165 - Simo Hayha: White Death

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

Religion, Society & Culture, Dark Humor, History, Adult Humor, Conspiracies, True Crime, Cults, Conspiracy, Comedy, Biographies, Education

4.8 • 22.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 145 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Happy Veteran's Day to all our American men and women armed forces members. Much respect to armed forces members world wide. Going international today to talk about one of the most decorated war heroes in the history of Finland, and the sniper with the highest number of confirmed kills in military history: Simo Hayha. Nicknamed "White Death" by the Russian Red Army, Simo is estimated to have personally taken out over 800 enemy soldiers in just 100 days of fighting during Finland's Winter War of 1939-1940. Learn all about this amazing war hero, and all about one of the coolest countries in the world, today on a special military edition of Timesuck! Check out Lynze and I's new horror podcast Scared to Death. Listen on Spotify, Stitcher, iTunes, Youtube, and more! Here's the iTunes link: https://apple.co/2MRMgai Donating $3500 this month to the Patriot Guard Riders nonprofit! - https://www.patriotguard.org/ Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: (full calendar at http://dancummins.tv) November 21-23 Grand Rapids, MI Dr. Grins (at the B.O.B) CLICK HERE for tix! ** November 23 Grand Rapids, MI LIVE TIMESUCK CLICK HERE for tix! ** December 5-7 Tacoma, WA Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! ** LIVE TIMESUCK Tacoma, WA Tacoma Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! December 26-28 Spokane, WA Spokane Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Timesuck is brought to you by the following sponsors: Leesa! Get 15% off your entire order at leesa.com/TIMESUCK - use the promo code TIMESUCK The Great Courses Plus! Get a free trial of the full catalog! TheGreatCoursesPLUS.com/TIMESUCK Manscaped. 20% off with free shipping at manscaped.com when you use the code: TIMESUCK Watch the Suck on Youtube!: https://youtu.be/OLyJ8d6Jq_E Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna become a Space Lizard? We're over 6000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Craig Roberts, author of Crosshairs on the Killzone, American combat snipers, Vietnam through
0:04.8	Operation Iraqi Freedom, wrote in that book, the sniper must not be susceptible to emotions
0:10.4	such as anxiety and remorse.
0:13.4	Seemo Haoha, aka the white death, didn't fight in Vietnam or Operation Iraqi Freedom or any
0:19.0	skirmish in between.
0:20.2	He wasn't American, but he was a sniper and he was not susceptible to emotions like anxiety
0:26.2	or remorse.
0:27.2	He seemed physically incapable of feeling either one of those.
0:30.9	He was a small, soft, spoken, reclusive, finished farmer.
0:33.9	He was a man who prior to a tragic war accident that left his face severely disfigured.
0:38.8	You wouldn't look at or think about twice.
0:41.2	You definitely wouldn't think the slight, non-descript, five-foot-three-tops guy was anything
0:45.4	to worry about.
0:46.4	But he was something to worry about.
0:48.5	Put a gun in his hand and he was a one-man murder machine.
0:51.5	He brings to mind another quote, it's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size
0:55.2	of the fight in the dog.
0:56.9	Well holy hell, when it came to shoot in Russian, Seemo was made out of nothing but fight.
1:02.2	Fitting for a legend, in almost every documentary or video or article written about Seemo Haoha,
1:07.9	experts pronounce his name differently and assign him a different number of kills.
1:12.2	The more you dig into the details about his life, the more of a mythological quality
1:15.8	his life begins to take on.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dan Cummins, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dan Cummins and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.