105. Further Right Than West Virginia

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

This week, David and Madeline talk about the West Virginia coal mining wars, deputizing orthodontists to shoot the poors, and maybe the only okay cop to ever exist -- maybe!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

BOOK:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/

SOURCES:

Savage, Lon: Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Coal Mine War 1920-1921

Shogon, Robert: The Battle of Blair Mountain

Hubert, Patrick: Rednecks and Red Bandanas

Wheeler, Hoyt: What Did the Coal Miner See

Amsden, Jon and Brier, Stephen: Coal Miners on Strike

Gadsby, Margaret: The Coal Strikes

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast.
0:27.6	I'm your host, Madeline.
0:29.8	And I'm your co-host, David.
0:32.7	I feel like we haven't recorded in forever.
0:35.5	It's been a couple weeks. You've been in New York.
0:39.6	I have been sick in bed or on my couch. Like, I have been a couple of weeks. You've been in New York. I have been sick in bed or on my couch.
0:44.3	Like, I have been a fountain of snot for the last week. I just... I didn't know you were a poet. Wow.
0:47.3	Yeah, that, you know, my beautiful words, I just sprayed an insane amount of nasal spray at my nose so that I don't sound
0:57.9	totally weird for this whole recording. You sound good. You sound real, not weird. I, you know,
1:05.9	I have learned through listening back to our episodes to hear what was going on with the audio,
1:12.6	that I have the weirdest possible vocal affect imaginable.
1:17.3	I don't know what it is.
1:18.7	I don't know.
1:19.5	I think that's accurate.
1:20.7	I think the recording issue is a thing, but I know we're correcting it because someone
1:25.1	recently said, why does Madeline always sound so quiet?
1:28.8	And I'm like, okay.
1:30.2	So now we've overcorrected.
1:32.5	We, you know, I, it's just because I am a man talking over you.
1:38.6	That's why.
1:40.9	I'm going to tell me that.
1:42.1	I'm like, oh, well, that's because David's a misogynist.
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