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AP News Radio
Sydney Opera House-Opera intro and wrap
"Australia's most iconic building, the Sydney Opera House, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. It was opened in 1973 by Queen Elizabeth. It gives me great pleasure to declare open the Sydney Opera House. Sydney harbor, it's a building that's become an iconic part of the city skyline. Peter Tucker knows the Sydney Opera House better than anyone else. It was just all scaffold and I was just all a big message safety net that if anybody feel caught in the safety net and then all of a sudden it's all gone and it's musicians on stage and they're applying and you say, hey how beautiful this coming out. Tucker is now the operation supervisor of the opera house. Programming director Fiona winning says a lot has happened in those 50 years. A 118,000 at last count performances have happened in the opera house and 63 million seats have been sold. Close to 11 million people visit the Sydney Opera House every year. I'm Ed Donahue
Your Daily Prayer
A Prayer to Forgive As We Have Been Forgiven
"Our choosing to forgive or not forgive them for the pain that they have brought will absolutely have eternal consequences for you. It says that if we forgive the sin that others have committed against us, that God will forgive us when we sin. If we can not forgive those who have wronged us, and instead harbor that pain, nursing it over and over again, becoming bitter in our soul towards them, that God will not forgive us when we send against him. So, as you go into the state, reflective prey over the situations, and the people that are causing you angst. Think about those moments when they jumped the fence into your space. Causing you trouble and heartache. We're steadfastly and doggedly to forgive them. To let the pain go. To cling to Jesus in those situations that seem impossible to forgive. The more that we fill our minds and hearts with focusing on and loving the lord, the more that pain will lessen. The more we pay for that person who is just so difficult, the more we begin to forgive them. The more we forgive, the freer we can live, knowing that our father in heaven has forgiven us of so many things. Forgiveness is freedom. Let's pray. Dear heavenly father. Please forgive my trespasses for my deliberate choosing to sin against you. Forgive the sinfulness in me that chose to take the shortcut instead of standing strong against the temptation. Help me to forgive those who have hurt me. Help me to release the unforgiveness, the pain that they have caused. Hold me, comfort me as a journey through learning to forgive them. Be my father is a live each day learning to be more like you. In your name I pray comment.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Karine Jean-Pierre: Jan. 6 Was the Worst Attack on Our Democracy
"I give you careen Jean Pierre. The White House press secretary yesterday. Anybody who watched that video in a with their own eyes in a real way and saw what happened on that day would disagree with what was just stated. The president has been very clear January 6th was the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War. And we should be focused on making sure that never happens again. The worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War. So it has to be worse than 9 11, right? Oh, that's right. They've said that too. Has to be worse than Pearl Harbor, right? Oh yeah, they've said that too. I had a listener from Shenandoah, Pennsylvania today say that it was worse than the Holocaust. 11 million people slaughtered not as bad as January 6th. I mean, to call these people goofy is an understatement.
Mark Levin
Which Political Leaders Will Prepare Us for China?
"There are two countries Whether it's a potential war Russia and China The great direct threat to us is communist China So let me talk about that first It is important for you to take note of which congressman which senators which presidents which would be presidents presidential candidates get this right You know after the Attack on Pearl Harbor people ask well how could this happen We have the experience of Pearl Harbor The experience of Pearl Harbor and other attacks on the United States to guide us Now's the time for real leadership now's the time for real estate And I'm not seeing too many of them quite frankly Which candidate today among the Republicans announced her unannounced It is insisting that we significantly increase defense spending Without a whole bunch of footnotes about well we got to make sure this which one None That I'm aware of Zero Which one It's very unpopular today With all the problems we've faced from inflation from the open border critical race theory what's going on with our children the difficulty for so many people in this country to make ends meet
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Lara Trump: Someone Knew Joe Biden Had Classified Documents
"Biden clearly violated U.S. code by harboring those documents in his garage and in his office, which was funded by the Chinese. That's right. And I love how they keep saying that they were discovered. As though somebody is like, you know, in Egypt, combing through student comments, too, and a big discovery made. Someone knew those were there. That person is Joe Biden. He knew those documents were there. I'm sure there were several other people who knew that those documents were there. And it just really blows my mind that then you had Joe Biden out there a couple months ago on 60 minutes ranting and raving about how appalled he was that Donald Trump could possibly consider taking any documents in question. Meanwhile, Joe Biden got him by the gas guzzling Corvette locked in the garage. I mean, come on. That sort of thing, I think, to people, is really upsetting. But then you look at what was in the documents. And even The Washington Post, we know how much they hate my father in law. They'll go out of their way to say anything possible negative. Even they had to admit a lot of the things that were found at Mar-a-Lago were kind of keepsakes. I think there was like a handwritten note from Kim Jong-un to my father in law when he was president. You look at that versus the document that were found. That we know of so far with Joe Biden's treasure trove of things. What was in there, Ukraine? Well, let's think about Ukraine. What implications does that have? What's going on in Ukraine? What happened with Ukraine and the Biden family burisma Hunter Biden? I mean, we know all of the ins and outs of that and how slimy and deep it is. Why did he keep those documents documents on Iran, the Chinese connection to the Penn Biden center as you just pointed out? There are so many more questions and answers. And I think the American people at this point deserve to have full and complete transparency, especially about the person who's the leader of this country.
Coinpedia
BONKs Bid For Survival New NFT Release Amidst Crypto Market Recovery
"3 p.m. Sunday January 15th, 2023. Box bid for survival new NFT release amidst crypto market recovery. The post box bid for survival new NFT release amidst crypto market recovery appeared first on Cohen PD a FinTech news. Last week we witnessed a fervent frenzy surrounding the new Solana based mean token, bought bunk. Although we harbored hope that it would sustain its momentum, we couldn't help but suspect that it would eventually fizzle out, as is often the case with new mean tokens. Indeed, this phenomenon has occurred multiple times within the industry.
