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🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 174 minutes
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0:00.0 | And I've studied a guy. What made Churchill such a brilliant wartime leader? |
0:05.0 | When you look at the lead up to World War II, Churchill saw what was coming, and nobody listened to him. |
0:10.0 | Nobody wanted to believe that what he was saying was true. He even had like a secret army of spies, |
0:14.0 | just kind of reporting back to him about what was going on in Germany, trying to make sure that people knew the danger, |
0:19.0 | because Hitler told everybody he was a man of peace. |
0:21.1 | The British people believed him. Joseph Kennedy, the American ambassador, he was a huge Hitler fan. |
0:25.7 | So the first bombing of London was September 7th. That's when the blitz begins. |
0:29.3 | If you pull up a map that show places in London that were bombed, it's everywhere. |
0:32.7 | That's it right there. |
0:34.0 | Whoa. |
0:35.0 | He was very much behind the idea of, you know, we need battleships, we need to build a standing army. |
0:39.6 | He just wanted to let people know he wasn't just a politician. |
0:42.2 | He actually went into the military himself and he went and fought in the First World War. |
0:45.5 | That's an ignored part of history. |
0:47.0 | Yeah. |
0:47.1 | How insane that warfare was. |
0:49.1 | And they don't take the time to really drill down and see what the real story is. Hey guys, if you're not following me on Spotify, |
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0:58.9 | They're both a huge, huge help. |
1:00.3 | Thank you. |
1:14.6 | Martin, you have a long, long bibliography. |
1:16.9 | Like I said, I've got a mortgage. |
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