My great grandfather was an Indianapolis survivor. B. Blanthorne. NEVER has there been a harder ass in my life. Dude got kicked by a horse once and kicked it back.
My grandpa was on the USS Mullany when it got bombed or torpedoed. The hit was at his post, but he was taking a cigarette break and wasn't at his post, so he survived. I am alive thanks to my grandpa smoking a cigarette.
@@ACslater1 That is 100% true. An estimated 98 sailors died from shark attacks in the Indianapolis incident. In the 80 years to follow there's only been 76 reported shark attack fatalities.
Bro! lol I was thinking that exact same thing at the beginning when he kept chirping about the bomb parts being delivered. Don’t think he realized what the story was actually about at the the start lol
Same. I was just sitting up against my pillows and I thought I was in for a little light tale, you know "ha ha funny Shaner, wow listen to him tell this fucked up story!" but this was really dark lol. He's a little too good of a storyteller and his descriptions were so vivid. The terror and soul penetrating sadness that these young men must have felt out there in the middle of the ocean...damn dawg.
FUN FACT- Dr. John McMullen the founder of the New Jersey Devils & former minority owner of the Yankees, and former owner of The Astros was a survivor from USS Indianapolis.
Just to make it more fun, the ocean where the ship sank is 5,500m (18,000ft) deep. Over 1000 metres deeper than the wreck of the Titanic. Only 316 of the 1,195 crew survived. 300 men went down with the ship. After the captain unalived himself, he was exonerated. On 19 August 2017, a search team financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen located the wreckage. On 20 December, 2018, the crew of Indianapolis was collectively awarded a Congressional Gold Medal.
He left out of the story The reason why they were unguarded and so easily hit by a torpedo was because the Navy did not want Japanese military to think there was anything significant that was dropped off from the cargo ship, by leaving an unguarded it looked like a normal cargo military ship. The crew of the ship requested an escort of battleships on the way home but were refused.
It wasn’t uncommon for cruisers to travel unescorted. Indianapolis had traveled unescorted for every leg of her trip up until Guam. Especially at this stage of the war in sectors that were practically cleared of enemy. There were also no destroyers available as they were on other assignments supporting the bombing of Japan and operations on Okinawa. McVay definitely didn’t request “battleships” and Indianapolis wasn’t a “cargo ship.”
The military fucked that captain over saying he never sent out an S.O.S. when the ship was hit when he did, and for some reason the navy lost the sos didn’t go up chain of command or something, and also blamed him for getting hit saying he wasn’t sailing in a zigzag pattern or some shit. Basically the navy trying to cover their own ass and using that guy as a scapegoat. Those guys should’ve been rescued within hours of getting hit, and were in water for almost 4 days, and it wasn’t just the sharks guys were going crazy out there and started driving the sea water and drowning each other, bunch of other wild shit. it was Pretty much just dumb luck that plane saw them because the navy didn’t even know they were missing at that time. We had just dropped the bomb so there was a lot happening and the navy just didn’t notice they missed 3 check ins in a row or their sos. That plane was just doing a routine fly and saw them. A bunch of the sailors came to his defense saying he did everything he could to save as many of them as possible. He was given a posthumous medal for bravery like 30 years after he blew his brains out and was exonerated by I think Clinton or bush.
The planes came to save them they had hope for a full day or two and still died looking at what will save them the story is so crazy. I think the guy WHO courtmarshalled the captain should be investigated. Those types of ships were supposed to be escorted by battle ships but never were and got blamed for not ziggin and zaggin on their route
Read this story on Google it is so much better. Some groups of people didn't see sharks. One man kept being bumped in the night. The people who made noise got eaten. Then they got dehydrated and the life vests made from corke started to not float any more. People freaked out and started to swim down under the water thinking that was the way to live. This is my favourite war story. Im Australian
The captain goes down with the ship dosent mean he just commits suicide if the ship goes down that would be so dumb. It just means he dosent abandon the ship hes supposed to be the last man off
Yeah I always used to question that as a kid, why would you want the arguably most trained & experienced person to go down with the ship & highest ranked lol
Did y’all know that there was a nurse lady that survived BOTH the Titanic AND the Lusitania! She even went through the propellers when the Lusitania sank, she just got a small dink on the head, but the description she gives of all the people that got chopped up and how their body parts were swirling around her is absolutely harrowing.