AP News Radio
Oldest living Pearl Harbor survivor marks 105th birthday
"The oldest living survivor of Pearl Harbor marked his 105th birthday. Joseph eskenazi from Redondo Beach, California says it feels great. I'm glad to be alive, but this age. A 105 years old. He marked his birthday at the national World War II museum in New Orleans, other veterans representing the army, navy and marines flew in for the event. Eskenazi says he doesn't know why he signed up. By hand just went up when they asked for a vote. Nobody else raise their hand because they knew that it meant death. Because they told you, never volunteer in the army. Pearl Harbor memories include being awakened when a bomb fell, but didn't explode near where he was sleeping. I'm Ed Donahue.
The Officer Tatum Show
Biden 'Surprised' About Discovery of Classified Documents
"Hat tip forgot man, this from just the news when attorney general Merrick Garland announced November 18th that he had named a special prosecutor to investigate former president Donald Trump's handling of classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago. The government harbored a fresh secret, what was that secret? Oh. Oh, Joe Biden had his own secret. Joe Biden had taken documents and stored them at the University of Pennsylvania. Just two weeks earlier, Biden's lawyers disclosed to government lawyers on November 2nd. That was just 6 days before the midterm elections. Pause. 6 days before the midterm elections. Is it just me or is it something about the Biden administration, the Biden family and the media that don't want to give the voters information that is prescient to making a decision on who's going to lead the country? It's fascinating, right? A lot of voters didn't get them the information. They didn't know about Hunter Biden's laptop. Very fascinating. And then all of a sudden, the media starts to confirm what we have all known all along, that the Hunter Biden laptop story is indeed a true story. And were it were it reported on by real journalists at the time and it actually was by some real journalists. But if other journalists from the left would have reported on the story, it's likely that Biden would not be in The White House despite the cheating. It's likely that he wouldn't be in The White House. Absolutely amazing. It's amazing how they do this. They had found sensitive government documents with classified markings. They were inside an office at Biden used a pen Biden center think tank in Washington after he left office as president Barack Obama's vice president, vice president. Vice president. When does a vice president have the authority to be able to determine what's classified with declassified and take it with them? We also found out from breitbart that those documents contain information regarding Ukraine. Regarding Iran, it's fascinating. It's fascinating.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Classified Documents From Biden's Vice Presidency Found at Think Tank
"Got word yesterday late yesterday. That the Justice Department has discovered Joe Biden, Joe Biden. Was harboring classified documents at his institute at the University of Pennsylvania. This is a big deal, a very big deal. We understand that Merrick Garland has asked the FBI to join their probe. Now why is this a big deal? Well, very simple, and people are trying to say, well, there's a comparison between this and what happened with president Trump. There is slightly, and I'm going to get to that in a moment. But there's a major difference because the president of the United States has the authority as the ability to declassify documents. The vice president of the United States does not. So the fact that Joe Biden was harboring and we understand about ten classified documents. At this institute that is heavily funded by the Chinese at the University of Pennsylvania, that is a huge, huge problem. Elise Stefanik, who is the GOP conference chair, says she's got a lot of questions to ask. And she wants to know specifically if the Chinese had access to these documents. I want to read a statement that she provided town hall. She says, where's the FBI raid on the Joe Biden crime family after the revelations he stole classified materials while serving as vice president and stored the documents that Biden's think tank? The pin Biden institute. A think tank, by the way, that's received over $50 million in Chinese gifts.
NewsBTC
Ethereum Classic ETC Price Balloons To Nearly 30 In Last 7 Days
"10 a.m. Sunday January 8th, 2023. Ethereum classic ETC price balloons to nearly 30 in last 7 days. Ethereum classic ETC, a decentralized, open-source and blockchain based cryptocurrency might soon lose its current momentum that allowed it to become one of the top performing crypto assets for the past week. A quick review at some data points for the digital acid reveals that it is currently treating in an overbought position which might cause buyers to be exhausted and unable to sustain a further rally yielding technical advantage to the bears once again. Moreover, the altcoins bollinger bands indicate that it is extremely volatile at the moment, making it susceptible to significant price swings that could happen in just a wink of an eye. This makes Ethereum classic a more risky asset to trade or hold. Related reading Leto Dow surges by more than 57 in just a week more games up ahead image Cohen pedia Ethereum classic, a quick glance at impressive run, according to latest tracking from Coen gecko, at the time of writing, ETC was changing hands at 19.82. Although the crypto has declined by two over the last 24 hours, it is still enjoying a nearly 30 jump from its value 7 days ago. Moreover, on a biweekly basis, the digital token tallied and upswing of 20.3. During the last few days, Ethereum classic was among the few cryptocurrencies that managed to post double digit gains within the previous week led by Solana, which surged by an astonishing 35. As for the reason, some experts believe that the pivotal turnaround in the hash rate of the ETC towards the end of 2022 paved the way for minor profitability which, in turn, increased the number of transactions processed by the asset's network. In fact, during the last two days, Ethereum classic transaction counts surged and hit a new monthly high. Following this, ETC recorded a 12 increase in its trading price, indicating that the spike in volume triggered an upward movement for the altcoins value. Related reading Matic advances 6.5 in last 7 days can it sustain gains for another week ETC total market cap at 2.7 billion on the weekend chart chart trading view dot com, preparing for possible price drawback despite being in the green for more than a week now. Ethereum classic is still haunted by the negative weighted sentiment that denotes bad convictions that investors harbor for the digital token. Holders and prospective buyers are therefore advised to be cautious as non positive sentiment is usually followed by a price retracement. Coincidence, however, seems to disagree with this thesis as its forecasts for ETC remains bullish despite technical indicators saying otherwise. In fact, the online crypto data provider predicts the digital coin will change hands at 19.765 days from now and will make another massive surge within the next 30 days to trade at 47.48. Featured images
Mark Levin
Joe Biden, Democrats & Media Have Done Everything to Exploit Jan. 6
"Joe Biden has done everything he can as the Democrats and the media have to exploit January 6th with the help of the department of injustice the Federal Bureau of Investigation AKA the American Stassi They lie about the number of people who were killed that day a protester was killed that day In air force veteran But the counting people who had strokes or heart attacks sometime after January 6th That would be like counting people at strokes and heart attacks and passed away all through the summer of 2020 So the BLM riots How many people died there And let's include all the people who died from strokes and heart attacks No no no you don't understand And since when do you count the people who died from the strokes and heart attacks after left wing riots It's sick But it's all exploitation That's exactly what it is And they want you to believe this is the greatest threat to our country since the Civil War Not the Attack on Pearl Harbor Not the attack on 9 11 No no no This is the greatest threat since the Civil War to the republic Even though not a single shot was fired by the protesters not one
