Short Stuff: Peace Sign

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The peace sign is one of the most globally recognized symbols around today, but it’s only a few decades old. And it wasn’t the hippies who created it, it was a group of Brits dedicated to nuclear disarmament in the 50s.

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0:00.0	My name is Curley and I'm Maya and welcome to the Super Secret Bestie Clubs
0:05.2	podcast a super secret club where we talk about super secret things yeah like
0:10.0	secrets that are super that's what it. In each episode we'll talk about love, friendship,
0:16.0	heartbreaks, men, and of course our favorite secrets.
0:20.0	Get in here! Here!
0:23.0	Listen to the Super Secret Bestie Club.
0:26.0	I'm I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
0:28.0	or wherever you get your podcast.
0:30.0	Hey and welcome to the Short Stuff I'm Josh. There's Chuck.
0:36.8	Jerry's here too. Dave's here in spirit. This means it's Short Stuff.
0:40.4	Let's go.
0:41.4	Yeah, we're talking about the peace sign today.
0:45.0	This was put together by a guy named Josh Clark.
0:48.0	No, this is from Jesslyn Shields at how stuff works.
0:53.0	That's right, I was just getting around.
0:55.0	Oh, okay.
0:56.0	Or actually I was serious, but as I was saying it, I noticed I was wrong.
0:59.0	Wow, this has gotten confusing already.
1:02.0	Stop laughing.
1:04.0	But we're talking, oh, that's right.
1:05.6	We're talking about the peace sign, the very familiar circle with the one vertical line straight down the center and then the two lines
1:16.9	branching off at 45 degree angles. The peace sign everybody come on.
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