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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Arry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed
by some as a downright undemocratic.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
And working man understood how little work most government officials do.
There might be a real revolution, a real, real populist revolution.
Carrinne Jean Pierre, the Affirmative Action press secretary who now
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is no longer a Democrat.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
She's independent.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
She wants to know she's independent and buy her book.
She had to make a headline somehow. She couldn't be like,
I'm a girl and I like girls. You know, we
knew that. That's why you got hired. I'm black, you know,
we know that's when you got hired. I'm an immigrant.
We know that's why you got hired. But I'm a
black immigrant girl who likes girls. We know you had
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the highest intersectionality score. That's we get it. You check
all the boxes.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yay for you.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Huh okay, Well, well, how how can I capitalize on
the fact that I was standing up there before my
name is forgotten. It's already forgotten.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Hun.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
But that's racism, Yeah, get used to it. Or maybe
it's uh, maybe it's a meritocracy.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And you didn't measure up. Well. It turns out she
was insanely lazy. She uh she.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
It has been reported by Carolyn Levitt, who I got
to say her replacement. It really helps when you start
the barlow. But Carolyn Levitt has really really impressed me.
I didn't know much about her, she'd been involved with
the Trump campaign before, but she has been a really
really impressive part of this administration. Almost to a person,
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this has been a dream team so far.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I mean, you know, people have their foibles.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
They'll make mistakes, and they fall to temptation, or they
get lazy, or they start getting overly ambitious Nikki Hayley
for themselves and because they're self centered and narcissistic. But
I gotta tell you, so far, this team has served
the president and this country very well. And Carolyn Levitt
just fantastic. Here she is talking about how little Karine
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Jean Pierre actually did.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Caroline Levitt, you saw the news about KJP, your predecessor.
Today she has left the Democrat Party and she's going
to write a tell all book.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
Well, I'm not sure what she's going to tell all about,
because I've heard from some sources here at the White House, Howie,
that KJP didn't roll into work some days until noons,
so there wasn't much going on here at the White
House with her boss. So I don't think there will
be much good stuff to read in that book. But
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perhaps I'll be proven wrong. We'll see.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
That's why she needed the binder.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
It was like an open book test every day.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You don't need a binder, do.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
You, Caroline, No binder here, Howie. The binder's in my brain.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Imagine that competence.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Well, eighty one years ago today, American exceptionalism was on
display as our men stormed the beaches at Normandy in
preparing for that invasion, which was not a certain victory.
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In fact, maybe i'll read for you today, Dwight Eisenhower
had two speeches ready, one if it was successful, and
two which was very possible if it failed. It's quite instructive.
Don't let me get through the end of this show
without without reading that. For some maybe all of the
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rest of the show, we're going to pay tribute to
that day, and how the world changed because of it,
and how much of the world order today is as
it is because so many men gave their lives in
all of them. You know, Marcus Latrell towards the end
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of Lone Survivor and if you've only seen the movie,
that's okay too, Mark Wahlberg, Marky Mark asks him. You
hear him saying, and they've got him in the metavac
and they're pulling him off of there, and he's just
been rescued glove.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Afghan.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
A villager has saved him, the village has protected him
from the Taliban, and he says, a part of me.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Died on that mountain with my men.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
And he talks about I have to go forward and
tell their story and describe how honorable and brave they were.
And he did the amazing thing about Loan Survivor. And
Marcus Latrell' is one of my best friends. I admire him,
I love him, I adore him, I respect him. But
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there are lots of other Marcus Latrell's and Murph and acts.
This has happened before, but either nobody survived to tell
the story, or the survivor did not go forward and
tell the story.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Marcus reduced it to writing.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
It became a best seller, then it became a huge
I hate the word hit because of what it is,
but it's a hit, same as American Sniper. Those are
stories that need to be told. It's important to remember, however,
that just because a story isn't told doesn't mean it
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didn't happen. And if it's told, but we grow weary
of telling it, then the story of that heroism will
be lost.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
To young folks.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
What young men want to be when they grow up
will be what they are told to lionize as children,
whether that be warriors and battlers and fathers and men
and leaders. Well, it's our job to make heroes of
those types of roles and behavior.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
Offends the establishment and speaks for us real Americans.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I'm from the country, and I like it that. I
call it the Trump effect.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
How many things that because Trump likes them, became popular
to people who, whether consciously or subconsciously, all of a sudden,
fell in love with that McDonald's. I know people that
needed McDonald's that didn't need a McDonald's before because Trump
eats there. Hey, I'm not mad, but I do find
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it comical. I must have made it. It's funny. But
the song YMCA was considered extremely gay until Trump liked
it and he did the little Trump dance. I actually
find the Trump dance in deary. I think you don't
know if he's being serious or funny, and it's, you know,
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tongue planted firmly in cheap when he does it, and
it's become kind of a I don't know, it's.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Part of his charm. You know, you just can't be serious.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
And you know he's so stern, so seriously that when
he kind of has some fun I think it balances
out who he is, you know, it makes him a
complete person.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
So the YMCA was founded in London on this day
in Ramon. Guess what year, not nineteen sixty seven, eighteen
forty four, eighteen forty four, Well, it was on this day.
