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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're gonna do a Friday four here a Matt Friday
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four and I were talking about this. You're always looking
from different places to have inspiration, and we're gonna talk
about our Friday Force and it's D Day related.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Today is the eighty first anniversary of D Day, of course,
an incredibly monumental day in world history, a majorly important
day in American history, and for any of the allies
who not just took part in the operation on D Day,
which included the United Kingdom, Canada, ourselves, some of the
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Free France troops because of course they were trying to
get back into France. Nazi Germany had you know, overrun them,
and then you had some various other countries that had
taken part on a couple of the different beaches. But
I was looking at this and the forces. The United
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States landed on Omaha Beach, which is the most I mean,
obviously our town is called Omaha, but also Utah Beach,
United Kingdom landed on Gold Beach, and Canada landed on
Juneo Beach, and on Sword Beach. It was United Kingdom
and Free French troops that landed there. Tens of thousands
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of troops from the United States and the United Kingdom
in Canada, and several thousand were killed just a day
that honestly was so important for so many different reasons.
And I got to be completely honest with you when
I say that I think we need to be inspired
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more often by some of the stuff that we see
from our troops in the military days in American history.
And that's one of the reasons why I thought today
was a great day. And also, by the way, I
don't want this to go without mentioning the Battle of Midway,
which is, you know, happening in the Pacific. That battle
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was going on from June fourth through the seventh in
nineteen forty two, so eighty three years ago today that
battle would be going on. So there's a monumental day
and time for World War II history right here on
June sixth, and hopefully every single year we can remember this.
And that got me to thinking about media in war media,
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war stories, the way that stories have been told to us,
the way that we have been able to achieve these
things right in world history, but also tell the story
after the fact. So what are the best for movies, books, documentaries,
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TV shows that illustrated some of the stuff that happened.
I know we've talked about military TV or military movies,
but I wanted this to be very specifically World War
two based. If we could now, I will listen to
any and all because I think it's important to recognize
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any of the military feats of our previous generations. And
if there is truly an exceptional book or an exceptional
documentary or a movie that illustrates that for a different war,
I'd love to hear it. But I'm really giving bonus
points to World War Two. If we can find World
War Two related information, and then I'm going to be
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compiling a list for myself just to be able to
watch to read to you intake that. I think that's
something that I think is really important. So Matt and
I will give you a list. We will also take
a list from you as the show goes on. But
the Friday for today, start thinking about it. TV shows, movies, documentaries,
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books related to the military, especially World War Two. What's
your Friday for? We'll talk about it coming up on
new Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Emersung on News Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Mount Rushmore discussion every Friday about something that. I mean,
we generally like to find news items that we can
relate this to. Matt and I we talk about things
that we've talked about throughout the week, or certain days
that are taking place, holidays that are coming up, different things,
and then we come up with a mount rushmore essentially
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of what that is. And today, because it's D Day
and it's also the anniversary of when the Battle of
Midway Is was occurring. That battle took place over four days,
it felt like this is a good time to revisit
maybe the best media of World War two or wars
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in general, and that includes movies, TV shows, books, could
be a documentary, docuseries, anything that is related to war.
But I'm giving bonus points to World War Two since
you know today is so pivotal for World War Two.
And I have a list of four that I'd like
to share. Is it okay, met that I go first
this week?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Absolutely? All right?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I'm going to start with the most obvious one is
Saving Private Ryan, Like the easiest slam dunk here because
it is so like D Day orient the first twenty
five minutes or D Day.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah, probably the most notable of the movies that have
come out while I've been alive, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
And it's so well done. I mean it really makes
you feel if you aren't ready mentally for what you're
about to see in those first twenty five minutes, I mean,
you're just it's an arresting thing to witness.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You hear stories about World War Two veterans who watched
that movie the first was it the twenty five minutes
the first sequence, Yeah, and how they would get flashbacks, yeah,
of the war itself. I mean that's just.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, that tells you how well it was made, right, honestly,
I World War Two I think exists in like the
time span.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Where it was the last really.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Full fledged, major, multinational, worldwide level combat war. There have
been times like the Cold War is an obvious thing,
you know, in fighting communism and all the different things
that were popping up within that, but a lot of
that stuff was maintained either regional or it was very
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threat based. It was a lot more threats than it
was action. And World War Two came around right as
we were getting video right. I mean, like there's not
a whole lot of legitimate good film of World War
One because it happened too early and World War Two
kind of exists in this time span where people like
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it's from obviously a different area. You see the different planes,
the tanks, and all the different things that are at
play there, but it's modern enough to where we can
kind of recognize that variation of warfare. And that's why
I think you see a bit more on World War
Two than you see on World War One in media.
And this isn't to say that World War Two is
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more important than World War One, but you can tell
when you look at the world history and the history
of the countries that rose from the Axis powers world
War One. In the result of World War One is
kind of what led to eventually the spawning of the
people that would create World War Two and try to
fight that from the Axis Powers perspective. Now, Saving Private
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Ryan has to be on the list for me simply
because of how well it's put together. I'm going to
go ahead and I'm going to put another film here,
and this is one that I've only watched once I
would love to watch again, and it's Dunkirk. Have you
heard of Dunkirk? This is the Christopher Nolan film from
twenty seventeen. And this, I mean Christopher Nolan is in
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a league of his zone, I think in filmmaking right now.
