111. School of the Americas -- Pt. 1!
Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.
Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts
4.8 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
This week, Madeline and David talk about the School of the Americas -- where the USA trains future dictators of the world!
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:31.7 | It's our first time doing the episode in a couple weeks. |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah, you've been on tour. |
| 0:37.5 | Yeah, I did some book tour dates. I did Philadelphia and Boston. No, Philadelphia and Brooklyn. |
| 0:43.0 | And then I am doing Santa Cruz on Tuesday, May 28th at Bookshop Santa Cruz. |
| 0:43.6 | That's exciting. |
| 0:46.3 | Did you, what do you like better, Brooklyn or Philadelphia? |
| 0:48.9 | I mean, I love them both. |
| 0:53.1 | Philadelphia has a special place in my heart, if I'm being perfectly honest. It's, you say it's one of your favorite cities. It's like the sister city to Fresno in your mind. |
| 0:59.6 | Yes, it is. I had a delightful time in Philadelphia. Also, both of these events were a lot smaller. |
| 1:04.9 | The bookstores were smaller than the other ones. So they sold out. And at the Philadelphia location, all the books sold out too. |
| 1:11.3 | Oh, nice. |
| 1:11.8 | People wanted to buy books and they couldn't. |
| 1:13.2 | So that was a good sign. |
| 1:14.1 | So at first I was worried because I was like, oh, no, like only 30 to 60 people RSVP. |
| 1:18.4 | And then I got to the space station and I was like, oh, that's all that could fit in the store. |
| 1:22.2 | You had like lines out the store kind of thing. |
| 1:24.8 | People were standing room only in Philadelphia. |
| 1:28.2 | The event space in Brooklyn was full, but not the main bookstore area. |
| 1:31.3 | But in Philadelphia, it was all one space, and it was so hot in the room. |
| 1:34.4 | We had to, like, open the door, and people had to duck out because they were about to pass out |
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