In nineteen forty two the United States victory our proud
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Navy over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway,
a major turning point in the Pacific theater.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Of World War two.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
All four Japanese fleet carriers taking part, the Akagi, the Kaga,
the Soriyuya, and the heirioa he reu. I think is
he ree you? I think that's how you pronounced them.
We're sunk, as was the heavy cruiser Mikuma. The American
carrier Yorktown and the destroyer Hammond were also sunk. You know,
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it's we take for granted that, of course we won
the war, but at the time it wasn't so obvious,
it wasn't so clear. We love old newsreels, so enjoy
this one of the Battle of Midway.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Hardly had the din of guns been hushed in the
Coral Sea from the Battle of Midway blazed forth in
all its mighty bury. Here the United States forces met
and crushed a full Jap battle fleet my yearweight of numbers.
The Japs hope to overwhelm and conquer our Mid Pacific
fighting forces. The Japs had carefully planned this sneak attack.
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They gambled all and lost the Battle of Midway, the
Japs hoped would be their stepping zone to Pearl Harbor, Australia, Alaska,
and eventually the United States mainland. The jaff received a
mortal wound here. Our defenders were ready. First in the
air were our Marine Corps fighters, then our Army flyers
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and finally our fighting navy, all working in complete unity
and concentrating relentlessly and successfully upon the common enemy. The
toll of enemy fighting.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Power was decisive.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Three Japanese battleships, possibly four cruisers, three transports, and one
destroyer were sunk. The loss of the Jaff aircraft carriers
was extremely heavy. Two or three sunk and two badly damaged.
On this allide bomber can be seen part of the
destruction wrecked upon the enemy. As the Jap fleet turned about,
battered and beaten.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
The Battle of.
Speaker 9 (10:40):
Midway became America's outstanding success, one that may decisively change
the balance of striking power in the Western Ocean. In
the face of terrific and aircraft fire, jaffplanes like this
one slew close their suicide plilots no full well that
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their battle is ended. Although never within a day's sailing
distance of each other, the battle carried on furiously for
five full days. Air crapped action was paramount. The perfect
teamwork at Midway between the commanders of our Army, Navy
and marines struck the Japs are truly crippling and now
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historic globe.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
The Battle of Midway does not get its due, because
two years later was the commencement of what was known
as Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy with the
execution of Operation Neptune, which came to be known as
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D Day, the largest sea born invasion in history. Nearly
one one hundred and sixty thousand Allied troops crossed the
English Channel with about five thousand landing and assault craft,
two hundred and eighty nine escort vehicles in two hundred
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and seventy seven minesweepers participating.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
By the end of the.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Day, the Allies have landed on five invasion beaches and
are pushing inland. I watched the coverage earlier today and
to see those men, you know, most of them, it's
eighty one years ago, so they're around one hundred years old,
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and their bodies are broken and slumped. But to think, man,
these guys and those who didn't come home, what they did,
how they did it, it's nothing short of incredible.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And you know, you can't help.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
You can't help, but think whether you call that the
greatest generation or not, it can't help. But think how
those young men grew up on farms, in pastures out
in the woods, and most of them had never left
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their county, much less their state, and never the country,
and they were being shipped to places they couldn't imagine,
handed a gun and said fight, and they did, and
they did, and they came home. And this was before
we had the modern understanding of PTSD.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
There was PTSD.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Make no mistake, war creates trauma, and that trauma indelibly
burns itself into the brain, into the synapses of the
man who suffers it. That is not to be taken lightly.
That's real. That generation wasn't very expressive. They often didn't
tell their kids they love them. They weren't huggers. That
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wasn't done. Then we've changed. But they also didn't express
the pain they were going through. And it hurts my
heart to imagine these young men who served our country
so well and how many of them came home and
silently suffered for so many years with the thousand yard stare,
shell shock, or whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
God bless them. On this D Day.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
From Levisians to librarians, everyone listens to Michael Very Show
a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Every year we honor our.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
D Day and the men who fought on it in it,
you know, just for kicks this weekend. If you were
to look up famous men who served in World War Two,
you'll be surprised how many people that were newscasters, CEOs, pastors,
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football coaches. The great bum Phillips born in Orange, Texas.
