Today, we are talking about Audi Murphy, America's premier short king, the Texas Terminator,

a man whose later life, everyone who describes himself as a World War II buff really likes to ignore,

the most decorated soldier in American history.

But the story of how a man who kind of looks like the world's most murderous cabbage patch doll had a very poor desperate early life.

Audi Murphy is a guy that like most Americans I imagine have heard of probably all, but I don't know.

I feel good saying most people have heard of him.

But they've only ever heard of one or two particular parts of his life,

which of course we'll talk about. But to me, Audie Murphy is more interesting due to what

happened to him after he got back for World War II. Oh, 100%. Which we will also get to.

Yeah, he, I love that he rebranded himself after the war with his full name, audio cable Murphy.

Which is why Nate knows so much about his music career.

No, I just found him being as a fascinating guy because, like, he was alternately, like,

extremely anti-war and extremely pro-war, depending on what, like, phase of uppers or

downers he was on.

Yes.

He was the world's most, he was the America's most decorated soldier.

And also, like, he was, like, a hot couch guy in Los Angeles for a very long time. Yeah. And annoyed the shit out of his friends. He was a fascinating person. Also, if you ever see his Medal of Honor portrait, he looks like a child because he was like, I mean, he was in early 20s. But, like, he was stunted by malnutrition. And Joe will get into this. but like, yeah, his life tracks a lot of like just how

shit it was in a lot of places of America in the, you know, during the Great Depression and

onward. And I should point out, I'm using his autobiography to hell and back as a source. But

Audie Murphy did not write it, despite the fact he is credited. But we'll also get to that. So

Audie Leon Murphy was born June 20th, 1925 to a family of sharecroppers in Kingston, Texas.

Kingston is a kind of place that is nothing.

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