159 - Josephine Baker: Spy, Sex Symbol, Superstar

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

Cults, True Crime, Adult Humor, Religion, Conspiracies, Society & Culture, Education, History, Conspiracy, Biographies, Comedy, Dark Humor

4.8 • 22.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Josephine Baker. What a meatsack!! Such an incredible person. The modern world's first internationally famous black, female celebrity. She lived a lot of life. She was born into extreme poverty in St Louis. She overcame incredible odds to become a touring performing as a young teenager, working her way into the Philadelphia theater scene, then making it big on Broadway. Then she made it France and became a HUGE star. She broke racial barriers, became a spy and war hero for France, became famous for adopting children of various races in attempt to show the world we all can get along. And she did so, so much more! Hear about it all today on Timesuck. Hail Nimrod! My new horror podcast Scared to Death is ALIVE! Listen on Spotify, Stitcher, iTunes, Youtube, and more! Donating $3000 this month to the nonprofit - Youth on Record. Helping at-risk youth graduate and build careers in the arts. To learn more or donate yourself, go to https://www.youthonrecord.org/ Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: (full calendar at http://dancummins.tv) October 10-13 Tampa, FL Sidesplitter's Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! October 19 Minneapolis, MN 10,000 Laughs Comedy Festival CLICK HERE for tix! October 24-26 Portland OR Helium Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! November 1-2 Columbus, OH Funny Bone Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Timesuck is brought to you by Hims! Try hims today with FREE online visit. ForHims.com/timesuckED Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/UNo-tGRLL5w Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna become a Space Lizard? We're over 5000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

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0:00.0	I love an underdog story.
0:02.1	Love a tale of someone succeeding despite the deck being stacked heavily against them.
0:06.6	Based on general public perceptions about her race and gender during the time she was alive,
0:10.7	based on the family she was born into, where she was born,
0:14.1	there's no way Josephine Baker should have rose to fame and fortune.
0:18.4	But she did.
0:19.6	She didn't care about the rules or the odds. She just went for it.
0:22.3	She lived life on her own terms, but as much as one can,
0:25.9	she faced struggles with a smile and victories with the same smile.
0:29.3	She lived more life in one year than so many people seem to live in their entire lives.
0:33.8	She fought and loved and lost and won, lost again, won again.
0:38.8	The one thing she never did was give up.
0:41.0	She was beautiful, she was funny, she was dramatic.
0:43.7	She could be real asshole.
0:45.1	She could also be the sweetest person in the whole world.
0:47.0	She had a temper, a big heart, a bigger brain to dance her body,
0:50.4	a gypsy soul and a show of love to meet her.
0:53.5	She was a modern world's first black female superstar.
0:56.6	Ernest Hemingway described her as the most sensational woman anybody ever saw.
1:02.2	And by the end of this suck, you may agree with him without ever seeing her yourself.
1:06.4	Her life makes one hell of a tale.
1:08.7	So let's tell it today on Time Suck.
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