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Stuff You Should Know

Do People Really Run Off to Join the French Foreign Legion?

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2013

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Anyone who knows anything about Jean-Claude Van Damme knows he played a French legionnaire in the movies. He was just one of many actors to star in films that romanticized this mercenary force. Check out the details in this episode with Josh and Chuck.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:31.3

Welcome to StuffyShitNow from HouseStopWorks.com.

0:41.6

Josh, before we get started, we want to remind our loyal TV audience.

0:47.4

We hear from you guys that say this show is really growing on me.

0:50.2

Yeah.

0:51.2

I'm really liking it more and more and we really appreciate that.

0:53.4

And we sure do.

0:54.4

Your last chance to see said that shows will be this Saturday March 9th.

0:58.1

We got our final marathon coming up.

1:00.1

That's right.

1:01.1

It starts at New Eastern Time.

1:02.1

That's right.

1:03.1

And the Thonscience Channel.

1:05.2

And it's a whole marathon featuring some classic episodes called Re Runs plus two new episodes,

1:12.7

both written by Mr. Charles W. Chuck Bryant, beautiful episodes and one of which is the pilot.

1:19.4

And even more confusingly, the fact that we're airing the pilot as the season finale is

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