101. Blonde Women Love Guns in Rhodesia!
Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.
Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts
4.8 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 141 minutes
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Summary
This week, Madeline and David talk about Rhodesia, settler colonialism, and violent apartheid!
PATREON:
https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared
MADELINE'S BOOK:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/
SOURCES:
https://www.britannica.com/place/Rhodesia
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-colonial-policy-killed-100-million-indians
https://zimfieldguide.com/harare/pioneer-column%E2%80%99s-march-macloutsie-mashonaland
https://www.britannica.com/topic/British-South-Africa-Company
https://www.britannica.com/place/Mashonaland
https://www.britannica.com/event/Gun-War
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cecil-Rhodes
https://www.britannica.com/place/Federation-of-Rhodesia-and-Nyasaland
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2011.598029?needAccess=true
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/magazine/rhodesia-zimbabwe-white-supremacists.html
https://media.defense.gov/2023/Oct/23/2003326166/-1/-1/0/RhodesianBushWar_1965-80_20231204.PDF
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/archives/1964/09/214-3/132645217.pdf
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1978/03/04/110789090.html?pageNumber=4
https://www.jstor.org/stable/45314270
https://www.un.org/dppa/decolonization/sites/www.un.org.dppa.decolonization/files/decon_num_5-1.pdf
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79-00891A000700060001-0.pdf
https://time.com/6324696/rhodesia-minority-rule/
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1978/03/05/issue.html
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79T00472A000800020001-8.pdf
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/12/how-to-kill-a-country/302845/
https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/cecil-john-rhodes
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/why-white-supremacists-identify-with-rhodesia-480b37f3131f
https://www.aaihs.org/the-united-states-and-colonial-zimbabwe-pan-african-linkages/
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000016163
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to pick me up. I'm scared. The podcast. |
| 0:37.9 | I'm your host Madeline. And I'm your co-host, David. And welcome to this week's main episode. I guess we start with housekeeping. I have been told that just because I wrote the book and it came out doesn't mean I stop promoting the book. That's what it is. |
| 0:40.0 | Oh, you have to keep promoting the book. I have to keep promoting the book. |
| 0:43.0 | You know, because I was looking at all that graffiti stuff on TikTok. |
| 0:43.7 | Yes. |
| 0:47.2 | I downloaded TikTok just to look at all the writers, which is cool. |
| 0:47.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.8 | I saw your take, and it's just book promotion now, it seems like. |
| 0:55.9 | No. Like, I don't, because I don't use the thing. |
| 0:58.7 | So I signed into the thing, and it was like 40 of you things. |
| 1:00.5 | Oh, I'm so sorry to do that to you. |
| 1:02.9 | But no, it is not just, but you know what I'm going to do? |
| 1:04.0 | I'm going to read some review. |
| 1:11.7 | I'm going to read one review of the book, which I did make a TikTok about that I thought was really funny. |
| 1:17.9 | So if you follow me on TikTok, you probably saw the one-star review I got, which just- Is it on like Amazon or something? |
| 1:19.5 | No, this was on Goodreads, I believe. |
| 1:23.0 | So let me see if I can find the one-star to read it here, too. |
| 1:25.1 | I'm a big fan of that. |
| 1:26.8 | Oh, no, it was on Amazon. |
| 1:28.5 | The one star was on Amazon. |
| 1:31.2 | Okay, let me see what I can find here. |
| 1:34.0 | That's a good review. |
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