Steven Spielberg
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first heard May 2026
last heard 3 Jul
Steven Spielberg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He had a couple of missions in the air, but he was so good with electronics.
They sort of grounded him and put him in charge of sort of ground-to-air communication.
And my dad told me stories about World War II constantly.
So I made 8mm war movies.
Escape to Nowhere, which I depict in The Fablemans, is an actual movie I made when I was about 16 years old called Escape to Nowhere.
And because I was really obsessed with war, I made a World War II...
Air Force movie called Fighter Squadron in black and white when I was about 14 years old.
And so that just came out of my sort of fascination with what I was watching on television or the stories my dad was telling me.
Well, you know, sometimes it was the things I was just sort of eavesdropping about.
Sometimes my dad would have reunions with other members of his fighter squadron and the 490th Squadron, and they'd come over to the house sometimes once every couple of years, and there'd be seven or eight guys together.
And I'd be wandering in and out of my room or going into the kitchen, but I'd hear some of their stories and talking.
And the thing that was most disturbing for me was...
all of a sudden a grown man would fold over sobbing.
And my dad and everybody else would surround and tap the, pat the person on the back and try to get a glass of water.
And there would be, you know, tears from, you know, it's unusual when you're a kid and you hear in your own home adults sobbing.
And whatever they were sobbing about, it was only years later that I found out that the PTSD that came out of that war was causing, and that's why it was so healthy for these veterans to get together once every couple of years.
I would never have gone to Canada, but I tried everything I could not to be drafted, even though I was subjected to two or three physicals.
I kept taking physicals because I had a draft counselor, and the draft counselor had advised me how to delay.
I was 1A.
I was not doing good in college.
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