The Dan Bongino Show
Julie Kelly: Veronica Escobar Invokes Jan. 6 During Speaker Vote
"So I'm listening to congresswoman Democrat Veronica Escobar right now She's putting in for the 13th time Hakim Jeffries name And as she speaking Julie she of course did what every sleazy Democrat is done today And somehow tried to compare this a constitutional process to pick a speaker to January 6th what happened the events I mean this is just really disgusting what's going on right now The invocation of January 6th to imply all these really horrible things Well in her use of the word term a day that will live in infamy as you know Dan and as we have talked about the Democrats really want the American people to believe that this what happened on January 6th was comparable to Pearl Harbor the Oklahoma City bombing and more shamefully that September 11th This is just part of their narrative building but it is so despicable and it really is shameful for the families who lost loved ones in all three of those horrific legitimate terror attacks So this is just such overreach by the Democrats
The Dan Bongino Show
Julie Kelly: FBI, DOJ Intend to Double Jan. 6 Cases
"I think it's frequently forgotten that the one person killed that day inside of the capitol was actually babbitt Now I've seen some teases on Fox all day apparently the husband is going to be on tonight on Tucker's show is going to be on talking about that and I Tucker Carlson's show But it's so gross how they will take this event You know not granted folks Everybody acknowledges everybody wishes things would have went down differently But the comparison to Pearl Harbor to 9 11 the absurdities and the lying on behalf of the government constantly to get these people thrown in gulags for charges no more serious than alleged trespassing That's the real story of that day isn't it As you describe and lay out aptly in your book it absolutely is And what's even more shocking Dan and I have a piece up in American greatness today This is just the beginning The Department of Justice and FBI have signaled this week that they intend to more than double the number of January 6 cases which is about 950 right now The D.C. U.S. attorney Matthew graves has indicated that they believe about 2000 people committed crimes that day to your point Mostly low level misdemeanors like trespassing But this manhunt is going to continue and as we've talked about it is destroying innocent lives You do not investigate people for over a year get search warrants for their phone Look at hours of surveillance video as this FBI just recently did And then destroy the lives of a couple from Washington who was just arrested before Christmas and charged with foreign misdemeanors This is what our FBI and Department of Justice are monopolizing their time in our resources with
AP News Radio
Ukrainian strike kills 63 Russian soldiers in Donetsk region
"The Russian military has set a deadly Ukrainian rocket attack on a building harboring its troops came about because of unauthorized use of cell phones by Russian soldiers, Russian authorities confirmed that phone signals allowed Kia's forces to determine the location of military personnel and launch a strike the death toll has now gone above 80 according to the Russian military. It also said the attack which was one of the deadliest on Kremlin's forces since the start of the war occurred one minute into the new year. Ukrainian forces fired 6 rockets from a U.S. launch system at
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Caller Hopes Trump Will Advocate for the Impeachment of Biden
"As that major announcement goes, I can tell you what I hope you said. I'd like for him to come out and just tell the Republican members of the House and the Senate to vote against this omnibus bill to not support this cinema tillis bill on immigration, raising the debt ceiling. Just all of the crap that's going on and just tell the Republicans to quit collaborating with these socialists. But along with that, God, I would like to see him come out and advocate for the impeachment of Joe Biden on the grounds of treason. Treason for not enforcing the southern border, treason for the contents of the hundred and Biden laptop showing collusion with China and being compromised. And collusion with the Tam, the DNC and the FBI and DHS on rigor and election. I mean, the evidence is all right there. But I would love to see him come at swinging and advocating for all of that because what's going on in the southern border cot just makes me sick. We are literally watching an invasion. I kept thinking in 1941 after a Pearl Harbor was attacked, that Christmas, at least president Roosevelt was trying to rally the nation. We came together. In 1913, Woodrow Wilson sent general Patton in a Mexico, the chased out Pancho villa, and here it is, we're being invaded right now with upwards of close to 20,000 people a day. And our president is doing nothing but just escorting in the middle of the country and spread them out. And it's treason, nothing but trees. And the poor people in El Paso are just they don't know what to do. I mean, just imagine 14,000 people every single day showing up in your community saying, here we are, Biden said to come, now you gotta take care of us.
The Bible in a Year
Day 348: Paul Sails for Rome
"It's day three 48. We're reading acts 27. Efficient chapters four 5 and 6, and proper chapter 29 versus 22 through 24. The acts of the apostles, chapter 27 Paul sales for Rome. And when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the augustan cohort named Julius. And embarking in a ship of HME, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we put to sea. Accompanied by aristarchus, a Macedonian from thessalonica. The next day we put in at sidon, and Julius treated Paul kindly and gave him leave to go to his friends and be cared for. And putting to sea from there, we sailed under the Lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us. And when we had sailed across the sea which is off cilicia and pamphilia, we came to Myra and lycia. There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy and put us on board. We sailed slowly for a number of days, and arrived with difficulty off sun itis, and as the wind did not allow us to go on, we sailed under the Lee of Crete off salmony. Coasting along it with difficulty, we came to a place called fairhaven's. Near which was the city of la Silla. As much time had been lost, and the voyage was already dangerous because the fast had already gone by, Paul advised them saying, sirs. I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of cargo and the ship, but also of our lives. But this centurion paid more attention to the captain and to the owner of the ship than to what Paul said, and because the harbor was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised to put to sea from there on the chance that somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, looking northeast and southeast and winter there. The storm at sea and when the south wind blew gently, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed the long Crete close inshore. But soon, a tempestuous wind called the northeaster, struck down from the land, and when the ship was caught and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven. And running under the Lee of a small island called kauda, we managed with difficulty to secure the boat. After hoisting it up, they took measures to undergird the ship. Then, fearing that they should run on the surface, they lowered the gear, and so were driven. As we were violently storm tossed, they began next day to throw the cargo overboard, and the third day they cast out with their own hands the tackle of the ship. And when neither sun nor stars appeared for many a day, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned. As they had been long without food, Paul then came forward among them and said, men. You should have listened to me, and should not have set sail from Crete and incurred this injury and loss. I now bid you take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship. For this very night there stood by me and angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship, and he said, do not be afraid Paul. You must stand before Caesar. And behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Kari Lake Guest Hosts America First!
