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Who Did What Now

114. Frederick Rutland - Beverly Hills Spy

Who Did What Now

Katie Charlwood

Feminist, History

4.6759 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Rutland of Jutland was one of the most famous aviators in the First World War, decorated for his heroism who became a Japanese spy during the Golden Age of Hollywood, who was instrumental in the attack on Pearl Harbor, while hobnobbing with the celebrities of the day. But what caused this British War hero to up sticks and leave his country to become a spy for the Japanese Navy, in Beverly Hills of all places?

TRIGGER WARNING: Mention of death and suicide

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, delicious friends, and welcome to Who Did What Now, the history podcast that's not your history class, with me your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlet and Reader of Books, who at this moment in time is clearly one sandwich

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shot of a picnic. Oh, oh friends, you'll never guess what I did. I just recorded 40 minutes,

0:49.6

40 full minutes with the microphone on the laptop and not my Yeti microphone.

0:59.4

Because I was like, why is the sounding distorted?

1:01.9

Because I was just starting to, you know, edit a little bit.

1:06.1

And, and, and, yeah, I realized that I had been recording with the wrong microphone for the whole

1:13.7

bloody time.

1:15.9

So, so I'm not doing the best right now.

1:19.2

Oh my goodness.

1:20.9

Oh my goodness.

1:21.8

That being said, if you want to cheer me up, you could vote for me in the British

1:27.1

Podcast Awards. That was a smooth segue,

1:30.6

don't you think? So it turns out I'm eligible for it, so I thought, why not? It would be so funny,

1:35.3

because I'm up against like these massive, huge podcastles, right? With like full equipped

1:43.0

studios in teams and researchers. and then you've got me who's recording

1:49.5

in a kitchen with a broken window in a field in Ireland like how funny would it be if I got to

1:56.1

like the top five even like we have the opportunity to do something fucking hilarious. Also, um,

2:04.7

to warn people who think that I'm really unprofessional because I called a fuckwit a

2:10.7

fuckwit. Because here's the thing, anybody who assaults and abuses a vulnerable family member after she suffers a miscarriage,

2:22.7

I'm sorry, I get to call you whatever I like. I don't care. Yes, this is in reference to the

2:28.7

Mary Toft episode. Anywho, vote for me in the British Podcast Awards. Yes, I'll be saying the same thing when the Irish Podcast Awards come out.

2:40.7

And yeah, you don't have to be British, you don't have to be Irish, you don't have to be any of these things to vote.

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