Up with People (Entry 1376.MT0715)
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🗓️ 10 November 2022
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In which the counterculture of the 1960s encourages powerful institutions to create a square but multiracial song-and-dance troupe that takes the world by storm, and Ken imagines President Eisenhower as a stern ad executive. Certificate #53773
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| 0:00.0 | We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century. |
| 0:21.0 | Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this monumental |
| 0:26.2 | reference of strange and obscure human knowledge. |
| 0:28.8 | These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost. |
| 0:35.0 | So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions, |
| 0:41.0 | this is our legacy to you. |
| 0:43.4 | This is our time capsule. |
| 0:45.4 | This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 1376 dot m. T. 07-15 certificate number 5-377 up |
| 1:19.2 | certificate number 5-377 3 up with people Number 5377, 73. |
| 1:22.9 | Up with People. Ken, how would you describe clean cut? |
| 1:35.0 | What does clean cut mean to you? |
| 1:40.0 | What does clean cut mean to you? |
| 1:42.0 | Somebody just sent me a link of a... What does clean cut mean to you? |
| 1:42.6 | Somebody just sent me a link of the Osman's singing with Cher. |
| 1:48.6 | They're doing a Stevie Wonder medley, they're lip sinking, and they are just marching in place with their big, goofy, |
| 1:59.7 | you know, inch tall smiles. And at some point on higher ground the other part where |
| 2:08.9 | Stevie sings soldiers keep on marching or whatever some anti-Vietnam part of it. |
| 2:14.0 | The Osbans and share all salute to the camera like they're in a road performance of on the town. |
| 2:20.0 | Yeah. |
| 2:21.0 | And I was like, that's it, that's the high watermark of clean cut American culture like |
| 2:26.4 | And I guess this is the era we're gonna be talking about where we're trying to |
| 2:30.1 | Embrace the things that the young people like but actually put a clean cut navy salute on them. |
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