Selects: Operation Mincemeat: How A Corpse Fooled the Nazis
Stuff You Should Know
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4.5 • 82.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In World War II, a secret department of British 'corkscrew thinkers' hatched a plan to use the cadaver of an unclaimed homeless man to turn the tide of the war in the Allies' favor. It worked. Listen to this classic episode as Josh and Chuck take you through the real life tale.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.1 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:06.2 | Happy Saturday. |
| 0:06.9 | It's Chuck here, and I am picking out our select for this week, and I'm going with a more |
| 0:11.2 | recent one, maybe controversial to do so, but it's our episode on Operation Mincemeat, |
| 0:15.9 | and I am picking that one because I don't think we were able to record this for that episode, |
| 0:20.7 | but the Broadway |
| 0:22.1 | show Operation Mincemeat was literally inspired by this episode. One of the stars and the producers |
| 0:28.8 | was all over Variety Magazine and all over the place in interviews saying that her brother, |
| 0:33.4 | they were searching for a show to do, to write and, you know, make into a Broadway show. |
| 0:38.2 | And he said, hey, you should check out this episode of stuff you should know. |
| 0:42.3 | Operation Mintz Me. |
| 0:43.0 | This is a really crazy story. |
| 0:44.1 | And I think there's something there. |
| 0:45.7 | And there was something there because not only did they make it into a Broadway show, it's been a pretty big hit and was nominated for Tony Awards. |
| 0:53.1 | And I am going to get to go see it in New York City next weekend, and I'm super excited because I think I get to meet the cast. |
| 1:01.1 | So, anyway, here we go, everyone, another little feather in our cap. Operation Mincemeat, colon, how a corpse fooled the Nazis. |
| 1:12.1 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 1:21.6 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. There's Jerry |
| 1:26.8 | Rowland. This is Stuff you should know. Chuck. |
| 1:29.5 | Yo. I'm 39 years old and I still can't say my own name correctly because of my stupid thick tongue. |
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