He wrote this, he produced it, wrecked it. It's got some
amazing acting done. Hans Zimmer does the music for it.
This is a legitimate movie and it made over five
hundred and thirty million dollars in the box office. If
you haven't seen it, it is unbelievably well done. It's
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well reviewed, and it's all about the Dunkirk evacuation in
World War Two. From a variety of different perspectives, it
is unbelievable stuff. And you can see some of the
scenes in what Nolan does. It's so unbelievable. So Dunkirk
is there. I'm gonna flip the documentary The War by
Kim Burns. You Kin Burns guy, you've seen some Kim
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Burns documentaries in your day.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I have. He did a really good one about the
National Parks.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Oh yeah one. Yeah, it's a Baseball one. Baseball One
is like every year I have to revisit the first
few episodes of that, just because I love the way
that he tells the story of early baseball.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It's just so well done. I love it so much.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, he does want it's a mini series docuseries if
you will, seven episodes called The War. And I mean,
it's just it's flabbergasting some of the stuff that's in there.
But this told kind of from perspectives of not the
patents and Eisenhower's of the world, but it's told from
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the perspective of the ordinary person that is serving in
the military, the old ordinary American that's going through these events.
And I think that's really important to keep an eye
on as well. And I'm gonna go back to my
last one, and I think I wanted I wanted to
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try to put a book in here, even if it
not necessarily, like I want to try to be as
balance as possible. I could have put four movies, or
I could put Band of Brothers, which I think a
lot of people would put up here, which is really
well done, but as the series. But I'm going to
go with the Band of Brothers book itself and not
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the series.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
The series is well done and it's really well reviewed,
but the book that spawned the series, I think is
something that we should all be reading. If you're interested
in World War two history, if you're interested in relationships,
if you're interested in military or war. And when it
comes to the way that you read books, there are
a lot of great war books, nonfiction and fiction. Also,
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Band of Brothers is I think as high up on
the list, and it's by Steven Ambrose. He's done a
lot of great work and stuff like this. You got
to read that book and I need to pull that
thing back out and reread that as well. So those
my four saving Private Ryan Dunkirk, a couple of movies,
The War from Ken Burns docu series, and then finally
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Band of Brothers, the book by Steven Ambrose. Really powerful
stuff and this is the perfect time to revisit this
on D Day. So with that being said, Matt, sorry,
I took up a bunch of time. You want to
give your list and when we come back on the
other side, sure, all right, Friday four of your most notable,
your most favorite, the things that pull you, whether it's
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World War two or any war related, I'd count it.
But we're really looking at World War two if possible,
simply because today is the eighty first anniversary of D Day.
And we will talk to you more next right after
this on news Radio eleven ten.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Kfab Emery sunger I.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Panted to shout out that the stuff the Truck Food
Bank for the Heartland event happening at Baker's at seventeen
three seventy Lakeside Hills Plaza. So that's going on until
six o'clock tonight. You can be a part of that.
And I know that our friend Lucy Chapman is there,
so you can go and check that out. Help out
the Food Bank for the Heartland. Even in the summer,
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a lot of people forget that there's a lot of
people who are needy and big things to Bakers over
there at seventeen three seventy Lakeside Hills Plaza for helping
out and helping to feed people who are hungry in
our Omaha community. And again that's happening until six if
you want to go over there and check it out.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Today is June sixth, It is D Day.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
It's eighty one years since D Day actually happened, in
a day which we should always remember and give a
ton of attention to every single year. And as part
of this, because it landed on a Friday, I figured
let's do some Friday four It related action and I
wanted to expand I know we had done like a
military movie or TV show Friday four.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Like months ago.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
But I wanted to bring this one back and just
kind of expand it, not just to movies and TV shows,
but to books, docuseries, documentaries, all of it war related.
But Botus points if it's World War II related, and
you can email me. I'll open the phones in a
little bit. But you can email me and get plenty
of emails already Emory at kfab dot com, E M
E R y at kfab And that way I'll be
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able to read those lists and we can get some
you know. I'll make my own list of the stuff
I think I need to check out, and maybe you
can do the same. My four Saving Private Ryan Dunkirk,
the Christopher Nolan film from twenty seventeen, the war docuseries
from Ken Burns, and Band of Brothers, the book by
Stephen Ambrose.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Matt how about you. You got a list for me today?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I do, and inspired by yours, I'm going to try
to mix my media here.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I'm going to start with a book. Okay, this is
I would say, possibly. Well, the direction is it is
direct correlation because of one of the main characters in
this historical book, but the whole thing is not necessarily
about the war itself. Okay, this is a book called
Carlisle Versus Army. Okay, I've read this book. Yeah, I've
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read this book. I love this book. I love this
book too. And I've read this book too. Versus Army.
