Today's show is sponsored by It Was Said.

History is vast and complex, but it can be better understood by looking at critical moments

in which a single person approached a crowd was something important to say.

I'm here to share a preview of the new season of It Was Said,

the 2021 Webby Award winner for Best Podcast Series.

Written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author historian John Meacham,

It Was Said Season 2 will focus on 10 generation defining speeches, including

those from Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Frederick Douglass.

In every episode, Meacham along with top historians, authors, and journalists offer

expert insights and analysis into the origins, the orator, and the historical context of these

speeches, helping tell the stories of visionary leaders and disciplined communicators,

whose words continue to resonate today.

Be sure to listen to It Was Said, a creation and production of Peabody Award-nominated C-13

Originals, and associated with the History Channel, available now on the Audacity app,

or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

We stand on a lonely wind-swept point on the northern shore of France.

The air is soft, but 40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke,

and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire, and the roar of cannon.

When visionary leaders capture the imagination of a nation,

We choose to go to the moon, investigate, and do the other thing,

not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

When disciplined communicators speak truth to power,

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