Short Stuff: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!
Stuff You Should Know
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4.6 • 79.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Who is Uncle Sam anyway? Was it a real person or just a marketing exercise? And why does he refuse to go away? Listen in to find out.
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| 0:00.0 | Ever get the feeling someone's watching you? |
| 0:02.0 | Well, in 1971, a group of anti-war activists |
| 0:07.0 | had that feeling. |
| 0:08.0 | I was in the heart of the dragon, |
| 0:10.0 | and it was my job to stop the fire. |
| 0:12.0 | So they decided to do something insane. |
| 0:14.9 | Break in to the FBI and expose |
| 0:18.0 | J Edgar Hoover's dirty secrets. |
| 0:20.4 | We had some idea that this was pretty explosive. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm Ed Helms. |
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| 0:30.0 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.0 | Hey and welcome to the short stuff, Josh Chuck, Jerry, Dave, let's go. |
| 0:41.0 | I could not for the life of me find out where we have talked about Uncle Sam before. |
| 0:47.0 | And it had to be one of our videos. |
| 0:50.0 | Hmm. |
| 0:51.0 | But I couldn't find it. I checked a million times over and it was not a short stuff. I couldn't find it anywhere |
| 0:57.9 | But I know for sure the only reason I know this is because we talked about it |
| 1:02.1 | It had to be our 4th of July special |
| 1:04.8 | that we did with the Onion and the Daily Show. That keeps coming back to haunt us |
| 1:08.8 | huh? Yeah. Because we had another one the other day that was I think in there. Yeah I bet you it was. Yeah, but who cares? Let's tell the real story Josh and Chuck style. Yeah, we're going to talk about Uncle Sam. If you don't know who Uncle Sam is, |
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