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Thick & Thin

Change, falling trees & forgotten spies

Thick & Thin

Katy Bellotte

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Thick & Thin, we discuss an exciting new change for the podcast (!!!), along with falling trees, trusting your instincts & largely forgotten yet extremely influential American spy, Virginia Hall. Virginia was a one-legged spy who has been called America's greatest spy of World War II, although it’s fairly likely that you’ve never heard of her. We'll change that! // Follow me on IG: instagram.com/katybellotte // SOURCES: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/18/711356336/a-woman-of-no-importance-finally-gets-her-due https://nypost.com/2018/01/13/she-was-a-post-columnist-and-a-heroic-wwii-spy/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQSCJNsRJMQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to Thick and Thin with me Katie Bilotti and I'm not

0:19.0

going to lie to you. It feels a little bit weird to be sitting where I'm sitting

0:22.0

right now because obviously you

0:24.0

can't see but I am sitting in my sunroom in Maryland looking out at the river in

0:29.3

my backyard recording with various audio issues that I'm stressed about but overall it should be fine

0:35.9

things are unpredictable here I had to switch out my chair a couple of times because I don't know why I didn't realize this before like back in May when I was here

0:44.6

last but when you shift from one side to the other in this not the chair I'm sitting in now

0:49.3

but the one I was sitting in it causes this like horrible creaking sound that I thought you couldn't

0:54.7

hear and then listening back to old episodes you fully can hear it so thank you guys

0:58.7

for being kind and not pointing it out but I am mortified so I switched switched out my chair, we're good, I'm a perfectionist, as you know. But yeah, things are weird because I'm sitting in this spot that I used to record in, I guess back in like May when I was here last when you know things with the virus were kind of first happening and everyone was scared so like March through I guess how many months was I here like three months I don't remember but I was here for quite some time recording

1:23.3

episodes in this room and so much has changed since then like since I was

1:28.2

sitting here last recording with you guys so much has changed in my podcast, in my content, in just my life where I'm living, like so, so many things, and so it's interesting to be sitting here again.

1:40.0

I feel like everything is rushing back all the feelings that I experienced

1:43.8

earlier this year are right back here so that makes for good content as we know you

1:48.8

know struggle breeds change and change breeds content for my Instagram and YouTube and

1:56.0

podcast and Patreon and everything that I do I do a lot of things as you know

2:00.8

but yeah so I think there's going to be some really great

2:02.5

episodes recorded in this space once again now that we're back in Maryland again and I'm

2:08.3

mainly staying at home 90% of the time I'm here so that means means I'm going to be able to have some really awesome

2:14.4

podcast episodes for you guys today included.

2:17.4

So today on thick and thin, we'll be talking about just some of my updates and musings and

2:22.2

things I've been really thinking about recently.

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