The story he tells in his book about heading from
East Texas on his way to California where he would
be trained to go to serve in World War Two,
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and he'd never seen those things, he'd never seen a
landscape like that. Who was a country bumpkin, and he
was here to.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Tell you about it.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
But so we were paying tribute as we always do,
and we got an email from an unnamed gentleman, I
mean an email voicemail.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Who asked if C. W.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
McCall's song Convoy was about the D Day invasion. And
let me tell you something. One of my great joys
is reading the kookie conspiracy theories, and some turn out
to be true, but people craft these conspiracy theories in Yeah,
I find it interesting.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
What can I say? And so immediately we laughed until
we thought, well, it's not the craziest. Maybe it's an
allegory about just hear him out.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I was wondering if you've ever considered convoys being an
allegory for the D Day. Now it starts off with
it was a dark moon on the sixth of June
into Kenworth Hall and logs, and six June sixth obviously
is D Day and the darker moon. It could kind
of makes sense because they picked D Day because it
was a late rising full moon.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Now the darker moon. I always thought it.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Was doing like a new moon, but I mean I
could see an artistic way of self calling that a
darker moon.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Anyways, there and there are.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
A lot I feel like if I knew more about
military jargon, I could probably make more connections, you know,
things like rocket sled on rails and suicide jockey and
things like that.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I was just wondering if you had ever.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Thought of that. Okay, before you dismiss it.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
It's not the craziest idea, right, I know, I know
it's about eighteen wheelers. But we did the only thing
we could do. We made a song about it.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
Soldiers, sailors and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force, you
are about to embark upon the great crusade toward which
we have striven these many months.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
The eyes of the world are upon you.
Speaker 10 (17:38):
The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march
with you.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
It was a dark moon on the sixth of June
into Kenworth Hall of Mogs d.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Day is here.
Speaker 11 (17:53):
The invasion of Western Europe has begun. Let me read
you several of the latest bullets at. A report unconfirmed
by Allied sources, of course, says that heavy fighting is
taking place between the Germans and invasion forces on the
Normandy Peninsula, about thirty one miles southwest of Lahafa. Another bulletin,
also from Berlin radio and unconfirmed, says the Brittish American
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landing operations against the western coast of Europe from the
sea and from the air are stretching over the entire
area this year's and.
Speaker 12 (18:26):
You will back off them hogs.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Five mile or so.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Ten roger than books getting into hands up here.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Under the command of General Heisenhower, Allied naval forces recorded
by Strawn air farmers began landing Allied armies the roaring
on the northern coast of France.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Ten what's your twenty Omaha lay offs?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Alca up there for sure? Well, mercy sakes good.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
But if we're going back on out air soon of
your glass.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
Of your tail.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Take yourself back to your grandparents' generation. Think about what
was going through their mind at the time as you
listened to this news footage of the D Day invasion.
The world was in danger. Those men stood up and responded.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
The most powerful invasion air force ever launched some of
the eleven thousand planes that opened the path through the
so called impregnable Atlantic Wall between Laarl and Cherbour in Normandy.
They allied lightning strikes, backing up the mightiest invasion by air.
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Four thousand ships, combat and landing craft carry the war
to the enemy by sea. The coast Guard, the Navy,
the air forces land hundreds of thousands of British, Canadians
and Yanks on Hitler's doorstep within a few days. Isolating
Cherbour with its strategic horror is the immediate objective. Landings
are made under a naval barge. President Roosveld said, let
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our hearts beast out and later Germany is the first
on the list for destruction. These troops fucking the choppy
seas in the Channel.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Heeded his words.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
While landings were successful, we were not without our losses.
H Hower and the enemy's hedgehog defenses are ahead. This
is the supreme moment of invasion. This is frontal assault
on an entrenched enemy. Heroic medical commen removed, wounded for
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return to England, the first batch of Nazi prisoners, the
supermen who believed their West Wall impregnable, and the frenchmen
to home. The Stars and Stripes fell liberty.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
He's waited a.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Long time for this.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
What he says wouldn't pass the censor.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
During the landings, the merciless pounding of the entire invasion
area continues. Here is real pinpoint bombing. One of the
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last bridges between the invasion coast and Paris gets it.
When the beach head is established, heavy equipment is moved
in reinforcements for those heroes who are bringing liberation to
the people of Europe. The cost of our initial landing
was but a fraction of what our leaders extracted. More
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than ten thousand German prisoners were captured in the first
few days of the battle, and we know one hun
who's not going to peddle anymore Nazi philosophy.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
The Allied advance is rapid. As we mop up.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Town of the town, some yank will have a nice doormat.
When he got to back home, the preame Commander Generalizing
Hower pos an early conference with General Montgomery, the commander
of English Brown Troop.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
They remain scared to death of you, and they remain
scared to death of TRUP.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Michael Show. You're not going anywhere even if Trump does.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
You're not.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Perspective. It's all about perspective. The Elon Trump feud, people
emailing memes gonna be the end of America, the end
of the world, the end of this, the end of that.