"Freedom fighter. She's a patriot. She is pure maga through and through. Welcome to our guest host, Carrie Lake. Oh my gosh, Seth, thank you so much. It's such an honor to fill in on this show. I've been on this show so many times as a guest with Sebastian gorka. And so when he asked me to fill in, what an honor it is. And I just realized today is Pearl Harbor, remembrance day, the one years ago today, a day that will live in infamy. And so we honor all of our veterans. If you're joining us today, if you're driving home, if you're in the car, if you're watching the podcast, however you're joining us, we welcome you today. What a great program this is. And I've enjoyed it since I've took over America first. And that's what it's about. You know, sometimes we think we're living in a planet crazy with what's happening in this world, especially what's happening here in Arizona with our elections and I know firsthand as a candidate for governor and leading a movement in America first movement here for the last couple of years. It's really been difficult times. And I know that with us working together as Americans just as we heard in those clips, leading in, we can accomplish anything.
AP News Radio
Hawaii remembrance to draw handful of Pearl Harbor survivors
"A remembrance in Hawaii today for those killed in Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, about 2400 servicemen were killed in the Pearl Harbor bombing nearly half on the USS Arizona alone, many of those still alive are at least 100 survivor Luke hunter, who is a 101 years old, recently told the AP he's not a hero. Not us. We're not heroes. They call us heroes, but we're not at the ones in 2403 men that died or the heroes and we've got to honor them ahead of everybody else. His doctor told him not to travel to Pearl Harbor so conscious as he'll watch the ceremony on TV, the bombing by the Japanese launched the U.S. into World War II. I'm Julie Walker
Based On a True Story
"harbor" Discussed on Based On a True Story
"The there are also people because keep in mind immediately after Pearl Harbor, there's martial law is put in place in all of Hawaii and all of the territory Hawaii, and martial law remains in place until October 1944. Wow. And under martial law, there's a dawn to dusk curfew. I mean, I'm sorry. Dusk till dawn curfew. You have to have transport paperwork to go here or there. You are limited in where you can go on the island because there are areas of the islands that have been annexed or through a process of imminent domain. They have become military areas. And there were some people on the island that weren't happy about that. There were some people on the island who were agents of espionage. The most famous case that we're aware of is men named takeo yoshikawa, who was a Japanese naval officer who worked at the Japanese consulate on Oahu and yoshikawa was he operated there under a false name. And I can't remember what his false name was. I think it's asking too much of me to remember the false name that takeo yoshikawa use, but he operated under the false name tadashi Moore Moore when he was on Oahu and he was ultimately expelled when all of the consular staff and was expelled because the Japanese had a consulate. And Honolulu, and they had a consulate there because for God's sake, 40% of the people living in the white and islands were they were either Japanese or they were of mixed Japanese ancestry. And so it was obvious that you had a consular office there to assist the Japanese people and the people that were descendants of Japanese people that were on the island. When takeo yoshikawa went to work for the Japanese consulate in on Oahu under the name tadashi mori, he was supposedly there to help people process Visa applications to visit Japan. When he was actually there to spy. He was there spying on the American military. He is expelled, let's figure out what he does expelled, because I am, I think he's expelled before the attack. He arrived on March 27th, 1941. I'm sorry, he was not expelled until after the attack. He didn't return to Japan until August 42.
Based On a True Story
"harbor" Discussed on Based On a True Story
"But the second attack on Pearl Harbor was conducted by two Japanese long-range floatplanes on March 9th, 1942. Called operation K and in the operation K, these two long-range Japanese maritime surveillance seaplanes that are called we gave them the nickname Emily, the aircraft were appropriately designated the kauwa nishi kawaishi H 8 K flying boat, and these were four engine flying boats that obviously had a great range, and the aircraft took off from Japanese seaplane bases from a Japanese sea clay base and the Marshall Islands. They flew to the northeast to a place called French frigate shoals in French frigate shoals is technically a part of the Hawaiian Islands. It's just that it's much farther to the west of Kauai. Then you know how the Hawaiian Islands end with Kauai and Niko. And if you go another, I think it's another 400 or so miles beyond kava and Niko. You get to French frigate trolls, which at that stage was an area of shallow water with what was left of a volcanic cone for millions of years ago. French frigate shoals is noteworthy because of the fact that there's still a coral reef fringing the area of the Shoal water, and there's still therefore a lagoon. The lagoon has an open side which makes it possible for ships to enter from the open sea and sail into the lagoon, and the lagoon, because it's a Shoal area that's fringed by coral reef, it's very calm water. So common fact that Japanese float planes can land in the middle of that lagoon. So for operation K in March of 42, the two float planes took off from the Marshall Islands, they flew to and landed in the lagoon of French frigate shoals. There were two Japanese long-range submarines waiting for them there because again that lagoon is open on one side, open to the open sea. And so the two submarines were able to sail into the lagoon and tie up when the float planes landed, they taxied up to the two submarines, the submarines transferred fuel under the aircraft, and the aircraft once they had refueled, they then had a sufficient amount of fuel to fly all the way onward
Based On a True Story
"harbor" Discussed on Based On a True Story
"But there was no explosions in midair like we saw with, but after playing chicken, huh? I remain unaware of the examples. Well, one thing I did I was watching the movie is timed it from the time the first torpedo was dropped to the moment that admiral Yamamoto decides not to send a third wave that the time in the movie is 30 minutes and 45 seconds. How long did the actual attack take? The actual attack is right before it starts right before 8 a.m. and it's basically concluded little after ten. That's a lot longer. So yeah, and I should just point out something else that you just brought up. And that is, can I just teach you what this one really quick sidebar? Yeah, go for it. Yeah. And it's worth mentioning that, you know, so for all of the silly bonkers nonsense that's going on with aircraft having midair collisions and things like that will be saved by P 40 fighters while dog fighting with P 40s, which is something that did not happen. And I got to say this first to get this off my chest and that is that so 29 aircraft failed to return to the carrier. 6 of them are shot down in aerial combat. The 6 that were shut down in aerial combat. None of them were zeros that were dog fighting P 40s. The aircraft that were shot down in aerial combat by the American by the U.S. Army fighter pilots. They were either dive bombers or torpedo aircraft, mostly dive bombers. And that's an aircraft that is quite a bit less agile and maneuverable than the zero. So there were, there was no dog fighting and air to air combat of P 40 versus Japanese zero. None. And it's because the P 40 was really not an effective airframe for dog fighting a zero. P 40 was at a number of significant disadvantages against the Japanese zero. Time to climb, maneuverability, firepower, speed, obviously. The only one thing that the P 40 had that the zero just couldn't the way if you got a zero on your tail in a P 40, the only way to get out from under that problem was to just shove the stick over and run away from him because the P 40 was a heavier aircraft, and it was therefore in a dive capable of achieving a little bit more speed. And you could, you could quickly get away from a zero, but in terms of turning with them a dog fighting him, not a chance. Absolutely. The airframes were just completely they were not matched well. One another. And so the U.S. Army fighter pilots that fly that day, they end up shooting down less maneuver, and less maneuverable Japanese dive bombers at torpedo bombers.