Craziest part of those story in my opinion is when they were floating on the raft at night they kept some people who were on the verge of death and even some dead people to hopefully return their bodies. Well, they had to let go of some of those bodies and people on the verge of death because the sharks were coming for the bodies at night and it kept the alive people from being attacked. Absolutely insane to let one of your buddies go to sharks in order to save your life
Of all captains in the history of the United States Navy, he was the only one subjected to court-martial for losing a ship sunk by an act of war, despite the fact that he was on a top secret mission maintaining radio silence and pleading with his commanders for defensive support ships going back to the mainland and was denied.
My Great Uncle was on that ship, he survived. As soon as he hit the water, he started stabbing other soldiers bc the sharks were attractedd to the blood, allowing him time to steal wallets off the other corpses and escape the sharks. He tried to sell their location to the Yapanee but his ccell phone was wet. He was a great man.
@@themostdiabolicalhater5986 guns weren’t all that effective against good archers until they became multi-shot, that’s not only the case in Japan with the samurai but also here in the US, the Texas rangers didn’t become completely competent fighting against the Comanche until they received their Colt revolvers
@@mr.martyr8573 It's widely agreed upon that white tips were the main culprits. Makes sense too because they often follow ships and are found further out at sea.
I’d never expect a Navy Captain to go down with the ship. That’s a wealth of knowledge just lost. It’s also a possible able body to help rescue others. The idea of Captains go down with the ship is just selfish Captains. Should they make every effort to save people and not jump on the first lifeboat? Yes!
Duuude. How did you skip over the flash burns. The initial blast literally lit dudes skin on fire. Then some of the survivors just sitting in the salt water. Also there was rape and murder in those waters. So sad.
It’s because they was on a secret mission and nobody knew where they was, they was on the way back from transporting the parts that made the nukes they dropped on Japan
Matt saying they didnt know what atoms are 😂 that generation read more books than any other after it, they were alive at the same time as albert einstein, science was the pop culture, of course they knew 😂
yeah but to be fair they had only discovered atoms like eleven years before that - it’s like if in 100 years people were saying “dudes in the 2020s, they didn’t even know what unified quantum string gravity was lol what a bunch of bozos”
@@AwesometownUSAhe modern western idea or concept of the atom was around since the 1600s. It wasn’t proven until the 1920-30s. There’s atomic theories thousands of years old however. People have had an understanding that extremely small “things” made up larger “things” since Ancient Greece. But yes, the average person wouldn’t know the true complexity of atomic theory, people were well aware of the idea however. Sorry I’m high
Not really, the average person or even student wasn’t studying atoms lmfao like another guy commented that’s like in a 100 years people being like “they didn’t understand anti gravity tech?” Like cmon they only discovered atoms 11 years before that lol
The type of people that complain about the tradition of the captain going down with the ship are the same type of people that complain about them taking away their slaves.
Keep the history lessons coming. I don’t wanna go to college
you go to a college now and take history your gonna get everything from a post-modern perspective...
My great grandfather was an Indianapolis survivor. B. Blanthorne. NEVER has there been a harder ass in my life. Dude got kicked by a horse once and kicked it back.
Look at those cheeks
I'm sure you witnessed that horse kick first hand.
My grandpa was on the USS Mullany when it got bombed or torpedoed. The hit was at his post, but he was taking a cigarette break and wasn't at his post, so he survived. I am alive thanks to my grandpa smoking a cigarette.
@@BrainbusterAnd who says smoking kills?!
Mine was too. Jim jarvis. They were definitely some badass men
There was more shark attack human fatalities in those 5 days than all shark attack fatalities combined globally for 50 years after. Insane
That is false
@@ACslater1honestly it looks like it’s more😂
@@ACslater1 I wouldn't be surprised if true.
Sharks had to be snacking after the Titanic.
@@ACslater1
That is 100% true.
An estimated 98 sailors died from shark attacks in the Indianapolis incident.
In the 80 years to follow there's only been 76 reported shark attack fatalities.
Matt always get caught up on the least important details lmaoo and often the details that everyone should already know
😂😂😂
And totally ignores half of the details
Bro! lol I was thinking that exact same thing at the beginning when he kept chirping about the bomb parts being delivered. Don’t think he realized what the story was actually about at the the start lol
Damn actually listening to this before bed.. this story is not bed time material lol
Same. I was just sitting up against my pillows and I thought I was in for a little light tale, you know "ha ha funny Shaner, wow listen to him tell this fucked up story!" but this was really dark lol. He's a little too good of a storyteller and his descriptions were so vivid. The terror and soul penetrating sadness that these young men must have felt out there in the middle of the ocean...damn dawg.