You gotta be careful with the breaking news alerts and
disjust In and exclusive on. If we have convinced you
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of one thing in my in my little space amidst
Glenn and claim Buck and Sean and and and Dan
and everybody else. If there's one thing I hope we
have done as our piece of the recipe of what
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you consume, I hope it is don't overreact to the
news that is blaring at the moment, because a week
from now, the chances are you won't even remember that story.
Snooky getting pregnant or was she present pregnant or wasn't
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she was a huge issue lead story. Brad and Angelina
separated was a huge story. Does it really matter?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
No?
Speaker 4 (24:41):
But what does matter the moments that shape your nation,
The moments that shape your nation, the people, the actions,
That's what matters. A number of you have emailed asking
about our Poem Beach trip and I realized I haven't
mentioned it on the evening show, only mentioned on the
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morning show. And yes, for the third time, we do
trips to Palm Beach and Aspen. It's a listener event.
If you're interested, just email me. That's all I'm gonna
say about that. Email me through our website and Emily
will send you the details. It'll be in late October.
It's a heck of an event.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
We do an event. We have one night, we do
mar A Lago. We go out on a yacht.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
It's an expensive trip, but it's a couple's trip and
it's a lot of fun. We've done three to Palm Beach,
two to Aspen, one to Portland. These these tend to
be a whole lot of fun. And mostly it's fun
because I get to hang out with you and the
kind of folks who come are interesting people. They're they're
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all very interesting people because they're you. Our listeners are
a unique composite of people, a unique demographic of people.
They're not the average person in society. You're interesting, you're thoughtful,
your influential, your family oriented, your values oriented, you love
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your country, and it's a lot of fun. People make
friends that since we've been doing this, some of our
listeners meet on this trip and now they all go
off on vacations on their own to Mexico to Europe
because they develop friendships out of this deal. So anyway,
the website is Michael Berryshow dot com if you're interested,
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and then we'll take it from there. While you're there,
you can also sign up for our daily blast, you
can buy our merch and.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Of course you can email me directly.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
So this was just a powerful, powerful moment a D
Day veteran remembering landing on Utah Beach.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
You've heard the Edward R.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Murrows and Cronkites and the great voices, even Paul Harvey
talk about D Day, but hearing who was just a
young man, and then much later telling that story younger
than my own son as he's landing, I can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
And so we always play this on D.
Speaker 8 (27:08):
Day one hundred and first in eighty second Airborne division.
They dropped before daylight and that was a disaster. I
went in at seven am.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
The bodies were drowned and then killed twel they're sewed
in the water.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
We went in way way too early because they had
not taken as much of the beach as they thought
they would. So when we got there we actually became infantry.
We were not maintenance.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
We as infantry. With the battle still reaching when he
reached the shore, Harold was forced to abandon his equipment
enjoining the fight.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
The Germans had just about every each of that beach
covered with a machine of fire. You could see it,
the bullets hitting all around you in the sand, sand
just popping up all around you. There was very few
of us that made it through without getting hit.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I made to you.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
Did you see him just luoting guts everywhere it hit
with a machine gun fits Calvin machine gun, and to
be spattered with his blood, no way to really clean
it up from you. And you're wondering trying to find
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out where that fire came from and maybe you could
return some fire. But there were fires for so many
different directions you which one actually hit you? Buddy?
Speaker 12 (29:02):
He just was praying, he.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Wasn't the next one that they hit aarm, hollering and
begging failed from the guys that was wounded and some
that was wounded trying to get up under the sand
dune that was there.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
That was the best potatulis that was there at that time.
Speaker 12 (29:29):
But it's hard to describe your feelings when you say.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Something like that, My goodness, my goodness.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
As we prepare to send you home for the weekend,
I want to thank you for your support of our
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Speaker 1 (30:24):
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I do read every single one, I can't respond every
single one, and I.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Want to leave you.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Since we're talking about great Americans throughout history, I've been
reading a lot lately about the Declaration of Independence and
the war that won us our independence, and about a
man named Nathan Hale. You may remember the famous line
that he is credited with, I only regret that I
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have but one life to lose from my country, which
he is sort of reported to have said as he's
being hanged by the English this weekend. If you take
a moment, if you want some inspiration, just go look
up the life of Nathan Hell. He was only twenty
one years old at the time.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
H A. L.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
E's the school teacher I fall correctly, but this was
his birthday in seventeen fifty five.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Corpunity, Thank you, I mean, good night.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Arry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed
by some as a downright undemocratic.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
And working man understood how little work most government officials do.
There might be a real revolution, a real, real populist revolution.
Carrinne Jean Pierre, the Affirmative Action press secretary who now
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is no longer a Democrat.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
She's independent.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
She wants to know she's independent and buy her book.
She had to make a headline somehow. She couldn't be like,
I'm a girl and I like girls. You know, we
knew that. That's why you got hired. I'm black, you know,
we know that's when you got hired. I'm an immigrant.
