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Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers,

and we're broadcasting this week from the Center for Creativity,

bravado, and natural selection here at Kartok Plaza.

I think that's appropriate, but to tell you the truth,

I'm not sure because I haven't read this yet.

You know what people love about our show?

The preparation.

The preparation.

But I could tell, I could tell just from the first paragraph that it was something that I wanted to read.

I'll read you the note.

I listen to your show at work.

I love your show.

My husband gets Flying Magazine and showed me this story.

Thought you would get a boost from this, from Val Stalius, from St. Flaco, Florida, St.

Something, I don't know.

You've heard of Rick and Backer and Lindbergh and Doolittle.

But have you heard of Larry Walters?

Probably not.

Yet Walters was made of that special stuff that separates aviation legends from the common run of folk.

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