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The Andrew Klavan Show

Ep. 463 - What Can we Learn from the Florida Shootings

The Andrew Klavan Show

The Andrew Klavan Show

Society & Culture

4.822.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Is there some new way to look at the latest atrocity? Plus Douglas Murray discusses his book 'The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Slack.com slash DHQ. So when I was a young man, I've just recently had a college. I was

0:32.8

a small town newspaper reporter. And one day I got a call from a funeral parlour, which

0:38.4

was pretty common to deliver an obituary. And the obituary was for a kid. I can't

0:42.7

remember. I think he was about 17 years old. So I took the obituary and just said he had

0:47.0

died and it gave me the details. There was a form you filled out to write an obituary.

0:52.2

And afterwards, my editor, who was, and it's important to understand this, my editor was

0:56.3

a woman I respected as far as you can respect somebody. She was kind. She was decent. She

1:02.0

was smart. She was experienced. So I always took her advice about everything. I was a

1:05.9

neophyte. I had no idea what I was doing as a reporter. And she said, look, you've got

1:09.9

to get a cause of death. They didn't give the cause of death. People don't die when they're

1:13.0

17. So you've got to call them back. So I called them back and the guy admitted that the

1:17.0

kid had been in a mental facility and had committed suicide. He hanged himself from

1:20.8

a radiator. So I put that in the obit. And a little while later, the kid's mother called

1:27.7

me. Obviously, one of the worst phone calls I've ever had, she begged me not to run the

1:33.0

fact that the kid had committed suicide. People save obituary. There are sort of memory

1:37.6

of the person that they've lost. And she said, please do not put this piece of information

1:43.2

that this, my son committed suicide in the, in the newspaper. So I immediately said,

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