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I mean, we're women. People only look at us if they want to fuck us or marry us, and that's it.

So nobody would ever think that two people like us would be spies.

What makes a good spy? Training, experience, being able to blend in easily, nerves of steel.

Of that list, the lead characters in the new peacock series,

ponies, possess just one, and actually that's debatable. As women working for the CIA, in Cold War

era Moscow, they are, as the station chief refers to them, persons of no interest. P-O-N-I,

ponies.

I'm Mary Louise Kelly, and this is Sources and Methods from NPR.

This episode is a little lighter than our usual fare.

Do not worry.

We'll be back with the heavy headlines on Thursday, and a heads-up that we will be in Munich for the annual security conference hosting the podcast from there.

Today, we're diving into the new TV series Pony's, which actually has a lot to say about the national security world.

Haley Lou Richardson stars alongside Amelia Clark. When we meet them, they are embassy wives.

Then their husbands, both CIA officers, are killed in the line of duty.

So the women persuade the CIA to take them on and send them back undercover to Moscow.

Haley Lou Richardson and Pony's showrunner, David Isterson, are here to talk about it.

Welcome you to sources and methods.

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