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Ye Olde Gossip: Did You Know This Vintage Starlet Worked A Spy Fighting Nazis?!

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The Bert Show

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this week's edition of #YeOldeGossip Abby breaks down the secret history of the vintage starlet Josephine Baker...who fought the Nazis as a FRENCH SPY?!

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0:00.0

The Bird Show.

0:01.3

All right, Abby, this is going to become a regular segment here on The Birch Show.

0:04.8

We love it so much.

0:06.4

Ye old gossip.

0:07.8

Ye old gossip.

0:08.8

I love history because history is basically just a bunch of hot gossip.

0:12.9

And there's a lot of stories that we know and we love.

0:15.7

And then sometimes there's those dirty details that we haven't really been able to get into

0:19.4

because sometimes the history channel doesn't want to get as salacious as I do.

0:23.5

And today we're going to be talking about Josephine Baker, who used her dancing talents,

0:28.2

intelligence, and sensuality to take down the Nazis.

0:32.4

So Josephine Baker was one of the first...

0:35.2

Is she available today?

0:36.2

I'm sorry.

0:36.6

She was one of the first... Is she available today? I'm sorry. She was one of the first black women to become an international superstar, but also a fresh spy.

0:45.5

So she was basically Beyonce if Beyonce was smuggling government secrets on her world tour.

0:51.4

But before she was a spy, she was an icon, a full-time heartbreaker.

0:57.5

She was stunning.

0:59.1

She was stunning.

1:00.2

But she was a little girl in the early 20th century in St. Louis, Missouri.

1:05.6

So Josephine's story is a little bit Cinderella.

1:09.4

So she grew up very poor, like so poor she would wear potato sacks as dresses.

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