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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I had a student deferment, a 2S deferment, as a lot of us had, most of us had.
But when my grades dropped below a certain level, my GPA dropped below a certain level, I lost my 2S deferment, became 1A, and was ordered up on my first physical.
My second physical, actually.
My first physical, I was in high school, a senior in high school, just turned 18, up in Northern California.
And I was standing in line.
in a rainstorm outside to watch Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.
And I was standing in the Dr. Strangelove line, and I hear a horn honking.
And I recognize my dad's car, and he's parked on the curb right opposite the theater.
This was in San Jose.
And he's waving me over, and I run over to the car, and I jump in the car, and he hands me a letter from the Selective Service.
And it was a letter that was ordering me to report to have my first physical.
And I'll tell you the Power movies, Terry, which is really interesting.
I was terrified.
That letter was like a death warrant.
and my dad was gonna drive me home and I said, no, no, no, I gotta see this movie.
And I had the letter and I put the letter in my back pocket and ran back in line and I saw the movie and 10 minutes into the movie, I forgot that my father had handed me what could have been my death warrant.
That's what that Kubrick film did for me.
It took my mind off of anything except that story of Armageddon.
And that was another example of just the power of somebody telling me a story.
Well, because something called the lottery was enacted.
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