Deep Dive: Surrender Aboard the Missouri, Mark Harmon’s TV Legacy, and the Octopus’s Three Hearts - September 2, 2025
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In this Deep Dive episode, our hosts discuss the formal Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri in 1945, Mark Harmon’s influence through NCIS, and the octopus’s unique circulatory system.
• 📜 The hosts describe the September 2, 1945 ceremony aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, emphasizing its symbolism as the legal and diplomatic conversion of military reality into the formal end of fighting in the Pacific, and how the event set immediate changes in motion like ceasefire orders, occupation, and reconstruction.
• 🎂 They celebrate the birthdays of Mark Harmon (1951), Jimmy Connors (1952), and Keanu Reeves (1964), focusing on Harmon’s portrayal of Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs—how his steady, methodical performance anchored NCIS, fostered long-term audience bonds, and reflected his role as a producer shaping the show’s tone and narratives.
• 💡 The fact of the day: octopuses have three hearts and blue blood—two hearts pump to the gills while a third pumps to the rest of the body—highlighting a split circulatory role and a distinct oxygen-carrying chemistry compared with mammals.
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