Of course it's Lars Anderson. It's a great book. Jim Thorpe,
Dwight Eisenhower, that's your link to World War Two there, and.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
They follow him a little bit in like the story
takes place in nineteen twelve. This story that Eisenhower's playing
for West Point sorry to take your thunder here, and
Jim Thorpe is playing for Carlisle Indian School. And there's
so many different layers in parallels. And by the way,
these two are like two of the best football teams
in America in nineteen twelve. Yeah, and then the book
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also kind of follows up with these guys would eventually achieve,
including Dwight the Eisenhower before you know, of course, he
becomes President of the United States, but he's the general
that you know, pushes the United States and the Allied
Powers through World War Two.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
And I think that I probably, like many who saw
this book on a shelf. Was initially fascinated by the
idea that you find out on the cover of the book,
because it's pretty well spelled out. Wait, Jim Thorpe, the great,
maybe best athlete ever of modern time. Jim Thorpe squared
off against Dwight Eisenhower in a football game.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
They did.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
That's amazing. Yeah, that in fact did happen.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I need to I need to reread this boock.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Ike was a middle linebacker for for Army. But this
book takes so many fascinating turns. You get to learn
about Jim Thorpe's upbringing, You get to learn about Ike's upbringing,
Dwight Eisenhower and how fascinating his life was as as
a boy and young and as a young boy in
small town Kansas. And you also get to learn about
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Pop Warner and just what football was like. It's kind
of like a retrospective on what football was like when
in its infancy and all that stuff, which I'm always
a sucker for too. Yeah, it's a really cool story.
And that's my tie, and I'm tying in because of
Dwight is it's a good shout out.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
There's some World War two in there and the most
pivotal man I think for the United States in World
War Two, which was Dwight the Eisenhower. It passes the
it passes the exam.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah. So number two, I'm gonna go with my song.
I'm gonna go song. Okay, Yeah, I'm gonna go with
a favorite band of mine that has been since Man,
when did I hear the first song of theirs? Maybe
back in high school.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
For nineteen seventy eight?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
No, I was, I wasn't alive then, were you guessing
the year?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Oh, I was like, is that one of their songs?
Is that the name of the band? I was trying
to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
No, no, no, sorry it was It was your old joke,
but it falls flat because you're not that old anyway.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
What do you got?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
So this is the Drive By Truckers. The Drive By Truckers. Yeah,
they're like they're like kind of like southern country rock,
but they've got some really good ones. The first song
I ever heard of their is was was My Sweet Annette.
That song will make you sad, but you'll love.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It, Okay. And they have a song about World War Two.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
They do. They have a lot of role. They actually
have a song. So gosh, I hope I'm gonna say
this right. Did you know that Memorial Day used to
be called Decoration Day?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah? I did know that.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, they have a song called Decoration Day. It is
some of the best lyrics and just great song all around.
It's really good Decoration Day.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, a lot of like living history farm style places
will celebrate Decoration Day instead of Memorial Day.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah. So this song is called the Sands of Ewojima.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Okay, now we're talking.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah. So, and it's a song about World War Two
and it's a great song by a great band. So
that'll be number two on my list. Photo of ewageba
the flag raising and Ewojima is that like, is that
the most like? Where does that land on the most
iconic photos of all time? When there is that the
one where they're raising the flag? Yeah, okay, pushing the
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flag up? Yeah sure, yeah. I mean, well, if that's
about it, I mean you can use any kind of
media maybe that belongs on the list.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Well, I mean I'm just thinking of like most iconic
American photos. That's got to be in the mix. Because
we were talking about most important American days and how
d day like fits into that that's gotta be that's
got to be in the mix anyway. Sorry, that's an appendage.
But what was the name of the song?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
It is the Sands of Iwajima by Drive By Truckers.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Am I seeing this correctly? Jason Isbel was in this band.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
That's the guy himself. He was now Jason Isbel was
not who he became. Okay, I think he actually is
if memory serves. He got kicked out of the Drive
by Truckers because he was he was a rascal back
in the day. But he's a reformed rascal and he
now has some of the best stuff you'll find out there.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
He was also in uh Killers of the Flower Moon.
He was one of the actors. He was he was
acting in that movie. He was fantastic. He was actually
really good as like, Wow, Jason Isbell can act a
bit that guy.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yeah, I mean you want to talk about just yeah,
that got some great talent, very iconic voice. All right,
great songwriter, one of the best modern day songwriters.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
All right, Uh, what's you got next?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Next up? I'm gonna kind of just go classic here
because I uh, I gotta just go saving saving Private Ryan.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
It's I mean, it's a layup. It's right there. It's
so well done. The cast, by the way, can we
revisit the cast? I mean, like, movies are really good
when you have awesome casts. Sometimes the movie stinks, but
the cast makes it an okay movie at least. Right,
this is an incredible movie with amazing special effects. Oh
and by the way, the cast is unbelievable. I mean
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Tom Hanks at the peak of his powers. Really, and
you get young Matt Damon in here. I mean, you
get young Vin Diesel in here. The list goes on
and on. I could go on and on and on.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah, what a cast and what a movie. And then
the opening sequence, you know, it's it's just.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
It's devastating to watch. Yeah, it is u Tom Sizemore.
