1/6: "In the Tunnel of Love," a story from the collection, "Gordon Liddy is My Muse," by John Calvin Batchelor. Read by John Batchelor.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 6 January 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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1918 Schweinfurt am Main
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| 0:00.0 | Gordon Liddy is my muse. In the Tunnel of Love, A Tale of the Cold War. |
| 0:09.3 | Black Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. |
| 0:13.0 | Holmes, Payne, on the case. |
| 0:16.0 | 1. |
| 0:18.0 | The third Reich is a low hobby of mine, |
| 0:21.0 | well behind Wells' time machine and cowboys like Gordon Liddy. |
| 0:25.5 | So I was in lazy humor when I booked a posh cabin on a ferry out of Helsinki and sailed |
| 0:30.9 | for my first visit to Germany, 1985. |
| 0:35.0 | Truth, I was headed deep into Deutschland to visit my colossal baby brother, |
| 0:40.0 | the Centurion, on guard with our elite armored cavalry at the right flank of the infamous |
| 0:46.6 | fold a gap. Our branch of pains are citizens soldiers, the same year Lord Protector Cromwell |
| 0:58.4 | quit his earthly travail for a colony in Hades. |
| 1:07.0 | Subsequently, the pains fit the forest and swamps of the Carolinas for a century of dirt farming, childmaking, and potshotting |
| 1:11.0 | at the Okanichis and Sesquahamics. |
| 1:16.1 | Moving on, there were several pains who fit the Frenchers behind Braddock and Washington. |
| 1:21.6 | More who fit the redcoats behind Washington, and one who fit the redcoats in the retreat from the burning capital |
| 1:27.8 | building in 1812. |
| 1:29.8 | Yes, remember the redcoated devils burnt our capital and the President's House too. |
| 1:35.0 | So what was this unbalanced Angophilia? |
| 1:39.0 | The Blackhawk Indian War had a Buckeye Farm Boy. |
| 1:42.0 | The Mexican War had a vagabond who died of cholera and the Civil War |
| 1:46.0 | was so crammed with pain boys on both sides, half of whom called it the war of the secession. |
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