We know that's why you got hired. But I'm a
black immigrant girl who likes girls. We know you had
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the highest intersectionality score. That's we get it. You check
all the boxes.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yay for you.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Huh okay, Well, well, how how can I capitalize on
the fact that I was standing up there before my
name is forgotten. It's already forgotten.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Hun.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
But that's racism, Yeah, get used to it. Or maybe
it's uh, maybe it's a meritocracy.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And you didn't measure up. Well. It turns out she
was insanely lazy. She uh she.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
It has been reported by Carolyn Levitt, who I got
to say her replacement. It really helps when you start
the barlow. But Carolyn Levitt has really really impressed me.
I didn't know much about her, she'd been involved with
the Trump campaign before, but she has been a really
really impressive part of this administration. Almost to a person,
(02:22):
this has been a dream team so far.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I mean, you know, people have their foibles.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
They'll make mistakes, and they fall to temptation, or they
get lazy, or they start getting overly ambitious Nikki Hayley
for themselves and because they're self centered and narcissistic. But
I gotta tell you, so far, this team has served
the president and this country very well. And Carolyn Levitt
just fantastic. Here she is talking about how little Karine
(02:50):
Jean Pierre actually did.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Caroline Levitt, you saw the news about KJP, your predecessor.
Today she has left the Democrat Party and she's going
to write a tell all book.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
Well, I'm not sure what she's going to tell all about,
because I've heard from some sources here at the White House, Howie,
that KJP didn't roll into work some days until noons,
so there wasn't much going on here at the White
House with her boss. So I don't think there will
be much good stuff to read in that book. But
(03:25):
perhaps I'll be proven wrong. We'll see.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
That's why she needed the binder.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
It was like an open book test every day.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You don't need a binder, do.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
You, Caroline, No binder here, Howie. The binder's in my brain.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Imagine that competence.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Well, eighty one years ago today, American exceptionalism was on
display as our men stormed the beaches at Normandy in
preparing for that invasion, which was not a certain victory.
(04:06):
In fact, maybe i'll read for you today, Dwight Eisenhower
had two speeches ready, one if it was successful, and
two which was very possible if it failed. It's quite instructive.
Don't let me get through the end of this show
without without reading that. For some maybe all of the
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rest of the show, we're going to pay tribute to
that day, and how the world changed because of it,
and how much of the world order today is as
it is because so many men gave their lives in
all of them. You know, Marcus Latrell towards the end
(04:50):
of Lone Survivor and if you've only seen the movie,
that's okay too, Mark Wahlberg, Marky Mark asks him. You
hear him saying, and they've got him in the metavac
and they're pulling him off of there, and he's just
been rescued glove.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Afghan.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
A villager has saved him, the village has protected him
from the Taliban, and he says, a part of me.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Died on that mountain with my men.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
And he talks about I have to go forward and
tell their story and describe how honorable and brave they were.
And he did the amazing thing about Loan Survivor. And
Marcus Latrell' is one of my best friends. I admire him,
I love him, I adore him, I respect him. But
(05:38):
there are lots of other Marcus Latrell's and Murph and acts.
This has happened before, but either nobody survived to tell
the story, or the survivor did not go forward and
tell the story.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Marcus reduced it to writing.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
It became a best seller, then it became a huge
I hate the word hit because of what it is,
but it's a hit, same as American Sniper. Those are
stories that need to be told. It's important to remember, however,
that just because a story isn't told doesn't mean it
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didn't happen. And if it's told, but we grow weary
of telling it, then the story of that heroism will
be lost.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
To young folks.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
What young men want to be when they grow up
will be what they are told to lionize as children,
whether that be warriors and battlers and fathers and men
and leaders. Well, it's our job to make heroes of
those types of roles and behavior.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
Offends the establishment and speaks for us real Americans.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I'm from the country, and I like it that. I
call it the Trump effect.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
How many things that because Trump likes them, became popular
to people who, whether consciously or subconsciously, all of a sudden,
fell in love with that McDonald's. I know people that
needed McDonald's that didn't need a McDonald's before because Trump
eats there. Hey, I'm not mad, but I do find
(07:25):
it comical. I must have made it. It's funny. But
the song YMCA was considered extremely gay until Trump liked
it and he did the little Trump dance. I actually
find the Trump dance in deary. I think you don't
know if he's being serious or funny, and it's, you know,
(07:50):
tongue planted firmly in cheap when he does it, and
it's become kind of a I don't know, it's.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Part of his charm. You know, you just can't be serious.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
And you know he's so stern, so seriously that when
he kind of has some fun I think it balances
out who he is, you know, it makes him a
complete person.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
So the YMCA was founded in London on this day
in Ramon. Guess what year, not nineteen sixty seven, eighteen
forty four, eighteen forty four, Well, it was on this day.
