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🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 152 minutes
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0:00.0 | And now the missile crisis comes along. McCone tells Kennedy, hey, listen, we got nuclear warheads |
0:04.9 | 90 miles off the coast of Florida. What are we going to do about it? So the hawks in the administration |
0:09.0 | and the joint chiefs are going, go in. You have no choice. Don't worry about the Bay of Pigs. That's passed. |
0:14.1 | If you were on the fence. These are missiles that have arranged, not only as Khrushchev famously said, we could have took out every city in the United |
0:21.3 | States, not to mention a little village like Washington. And they went all the way up to Canada. |
0:25.9 | So they could have literally hit any city in the United States. So they're going to Kennedy, |
0:29.7 | take them out, send in the Marines. Let's go in. And Kennedy's wavering. He's going, I don't know. Bobby goes, it's going to give us like a black mark, a smirch. |
0:38.5 | We don't want that. Don't do it, Jack. Are you out of your mind? We got to go in. |
0:43.0 | So now, after this back and forth for a number of days, the two options that are available to Kennedy are. |
0:51.2 | Hey, guys, if you're not following me on Spotify, please hit that follow button and leave a five-star review. |
0:56.3 | They're both a huge huge help. |
0:57.7 | Thank you. |
1:12.7 | You know what's funny? I'm a writer, and I didn't even know what a pronoun is. |
1:16.3 | So I'm like, what the fuck is pronouns? |
1:21.7 | Right? I taught myself how to write, so I never pronoun adjective. I don't know what the fuck those things are. On that note, that's a perfect way to open this one up. Lou Ferranti, |
1:26.2 | it is great to have you back, my friend. |
1:28.0 | Thanks. |
1:28.4 | How are you? |
1:28.8 | Great to be with you, brother. |
1:29.9 | Dude, it's been what? |
1:31.1 | Like, you were here like 15 months ago, something like that? |
1:33.5 | Well, give a take, I think, a year because it was when the first volume came out. |
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