45. Radio Free Whatever

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about Radio Free Asia, the CIA's propaganda campaigns, and what corporation we'd want to own California! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: SOURCES https://www.wklaw.com/stealing-government-property/ https://ballotpedia.org/PBS#:~:text=President%20%26%20CEO%2C%20WFYI-,Finances,the%20Corporation%20for%20Public%20Broadcasting. https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances https://current.org/2021/09/npr-budgets-for-improved-financial-outlook-in-new-fiscal-year/#:~:text=The%20budget%20allots%20for%20%24292.8,9. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Radio-Free-Europe https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1977/12/26/issue.html https://www.rfa.org/english/about-old/history.html https://www.rfa.org/about/releases/rfa-celebrates-its-25th-anniversary https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000846953.pdf https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/03/22/90299418.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v10/d132 https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v10/d176 https://asiafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/FY2019-Form-990-Public-Disclosure-Copy.pdf https://www.proquest.com/docview/220697788 https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/house-bill/2914?s=1&r=82 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-107srpt60/html/CRPT-107srpt60.htm https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp84b00049r001303260026-4 https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vj71c.18?seq=12 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/01/true-or-false-kooky-north-korea-stories https://www.govexec.com/magazine/1999/05/broadcast-news/6021/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast. I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, Kenna.
0:28.4	Okay, Kenna, today, I wanted to ask you if you remembered a while ago there was that story about
0:35.2	North Korea and how everybody there had to get the same haircut
0:38.3	as Kim Jong-un?
0:40.1	No, I don't remember this story.
0:42.3	You don't?
0:43.4	I don't, I mean, maybe I'm passing.
0:46.1	Maybe we talked about it on the pod.
0:47.5	You know my memory.
0:48.7	My memory's bad, too.
0:49.8	No, I don't remember us talking about it on the pod, but I thought what happened is then we all watched a YouTube video kind of about that phenomenon and these Australian dudes like debunked it.
1:02.1	Oh, I think, okay, I was not paying attention because I think it was at work and I got distracted. I'm sorry.
1:08.6	No, that's okay. How dare you work at work? How dare you while we watch YouTube video?
1:14.1	Um, yeah, so basically what happened is there was this like news article that came out in 2014
1:18.9	where it was like, every man in North Korea is forced to get the same haircut as Kim Jong-un.
1:24.2	And then there were like all these like major news places picked it up here in the
1:29.0	US and ran with it and then there were all these like jokes about it all over TV for like a whole
1:33.8	month everybody in the United States was talking about it and then we watched this video where
1:38.5	these guys went to North Korea to get a haircut from Australia and they got they just got a haircut
1:44.0	and they talked kind of about like the power of language as a haircut from Australia and they got they just got a haircut and they talked kind
1:44.6	of about like the power of language as a tool of manipulation and like propaganda and it was a
1:50.1	really interesting thing. But this is the conversation that led to me just like looking up photos
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