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Thank you We sneak We're talking about batman parents teachers

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This all started back in the nineteen forties and it

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was the california state guard or something like that They

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were patrolling the coast doing what they do best and

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you know protect in california from japan invasion so to

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speak So this guy named major malcolm wheeler Nicholson decided

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that he wanted to kind of help the paratroopers out

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And so he had this idea of putting wings on

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the paratroopers you know sales or whatever it is something

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like that They kind of held them out the idea

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west so that when they were flying in enemy territory

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they could you know have a little bit more control

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before they decided to pull their shoot And then you

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know go into enemy territory I don't know it's a

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huge deal here It sounds like something out of a

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comic book And so yeah he wants to put the

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wings on there and have them flying enemy territory Because

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if they were just normally pull their shoot then there

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would be i guess susceptible to more enemy attack So

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you had sitting ducks or what So he's doing this

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Whole thing And so he wants to get a bunch

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of jumpers to go and test this stuff And so

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this really famous jumper guy by the name of like

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nicky morgan he was like okay i'll come test your

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chutes for you I can how come do this and

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i'll bring some of my buddies along he grabs a

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couple of his buddies then they go and test them

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of these things Some of the tests go well for

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the majority of the test kind of failed so he's

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like nah nah man i don't want to do anything

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with it This doesn't seem like it's going to be

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safe Why don't we get anybody else hurt And we

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were scared and we're like professionals so if you get

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the amateurs out here doing this and then they fly

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around and what if they fly into a tree lighting

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to a mountain or something like that You never know

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that's always like no i'm gonna wipe my hands on

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that And so then major nicholson wheeler wheeler nicholson whatever

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his name is he's like okay that's fine that's cool

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whatever and that was that but fun facts before he

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decided to propose the wings He decided he wanted to

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found a comic book Publication is called the national allied

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publications and you might not know that it is now

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But later on it turned into comics so that's pretty

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corrupt quite mind blown So maybe that's where the idea

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of batman came from I'm not quite sure because if

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you started out with a batman paratroopers and if you

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couldn't do it in real life but maybe he wanted

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to do in the comic books And so then there 00:02:16.465 --> [endTime] you have it Batman paratroopers

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