ON THIS DAY - August 6th
The Big Honker Podcast
Andy Shaver & Jeff Stanfield
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this series, Jeff and Andy look at historical events that took place on this day.
Today in history, America dropped the big bomb to end WWII, the man behind a famous Dave Chappell bit passes away, and America’s first favorite red head is born.
This series is brought to you by the great Boss Shot Shells.
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to be. |
| 0:03.0 | We're going to All right. All right, here we go. |
| 0:41.9 | Three, two, one. |
| 0:45.1 | Boom, and welcome to today. |
| 0:46.9 | Brought to you by Boss Shot Shills. |
| 0:48.2 | I'm Jeff Stanfield with the world famous Andy Schaeber. |
| 0:50.9 | Today is August 6. |
| 0:52.2 | It is my day. |
| 0:53.1 | And today, the... |
| 0:55.0 | We basically put an end to World War II. |
| 0:59.1 | Big bomb. |
| 1:00.1 | The big, big bomb. |
| 1:02.1 | Dropped it on Hiroshima today on 1945, August 6, 1945. |
| 1:07.8 | We were the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when we dropped it |
| 1:14.2 | on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. You know how many people died just from the direct blast? |
| 1:22.6 | 100,000. 80,000. 80,000 people died from the direct blast. Another 35,000 were injured, and 60,000 would be dead within the year due to fallout. |
| 1:34.4 | It ended one war, and it started the next. The Cold War. The Cold War. Yep. So from what I've understood about the decision to drop this, |
| 1:46.7 | Nazi Germany was already out. |
| 1:48.4 | I think that was pretty well over. |
| 1:50.9 | But the way that the Japanese fought, |
| 1:53.9 | U.S. intelligence said you're going to have to kill every one of them. |
| 1:58.1 | They're not going to, they're not just, |
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