Ed Helms
speaker
9,380 appearances
79 recordings
18 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard yesterday
Ed Helms’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When I was eleven, I spent weekends trading baseball cards and thinking up fart jokes.
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But Bill Davidon was already going miles out of his way to stand up for free speech in the face of government repression.
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I mean, I guess he could have also traded a few baseball cards while he was there, but the point is when he saw Injustice, Bill took a stand.
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Bill was studying to become a theoretical physicist when the United States dropped the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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He was devastated that the science he loved was being corrupted for mass human casualty.
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Several decades later, he was afraid that his country would use nuclear weapons in Vietnam.
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He began protesting in Philadelphia, and it wasn't long before he was rubbing shoulders with the Catholic peace movement.
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Bill was a scientist, and as such, a methodical and practical problem solver.
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He often preferred simple solutions.
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Breaking into draft boards was dangerous, but that didn't necessarily mean it always had to be complicated.
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This is Sarah Davidon, Bill's daughter.
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Bill was a doer, and the kind of person his community trusted.
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The kind of person you might come to if you thought Big Brother was spying on you.
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If it was true that the FBI was surveilling peace activists simply because of their protest activity, that would be a violation of the First Amendment rights of the very citizens the FBI was sworn to protect.
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But Bill also worried that all of this surveillance might have another effect.
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But Bill knew it would be no use accusing the FBI of such a crime unless he had cold, hard proof.
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Bill was a walking set of contradictions.
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Born to Jewish parents, he was an atheist yet actively involved in the Catholic peace movement.
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Bill was quiet, but still a natural leader.
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He had a rare gift for comprehending the mysteries of the physical universe, and yet also purchased a big-ass TV with no plan for how to get it home.
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