Hey, everybody. This is Daryl Cooper and you're listening to the Martyrmade podcast.

You're about to hear the Madam Butterfly effect. This is a short piece I did for a collaborative

episode with several other history podcasters where we explored the unpredictable downstream

effects of different historical events. If you're into the longer episodes in series,

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I can content to die for my beliefs. So cut off my head and make me a martyr. The people

will always remember it. No. They don't forget.

Hey, you guys. Did you ever listen to that debate a few years ago between Dan Carlin

and Sam Harris? Sam Harris was trying to make the case that the suicide tactics we see

among Muslim militants were unique, and that they're the result of Muslim convictions regarding

afterlife rewards for martyrs. And Dan was countering those arguments by pointing out

other historical examples of warriors fighting to the last man and embracing an ethos that

amounted to an affirmation of battlefield suicide. Dan brought up the Spartan 300. He brought

up to Milsuicide bombers. And of course, eventually he brought up Japanese kamikaze. And

that reminded me of an interesting connection. And that's the connection that I'm going

to tell you about now. Dan Yelli tells me I got like 15 or 20 minutes to get through this.

And we got to cover more than a century and go from Germany to Russia to Japan, from Japan

to the Middle East, and from there back to Germany and all the way home to the US of A. So

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