Tom Sizemore is about as good as he ever was
in that movie. Ed Burns was awesome. Barry Pepper as
a sniper, Barry Pepper underrated dude. By the way, I
really like Barry Pepper stuff. Adam Goldberg, who obviously has
gone onto some amazing things. Yeah, what do you got?
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What do you after? Saving Private Ryan? Number four is
on my list. It is World War two in HD color.
The all of the and they would play these on
the History Channel, all of the colorized old videos that
they took during World War Two that you can watch,
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And I put it on here because you know, they say,
if you don't know your history, you're doomed to repeat it.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
That's yeah, they say that a lot.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
We're pretty far removed from World War Two, but close
enough and was taught well enough in school that it
just boggles the mind that us fellow humans were capable
of all just going to war like that, and the
carnage that it wreaked, and so to be able to
have this, to be able to have this, this isn't
a movie. This isn't even a documentary where people are
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sitting down and telling stories. This is like actual video
footage of humans destroying other humans. And I just think
that this is so important for us to be able
to see see what we're capable of, you know, I
because if you really think about it, just subjectively, anyone
with a heartbeat would think it's insane that we would
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get to this point where we would just be willing
to all go to war with each other. Now, of course,
we all know why we got there and the horrible
things that led up to it and the you know,
the evil people that made this war happen, you know.
But I just think that this is a really important
document that it's tough to watch because it's really what happens.
It's real, it's real, it's real, and you just everything
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about World War two you can see here in color.
All right, so recap the whole list real quick, Okay.
Carlisle Versus Army, which is a book all about Jim
Thorpe and Dwight Eisenhower World War two in HD color
is the name of that. And that's on Netflix, right,
I believe, So, yeah, I think I saw that on Netflix.
And then you have Saving Private Ryan, which I think
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most people would consider.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
And then was last one.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
And then the song Sands of Ewajima by Drive by Truckers.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Awesome. We'll come back.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I'll take some of your emails Emory at kfab dot com.
More coming up on news Radio eleven ten kfab World
War two related. Pretty interesting. I'm taking any and all
of your emails about this, Emory at kfab dot com.
I will take phone calls after we get around the
top of the hour, So if you're wanting to talk
to me, I will open the phone lines. But we're
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getting a lot of emails in here right now, and
I'm going to start with our guy, Chris Pierce. Chris
says Band of Brothers. I think he's talking about the
TV show. I had the book itself. Either work, they
are really powerful. Chris also puts D Day the actual book.
I believe a bridge too far in a bridge over
the river QUI. So yeah, And I punched a bunch
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of these like just kind of like World War two
related and kind of organized them into a Google doc
and then kind of pulled from this list that I had,
but I'm kind of moving them into a different list
of I need to read, I need to watch, I
need to listen to this, And so I'm going to
be adding to my list because I think it's really important,
like Matt mentioned, to revisit this and understand what humans
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have done to each other historically. It's not always pretty.
Scooter says, saving Private Ryan hack saw Ridge and Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor is a good one. Pearl Harbor's a really
good one. Ryan said. World War two overall Dunkirk, the
Battle of Britain with Michael Caine saving Private Ryan and
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band of Brothers, the series for D Day only, he said,
saving Private Ryan the Longest Day. I've heard of The
Longest Day, and I know many poor people are going
to this up on their list, But The Longest Day
is a movie from the sixties that also was incredibly
well done, well acted, great cast, and really a well reviewed.
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And this, I mean they made that in the early sixties,
less than twenty years after this, so they were I mean,
imagine being there, being a part of World War Two
and then seeing a movie like that not even twenty
years after it happened. It's really crazy. Along with that
D Day the sixth of June, and then Bander Brothers
Episode two, which you know, really highlights the D Day
part of this. And Ryan, by the way, Matt says,
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please podcast this Friday for this is my favorite subject.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
But I'm gonna miss it because of an appointment.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
We can we can do that. We can podcast this,
can't we Yeah, sure, we're gonna podcast this, all right,
So for Ryan who's listening, and for everybody else, we're
gonna do the best we can to get this thing
down into a podcast. That way we can go back
and revisit this for our list and hope to help
Ryan out. We got a lot of different emails that
I'll get to, and I got a lot of different
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phone calls that I hope to get to as well.
I'll open the phone lines for you as we head
into the next hour. All you gotta do is call
me four oh two, five, five, eight, eleven ten. I'll
open the lines soon on that, and then of course
you can email me, which may be easier at this point. E. M. E. R.