@@foodchewer shaner? Like Ryan shaner? Or is that your nickname for Shane?
@@caseyyordy6188 yeah I'm just calling Shane Shaner. I don't know who Ryan Shaner is
“We’re just delivering magic to this island” is exactly what we were thinking back then
It was super top secret…but also everybody on the boat knew all about it
@@randbarrett8706 Where did you hear that?
okay now do the USS Liberty
👌👌 let's hope
Slow down there Kanye.
based
Yes please. But we’ve already been cancelled once
@@lancehowle2007 why should he slow down?
top half burning, bottom half getting eaten by sharks is mathematically the worst possible way to go
I'd rather be eaten by sharks than a pack of dogs...
And ocean in the middle
I think you’re right. Used to think the jumpers from the Trade Center had a bad choice 🙏🏻
to think that may have been the only time in history sharks tasted cooked meat in the wild
FUN FACT- Dr. John McMullen the founder of the New Jersey Devils & former minority owner of the Yankees, and former owner of The Astros was a survivor from USS Indianapolis.
Let's go snakes!
This is probably the most terrifying story I've heard in years... What a great way to start the morning
yeah this isn’t what you should listen to while fucked up
Start your morning? It says bedtime story in the title
@@jackf1557 I've always been a bit of a rebel.
This automated. I'm in bed trying to sleep.
@@possiblyacop2465have you never seen "Jaws"?
“Hit my teacher with a Shamalonian twist.”
She just couldn’t metabolize it
Just to make it more fun, the ocean where the ship sank is 5,500m (18,000ft) deep. Over 1000 metres deeper than the wreck of the Titanic. Only 316 of the 1,195 crew survived. 300 men went down with the ship. After the captain unalived himself, he was exonerated.
On 19 August 2017, a search team financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen located the wreckage. On 20 December, 2018, the crew of Indianapolis was collectively awarded a Congressional Gold Medal.
Yeah… but let’s see Paul Allen’s card.
6:42 "submaru" is WILD 😂
I’ve been a WWII fanatic since I was a kid. The fact Shane is hilarious and a history nut is awesome.
He left out of the story The reason why they were unguarded and so easily hit by a torpedo was because the Navy did not want Japanese military to think there was anything significant that was dropped off from the cargo ship, by leaving an unguarded it looked like a normal cargo military ship.
The crew of the ship requested an escort of battleships on the way home but were refused.
It wasn’t uncommon for cruisers to travel unescorted. Indianapolis had traveled unescorted for every leg of her trip up until Guam. Especially at this stage of the war in sectors that were practically cleared of enemy.
There were also no destroyers available as they were on other assignments supporting the bombing of Japan and operations on Okinawa. McVay definitely didn’t request “battleships” and Indianapolis wasn’t a “cargo ship.”
Looked into it and the Captain got court Marshaled for the sinking of the ship and wasn’t exonerated until after he killed himself.
That’s awful
The captain of the Japanese vessel who torpedoed & sunk the Indianapolis testified before Congress defending the Actions of the American captain.
The best scene in Jaws...
There’s so many crazy stories like this that they could make great movies on
Matt “ What did we do with those atom bomb parts anyway….” Lol
The military fucked that captain over saying he never sent out an S.O.S. when the ship was hit when he did, and for some reason the navy lost the sos didn’t go up chain of command or something, and also blamed him for getting hit saying he wasn’t sailing in a zigzag pattern or some shit. Basically the navy trying to cover their own ass and using that guy as a scapegoat. Those guys should’ve been rescued within hours of getting hit, and were in water for almost 4 days, and it wasn’t just the sharks guys were going crazy out there and started driving the sea water and drowning each other, bunch of other wild shit. it was Pretty much just dumb luck that plane saw them because the navy didn’t even know they were missing at that time. We had just dropped the bomb so there was a lot happening and the navy just didn’t notice they missed 3 check ins in a row or their sos. That plane was just doing a routine fly and saw them. A bunch of the sailors came to his defense saying he did everything he could to save as many of them as possible. He was given a posthumous medal for bravery like 30 years after he blew his brains out and was exonerated by I think Clinton or bush.