Based On a True Story
"harbor" Discussed on Based On a True Story
"Remember when that happened when the movie, when the movie got underway, I was sort of ready to forgive the whole that pre scene of the two boys when they were kids. And then they accidentally fly briefly in this steerman that doesn't exist for another decade. And then they have this big moment of dialog with the one father who fought the Germans in World War I and he talks with an accent like this, and that guy is actually this excellent actor. What is his name? Oh, is it Victor? I think it's Victor. He's actually such a great actor. William Victor, yeah. And he plays Danny's father in the movie, and who is like freaking great in a movie that came out later that year because I have to remind myself that what was this calendar year? And May it was Pearl Harbor? In September, it was September 11th, followed by band of brothers, followed by Black Hawk down. And I'm sorry, but the movies that came out later in the year. Attracted much more of my attention than this one did. Because let's face it. I think Black Hawk down is one of the finest military movies that's ever been made. There are so few negatives that can be uttered about that movie. That movie is perfection on so many levels with so many good actors and so much good acting and figure who was also in this playing this ridiculous joke of on a southerner, but I'm a traumatized world. No one better at it. And he was directed by a poor director who didn't use him well, and then he had for God's sake Ridley Scott directed him in Black Hawk down, and he's absolutely excellent. I mean, that movie, I have nothing negative to say about that movie, but that's not why we're here. We're here to talk about Pearl Harbor, which is so weird to watch the way that it just abused these actors.
Based On a True Story
"harbor" Discussed on Based On a True Story
"The fleet was either at Pearl Harbor, or it was at lahaina roads. And if you look at a map of the Hawaiian Islands, you'll see that on the western shore of Maui, there is a town called Helena, and there is a protected body of water that's called Lena roads. That's between it and molokai and one of the other islands. Is deep and broad and it's an extraordinarily well protected bay. That was the location where it was preferred to keep the fleet at lahaina roads because at lahaina roads, everyone could spread out. There was easily ten times as much space at lahaina roads than there was a broad. And the fleet was in those months leading up to the attack, the fleet was, it was like 50 50, they were either at lahaina or they were at pearl. And when the Japanese set sail on the mission to carry out this attack, the Japanese had to train for both, which is why the first thing that happens that morning is the Japanese cruiser chitose launches a patrol aircraft. It's a single engine floatplane and that I'm sorry it was chitose and there was another cruise or two cruisers launch float planes and those float planes fly out to Pearl Harbor and lahaina roads and those floatplanes their mission was to determine whether or not the fleet was at lahaina or at pearl. And so these aviators as as much as we love to admire the skill. I mean, I'm guilty of it as much as I like to admire the skill that the Japanese military had. It was an extremely well skilled and well armed military force. As much as I like to admire the Japanese imperial navy, I also have to remind myself that for that morning they had trade for lahaina and pearl and that morning they were waiting for the verdict to come back from the floatplanes. And when the verdict came back, it was, okay, we're not doing plan a we're doing plan B they're at pearl. We're going to pearl. And so a point, I'd like to make that I think very effectively explains why the Japanese had all these de confliction problems over the objective was because they were training for two missions. Yeah. And that's a data dump for the aviators to be prepared for. And that's a lot of geography that you've got to brief on. There are there are a lot of variables that are at work with the two options, and the result was that I think you couldn't because they had trained for two missions. You couldn't expect that there wouldn't be problems when they finally got into position and carried out one of them. And there were big problems. They had some massive shortcomings in the way that they carried out that attack. And that was with them being really, really good. And they still have massive problems. You talked about the submarines. I want to ask about the B-17s, misidentified, B-17s. What about that side of it? Was that I'm assuming that was actually something that took place as well was the timing, the movie doesn't really explain the timing of that necessarily other than suggesting that it was around then, but we don't hear any specific times as far as when things were reported. Was that ever reported back to Nimitz or in anybody else that they knew that there was this fleet coming in?
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"To the bottom and rest on the bottom of Pearl Harbor until such time as they heard the attack began. They'd hear it. I mean, they'd hear massive explosions going off above them at which point they would blow some ballast. They would ascend through the water column, and they would release torpedoes against the ships that were lined up there. The reason that they were being used is there was a concern that the Japanese type 91 aerial torpedo. That's the torpedo weaves spoken about thus far, which is the type of torpedo that was being carried by B 5 into Kate torpedo bombers during the attack. The aerial torpedo was a less powerful weapon than the type 93 torpedo, which was designed to be used by ships and submarines. The type 93 torpedo was significantly more powerful weapon. The type 91 aerial torpedo of the type that was released by the aircraft had an overall TNT charge. I believe that it's in the weight range of 400 pounds of high explosive. That's nothing to laugh at. A lot. But the type 93 torpedo has carried by two each carried by the midget submarine. So 5 midget submarines, each one carrying two type 93s that makes for ten type 93 torpedoes. Those weapons carried over 700 pounds of high explosive. Wow. That's a ship killer. Yeah. And the thought was that the combination of and partly this was them the Japanese hedging their bets because the Japanese were not 100% convinced that all of the type 91s would work because again there's the issue of the shallow harbor, even though the breakaway fins worked, these people weren't stupid. They understood very clearly that, you know, when we get to when we get down to the lowest possible altitude 50 feet and we slow down to this speed and we release the breakaway wood fin assembly, it retards the dive and the torpedo doesn't dive but about 15, maybe 20 feet. And you know that there were naysayers there, but like, yeah, but what's going to happen when we're getting shot at.
