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🗓️ 26 March 2025
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The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was an intelligence agency of the United States during World War II. The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)[3] to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for all branches of the United States Armed Forces. Other OSS functions included the use of propaganda, subversion, and post-war planning.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to citation needed, the podcast where we choose a subject, read a single article about it on Wikipedia and pretend we're experts because this is the internet and that's how it works now. |
0:29.9 | I'm Noah and I'm going to be this week's code master. |
0:32.7 | April probably cheat somehow, but I won't be able to do this without the help of a few Cryptonomicon artists. |
0:38.6 | Nice. |
0:38.9 | First up, possibly the only two people who are going to get that jokey, then Cecil. |
0:44.1 | Okay, Neil Stevenson invented the fucking blockchain and I still love him. |
0:49.3 | Like really good books. I'd corner him at a party and talk about crypto. |
0:53.9 | I would definitely do a line of |
0:55.7 | snow crash with him. Not Neil Gaiman, but him. Yeah, for sure. That's fair. Yeah. And also |
1:01.5 | joining us tonight, two men who are still pissed, the army wouldn't hire them as pig Latin |
1:05.3 | wind talkers, Tom and Eli. That's right. It turns out I'm more of a windbreaker than |
1:10.1 | wind talker anyway. Oh, there you go. And I huffed all those pig farts. It turns out I'm more of a wind breaker than wind talker. |
1:11.5 | Oh, there you go. |
1:14.0 | And I huffed all those pig farts for nothing. |
1:18.1 | So I'm very confused as to what the requirements were. |
1:21.6 | And before we get going, I want to take a minute to thank our patrons. |
1:25.0 | Patrons, without you, I wouldn't be able to afford to thank you. |
1:27.6 | That's shit. be able to afford to thank you. If you learn how to join their ranks, be sure to stick around to the end of the show. |
1:30.6 | And with that out of the way, tell us, Heath, what person plays, think, concept, phenomenon, |
1:33.6 | or event what we'll be talking about today? |
1:36.1 | Sabotaging Nazis, Noah. |
1:38.7 | Huh? |
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