Margo Martindale

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  1. The Analyst

    06/16/2020

    The Analyst

    CIA analyst Sarah Carlson spent a year at the U.S. Mission in Libya after the attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi. When battles between rival Libyan militias edged closer and closer to the U.S. compound, she and the other personnel there were forced to flee the country in a harrowing overland journey. Carlson’s story wraps up Season 2 of I Spy. We’ll be back soon with more episodes. Check out I Spy's merch by going to https://store.dftba.com/collections/i-spy Save 15% on FP subscriptions. Visit https://foreignpolicy.com/subscribe/ and enter code ISPY at checkout to claim this offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  2. The Counterspy

    11/26/2019

    The Counterspy

    The CIA thought it had thoroughly penetrated Cuban intelligence, with scores of agents and informants in Havana, until one day a Cuban officer walked into the U.S. Embassy in Vienna and broke the news—the agents were actually double agents. James Olson was the CIA station chief in Vienna at the time. He would go on to serve as the agency’s head of counterintelligence.   Check out I Spy's merch by going to https://store.dftba.com/collections/i-spy Save 15% on FP subscriptions. Visit https://foreignpolicy.com/subscribe/ and enter code ISPY at checkout to claim this offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  3. The Hellraiser

    02/16/2021

    The Hellraiser

    Jay Dobyns was a special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. In 2002, he infiltrated the Hells Angels biker gang and spent two years undercover—a period in which he says he worried every single day about getting exposed and killed by the group.   Check out I Spy's merch by going to https://store.dftba.com/collections/i-spy Save 15% on FP subscriptions. Visit https://foreignpolicy.com/subscribe/ and enter code ISPY at checkout to claim this offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  4. The Spycatcher Part 2

    06/07/2022

    The Spycatcher Part 2

    This is part two of Eric O'Neill's story. O'Neill was an FBI agent who went undercover to catch a suspected spy in the bureau: Robert Hanssen.   If you haven't signed up for our newsletter yet, go to https://foreignpolicy.com/ispynewsletter/. Each week we'll send you bonus content you won't find anywhere else, including photos, illustrations, and expanded show notes—for free. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  5. The Special Agent

    02/23/2021

    The Special Agent

    The FBI's Ali Soufan specialized in Al Qaeda investigations both before and after the attacks of September 11th. In 2002 he was sent to question Abu Zubaydah, a high-level jihadi captured in Pakistan. But after several rounds of interrogation at the secret site, he was sidelined by a CIA contractor who had helped develop a new torture program for the agency. Check out I Spy's merch by going to https://store.dftba.com/collections/i-spy Save 15% on FP subscriptions. Visit https://foreignpolicy.com/subscribe/ and enter code ISPY at checkout to claim this offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  6. I Spy Season 4—Coming May 31

    05/18/2022

    I Spy Season 4—Coming May 31

    Hey there I Spy listeners, here's the trailer for season 4. We'll have new episodes starting May 31. More spies, more Margo Martindale. This season, we'll also have an I Spy newsletter, with photos, very cool illustrations, and a bunch of other bonus content you won't find anywhere else. Yes, it's free. Sign up at foreignpolicy.com/ispynewsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  7. The Bookseller

    06/02/2020

    The Bookseller

    Naveed Jamali worked at his parents’ specialty book business, a little company that counted among its regular customers one very unusual client: a Russian spy. Jamali hatched a plan to nab the Russian that turned into a three-year odyssey, requiring him to work as an FBI informant and pose as a Russian asset. This season, there’s more I Spy with I Spy Plus. Get ad-free I Spy episodes and access to weekly bonus episodes right in your favorite podcast app, plus more exclusive espionage content. Subscribe to I Spy Plus today at foreignpolicy.com/ispy. Check out I Spy's merch by going to https://store.dftba.com/collections/i-spy Save 15% on FP subscriptions. Visit https://foreignpolicy.com/subscribe/ and enter code ISPY at checkout to claim this offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  8. The Trainer