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"And so it's, I think, therefore, easy to understand why it was that people didn't imagine that as a possibility. Right. They got no reason to imagine that the Japanese would do that. If it was me, if I was alive, then I would think, yeah, they're going to hit the Philippines, which of course they did on December 7th. I mean, it was there's an international date line between Hawaii and the Philippines. So when you read written accounts, it will say that they attacked in the afternoon of December 8th. Well, that's almost simultaneous. There were attacks on Guam that were almost simultaneous, and that was in addition to all these other attacks. What? If there was one failure, it was the failure to think big to think that what if the Japanese and we were pretty well aware of the fact that they're probably going to hit the Philippines, they might hit Guam, the one thing that nobody apparently stopped to think about was like, what if they hit everything? All at once. What if they hit almost almost every single one of our island outposts in the Pacific all at one time? We didn't imagine that being possible because that had never been done before, and there was also some confidence over things like the harbor shower. There was some confidence over things like, oh, they'll never come this far across the Pacific to hit why Hawaii is too far away. And in many respects Hawaii was sort of far away. I'm not saying that I'm not using this as a means of excusing the fact that they did get in a pretty powerful blow against us. But I also like to point out that the attack, although it produced, I mean, it killed 2403 people. It sank or destroyed 21 warships. It was resulted in the destruction of a 188 aircraft. It was this is nothing to sneeze at. This is a very serious attack. However, one thing I have heard over and over again repeated, especially in the years since this movie came out, is that the Japanese destroyed the Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor.
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"Actor, but look who was directing him. And look at what he was doing. It's Cuba Gooding junior like who was I think coaxed into giving this sort of over the top very broad way in over exaggerated servile 1930s African American performance. And then a lot of him hammering away with a twin 50 caliber machine gun and screaming like the old cliche of action movies. But one of the actors who I think is actually quite good and this is Dan Aykroyd. And Dan aykroyd is not playing an actual character, but rather playing a conglomerate of playing a group. He's playing a character that's based on several different characters that's assessing and evaluating intelligence before the attack. And there is a point where the movie spends some time developing this idea that the Japanese fleet has disappeared. Nobody knows where the combined fleet is. And that's rolled out in dialog in the film. And I love to add that in because I've told you, I lead tours I've led three tours of Pearl Harbor this year and leading to in the next couple of months. Oh, you should feel so terrible for me. I have to go back to Hawaii and talk about World War II. It's awful when I go through. But when I when this comes up, I love to point out that all military forces on wahoo had gone under a full alert on November 20th. That full alert lasted until December 4th. And part of the reason why this exaggeration of this misrepresentation of Americans who are off like, you know, they Alec Baldwin's Jimmy Doolittle as a moment of lied about our two fighter pilot main protagonist characters being in Hawaiian shirts when they flew their mission. The idea that Americans just weren't ready. Part of the reason that you do see that is and part of the reason that for many of these warships, commanding officers and also senior leadership on board the ship is not on the ship, they're ashore at the time of the attack. And that's because when we went to full alert on November 20th, everybody was on their station 24 hours a day until we relaxed from full alert, which we did on December 4th. So that literally the night of Saturday December 6th, 1941, that was the first Saturday night that anybody had had in weeks to go do something fun. To get off post or to get off the ship, to go do something, enjoyable, like go play a card game that the actual two fighter pilots that the two protagonist characters in this movie are based on, Taylor and Welch, the two of them had been cooped up at this temporary airfield that was a remote airfield on the north shore, during the entire general alert, and
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"Until the point where they finally disengage and the aircraft fly back to the fleet and the fleet makes a run for it. But during this first 15 minutes, which is when you have, I think it's 48 aircraft carrying type 91 aerial torpedoes, about half of them work. The ones that connect, my God, they put on a show because look what happened to USS Oklahoma. You look what happened to USS California. They connect. And enough of them connect for it to make sense. But an important point that I want to make here is that the reason that there is such a high failure rate is because as the Japanese as what is it a 183 aircraft from the first wave as they intrude into the airspace to attack the primary target, they were attacking all these other military targets on Hawaii, but the primary target was let's face it. It was Pearl Harbor navy base Pearl Harbor. And as they piled in to attack the navy base, they experienced massive problems with what the military today, air power today calls, de confliction. Meaning that they had very carefully laid out that the torpedo aircraft will circle all the way around the western side or the leeward side of the island. They'll come back around barber's point, they'll come back partly over the far western outskirts of Honolulu itself as they then get into position to approach foreign island to attack the battleships. And then dive bombers will cut across the mountain range here to attack Wheeler army airfield and this will all be done in such a coordinated way as everything happens all over the island all at once. What the Japanese ended up doing though was making a big mess of all of that. And it was to the point that there were aircraft, there were torpedo bombing aircraft. In other words, B 5 into Kate torpedo bombers that were lined up to attack, that would be the west side of fort island, where USS Utah was and USS Raleigh were. And those aircraft were looking for aircraft carriers. They saw USS Utah, which was at the time a target ship, and it had big wooden planks laid out on its deck and some aircraft and mistook it for being an aircraft carrier. And they attacked it some other aircraft at the last minute went, wait a minute. That's not an aircraft carrier. And so the pilots cheated around to the south going, I mean, I brought this torpedo a long way from Japan and I'm supposed to throw this thing at an aircraft carrier, and so their instinct was like, all right, not here. That's not an aircraft carrier. I'm supposed to hit aircraft carriers. They flew south around the southern end of Ford island, and then they were going to come back up to the other side of the island, which would be the eastern side where battleship was, looking for aircraft carriers, and the result was that you had aircraft that had flown all the way around Barbara's point. They were in position to release against I'm going to do it like this. They were in position to release against battleship row
