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

with our second part of the multi-part episode on USAGM, the US Agency of Global Media. Oh yeah, the

propaganda wing. The propaganda yeah, the propaganda wing.

The propaganda wing of the United States.

Before we get started, just to do some intro stuff, we are also still working on the multi-part

thing over on our Patreon.

Oh, the Cambridge Five.

The Cambridge Five.

I was just, I gave you an early birthday present.

And I was just reading about Kim Filby's work in Albania in the late 40s in that William Blum book, Killing Hope.

The thing about the William Blum book, Killing Hope, is I've read excerpts of it online when I've been researching certain places, but I've never read the whole thing start to finish. So there are all sorts of countries because it's laid out by country, right? Based on, you know, U.S. intervention that I just haven't looked into it all,

so I'm really excited about that. I unfortunately right now am reading at the same time

six different books about North Korea, I think. I feel like you keep going. You have hoed that row. Oh, that's a phrase. That's a phrase.

Rowing a hoe? I don't know this phrase at all. That is a hard row to hoe. It's definitely a

phrase that people say. That's a thing people say ho. It's definitely a phrase that people say.

That's a thing people say often.

I've definitely heard people say that before, often, even.

Uh-huh.

Uh-huh.

Like in a garden.

Right.

Yeah.

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