    05/31/2022

    The Trainer

    Well, listeners, it's taken us a while but here it is: the first episode of our fourth season. We begin with Ric Prado, a former CIA officer who trained the Contras in Central America in the 1980s. For those of you who don't remember, the Contras were trying to overthrow the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. America's support for the group eventually led to the Iran-Contra affair, a government scandal that nearly brought down the Reagan administration. For more on the Contras, go back and listen to season one's The Jumper. Eugene Hasenfus, who helped deliver arms to the Contras, describes parachuting from a burning plane and getting captured by Nicaraguan forces. We spent several years tracking down Hasenfus and getting him to tell his story. Also, our show now has a newsletter! Sign up for free to get bonus material after each episode, including photos, illustrations, and other content you won't find anywhere else. https://foreignpolicy.com/ispynewsletter/ I Spy is produced by the podcast team at Foreign Policy, the premiere website for intelligent news and analysis from around the world. The best way to support the show—and keep those episodes coming—is by subscribing to Foreign Policy.   Save 15% by going to https://foreignpolicy.com/subscribe/ and entering ISPY at checkout.   Okay, enough verbiage. Enjoy the show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  9. The Man With the Antidote

    11/19/2019

    The Man With the Antidote

    On this episode, the Israeli Mossad operative Mishka Ben-David is sent to the Jordanian capital of Amman to help assassinate Khaled Mashal, the political leader of the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas. But the mission doesn’t go quite as planned. Check out I Spy's merch by going to https://store.dftba.com/collections/i-spy Save 15% on FP subscriptions. Visit https://foreignpolicy.com/subscribe/ and enter code ISPY at checkout to claim this offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  10. The Targeter

    05/05/2020

    The Targeter

    On this episode, CIA targeting officer Nada Bakos leads a two-year hunt for one of the most dangerous militants in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. This season, there’s more I Spy with I Spy Plus. Get ad-free I Spy episodes and access to weekly bonus episodes right in your favorite podcast app, plus more exclusive espionage content. Subscribe to I Spy Plus today at foreignpolicy.com/ispy. Check out I Spy's merch by going to https://store.dftba.com/collections/i-spy Save 15% on FP subscriptions. Visit https://foreignpolicy.com/subscribe/ and enter code ISPY at checkout to claim this offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  11. "The Telephone Hour" with Margo Martindale - Still Watching American Crime Story Impeachment

    09/29/2021

    "The Telephone Hour" with Margo Martindale - Still Watching American Crime Story Impeachment

    Vanity Fair's Katey Rich and Richard Lawson are Still Watching the FX true crime anthology series American Crime Story: Impeachment, covering the Clinton Affair of the late 1990s.  This week covers the third episode of the series "The Telephone Hour" which aired Tuesday September 28th on FX. This episode features Richard in conversation with Margo Martindale, who plays Lucianne Goldberg in American Crime Story: Impeachment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  12. The Investigator

    06/21/2022

    The Investigator

    The Secret Service is known for its VIP protection unit but it also investigates international crimes, including hacking cases. On this episode, we feature a Secret Service agent who helped nab one of the biggest hackers in the world, Roman Seleznev. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  13. The Narc

    01/19/2021

    The Narc

    Welcome to Season 3 of I Spy. On this episode, DEA special agent Steve Murphy is sent to Bogota, Colombia to hunt for the head of the Medellin Cartel, Pablo Escobar. Check out I Spy's merch by going to https://store.dftba.com/collections/i-spy Save 15% on FP subscriptions. Visit https://foreignpolicy.com/subscribe/ and enter code ISPY at checkout to claim this offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  14. Margo Martindale

    Nov 4

    Margo Martindale

    **Make healthy eating simple. Get Huel today with my exclusive offer of 15% OFF orders $50+ online with our code [DROPPINGNAMES ] at huel.com/DROPPINGNAMES. New Customers Only. Thank you to Huel for partnering and supporting our show!** Jonathan Frakes and Margo Martindale have both been telling people they met at Harvard for forty years, and neither of them ever bothers to add the part where it was a summer production of The Threepenny Opera with Christopher Reeve playing Macheath, badly, right before his beeper went off with the news that he had got Superman. That friendship is the spine of this one. Margo joins Brent Spiner and Jonny on Dropping Names to trace the whole route, from Miss Jacksonville High School and Cecil Pickett's classes in Texas, through four years at Actors Theatre of Louisville alongside Kathy Bates and Mary McDonnell, to originating a role in Steel Magnolias off Broadway and watching the film go to bigger names. She also explains the entrance she once made in a very serious Irish play with a long tail of toilet paper stuck to her shoe. Then comes the directors list, and it is absurd. Clint Eastwood never called action on Million Dollar Baby, he just told her to start when she felt like it and let her know afterwards that it was good for him, then went to the golf course. Sidney Lumet taped out the whole set on the floor and later rang up to ask how she felt about playing a part written for a Hispanic man on 100 Centre Street. Sydney Pollack flew her in from holiday for Sabrina and then shot her in the dark. There is Days of Thunder with Tony Scott, The Hours, The Human Stain, Secretariat with John Malkovich and Diane Lane, an Emmy nomination for playing Bella Abzug in Mrs. America, laughing herself sick in Ireland while making Cocaine Bear, the real spies she interviewed for her podcast during The Americans, and the story of how Will Arnett talked her into voicing herself on BoJack Horseman as Margo Martindale, esteemed character actress, a job title she now uses constantly. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