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"By virtue of the fact that it was the bicentennial. And the version of the American Revolution that was served to me as a fourth grader in 1976 looks I just led last year an American Revolutionary War tour. This is something that I also do. I did more of it during COVID because I couldn't leave the country. But the version of the American Revolution that was available to me as a four year old in 1976 is very, very different than the version of the American Revolution that I know now as someone who studied American history and studies specifically American military history. I understand that the point at which I entered that historical continuum as a fourth grader in 1976, though the point at which I entered that part of the conversation was a point all of the veterans were all gone and gone by more than a century. And that the way that it was taught to me necessarily meant that there had to be a lot of exposition. There had to be a lot of description of like, well, here's why the United States decided. Here's why Lexington and Concord had to happen. Here's the Tea Party. We have to you have to understand the Tea Party and that this process of establishing context for people who have drifted away from a subject that that's inevitable that's going to happen. It happens with this movie and it's weird just to for me to be old enough to have grown up very, very familiar with and then Pearl Harbor 2001 happened. It was it's so weird to have that perspective because it felt very much like a comic book version of December 7th that was being presented for people who didn't have a life like mine growing up interested in the subject because of a family member and because of the movie tour tour tour. And because of I was born on a military post and I was raised in within the cultural context of the United States Army because my father was an army officer and I was around the military and I know that for a fact that the first time I saw a toro was on December 7th and I think it was in 1975 and it was at the post theater because that's what you do on the anniversary as you show every year on June 6th they would show the longest day every year on December 7th they would show tortora. I'm not sure that post theaters today are showing Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor every December 7th. I'm not convinced that that's happening. I don't
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"There's an accuracy in there, but there's more accuracy than inaccuracy. And they could not have made something outrageous like this. Then I think because there were too many survivors around. When this movie came out, there were survivors around, which brings me to the point about Glenn brazel. So my uncle, my late uncle Glenn brasel, volunteered for the United States Army from mobile, Alabama, and 1938. He volunteered specifically to serve in the Hawaii division that was being formed by the United States Army at the time. And that ultimately resulted in him duke completing basic trading and being transferred to the territory of Hawaii. He was then assigned to the company the 27th infantry regiment of the U.S. Army's 25th infantry division. He was based at schofield barracks on Oahu. And he was on the island on December 7th. He was army, so he wasn't down at the harbor. He was on the island, he saw interesting and fascinating things that day. But he wasn't at the harbor. When I was a kid, growing up in this arrow when there was still sort of a hangover from the movie tortora, a movie that I kind of consumed a lot of when I was a little kid. And then I was around uncle Glenn, who was actually there. And I spent a lot of that poor man spent a lot of time being interrogated about December 7th by me from about 45 years ago when I was a little kid. And I had this experience in my youth of being raised in the company of somebody that was there that day. And it led to later in life when I was an adult and I was intellectually interested in this subject matter. I spent time with him. I interviewed him. I did a lot of work with him and we had a strong relationship and he inspired me to a really important level toward a better understanding of what happened on December 7th. The unfortunate thing that happened was so my uncle Glenn was still alive in 2001 when this movie came out. I was working at a museum here in the New Orleans area at the time and it was decided they did this with band of brothers too, and that is that they had a premiere event for band of brothers on Utah beach in Normandy and they had a premiere event here associated with the museum. The same thing was done for Pearl Harbor. And because of that, they wanted to invite Pearl Harbor veterans to come, that kind of landed on me as a responsibility. And I was like, well, my uncle is still alive. He lives in mobile. He could drive over for the night, and I got a hotel room for him and I invited him and his wife to come over. To be able to go with me to this premiere event. And I promise you, it was, I don't know if it was ten minutes or 15 minutes in, but it was somewhere around there that I was like, oh my God, what have I done? And I was sitting next to him, and I just kind of kept looking awkwardly over at my uncle Glenn, and mercifully, at some point before the attack, he just kind of went and he passed out and he fell asleep.
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"Why are these like sort of waving banners out there? There's a battery at fort Macarthur that's called battery house good Farley. And it's a concrete battery that was covered with earth, so it looks like a hill. And then they just have like two centuries with rifles standing on that hill. And I'm like, no, this is very weird. None of it makes sense. And it all feels very it all feels very contrived. And I could almost just picture the way that it happened because I've had to deal with this myself, and that is that somebody in set design or the cinematography people, they look at a shot and they go, there's not enough going on here. We have to have the texture. We have to have something interesting to look at. And they tend to answer those questions as quickly and easily as they can, or they tend to respond to those challenges as quickly and easily as they possibly can, and what they tend to do is just sprinkle a bunch of stuff in the background. This movie is really bad for that. This movie is really bad for cinematographer who has a bit of a reputation for spectacle. And this movie is very reflective of the filmmakers background in that way because just shot after shot where you just kind of have stuff sprinkled into it, even when it doesn't really make sense. And I think the frustration that I am dealing with here more than anything is this frustration of with the passage of time, we're moving farther and farther away. We're drifting away from sort of a real and honest, undistorted vision of what happened that day. We're drifting away from that. Because of the way I tend to have the empiricists view of the way that intellectual knowledge is accumulated with the passage of time. And it's looking more and more like my view is the incorrect view. Because my view has always been well with the passage of time and we get further and further away from end historical moment. From the moment that it begins, when it began on Sunday December 7th, 1941 at Pearl Harbor, it was first the news media trying to make sense of what happened.
