Michael Yan

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257 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 5 Aug

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The French opened that up in 1869, right?

And so that became the spinal cord of the British Empire, as some people would call it at that time, right?

World War I was all about routes and resources.

It was not about some Archduke getting shot, Ferdinand.

It was about the Baghdad to Berlin Railway.

It was about things like that.

It was about something much larger.

So what you see now, there goes the icon up there again, probably our minder.

Getting too close to the sun here.

Getting too close to the truth.

Yeah, I mean, those were when I was actually in Special Forces.

I was on two different A-teams.

And this was a conversation that came up numerous times.

I think I was the one that would generally bring it up.

Because, you know, I was on an A-team.

I'd made it through Green Beret training when I was 19, right?

And actually, the youngest Navy SEAL, Scott Helvingston, we went to high school together.

And we used to work out together.

We were on the same football team in Winter Haven, Florida.

He became a SEAL at 17.

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