The planes came to save them they had hope for a full day or two and still died looking at what will save them the story is so crazy. I think the guy WHO courtmarshalled the captain should be investigated. Those types of ships were supposed to be escorted by battle ships but never were and got blamed for not ziggin and zaggin on their route
Read this story on Google it is so much better. Some groups of people didn't see sharks. One man kept being bumped in the night. The people who made noise got eaten. Then they got dehydrated and the life vests made from corke started to not float any more. People freaked out and started to swim down under the water thinking that was the way to live. This is my favourite war story. Im Australian
It was a Italian sub also not Japanese hahaha
Yeah they swam down thinking they saw a city underwater with water fountains everywhere after drinking salt water and going crazy
Last Podcast on the left did a full series on this it’s one of my favorite episodes they’ve done
How many times does that guy need to be told the parts were already delivered
that bill wurtz video was flames
6:29 His Japanese accents are hilarious as shit.
I consistently fact check Shane and bro is consistently right. A history podcast would do stupid numbers
6:33 Quint: Well anyway we delivered the bomb.
It really is an insane true story...
Shane is going through some rough patches. He’s not the best player but he’s still the most! 🎉
Is he? What’s going on. Feel like he’s everywhere.
@@samanthab1923 he is the only person I can trust.
Thank you.
The captain goes down with the ship dosent mean he just commits suicide if the ship goes down that would be so dumb. It just means he dosent abandon the ship hes supposed to be the last man off
Yeah I always used to question that as a kid, why would you want the arguably most trained & experienced person to go down with the ship & highest ranked lol
@@bruhdon4748 because it-a brings great-a shame on our family-la name (insert racist Japanese shane accent here) 😜
@@dontcare7086he did the accent as I read that lmao
Stop interrupting Matt!
A+ to the guy doing the George Takei voice
If I hear Shane talk about the Edmund Fitzgerald my life will be complete
"I handed my teacher a Shamalonian twist and she couldn't metabolize it"
Old McCusker ain't never seen no JAWS.
NO JAWS!?!
Name any movie. That's a great movie.
Did y’all know that there was a nurse lady that survived BOTH the Titanic AND the Lusitania! She even went through the propellers when the Lusitania sank, she just got a small dink on the head, but the description she gives of all the people that got chopped up and how their body parts were swirling around her is absolutely harrowing.
…. O’connors not on this. Why the photo?
Craziest part of those story in my opinion is when they were floating on the raft at night they kept some people who were on the verge of death and even some dead people to hopefully return their bodies. Well, they had to let go of some of those bodies and people on the verge of death because the sharks were coming for the bodies at night and it kept the alive people from being attacked. Absolutely insane to let one of your buddies go to sharks in order to save your life
Of all captains in the history of the United States Navy, he was the only one subjected to court-martial for losing a ship sunk by an act of war, despite the fact that he was on a top secret mission maintaining radio silence and pleading with his commanders for defensive support ships going back to the mainland and was denied.
I'm only here for Shane's Japanese voice
Show this to people who say sharks don't want to eat people
How the fuck is this a bedtime story, I am wide awake now
I listened to the Carlin podcast about this it’s actually terrifying it will give you chills. He just explains is so much better
It just now dawned on me Shane sounds like coach mcgurck
This is straight nightmare fuel
I cant even imagine at night. Pitch darkness and sharks bumping past you and all you could do is pray.
The name; Bedtime Stories is not to be taken literally. Sincerely, a very scared me.
What episode is Shane talking about? Is this from a history podcast that he listened to or something?
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
They are talking about a 10 year old pod cast bruh
Never saw Jaws, unbelievable
Nice history
Fuk me I listened to this in the shower and I didn't want to close my eyes to rinse off the shampoo. That's terror
Damn this is spooky
There hasn’t been a good movie about the Indianapolis because it’s impossible to capture the horror of being on that ship.
It’s hilarious to me that Matt doesn’t know when world war 2 was
lol is that Harry Mack between Shane and Matt?
My Great Uncle was on that ship, he survived. As soon as he hit the water, he started stabbing other soldiers bc the sharks were attractedd to the blood, allowing him time to steal wallets off the other corpses and escape the sharks. He tried to sell their location to the Yapanee but his ccell phone was wet. He was a great man.
I'll never put on a life vest again
And thats the story of the very first Shark Week presented by Discovery.
The Captain is the Skipper.
