.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good motivation to storm those beaches in Normandy
and take that machine gun fire.
Speaker 2: You are absolutely like braving machine gun fire for that.
Speaker 1: Just stick of the stocks, stack, all of man's innovation,
all of our courage. It's usually always inspired by getting laid.
That is a huge factor in where we are in
the world.
Speaker 2: Today, humongously.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people didn't build pyramids to not get laid.
Speaker 1: Especially when you're younger. Yeah, eventually, when you're older, you
kind of loose steam, but you've already given up on
your dreams. Nineteen twenty one, young, dumb and full of cumb.
Speaker 2: You are literally storming machine gun nest after machine gun nest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll take that charge. Yeah, all day, full French
prostitute threesome, let's go.
Speaker 2: I wonder if they're like single guys who was like,
come on me, when you're married, you're not gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Anyway you go first, it's like you got everything to
live for.
Speaker 2: Who's today's Hitler.
Speaker 1: Probably the guys that had to shut down the brothels. Yeah,
they were seen as Hitler adjacent.
Speaker 2: I kind of at least like to grant them a
little humanity and think that they were like Gary Oldman
at the end of the dark night when he has
to shatter the bat signal and he doesn't want to.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not giving them any These were just boners
that even at war, could not get the rocks off. Yeah,
even if they had to pay for it.
Speaker 2: Truly our greatest villains in the Second World War.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were our greatest villains. I think rob Yea,
not anybody we actually fought. No, it was the enemy within.
Speaker 2: Oh that's all I got today on Americans ruining prostitution
in France. Just a bunch of freshmen on the spring break.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I enjoyed it. Glad we went with this instead
of my Patreon episode, which I still think will be good,
but didn't necessarily have these themes in.
Speaker 2: It, the lurid details.
Speaker 1: This is more our speed anyway. Yeah, So put it
out to the masses. Maybe they'll find us, maybe we'll
grow who knows will grow like a nineteen year old
American soldier.
Speaker 2: It's so funny just to think of, Like, look, go
look at pictures of the US soldiers marching through France,
and they've got to just like through Paris, I mean
on the Liberation Day, and they've got to just be like,
when is this over? Like when is a stupid parade over?
I gotta fucking get in there.
Speaker 1: Well, they were all just grabbing each other on the
streets and making out right. Yeah, oh yeah, I'm sure
there are people getting after it on the streets. You
didn't get to see those photos.
Speaker 2: No, no, Life didn't publish that m.
Speaker 1: But there are plenty of people in back alleys going
bananas on other back alleys. Yep.
Speaker 2: You know. Probably the first time most of those Americans
had doggy style.
Speaker 1: American women were given doggy I don't know, man, they
weren't just only having missionary sex like you and your wife.
Speaker 2: It's just more intimate. Although I like in a training
day how Denzel Washington talks about how missionaries almost like better.
He's like, got a young pretty wife, I bet you
still fuck her face to face.
Speaker 1: He's like, I don't miss He's like my wife face
face anymore. But also he's just like you want a boy,
I don't miss yeah. Yeah. Also true if you need
a boy Rob doesn't, I.
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