Episode Transcript: #1511 - Oliver Stone
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All right, here we go. Thank you very much for being here. I'm a really big fan. So this is an honor for me
I'm really really excited. I'm really excited about your book
I'm really excited about just your films the untold untold history in the United States, which I think is fantastic
I mean that is that's one of my favorite things you've ever done and and so thorough and so interesting, but
The book at first of all look how good you look in there on the cover there
Well, that's an old shot handsome bastard. Look at you. Yeah, looking good there. What year is that from? It was 1968 November
I just come off the last mission in Vietnam. Wow. It was on a hilltop
We got stuck in the rain in the ashile Valley. It was the first cavalry and
We really helicopters couldn't get in for 11 days. It was awful. Wow. We had leeches everywhere
And the enemy we didn't know where they were but we felt that they were gonna close in
I was but it was too wet ultimately for them to close in but they knew we were there
So we were praying the whole time was kind of nerve-racking because it was my last few days
You understand I was supposed to get out of there
What Deros leave the country I was due out
I had volunteer I had volunteered for an extra three months in order to get out of the army three months sooner
Wow, in other words, they had there's normally you had to serve if a two-year deal
You had to serve six six months stateside on the backside of it
So I didn't want to do that because I was going nuts with the rules and the regulations
And I've gotten in some trouble with that
So I extended in combat for another three months and that ended up in this mission