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And I'm Gabby.

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What we're going to be talking about is this very big figure that was suggested,

and I completely forgot to put the name of the patron who actually asked for this episode.

In this, I know I'm going to go back after this, and when I post the episode, I'm going to mention it directly.

But I had a person who requested that we talk about Charles Nungiser.

I'm pretty sure that's how I pronounce that, but it's a French name, and I very easily could be getting that horribly wrong.

This guy is a bit of a wild card.

And when I say that for like a wild card, you know how they usually associate people with like pilots in movies or other things

and as being, um, interesting figures? Wasn't your granddad a pilot and also an interesting

figure? Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. He absolutely was. Um, yeah. He was a guy who, uh, he never got

promoted beyond to the base like second lieutenant.

Second lieutenant.

Which that's the level that you are at when you graduate from college, like RTC.

Yes.

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