Y at kfab dot com, Emory at kfab dot com
our Friday four of World War two, or just general
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war related media, movies, TV shows, documentaries, docuseries, books, songs,
anything that you can think of that you'd like to
share with us, and we'll keep that conversation going next
here on news radio eleven ten Kfab
We're gonna do a Friday four here a Matt Friday
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four and I were talking about this. You're always looking
from different places to have inspiration, and we're gonna talk
about our Friday Force and it's D Day related.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Today is the eighty first anniversary of D Day, of course,
an incredibly monumental day in world history, a majorly important
day in American history, and for any of the allies
who not just took part in the operation on D Day,
which included the United Kingdom, Canada, ourselves, some of the
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Free France troops because of course they were trying to
get back into France. Nazi Germany had you know, overrun them,
and then you had some various other countries that had
taken part on a couple of the different beaches. But
I was looking at this and the forces. The United
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States landed on Omaha Beach, which is the most I mean,
obviously our town is called Omaha, but also Utah Beach,
United Kingdom landed on Gold Beach, and Canada landed on
Juneo Beach, and on Sword Beach. It was United Kingdom
and Free French troops that landed there. Tens of thousands
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of troops from the United States and the United Kingdom
in Canada, and several thousand were killed just a day
that honestly was so important for so many different reasons.
And I got to be completely honest with you when
I say that I think we need to be inspired
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more often by some of the stuff that we see
from our troops in the military days in American history.
And that's one of the reasons why I thought today
was a great day. And also, by the way, I
don't want this to go without mentioning the Battle of Midway,
which is, you know, happening in the Pacific. That battle
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was going on from June fourth through the seventh in
nineteen forty two, so eighty three years ago today that
battle would be going on. So there's a monumental day
and time for World War II history right here on
June sixth, and hopefully every single year we can remember this.
And that got me to thinking about media in war media,
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war stories, the way that stories have been told to us,
the way that we have been able to achieve these
things right in world history, but also tell the story
after the fact. So what are the best for movies, books, documentaries,
(02:52):
TV shows that illustrated some of the stuff that happened.
I know we've talked about military TV or military movies,
but I wanted this to be very specifically World War
two based. If we could now, I will listen to
any and all because I think it's important to recognize
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any of the military feats of our previous generations. And
if there is truly an exceptional book or an exceptional
documentary or a movie that illustrates that for a different war,
I'd love to hear it. But I'm really giving bonus
points to World War Two. If we can find World
War Two related information, and then I'm going to be
(03:33):
compiling a list for myself just to be able to
watch to read to you intake that. I think that's
something that I think is really important. So Matt and
I will give you a list. We will also take
a list from you as the show goes on. But
the Friday for today, start thinking about it. TV shows, movies, documentaries,
(03:53):
books related to the military, especially World War Two. What's
your Friday for? We'll talk about it coming up on
new Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Emersung on News Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Mount Rushmore discussion every Friday about something that. I mean,
we generally like to find news items that we can
relate this to. Matt and I we talk about things
that we've talked about throughout the week, or certain days
that are taking place, holidays that are coming up, different things,
and then we come up with a mount rushmore essentially
(04:29):
of what that is. And today, because it's D Day
and it's also the anniversary of when the Battle of
Midway Is was occurring. That battle took place over four days,
it felt like this is a good time to revisit
maybe the best media of World War two or wars
(04:49):
in general, and that includes movies, TV shows, books, could
be a documentary, docuseries, anything that is related to war.
But I'm giving bonus points to World War Two since
you know today is so pivotal for World War Two.
And I have a list of four that I'd like
to share. Is it okay, met that I go first
this week?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Absolutely? All right?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I'm going to start with the most obvious one is
Saving Private Ryan, Like the easiest slam dunk here because
it is so like D Day orient the first twenty
five minutes or D Day.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah, probably the most notable of the movies that have
come out while I've been alive, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
And it's so well done. I mean it really makes
you feel if you aren't ready mentally for what you're
about to see in those first twenty five minutes, I mean,
you're just it's an arresting thing to witness.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You hear stories about World War Two veterans who watched
that movie the first was it the twenty five minutes
the first sequence, Yeah, and how they would get flashbacks, yeah,
of the war itself. I mean that's just.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah, that tells you how well it was made, right, honestly,
I World War Two I think exists in like the
time span.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Where it was the last really.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Full fledged, major, multinational, worldwide level combat war. There have
been times like the Cold War is an obvious thing,
you know, in fighting communism and all the different things
that were popping up within that, but a lot of
that stuff was maintained either regional or it was very
(06:28):
threat based. It was a lot more threats than it
was action. And World War Two came around right as
we were getting video right. I mean, like there's not
a whole lot of legitimate good film of World War
One because it happened too early and World War Two
kind of exists in this time span where people like
(06:49):
it's from obviously a different area. You see the different planes,
the tanks, and all the different things that are at
play there, but it's modern enough to where we can
kind of recognize that variation of warfare. And that's why
I think you see a bit more on World War
Two than you see on World War One in media.
