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

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

All right, Kenna, today we're starting with me asking you, have you ever seen the movie Argo?

Argo. Is that the one about the like hostage situation?

It is.

Yeah, it is.

It's got Ben Affleck in it.

I was thinking Ben Affleck, but I couldn't remember where it happened or the year. I just know that it's a hostage movie.

Yeah, it's, you know, a true story, right, based on this group of six Americans who escaped the U.S. Embassy during the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

Oh, yes. And weren't they, didn't they get out with like some, like, some

like secret agent was posing as a film studio and they got them out by pretending to be

cast member? I don't remember. Yes, no, that's totally it. So basically, um, these six Americans

were at the U.S. Embassy, the Iranian

Revolution. I'm trying to learn how to say Iran the right way because I grew up saying

Iran and everybody on the Internet is like, it's Iran. So now I'm realizing I don't, I didn't

practice how to say Iranian. So that's difficult for me. But the Iranian Revolution

of 1979 breaks out and they storm

the U.S. Embassy and the six Americans who escape end up hiding out in a Canadian ambassador's

house for like months in Iran. And there was this thing, you know, called the Iran hostage crisis

that happened where 52 U.S. diplomats and students were held hostage during the revolution.

And those six people that managed to escape the embassy before everyone else, you know, that's,

Argos, the movie about them trying to rescue these six people. So basically, the CIA launches

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