Hour 4: Remembering MLK
The Paul Finebaum Show
ESPN Radio
3.3 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:27.0 | The Pride, Passion and P pageantry of college football lives here. |
| 0:38.0 | This is the Paul Pinebaum Show, |
| 0:41.3 | our Ford Podcast. |
| 0:43.4 | This might be college football, heaven rock. |
| 0:46.4 | Come back. |
| 0:47.4 | It is Martin Luther King's Jr. Day, and it's always a very special day for a lot of reasons, but since 2008, we have also gone back in time |
| 0:58.4 | and remembered a call we received here that had a profound effect on us and quite frankly a few other people as well and we will play that call for you now. |
| 1:25.0 | I got a little tail my own. Paul, I grew up in Alabama and I was raised as a racist. I was very proud of it. My father was in the K K K, K. |
| 1:29.0 | All my uncles were, but in 1967, I joined the Marine Corps. I considered myself strong, brave and stupid, so I wanted to go to Vietnam, and I got my wish. First day there, as big a redneck as I was, I met probably the most militant acting and talking black person that was ever on the face of the earth. |
| 2:01.0 | Less than an hour after we met, we tried to kill each other. And we |
| 2:08.6 | tried to kill each other for the next couple of weeks, about every day, until our gunny started took us aside and said next |
| 2:15.8 | time that happens you're going home on a bad conduct discharge. |
| 2:21.3 | So we put aside our differences and turned out to be fair soldiers. |
| 2:29.0 | We still had strong animosity, but over the next 20, every the next two years, he saved my life a couple of times, I saved my life a couple of times. I saved his a couple of times. And we didn't either one of us want to leave Vietnam. We spent 22 to 24 months, when 67, 69 there, too much we were being treated in the Philippines, but in 69 we we both had to had to leave and I moved back to I moved back to Alabama and went to school. He moved back to Detroit and resumed his ways. |
| 3:20.0 | After I got out of college, as dumb as I was, I managed to get an engineering degree. |
| 3:26.0 | And I talked to him a few times over those years. We had become, I guess you could call friends and he was not |
| 3:37.7 | having it too good in Detroit. I said, well, come on down here and we'll, you can go to work for the same |
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