106. Trump Was Sent By Heaven to Destroy the Communist Party!

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 186 minutes

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This week, Madeline and David talk about Shen Yun, Falun Gong, The Epoch Times, and Li Hongzhi!

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0:00.0	Welcome to pick me up. I'm scared. The podcast.
0:27.8	I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, David. Uh, today,
0:31.8	I think our episode's going to be really good. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. Yeah, you texted me, I got like kind of a weird flurry of text messages where you had one idea that you'd been pushing for a while.
0:39.6	Yeah.
0:39.9	Which is the National Endowment for Democracy.
0:42.1	Very interested in that.
0:43.3	And we do talk about that today a little bit.
0:45.3	Yeah.
0:45.7	I mean, I assumed it would come up and then you got a copy of the Epic Times.
0:51.5	Yeah, that's true.
0:52.8	It came.
0:53.7	It was on my doorknob in a little plastic bag on
0:56.7	my front porch and it was the the most fascinating surprise yeah you know I'd heard of it
1:03.2	I never seen one in person yeah that this is like what's that there's that like slightly
1:08.3	culty socialist party that shows up at all the protests and
1:11.2	hands out, like, flyers and shit?
1:14.7	It's not the Epic Times.
1:16.2	Well, no, I know.
1:16.9	But like, it feels like, in a way, like the epic where, like the Epic Times is kind of like
1:24.0	ambiently just there.
1:26.3	It, that's true.
1:27.3	It is just there, kind of everywhere.
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