Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast.

I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, David.

David, we have a late episode today because the research took so long.

Yeah, you texted me and you were like, it's not going to happen.

It's not going to happen. Like you had too much. It was too much. It's a lot. It's a lot. I think it'll be a two-parter. I thought maybe it might be a three-parter. We'll see how it goes.

We'll see how it goes. We'll see how it goes. Um, yeah. So today's episode is going to be about something that a lot of Americans, I think, don't

really pay attention to, aren't sure exists.

It is the U.S. Agency for Global Media.

That sounds kind of like the things that we've already talked about a lot, like NED, CIA

stuff, a lot of, like, U.S. propaganda stuff.

It's definitely the largest arm of the federal government dedicated to propaganda.

And I think this episode is going to be really fascinating and it's going to piggyback off

of a lot of episodes that people who've listened to our podcast up to now probably have

heard before.

If you listen to a Radio Free Asia episode, for example, this is going to be an

expansion of that kind of thing. Yeah. So before we get into it, we should do like our housekeeping

stuff. If you follow our Patreon, it's patreon.com.com pick me up. I'm scared. And you can get bonus

content there. You can get two episodes for three dollars a month. Forks already whining.

And at some point we got to do

part three of the Cambridge Spies. Yeah, that's going to be super exciting. That's the bonus

series that David has been working on. And I've been talking to you and I think you're down for

it, doing the book club on Reds, the Tragedy of American Communism? Yes, super down.

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