540 - The Ni'ihau Incident
Do Go On
Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Summary
After Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbour, Japanese Pilot Shigenori Nishikaichi needed a place to conduct an emergency landing. He had been told that the nearby Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau was uninhabited, but that intel was wrong. People did live there, and what's more - the island known as "The Forbidden Isle" has a very interesting history...
This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 07:20 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).
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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://www.historynet.com/niihau-incident/
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2018/12/06/remembering-pearl-harbor-the-niihau-incident/
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/japanese/hawaii-life-in-a-plantation-society/
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/japanese-american-incarceration
https://www.britannica.com/place/Niihau
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2018/11/OF-10b-2054.pdf
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| 1:43.4 | Music Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnocky and as always I'm here with Matt Stewart and Jess Perkins. Hello, how are you doing? Bloody good to see it. Oh, thank you put it there, pal. Thank you very much. We're all shaking hands. We're doing a bit of a rigid didge. Rigididge. Fist bump. Fis bump. Air bump. Good to air. Well, I mean, in this world, people don't know. Maybe we're sitting right on top of each other. |
| 2:03.3 | They don't know. |
| 2:01.6 | Maybe we're sitting right on top of each other. |
| 2:03.3 | They don't know we're sitting at either end of a long, stately desk. |
| 2:06.7 | Yeah, you guys are like my really wealthy but miserable in your marriage, dads. |
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