Ed Helms
speaker
9,380 appearances
79 recordings
18 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
Ed Helms’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Watergate was still just a hotel, and the Washington Post hadn't yet become the crusading institution that took down the Nixon White House.
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Betty herself was a young reporter who'd been at the paper for just a year.
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Her beat was religion, and she shared an office about the size of a walk-in closet with a motley crew of fellow reporters.
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Yeah.
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the smirch department.
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But that morning Betty didn't have time for any smirshin' around.
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Like any good journalist who's just been sent a mysterious envelope, she was dying to know what was inside.
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the letter went on to say that Betty had permission to make copies of the files and to publish their contents.
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Inside the envelope were fourteen Xerox FBI files.
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It didn't take long for Betty to grasp that these documents were explosive.
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An FBI agent behind every mailbox.
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Sort of like Uncle Fester, but in wingtips.
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At first, Betty wondered if what she was reading was a hoax?
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To enhance paranoia?
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Seriously?
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She kept reading.
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And it didn't stop at this one liberal arts college.
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There was a pattern.
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Files in the envelope showed the FBI was surveilling citizens all over Philadelphia.
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The subjects Betty was reading about in these files, they were anti-war protesters, civil rights activists, labor unions, and a noticeably high percentage were black.
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