1 00:00:15,356 --> 00:00:23,156 Speaker 1: Pushkin Hi People. Malcolm Glable here with a preview of 2 00:00:23,196 --> 00:00:28,276 Speaker 1: this month's Revisionist History Pushnik bonus episode. Pushnik's can listen 3 00:00:28,356 --> 00:00:32,556 Speaker 1: to Revisionist History and other great Pushkin shows without ads, 4 00:00:33,196 --> 00:00:36,436 Speaker 1: but now they'll also receive new bonus Revisionist History episodes 5 00:00:36,876 --> 00:00:38,876 Speaker 1: like the one in the preview you're about to hear. 6 00:00:39,596 --> 00:00:44,076 Speaker 1: These episodes will appear exclusively in Pushnik feeds once a 7 00:00:44,076 --> 00:00:47,436 Speaker 1: month to the end of the year. Pushnik is four 8 00:00:47,596 --> 00:00:50,156 Speaker 1: ninety nine a month a cup of coffee, and you 9 00:00:50,196 --> 00:00:53,316 Speaker 1: can try it free for a week. 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All dreamed of becoming a screenwriter, but his 19 00:01:28,236 --> 00:01:29,036 Speaker 1: timing was bad. 20 00:01:29,716 --> 00:01:31,916 Speaker 2: You're on the verge of being hired as a screenwriter 21 00:01:31,996 --> 00:01:35,196 Speaker 2: and you get drafted, right, what happens? 22 00:01:35,276 --> 00:01:35,476 Speaker 3: Then? 23 00:01:35,676 --> 00:01:44,556 Speaker 2: So was the only one in Los Angeles that sent 24 00:01:44,796 --> 00:01:48,956 Speaker 2: people out of Los Angeles for the physical, that put 25 00:01:48,996 --> 00:01:51,916 Speaker 2: me in a bus, sent me to Fresno with a 26 00:01:51,956 --> 00:01:54,996 Speaker 2: group of others from that draft board for my physical 27 00:01:55,036 --> 00:01:59,356 Speaker 2: and then back. I mean it was really insane. And 28 00:01:59,396 --> 00:02:03,396 Speaker 2: then when I went into the Army, I was stationed 29 00:02:03,436 --> 00:02:06,676 Speaker 2: at Culver City at what was familiarly known as Fort 30 00:02:06,756 --> 00:02:13,716 Speaker 2: Roach for year and a half. You know about Fort Roach, 31 00:02:13,756 --> 00:02:16,756 Speaker 2: I assume Herod Studios. It was the Howard Studios that 32 00:02:16,796 --> 00:02:21,116 Speaker 2: were taken over by the government for the First Motion 33 00:02:21,236 --> 00:02:21,836 Speaker 2: Picture Unit. 34 00:02:22,516 --> 00:02:25,436 Speaker 1: The First Motion Picture Unit was part of the Army 35 00:02:25,476 --> 00:02:28,436 Speaker 1: Air Forces during the Second World War. They made training 36 00:02:28,476 --> 00:02:30,236 Speaker 1: films and newsreels. 37 00:02:30,596 --> 00:02:35,516 Speaker 3: She was a B twenty nine the Superport, with twenty 38 00:02:35,516 --> 00:02:39,036 Speaker 3: two hundred horsepower in each of four engines, with a 39 00:02:39,076 --> 00:02:41,796 Speaker 3: fuel capacity equal to that of a railroad tank car, 40 00:02:42,916 --> 00:02:46,356 Speaker 3: a tail that climbed two stories into the air, a 41 00:02:46,436 --> 00:02:48,196 Speaker 3: body longer than a Corvette. 42 00:02:50,036 --> 00:02:53,796 Speaker 1: Avid listeners of revisionist history may not just recognize that voice, 43 00:02:54,116 --> 00:02:57,396 Speaker 1: but the very clip run of Reagan narrated many of 44 00:02:57,396 --> 00:03:01,636 Speaker 1: these films. Red loving al Levitt and Red Baiting run 45 00:03:01,676 --> 00:03:03,916 Speaker 1: of Reagan were actually co workers. 46 00:03:05,076 --> 00:03:07,156 Speaker 2: Every day for a year and a half, I would 47 00:03:07,156 --> 00:03:14,636 Speaker 2: see Nan, then called Reagan who arrived at the post. 48 00:03:14,676 --> 00:03:18,276 Speaker 2: He arrived there before I did, but he arrived from 49 00:03:18,316 --> 00:03:22,676 Speaker 2: a cavalry outfit wearing jod present a campaign hat, and 50 00:03:22,756 --> 00:03:25,916 Speaker 2: nobody could take him seriously. 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