In nineteen forty two the United States victory our proud
(08:37):
Navy over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway,
a major turning point in the Pacific theater.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Of World War two.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
All four Japanese fleet carriers taking part, the Akagi, the Kaga,
the Soriyuya, and the heirioa he reu. I think is
he ree you? I think that's how you pronounced them.
We're sunk, as was the heavy cruiser Mikuma. The American
carrier Yorktown and the destroyer Hammond were also sunk. You know,
(09:13):
it's we take for granted that, of course we won
the war, but at the time it wasn't so obvious,
it wasn't so clear. We love old newsreels, so enjoy
this one of the Battle of Midway.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Hardly had the din of guns been hushed in the
Coral Sea from the Battle of Midway blazed forth in
all its mighty bury. Here the United States forces met
and crushed a full Jap battle fleet my yearweight of numbers.
The Japs hope to overwhelm and conquer our Mid Pacific
fighting forces. The Japs had carefully planned this sneak attack.
(09:47):
They gambled all and lost the Battle of Midway, the
Japs hoped would be their stepping zone to Pearl Harbor, Australia, Alaska,
and eventually the United States mainland. The jaff received a
mortal wound here. Our defenders were ready. First in the
air were our Marine Corps fighters, then our Army flyers
(10:08):
and finally our fighting navy, all working in complete unity
and concentrating relentlessly and successfully upon the common enemy. The
toll of enemy fighting.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Power was decisive.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Three Japanese battleships, possibly four cruisers, three transports, and one
destroyer were sunk. The loss of the Jaff aircraft carriers
was extremely heavy. Two or three sunk and two badly damaged.
On this allide bomber can be seen part of the
destruction wrecked upon the enemy. As the Jap fleet turned about,
battered and beaten.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
The Battle of.
Speaker 9 (10:40):
Midway became America's outstanding success, one that may decisively change
the balance of striking power in the Western Ocean. In
the face of terrific and aircraft fire, jaffplanes like this
one slew close their suicide plilots no full well that
(11:01):
their battle is ended. Although never within a day's sailing
distance of each other, the battle carried on furiously for
five full days. Air crapped action was paramount. The perfect
teamwork at Midway between the commanders of our Army, Navy
and marines struck the Japs are truly crippling and now
(11:21):
historic globe.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
The Battle of Midway does not get its due, because
two years later was the commencement of what was known
as Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy with the
execution of Operation Neptune, which came to be known as
(11:51):
D Day, the largest sea born invasion in history. Nearly
one one hundred and sixty thousand Allied troops crossed the
English Channel with about five thousand landing and assault craft,
two hundred and eighty nine escort vehicles in two hundred
(12:12):
and seventy seven minesweepers participating.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
By the end of the.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Day, the Allies have landed on five invasion beaches and
are pushing inland. I watched the coverage earlier today and
to see those men, you know, most of them, it's
eighty one years ago, so they're around one hundred years old,
(12:39):
and their bodies are broken and slumped. But to think, man,
these guys and those who didn't come home, what they did,
how they did it, it's nothing short of incredible.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And you know, you can't help.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
You can't help, but think whether you call that the
greatest generation or not, it can't help. But think how
those young men grew up on farms, in pastures out
in the woods, and most of them had never left
(13:24):
their county, much less their state, and never the country,
and they were being shipped to places they couldn't imagine,
handed a gun and said fight, and they did, and
they did, and they came home. And this was before
we had the modern understanding of PTSD.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
There was PTSD.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Make no mistake, war creates trauma, and that trauma indelibly
burns itself into the brain, into the synapses of the
man who suffers it. That is not to be taken lightly.
That's real. That generation wasn't very expressive. They often didn't
tell their kids they love them. They weren't huggers. That
(14:07):
wasn't done. Then we've changed. But they also didn't express
the pain they were going through. And it hurts my
heart to imagine these young men who served our country
so well and how many of them came home and
silently suffered for so many years with the thousand yard stare,
shell shock, or whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
God bless them. On this D Day.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
From Levisians to librarians, everyone listens to Michael Very Show
a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Every year we honor our.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
D Day and the men who fought on it in it,
you know, just for kicks this weekend. If you were
to look up famous men who served in World War Two,
you'll be surprised how many people that were newscasters, CEOs, pastors,
(15:06):
football coaches. The great bum Phillips born in Orange, Texas.
