Juan Pujol Garcia and Thirtynineitude: Citation Needed 8×03
Our traditional Wartime Badass Episode this week, albeit a wartime badass whose weapon included expense reports.
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@TomScottGo
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
On the assumption that most of last week's comments were "how did you comment a week ago": the whole season gets uploaded and scheduled in one go, including these comments!
@frailty7280
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
1:38 all the spystuff and im most impressed that his lifespan had a perfect 12 year buffer on either end of the 1900's
@scottvogel8477
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
I feel this story would make a great light hearted,but also serious at the right moments movie.
@philash824
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
This episode needs to be twice as long, there was so much more to this man's career. For instance he told the Germans that one of his "agents" had died, so they started to send his "widow" a pension
@legowerewolf
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
"Well, 70 years later and they're back." has aged so well. 😔
@fariesz6786
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
i feel like i watched all of these when they came out i don't remember this or the previous one i watched (the Norwegian butter crisis one).
anyway, rest in peace you legend.. Bovri La Garbo
@Jefbracke
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
Venezuela is kind of America aged well…
@yewcookies
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
This is my all time favorite Citation Needed episode.
@vkillion
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
I've seen this episode so many times and never thought of this before. Pujol is probably pronounced with a soft j (like the beginning of jalapeño), but there is absolutely no way the others would have let you get away with saying "Poo Hole".
@Maria24_100
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
12:35 little did he know…
@JonesNate
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
5:11 — I bet the news was delayed getting to Germany, though, because it must have been hard for the Germans to get newsreels from Britain. Remember, this was wartime 1940s, so you didn't just have access to over-the-air antenna style newscasts. And, it certainly wasn't like it is today, how you can just get news whenever and however you want.
@topicvideosguy
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
Garcia was actually mentioned in the song Quicksand off of David Bowie's album Hunky Dory.
"I'm the twisted name on Garbo's eyes"
@RoverAddiction
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
What if he faked his death in 1988?
@ThankourGod
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
11:25
Operation Bernhard
@mibyminer4971
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
12:35 This didn't age well.
@femme-fleur
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
because of Gary's "nice to see you, to see you: NICE", now every time someone says "nice to see you", I have to stop myself from saying, "to see you, nice!"
@ekjswim
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
Don't want to besmirch the name of Juan Pujol Garcia but thinking about if maybe he was actually a rather incompetent "triple" agent for Germany makes me want to see a movie or show that's sort of an inverse Hogans Heroes where there's a double agent for the Nazis but he's so bumbling and incompetent that he somehow ends up losing the war for the Axis.
@WhatIsAPig
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
Operation 42’d
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
@gabrielmunozbezerra9632
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
VIVA ESPAÑAAAAA!!!!!
@yellowflowerorangeflower5706
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
cool
@XaleManix
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
11:14 That's about 6 Million in today's cash, by the way.
Sure, it's about the price of an anti tank missile, but what a con!
@TerciosEnFlandes
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
EL MEJOR ESPÍA DE LA HISTORIA Y ESPAÑOL
@bomoose
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
saw garbo, clicked
@fafnir242
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
Remembering this today, the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings.
@JelenaMajic
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
3:28 that was such a smooth freeze that I thought my screen malfunctioned
@SerjBassist
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
I laughed more than I'd like to admit with Operation Fortyoneitude
@davidwhiting1761
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Truly one of the best ones I've heard yet.
@kaziiqbal7257
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
I can imagine the lads in the MI5 office giggling just like they are.
@JonesNate
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
2:08 — turn on subtitles. Trust me.
@MURDERPILLOW.
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
2:02
@milohdd
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
I love the cries of mystery biscuits from the audience
@Thunderplunk
March 21, 2026 at 8:58 am
It's been four years, and I still think Gary's "shepherd's pie" pun is the greatest thing these four have ever done.
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