Welcome to Pick Me Up. I'm scared. The podcast. I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, David.

And David, today we are doing the second part of our second two-parter. Yeah, this is exciting.

The National Endowment for Democracy. Do you want to do a catch-up of what we learned last

time? Yeah. So what we learned last time is that they're like the CIA, but smaller. And when

everybody started to catch on to the CIA being up to coup, I'm going to call them coup shenanigans all over

the planet. Co shenanigans.

Koonanagan.

That sounds like a Tweed band.

The sort of Tweed band that gets Havana syndrome.

Exactly.

They are the more Tweed version of the CIA.

We did agree on that.

Last time we did an episode.

So that checks out. So they're up to Koonanigans, the CIA all of the CIA. We did agree on that last time we did an episode. So that checks out.

So they're up to Koonanagan's, the CIA all over the planet. And then people started to catch on. And then the U.S. government was like, oh, my God, how do you do CIA things without people

knowing it's the CIA? And then they invented this NGO non-governmental organization in name only that is actually very governmental.

They get all of its funding from the U.S. government, most of it anyway, and whose board of directors are all people who work for the CIA and other high up government agency.

I like to think that there's like one like extremely dumb rich guy who's like NGO.

I like I need a place to put my money and is like just like sending like the NED like a check

every month.

And they're like, I don't know why, but we just got this like one dude.

I mean, the CIA actually had their equivalent of that with like Rockefeller.

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