And this isn't to say that World War Two is
(07:10):
more important than World War One, but you can tell
when you look at the world history and the history
of the countries that rose from the Axis powers world
War One. In the result of World War One is
kind of what led to eventually the spawning of the
people that would create World War Two and try to
fight that from the Axis Powers perspective. Now, Saving Private
(07:34):
Ryan has to be on the list for me simply
because of how well it's put together. I'm going to
go ahead and I'm going to put another film here,
and this is one that I've only watched once I
would love to watch again, and it's Dunkirk. Have you
heard of Dunkirk? This is the Christopher Nolan film from
twenty seventeen. And this, I mean Christopher Nolan is in
(07:55):
a league of his zone, I think in filmmaking right now.
He wrote this, he produced it, wrecked it. It's got some
amazing acting done. Hans Zimmer does the music for it.
This is a legitimate movie and it made over five
hundred and thirty million dollars in the box office. If
you haven't seen it, it is unbelievably well done. It's
(08:17):
well reviewed, and it's all about the Dunkirk evacuation in
World War Two. From a variety of different perspectives, it
is unbelievable stuff. And you can see some of the
scenes in what Nolan does. It's so unbelievable. So Dunkirk
is there. I'm gonna flip the documentary The War by
Kim Burns. You Kin Burns guy, you've seen some Kim
(08:41):
Burns documentaries in your day.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I have. He did a really good one about the
National Parks.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Oh yeah one. Yeah, it's a Baseball one. Baseball One
is like every year I have to revisit the first
few episodes of that, just because I love the way
that he tells the story of early baseball.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It's just so well done. I love it so much.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, he does want it's a mini series docuseries if
you will, seven episodes called The War. And I mean,
it's just it's flabbergasting some of the stuff that's in there.
But this told kind of from perspectives of not the
patents and Eisenhower's of the world, but it's told from
(09:24):
the perspective of the ordinary person that is serving in
the military, the old ordinary American that's going through these events.
And I think that's really important to keep an eye
on as well. And I'm gonna go back to my
last one, and I think I wanted I wanted to
(09:47):
try to put a book in here, even if it
not necessarily, like I want to try to be as
balance as possible. I could have put four movies, or
I could put Band of Brothers, which I think a
lot of people would put up here, which is really
well done, but as the series. But I'm going to
go with the Band of Brothers book itself and not
(10:10):
the series.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
The series is well done and it's really well reviewed,
but the book that spawned the series, I think is
something that we should all be reading. If you're interested
in World War two history, if you're interested in relationships,
if you're interested in military or war. And when it
comes to the way that you read books, there are
a lot of great war books, nonfiction and fiction. Also,
(10:34):
Band of Brothers is I think as high up on
the list, and it's by Steven Ambrose. He's done a
lot of great work and stuff like this. You got
to read that book and I need to pull that
thing back out and reread that as well. So those
my four saving Private Ryan Dunkirk, a couple of movies,
The War from Ken Burns docu series, and then finally
(10:57):
Band of Brothers, the book by Steven Ambrose. Really powerful
stuff and this is the perfect time to revisit this
on D Day. So with that being said, Matt, sorry,
I took up a bunch of time. You want to
give your list and when we come back on the
other side, sure, all right, Friday four of your most notable,
your most favorite, the things that pull you, whether it's
(11:20):
World War two or any war related, I'd count it.
But we're really looking at World War two if possible,
simply because today is the eighty first anniversary of D Day.
And we will talk to you more next right after
this on news Radio eleven ten.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
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Speaker 1 (11:35):
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(11:57):
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you want to go over there and check it out.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Today is June sixth, It is D Day.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
It's eighty one years since D Day actually happened, in
a day which we should always remember and give a
ton of attention to every single year. And as part
of this, because it landed on a Friday, I figured
let's do some Friday four It related action and I
wanted to expand I know we had done like a
military movie or TV show Friday four.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Like months ago.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
But I wanted to bring this one back and just
kind of expand it, not just to movies and TV shows,
but to books, docuseries, documentaries, all of it war related.
But Botus points if it's World War II related, and
you can email me. I'll open the phones in a
little bit. But you can email me and get plenty
of emails already Emory at kfab dot com, E M
E R y at kfab And that way I'll be
(13:03):
able to read those lists and we can get some
you know. I'll make my own list of the stuff
I think I need to check out, and maybe you
can do the same. My four Saving Private Ryan Dunkirk,
the Christopher Nolan film from twenty seventeen, the war docuseries
from Ken Burns, and Band of Brothers, the book by
Stephen Ambrose.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Matt how about you. You got a list for me today?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I do, and inspired by yours, I'm going to try
to mix my media here.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I'm going to start with a book. Okay, this is
I would say, possibly. Well, the direction is it is
direct correlation because of one of the main characters in
this historical book, but the whole thing is not necessarily
about the war itself. Okay, this is a book called
Carlisle Versus Army. Okay, I've read this book. Yeah, I've
(13:54):
read this book. I love this book. I love this
book too. And I've read this book too. Versus Army.
