88: The Missiles of December
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
4.9 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
It was never good new when the red phone rang - and on this December night it was ringing off the hook.
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| 0:00.0 | In New York you can gaze up at the towering skyscrapers or... |
| 0:05.0 | You can sunbathe on top of one. |
| 0:08.0 | In LA you can catch a neon lit rollercoaster ride on Santa Monica Pier. |
| 0:14.0 | Before catching a California catfish off Santa Monica Pier. |
| 0:19.0 | Oop! |
| 0:20.0 | Virgin Atlantic fly to the world's most iconic destinations |
| 0:24.0 | but how you see them is up to you. |
| 0:26.0 | Book now with Virgin Atlantic. See the world differently. |
| 0:30.0 | This is the way I heard it. |
| 0:37.0 | Harry was having a tough day at the office. |
| 0:40.0 | The stress was heavy in the air and he could feel the headache forming in the base of his neck, |
| 0:45.0 | like an early warning, biological alarm. |
| 0:49.0 | If he didn't stop it now he knew the doll eight would settle in for a long winter's nap somewhere behind his left eye. |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome to upper management he thought swallowing three more aspirin and another mouthful of cold coffee. |
| 1:02.0 | Harry was no stranger to pressure or bad coffee or the tension headaches that came with his career of choice. |
| 1:09.0 | But this year this stress felt sharper. |
| 1:12.0 | Maybe it was the holidays that made people anxious or maybe it was the headlines. |
| 1:17.0 | Economies in Europe teetering on the verge of collapse. |
| 1:20.0 | America's infrastructure woefully inadequate taxes through the roof and the country divided among race and class. |
| 1:27.0 | And now on top of everything else, Russia was added again, meddling in America's affairs, causing all sorts of trouble. |
| 1:35.0 | What next? |
| 1:37.0 | Harry sighed and dropped the newspaper into the trash. |
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