You should check out The Book of Quint NOVEL by Ryan Dacko. The prequel to Jaws and a fair bit takes place after the Indianapolis sinks
Matt is the funniest dude alive
Bro I thought the dawgz were joking about the one Isreal attacked holy
“Hit my grade school teacher with a shamelonian twist and she couldn’t metabolize it” what’s a sentence
I really wish he didn't have the clueless friend with him on this show. Takes sooooo much away from what this could be with a semi competent co-host
Some samurai actually used guns, they were inferior to archers though
Inferior in every way except effectiveness
@@themostdiabolicalhater5986 guns weren’t all that effective against good archers until they became multi-shot, that’s not only the case in Japan with the samurai but also here in the US, the Texas rangers didn’t become completely competent fighting against the Comanche until they received their Colt revolvers
We got this word game we play... Everyone wins together. For the really hard answers, we need Japanese baseball players
Didn't the captin get Court Martial for basically not zig-zagging enough?
Oceanic white tip sharks are the sharks that killed them all
I feel like thats not really a quantifiable thing to say. Lol.
Tiger sharks also prowl the blue, makos and plenty of other sharks
@@mr.martyr8573 It's widely agreed upon that white tips were the main culprits. Makes sense too because they often follow ships and are found further out at sea.
@@Skrenja It’s also widely agreed upon that multiple species of sharks took advantage of bleeding bodies.
What a weird hill to die on.
My great uncle was on this ship
Strong jaws vibes
Great grandfathers? When does Matt think ww2 happened
Before the Romans crucified the king of the Jews me thinks
I’m getting ai ey vibes……..
Nerur myyyn!
I’d never expect a Navy Captain to go down with the ship. That’s a wealth of knowledge just lost. It’s also a possible able body to help rescue others. The idea of Captains go down with the ship is just selfish Captains. Should they make every effort to save people and not jump on the first lifeboat? Yes!
Dudes were tripping balls on salt-water and getting eaten and burned. The worst thing ever.
Duuude. How did you skip over the flash burns. The initial blast literally lit dudes skin on fire. Then some of the survivors just sitting in the salt water. Also there was rape and murder in those waters. So sad.
juz holdz up
What American kid doesn't watch Jaws at some point?
Haven't seen jaws ???????
It took them five days to get rescued? They took forever.
It’s because they was on a secret mission and nobody knew where they was, they was on the way back from transporting the parts that made the nukes they dropped on Japan
Matt saying they didnt know what atoms are 😂 that generation read more books than any other after it, they were alive at the same time as albert einstein, science was the pop culture, of course they knew 😂
Yeah maybe learned men but not some 20 year old kids
yeah but to be fair they had only discovered atoms like eleven years before that - it’s like if in 100 years people were saying “dudes in the 2020s, they didn’t even know what unified quantum string gravity was lol what a bunch of bozos”
A lot of em definitely did not have an understanding of what an atom was
@@AwesometownUSAhe modern western idea or concept of the atom was around since the 1600s. It wasn’t proven until the 1920-30s. There’s atomic theories thousands of years old however. People have had an understanding that extremely small “things” made up larger “things” since Ancient Greece. But yes, the average person wouldn’t know the true complexity of atomic theory, people were well aware of the idea however. Sorry I’m high
Not really, the average person or even student wasn’t studying atoms lmfao like another guy commented that’s like in a 100 years people being like “they didn’t understand anti gravity tech?” Like cmon they only discovered atoms 11 years before that lol
The other guy on this podcast is so annoying
He just interrupts every 10 seconds with the dumbest comments
I fucking love you Matt
Bro gotta stop interrupting shane
There are a ton of lies surrounding Pat Tillman
316 men lived and what’s crazy is the Indianapolis area code is 317
A tiger shark will eat fucking anything
Shane is great
The other guy doesnt stfu
“There’s a dude who has a RUclips video called ‘The History of Japan’” okay, Phil! 😅
Bill Wurtz. He's also got "History of the Entire World, I Guess" which is the greatest RUclips video of all time
Oceanic whitetips
You all in the comments never watch Jaws?
Home run of dudes
Never seen JAWS?????????!!!@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UNSUBSCRIBED!!!!!
Dudes, check yourself for add
I will not stand for jaws slander 👎👎
Matt talks too much
Fr he needs to stfu n let Shane tell the story Jesus Christ
I'm gay
Congratulations! Quite an achievement! 💯✅🤘❤️
We know.
Ah, a Cumtown _connoisseur_
Don't worry, you'll get through it.
Youre also a disappointment.
U.S.S Liberty
Do the uss liverty
The type of people that complain about the tradition of the captain going down with the ship are the same type of people that complain about them taking away their slaves.
what?