Thanks, Joan Hope, for joining us this hour.

All right, you know how sometimes I start the show

with something weird?

And you don't know why I'm bringing it up,

but like maybe you trust me enough

to stick with me through it.

Tonight is one of those nights.

I fully concede this is going to start off seeming very, very much out of nowhere.

But I swear it is on the day's news, and if you bear with me for just a second I will make it make sense

Okay, one of those nights, but here we go ready

Meet this guy

The most highly paid Nazi agent in the United States in the lead up to World War II. His job here was to spread propaganda for the Nazis in the United States.

This guy was charged and convicted of being a Nazi agent in the U.S.

And he was a relatively well-known figure,

so it was relatively big news when he was charged

and convicted and made the front page of the New York Times,

for example.

But the bigger scandal about him was that he got a whole bunch of members of Congress to

participate in this propaganda thing that Hitler was paying him to do.

Members of Congress were involved with him, lots of them.

Then he was indicted a second time, the same guy.

And the first time it was for being a Nazi agent,

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