Of course it's Lars Anderson. It's a great book. Jim Thorpe,
Dwight Eisenhower, that's your link to World War Two there, and.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
They follow him a little bit in like the story
takes place in nineteen twelve. This story that Eisenhower's playing
for West Point sorry to take your thunder here, and
Jim Thorpe is playing for Carlisle Indian School. And there's
so many different layers in parallels. And by the way,
these two are like two of the best football teams
in America in nineteen twelve. Yeah, and then the book
(14:30):
also kind of follows up with these guys would eventually achieve,
including Dwight the Eisenhower before you know, of course, he
becomes President of the United States, but he's the general
that you know, pushes the United States and the Allied
Powers through World War Two.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
And I think that I probably, like many who saw
this book on a shelf. Was initially fascinated by the
idea that you find out on the cover of the book,
because it's pretty well spelled out. Wait, Jim Thorpe, the great,
maybe best athlete ever of modern time. Jim Thorpe squared
off against Dwight Eisenhower in a football game.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
They did.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
That's amazing. Yeah, that in fact did happen.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I need to I need to reread this boock.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Ike was a middle linebacker for for Army. But this
book takes so many fascinating turns. You get to learn
about Jim Thorpe's upbringing, You get to learn about Ike's upbringing,
Dwight Eisenhower and how fascinating his life was as as
a boy and young and as a young boy in
small town Kansas. And you also get to learn about
(15:33):
Pop Warner and just what football was like. It's kind
of like a retrospective on what football was like when
in its infancy and all that stuff, which I'm always
a sucker for too. Yeah, it's a really cool story.
And that's my tie, and I'm tying in because of
Dwight is it's a good shout out.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
There's some World War two in there and the most
pivotal man I think for the United States in World
War Two, which was Dwight the Eisenhower. It passes the
it passes the exam.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah. So number two, I'm gonna go with my song.
I'm gonna go song. Okay, Yeah, I'm gonna go with
a favorite band of mine that has been since Man,
when did I hear the first song of theirs? Maybe
back in high school.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
For nineteen seventy eight?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
No, I was, I wasn't alive then, were you guessing
the year?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Oh, I was like, is that one of their songs?
Is that the name of the band? I was trying
to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
No, no, no, sorry it was It was your old joke,
but it falls flat because you're not that old anyway.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
What do you got?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
So this is the Drive By Truckers. The Drive By Truckers. Yeah,
they're like they're like kind of like southern country rock,
but they've got some really good ones. The first song
I ever heard of their is was was My Sweet Annette.
That song will make you sad, but you'll love.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It, Okay. And they have a song about World War Two.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
They do. They have a lot of role. They actually
have a song. So gosh, I hope I'm gonna say
this right. Did you know that Memorial Day used to
be called Decoration Day?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah? I did know that.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, they have a song called Decoration Day. It is
some of the best lyrics and just great song all around.
It's really good Decoration Day.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, a lot of like living history farm style places
will celebrate Decoration Day instead of Memorial Day.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah. So this song is called the Sands of Ewojima.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Okay, now we're talking.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah. So, and it's a song about World War Two
and it's a great song by a great band. So
that'll be number two on my list. Photo of ewageba
the flag raising and Ewojima is that like, is that
the most like? Where does that land on the most
iconic photos of all time? When there is that the
one where they're raising the flag? Yeah, okay, pushing the
(17:46):
flag up? Yeah sure, yeah. I mean, well, if that's
about it, I mean you can use any kind of
media maybe that belongs on the list.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Well, I mean I'm just thinking of like most iconic
American photos. That's got to be in the mix. Because
we were talking about most important American days and how
d day like fits into that that's gotta be that's
got to be in the mix anyway. Sorry, that's an appendage.
But what was the name of the song?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
It is the Sands of Iwajima by Drive By Truckers.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Am I seeing this correctly? Jason Isbel was in this band.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
That's the guy himself. He was now Jason Isbel was
not who he became. Okay, I think he actually is
if memory serves. He got kicked out of the Drive
by Truckers because he was he was a rascal back
in the day. But he's a reformed rascal and he
now has some of the best stuff you'll find out there.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
He was also in uh Killers of the Flower Moon.
He was one of the actors. He was he was
acting in that movie. He was fantastic. He was actually
really good as like, Wow, Jason Isbell can act a
bit that guy.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yeah, I mean you want to talk about just yeah,
that got some great talent, very iconic voice. All right,
great songwriter, one of the best modern day songwriters.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
All right, Uh, what's you got next?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Next up? I'm gonna kind of just go classic here
because I uh, I gotta just go saving saving Private Ryan.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
It's I mean, it's a layup. It's right there. It's
so well done. The cast, by the way, can we
revisit the cast? I mean, like, movies are really good
when you have awesome casts. Sometimes the movie stinks, but
the cast makes it an okay movie at least. Right,
this is an incredible movie with amazing special effects. Oh
and by the way, the cast is unbelievable. I mean
(19:30):
Tom Hanks at the peak of his powers. Really, and
you get young Matt Damon in here. I mean, you
get young Vin Diesel in here. The list goes on
and on. I could go on and on and on.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah, what a cast and what a movie. And then
the opening sequence, you know, it's it's just.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
It's devastating to watch. Yeah, it is u Tom Sizemore.
