Summary
Go down into the silo with the "missileers." Their hands are on the nuclear keys, and they practice the end of the world over and over. (Repeat)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Josh Barrow. On Thursday, October 20th, KCRW is coming out of our basement |
| 0:05.2 | studios for a civilized, yet provocative, left right and center, live. Join us at the beautiful |
| 0:10.4 | Ace Hotel Theater in downtown Los Angeles for a night of amusing and insightful |
| 0:14.4 | commentary on this unique election season. |
| 0:17.2 | I'll be joined by Kelly Gough, Gene Spurling, and Mona Charen as we dissect Trump versus Clinton, |
| 0:21.9 | Democrat versus Republican, and fact versus fiction. |
| 0:25.4 | Buy your tickets today at KCRW.com slash LRC Live. |
| 0:30.0 | From the Independent Producer Project on KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional. |
| 0:40.0 | Unfictional is a program of true stories and personal documentaries and on this |
| 0:46.1 | episode we'll listen back to a program produced in 2013 about the people who sit at |
| 0:52.4 | what's been called the foundational defense of America, |
| 0:56.8 | the United States nuclear deterrence. |
| 0:59.5 | It seems like a relic of the Cold War. |
| 1:01.7 | Silo is armed with missiles, ready to unleash horrors. |
| 1:06.6 | But the job description still exists. |
| 1:08.9 | There are in fact soldiers still trained to do something no right thinking person would ever want to do. |
| 1:14.4 | And it's a military job that somehow doesn't automatically come with a mantle of |
| 1:18.8 | honor like a combat soldier. And for them the scars of the job are more psychological and |
| 1:24.4 | literally existential. I produced this episode along with independent producer |
| 1:31.4 | Eric Milinsky who nowadays hosts a |
| 1:33.9 | podcast called Imaginary Worlds about science fiction and fantasy, but this |
| 1:39.1 | very real life story was the winner of an LA Press Club Award for Radio Documentary. |
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