The story he tells in his book about heading from
East Texas on his way to California where he would
be trained to go to serve in World War Two,
(15:27):
and he'd never seen those things, he'd never seen a
landscape like that. Who was a country bumpkin, and he
was here to.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Tell you about it.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
But so we were paying tribute as we always do,
and we got an email from an unnamed gentleman, I
mean an email voicemail.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Who asked if C. W.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
McCall's song Convoy was about the D Day invasion. And
let me tell you something. One of my great joys
is reading the kookie conspiracy theories, and some turn out
to be true, but people craft these conspiracy theories in Yeah,
I find it interesting.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
What can I say? And so immediately we laughed until
we thought, well, it's not the craziest. Maybe it's an
allegory about just hear him out.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I was wondering if you've ever considered convoys being an
allegory for the D Day. Now it starts off with
it was a dark moon on the sixth of June
into Kenworth Hall and logs, and six June sixth obviously
is D Day and the darker moon. It could kind
of makes sense because they picked D Day because it
was a late rising full moon.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Now the darker moon. I always thought it.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Was doing like a new moon, but I mean I
could see an artistic way of self calling that a
darker moon.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Anyways, there and there are.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
A lot I feel like if I knew more about
military jargon, I could probably make more connections, you know,
things like rocket sled on rails and suicide jockey and
things like that.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I was just wondering if you had ever.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Thought of that. Okay, before you dismiss it.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
It's not the craziest idea, right, I know, I know
it's about eighteen wheelers. But we did the only thing
we could do. We made a song about it.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
Soldiers, sailors and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force, you
are about to embark upon the great crusade toward which
we have striven these many months.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
The eyes of the world are upon you.
Speaker 10 (17:38):
The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march
with you.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
It was a dark moon on the sixth of June
into Kenworth Hall of Mogs d.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Day is here.
Speaker 11 (17:53):
The invasion of Western Europe has begun. Let me read
you several of the latest bullets at. A report unconfirmed
by Allied sources, of course, says that heavy fighting is
taking place between the Germans and invasion forces on the
Normandy Peninsula, about thirty one miles southwest of Lahafa. Another bulletin,
also from Berlin radio and unconfirmed, says the Brittish American
(18:17):
landing operations against the western coast of Europe from the
sea and from the air are stretching over the entire
area this year's and.
Speaker 12 (18:26):
You will back off them hogs.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Five mile or so.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Ten roger than books getting into hands up here.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Under the command of General Heisenhower, Allied naval forces recorded
by Strawn air farmers began landing Allied armies the roaring
on the northern coast of France.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Ten what's your twenty Omaha lay offs?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Alca up there for sure? Well, mercy sakes good.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
But if we're going back on out air soon of
your glass.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
Of your tail.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Take yourself back to your grandparents' generation. Think about what
was going through their mind at the time as you
listened to this news footage of the D Day invasion.
The world was in danger. Those men stood up and responded.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
The most powerful invasion air force ever launched some of
the eleven thousand planes that opened the path through the
so called impregnable Atlantic Wall between Laarl and Cherbour in Normandy.
They allied lightning strikes, backing up the mightiest invasion by air.
(19:50):
Four thousand ships, combat and landing craft carry the war
to the enemy by sea. The coast Guard, the Navy,
the air forces land hundreds of thousands of British, Canadians
and Yanks on Hitler's doorstep within a few days. Isolating
Cherbour with its strategic horror is the immediate objective. Landings
are made under a naval barge. President Roosveld said, let
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our hearts beast out and later Germany is the first
on the list for destruction. These troops fucking the choppy
seas in the Channel.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Heeded his words.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
While landings were successful, we were not without our losses.
H Hower and the enemy's hedgehog defenses are ahead. This
is the supreme moment of invasion. This is frontal assault
on an entrenched enemy. Heroic medical commen removed, wounded for
(21:22):
return to England, the first batch of Nazi prisoners, the
supermen who believed their West Wall impregnable, and the frenchmen
to home. The Stars and Stripes fell liberty.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
He's waited a.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Long time for this.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
What he says wouldn't pass the censor.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
During the landings, the merciless pounding of the entire invasion
area continues. Here is real pinpoint bombing. One of the
(22:09):
last bridges between the invasion coast and Paris gets it.
When the beach head is established, heavy equipment is moved
in reinforcements for those heroes who are bringing liberation to
the people of Europe. The cost of our initial landing
was but a fraction of what our leaders extracted. More
(22:36):
than ten thousand German prisoners were captured in the first
few days of the battle, and we know one hun
who's not going to peddle anymore Nazi philosophy.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
The Allied advance is rapid. As we mop up.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Town of the town, some yank will have a nice doormat.
When he got to back home, the preame Commander Generalizing
Hower pos an early conference with General Montgomery, the commander
of English Brown Troop.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
They remain scared to death of you, and they remain
scared to death of TRUP.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Michael Show. You're not going anywhere even if Trump does.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
You're not.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Perspective. It's all about perspective. The Elon Trump feud, people
emailing memes gonna be the end of America, the end
of the world, the end of this, the end of that.
You gotta be careful with the breaking news alerts and
disjust In and exclusive on. If we have convinced you
(23:45):
of one thing in my in my little space amidst
Glenn and claim Buck and Sean and and and Dan
and everybody else. If there's one thing I hope we
have done as our piece of the recipe of what
(24:06):
you consume, I hope it is don't overreact to the
news that is blaring at the moment, because a week
from now, the chances are you won't even remember that story.