Tom Sizemore is about as good as he ever was
in that movie. Ed Burns was awesome. Barry Pepper as
a sniper, Barry Pepper underrated dude. By the way, I
really like Barry Pepper stuff. Adam Goldberg, who obviously has
gone onto some amazing things. Yeah, what do you got?
(20:16):
What do you after? Saving Private Ryan? Number four is
on my list. It is World War two in HD color.
The all of the and they would play these on
the History Channel, all of the colorized old videos that
they took during World War Two that you can watch,
(20:37):
And I put it on here because you know, they say,
if you don't know your history, you're doomed to repeat it.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
That's yeah, they say that a lot.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
We're pretty far removed from World War Two, but close
enough and was taught well enough in school that it
just boggles the mind that us fellow humans were capable
of all just going to war like that, and the
carnage that it wreaked, and so to be able to
have this, to be able to have this, this isn't
a movie. This isn't even a documentary where people are
(21:07):
sitting down and telling stories. This is like actual video
footage of humans destroying other humans. And I just think
that this is so important for us to be able
to see see what we're capable of, you know, I
because if you really think about it, just subjectively, anyone
with a heartbeat would think it's insane that we would
(21:31):
get to this point where we would just be willing
to all go to war with each other. Now, of course,
we all know why we got there and the horrible
things that led up to it and the you know,
the evil people that made this war happen, you know.
But I just think that this is a really important
document that it's tough to watch because it's really what happens.
It's real, it's real, it's real, and you just everything
(21:54):
about World War two you can see here in color.
All right, so recap the whole list real quick, Okay.
Carlisle Versus Army, which is a book all about Jim
Thorpe and Dwight Eisenhower World War two in HD color
is the name of that. And that's on Netflix, right,
I believe, So, yeah, I think I saw that on Netflix.
And then you have Saving Private Ryan, which I think
(22:15):
most people would consider.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
And then was last one.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
And then the song Sands of Ewajima by Drive by Truckers.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Awesome. We'll come back.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I'll take some of your emails Emory at kfab dot com.
More coming up on news Radio eleven ten kfab World
War two related. Pretty interesting. I'm taking any and all
of your emails about this, Emory at kfab dot com.
I will take phone calls after we get around the
top of the hour, So if you're wanting to talk
to me, I will open the phone lines. But we're
(22:43):
getting a lot of emails in here right now, and
I'm going to start with our guy, Chris Pierce. Chris
says Band of Brothers. I think he's talking about the
TV show. I had the book itself. Either work, they
are really powerful. Chris also puts D Day the actual book.
I believe a bridge too far in a bridge over
the river QUI. So yeah, And I punched a bunch
(23:07):
of these like just kind of like World War two
related and kind of organized them into a Google doc
and then kind of pulled from this list that I had,
but I'm kind of moving them into a different list
of I need to read, I need to watch, I
need to listen to this, And so I'm going to
be adding to my list because I think it's really important,
like Matt mentioned, to revisit this and understand what humans
(23:29):
have done to each other historically. It's not always pretty.
Scooter says, saving Private Ryan hack saw Ridge and Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor is a good one. Pearl Harbor's a really
good one. Ryan said. World War two overall Dunkirk, the
Battle of Britain with Michael Caine saving Private Ryan and
(23:49):
band of Brothers, the series for D Day only, he said,
saving Private Ryan the Longest Day. I've heard of The
Longest Day, and I know many poor people are going
to this up on their list, But The Longest Day
is a movie from the sixties that also was incredibly
well done, well acted, great cast, and really a well reviewed.
(24:12):
And this, I mean they made that in the early sixties,
less than twenty years after this, so they were I mean,
imagine being there, being a part of World War Two
and then seeing a movie like that not even twenty
years after it happened. It's really crazy. Along with that
D Day the sixth of June, and then Bander Brothers
Episode two, which you know, really highlights the D Day
part of this. And Ryan, by the way, Matt says,
(24:34):
please podcast this Friday for this is my favorite subject.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
But I'm gonna miss it because of an appointment.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
We can we can do that. We can podcast this,
can't we Yeah, sure, we're gonna podcast this, all right,
So for Ryan who's listening, and for everybody else, we're
gonna do the best we can to get this thing
down into a podcast. That way we can go back
and revisit this for our list and hope to help
Ryan out. We got a lot of different emails that
I'll get to, and I got a lot of different
(25:01):
phone calls that I hope to get to as well.
I'll open the phone lines for you as we head
into the next hour. All you gotta do is call
me four oh two, five, five, eight, eleven ten. I'll
open the lines soon on that, and then of course
you can email me, which may be easier at this point. E. M. E. R.
Y at kfab dot com, Emory at kfab dot com
our Friday four of World War two, or just general
(25:24):
war related media, movies, TV shows, documentaries, docuseries, books, songs,
anything that you can think of that you'd like to
share with us, and we'll keep that conversation going next
here on news radio eleven ten Kfab
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