  15. I Spy Season 3—Coming January 19

    01/12/2021

    I Spy Season 3—Coming January 19

    More spies, more Margo Martindale. Hey there I Spy listeners, here's the trailer for season 3. We'll have eight new episodes starting January 19. Check out I Spy's merch by going to https://store.dftba.com/collections/i-spy Save 15% on FP subscriptions. Visit https://foreignpolicy.com/subscribe/ and enter code ISPY at checkout to claim this offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  16. The Art Dealer

    12/03/2019

    The Art Dealer

    Amaryllis Fox worked for a decade as an undercover agent at the CIA, cultivating arms merchants and preventing them from selling fissile material to terrorist groups. On this episode, she describes courting one particular dealer whose ties to terrorist groups in Indonesia and elsewhere raised alarm bells at Langley. Fox has changed some of the details of her story to avoid exposing the agency's assets and methods. Check out I Spy's merch by going to https://store.dftba.com/collections/i-spy Save 15% on FP subscriptions. Visit https://foreignpolicy.com/subscribe/ and enter code ISPY at checkout to claim this offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  17. The Infiltrator

    02/09/2021

    The Infiltrator

    The British spy agency MI5 recruited Willie Carlin to infiltrate Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland. He spied on the group for 11 years until his cover was blown.   Check out I Spy's merch by going to https://store.dftba.com/collections/i-spy Save 15% on FP subscriptions. Visit https://foreignpolicy.com/subscribe/ and enter code ISPY at checkout to claim this offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  18. 'Ghost Light' starring Laura Marano, Tory Kittles, and Margo Martindale

    07/02/2020

    'Ghost Light' starring Laura Marano, Tory Kittles, and Margo Martindale

    When two actors reflect on the Broadway debut that never happened, some real life magic brings the show to life.   ‘Ghost Light’ was written by Libe Barer and Rory McGregor and stars Laura Marano (The Perfect Date), Tory Kittles (True Detective), and three time Emmy winner Margo Martindale (The Americans) with an original score by Calum Watson and Jackson Lewis featuring Dana Williams on vocals.   On today’s episode, we’re highlighting the See Lighting Foundation, which is giving monthly grants of $500 to sixty immigrant theatre artists who are unable to qualify for unemployment benefits and are unable to seek other work due to the nature of their work visas. To donate, please visit seelightingfoundation.com.   We want to hear from you. Text us and get the inside scoop on all things Day by Day and Must B Nice at (646) 783-1043.   Day by Day is created and produced by Adam Faze and Jamie Dolan, with sound mixing and design by Becket Cerny. Additional character voicing in this episode was performed by Josh Adwar,  Owen Thiele, Rory McGregor, Jamie Dolan and Adam Faze. Special thanks to Jennifer Millar, Spencer McConnell, and Dana Williams.   Special thanks to Christ Hanover for our incredible animation and Layla Gorgoni for our gorgeous artwork.   Follow us on Instagram at @mustbnice + @daybyday and on Twitter at @daybydaypod + @mustbnicefilms! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit adamfaze.substack.com

  19. The Handler

    06/14/2022

    The Handler

    Michele Rigby Assad joined the CIA just weeks after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and spent much of the next decade working undercover in the Middle East. In 2007, she helped investigate an ambush in Iraq that killed an American woman.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  20. The Master of Disguise

    11/12/2019

    The Master of Disguise

    On this first episode of I Spy, CIA agent Jonna Mendez is sent to a capital city in Asia to help steal a top-secret encryption machine from a Soviet Embassy. Mendez’s job in the operation is to fashion disguises for the team. She would go on to become the chief of disguise at the CIA’s Office of Technical Service. Check out I Spy's merch by going to https://store.dftba.com/collections/i-spy Save 15% on FP subscriptions. Visit https://foreignpolicy.com/subscribe/ and enter code ISPY at checkout to claim this offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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