Snooky getting pregnant or was she present pregnant or wasn't
(24:27):
she was a huge issue lead story. Brad and Angelina
separated was a huge story. Does it really matter?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
No?
Speaker 4 (24:41):
But what does matter the moments that shape your nation,
The moments that shape your nation, the people, the actions,
That's what matters. A number of you have emailed asking
about our Poem Beach trip and I realized I haven't
mentioned it on the evening show, only mentioned on the
(25:04):
morning show. And yes, for the third time, we do
trips to Palm Beach and Aspen. It's a listener event.
If you're interested, just email me. That's all I'm gonna
say about that. Email me through our website and Emily
will send you the details. It'll be in late October.
It's a heck of an event.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
We do an event. We have one night, we do
mar A Lago. We go out on a yacht.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
It's an expensive trip, but it's a couple's trip and
it's a lot of fun. We've done three to Palm Beach,
two to Aspen, one to Portland. These these tend to
be a whole lot of fun. And mostly it's fun
because I get to hang out with you and the
kind of folks who come are interesting people. They're they're
(25:44):
all very interesting people because they're you. Our listeners are
a unique composite of people, a unique demographic of people.
They're not the average person in society. You're interesting, you're thoughtful,
your influential, your family oriented, your values oriented, you love
(26:06):
your country, and it's a lot of fun. People make
friends that since we've been doing this, some of our
listeners meet on this trip and now they all go
off on vacations on their own to Mexico to Europe
because they develop friendships out of this deal. So anyway,
the website is Michael Berryshow dot com if you're interested,
(26:26):
and then we'll take it from there. While you're there,
you can also sign up for our daily blast, you
can buy our merch and.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Of course you can email me directly.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
So this was just a powerful, powerful moment a D
Day veteran remembering landing on Utah Beach.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
You've heard the Edward R.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Murrows and Cronkites and the great voices, even Paul Harvey
talk about D Day, but hearing who was just a
young man, and then much later telling that story younger
than my own son as he's landing, I can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
And so we always play this on D.
Speaker 8 (27:08):
Day one hundred and first in eighty second Airborne division.
They dropped before daylight and that was a disaster. I
went in at seven am.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
The bodies were drowned and then killed twel they're sewed
in the water.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
We went in way way too early because they had
not taken as much of the beach as they thought
they would. So when we got there we actually became infantry.
We were not maintenance.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
We as infantry. With the battle still reaching when he
reached the shore, Harold was forced to abandon his equipment
enjoining the fight.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
The Germans had just about every each of that beach
covered with a machine of fire. You could see it,
the bullets hitting all around you in the sand, sand
just popping up all around you. There was very few
of us that made it through without getting hit.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I made to you.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
Did you see him just luoting guts everywhere it hit
with a machine gun fits Calvin machine gun, and to
be spattered with his blood, no way to really clean
it up from you. And you're wondering trying to find
(28:50):
out where that fire came from and maybe you could
return some fire. But there were fires for so many
different directions you which one actually hit you? Buddy?
Speaker 12 (29:02):
He just was praying, he.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Wasn't the next one that they hit aarm, hollering and
begging failed from the guys that was wounded and some
that was wounded trying to get up under the sand
dune that was there.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
That was the best potatulis that was there at that time.
Speaker 12 (29:29):
But it's hard to describe your feelings when you say.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Something like that, My goodness, my goodness.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
As we prepare to send you home for the weekend,
I want to thank you for your support of our
show and our show sponsors. We continue to get emails
directly to me companies who want to partner with our
show as a sponsor because they want to talk to
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driven consumers as well as voters, neighbors, and they want
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Speaker 1 (30:24):
For those reasons.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
And I continue to receive emails from folks who want
to be part of our sponsor family through Premiere that
email me, and that is a great honor. But that
would not happen if you did not respond to our
show sponsors, and I am grateful to you for that.
If you have a moment this weekend, drop me a
line through the website Michael Berryshow dot com. You'll see
(30:48):
the button that says send it to me. It comes
directly to me and my assistant. So if something needs
to get responded to, she makes sure that she notes it,
and she says, hey, did you get this done? But
I do read every single one, I can't respond every
single one, and I.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Want to leave you.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Since we're talking about great Americans throughout history, I've been
reading a lot lately about the Declaration of Independence and
the war that won us our independence, and about a
man named Nathan Hale. You may remember the famous line
that he is credited with, I only regret that I
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have but one life to lose from my country, which
he is sort of reported to have said as he's
being hanged by the English this weekend. If you take
a moment, if you want some inspiration, just go look
up the life of Nathan Hell. He was only twenty
one years old at the time.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
H A. L.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
E's the school teacher I fall correctly, but this was
his birthday in seventeen fifty five.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Corpunity, Thank you, I mean, good night.
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