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"Talk space. And now let's head back to the show. Speaking of things from the Japanese perspective in Pearl Harbor, the first time that we see things from the Japanese military's perspective is a discussion about how war is inevitable. The Americans have cut off the oil that's their lifeline. They only have enough for 18 months. So war is the only option from their perspective. And so a massive sudden strike to wipe out the American Pacific fleet in a single attack at Pearl Harbor is the only way that they can succeed. And that's basically how the movie sets up the decision to attack pearl. How well did the movie do explaining the reason for that attack? C minus. It's a decent example of exposition. There's a lot that's got to be threshed out through this little section of its dialog. And also the senior referred to as the scene that of all scenes in this movie, it is, it has a cringe factor that I put right up there with, you know, the scene when the pilots are getting their inoculations from this little girl squad, the nurses, and it is as if it was written by children in terms of the way that it's set up and everyone is a complete caricature, everyone is a complete ridiculous laughable cliched dialogs awful. That scene, the proposal scene, a couple of other scenes in the movie, but the scene where there's this exposition about why we must do this is so very odd and uncomfortable for me to sit through because they filmed it at fort Macarthur at saint Petro and the Los Angeles area. And the way that they set the place up just because it has sort of a military look about it. But it's set up as this very peculiar outdoor meeting. We're outside. I was wondering outside. They just have their meetings outside. It's nice weather, I guess. Right.
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"Yeah, it's fascinating to kind of compare those two and I guess that quote, that's a great point there that this movie then based on that. And then it kind of makes me wonder if that quote is always going to be tied to Pearl Harbor to the event and people are just going to continue to make any time any other movies that are made in the future if they're going to continue to include things like that quote and just get further and further and further away from that path, like you were talking about. It's definitely cited endlessly even now. To the point that from the perspective of the bottom feeding tour guide that leads tours on Oahu that explores December 7th as a general subject, I can assure you that every single tour that I lead in Hawaii, someone will inevitably like they spend a lot of time listening to me telling stories and I think people get a little weary of the one sidedness of that. They get a little tired of the presenter quality of the tour guide that's going here and this and hearing that. Hear that. And they'll eventually sometimes they like to like toft in a little. Hey, here's a little fact that I know. And the one that gets tossed in the most is I fear that we've awakened this week a sleeping giant and filled in with a terrible solve. It's forced me to adopt a personal policy.
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"There will has been broken over this movie, and it's because for 20 years now, all they get are people who are casting off the occasional sardonic one liner about the movie. And they defend the movie. It's fascinating to me to watch it because they'll defend it. Well, you know, movies can't all be perfect. They come up with a standard battery of counterarguments. Movies can't all be perfect. The important thing here is that we got the word out. This was a blockbuster. A lot of people saw it and it made money for the film industry and what is the one quote I hear frequently a rising tide floats all boats. It's the suggestion that the movie Pearl Harbor would create this broader rising tide of positivism about it. There's no such thing as bad publicity type thing. That's exactly exactly right, exactly right. And when I was standing there entertaining questions about the movie Pearl Harbor at grosvenor square in front of the eagle squadron in memorial last month, I remember thinking this is the powerful argument. The argument that I that I think needs to be made about movies that make these conscious decisions not to honor historical accuracy. Not all movie will know it not all movies will approach historical accuracies. Some do better than others. The ones that don't, when they're bigger and they're more powerful, like this movie, or like Saving Private Ryan. What they end up doing is they end up replacing an actual historical narrative with the movie's narrative. It's to the extent that I remember there was an era before this movie came out. And that era from my childhood, I remember very clearly the movie that dominated the conversation was the movie towards Torah from 1970. Yeah. Great movie. And it came out the year after I was born. I grew up kind of with a group of military bases. They would play this movie every December 7th, and I sat through it many, many times before I was even ten years old.
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"harbor" Discussed on Based On a True Story
"We've covered a lot of World War II movies over the years, but it has been a little while since I've had you on the show. And one thing I've started doing since the last time that we talked is to kick things off with an overall letter grade for historical accuracy. So if we take a step back to look at Pearl Harbor from a historical perspective, what grade would you give it? F minus. F minus, okay. I've had a Z oh, I didn't realize that was possible. I didn't realize that. But yeah, we were making it up. I don't mean to be too cruel about the movie, but it doesn't, it doesn't take a scholar to recognize and observe that the 2001 motion picture Pearl Harbor had deep historical inaccuracies. It had, as an overall characterization of the film, it had a basic contempt for the actuality of the historical time period that it was presenting. That shows through very painfully in all of the set piece elements of the story. And I've divided it into four set piece elements, and that's element number one, which is the United States, pre war, sort of within a universe of U.S. Army, fighter pilots. I would characterize set piece two as the U.S. Military, the U.S. eagle squadrons in service. In the United Kingdom, prior to Pearl Harbor, set piece number three is Pearl Harbor. Set piece number four is the Doolittle raid. And within the context of all four of those historical set pieces, there are and again, I don't want to be terrible, but there are so many deep, historical and accuracies that were very clearly produced by a contempt for historical accuracy on the part of the filmmakers. I realized it does some pretty powerful words and, you know, those are fighting words. But I can't think of a more rational way of presenting it without engaging in histrionics. I am given to being a little histrionic about this movie from time to time. And the more balanced level headed side of my character has to take over for just this setting to say that the movie as it has created a legacy that's still with us today. And the unfortunate legacy of that is, I mean, the movie is recognized by posterity as being one of the biggest failures of historical accuracy that there's ever been depicted on the big screen. That's pretty telling right there. Well, you mentioned the dolittle rate and early on in the movie, we do see Alec Baldwin's version of major Doolittle telling Ben Affleck's character rafe Macaulay that only a few British pilots are all that stand between Hitler and total victory in Europe.
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"We're going to be looking at the 2001 movie Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor was directed by Michael Bay and stars Kate Beckinsale, Ben Affleck, and Josh Hartnett in a love triangle set around the events before during and after the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. The next day, the United States entered World War II when they declared war on the Empire of Japan. Oh, and I'll go ahead and spoil some of the fiction right now. That love triangle in the movie, it's not real. To help us separate fact from fiction in the film, I'll be joined by historian and author Marty Morgan, who has been on previous episodes of based on a true story to cover movies like the longest day, Saving Private Ryan. And of course, the HBO mini series band of brothers and the Pacific. The latter of whom is also one of the numerous TV film and game projects that Marty has worked on. Before we chat with Marty though, it's time to set up our game. Two truths and a lie. If you're new to the show, here's how it works. I'm about to say three things, two of them are true. That means one is an all out lie. Are you ready? Okay, here they are. Number one Pearl Harbor was not the only place the Japanese planned for the attack in Hawaii. Number two, only two American pilots got into the air during the attack at pearl, and they later went on to fly during